In The Matter of Virtue, Holly A. Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late medieval and early modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.

Strange Bedfellows recounts the unlikely ways in which the efforts of feminists and divorced men's activists dovetailed with the activity of lawmakers, judges, welfare activists, immigrant spouses, the LGBTQ community, the Reagan coalition, and other Americans, to redefine family and marriage without relying on traditional gender norms.

This volume asks how our understanding of business history changes when we take the emotional dynamics of intimacy to be foundational elements of commercial persuasion. It explores how feelings of personal familiarity, from face-to-face interactions to long-distance appeals, have been leveraged by marketers since the late nineteenth century.

In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe over the long eighteenth century, characterized by stories about heroines who transcend their gendered destiny.

Although the rabbis of the first two centuries CE divided the world into men and women, they recognized that some people are born with characteristics that do not fit these categories. Through an examination of early rabbinic sources, this book explores seven different approaches that the rabbis took toward intersex persons in their legal texts.

Tara Nummedal reconstructs the extraordinary career and historical afterlife of alchemist, courtier, and prophet Anna Zieglerin. Working in Reformation-era Germany, Zieglerin garnered noteworthy renown for her plan to use the alchemical "lion's blood" to prepare humanity for the impending apocalypse.

Providing innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives on Shakespeare's plays, Patricia Parker offers a series of dazzling readings that demonstrate how easy-to-overlook textual or semantic details reverberate within and beyond the Shakespearean text, and suggest that the boundary between language and context is an incontinent divide.

Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000–1250), and considers how ordinary Jews, especially women, experienced communal life under Islam and Jewish law. Oded Zinger concludes that the maintenance of a network of social relations with men protected women at different stages of their lives.

Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife explores the personal experiences and public perceptions of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.

Women at the Wheel explores women's historical experience with automobiles. Katherine Parkin argues that in every regard, from learning to drive to repairing cars, from being a passenger to taking the wheel, women had a distinct experience with cars in American culture.