Women’s History Month

Women's History Month


March is Women’s History Month, commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. To mark this occasion, Penn Press is sharing the below collection of books in women’s history and studies that we have published in the past five years.

Through the end of March we’re offering a special discount on all titles in the collection! Use code PENN-WHM2025 at checkout for 40% off all paperbacks and hardcovers, plus free shipping on orders over $40. And use code PENN-WHM2025-E for 50% off all available ebook editions! (Please note that our shopping cart does not allow preorders for the ebook editions of forthcoming titles. Learn more about buying and accessing Penn Press ebooks in our shopping cart guide.)

The Maternalists

Shaul Bar-Haim

A Medieval Life

Judith M. Bennett

A Tyranny Against Itself

John I. B. Bhadra-Heintz

Branding Trust

Jennifer M. Black

Women Healers

Susan H. Brandt

Undoing Slavery

Kathleen M. Brown

Through the Morgue Door

Colette Brull-Ulmann, Anne Landau, Margaret Sinclair, Jean-Christophe Portes

She Changed the Nation

Mary Ellen Curtin

A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy

Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, Valerio Cappozzo

The Silver Women

Joan Flores-Villalobos

Selling Antislavery

Teresa A. Goddu

Her Neighbor's Wife

Lauren Jae Gutterman

Citizenship on the Edge

Nancy J. Hirschmann, Deborah A. Thomas

A Marsh Island

Sarah Orne Jewett, Don James McLaughlin

Wicked Flesh

Jessica Marie Johnson

Ethel Wallace

Tara Kaufman

Counseling Women

Julia Kowalski

Captive City

Jennie Lightweis-Goff

Women’s Work

Jennifer Moore

Desert Dreams

Laura K. Muñoz

Faith in Exposure

Justine S. Murison

Compromised Bodies

Sarah O'Neill

Intimate Bonds

Jennifer L. Palmer

Women at the Wheel

Katherine J. Parkin

Fair Copy

Jennifer Putzi

After Work

Shiori Shakuto

Let the Wind Speak

Carol Shloss

Anatomical Forms

Whitney Sperrazza

"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings

Margaret J. M. Sweat, Christopher Looby, Christopher Looby

Pan American Women

Megan Threlkeld

Citizens of the World

Megan Threlkeld