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, including forthcoming titles from our Spring 2026 season!

Through the end of March we’re offering a special discount on all titles in the collection! Use code PENN-WHM2026 at checkout for 40% off all paperbacks and hardcovers, plus free shipping on orders over $40.(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 Tyranny Against Itself

John I. B. Bhadra-Heintz

The Household War

John N. Blanton

Headstrong

Laurian R. Bowles

Freedom Enterprise

Kendra D. Boyd

Women Healers

Susan H. Brandt

Undoing Slavery

Kathleen M. Brown

Through the Morgue Door

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

The Matter of Virtue

Holly A. Crocker

She Changed the Nation

Mary Ellen Curtin

A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy

Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, Valerio Cappozzo

Mastering Emotions

Erin Austin Dwyer

The Silver Women

Joan Flores-Villalobos

Sex Lives

Joseph Gamble

Inner Zone

Jelena Golubović

Her Neighbor's Wife

Lauren Jae Gutterman

Jane Colden's "Botanic Manuscript"

Fenella Greig Heckscher

Citizenship on the Edge

Nancy J. Hirschmann, Deborah A. Thomas

The First Last Man

Eileen M. Hunt

A Marsh Island

Sarah Orne Jewett, Don James McLaughlin

Wicked Flesh

Jessica Marie Johnson

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Phillip Luke Sinitiere

Ethel Wallace

Tara Kaufman

Counseling Women

Julia Kowalski

Strange Bedfellows

Alison Lefkovitz

Women’s Work

Jennifer Moore

Faith in Exposure

Justine S. Murison

Compromised Bodies

Sarah O'Neill

Intimate Bonds

Jennifer L. Palmer

The Abortion Market

Katherine J. Parkin

Women at the Wheel

Katherine J. Parkin

Trafficking Trajectories

Alicia W. Peters

Commercial Intimacy

Richard Popp, Brenton Malin, Wendy A. Woloson

Fair Copy

Jennifer Putzi

After Work

Shiori Shakuto

Let the Wind Speak

Carol Shloss

Anatomical Forms

Whitney Sperrazza

Citizens of the World

Megan Threlkeld

Belonging

Gloria McCahon Whiting