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Gender/sexuality

Review of Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s, (2022) by Luca Falciola

Review of Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (2020), by Tanya Harmer

Review of Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan (2022) by David Conrad

The New World and Beyond: A Review of New World Nature

Review of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (2006)

Review of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (2006)

Film Review: The Harder They Fall, Directed by Jeymes Samuel

Review of From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950 (2018) by Susie S. Porter

IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980) by Carolyn Merchant

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World By Jessica Marie Johnson (2020)

Digital Archive Review – Más de 72

Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran by Negar Mottahedeh (2019)

Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott (2019)

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan. By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (2018)

A Brief History of Feminism by Patu (illustrations) and Antje Schrupp and translated by Sophie Lewis (2017)

Play Review – Monroe by Lisa B. Thompson (2018)

Film Review – The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Dir: Desiree Akhavan, 2018)

Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico by Shirley Boteler Mock (2010)

Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears (2015)

Book cover of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by Juliana Barr

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by Juliana Barr (2007)

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France (2016)

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Soviet Central Asia, By Douglas Northrup (2003)

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman (1992)

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

Great Books on Women’s History: Crossing Borders

Great Books on Women’s History: Europe

My Life on the Road, by Gloria Steinem (2015)

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past, by Gail Hershatter (2011)

Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in The Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973, by Heidi Tinsman

Gendered Compromises: Political Culture and the State in Chile, 1920-1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

Has Texas Seen its Last Liberal?

No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico, by Shirley Cushing Flint (2013)

On Women and Nation in India

“12 Years a Slave” and the Difficulty of Dramatizing the “Peculiar Institution”

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012)

Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí by Jane Mangan (2005)

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe, by Glynis Ridley (2010)

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen (2008)

Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: Birth Control in America by Linda Gordon (1976)

Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960 by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (2000)

Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex and Society Since Gorbachev ed. Adele Marie Barker (1999)

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson (2006)

Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky (1999)

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1924)

Great Books on Enslaved Life and Labor in the US

Book cover of Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico by Elaine Carey

Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico by Elaine Carey (2005)

The Help

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba by Karen Bouwer

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba (2010)

Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore (2011)

Great Books on African American Beauty Culture

Day of Wrath (1943)

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

Book cover of Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience by Harold L. Smith and Judith N. McArthur

Great Books on Women in US History

Movie poster of the movie Johnny Tremain: He Answered Freedom's Call

Rebel With a Cause: Johnny Tremain (1957)

The Old Man and the New Man in Revolutionary Cuba

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