2023 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities
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The New Book Launch, featuring 27 new books, took place on Saturday, July 1, 2023, from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in the Book Exhibit in the California Mission Room in Benson Hall. The table with the new books was on display throughout the conference. Below are short videos provided by the authors, with links for more information about the authors and their books.
Vera Pigee. The Struggle of Struggles, edited, notes and introduction by Françoise N. Hamlin, University of Mississippi Press, 2023.
Rebecca Adami and Dan Plesch, editors. Women and the UN: A New History of Women’s International Human Rights, Routledge, 2021.
Alejandra Dubcovsky. Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South, Yale University Press, 2023.
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox. Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism, University of Illinois Press, 2021.
Sherry Boschert. 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination, The New Press, 2022.
Alison M. Parker. Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell, University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Amy Forss. Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women’s Movement through Material Culture, 1848-2017, University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Elisabeth Eittreim. Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and US Imperial Education, 1879-1918, University of Kansas Press, 2019.
Silvia Arrom. La Güera Rodríguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine, University of California Press, 2021.
Stephanie Narrow, Kim Cary Warren, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Vicki L. Ruiz, editors. Unequal Sisters: A Revolutionary Reader in U.S. Women’s History, 5th Edition, Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2023.
Barbara Winslow. Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle, Duke University Press, 2023.
Ciara Breathnach. Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink. Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress, NYU Press, 2022.
Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, eds. This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s. University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
Contributions by Chelsea Ball, Lindsey Churchill, Heather Clemmer, Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Sarah Eppler Janda, Farina King, Sunu Kodumthara, Patricia Loughlin, Amy L. Scott, Rowan Faye Steineker, Melissa N. Stuckey, Rachel E. Watson, and Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley. Video: This Land is Herland: “The Fluidity of Power”
Sunu Kodumthara (contributor) – “Intrepid Pioneer Leader”: The A-suffrage Gendered Activism of Kate Barnard
Naoko Wake. American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Arunima Datta. Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Arunima Datta. Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya, Cambridge University Press, 2021
Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen. Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press, Lever Press, 2023.
Tessa Winkelmann. Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898-1946. Cornell University Press, 2023
Listen to Audio interview >
Laura L. Lovett, Rachel Jessica Daniel, and Kelly N. Giles, editors. Photographs by Diana Mara Henry. It’s Our Movement Now: Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference. University of Florida Press, 2022.
Carolyn Eicher.
The Paris Commune: A Brief History, Rutgers University Press, 2022
Carolyn Eichner. Feminism’s Empire, Cornell University Press, 2022.
Videos are generally published in the order received in the order received from the authors, as received, so please check back for new videos.
