Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism, a new book written by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox (The CCWH’s own Membership Outreach Committee Chair) is releasing on November 16, 2021. Congratulations to Einav! If you would like to review the book for The CCWH, please reach out to reviews@theccwh.org. Description: Often condemned as a form of […]
Member Publications and Reviews
Please explore these recent publications and reviews by CCWH members. If you have any publications that you would like to announce and/or review, please contact reviews@theccwh.org.
Book Review – Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger by Jane Marcus
Jane Marcus, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger. Edited with an introduction and afterword by Jean Mills. Clemson University Press, 2020. 256 pp. Reviewed by Sandi E. Cooper One lasting impact of the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s has been the dramatic expansion of what history, literature, and other disciplines consider worthy of exploration. Much […]
Book Review – The Heart of a Woman: the Life and Music of Florence B. Price by Rae Linda Brown
Rae Linda Brown, The Heart of a Woman: the Life and Music of Florence B. Price. Edited and with a foreword by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. Afterword by Carlene J. Brown. University of Illinois Press, 2020. 295 pp. Reviewed by Kendra Preston Leonard, Silent Film Sound and Music Archive There has been an enormous explosion […]
Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion
Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion urges us to look beyond cowboy clichés to see the other types of cowboys and cowgirls that exist and to understand how the many different race- and group-specific rodeos in the United States complicate and enrich our understanding of the American West.
Engendering Transnational Transgressions: From the Intimate to the Global
Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it addresses the political in public and intimate spaces. The book begins by highlighting the transgressive nature of feminist historiography. It then divides into two parts—Part I, […]
Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge
Scholars of Faith will fill a gap in the field of religious education for women in the Muslim world, a subject of considerable importance today. While a number of recent studies shed light on the history of religious education for Muslim boys and men, women’s education is a neglected field. This book joins a small […]