Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women’s Rights in Israel
In Holy Rebellion, Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks examine social change in Israel through a rigorous analysis of the shifting entanglements of…
The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust
Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surrounding…
Sculpting a Life: Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv
In Sculpting a Life, the first book-length biography of sculptor Chana Orloff (1888-1968), author Paula Birnbaum tells the story of a fiercely…
The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty
A frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over fifty.
The Second Half explores, in photographic portraits…
“A Good Poor Man’s Wife”: Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in Nineteenth-Century New England
A shrewd observer of 19th-century America, Harriet Hanson Robinson’s participation in important events and her salty comments, preserved and recorded…
Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices
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Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers
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The Captain’s Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856–1860
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