The Book List - a listing of the nonfiction books by and about women that we've received this month.
Lila Abu-Lughod, Dramas of Nationhood: the Politics of Television in Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 319 pp., paper.
Gloria H. Albrecht, Hitting Home: Feminist Ethics, Women's Work, and the Betrayal of "Family Values." New York: Continuum, 2004, 176 pp., paper.
Anna Anderson, Women and Sustainable Agriculture: Interviews with 14 Agents of Change. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004, 210 pp., paper.
Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke, eds., Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004, 461 pp., paper
Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers, Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs. New York: Basic, 2004, 289 pp., hardcover.
Lois Beck and Guity Nashat, eds., Women in Iran: From 1800 to the Islamic Republic. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004, 288 pp., paper.
Sylvia Bowerbank, Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, 287 pp., hardcover.
Adrian Bingham, Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 271 pp., hardcover.
Anne E. Boyd, Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, 305 pp., hardcover.
Mary Ann Caws, To the Boathouse: A Mmemoir. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2004, 204 pp., hardcover.
Tanja Christiansen, Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault: Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862-1900. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004, 261 pp., paper.
Pamela D. H. Cochran, Evangelical Feminism. New York: New York University Press, 2005, 243 pp., paper.
Carolyn Casey Craig, Women Pulitzer Playwrights. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004, 339 pp., paper.
Eugenia C. Delamotte, Gates of Freedom: Voltaire de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004, 334 pp., paper.
Morty Diamond, ed., From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond. San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2004, 168 pp., paper.
Konrad Eisenbichler, ed., The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo: Duchess of Florence and Siena. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004, 279 pp., hardcover.
Heidi Epstein, Melting the Venusberg: A Feminist Theology of Music. New York: Continuum, 2004, 204 pp., hardcover.
Candace Falk, ed., Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 2: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005, 639 pp., hardcover.
Catherine Farris, Anru Lee, and Murray Rubinstein, eds., Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004, 390 pp., hardcover.
Liza Featherstone, Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart. New York: Basic, 2004, 282 pp., hardcover.
Captain Meryl Getline, The World at my Feet: the True (and Sometimes Hilarious) Adventures of a Lady Airline Captain. Elizabeth, CO: Lorrie Press, 2004, 247 pp., paper.
Cheryl Glenn, Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004, 221 pp., paper.
Kristina K. Groover, ed., Things of the Spirit: Women Writers Constructing Spirituality. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, 357 pp., paper.
Avraham Grossman, Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2004, 329 pp., paper.
James E. Gruber and Phoebe Morgan eds., In the Company of Men: Male dominance and Sexual Harassment. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2005, 330 pp., paper.
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter, Working Women in America: Split Dreams. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 300 pp., paper.
Marsha Hudson, Bridget Connelly, Doris Earnshaw, Olivia Eilson and Judy Wells, eds., The Berkeley Literary Women's Revolution: Essays from Marsha's Salon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005, 242 pp., paper.
Kay Bailey Hutchison, American Heroines: The Spirited Women who Shaped Our Country. New York: William Morrow, 2004, 384 pp., hardcover.
Karen Kampwirth, Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas. Athens, OH: Ohio University Research in International Studies, 2004, 279 pp., paper.
Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman, Beyond Slash, Burn, and Poison: Transforming Breast Cancer Stories into Action. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004, 197 pp., paper.
Lia Larson, ed., Skirting Tradition: Women in Politics Speak to the Next Generation. Cambridge, MA: The Institute of Politics, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, 2004, 139 pp., paper.
Richard Maisel, David Epston, and Ali Borden, Biting the Hand that Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004, 314 pp., hardcover.
Kristine M. McCusker and Diane Pecknold, eds., A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004, 232 pp., paper.
Margot Ford McMillen and Heather Roberson, Into the Spotlight: Four Missouri Women. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004, 138 pp., paper.
Mary Mitchell and Albert Goodrich, The Remarkable Huntingtons: Chronicle of a Marriage. Newtown, CT: Budd Drive, 2004, 167 pp., paper.
Janet Nolan, Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, 191 pp., paper.
Sarah C. O'Dowd, A Rhode Island Original: Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2004, 187 pp., paper.
Diana Paton, No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1770-1870. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, 291 pp., paper.
Marjorie Perloff, Differentials: Poetry, Poestics, Pedagogy. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2004, 307 pp., paper.
Eve Allegra Raimon, The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004, 202 pp., paper.
Sarah Robbins, Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, 326 pp., hardcover.
Laura Severin, Poetry Off the Page: Twentieth-Century British Women Poets in Performance. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004, 112 pp., hardcover.
Wendy B. Sharer, Vote & Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004, 218 pp., hardcover.
Rachel Shteir, Striptease: the Untold History of the Girlie Show. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004, 438 pp., hardcover.
Jael Silliman, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice. Cambridge, MA: South End, 2004, 331 pp., paper.
Cecilia Sjöholm, The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004, 209 pp., hardcover.
Diane Miller Sommerville, Rape & Race in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, 411 pp., paper.
Rosemarie Tong, Anne Donchin, and Susan Dodds, eds., Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and the Developing World. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 260 pp., paper.
Marie Beatrice Umutesi, Surviving the Slaughter: the Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, 258 pp., paper.
Judith Wellman, The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004, 297 pp., paper.
Daphne C. Wiggins, Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives of Church and Faith. New York: NYU Press, 2005, 230 pp., hardcover.
Teresa C. Zackodnik, The Mulatta and the Politics of Race. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004, 235 pp., hardcover.