National Women's Studies Association 2021

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If you are working on a book-length manuscript in women's studies and would like to discuss the possibility of publication, please review our staff listing and send an email to the acquiring editor best suited for your project. Be sure to follow our submission guidelines! https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Publish-With-Us

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

By Viola Fontenot
Foreword by Chere Dastugue Coen
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Winner of the 2019 Humanities Book of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent ...

This Woman's Work

By Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

This Woman's Work presents a social history and critical biography based on the life of award-winning writer Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006). It offers the personal story of a popular novelist, journalist, ...

Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino & Karen Coats
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2018 Edited Book Award

Contributions by Robin Calland, Lauren Causey, Karen Coats, Sara K. Day, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, Anna Katrina ...

Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

Edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located ...

The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture

Edited by Elyce Rae Helford, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, and Michael R. Howard II
Categories: Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies

Contributions by Marleen S. Barr, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, Elyce Rae Helford, Michael R. Howard II, Ewan Kirkland, Nicola Mann, Megan McDonough, Alex Naylor, Rhonda Nicol, Joan Ormrod, J. Richard Stevens, ...

Drawn to Purpose

By Martha H. Kennedy
Foreword by Carla D. Hayden
Categories: Comics Studies

Winner of the 2019 Eisner Award for the Best Comics-Related Book

Published in partnership with the Library of Congress, Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists presents an overarching ...

Beyond Bombshells

By Jeffrey A. Brown
Categories: Popular Culture

Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they ...

Fannye Cook

By Dorothy Shawhan
Edited by Marion Garrard Barnwell & Libby Hartfield
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Mississippi Chapter of The Wildlife Society Outstanding Book

Conservationist Fannye Cook (1889-1964) was the most widely known scientist in Mississippi and was nationally known as the go-to person for ...

Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans

By Ashley Baggett
Categories: History

Ashley Baggett uncovers the voices of abused women who utilized the legal system in New Orleans to address their grievances from the antebellum era to the end of the nineteenth century. Poring over 26,000 ...

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

Edited by Thabiti Lewis
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The intimacy of these collaborations or conversations between ...

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