Nighttime Butterfly A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Warsaw at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300270839, Yale University Press, September 2025
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism. When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did...
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Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era
ISBN: HB: 9780300276442, Yale University Press, August 2025
176 pp., 29,2x22,2 cm, 103 colour illus.
This survey of the life and work of American painter Susan Watkins explores how she and other women artists carved paths to success at the turn of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned only a little more than fifteen years, American artis...
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Room of Her Own Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1880-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300282115, Yale University Press, June 2025
200 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.
An illuminating examination of the interconnectivity of women artists and activists in Great Britain from the Victorian era through the Second World War. Women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945 learned to deftly negotiate private and...
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Mission Europe The Secret History of the Women of SOE
ISBN: HB: 9780300272697, Yale University Press, May 2025
368 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus., 1 map
The remarkable history of the women who worked for Special Operations Executive across occupied Europe. In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain's Special Operations...
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Women and the Piano A History in 50 Lives
ISBN: PB: 9780300281101, ISBN: HB: 9780300266573, Yale University Press, May 2025
304 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano – but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Ev...
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Monstrous Beauty A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
ISBN: PB: 9781588397928, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2025
256 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 200 colour illus.
Curiosity and critique foreground this novel history of porcelain that unravels the cultural myths of Chinoiserie, Europe's fantasy of the East. "Monstrous Beauty" presents a bold cross-cultural history of porcelain told through a feminist lens. Th...
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Women Artists in Denmark 1880-1910 In Search of the Modern
ISBN: PB: 9788775974320, Yale University Press, February 2025
334 pp., 27,0x22,0 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
"Women Artists in Denmark 1880-1910: In Search of the Modern" follows a number of female Danish artists who rebelled against the notion that art was a male-dominated discipline. They attended Georg Brandes' lectures, discarded their corsets, and expe...
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Rose B. Simpson Strata
ISBN: HB: 9780300278798, Yale University Press, November 2024
128 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 80 colour and black&white illus.
A new and exciting voice in contemporary art that enriches the wider discourse on Native women artists. Rose B. Simpson (b. 1983), a mixed-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, is from a long lineage of women working in ceramics in her...
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Where We Stand
ISBN: HB: 9780300269642, Yale University Press, October 2024
104 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil. In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In this elegant essay, Djamila Ribeir...
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Women and the Reformations A Global History
ISBN: HB: 9780300268232, Yale University Press, October 2024
368 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 18 colour illus., 7 black&white illus., 6 maps
A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe. The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transform...
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