A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women's khutbahs (sermons) drawing on their social, religious, and spiritual experiences and framed by original reflections on an emerging Muslim feminist ethics. Within the Muslim world, there is a dyn...

A wide-ranging exploration of the story of Ruth, a foreigner who became the founding mother of the Davidic dynasty. The biblical Ruth has inspired numerous readers from diverse cultural backgrounds across many centuries. In this insightful volume,...

The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era. "A Revolution on Canvas" argues that women artists professionalized in unprecedented numbers during the Revolutionary era, engaging...

Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization's F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known – Violette Szabo, Od...

A synthetic reconstruction of women's religious engagement and experiences in preexilic Israel. Throughout the biblical narrative, ancient Israelite religious life is dominated by male actors. When women appear, they are often seen only on the peri...

Marking the 150th anniversary of the first women students at Yale, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts (now Yale School of Art) when it opened in 1869, and the 50th anniversary of undergraduate coeducation at the University, this vo...

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero – these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of t...

This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to feature Jewish children. The family – based on Taylo...

This book presents the stories of six intrepid women of science in eighteenth-century France whose lives and accomplishments – though celebrated in their lifetimes – have been largely written out of the history of their period: mathematician and phil...

This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arab...