March 8, 2013
—Alison Piepmeier To tell you the truth, I’m a bit skeptical of Women’s History Month. I’m skeptical of all the themed months. In part, I’m skeptical because they encourage us… READ MORE
March 7, 2013
—Bernie D. Jones It has been fifty years since Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963—and twenty years since the Family Medical Leave Act was signed into law by… READ MORE
March 5, 2013
—Pamela S. Nadell How did March become the month for celebrating women’s history? In the summer of 1979, leaders of forty-three different women’s associations participated in a seminar organized by… READ MORE
March 1, 2013
–Margaret S. Williams As we begin another Women’s History Month, I have to wonder how the dearth of women in public life will affect the celebration of this month in… READ MORE
February 27, 2013
—Margaret M. McGuinness Pope Benedict XVI’s recent decision to resign from the papacy has generated a number of commentaries, op-ed pieces, and blog posts on the significance of the pontiff’s… READ MORE
February 21, 2013
—Leigh Goodmark Melissa Davis could have prevented her husband, Daren Ruffin, from stabbing her to death last week. At least that’s the story the Baltimore Sun would have you believe…. READ MORE
February 5, 2013
Has Valentine’s Day and its sappy accounts of saccharine romance got you down? Don’t worry–the folks at NYU Press are here to offer alternative accounts of love and relationships! Michael… READ MORE
January 16, 2013
—Leigh Goodmark The 112th Congress failed to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which expired at the end of last year. Commentators have decried that failure as yet one… READ MORE