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The Queen of Scots
La reina di Scotia
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487544812
Pub Date: February 2023
This is the first English-language annotated edition of La reina di Scotia, one of the earliest dramatic works depicting the tragic end of Mary Queen of Scots.
A Woman’s Empire
Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487545604
Pub Date: January 2023
A Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.
The Cartulary of Prémontré
Price: $175.00
ISBN: 9781487544836
Pub Date: December 2022
This volume presents the first transcription and edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary of Prémontré.
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds
Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487503772
Pub Date: December 2022
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds focuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through "polite propaganda."
Feeding Fascism
The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487528188
Pub Date: February 2022
Feeding Fascism uses food as a lens to examine how women’s efforts to feed their families became politicized under the Italian dictatorship.
Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada
First-hand Perspectives on Local Public Life and Participation in Electoral Politics
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487529765
Pub Date: August 2021
Carbert not only contextualizes the results in terms of economic and demographic structures of rural Atlantic Canada, but also considers points of comparison and contrast with other parts of the country.
All Things in Common
A Canadian Family and Its Island Utopia
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487525569
Pub Date: June 2021
All Things in Common explores the history of a Canadian utopian community, highlighting the roles of family, faith, and business pragmatism in its cohesion and longevity.
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World
A Gendered Perspective
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487505189
Pub Date: April 2021
This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.
The Trial of Jeanne Catherine
Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781487587673
Pub Date: January 2021
This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, including her own.
The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History
Price: $84.00
ISBN: 9781487508371
Pub Date: October 2020
This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of "sex killers" while the death penalty was in effect in Canada.
The Soul of Things
Memoir of a Youth Interrupted
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781487525125
Pub Date: October 2020
The Soul of Things is a deeply reflective, evocative, and beautifully written memoir. A bestseller in Hungary, where it has been compared to the works of Primo Levi, it marks an important female contribution to the canon of Holocaust writing.
Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487532017
Pub Date: February 2020
This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships with their children across a variety of genres.
Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781442629714
Pub Date: May 2019
By putting past and present scholarship into dialogue with each other, this book addresses accomplishments in Canadian women’s and gender history, as well as ongoing silences and absences.
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487522087
Pub Date: April 2018
In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900–1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture.
A New History of Iberian Feminisms
Price: $51.00
ISBN: 9781487520083
Pub Date: January 2018
A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, territories of Span, and the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
In Times Like These
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487522322
Pub Date: May 2017
Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.

The Queen of Scots
La reina di Scotia
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487544812
Pub Date: February 2023
This is the first English-language annotated edition of La reina di Scotia, one of the earliest dramatic works depicting the tragic end of Mary Queen of Scots.
A Woman’s Empire
Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487545604
Pub Date: January 2023
A Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.
The Cartulary of Prémontré
Price: $175.00
ISBN: 9781487544836
Pub Date: December 2022
This volume presents the first transcription and edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary of Prémontré.
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds
Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487503772
Pub Date: December 2022
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds focuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through "polite propaganda."
Feeding Fascism
The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487528188
Pub Date: February 2022
Feeding Fascism uses food as a lens to examine how women’s efforts to feed their families became politicized under the Italian dictatorship.
Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada
First-hand Perspectives on Local Public Life and Participation in Electoral Politics
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487529765
Pub Date: August 2021
Carbert not only contextualizes the results in terms of economic and demographic structures of rural Atlantic Canada, but also considers points of comparison and contrast with other parts of the country.
All Things in Common
A Canadian Family and Its Island Utopia
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487525569
Pub Date: June 2021
All Things in Common explores the history of a Canadian utopian community, highlighting the roles of family, faith, and business pragmatism in its cohesion and longevity.
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World
A Gendered Perspective
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487505189
Pub Date: April 2021
This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.
The Trial of Jeanne Catherine
Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781487587673
Pub Date: January 2021
This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, including her own.
The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History
Price: $84.00
ISBN: 9781487508371
Pub Date: October 2020
This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of "sex killers" while the death penalty was in effect in Canada.
The Soul of Things
Memoir of a Youth Interrupted
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781487525125
Pub Date: October 2020
The Soul of Things is a deeply reflective, evocative, and beautifully written memoir. A bestseller in Hungary, where it has been compared to the works of Primo Levi, it marks an important female contribution to the canon of Holocaust writing.
Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487532017
Pub Date: February 2020
This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships with their children across a variety of genres.
Reading Canadian Women’s and Gender History
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781442629714
Pub Date: May 2019
By putting past and present scholarship into dialogue with each other, this book addresses accomplishments in Canadian women’s and gender history, as well as ongoing silences and absences.
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487522087
Pub Date: April 2018
In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900–1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture.
A New History of Iberian Feminisms
Price: $51.00
ISBN: 9781487520083
Pub Date: January 2018
A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, territories of Span, and the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
In Times Like These
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487522322
Pub Date: May 2017
Nellie McClung's fourth book, In Times Like These, written in 1915, survives as a classic formulation of a feminist position. With hard-hitting rhetoric it demands women's rights as a logical extension of traditional views of female moral superiority and maternal responsibility.