Selected Poems from The Year of Blue Water
June 18, 2024
The Year of Blue Water is the winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards finalist for the transgender poetry category. Between… READ MORE
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Food, Feminisms, and Visual Culture of the Global Caribbean
March 15, 2024
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Patricia Fidler, Executive Director of the A&AePortal, interviewed Hannah Ryan and Lesley A. Wolff, editors of the newly released born-digital book Nourish and Resist:… READ MORE
The Houses and Homes of Betty Friedan
March 11, 2024
Rachel Shteir— Writing about Betty Friedan and her famous book that expanded women’s lives, The Feminine Mystique, I often admired the zeal with which she tried to expand her own…. READ MORE
Celebrating Women’s History Month
March 1, 2024
In 1980, the National Women’s History Project successfully gained national recognition for Women’s History Week, issued by President Jimmy Carter. Women’s History Month, later established by Congress in 1987, commemorates… READ MORE
Devorah Baum on Marriage, Love, and Divorce
February 14, 2024
Devorah Baum, author of On Marriage, talks with us about the proposal that sparked her writing on marriage, the woes of modern dating, and the important role divorce plays in… READ MORE
Ep. 105 – The World’s First Known Author
March 30, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with cultural historian and translator Sophus Helle about his new book, Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First… READ MORE
The Past and Future of Art History Is Black Feminist Art History
November 29, 2022
Sarah Louise Cowan — In 1993, artist and art historian Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis called for a “Black feminist art history discourse” that would “prioritize the lives and concerns of… READ MORE
Why Feminist Artists Found an Ally in Antonin Artaud
June 10, 2021
Lucy Bradnock— Instances of feminist artists citing Artaud are curious and not a little confusing. The French poet and dramaturg died in 1948, leaving behind a legacy that was both… READ MORE
Frontier Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
February 10, 2020
Karen R. Jones— “I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.” This phrase, popularly attributed to Calamity Jane, is… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Christina Weyl on Five Influential Texts
October 16, 2019
Here are five books that shaped the study of women printmakers active in the twentieth century. James Watrous, A Century of American Printmaking, 1880-1980 (1984) Watrous’s well-researched survey of American… READ MORE
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