2021 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting

It’s the first weekend of the National Women’s Studies Association virtual annual meeting. We hope you’ll visit our NWSA 2021 virtual booth to browse our new and recent titles, to connect with editor Mark Simpson-Vos, and to learn more about our Gender and American Culture series.


New Titles in Women and Gender History from UNC Press

Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra

Anima Adjepong

Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay

Shanna Greene Benjamin

Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

Heather Berg

Tainted Tap: Flint’s Journey from Crisis to Recovery

Katrinell M. Davis

The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification

Anne Gray Fischer

Against Sex: Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America

Kara M. French

Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives

Amy K. King

At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.

Tamika Y. Nunley

Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City

Gregory Samantha Rosenthal

Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980

Tanya L. Roth

Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba

Elizabeth B. Schwall

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North

Crystal Lynn Webster

The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South

Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

The Male Chauvinist Pig: A History

Julie Willett

Run Home If You Don’t Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

Now in paperback (and perfect for course adoption)!

Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

Cathleen D. Cahill

A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American

Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original

Edited by Sara B. Franklin

To browse these titles and more, please be sure to visit our National Women’s Studies Association virtual booth. Use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout to receive a 40% discount. And if your order totals over $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE.