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May events for Today I Am a Woman editors

Today I Am a Woman editors Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz have the following events scheduled for this month:

May 17
The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires will present a book discussion with the editors at 10:45 a.m. at the Hevreh of Southern Berkshire in Great Barrington, MA. Admission is $3. More information is available on the federation's website.

May 18

The editors will give a noontime presentation about their book at the Kane Street Synagogue in Brooklyn, NY.

See a complete list of upcoming events on the editors' Today I Am a Woman website.

 

 

Book review: Anne Frank Unbound

"Anne Frank Unbound ... tell[s] us a great deal about the myriad uses to which one individual story has been and can be put. ... In addition to these ethical and political questions, the essays engage productively with the aesthetic choices made by writers, visual artists, filmmakers, performance artists, and comedians, who recast Anne Frank in a variety of media and situations. ... If Anne Frank Unbound is any indication, the diary will certainly continue ... to raise a set of persistent ethical, political, and aesthetic questions that have been with us since its first publication." —Women's Review of Books

Book review: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

"Hoffert sheds a bright light on the life of the imperious, irascible, opinionated Alva Vanderbilt Belmont. The author posits that Belmont was an unlikely champion of women’s rights and that her work was crucial to the success of women’s rights. Belmont’s money and political connections benefitted women’s causes; her social and celebrity status brought press attention and additional financial support." —CCWH Newsletter

Bonnie Morris to give reading at Binghamton University

Author Bonnie Morris will return to her alma mater Binghamton University to discuss Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor. Morris's talk, "Radical Visions, Feminist Words: Recalling Binghamton's Women's History Program in the 1980s," will take place May 1 at 7 p.m. She will also sign copies of her book at the event. For more information, visit the university's website.

Three books reviewed in The American Historical Review

Three of our books were reviewed in The American Historical Review:

War of Words, War of Stones

"This book is painstakingly researched, providing a compelling portrait of the intricacies of Zanzibari politics in the post-independence period and the historical legacies that shaped those politics. ... [I]t will stimulate the sorts of discussions about race, nationalism, and memory that can help to reshape and move scholarship forward." 

The Question of Gender

"[The editors] provide fresh analyses of the state of gender studies and the dynamic theories of 'sexual difference' as proposed, tested, and critiqued by Joan Wallach Scott." 

Mercury, Mining, and Empire

"With meticulous research and vivid prose, Nicholas A. Robins examines silver mining's human cost in the royal mercury mines of Huancavelica, Peru, and the silver mines of Potosi."

Upcoming events for 'Today I Am a Woman' authors

Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz will participate in the following events for their book Today I Am a Woman:

February 28

The authors will give a presentation about their book at Norumbega Point in Weston, MA, at 2 p.m. 

March 4

The authors will discuss their book at the Four Points by Sheraton in Revere, MA, at 12 p.m.

For more information on upcoming events with the Today I Am a Woman authors, visit their website.

Book review: Queer Ecologies

"[V]ibrant texts, brimming with possibilities for rethinking, rereading, and reinflecting the links between perception, ontology, epistemology, politics, and ethics. ... [A]llow[s] for the possibility of further reflections on the material conditions of intellectual inquiry, and for what materialities our 'immaterial labors' might creatively enact, change, transform." —Women's Studies Quarterly

Book review: Mrs. Russell Sage

"Well-written and thoroughly researched, this biography is a welcome addition to the history of women and philanthropy." —The American Historical Review

Two IU Press books honored by New England Book Festival

We are pleased to announce that two of our books have been honored by the 2012 New England Book Festival! Today I Am a Woman won an award in the spiritual category and Color and Form was the runner up in the photography/art category. The winners will be celebrated at an awards ceremony held January 19 at at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston. Tickets are required for the event. Email NewEnglandBookFest@sbcglobal.net for availability.

In addition, a combination book fair and publishing seminar will be held in the Omni from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the hotel’s Alcott Room. The festival/seminar is free and open to the public. See a complete schedule here.

Two IUP titles reviewed in fall issue of Feminist Formations

Two IU Press books have been reviewed in the Fall 2012 issue of Feminist Formations:

Women and Social Reform in Modern India

"In order to illuminate the social and cultural contexts obscured by such shortcuts, Sarkar and Sarkar suggest using nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century reform to analyze concurrent shifts in gendered systems of social regulation, especially through religious orthodox and revivalist movements, and gendered engagements with the state, especially through law ...The Sarkars’ project, however, is much larger than creating a more accurate narrative of social reform in late-colonial India."

Wives, Widows, and Concubines

"Sreenivas’s discussion points to the importance for feminist scholarship of exploring the links among conjugality, kinship, and capitalisms both historically and today."