Forthcoming Titles in Women’s and Gender Studies, 2026

A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through August 2026.

Posted on March 5, 2026 in Forthcoming Academic Titles

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Humanities

Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, by Kathi Weeks. Duke, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781478029847 $119.95

Aminata: Abbey Lincoln’s Song of Faith, by Ada C. M. Thomas. Rutgers, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781978843356 $29.95

Archipelagoes of Longing: Puerto Ricans, Resistance, and Memory, by Nicolás Ramos Flores. SUNY Press, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9798855806328 $120.00

Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City, 1905–1949, by Nadine Attewell. Stanford, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781503647107 $35.00

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire, by Sharon N. Tran. Minnesota, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781517919863 $28.00

The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price, ed. by Samantha Ege and A. Kori Hill. Cambridge, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781009169370 $29.99

Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum, ed. by Amber N. Wiley. Rutgers, May 2026. ISBN 9781978842847 $35.00

Different from the Others: German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940, by Cyd Sturgess. Berghahn Books, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781836953975 $39.95

Dissenting through Dance: Folk Dance, Gender, and Political Protest in Turkey, by Sevi Bayraktar. Michigan, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9780472058136 $39.95

Elizabeth Maconchy in Context, ed. by Justin Vickers and Lucy Walker. Cambridge, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781009307116 $115.00

The Feminist Film Philosophy Reader, ed. by Lucy Bolton, Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781839026560 $39.95

Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing: Experiments in Philosophy, ed. by Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma. Duke, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033875 $119.95

The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture, ed. by Anne-Marie Evans and Sarah Trott.  Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9798765142233 $110.00

Four Centuries of Women’s Musical Salons: A Cross-Cultural History, ed. by Jacqueline Avila and Rebecca Cypess. Cambridge, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781009098137 $150.00

Galahad and the Grail, by Malcolm Guite, ed. by A. S. Peterson. Rabbit Room Press, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781951872700 $32.99

Gender Equality in Research, ed. by Jörg Müller and Rachel Palmén. Taylor & Francis Group, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781041109501 $54.99

Gender, Public History and Power in Latin American Museums, ed. by María Elena Bedoya and Jimena Perry. Taylor & Francis Group, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781041010197 $180.00

Her Own Voice: Eight Women Who Rewrote Life and Art, by Anne E. Fernald. Beacon Press, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9780807021330 $29.95

Ida Lupino, Director, by Therese Grisham and Julie Grossman. 2nd ed. Rutgers, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781978846128 $32.95

Interiority in German Women’s Writing, ed. by Amy Emm and Beate Allert. Delaware, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781644534250 $39.95

Jane Fonda: There’s a Great Deal to Say, by Marilyn S. Greenwald. Rutgers, May 2026. ISBN 9781978841499 $29.95

Jesse Helms: Modern Conservatism and the Politics of Opposition, by William A. Link. North Carolina, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781469694498 $29.95

Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork, by Stacey Copeland. Michigan, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9780472058143 $24.95

Loving Arrangements: Stories About Modern Living and Loving, ed. by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hood. Rutgers, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781978844544 $26.95

Making Babies Count: The Sheppard-Towner Act and Building the Modern Administrative State, by Michelle Bezark. Cambridge, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781009634663 $39.99

Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity, by Julie Murray. Stanford, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781503646520 $30.00

Melodrama as Provocateur, by Linda Williams; ed. by Christine Gledhill, Laura Horak, and Elisabeth R. Anker. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033691 $119.95

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives, by Allison S. Curseen. North Carolina, May 2026. ISBN 9781469694207 $37.50

Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople, by Derek Krueger. Cambridge, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781009648332 $44.99

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature, by Chad Benito Infante. Minnesota, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781517919887 $35.00

Nation, City, Household: Exploring the Contemporary Pakistani Women’s Novel in English, by Daniela Vitolo. Anthem Press, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781839998454 $110.00

New Directions in African American Women’s History, ed. by Tamika Nunley and Ariell Rochelin. Taylor & Francis Group, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781041018636 $180.00

New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions, ed. by Michael T. Dango, Erin A. Spampinato, and Doreen Thierauf. SUNY Press, May 2026. ISBN 9798855806809 $140.00

No More Chainsaws: Feminist Criticism and the New Wave of Women’s Horror Cinema, by Dan Vena. Rutgers, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781978824294 $29.95

No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene, by Adele Bertei. Beacon Press, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9780807024881 $28.95

Nurses Among the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee, 1934–1971, by Christine Ardalan. University Press of Florida, May 2026. ISBN 9780813079592 $90.00

Out for Glamour in Africa: A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine, by Wanjiru G. Mbure. Michigan, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9780472058105 $34.95

The Politics of Violence Against Women in Climate Fiction, by Mona Ashour. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781666960617 $110.00

Race, Gender, and Resistance in Digital Relationships, by DeLisha Tpscott. Taylor & Francis Group, Jun. 2026e. ISBN 9781041090458 $190.00

Raising the Bottom: Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans, by Alix Chapman. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033707 $103.95

Reading with Jane Austen, by Elaine Bander. Bucknell, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781684485857 $29.95

Resisting Police in Queer Spaces: From Public Sex to Pride Parades, by Alexa DeGagné. University of Alberta Press, May 2026. ISBN 9781772128246 $32.99

Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches, by Ellen Scheible and Barry Devine. Bucknell, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781684486021 $49.95

Sexual Heresies: Religion, Science, and Sexuality in Modern Britain, by Joy Dixon. Stanford, May 2026. ISBN 9781503646674 $32.00

Sideways Developments: Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong, by Kai Hang Cheang. Michigan, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9780472058129 $34.95

Stop Saying Snip!: The Rhetoric of Vasectomy, by Jenna Vinson. Rutgers, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781978843585 $32.95

T&T Clark Handbook of Sexualities in the Bible and its Reception, by Daniel Fountain. Bloomsbury, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9780567712363 $190.00

Torikaebaya Monogatari: A Japanese Tale of Gender-Swapped Siblings, by Rosette F. Willig. Stanford, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781503646544 $28.00

Unwilling To Know: Male Homosexuality at the Crossroads of Europe, 1870–1965, ed. by Wannes Dupont. Cambridge, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781009570145 $35.99

Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice, ed. by Diana Bellonby, Nora Gilbert, and Tara MacDonald. SUNY Press, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9798855805918 $130.00

Violence against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible: Between Trauma and Resilience, ed. by PaKristine Henriksen Garroway, Hyun Chul ul Kim, and John W. Martens. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9780567704726 $39.95

Women and Gender in Modern Europe: An Inclusive History, by Jennifer A. Miller. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781350153264 $34.95

Yankee Radical: Emily Pierson, Suffrage, and Socialism, by Richard Lenzi. SUNY Press, May 2026. ISBN 9798855806687 $120.00

A Womanist Pastoral Theology of Black Girlhood, by Kishundra Denise King. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781666956412 $115.00

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Reference

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960–2020, ed. by Lori Brown and Karen Burns. Vol. 1. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781350059726 $367.95

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960–2020, ed. by Lori Brown and Karen Burns. Vol. 2. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781350059740 $367.95

Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, ed. by Zoe Lefkofridi. Edward Elgar Publishing, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781035322602 $310.00

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Science, Technology & Health

The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet, by Lisa Nakamura. Minnesota, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9780816699063 $24.95

Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech, by Sarah Sharma. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033646 $103.95

Pediatric Gender Health Care: The Gender Affirmative Model Revisited, ed. by G. Nic Rider, Diane Ehrensaft, and Colt St. Amand. 2nd ed. American Psychological Association, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781433844010 $54.99

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Social Sciences

Advanced Introduction to LGBTQ+ Rights, by Carlos A. Ball. Edward Elgar Publishing, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781035349562 $120.00

After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions, by Hilary Matfess. Stanford, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781503645936 $30.00

Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy, by Crystal Mun-hye Baik. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033769 $103.95

Between Belonging and Exclusion: The Intersections of Integration and Anti-Discrimination Politics, by Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi. Temple, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781439927571 $84.50

Bewitching Consumer Culture: Witchcraft, Feminism and Markets, by Lorna Stevens and Pauline Maclaran. Edward Elgar Publishing, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781800379435 $105.00

Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War, by Jeongmin Kim. Stanford, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781503646964 $28.00

Breaking the Barriers – Gender, Culture and Diversity in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ed. by Hilda Rømer Christensen et al. De Gruyter Brill, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9783119143332 $109.99

Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age, by Ling Tang. The MIT Press, May 2026. ISBN 9780262051880 $50.00

Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors, by Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle. Rutgers, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781978845022 $24.95

Cisgender: Disorienting a Category, by Perry Zurn. Duke, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033899 $119.95

Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces, by Alice Butler. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478029786 $125.00

Cooking Culture: Women’s Culinary Agency and Everyday Creativity in Rural Mali, by Stephen Wooten. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781350382497 $39.95

Cosmopolitan Refugees: Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg, by Nereida Ripero-Muñiz. Forced Migration Series, Vol. 46. Berghahn Books, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781836954125 $29.95

Creative Writing with Women in Prison: Narratives of Haunting, by Rosalchen Whitecross. Bristol University Press, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781529253238 $127.95

Critical Interventions in Gender Studies, by Shivangini Tandon. Taylor & Francis Group, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781032509068 $190.00

Cyberviolence against Women, by Sylwia Spurek. Taylor & Francis Group, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781041161714 $69.99

Decolonizing Queer Migration: Iranian Voices in Exile, by Moira Dustin et al. Bristol University Press, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781529253481 $44.95

The Detroit Model: Manufacturing American Men and Women in the Industrial City, by Nicole Greer Golda. North Carolina, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781469695242 $29.95

Elgar Companion to Female Chief Justices in Comparative Perspective, ed. by Rosalind Dixon and Erin F. Delaney. Edward Elgar Publishing, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781035308637 $345.00

Ending Violence against Women and Girls, by Tamsin Bradley. Taylor & Francis Group, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781041034568 $180.00

Erotic Knowledge: Toward a Lesbian Feminist Political Theory, by Elena Gambino. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033776 $103.95

Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire, by Denise Tse-Shang Tang. Duke, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033684 $103.95

Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans, by Khiara M. Bridges. The MIT Press, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9780262051552 $32.95

Fandom, Feminism, and the Female Superhero on Film, by Lauryn Angel. Bloomsbury, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781666927986 $100.00

Feminist and Queer Imaginaries of Hope in a Turbulent Era, ed. by Mia Liinason, Sama Khosravi Ooryad, and Onur Kilic. Edward Elgar Publishing, May 2026e. ISBN 9781035336838 $185.00

Free Up Yuhself: Transgressive Bodies and Contestations in the Carnivalesque, ed. by Nikoli A. Attai and Sue Ann Barratt. Rutgers, May 2026. ISBN 9781978846609 $34.95

Gender and International Relations in North Africa, by Clara della Valle. Taylor & Francis Group, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781032932903 $190.00

Gender and Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. by Elena V. Shabliy, Kimarie Engerman, and Dimitry Kurochkin. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781666978353 $120.00

Gender, Power and Climate Change, ed. by Christine Bauhardt. Taylor & Francis Group, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781032762975 $180.00

Gendered Impacts of China’s Development Initiatives in the Global South, by Cai Yiping. Bloomsbury, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781350557284 $29.95

Generations of Feminism and Gender Studies in Europe, ed. by Elisabetta Ruspini and Ana Vidu. Bristol University Press, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781529243420 $119.95

Global Gender Politics, ed. by Anne Sisson Runyan et al. 6th ed. Taylor & Francis Group, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781032641188 $170.00

The Gloria Wekker Reader, by Gloria Wekker; ed. by Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478029731 $139.95

God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion, by Samira K. Mehta. North Carolina, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781469693439 $29.95

Handbook on Intersectionality and Social Work, ed. by Claudia Bernard, Carlene Firmin, and Frank Keating. Edward Elgar Publishing, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781035324453 $275.00

How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America, by Catherine Reyes-Housholder. Temple, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781439927090 $119.50

Human Rights and the United States, ed. by Grey House Publishing. 4th ed. Grey House Publishing, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9798891795457 $250.00

I Can Do Anything, by Um Baseem Al Kafarneh. University of Alberta Press, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781772128574 $24.99

Imagining Gender Peace and Security in the MENA Region, ed. by Vanessa F. Newby and Bilge Sahin. Women, Peace and Security Series, Vol. 5. De Gruyter Brill, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9783111452715 $105.99

Inside the Body of Black Feminism, by Samantha Pinto. Duke, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033936 $119.95

Key Topics in Gender Development, by Campbell Leaper. Taylor & Francis Group, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781032977157 $180.00

The Lesbian Bar Chronicles: The Living History and Hopeful Future of America’s Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces, by Rachel Karp. Beacon Press, May 2026. ISBN 9780807023440 $30.00

LGBTQ Religious Activism: Rethinking Identity, Faith, and Social Change, ed. by Jonathan S. Coley and Golshan Golriz. North Carolina, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781469692920 $34.95

Lifting Women Higher: One returnship at a time, by Vanessa Gentile. De Gruyter Brill, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9783112227305 $17.98

Love Apocalypse: New Intimacies and the Decline of Marriage and Fertility, ed. by Alex Nelson, Victor De Munck, and William Jankowiak. Rutgers, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781978847675 $44.95

Love in the Time of Zika: Environmental Crisis and the Future of Reproduction, by Paige Marie Patchin. Duke, Jun. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033868 $103.95

Loving Black Boys: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering, by Tamura Lomax. Duke, May 2026e. ISBN 9781478033790 $96.00

Mothers, Prison and Parental Rights, by Kate O’Brien. Bristol University Press, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781529247152 $67.95

Not Going Back: Public Opinion on Abortion in Post-Dobbs America, by Laurel Elder, Steven Greene, and Mary-Kate Lizotte. Temple, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781439926499 $104.50

The Politicization of Gender: Far-Right Strategies in European Politics, by Maria Barbu. Anthem Press, May 2026. ISBN 9781839999017 $24.95

Preventing Sexual Violence at Elite UK Universities, by Alice King. Bristol University Press, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781529254853 $127.95

Producing Religion, Gender and National Identities in Sri Lankan Elite Girls’ Schools: Histories, Myths, Resistances, by Jessica A. Albrecht. Bloomsbury, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781350577343 $115.00

Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories, ed. by Patricia Eunji Kim and Anastasia Tchaplyghine. Bloomsbury, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781350380929 $39.95

Queer and Muslim: On Faith, Family, and Healing, ed. by Rahim Thawer and Maryam Khan. University of Regina Press, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781779401281 $25.95

Re-imagining Gender in the Early Childhood Workforce: Feminist and More-than-human Perspectives, by Sid Mohandas. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781350534582 $120.00

Reproductive Boundaries: Psychosocial Care and Pregnancy in Switzerland, by Edmée Ballif. Rutgers, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781978840522 $29.95

A Research Agenda for the Future of Inclusivity in Work, ed. by Adelina Broadbridge, Agneta Moulettes, and Andrie Michaelides. Edward Elgar Publishing, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781035328925 $155.00

Rethinking Gender and Politics, by Birte Siim. Edward Elgar Publishing, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781035301478 $135.00

Routledge Handbook of Gender in Southeast Asia, ed. by Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Taylor & Francis Group, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781032660271 $270.00

Searching for Democracy: Women, Domestic Work, and Social Reproduction in Latin America, by Leda M. Pérez. Temple, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781439927458 $115.50

Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block, by Talitha L. LeFlouria. Beacon Press, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9780807003930 $32.00

Sex, Gender Identity and Sport, ed. by Cathy Devine. Taylor & Francis Group, May 2026e. ISBN 9781032940229 $190.00

Stories of Raising Boys: Masculinity, Disability, Gender Expansiveness, and Anxiety, by Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock. Temple, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781439926109 $104.50

Tangled: Seven Iconic Moments in White Women’s Hair and What They Tell Us About Power, Pleasure, and Complicity, by Sarah Mesle. Beacon Press, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9780807016343 $27.95

Technofeminist Resistance: Aesthetics and Strategies of Dissent from the Streets to the Screens, by Christina Grammatikopoulou. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781350520844 $115.00

This Kaleidoscope Career: How Women Build Unconventional Careers through Curiosity and Resilience, by Helen Jonsen. De Gruyter Brill, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9783119143660 $24.99

Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence, by Anna M. Moncada Storti. Duke, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781478029441 $119.95

Transgender Rights in Flux: From Progress to Regress, by Susan Gluck Mezey. Bloomsbury, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781538196519 $35.95

Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics, by T. D. Harper-Shipman. Stanford, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781503647121 $26.00

Violence Against Women in the Global Economy, by Nata  Duvvury, Srinivas Raghavendra, and Stacey Scriver. Taylor & Francis Group, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781032776910 $190.00

The Whole World Goes to Hunter: Creating a Culture of Excellence and Activism, 1870–1964, by Laura S. Schor. SUNY Press, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9798855805949 $24.95

Women and Genocide in Guatemala: Justice and the Politics of Memorialization, by JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Martha C. Galvan-Mandujano. Bloomsbury, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781838602758 $115.00

Women and Regulation: Challenging the Status Quo, ed. by Sara R. Rinfret and Michelle C. Pautz. Temple, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781439925355 $89.50

Women, Entrepreneurship and Race in North America: A Comparison of Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs, by Andrea E. Smith-Hunter. Edward Elgar Publishing, May 2026e. ISBN 9781035332472 $135.00

Women, “Failure” and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University, ed. by Marina Cano and Rosa García-Periago. Bloomsbury, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781350528666 $120.00

Women in Turbulent Times, ed. by Jill Rubery, Núria Sánchez-Mira, and Valeria Insarauto. Taylor & Francis Group, Jun. 2026e. ISBN 9781032865850 $190.00

Women, Immigrants, and the Working-Class Battle in Little Falls, New York: The Textile Strike of 1912-1913, by J. N. Cheney. Algora Publishing, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781628945874 $19.95

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