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Children’s No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan Jeff Gottesfeld, Shiella Witanto (illus.)
Essay Frequency Hopping: The Jewish Identity of Hedy Lamarr in Children’s Books Emily Schneider May 25, 2020
Nonfiction Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag Monika Zgustova; Julie Jones, trans.
From the Journal A Woman’s Voice: Books by Four Rediscovered Authors Ruth Andrew Ellenson March 26, 2020
Nonfiction Her Story, My Story? Writing About Women and the Holocaust Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer (eds.)
Nonfiction All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks Food and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote Laura Kumin
Nonfiction Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America Hilary Levey Friedman