Resources for Gender and Women's Studies: A Feminist Review

11/03/2025

Thank you for supporting RGWS! Please note that RGWS is on a publishing hiatus for 2025. The latest issue (volume 45, issue 3-4) was published in Feb. 2025, and we will not be publishing any new issues, requesting new reviews, or taking subscription renewals this year.

When we have more information, we will let you know. Until then, thank you for your continued support of RGWS and the work of the Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian!

20/05/2024

This just in, the Winter-Spring 2024 issue of RGWS is now live!
Issue 45.1-2 of RGWS features reviews of
⭐️ From Essence to Intersections to Radical Abolition: Three Arguments about Identity
⭐️ Disabled Wisdom: How to Care for Each Other Like It’s Our Only Hope
⭐️ Lavender Fields: A Black Feminist Care Archive at the End of the World .. and more!

Find out more about issue 45.1-2 here:
https://tinyurl.com/3ujvbycr

04/03/2024

Here's something that might be of interest to RGWS readers!

is here! Celebrate with us by engaging in some feminist information activism on THIS WEDNESDAY, March 6th, at the first ever Our Bodies Ourselves Today Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. You can help us address systemic bias, close the information gender gap, and make women's history (and health information) more visible. Even if you've never edited Wikipedia before, we will help you get started – it’s easier than you may think!

Our theme is Writing for our Lives, and we are collaborating with Professor Katherine Horn's Q***r Narratives class at . The event is free and open to all.

Writing for Our Lives: A Women’s History Month Wikipedia Editathon
March 6, 2024
12:00-1:30pm EST remote (Zoom link sent after registration)
2:00-3:30pm EST Samia Academic Center 316, Suffolk University, 20 Somerset Street, Boston

Find more info and register at http://tinyurl.com/yc6ebmcr

08/02/2024

Registration is open for this year's conference!

26/01/2024

Dr. Adele E. Clarke, MA, PhD, (1945-2024) was a feminist scholar-activist who made great contributions to both the academic field of women’s health and the women’s health movement. She was Professor Emerita of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, where she had been a faculty member since 1985. Adele’s relationship with Our Bodies Ourselves spanned decades. She contributed to many editions of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" as a writer and reader, served on the Advisory Board of Suffolk University’s Master of Arts in Women’s Health program, and provided invaluable input regarding Our Bodies Ourselves Today, especially in the areas of abortion and contraception.

Rest in Power, Adele. It is an honor to carry on our shared work.

Read more about her contributions to and honor her memory with a gift: https://bit.ly/Adele-Clarke

19/01/2024

Have you seen any of these books about Dolly Parton?

Happy 78th birthday to Dolly Parton! The beloved singer and songwriter grew up in poverty in rural Tennessee, but went on to become one of the greatest country musicians of all time and a generous philanthropist supporting causes ranging from children's literacy to infectious disease research! To read more about the life and career of this musical legend, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=32200

To introduce kids to Dolly Parton's extraordinary life, we highly recommend the board book "Dolly: My First Dolly Parton" for ages 1 to 3 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dolly-my-first-dolly-parton), the picture books "Dolly Parton: Little People, Big Dreams” for ages 5 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dolly-parton-little-people) and "Dazzlin' Dolly" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dazzlin-dolly), and the illustrated biography "Who Is Dolly Parton?" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/who-is-dolly-parton)

There is also an uplifting picture book about her childhood, "Coat of Many Colors," for ages 4 to 8 at https://www.amightygirl.com/coat-of-many-colors

For adult readers, we recommend her bestselling memoir "Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics" at https://www.amightygirl.com/dolly-parton-songteller

There is also a fascinating biography on her life and impact on working women, "She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived By Her Songs," at https://www.amightygirl.com/she-come-by-it-natural

Dolly Parton also released her first novel, a thriller about a young singer-songwriter that she's co-written with James Patterson, "Run, Rose, Run: A Novel" at https://amzn.to/48Ce2il

18/12/2023

Wisconsin had this too! See https://womeninwisconsin.org/profile/lutie-eugenia-stearns/

A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

To share their inspiring stories with kids, we recommend "That Book Woman" for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/that-book-woman) and "Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky" for ages 8 and up (https://amzn.to/3N8WAtf) 🙂

For adult readers, there are also several excellent historical fiction novels about these determined librarians: "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" (https://amzn.to/47ZbdHz), its sequel "The Book Woman's Daughter" (https://amzn.to/3RqH6Cn), and "The Giver of Stars" (https://amzn.to/4a0Ym9A)