Publications

Since the the WSRP's founding in 1973, a substantial body of research has been published as a direct result of the program. Books by WSRP research associates have examined women, gender, sexuality, and religion from a stunning variety of perspectives:

 

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Kecia Ali
Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam
Kecia Ali
Harvard University Press, 2010
Palestinian Art, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Gannit Ankori
Palestinian Art
Gannit Ankori
University of Chicago Press, 2005
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Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality

Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, and Margaret R. Miles, eds.

Beacon Press, 1985

Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture

Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture

Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, and Margaret R. Miles, eds.

UMI Research Press, 1987

Right-Wing Women, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Paola Bacchetta
Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World
Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power
Routledge Press, 2002
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Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

University of Texas Press, 2007

The Avila of Saint Teresa by Jodi Bilinkoff

The Avila of Saint Teresa: Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City

Jodi Bilinkoff

Cornell University Press, new edition, 2015

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Gendering Religion and Politics: Untangling Modernities

Ann D. Braude and Hanna Herzog, eds.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers: Women Who Changed American Religion

Ann D. Braude, ed.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn

Karen McCarthy Brown

University of California Press, 2001

Holy Feast and Holy Fast, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Caroline Walker Bynum
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
Caroline Walker Bynum
University of California Press, 1988
Transforming Grace: Christian Tradition and Women's Experience

Transforming Grace: Christian Tradition and Women's Experience

Anne E. Carr

Continuum, 1988

Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea

Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea

Kelly H. Chong

Harvard University Press, 2008

Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology

Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology

Chung Hyun-Kyung

Orbis Books, 1990

Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History

Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History

Phyllis Cole

Oxford University Press, 1998

Maithil Women's Tales, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Coralynn Davis
Maithil Women's Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border
Coralynn V. Davis
University of Illinois Press, 2014
The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women

The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women

Nicola Denzey

Beacon Press, 2007

Countering Colonization: Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900

Countering Colonization: Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900

Carol Devens

University of California Press, 1992

This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto

This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto

Carol B. Duncan

Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008

Specters of Paul, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Benjamin Dunning
Specters of Paul: Sexual Difference in Early Christian Thought
Benjamin H. Dunning
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920

Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920

Maureen Fitzgerald

University of Illinois Press, 2006

Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France

Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France

Caroline Ford

Cornell University Press, 2005

Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892

Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892

Frances Smith Foster

Indiana University Press, 1993

The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death

The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death

Katherine L. French

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96

Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96

Carolyn De Swarte Gifford, ed.

University of Illinois Press, 1995

"If It Wasn't for the Women...": Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

Orbis Books, 2001

Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity

 

Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity

R. Marie Griffith

University of California Press, 2004

The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Worship

The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Worship

Lindsey Harlan

Oxford University Press, 2003

Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin

Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin

Deborah Hertz

Syracuse University Press, 2005

Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920

Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Harvard University Press, 1994

Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

Amy Hollywood

University of Chicago Press, 2002

Mother's First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion

Mother's First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion

Jean M. Humez

Indiana University Press, 1993

Practicing Shariah Law by Hauwa Ibrahim

Practicing Shariah Law: Seven Strategies for Achieving Justice in Shariah Courts

Hauwa Ibrahim

American Bar Association, 2012

Mine and Yours Are Hers: Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature

Mine and Yours Are Hers: Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature

Tal Ilan

Brill, 1997

Fertility and Jewish Law by Ronit Irshai

Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature

Ronit Irshai

Brandeis University Press, 2012

Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India

Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India

Stephanie W. Jamison

Oxford University Press, 1996

The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle

The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle

Karen L. King

Polebridge Press, 2003

Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self

Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self

Anne Carolyn Klein

Beacon Press, 1995

Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England

Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England

Amy Schrager Lang

University of California Press, 1987

Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry

Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry

Anne Lapidus Lerner

Brandeis University Press, 2007

Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile

Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile

Renée Levine Melammed

Oxford University Press, 1999

Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women

Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women

Joycelyn Moody

University of Georgia Press, 2001

To Serve God and Wal-Mart, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Bethany Moreton
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
Bethany Moreton
Harvard University Press, 2010
Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era

Lubavitcher Women in America: Identity and Activism in the Postwar Era

Bonnie J. Morris

State University of New York Press, 1998

The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History

The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History

Afsaneh Najmabadi

Syracuse University Press, 1998

Gender in Yoruba Oral Traditions

Gender in Yoruba Oral Traditions

Oyeronke Olademo

Concept Publications Limited, 2009

Yemoja, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Solimar Otero
Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas
Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola, eds.
State University of New York Press, 2010
Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast

Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast

Michelene E. Pesantubbee

University of New Mexico Press, 2005

Guests at God's Wedding: Celebrating Kartik Among The Women of Benares

Guests at God's Wedding: Celebrating Kartik Among The Women of Benares

Tracy Pintchman

State University of New York Press, 2005

Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women's Film and Literature

Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women's Film and Literature

Judylyn S. Ryan

University of Virginia Press, 2005

New Directions in Gender and Religion by Brigid Sackey

New Directions in Gender and Religion: The Changing Status of Women in African Independent Churches

Brigid Sackey

Rowen and Littlefield, 2006

A book by former WSRP Research Associate Yuksel Sezgin
Human Rights under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt and India
Yuksel Sezgin
Cambridge University Press, 2013
Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh

Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh

Elora Shehabuddin

Columbia University Press, 2008

Shining Humanity by Zilka Spahić Šiljak

Shining Humanity: Life Stories of Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zilka Spahić Šiljak

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering

Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering

Elizabeth V. Spelman

Beacon Press, 1997

State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in the Early Modern Catholic State

State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in the Early Modern Catholic State

Ulrike Strasser

University of Michigan Press, 2004

Living Faith, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Susan Crawford Sullivan
Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty
Susan Crawford Sullivan
University of Chicago Press, 2011
Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria: Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered

Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria: Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered

Joan E. Taylor

Oxford University Press, 2003

Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil

Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil

Emilie Townes

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Freud on Femininity and Faith

Freud on Femininity and Faith

Judith Van Herik

University of California Press, 1982

Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain

Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain

Pamela J. Walker

University of California Press, 2001

Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women

Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women

Chava Weissler

Beacon Press, 1998

Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter

Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter

Traci C. West

Westminster John Knox Press, 2006

Signatures of Citizenship, a book by former WSRP Research Associate Susan Zaeske
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity
Susan Zaeske
University of North Carolina Press, 2003