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 Kecia Ali Harvard University Press, 2010
	Palestinian Art Gannit Ankori University of Chicago Press, 2005
	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 Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, and Margaret R. Miles, eds. UMI Research Press, 1987
	Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power Routledge Press, 2002
	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: Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City Jodi Bilinkoff Cornell University Press, new edition, 2015
	Gendering Religion and Politics: Untangling Modernities Ann D. Braude and Hanna Herzog, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
	Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers: Women Who Changed American Religion Ann D. Braude, ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
	Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Karen McCarthy Brown University of California Press, 2001
	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 Anne E. Carr Continuum, 1988
	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 Chung Hyun-Kyung Orbis Books, 1990
	Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History Phyllis Cole Oxford University Press, 1998
	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 Nicola Denzey Beacon Press, 2007
	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 Carol B. Duncan Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008
	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 Maureen Fitzgerald University of Illinois Press, 2006
	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 Frances Smith Foster Indiana University Press, 1993
	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 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 R. Marie Griffith University of California Press, 2004
	The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Worship Lindsey Harlan Oxford University Press, 2003
	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 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Harvard University Press, 1994
	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 Jean M. Humez Indiana University Press, 1993
	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 Tal Ilan Brill, 1997
	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 Stephanie W. Jamison Oxford University Press, 1996
	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 Anne Carolyn Klein Beacon Press, 1995
	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 Anne Lapidus Lerner Brandeis University Press, 2007
	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 Joycelyn Moody University of Georgia Press, 2001
	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 Bonnie J. Morris State University of New York Press, 1998
	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 Oyeronke Olademo Concept Publications Limited, 2009
	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 Michelene E. Pesantubbee University of New Mexico Press, 2005
	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 Judylyn S. Ryan University of Virginia Press, 2005
	New Directions in Gender and Religion: The Changing Status of Women in African Independent Churches Brigid Sackey Rowen and Littlefield, 2006
	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 Elora Shehabuddin Columbia University Press, 2008
	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 Elizabeth V. Spelman Beacon Press, 1997
	State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in the Early Modern Catholic State Ulrike Strasser University of Michigan Press, 2004
	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 Joan E. Taylor Oxford University Press, 2003
	Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil Emilie Townes Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
	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 Pamela J. Walker University of California Press, 2001
	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 Traci C. West Westminster John Knox Press, 2006
	Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity Susan Zaeske University of North Carolina Press, 2003