Award-Winning Books: Women's Studies
Between Women
Domestics and Their Employers
256 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-0-87722-491-4 $31.95 Feb 87
HC: 978-0-87722-383-2 $32.95 Sep 85
Jessie Bernard Book Award, American Sociological Association, 1987
The Black Female Body
A Photographic History
240 pages
9 x 12
26 color illustrations, 185 duotones
HC: 978-1-56639-928-9 $64.00 Jan 02
Finalist for the Publishers Marketing Association's Ben Franklin Award, Reference Category, 2003
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2002
National Gold Ink Bronze Award, 2002
Black Venus 2010
They Called Her "Hottentot"
288 pages
7 x 10
42 duotones
PB: 978-1-4399-0205-9 $38.95 Jan 10
HC: 978-1-4399-0204-2 $86.50 Jan 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0206-6 $38.95 Jan 10
Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies by the Popular Culture/American Culture Association, 2011
Body Language
Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics
204 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-1-4399-0309-4 $28.95 Aug 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0308-7 $81.50 Aug 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0310-0 $28.95 Aug 11
Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional Prize, American Folklore Society, 2011
The Cost of Being a Girl
Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
208 pages
6 x 9
11 tables, 8 line drawings
PB: 978-1-4399-1349-9 $27.95 Dec 17
HC: 978-1-4399-1348-2 $94.50 Dec 17
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1350-5 $27.95 Dec 17
Honorable Mention from the National Women's Studies Association for the Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, 2018
Dangerous Passage
The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence
304 pages
PB: 978-1-56639-077-4 $27.95 Jan 93
HC: 978-0-87722-824-0 $77.50 Jun 91
Eliot Freidson Outstanding Book in Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 1993
Doing Comparable Worth
Gender, Class, and Pay Equity
272 pages
6 x 9
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0572-2 $34.95 Feb 91
Jessie Bernard Prize of the American Sociological Association for Life Achievement, 1989
Fireweed
A Political Autobiography
408 pages
7 x 10
24 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-236-2 $29.95 Aug 03
HC: 978-1-56639-889-3 $76.50 Mar 02
Outstanding Achievement Recognition by the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards Committee, 2003
A BookSense top 76 pick in the category, "Life Stories of Some Famous and Not-So-Famous Women," March/April 2003
A PW Book of the Day, June 2002
Good Reasons to Run
Women and Political Candidacy
324 pages
6 x 9
8 tables, 32 figs., 2 maps
PB: 978-1-4399-1956-9 $37.95 May 20
HC: 978-1-4399-1955-2 $109.50 May 20
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1957-6 $37.95 May 20
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2020
Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
216 pages
6 x 9
1 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0815-0 $31.95 Dec 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0813-6 $91.50 Dec 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0814-3 $31.95 Dec 11
Association for Asian American Studies' Outstanding Book Award in the category Social Science, 2014
Honorable Mention, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association, 2013
Las Hermanas
Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism in the U.S. Catholic Church
232 pages
5.5 x 8.25
10 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-483-0 $32.95 Sep 05
HC: 978-1-59213-250-8 $49.50 Jun 04
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2005
Street Woman
216 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-0-87722-509-6 $32.95 Apr 87
HC: 978-0-87722-417-4 $34.95 Apr 86
Distinguished Scholar Award, American Sociological Association Criminology Section, 1987
Weaving Work and Motherhood
240 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-700-1 $31.95 Jun 99
HC: 978-1-56639-699-8 $59.50 Jun 99
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0874-7 $31.95
William J. Goode Book Award, American Sociological Association Family Section, 2000
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