Women's & Gender Studies
New & Forthcoming Titles - November 2026
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Christina of Sweden in Context
A Celebration of Seventeenth-Century Queenship 400 Years in the Making
Theresa Kutasz Christensen, Camilla Kandare, Ylva Haidenthaller (eds)
In celebration of Queen Christina of Sweden’s 400th birthday, this volume highlights and expands scholarship on Christina within the context of her own time, demythologizing and broadening the foundations of her enduring legacy.
378 p., 37 b/w ills, 65 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-62321-4 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-62322-1
Women of the Past, vol. 8
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A Woman's Rite
The Ritual of Churching of Women after Childbirth in Denmark,
1500–1965
Mette Maria Ahlefeldt-Laurvig
This volume explores the long-hidden history of churching after childbirth in Denmark (1500–1965), tracing its development from late medieval origins through its Lutheran reinvention, and offering new insights into women’s everyday lives, their religiosity, and experience of bodily regulation, and into broader conceptions of gender, ritual, and the shaping of social order across centuries, to enrich current debates on the ‘Long Reformation’.
331 p., 20 b/w ills, 61 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-62069-5 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-62070-1
Women of the Past, vol. 7
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Women in Textiles
Remuneration, Labour Relations, and Gender in Europe during Industrialization (Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries)
Manuela Martini (ed)
A gendered view of how men and women were able to earn a living from the textile trade during the early stages of the industrial era in France and Europe more widely.
244 p., 25 b/w ills, 10 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61987-3 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61988-0
Women of the Past, vol. 6
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Inside Out: Gender and Ageing Agency in Urban and Non-urban Religious Spaces in Antiquity
Giulia Pedrucci, Francesca Fulminante, Martina Seifert (eds)
This volume investigates the role of women and children in urban and non-urban sanctuaries and funerary contexts in Antiquity to explore how they fitted into these sacral environments and how sanctuaries were shaped in turn by their presence.
373 p., 88 b/w ills, 87 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61706-0 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61707-7
Women of the Past, vol. 5
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Queen Bona Sforza of Poland
Sources and the Practice of Rulership in East Central Europe
Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński, Agnieszka Januszek-Sieradzka (eds)
Bona Sforza (1494–1557) was a key figure in the political, diplomatic, and economic life of early modern Europe. This volume explores Bona Sforza’s political life and the ways she exercised power, integrating research on artistic, literary, and other forms of cultural patronage exercised by elite women with analysis of the economic forms of power.
314 p., 2 b/w ills, 54 col. ills, 4 maps b/w, 1 chart, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-60123-6 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-60124-3
East Central Europe, 476–1795 AD/CE, vol. 8
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Viking Women
Between Theory, Text, and Materiality
Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Anne Irene Riisøy, Jakub Morawiec (eds)
This volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration of gender relations in medieval Scandinavia, focusing on the roles of women in Old Norse society.
129 p., 1 b/w ill., 12 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-62267-5 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-62268-2
New Series: Viking and Early Medieval Europe, vol. 1
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The Embodied Court in the Premodern World
Understanding the Physicality, Performativity and Lifecycle of Bodies at Court in Europe and Beyond,
1400-1800
Janet Dickinson, Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón (eds)
This interdisciplinary volume connects multiple scholarly approaches and expands the significance of court studies and its corollary disciplines (such as gender studies, cultural heritage, literary studies, and medical history).
275 p., 8 b/w ills, 15 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61608-7 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61609-4
Courts and Courtiers in a Global Context, vol. 4
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On the Steps of the Throne
The King's Family and its Political and Cultural Role in the Spanish Monarchy (16th-18th Centuries)
Santiago Martínez Hernández, Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez, Jonathan Spangler (eds)
The chapters that make up this volume deploy diverse interdisciplinary perspectives to rethink the dynastic and political role played by consorts, siblings and royal cousins queens and princes and princesses in the Hispanic monarchy and its subsidiary European kingdoms.
264 p., 11 b/w ills, 2025
ISBN 978-2-503-60280-6 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-60281-3
Courts and Courtiers in a Global Context, vol. 1
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Women's Legacies in Natural Studies, Health, and Liberal Arts
Proceedings of the Second Annual International Women in the Arts Conference
Consuelo Lollobrigida, Adelina Modesti (eds)
This book focuses on the correlation between women and naturalism from ancient times to contemporaneity, and explores the topic more thoroughly in the context of Natural Studies, seen as a subject of investigation in multiple disciplines.
240 p., 8 b/w ills, 62 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-62107-4 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-62108-1
Women in the Arts, vol. 4
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Feminist Friendships, Collaborations, and Networks in the Visual Arts
Essays in honor of Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard
Jennifer Griffiths, Andrea Pearson (eds)
These wide-ranging essays chart the importance of collaboration among the women who shaped the visual arts in diverse cultural moments across the globe and throughout the centuries.
240 p., 11 b/w ills, 75 col. col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-1-915487-31-5 (HB)
Harvey Miller Studies in the History of Culture
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Within Walls
Experience of Enclosure in Christian Female Spiritualities (From Late Antiquity to Early Modern Period)
Julia Lewandowska, Araceli Rosillo-Luque (eds)
The case studies presented in this volume argue that there was by no means a single form of enclosure in female Christian religious life. Instead, inspired by Philip Sheldrake’s interpretation of sacred spaces as polyphonic, this volume stresses the multivocality and multilocality of the term.
311 p., 2 b/w, 15 col. ills, 2025
ISBN 978-2-503-59934-2 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-59935-9
Women in Christianity, vol. 1
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Women and Goddesses in Old Norse Mythology and Folklore
Tommy Kuusela, Ingunn Ásdísardóttir (eds)
The chapters gathered here cover a range of academic fields, from literature and history of religion to folklore, onomastics, and archaeology, with the aim of reassessing the roles played by both women and goddesses in Iron Age Scandinavia.
348 p., 4 b/w ills, 32 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61466-3 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61467-0
Acta Scandinavica, vol. 15
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Selected Forthcoming Titles
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Crafting a Legacy
Artists and Female Patronage in Early Modern Europe
Noelia García Pérez (ed)
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The Jagiellon Queens, 1386–1596
Power, Mediation, and Authority
Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński, Susan Broomhall (eds)
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Les polices du corps féminin
Jade Sercomanens
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Mariana
Power, Piety and Representation in the Spanish Monarchy, 1649-1696
Cristina Bravo Lozano, Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño, Álvaro Pascual Chenel (eds)
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Nuns Making Liturgical Books
Women’s Agency, Gender, and Reform in the Portuguese Dominican Nunneries (15th-16th Centuries)
Paula Cardoso
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Re-Viewing Claude de France
Cynthia J. Brown, Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier (eds)
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Naturalising Social Hierarchies in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia
Personified Perceptions of Gender, Class, and Race
Elizabeth Ann Reid
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The Virgin’s Milk
On the Fluidity of Images and the Production of Divine Presence
Jutta Gisela Sperling, Mati Meyer, Vibeke Olson (eds)
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The Suicide of Lucretia
Eros and Politics in the Renaissance
Henri de Riedmatten
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Women and Gender in Trecento Art & Architecture
Images, Ideals, Realities
Judith Steinhoff (ed)
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Portraying Holy Men and Women in Early Christian Literature and Late Antique Hagiography
Ángel Narro (ed)
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