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Today’s Science Skepticism Goes Back to the Scientific Revolution

Dec 06 2024
Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago.
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"Beyond the Binary" reveals early Muslim jurists' ideas of gender

Nov 20 2024
Read an excerpt from "Beyond the Binary," an exploration of early Hanafi legal thought that reveals early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, age, enslavement, lineage, class, and other social roles.
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Tinkering with the Future: Everyday Experiments Under Startup Capitalism

Nov 05 2024
In their insistence on reworking what labor means and how it is experienced, women workers in Bengaluru offer significant insights into the time, space, and meaning of work under startup capitalism.
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One Hundred Years of Border Control

Nov 01 2024
A special issue of California History commemorates the centennial of the Border Patrol and the Immigration Act of 1924, and offers important historical perspective on our current political moment.
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Sacred Activism: Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender Justice

Oct 31 2024
In a time when essentialist narratives are all too often imposed, "Women, Faith, and Family" challenges the dominant understanding of women’s rights in Muslim societies, recognizing faith-based activism as a powerful force in shaping gender discourse.
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Native land claims and culture are inseparable

Oct 18 2024
I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands and livelihoods slip away as settlers came to the territory in search of resources.
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Ten Intriguing Facts about Fearless Writer Sanora Babb

Oct 17 2024
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb," shares 10 intriguing facts about intrepid writer Sanora Babb — peerless author of midcentury American literature who was silenced by John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
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Rest in Peace, Darlene

Sep 06 2024
“The tough-looking blonde over there,” is how Darlene was described to us nearly fifteen years ago when we launched our ongoing project with formerly incarcerated women in Massachusetts. Our first conversation was brief; her words were clipped. She gave the impression that she was annoyed, that she was in a hurry to go somewhere important.
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Q&A with Nicole Bedera, author of On the Wrong Side

Aug 05 2024
The debate over campus sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices. On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetr
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Special issue on Feminist Histories is now available from Pacific Historical Review

Jul 23 2024
The summer issue of Pacific Historical Review is a special issue devoted to the theme of Feminist Histories. The special issue, which is temporarily available paywall-free, includes research articles, a forum on feminist history methods, and a response from historian Estelle B. Freedman. At PHR’s ed
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