Project MUSE free access / Women's History Month sources

March 18, 2020 6:06 PM

Several university presses are offering content on Project MUSE for free until the end of May or June: Johns Hopkins University Press; The University of North Carolina Press; University of Nebraska Press; Temple University Press; University Press of Colorado; Utah State University Press; The Ohio State University Press; Vanderbilt University Press; and University of Georgia Press. Incidentally, it's Women's History Month, and Project MUSE hosts many recent publications of relevance.

For example, these seven titles ...

• The latest issue of the Journal of Women's History
• Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star by Kat D. Williams
• Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer
• Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement by Katherine M. Marino
• Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America by Tanya Harmer
• Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967 by Joan Marie Johnson
• Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life by Troy R. Saxby

Also, according to Microsoft Academic, here are seven of the most cited articles from the past ten years of the Journal of Women's History:

• "Rejecting Reproduction: The National Organization for Non-Parents and Childfree Activism in 1970s America" by Jenna Healey
• "Rethinking the Mantra that Abortion Should be 'Safe, Legal, and Rare'" by Tracy A. Weitz
• "Claims to Protection: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Abolitionism in the League of Nations' Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children, 1919–1936" by Jessica R. Pliley
• "Wollstonecraft as an International Feminist Meme" by Eileen Hunt Botting, Christine Carey Wilkerson, and Elizabeth N. Kozlow
• "From Breakthrough to Bust: The Brief Life of Norplant, the Contraceptive Implant" by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
• "Rethinking State Socialist Mass Women's Organizations: The Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement and the United Nations Decade for Women, 1975-1985" by Kristen Ghodsee
• "A Presence in the Past: A Transgender Historiography" by Genny Beemyn

posted by Wobbuffet (2 comments total)

Fantastic post, thank you!
posted by jokeefe at 10:47 PM on March 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

Wow. So Many Books. Thank you. From a partial look through one publisher (the 1600 books of Johns Hopkins) I've already found lots I would like to read:

* Children's Association Quarterly
* Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry
* Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects
* Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women"
* Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver

Maybe we need a read-along? Probably impossible to choose one book for all of us, but we could have a thread where we talk about different books we are each reading from these and the Cambridge ones in the post below.
posted by paduasoy at 1:41 AM on March 19, 2020 [2 favorites]