Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

Seduced by Radium

How Industry Transformed Science in the American Marketplace

Traces the Evolution of Radium from a Scientific Object to a Desirable Commodity

Examines the negotiations over women’s rights and the politics of gender in Chile throughout the twentieth century. Centering her study on motherhood, Pieper Mooney explores dramatic changes in health policy, population paradigms, and understandings of human rights, and reveals that motherhood is hardly a private matter defined only by individual women or couples. Instead, it is intimately tied to public policies and political competitions on nation-state and international levels.

Working with Paper

Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge

Edited By Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, Christine von Oertzen

Reveals Both the Gendered and Material Dimensions of Knowledge Production

Women at Work

Rhetorics of Gender and Labor

Edited By David Gold, Jessica Enoch

Addresses Women’s Rhetorical Relationship to Work

Persuasive Acts

Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By Shari J. Stenberg, Charlotte Hogg

In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina’s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first-century woman rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, ...