Faculty Research and Publications
Department of Women Studies
Selected Faculty Publications

Rebecca Aanerud

  • "Antiracist Mothering in an Age of White Supremacy" submission for special issue on whiteness and mothering in Hypatia (under review)


Sue-Ellen Jacobs

  • 1997 Two Spirit People: Perspectives on Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality (first editor with Wesley Thomas and Sabine Lang). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.


Angela Ginorio

  • Ginorio, A.B. & Grignon J. (2000). "The transition to and from high school of ethnic minority students." (In Campbell, G., Denes, R. & Morrison, C. (Eds.) Access Denied. NY: Oxford Press.)
  • Ginorio, A.B., Marshall, T. & Breckenridge, L. (2000). " The feminist and the scientist: One and the same " in the Women's Studies Quarterly, XXVIII (1 & 2), 271-295.


Judy Howard

  • O'Brien, Jodi and Judith A. Howard (Eds.) 1998. Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publications.
  • Howard, Judith A. and Jocelyn A. Hollander. 1997. Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology. Newbury Park CA: Sage Publications.


Nancy J. Kenney

  • Kenney, N.J., Brot, M.D., Moe, K.E., and Dahl, K. (Eds). Complexities of Women: Integrative Essays in Psychology and Biology. Kendall/Hunt Publishers: Dubuque, 1992.


Kathleen Noble

  • Noble, K.D.(2002, 2nd edition, paperback) The Sound of a Silver Horn: Reclaiming the Heroism in Contemporary Women's Lives.  Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press
  • Noble, K.D. (2001). Riding the Windhorse: Spiritual Intelligence and the Growth of the Self. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
  • Arnold, K.D., Noble, K.D., and Subotnik, R.F., Eds. (1996). Remarkable Women: Perspectives on Female Talent Development. NJ: Hampton Press.


Priti Ramamurthy

  • "The Modern Girl in India in the Inter-war Years: Inter-racial intimacies, International competition, and Historical eclipsing," Women's Studies Quarterly, 34, no. 1 & 2, Spring 2006, 197-226.
  • "The Modern Girl Around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings." Modern Girl Research Group (Tani Barlow, Madeleine Dong, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn Thomas, Alys Weinbaum), Gender and History, 17, no.2, Fall 2005.


Luana Ross

  • Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of American Criminality. The University of Texas Press, 1998.


Amanda Swarr

  • Swarr, Amanda Lock. "Stabane, Intersexuality, and Same-sex Relationships in Soweto," Feminist Studies, forthcoming.
  • Swarr, Amanda Lock and Richa Nagar. "Dismantling Assumptions: Interrogating 'Lesbian' Struggles for Identity and Survival in India and South Africa." SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 29(2), winter 2004.


Sasha Su-Ling Welland

  • A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
  • "What Women Will Have Been: Reassessing Feminist Cultural Production in China," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31(4): 941-66.


Shirley J. Yee

  • "Dependency and Opportunity: Socioeconomic relations between Chinese and non-Chinese in New York City, 1870-1943,"  Journal of Urban History 33(January 2007): 254-76.
  • Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-60 (The University of Tennessee Press, 1992). This book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Research News!

Publications News!
October 26 2009, 3:40 PM
Modern Girl Around the World Research Project

The Modern Girl Around the World, is a transnational feminist research collaboration (and anthology) on flappers, garçonnes, moga, modeng xiaojie, and neue Frauen in the early to mid twentieth century. The collaborative research group draws together University of Washington faculty including Tani E. Barlow, Madeleine Y. Dong, Uta G. Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn M. Thomas, Alys E. Weinbaum. (for more information on the Modern Girl Project, see the Modern Girl Project web site).


January 3 2007, 10:03 AM
A Thousand Miles of Dreams
Our publication highlight is Sasha Su-Ling Welland's A Thousand Miles of Dreams:  The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers in 2006.

The book is an account of two Chinese sisters during the first half of the twentieth century, who took very different paths to become independent women.