PENGUIN GROUP (USA) WOMEN’S STUDIES books for courses 2011-2012 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY...............3 GENDER, LAW, & FEATURED TITLES SOCIAL POLITICS IN THE U.S. ....................4 GLOBAL HISTORY & POLITICS ...................7 MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY ...........................10 Women & Food ......................................12 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE ................14 Queer Lit ................................................17 Historical Fiction ...................................18 CLASSIC WOMEN WRITERS......................20 Jane Austen ...........................................21 The Brontës ...........................................22 Women in Literature .............................24 Cynthia Enloe and Joni Seager f THE REAL STATE OF AMERICA ATLAS PSYCHOLOGY, Mapping the Myths and Truths of the United States RELATIONSHIPS & HEALTH ......................25 Draws back the curtain on our complex nation to reveal the myriad realities of the American experience—from Raising Young Girls ...............................27 our changing demographics to patterns of home owner- The Politics of Motherhood ..................29 ship to gender gaps in the labor force and government. Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-311935-7 • $22.00 ARTS, POPULAR CULTURE & SPORTS .....30 Joni Seager BUSINESS, THE PENGUIN ATLAS TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION ..................31 OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD Fourth Edition SPIRITUALITY & RELIGION ......................32 “Scholarly, funny, provocative and an essential resource in any library. You can’t teach global issues without it.”— Diane Bell, George Washington U. “Among the most ANTHOLOGIES & REFERENCE..................33 useful resources for all Women’s Studies courses.”— Claire G. Moses, U. of Maryland. INDEX ........................................................35 Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-311451-2 • $22.00 PENGUIN SPEAKERS BUREAU .................38 COLLEGE FACULTY Examination and personal copy forms are INFORMATION SERVICE ...........................39 available at the back of the catalog. SCHOOL & PERSONAL For personal service, adoption assistance, COPIES ORDER FORM ..............................41 and complimentary exam copies, sign up for our College Faculty Information Service EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM ........42 at http://www.penguin.com/facinfo For more titles, please see our History, Sociology, and Literature catalogs, available for download at us.penguingroup.com/subjectcatalogs Cover illustration: Ken Barton 2 WOMEN’S STUDIES 2011 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) f denotes new or forthcoming title SECTION HEADING Stacy A. Cordery Lyndall Gordon WOMEN IN f JULIETTE GORDON LOW f LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS The Life of the Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds AMERICAN Founder of the Girl Scouts See page 11 HISTORY A biography of the colorful founder of the Girl Scouts, in time for the 100th anniversary of the organization’s founding. Viking • 400 pp. • 978-0-670-02330-1 • $27.95 Available February 2012 John and Abigail Adams THE LETTERS OF ALICE JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Edited with an Introduction From White House Princess to and Notes by Frank Shuffelton Washington Power Broker Penguin Classics • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-243711-7 • $17.00 The first biography in twenty years of Teddy Roosevelt’s witty and whip-smart daughter, Patricia Brady a woman who influenced American politics MARTHA WASHINGTON for nearly a century. “A wondrously vibrant An American Life portrait of one of America’s most complicated “At last, a book that brings Martha Washing- and intriguing women.”—David Nasaw, author ton out of the shadows and reveals her as a of Andrew Carnegie. B/w photos. complex, appealing personality in her own Penguin • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-311427-7 • $18.00 Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson A New York Times Notable Book right.”—Carol Berkin, Baruch College. 16 pp. with Patricia Mulcahy f b/w insert. IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-303713-2 • $16.00 Leon Dash The Extraordinary Life ROSA LEE of a 106-Year-Old Woman A Mother and The oldest living black graduate of Case Douglas Brinkley Her Family in Urban America Western Reserve University, Ella Mae is the ROSA PARKS: A Life Based on a series of Pulitzer Prize–winning child of former slaves who has experienced “A clear and precise history of the woman articles, this account of the urban underclass the best and worst of the past century, and the incident that would crown her the offers compelling testimony in the ongoing including attending President Barack mother of the civil rights movement.”—USA national debate about welfare reform, and is Obama’s inauguration at the age of 105. Today. a worthy successor to such works as Jonathan “Describes a parallel history of the black Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-303600-5 • $13.00 Kozol’s Death at an Early Age. experience in our nation that is so rarely Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-27896-7 • $16.00 recorded. After living a life of quiet dignity, Mary Boykin Chesnut Johnson...shares a story that is inspiring and f MARY CHESNUT’S DIARY Antonia Felix uplifting.”—George Dawson. Introduction by Catherine Clinton f SONIA SOTOMAYOR Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-311744-5 • $14.00 As the daughter of a wealthy plantation The True American Dream owner and the wife of an aide to Jefferson The story of the first Hispanic American’s— Johanna Johnston Davis, Chesnut was well acquainted with and third woman ever seated on the U.S. THEY LED THE WAY the Confederacy’s prominent players and Supreme Court—journey from a housing 14 American Women diligently recorded her impressions of the project in the Bronx, to Princeton and Yale Illustrated by Deanne Hollinger conflict’s most significant moments. “A great Law School, and finally, the nomination by From Emma Willard and Abigail Adams to epic drama of our greatest national trag- President Obama. “Felix offers substantial Harriet Beecher Stowe, these are the inspir- edy.”—William Styron. detail about some of Sotomayor’s cases as ing stories of women who changed a nation. Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-310606-7 • $15.00 an ADA and as a judge along with perhaps Puffi n Children’s • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-240057-9 • $5.99 more background on her personal life than Blanche Wiesen Cook has been aired.”—Library Journal. Elizabeth Keckley ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Berkley • 320 pp. • 978-0-425-23483-9 • $25.95 BEHIND THE SCENES Berkley • 320 pp. • 978-0-425-24295-7 • $16.00 “Impassioned and sensitive, tender and or, Thirty Years a Slave, Paperback available September 2011 angry...an ardently feminist biography.”— and Four Years in the White House The New York Times Book Review. “With a Introduction and Notes by William L. Andrews marvelous combination of brilliant original Robin Gerber Originally published in 1868, this intimate research and deep intuition and empathy, LEADERSHIP THE memoir of the Lincoln White House by for- Cook conveys a wondrously human Eleanor ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WAY mer slave Elizabeth Keckley, who was friend Roosevelt.”—Betty Friedan, author of The Timeless Strategies from and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln, fuses Feminine Mystique. Photos. the First Lady of Courage the slave narrative with the political memoir. Foreword by James Macgregor Burns Volume 1: 1884–1933 Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-303924-2 • $14.00 Penguin • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-009460-2 • $20.00 “A powerful primer for leaders in any field Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933–1938 and of any political stripe.”—Congressman Helen Keller Penguin • 704 pp. • 978-0-14-017894-4 • $20.00 Richard Gephardt. 16-page b/w photo insert. A Los Angeles Times Book Award; a Chicago Tribune f THE STORY OF MY LIFE Portfolio • 352 pp. • 978-1-59184-020-6 • $16.00 Book Award; a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Introduction by Jim Knipfel New Afterword by Marlee Matlin Signet Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-451-53156-8 • $4.95 f denotes new or forthcoming title WOMEN’S STUDIES 2011 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 3 SECTION HEADING Frances Perkins Brenda J. Child f THE ROOSEVELT I KNEW GENDER, LAW & f HOLDING OUR WORLD TOGETHER Introduction by Adam Cohen Ojibwe Women This historic memoir by the first woman to SOCIAL POLITICS and the Survival of Community serve in a presidential cabinet offers an inti- IN THE U.S. Penguin Library of mate portrait of the New Deal president by American Indian History Series a close family friend and a trusted political Explores the remarkable role of women in associate whose tenure as secretary of labor holding together Native American commu- spanned his entire administration. nities through the hardest years of the last Jane Addams two centuries. Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-310641-8 • $17.00 f TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE Availble July 2011 Viking • 208 pp. • 978-0-670-02324-0 • $22.95 Centennial Edition Available March 2012 Foreword by Henry Steele Commager Mary Prince Afterword by Ruth W. Messinger THE HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE Diablo Cody An account of the famed Chicago settle- CANDY GIRL Edited with an Introduction ment house from 1889–1909. A Year in the Life of and Notes by Sara Salih Signet Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-52739-4 • $7.95 After enduring years of abuse at the hands an Unlikely Stripper “Cody is to stripping what Chuck Klos- of several families who successively owned Julia Alvarez her, Mary Prince traveled to London in 1828. terman is to pop culture and Sarah Vowell is ONCE UPON A QUINCEAÑERA to American History—an off-kilter visionary There she dictated the story of her life, Coming of Age in the USA which became a potent instrument in the cynical enough to trust and talented A portrait of contemporary Latino culture as campaign against the slave trade. enough to blister all that her mighty pen well as a critical look at the rituals of coming Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-043749-2 • $13.00 touches.”—Lily Burana, author of Strip City: of age and the economic and social conse- A Stripper’s Farewell Journey Across America. quences of the quince party—the 15th Gotham • 224 pp.