Women’s History — Markus Wiener Publishers

Subject: Women’s History

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
	Ruete, Emily (edited by Patricia Romero) Subject: Middle East	Born a princess Sayyida on the African spice island of Zanzibar, Emily Ruete was brought up in a harem in the Sultan’s palace, naturalized as a German through marriage, and then manipulated by both Germans and British in their … More Information

Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s
	Jiménez de Wagenheim, Olga Subject: Puerto Rican History, US History, Women's History, Caribbean History	From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance to the imposition of American colonial rule. A group of Nationalists led by Pedro Albizu Campos made it clear … More Information

Palabra de Mujer: Historia oral de las directoras de cine mexicanas (1988-1994)
	Arredondo, Isabel Subject: Latin America	“In this compilation of interviews, [Isabel] Arredondo, professor of Latin American literature at SUNY Plattsburgh, documents the importance of allowing women filmmakers to develop their own dialogue about their craft. After an introduction detailing the governmental bureaucracies that control the … More Information

Ravensbrück: Everyday Life in a Women’s Concentration Camp, 1939-45
	Morrison, Jack G. Subject: Europe	Attempting to reconstruct the workings of everyday life in the concentration camp at Ravensbrück, the only camp in the Nazi system designed for women, Morrison examines the prisoners’ social relationships with each other and their overlords; prisoner activities, from bartering … More Information

The Latest Style: The Fashion Writing of Bianca Valmont and Economies of Domesticity
	Davis, Kathleen E. Subject: Europe, Latin America	From her base in Paris, Bianca Valmont reported fashion and cultural trends for Ultima Moda, a magazine published in Madrid and circulated throughout the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America and the Philippines from 1888 to 1898. Her column was at first … More Information

Women in Caribbean History
	Shepherd, Verene Subject: Caribbean Women's History	Early historical works portrayed women, especially those of African descent, in a sexist and racist manner. Women in Caribbean History embodies the progress of research on Caribbean women. It reveals new historical information on Caribbean women and provides detail on … More Information

Women in Islam
	Walther, Wiebke Subject: Middle East	This book does not pretend that the society of Islam was dominated by women, but illustrates that the world from the classical period to modern times is also a woman’s world. Here we have tales of A’isha, who joined the … More Information

Women in San Juan: 1820-1868
	Matos Rodríguez, Félix V. Subject: Latin America, Caribbean	When the threat of political revolution lurked behind the shadows of the Spanish colonial state in Puerto Rico, one of the earliest casualties of anti-independence persecution in San Juan was a woman — Maria de las Mercedes Barbudo, who was … More Information

Women’s Voices on Africa: A Century of Travel Writings
	Romero, Patricia W. Subject: Africa, Women's History	In African Women: A Historical Panorama, Patricia W. Romero seeks to address what she perceives as a gap in existing scholarship on the history of African women, namely a lack of personalisation and case studies in accounts of women who … More Information