New Gender Studies Titles from Penguin Random House

By Luis Diaz | February 8 2024 | General

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your Gender Studies courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here.

I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
A Memoir
Maurice Vellekoop
9780307908735
An astonishing, epic graphic memoir in the spirit of Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe.
$35.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Hardcover
496 Pages
Pantheon
The Need for Roots
The Need for Roots
Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being
Simone Weil
9780241467978

French philosopher Simone Weil’s best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment.

$18.00 US
Feb 13, 2024
Paperback
288 Pages
Penguin Classics
Hijab Butch Blues
Hijab Butch Blues
A Memoir
Lamya H
9780593448786
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR).
$20.00 US
Feb 06, 2024
Paperback
336 Pages
Dial Press Trade Paperback
The Patriarchs
The Patriarchs
The Origins of Inequality
Angela Saini
9780807093337
For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it.
$17.95 US
Feb 27, 2024
Paperback
256 Pages
Beacon Press
I Heard Her Call My Name
I Heard Her Call My Name
A Memoir of Transition
Lucy Sante
9780593493762
An iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was.
$27.00 US
Feb 13, 2024
Hardcover
240 Pages
Penguin Press
Burn It Down!
Burn It Down!
Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution
Breanne Fahs
9781788735391

The most comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling our rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to today.

$24.95 US
Feb 27, 2024
Paperback
528 Pages
Verso
American Woman
American Woman
The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
Katie Rogers
9780593240564
The first definitive exploration of the role of the twenty-first century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden and the evolution of the First Lady’s role from ceremonial figurehead to political operative—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times.
$30.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Hardcover
304 Pages
Crown
If Love Could Kill
If Love Could Kill
The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence
Anna Motz
9780593534151
A groundbreaking work by an internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist that looks at women who commit extreme acts of violence and cruelty and at the underlying oppression and abuse often at the heart of these crimes.
$30.00 US
Feb 06, 2024
Hardcover
272 Pages
Knopf
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