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Women at Indiana University

The first in-depth look at how women have shaped the history and legacy of Indiana University.

Women first enrolled at Indiana University in 1867. In the following years they would leave an indelible mark on this Hoosier institution. However, until now their stories have been underappreciated, both on the IU campus and by historians, who have paid them little attention.

Small Marvels

In Limestone, Indiana, a city tucked away among forested hills, peculiar things happen, often in the vicinity of a jack-of-all-trades named Gordon Mills. Centaurs and nymphs shelter in a local cave, alligators lurk in the sewers, warm snow falls on the Fourth of July, cornstalks rise higher than chimneys, and the northern lights shine down on the municipal dump.

Part folktale, part tall tale, part comic romance, Small Marvels revels in the wonders of everyday life.

Fat Boy and the Champagne Salesman

Fat Boy and the Champagne Salesman offers a compelling behind-the-scenes exploration of the road to World War II and the invasion of Poland by the Hitler’s Third Reich. Focusing on the personal power plays within Hitler’s inner circle, author Rush Loving details the struggle for Hitler’s approval, long before the battle for Poland had begun.

Loving’s vivid narrative of the struggle between the two advisers lends a new understanding of the events leading to the opening days of World War II.

What's the Score?

Who is the first female athlete you admired? Were male and female athletes treated differently in your high school? Is there a natural limit to women’s athletic ability? How has Title IX opened up opportunities for women athletes?

Every semester since 1996, Bonnie Morris has encouraged students to confront questions like these in one of the most provocative college courses in America: Athletics and Gender, A History of Women’s Sports. What’s the Score?, Morris’s energetic teaching memoir, is a peek inside that class and features a decades-long dialogue with student athletes about the greater opportunities for women—on the playing field, as coaches, and in sports media. From corsets to segregated schoolyards to the WNBA, we find women athletes the world over conquering unique barriers to success.

Explore Your Journals

Explore how our more than three dozen scholarly journals play an important part in today’s increasingly global dialogue and feature essays, fiction, poetry, and art in a wide range of subject areas, including African studies, Jewish and Middle East studies, globalism, philosophy, religion, bioethics, folklore, electronic services, film, transnationalism, cultural studies, education, and environmental ethics.
Women at Indiana University

Women at Indiana University

Andrea Walton, Andrea Walton, Tanner N. Terrell, Dina Kellams, Sarah J. Reynolds, Angel Cassandra Nathan, Stephanie T.X. Nguyen, Ebelia Hernández, Angela Bowen Potter, Kathleen Surina Grove, Katherine Badertscher, Kelly C. Sartorius, Andrea Walton, Sara Clark, Catherine A. Dobris, Jacob Hardesty, Laurie Burns McRobbie

Budapest’s Children

Budapest's Children

Friederike Kind-Kovács

Frontiers of Belonging

Frontiers of Belonging

Annika Lems

Land Law and Policy in Israel

Land Law and Policy in Israel

Haim Sandberg

The Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Knowledge

The Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Knowledge

Robert S. Kawashima

Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University Press, Kendall Reeves

Duns Scotus’s Doctrine of Categories and Meaning

Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning

Martin Heidegger, Joydeep Bagchee, Jeffrey D. Gower

A Dam for Africa

A Dam for Africa

Stephan F. Miescher

Defying "The Plan"

Defying "The Plan"

Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe

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