Berks 2023

Penn Press at
Big Berks 2023

Welcome to Penn Press's
Berks 2023 virtual store

 

It’s time for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians’ 2023 meeting, and Penn Press is offering discounts on relevant titles and journals here on our virtual exhibit store!

To purchase books:

Customers in the United States: Browse through titles throughout this Berks virtual store, and once you’re ready to check out, enter BERKS23 in the promo code field on the shopping cart page for 40% off!

Customers outside of the Americas: Order online at combinedacademic.co.uk and use discount code CSPENN40 at checkout to receive a 40% discount.

Ebooks (customers in all territories): Order online at combinedacademic.co.uk and use discount code EBOOKPP40 at checkout to receive a 40% discount.

Berks Award Winners

Browse Penn Press titles that have won or received honorable mention for the annual Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prizes in recent years.

 

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
by Jessica Marie Johnson

Winner of the 2020 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, given by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
by Lauren Jae Gutterman

Winner of the 2019 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, given by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
by Keisha N. Blain

Winner of the 2018 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, given by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
by Sasha Turner

Winner of the 2017 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, given by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
by Marisa J. Fuentes

Winner of the 2016 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, given by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.

Journals

Penn Press publishes 22 journals on a wide range of subjects, including several of interest to scholars attending the Berks annual meeting. You can get subscriptions to each of these journals at up to 25% off the print rate! Check out our journals page for more information.

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