The University of Washington Press is the nonprofit book and multimedia publishing arm of the University of Washington. The University of Washington Press plays an important role as the major scholarly publisher in the U.S. north of California and west of the Rockies. The Press has published approximately 4,400 books, of which about 1,400 are currently in print. Today we publish about sixty new titles each year.
The Press has especially distinguished lists in Asian studies, Middle East studies, anthropology, Western history and biography, environmental studies, and natural history. We are recognized as the foremost publisher in the country on the art and culture of the Northwest Coast Indians and Alaskan Eskimos, and as a leader in the publication of materials dealing with the Asian American experience. In recent years, the Press has established copublishing and distribution relationships with a growing list of art museums and other institutions around the world.
Key subject areas
Women’s & Feminist Studies
Washington Catalogues
Washington Featured Titles
Sustaining Natures
An Environmental Anthropology Reader
Sarah R. Osterhoudt, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan
14 July 2023
Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics
Kristin Haltinner, Dilshani Sarathchandra
9 May 2023
A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry
An Anthology
Michelle Yeh, Zhangbin Li, Frank Stewart
2 May 2023
Wide-Open Desert
A Queer History of New Mexico
Jordan Biro Walters
7 February 2023
The Cultivated Forest
People and Woodlands in Asian History
Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, Brian Lander, John S. Lee
29 November 2022
The Swedish Theory of Love
Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden
Henrik Berggren, Lars Trägårdh, Stephen Donovan
6 September 2022
Charged
A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
James Morton Turner, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter
16 August 2022
Unshaved
Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics
Breanne Fahs
14 June 2022
Communist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
Thomas Fleischman, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter
10 May 2022
Debating Malthus
A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment
Robert J. Mayhew, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter
3 May 2022
Pure and True
The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims
David R. Stroup, Stevan Harrell
7 March 2022
Mumbai Taximen
Autobiographies and Automobilities in India
Tarini Bedi, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang
15 February 2022
Dancing Transnational Feminisms
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice
Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, Alessandra Lebea Williams, D. Soyini Madison, Piya Chatterjee
21 January 2022
The City in Time
Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia
Pamela N. Corey
29 October 2021
Footprints of War
Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam
David Andrew Biggs, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter
31 August 2021
Chinese Village Life Today
Building Families in an Age of Transition
Gonçalo Santos
22 August 2021
Wetlands in a Dry Land
More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Emily O'Gorman, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter
13 July 2021
Healing with Poisons
Potent Medicines in Medieval China
Yan Liu
27 June 2021
Washington Featured Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Series editor: Paul S. Sutter
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books explore human relationships with natural environments in all their variety and complexity. They seek to cast new light on the ways that natural systems affect human communities, the ways that people affect the environments of which they are a part, and the ways that different cultural conceptions of nature profoundly shape our sense of the world around us.
Footprints of War
Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam
Wetlands in a Dry Land
More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Bringing Whales Ashore
Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
Cultivating Nature
The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape
Seeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
Fir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
Communist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
The Organic Profit
Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism
Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Defending Giants
The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
The City Is More Than Human
An Animal History of Seattle
Decolonizing Feminisms: Antiracist and Transnational Praxis
Series editor: Piya Chatterjee
Decolonizing Feminisms explores the integral connections between theory, activism, policy making and other forms of social action. The series brings together new work by US women of color, Indigenous, and transnational feminists to envision critical and imaginative frameworks for political resistance and progressive social change.
Dancing Transnational Feminisms
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice
Making Livable Worlds
Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
The Borders of AIDS
Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
Axis of Hope
Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders
Resisting Disappearance
Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir
Tea and Solidarity
Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
Unruly Figures
Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
Transnational Testimonios
The Politics of Collective Knowledge Production
Power Interrupted
Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
Humanizing the Sacred
Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia
U.S. & Canada orders
If you are ordering from the U.S. or Canada, please visit https://uwapress.uw.edu