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Hollywood's others
Hollywood’s Others explores the affective ties between white, non-disabled audiences and the fascinatingly different stars with whom they identified—but only up to a point.
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Homes of the homeless
This book examines the image of home as experienced and expressed by the men and women who are affected by the crisis of homelessness and live in specialized institutions. Inga B. Kuźma focuses on describing and interpreting the stories of people from homeless centers who speak about the ups and ...
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How gay men prepare for death
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Peter Robinson’s new book provides a practical contribution for anyone considering how to prepare for their end of life, including those from LGBTQ+ communities.
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How women became poets
How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one—aoidos, or “singer-man.” The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who ...
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Human/animal
Human/Animal is a book that spins outward from the years Amie Souza Reilly was trapped in the escalating violence of two brothers who lived next door. Reilly's book wrestles with human/animal relationships and American colonialism, horror films, and gender studies in an attempt to understand her ...
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Hunting girls
Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence—especially sexual violence—is an inevitable part of a woman's maturity. She discusses campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency ...
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I've had to think up a way to survive
“An ode to storytelling itself . . . A gorgeous and heart-rending story of survival.”—Melissa Febos, author of GirlhoodA moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon.The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song ...
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In the next room (or the vibrator play)
The first collection by a striking new voice in the American theater.
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In the wake of medea
Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini.
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Incels in the italian manosphere
Incel and red pill online groups are expanding rapidly in Italy, where narratives of self-victimization and violence against women propagate among young men facing economic hardship. This book provides a timely, comprehensive analysis of the ‘negative solidarity’ rooted in the economic and social...
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Integrating gender in agricultural development
This book is grounded in the ideology that an alignment between the conceptual and practical understandings of gender equality is a critical component of sustainable development. It draws on six rural case studies to examine the various ways in which gender has been integrated in agricultural res...
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Interdisciplinary essays on monsters and the monstrous
Interdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrous analyses and explores the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human societies, and from a unique interdisciplinary scope tackles the critical question: when faced with an existential threat, what can we do?
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the legacy of lara croft
As the franchise celebrates its 30th anniversary, this academic collection delves into Tomb Raider’s legacy from interdisciplinary perspectives, examining gender representation, fan culture, and broader cultural influence.
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Intergenerational stories of gender and education
How does education form gender identity? Results from an intergenerational digital storytelling project, with educators depicting how education and gender are intertwined.
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Intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life. This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geograp...
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Intersex
Iain Morland, an intersex scholar and advocate—and a former patient—explores why medicalization is so embedded in contemporary society and how to challenge it.
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Intimacy in illegality
Drawing on rich biographical accounts and ethnographic methods, this book offers an insightful and sensitive look at a mostly unknown aspect of life in illegality. Flaminia Bartolini shows how intimacy should be understood in its intrinsic power dimension and looks critically at the German migrat...
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Intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance
Honourable Mention for Society for Ethnomusicology - Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume PrizeOffers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance ethnography and in institutional and disciplinary settings.Focused on research within Africa and the A...
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Introduction to transgender studies
This is the first introductory text/reader for trans, transgender, or trans* studies at all levels, from first year to graduate coursework. It can be used in programs and courses ranging from major courses to electives in LGBT/queer studies, feminist/gender studies, and other allied disciplines.
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Journeys of black women in academe
Journeys of Black Women in Academe provides lessons that are instructive to faculty and administrators across race and gender boundaries relative to the successes and challenges that African American women continue to experience in academia.
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Justice and the politics of difference
A landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political lifeJustice and the Politics of Difference challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice, critically analyzing basic concepts underlying most theorie...
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Justice for jehanne
A spellbinding narrative history that defies modern assumptions about women’s lives in the Middle Ages and informs contemporary debates about sexual violence and the limits of justiceIn the winter of 1472, the city of Dijon, France, became the stage for a remarkable legal drama. On the mayor’s or...
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Justice for trans athletes
Bringing insights from sociology, philosophy, science and law, contributors present cogent analyses of these developments and explore the way forward, providing thoughtful and original recommendations for changes to policies and practices that are inclusive, innovative and democratic.
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Kardashian kulture
Using the royal family of celebrity culture, the Kardashians, as a lens through which to scrutinize early 21st century culture, this book examines the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, to show how celebrity has fundamentally changed the way we live.
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Knock me up, knock me down
No longer is pregnancy a repulsive or shameful condition in Hollywood films, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female character. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduc...
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Ladies in arms
In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read?
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Language, globalization and the making of a tanzanian beauty queen
This book uses a micro-analysis of language in and around Tanzanian beauty pageants to address structural inequalities, gender relations, globalization, as well as educational and language policy. The book paints a picture of how people on the global periphery take part in, and sometimes feel lef...
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Lesbian configurations
What constitutes a narrative as "lesbian"? Hoogland provides original readings of such films as Basic Instinct and Bitter Moon, and novels such as The Bell Jar and Friends and Relations in order to trace the way lesbian identities are negotiated in Western culture.
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Liberty's prisoners
Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who...
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Living with an infected planet
Living with an infected planet has led to an unprecedented crisis of care, especially since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Elke Krasny presents a feminist mapping of key terms and key images defining the “pandemicscape.” Arguing against going back to normal, she outlines a new global internatio...
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Love and war
An exploration of gender as both a weapon and casualty of war.
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Madam atatürk
An international bestseller, this is the vivid biography of Latife Hanım, Kemal Atatürk’s wife – a hugely significant figure in the birth of modern Turkey
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Making motherhood work
A moving account of working mothers’ daily lives—and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social policies aren’t helping...
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Making space for indigenous feminism
The third edition of this iconic collection features Indigenous feminist voices from across generations and locations, including many exciting new contributors.
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Male rape victimisation on screen
Focusing on the under-researched area of male sexual assault, this book reveals how seemingly harmless humour can infiltrate how we think about violent and victimising behaviours.
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Man up
The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West—from an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentatorWhat two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? M...
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Manifestations of male image in the world’s cultures
Manifestations of Male Image in the World’s Cultures shows a single cultural phenomenon from a number of diverse perspectives. Methods used to analyze the titular male image range from Literary Studies and Cultural Studies to Media Studies.
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Marginalized mothers, mothering from the margins
This volume examines the barriers and borders that marginalize mothers and their efforts to be good mothers and how they mother as a form of resistance to these barriers and borders.
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Marked men
White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy an...
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Marx on gender and the family
Marx has long been accused of not taking women's issues seriously. Heather Brown sets the record straight.
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Marx's others
This book revives Marx in order to understand race and gender as part of the capitalist totality, and to strike more fundamentally at the heart of contemporary capitalism.
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Marx, women, and capitalist social reproduction
This essential volume selects the key essays of renowned Marxist Feminist, and theorist of social reproduction, Martha E. Giménez.
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Masculinities ageing between cultures
Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, this book explores ageing masculinities
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Masculinities, gender and international relations
Gender is widely recognized as an important and useful lens for the study of International Relations. However, there are few books that specifically investigate masculinity/ies in relation to world politics. Taking a feminist-inspired understanding of gender as its starting point, the book: • e...
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Masculinity studies and feminist theory
Why is there so much talk of a "crisis" of masculinity? How have ideas of manhood been transformed by feminism? Does feminism hold the key to the development of more egalitarian forms of masculinity? Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory addresses central questions about the analysis and constr...
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Materializing fairness
This book showcases initiatives addressing the gender gap across the tech industry's various sectors.
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Matter, affect, antinormativity
Caroline Braunmühl shows that there are dualistic patterns in significant contributions to queer theory as well as Foucauldian diagnoses of the present. The book suggests specific alternatives to dualistic as well as identitarian ways of framing conceptual pairs such as matter/mind, affect/discou...
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Men on strike
American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going on strike.” They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been ...
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