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Victorian sappho
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealiz...
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Visual misogyny
This volume contains two Open Access chapters Visual Misogyny is a key contribution to media, cultural and gender studies that investigates the disturbing prevalence of visual gendered hate in digital spaces and explores the dehumanising force of the circulation of such images on social media pla...
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Voices of black graduate deans in advancing graduate education at historically white universities
Through personal narratives and institutional case studies, this edited collection highlights the resilience, innovation, and impact of Black graduate deans, offering essential guidance for educators, administrators, and policymakers committed to meaningful change.
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Voices of resistance
Voices of Resistance: Music, Femicide, and Gender Justice in Spain and Greece examines how feminist musical practices across Southern Europe confront femicide and gender-based violence through mourning, memory, and political resistance.
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Voluntary and involuntary childlessness
While interest in the drivers, consequences, nature and manifestations of voluntary and involuntary childlessness increases, knowledge progress is hampered by poor linkages across disjointed research fields. The book brings together theoretical insights and empirical investigations into the pheno...
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Voluptuous panic
The classic illustrated exploration of pre-Nazi sex culture in Germany.
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Watching women
The women on television series are spectacularly feminine. They are the most beautiful doctors, lawyers, detectives, scientists, queens, fashion-writers, moms, Victorian ladies, and witches ever seen. Focusing on series that celebrate empowered women from mainstay crime dramas such as Bones (2005...
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Way too cool
Follows the hollowing-out of "coolness" in modern American culture and its reflection of a larger evasion of race, racism, and ethics now common in neoliberal society
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We are not born submissive
A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers—especially Simone de Beauvoir—to reveal the complexities of women’s reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be indep...
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We grow the world together
A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is something that grows?” As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have...
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We travel the space ways
This book gathers a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of five hundred years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach toward the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents,...
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What’s on her mind
The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of itMothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What’s on Her Mind provides an il...
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When harry became sally
Can a boy be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine “reassign” sex? Is our sex “assigned” to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of “gender identity”? When Harry Became Sally pro...
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Who votes now?
Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bure...
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Whose body?
Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion” is a cornerstone of modern moral philosophy, widely taught, fiercely debated, and endlessly cited.
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Whose story is this?
New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me and the forthcoming memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence.
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Why god is a woman
Set on a magical island where men are the second sex, story-driven prose poems upset gender-roles, tangling myths and logic.
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Why who cleans counts
Every household has to perform housework, and researchers know a lot about what predicts who does which chores, drawing frequently from theoretical explanations that highlight the importance of power dynamics. This book moves beyond the existing scholarship by using quantitative, nationally repre...
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Wishbone
Lambda Award–winning memoir is a surreal debut collection of coming out and coming of age, family rupture and life-changing love.
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Woman, african, other
Woman, African, Other unpacks how interlocking (lethal) structuresimpact the gendered experiences of women of African heritage and permit our continued humiliation in the global sphere.
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Women & peacebuilding in africa
A key book for conflict and peace studies, reveals the gendered nature of peacebuilding, its consequences, and the importance of women playing a part in peace processes in Africa.Even in the best of circumstances, women are all too often excluded from formal peacemaking and peacebuilding processe...
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Women and religion
This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women’s identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world. The book discusses the experiences and positions of women, and particular groups of women, to understa...
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Women and the abuse of power
With themes ranging from the personal consideration of female bodies, to the supernatural hidden realm, to the public condemnation of women who fall foul of either the law or of a male-dominated world, this collection of interdisciplinary essays provides an in-depth look at the fate of women who ...
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Women architects and politics
Case studies by scholars from Europe and Israel explore the gendered professional in the twentieth century as she navigated arrangements of power—including organized religion, emancipation movements, cultural norms, and shifting forms of government—to practice architecture.
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Women in science
A collection of the experiences of twelve women academics, highlighting the challenges but also the privileges of an academic career.
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Women political leaders in rwanda and south africa
This book considers the successes, challenges, and controversies of women’s post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, it explores the relationships between their educational, professional, activist, and personal backgrounds.
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Women's leadership in music
The contributors ask what can be considered as leadership in culture from a female point of view today.
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Women, activism and apartheid south africa
This book investigates women’s political activism and conflict in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, using play texts, alongside interviews with female playwrights and women who worked within the theatre, to examine issues around domestic violence, racial abuse and women in detention...
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Women, politics and the public sphere
Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the...
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Women’s imprisonment in eastern europe
The first qualitative study based on an ethnographic approach to women’s carceral experiences in Latvia, this book draws parallels across Eastern Europe and throughout the neoliberal West to provide a refreshing and timely addition to the study of criminology and the sociology of imprisonment.
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Worse than war
An empirically powerful account of why interpersonal violence across the globe exacts a far greater cumulative cost on society than war and terrorism combinedCivil wars, interstate wars, and terrorism receive a great deal of media and policy attention, for good reasons. By contrast, the major for...
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Write like a man
How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and Jewish, this prominent group also included w...
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Writing romantic climate change
Anya Heise-von der Lippe draws on intersectional feminist and ecocritical approaches to highlight gender as a complicating category in Romantic engagements with these topics.
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Wronged and dangerous
Recent years have seen the rapid spread of far-right movements across the globe. Far beyond Donald Trump, these movements are reshaping the physical world in ways that pose danger to everyone, regardless of their politics. But how is this happening, and why with such speed? The shocking answer t...
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Young adulthood across digital platforms
Young Adulthood Across Digital Platforms explores how they engage with mobile applications, incorporating them into their everyday lives and embodying them in their daily practices.
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Young women against apartheid
Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.WINNER OF THE RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE 2022WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN AND ...
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Young women’s carceral geographies
Interrogating conceptual ideas around power, punishment and abandonment with specific reference to the experience of young women, this book examines the particular challenges that young women face within the criminal justice system, and traces their journeys in, out and beyond confinement.
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Zeina
New edition of classic novel about motherhood and resilience, set against the backdrop of revolution in Egypt, by the leading Arab feminist writer
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»gold fever« and women
Sigrid Schönfelder discusses three healthcare providers within the social reform movement to illustrate the transformative power of the American West.
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