Collection: Gender & Sexuality Studies
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Gendered morality
Zahra M. S. Ayubi,In Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. She calls for a philosophical turn in the study of gender in Islam based on resources for gender equality that are unlocked by feminist engagement with the Islamic ethica...
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Liberty's prisoners
Jen Manion,A look at how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States, reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mass incarcerationLiberty’s Prisoners examines how chang...
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The matter of virtue
Holly A. Crocker,A feminist approach to gendered virtues and female agency in medieval and early modern literatureIf material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cann...
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Bishkek boys
Philipp Schröder,Pioneering: 1st long-term ethnographic study on an urban neighbourhood in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Unique embedding of author: linking detailed micro-level insights from everyday encounters in a particular urban neighbourhood to larger-scale changes in Kyrgyz society, such as migration, econo...
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Women in radio
Geneviève A. Bonin-Labelle, Helen Aitkin, Constance Dilley, Barbara M. Freeman, Chantal Dumas, Helen Hambly, Linda Kay, Anna Leventhal, Christine Maki, Andra McCartney, Catherine McInnis, Tanis Mcknight-Howe, Lise Millette, Ross E. Perigoe, Gertrude J. Robinson, Patti Schmidt, Anita Marie Slominska, Gregory Taylor, Sophie Toupin, Marian van der Zon, Angela Wilson and moreWomen in Radio: Unfiltered Voices offers a fascinating look at the women who built their career in broadcasting, the issues specific to them, and their contributions to their field. Each story paints a unique portrait of a person’s or a group’s legacy to the radio industry.
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The millennial mosaic
Reginald W. Bibby, Joel Thiessen, Monetta Bailey,The Millennial Mosaic provides an unmatched examination of Canada’s youngest adults, unveiling the news that they are an upgrade on older Canadians, and what it means for the future of Canada.
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An unrecognized contribution
Elizabeth Gillan Muir,Women in nineteenth-century Toronto owned factories and stores, were involved in professions and vocations, and were not housebound uneducated women as historians generally suggest. Elizabeth Gillan Muir shows how wide-ranging women’s activities were — from owning taverns, schools, and market gar...
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Miss confederation
Anne McDonald, Christopher Moore,Amidst the grand and heady spectacle of the balls, banquets, and events of the Confederation Conferences of October 1864, Mercy Coles was seeking adventure and love. She wasn’t concerned with writing for posterity, or with propriety. Miss Confederation shows history being made, without the stiffn...
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Canadian women in the sky
Elizabeth Gillan Muir,Canadian Women in the Skytraces a century of Canadian women’s progress in aviation and space flight. From the first woman to climb on aboard a flying machine as a passenger to a female astronaut’s second visit to the International Space Station, these women cracked the sky-blue glass ceiling to a...
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Trafficking trajectories
Alicia W. Peters,Highlights the role structural vulnerability plays in the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors before, during, and after traffickingDrawing on survivor narratives and ethnographically rich accounts from frontline workers in New England, specifically Maine and New Hampshire, Traff...
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Sultana's dream
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Roushan Jahan, Hanna Papanek,Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopiaa tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."T...
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Loving in the war years
Cherríe Moraga,An updated edition combining two classic works of Chicana and queer literature, with a new introduction by renowned writer and luminary, Cherríe Moraga. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, this updated edition of Loving in the War Years combines Moraga’s classic m...
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So we can know
Aracelis Girmay,An anthology of nonfiction by writers of color that transcends form, So We Can Know is a record of varied and intricate relationships to pregnancy.
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Escape from kabul
Karen Bartlett,The extraordinary true story of the Afghan women judges who fought for justice in the courtroom, and then fought to escape with their lives, from the bestselling British author Across twenty years of U.S.-backed government, Afghan women obtained legal degrees, became judges, and set out to trans...
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Awkward
Mary Cappello,Startlingly imaginative nonfiction about a very particular if common and much-maligned state of being.
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Sisterhood is global
Robin Morgan,A landmark in the development of international women's movement, collecting original articles from women in seventy countries.
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Watching women
Sarah Kornfield,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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The emerald handbook of family and social change in the global south
Aylin Akpınar, Nawal H. Ammar,The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This handbook presents chapters on the family in the Global South, acknowledging gender differences and their impact on individuals and societies in those nations and cultures.
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Navigating black joy for black women leaders in higher education
Ursula C. Thomas,Through deeply personal narratives, critical storytelling, and intersectional analysis, Navigating Black Joy for Black Women Leaders in Higher Education explores how Black women cultivate, sustain, and embody joy as a transformative force in higher education and beyond.
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Call them by their true names
Rebecca Solnit,Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.
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Voices of resistance
Angelos Bollas, Alicia Castillo Villanueva,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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Transforming japan
Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow,Feminism is changing the lives of women and men throughout Japan.
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Xhosa masculinities and manhood in south africa
Thoko Sipungu,Sipungu provides an interdisciplinary exploration of what it means to be a traditionally initiated Xhosa man with a visible physical disability. Employing qualitative methods, including interviews, group discussions, and auto-ethnographic reflections, this unique study presents a rich tapestry of...
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Women's voices
Linda Strite Murnane, Renee Dopplick, Caryl Ben Basat,Women's Voices: Global Perspectives on the Right to Vote is a special global collection of essays, published as a companion to personal stories about the importance of the right to vote by women in several countries captured on video and produced with the assistance of LexisNexis and the Internat...
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Gender, sexuality and peace education
Laura L. Finley,This edited volume explores how collegiate peace educators can address gender and sexuality effectively. It covers interdisciplinary practices, classroom and campus approaches, and topics like trigger warnings, sex trafficking, and campus sexual assault. The book includes diverse disciplinary per...
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Rights and wrongs
Susan Cary Nicholas, Alice M. Price, Rachel Rubin,This valuable guide to women and the law offers a concise view of US law as it has affected women's constitutional rights, their position in marriage, their opportunities in employment, and their control over their bodies. This new edition outlines advances and setbacks in the legal status of wom...
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More women on boards
Lynne E. Devnew, Marlene Janzem Le Ber, Mariateresa Torchia, Ronald J. Burke,This book explores the complexities of increasing the number of women on boards globally. It examines cultural and legal differences, challenges, and successful strategies. The book includes research and stories from 42 contributors across 17 countries, offering diverse solutions to achieve gende...
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Gender and climate finance in africa
Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo, Omosefe Oyekanmi,Offering an in-depth analysis of gender-responsive climate finance in Africa, this volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to explore policy frameworks, financial inclusion mechanisms, and gender equity strategies in climate finance.
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Angela davis
Angela Y. Davis,Featuring a new introduction by the author, Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle.
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Disabilities, pleasures, and sexualities
Alan Santinele Martino, B. Ethan Coston, Ann Fudge Schormans,Individuals with disabilities demonstrate remarkable resilience, agency, and creativity in their sexuality and parenting. This volume challenges stereotypes and reimagines sexual expression, recognizing, affirming, and celebrating the reality that disabled people already live full and fulfilling ...
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Choice words
Annie Finch,With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, this powerful literary collection takes back the conversation on abortion.
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Good time party girl
Helen Cromwell,Dirty Helen lived life by her rules. This irascible and defiant woman chucked tradition behind her as she fought for her independence the only way she knew how-on her back.
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A question of choice
Sarah Weddington,A memoir filled with “valuable, passionate insights” from the lawyer who argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case to the Supreme Court (Kirkus Reviews).More than 40 years ago, the highest court in the land handed down a decision that would forever alter the lives of women throughout the United States...
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Whose story is this?
Rebecca Solnit,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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Women, religion, and emotions in modern germany and beyond
Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, Martina Cucchiara, Ann Taylor Allen, John Christian Bailey, Síle de Cléir, Carmen M Mangion, Karina Hestad Skeie, Aeleah Soine, Tine Van Osselaer, Sarah Wobick-Segev and moreAnalyzes the role of emotions in the religious lives of women from across Germany and Europe from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.Scholarship on women and religion has focused primarily on the intersection between women's religious engagement and their emancipation. This volume goes beyond th...
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Teaching and making peace in every relationship
Laura L. Finley,Dating and domestic violence are two the most frequently occurring forms of gender-based violence, both in the United States and globally. This book is intended to help address misconceptions about dating and domestic violence, thereby helping to inform readers who can and should be involved in p...
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On my way to liberation
H. Melt,How do you imagine trans liberation while living in a cis world? On My Way To Liberation follows a gender nonconforming body moving through the streets of Chicago. From the sex shop to the farmers market, the family dinner table to the bookstore, trans people are everywhere, though often erased. ...
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Voluptuous panic
Mel Gordon,The classic illustrated exploration of pre-Nazi sex culture in Germany.
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Testo junkie
Paul B. Preciado, Bruce Benderson,The most visionary book on gender and sexuality today.
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Moral power games in foreign policy
Patricia Salas Sanchez,Moral Power Games in Foreign Policy explains how gendered foreign policy practices reproduce national identity and enable enhanced moral power in international relations. Using the cases of Russia and Sweden, it demonstrates how moral power games take place in the international realm as contendin...
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Transnational women writers in the wilmot coterie, 1798-1840
Alexis Wolf,Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth century.The Irish writers and editors Katherine (1773-1824) and Martha Wilmot (1775-1873) left a unique record of midd...
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Leading from a feminist soul
Catherine E. Hackney,This book inspires women leaders to make a positive difference with their positional power. It offers guidance and affirmation, drawing on the authors' experiences and stories of notable women leaders. It emphasizes awareness, social consciousness, courage, humility, and generosity in leadership.
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Men explain things to me updated edition
Rebecca Solnit,A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.
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Cultural identities in transition
Esra Yaghi, Roger Barnard,This book explores the social, educational and linguistic acculturation of a group of Saudi wives and mothers sojourning in New Zealand while their husbands undertook full time study. The book explores their background, the challenges they faced and the changes they made during their sojourn, and...
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Radical reproductive justice
Loretta Ross, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, Lynn Roberts, Pamela Bridgewater Toure, Dorothy Roberts and moreThis crucial expansion on social justice discourse surrounding reproductive rights explores the practical applications for activist thought migrating from the community into the academy.
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Slut
Katie Cappiello, Meg McInerney, Jennifer Baumgardner, Carol Gilligan,A riveting, true-to-life play and provocative essays examine rape and bullying culture, offering resources for survivors and bystanders.
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Black women writers at work
Claudia Tate,A critical collection of conversations with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones and other Black women writers that changed the scope of Black literature in the 20th century and beyond.
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Women in irish traditional music
Joanne Cusack,Traces the position, experiences and reception of women in Irish traditional music through detailed ethnographic and statistical findings.This book is the first of its kind to engage with the larger subject of women in commercial Irish traditional music. It considers the experiences of performers...
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The shrinking goddess
Mineke Schipper,For centuries, wild and strange stories have been told about the female body. Some empowering, many absurd, these myths have not only endured but continue to shape perceptions of women today.The Shrinking Goddess explores this legacy, gathering global tales about the female form and revealing how...
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Disposable domestics
Grace Chang, Alicia Garza, Ai-jen Poo,This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.
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