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Gender, sex, and sexuality among contemporary youth
This volume examines the evolving norms concerning sex, gender, and sexuality in the lives of children and adolescents addressing topics such as: the development of gender identity, sexual behavior among youth, LGBT youth, transgender youth, parental and peer influences upon the development of ge...
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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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Stolen family
Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie’s abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.
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Gender and the media
A variety of print, audio and visual media, including comics, trade publications, music and newspapers, are considered to explore the portrayal of gender and gender-related issues. With a focus on girls and women, the chapters ponder how media formats both shape, and are shaped by, the social order.
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Creative interventions toolkit
The primary resource on community accountability and transformative justice.The Creative Interventions Toolkit is a practical guide to community-based interventions against interpersonal violence, a process also known as community accountability or transformative justice. Originally an online res...
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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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A sentimental education
How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a ...
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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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Trans/love
A groundbreaking anthology exploring radical frontiers of love, sex, and relationships within gender-variant experiences.
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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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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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Testament
This long autobiographical poem covers Scottish castles, cymatics, religion, and Dolly the cloned sheep, while investigating gender as lyric form.
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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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Against equality
When "rights" go wrong. Radical queer and trans critiques of mainstream gay and lesbian politics.
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Revising the storm
Dorianne Laux calls this Poulin Prize-winning debut collection "one of the best first books I've read in a while... spell-binding."
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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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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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Unmarriages
The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one ...
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A venetian island
Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a common culture and establish a sense of con...
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Thinking sex with the early moderns
What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists a...
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Accidental feminism
Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but women in the most prestigious firms are significantly rep...
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Performing female blackness
Examines race, gender and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. Written in poetry, prose and journal-form and drawing from the author’s own life and artistic works, this book examines what performances of female blackness reveal about race, gend...
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She animates
This book showcases the accomplishments and triumphs of women in Russian animation and reveals their past contributions to not only animation, but also world cinema. Through archival research, historical analysis, and close readings of animated films this book recuperates the often-overlooked con...
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The rebellion of the daughters
An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in ...
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Bodily citations
In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first a...
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The #metoo effect
Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. She reframes #MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism.
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Gender, power, and talent
Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses marked themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to ...
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Buddhist masculinities
This transdisciplinary book brings together essays that explore the variety and diversity of Buddhist masculinities, from early India to the contemporary United States, and from bodhisattva-kings to martial monks.
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Tainted witness
Tainted Witness examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness.
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Excessive saints
Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary, and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas of Cantimpré’s hagiographies, showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform theological work in a rhetorically specific way.
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Sex, marriage, and family in world religions
Spanning thousands of years, this new collection brings together writings and teachings about sex, marriage, and family from the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian traditions. The volume includes traditional texts as well as contemporary materials showing how the religions...
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No separation
Powerful illiberal Christian movements have upended liberal democracies in countries that were once seen as paradigms of secular governance. Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey offers new insight into the foundations of these movements, demonstrating how they emerge from the contradictions at the intersect...
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Illicit monogamy
Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. Based on many years of in-depth ethnographic research, Illicit Monogamy considers the plural family from the points of view of husbands, wives, and children, giving a b...
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Women in the mosque
Juxtaposes Muslim scholars’ debates over women’s attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women’s activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques.
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The struggle to stay
The Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women’s experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving b...
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Eslanda
The first biography of the bold, principled, and fiercely independent woman who defied convention to make her own mark on the world.
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Empowering women through italy's recovery and resilience plan
Empowering Women through Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan provides a comprehensive examination of women’s empowerment within the framework of Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
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Mapping the deep
Mapping the Deep takes you on an adventure into the depths of Challenger Deep, showcasing one woman's perseverance and innovation needed for ocean exploration.
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Between the street and the state
Deepens our understanding of Black women’s anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on CrimeBeginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal “war on crime” offered financial and ideological support to t...
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"i humbly beg your speedy answer"
A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercury—a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London—included the world’s first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Priz...
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Undivided rights
Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.
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What the oceans remember
In this memoir that traverses five continents and spans two centuries, Sonja Boon explores archives, family stories, and her memories in a search for origins, belonging, and home. Her journey is interwoven with reflections on the meaning of music, love, legacy, freedom, memory, ruin, and the rele...
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I know what the red clay looks like
Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers. The first edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, published in 1994, remains an essentia...
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The black antifascist tradition
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition is an essential book for unde...
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Compromised bodies
This ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegal’s 1999 national ban on “female genital mutilation”The Senegalese parliament authorized a national ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in 1999. Because only a third of the Senegalese population practiced female genital ...
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Reimagining academic activism
How can we reimagine the relationship between academia and activism to provide new opportunities for social change? Based on an ethnography with an anti-violence feminist collective, this vibrant and vital book develops an interdisciplinary approach to activism and activist research, helping us r...
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The life and writings of maria teresa de sá nogueira
The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira, revealing how her fearless writing challenged colonial power and gave voice to the marginalized in Mozambique and Portugal. A vital contribution to Lusophone postcolonial studies.
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Forgotten wives
Throughout history, records of women's lives and work have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Wives, especially, disappear as supporters of their husbands’ work, as unpaid and often unacknowledged secretaries and research assistants, and as managers of men’s domestic do...
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