Gender Studies Fall 2020
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A Better Justice?
Aesthetics of Excess
Community Programs for Criminalized Women Amanda Nelund
The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment Jillian Hernandez
Law and Society September 2020 198pp 9780774863629 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS
November 2020 312pp 120 color illus. 9781478011101 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478010050 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Women are the fastest growing group of incarcerated people in Canada. Nelund offers a careful analysis of alternative, community-based justice programs. Using Winnipeg as a test case, she reveals the complexity underlying the governance of criminalized women. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Hernandez examines how cultural discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color.
Are We the 99%?
Birthing a Movement
The Occupy Movement, Feminism, and Intersectionality Heather McKee Hurwitz
Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care Renée Ann Cramer
December 2020 200pp 9781439920220 £19.99 / $25.95 PB 9781439920213 £79.00 / $99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2021 280pp 9781503614499 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503609839 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Birthing a Movement, Renée Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law, politics, and activism surrounding midwifery care.
Heather McKee Hurwitz considers how women, people of color, and genderqueer activists struggled to be heard and understood. Despite cries of “We are the 99%,” signaling solidarity, certain groups were unwelcome or unable to participate. Excludes Asia Pacific
Black Diamond Queens
Black Market Business
African American Women and Rock and Roll Maureen Mahon
Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945 Christina Elizabeth Firpo
Refiguring American Music October 2020 392pp 19 illus. 9781478011224 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478010197 £91.00 / $109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University December 2020 276pp 2 b&w photos, 1 b&w line drawing, 8 maps 9781501752650 £36.00 / $42.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Documents the major contributions African American women vocalists such as Big Mama Thornton, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, and Merry Clayton have made to rock and roll throughout its history.
A grassroots social history drawing on a diverse and multilingual source base. Explores the ways in which sex workers, their managers, and clients evaded the regulation system of colonial Tonkin in the turbulent economy of the interwar years.
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Black Queer Freedom
Conceiving Agency
Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire GerShun Avilez
Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women Michal S. Raucher
New Black Studies Series October 2020 200pp 9780252085284 £19.99 / $26.00 PB 9780252043376 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
November 2020 226pp 9 b&w illus. 9780253050021 £18.99 / $24.00 PB 9780253050014 £70.00 / $85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Raucher explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Despite contending with interference from doctors, rabbis, and the Israeli government, Haredi women insist on autonomy regarding the use of contraceptives, prenatal testing, fetal ultrasounds, and other reproductive practices.
Analyzes the work of diasporic artists who have used art to create spaces for justice. Desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Cry of Murder on Broadway
Detestable and Wicked Arts
A Woman’s Ruin and Revenge in Old New York Julie Miller
New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World Paul B. Moyer
October 2020 270pp 21 b&w halftones, 1 map 9781501751486 £22.99 / $28.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 294pp 19 b&w halftones, 6 maps, 1 chart 9781501751615 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781501751059 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The story of servant Amelia Norman and her attack on wealthy merchant Henry Ballard. In one violent moment, Norman expressed all the anger that the women of the emerging movement for women’s rights would soon express in words.
Focusing on witchcraft cases in New England circa 1640–1670, Moyer reveals ties between witchhunting in the New and Old Worlds.
Disruptive Archives
Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars Viviana Beatriz MacManus
Dissident Feminisms December 2020 232pp 9780252085437 £19.99 / $26.00 PB 9780252043536 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Restores women to the histories of the Dirty Wars in Mexico and Argentina (1960s-80s) by rejecting both state projects and the leftist accounts focused on men. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered
Women without Men in Song Dynasty China Hsiao-wen Cheng
January 2021 272pp 3 b&w illus. 9780295748320 £22.99 / $30.00 NIP 9780295748313 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Hsiao-wen Cheng considers accounts of “manless women,” many of which depict women who suffered from “enchantment disorder” or who engaged in “intercourse with ghosts”—conditions with specific symptoms and behavioral patterns.
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Double-Edged Sword
Emotional Landscapes
The Many Lives of Hemingway’s Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin Bart Paul
Love, Gender, and Migration Edited by Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian & Linda Reeder
Studies of World Migrations January 2021 296pp 9780252085390 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780252043499 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
September 2020 336pp 14 photos, 2 illus. 9781496222329 £18.99 / $23.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Love and its emotions spur migration and forge our response to it. This volume looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
The story of American pioneer Sidney Franklin, a gay Jewish bullfighter who overcame prejudice and adversity, and taught Ernest Hemingway lessons in grace, machismo, and respect.
Gaming Sexism
Gender, Pleasure, and Violence
Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games Amanda C. Cote
The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland Agnieszka Kościańska
September 2020 280pp 9781479838523 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Anthropologies of Europe January 2021 320pp 9780253053091 £35.00 / $42.00 PB 9780253053084 £77.00 / $90.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Even as women make up nearly half of all gamers, sexist assumptions about the what and how of women’s gaming are more actively enforced. Explores the video game industry to explain this contradiction, how it affects female gamers, and what it means in terms of power and gender equality. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Kościańska explores how the collapse of socialism in Poland brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.
Girl Head
Heaven’s Interpreters
Feminism and Film Materiality Genevieve Yue
Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America Ashley Reed
October 2020 240pp 13 color and 18 b&w illus. 9780823289561 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780823289554 £88.00 / $110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 280pp 9781501751363 £15.99 / $19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Girl Head explores how gender and sexual difference have been deeply embedded within film materiality. In rich archival and technical detail, Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive.
Reveals how women writers of the antebellum period embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was exclusively oppressive and served to deny women their own voice.
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Heterosexual Histories
Hybrid Anxieties
Edited by Rebecca L. Davis & Michele Mitchell
Queering the French-Algerian War and Its Postcolonial Legacies Christine Quinan
NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis February 2021 416pp 3 b&w illus. 9781479802289 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479878079 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality December 2020 282pp 6 photos, 1 illus. 9781496224262 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781496206817 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The history of heterosexuality in North America over four centuries. Constructs a new framework and examines unexplored assumptions, insisting that not only sex but race, class, gender, age, and geography matter to its past. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Queer theory and postcolonial studies intersect in analysis of the intertwined aspects of identities and textual forms after the French-Algerian War.
Infamous Bodies
Information Activism
Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights Samantha Pinto
A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies Cait McKinney
August 2020 264pp 36 illus. 9781478008323 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478007838 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sign, Storage, Transmission August 2020 312pp 23 illus. 9781478008286 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478007821 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures.
Traces how lesbian feminist activists in the United States and Canada between the 1970s and the present developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives to use as a foundation for their feminist, antiracist, and trans-inclusive work.
Left of Queer
Like a Lake
Edited by David L. Eng & Jasbir K. Puar
A Story of Uneasy Love and Photography Carol Mavor
November 2020 170pp 9781478011521 £11.99 / $15.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 144pp 9780823289325 £18.99 / $24.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Taking a position that is politically left of the current academic and political mainstreaming of queerness, the essays in this issue examine what is left of queer—what remains outside of the political, economic, and cultural mandates of the state and the liberal individual as its prized subject.
Using fiction to reveal the truths about families, communities, art objects, love, and mourning, Like a Lake tells the story of ten-year-old Nico, who lives with his father (an Italian-American architect) and his mother (a Japanese-American sculptor who learned how to draw while interned during World War II).
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Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving
Marriage Without Borders
Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow Tyrone McKinley Freeman
Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal Dinah Hannaford
New Black Studies Series October 2020 296pp 9780252085352 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9780252043451 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Contemporary Ethnography November 2020 180pp 9780812224740 £22.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
With a focus on Senegalese migrants in Europe and their wives who are left behind, Dinah Hannaford illustrates how new understandings of intimacy, gender, and class are forged in a culture of migration.
Broadens our understanding of black women’s charitable giving and establishes Walker as a foremother of African American philanthropy. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Motherlands
Mobilizing Black Germany
How States Push Mothers Out of Employment Leah Ruppanner
Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement Tiffany N. Florvil
September 2020 194pp 9781439918661 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9781439918654 £74.00 / $93.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 296pp 9780252085413 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9780252043512 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Argues that states should look to each other to fill their policy voids. Leah Ruppanner advocates for reducing the institutional barriers mothers face when re-entering the workforce. As a result, women would have greater autonomy in making employment decisions following childbirth. Excludes Asia Pacific
How queer and straight women shaped the Black German movement in the 80s & 90s, as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Nisei Radicals
Pan American Women
The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake Diane C. Fujino
U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico Megan Threlkeld
Politics and Culture in Modern America September 2020 264pp 7 illus. 9780812224771 £18.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
January 2021 272pp 16 b&w illus. 9780295748269 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9780295748252 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
U.S. women activists worked to advance interAmerican cooperation among women and further hemispheric peace between the World Wars. But diplomatic tensions and the Revolution in Mexico complicated these efforts, as Mexican women embraced a more nationalist political identity.
Recounts how siblings Mitsuye Yamada (1923–) and Michael Yasutake (1920–2001) dedicated themselves to causes including multicultural feminism and Puerto Rican independence.
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Passing the Baton
Queen of the Maple Leaf
Black Women Track Stars and American Identity Cat M. Ariail
Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity Patrizia Gentile
Sport and Society November 2020 248pp 9780252085383 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9780252043482 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Sexuality Studies October 2020 288pp 12 photos 9780774864121 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS
How athletes such as Alice Coachman and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Young Black women emerge as active agents in remaking what it means to be American. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Reveals the role of beauty pageants in entrenching settler femininity and white heteropatriarchy at the heart of twentiethcentury Canada. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Queer and Trans Migrations
Queering Representation
LGBTQ People and Electoral Politics in Canada Edited by Manon Tremblay
Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation Edited by Eithne Luibheid & Karma R. Chavez
August 2020 372pp 4 charts, 21 tables 9780774861823 £22.99 / $37.95 NIP UBC PRESS
Dissident Feminisms October 2020 312pp 9780252043314 £100.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Political representation requires participation. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. This volume explores long-ignored issues relating to LGBTQ voters and politicians in Canada. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
This edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities, facing precarious situations all over the world. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Queering the Global Filipina Body
Reproductive Citizens
Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880– 1945 Nimisha Barton
Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora Gina K. Velasco
September 2020 306pp 16 b&w halftones 9781501749636 £45.00 / $54.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asian American Experience November 2020 192pp 9780252085376 £19.99 / $26.00 PB 9780252043475 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Shows how France welcomed immigrants, mobilizing naturalization and welfare assistance to ensure they would bear French-assimilated children, and how immigrants often agreed to this bargain because they, too, stood to gain.
Using a queer diasporic analysis, considers the question: can a queer & feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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Revisiting Women’s Cinema
Reworking Japan
Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism Nana Okura Gagné
Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China Lingzhen Wang
January 2021 324pp 9 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 5 charts 9781501753039 £37.00 / $45.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
a Camera Obscura book December 2020 304pp 18 illus. 9781478010807 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478009757 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms in Japan have reshaped corporate ideologies, gender ideologies, and subjectivities of individual employees in Japan.
Shows that the films of Wang Ping, Dong Kena, Zhang Nuanxin and Huang Shuqin have been misread through extant research paradigms.
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Sex, Love, and Letters
Writing Simone de Beauvoir Judith G. Coffin
Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran Niloofar Haeri
September 2020 334pp 4 b&w halftones 9781501750540 £25.99 / $32.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 216pp 9781503614246 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9781503601772 £70.00 / $85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Coffin looks at virtually unexplored letters to de Beauvoir from her international readers, and traces the relationship Iran’s 1979 revolution turned questions of what it between Beauvoir and her audience, from the means to be a true Muslim into a matter of public publication of The Second Sex to the release of debate. This is an ethnography of these debates the last volume of her memoirs. An unfamiliar among a group of educated, middle-class women perspective on one of the most magnetic and whose voices are often muted in studies of Islam. polarizing philosophers of the twentieth century.
Sexual Hegemony
Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System Christopher Chitty, Edited by Max Fox, Introduction by Christopher Nealon
Theory Q August 2020 240pp 5 illus. 9781478009580 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478008675 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule over the past five centuries.
Starring Women
Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850 Sara E. Lampert
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History October 2020 280pp 9780252043352 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Examines the lives and careers of overlooked figures from Europe and the U.S. whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other stage shows shocked and excited audiences. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell
The Future of Tech Is Female
Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 2001500 Dyan Elliott
How to Achieve Gender Diversity Douglas M. Branson
November 2020 336pp 2 b&w illus. 9781479806041 £19.99 / $25.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Middle Ages Series October 2020 480pp 9780812224764 £26.99 / $34.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Considers the paradoxes attending women’s ascent to tech leadership roles, suggesting industry-wide solutions to gender inequality. An Provocative analysis of the changing religious, emotional, and sexual meanings of the metaphor invaluable resource for anyone invested in gender of the sponsa Christi and of the increasing anxiety equality in corporate governance. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ about the somatization of female spirituality.
The Juggling Mother
The Play in the System
Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety Amanda D. Watson
UBC PRESS
The Art of Parasitical Resistance Anna Watkins Fisher
September 2020 148pp 5 colour photos 9780774864626 £18.99 / $27.95 PB 9780774864619 £50.00 / $75.00 HB
October 2020 320pp 53 illus., incl. 19 in color 9781478009702 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478008842 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Makes the controversial case that unfair labour distributions are publicly celebrated, intentionally performed, and intimately felt. Mothers with the most power are thus complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones—and in their own undoing. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Acknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, theorizes parasitism—a form of resistance in which artists comply with dominant structures as a tool for practicing resistance from within.
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
The Wombs of Women
Race, Capital, Feminism Françoise Vergès, Translated by Kaiama L. Glover
Jane Ward
Sexual Cultures September 2020 224pp 9781479851553 £20.99 / $26.95 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Theory in Forms July 2020 184pp 9781478009412 £18.99 / $23.95 PB 9781478008521 £74.00 / $89.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo. Explores what, exactly, is wrong with heterosexuality in the twenty-first century, and what straight people can do to fix it for good. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Réunion in the 1960s—a manifestation of the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.
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Theory of Women in Religions
Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence
Catherine Wessinger
Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler & Bonnie Honig, Edited by Timothy J. Huzar & Clare Woodford
December 2020 224pp 11 b&w illus. 9781479809462 £17.99 / $22.00 PB 9781479899197 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures. Offers an economic model to shed light on the forces that have impacted the respective statuses of women and men from the earliest developmental stages of society through the present day. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
January 2021 192pp 9780823290093 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9780823290086 £72.00 / $90.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence.
Traffic in Asian Women
Trans Care
Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies September 2020 352pp 19 illus. 9781478009665 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478008804 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Forerunners: Ideas First September 2020 72pp 9781517911188 £8.00 / $10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Hil Malatino
Trans Care is a critical intervention in how care labor and care ethics have been thought, arguing that dominant modes of conceiving and critiquing the politics and distribution of care entrench normative and cis-centric familial structures and gendered arrangements. Excludes ANZ
Demonstrates that the figure of “Asian women” functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of US power and knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century.
Undermining Intersectionality
Wicked Flesh
Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Jessica Marie Johnson
The Perils of Powerblind Feminism Barbara Tomlinson
Early American Studies July 2020 360pp 15 illus. 9780812252385 £26.99 / $34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
August 2020 284pp 9781439916513 £22.99 / $29.95 PB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Unearthing personal stories, Wicked Flesh shows how black women, from Senegambia in West Africa to the Caribbean to New Orleans, used intimacy and kinship to redefine freedom in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Their practices laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century.
In this provocative book, esteemed scholar Barbara Tomlinson asserts that intersectionality— the idea that categories such as gender, race, and class create overlapping systemsof oppression—is consistently misinterpreted in feminist argument. Excludes Asia Pacific
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Wild Things
Wild Visionary
The Disorder of Desire Jack Halberstam
Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context Golan Y. Moskowitz
Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe October 2020 240pp 7 illus. 9781478011088 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478010036 £86.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which the wild—a space located beyond normative borders of sexuality— offers sources of opposition to knowing and being that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern subject.
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture December 2020 280pp 9781503614086 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503613812 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A reconsideration of Sendak’s life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture.
Women as War Criminals
Women in Buddhist Traditions
Gender, Agency, and Justice Jessica Trisko Darden & Izabela Steflja
September 2020 128pp 9781503613430 £10.99 / $14.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Argues that women are just as capable as men of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. Highlights the gendered dynamics of law, showing how women are adept at using gender instrumentally to obtain better conditions and reduced sentences when war ends.
Women in Religions December 2020 224pp 18 b&w illus. 9781479803422 £17.99 / $22.00 PB 9781479803415 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world, their unique contributions and the strategies they have developed to challenge patriarchy. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Violence, Environment, and Sustainability Edited by Richard Matthew, Patricia A. Weitsman, Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Nora Davis & Tera Dornfeld
Series in Human Security December 2020 320pp 9780821424278 £64.00 / $80.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
How women’s security is threatened by conflict, environmental policy, and economic limitations.
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa Nwando Achebe
Ohio Short Histories of Africa July 2020 224pp 9780821424070 £10.99 / $14.95 PB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
The latest in the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa offers readers an unparalleled history of the remarkable African women who occupied positions of power, authority, and influence.
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