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A Genealogy of the Gentleman
Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century
Mary Beth Harris
Early Modern Feminisms
March 2024 252pp 1 b&w image
9781644533284 £45.00/ $49.95 PB
9781644533291 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argues that 18th-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman.
An Ordinary Landscape of Violence
Women
Preity
Loving Women in Guyana
R. Kumar
Critical Caribbean Studies
July 2024 198pp 1 table
9781978819047 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978819054 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
An Ordinary Landscape of Violence tells a new history of queer women in postcolonial Guyana. While the country has experienced a rise in queer activism, especially toward human rights efforts, members of the Guyanese queer community have also been victims of extreme violence.
Artificial Women
Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females
Julie Wosk
April 2024 210pp 47 b&w illus.
9780253069252 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780253069245 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
What distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From sex dolls to Siri, talking Barbies to the Bride of Frankenstein, Artificial Women explores the ways in which today's simulated females—both real and fictional—reflect and expose our own ideas about gender and female identity.
A Nation of Family and Friends?
Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women
Aarti Ratna
Critical Issues in Sport and Society
April 2024 164pp
9781978834118 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781978834125 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the complex and dynamic relationships between South Asian women and sporting and leisure cultures. Ratna uses the sociological concepts of family and friends, particularly as they relate to an analysis of wider debates about the complexities of race, gender, and the nation.
And the Sages Did Not Know
Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex
Sarra Lev
January 2024 392pp
9781512825176 £63.00/ $69.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
How did the rabbis of the first two centuries CE approach intersex persons? Lev analyzes seven different rabbinic responses as the first such work that concentrates primarily on the effects of these texts on intersex persons themselves. This book offers us a window into how rabbis approached intersex bodies, and how it compares to approaches we recognize today.
Before Lawrence v. Texas
The Making of a Queer Social Movement
Wesley G. Phelps
March 2024 304pp 18 b&w photos
9781477329474 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The grassroots queer activism and legal challenges that led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gay and lesbian equality in 2003, overturning anti-sodomy laws across the country. Phelps shares the personal experiences of the people and couples who helped overturn the state’s discriminatory law when nine Supreme Court justices ruled.
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Before Trans
Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France
Rachel Mesch
May 2024 360pp
9781503640122 £18.99/ $22.00 NIP
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A fascinating exploration of the lives and writings of Jane Dieulafoy, Rachilde, and Marc de Montifaud, three fin-de-siècle French writers pushed the boundaries of gender identity.
Black Girl Autopoetics
Agency in Everyday Digital Practice
Ashleigh Greene Wade
February 2024 176pp 16 page color insert
9781478025603 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781478020851 £85.00/ $94.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ashleigh Greene Wade explores how Black girls create representations of themselves in digital culture, showing how Black girls’ self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space to navigate contemporary reality.
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling
Women, Memory, and Public Space
Edited by Valentina RozasKrause and Andrew M. Shanken
Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
May 2024 272pp 71 b&w illus.
9781531506391 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781531506384 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.
Between Shadows and Noise
Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined
Amber Jamilla Musser
February 2024 208pp 16 color illus.
9781478030096 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478025832 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Amber Jamilla Musser theorizes sensation as a Black feminist method for aesthetic interpretation and criticism that uses the knowledges held by the body to access the unrepresentable.
Bodies Beyond Labels Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain
Edited by Frederick A. de Armas and Daniel Holcombe
Toronto Iberic
July 2024 336pp 25 b&w illus.
9781487556891 £66.00/ $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Bodies Beyond Labels presents an affirmative view of joy and non-labelled expressions of gender, sexuality, and performativity in the Spanish empire.
From 1st April 2024
Clicas
Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film
Frank García
Latinx: The Future Is Now
August 2024 256pp 7 b&w photos
9781477329436 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477329429 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Through close readings of literature and film, Frank García reimagines the typical narratives describing gang membership and culture, amplifying and complicating critical gang studies in the social sciences and humanities and looking at gangs across racial, ethnic, and national identities.
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Closures
Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom
Grace Lavery
February 2024 128pp 30 illus.
9781478030140 £20.99/ $23.95 PB
9781478025894 £81.00/ $89.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Closures, Grace Lavery reconsiders the genre’s seven-decade history as an endless cycle of crisis and closure that formally and representationally frames heterosexuality as constantly on the verge of both collapse and reconstitution.
Counting Matters Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada
Edited by Christina Gabriel and L. Pauline Rankin
April 2024 288pp 6 tables, 4 charts
9780774870160 £124.00/ $138.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Gabriel, Rankin, et al. pose critical questions of the ways in which measurement tools manifest within the field of gender equality, pulling from their varied experiences as feminist legal scholars, social science researchers, frontline workers, and more.
Feminism against Cisness
Edited
ASTERISK
by
Emma Heaney
May 2024 280pp 3 illus.
9781478030454 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478026228 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The contributors to Feminism against Cisness showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience.
Coerced Liberation
Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan
Zamira Abman
May 2024 232pp 9 b&w illus.
9781487553180 £29.99/ $37.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book offers unique insights into the shifts in behaviour and attitudes surrounding the Soviet emancipation of women in the Muslim periphery, Tajikistan.
From 1st April 2024
Defending Pornography
Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
Nadine Strossen
March 2024 392pp
9781479829903 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781479830763 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Named a Notable Book by The New York Times Book Review in 1995, Defending Pornography examines a key question: is censoring pornography good or bad for women? In an illuminating new Preface, Strossen lays out the current assaults on sexual expression, and argues that increasing government power to censor sexual expression, would cause more harm than good.
Feminism’s Fight
Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970
Edited by Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton
February 2024 392pp 1 b&w photo
9780774868044 £38.00/ $41.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice for womenthrough Canadian federal policy from the 1970s to the present. It tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and emerging alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality.
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Feminist Comedy
Women Playwrights of London
Willow White
Early Modern Feminisms
June 2024 182pp 5 color and 11 b&w images
9781644533406 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
9781644533413 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Identifies the 18th-century comedic stage as a key site of feminist critique, practice, and experimentation. Though male detractors denied women’s comic ability, eighteenth-century women playwrights were on the cutting edge of comedy and their work had important feminist influence that can be traced to today’s stages and screens.
Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid
How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity
LJ Slovin
Critical Perspectives on Youth
June 2024 240pp
9781479819607 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479819591 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on a year-long ethnographic study conducted in a high school, LJ Slovin closely observed the experiences of gender-nonconforming youth and concluded that inclusive approaches have inadvertently made them feel excluded and unseen.
Fire Dreams
Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South
Laura McTighe
March 2024 352pp 50 illus.
9781478025542 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781478020806 £98.00/ $109.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
An innovative collaboration between the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) and Laura McTighe, Fire Dreams is a vital toolkit for grassroots organizers, activist-scholars, and all those who dream to make the world otherwise.
Feminists Confront State Violence
Edited by Sara Matthiesen, Anne Gray Fischer and Marisol LeBrón
January 2024 207pp 12 illus.
9781478027980 £11.99/ $14.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include how feminists around the world confront proliferating forms of state violence; feminist strategies to demand equitable distribution of care, safety, and life; carceral abolition and anticapitalist feminist strategies to radically remake society.
Fighting Feelings
Lessons in Gendered Racism and Queer Life
Gulzar R. Charania
May 2024 304pp
9780774869003 £38.00/ $41.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Traces the complex convergences, and inseparability, of race, class, gender, and sexuality in women’s lives, and the divergent political horizons that racism fosters. Charania puts the experiences of women of colour at the centre of her investigation, sharing how they endure everyday racism, as well as its lasting impacts and exacting costs in their lives and educational trajectories.
Fractal Repair
Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
Matthew Chin
Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
March 2024 248pp 7 illus.
9781478030225 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478025986 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Chin advances a theory and method of queer fractals to investigate queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present. He analyzes archives ranging from mid-twentieth-century social science studies of the Caribbean to HIV/AIDS organizations to write reparative histories of queerness.
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From Forest Farm to Sawmill
Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
Shuxuan Zhou
May 2024 184pp 6 b&w illus., 2 maps, 1 table
9780295752679 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752662 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In considering how sawmill and forest farmworkers creatively reconfigured state projects and challenged authority, this book opens a conversation among the fields of gender studies, labor studies, and environmental studies.
Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers
Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy
Edited by Rachael Johnstone and Bessma Momani
May 2024 344pp 17 tables, 20 illus.
9780774869249 £114.00/ $127.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
A cross-disciplinary, data-driven investigation of gender inequality in Canadian universities. Research presented in this book reveals, for example, that women are more likely to hold sessional teaching positions and to face difficulties obtaining funding.
Good Guys, Bad Guys
The Perils of Men's Gender Activism
Emily K. Carian
May 2024 272pp 3 b&w images
9781479821013 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479821006 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Good Guys, Bad Guys unravels the complexities of men’s feminist allyship and its limitations in propelling genuine progress. By engaging directly with the men themselves, Carian masterfully dissects the narratives of two distinct groups of gender activists: feminist men and men who belong to the men's rights movement, which opposes feminism.
Gender-Based Violence in Canadian Politics in the #MeToo Era
Edited by Tracey Raney and Cheryl N. Collier
June 2024 320pp 3 b&w illus., 6 b&w figures, 8 b&w tables
9781487540029 £25.99/ $32.50 PB
9781487540012 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book brings together leading experts to shine a light on a serious problem confronting Canada’s democracy: gender-based violence in politics. From 1st April 2024
Global Guyana
Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Oneka LaBennett
April 2024 256pp 4 b&w images
9781479827015 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479826995 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing from archival research and oral history, this book exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana.
Good Wife, Wise Mother
Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule
Fang Yu Hu
June 2024 232pp 2 tables, 13 b&w illus.
9780295752648 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752631 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Fang Yu Hu uses female education and citizenship as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japanese ideas and practices. A latecomer to the age of imperialism, Japan used modernization efforts in Taiwan to cast itself as a benevolent force among its colonial subjects and imperial competitors.
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Home Is Where Your Politics Are
Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South Africa
Jessica A. Scott
June 2024 204pp 4 tables
9781978836075 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978836082 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
A transnational consideration of queer and trans activism in the U.S. South and South Africa. Through ethnographic exploration of queer and trans activist work in both places, Scott paints a picture of what life is like in relation to a narrative that says that queer life is harder, if not impossible, in rural areas and on the African continent.
Maricas
Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982
Javier Fernández-Galeano
Engendering Latin America
June 2024 322pp
9781496239556 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781496234971 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish queer people, who despite state repression and sexual violence, carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s.
Oregon's Others
Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
Kimberly Jensen
June 2024 320pp 24 b&w illus.
9780295752587 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780295752570 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Comprehensive and compelling, Oregon’s Others examines the collision of civil liberties and persecution through the lens of gender, gender identity and presentation, ability, race, ethnicity, and class.
Law, Gender, and Injustice
A Legal History of U.S. Women
Joan Hoff
Feminist Crosscurrents
April 1994 580pp
9780814735091 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A groundbreaking analysis of how gendered oppression is written into the American legal system. Law, Gender, and Injustice is a landmark study of how women remain second-class citizens under the current legal system. In this widely acclaimed book, Joan Hoff questions how gendered oppression is written into the American legal system.
My Race Is My Gender Portraits of Nonbinary People of Color
Edited Stephanie Hsu and Ka-Man Tse
Q+ Public
August 2024 146pp 13 color
9781978823945 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781978823952 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first anthology by nonbinary writers of color to include photography and visual portraits, centering their everyday experiences of negotiating intersectional identities. While informed by queer theory and critical race theory, the authors share their personal stories in accessible language.
Outskirts
Queer Experiences on the Fringe
Edited by D'Lane R. Compton and Amy L. Stone
April 2024 352pp
9781479821501 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479821488 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Outskirts addresses the diverse and intricate aspects of the queer experience on the periphery of the social world. By bringing together scholars specializing in queer culture, this volume asks important questions about the atypical places, spaces, and identities that are an important part of LGBTQ life in the United States.
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Postcolonial Hauntologies
African Women's Discourses of the Female Body
Ayo A. Coly
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
June 2024 264pp 16 photos, index
9781496238887 £25.99/ $30.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Ayo A. Coly employs the concepts of “hauntology” and “ghostly matters” to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women.
Reading the Impossible
Sexual Difference, Critique, and the Stamp of History
Elizabeth Weed
May 2024 176pp
9781531506797 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781531506780 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In reconsidering the question of sexual difference, Weed offers a fresh perspective on what is at stake for critical reading in the neoliberal university.
Secularism as Misdirection
Critical Thought from the Global South
Nivedita Menon
Theory in Forms
May 2024 384pp
9781478030423 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478026204 £103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism hyper-visualizes women and religion as a means of obscuring forms of capitalist, racialized, caste, and anti-minoritarian violence throughout the global South.
Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman
Black History and Poetics in Performance
Gale P. Jackson
May 2024 246pp 1 photo, 4 illus., index
9781496238894 £25.99/ $30.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale P. Jackson “re-members” and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.
Reworking Citizenship
Race, Gender, and Kinship in South Africa
Brady G'sell
August 2024 288pp
9781503639171 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503636811 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Blends intimate ethnography with rich historical analysis to reveal the interrelationship between seemingly disconnected domains: citizenship, kinship, and political economy. G'Sell argues that women's kinship-based labor is central to ensuring the survival of modern states and imbues their citizenship with essential content, and offers new imaginaries of political belonging.
Stroke Book
The Diary of a Blindspot
Jonathan Alexander
May 2024 208pp 8 b&w illus.
9781531507305 £13.99/ $15.95 NIP
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an “eye stroke.” Stroke Book invites readers on a personal journey of facing a health crisis while trying to understand how one’s sexual identity affects and is affected by that crisis.
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Tendings
Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man
Nathan Snaza
February 2024 216pp 1 illus.
9781478030102 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478025849 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bringing contemporary feminist and queer popular culture’s resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought, Nathan Snaza demonstrates the ways esoterism affirms a pluriversal worldview that reimagines what it means to live in a more-than-human world.
The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights
How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities
Phillip M. Ayoub and Kristina Stoeckl
LGBTQ Politics
June 2024 368pp 20 b&w images
9781479824809 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479824793 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the ongoing global battle for LGBTI rights.
The Only Way Out
The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape
Katherine Brewer Ball
April 2024 224pp 13 illus.
9781478030270 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026044 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on Black studies, queer theory, and performance studies, Brewer explores the American fascination with the escape story and argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint.
The End of Peacekeeping
Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention
Marsha Henry
April 2024 208pp
9781512825237 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Drawing on critical concepts from Black feminist thought, postcolonial and critical race theories, Henry shows how contemporary peacekeeping produces gender and racial inequalities based on data amassed through more than fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork.
The Movies of Racial Childhoods
Screening Self-Sovereignty
in Asian/America
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
January 2024 264pp 11 illus.
9781478025658 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020912 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on psychoanalysis and her own perspective as a mother grieving for a deceased child, Shimizu considers how early twenty-first-century cinema renders Asian American children through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification.
The Politics of Kinship Race, Family, Governance Mark Rifkin
February 2024 400pp
9781478030003 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478021049 £103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mark Rifkin explores how the construction of family as a white liberal institution of race-making drives US settler-colonial violence.
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The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies
Edited by Melissa Hardie, Meaghan Morris and Kane Race
The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
February 2024 428pp 25 b&w illus.
9780253068163 £34.00/ $38.00 PB
9780253068156 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A multifaceted approach to the film, its popularity, and its social relevance results in a new text for understanding normative social hierarchies of sexuality, race, and gender.
Unsettling Queer Anthropology Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures
Edited
by
Margot Weiss
May 2024 336pp 8 illus.
9781478030386 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026150 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology.
Who Needs Gay Bars?
Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
Greggor Mattson
May 2024 448pp
9781503640139 £15.99 / $18.00 NIP
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jarred by the closing of his favorite local watering hole in Cleveland, Ohio, Greggor Mattson embarks on a journey across the country to paint a much more complex picture of the cultural significance of these spaces, inside "big four" gay cities, but also beyond them
Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology
Second Edition
Laura Tubelle de González
May 2024 328pp 60 colour illus., 3 b&w illus., 3 colour maps, 18 colour tables, 4 colour figures
9781487552084 £49.00/ $65.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The second edition of this beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to the field of cultural anthropology and encourages them to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens.
From 1st April 2024
Violent Intimacies
The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
Asli Zengin
February 2024 296pp 22 illus.
9781478025627 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020882 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence.
Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity
Melissa Kravetz
German and European Studies
September 2023 pp 344pp 10 b&w illus.
9781487556471 £27.99/ $37.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book traces the rhetoric that politically active and professionally engaged female physicians used to maintain their presence and strengthen their significance in women’s and children’s medical spaces in Weimar and Nazi Germany.
From 1st April 2024
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Women of the Mafia
Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra
Felia Allum
July 2024 288pp 1 map, 2 diagrams
9781501774799 £38.00/ $41.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dives into the Neapolitan criminal underworld of the Camorra as seen and lived by the women who inhabit it. It tells their life stories and unpacks the gender dynamics by examining their participation as active agents in the organization as leaders, managers, foot soldiers, and enablers.
AntoloGaia
Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir
Porpora Marcasciano
Translated by Francesco
Pascuzzi and Sandra Waters
Other Voices of Italy
October 2023 364pp
9781978835788 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781978835795 £63.00/ $69.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this stirring memoir, Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 70s, yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic.
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male Anniversary Edition
Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin
August 2023 832pp
9780253067463 £43.00/ $48.00 PB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
When first published in 1948, this book encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. The 75th anniversary edition revisits the work of Kinsey and his fellow researchers as they sought to accumulate an objective body of facts regarding sex.
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition A Black Feminist Anthology
Barbara Smith
October 2023 404pp 12 b&w images
9781978838994 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781978839007 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This new edition of the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in this book has had on generations of feminists.
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