NYU Press Classics

February 1997 156 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $23.00S 9780814742341 Cloth • $45.00S 9780814742334 LGBTQ Studies

QUEER THEORY

An Introduction

ANNAMARIE JAGOSE

The essential history of queer theory

The reclamation of the term queer over the last several decades marked a shift in the study of sexuality to more fluid notions of sexual identity. On the cutting-edge of this significant shift was Annamarie Jagose’s classic text Queer Theory: An Introduction. In this groundbreaking work, Jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of same-sex love over the last century. Blending insights from prominent theorists such as Judith Butler and David Halperin, Jagose illustrates that queer theory's challenge is to create new ways of thinking, not only about fixed sexual identities such as straight and gay, but about other supposedly immovable notions such as sexuality and gender, and man and woman. First released almost 25 years ago, this groundbreaking work has provided a foundation for the continuing evolution of queer theory in the twenty-first century.

Annamarie Jagose is Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.

February 2003 308 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $26.00S(£21.99) 9780814775592 Cloth • $75.00X(£62.00) 9780814775066

Political Science

THE ETHICS OF LIBERTY

MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

The authoritative text on the libertarian political position

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position. Rothbard’s unique argument roots the case for freedom in the concept of natural rights and applies it to a host of practical problems. And while his conclusions are radical—that a social order that strictly adheres to the rights of private property must exclude the institutionalized violence inherent in the state—Rothbard’s applications of libertarian principles prove surprisingly practical for a host of social dilemmas, solutions to which have eluded alternative traditions. The Ethics of Liberty authoritatively established the anarcho-capitalist economic system as the most viable and the only principled option for a social order based on freedom. This classic book’s radical insights are sure to inspire a new generation of readers.

The author of numerous books, the late Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was the S. J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

SOJOURNER TRUTH

Slave, Prophet, Legend CARLETON MABEE

Goes beyond the myths and legends to reveal new insights into the real life of Sojourner Truth

In this landmark work, the product of years of primary research, Pulizter-Prize winning biographer Carleton Mabee has unearthed the best available sources about Sojourner Truth to reconstruct the most authentic account of her life to date. Mabee offers new insights on why she never learned to read, on the authenticity of the famous quotations attributed to her (such as Ar'n't I a woman?), her relationship to President Lincoln, her role in the abolitionist movement, her crusade to move freed slaves from the South to the North, and her life as a singer, orator, feminist and woman of faith. This is an engaging, historically precise biography that reassesses the place of Sojourner Truth—slave, prophet, legend—in American history.

Carleton Mabee is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse; Black Education in New York State, which won the John Ben Snow Prize; and Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award. March 1995 312 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $28.00S(£22.99) 9780814755259 Cloth • $75.00X(£62.00) 9780814754849

Biography

TO SERVE MY COUNTRY, TO SERVE MY RACE

The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II BRENDA L. MOORE

The story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit of African American women to serve overseas

Under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the Black press, and even President Roosevelt, the US War Department deployed African American women to the European theater in 1945. Despite the social, political, and economic restrictions imposed upon these women in their own country, they were eager to serve, not only out of patriotism but out of a desire to uplift their race and dispel bigoted preconceptions about their abilities. Elaine Bennett, a First Sergeant, joined because "I wanted to prove to myself and maybe to the world that we would give what we had back to the United States as a confirmation that we were full- fledged citizens." Filled with compelling personal stories based on extensive interviews, To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race is the first book to document the lives of these courageous pioneers. It reveals how their Army experience affected them for the rest of their lives and how they, in turn, transformed the US military forever.

Brenda L. Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Buffalo. August 1997 288 pages • 6x9 Paper • $28.00S(£22.99) 9780814755877 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9780814755228

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