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Playing for God Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry ANNIE BLAZER
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ELIZABETH WISSINGER
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Modernity’s Ear Listening to Race and Gender in World Music
More Than Medicine
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A History of the Feminist Women’s Health Movement
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Covered in Ink
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Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body “Sophisticated…. As vivid as its subject matter, this book is itself a batch of beautiful ink.” Jeff Ferrell, author of Empire of Scrounge INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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Chris Shilling, author of The Body and Social Theory 232 PAGES • 17 ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER • 978-0-8147-6071-0 • $27.00 CLOTH • 978-0-8147-6029-1 • $89.00
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Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930
BEVERLY YUEN THOMPSON
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Health in the City
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“A field-changing book for queer studies and sound studies alike.”
Wedlocked turns to history to compare today’s samesex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when they were able to legally marry for the first time.
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Pacific Standard
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Peter Aggleton, author of Education, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS
Fashioning Fat
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Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World
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Dancing Tango
SHARI L. DWORKIN
Ashley Mears, author of Pricing Beauty
Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk
The Perils of Marriage Equality
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Masculinity, Heterosexuality and HIV Prevention
“A rich and troubling history of how we have all come to manage ourselves as brands.”
C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
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Men at Risk
Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour
URI MCMILLAN
Wedlocked
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The Economist
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Deborah R. Vargas, author of Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music
Sharon Preves, author of Intersex and Identity
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Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Surviving the NFL
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“An impressive and appreciable contribution to a robust field.” Samuel Roberts, Columbia University 336 PAGES • 3 TABLES, 6 FIGURES, 9 HALFTONES CLOTH • 978-1-4798-6799-8 • $55.00
In the Culture, Labor, History series
A Bun in the Oven How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN
The food movement has exploded in the past decade; the home-birth movement, however, has not been as successful. Rothman finds striking parallels and draws a fascinating portrait of these two ‘at home’ movements.
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The Dubious Diagnosis
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Family Secrets Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico
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Modern Families
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Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship JOSHUA GAMSON
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“[A] fascinating look at the remarkable range of experiences that is broadening the very idea of family.”
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“A must read for policy makers, lawyers, activists and LGBT parents.”
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C. J. Pascoe, author of Dude, You’re a Fag
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The Public Professor
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Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Geisha of a Different Kind
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New Desires, New Selves
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Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas
How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality
Traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body.
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A Body, Undone
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Living On After Great Pain
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License to Wed What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples KIMBERLY D. RICHMAN
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WOMEN AND WAR Death in the Shape of a Young Girl
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Women’s Political Violence in the Red Army Faction
Sex, Security, and Post-Conflict Development
PATRICIA MELZER
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Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone MEGAN H. MACKENZIE Lene Hansen, author of Security as Practice
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“Brings readers the hereand-now stories of African sex workers who are fighting for human rights.” Melinda Chateauvert, author of Sex Workers Unite!
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Border Politics
A Primer (Second Edition)
Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
NANCY LEVIT AND ROBERT R.M. VERCHICK
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NANCY A. NAPLES AND JENNIFER BICKHAM MENDEZ
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Rebels at the Bar
Contagious Representation
The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers JILL NORGREN
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Feminist Legal Theory
CHRISTINA CROSBY
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Sex Worker Activism in Africa
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To Live Freely in This World
“Rarely do we see a writer strike such a perfect tone when addressing such deeply fraught material.”
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The Tolerance Trap
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SAMEENA MULLA
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Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire
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Wendy Brown, author of Regulating Aversion
Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention
Laura Carpenter, author of Virginity Lost
A Taste for Brown Bodies
“One of the best books on reproductive politics in a decade!”
The Violence of Care
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Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth
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Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction
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Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America
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Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics
HISTORY Governed through Choice
Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity
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“Bravely engages with the struggles and triumphs of Asian American gay men.”
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How to Use Your Research to Change the World
“Certain to change the way that we think about heterosexuality’s relations with the homoerotic.”
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Women Doing Life
The New Mutants
JANE WARD
LINDA M. BLUM
Focuses on the processes of social and market exchange in transnational surrogacy.
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Women’s Political Representation in Democracies around the World FRANK C. THAMES AND MARGARET S. WILLIAMS
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Age in America The Colonial Era to the Present
Women in Early America
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CORINNE T. FIELD AND NICHOLAS L. SYRETT
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RELIGION Gender in Judaism and Islam
Queer Christianities Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms
Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage
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KATHLEEN T. TALVACCHIA, MICHAEL F. PETTINGER AND MARK LARRIMORE
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FIROOZEH KASHANI-SABET AND BETH S. WENGER
“Breaks new ground.”
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Called to Serve
Building the Old Time Religion Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era PRISCILLA POPE-LEVISON
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A History of Nuns in America MARGARET M. MCGUINNESS
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WOMEN IN RELIGIONS BOOK SERIES
General Editor: CATHERINE WESSINGER (Loyola University, New Orleans) This series offers short, single-authored introductions to women and their roles, representations, and challenges within a range of religious traditions.
Women in Christian Traditions
Women in New Religions
Women in Japanese Religions
REBECCA MOORE
LAURA VANCE
BARBARA R. AMBROS
“A major contribution to the literature on women in Christianity.”
“Thorough, well-crafted, and eminently useful.”
“Highly accessible and satisfying to read.”
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Margaret Bendroth, Congregational Library 224 PAGES • 5 HALFTONES PAPER 978-1-4798-1602-6 • $17.00 CLOTH 978-1-4798-4799-0 • $65.00
Paula Arai, author of Bringing Zen Home 240 PAGES • 15 HALFTONES PAPER 978-1-4798-8406-3 • $17.00 CLOTH 978-1-4798-2762-6 • $65.00
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Also check out the Religion, Race, and Ethnicity series, the Religion and Social Transformation series, and the Secular Studies series. Visit www.nyupress.org for more information and a full listing of series titles.