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Is There Life After Football?
GEORGIANN DAVIS
“Herzig’s delightful history explains why: smooth skin is a cultural imperative.”
“Groundbreaking work.”
STEWART M. HOOVER AND CURTIS D. COATS
“A model volume with important and surprising conclusions!”
JAMES A. HOLSTEIN, RICHARD S. JONES AND GEORGE E. KOONCE, JR.
“A rigorous and scholarly study, the authors present their findings in a very accessible manner.” Booklist 336 PAGES CLOTH • 978-1-4798-6286-3 • $27.95
Playing for God Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry ANNIE BLAZER
“What an intimate and perceptive work of ethnographic scholarship!” Kathryn Lofton, Yale University 256 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-4798-1813-6 • $30.00 CLOTH • 978-1-4798-9801-5 • $89.00
This Year’s Model
Embodied Avatars
ELIZABETH WISSINGER
“This book is both brilliant scholarship and a performance to be reckoned with.”
Modernity’s Ear Listening to Race and Gender in World Music
More Than Medicine
Inside Plus-Size Modeling
A History of the Feminist Women’s Health Movement
AMANDA M. CZERNIAWSKI
JENNIFER NELSON
“Honest, thoughtful and insightful.”
“Absolutely indispensable and profoundly important.”
Covered in Ink
TANYA HART
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
224 PAGES • 14 B/W HALFTONES PAPER • 978-0-8147-8920-9 • $28.00 CLOTH • 978-0-8147-6000-0 • $89.00
In the Alternative Criminology series
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
280 PAGES PAPER • 978-0-8147-7066-5 • $26.00 CLOTH • 978-0-8147-6277-6 • $89.00
Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930
BEVERLY YUEN THOMPSON
“A sensual, groundbreaking and highly accessible account.... This compelling study will be an invaluable resource.”
Rickie Solinger, author of Reproductive Politics
Health in the City
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In the Postmillennial Pop series
KATHY DAVIS
In the Biopolitics series
224 PAGES • 17 HALFTONES, 3 TABLES PAPER • 978-0-8147-8918-6 • $26.00 CLOTH • 978-0-8147-7039-9 • $89.00
“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.
DECEMBER 2015 240 PAGES PAPER • 978-0-8147-2076-9 • $28.00 CLOTH • 978-1-4798-0645-4 • $89.00
Pacific Standard
ROSHANAK KHESHTI
KATHERINE FRANKE
Peter Aggleton, author of Education, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS
Fashioning Fat
In the Sexual Cultures series
Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World
“Timely and evocative.”
352 PAGES • 39 HALFTONES, 2 CHARTS PAPER • 978-1-4798-6477-5 • $28.00 CLOTH • 978-0-8147-9418-0 • $89.00
304 PAGES 38 HALFTONES, 6 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER • 978-1-4798-5247-5 • $29.00 CLOTH • 978-1-4798-0211-1 • $89.00
Dancing Tango
SHARI L. DWORKIN
Ashley Mears, author of Pricing Beauty
Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk
The Perils of Marriage Equality
In the Sexual Cultures series
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
288 PAGES CLOTH • 978-1-4798-1574-6 • $35.00
Men at Risk
Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour
URI MCMILLAN
Wedlocked
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The Economist
Sally M. Promey, Yale University
Deborah R. Vargas, author of Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music
Sharon Preves, author of Intersex and Identity
280 PAGES CLOTH • 978-1-4798-4082-3 • $29.95
Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Surviving the NFL
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REBECCA M. HERZIG
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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
Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity
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Sunaina Maira, author of Desis in the House
Contesting Intersex
A History of Hair Removal
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“[A] thoughtful, nuanced, and frank analysis of the politics of sport and masculinity.”
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