Gender and Women's Studies 2021

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HIGHLIGHTS MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED

UNEXPECTED

Black Women’s Digital Resistance

Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome

MOYA BAILEY

ALISON PIEPMEIER with GEORGE

Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of antiBlack misogyny $28.00 • 248 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-6510-9 In Intersections

ESTREICH and RACHEL ADAMS

What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices $27.00 • 200 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7995-3

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award for the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category presented by the Association of American Publishers

THE NEW SEX WARS Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era BRENDA COSSMAN

THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY JANE WARD

Revisits the sex wars of the 1970s and ’80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo

$30.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0270-8

Coming February 2022 in Paperback

$14.95 • 216 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0446-7 In Sexual Cultures

BI

TRANS MEDICINE

Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth

The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

RITCH C. SAVIN-WILLIAMS

STEF SHUSTER

What bisexual youth can tell us about today’s gender and sexual identities

A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice

$28.95 • 328 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1143-4

$27.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9937-1

WITH HONOR AND INTEGRITY

EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS

Transgender Troops in Their Own Words Edited by MÁEL EMBSERHERBERT and BREE FRAM Heartfelt personal accounts from transgender people fighting for the right to serve in the military

Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery

$28.00 • 240 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-01039 In LGBTQ Politics

$28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0395-8

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SARAH TRAINER, ALEXANDRA BREWIS and AMBER WUTICH

A study that explores patients’ perspectives on a life-altering surgery

LGBTQ THE QUEER NUYORICAN Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida

DISRUPTING DIGNITY Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives STEPHEN M. ENGEL and

KAREN JAIME

TIMOTHY S. LYLE

A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic

Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignity

$28.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0829-8 In Performance and American Cultures

$35.00 • 416 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9986-9 In LGBTQ Politics

Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award presented by the American Association of Geographers

A QUEER NEW YORK

QUEER STEPFAMILIES

Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

The Path to Social and Legal Recognition

JEN JACK GIESEKING

KATIE L. ACOSTA

The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City

A compelling examination of the social and legal experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and queer stepparent families

$30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3573-7

$30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0098-8

TRANSGENDER INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE

TRANS-AFFIRMATIVE PARENTING

A Comprehensive Introduction

Raising Kids Across the Gender Spectrum ELIZABETH RAHILLY

Edited by ADAM M. MESSINGER and XAVIER L. GUADALUPE-DIAZ

A groundbreaking overview of transgender relationship violence

First-hand accounts of how parents support their transgender children

$35.00 • 410 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9031-6

$28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1715-3

QUEERING FAMILY TREES Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood SANDRA PATTON-IMANI

Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United States $30.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1486-2

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SEX & SEXUALITY 2021 Honorable Mention Sexualities Section Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association

THE PORNIFICATION OF AMERICA How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society

CAMMING Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry ANGELA JONES

An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture

The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living

$24.95 • 232 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-9443-7

$30.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7487-3

BERNADETTE BARTON

Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

STILL STRAIGHT

THE SEX OBSESSION

Sexual Flexibility among White Men in Rural America

Perversity and Possibility in American Politics

TONY SILVA

JANET R. JAKOBSEN

Why some straight men have sex with other men

Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power

$28.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0110-7

$30.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-4608-5 In Sexual Cultures

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice ZAKIYA LUNA

Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the Black-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong

THE BUSINESS OF BIRTH Malpractice and Maternity Care in the United States LOUISE MARIE ROTH

How fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choices $35.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7708-9

$35.00 • 312 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3129-6

FREEZING FERTILITY LUCY VAN DE WIEL

THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA’S SEX EDUCATION Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

Analyzes how the possibility of egg freezing changes what it means to be fertile and to age in the 21st century

A comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United States

Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging

$35.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1790-0 In Biopolitics GET 30% OFF AND FREE SHIPPING* WITH COUPON GEN21-FM

ELLEN S. MORE

$39.00 • 376 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1204-2 Coming January 2022

P O L I T I C S A N D L AW TAKING DOWN BACKPAGE Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker MAGGY KRELL Insider details from the takedown of Backpage, the world’s largest sex trafficker, by the prosecutor who led the charge

THE PARTISAN GAP Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don’t

LAUREL ELDER

Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices $25.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0482-5

$22.95 • 192 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0304-0

Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal

GAYLE K AUFMAN

Fixing Parental Leave The Six-Month Solution

A real-world solution for parental leave that

BODIES IN EVIDENCE

SHORTLISTED

Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication HEATHER R. HLAVKA and

Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

SAMEENA MULLA Uncovers how the process of sexual assault adjudication reinforces inequality and becomes a public spectacle of violence

and RENEE KNAKE JEFFERSON The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected— for the US Supreme Court

$30.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0966-0

$18.95 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1196-0

FIXING PARENTAL LEAVE

REIMAGINING BLACK WOMEN

The Six Month Solution

A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial

GAYLE KAUFMAN

Melodrama in Culture and Politics

A real-world solution for parental leave that promotes gender equality at work and at home

promotes gender equality at work and at home

$18.95 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8503-9

HANNAH BRENNER JOHNSON

NIKOL G. ALEXANDER-FLOYD

A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women

Coming March 2022 in Paperback

$30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5089-1

RESISTANCE

GEHL V CANADA

Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo Edited by SUE GOYETTE Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology, edited by Sue Goyette

Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act

$21.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7801-6 Published by University of Regina Press

LYNN GEHL

How the Gehl decision advanced indigenous rights in Canada 9780889778252 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1657-6 Published by University of Regina Press

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MEDIA PAIN GENERATION Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie L. AYU SARASWATI

Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism $28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0833-5

KEYWORDS FOR GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES Edited by THE KEYWORDS FEMINIST EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE

Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality

DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM CATHERINE KNIGHT STEELE

Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought $27.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0838-0 In Critical Cultural Communication

AVIDLY READS GUILTY PLEASURES ARIELLE ZIBRAK

“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.” $14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0709-3

$28.00 • Paper 978-1-4798-0815-1

HISTORY

HETEROSEXUAL HISTORIES Edited by REBECCA L. DAVIS and MICHELE MITCHELL

The history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuries $35.00 • 424 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0228-9

THE FIERCE LIFE OF GRACE HOLMES CARLSON Catholic, Socialist, Feminist

SUSAN B. ANTHONY A Biography KATHLEEN BARRY

Brings to life one of the most significant figures in the crusade for women’s rights in America $30.00 • 448 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0496-2

CLIPPED WINGS The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II

DONNA T. HAVERTY-STACKE

MOLLY MERRYMAN

Shares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long dedication to challenging social and economic inequality

Revives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a Legacy

$50.00 • 312 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0218-0

$30.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0578-5

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RACE & ETHNICITY BLACK WOMEN’S HEALTH Food, Power, and Resistance in the City MICHELE TRACY BERGER

The struggles African American women and their adolescent daughters face in living healthy, active lives

THE COLORS OF LOVE Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships MELINDA MILLS

How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love $30.00 • 312 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0241-8

$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9295-2

THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR Black Women and the Culture of US Empire ERICA R. EDWARDS

LATINAS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Victims, Targets, and Offenders Edited by VERA LOPEZ and LISA PASKO

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power

How Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice system

$30.00 • 400 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0843-4

$35.00 • 376 Pages Paper • 9781479891962 In Latina/o Sociology

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award for the Business, Finance & Management Category presented by the Association of American Publishers

STUCK

Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, presented by the American Comparative Literature Association, Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

BECOMING HUMAN

Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder

Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

MARGARET M. CHIN

Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human

A behind-the-scenes examination of Asian Americans in the workplace

ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON

$28.00 • 232 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-1681-1

$30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3037-4 In Sexual Cultures

GROWING UP LATINX

SURFACING

Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship

On being black and feminist in South Africa Edited by DESIREE LEWIS and

JESICA SIHAM FERNÁNDEZ

Latinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America $30.00 • 264 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0122-0 In Critical Perspectives on Youth

GABEBA BADEROON

A collection of essays on black feminism in the South African context $35.00 • 328 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4609-3 Published by Wits University Press

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RELIGION WOMEN IN BUDDHIST TRADITIONS KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO

Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human $22.00 • 232 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0342-2 In Women in Religions

SEEKING SANCTUARY Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration

HEAVENLY SEX Sexuality and the Jewish Tradition DR. RUTH K. WESTHEIMER and JONATHAN MARK Celebrated sex expert and bestselling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer bridges the gap between sex and religion in this provocative exploration of intimacy in the Jewish faith

$20.00 • 200 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0552-5

LIFEBLOOD OF THE PARISH

JOHN MARNELL

Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ migrants in Johannesburg, in their own words

A New York City ethnography that explores men’s unique approaches to Catholic devotion

$30.00 • 284 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4710-6 Published by: Wits University Press

ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA

$32.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3049-7 In North American Religions

G R E AT F O R C O U R S E S Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, presented by the American Sociological Association

FEARING THE BLACK BODY

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia SABRINA STRINGS

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years $28.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8675-3

GENDER VIOLENCE, 3RD EDITION Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by LAURA L. O’TOOLE, JESSICA R. SCHIFFMAN and ROSEMARY SULLIVAN

An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violence $39.00 • 600 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2080-1

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Winner, 2019 PROSE Award for Anthropology, Criminology and Anthropology, presented by the Association of American Publishers

THE TRANS GENERATION

How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution ANN TRAVERS

A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families $18.95 • 288 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4041-0

STAY WOKE A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter TEHAMA LOPEZ BUNYASI and CANDIS WATTS SMITH The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, ultimately offering a road-map for resistance for racial justice advocates and antiracists

$18.95 • 288 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-3648-2

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