Gender
Axis of Hope
Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders Catherine Z. Sameh Series edited by Piya Chatterjee
Decolonizing Feminisms December 2019 192pp 9780295746326 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295746302 £79.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Axis of Hope recounts activists’ struggles through critical analysis of their narratives. Catherine Sameh examines how Iranian women’s rights activists have cultivated ways of thinking of and being with each other that rupture the relentless differencemaking and violence of coloniality through local and transnational networks along axes of feminist solidarity, friendship, and love. These stories are particularly germane in such precarious times, marked by war, isolation, sanctions, and the intense demonization of Iranians and Muslims, as well as authoritarianism, militarism, and patriarchal nationalisms around the world. Situating postreform women’s rights activism within the unfolding, decades-long project to democratize Iran from within, Axis of Hope makes a timely contribution to studies of feminist movements, women’s human rights in Muslim contexts, activism and new media, and the relationship between activism, civil society, and the state.
Fall / Winter 2019
Defining Girlhood in India A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws Ashwini Tambe
October 2019 224pp 9780252084560 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9780252042720 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
India has served as a focal problem site in NGO campaigns and intergovernmental conferences setting age standards for sexual maturity. Over the last century, the country shifted the legal age of marriage from twelve, among the lowest in the world, to eighteen, at the high end of the global spectrum.Ashwini Tambe illuminates the ideas that shaped such shifts: how the concept of adolescence as a sheltered phase led to delaying both marriage and legal adulthood; how the imperative of population control influenced laws on marriage age; and how imperial moral hierarchies between nations provoked defensive postures within India. Tambe takes a transnational feminist approach to legal history, showing how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Ultimately, Tambe argues, the well-meaning focus on child marriage has been tethered less to the interests of girls themselves and more to parents’ interests, achieving population control targets, and preserving national reputation. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Her Neighbor's Wife
A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage Lauren Jae Gutterman
Politics and Culture in Modern America December 2019 352pp 10 illus. 9780812251746 £34.00 / $39.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States. In doing so, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws our attention away from the postwar landscape of urban gay communities and into the homes of married women, who tended to engage in affairs with the wives and mothers they met in the context of their daily lives: through work, at church, or in their suburban neighborhoods.In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. By revealing the extent to which marriage has historically permitted space for wives’ relationships with other women, Her Neighbor’s Wife calls into question the presumed straightness of traditional American marriage.
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What's the Use? On the Uses of Use Sara Ahmed
October 2019 288pp 52 illus. 9781478006503 £23.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478005841 £88.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In What’s the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word— in this case, use—and following it around. She shows how use became associated with life and strength in nineteenth-century biological and social thought and considers how utilitarianism offered a set of educational techniques for shaping individuals by directing them toward useful ends. Ahmed also explores how spaces become restricted to some uses and users with specific reference to universities. She notes, however, the potential for queer use: how things can be used in ways that were not intended or by those for whom they were not intended. Ahmed posits queer use as a way of reanimating the project of diversity work as the ordinary and painstaking work of opening up institutions to those who have historically been excluded from them.
100 Years of Women's Suffrage
A University of Illinois Press Anthology Compiled by Dawn Durante
November 2019 272pp 9780252084744 £20.99 / $26.00 PB 9780252042928 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
This book commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the suffrage movement and women's voting. This selections illuminate the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women to gain, and use, the vote.
A Miscarriage of Justice
Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil Cassia Roth
January 2020 368pp 9781503611320 £25.99 / $32.00 PB 9781503610477 £82.00 / $95.00 HB
Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital Edited by Adrienne D. Davis & The BSE Collective
New Black Studies Series August 2019 336pp 9780252084485 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9780252042645 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social life. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Embodying an Emerging Nation Oluwakemi M. Balogun
Globalization in Everyday Life December 2019 256pp 9781503610972 £22.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503608856 £77.00 / $90.00 HB
A Miscarriage of Justice examines women’s reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro. Roth argues that the state’s approach to women’s health in the early twentieth century focused on criminalizing fertility control without improving services or outcomes for women.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contested Bodies
Daring to Be Bad
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Black Sexual Economies
Beauty Diplomacy
Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica Sasha Turner
Early American Studies August 2019 328pp 10 illus. 9780812224603 £22.99 / $27.50 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Contested Bodies explores how the end of the transatlantic trade impacted Jamaican slaves and their children. Examining the struggles for control over biological reproduction, Turner shows how central childbearing was to the organization of plantation work, the care of slaves, and the development of their culture.
Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about Nigerian society. Balogun critically examines these pageants in the context of major transitions within the nation-state, using these events to understand Nigerian national identity and international relations.
Radical Feminism in America 19671975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Alice Echols Foreword by Ellen Willis August 2019 456pp 8 b&w plates 9781517908706 £19.99 / $24.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A fascinating chronicle of radical feminism’s rise and fall from the midSixties to the mid-Seventies, Daring to Be Bad is a must-read for students of gender history and activists of intersectionality. This 30th anniversary edition reveals how current debates about race, transgender rights, queer theory, and sexuality echo issues that galvanized and divided feminists fifty years ago. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Beneath the Surface
A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners Lynn M. Thomas
Theory in Forms January 2020 376pp 85 illus. (incl. 39 in color) 9781478006428 £24.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478005384 £92.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond, theorizing skin and skin color as a site for antiracist struggle and lighteners as a technology of visibility that both challenges and entrenches racial and gender hierarchies.
Disabled Futures
A Framework for Radical Inclusion Milo W. Obourn
D/C: Dis/color January 2020 208pp 9781439917312 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781439917305 £82.00 / $99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Milo Obourn reads disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race studies to develop a framework for addressing inequity. Obourn theorize the concept of "racialized disgender" to describe the ways in which racialization and gendering are social processes with disabling effects. Excludes Asia Pacific
Emergent Masculinities
Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age Ndubueze L. Mbah
New African Histories October 2019 296pp 9780821423899 £25.99 / $32.95 PB 9780821423882 £66.00 / $80.00 HB
Engendering Revolution
Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela Rachel Elfenbein
December 2019 328pp 8 b&w photos, 1 b&w illus. 9781477319147 £28.99 / $34.95 PB 9781477319130 £90.00 / $105.00 HB
Mbah analyzes the Bight of Biafra’s gendered Atlanticization, between 1750 and 1920. He weaves over 250 oral narratives with material culture practices, oral and performative traditions, slave ship data, slave narratives, travelers’ accounts, colonial and missionary reports, and analyses of social processes.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Gamelan Girls
Gendered Mediation
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles Sonja Lynn Downing
New Perspectives on Gender in Music October 2019 248pp 9780252084553 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252042713 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
In recent years, girls' and mixedgender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance, heralding a fundamental shift in how Balinese think about gender roles. Downing analyzes the ways Balinese musical practices have influenced the processes behind these dramatic changes.
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Showcasing field research that comprises archival analysis, observation, and extensive interviews, Engendering Revolution is the first indepth study of the overlooked yet pivotal role played by maternalism, poor and working-class women’s unpaid labor, and unequal gender power relations in propelling and sustaining Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution.
Identity and Image Making in Canadian Politics Edited by Angelia Wagner & Joanna Everitt
Communication, Strategy, and Politics October 2019 284pp 8 graphs, 9 tables 9780774860567 £33.00 / $37.95 NIP UBC PRESS
Gendered Mediation takes an original approach to the study of gender and political communication by examining the implications of intersecting notions of gender, sexuality, race, age, and class in Canadian politics. Its findings have profound implications for democracy not only in Canada but for democratic political systems elsewhere. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Feminist Post-Liberalism Judith A. Baer
January 2020 214pp 9781439917282 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781439917275 £82.00 / $99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Judith Baer’s provocative book, Feminist Post-Liberalism, refutes both conservative and radical critiques. To make her case, she rejects classical liberalism in favor of a welfare—and possibly socialist—post-liberalism that will prevent capitalism and a concentration of power that reinforces male supremacy. Together, feminism and liberalism can better elucidate controversies in American politics, law, and society.
Frottage
Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora Keguro Macharia
Sexual Cultures November 2019 224pp 9781479865017 £21.99 / $27.00 PB 9781479881147 £77.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Gothic Queer Culture
Healing Labor
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality October 2019 300pp 10 photos, index 9781496217028 £24.99 / $30.00 PB 9781496202048 £47.00 / $55.00 HB
February 2020 256pp 9781503611344 £22.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503610576 £77.00 / $90.00 HB
Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma Laura Westengard
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought, Laura Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic.
Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy Gabriele Koch
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo's sex industry, Healing Labor explores the relationship between how sex workers think about what sex is and what it does and the political-economic roles and possibilities that they imagine for themselves. Koch compellingly illustrates the linkages between women's work, sex, and the gendered economy.
Heroines and Local Girls
The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century Pamela L. Cheek
Haney Foundation Series August 2019 296pp 6 illus. 9780812251487 £69.00 / $79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe between 1650 and 1810. In chapters that incorporate history, network theory, and feminist literary history, she examines the century-and-a-half literary lineage connecting leading female writers and thinkers.
Horrible Mothers
Representations across Francophone North America Edited by Loïc Bourdeau
December 2019 222pp Index 9780803293984 £39.00 / $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Horrible Mothers offers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mother in late twentieth and early twenty-firstcentury francophone literature and film. Contributors reexamine the “horrible mother” paradigm within a broad range of sociocultural contexts from different locations in North America to broaden the understanding of mothering beyond traditional ideology.
Hungry Translations
Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability Richa Nagar Transformations: Womanist studies August 2019 240pp 9780252084409 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252042577 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
How might scholars working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life? Informed by over twenty years of experiences in India and the U.S., Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing.
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I Confess!
Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age Edited by Thomas Waugh & Brandon Arroyo
November 2019 680pp 88 photos 9780773559394 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9780773559103 £99.00 / $120.00 HB MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
In I Confess!, leading international scholars explore the ideas of confession and sexuality in moving image arts and media over the last quarter century. Waugh and Arroyo present an extraordinary, paradigmshifting proliferation of voices and imagery produced during the third sexual revolution, from the eve of the internet to today. Excludes Asia Pacific
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Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins
August 2019 384pp 9781478006466 £25.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478005421 £97.00 / $109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory, Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues, Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical social theory.
Latter-day Screens
Legalizing Sex
Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism Brenda R. Weber
Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India Chaitanya Lakkimsetti
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2019 392pp 9781478004868 £25.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478004264 £97.00 / $109.95 HB
In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber examines the ways in which the mediation of Mormonism through film, TV, blogs, YouTube videos, and memoirs functions as a means through which to understand conversations surrounding gender, sexuality, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism in the United States.
January 2020 208pp 9781479826360 £24.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479810024 £77.00 / $89.00 HB
This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rightsbased struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in the Indian public sphere in the mid-1980s when the rise of HIV/AIDS became a frightening issue. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Pathologies of Love
Medicine and the Woman Question in Early Modern France Judy Kem
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World December 2019 342pp 3 illus., 2 tables, 2 appendixes, index £52.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Pathologies of Love examines the role of medicine in the debate on women in early modern France. Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the querelle des femmes.
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Politics of Rightful Killing
Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan Sima Shakhsari January 2020 304pp 13 illus. 9781478006657 £24.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478005964 £92.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sima Shakhsari analyzes the growth of Weblogistan—the online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggers in the early 2000s—and the ways in which despite being an effective venue for Iranians to pursue their political agendas, it was the site for surveillance, cooptation, and selfgovernance.
forthcoming
Public City/Public Sex
Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris Andrew Israel Ross
Sexuality Studies August 2019 286pp 9781439914892 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781439914885 £91.00 / $110.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book chronicles the tension between the embourgeoisement and democratization of urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris and the commercialization and commodification of a public sexual culture, the emergence of new sex districts, as well as the development of gay and lesbian subcultures. Excludes Asia Pacific
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Reading Sedgwick
Edited by Lauren Berlant
Theory Q October 2019 304pp 19 illus. (incl. 18 in color) 9781478006312 £24.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478005001 £92.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on the long and influential career of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose pioneering work in queer theory has transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity.
Queering Drag
Redefining the Discourse of GenderBending Meredith Heller February 2020 224pp 9780253045669 £20.99 / $25.00 PB 9780253045652 £73.00 / $85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Heller illuminates diverse examples of theatrical gender-bending: male impersonation in variety and vaudeville; the "sexless" genderbending of El Teatro Campesino; queer butch acts performed by black nightclub singers, such as Stormé DeLarverie, instigator of the Stonewall riots; and the range of acts that compose contemporary drag king shows.
Radical Transnationalism
Reimagining Solidarities, Violence, Empires Edited by Laura Briggs, Ginetta E. B. Candelario & Robyn C. Spencer September 2019 248pp 50 illus. 9781478005223 £17.99 / $20.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This issue looks at the expansive domains of transnational feminism, considering its relationship to different regions, historical periods, fields, and methodologies. Contributors showcase populations often overlooked in transnational feminist scholarship, including Africa and its diaspora and indigenous people in the Americas and the Pacific.
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Reimagining Liberation
How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
New Black Studies Series December 2019 264pp 9780252084751 £17.99 / $22.95 PB 9780252042935 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Joseph-Gabriel reveals the anticolonialist endeavors of seven black women living in the French empire who played a key role in the decolonial movements of the midtwentieth century. Their activism and thought challenged France's imperial system by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple cultural and racial identities. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Rocking the Closet
How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music Vincent L Stephens
New Perspectives on Gender in Music October 2019 240pp 9780252084638 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9780252042805 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Stephens confronts notions of the closet by analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. He shows how the quartet pioneered the ways generations of later musicians would consciously adopt sexual mystery as an appealing and proven route to success. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Salvific Manhood
James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy Ernest L. Gibson
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality October 2019 252pp 9781496217097 £39.00 / $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
In Salvific Manhood, Ernest L. Gibson III offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connections between James Baldwin’s novels. Thematically daring and theoretically provocative, he presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach of viewing redemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality.
Set the World on Fire
Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom Keisha N. Blain
Politics and Culture in Modern America September 2019 264pp 15 illus. 9780812224597 £20.99 / $24.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Set the World on Fire highlights the black nationalist women who fought for national and transnational black liberation from the early to midtwentieth century. Keisha N. Blain explores the flexibility, adaptability, and experimentation of black women leaders who demanded equal recognition and participation in global civil society.
The Trans Generation
How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution Ann Travers
August 2019 288pp 9781479840410 £15.99 / $18.95 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Some “boys” will only wear dresses; some “girls” refuse to wear dresses; in both cases, as Ann Travers shows in this fascinating account of the lives of transgender kids, these are often more than just wardrobe choices. Travers shows that from very early ages, these kids find themselves to be different from the sex category that was assigned to them at birth. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Terrorizing Gender
Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State Mia Fischer
The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Feminist Interventions in International Law Karen Engle
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality November 2019 282pp 13 illus. 9781496206749 £39.00 / $45.00 HB
Stanford Studies in Human Rights February 2020 288pp 9781503611245 £22.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503607941 £77.00 / $90.00 HB
Fischer connects media coverage with state regulation of transgender people to show, dominant representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening are used to justify, even normalize, state-sanctioned violence against transgender communities.
Engle reveals that as transnational feminists began to pay attention to sexual violence in conflict, they often did so at the cost of attention to other issues. This book offers a detailed examination of how these commitments were not merely deprioritized, but undermined, by efforts to address the sexual violence.
Transgressed
True Sex
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz
October 2019 224pp 9781479827855 £22.99 / $28.00 PB 9781479832941 £77.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Transgender people face some of the highest rates of violence in the US and around the world, particularly within romantic relationships. In Transgressed, Xavier L. GuadalupeDiaz offers a ground-breaking examination of intimate partner violence in the lives of transgender people. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Matter of Virtue
Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare Holly A. Crocker August 2019 408pp 11 illus. 9780812251418 £77.00 / $89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late medieval and early modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.
Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets
The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Emily Skidmore
An Anthology Translated by Wilt L. Idema
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
August 2019 272pp 10 b&w illus. 9781479895687 £16.99 / $19.95 NIP
In True Sex, Emily Skidmore uncovers the stories of eighteen trans men who lived in the United States between 1876 and 1936. Despite their “unexceptional” quality, their lives are surprising and moving, challenging much of what we think we know about queer history. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
September 2019 328pp 9780295745749 £23.99 / $30.00 NIP
This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspired by their daily life and reflections, provide fascinating insights into the experiences and emotions of these women, most of whom belonged to the elite families of Manchu society.
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Unfaithful
Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America Carol Faulkner
Haney Foundation Series September 2019 240pp 20 illus. 9780812251555 £43.00 / $49.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Unfaithful, Carol Faulkner places a distinctive view of adultery at the center of efforts to reform marriage in the nineteenth-century United States, connecting communitarians, free lovers, feminists, spiritualists, bohemians, and abolitionists who all challenged the restrictive legal institution of marriage.
Uproarious
How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth Cynthia Willett & Julie Willett
December 2019 224pp 9781517908294 £20.99 / $25.00 PB 9781517908287 £86.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
What if laughter is a vital force to channel rage against patriarchy, Islamophobia, or mass incarceration? These and other such questions are at the heart of this powerful reassessment of humor. Placing theorists in conversation with comedians, Uproarious offers a fullfrontal approach to the very foundation of comedy and its profound political impact.
Vexed with Devils
Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England Erika Gasser
Early American Places December 2019 272pp 9781479871131 £20.99 / $25.00 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Vexed with Devils is a cultural history of witchcraft-possession phenomena that centers on the role of men and patriarchal power. Erika Gasser reveals that witchcraft trials had as much to do with who had power in the community, to impose judgement or to subvert order, as they did with religious belief.
What Comes after Entanglement?
Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion Eva Haifa Giraud
A Cultural Politics book October 2019 264pp 9781478006251 £23.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478005483 £88.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Eva Haifa Giraud contends that recent theory that foregrounds the ways that human existence is entangled with other nonhuman life and the natural world often undermine successful action and calls for new modes of activist organizing and theoretical critique.
Recent Highlights
Black Feminism Reimagined
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What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Edited by Shannon Gibney & Kao Kalia Yang
October 2019 256pp 5 b&w photos 9781517907938 £16.99 / $19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
What God Is Honored Here? is the first book of its kind—and urgently necessary. This is a literary collection of voices of Indigenous women and women of color who have undergone miscarriage and infant loss, experiences that disproportionately affect women who have often been cast toward the margins in the United States of America. Excludes Japan & ANZ
When Time Warps
The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence Megan Burke
October 2019 208pp 9781517905460 £20.99 / $25.00 PB 9781517905453 £86.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Feminist phenomenologists have long understood a woman’s life as inhibited, confined, and constrained by sexual violence. In this important inquiry, author Megan Burke both builds and expands on this legacy by examining the production of normative womanhood through racist tropes and colonial domination. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Anti-Electra
The Radical Totem of the Girl Elisabeth von Samsonow Translated by Anita Fricek & Stephen Zepke
Univocal June 2019 216pp 6 b&w photos 9781517907136 £18.99 / $23.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The author asserts that focusing on the escape of “the girl” from the Oedipus complex leads to a shift in our most common views on media and art. Anti-Electra offers a new view on gender, and the girl in dialogue with media, ecology, and society. Excludes Japan & ANZ
After Intersectionality Jennifer C. Nash
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies February 2019 184pp 9781478000594 £20.99 / $23.95 PB 9781478000433 £79.00 / $89.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, contending that black feminists should let go of their possession and policing of the concept in order to better unleash black feminist theory's visionary and worldmaking possibilities.
Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition
The Then and There of Queer Futurity José Esteban Muñoz Foreword by Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o & Ann Pellegrini
Sexual Cultures April 2019 280pp 23 b&w illus., 8 color illus. 9781479874569 £20.99 / $25.00 PB 9781479813780 £77.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
On the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of Cruising Utopia.
Four Unruly Women
Stories of Incarceration and Resistance from Canada’s Most Notorious Prison Ted McCoy
March 2019 156pp 8 b&w photos 9780774838887 £17.99 / $21.95 PB UBC PRESS
Filled with stories of pain, regret, and resistance, this chilling account of how four women survived their time at Kingston Penitentiary stands as an indictment of the idea that prisons and punishment are society’s answer to crime. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War Kristen Ghodsee
February 2019 328pp 42 illus. 9781478001812 £23.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478001393 £88.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Kristen Ghodsee recuperates the lost history of feminist activism from the so-called Second World, showing how women from state socialist Bulgaria and socialist-leaning Zambia created networks and alliances that challenged American women's leadership of the global women's movement.
Notes from the Field Edited by Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché & Hila Shamir
April 2019 608pp 9780816698509 £28.99 / $35.00 PB 9780816698493 £120.00 / $140.00 HB
The Stonewall Riots A Documentary History Edited by Marc Stein
May 2019 352pp 9 b&w illus. 9781479816859 £28.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479858286 £85.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: the NYPD, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and a backdrop of homophobia and transphobia, raided the neighborhood gay bar Stonewall Inn. Published on the event’s 50th anniversary, The Stonewall Riots explains how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the same. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Intersectionality
Origins, Contestations, Horizons Anna Carastathis
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality May 2019 300pp 1 illus. 9781496212481 £24.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Governance Feminism brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically assess contemporary feminist engagements with state and state-like power, arguing that governance feminism is institutionally diverse and globally distributed.
While “intersectionality” tends to circulate merely as a buzzword, Carastathis joins other critical voices in urging a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized.
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition
Trafficking with Demons
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Excludes Japan & ANZ
Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Second World, Second Sex
Governance Feminism
Samuel R. Delany Foreword by Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Sexual Cultures May 2019 240pp 18 b&w illus. 9781479827770 £20.99 / $25.00 PB 9781479887361 £77.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This is the 20th anniversary edition of the landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City. It includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R. Delany’s groundbreaking Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 Martha Rampton August 2019 414pp 9781501702686 £56.00 / $65.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Excludes ANZ