Sociology, Gender & Race Spring/Summer Catalogue 2025

Sociology, Gender & Race

Spring / Summer 2025

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Sociology

In the Storms of Transformation

Two Shipyards between Socialism and the EU

Ulf Brunnbauer, Philipp Ther, Piotr Filipkowski, Andrew Hodges, Stefano Petrungaro & Peter Wegenschimmel

In the Storms of Transformation bridges local labour history with global market forces, going beyond prevalent narratives of loss and nostalgia or successful neoliberal change to offer a novel and nuanced reading of post-communist transformation and its contradictions.

German and European Studies

24 December 2024 290pp

9781487550349 £25.99 / $39.95 PB 9781487550325 £56.00 / $85.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Rethinking Feminist History and Theory

Essays on Gender, Class, and Labour

Edited by Lisa Pasolli & Julia Smith

Considers the past, present, and future of feminist history and theory, emphasizing how feminism has influenced the histories of gender, class, and labour, and their intersections. This collection, inspired by the work of scholar Joan Sangster, features essays from academics across multiple disciplines, highlighting the dynamism of feminist historical scholarship in Canada.

28 January 2025 352pp

9781487525897

£23.99 / $36.95 PB 9781487508463

£56.00 / $85.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Thinking Through Data

How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception

Maja Bak Herrie

We encounter digital data processing on a range of platforms and in a multitude of contexts today. This fascinating book explores the historical context of the current data-driven paradigm and explains how elusive yet crucial statistical concepts such as outliers, aggregates, and patterns form how we sense and make sense of data.

Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media

04 March 2025 166pp 2 tables, 16 halftones

9781503642331 £18.99 / $24.00 PB 9781503641891 £79.00 / $95.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Insensible of Boundaries

Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Edited by Kristin Moriah

The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenthcentury Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary. With this volume, editor Kristin Moriah brings together eleven essays from a broad range of perspectives, including historical, literary, gender, ecological, bibliographical, visual, sound, and performance studies, on nineteenth-century Black feminist inquiry in North America.

Black Print and Organizing in the Long Nineteenth Century 14 January 2025 280pp 9781512826616 £37.00 / $44.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Reclaiming Modernity

Essays on a Paradoxical Nostalgia

Larry Bennett

Larry Bennett explores the complexities of nostalgia with considerations of the historic preservation of brutalist architecture, specifically Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago; the memoirs and recollections of early and mid-twentieth-century Brooklyn and Detroit; and the turntable’s rebirth as a musical instrument alongside the vinyl LP’s resurgence as a prized way of consuming music.

25 February 2025 200pp 9 b&w photos 9780252088483 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252046407 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Policing Not Protecting Families

The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance

Edited by Jennifer Randles & Kerry Woodward

In a typical year, 1 in 5 US children have some interaction with the child welfare system. This collection is the first to critically examine the child welfare system’s role in governing poor, disproportionately Black and Native families. It shows that the child welfare system is a key site of poverty governance.

Critical Perspectives on Youth 11 March 2025 384pp 4 b&w images

9781479820610 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479820603 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Digital News and HIV Criminalization

The Social Organization of Convergence Journalism

Colin Hastings

Tracing how work that produces and circulates a standard genre of news story about HIV criminalization is coordinated across time and space, Digital News and HIV Criminalization offers a groundwork for political action aimed at disrupting the production of stigmatizing news stories.

Institutional Ethnography 15 January 2025 192pp

9781487559908 £18.99 / $28.95 PB 9781487544645 £50.00 / $75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Acting with the World Agency in the Anthropocene

Andrew Pickering Pickering explores examples of acting-with from around the globe and argues that actingwith intimately and gracefully plugs us into nature, undercuts the Anthropocene from below, and offers a constructive approach to addressing otherwise intractable wicked problems.

04 March 2025 176pp 1 illus 9781478031512 £19.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478028307 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Say Her Name Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport

Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown

Say Her Name offers an in-depth look into the lived experiences of Blackgirlwomen as athletes, activists, and everyday people through a Black feminist lens. With so much research on race centered on Black men and gender research focusing on white women, Say Her Name offers a necessary conversation that places Blackgirlwomen at the center of discussion.

Critical Issues in Sport and Society

11 March 2025 160pp 10 color and 2 b&w 9781978831797 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781978831803 £99.00 / $120.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Women’s Work

Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone

Jennifer Moore

In Women’s Work, Jennifer Moore presents a reimagined theory of peacebuilding and transformative justice based on the experiences and insights of women farmers and microentrepreneurs who lived through protracted civil conflicts, drawing on seven years of interviews with women activists across ten communities.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 11 March 2025 312pp 25 halftones, 2 maps 9781512827279 £31.00 / $39.95 PB 9781512827262 £99.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Making Sanctuary Cities

Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance

Rachel Humphris

In Making Sanctuary Cities provides a new understanding of how citizenship is negotiated and contested in sanctuary cities and what political potentials are opened (and closed) by this designation. Through long-term fieldwork across the sanctuary cities of San Francisco, Sheffield, and Toronto, Humphris investigates the complexity of sanctuary city policy.

Anthropology of Policy

15 April 2025 184pp 2 tables 9781503642393 £19.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503642218 £83.00 / $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Everyday Activists

Undocumented Immigrants' Quest for Justice and Well-Being

Christina M. Getrich

Since Trump’s attempted termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, over 8, young adults have endured a rollercoaster of legal battles. Getrich reveals how these young activists’ strategies are instructive for thinking creatively about how to show up in our everyday lives for immigrants and others who are subjected to social exclusion.

22 April 2025 296pp 8 b&w images

9781479832231

£23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479832224

£74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

A Sense of Place and Belonging

The Chiang Tung Borderland of Northern Southeast Asia

Klemens Karlsson

Examines the connection between the Buddhist traditions, the ancient cult of territory spirits, and the monsoon culture of wet rice irrigation. The book presents a historical, political, religious, and cultural context connecting the present with the past, the local with the global, and tradition with change and transformation.

NIU Southeast Asian Series

15 March 2025 246pp 30 b&w halftones, 1 map 9781501779763 £26.99 / $33.95 PB 9781501779756 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

No Globalization Without Representation

U.S. Activists and World Inequality

Paul Adler

From boycotting Nestlé in the 197s to lobbying against NAFTA to the "Battle of Seattle" protests against the World Trade Organization in the 199s, No Globalization Without Representation is the story of how consumer and environmental activists became significant players in U.S. and world politics at the twentieth century's close.

Power, Politics, and the World 15 April 2025 336pp 1 b&w illus. 9781512826111 £23.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Squatter Life

Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires

Javier Auyero & Sofía Servián

Details the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina’s urban poor rely on to survive. Analyzing how these survival strategies intersect with class, gender, and political domination, the authors present a nuanced account of marginality in Argentinian squatter settlements while maintaining a deeply human portrait of survival and persistence.

28 April 2025 216pp 11 illus 9781478031505 £19.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478028291 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Iranians in Texas Migration, Politics, and Ethnic

Identity

Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher Introdiction by Nestor Rodriguez

An exploration of the link between politics of migration, prospects of integration, and ethnic identity among Iranian immigrants and their descendants in the United States, spanning from the 197s to the present day.

31 March 2025 288pp 9781477331330 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781477331323 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Producing Children

Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity

Edited by Peter C. Kunze & Victoria Ford Smith

Producing Children imagines the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of a creative relation between children as producers and consumers by revising the long-established, hierarchical relation between adults and children. The chapters in this collection reveal that studying child-produced culture complicates our received understandings of children’s culture as culture by adults, for children, about children.

Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies 15 April 2025 210pp 22 b&w images 9781978842311 £29.99 / $37.95 PB 9781978842328 £112.00 / $135.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Crime Wave

The American Homicide Epidemic

James Tuttle

The homicide rate in the United States increased by approximately 55 percent from 214 to 221. Tuttle examines the underlying causes behind this surge in violence, arguing that it is the result of the decline in American wellbeing, a growing distrust in institutions, an increase in alcohol and drug abuse, and escalating firearm sales.

29 April 2025 224pp 28 b&w images

Be Water

Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests

Ming-sho Ho

During the eventful summer of 219 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland China’s courts. Be Water seeks to understand the rise and long afterlife of this movement and illustrate its efficacy. Ho shows these dynamics of collective improvisation have implications for contemporary protest movements around the world.

02 May 2025 252pp 13 figures

9781439924853 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781439924846 £91.00

Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States

Edited by Danielle Battisti & S. Deborah Kang Introduction by Danielle Battisti & S. Deborah Kang

Often depicted as the nation’s iconic legal immigrant, unauthorized European migrants are often overlooked by scholars, policymakers, and the media. This volume tells the stories of European migrants who adopted irregular migration strategies to enter and remain in the United States throughout the twentieth century.

Studies of World Migrations

13 May 2025 304pp 5 b&w photos, 3 tables 9780252088551 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780252046469 £108.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Los Yarderos

Mexican Yard Workers in

Transborder Chicago

Sergio Lemus

Migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Michoacán have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work. Perceptive and humane, Los Yarderos reveals how a group of Mexican immigrants navigates the crossings of the borders that divide class, color hierarchies, gender, and belonging.

Latinos in Chicago and Midwest

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Gardens of Hope

Cultivating Food and the Future in a PostDisaster City

Yuki Kato Gardens of Hope is the story of urban gardening in New Orleans in the decade after Hurricane Katrina. Kato highlights the impact urban gardens have on communities after disasters and the efforts of well-intended individuals envisioning alternative futures in the form of urban farming.

06 May 2025 320pp 18 b&w images

Playing through Pain

The Violent Consequences of Capitalist Sport

Daniel Sailofsky

Examines the endemic violence in professional sports and argues that—while related to masculinity, misogyny, and factors including alcohol consumption and gambling—it is most intimately tied to capitalism and to capitalist consumption and profit. The author explains how capitalism creates the conditions for violence to thrive and uncovers how sports leaders obfuscate these relationships to avoid accountability.

06 May 2025 256pp

Living Tangier

Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City

Abdelmajid Hannoum

Living Tangier examines African migration to Europe and European migration to Africa, focusing on the dynamics of migration in terms of race and legal standing in Tangier, a Moroccan city at the intersection of Africa and Europe. Based on extensive ethnographic work, it explores how migrants experience and affect the city. Contemporary Ethnography

13 May 2025 280pp 14 b&w illus. 9781512827927 £23.99 / $29.95 NIP

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

A User's Guide to the Age of Tech

Grant Wythoff

Wythoff investigates the process by which now-ubiquitous technologies like our phones become integrated into our lives, showing how the “gadget” stage—before devices are widely adopted—opens the door for users to co-create these technologies and adapt them toward unexpected ends.

Electronic Mediations

The Civil Sphere in Canada

Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander & Mervyn Horgan

Analyzes the shifting meanings we attach to key social actors, activities, and institutions to reveal the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion that animate Canadian society. Applying Jeffrey Alexander’s groundbreaking civil sphere theory, contributors demonstrate that transformations in shared meaning must precede legislative and institutional change.

15 May 2025 344pp 8 diagrams, 5 tables 9780774871143 £91.00 / $110.00 HB

UBC PRESS

Something Between Us

The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down

Anand Pandian

An anthropologist's quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the infrastructures that must change to overcome them. Through vivid encounters with Americans of many kinds— including salesmen, truck drivers, police officers, urban planners, and activists for women's rights and environmental justice— Pandian shares tools to think beyond the twists and turns of our bracing present

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Stuck at Home

Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration

Yasmin Y. Ortiga

The Philippines is among the most successful migrantsending nations in the world, both lauded and critiqued for exporting its own citizens to a global labor market.

Yasmin Y. Ortiga brings readers beyond this popular image to explore questions often overlooked: What happens when workers who were encouraged to emigrate are suddenly unable to leave?

27 May 2025 216pp 4 tables

9781503642812

£20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503641846 £87.00 / $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Subjects of the Sun

Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism

Myles Lennon

In the face of accelerating climate change, anticapitalist environmental justice activists and elite tech corporations increasingly see eye-toeye. Both envision solar-powered futures where renewable energy redresses gentrification, systemic racism, and underemployment. However, as Lennon argues, solar power is no less likely to exploit marginalized communities than dirtier forms of energy.

Elements

10 June 2025 328pp 38 illus 9781478031789 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478028567 £90.00 / $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Un/German

Racialized Otherness in Post–Cold War Europe

Fatima El-Tayeb

Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer

First published in German in 216, the book critically examines how Germany's reaction to the arrival of nearly one million refugees—initially framed as a "culture of welcome" but rapidly turning to hostility—was not an anomaly, but part of a broader European pattern.

signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation

15 June 2025 270pp

9781501781575

£24.99 / $31.95 PB 9781501780363 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Decentralizing Knowledges

Essays on Distributed Agency

Edited by Leandro Rodriguez Medina & Sandra Harding

Drawing from science and technology studies, the contributors in this book explore the multiple practices of knowledge production and circulation that favor and nurture nonhegemonic standpoints in academic fields, disciplines, and institutions—what they call epistemic decentralizing. Throughout, they provide an overview of the complex processes required to challenge mainstream epistemology.

03 June 2025 320pp 7 illus 9781478031796 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478028550

/ $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Social Resilience and International Migration in the Canadian City

Edited

by Valerie Preston, John Shields & Tara Bedard

Draws attention to disparities in outcomes for migrants and proposes strategies to enhance their participation in cities of all sizes. Focused on Ontario and Quebec, chapters pinpoint factors that affect the settlement and integration of immigrants, as well as growing numbers of international students, foreign workers, and refugee claimants.

McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance

10 June 2025 288pp 2 tables, 1 diagram 9780228024682 £31.00 / $39.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS

American Infanticide

Sexism, Science, and the Politics of Sympathy

Clara S. Lewis

In a genre-bending mix of scholarship and true crime, this book uncovers disturbing missing chapters in our national history that undercut the myths that have shaped public reactions to so-called monster moms and dumpster babies since the colonial era. Ultimately, the book uncovers how bias and inconsistency dictate how women accused of infant homicide are perceived.

Critical Issues in Crime and Society

17 June 2025 168pp 3 tables 9781978833821 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781978833838 £58.00 / $69.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Performing Vulnerability

Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora

Emily L. Hue

A groundbreaking exploration of how diasporic Burmese artists navigate the intricate intersections of art, politics, and humanitarianism, Performing Vulnerability delves into the complexities of vulnerability as both a personal and a performative act.

10 June 2025 288pp 8 b&w illus.

9780295753614 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295753607 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Translating the Ketubah

The Jewish Marriage Contract in America and England Benjamin Steiner Offers a fresh perspective on the Ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract. Traditionally composed in Aramaic, ketubot have been examined in other books within the frameworks of Jewish law and Jewish art. Here, however, Benjamin Steiner shows how translations of the Ketubah into English helped Jews adapt to changing social and economic circumstances across more than two centuries.

15 June 2025 224pp 22 images 9780817362058 £28.99 / $34.95 PB 9780817322335 £100.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS

Birth Behind Bars

The Carceral Control of Pregnant Women in Prison

Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey

Four percent of incarcerated women— more than three thousand—are pregnant in US prisons each year, yet little information is known about their pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and motherhood experiences. Carey draws on indepth interviews with women who were once pregnant in prisons in the heart of the Midwest to provide a rare, intimate portrait.

17 June 2025 272pp

9781479815814 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479815791 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Happy Meat

The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea

Shyon Baumann, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Josee Johnston & Merin Oleschuk

The discourse of happy meat ultimately may not be a sufficient response to the critiques of meateating, rife as it is with internal contradictions. However, the authors make the case for its cultural and theoretical importance, as it exemplifies the significance of social context and emotions for understanding attitudes and behaviors.

Culture and Economic Life

17 June 2025 312pp 5 tables, 8 halftones 9781503642836 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781503638334 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

A Mouse in a Cage Rethinking

Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals

Carrie Friese Friese proposes a new approach to the treatment of laboratory animals that recognizes the interconnectedness of all species and how human actions impact the welfare of other species and the planet as a whole. A Mouse in a Cage is an essential contribution to the ongoing conversation about the ethical treatment of animals.

24 June 2025 224pp

9781479833481

£23.99 / $30.00 PB

9781479833474 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Contested Taiwan

Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation

Lev Nachman Series edited by James Lin, William Lavely & Madeleine Yue Dong

Contested Taiwan offers a new approach to understanding contested statehood, movement party formation, and what motivates individuals to take political action across the world. Taiwan and the World

01 July 2025 216pp 7 charts

9780295753928 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9780295753911 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Knowledge, Power, and Migration

Contesting the North/South Divide

Edited by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Mireille Paquet & Ethel Tungohan

Research on immigration can occasion reflections and practices that challenge epistemic injustices. Knowledge, Power, and Migration contributes to this ongoing project while offering insights on the practical organization of new forms of dialogue on migration in a largely unequal world.

McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

17 June 2025 416pp 13 tables, 9 diagrams 9780228024651 £34.00 / $42.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Against Abandonment

Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest

Ju Hui Judy Han & Jennifer Jihye Chun Based on long-term ethnographic research with labor and social movement activists, Against Abandonment is at once a chronicle of the life-and-death character of protesting precarity in South Korea and a searing examination of repertoires of solidarity for upending injustice.

24 June 2025 288pp 1 table, 20 halftones

9781503642256 £24.99 / $30.00 PB

9781503641723 £108.00 / $120.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Feathered Entanglements

Human-Bird Relations in the Anthropocene

Edited by Scott E. Simon & Frédéric Laugrand Offers a rich tapestry of human-bird relations across the Indo-Pacific. In a time of intensifying ecological crisis, we need, more than ever, to protect and appreciate non-human lives. Feathered Entanglements embraces the connection between humans, birds, and our shared world.

01 July 2025 348pp 34 b&w photos, 4 maps 9780774870016 £29.99 / $37.95 PB UBC PRESS

The

Latino Threat

How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Third Edition

Leo R. Chavez

News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both USborn and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the American way of life. Chavez challenges the basic tenets of this assumption and other myths of the "Latino threat," providing a critical investigation into the fears and prejudices that are used to malign an entire population.

17 June 2025 384pp 14 figures, 41 halftones

9781503642539 £23.99 / $30.00 PB

9781503638532 £99.00 / $120.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Not-Quite Child Colonial Histories, Racialization, and Swedish Exceptionalism

Liina-Ly Roos Series edited by Andrew Nestingen Through analyses of films and literature that portray Indigenous Sámi, Tornedalian, and Finnish-speaking children, The Not-Quite Child reveals how these figures disrupt the normative understanding of growing up in Sweden. These cultural texts are filled with tensions of assimilation, invisibility, and the struggle to grow in a society that demands conformity to a specific “Swedishness.”

New Directions in Scandinavian Studies 01 July 2025 184pp 4 b&w illus. 9780295753829 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780295753812 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

The Four Talent Giants National Strategies for Human Resource Development Across Japan, Australia, China, and India

Gi-Wook Shin

This book offers invaluable insights for policymakers and is essential for scholars, students, and readers interested in understanding the dynamics of talent and economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

01 July 2025 376pp 23 tables, 22 figures 9781503643024 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781503642669 £116.00 / $140.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Slow Death of the Death Penalty Toward a Postmortem

Edited by Todd C. Peppers,

Jamie Almallen & Mary Welek Atwell

Twenty-two states have abandoned statesanctioned executions. Of the 28 states that still have the death penalty, 8 have not had an execution in over a decade. As the death penalty slowly withers away, these authors bring together a number of distinguished death-penalty scholars, activists, and attorneys to take an accounting of the damage inflicted by the machinery of death.

01 July 2025 384pp 14 b&w images

9781479819645 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479819638 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Hard Work of Hope

A Memoir

Michael Ansara

In this fascinating memoir, Ansara takes you into the heady days of the 196s and 197s activism and traces an arc of discovery: from the hope and moral clarity of the civil rights movement to the ten-year struggle to end the war in Vietnam, with its sitins, marches, confrontations, and antiwar riots.

15 July 2025 300pp 53 b&w halftones

9781501782145 £18.99 / $23.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

AI and Assembly Coming Together and Apart in a Datafied World

Edited by Toussaint Nothias & Lucy Bernholz

The contributors analyze how AI threatens free assembly by clustering people without consent, amplifying social biases, and empowering authoritarian surveillance. Ultimately, AI and Assembly is a rallying cry for those committed to a digital future beyond the narrow horizon of corporate extraction and state surveillance.

08 July 2025 184pp 10 tables, 2 maps 9781503638556 £27.99 / $35.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Unequal Access

Categorising Refugees in European Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Programmes

Natalie Welfens

Unequal Access reveals the inequalities embedded in the categorization practices of resettlement and humanitarian admission programs, demonstrating how these practices profoundly shape access to protection for refugees. Focusing on Europe and programs admitting people to Germany from Lebanon and Turkey, Natalie Welfens explores multilevel policy developments, from the national to the global.

McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

15 July 2025 288pp 16 diagrams, 6 photos 9780228024606 £31.00 / $39.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Humanitarianism from Below

Faith, Welfare, and the Role of Casas de Migrantes in Mexico

Alejandro OlayoMéndez

Aside from being one of the most important migration corridors in the world, Mexico is becoming an immigrant destination itself, with more and more migrants deciding or needing to stay in the country after failing to enter the United States. Humanitarianism from Below examines the significance of these casas de migrantes (migrant shelters) in the migration process in Mexico.

05 August 2025 288pp 14 b&w images

9781479825622

£23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479825615 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Darién Gap

Belén Fernández

In this book, journalist Belén Fernández visits the Darién Gap to report on the dehumanizing and deadly stretch of land that has become a mass graveyard for migrants. Fernández’s travels bring her into contact with refuge seekers, people smugglers, law enforcement officials, and many more whose stories bring life to a place overwhelmingly associated with death.

12 August 2025 226pp 9781978842083 £24.99 / $29.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Opposition by Imitation

The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism

Christina Jerne Christina Jerne explores anti-mafia activism, revealing how ordinary people resist, counter, and prevent criminal economies from proliferating. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among anti-mafia alliances in Campania, Sicily, and elsewhere, Jerne details a particular aspect of mafia activities: providing cash relief and other forms of patronage to individuals and groups.

Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds

08 July 2025 248pp 17 b&w illus 9781517916060 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517916053 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Unsilencing

The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag Lilia Topouzova

The first comprehensive study of Bulgaria's forcedlabor camps, a network of repression that operated throughout the communist era from 1945 to 1989. Topouzova uncovers the hidden histories of these camps, often referred to as Bulgaria's "Little Siberia," where thousands were interned without trial, subjected to inhumane conditions, and silenced for decades.

15 July 2025 318pp 35 b&w halftones 9781501782022 £54.00 / $64.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Beyond

Informality How Chinese Migrants Transformed a Border Economy

Douglas de Toledo Piza Chinese migrants are playing increasingly large, stratified roles in the informal economies of South America. One of the clearest examples of this phenomenon is in the region's largest informal economy of counterfeit and smuggled goods, spanning from Ciudad del Este, the Paraguayan border city, to São Paulo, Brazil's largest metropolis.

Globalization in Everyday Life

19 August 2025 208pp 8 halftones, 1 map 9781503643314 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503641914 £91.00 / $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Everyday Futures Language as Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora

Stephanie Canizales & Brendan O'Connor

Despite increasing attention on unaccompanied Central American youth migration to the United States, little empirical research has examined the crucial role of language in the incorporation process, particularly for Indigenous youth. This book sheds important light on the dynamic process of "futuremaking" for Indigenous youth and yields rich insights into the role of language in creating hope in the diaspora.

19 August 2025 184pp 5 figures, 5 halftones 9781503643352 £20.99 / $26.00 PB 9781503636545 £87.00 / $105.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers

Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy

Edited by Rachael Johnstone & Bessma Momani

Systemic discrimination, the underrepresentation of women in more senior and lucrative roles, and the belief that gender-related concerns will simply self-correct with greater representation add up to a serious gender problem. Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers fills this research gap with a cross-disciplinary, data-driven investigation of gender inequality in Canadian universities.

01 February 2025 332pp 20 charts, 17 tables 9780774869256 £35.00 / $43.95 PB UBC PRESS

Suspended Education

School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice

Aaron Kupchik

Kupchik takes readers to the root of the issue. Suspensions were not intended as a behavior management tool. Instead, they were designed to remove unwanted students from the classroom. Through statistical analysis and in-depth case studies of schools in Massachusetts and Delaware, Kupchik reveals how suspension rates skyrocketed after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, serving as an unofficial means of removing Black children from newly desegregated schools.

18 March 2025 304pp 26 b&w images

9781479821143 £25.99 / $32.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

On the Move

Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Andrew Dan Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Diego Chaves-Gonzalez & Ariel G. Ruiz Soto

This book takes readers beyond the typical debates on US immigration policy and represents the first comprehensive look at how countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are reacting to an unprecedented wave of people around the world who choose—or are forced—to move across borders.

26 August 2025 168pp 9 figures, 1 map 9781503643291 £20.99 / $26.00 PB 9781503635142 £87.00 / $105.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Our Contentious Universities

A Personal History

Neil L. Rudenstine

Combining an analysis of how universities transformed with an examination of how protests changed, the book argues that, opposed to the external causes of student protest in the Sixties, it is actually the internal sources of division and conflict that now characterize our universities that are at the root of their contentious campus environments.

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

04 March 2025 312pp 9781606180075 £28.99 / $34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

The Opposite of Cheating Volume 4

Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI

Tricia Bertram Gallant & David A. Rettinger

Presents a positive, forward-looking, research-backed vision for what classroom integrity can look like in the GenAI era, both in cyberspace and on campus. The author also outlines workable measures that teachers can use in order to better understand why students cheat and to prevent cheating while aiming to enhance learning and integrity.

31 March 2025 278pp 3 tables

9780806194967 £20.99 / $24.95 PB 9780806194950 £79.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

Education

How We Make Each Other Trans Life at the Edge of the University

Perry Zurn

Using the Five Colleges in Massachusetts as a case study, Zurn draws on archival work and oral histories to outline how trans students, faculty, and staff make and live their lives at the edges of higher education.

07 January 2025 328pp 8 illus 9781478031307 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478028062 £90.00 / $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Childhood and Nature

Design Principles for Educators

David Sobel

A timely and actionable resource for educators looking to foster in their students a love of nature as well as an understanding of complex environmental issues. This second edition brings new material and fresh insights to David Sobel's foundational exploration of place-based education.

15 March 2025 240pp 9781501778544 £22.99 / $28.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Contested Curriculum

LGBTQ History Goes to School

Don Romesburg

Historian Don Romesburg, the lead scholar who worked with advocacy organizations to pass the act, recounts the decades-long struggle to integrate LGBTQ content into history education policy, textbooks, and classrooms. Looking at California and states that followed its lead, he assesses the challenges and opportunities presented by this new way of teaching history.

Q+ Public

15 April 2025 250pp 11 color and 2 b&w images 9781978824096 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781978824102 £58.00 / $69.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

European Higher Education, Social Responsibility, and the Local Democratic Mission

Sjur Bergan

Education is about more than preparing students for the labor market; it is about preparing them to be active citizens in democratic societies, to engage in personal growth, and to develop a broad knowledge base. Bergan explores the local democratic mission of higher education as it has developed in Europe, how it could continue to develop, and why it is important it does so.

Higher Education, Place, and Social Responsibility

28 April 2025 293pp

9781439924617 £25.99 / $32.95 PB 9781439924600 £91.00

Health Promoting Universities

Advancing Well-Being through a Systems Approach

Edited by Vicki Squires, Chad London & Matt Dolf

Health Promoting Universities explores how post-secondary education can address interconnected well-being challenges through collaborative leadership at organizational, provincial/state, national, and international levels. The authors advocate for prioritizing authentic, collaborative, and altruistic leadership to secure the systemic change necessary to sustain and promote the health of the planet and its citizens.

02 May 2025 288pp

9781487547882

£21.99 / $32.95 PB 9781487546762 £56.00 / $85.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Pedagogies of Interconnectedness

Feminist-Queer

Collaborative Transformation

Edited by Isis Nusair & Barbara L. Shaw

Foreword by AnaLouise Keating

A generation of scholar-teacheractivists have moved beyond collaborating in theory to embodying, engaging in, and sharing how they practice their pedagogy. Isis Nusair and Barbara L. Shaw edit essays that link feminist, queer, antiracist, decolonial, and disability theory and practice while using intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to explore how the personal remains political.

Transformations: Womanist studies

13 May 2025 264pp 2 color photos, 1 map 9780252088568 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252046476 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

The Politics of Higher Education in Minority Nations

Insights from Quebec Hannah Moscovitz

Critically examines the connection between higher education policy and nationalism in Quebec, tracing its trajectory from the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s to 2022. Using the Quiet Revolution as a starting point, the book highlights specific policy arenas and events where nationalism and higher education have intersected over time.

31 July 2025 176pp

9781487558543 £33.00 / $50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Indigenous Knowledges and Higher Education in Canada

Merli Tamtik

Explores the intricate relationship between Indigenous knowledges and the evolving landscape of higher education in Canada. Advocates for a path of decolonization through intentional learning and unlearning, envisioning a future where Indigenous voices and perspectives are authentically centred in the fabric of academic discourse and practice.

09 May 2025 272pp

9781487542900 £21.99 / $32.95 PB 9781487542894 £56.00 / $85.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Liberal Education and Democracy

Bob Pepperman Taylor

Liberal education is currently under attack as both politically subversive and economically impractical. Bob Pepperman Taylor addresses three vital arguments for liberal education and its integral relationship to democracy and offers a compelling case for maintaining a strong commitment to this form of education as an essential good for all citizens.

15 May 2025 216pp

9780268209551 £33.00 / $40.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Indigenous Educational Leadership Through Community-Based Knowledge and Research

Edited by Robin Zapetah-hol-ah Minthorn, Shawn L. Secatero, Catherine N. Montoya & Jodi L. Burshia

Illuminates the beauty and essence of Native American Leadership in Education which uniquely conceptualizes Indigenous leadership identity, philosophy, leadership, and research in ways that have empowered people to conceptualize and live out their ancestors' prayers and legacy. Also provides samples of how this was achieved through the sharing of some of the cohorts' heartwork.

30 April 2025 248pp 9780826367556 £28.99 / $34.95 PB 9780826367549 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS

Always an Academic Immigrant A Collective Memoir

Dafna Lemish

A collective memoir that gives voice to 81 academics who immigrated from thirtyseven countries for a career in an institution of HE, in either the US or one of ten other countries. Through indepth interviews and observations from her own experiences as an immigrant scholar, Lemish shares the highs and the lows that academic immigrants feel as they search for both a country and an institution they can call home.

13 May 2025 200pp

9781978843615 £23.99 / $27.95 PB 9781978843622 £62.00 / $69.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Unthinkable Laughter

(Re)Imagining AntiRacist Education

Laura Mae Lindo

At a time when critical race theory is under attack, the need for new approaches to anti-racist education is urgent. Unthinkable Laughter addresses this need, highlighting the power of humour and race comedy as valuable alternative strategies. Drawing on her experiences in politics, Laura Mae Lindo offers a fresh perspective on rethinking anti-racism work in educational settings.

19 May 2025 256pp

9781487551094 £17.99 / $27.95 PB

9781487551070 £40.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist Storytelling and

Narrative Literacy for

Young People

Annette Wannamaker

While the recent rise of fascist ideology in the United States might seem a subject too large and adult to be dealt with in literature for children or teens, Annette Wannamaker proposes in How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist that there are books aimed at future generations which critique and counter fascist propaganda and mythmaking.

03 June 2025 224pp 4 b&w illus 9781531509804 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781531509798 £74.00 / $90.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Test, Measure, Punish

How the Threat of Closure Harms Students, Destroys Teachers, and Fails Schools

Erin Michaels

In the last two decades, education officials have closed a rising number of public schools in the US related to low performance, mainly in neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty. Michaels offers a new theory of schooling inequality and shows in detail why state-led school reforms represent a new level of racialized citizenship.

Critical Perspectives on Youth

24 June 2025 200pp 1 b&w image

9781479823390

£21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781479823383 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Experiential Learning in Town

Critically Examining the University's Teaching and Learning Mission in and with its Local Community

Edited by Michael Buzzelli

Institutional autonomy, private interests, and relevance are central themes in the evolving discourse on the nature and role of higher education. This book explores the changing role of the university, with a particular focus on how the rise of experiential learning (EL) is reshaping teaching and learning.

15 August 2025 240pp

9781487565879

£19.99 / $30.95 PB

9781487565862

£50.00 / $75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Displays of Belonging

Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941

Sarah Ellen Zarrow Offers a nuanced understanding of the multiplicity of ways in which Jews in Poland saw their present and dreamed of their future. It places Jewish ethnographic practice and art collection within a Polish context, and sheds light on ways in which ideas about belonging and national identity were negotiated in the space of museums.

15 June 2025 294pp 24 b&w halftones, 1 map 9781501781544 £45.00 / $54.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Teaching Politically

Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy

Edited by May Hawas & Bruce Robbins Addresses some of the political constraints that shape our pedagogical spaces, especially in the teaching of literature. The book brings together a global group of academics, activists, public intellectuals, poets, and novelists to examine the way politics manifest pedagogically, and how a commitment to educating manifests politically, in and beyond the classroom.

01 July 2025 224pp 5 b&w illus

9781531510206 £24.99 / $32.00 PB

9781531510190 £91.00 / $110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Work

Shifting Gears

Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

Stephanie Ross & Larry Savage

Following the Second World War, autoworkers were at the forefront of the labour movement. But by the turn of this century, the Canadian Auto Workers union had begun to pursue a more defensive political direction. Shifting Gears traces the evolution of CAW strategy from transformational activism to transactional politics.

01 April 2025 356pp

9780774870863 £33.00 / $41.95 PB UBC PRESS

Opportunities for Learning

A Sociological Perspective

Maureen T. Hallinan, Mark Berends, Barbara Schneider & Elizabeth Covay Minor Brings together the works of Maureen T. Hallinan, one of the most highly regarded past Presidents of the American Sociological Association, focusing on uncovering and addressing educational inequities in elementary and secondary schools. Her writings contribute important insights and provide foundations for the next generation of social scientists.

Catholic Schools and the Common Good 15 June 2025 600pp 54 tables, 10 graphs 9780268209391 £70.00 / $85.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Critical Futures

Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation

Edited by Stuart Poyntz, Kari Grain & Am Johal Explores the evolving landscape of community-engaged research (CER) in a time of unprecedented social, political, and environmental crises. This collection brings together leading scholars, community researchers, and activists to examine the intersection of CER with social justice, decolonization, and transformation.

15 July 2025 360pp

9781487550202 £29.99 / $44.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

We

Always Had a

Union

The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953

Shaun Richman

One of New York City’s most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFLCIO, represents almost 4, workers. Shaun Richman’s history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond.

Working Class in American History

08 April 2025 336pp 18 b&w photos 9780252088537 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252046445 £108.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Souls in the Kalyug

The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India

Shankar Ramaswami Souls in the Kalyug ultimately presents a nuanced and intimate portrait of migrant workers through a complex study of entanglement and noncooperation in workers’ worlds, and in its analysis of workers’ politics, within and outside of labor unions, interpersonal relationships, and foundational religious and cosmological worldviews.

15 April 2025 320pp

9781512826647

/ $64.95

The Future of Futurity

Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City

Purnima Mankekar & Akhil Gupta

Examines the lives and experiences of call center agents in India’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with managers, owners, and workers of BPO companies, the authors explore how workers find pathways for navigating a globalized world and for imagining their futures in it.

The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

28 April 2025 336pp 20 illus 9781478031536 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478028321 £91.00 / $109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

American Idle

Late-Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era

Annette Nierobisz, Dana Sawchuk, Dana Sawchuck & Annette Marie Nierobisz

In American Idle, sociologists Annette Nierobisz and Dana Sawchuk report their findings from interviews with 62 mostly whitecollar workers who experienced late-career job loss in the wake of the Great Recession. Without the benefits of planned retirement or time horizons favorable to recouping their losses, these employees experience an array of outcomes, from hard falls to soft landings. Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor

13 May 2025 208pp 2 table images

9781978835863 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781978835870 £99.00 / $120.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Fighting Toxic Ignorance

Origins of the Right to Know about Workplace

Health Hazards

Alan Derickson Explores conflict over access to information regarding health hazards encountered in the US workplace during the first threequarters of the twentieth century. It covers a broad range of dangerous substances, deals with a large share of the national workforce, and illuminates the many ways that activists endeavored to see that warnings reached workers, especially immigrants and workers of color.

15 April 2025 222pp

9781501780196 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781501780189 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Pandemic and the Working Class

How US Labor Navigated COVID-19

Edited by Nick Juravich & Steve Striffler

A collection that examines the effects of the pandemic on workers. Sections of the book focus on specific impacts and government efforts to restructure the economy; the dramatic effect of the pandemic on the hospitality industry; educators’ response on behalf of themselves and their students; frontline healthcare workers; and the innovative forms of labor organizing that emerged during and after COVID.

Working Class in American History

28 April 2025 328pp 6 charts, 4 tables 9780252088643 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780252046520 £108.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Contesting Inequalities

Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China

Siyuan Yin

Based on long-term, multi-sited, and digital ethnography, and drawing on feminist methodologies, Yin examines different forms of mediated labor activism—including theater performance, advocacy music, and digital community media—to survey the politics and impact of worker mobilization and actions.

13 May 2025 256pp 13 halftones

9781503642560 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503642065

Organizing Professionals

Academic Employees

Negotiating a New Academy

Gary Rhoades Rhoades analyzes how academic employees are shifting the imbalance of power between labor and management, reducing the internal professional stratification between segments of the academic workforce, and intersecting workplace issues with broader issues of equality, public value, and social justice, and in the process organizing and negotiating for a new, more progressive academy.

15 April 2025 290pp 0 images

9781978844230 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781978844247 £112.00 / $135.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Standing Up to Big Nickel

The Story of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Strike, 1958

Elizabeth Quinlan Standing Up to Big Nickel is a comprehensive portrait of a pivotal strike by the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, a union that has inspired exceptional levels of solidarity among its members. The Cold War and the resulting instabilities in the Canadian labour movement form the backdrop to Quinlan’s engrossing analysis.

06 May 2025 248pp 10 photos

9780228024804 £27.99 / $34.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Canaries in the Code Mine

Precarity and the Future of Tech Work

Max Papadantonakis Canaries in the Code Mine highlights a disturbing reality of privilege and vulnerability within the tech industry. Papadantonakis engages in a critical discourse on the evolving nature of work in the digital era, emphasizing the need to shape an equitable future in the rapidly evolving landscape.

16 May 2025 148pp 9781439925782 £16.99 / $21.95 PB 9781439925775 £66.00 / $79.50 HB

The Popular Wobbly Selected Writings of TBone Slim

T-Bone Slim

Edited

by

Owen Clayton & Iain McIntyre

Foreword by David R.

Roediger

The first critical edition of the writings of TBone Slim, the prolific radical workers’ newspaper columnist and musician who rode the rails during the Great Depression, and also a significant contribution to literature about working-class writers, the radical labor movement, and the history and culture of nomadism and precarity.

24 June 2025 360pp 20 b&w illus

9781517914967 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781517914950 £99.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Bringing Law Home

Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights

Katherine Eva Maich

In Bringing Law Home, Katherine Eva Maich offers a uniquely comparative and historical study of labor struggles for domestic workers in New York City and Lima, Peru. She argues that if the home is to be a place of work then it must also be captured in the legal infrastructures that regulate work.

Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and Capitalism

05 August 2025 224pp 7 halftones, 1 map 9781503643239 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503642201 £91.00 / $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Unfound Peace

Disabled Veterans in Interwar Soviet Union

Alexandre Sumpf

The first book dealing with disabled former servicemen of tsarist Russia, Sumpf considers the ways disabled Great War veterans tried to live under the Bolsheviks and compares their experiences with those of the Red Army veterans who received special considerations from the new regime.

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

15 March 2025 330pp 19 b&w halftones 9781501777707 £51.00 / $61.95 HB

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Connective Tissue

Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India

Lily N. Shapiro

Connective Tissue revisits scholarship on factory labor by analyzing the accident as constitutive of the experience of work itself, and it refines existing conversations about the body, trauma, and care by introducing an analysis informed by theories of labor and production.

Medical Anthropology

15 July 2025 230pp 17 b&w images

9781978841529 £27.99 / $34.95 PB

9781978841536 £99.00 / $120.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Red Harbor

Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest

Aaron Goings

In the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime workers fought for higher wages and decent conditions, employers unified to protect their interests, often through violent and corrupt means. They spied on unionists, expelled them from their own towns, vilified them in the press, and physically assaulted labor activists.

Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography

26 August 2025 360pp 19 b&w illus 9780295754000 £24.99 / $29.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Autism in Film and Television On the Island

Edited by Murray Pomerance & R. Barton Palmer

An essay collection reckons with popcultural depictions of autism. Film and television have thus staked out a progressive position on neurodiversity by insisting on screen time for autism but have done so while frequently ignoring the true diversity of autistic experience.The result is a welcome celebration of nonjudgmental approaches to disability, albeit one that is freighted with stereotypes and elisions.

18 March 2025 336pp 19 b&w photos 9781477324929 £27.99 / $34.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Good Kids

Why Children Demand the Right to Work with Dignity

Isabel Jijon

In Good Kids, Isabel Jijon reveals how global campaigns against child labor are often met with resistance from the very children they are meant to protect.

Conducting interviews in Bolivia and Ecuador with children who defend their labor, Jijon explores what they mean by "value," "rights," and "dignity" in this context.

Culture and Economic Life

29 July 2025 200pp 2 tables, 5 figures

9781503643062 £21.99 / $28.00 PB

9781503641860 £91.00 / $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Disability Studies

The Illegible Man Disability and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America

Will Kanyusik

The Illegible Man examines depictions of disability in American film and literature in twentieth-century postwar contexts, beginning with the first World War and continuing through America's war in Vietnam. Supported by original archival research, The Illegible Man presents a new understanding of disability, masculinity, and war in American culture. 07 January 2025 236pp 9 b&w illus. 9780253071798 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9780253071781 £74.00 / $90.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Care at the End of the World Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

Jina B. Kim

Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-ofcolor critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queerof-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets.

25 April 2025

Echoes of Care Deafness in Modern Britain

Jaipreet Virdi

In nineteenth-century Britain the shift from viewing deafness as auditory difference to framing it as a condition in need of medical intervention came at the insistence of an emerging group of professionals: aurists. Echoes of Care describes how British ear specialists sought to reshape deafness as a curable affliction that they were uniquely able to treat.

McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society

28 April 2025 330pp 24 photos, 1 table 9780228023654 £31.00 / $39.95 PB

MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Unravelling MaiD in Canada

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care

Edited by Ramona Coelho, K. Sonu Gaind & Trudo Lemmens

Since legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide as medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in 216, Canada has become the country with the highest number of MAiD deaths. From a crossdisciplinary perspective, Unravelling MAiD in Canada challenges readers with the ethical, medical, legal, societal, and disability justice rights concerns that have arisen in regard to this hotly debated irreversible practice.

22 April 2025 520pp 9780228023692 £31.00 / $39.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Living and Dying in São Paulo

Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil

Jeffrey Lesser

Focusing on the Bom Retiro neighborhood, Lesser analyzes the fraught relationship between residents and the state and healthcare agencies that have overseen community sanitation efforts since the midnineteenth century, drawing out the connected systems of the built environment, public health laws and practices, and citizenship.

28 April 2025 328pp 49 illus

9781478030980 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478026723 £96.00 / $114.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Family and Disability Activism Beyond Allies and Obstacles

Edited by Pamela Block, Allison C. Carey & Richard K. Scotch

In 22, Block, Carey, and Scotch published Allies and Obstacles, which examined the tensions and connections between disability activism and parents of children with disabilities. In Family and Disability Activism, they continue to examine these issues with a focus on the path-breaking advocacy by marginalized activists with intersectional lived experiences.

06 June 2025 212pp

9781439923894 £15.99 / $19.95 PB 9781439923887 £82.00 / $99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

The New Reproductive Order

Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe

Edited by Sarah Franklin & Marcia C. Inhorn

Documents the complex material, historical, and political forces that both enable and limit human reproductivity. Combining anthropological, sociological, and intersectional feminist research from across the globe, this landmark volume reveals how changing perceptions of fertility and infertility are altering how people imagine, pursue, and experience reproductivity both individually and collectively.

22 April 2025 400pp 42 b&w images 9781479832644 £35.00 / $45.00 PB 9781479832620 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pandemic Voices

Unheard Stories from the Front Lines

Edited by Laura A. Hawryluck & Nathan D. Nielsen

Pandemic Voices sheds light on previously unheard or overlooked international perspectives of patients and health care and community services workers through unprecedented access to some of the most challenging moments of the COVID-19 pandemic: the innovations, the stories of lives saved, those of lives lost, and the prices paid.

28 April 2025 308pp

9781487553456 £22.99 / $34.95 PB 9781487549343 £63.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Health

When the City Stopped

Stories from New York's Essential Workers

Robert W. Snyder

The story of COVID-19 told through the words of health care workers, grocery clerks, transit workers, and community activists who recount their experiences in poems, first-person narratives, and interviews. When the City Stopped preserves for future generations what it was like to be in New York when it was at the center of the pandemic.

15 March 2025 352pp 24 b&w halftones, 1 map 9781501780387 £15.99 / $19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

A Return to Healing Flexner, Osler, and How American Medicine Went Astray

Andy Lazris & Alan Roth

Drawing from their extensive experience in primary care and backed by decades of academic research, primary care physicians Lazris, MD, and Roth, DO, unravel the complexities of the modern health care system. Through a wealth of patient stories and meticulous research, they dig into the roots of American health care challenges and seek its cure.

28 April 2025 376pp 9781487562861 £22.99 / $34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Between Families and Institutions

Mental Health and Biopolitical

Paternalism in Contemporary China

Zhiying Ma

In contemporary China, people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses have long been placed under the guardianship of their close relatives who decide on their hospitalization and treatment. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Ma examines how ideological, institutional, and technological processes shape families’ complicated involvement in psychiatric care.

02 May 2025 216pp 6 illus

9781478031741 £19.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478028512 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Decolonizing Medicine

Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia

Gabriela Elisa Moralesj

Decolonizing Medicine examines Bolivian state-led efforts to decolonize health services during the administration of Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president. Governing from 26 to 219, the Morales administration undertook sweeping reforms, vowing to reverse intertwined colonial and capitalist systems of oppression and restore Indigenous good living.

06 May 2025 280pp 9 halftones, 1 map 9781503642720 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503640856 £99.00 / $120.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Proposals for a Caring Economy

Edited by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Moving between examples focused on immigration and agriculture, patients and art audiences, green energy transitions and unhoused people, prison abolitionists and clients of domestic violence services, the contributors here argue that we need new ways to conceptualize care and its applications.

Forerunners: Ideas First

10 June 2025 106pp

9781517918477 £9.00 / $10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Seminal

On Sperm, Health, and Politics

Edited by Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein & Brian T. Nguyen

In Seminal, experts from across the social sciences, humanities, law, and medicine offer a kaleidoscopic view of the relationship between sperm, health, and the intersecting politics of gender, race, and reproduction. Always insightful and often provocative, the essays in this unprecedented collection cover a broad range of issues related to male reproductive and sexual health.

Health, Society, and Inequality

24 June 2025 352pp 6 b&w images

9781479834082 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781479834068 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Kidney and the Cane

Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua

Alex M. Nading

Unknown before the late 199s, an epidemic of chronic kidney disease of nontraditional causes (CKDnt) has sickened and killed thousands of sugarcane plantation workers in Nicaragua. Nading situates this epidemic within a deeper history of sugarcane plantation violence, arguing that CKDnt is not a result of climate change, it is climate change.

Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

09 May 2025 240pp 6 illus 9781478031871 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478028666 £86.00 / $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Another Magic Mountain

Kibong'oto Hospital and African Tuberculosis, 1920–2000

Christoph Gradmann Kibong’oto Hospital is an East African tuberculosis treatment center located on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Its history is crucial to understanding tuberculosis in Tanzania and, more broadly, in Africa. With the hospital as a point of departure, Gradmann presents a history of this disease that engages with local and regional contexts.

Perspectives on Global Health

10 June 2025 328pp 39 b&w photos 9780821426333 £28.99 / $36.95 PB 9780821426326 £95.00 / $110.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

Dope Advice

How to Talk to Your Teens about Cannabis

Gail Beck

With marijuana now legal in Canada and many US states, parents are increasingly seeking reliable and accurate information about its effects on their teens and young adults. Written by a leading child psychiatrist, this book provides a pragmatic, science-based approach to navigating and understanding the complexities of legal marijuana use in the modern world.

30 June 2025 128pp

9781487557867 £14.99 / $19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

DisElderly Conduct

The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice

Judy Karofsky

The book is a personal account of unmet needs in assisted living and hospice aiming to spark discussions about new approaches for America’s aging population and family decision makers. There are 3 thousand assisted living facilities in the US, but most are unaffordable for middleclass Americans and fraught with staffing deficiencies and mismanagement.

13 May 2025 224pp 9781613322673 £18.99 / $24.00 PB 9781613322680 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Life at a Distance Medicine and Nationalism in India's Pan-African e-Network Vincent Duclos Recounts the story of the Pan-African eNetwork. Branded as a "India's gift to the world," and as a "shining example of South-South cooperation," the PanAfrican e-Network was an exceptionally ambitious project that, Duclos suggests, acted as a medium for speculation about the future: about medical markets, the nation, SouthSouth relations, and a new world order beyond Western-centric scripts.

Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge

15 June 2025 240pp 2 b&w halftones, 3 maps 9781501782060 £24.99 / $31.95 NIP 9781501782053 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Beach Cure

A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores

Meghan Crnic Foreword and series edited by Paul S. Sutter Explores how physicians, tourists, and families transformed the coastline into a medical and cultural landscape. Crnic traces how beliefs in “marine medication”—the healing power of the sun, sea air, and saltwater—shaped the development of northeastern coastal tourist destinations and health institutions in Atlantic City, Coney Island, and beyond.

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books

01 July 2025 224pp 21 b&w illus. 9780295753959 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295753942 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Get It Out On the Politics of Hysterectomy

Andréa Becker

Get It Out weaves centuries of medical history with rich qualitative data from 1 women, trans men, and nonbinary people who had, want, or are considering hysterectomy. In compelling detail, Andréa Becker reveals how America’s healthcare system routinely deprives people of the ability to control their own bodies along race and gender lines.

Health, Society, and Inequality

15 July 2025 224pp 2 b&w images

9781479826605 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781479826599 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic Responses and Adaptations

in

the US Criminal Justice System

Edited by Breanne Pleggenkuhle & Joseph A. Schafer

More than thirty contributors examine how the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and policy responses to the COVID-19 virus affected crime and justice in the United States. It also explores how professionals across the criminal justice system (police officers, campus police officers, attorneys, judges, correctional staff, and community supervision agents) adapted to unprecedented challenges.

31 August 2025 296pp 3 images 9780809339693 £22.99 / $27.95 PB 9780809339709 £71.00 / $85.00 HB SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Emergent Genders

Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies

Michelle H. S. Ho

Traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. By rethinking identitarian models of gender and sexuality, Ho offers new ways of examining how trans and gender nonconforming individuals may survive and flourish under capitalism.

Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

28 January 2025 280pp 13 illus 9781478031376 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478028123 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Sociolegal

Second Chances

The

Transformative

Relationship Between Incarcerated Youth and Shelter Dogs

Joan K. Dalton

Recounts the story of Project POOCH, a program that united incarcerated boys with unwanted dogs from animal shelters. Both the boys and the dogs were considered undesirable, and few had found love in their lives. As a result of the project, the lives of many youths and dogs changed forever.

New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond 15 May 2025 190pp 32 9781626711051 £16.99 / $19.99 PB PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Gender

Feminism and the Cinema of Experience

Lori Jo Marso Examines a diverse group of feminist film and cinema to show how filmmakers scramble our senses to open up space for encountering and examining the political conditions of patriarchy, racism, and existential anxiety. Marso analyzes film and television by directors such as Chantal Akerman, Greta Gerwig and Julia Ducournau.

07 January 2025 256pp 49 illus 9781478031222 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478026969 £86.00 / $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Men at Home

Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Gyanendra Pandey

Drawing on a wealth of archival materials— autobiographies, memoirs, fiction, and ethnographies— Pandey explores the complex and varied ways in which men in colonial and postcolonial India navigate their domestic lives across stratified castes and classes.

28 January 2025 240pp 2 illus 9781478031383 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478028154 £86.00 / $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Sodomy's Solicitations

A Right to Queerness

Joseph J. Fischel

Builds out a politics of sexual justice that challenges state sex exceptionalism. By tracing several twentyfirst century contestations around Louisiana anti-sodomy laws, Fischel examines patterns and practices of sexual injustice that are too easily eclipsed by our collective focus on marginalized identities.

Sexuality Studies

13 June 2025 318pp 9

9781439915851 £31.00 / $39.95 PB 9781439915844 £104.00 / $125.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

How We Make Each Other Trans Life at the Edge of the University

Perry Zurn

Using the Five Colleges in Massachusetts as a case study, Zurn draws on archival work and oral histories to outline how trans students, faculty, and staff make and live their lives at the edges of higher education.

07 January 2025 328pp 8 illus 9781478031307 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478028062 £90.00 / $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Prosthetic Memories

Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World

Hyaesin Yoon

Examines the entanglements of humans, animals, and technologies across South Korea and the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century. Interrogating a variety of body-technology interfaces, Yoon outlines an emergent mode of prosthetic memory in which human memory is extended into both machines and animals.

ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise 04 February 2025 232pp 3 illus 9781478031246 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478028017 £86.00 / $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Queer Slashers

Peter Marra

Presents the first booklength study of how and why the slasher subgenre of horror films appeals to queer audiences. In it, Peter Marra constructs a reparative history of the slasher that affirms its queer lineage extending back as early as the 1920s. It also articulates the queer aspects of the slasher formula that forge an unlikely kinship between queer audiences and these retrograde depictions of queer killers. Icons of Horror

04 February 2025 238pp 19 b&w illus. 9780253071941 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780253071934 £54.00 / $65.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Beyond Personhood

An Essay in Trans Philosophy

Talia Mae Bettcher

An essential contribution to the burgeoning field of trans philosophy, this book offers a bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self. By refusing to separate theory from its application, Bettcher shows how a philosophy of depth can emerge from the everyday experiences of trans people, pointing the way to a reinvigoration of philosophy.

18 March 2025 312pp

9781517902575 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781517902568 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Faith and the Fragility of Justice

Responses to GenderBased Violence in South Africa

Meredith Whitnah

The central argument of the book is that the organizations’ theological convictions intersect with their posture toward various social groups to shape their actions. In making this argument, Meredith Whitnah demonstrates that religious beliefs are a central dimension of institutional processes that sustain or challenge social inequality and violence.

15 April 2025 208pp 1 table image 9781978838635 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781978838642 £99.00 / $120.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Seduction of Space

Cruising French Cinema

Jules O'Dwyer

Through the work of Jacques Nolot, Sébastien Lifshitz, Christophe Honoré, Vincent Dieutre, Alain Guiraudie, and others, Jules O’Dwyer draws film theory, queer studies, and spatial inquiry into close proximity to examine the politics of cruising and the gendering of space.

11 March 2025 248pp 15 b&w illus

9781517916848 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517916831 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Not Just a Man’s War

Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45

Yihong Pan

Through interviews, reminiscences, and oral histories, Not Just a Man’s War uncovers the extraordinary stories of ordinary Chinese women during The War of Resistance. These women demonstrate a striking autonomy regardless of political association, socioeconomic status, or education. By attending to their insights, Not Just a Man’s War produces a multi-faceted, inclusive narrative of the war.

Contemporary Chinese Studies

15 March 2025 282pp 9780774870368 £29.99 / $37.95 PB UBC PRESS

Compromised Bodies

Cultural Imperialism, Agency, and the Ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in Senegal

Sarah O'Neill

By way of the many stories of ordinary women and men caught up in debates around the value of the practice and meaning of FGC, Compromised Bodies reveals the personal struggles and difficult decisions Fulani face, be they traditional cutters, religious leaders, mothers, husbands, divorced women, or anti-FGC activists.

Contemporary Ethnography

25 March 2025 272pp

9781512827231 £31.00 / $39.95 PB 9781512827248 £83.00 / $99.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

She's the Boss

The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II

Debra Michals

In the years after WWII, as women were being pushed from wartime jobs for returning soldiers, government and business leaders saw small business ownership as a viable economic solution. She’s the Boss chronicles the forces that made entrepreneurship attractive to women.

15 April 2025

Crossings

Creative Ecologies of Cruising

João Florêncio & Liz Rosenfeld Foreword by Grace Lavery

This book offers a serious exploration of queer sex and sex cultures, exploring cruising as a mode of thinking with the body and communicating through sexuality. The result is an erotic hybrid form hovering between scholarship and avant-garde experimentation, between critical manifesto and sex memoir.

Q+ Public

15 April 2025 166pp 13 color and 4 b&w images 9781978837546 £17.99 / $22.95 PB 9781978837553 £50.00 / $59.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

We Can Do Better Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication

Edited

by Linda Steiner & Stine

Eckert

Brings together evidence-based manifestos for media and communication that take a feminist perspective and add up to a provocative vision of feminist media practices and of feminist communication. The book discusses critical problems and complaints in ways that identify and make the case for actionable, concrete solutions to media problems and deficiencies.

The Witch Studies Reader

Edited by Soma Chaudhuri & Jane Ward

Brings together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and scholarpractitioners who offer a pathbreaking transnational feminist examination of witches and witchcraft that upends white supremacist, colonial, patriarchal knowledge regimes, this volume brings into being the interdisciplinary field of feminist witch studies.

21 April 2025 528pp 11 illus

9781478031352

£23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478028130 £100.00 / $119.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Boys Abducted

The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity

Abdulhamit Arvas

Exploring the history of abducted boys in English and Ottoman literary and visual culture, Arvas offers a queer-historicist analysis of a wide array of Ottoman and English texts and genres ranging from poetry, drama, and travelogue to chronicles, maps, and visual arts to examine the relationships between homoeroticism, race, and empire in the early modern period.

Theory Q

25 April 2025 336pp 46 illus 9781478031581 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478028413 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Women

in the Orthodox Tradition

Feminism, Theology, and Equality

Ashley Marie Purpura

By critically examining the spiritual values that shape Orthodoxy, the commemorations of women saints within it, and liturgical and doctrinal expressions that shape it, Ashley Marie Purpura makes the case that it is theologically necessary to unsay the patriarchal limits of tradition and seek a more inclusive interpretation instead.

28 April 2025 280pp

9780268209223

£45.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Feminist Digital Humanities Intersections in Practice

Edited by Lisa Marie Rhody & Susan Schreibman

Feminist digital humanities offers opportunities for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge and enacting new processes for creating meaning. Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman present essays that explore digital humanities practice as rich terrain for feminist creativity and critique.

Topics in the Digital Humanities

21 April 2025 280pp 17 b&w photos

9780252088506 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252046421 £95.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Cosmopolitan Maternalisms

Migration, Kinship, and Coorg Mothering in Modernity

Bittiandra Chand Somaiah

Examines social reconstructions of immigrant mothering among a middle-class minority community of first-generation Coorg women – Kodavathees – in urban Karnataka, Singapore, and Sydney. Makes sense of the gendered and globalized convictions, contradictions, and aspirations shared by these mothers who are poised to challenge the maternal pedestals and patriarchal structures of middle-class transnational India.

28 April 2025 360pp

9781487507091 £50.00 / $75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Resisting Orders

Catholic Sisters Contest Their Church

Christine Gervais, Amanda Watson, Shanisse Kleuskens & Leslie Guldimann

Catholic religious sisters in Canada occupy a complicated position as they endeavour to live out their vocations while simultaneously representing and confronting a patriarchal and colonial institution that has caused harm. Resisting Orders brings to light these women’s untold stories of resistance against religious doctrine and societal norms that contradict their feminist and social justice convictions.

Advancing Studies in Religion

29 April 2025 296pp 2 tables

9780228023708 £27.99 / $34.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Ogoni Women's Activism

The Transnational Struggle for Justice against Big Oil and the State Domale Dube

In 1995, Nigeria’s dictatorial government executed nine Ogoni leaders fighting for civil rights and against Shell Oil’s depredations of Ogoni land. Domale Dube draws on interviews and participant observation to tell the long-ignored story of how women carved out a role in the Ogoni pursuit of justice.

NWSA / UIP First Book Prize

22 April 2025 200pp

9780252088650 £21.99 / $28.00 PB

9780252046544 £95.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Queer Anthropology

Anthropological Insights

David A.B. Murray

Provides a concise, accessible overview of queer anthropology’s academic and activist origins, its key theoretical and methodological principles, its strengths and weaknesses, and how it has changed since its first appearance over thirty years ago. Each chapter includes discussion questions, recommended readings, and ethnographic examples to illustrate key concepts or themes.

Anthropological Insights

28 April 2025 112pp

9781487553272

£15.99 / $24.95 PB

9781487553265 £46.00 / $70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Berlin's Third Sex

Magnus Hirschfeld

Translated by James J. Conway

In 1904, Berlin did not exactly look like a haven of tolerance. Sex between consenting males and gender nonconformity were illegal, and other forms of sexual expression faced oppressive societal taboos. But despite fear, secrecy, and blackmail, Germany’s imperial capital nurtured a vibrant and diverse queer subculture. Hirschfeld offers a sympathetic glimpse into this queer life.

06 May 2025 152pp

9781487558451 £15.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Ungendering Menstruation

Ela Przybylo

Drawing on their own experiences as a toxic shock survivor and a menstrual pain and period dysphoria sufferer, Ela Przybyło questions why and how menstrual pain needs to be incorporated into discussions of gender, embodiment, and disability.

Forerunners: Ideas First

13 May 2025 116pp

9781517918378 £9.00 / $10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Queer Emergent

Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru

Justin Perez

Explores how advances in HIV prevention work alongside broader economic and political shifts in global health to shape queer subjectivities. Drawing on ethnographic research among gay and transgender communities in urban Amazonian Peru, Perez describes how queer social worlds emerge through scandalous storytelling.

Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

13 May 2025 264pp 15 illus

9781478031802 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478028574 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Queer Vietnam

A History of Gender Transgression, 1920–1945

Richard Quang-Anh Tran Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early 2th-century Vietnam. By the beginning of the 19s, European imperialism had spread Western notions of gender across much of Asia, narrowing and delegitimizing what had been a wide range of acceptable gender practices.

13 May 2025 264pp 10 halftones

9781503642744 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503615380 £91.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Too Good to Get Married

The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen

Bonnie Yochelson Foreword by Victoria Munro & Jessica B. Phillips

Explore Gilded Age New York through the lens of Alice Austen, who captured the social rituals of New York’s leisured class and the bustling streets of the modern city. Celebrated as a queer artist, she was this and much more. Through analysis of Austen’s photographs, Yochelson illuminates the history of American photography and the history of sexuality.

03 June 2025 288pp 142 b&w illus

9781531509507 £33.00 / $39.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Abolitionist Intimacies

Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation State

Eithne Luibhéid Examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls. Luibhéid highlights the new understandings that emerge when the experiences of queer and trans people are centered.

20 May 2025 256pp 1 illus

9781478031239 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478028024 £86.00 / $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church

A New History

Ian Forrest

How did the governance of the medieval institutional church remain exclusively male, despite plentiful evidence of women being as capable and devout as men? Forrest tells an integrated history that explains how both the exclusion of women and the inclusion of men underpins a rigidly gendered system of religious governance.

Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures

15 June 2025 318pp

9781501781995 £45.00 / $53.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Edited by Neda Atanasoski & Nassim Parvin

Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin introduce a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes, smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured, assumed, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping.

13 May 2025 320pp 61 color illus

9781478031253 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781478028031 £104.00 / $125.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Politics of Care Work

Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice

Emma Amador Tells the story of Puerto Rican women’s involvement in political activism for social and economic justice in Puerto Rico and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Amador shows how their relentless efforts gradually shifted the field of social work toward social justice and community-centered activism.

23 May 2025 328pp 25 illus

9781478031833 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478028598 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Monsters vs. Patriarchy

Toxic Imagination in Global Horror Cinema

Patricia Saldarriaga & Emy Manini

Monsters vs. Patriarchy examines female monstrosity as it appears in horror films from around the world and considers specific political, scientific, and historical contexts to better understand how we construct and reconstruct monstrosity, using an intersectional approach to examine the imposition of gender and racial hierarchies that support national power structures.

Global Media and Race

17 June 2025 256pp 20 b&w images

9781978838093 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781978838109 £108.00 / $130.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

The National Alliance of Black Feminists A History

Ileana Nachescu

Founded in 1975, the non-partisan National Alliance of Black Feminists (NABF) played a critical role in the Black women’s liberation movement and the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment. The Chicago-based organization’s Black humanist feminism powered a singular dedication to building coalitions while influencing its historic set of comprehensive political, economic, and cultural demands.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

24 June 2025 272pp 10 b&w photos 9780252088674 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9780252046568 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

#MeToo and the Politics of Transnational Feminism An

Anthology

Edited by Chaitanya Lakkimsetti & Vanita Reddy

The essays in this volume take a transnational and comparative feminist approach to #MeToo, focusing on the multiple ways that feminist voices from Argentina, Egypt, India, Pakistan, South Korea, the US, and the UK have pushed the boundaries of what counts as politics, justice, solidarity, violence, precarity, and vulnerability.

15 July 2025 240pp 1 b&w image 9781479825653 £33.00 / $40.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Indenture Aesthetics

Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness

Jordache A Ellapen

Examines the visual and performance art practices of feminist, queer, femme, and gender-nonconforming Afro-Indian and South African black artists to understand the paradoxes of freedom in contemporary South Africa.

03 February 2025 280pp 52 illus

9781478031345 £32.00 / $40.00 PB 9781478028109 £120.00 / $145.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pathos and Power Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Widowhood in Africa, Past and Present

Edited by Joanna Davidson & Benjamin N. Lawrance Pathos and Power provides a critical exploration of widowhood in Africa through a series of historical and contemporary case studies. The contributors investigate how the category of widowhood can obscure or reveal various social dynamics while demonstrating the diversity of material, symbolic, and embodied circumstances faced by African widows.

Research in International Studies, Africa Series 08 July 2025 340pp 15 b&w images 9780821426432 £28.99 / $36.95 PB 9780821426425 £91.00 / $110.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

Sideways Selves

Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas

PJ DiPietro

A deeply informed, theoretically rich work of inquiry and critique, Sideways Selves learns from two communities of migrants as they contest their marginalization under the colonial regime of gender. In equal measures philosophical and ethnographic, Sideways Selves witnesses and listens as these displaced people show us what a just, decolonial world could actually be.

Latinx: The Future Is Now 22 July 2025 344pp

9781477331774 £27.99 / $34.95 PB

9781477331767 £87.00 / $105.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Black Girls and How We Fail Them

Aria S. Halliday

Asserts that the growth of diverse representation in media since 2008 has coincided with an increase in the hatred of Black girls. Using expertise as a scholar of popular culture, feminist theory, and Black girlhood, the author expose how people have been complicit in the depiction of Black girls as unwanted and disposable while making them fend for themselves.

28 February 2025 192pp 9781469686110

Reproducing Revolution

Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland

Jenny Hedström Hedström explores the Kachin revolution in Myanmar from the perspective of female soldiers, female activists, and women displaced by the violence in northern Myanmar. Hedström calls this labor militarized social reproduction, and demonstrates that such labor is critical to the miliary effort, and that warfare itself is shaped through everyday domestic action.

15 July 2025 156pp 7 b&w halftones

9781501782558 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781501782541 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Race

No God but Man On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism

Atiya Husain Reconceptualizes the relationship between race and Islam in the United States as an epistemology using the FBI’s post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point.

Global Insecurities

28 January 2025 208pp 18 illus 9781478031369 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478028116 £86.00 / $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

An Ordinary White

My Antiracist Education

David Roediger

Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America, An Ordinary White is the life story of historian and radical writer, David Roediger. With wry wit and keen observation, Roediger chronicles his intellectual and political evolution.

04 March 2025 256pp 18 b&w illus 9781531509576 £22.99 / $27.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Origins of Critical Race Theory

The People and I deas That Created a Movement

Aja Y. Martinez & Robert O. Smith

Critical race theory (CRT), a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship, has transformed our understanding of systemic racism. Yet it has been demonized by opponents at every turn. Martinez and Smith weave together the many sources of critical race theory, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history.

25 March 2025 288pp 21 b&w images

9781479832675 £24.99 / $30.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Volatile Whiteness

Race, Cinema, and Europeanization in Spain

Martin Repinecz

The decades spanning from the 196s to the 198s in Spain were marked by a series of significant changes. Volatile Whiteness argues that throughout this period, popular film genres aimed to erode the racialized image of Spain as an "Africa of Europe" and establish the nation's belonging in global whiteness.

Toronto Iberic

28 April 2025 288pp

9781487539238

£53.00 / $80.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Freeing Black Girls

A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

Tamura Lomax

Exploring what it means to mother Black children in the twentyfirst century, Lomax shares her journey from her traditionalist Black girlhood to finding the path to revolutionary Black motherhood. Along the way, she shows how all Black people are endangered by white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal dominance and emphasizes the power of looking and talking back.

06 May 2025 240pp 15 illus

9781478028376

£19.99 / $24.95 PB

9781478024774

£79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Burdens of Belonging Race in an Unequal Nation

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos W.E.B. Du Bois famously pondered a question he felt society was asking of him as a Black man in America: “How does it feel to be a problem?” Jessica Vasquez-Tokos uses this question to examine how communities of color are constructed as “problems,” and the numerous ramifications this has for their life trajectories.

15 April 2025 320pp

9781479822324 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479822317 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Ball in My Hands

Essays on Black Athletes, Race, and American Culture

David K. Wiggins

Featuring eleven previously published essays, Wiggins’s second anthology weaves storytelling and scholarly discussion together in its exploration of wellknown figures in a comprehensive collection that examines the complex intersection of race, sport, and American culture, discussing the experiences, challenges, and victories of Black athletes throughout the twentieth century.

Sports & Popular Culture

30 April 2025 252pp

9781621909347 £24.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE PRESS

Visuality of Violence

Witnessing the Policing of Race

Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas

Unpacks the way visual documentations and depictions of the practice of racial violence are used in imperialism, capitalism, and neoliberalism in the United States. Reveals liberal mythical reliance on the ideals of western law and its rationalities as the location of justice and freedom, thereby presenting its readers with a new understanding in the quest for peace and liberation.

Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality

30 May 2025 164pp

9781439921005 £18.99 / $23.95 PB

9781439920992 £74.00 / $89.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Boys Abducted

The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity

Abdulhamit Arvas

Exploring the history of abducted boys in English and Ottoman literary and visual culture, Arvas offers a queer-historicist analysis of a wide array of Ottoman and English texts and genres ranging from poetry, drama, and travelogue to chronicles, maps, and visual arts to examine the relationships between homoeroticism, race, and empire in the early modern period.

Theory Q

25 April 2025 336pp 46 illus

9781478031581 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478028413 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Fighting for Freedom

Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence

Edited by Torren L. Gatson, Tiffany N. Momon & William A. Strollo

Places Black craftspeople at the forefront of American history, from before the Revolutionary War through the Civil War and beyond Reconstruction. Delves into diverse narratives of creativity, resilience, and triumph in the quest for freedom, underscoring the evolution of freedom through the lens of material culture.

30 April 2025 184pp 74 color plates 9781469686257 £28.99 / $35.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Dos X

Disability and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx Culture

Sony Coráñez Bolton

Examination of the interconnectedness of brown-racialized people across multiple identities, told through case studies of television, literature, and writing. What does it mean to exist in this liminal state, which Coráñez Bolton dubs the “racial uncanny”? What generative possibilities emerge from the presumed interchangeability of Latinx and Filipinx bodies?

Latinx: The Future Is Now

10 June 2025 200pp 6 b&w photos 9781477331378 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781477331361 £87.00 / $105.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Encountering Race in Albania

An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife

Chelsi West Ohueri

The first book to interrogate race and racial logics in Albania. It offers significant insights into broader understandings of race in a global context, and examines how race is made, remade, produced, and reproduced through constructions of whiteness, blackness, and otherness.

15 June 2025 246pp 15 b&w halftones, 1 map

9781501781872 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781501781865 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams

African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity

Robert F. Williams & Mabel R. Williams Edited by Akinyele K. Umoja, Gloria Aneb House & John H. Bracey Jr. Robert F. Williams and Mabel Williams - born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina - were the state’s most legendary African American freedom fighters. This book offers a gripping portrait of these pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call to action in the ongoing global fight against racial injustice.

17 June 2025 360pp 23 halftones

9781469680132 £28.99 / $34.95 PB 9781469680125 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Enduring Empire

U.S. Statecraft and Race-Making in the Philippines

katrina quisumbing king

Enduring Empire shows how U.S. federal state actors translated their ideas of race into state structures. Through innovating constitutional law, bureaucratic administration, and legislation, state actors built a durable and flexible system of racialimperial rule that not only lasted beyond the period of formal empire but continues to this day.

Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and Capitalism

08 July 2025 344pp 13 tables, 2 halftones 9781503643253 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781503642676 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Urban Borderlands

Multiracial Histories and Gendered Borders in Los Angeles

Isabela Seong Leong Quintana

Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century mostly consisted of Mexican and Chinese men, who were met with exclusion policies and deportation campaigns. This books delves into the compelling history is unearthed by the entwined stories of Chinatown and Sonoratown through the everyday lives of their residents.

17 June 2025 224pp 15 halftones 4 maps

9781469675800 £24.99 / $29.95 PB

9781469675794 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

The Global Journey of Racism

Michelle Christian In The Global Journey of Racism, Michelle Christian provides a unified narrative of how the world's racial hierarchies came to be. Christian's story begins before the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi Germany, and South African Apartheid, tracing the historical lineage of white supremacy to the expansion of western, European empire.

01 July 2025 320pp 4 tables, 2 figures 9781503642898 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781503638259 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Racial Cage

Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M'charek & Anne Pollock

A collaborative conversation across continents, this work examines the racial cage as an important part of the practice of social division and bodily containment. The deeply considered result is an empirical and theoretical approach to biohumanities that productively interrogates its linkages to critical theories of race and racism.

Forerunners: Ideas First 15 July 2025 116pp 9781517918996 £9.00 / $10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Race and the Question of Palestine

Edited by Lana Tatour & Ronit Lentin

Offering a wide-ranging set of essays by historians, legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, literary scholars, and race critical theorists, this collection illuminates how race should be understood in terms of its political work, and not as an identity category interchangeable with ethnicity, culture, or nationalism.

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

17 June 2025 304pp

9781503642973 £24.99 / $32.00 PB

9781503642133 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Foundations of Black Epistemology

Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy

Adebayo Oluwayomi Bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black philosophy. Engages in a rigorous historical study of Black intellectual history to show how seminal Black thinkers have long been interested in and engaged with questions concerning the phenomenon of human knowledge, and questions around human agency.

07 July 2025 266pp 9781439925485 £27.99 / $34.95 PB 9781439925478 £96.00 / $115.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Making of a Black Communist

The Selected Writings of Eugene Gordon

Edited by Louis J. Parascandola

Catalogues the life of Eugene Gordon who was a major writer involved in the development of the burgeoning Black literary scene in Boston in the 1920s, and a longtime member of the Communist Party. This new collection, demonstrates his range and his skill while establishing his importance as a critical voice of his time.

31 July 2025 313pp 3 illus

9781625348685 £28.99 / PB

9781625348692 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

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