Gender & Women's Studies

GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES

Is There Life After Football?

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Playing for God Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry ANNIE BLAZER

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This Year’s Model

Embodied Avatars

ELIZABETH WISSINGER

“This book is both brilliant scholarship and a performance to be reckoned with.”

Modernity’s Ear Listening to Race and Gender in World Music

More Than Medicine

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A History of the Feminist Women’s Health Movement

AMANDA M. CZERNIAWSKI

JENNIFER NELSON

“Honest, thoughtful and insightful.”

“Absolutely indispensable and profoundly important.”

Covered in Ink

TANYA HART

Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body “Sophisticated…. As vivid as its subject matter, this book is itself a batch of beautiful ink.”

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In the Alternative Criminology series

Chris Shilling, author of The Body and Social Theory 232 PAGES • 17 ILLUSTRATIONS PAPER • 978-0-8147-6071-0 • $27.00 CLOTH • 978-0-8147-6029-1 • $89.00

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Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930

BEVERLY YUEN THOMPSON

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Health in the City

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In the Postmillennial Pop series

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In the Biopolitics series

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“A field-changing book for queer studies and sound studies alike.”

Wedlocked turns to history to compare today’s samesex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when they were able to legally marry for the first time.

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Pacific Standard

ROSHANAK KHESHTI

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Peter Aggleton, author of Education, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS

Fashioning Fat

In the Sexual Cultures series

Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World

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Dancing Tango

SHARI L. DWORKIN

Ashley Mears, author of Pricing Beauty

Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk

The Perils of Marriage Equality

In the Sexual Cultures series

Masculinity, Heterosexuality and HIV Prevention

“A rich and troubling history of how we have all come to manage ourselves as brands.”

C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S

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Men at Risk

Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour

URI MCMILLAN

Wedlocked

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In the Biopolitics series

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The Economist

Sally M. Promey, Yale University

Deborah R. Vargas, author of Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music

Sharon Preves, author of Intersex and Identity

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Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance

Surviving the NFL

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“An impressive and appreciable contribution to a robust field.”

Samuel Roberts, Columbia University 336 PAGES • 3 TABLES, 6 FIGURES, 9 HALFTONES CLOTH • 978-1-4798-6799-8 • $55.00

In the Culture, Labor, History series

A Bun in the Oven How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN

The food movement has exploded in the past decade; the home-birth movement, however, has not been as successful. Rothman finds striking parallels and draws a fascinating portrait of these two ‘at home’ movements.

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The Dubious Diagnosis

Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity

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Contesting Intersex

A History of Hair Removal

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“[A] thoughtful, nuanced, and frank analysis of the politics of sport and masculinity.”

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Does God Make the Man?

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Desi Hoop Dreams Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity

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MEDIA AND PERFORMANCE

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Discounted Life

Raising Generation Rx

Not Gay

The Price of Global Surrogacy in India

Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality

Sex between Straight White Men

SHARMILA RUDRAPPA

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Family Secrets Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico

“A valuable contribution to the national dialogue on health care and education, told through the voices of the mothers whose children’s futures should be of concern to all of us.”

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GLORIA GONZÁLEZ-LÓPEZ

“A sensitive, ethical, humane, yet deeply sociological and intellectually robust analysis of a very delicate subject matter.”

Giving Up Baby Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice “Boldly, bravely, and with a keen eye for detail....[Oaks] offers a real role model of feminist scholarship.”

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In the Latina/o Sociology series

Lynn Morgan, author of Icons of Life

Modern Families

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Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship JOSHUA GAMSON

Legalizing LGBT Families

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How the Law Shapes Parenthood

MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY

“[A] fascinating look at the remarkable range of experiences that is broadening the very idea of family.”

AMANDA K. BAUML AND D’LANE R. COMPTON

“A must read for policy makers, lawyers, activists and LGBT parents.”

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C. J. Pascoe, author of Dude, You’re a Fag

A N A C A D E M I C ’ S H O W -T O

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The Public Professor

LORA BEX LEMPERT

RAMZI FAWAZ

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Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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In the Sexual Cultures series

Geisha of a Different Kind

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New Desires, New Selves

C. WINTER HAN

GUL OZYEGIN

Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas

How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality

Traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body.

SUZANNA DANUTA WALTERS

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“Walters’s humane, transformative vision soars in this must-read.”

In the Sexual Cultures series

A Body, Undone

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Living On After Great Pain

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In the Intersections series

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In the Sexual Cultures series

License to Wed What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples KIMBERLY D. RICHMAN

“Offers valuable insight into the relationship between the legal, the personal, and the societal.”

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WOMEN AND WAR Death in the Shape of a Young Girl

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Women’s Political Violence in the Red Army Faction

Sex, Security, and Post-Conflict Development

PATRICIA MELZER

“Absorbing and provocative.”

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In the Gender and Political Violence series

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Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone MEGAN H. MACKENZIE Lene Hansen, author of Security as Practice

In the Gender and Political Violence series

“Brings readers the hereand-now stories of African sex workers who are fighting for human rights.”

Melinda Chateauvert, author of Sex Workers Unite!

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Border Politics

A Primer (Second Edition)

Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization

NANCY LEVIT AND ROBERT R.M. VERCHICK

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“The authors brilliantly weave together feminism, the law, and our ordinary experiences.”

NANCY A. NAPLES AND JENNIFER BICKHAM MENDEZ

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Pablo Vila, author of Border Identifications

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Rebels at the Bar

Contagious Representation

The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers JILL NORGREN

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CHI ADANNA MGBAKO

Feminist Legal Theory

CHRISTINA CROSBY

Crosby offers a beautifully written account of the labors of everyday life after a traumatic spinal cord injury and how writing, imagination, and memory are critical components of such a life.

Sex Worker Activism in Africa

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To Live Freely in This World

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The Tolerance Trap

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SAMEENA MULLA

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Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire

In the Intersections series

Wendy Brown, author of Regulating Aversion

Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention

Laura Carpenter, author of Virginity Lost

A Taste for Brown Bodies

“One of the best books on reproductive politics in a decade!”

The Violence of Care

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Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth

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Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction

Focuses on how women cope with their no-exit sentences.

In the Postmillennial Pop series

Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America

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Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

HISTORY Governed through Choice

Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity

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“Bravely engages with the struggles and triumphs of Asian American gay men.”

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How to Use Your Research to Change the World

“Certain to change the way that we think about heterosexuality’s relations with the homoerotic.”

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Women Doing Life

The New Mutants

JANE WARD

LINDA M. BLUM

Focuses on the processes of social and market exchange in transnational surrogacy.

POLITICS, CRIME, AND LAW

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Women’s Political Representation in Democracies around the World FRANK C. THAMES AND MARGARET S. WILLIAMS

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Age in America The Colonial Era to the Present

Women in Early America

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EDITED BY THOMAS A. FOSTER

CORINNE T. FIELD AND NICHOLAS L. SYRETT

“A landmark volume.”

Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University

“Excellent and innovative.”

Paula S. Fass, author of Children of a New World

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RELIGION Gender in Judaism and Islam

Queer Christianities Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms

Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage

EDITED BY

KATHLEEN T. TALVACCHIA, MICHAEL F. PETTINGER AND MARK LARRIMORE

EDITED BY

FIROOZEH KASHANI-SABET AND BETH S. WENGER

“Breaks new ground.”

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Called to Serve

Building the Old Time Religion Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era PRISCILLA POPE-LEVISON

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INTRODUCING THE

A History of Nuns in America MARGARET M. MCGUINNESS

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WOMEN IN RELIGIONS BOOK SERIES

General Editor: CATHERINE WESSINGER (Loyola University, New Orleans) This series offers short, single-authored introductions to women and their roles, representations, and challenges within a range of religious traditions.

Women in Christian Traditions

Women in New Religions

Women in Japanese Religions

REBECCA MOORE

LAURA VANCE

BARBARA R. AMBROS

“A major contribution to the literature on women in Christianity.”

“Thorough, well-crafted, and eminently useful.”

“Highly accessible and satisfying to read.”

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Also check out the Religion, Race, and Ethnicity series, the Religion and Social Transformation series, and the Secular Studies series.

Visit www.nyupress.org for more information and a full listing of series titles.