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HIGHLIGHTS Scarred
Motherhood on Ice
A Feminist Journey Through Pain L. Ayu Saraswati
The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs Marcia C. Inhorn
Offers thought-provoking theories and lifetransforming ways to deal with pain
232 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479817092
“Captures the pain of women who struggle to fulfill the human desires for companionship and parenthood.”~Anna Louie Sussman, The Atlantic 352 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479813049
The Reproduction of Inequality
Denied
Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity Michelle J. Manno
How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health Katherine Mason
A courtside view of how women athletes’ identities are policed, on and off the court
An important analysis of the difference class makes in reproductive health care choices 296 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479801947
In Health, Society, and Inequality
240 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479885381
Gender Replay
Challenging Confinement
On Kids, Schools, and Feminism Edited by Freeden Blume Oeur and C. J. Pascoe
Mass Incarceration and the Fight for Equality in Women’s Prisons Bonnie L. Ernst
The first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thorne’s classic book, Gender Play
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479813377
In Critical Perspectives on Youth
200 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479825561
Normporn
Kurt Fowler
How technology transformed the nature of sex work
An irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us In Postmillennial Pop
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Examines how the feminist movements in the late twentieth century ignited prison protests, activism, and reform in women’s prisons
The Rise of Digital Sex Work
Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us Karen Tongson
216 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9781479846511
In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479824205
PARENTING AND EDUCATION The Color of Homeschooling
The Peer Effect
How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin
How Inequality Shapes School Choice Mahala Dyer Stewart How race and racism shape middle-class families’ decisions to homeschool their children
240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479807833
How the power of peers and peer culture shapes individual behavior and future success 240 PP | CLOTH | $28.95 9781479805044
False Starts
Social Parenthood in Comparative Perspective
The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers Casey Stockstill
Edited by Clare Huntington, Christiane von Bary and Courtney G. Joslin
“A thorough account of the history... [and] an enlightening study of the promises and obstacles of US preschools.” ~Foreword Reviews 232 PP | CLOTH | $28 9781479815005
272 PP | CLOTH | $45 9781479814114
Investigates social parents – people who function as parents but who may not be recognized as such in the eyes of the law In Families, Law, and Society
TECHNOLOGY Digital Masquerade
Geek Girls
Charts a new wave of feminist and queer media activism in post-millennial China
“Geek Girls is a critical, significant sociological work on structural inequality in technology occupations…”- Choice
Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China Jia Tan
Inequality and Opportunity in Silicon Valley France Winddance Twine
In Postmillennial Pop 208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479811847
296 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479803828
Digital Black Feminism
The Privilege of Play A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture Aaron Trammell
Catherine Knight Steele Winner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication Association
The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gaming
In Critical Cultural Communication 208 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479808380
An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the hightech industry
In Postmillennial Pop 240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818402
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TRANSGENDER STUDIES The Two Revolutions
Trans Medicine
The internet origins of the American transgender movement
Finalist, PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine
A History of the Transgender Internet Avery Dame-Griff
The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender stef m. shuster
A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice
In Queer / Trans / Digital
272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818310
240 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479899371
With Honor and Integrity
Sex Is as Sex Does Governing Transgender Identity Paisley Currah
Transgender Troops in Their Own Words Edited by Máel EmbserHerbert and Bree Fram
PROSE AwardGovernment and Politics Finalist
Heartfelt personal accounts from transgender people fighting for the right to serve in the military 256 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9781479820474
In LGBTQ Politics
256 PP | CLOTH | $28 9780814717103
What the evolving fight for transgender rights reveals about government power, regulations, and the law
SEXUALITY STUDIES Male Femininities
The Pornification of America
Edited by Dana Berkowitz, Elroi J. Windsor and C. Winter Han Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women
408 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479808786
How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society Bernadette Barton
“Zippy and well illustrated, this book persuasively argues that ‘equating hypersexualization with sex positivity is a form of Orwellian doublespeak.’” ~New York Times Book 232 PP | PAPER | $19.95 Review 9781479849338
Sexuality Beyond Consent
Sex Tourism in Thailand
Risk, Race, Traumatophilia Avgi Saketopoulou
Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground Ronald Weitzer
Radical alternatives to consent and trauma
An in-depth portrait of Thailand’s billion-dollar sex industry
In Sexual Cultures
272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820252
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352 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479813414
LGBT STUDIES Black and Queer on Campus
Bi
Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth Ritch C. Savin-Williams
Michael P. Jeffries
288 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479803910
“Jeffries interviews Black L.G.B.T.Q. college students at over a dozen colleges to illustrate the struggles they face in finding belonging at both predominantly white and historically Black institutions.” ~New York Times Book Review
“Offers a necessary, nuanced, and accessible book that foregrounds contemporary uses and understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality.”Choice 256 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9781479825875
Brown and Gay in LA
Queer Stepfamilies The Path to Social and Legal Recognition Katie L. Acosta
The Lives of Immigrant Sons Anthony Christian Ocampo
A compelling examination of the social and legal experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and queer stepparent families
Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association In Asian American 176 PP | PAPER | $15.95 Sociology 9781479898138
272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479800988
Queer Carnival
LGBT Inclusion in American Life
Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South Amy L. Stone
Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights Susan Burgess
The importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ community
280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479801985
A compelling explanation of the American public’s acceptance of LGBT freedoms through the lens of pop culture 232 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479819751
Daddies of a Different Kind
Queering the Midwest
An intimate look at gay and bisexual daddies and their younger partners
How LGBTQ community life in a small Midwestern city differs from that in larger cities with established gayborhoods
Sex and Romance Between Older and Younger Adult Gay Men Tony Silva
248 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479817030
In LGBTQ Politics
Forging LGBTQ Community Clare Forstie
232 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479801879
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RACE AND ETHNICITY Diversifying the Courts
Forced Out
Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope Susan J. Terrio
Race, Gender, and Judicial Legitimacy Nancy Scherer
Features the stories of undocumented mothers who reunite with their children in the US years after fleeing violence at home
Examines the decisions of US presidents to appoint judges from diverse backgrounds to federal courts 240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818723
224 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479823536
Misogynoir Transformed
Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality
“Bailey’s aims are ambitious. She’s not interested in just shining a light on misogynoir; she’s interested in its destruction.”- NPR Books
Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian communities
Black Women’s Digital Resistance Moya Bailey
248 PP | CLOTH | $28 9781479865109
In Intersections
Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation Michelle R. Jacobs
304 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479849123
Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform
Whiter
Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism Edited by Nikki Khanna
Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation Dana Y. Nakano How race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of later-generation Japanese Americans 256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816378
In Asian American Sociology
280 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479800292
Re-Imagining Black Women
Out of Place
The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants SunAh M Laybourn
A Critique of PostFeminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
304 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479850891
Winner of the W.E.B. DuBois Distinguised Book Award, given by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
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Heartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled “too dark” to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards
How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants In Asian American Sociology 240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479814787
RELIGION Conceiving Christian America
Broken
The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion Evelyn Alsultany
Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics Risa Cromer
PROSE Award- Media and Cultural Studies Finalist
How embryo adoption advances the Christian Right’s political goals for creating a Christian nation
320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818594
In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims 320 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9781479805136
Muslims on the Margins
The Women’s Mosque of America
Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communities
Analyzes how American Muslim women approach the Qur’an as a tool for social justice and community building
Creating Queer Religious Community in North America Katrina Daly Thompson
Authority and Community in US Islam Tazeen M. Ali
In North American Religions 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479814350
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811304
Christian Imperial Feminism
Women in Yoruba Religions
White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire Gale L. Kenny
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479825530
Illuminates how white American Protestant women embraced a racially specific version of social inclusiveness that centered themselves as the norm In North American Religions
Oyèrónké Oládémo
Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people In Women in Religions 200 PP | PAPER | $22 9781479813995
The State of Desire
Queer Judaism
An intimate account of Orthodox family planning amid shifting state policies in Israel
Offers a compelling look at how Orthodox Jewish LGBT persons in Israel became more accepted in their communities
Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land Lea Taragin-Zeller
200 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479817368
LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel Orit Avishai
320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810031
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HEALTH AND WELLNESS Violence Never Heals
Researching Gender-Based Violence
The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women Allison Bloom
Embodied and Intersectional Approaches Edited by April D.J. Petillo and Heather R. Hlavka
Explores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across the life course 224 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479822058
In Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479812202
An interdisciplinary collection of critical, feminist reflections on interpersonal gender violence
Elder Care in Crisis
How the Social Safety Net Fails Families Emily K. Abel Explains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated it
232 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479815395
In Health, Society, and Inequality
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POLITICS/MOVEMENTS Fierce and Fearless
The Pink Wave
2023 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History Winner
How and why the election of Donald Trump inspired more women to enter politics
Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
456 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479831920
The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX
Women Running for Office After Trump Regina M. Matheson and William W. Parsons
200 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479826476
Keeping the March Alive
The Partisan Gap
How activist groups across the country adapted their strategies and tactics to their local contexts to keep the protests alive
Winner of the 2022 Victoria Shuck Award, given by the American Political Science Association
Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don’t Laurel Elder
How Grassroots Activism Survived Trump’s America Catherine Corrigall-Brown
216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479815074
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240 PP | PAPER | $25 9781479804825
Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices
HISTORY Keeping Family Secrets
In Dependence
From teen pregnancy to gay sexuality and communism to disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War era
Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of women
Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America Jacqueline Beatty
Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s Margaret K. Nelson
256 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479815623
In Early American Places 272 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479812127
Public Faces, Secret Lives
A Revolution in Type
Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press Ayelet Brinn
A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement Wendy L. Rouse
A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers
Honorable Mention for the 2023 Francis Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize
248 PP | CLOTH | $27 9781479813940
Restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women’s right to vote
328 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479817665
LAW The Jurisprudential Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said
Provides a sweeping overview of Justice Ginsburg’s jurisprudence
A unique introduction to the constitutional arguments for and against the right to abortion
The Nation’s Top Legal Experts Rewrite America’s Most Controversial Decision, Revised Edition Edited by Jack M. Balkin
Edited by Ryan Vacca and Ann Bartow
368 PP | CLOTH | $45 9781479817856
344 PP | PAPER | $23.95 9781479823109
Enticements
The End of Family Court
Queer Legal Studies Edited by Joseph J. Fischel and Brenda Cossman
How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families Jane M. Spinak
Provides a variety of queer, interdisciplinary interventions upon the social and legal regulation of sex
Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change
In LGBTQ Politics 384 PP | PAPER | $40 9781479807611
384 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479814084
In Families, Law, and Society
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GREAT FOR COURSES Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies
Disciplinary Futures
Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality
Reimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science research and methods
Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies Edited by Nadia Y. Kim and Pawan Dhingra
Edited by The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective
In Keywords 312 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808151
384 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479819041
Pain Generation
Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition
Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie L. Ayu Saraswati
An Introduction Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism
A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory In Critical America
224 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808335
224 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479818259
Keywords for Health Humanities
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Edited by Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl and Priscilla Wald
Jane Ward
Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category
Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo
In Keywords 280 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479808106
216 PP | PAPER | $18.95 In Sexual Cultures 9781479804467
Camming
Fearing the Black Body
Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry Angela Jones
The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Sabrina Strings
Winner, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association 344 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479874873
The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living
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Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association 296 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479886753
How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years
PARTNER PRESSES Anne Braden Speaks
Creating a Seat at the Table
Selected Writings and Speeches, 1947-1999 Edited by Ben Wilkins
The collected writings, speeches, and letters of renowned freedom fighter Anne Braden
216 PP | PAPER | $19 9781583679708
A Monthly Review Press title
Reflections from Women in Law Edited by Beth Bilson, Leah Howie and Brea Lowenberger Eighteen female lawyers— reflect on their hopes, challenges, triumphs, and, 288 PP | PAPER | $29.95 sometimes, regrets 9780889779419 A University of Regina Press title
Meeting the Moment
In the Camp of Angels of Freedom
Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira, with forewords by Carlton Turner and Jill Dolan Socially engaged theater makers and performers discuss the challenges and 320 PP | PAPER | $26.95 potentialities of their work 9781613321546 A New Village Press title
What Does It Mean to Be Educated? Arlene Goldbard An autodidact explores issues of education itself through essays and personal portraits of the key minds who influenced her 224 PP | PAPER | $34.95 A New Village Press title 9781613321980
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Luck
Instead of a Memoir Lucy R. Lippard
Margaret Randall Fearless personal essays from a treasured feminist poet and activist
Colorfully written and illustrated memoir of the activist art writer Lucy Lippard
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144 PP | CLOTH | $44.95 9781613322246
256 PP | PAPER | $22.95 9781613322192
I Write the Yawning Void
Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
Selected essays of Sindiwe Magona Compiled by Renée Schatteman
Transformative resistance and social reproduction Edited by Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse
Essays that addresses themes such as HIV/Aids, language and culture, home and belonging 328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776148189
A Wits Universtiy Press title
An eco-socialist feminist analysis of the current social reproduction debate in South Africa 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781776148264
In Democratic Marxisms A Wits University Press title
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