University of Illinois Press Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 2021 Catalog

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THE POETICS OF DIFFERENCE

Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora

MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN Black women artists, writers, and performers, and their theories of intersectionality “This luminous book lovingly parses the poetics of difference that forms and informs the continued life of black queer feminist thought in many genres. The work is brilliant and bracing.”

—JENNIFER DEVERE BRODY, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-­Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference. Black women’s literary cultures have long theorized the complexities surrounding nation and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the multiple meanings of sexuality. Yet their ideas and work remain obscure in the face of indifference from Western scholarship.

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Innovative and timely, The Poetics of Difference illuminates understudied queer contours of black women’s writing.

A volume in the New Black Studies Series, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Dwight A. McBride

MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN is an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr and the author of Blue Talk and Love.

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BIOGRAFÍA / ESTUDIOS LATINOAMERICANOS / ESTUDIOS DE GÉNERO

JULIA DE BURGOS La creación de un ícono puertorriqueño

VANESSA PÉREZ-ROSARIO Traducción de Isabel Zapata La biografía de la escritora y activista puertorriqueña, ahora disponible en español “En esta magistral investigación, Pérez-Rosario le da vida a una de las artistas más sobresalientes y audaces de la diáspora puertorriqueña del siglo XX. Un libro indispensable que presenta a Julia de Burgos en su extraordinaria plenitud.”

—JUNOT DÍAZ Durante más de cincuenta años, Julia de Burgos ha evocado sentimientos de identidad y unión entre puertorriqueños y latinos en Estados Unidos. Vanessa Pérez-Rosario va más allá del enfoque trágico de otras biografías de Burgos para examinar la vida de la artista considerando el trasfondo de la cultura puertorriqueña y la compleja historia de la isla y la diáspora. Enfocándose en Burgos como escritora y activista, Pérez-Rosario profundiza en su desarrollo artístico, su experiencia como migrante, sus luchas contra el colonialismo y la injusticia social y sus contribuciones a la cultura literaria y visual latinoamericanas. Al mismo tiempo, desentraña las dinámicas culturales y políticas que operan en las revisiones, reinvenciones y riff offs de Burgos que escritores y artistas latinos contemporáneos en Nueva York llevan a cabo para imaginar nuevas posibilidades para sí mismos y sus comunidades.

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VANESSA PÉREZ-ROSARIO es profesora en el Departamento de Inglés en Queens College, City University of New York. Editó Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement y tradujo Boat People, de Mayra Santos Febres. ISABEL ZAPATA es escritora, traductora y editora.

Vive en la Ciudad de México.

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For over fifty years, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States. Vanessa Pérez-­Rosario moves beyond the tragedy-­centered biographies of Burgos to examine the artist’s life against the historical backdrop of Puerto Rico’s peoples and culture and the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Focusing on Burgos as both a writer and an activist, Pérez-­Rosario delves into her artistic

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development, experience of migration, struggles against colonialism and social injustice, and contributions to Latino/a literary and visual culture. She also unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Burgos in imagining new possibilities for themselves and their communities.

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QUEER COUNTRY SHANA GOLDIN-PERSCHBACHER Searching for a place within country and Americana music Though frequently ignored by the music mainstream, queer and trans­ gender country and Americana artists have made essential contributions as musicians, performers, songwriters, and producers. Queer Country blends ethnographic research with analysis and history to provide the first in-depth study of these artists and their work. Shana Goldin-Perschbacher delves into the careers of well-known lesbian artists like k.d. lang and Amy Ray and examines the unlikely success of singer-songwriter Patrick Haggerty, who found fame forty years after releasing the first out gay country album.

She also focuses on later figures like nonbinary transgender musician Rae Spoon and renowned drag queen country artist Trixie Mattel; and on recent breakthrough artists like Orville Peck, Amythyst Kiah, and chart-­topping Grammy-winning phenomenon Lil Nas X. Many of these musicians place gender and sexuality front and center even as this complicates their careers. But their ongoing efforts have widened the circle of country/Americana by cultivating new audiences eager to connect with the artists’ expansive music and personal identities.

Detailed and one-of-a-kind, Queer Country reinterprets country and Americana music through the lives and work of artists forced to the margins of the genre’s history.

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SHANA GOLDIN-PERSCHBACHER is an assistant professor of music studies in the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University.

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MOVIE MAVENS

US Newspaper Women Take On the Movies, 1914–1923

Edited by RICHARD ABEL An anthology of women’s writing from the early era of film “A revelation! From snarky hard-talking dames to tartly respectable scholars, Movie Mavens recovers the diverse and compelling voices of the legions of newspaperwomen who wrote about movies during the tumultuous 1910s and early 1920s. An invaluable resource from a model film historian.”

—LAURA HORAK, author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone’s favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. Richard Abel returns these women to film history with an anthology of reviews, articles, and other works. Drawn from newspapers of the time, the selections show how columnists like Kitty Kelly, Mae Tinee, Louella Parsons, and Genevieve Harris wrote directly to female readers. They also profiled women working in jobs like scenario writer and film editor and noted the industry’s willingness to hire women. Sharp wit and frank opinions entertained and informed a wide readership hungry for news about the movies but also about women on both sides of the camera. Abel supplements the texts with hard-­to-­find biographical information and provides context on the newspapers and silent-­era movie industry as well as on the professionals and films highlighted by these writers.

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HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04397-0 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08604-5 $28.00x £20.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05290-3 A volume in the series Women and Film History International, edited by Kay Armatage, Jane M. Gaines, and Christine Gledhill

An invaluable collection of rare archival sources, Movie Mavens reveals women’s essential contribution to the creation of American film culture.

RICHARD ABEL is a professor emeritus of international cinema and media studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture.

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CHEFFES DE CUISINE

Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen

RACHEL E. BLACK A rare woman’s-eye-view of working in the professional French kitchen “Rachel Black has written a fascinating account of feminine sovereignty in the bouchons of Lyon. She shares timeless examples of wisdom and strength migrating to contemporary kitchens.”

—ODESSA PIPER, James Beard Foundation Best Chef Midwest 2002 and founder of L’Etoile Though women enter France’s culinary professions at higher rates than ever, men still receive the lion’s share of the major awards and Michelin stars. Rachel E. Black looks at the experiences of women in Lyon to examine issues of gender inequality in France’s culinary industry. Known for its female-­led kitchens, Lyon provides a unique setting for understanding the gender divide, as Lyonnais women have played a major role in maintaining the city’s culinary heritage and its status as a center for innovation. Voices from history combine with present-­ day interviews and participant observation to reveal the strategies women use to navigate male-­dominated workplaces or, in many cases, avoid men in kitchens altogether. Black also charts how constraints imposed by French culture minimize the impact of #MeToo and other reform-­minded movements.

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Evocative and original, Cheffes de Cuisine celebrates the successes of women inside the professional French kitchen and reveals the obstacles women face in the culinary industry and other male-­dominated professions.

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RACHEL E. BLACK is an associate professor of anthropology at Connecticut College. She is the author of Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market and coeditor of Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass.

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DRESSED FOR FREEDOM

The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism

EINAV RABINOVITCH-FOX Feminism’s link to fashion from the 1890s to the 1970s “Fashion and feminism may seem antithetical, but Einav Rabinovitch-Fox cogently argues that they are closely intertwined. Her stimulating book highlights how Gibson girls, flappers, women designers, and even 1960s feminists saw modern clothes as an integral part of women’s freedom.”

—KATHY PEISS, author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-­Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch-­Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women to assert claims over their bodies, femininity, and social roles. She also highlights how trends in women’s sartorial practices expressed ideas of independence and equality. As women employed new clothing styles, they expanded feminist activism beyond formal organizations and movements and reclaimed fashion as a realm of pleasure, power, and feminist consciousness.

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A fascinating account of clothing as an everyday feminist practice, Dressed for Freedom brings fashion into discussions of American feminism during the long twentieth century.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05294-1 A volume in the series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History, edited

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EINAV RABINOVITCH-FOX teaches history at Case Western Reserve University.

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FOR A JUST AND BETTER WORLD

Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938

SONIA HERNÁNDEZ Mexico’s women activists living their ideals “A significant and solid contribution to gender-labor history, the history of women, the history of Latinas in the United States, and transnational history. Hernández puts the political biography of the anarcho-unionist leaders at the center and examines their political trajectory. She also intertwines their stories with the most important changes in anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, mutualism, trade unionism, and the labor policies of the new Mexican state.”

—MARÍA TERESA FERNÁNDEZ ACEVES, author of Mujeres en el cambio social en el siglo XX mexicano

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Caritina Piña Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-­syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Piña and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. An international labor broker, Piña never left her native Tamaulipas. Yet she excelled in connecting groups in the United States and Mexico. Her story explains the conditions that led to anarcho-­syndicalism’s rise as a tool to achieve labor and gender equity. It also reveals how women’s ideas and expressions of feminist beliefs informed their experiences as leaders in and members of the labor movement.

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A vivid look at a radical activist and her times, For a Just and Better World illuminates the lives and work of Mexican women battling for labor rights and gender equality in the early twentieth century.

SONIA HERNÁNDEZ is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Working Women into the Borderlands.

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COMPUGIRLS

How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age

KIMBERLY A. SCOTT Unleashing the potential for hope, technological acumen, and social change in girls of color “COMPUGIRLS is a compelling and thought-provoking study of girls’ of color agency as they become social justice actors in the context of the new digital world. The author asks hard questions about barometers we should use in inclusion studies and projects a critical lens on many interventions focused on underrepresentation in the fields of computing. Brava for this work. The world needs more of these social justice actors!”

—JANE MARGOLIS, author of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing What does is it mean for girls of color to become techno-­social change agents— individuals who fuse technological savvy with a deep understanding of society in order to analyze and confront inequality?

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Kimberly A. Scott explores this question and others as she details the National Science Foundation–funded enrichment project COMPUGIRLS. This groundbreaking initiative teaches tech skills to adolescent girls of color but, as importantly, offers a setting that emphasizes empowerment, community advancement, and self-­ discovery. Scott draws on her experience as an architect of COMPUGIRLS to detail the difficulties of translating participants’ lives into a digital context while tracing how the program evolved. The dramatic stories of the participants show them blending newly developed technical and communication skills in ways designed to spark effective action and bring about important change.

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A compelling merger of theory and storytelling, COMPUGIRLS provides a much-­ needed roadmap for understanding how girls of color can find and define their selves in today’s digital age.

KIMBERLY A. SCOTT is a professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at Arizona State University and the Founder/Executive Director of ASU’s Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology.

She is coauthor of Kids in Context: The Sociological Study of Children and Childhoods and coeditor of Women Education Scholars and their Children’s Schooling.

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AROUSING SENSE

Recipes for Workshopping Sensory Experience

TOMIE HAHN Using the senses to open our minds to creativity and learning “A wonderful collection of recipes for workshopping sensory experience, to be realized sometimes by individuals, often through group interaction. The recipes will be useful to leaders in any arts area; in teaching of writing, not just creative writing but also composition; in working with any group where an exploratory, collaborative, fun atmosphere is desirable; as well as in the specific ethnographic application that Hahn emphasizes.”

—FRED EVERETT MAUS, coeditor of Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness Engaging with sensory experience provides a gateway to the contemplation and cultivation of creativity and ideas. Tomie Hahn’s workshopping recipes encourage us to incorporate sensory-­rich experiences into our research, creative processes, and understanding of people. The exercises recognize that playfulness allows for a loosening of self while increasing empathy and vulnerability. Their ability to spark sensory endeavors that reach into our deepest core offers potentially profound impacts on art making, research, ethnographic fieldwork, contemplation, philosophical or personal introspections, and many other activities. Designed to be flexible, these living recipes provide an avenue for performative adventures that invite us to improvise in ways suited to our own purposes or settings. Leaders and practitioners enjoy limitless arenas for using the senses for explorations that range from personally transformative to professionally productive to profoundly moving.

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User-­friendly and practical, Arousing Sense is a guide to how teaching through sensory experience can lead to positive, transformative impact in the classroom and everyday life.

TOMIE HAHN is a professor emerita of performance ethnology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the author of Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance.

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PERFORMING ENVIRONMENTALISMS

Expressive Culture and Ecological Change

Edited by JOHN HOLMES MCDOWELL, KATHERINE BORLAND, REBECCA DIRKSEN, and SUE TUOHY Traditional peoples’ artistic response to environmental peril “This collection is enriched by a broad range of disciplinary and analytic perspectives and the authors’ deep and long-standing commitments to the naturalcultural worlds they explore. Readers from across the humanities will find novel points of departure in confronting ecocidal inequalities and all-hands-on-deck ­challenges to collective survival.”

—CHARLES L. BRIGGS, author of Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge 296 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 35 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 6 LINE DRAWINGS, 2 MAPS, 3 CHARTS

Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-­first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression—storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals—performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse.

Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be human, the authors place performance at the center of people’s responses to the crises. Such expression reinforces the agency of human beings as they work, independently and together, to address ecological dilemmas. The essays add these people’s critical perspectives— gained through intimate struggle with life-­altering forces—to the global dialogue surrounding humanity’s response to climate change, threats to biocultural diversity, and environmental catastrophe.

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JOHN HOLMES MCDOWELL is a professor of folklore and ethno­ musicology at Indiana University. His books include Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico’s Costa Chica. KATHERINE BORLAND is an associate professor and director of the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University. REBECCA DIRKSEN is an associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University and the author of After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti. SUE TUOHY is an emerita senior lecturer of folklore and ethnomusicology and adjunct faculty in East Asian languages and cultures and in global and international studies at Indiana University.

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SURVIVING SOUTHAMPTON

African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community

VANESSA M. HOLDEN The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region’s multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion’s immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831.

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A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.

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VANESSA M. HOLDEN is an assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

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Presenting new paperback editions of the seven volumes in the Beauvoir Series, edited by Margaret A. Simons and Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir DIARY OF A PHILOSOPHY STUDENT

BARBARA KLAW is a professor emerita of French at Northern Kentucky University. She is the translator of Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928–29, and author of Le Paris de Beauvoir. SYLVIE LE BON DE BEAUVOIR, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and other works by Beauvoir.

MARGARET A. SIMONS is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. MARYBETH TIMMERMANN is a contributing translator and editor of Philosophical Writings and other books by Beauvoir.

Volume 1, 1926–27 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Translation by Barbara Klaw Edited by Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, and Margaret A. Simons, with the assistance of Marybeth Timmermann

“This diary increases our admiration for Beauvoir’s heroic determination to make something of herself. A precious document.”

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Simone de Beauvoir began a diary while a teenaged philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written before she met Jean-Paul Sartre, these entries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times.

DIARY OF A PHILOSOPHY STUDENT

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BARBARA KLAW is a professor emerita of French at Northern Kentucky University. She is the translator of Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926–27, and author of Le Paris de Beauvoir. SYLVIE LE BON DE BEAUVOIR, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and other works by Beauvoir.

MARGARET A. SIMONS is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. MARYBETH TIMMERMANN is a contributing translator and editor of Philosophical Writings and other books by Beauvoir.

Volume 2, 1928–29 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Translation by Barbara Klaw Edited by Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, and Marybeth Timmermann

“Klaw’s extensive notes are invaluable, not only in providing biographical background for Beauvoir’s literary and philosophical references, but also for flatting difficulties in translation.”

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This second volume of Diary of a Philosophy Student continues the feminist philosopher’s coming-of-age story, including the early days of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre.

WARTIME DIARY

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ANNE DEING CORDERO (d. 2018) was an emerita professor of French at George Mason University. MARGARET A. SIMONS is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. SYLVIE LE BON DE BEAUVOIR, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and other works by Beauvoir.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Translation and Notes by Anne Deing Cordero Edited by Margaret A. Simons and Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

“English readers are now afforded a very different portrait of the feminist philosopher approaching middle age in this well-annotated volume.”

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Wartime Diary presents the unabridged, scandalous text that threatened to overturn views of Simone de Beauvoir’s life and work by revealing her affairs with men and women.

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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908–86) was a French existentialist philosopher who employed a literary-philosophical method in her works, including The Second Sex (1949).

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PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS

MARGARET A. SIMONS is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. MARYBETH TIMMERMANN is a contributing translator and editor of Political Writings and other books by Beauvoir. MARY BETH MADER is a professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis and the author of Sleights of Reason: Norm, Bisexuality, Development. SYLVIE LE BON DE BEAUVOIR, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and other works by Beauvoir.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Edited by Margaret A. Simons with Marybeth Timmermann and Mary Beth Mader Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

“A valuable addition to collections of philosophy, feminism, and modern French literature. Recommended.”

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Philosophical Writings collects scholarly editions of philosophical texts covering the first twenty-three years of Beauvoir’s career, including recently discovered works.

FEMINIST WRITINGS

368 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES PAPER, 978-0-252-08593-2 $24.95s £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-09716-4 English-language publication rights: University of Illinois MARGARET A. SIMONS is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. MARYBETH TIMMERMANN is a contributing translator and editor of Beauvoir’s Philosophical Writings and “The Useless Mouths” and Other Literary Writings.

SYLVIE LE BON DE BEAUVOIR, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and many other works by Beauvoir.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

“An impressive work of erudition. Essential.”

—CHOICE

Feminist Writings presents recently discovered writings and lectures alongside new translations for many of Simone de Beauvoir’s most familiar works.

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POLITICAL WRITINGS

MARGARET A. SIMONS is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. MARYBETH TIMMERMANN is a contributing translator and editor of Philosophical Writings and other books by Beauvoir. SYLVIE LE BON DE BEAUVOIR, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and other works by Beauvoir.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

“Likely will shed new light on aspects of de Beauvoir’s political thought . . . Recommended.”

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Tracing nearly three decades of Simone de Beauvoir’s leftist political engagement, these writings range from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal to an article arguing for a two-state solution in Israel.

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“THE USELESS MOUTHS” AND OTHER LITERARY WRITINGS

MARGARET A. SIMONS is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism. MARYBETH TIMMERMANN is a contributing translator and editor of Philosophical Writings and other books by Beauvoir. SYLVIE LE BON DE BEAUVOIR, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and other works by Beauvoir.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

“An impressive team of experts introduces the book’s ten pieces and thoroughly annotates them. . . . This book nicely puts the philosopher’s work into an expanded context for nonspecialists.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

Ranging from drama to radio broadcasts, the selections reveal fresh insights into Simone de Beauvoir’s writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy.

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THE MARK OF SLAVERY

Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America

JENIFER L. BARCLAY Exploring the disability history of slavery “Barclay’s deft handling of disability through her archival research, the brilliance of her scholarship on the ways that blackness becomes synonymous with disability, her skillful use of Black Critical Disability Studies as a methodological framework, and clear and persuasive prose allows us greater insight into the debilitating effects of slavery as a disabling device for its victims.”

—DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but also to argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the 10 percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy. Their roles as caregivers, healers, and keepers of memory made them esteemed within their own communities and celebrated figures in song and folklore.

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Prescient in its analysis and rich in detail, The Mark of Slavery is a powerful addition to the intertwined histories of disability, slavery, and race.

A volume in the series Disability Histories, edited by Kim Nielsen and Michael Rembis

JENIFER L. BARCLAY is an assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo.

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DEGREES OF DIFFICULTY

How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace

GEORGIA CERVIN How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women’s gymnastics “Georgia Cervin's Degrees of Difficulty is an enthralling analysis of elite women's gymnastics, from a scholar's and insider's view. Through carefully applied lenses of gender, race, power, and politics, Cervin exposes the historical underbelly of cheating, bribery, abuse, and political ­manipulation in one of the world's most popular Olympic Sports.”

—KEVIN B. WAMSLEY, coauthor of Sport in Canada: A History, fourth edition Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci helped make women’s artistic gymnastics one of the most popular events in the Olympic Games. But the transition of gymnastics from a women’s sport to a girl’s sport in the 1970s also laid the foundation for a system of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of gymnasts around the world. Georgia Cervin offers a unique history of women’s gymnastics, examining how the high-stakes diplomatic rivalry of the Cold War created a breeding ground for exploitation. Yet, a surprising spirit of international collaboration arose to decide the social values and image of femininity demonstrated by the sport. Cervin also charts the changes in style, equipment, training, and participants that transformed the sport, as explosive athleticism replaced balletic grace and gymnastics dominance shifted from East to West.

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Sweeping and revelatory, Degrees of Difficulty tells a story of international friction, unexpected cooperation, and the legacy of abuse and betrayal created by the winat-all-cost attitudes of the Cold War.

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GEORGIA CERVIN is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a former international gymnast.

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FIGHTING VISIBILITY

Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC

JENNIFER MCCLEAREN Ultimate Fighting Championship and the present and future of women’s sports “A scathing critique of the exploitation that defines the relationship of the UFC to its women fighters, Fighting Visibility fills a hole in the study of sports. Never has this subject been explored with the depth and clarity that we have here. A necessary and groundbreaking read. It makes the point with crystal clarity: visibility and equity are not the same thing.”

—DAVE ZIRIN, sports editor, The Nation Mixed-martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rousey have made female athletes top draws in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Jennifer McClearen charts how the promotion incorporates women into its far-flung media ventures, and then she investigates the complexities surrounding female inclusion. On the one hand, the undeniable popularity of cards headlined by women add much-needed diversity to the sporting landscape. On the other, the UFC leverages an illusion of promoting difference—whether gender, racial, ethnic, or sexual—to grow its empire with an inexpensive and expendable pool of female fighters. McClearen illuminates how the UFC’s half-hearted efforts at representation generate profit and cultural cachet while covering up the fact it exploits women of color, lesbians, gender non-conforming women, and others.

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Thought provoking and timely, Fighting Visibility tells the story of how a sports entertainment phenomenon made difference a part of its brand—and the ways women paid the price for success.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05263-7 A volume in the series Studies in Sports Media, edited by Victoria E. Johnson and Travis Vogan

JENNIFER MCCLEAREN is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.

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UNBINDING GENTILITY

Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South

CANDACE BAILEY Hearing southern women in the pauses of history “Unbinding Gentility dismantles facile stereotypes about women’s music making in the nineteenth century in order to explore the complex intersections of women’s musical practices and social class, race, and region. Women whose experiences have been silenced or caricatured come to life in this richly researched and substantial history of the U.S. South. Bailey reveals how gentility was no predictor of social or economic status, that accomplishment was not solely the domain of white elite women, and that there is much we still need to learn from the material culture of women’s musical lives.”

—GLENDA GOODMAN, author of Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic

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Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Candace Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music’s transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us understand its meaning in the women’s culture of the time. Bailey pays particular attention to the space between music as an ideal accomplishment—part of how people expected women to perform gentility—and a real practice—what women actually did. At the same time, her ethnographic reading of binder’s volumes, letters and diaries, and a wealth of other archival material informs new and vital interpretations of women’s place in southern culture.

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A fascinating collective portrait of women’s artistic and personal lives, Unbinding Gentility challenges entrenched assumptions about nineteenth-century music and the experiences of the southern women who made it.

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CANDACE BAILEY is a professor of music at North Carolina Central University. She is the author of Music and the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer and Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord.

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MOVIE WORKERS

The Women Who Made British Cinema

MELANIE BELL Rolling the credits on six decades of women in film “Melanie Bell describes Movie Workers as a history that aims to ‘disrupt the present’ and she has done just that.

Marshalling a rich array of evidence from trade union records, oral histories, and contemporaneous sources, Bell uncovers the essential work that women have performed at all levels of the British film industry for decades—work rendered invisible in traditional histories which have for too long glorified film directors as solitary creative geniuses and stubbornly refused to recognize feminized labor as labor.”

—SHELLEY STAMP, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood After the advent of sound, women in the British film industry formed an essential corps of below-the-line workers, laboring in positions from animation artist to negative cutter to costume designer. Melanie Bell maps the work of these women decade-by-decade, examining their far-ranging economic and creative contributions against the backdrop of the discrimination that constrained their careers. Her use of oral histories and trade union records presents a vivid counter-narrative to film history, one that focuses not only on women in a male-dominated business, but on the innumerable types of physical and emotional labor required to make a motion picture. Bell’s feminist analysis looks at women’s jobs in film at important historical junctures while situating the work in the context of changing expectations around women and gender roles.

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Illuminating and astute, Movie Workers is a first-of-its-kind examination of the unsung women whose invisible work brought British filmmaking to the screen.

MELANIE BELL is an associate professor of film and media at the University of Leeds. Her books include Julie Christie: Stardom and Cultural Production and Femininity in Frame: Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema.

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LA VOZ LATINA

Contemporary Plays and Performance Pieces

by Latinas

Edited by ELIZABETH C. RAMÍREZ and CATHERINE CASIANO A collection of Latina performance pieces “Makes visible and accessible a panoply of performance texts that show the remarkable range and ability of Latina playwrights. It demonstrates the vibrant diversity, transnational influences, and high volume of activity in Latina theatre in both the past and present.”

—THEATRE JOURNAL Elizabeth C. Ramírez and Catherine Casiano bring together a collection of plays and performance pieces by innovative Latina playwrights. Surveying Latina theatre in the United States from the 1980s to the twenty-first century, the editors present works displaying a variety of forms, themes, and genres, expanding the field of Latina theatre while situating it in the larger spectrum of American stage and performance studies. Ramírez and Casiano provide historical context and a production history for each work and a biography of, and artistic statement from, each playwright.

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PAPER, 978-0-252-08598-7 $30.00x £22.99 Book rights: University of Illinois. Play copyrights held by the individual playwrights.

Contributors: Yareli Arizmendi, Josefina Báez, The Colorado Sisters, Migdalia Cruz, Evelina Fernández, Cherríe Moraga, Carmen Peláez, Carmen Rivera, Celia H. Rodríguez, Diane Rodriguez, and Milcha Sanchez-Scott. The volume also includes commentary by Kathy Perkins and Caridad Svich.

ELIZABETH C. RAMÍREZ works professionally as a dramaturg and currently teaches at Our Lady of the Lake University, and is the author of Chicanas/Latinas on the American Stage: A History of Performance.

CATHERINE CASIANO is Assistant Dean of Admissions at St. Mary’s University School of Law.

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BEING LA DOMINICANA

Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo

RACHEL AFI QUINN Dominican women being seen—and seeing themselves— in the media “A unique and timely examination of the significance and cultural strategies of Dominican women in the contemporary era marked by neoliberal economic structures, (post) colonial geopolitical arrangements, heteropatriarchal beauty standards, and global anti-blackness. It is an important work of feminist ethnography.”

—NICOLE FLEETWOOD, author of On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynamic realities and uniquely racialized gendered experiences of women in Santo Domingo, Quinn reveals the way racial ambiguity and color hierarchy work to shape experiences of identity and subjectivity in the Dominican Republic. She merges analyses of context and interviews with young Dominican women to offer rare insights into a Caribbean society in which the tourist industry and popular media reward, and rely upon, the ability of Dominican women to transform themselves to perform gender, race, and class.

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Engaging and astute, Being La Dominicana reveals the little-studied world of today’s young Dominican women and what their personal stories and transnational experiences can tell us about the larger neoliberal world.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05271-2 A volume in the series Dissident Feminisms, edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury

RACHEL AFI QUINN is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston.

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A MATTER OF MORAL JUSTICE

Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice

JENNY CARSON A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity “An engaging book on a workforce that has received surprisingly little attention from labor historians. Carson provides a highly readable analysis of how racialized and gendered were job assignments, union organizing campaigns, and labor politics.”

—DENNIS DESLIPPE, author of Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York’s power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city’s laundry workers.

Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-­ based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor organizing, and union politics across the country in the twentieth century.

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by James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein

Meticulous and engaging, A Matter of Moral Justice examines the role of African American and radical women activists and their collisions with labor organizing and union politics.

Publication supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought

JENNY CARSON is an associate professor of history at Ryerson University.

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PASSING THE BATON

Black Women Track Stars and American Identity

CAT M. ARIAIL How African American women athletes tested a nation’s image of itself "Ariail pinpoints how important the women of track and field were to changing opinions in both white and black communities about the accomplishments of women of color. But she also powerfully argues that this story does not end with victory. Rather, she reminds us how much work gender did (and does) to undergird racism."

—KATHERINE C. MOONEY, author of Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures—both white and Black—to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America’s dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship.

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A rare exploration of African American women athletes and national identity, Passing the Baton reveals young Black women as active agents in the remaking of what it means to be American.

A volume in the series Sport and Society, edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Jaime Schultz

CAT M. ARIAIL is a lecturer in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.

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MADAM C. J. WALKER’S GOSPEL OF GIVING

Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow

TYRONE MCKINLEY FREEMAN Foreword by A’Lelia Bundles The iconic businesswoman’s life of generosity and inspiration “This is no simple story of Madam Walker’s charitable giving.

Instead, by spanning the course of Walker’s remarkable life from the daughter of enslaved parents to beauty culture mogul, Tyrone McKinley Freeman’s brilliant and impeccably researched book demonstrates that wealth did not drive Walker to give, but that she was the embodiment of a much longer, though often hidden, tradition of black philanthropy. This book will forever change the way we understand Walker’s importance and provides a much needed context for contemporary calls for economic justice.”

—TIFFANY GILL, author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry

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Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C. J. Walker was celebrated as America’s first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist philanthropy aimed at empowering African Americans and challenging the injustices inflicted by Jim Crow.

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Tyrone McKinley Freeman’s biography highlights how giving shaped Walker’s life before and after she became wealthy. Poor and widowed when she arrived in St. Louis in her twenties, Walker found mentorship among black churchgoers and working black women. Her adoption of faith, racial uplift, education, and self-help soon informed her dedication to assisting black women’s entrepreneurship, financial independence, and activism. Walker embedded her philanthropy in how she grew her business, forged alliances with groups like the National Association of Colored Women, funded schools and social service agencies led by African American women, and enlisted her company’s sales agents in local charity and advocacy work.

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Illuminating and dramatic, Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving broadens our understanding of black women’s charitable giving and establishes Walker as a foremother of African American philanthropy.

TYRONE MCKINLEY FREEMAN is an assistant professor of philanthropic studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM DYING

African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century

DANIELLE FUENTES MORGAN How African Americans have infused satire with a potent new dimension “Danielle Fuentes Morgan attunes readers to the variable registers and resonances of Black laughter in the present moment. Examining a wide range of media, from novels and television series to standup comedy and performance art, Morgan shows how the satirical impulse in Black cultural production expresses not only collective histories of subversion but individual practices of survival. A bold account of humor’s capacity to traverse the realms of sociality and interiority, Laughing to Keep from Dying is a model of Black study for the twenty-first century.”

—KINOHI NISHIKAWA, author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground

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By subverting comedy’s rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way.

Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures from Suzan-Lori Parks to Leslie Jones and Dave Chappelle to Get Out and Atlanta to examine the satirical treatment of race and racialization across today’s African American culture. Morgan analyzes how African American artists highlight the ways that society racializes people and bolsters the powerful myth that we live in a “post-racial” nation. The latter in particular inspires artists to take aim at the idea racism no longer exists or the laughable notion of Americans “not seeing” racism or race. Their critique changes our understanding of the boundaries between staged performance and lived experience and create ways to better articulate Black selfhood.

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Adventurous and perceptive, Laughing to Keep from Dying reveals how African American satirists unmask the illusions and anxieties surrounding race in the twenty-­first century.

DANIELLE FUENTES MORGAN is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Santa Clara University.

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MOBILIZING BLACK GERMANY

Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

TIFFANY N. FLORVIL The women and groups behind Black German thought and resistance of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries “Florvil’s magisterial Mobilizing Black Germany is a must-read for all scholars of the Black and African diasporas who are interested in the history of Black activism. Mobilizing Black Germany takes you to the very beginning of the Afrodeutsch movement, some years before Audre Lorde’s arrival, and puts you right inside. Florvil’s deep research crafts an unforgettable history rich with famous figures who stride the global stage and local heroes whose sacrifices and achievements were no less monumental.”

—MICHELLE M. WRIGHT, author of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology

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In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies facilitated new, often radical bonds between people from disparate backgrounds across the Black Diaspora.

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Tiffany N. Florvil examines the role of queer and straight women in shaping the contours of the modern Black German movement as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. Florvil shows the multifaceted contributions of women to movement making, including Audre Lorde’s role in influencing their activism; the activists who inspired Afro-German women to curate their own identities and histories; and the evolution of the activist groups Initiative of Black Germans and Afro-German Women. These practices and strategies became a rallying point for isolated and marginalized women (and men) and shaped the roots of contemporary Black German activism.

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Richly researched and multidimensional in scope, Mobilizing Black Germany offers a rare in-depth look at the emergence of the modern Black German movement and Black feminists’ politics, intellectualism, and internationalism.

TIFFANY N. FLORVIL is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico.

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QUEER AND TRANS MIGRATIONS

Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

Edited by EITHNE LUIBHÉID and KARMA R. CHÁVEZ Centering the experiences of LGBTQ migrants and communities in crisis “An extraordinarily important volume bringing together activists, artists, and academics, Queer and Trans Migrations models the wide range of approaches that can help us understand and challenge the hetero­normative frameworks, settler-colonialist politics, and racialized logics affecting migration, detention, and deportation.”

—ERICA RAND, author of The Ellis Island Snow Globe More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume center illegalization, detention, and deportation in national and transnational contexts, and examine how migrants and allies negotiate, resist, refuse, and critique these processes. The works contribute to the fields of gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, borders and migration studies, and decolonial studies.

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Contributors: Myisha Arellanus, Greg Bal, Felipe Baeza, AB Brown, Julio Capó Jr., Anna Carastathis, Jack Cáraves, Karma R. Chávez, Ryan Conrad, Monisha Das Gupta, Molly Fair, Katherine Fobear, Jamila Hammami, Leece Lee-Oliver, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Rachel Lewis, Adela C. Licona, Eithne Luibhéid, Hana Masri, Matice Moore, Yasmin Nair, Bamby Salcedo, Fadi Saleh, Elif Sarı, Rafael Ramirez Solórzano, José Guadalupe Herrera Soto, María Inés Taracena, Rommy Torrico, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda, Sasha Wijeyeratne, and Ruben Zecena

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EITHNE LUIBHÉID is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant. KARMA R. CHÁVEZ is an associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities.

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QUEERING THE GLOBAL FILIPINA BODY

Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora

GINA K. VELASCO Globalization, work, and the images of Filipinas in the media “A rich analysis of the transnational circuits of culture, labor, goods, and ideology circulating around the material and symbolic body of the Filipina. With its uniquely nuanced documentation and theorization of multiple, competing nationalisms, this book clear-sightedly accounts, on the one hand, for heteropatriarchy within the Filipino diaspora and, on the other hand, the limits of queer white definitions of desire and liberation.”

—SARITA SEE, author of The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance

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Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora.

Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization.

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Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital instruments of struggle.

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GINA K. VELASCO is an assistant professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Gettysburg College.

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BLACK QUEER FREEDOM

Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire

GERSHUN AVILEZ Mapping a geography of black queer life through art “With pristine writing and bold thinking about queer desire, gender, and spatial justice, Avilez’s Black Queer Freedom is a timely addition to the growing body of scholar­ship on black vulnerability, trauma, and queerness.

Avilez dynamically illustrates how gender non-­conforming artists are important to challenging the boundaries of black freedom.”

—L. H. STALLINGS, author of Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists’ work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces—specifically prisons and hospitals—and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility.

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GERSHUN AVILEZ is an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism.

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STARRING WOMEN

Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790–1850

SARA E. LAMPERT Women pushing the limits of public life in antebellum America “An excellent intervention in women’s history and theater history, with significant new insights into the precarious gender politics that accompanied star female actors’ appearance and the ways the economic underpinnings of the business of theater colored those politics. This is an important book.”

—CAROLYN EASTMAN, author of A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other stage shows shocked and excited early U.S. audiences. These women lived and performed the tensions and contradictions of nineteenth-century gender roles, sparking debates about women’s place in public life. Yet even their unprecedented wealth and prominence failed to break the patriarchal family structures that governed their lives and conditioned their careers. Inevitable contradictions arose. The burgeoning celebrity culture of the time forced women stage stars to don the costumes of domestic femininity even as the unsettled nature of life in the theater defied these ideals.

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by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White

A revealing foray into a lost time, Starring Women returns a generation of performers to their central place in the early history of American theater.

SARA E. LAMPERT is an associate professor of history at the University of South Dakota.

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DISRUPTIVE ARCHIVES

Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars

VIVIANA BEATRIZ MACMANUS Gender-based violence and historical memory in Mexico and Argentina “MacManus offers a deft contribution to the study of Latin American political repression by keeping women’s participation in resistance struggles at the center of her feminist intertextual analyses of oral histories and literary and audiovisual pieces.”

—PASCHA BUENO-HANSEN, author of Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice The histories of the Dirty Wars in Mexico and Argentina (1960s–1980s) have largely erased how women experienced and remember the gendered violence during this traumatic time. Viviana Beatriz MacManus restores women to the revolutionary struggle at the heart of the era by rejecting both state projects and the leftist accounts focused on men. Using a compelling archival blend of oral histories, interviews, human rights reports, literature, and film, MacManus illuminates complex narratives of loss, violence, and trauma. The accounts upend dominant histories by creating a feminist-centered body of knowledge that challenges the twinned legacies of oblivion for the victims and state-sanctioned immunity for the perpetrators.

A new Latin American feminist theory of justice emerges—one that acknowledges women’s strength, resistance, and survival during and after a horrific time in their nations’ histories.

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Haunting and methodologically innovative, Disruptive Archives attests to the power of women’s storytelling and memory in the struggle to reclaim history.

VIVIANA BEATRIZ MACMANUS is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and French Studies at Occidental College.

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EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES

Love, Gender, and Migration

Edited by MARCELO J. BORGES, SONIA CANCIAN, and LINDA REEDER Epilogue by Donna R. Gabaccia Love and the human side of migration “This is a fascinating collection, giving us access to the emotional experience of groups we have not yet seen from this angle and amplifying our understanding of a key emotion as well.”

—PETER STEARNS, author of Shame: A Brief History Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of love shape the ways human beings migrate but also create meaning for migrants, their families, and their societies. Looking at sources ranging from letters of Portuguese immigrants in the 1880s to tweets passed among immigrant families in today’s Italy, the essays explore the sentimental, sexual, and political meanings of love. The authors also look at how immigrants and those around them use love to justify separation and loss, and how love influences us to privilege certain immigrants—wives, children, lovers, refugees—over others.

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Affecting and perceptive, Emotional Landscapes moves from war and transnational families to gender and citizenship to explore the crossroads of migration and the history of emotion.

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Contributors: María Bjerg, Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian, Tyler Carrington, Margarita Dounia, Alexander Freund, Donna R. Gabaccia, A. James Hammerton, Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Emily Pope-Obeda, Linda Reeder, Roberta Ricucci, Suzanne M. Sinke, and Elizabeth Zanoni

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MARCELO J. BORGES is a professor of history at Dickinson College.

He is the author of Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective. SONIA CANCIAN is an independent scholar affiliated with McGill University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal. She is the author of Families, Lovers, and Their Letters: Italian Postwar Migration to Canada. LINDA REEDER is an associate professor of history and chair of women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Italian Women, Sicily, 1880–1920.

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LUCRETIA MOTT SPEAKS

The Essential Speeches and Sermons

LUCRETIA MOTT Edited by Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy Hewitt, and Beverly Wilson Palmer An invaluable collection of the iconic reformer’s words and works “This book lays excellent groundwork for much-needed scholarship. . . . General readers will be pleasantly surprised to find a lively, spirited, radical, complex woman who defies common stereotypes.”

—QUAKER STUDIES Best known as one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848, Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) engaged in the broad sisterhood of reforms over six decades. Drawing on widely scattered archives and other sources, Lucretia Mott Speaks collects the essential speeches and remarks from Mott’s remarkable career as one of the great activists in American history. The selections represent important themes and events in her public life, including her prominent role in the antislavery and women’s rights movements, and illuminate her passionate belief that her many causes were intertwined. Helpful annotations provide vibrant context and show Mott’s engagement with allies, critics, and opponents. The result is an authoritative resource, one that enriches our understanding of Mott’s views and still-powerful influence on American society.

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by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White

CHRISTOPHER DENSMORE was the curator of the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College and is the author of Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator. CAROL FAULKNER is a professor of history at Syracuse University and the author of Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. NANCY HEWITT is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her books include Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds. BEVERLY WILSON PALMER is a research associate at Pomona College and the editor or coeditor of numerous documentary editions, including Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott.

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DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE

Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School

Edited by KIMBERLY D. McKEE and DENISE A. DELGADO Foreword by Karen J. Leong A go-to resource for helping women of color survive, and thrive, in grad school “The personal and the political are addressed in this multi­ faceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure-track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area.”

—GABRIELLA GUTIÉRREZ Y MUHS, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 232 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES

University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists—all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of their work further poison an atmosphere that suffocates not only ambition but a person’s quality of life.

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In Degrees of Difference, women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles—both internal and external—to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and unsupportive faculty and colleagues.

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Contributors: Aeriel A. Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernández, Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Délice Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Soha Youssef KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. DENISE A. DELGADO received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.

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AUTOCHTHONOMIES

Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora

MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY A new approach to understanding African diasporic culture “In its critique of Western rationality, Enlightenment categories, and hierarchical orderings, this book makes a significant contribution. Chancy uses race and gender theory in smart and provocative ways. Her elucidation of difficult texts and contexts is clear and convincing. The research is well presented, the arguments well developed, and the conclusions intellectually satisfying.”

—FRANÇOISE LIONNET, author of Writing Women and Critical Dialogues: Subjectivity, Gender, and Irony In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey.

She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates. By invoking a transnational African/diasporic lens and negotiating it through a lakou or “yard space,” we can see such identities transfigured, recognized, and exchanged. Chancy demonstrates how the process can examine the salient features of texts and art that underscore African/diasporic sensibilities and render them legible. What emerges is a potential for richer readings of African diasporic works that also ruptures the Manichean binary dynamics that have dominated previous interpretations of the material. The result: an enriching interpretive mode focused on the transnational connections between subjects of African descent as the central pole for reader investigation.

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A bold challenge to established scholarship, Autochthonomies ranges from Africa to Europe and the Americas to provide powerful new tools for charting the transnational interactions between African cultural producers and sites.

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MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY is the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. Her books include From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic and Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women.

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PLEASURE IN THE NEWS

African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press

KIM GALLON How sex and sensation fueled the power of the black press “Blending unprecedented research into the African American press, and the journalists and editors who put the papers out, with a careful synthesis of the existing scholarship, Pleasure in the News shows how opinions about sex behavior impacted reading publics over several decades of profound change in the black experience. Kim Gallon’s systematic analysis of an almost endless news cycle of marital infidelities, scandalous divorces, celebrity drag queens, and low-down queers of all kinds provides a fresh angle on what are now classic questions in the field.”

—KEVIN MUMFORD, author of Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

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Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance—arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity.

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Gallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press printed stories that complicated notions about respectability. Sensational coverage also expanded African American women’s sexual consciousness and demonstrated the tenuous position of female impersonators, black gay men, and black lesbians in early twentieth-century African American urban communities.

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Informative and empowering, Pleasure in the News redefines the significance of the black press in African American history and advancement while shedding light on the important cultural and social role that sexuality played in the power of the black press.

KIM GALLON is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Purdue University.

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THE SPORT MARRIAGE

Women Who Make It Work

STEVEN M. ORTIZ Survival and sacrifice with the ultimate team players “In this keenly observed, empathic, and insightful work, Steven Ortiz recounts the inner experience of wives married to both a man and his sports career. Ortiz observes the precise order in which wives sit on the bench in the stadium, how they respond to affair-seeking groupies, to more senior sports wives, news of a sudden cross-country trade, an intrusive mother-in-law, a lasting head-injury.

He explores the complex art of managing a backstage role. This is the best book I know of on the sport marriage.”

—ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right In The Sport Marriage, Steven M. Ortiz draws on studies he conducted over nearly three decades that focus on the marital realities confronted by women married to male professional athletes. These women, who are usually portrayed in unflattering and/or unrealistic terms, face enormous challenges in their attempts to establish and maintain functional marital and family lives while the husband routinely puts his career first.

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Ortiz defines the traditional sport marriage as a career-dominated marriage, illustrating how it encourages women to contribute to their own subordination through adherence to an unwritten rulebook and a repertoire of self-management strategies. He explains how they make invaluable contributions to their husbands’ careers while adjusting to public life and trying to maintain family privacy, managing power and control issues, and coping with pervasive groupies, overinvolved mothers, a culture of infidelity, and husbands who prioritize team loyalty. He gives these historically silent women a voice, offering readers perceptive and sensitive insight into what it means to be a woman in the male-dominated world of professional sports.

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STEVEN M. ORTIZ is an associate professor of sociology at Oregon State University.

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Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage

Edited by LINDA STEINER, CAROLYN KITCH, and BROOKE KROEGER The press and the long road to the Nineteenth Amendment “The centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment encourages a fresh rethinking of the history of the women’s suffrage movement, to which this volume is a welcome addition.

Special kudos for its sustained attention to racial and regional diversity, as well as its broad chronological sweep.”

—SUSAN WARE, author of Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote Suffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women’s suffrage movement and the public’s understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media of suffragist journalism and publications.

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This collection offers new research on media issues related to the women’s suffrage movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography, and innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the vexed relationship between the media and debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked topics such as coverage by African American and Mormonoriented media, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, and the influence views of white masculinity had on press coverage.

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Contributors: Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner, and Robin Sundaramoorthy

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LINDA STEINER is a professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and a coauthor of Women and Journalism. CAROLYN KITCH is a professor of journalism and media & communication at Temple University and the author of Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past.

BROOKE KROEGER is a professor of journalism at New York University and the author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote.

Additional materials and educator resources can be found at suffrageandthemedia.org

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ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Justice and Community in South Africa

HANNAH E. BRITTON Creating a feminist approach to a global problem “Britton’s sobering book offers an incisive, comprehensive view of what works and what doesn’t work in South African efforts to stop gender-based violence. Not only does this book document practical ways to end gender-based violence, but it also advances transnational feminist research on the subject. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about eliminating gender-based violence.”

—ASHLEY CURRIER, author of Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa South African women’s still-increasing presence in local, provincial, and national institutions has inspired sweeping legislation aimed at advancing women’s rights and opportunity. Yet the country remains plagued by sexual assault, rape, and intimate partner violence.

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Hannah E. Britton examines the reasons gendered violence persists in relationship to social inequalities even after women assume political power. Venturing into South African communities, Britton invites service providers, religious and traditional leaders, police officers, and medical professionals to address gender-based violence in their own words. Britton finds the recent turn toward carceral solutions—with a focus on arrests and prosecutions—fails to address the complexities of the problem. Instead, changing specific community dynamics can defuse interpersonal violence. She also examines how place and space affect the implementation of policy and suggests practical ways policymakers can support street level workers.

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Clear-eyed and revealing, Ending Gender-Based Violence offers needed tools for breaking cycles of brutality and inequality around the world.

HANNAH E. BRITTON is a professor of political science and women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance and coeditor of Women’s Activism in South Africa: Working across Divides.

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FASHIONING POSTFEMINISM

Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture

SIMIDELE DOSEKUN The serious business of being spectacular in Nigeria and the Global South “This book brilliantly challenges the assumption of whiteness and the Western location of the postfeminist female subject, documenting how postfeminism circulates well beyond the Global North. Dosekun demonstrates a rare sensitivity to place and to the specific norms circulating that space, which, as she underscores, shape the way in which postfeminism is taken up. The arguments are forceful, and the empirical material is handled with great care, sensitivity, and insight.”

—CATHERINE ROTTENBERG, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism 216 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES

Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty.

From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world.

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Simidele Dosekun’s interviews and critical analysis consider the female subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically immaculate beauty signals—but also constitutes—feminine power. As empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need to critique their culture or to take part in feminism’s collective political struggle. Throughout, Dosekun unearths evocative details around the practical challenges to attaining their style, examines the gap between how others view these women and how they view themselves, and engages with ideas about postfeminist self-fashioning and subjectivity across cultures and class.

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Intellectually provocative and rich with theory, Fashioning Postfeminism reveals why women choose to live, embody, and even suffer for a fascinating performative culture.

SIMIDELE DOSEKUN is an assistant professor in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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IMAGINING THE MULATTA

Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media

JASMINE MITCHELL Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil and the United States “An important and very readable work on the comparative histories and visual cultural formations of race and mixed race in Brazil and the United States.”

—CAMILLA FOJAS, author of Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixedrace women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates.

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Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and US popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an “acceptable” version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire.

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JASMINE MITCHELL is an assistant professor of American studies and media and communication at SUNY Old Westbury.

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MONEY, MARRIAGE, AND MADNESS

The Life of Anna Ott

KIM E. NIELSEN A female physician battling oppression and the law in the nineteenth-century Midwest “The book brilliantly renders the complex life of Dr. Anna Ott. Nielsen brings impassioned analysis to the ways that ableism, patriarchy, violence, and money shaped the life of one reputedly mad woman. Under Nielsen’s penetrating eye, Ott’s story illuminates the messy historical forces that shaped nineteenth-century women’s encounters with money, marriage, and madness.”

—SUSAN CAHN, author of Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women’s Sport, Second Edition 168 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES 6 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 3 TABLES

Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician’s wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life.

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Kim E. Nielsen explores a life at once irregular and unexceptional, revealing a woman whose whiteness and privileged place in society still failed to protect her.

Historical and institutional structures, like laws that liberalized divorce and women’s ability to control their property, opened up uncommon possibilities for Ott. Other structures, from domestic violence in the home to rampant sexism and ableism outside of it, remained a part of even affluent women’s lives. Money, Marriage, and Madness tells a forgotten story of how the legal and medical cultures shaped one woman—and what her life tells us about power and society in nineteenth century America.

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KIM E. NIELSEN is a professor and director of the disability studies program at the University of Toledo. Her books include A Disability History of the United States and Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller.

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HILLBILLY MAIDENS, OKIES, AND COWGIRLS

Women’s Country Music, 1930–1960

STEPHANIE VANDER WEL Pioneering women and their soundtrack of searching in country music “Women’s struggle for inclusion is one of the biggest stories in country music today. Vander Wel’s rich history shows how female artists fought for a voice and made it central to country’s stories of gender, class, and migration in mid– twentieth-century America.”

—NADINE HUBBS, author of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music From the 1930s to the 1960s, the booming popularity of country music threw a spotlight on a new generation of innovative women artists. These individuals blazed trails as singers, musicians, and performers even as the industry hemmed in their potential popularity with labels like woman hillbilly, singing cowgirl, and honkytonk angel.

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Stephanie Vander Wel looks at the careers of artists like Patsy Montana, Rose Maddox, and Kitty Wells against the backdrop of country music’s golden age.

Analyzing recordings and appearances on radio, film, and television, she connects performances to real and imagined places and examines how the music sparked new ways for women listeners to imagine the open range, the honky-tonk, and the home. The music also captured the tensions felt by women facing geographic disruption and economic uncertainty. While classic songs and heartfelt performances might ease anxieties, the subject matter underlined women’s ambivalent relationships to industrialism, middle-class security, and established notions of femininity.

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STEPHANIE VANDER WEL is an associate professor of music at the University at Buffalo.

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VITA SEXUALIS

Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science

RALPH M. LECK The battle to define a new way of thinking “Provides a strikingly affirmative alternative to much recent postmodern discourse. . . . For any student of gay history and liberation, this refreshing work will prove instructive and will, I predict, be viewed as a key text pointing toward a new literature on the revolutionary nature of gay identity arising after three decades of nihilistic post-modernism.”

—GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW Karl Ulrichs’s studies of sexual diversity galvanized the burgeoning field of sexual science in the nineteenth century. But in the years since, his groundbreaking activism for the emancipation of homosexuality has overshadowed his scholarly achievements.

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Ralph M. Leck returns Ulrichs to his place as the inventor of the science of sexual heterogeneity. Leck’s analysis situates sexual science in thematic contexts that include political history, aesthetics, amatory studies, and the language of science.

Although he was the greatest nineteenth-century scholar of sexual heterogeneity, Ulrichs retained certain traditional conjectures about gender. Leck recognizes these subtleties and employs the analytical concepts of modernist vita sexualis and traditional psychopathia sexualis to articulate philosophical and cultural differences among sexologists.

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Original and audacious, Vita Sexualis uses a bedrock figure’s scientific and political innovations to open new insights into the history of sexual science, legal systems, and Western amatory codes.

RALPH M. LECK has taught for many years in the University Honors Program at Indiana State University. He is the former director of Peace and Justice Studies at Marian University, Indianapolis. He is the author of Georg Simmel and Avant-Garde Sociology: The Birth of Modernity, 1880–1920.

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REIMAGINING LIBERATION How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire

ANNETTE K. JOSEPH-GABRIEL The work and thought of seven black women in the fight against colonialism “A transformative and unprecedented contribution. It recovers material, heretofore mostly unexamined, to identify each woman’s local and global positionalities, that is, their national circumstances as well as the areas where they and their struggles intersect. Readers eager to learn about this historical and literary era will discover gems in this book.”

—RENÉE LARRIER, author of Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. As thinkers and activists, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state.

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Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal the anticolonialist endeavors of seven women. Though often overlooked today, Suzanne Césaire, Paulette Nardal, Eugénie Éboué-Tell, Jane Vialle, Andrée Blouin, Aoua Kéita, and Eslanda Robeson took part in a forceful transnational movement. Their activism and thought challenged France’s imperial system by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple cultural and racial identities.

Expanding the possibilities of belonging beyond national and even Francophone borders, these women imagined new pan-African and pan-Caribbean identities informed by black feminist intellectual frameworks and practices. The visions they articulated also shifted the idea of citizenship itself, replacing a single form of collective identity and political participation with an expansive plurality of forms of belonging.

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ANNETTE K. JOSEPH-GABRIEL is an assistant professor of French at University of Michigan.

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BLACK SEXUAL ECONOMIES Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital

Edited by ADRIENNE D. DAVIS and THE BSE COLLECTIVE New thinking about taboo, outlaw, deviant, and subversive black sexuality “Black Sexual Economies provides a compelling collection of writing that analyzes the experiences of black gender and sexual minorities and investigates collaborations made by an interdisciplinary team of scholars examining black sexuality in a variety of historical, political, and social contexts.”

—ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social life. Throughout, the writers reveal the lives, everyday negotiations, and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black gender and sexual minorities while analyzing the systems and beliefs that structure the possibilities that exist for all black sexualities. They also confront the mechanisms of domination and subordination attached to the political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic work that interact with the energies at the nexus of sexuality and race.

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Contributors: Marlon M. Bailey, Lia T. Bascomb, Felice Blake, Darius Bost, Ariane Cruz, Adrienne D. Davis, Pierre Dominguez, David B. Green Jr., Jillian Hernandez, Cheryl D. Hicks, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune, Mireille Miller-Young, Angelique Nixon, Shana L. Redmond, Matt Richardson, L. H. Stallings, Anya M. Wallace, and Erica Lorraine Williams.

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ADRIENNE D. DAVIS is William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law and vice provost at Washington University in St. Louis. THE BLACK SEXUAL ECONOMIES (BSE) COLLECTIVE is a working group of scholars that includes Marlon M. Bailey, Felice Blake, Adrienne D. Davis, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune Jr., Mireille Miller-­Young, Matt Richardson, and L. H. Stallings.

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HUNGRY TRANSLATIONS Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability

RICHA NAGAR In Journeys with Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan and Parakh Theatre A fearless new approach to the search for poetic and social justice “Thoroughly researched . . . Heartfelt and informed.”

—SOUTHASIA MAGAZINE

“A brilliantly conceived, movingly narrated, and sensitively braided book. In it, the philosophical, theoretical, methodological, political, geographical, and spiritual stakes are high and concern the ethics and integrity of the poetics of political struggle, wherever that struggle might take place. Richa Nagar and the Saathis, Dalits, Kisans, and Mazdoors provide powerful fuel for a different kind of entitlement—the entitlement to justice.”

—M. JACQUI ALEXANDER, author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred 318 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 30 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars and teachers working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life?

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Informed by over twenty years of experiences in India and the United States, Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing.

Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theater artists, writers, and students, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies.

She argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation—or retelling—impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle.

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RICHA NAGAR is professor of the College in the College of Liberal Arts and a core faculty member in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her books include Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism.

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ROCKING THE CLOSET

How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music

VINCENT L. STEPHENS Pushing boundaries with an all-­star bill of hitmakers “Well-argued and thoughtful.”

—ARTS FUSE

“This is culturally and historically informed scholarship of the highest order. Stephens seeks to question and complicate the established historical way of thinking and to provide a nuanced reading of queerness that admits the powerful possibilities of the ‘open secret’ in a pre-­Liberation era when popular male musicians neither could nor necessarily desired to come out of the closet.”

—THEO CATEFORIS, author of Are We Not New Wave? Modern Pop at the turn of the 1980s

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The all-embracing, ”whaddya got?” nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music’s unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume—but not see—their queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations.

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Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closet—both coming out and staying in—by analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut. Liberace’s flamboyance shared a spectrum with Mathis’s intimate sensitivity while Ray’s overwrought displays as “Mr. Emotion” seemed worlds apart from Little Richard’s raise-the-roof joyousness. As Stephens shows, the quartet not only thrived in an era of gray flannel manhood, they pioneered the ways generations of later musicians would consciously adopt sexual mystery as an appealing and proven route to success.

A volume in the series New Perspectives on Gender in Music, edited by Suzanne Cusick and Henry Spiller Publication of this book was supported by a grant from the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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VINCENT L. STEPHENS is the director of the Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity and a contributing faculty member in music at Dickinson College.

He is a coeditor of Post Racial America? An Interdisciplinary Study.

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100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

COMPILED BY DAWN DURANTE Introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt Celebrating the work that women did and do to secure equal voting rights “100 Years of Women’s Suffrage highlights rarely discussed regional and racial approaches in the fight for women’s ‘first class citizenship’ through a fascinating mix of primary accounts and historical and gender studies essays.

A recommended anthology that rightly honors the Nineteenth Amendment’s centennial.”

—MICHELLE R. SCOTT, author of Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South 266 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 18 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 3 CHARTS, 12 TABLES

100 Years of Women’s Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the women’s suffrage movement and women’s voting previously published by the University of Illinois Press. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the volume illuminates the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women— across lines of gender, race, class, religion, and ethnicity—to gain, and use, the vote. Beginning with works that focus on cultural and political suffrage battles, the chapters then look past 1920 at how women won, wielded, and continue to fight for access to the ballot.

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A curation of important scholarship on a pivotal historical moment, 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage captures the complex and enduring struggle for fair and equal voting rights.

Contributors: Laura L. Behling, Erin Cassese, Mary Chapman, M. Margaret Conway, Carolyn Daniels, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ellen Carol DuBois, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Green, Nancy A. Hewitt, Leonie Huddy, Kimberly Jensen, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Lady Constance Lytton, and Andrea G. Radke-Moss DAWN DURANTE is editor in chief at the University of Texas Press.

NANCY A. HEWITT is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers University.

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SOPHONISBA BRECKINRIDGE

Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America

ANYA JABOUR The accomplished life and tireless work of a feminist educator and reformer “A compelling biography that resurrects the life and times of this noteworthy feminist.”

—BOOKLIST

“In propulsive prose, Anya Jabour brings to life progressive feminist Sophonisba Breckinridge, whose forty-­year career as an advocate for social justice provides a model of ‘passionate patience’ for progressives in the twenty-­first century.”

—ROBYN MUNCY, author of Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-­Century America

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Sophonisba Breckinridge’s remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the Progressive and New Deal eras and became a nationally and internationally renowned figure. Her work informed women’s activism for decades and continues to shape progressive politics today.

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Anya Jabour’s biography rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure. After earning advanced degrees in politics, economics, and law, Breckinridge established the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration, which became a feminist think tank that promoted public welfare policy and propelled women into leadership positions. In 1935, Breckinridge’s unremitting efforts to provide government aid to the dispossessed culminated in her appointment as an advisor on programs for the new Social Security Act. A longtime activist in international movements for peace and justice, Breckinridge also influenced the formation of the United Nations and advanced the idea that “women’s rights are human rights.”

Her lifelong commitment to social justice created a lasting legacy for generations of progressive activists.

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by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White Publication of this book was supported in part by a grant from the Baldridge Book Subvention Fund through the Humanities Institute of the College of Humanities and Sciences at the University of Montana.

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ANYA JABOUR is Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana. Her books include Topsy-­Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children.

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DEFINING GIRLHOOD IN INDIA

A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws

ASHWINI TAMBE Tracking the moving line that separates girlhood from womanhood ”A fascinating book on the politics of girlhood in India within the contexts of a global morality discourse, national interests, and international law. Tambe makes an exceptional contribution to girlhood studies.”

—SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN, author of Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices? This question provokes especially vexed debates in India, where early marriage is a widespread practice. India has served as a focal problem site in NGO campaigns and intergovernmental conferences setting age standards for sexual maturity. Over the last century, the country shifted the legal age of marriage from twelve, among the lowest in the world, to eighteen, at the high end of the global spectrum.

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Ashwini Tambe illuminates the ideas that shaped such shifts: how the concept of adolescence as a sheltered phase led to delaying both marriage and legal adulthood; how the imperative of population control influenced laws on marriage age; and how imperial moral hierarchies between nations provoked defensive postures within India. Tambe’s transnational feminist approach to legal history shows how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Ultimately, the well-meaning focus on child marriage became tethered less to the well-being of girls themselves and more to parents’ interests, population control targets, and the preservation of national reputation.

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ASHWINI TAMBE is an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Maryland College Park, where she is also affiliate faculty in history and Asian American studies. She is the author of Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay and editorial director of Feminist Studies.

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GAMELAN GIRLS

Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles

SONJA LYNN DOWNING The girls and young women reshaping gamelan in Bali “Downing effectively grounds her main argument and supporting points through analysis of her rich ethnographic data. Not only am I convinced, but I felt like I was in Bali with her, meeting her consultants, hearing them speak, getting a sense of their personalities, and watching them grow and mature.”

—CHRISTINA SUNARDI, author of Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance In recent years, girls’ and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance. The change heralds a fundamental shift in how Balinese think about gender roles and the gender behavior taught in children’s music education. It also makes visible a national reorganization of the arts taking place within debates over issues like women’s rights and cultural preservation.

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Sonja Lynn Downing draws on over a decade of immersive ethnographic work to analyze the ways Balinese musical practices have influenced the processes behind these dramatic changes. As Downing shows, girls and young women assert their agency within the gamelan learning process to challenge entrenched notions of performance and gender. One dramatic result is the creation of new combinations of femininity, musicality, and Balinese identity that resist messages about gendered behavior from the Indonesian nation-state and beyond. Such experimentation expands the accepted gender aesthetics of gamelan performance but also sparks new understanding of the role children can and do play in ongoing debates about identity and power.

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SONJA LYNN DOWNING is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at Lawrence University.

Publication of this book is supported by a grant from the Bruno Nettl Endowment for Ethnomusicology.

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SHARED SELVES

Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism

SUZANNE BOST Seeing life writing through a posthumanist lens “Shared Selves mines the Latinx archive by placing lesser-­ known texts into conversation with authors such as Ortiz Cofer and Rechy. A must-­read for anyone interested in the variability of the life-­writing form and its continuing relevance for Latinx literary criticism.”

—DAVID J. VÁZQUEZ, author of Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Idenity Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre’s recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity.

Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa work in places where personal history intertwines with communities, environments, animals, plants, and spirits. This dedication to interconnectedness resonates with ideas in posthumanist theory while calling on indigenous worldviews. As Bost argues, our view of life itself expands if we look at how such frameworks interact with queer theory, disability studies, ecological thinking, and other fields. These webs of relation in turn mediate experience, agency, and life itself.

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A transformative application of posthumanist ideas to Latinx, feminist, and literary studies, Shared Selves shows how memoir can encourage readers to think more broadly and deeply about what counts as human life.

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SUZANNE BOST is a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature and Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850–2000.

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HIERARCHIES OF CARE

Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru

KRISTA E. VAN VLEET The politics of morality and the quest to live a good life “Empathetically researched and clearly written, deeply respectful of and curious about the young women at Palomitay, this book runs a far wider gamut than most ethnographies, engaging visual arts and performance, humanitarianism, gender, and kinship in a context of unrelenting neoliberalism.”

—JESSACA LEINAWEAVER, author of Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain Palomitáy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these young women encounter diverse social expectations and face moral dilemmas.

They endeavor to create a “good life” for themselves and their children in a context complicated by competing demands, economic uncertainties, and structured relations of power.

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Drawing on a year of qualitative on-site research, Krista E. Van Vleet offers a rich ethnography of Palomitáy’s young women. She pays particular attention to the moral entanglements that emerge via people’s efforts to provide care amid the inequalities and insecurities of today’s Peru. State and nonstate participants involved in the women’s intimate lives influence how the women see themselves as mothers, students, and citizens. Both deserving of care and responsible for caring for others, the young women must navigate practices interwoven with a range of racial, gendered, and class hierarchies.

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Groundbreaking and original, Hierarchies of Care highlights the moral engagement of young women seeking to understand themselves and their place in society in the presence of circumstances that are both precarious and full of hope.

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KRISTA E. VAN VLEET is an associate professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes.

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TO TURN THE WHOLE WORLD OVER

Black Women and Internationalism

Edited by KEISHA N. BLAIN and TIFFANY M. GILL Afterword by Michael O. West Expanding the contours of black internationalism “Thorough, critical, and well-executed.”

—MS. MAGAZINE Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women’s rights and with feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over examines these and other issues with a collection of cutting-­ edge essays on black women’s internationalism in this pivotal era and beyond.

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Analyzing the contours of gender within black internationalism, scholars examine the range and complexity of black women’s global engagements. At the same time, they focus on these women’s remarkable experiences in shaping internationalist movements and dialogues. The essays explore the travels and migrations of black women; the internationalist writings of women from Paris to Chicago to Spain; black women advocating for internationalism through art and performance; and the involvement of black women in politics, activism, and global freedom struggles.

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Contributors: Nicole Anae, Keisha N. Blain, Brandon R. Byrd, Stephanie Beck Cohen, Anne Donlon, Tiffany N. Florvil, Kim Gallon, Dayo F. Gore, Annette K. JosephGabriel, Grace V. Leslie, Michael O. West, and Julia Erin Wood

A volume in the series Black Internationalism, edited by Keisha N. Blain and Quito Swan

KEISHA N. BLAIN teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. TIFFANY M. GILL is an associate professor of history and Africana studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry.

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ALL OUR TRIALS

Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

EMILY L. THUMA A grassroots history of resistance to gender violence and the carceral state “A timely account.”

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“Thuma packs tremendous detail and insight into this short, well-written book. I recommend it!”

—CHRIS DIXON, Writing with Movements During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation.

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All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations. This activism confronted a “tough on crime” political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women’s movement’s strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on extensive archival research and first-person narratives, Thuma weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, broad-based local coalitions, national gatherings, and radical print cultures that cut through prison walls. In the process, she illuminates a crucial chapter in an unfinished struggle—one that continues in today’s movements against mass incarceration and in support of transformative justice.

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EMILY L. THUMA is an assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Irvine.

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HOMELAND MATERNITY

US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime

NATALIE FIXMER-ORAIZ Motherhood and motherland in contemporary America “This book is devastatingly good. Good because it is elegantly written, tightly argued, and theoretically informed and informative. Devastating because it makes clear that a nasty thicket of laws, institutions, and rhetoric values pregnancy (even a potential pregnancy) more than the integrity, safety, and humanity of women, pregnant people, and mothers.”

—ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY

“Decidedly grounded in an ethic of reproductive justice and its bringing together of ‘feminist studies of maternal and reproductive politics and critical scholarship on homeland security culture,’ (3–4) Homeland Maternity provides a necessary and nuanced framework for naming and understanding complex, urgent events around reproductive politics today.”

—IZG ONZEIT In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation—both a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have become intimately entwined, dangerously positioning national security as reliant on the control of women’s bodies.

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Drawing on feminist scholarship and critical studies of security culture, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz explores homeland maternity by calling our attention to the ways that authorities see both nonreproductive and “overly” reproductive women’s bodies as threats to social norms—and thus to security. Homeland maternity culture intensifies motherhood’s requirements and works to discipline those who refuse to adhere. Analyzing the opt-out revolution, public debates over emergency contraception, and other controversies, Fixmer-Oraiz compellingly demonstrates how policing maternal bodies serves the political function of securing the nation in a time of supposed danger—with profound and troubling implications for women’s lives and agency.

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NATALIE FIXMER-ORAIZ is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Iowa.

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SUBJECT TO REALITY

Women and Documentary Film

SHILYH WARREN Women’s documentaries in film and feminist history “A uniquely accessible book for experts, in the fields of ­documentary history or feminist film theory, and new­ comers alike.”

—FILM QUARTERLY

“In re-examining the history of women in documentary, Warren has clearly shown how women’s early anthropologically inflected films resonate powerfully with the present.”

—DOCUMENTARY MAGAZINE Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women’s documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by the various promises of second-wave feminism, activist filmmakers believed authentic stories about women would bring more people into an imminent revolution. Yet their films soon faded into obscurity.

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Shilyh Warren reopens this understudied period and links it to a neglected era of women’s filmmaking that took place from 1920 to 1940, another key period of thinking around documentary, race, and gender. Drawing women’s cultural expression during these two explosive times into conversation, Warren reconsiders key debates about subjectivity, feminism, realism, and documentary and their lasting epistemological and material consequences for film and feminist studies. She also excavates the lost ethnographic history of women’s documentary filmmaking in the earlier era and explores the political and aesthetic legacy of these films in more explicitly feminist periods like the Seventies.

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Filled with challenging insights and new close readings, Subject to Reality sheds light on a profound and unexamined history of feminist documentaries while revealing their influence on the filmmakers of today.

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SHILYH WARREN is an associate professor of film and aesthetic studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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QUEER TIMING

The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema

SUSAN POTTER A daring theoretical revision of feminist and queer perspectives “Queer Timing is notable for its careful delineation of the objects it analyzes. Readers encounter especially thoughtful and well-grounded historical claims.”

—CHOICE

“Susan Potter provides a necessary complication of early cinema studies by taking seriously both the particularities of early cinema and the radical alterity of the sexualities that—though fleeting—indelibly informed it. While film historical writing deeply aligned with both queer theory and the history of sexuality remains all too rare, Queer Timing might be the first study to so thoroughly pursue its project of lesbian emergence in precisely these terms.”

—MARK LYNN ANDERSON, author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America

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In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema. Potter sees the emergence of lesbian figures as only the most visible but belated outcome of multiple sexuality effects. Early cinema reconfigured older erotic modalities, articulated new—though incoherent—sexual categories, and generated novel forms of queer feeling and affiliation.

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Potter draws on queer theory, silent film historiography, feminist film analysis, and archival research to provide an original and innovative analysis. Taking a conceptually oriented approach, she articulates the processes of filmic representation and spectatorship that reshaped, marginalized, or suppressed women’s same-sex desires and identities. As she pursues a sense of “timing,” Potter stages scenes of the erotic and intellectual encounters shared by historical spectators, on-screen figures, and present-day scholars. The result is a daring revision of feminist and queer perspectives that foregrounds the centrality of women’s same-sex desire to cinematic discourses of both homo- and heterosexuality.

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SUSAN POTTER is lecturer in film studies at the University of Sydney.

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BUILDING WOMANIST COALITIONS

Writing and Teaching in the Spirit of Love

Edited by GARY L. LEMONS Harnessing the power of womanism in the classroom, the streets, and everyday life “Innovative, creative, and unapologetically spiritual, Building Womanist Coalitions reminds us why womanism is still as relevant today as it was several decades ago when Alice Walker first coined the term.”

—DAVID IKARD, author of Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs Over the last generation, the womanist idea—and the tradition blooming around it—has emerged as an important response to separatism, domination, and oppression. Gary L. Lemons gathers a diverse group of writers to discuss their scholarly and personal experiences with the womanist spirit of women of color feminisms.

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Feminist and womanist-identified educators, students, performers, and poets model the powerful ways that crossing borders of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation-state affiliation(s) expands one’s existence. At the same time, they bear witness to how the self-liberating theory and practice of women of color feminism changes one’s life. Throughout, the essayists come together to promote an unwavering vein of activist comradeship capable of building political alliances dedicated to liberty and social justice.

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Contributors: M. Jacqui Alexander, Dora Arreola, Andrea Assaf, Kendra N. Bryant, Rudolph P. Byrd, Atika Chaudhary, Paul T. Corrigan, Fanni V. Green, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Susie L. Hoeller, Ylce Irizarry, M. Thandabantu Iverson, Gary L. Lemons, Layli Maparyan, and Erica C. Sutherlin.

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GARY L. LEMONS is a professor of English at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Caught Up in the Spirit! Teaching for Womanist Liberation; Womanist Forefathers: Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois; and Black Male Outsider, a Memoir: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man.

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