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philoSOPHIA Volume #2, Issue #1 (6/2012)
A Journal of Continental Feminism
Elaine P. Miller - Editor
Emily Zakin - Editor

Queer Times, Queer Becomings (November 2011)
E. L. McCallum - Editor
Mikko Tuhkanen - Editor

Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.

If queer theorists have agreed on anything, it is that for queer thought to have any specificity at all, it must be characterized by becoming, the constant breaking of habits. Queer Times, Queer Becomings explores queer articulations of time and becoming in literature, philosophy, film, and p...(Read More)

Thinking with Irigaray (November 2011)
Mary C. Rawlinson - Editor
Sabrina L. Hom - Editor
Serene J. Khader - Editor

An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray’s work.

Thinking with Irigaray takes up Irigaray’s challenge to think beyond the androcentric, one-subject culture, identifying much that is useful and illuminative in Irigaray’s work while also questioning some of her assumptions and claims. Some contributors reject outright her prescriptions for changing our culture, others suggest that her ...(Read More)

Transgender Employment Experiences (August 2011)
Gendered Perceptions and the Law
Kyla Bender-Baird - Author

Brings together the workplace experiences of transgender people with an assessment of current policy protections.

The complex and changing state of policy protections for transgender communities practically requires trans people to become legal experts just to navigate their everyday lives. It also simultaneously offers a window of opportunity for legal advocates to shape new laws and policies based on the lived ...(Read More)

philoSOPHIA Volume #1, Issue #2 (7/2011)
A Journal of Continental Feminism
Elaine P. Miller - Editor
Emily Zakin - Editor

Black Womanist Leadership (June 2011)
Tracing the Motherline
Toni C. King - Editor
S. Alease Ferguson - Editor

Collection of Black women’s stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters.

Featuring the stories of fourteen Black women scholars, Black Womanist Leadership offers a culturally based model of Black women’s leadership practices, and examines the mother-daughter transmission of these skills. The personal narratives fit into a storytelling tradition that revea...(Read More)

Detecting Women (April 2011)
Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film
Philippa Gates - Author

FINALIST – 2012 Edgar Award in the Best Critical/Biographical Category, presented by the Mystery Writers of America

Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.

In this extensive and authoritative study of more than three hundred films, Philippa Gates explores the “woman detective” figure from her pre-cinematic origins in ...(Read More)

Sleights of Reason (February 2011)
Norm, Bisexuality, Development
Mary Beth Mader - Author

Demonstrates the dramatic interplay of elements that comprise the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development.

A brilliant and original reimagining of sexuality, Sleights of Reason examines how concepts lend themselves to power/knowledge formations. Many contemporary French philosophers make incidental use of the notion of a ruse. Its names are legion: “duplicity,” “concealment,&rdqu...(Read More)

philoSOPHIA Volume #1, Issue #1 (1/2011)
A Journal of Continental Feminism
Elaine P. Miller - Editor
Emily Zakin - Editor

Unequal Desires (September 2010)
Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry
Siobhan Brooks - Author

Investigates race and racism in the U.S. exotic dance industry.

Winner of the 2008 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Queer Studies, this groundbreaking ethnographic study of racial stratification in queer and straight strip clubs examines the lives and working conditions of Black and Latina dancers in strip clubs in New York City and Oakland, California. Through interviews with dancers, customers, man...(Read More)