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Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
(March 2014)
Susanne Lettow - Editor
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Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
Focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this volume highlights the scientific and philosophical inquiry into heredity and reproduction and the consequences of these developing ideas on understandings of race...(Read More) |
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Beyond Explicit
(February 2014)
Pornography and the Displacement of Sex
Helen Hester - Author
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Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept.
This original contribution to porn studies aims to interrogate previously untheorized changes in contemporary understandings of the pornographic. Helen Hester argues that the words “porn” and “pornographic” are currently being applied to an ever-expanding range of material and that this change in language usage ref...(Read More) |
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Uncoupling American Empire
(January 2014)
Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890-1910
Yu-Fang Cho - Author
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A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.
A radical revision of the politics of race and sexuality within racial capitalism, Uncoupling American Empire provides an original cultural genealogy of how the institutionalization of marriage shaped imagined relationships among working people who were seen as sexually devia...(Read More) |
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Education Feminism
(December 2013)
Classic and Contemporary Readings
Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon - Editor
Lynda Stone - Editor
Katharine M. Sprecher - Editor
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2015 Critics Choice Book Award, presented bythe American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Collection of important essays by feminist scholars from cultural studies, philosophy of education, curriculum theory, and women’s studies.
Education Feminism is a revised and updated version of Lynda Stone’s out-of-print ant...(Read More) |
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Unruly Catholic Women Writers
(November 2013)
Creative Responses to Catholicism
Jeana DelRosso - Editor
Leigh Eicke - Editor
Ana Kothe - Editor
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FINALIST - 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Anthologies Category
A literary anthology exploring contemporary Catholic women’s experiences.
This unique literary anthology is devoted to unruly Catholic women. In short stories, poems, personal essays, and drama, the contributors describe women’s struggles with Catholicism and also complicate contemporary ...(Read More) |
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Yemoja
(November 2013)
Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas
Solimar Otero - Editor
Toyin Falola - Editor
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FINALIST - 2014 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions, presented by the Journal of Africana Religions
Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.
This is the first collection of essays to analyze intersectional religious and cultural practices surrounding the ...(Read More) |
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Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood
(June 2013)
Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended, and Polygamous Families
Shelley M. Park - Author
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Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.
Bridging the gap between feminist studies of motherhood and queer theory, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood articulates a provocative philosophy of queer kinship that need not be rooted in lesbian or gay sexual identities. Working from an interdisciplinary fr...(Read More) |
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Youth Peacebuilding
(April 2013)
Music, Gender, and Change
Lesley J. Pruitt - Author
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Defines a new research area linking youth cultures and music with peacebuilding practice and policy.
This book highlights the important role youth can play in processes of peacebuilding by examining music as a tool for engaging youth in such activities. As Lesley J. Pruitt discusses throughout the book, music—as expression, as creation, as inspiration—can provide many unique insights into transforming ...(Read More) |
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