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Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being
(June 2014)
Virpi Lehtinen - Author
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A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.
The reception of Luce Irigaray’s ideas about feminine identity has centered largely on questions of essentialism, whether criticizing this as a destructive flaw or interpreting it in strategic or pragmatic terms. Staking out an alternative approach, Virpi Lehtinen finds in the phenomenology of Husserl and Merlea...(Read More) |
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Male Beauty
(May 2014)
Postwar Masculinity in Theater, Film, and Physique Magazines
Kenneth Krauss - Author
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Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.
In the decades that followed World War II, Americans searched for and often founds signs of a new masculinity that was younger, sensitive, and sexually ambivalent. Male Beauty examines the theater, film, and magazines of the time in order to illuminate how each one put forward a version of male g...(Read More) |
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Living on Your Own
(April 2014)
Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea
Jesook Song - Author
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An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.
Living on Your Own is an ethnography of young, single women in South Korea who seek to live independently. Using extensive interviews, along with media analysis and archival research, Jesook Song traces the women’s difficulties in achieving residential autonomy. Song exposes the clash between the women’s bu...(Read More) |
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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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