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Faculty Fathers
(November 2014)
Toward a New Ideal in the Research University
Margaret W. Sallee - Author
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Explores the challenges faculty fathers face in navigating the demands of work and family.
For the past two decades, colleges and universities have focused significant attention on helping female faculty balance work and family by implementing a series of family-friendly policies. Although most policies were targeted at men and women alike, women were intended as the primary targets and recipients. This groundbrea...(Read More) |
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The Returns of Antigone
(November 2014)
Interdisciplinary Essays
Tina Chanter - Editor
Sean D. Kirkland - Editor
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Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.
Despite a venerable tradition of thinkers having declared the death of tragedy, Antigone lives on. Disguised in myriad national costumes, invited to a multiplicity of international venues, inspiring any number of political protests, Antigone transmits her energy through the a...(Read More) |
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Gendering Chinese Religion
(September 2014)
Subject, Identity, and Body
Jinhua Jia - Editor
Xiaofei Kang - Editor
Ping Yao - Editor
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A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.
Gendering Chinese Religion marks the emergence of a subfield on women, gender, and religion in China studies. Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, this volume departs from the conventional and often male-centered categorization of Chinese religions into Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and popular ...(Read More) |
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Integral Voices on Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
(August 2014)
Critical Inquiries
Sarah E. Nicholson - Editor
Vanessa D. Fisher - Editor
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Brings the insights of Integral Theory to the consideration of sex, gender, and sexuality.
This volume takes a unique approach to the question of what it is to be a gendered, sexual self in a postmodern world, offering insights informed by the Integral paradigm of theory and practice. With the inquiry into sex, gender, and sexuality having become so broad and diverse within both academia and popular culture, the I...(Read More) |
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Warrior Women
(July 2014)
Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star
Lisa Funnell - Author
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BRONZE MEDALIST - 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues Category
2015 Emily Toth Award, presented by the Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association
FINALIST - 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women’s Studies Category
Considers the significance of Chinese female action stars ...(Read More) |
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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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