Jane Austen's Women
(December 2018)
An Introduction Kathleen Anderson - Author
An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.
Why does Jane Austen “mania” continue unabated in a postmodern world? How does the brilliant Regency novelist speak so personally to today’s women that they view her as their best friend? Jane Austen’s Women answers these questions by exploring Austen’s affirming yet challenging vision of both who her dynamic...(Read More)
Queer Expectations
(December 2018)
A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry Zohar Weiman-Kelman - Author
Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.
Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, Zohar Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories, developing “queer expectancy&rdq...(Read More)
Palimpsest - Biannual
(November 2018)
A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting - Editor Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers - Editor
A biannual journal covering women, gender, and the Black International.
Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their communities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. A partnership between Vanderbilt University’s Program in African A...(Read More)
Palimpsest - Volume #7, Issue #2 (11/2018) A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting - Editor Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers - Editor
Popovers and Candlelight
(November 2018)
Patricia Murphy and the Rise and Fall of a Restaurant Empire Marcia Biederman - Author
Recounts the true story of an entrepreneurial woman who succeeded in a male-dominated industry in the twentieth century.
What would you do with your last sixty dollars? If you were Patricia Murphy you’d turn it into a fortune by buying a rundown Brooklyn diner. On the cusp of the Great Depression, the diner became an overnight sensation, the first of nine popular Patricia Murphy’s Candlelight Restaurants that opened ...(Read More)
Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus.
Being a “refugee” is not simply a matter of law, determination procedures, or the act of flight. It is an ontological condition, structured by the politics of law, affect, and territory. Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject explores the variable facets of refugeehood, their interconnections, an...(Read More)
Troubled Memories
(October 2018)
Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation Oswaldo Estrada - Author
Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.
In Troubled Memories, Oswaldo Estrada traces the literary and cultural representations of several iconic Mexican women produced in the midst of neoliberalism, gender debates, and the widespread commodification of cultural memory. He examines recent fictionaliz...(Read More)
