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Adapting Gender
(January 2018)
Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film
Ilana Dann Luna - Author
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Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.
Adapting Gender offers a cogent introduction to Mexico’s film industry, the history of women’s filmmaking in Mexico, a new approach to adaptation as a potential feminist strategy, and a cultural history of generational changes in Mexico.Ilana Dann Luna examines how adapted films have the potential to subvert not only the ...(Read More) |
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The Symbolic Order of the Mother
(January 2018)
Luisa Muraro - Author
Francesca Novello - Translator
Timothy S. Murphy - Edited and with an introduction by
Alison Stone - Foreword by
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Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes.
In The Symbolic Order of the Mother Luisa Muraro identifies the bond between mother and child as ontologically fundamental to the development of culture and politics, and therefore as key to achieving truly emancipatory political change. Both corporea...(Read More) |
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Palimpsest - Biannual
(December 2017)
A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting - Editor
Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers - Editor
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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) |
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Intersex Matters
(December 2017)
Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism
David A. Rubin - Author
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Analyzes intersex debates through a queer feminist, intersectional, and transnational lens.
Intersex Matters analyzes the medicalization of people diagnosed as “intersex,” which is an umbrella term for individuals born with sexual anatomies various societies deem to be nonstandard. Through an examination of medico-scientific, scholarly, political, and popular archives from the mid-twentieth cen...(Read More) |
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Birth in Ancient China
(November 2017)
A Study of Metaphor and Cultural Identity in Pre-Imperial China
Constance A. Cook - Author
Xinhui Luo - Author
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Reveals cultural paradigms and historical prejudices regarding the role of birthing and women in the reproduction of society.
Using newly discovered and excavated texts, Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo systematically explore material culture, inscriptions, transmitted texts, and genealogies from BCE China to reconstruct the role of women in social reproduction in the ancient Chinese world. Applying paleographi...(Read More) |
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Everyday Sustainability
(November 2017)
Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling
Debarati Sen - Author
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Illuminates the contradictions that emerge within conscious capitalism initiatives that are designed to empower women.
Everyday Sustainability takes readers to ground zero of market-based sustainability initiatives—Darjeeling, India—where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production. These women tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct entrepreneurial...(Read More) |
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Votes for Women
(November 2017)
Celebrating New York's Suffrage Centennial
Jennifer A. Lemak - Author
Ashley Hopkins-Benton - Author
MaryEllen Elia - Foreword by
Kirsten Gillibrand - Foreword by
Kathy Hochul - Foreword by
Betty A. Rosa - Foreword by
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Chronicles the history of the women’s rights and suffrage movements in New York State and examines the important role the state played in the national suffrage movement.
The work for women’s suffrage started more than seventy years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and one hundred supporters signed the Declaration of S...(Read More) |
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Unruly Catholic Nuns
(October 2017)
Sisters' Stories
Jeana DelRosso - Editor
Leigh Eicke - Editor
Ana Kothe - Editor
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Explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns as they share their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church.
Unruly Catholic Nuns explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns and, by doing so, contributes to the global conversation about the role of women in the Catholic Church today. Through autobiography, fiction, poetry, an...(Read More) |
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A Clan Mother's Call
(September 2017)
Reconstructing Haudenosaunee Cultural Memory
Jeanette Rodriguez - Author
Iakoiane Wakerahkats:teh - with the collaboration of
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Addresses the importance of Haudenosaunee women in the rebuilding of the Iroquois nation.
Indigenous communities around the world are gathering to both reclaim and share their ancestral wisdom. Aware of and drawing from these social movements, A Clan Mother’s Call articulates Haudenosaunee women’s worldview that honors women, clanship, and the earth. Over successive generations, First Nation pe...(Read More) |
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Hindu Pasts
(September 2017)
Women, Religion, Histories
Vasudha Dalmia - Author
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Challenges the monolithic view of Hindusim in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.
In her introduction to Hindu Pasts—which showcases her work as a scholar of social, literary, and religious history—Vasudha Dalmia outlines the central ideas which thread her writings: first, to understand in g...(Read More) |
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