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Living on Your Own
(April 2014)
Single Women, Rental Housing, and Affect in Contemporary South Korea
Jesook Song - Author
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Beyond Explicit
(February 2014)
Pornography and the Displacement of Sex
Helen Hester - Author
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Uncoupling American Empire
(December 2013)
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 deviant in nineteenth-century ...(Read More) |
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Conceiving Identities
(November 2013)
Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
Kathryn M. Kueny - Author
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Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.
Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a woman’s reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treati...(Read More) |
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Fifties Ethnicities
(November 2013)
The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury
Tracy Floreani - Author
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Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.
Fifties Ethnicities brings together a variety of texts to explore what it meant to be American in the middle of “America’s Century.” In a series of comparative readings that draws on novels, television programs, movie magazines, and films, Tracy Floreani crosses generic boundaries to s...(Read More) |
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The Principal's Office
(November 2013)
A Social History of the American School Principal
Kate Rousmaniere - Author
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The first comprehensive history of principals in the United States.
The Principal’s Office is the first historical examination of one of the most important figures in American education. Originating as a head teacher in the nineteenth century and evolving into the role of contemporary educational leader, the school principal has played a central part in the development of American public education. A local leader who n...(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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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 understandings of women’s relationships to their faith. Catholicism often oppresses the women in these creative pieces, but it al...(Read More) |
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A Human Necklace
(July 2013)
The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall’s Fiction
Moira Ferguson - Author
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Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.
From Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) to The Fisher King (2000), Paule Marshall’s novels, novellas, and short stories include a rich cast of unforgettable men, women, and children who forge spiritual as well as emotional and geographical paths toward their ancest...(Read More) |
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Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey
(July 2013)
Grassroots Women Activists, the European Union, and the Turkish State
Gül Aldikaçti Marshall - Author
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Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey.
Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey uncovers how, why, and to what extent Turkish women, in addition to the Turkish state and the European Union, have been involved in gender policy changes in Turkey. Through analysis of the role of multiple actors at the subnational,...(Read More) |
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