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Black Women and Public Health
(February 2022)
Strategies to Name, Locate, and Change Systems of Power
Stephanie Y. Evans - Editor
Sarita K. Davis - Editor
Leslie R. Hinkson - Editor
Deanna Wathington - Editor
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Between Camp and Cursi
(January 2022)
Humor and Homosexuality in Contemporary Mexican Narrative
Brandon P. Bisbey - Author
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Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.
Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería—a form of “bad taste” that expresses a sense of social marginalization—is used to represent key social...(Read More) |
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Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty
(January 2022)
Susan Bredlau - Editor
Talia Welsh - Editor
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Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work draws our attention to how the body is always our way of having a world and never merely a thing in the world. Our conception of the...(Read More) |
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Mexico Unmanned
(December 2021)
The Cultural Politics of Masculinity in Mexican Cinema
Samanta Ordóñez - Author
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Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.
Iconic images of machismo in Mexico’s classic cinema affirm the national film industry’s historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state’s political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of...(Read More) |
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Stakes Is High
(December 2021)
Trials, Lessons, and Triumphs in Young Black Men's Educational Journeys
Derrick R. Brooms - Author
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Under the Bed of Heaven
(December 2021)
Christian Eschatology and Sexual Ethics
Richard W. McCarty - Author
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Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.
Under the Bed of Heaven is a work of Christian ethics that examines how eschatology might reshape concepts of sexual morality. With the rise of institutional Christianity in the Roman Empire, Christian attitudes about sexual desire an...(Read More) |
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Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State
(November 2021)
Sebastian Maslow - Editor
Christian Wirth - Editor
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Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.
Mired in national crises since the early 1990s, Japan has had to respond to a rapid population decline; the Asian and global financial crises; the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukus...(Read More) |
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Sisterlocking Discoarse
(November 2021)
Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy
Valerie Lee - Author
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Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.
In Sisterlocking Discoarse, hair is a medium for reflecting on how academic leadership looks, performs, and changes when embodied by a Black woman. In these ten essays, Valerie Lee traverses...(Read More) |
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Virgin Capital
(November 2021)
Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands
Tami Navarro - Author
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Unruly Catholic Feminists
(September 2021)
Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith
Jeana DelRosso - Editor
Leigh Eicke - Editor
Ana Kothe - Editor
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Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.
A collection of creative pieces, Unruly Catholic Feminists explores how women are coming to terms with their feminism and Catholicism in the twenty-first century. Through short stories, poems, and personal essays, third- and fourth-wave fem...(Read More) |
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