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Intersex Matters
(November 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 century to the pre...(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, and prose, Sisters and f...(Read More) |
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Invisible Hosts
(September 2017)
Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium's Autobiography
Elizabeth Schleber Lowry - Author
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FINALIST - 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category
Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit mediums’ autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian-era America.
Invisible Hosts explores how the central tenets of Spiritualism influenced ways in which women conceived of their bodies and their civic responsibilities, arguing tha...(Read More) |
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Bodies in China
(June 2017)
Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and Politics
Eva Kit Wah Man - Author
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Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.
Bodies in China uses Chinese philosophy to reframe Western scholarship on gender, body, and aesthetics. Does Confucianism rule out the capacity of women as moral subjects and hence as aesthetic subjects? Do forms of Chinese philosophy contribute or correspond to patriarchal Confucian culture? Can Chinese philosoph...(Read More) |
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New Forms of Revolt
(June 2017)
Essays on Kristeva's Intimate Politics
Sarah K. Hansen - Editor
Rebecca Tuvel - Editor
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Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristeva’s concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy.
Over the last twenty years, French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist Julia Kristeva has explored how global crises threaten people’s ability to revolt. In a context of widespread war, deepening poverty, environmental catastrophes, and rising fundamentalisms, she argues that a revival of inner ps...(Read More) |
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Judicial Power and National Politics, Second Edition
(March 2017)
Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel
Patricia J. Woods - Author
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Chronicles the conflict between religious and secular forces in Israel.
In Judicial Power and National Politics, Second Edition, Patricia J. Woods returns to an issue that has only grown in relevance since the first edition’s publication in 2008: the religious-secular conflict in Israel. The first edition focused on the role that courts and justices play in deeply charged political battles. In the l...(Read More) |
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Being Black, Being Male on Campus
(February 2017)
Understanding and Confronting Black Male Collegiate Experiences
Derrick R. Brooms - Author
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Explores how race and gender matter on campus and how Black males navigate college for academic and personal success.
This work marks a radical shift away from the pervasive focus on the challenges that Black male students face and the deficit rhetoric that often limits perspectives about them. Instead, Derrick R. Brooms offers reflective counter-narratives of success. Being Black, Being Male on Campus uses in-depth inte...(Read More) |
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Sex on Earth as It Is in Heaven
(February 2017)
A Christian Eschatology of Desire
Patricia Beattie Jung - Author
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Offers a new theology of desire and delight based on the Christian hope for bodily resurrection.
This work is part of a growing chorus of theological voices raised in support of erotic desire. Although most theologians have concluded that there will be no experience of sexual desire and delight in the world to come, Patricia Beattie Jung critically examines the historical traditions and biblical rationales for this teaching. She...(Read More) |
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Staging Women's Lives in Academia
(February 2017)
Gendered Life Stages in Language and Literature Workplaces
Michelle A. Massé - Editor
Nan Bauer-Maglin - Editor
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Argues that institutional change must accommodate women’s professional and personal life stages.
Staging Women’s Lives in Academia demonstrates how ostensibly personal decisions are shaped by institutions and advocates for ways that workplaces, not women, must be changed. Addressing life stages ranging from graduate school through retirement, these essays represent a gamut of institutions and ...(Read More) |
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