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Gender and the Abjection of Blackness
(July 2018)
Sabine Broeck - Author
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An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.
In Gender and the Abjection of Blackness, Sabine Broeck argues that gender studies as a mostly white field has taken insufficient account of Black contributions, and that more than being an ethnocentric limitation or blind spot, this has represented a structural anti-Blackness in the field. Engaging with the work of Black feminist authors Sylvia Wynter, Hortense Spillers, a...(Read More) |
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Because We Are Human
(June 2018)
Contesting US Support for Gender and Sexuality Human Rights Abroad
Cynthia Burack - Author
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FINALIST - 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the LGBT category
Offers a complete empirical account of US government programs, policies, and interventions outside the United States on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQ people.
Around the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people continue to be threatened, attacked, arrested, tortured, and sometimes executed just for ...(Read More) |
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Intimate Memory
(April 2018)
Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China
Martin W. Huang - Author
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Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.
In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely re...(Read More) |
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Dancing with Ophelia
(March 2018)
Reconnecting Madness, Creativity, and Love
Jeanne Ellen Petrolle - Author
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A personal narrative that explores madness through the use of literature, art, and philosophy to achieve lasting mental health without drugs.
“Twenty-two years ago, I lost my mind.” So begins Jeanne Ellen Petrolle’s fascinating personal narrative about her mental illness and recovery. Drawing on literature, art, and philosophy, Petrolle explores a unique understanding of madness that allowed her to achieve last...(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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Unmaking The Making of Americans
(January 2018)
Toward an Aesthetic Ontology
E. L. McCallum - Author
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Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein’s novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis.
Arguing that Gertrude Stein’s monumental novel The Making of Americans models a radically aesthetic relation to the world, E. L. McCallum demonstrates how the novel teaches us to read differently, unmaking our habits of reading. Each of the chapters works thro...(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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2018 Global Development Studies Book Award, presented by the Global Development Studies Section of the International Studies Association
2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, presented by the National Women's Studies Association
HONORABLE MENTION - 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize, presented by the Association for Feminist Anthropology
Illuminates the contradictions that emerge within conscious capitalis...(Read More) |
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