A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.

Shows how authentic diversity and inclusive leadership practices can promote anti-racist, equitable, and transformational change in institutions of higher learning in the United States and beyond.

Deeply engaging study of how fourteen Black mothers—including the author—support and advocate for their autistic sons.

Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.

Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.

An “all-you-can-eat” tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.

A moving tale of contemporary Haiti told through the intersecting lives of four young people struggling to hold on to hope and their identities amid a militarized coup in the early 1990s.

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

Offers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young scholar in the early 1960s.

A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

Fully revised, updated edition of the classic text with all new essays assessing the state of race and racial issues in US higher education today.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

The trailblazing story of the life and career of Louise Blanchard Bethune, America’s first professional woman architect.

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume.

Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life.

Feminists revisit their mixed experiences of mentoring and being mentored to reclaim mentorship as a project for new generations.

Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

This textbook offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of LGBTQ+ topics. The 12 chapters cover LGBTQ+ history, culture, and Queer Theory, but also explore LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education - as well as a separate chapter on how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics.

First history of New York's women legislators within the larger story of New York State politics.

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.

Explores how discussion of LGBTQ+ themes in a high-school literature course can foster ethical engagement among students.

Examines the struggle of Jewish women to join defense and military activities during the decades leading up to the Israeli War of Independence.

Combines servant-leadership and feminism into a new understanding of leadership.

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.

Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.

Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.

Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s.

Conversations with prominent Italian feminist thinkers Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavaero, as well as three essays - appearing in English for the first time - by author, journalist, and renown political figure Rossana Rossanda.

Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.

A rich, authentic account of eight young Black men's experiences on their paths to and through college.

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.

Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.

Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.

Examines how contemporary US migrant women's life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities.

Edited collection engaging Luce Irigaray's work and pushing it in important new directions.

Examines traditional sites of binary thinking in ancient Greek texts and culture to demonstrate surprising ambiguity, especially with regard to sexual difference.

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960.

An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.

A powerful anthology on the role of curricula in perpetuating—and resisting—oppression.

An important and prescient early example of US environmental writing with a profound sense of consciousness and appreciation for the natural world.

Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.

Traces literary and social connections among three American women navigating the changing political landscape of 1860s and '70s Italy.

Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.

Presents sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, and photographs from throughout the artist's illustrious career.

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.

Moves Black women's voices and experiences from the margins to the center of conversations about public health.

A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

Analyzes the value of using case-based methodologies to address contemporary social justice issues in philosophy.

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.

Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina’s self-fashioning as a modern nation.

Examines women’s food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.

Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author's work.

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.

An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts.

This political memoir exposes the weaknesses of democratic culture in the United States and suggests ways to strengthen it in the face of rising authoritarianism.

A gender studies textbook that takes an anthropological approach.

Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.

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.

Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.

Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.

Shares the unique story of a Christmas tree farm in Poughkeepsie, New York, where, for over four decades, women artists boldly built a space where they could create community and art together.

Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.

Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.

Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.

The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.

Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.

Unique empirically grounded analysis of how audiences negotiate sexism and feminism across media, from popular television shows to dating apps.

Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.

Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence.

Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.

The story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s rights through the lens of one family’s history.

A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.

Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.

The gripping memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.

Translation of the award-winning debut novel by Haitian writer Makenzy Orcel about the lives of prostitutes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amid the 2010 earthquake.

A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.

Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.

Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.

The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.

Focuses on Black women’s experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.

Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy.

Analyzes intersex debates through a queer feminist, intersectional, and transnational lens.

Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.

Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back.

Frames menstruation as a site of resistance, defiance, and shamelessness, showcasing the work of those who fight back against shame and silence.

Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women’s sexuality in the United States.

Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas.