Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristeva’s concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy.

Argues that institutional change must accommodate women’s professional and personal life stages.

Chronicles the history of the women’s rights and suffrage movements in New York State and examines the important role the state played in the national suffrage movement.

The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York City and beyond came together to help women gain the right to vote.

Explores the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings.

Combines analysis of transnational prostitution and traffic in women with a social history of the League of Nations and interwar globalization.

Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.

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

A rare nineteenth-century journal of an everyday woman richly infused with the minutiae of antebellum daily life and work.

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.

Addresses the absence of Jewish subjects in intersectionality studies and demonstrates how to do intersectionality work inclusive of Jewish perspectives.

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.

Explores the activities and political personas of women activists in Shiv Sena, a militant Indian political party.

Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigaray’s thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues.

Offers a more democratic way to think about families, politics, and public life.

Examines the influence of the notorious American anarchist “Red Emma” on the shifting social geography of sex and gender at the turn of the twentieth century.

Deepens our understanding of power through a survey of how its dynamics have been understood from ancient times to the present.

Combining expert knowledge and first-hand experience, a noted elder care researcher confronts the long-distance care of her own mother.

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

Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood.

Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.

The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research.

Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.

Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.