Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim women’s lives.

Argues for a transactionally situated approach to science and medicine in order to meet the needs of marginalized groups.

A critical examination of the impact of BRAC, the world's largest NGO, on the status of women in Southern Bangladeshi cultural life.

Provides an incisive account of women’s porn and queer porn of the 1980s and 1990s.

Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls' studies.

Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone.

A haunting story of the disintegration of an American and Italian family caught in Europe during World War II.

Comparative analysis of gender equality reforms enacted in ten post-communist states who became members of the European Union.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.

Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work. "

Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.

A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.

An account of a mysterious murder committed in nineteenth-century Troy, New York, and the sensational trial that ensued.

An account of an ordinary young woman coming of age in the "Burned-Over District" of Western New York during the Second Great Awakening.

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

Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

Analyzes the author’s transformation from academic to figure competitor.

Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.

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

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.