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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.

Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.

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

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.

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

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

Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë’s oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.

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

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.

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women’s lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.

The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker’s struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life.

Reflects on the legacy and limits of suffrage in New York State as a way to understand present-day issues with women's social and political rights, as well proposes ideas for future progress.

Explores the complex interplay of race and culture in the doctoral experiences of African American students.

Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.

A comprehensive discussion of an important but elusive Lacanian concept within the field of psychoanalysis, as well as its relevance for philosophy, literature, gender, and queer studies.

A broad exploration of Irigaray’s philosophy of life and living.

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.

Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change.

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 provocative tale of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing.

Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.

Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

Revisits a foundational moment in Argentine history to demonstrate how the crisis of modernity opened up new possibilities for imagining kinship otherwise.

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

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

An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.

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

Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.

An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

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

First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.

Illuminates transgender activists' successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.

A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.