An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.

Recounts the true story of an entrepreneurial woman who succeeded in a male-dominated industry in the twentieth century.

Illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name, featuring forty portraits that explore the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender and features a new interview with the artist.

Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit medium's autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian era America.

Reveals cultural paradigms and historical prejudices regarding the role of birthing and women in the reproduction of society.

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

Explores the life and work of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein through a feminist and mytho-poetic lens.

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

Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights.

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.

Offers a new theology of desire and delight based on the Christian hope for bodily resurrection.

Addresses the importance of Haudenosaunee women in the rebuilding of the Iroquois nation.

Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness.

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.

Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.

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.

Chronicles the conflict between religious and secular forces in Israel.

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

Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction.

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.

A comparative examination of the political, historical, legal, and religious antecedents of penalties and discrimination against sexual minority groups around the world.

Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China.

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