Presents a twenty-first-century, progressive, liberal Confucianism.

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

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

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.

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

Recovers and chronicles the plights of ordinary New Yorkers that resonate with contemporary debates on rape and domestic violence.

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

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

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.

Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.

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

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

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

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

Presents new scholarship, images, and primary sources that explore the art and legacy of a critical yet under-recognized figure in Abstract Expressionism and twentieth-century American art.

Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls' studies.

Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950’s.

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

Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.

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

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

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

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.

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