Gender and Sexuality
The Death of Fred Astaire
When, in the late eighties, the author chooses to raise a child with her lesbian partner, she embraces a life outside the lines—one full of curious adventures as well as the usual catastrophes and everyday pleasures.
Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies
Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.
Defending Women's Rights in Europe
Comparative analysis of gender equality reforms enacted in ten post-communist states who became members of the European Union.
Expanding the Circle
Examines strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities.
Maternal Activism
Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.
Bikini-Ready Moms
Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work. "
Women, Ritual, and Power
Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.
Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts
Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.
The Affair of the Veiled Murderess
An account of a mysterious murder committed in nineteenth-century Troy, New York, and the sensational trial that ensued.
Desiring Emancipation
Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.
Gendering Chinese Religion
A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.
In the Life and in the Spirit
Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.
Warrior Women
Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.
Sexual Virtue
Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm.
The Avowal of Difference
Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.
Desbordes
Examines the intersections of “Latino,” “queer,” and “American,” to illustrate how the categories of class, race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity are directly entangled with issues of citizenship and belonging.
Regulating Desire
Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women’s sexuality in the United States.
Leo Bersani
Examines the importance of Leo Bersani’s work for queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, and film studies.
The Returns of Antigone
Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.
The Journal of Ann McMath
An account of an ordinary young woman coming of age in the "Burned-Over District" of Western New York during the Second Great Awakening.
Feminist Figure Girl
Analyzes the author’s transformation from academic to figure competitor.
Uncoupling American Empire
A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.
Male Beauty
Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.
Grassroots Literacies
Examines the grassroots activism of an Internet-mediated collegiate lesbian and gay organization in Turkey.
Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine
Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.