Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.

Examines the grassroots activism of an Internet-mediated collegiate lesbian and gay organization in Turkey.

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

Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept.

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

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

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

A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.

Explores the challenges faculty fathers face in navigating the demands of work and family.

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

Reveals a remarkable woman’s life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.

Brings the insights of Integral Theory to the consideration of sex, gender, and sexuality.

A 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly.

Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

Explores Black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.

Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey.

Uses ethnography and cultural analysis to track scenes of intimate connection and disconnection among gay men across an array of media sites.

Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.

Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

Documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut, including the crucial role they played in union organizing.

Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays.

Argues that homophobia will not be eradicated in the United States until religion is ended.

The inspirational memoir of a woman who survived a brutal sexual assault and went on to become a university professor.

Exposes how ex-gay and post-abortion ministries operate on a shared system of thought and analyzes their social implications.