Gender and Sexuality
Why Europe Is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why America Never Will Be)
Offers an analysis of the political economy of care in order to explain how lesbian and gay citizens in Europe benefit from equality more than those in the United States.
Youth Peacebuilding
Defines a new research area linking youth cultures and music with peacebuilding practice and policy.
Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood
Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.
Seeking the Beloved Community
Selected essays on radical social change.
Passionate Commitments
A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.
The Better Story
Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.
Education Feminism
Collection of important essays by feminist scholars from cultural studies, philosophy of education, curriculum theory, and women’s studies.
Zines in Third Space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Suckling at My Mother's Breasts
A fascinating discussion of the kabbalistic image of a nursing god, its historical context, and its theological implications.
Changing Women, Changing Nation
Analyzes the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives since 1980.
Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.
Imagining Russia
A bold work of feminist international relations that contributes to our understanding of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, both in relations with Russia and in the invasion of Iraq.
The Politics of Parenthood
Traces the rising emphasis on parenthood in contemporary American politics.
Sex in Transition
Argues that South Africa’s apartheid system of racial segregation relied on an unexamined but interrelated system of sexed oppression that was at once both rigid and flexible.
Standing in the Intersection
Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another.
Body as Evidence
Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century
Structural Violence
Challenges the notions that “violence against women” is synonymous with “domestic violence” and that violence affects all women equally
Fashion Talks
Essays on the politics of everyday style.
Letters to ONE
Collection of letters written to the first openly gay magazine in the United States.
Identity Papers
Argues that debates about Jewish identity and assimilation are signs of creative potential rather than crisis.
Deleuze and Guattari's Immanent Ethics
Explains how the work of Deleuze and Guattari speaks to feminism and other progressive movements.
Faithful to the Task at Hand
The story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and education
Friendship as a Way of Life
Develops Foucault’s late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary GLBT political strategy.
Masked Voices
An analysis of unpublished letters to the first American gay magazine reveals the agency, adaptation, and resistance occurring in the gay community during the McCarthy era.
Sleights of Reason
Demonstrates the dramatic interplay of elements that comprise the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development.