Develops Foucault’s late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary GLBT political strategy.

An analysis of unpublished letters to the first American gay magazine reveals the agency, adaptation, and resistance occurring in the gay community during the McCarthy era.

Demonstrates the dramatic interplay of elements that comprise the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development.

Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.

A candid and provocative critique of women’s sexual liberation in America.

Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.

Explores the work of Maurice Kenny, a pivotal figure in American Indian literature from the 1950s to the present.

An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray’s work.

Examines transnational movement building through a focus on acid attacks and organizing against acid violence in Bangladesh.

Brings together the workplace experiences of transgender people with an assessment of current policy protections.

First English translation of Nasio's groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.

Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.

Food and its preparation play an integral role in this novel of a young Italian woman struggling to find her own identity in a family of strong personalities and colorful figures.

Explores the relationship between feminism and New Age Culture.

Collection of Black women’s stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters

Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.

Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women’s incarcerated experiences.

Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the “eating disordered culture” represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life.

Recovers Walt Whitman as a self-conscious religious figure with an ethic based in male comradeship, one at odds with the temper of his times.

Inspiring portraits of contemporary African women leaders.

Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.

Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.

Groundbreaking essays by Palestinian women scholars on the lives of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

New edition of Aihwa Ong’s classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.

Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Area.