Gender and Sexuality
Mothers Who Deliver
New directions in thinking about mothering.
Disciplining Women
An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.
Who Should Be First?
Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Over Ten Million Served
First book on gender and academic service.
Embodied Shame
Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.
Bound by the City
Explores the connections between sexual difference and political structure in ancient Greek tragedy.
The Making of a Family Saga
Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.
The Culture of Teenage Mothers
Explores teen mothers’ perceptions of their situations and the social stigma that affects them.
Africa Writes Back to Self
Explores the metafictional strategies of contemporary African novels rather than characterizing them primarily as a response to colonialism.
Anachronism and Its Others
Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.
Rewriting Difference
A transdisciplinary reader on Luce Irigaray's reading and re-writing of Ancient Greek texts.
African Americans Doing Feminism
African American women and men share their stories of how feminism has influenced their daily lives.
Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice
Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.
Carolee Schneemann
Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann.
Ideologies of Forgetting
First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U. S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Governing the Female Body
A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.
Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis
Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches to scholarship and activism.
Same-Sex Partners
A demographic portrait of gay and lesbian couples who live together in committed relationships.
My Life at the Gym
Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women’s lives—and as the site of women’s community.
Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts
Critical edition of three women’s oral slave narratives.
Women Writers of the Provincetown Players
Thirteen short plays by women that were originally produced by the Provincetown Players.
Motherhood Misconceived
First collection of essays on cinematic motherhood.
Womanist Forefathers
Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.
Beyond Negritude
Key text never before in English by central figure of the Negritude movement.
The Suffering Will Not Be Televised
Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.