Articles and essays on the construction of male sexuality by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.

A collection of historical articles and essays by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.

Interrogates the comfortable and stable contours of "home," asking what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places.

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity.

Examines female infanticide in colonial and postcolonial India.

A son’s coming to terms with his mother’s decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children.

Examines the relationship between gay male athletes, sport, and American masculinity.

Third volume of biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.

Links radical feminist writings of the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary online women's networks.

Compares plays by Latin American women dramatists born after 1945.

Examines the implications and meanings of the makeover and aesthetic surgery industry in American popular culture.

Looks at Buddhist women's activism for social change from the time of Buddha to the present day.

Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.

Provides both a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of a little-known world—that of female ascetics in India.

Documents the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers in poverty confront in the current welfare climate.

Argues that Islamic law does not accord a lesser status to women and elaborates Muslim women's rights in a variety of areas.

A critical look at the perceived increase in girls' violence from a range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives.

Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.

An in-depth exploration of women's lives after a natural disaster.

Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.

Challenges essentialist notions of gender through a detailed account of Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference.

Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history—the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men, women, and children in 1863—has been contested, forgotten, and remembered.

Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.

A scandalous bestseller of mid-nineteenth-century France, translated here for the first time into English.