Gender and Sexuality

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Over the Rooftops of Time

Wide-ranging and poignant reflections on literature, art, science, and memory.

Mill Girls and Strangers

A comparative history of single women's independent migration to the textile cities of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland.

Democracy Growing Up

The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville’s classic, Democracy in America.

The Marked Body

Discusses portrayals of domestic violence in six major works of mid-nineteenth-century literature.

Two Paths to Equality

A comprehensive look at the ERA debates of the 1920s.

The Retreat from Organization

Offers critical assessments of feminism from the 1960s to the present.

Uncrowned Queens, Volume 1

Biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

The Annual Review of Women in World Religions

This interdisciplinary consideration of women in world religions features new scholarship across traditions and approaches.

Femicidal Fears

Argues that contemporary female Gothic novels of death can, in fact, breathe new life into feminist debates about victimization, essentialism, agency, and the body.

Beyond Romance

Critiques the predominant romantic ideal.

Taste and the Household

Shows how lousy food, cheesy clothes, and dingy homes can ruin our lives.

Looking Beyond the Mask

Interviews with women in cross-cultural marriages, offering a unique insight into Japanese life.

Double Jeopardy

Enables teachers and other school personnel working with students with disabilities to provide a gender equitable educational experience.

Rebellious Hearts

Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution.

Rescuing Haya

The story of an Israeli woman's struggle to forge her personal and professional identity.

A Group of Their Own

A fascinating story of the first generations of women who went to college to learn to be writers and then launched their careers writing poetry and prose.

The Promised Land?

Analyzes East German feminism for an American audience through an exploration of their women writers.

What Men Owe to Women

Men from a wide range of traditions discuss gender justice in world religions.

Literary Trauma

Examines representations of political, psychological, and sexual violence in seven novels by American women.

Outspeak

Examines the pleasures, perils, and promises of professing one's sexual identity.

Mothering from the Inside

Explores how women in prison manage to mother their children from behind bars.

Women Saints in World Religions

Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.

Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies

A rare look at female empowerment in the Muslim world.

Dreaming the Actual

This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.