Nineteen Black women in political science share their personal and professional journeys, shedding light on the state of the discipline—and how it needs to change.

Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an “emancipatory drive” in transnational cinema.

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.

Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.

Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Explores Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of understanding and puts this theory into conversation with several social epistemologies, including feminist epistemology.

Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.

Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication

A fresh, provocative reading of Freud's theory of sexuality.

Engaging, self-reflective stories of conducting research on and with transgender, queer, and non-binary youth as they go about their everyday lives in New York City.

Deeply engaging study of how fourteen Black mothers—including the author—support and advocate for their autistic sons.

Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

A moving tale of contemporary Haiti told through the intersecting lives of four young people struggling to hold on to hope and their identities amid a militarized coup in the early 1990s.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

Fully revised, updated edition of the classic text with all new essays assessing the state of race and racial issues in US higher education today.

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume.

Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life.

Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.

Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.