Gender Studies
Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice
Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.
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.
Queer Externalities
Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U. S.
The Specter of Sex
Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.
Naked Lives
Looks at the experience of being an exotic dancer in different kinds of strip clubs.
Hetero
Uncovers the queer nature of heterosexuality on film.
The Mighty Scot
Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.
Resilience
First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.
Rachel Carson
Leading scholars explore the full range and current significance of Carson’s work.
Fit to Teach
Examines the construction of gender in public school employment.
Mothers, Lovers, and Others
Provocative reappraisal of the portrayal of women in Julio Cortázar's short stories.
Calling Cards
Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.
Make Me a Man!
Looks at the ideals of masculine Hinduism—and the corresponding feminine ideals—that have built the Indian nation, and explores their consequences.
The Gender of Desire
Articles and essays on the construction of male sexuality by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.
The History of Men
A collection of historical articles and essays by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.
In the Game
Examines the relationship between gay male athletes, sport, and American masculinity.
Humoring Resistance
Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.
The Logic of Sexuation
Challenges essentialist notions of gender through a detailed account of Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference.
Taste and the Household
Shows how lousy food, cheesy clothes, and dingy homes can ruin our lives.
Double Jeopardy
Enables teachers and other school personnel working with students with disabilities to provide a gender equitable educational experience.
Outspeak
Examines the pleasures, perils, and promises of professing one's sexual identity.
Sexing the Text
Charts the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in eighteenth-century British literature, providing a nuanced reinterpretation of gender and its role in the major genres of the period.
Other Sexes
Explores alternatives to the gender binary in twentieth-century women's fiction.
Counterpleasures
Takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to contemporary s/m practices.