Gender Studies

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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.