Gender Studies
Earthly Encounters
A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.
Romantic Vacancy
Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.
Unsettling Colonialism
An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.
An Ethic of Innocence
Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.
Birth Chart
A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.
The Holocaust and Masculinities
Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.
Organizing for Transgender Rights
Illuminates transgender activists' successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.
Age of Shōjo
Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.
Love and Violence
A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.
Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory
First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.
Troubled Memories
Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.
Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities
Adds new voices to the feminist conversation and brings a rich variety of diverse approaches to Buddhist women’s identities, “the feminine,” and Buddhist feminism.
Queer Expectations
Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.
Gender and the Abjection of Blackness
An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.
Fashion, Modernity, and Materiality in France
An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
The Gender Legacy of the Mao Era
Shows that the feminist interventions of the Mao era (1949–1976) continue to influence contemporary Chinese women.
Trans People in Higher Education
Addresses the experiences of trans college students, faculty, and staff in a single volume for the first time.
Intimate Memory
Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.
The Symbolic Order of the Mother
Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes.
Bodies in China
Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.
Invisible Hosts
Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit medium's autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian era America.
Intersex Matters
Analyzes intersex debates through a queer feminist, intersectional, and transnational lens.
Sex on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Offers a new theology of desire and delight based on the Christian hope for bodily resurrection.
New Forms of Revolt
Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristeva’s concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy.
Staging Women's Lives in Academia
Argues that institutional change must accommodate women’s professional and personal life stages.