The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research.

Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.

Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.

A haunting story of the disintegration of an American and Italian family caught in Europe during World War II.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

Comparative analysis of gender equality reforms enacted in ten post-communist states who became members of the European Union.

Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.

Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work. "

Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.

An account of a mysterious murder committed in nineteenth-century Troy, New York, and the sensational trial that ensued.

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.

Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.

Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women’s sexuality in the United States.

An account of an ordinary young woman coming of age in the "Burned-Over District" of Western New York during the Second Great Awakening.

Analyzes the author’s transformation from academic to figure competitor.

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.

Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept.

Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas.

An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.

A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.

Reveals a remarkable woman’s life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.

Brings the insights of Integral Theory to the consideration of sex, gender, and sexuality.

A 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly.

Explores Black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.

Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey.

Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

Documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut, including the crucial role they played in union organizing.

Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays.

The inspirational memoir of a woman who survived a brutal sexual assault and went on to become a university professor.

Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.

Selected essays on radical social change.

A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.

Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.

Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.

A fascinating discussion of the kabbalistic image of a nursing god, its historical context, and its theological implications.

Analyzes the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives since 1980.

A bold work of feminist international relations that contributes to our understanding of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, both in relations with Russia and in the invasion of Iraq.

Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another.

Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century

Challenges the notions that “violence against women” is synonymous with “domestic violence” and that violence affects all women equally

Essays on the politics of everyday style.

Explains how the work of Deleuze and Guattari speaks to feminism and other progressive movements.

The story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and education

Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.

A candid and provocative critique of women’s sexual liberation in America.

An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray’s work.

Examines transnational movement building through a focus on acid attacks and organizing against acid violence in Bangladesh.

Food and its preparation play an integral role in this novel of a young Italian woman struggling to find her own identity in a family of strong personalities and colorful figures.

Explores the relationship between feminism and New Age Culture.

Collection of Black women’s stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters

Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.

Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women’s incarcerated experiences.

Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the “eating disordered culture” represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life.

Inspiring portraits of contemporary African women leaders.

Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.

Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.

Groundbreaking essays by Palestinian women scholars on the lives of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

New edition of Aihwa Ong’s classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.

Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Area.

New directions in thinking about mothering.

An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.

Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.

Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.

Explores teen mothers’ perceptions of their situations and the social stigma that affects them.

African American women and men share their stories of how feminism has influenced their daily lives.

Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann.

First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U. S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.

Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches to scholarship and activism.

Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women’s lives—and as the site of women’s community.

Critical edition of three women’s oral slave narratives.

Thirteen short plays by women that were originally produced by the Provincetown Players.

First collection of essays on cinematic motherhood.

Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.

Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.

Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.

Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.

Looks at the experience of being an exotic dancer in different kinds of strip clubs.

Expanded audiobook edition of the widely praised collection of letters to Michelle Obama by African American women

Women professors of educational administration share their personal stories of being female firsts.

Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.

Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.

Applies the ideas of Heidegger, Irigaray, and Fanon to literature and film.

Argues that the rights of women in Muslim society are based on the preserved cultural standards of elites, not the ethical philosophy of the Quran.

Feminist and psychoanalytic analysis of spectatorship.

Essays consider Drucilla Cornell’s contributions to philosophy, political theory, and legal studies.

Explores ideas on women and sexuality presented in the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.

First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.

Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.

Essays explore a wide range of contemporary feminist mothering practices.

Interview-based study of contemporary African American feminist men.

Grounded in student experiences at nineteenth-century Alfred University, this social history explores the origins of women’s higher education and the rural roots of reform.

Explores the Christian Right’s use of tailored rhetorics to advance multiple and varied antigay political projects.

Investigates the literary voices of six Black women entertainers and how they negotiated the tensions between the entertainment industries and the Black community.

The poet’s life as a teacher.

Examines Lyotard’s writings in light of contemporary feminist theory.

Classic history of Ancient Ethiopia, as researched and written by a heralded African American woman activist.

Fourth volume of biographies of African American women community leaders, focusing this time on Oklahoma.