Provides an incisive account of women’s porn and queer porn of the 1980s and 1990s.

Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.

A critical examination of the impact of BRAC, the world's largest NGO, on the status of women in Southern Bangladeshi cultural life.

Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim women’s lives.

Argues for a transactionally situated approach to science and medicine in order to meet the needs of marginalized groups.

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.