Women's Studies
Making Globalization Work for Women
Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.
Performing Sex
A candid and provocative critique of women’s sexual liberation in America.
Thinking with Irigaray
An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray’s work.
Transnationalism Reversed
Examines transnational movement building through a focus on acid attacks and organizing against acid violence in Bangladesh.
Keeping House
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.
Feminism's New Age
Explores the relationship between feminism and New Age Culture.
Black Womanist Leadership
Collection of Black women’s stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters
Detecting Women
Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.
Razor Wire Women
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.
Body Shots
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.
Women's Spiritual Leadership in Africa
Inspiring portraits of contemporary African women leaders.
Something Akin to Freedom
Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.
Convergences
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.
Displaced at Home
Groundbreaking essays by Palestinian women scholars on the lives of Palestinians within the state of Israel.
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition
New edition of Aihwa Ong’s classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.
Imagining Black Womanhood
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.
Mothers Who Deliver
New directions in thinking about mothering.
Disciplining Women
An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.
Who Should Be First?
Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Embodied Shame
Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.
The Making of a Family Saga
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.
The Culture of Teenage Mothers
Explores teen mothers’ perceptions of their situations and the social stigma that affects them.
African Americans Doing Feminism
African American women and men share their stories of how feminism has influenced their daily lives.
Carolee Schneemann
Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann.
Ideologies of Forgetting
First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U. S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.