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.

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.