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New Books in Gender Studies
Nancy Lough and Andrea N. Geurin, “Routledge Handbook of the Business of Women’s Sport” (Routledge, 2019)
Nancy Lough and Andrea N. Geurin
Routledge Handbook of the Business of Women's Sport

Routledge, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in SportsNew Books Network August 21, 2019 Kelly McFall

Shortly after the conclusion of the Women’s World Cup earlier this summer, a friend suggested to me that it signaled the long-awaited arrival of soccer as a mainstream sport in the U.S. I thought a second, remembering the commercials around the game and the way the television cameras shot the... Read More
Belinda Stillion Southard, “How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World” (Penn State UP, 2018)
Belinda Stillion Southard
How to Belong
Women’s Agency in a Transnational World
Penn State University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network August 20, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo–interviews Dr. Belinda Stillion Southard (she/hers)–Assoc. Prof. of Communication at the University of Georgia–on the illuminating new book, How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World... Read More
Selby Wynn Schwartz, “The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives” (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Selby Wynn Schwartz
The Bodies of Others
Drag Dances and Their Afterlives
University of Michigan Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in DanceNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 20, 2019 Isabel Machado

Selby Wynn Schwartz writes about gender, performance, and the politics of embodiment. Her articles have been published in Women & Performance, PAJ, Dance Research Journal, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Critical Correspondence, Ballet-Dance Magazine, In Dance, The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, and the forthcoming anthology (Re)Claiming Ballet. She holds a... Read More
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, “For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss A Mother F*cker Out When Snatching An Edge Ain’t Enough”
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi
For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss A Mother F*cker Out When Snatching An Edge Ain’t Enough

Dane Edidi, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoetryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 19, 2019 Adrian King

Inspired by Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi has written her own beautiful choreo drama titled For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss A Mother F*cker Out When Snatching An Edge Ain’t Enough. Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi describes For Black... Read More
Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, “Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, DC, 1920-1945” (UNC Press, 2018)
Mary-Elizabeth Murphy
Jim Crow Capital
Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, DC, 1920-1945
Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network August 16, 2019 Christine Lamberson

Though women’s roles in the black freedom struggle remain under-acknowledged, scholars continue to make their importance clear. In her new book, Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, DC, 1920-1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Mary-Elizabeth Murphy (Associate Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University) examines black women’s... Read More
Lisa Greenwald, “Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement” (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Lisa Greenwald
Daughters of 1968
Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement
University of Nebraska Press, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society August 15, 2019 Beth Maudlin

May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life. The feminist movement was no exception. Women took to the streets and meeting halls around the country, challenging outdated sexual standards, fighting for reproductive freedom, and articulating women’s oppression in radically new ways. In Daughters of 1968:... Read More
Polina Kroik, “Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature” (Routledge, 2019)
Polina Kroik
Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature

Routledge, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in FilmNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society August 12, 2019 Dave O'Brien

How does thinking about gender and work help to rethink cultural hierarchies? In Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature (Routledge, 2019), Polina Kroik, who teaches at Fordham University and Baruch College, CUNY, explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture. The... Read More