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Rachel Manekin, “The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Rachel Manekin
The Rebellion of the Daughters
Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia
Princeton University Press, 2020

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithPrinceton UP Ideas Podcast October 21, 2020 Schneur Zalman Newfield

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, over three hundred young Jewish women from Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) fled their communities and sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Relying on a wealth of archival documents, including court testimonies, letters,... Read More
Dan Royles, “To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS” (UNC Press, 2020)
Dan Royles
To Make the Wounded Whole
The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
University of North Carolina Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network October 21, 2020 Claire Clark

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement. They struggled not only to overcome the stigma and denial surrounding a “white gay disease”... Read More
Francesca Sobande, “The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain” (Palgrave, 2020)
Francesca Sobande
The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain

Palgrave, 2020

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network October 21, 2020 Dave O'Brien

What are the possibilities and what are the inequalities of the digital world? In The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave, 2020), Francesca Sobande, a lecturer in Digital Media Studies at Cardiff University explores the experiences of Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media. The book... Read More
Heather Lende, “Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics” (Algonquin Books, 2020)
Heather Lende
Of Bears and Ballots
An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
Algonquin Books, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 21, 2020 Christina Gessler

Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years. Though her entire campaign for assembly member in Haines, Alaska, cost less than $1,000, she won! But tiny, breathtakingly beautiful Haines—a place accessible from the nearest city,... Read More
Morris Ardoin, “Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy” (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Morris Ardoin
Stone Motel
Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
University of Mississippi Press, 2020

LGBTQ+ StudiesNBN Special SeriesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American South October 19, 2020 John Marszalek III

In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family’s roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble. When they were not doing their... Read More
Janet Jakobsen, “The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics” (NYU Press, 2020)
Janet Jakobsen
The Sex Obsession
Perversity and Possibility in American Politics
NYU Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in ReligionNew Books Network October 19, 2020 Lindsey Jackson

Why are Americans, and American politicians more specifically, obsessed with sex? Why, in the words of Janet Jakobsen, are gender and sexuality such riveting public policy concerns the United States? In The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics (NYU Press, 2020), Jakobsen answers this question by breaking apart... Read More
Alexandra J. Finley, “An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade” (UNC Press, 2020)
Alexandra J. Finley
An Intimate Economy
Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade
University of California Press, 2020

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 Network October 16, 2020 Derek Litvak

Alexandra J. Finley is the author of An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2020. An Intimate Economy examines the history of American slavery and capitalism by foregrounding women’s labor in the Antebellum slave trade. Finley explores... Read More
Jessica Zychowicz, “Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine” (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Jessica Zychowicz
Superfluous Women
Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine
University of Toronto Press, 2020

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies October 16, 2020 Steven Seegel

Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine (University of Toronto Press, 2020) tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a focus on new media, Zychowicz demonstrates how contemporary artist... Read More
Sree Padma, “Vicissitudes of the Goddess: Reconstructions of the Gramadevata in India’s Religious Traditions” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Sree Padma
Vicissitudes of the Goddess
Reconstructions of the Gramadevata in India's Religious Traditions
Oxford University Press, 2013

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 15, 2020 Raj Balkaran

In Vicissitudes of the Goddess: Reconstructions of the Gramadevata in India’s Religious Traditions (Oxford UP, 2013), Padma (Bowdoin College) focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility. Setting these figures in the context of their Brahmanic transformation into popular goddesses and... Read More
Rene Almeling, “GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health” (U California Press, 2020)
Rene Almeling
GUYnecology
The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health
University of California Press, 2020

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in Sociology October 15, 2020 Michael O. Johnston

Rene Almeling’s new book GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020) provides an in-depth look at why we do not talk about men’s reproductive health and this knowledge gap shapes reproductive politics today. Over the past several centuries, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to... Read More

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