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Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, “The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age” (U Illinois Press, 2018)

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
The Labor of Care
Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
University of Illinois, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network August 13, 2018 Christopher B. Patterson

Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez‘s new book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2018) traces how globalization, neoliberalism and new technology have reshaped migrant care work from the Philippines. The book is the result of five years of research interviewing migrant women and... Read More

Duane W. Roller, “Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Duane W. Roller
Cleopatra’s Daughter
And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in African Studies New Books in Biography New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 10, 2018 Mark Klobas

For the most part women in the classical world have suffered from what Duane W. Roller terms “near-invisibility,” obscuring the consequential roles that at times they played in government and politics. In his book Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era (Oxford University Press, 2018), Roller recounts... Read More

Eve Krakowski, “Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Women’s Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture” (Princeton UP, 2017)

Eve Krakowski
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt
Women’s Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture
Princeton University Press, 2017

New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network August 9, 2018 Nadirah Mansour

History is only recently opening up to previously marginalized groups: it is only just now that women’s history is being explored across different historical fields. Eve Krakowski in Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Women’s Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture (Princeton University Press, 2017) uses Cairo Geniza documents, and Jewish... Read More

Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe, “Queering Contemporary Asian American Art” (U Washington Press, 2017)

Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe, eds.
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

University of Washington Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network August 8, 2018 Christopher Patterson

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2017), Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe gather artists and scholars whose work disrupts, challenges, and reimagines ways of being Asian and Asian American. Through nine original artist interviews and seven critical essays, the editors showcase contemporary artists who queer our conceptions of... Read More

Damien Riggs
The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities

Lexington Books, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychology New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Sociology New Books Network August 7, 2018 Eugenio Duarte

In order to fully grasp the workings of racism, we cannot limit ourselves to examining it within majority cultures. Racism exists in minority cultures, such as the gay community, but the intersection of diverse minority identities can make the operation of racism difficult to see. This is the subject of... Read More