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Björn Krondorfer, “The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men” (SUNY Press, 2020)
Björn Krondorfer
The Holocaust and Masculinities
Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men
SUNY Press, 2020

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network May 26, 2020 Yakir Englander

In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings. Beyond the clear observation that most perpetrators of murder were male, men were also victims, survivors, bystanders, beneficiaries, accomplices, and enablers; they negotiated... Read More
Ashley Mears, “Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Ashley Mears
Very Important People
Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Princeton University Press, 2020

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World Affairs May 22, 2020 Michael O. Johnston

Ashley Mears’ new book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit (Princeton University Press, 2020) provides readers with a closer look at the global party circuit. A lifestyle that offers million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today’s New... Read More
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, “Mary, Mother of Martyrs” (FSR, 2018)
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins
Mary, Mother of Martyrs
How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity
Feminist Studies in Religion, 2018

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith May 19, 2020 Diana Dukhanova

Throughout Christian history, the Virgin Mary has been idealized as a self-sacrificing mother and a model for all Christian women to emulate. However, she is one of many ancient maternal figures whose narratives pivot on violent loss. In her 2018 monograph Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in... Read More
Jacqueline H. Fewkes, “Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Jacqueline H. Fewkes
Locating Maldivian Women's Mosques in Global Discourses

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 15, 2020 Shehnaz Haqqani

What is a mosque? What are women’s mosques specifically? What historical values do women’s mosques offer, and what is the relationship between mosque spaces and women’s religious work? How do women leaders themselves identify with and conceptualize their leadership roles? Why are women’s mosques around the world, both historical and... Read More
Ana Stevenson, “The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Ana Stevenson
The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 13, 2020 Chelsea Gibson

In The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Ana Stevenson explores the ubiquity of what she terms the “woman-slave analogy” in nineteenth-century US feminist discourse. Using examples from the women’s suffrage, abolition, dress-reform, and labor movements, among others, Stevenson reconstructs the creation of this theoretical... Read More
Melissa R. Klapper, “Ballet Class: An American History” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Melissa R. Klapper
Ballet Class
An American History
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in EducationNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & Society May 12, 2020 C. P. Lesley

For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States. Some of these students have gone on to professional careers as dancers, but many more take class for a few years—or many years—before moving on to other... Read More
Victor Uribe-Urán, “Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic” (Stanford UP, 2016)
Victor Uribe-Urán
Fatal Love
Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic
Stanford University Press, 2016

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 8, 2020 Lisette Varon-Carvajal

In his book Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic (Stanford University Press 2016), Victor Uribe-Urán compares the cases of Spain, and the late-colonial societies of Mexico and Colombia, in a historical moment characterized by corporate patriarchy and enlightened punishment. Focusing on crimes of spousal murders,... Read More
Sean F. Edgecomb, “Charles Ludlam Lives!” (U Michigan, 2017)
Sean F. Edgecomb
Charles Ludlam Lives!
Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company
University of Michigan Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 8, 2020 Toney Brown

Playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam (1943-87) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Decades after his death, his place in the chronicle of the American theater has remained constant, but his influence has changed. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut... Read More

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