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Bianca Williams, “The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism” (Duke UP, 2018)

Bianca Williams
The Pursuit of Happiness
Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network February 15, 2019 Dannah Dennis

Analyses of the lives of black women in the United States often focus on narratives of struggle and sorrow, as black women must contend daily with the intersecting oppressions of sexism and racism. However, in her new book The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of... Read More

Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekley, “Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars” (Georgetown UP, 2019)

Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekley
Insurgent Women
Female Combatants in Civil Wars
Georgetown University Press, 2019

New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Military History New Books in National Security New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology February 11, 2019 Beth Windisch

Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars (Georgetown University Press, 2019) investigates the mobilization of female fighters, women’s roles in combat, and what happens to women when conflicts end. The book focuses on three case studies of asymmetric conflicts. Jessica Trisko Darden contributes research looking at Ukraine, Alexis Henshaw discusses... Read More

Micah McCrary, “Island in the City” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

Micah McCrary
Island in the City

University of Nebraska Press, 2018

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network February 8, 2019 Zoë Bossiere

If you read a lot of nonfiction, you may be familiar with what some call the “memoir quandary”—the complaint that memoir and autobiography are too narrowly focused on the writer’s life to be of real interest to anyone but themselves. To avoid this criticism, many nonfiction writers attempt to achieve... Read More

Leigh Goodmark, “Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence” (U California Press, 2018)

Leigh Goodmark
Decriminalizing Domestic Violence
A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Big Ideas New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Sociology New Books Network February 4, 2019 Stephen Pimpare

Thanks to the efforts of activists concerned that the problem of “battered women” was being ignored — and treated as a private, family matter rather than a broader social problem — since the 1980s interpersonal/domestic violence has been treated as a criminal act enforced by the institutions of American criminal... Read More

Zeb Tortorici, “Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain” (Duke UP, 2018)

Zeb Tortorici
Sins Against Nature
Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in Christian Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network February 1, 2019 Pamela Fuentes

In Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (Duke University Press, 2018), Zeb Tortorici analyzes a vast corpus of documents in order to understand how sex acts that were considered out of the norm were understood for over three centuries of Spanish control. Men and women often... Read More