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New Books in Gender Studies
C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, “Why Don′t Women Rule the World?: Understanding Women′s Civic and Political Choices” (Sage, 2019)
J. Cherie Strachan and Lori M. Poloni-Staudinger
Why Don′t Women Rule the World?
Understanding Women′s Civic and Political Choices
Sage, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Big IdeasNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 9, 2019 Lilly Goren

Why Don′t Women Rule the World?: Understanding Women′s Civic and Political Choices (Sage, 2019) is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics. This book, authored by four political scientists with a diversity of training and expertise, delves into a broad and extensive overview of... Read More
Ather Zia, “Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism” (U Washington Press, 2019)
Ather Zia
Resisting Disappearance
Military Occupation and Women’s Activism
University of Washington Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 8, 2019 SherAli Tareen

Ather Zia’s Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism (University of Washington Press, 2019) is a brilliant, bold, and urgent ethnography centered on Kashmiri women of the APDP (Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons). By combining meticulous historical analysis, ethnographic intimacy, and profound attention to the aspirations and... Read More
Remi Joseph-Salisbury, “Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and ‘Post-Racial’ Resilience” (Emerald, 2018)
Remi Joseph-Salisbury
Black Mixed-Race Men
Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience
Emerald Publishing, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network October 7, 2019 Dave O'Brien

What are the experiences of mixed-race men? In Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and ‘Post-Racial’ Resilience (Emerald Publishing, 2018),  Remi Joseph-Salisbury, a Presidential Fellow in Sociology at the University of Manchester, explores the double consciousness of black mixed-race men in America and the UK. Theoretically rich, with detailed empirical case... Read More
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books
Dawn Durante
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books

NBN, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 4, 2019 Adam McNeil

For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer. Of course, the writer is the essential component. But what about all the other hard-working professionals who shepherd the text from manuscript to beautiful finished product? There are a bunch of them, and today we talk... Read More
Susan Goodier, “Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State” (Cornell UP, 2017)
Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello
Women Will Vote
Winning Suffrage in New York State
Cornell University Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society October 3, 2019 Chelsea Gibson

In their co-authored book, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (Cornell University Press, 2017), Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello examine the many distinct, yet interconnected, groups that fought for women’s suffrage in New York State before 1917. New York produced some of the most well-known figures in... Read More
Gerry Milligan, “Moral Combat: Women, Gender and War in Italian Renaissance Literature” (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Gerry Milligan
Moral Combat
Women, Gender and War in Italian Renaissance Literature
University of Toronto Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Italian StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 1, 2019 Ellen Nerenberg

Gerry Milligan’s Moral Combat: Women, Gender and War in Italian Renaissance Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2018) takes as its subject the woman warrior in early modern Italy as she was and as she was represented across varied types of texts, both literary and historical. What emerges is a discursive construction... Read More
Nora Jaffary, “Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905” (UNC Press, 2016)
Nora Jaffary
Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico
Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905
University of North Carolina Press, 2016

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society September 26, 2019 Lisette Varón Caravajal

Nora Jaffary’s Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905 (University of North Carolina Press. 2016), tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico. Perhaps the most important change analyzed in the book, and... Read More