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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+ Studies NBN Special Series 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 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

New Books in American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Religion New 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 Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New 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 Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New 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 Studies New Books in Hindu Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies New 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 Studies New Books in Medicine New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New 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

John Locke, “Queen of the Gangsters: Stories by Margie Harris” (Off-Trail Publications, 2011)

John Locke, ed.
Queen of the Gangsters
Stories by Margie Harris
Off-Trail Publications, 2011

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books Network October 13, 2020 Rebekah Buchanan

Queen of the Gangsters: Stories by Margie Harris (Off-Trail Publications, 2011), is the first anthology of work of crime fiction writer Margie Harris. Edited by John Locke, Queen of the Gangsters bring the work of Harris, the first woman hardboiled crime fiction writer in history, to a larger audience. During... Read More

Michael Slouber, “A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond” (U California Press, 2020)

Michael Slouber
A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses
Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond
University of California Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Folklore New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Hindu Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies October 13, 2020 Raj Balkaran

Michael Slouber‘s new book A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond (University of California Press, 2021) surveys the diversity of India’s feminine divine tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess narratives from different regions. As the first... Read More

Julie Hardwick, “Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Julie Hardwick
Sex in an Old Regime City
Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in European Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 13, 2020 Jennifer J. Davis

Young women and men sought out each other’s company in the workshops, cabarets, and streets of Old Regime Lyon, and evidence of these relationships lingers in documents and material objects conserved in Lyon’s municipal and departmental archives. How did young workers spend time together? When would they initiate sexual relationships... Read More

Melissa Valentine
The Names of All the Flowers
A Memoir
The Feminist Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 9, 2020 Christina Gessler

Set in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland, this memoir explores siblinghood, adolescence, and grief in a family shattered by loss. Melissa Valentine and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother.... Read More