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Sarah Banet-Weiser, “Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny” (Duke UP, 2018)

Sarah Banet-Weiser
Empowered
Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in Sociology New Books Network December 10, 2018 Dave O'Brien

What is the relationship between popular misogyny and popular feminism? In Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny (Duke University Press, 2018), Sarah Banet-Weiser, Professor of Media and Communications and Head of Department at the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications, explores these two interrelated ideas in order to analyse a range of examples including... Read More

Laurie Frankel, “This is How it Always Is” (Flatiron Books, 2017)

Laurie Frankel
This is How it Always Is
A Novel
Flatiron Books, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network December 10, 2018 GP Gottlieb

In her new novel This is How it Always Is (Flatiron Books, 2017), Laurie Frankel tells the story of the Walsh-Adams family and how they grapple with the youngest child, the fifth son, who announces at age three that he wants to be a girl. While his four older brothers... Read More

Sara Egge, “Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920” (U Iowa Press, 2018)

Sara Egge
Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920

University of Iowa Press, 2018

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 November 27, 2018 Mark Klobas

While the campaign to win for women the right to vote in America was waged on a national scale, this often obscures the fact that the most of battles took place at the state level, where local perspectives were key. Sara Egge’s book Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest,... Read More

Keisha Lindsay, “In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools” (U Illinois Press, 2018)

Keisha Lindsay
In a Classroom of Their Own
The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools
University of Illinois Press, 2018

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Education New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network November 27, 2018 Adam McNeil

According to most experts, boys have more trouble in schools than girls. Further, African-American boys have even more trouble than, say, white boys. What to do? According to some, one possible solution to the latter problem is all-Black male schools, or “ABMSs.” In her new book In a Classroom of Their... Read More

Brian Frederick, “American Presidential Candidate Spouses: The Public’s Perspective” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)

Laurel Elder, Brian Frederick, and Barbara Burrell
American Presidential Candidate Spouses
The Public’s Perspective
Palgrave McMillan, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network November 19, 2018 Heath Brown

Laurel Elder, Brian Frederick, and Barbara Burrell are the authors of American Presidential Candidate Spouses: The Public’s Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). Elder is professor of political science at Hartwick College; Frederick is associate professor and chair of political science at Bridgewater State University; Burrell is professor emeritus of political science... Read More