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April 22, 2024
Libertine London
Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Julie Peakman investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 1830…
April 21, 2024
Confinement
Covering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social inequality, rapid medical advances and pseudoscientific quac…
April 21, 2024
The Claims of Life
The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power and…
April 20, 2024
A Phenomenology for Women of Color
How can we understand the changing power of race and gender to shape our reality? How shared is reality? Can narratives of experience help us develop …
April 20, 2024
Women’s Experiences of Workplace Gender-based Violence and Harassment in Cambodia’s Construction Industry
In Cambodia, the government and civil society organisations have paid significant attention to Gender-based Violence and Harassment, within both the d…
April 19, 2024
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery
In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Elena, Princess of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl (…
April 17, 2024
Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters
Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parent…
April 12, 2024
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
What does the Miss Tibet beauty pageant tell us about what it means to be Tibetan in a globalized world? And what understandings of Tibetan culture do…
April 11, 2024
A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics
In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive (T&T Clark, 2024), Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of blackqueerness as a…
April 9, 2024
Enchanted Revolution
China’s communist revolution has an intricate relationship with gender and religion. In Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in …
April 5, 2024
Quartet
This is a story of four composers whose careers, lives and loves as women working in 20th century Britain have since been largely forgotten. Dr Leah …
April 3, 2024
Fair Shake
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competit…
April 2, 2024
The Sexual Politics of Empire
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side ac…
April 2, 2024
Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated
How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation meant…
March 26, 2024
The Pink Wave
How and why the election of Donald Trump inspired more women to enter politics. Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidentia…
March 25, 2024
Death by Laughter
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries wou…
March 23, 2024
Quest for Love in Central Morocco
Following the 2011 wave of revolutions and protests in North Africa and the Middle East, new discussions of individual freedoms emerged in the Morocca…
March 21, 2024
On the Job
Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job: A History of Americ…
March 20, 2024
Dreams of Flight
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke UP, 2021) explores the significance of transnational educational mobility in t…
March 18, 2024
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems
Nancy Folbre’s The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy (Verso, 2021) asks the questions of why and under what…