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Gender Studies
December 11, 2015
Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China
Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform
Nanxiu Qian
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Julie Fette
Nanxiu Qian, professor at Rice University, discusses her new book Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform (Stanford University Press, 2015). Qian …
Gender Studies
April 20, 2015
A Sisterhood of Sculptors
American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome
Melissa Dabakis
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Julie Fette
In A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome (Penn State University Press, 2014), Melissa Dabakis takes readers on an unexpected journey from Boston to Rome to discover multiple …
Gender Studies
January 20, 2015
Women with a Thirst for Destruction
The Bad Mother in Russian Culture
Jenny Kaminer
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Julie Fette
Jenny Kaminer's new book, Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture (Northwestern University Press, 2014) analyzes Russian myths of motherhood over time and in particular …
Gender Studies
October 30, 2014
The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement
Amy Evrard
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Julie Fette
Amy Evrard's first book, The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), examines women's attempts to change their patriarchal society via their movement for equality and rights. At …
Gender Studies
June 10, 2014
Intimate Activism
The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Cymene Howe
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Julie Fette
With Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2013), Cymene Howe offers an ethnography of activism. Woven into Nicaragua's political history of revolution and …
Gender Studies
May 20, 2014
Life Interrupted
Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
Denise Brennan
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Julie Fette
Denise Brennan's second book, Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States (Duke University Press, 2014), examines how individuals who were trafficked into forced labor go about rebuilding …
Gender Studies
April 23, 2014
Are the Lips a Grave?
A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex
Lynne Huffer
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Julie Fette
In her fourth book, Lynne Huffer argues for a restored queer feminism to find new ways of thinking about sex and about ethics. Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer …
Gender Studies
January 21, 2014
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
Kathleen Wellman
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Julie Fette
Queens and royal mistresses of the Renaissance were the Hollywood celebrities of their time, which explains their enduring magnetism for writers, artists, and the public. Historians and scholars, however, have …
Gender Studies
December 11, 2013
Sex and the Office
A History of Gender, Power and Desire
Julie Berebitsky
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Julie Fette
How to research the history of sexual harassment in the office, when the term sexual harassment was only invented in 1975 and it was long tabou to even use the …