feminist publishing

American Sexual Histories, Second Edition

American Sexual Histories, Second Edition

This project was funded in part by a CSWS grant.
"The second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day."
Author
Elizabeth Reis
Peggy Pascoe
Publication
2012
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Race and Ethnicity

“This textbook combines Naomi Zack’s earlier philosophical work, examining the concept of race as culturally relative with a look at the social aspect of race being associated with oppression. The book is intended for students to access online, in a multi-media format, where they will have direct access to sound and video material.”
Author
Naomi Zack
Publication
2012
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Asian American Literature 

“The collection is organized into four volumes. The first (“Literary History: Criticism and Theory”) brings together the best work to define, explicitly or implicitly, the parameters of Asian American literature. It addresses its political and aesthetic significance and major issues of contention.”
Author
David Leiwei Li
Publication
2012
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility Book Cover

On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility

“This book juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. In their efforts to “make sense,” these writers and artists argue against merely being accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to confront epistemic injustice—an injustice that affects people in their capacity as knowers and as community members worthy of being known.”
Author
Ernesto Javier Martinez
Publication
2012
American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege Book Cover

American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege

“With a central focus on gender and masculinities, The American Soul Rush, explores the concept of spiritual privilege and Esalen’s foundational influence on the growth and spread of diverse spiritual practice. It explores the ways that men construct personal spirituality and share it with others, while most work on gender and alternative religion examines women’s roles. The book describes the people, narratives, and relationships at the Institute that produced persistent, almost accidental inequalities in order to illuminate the ways that gender is always central to religion and spirituality.”
Author
Marion Goldman
Publication
2012
Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora Book Cover

Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora

"Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts has presented the music of Balkan Roma to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as the author notes, “Roma are revered as musicians and reviled as people.” In this book, Silverman introduces readers to the people and cultures who produce this music, offering a sensitive and incisive analysis of how Romani musicians address the challenges of discrimination.

Author
Carol Silverman
Publication
2012
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Prowler

“Amanda Powell‘s poems are dark, witty, and intimate; at once autobiographical and formally sophisticated; sound-rich; and full of linguistic surprises. These poems are both deeply embedded in our literary traditions and right on the edge of contemporary poetics. Moving, unflinching and alive, they reward the closest attention with a cornucopia of unexpected pleasures.” – Linda Bamber
Author
Amanda Powell
Publication
2013
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Trafalgar

Trafalgar, a novel-in-stories, was originally published in Argentina in 1979. It starts off light and refreshing right from the very first short “Who’s Who in Rosario” listing for Trafalgar, although there are occasional clouds that pass through Trafalgar Medrano’s bright and happy stories.”
Author
Angélica Gorodischer; translated by Amalia Gladhart
Publication
2013
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Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies

“Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian period. Postcolonial criticism’s concern with issues of geopolitics, race and gender, subalternity and exoticism shape discussions of works by major authors such as Blake, Coleridge, both Shelleys, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries.”
Author
Elizabeth Bohls
Publication
2013
Otros Sabreres: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics Book Cover

Otros Sabreres: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics

“Latin American Studies as a fully recognized field of scholarly inquiry only exists for those accustomed to viewing the region from north of the U.S.-Mexican border. Although never completely stable or uncontested, Latin American Studies had its first heyday between the mid1960s and late 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, when the region became the focus of intense geopolitical contention. While two decades later it is clear that Latin American Studies has remained vibrant in the face of such challenges, its resilience is due to innovation, rather than to a merely reactive defense of deeply engrained premises and institutional practices."
Author
Lynn Stephen and Charles R. Hale
Publication
2013