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Book SynopsisThe Girl in the Yellow Poncho is journalist and scholar Kristal Brent Zook’s coming-of-age tale about what it means to be biracial in America where she grapples with in-betweenness, family trauma, and the profound power of atonement and faith to heal a broken family.Trade Review“After thirty years of reporting, Kristal Brent Zook has turned inward to write a deeply personal, frank, and inspirational story about race and class.” -- Ada Calhoun, author of * Why We Can't Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis *“Kristal Brent Zook’s coming-of-age memoir is a thought-provoking tale of triumph outdistancing pain, of never giving up on love and hope despite childhood traumas and a broken family. Kristal writes so beautifully and urgently. The Girl in the Yellow Poncho will absolutely absorb you.” -- Kevin Merida, coauthor of * Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs *“Brilliantly capturing the complexities of contemporary Black women’s experiences, The Girl in the Yellow Poncho is the most riveting, compelling memoir I have read.” -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies, Spelman College“Kristal’s story touched me deeply. It will touch everyone who has struggled with feeling the ‘in-betweenness’ that propels her riveting heroine’s journey to define herself and create the family for which she yearned. The writing is as powerful as the message: love ultimately triumphs.” -- Gloria Feldt, author of * Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good *“Kristal Brent Zook’s memoir is a wrenching, riveting and luminous coming-of-age story about what it means to grow up biracial. Her journey reads like a multigenerational tale woven by strong biracial and Black women—in this case, the daughters, mothers and grandmothers of Zook’s family. With grace and generosity, Zook offers a universal testament to the power of forgiveness and healing—and the strength found through discovering one’s authentic identity. At a time when we often feel lost, this memoir reveals what it means to be found.” -- Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher, * The Nation *“Kristal Brent Zook has written an honest, illuminating look at her life, loves and culture.” -- Nelson George, author of * City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success *"A powerful memoir about a woman’s odyssey for connection, self-identity, and love." * Kirkus Reviews *"In this intimate and generous memoir, Kristal Brent Zook explores the complexities of her past and the consummation of her present as a biracial daughter of a white father who left and the Black mother and grandmother who raised her." -- Karla J. Srand * Ms. Magazine *“Zook recalls a childhood haunted by her missing father—and complicated by his return. A brave, heart-stirring memoir.” * People *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Kansas Avenue 1 2. Uncle Mervin 7 3. Noches 13 4. Laurel Canyon 17 5. Dra 23 6. Hollywood Boulevard 27 7. Rockin’ Out 33 8. College Bound 41 9. Activist 47 10. Light-Skinned 55 11. Taking a Chance 63 12. Dad 69 13. ABD 79 14. Detour 87 15. Writer 95 16. Pain 105 17. Australia 111 18. Hiding 119 19. An Adventure 127 20. Alfonso 133 21. A New Life 141 22. Multiracial 149 23. Forgiving 155 24. Memories 159 25. Vashon Island 163 26. Thanksgiving 171 27. Lisa 177 28. Rekindled 183 29. Rage 189 30. A Birthday 195 31. Mothers 199 32. Transformation 207

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Book SynopsisMila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chinese-ness.Trade Review“In this gorgeously written book, Mila Zuo captures how Chinese female film stars perform beauty in ways that reflect their negotiation with the racial sexualization of their femininity. With a rigorous and lucid ferocity, Zuo boldly brings together critical theory, philosophy, aesthetics, women of color feminism, feminist film theory, and performance theory to help us understand Chinese women’s presences on screen. Fearless and powerful, Vulgar Beauty is a pleasure to read.” -- Celine Parreñas Shimizu, author of * The Proximity of Other Skins: Ethical Intimacy in Global Cinema *"[Zuo's] metaphoric language, mostly revolving around food, offers the reader not only an intellectual exploration of the power of vulgar beauty to destabilize racial and patriarchal power structures but also a flavorful and aesthetic journey in and of itself." -- E. Nastacia Schmoll * Lateral *"Anyone interested in performance, in gender and sexuality, in race on an international stage, in Chinese politics and history in this century of suffering, needs to read this book. Anyone hungry, voracious perhaps, for interdisciplinary diasporic and transnational critique that engages not only with cultural but also intellectual traditions from China and Korea had better prepare to feast." -- Vivian L. Huang * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Tasting Vulgar Beauty 1 1. Bitter Medicine, Racial Flavor: Gong Li 39 2. Salty-Cool: Maggie Cheung and Joan Chen 73 3. Pungent Atmospheres: Bai Ling and Tang Wei 113 4. Sweet and Soft Coupling: Vivian Hsu and Shu Qi 152 5. Sour Laughter: Charlyne Yi and Ali Wong 193 Conclusion: Aftertaste 234 Notes 241 Bibliography 267 Index 289

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Book SynopsisHeartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled too dark to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards I have a vivid memory of standing in my grandmother's kitchen, where, by the table, she closely watched me as I played. When I finally looked up to ask why she was staring, her expression changed from that of intent observer to one of guilt and shame. . . . My anak (dear child),' she began, you are so beautiful. It is a shame that you are so dark. No Filipino man will ever want to marry you.'Shade of Brown, Noelle Marie Falcis How does skin color impact the lives of Asian American women? In Whiter, thirty Asian American women provide first-hand accounts of their experiences with colorism in this collection of powerful, accessible, and brutally honest essays, edited by Nikki Khanna. Featuring contributors of many ages, nationalities, and professions, this compelling collection covers a wide range of topics, incluTrade Review"Whiter captures the many dimensions of colorism that shape Asian women's lives. Messages from mothers, others, and the surrounding cultures all coincide to constrain women's sense of beauty, family, identity, and worth. But Nikki Khanna and the distinguished contributors to this volume capture the many ways, both subtle and overt, that women negotiate, succumb to, and defy the dominant messages around skin color. This volume is a wonderful combination of sociology, cultural studies, memoir, history, media studies, and poetics bringing a diversity of voices and perspectives to this conversation." -- Margaret Hunter, author of Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone"Colorism affects Asian American women of every background, whether it's due to Asian beauty standards, colonialism, or racism. Khanna taps into the cultural pressures to possess lighter skin color. By curating relatable and thought-provoking stories from a diverse group of Asian American women in their own voices, Whiter will appeal to a wide breadth of readers—from gender and race scholars to anyone interested in deconstructing beauty standards." -- Nancy Wang Yuen, author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism"Whiter is an eye-opening book that aims to help us better understand the role of skin color in social mobility." * Bitch Magazine *"This insightful, thought-provoking volume gives voice to the wide range of Asian American women's experiences of colorism." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisGroundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women's resistance before, during, and after the Arab SpringImages of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women's political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century moveTrade ReviewAn amazing, timely, and spectacular contribution to the scholarship on women’s empowerment in the context of the Arab world. The volume brings together works by the field’s most renowned experts. It captures theoretical debates, empirical nuances and a remarkable and sophisticated lens that captures the daily lives and experiences of Arab women. This is a must-read! Stephan and Charrad have assembled a masterpiece! -- Amaney A. Jamal, author of Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab WorldIn Women Rising, activists, scholars, politicians, and artists tell a compelling story of women’s mobilization before, during, and after the Arab uprising of 2011. Well written and analytically powerful, these essays show us the important role women have played in the struggle for democracy, social justice, and women’s rights across the diverse communities in the region. Pushing the boundaries of the study of feminist resistance, this book will inspire students, scholars, and activists. -- Verta Taylor, co-editor of Feminist FrontiersA rich collection that records the life and efforts of women during a critical point of history for Arab women as they struggle against odds that often seem insurmountable. -- Amira Sonbol, author of The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern FeudalismThe message of this inspiring collection of personal reflections from Arab women activists of various types is that the Arab Spring is far from over - even bloody civil wars are not extinguishing women’s efforts to be heard in calling for reform, resistance and even revolution! The activist chorus so effectively captured here includes poetry, academic essays, accounts of organizing experiences and political reflections from more or less successfully democratized countries. Each contribution is a striking solo, but they harmonize nicely, pointing together to the variety of roots of women’s rebellions in 2010 and the diversity of blooms still opening since! -- Myra Marx Ferree, author of Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global PerspectiveA uniquely stimulating and timely compendium teeming with Arab women’s voices and multiple forms of activism before, during and after the Arab uprisings. Using varied forms of expression, from art and literary production to political commentary, this volume offers a definitive challenge to misrepresentations of Arab women’s agency and their ongoing roles in democratic struggles. -- Deniz Kandiyoti, co-editor of Gender, Governance, and IslamThis exciting and unique collection of essays by Arab activists, politicians, scholars, and others is remarkable in its breadth, covering a wide range of Arab countries and contexts to explore the activism of women before, during and after the Arab Spring uprisings. This important and impressive contribution to the study of women’s activism in the region reveals distinctive features of Arab women’s struggles and the national and local origins of their protests. It shows how women, through their very presence in protests, transformed the relationship of women to public space. Women were emboldened through their organizations; they increased political representation; and made legislative changes. But they also asserted their creative agency through literature, film, street art, the photographic lens, and many other forms of expression. -- Aili Mari Tripp, author of Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women's RightsA welcomed reaffirmation that women have been and successfully continue to work for change as well as a much needed resource for area scholars and those who want to know women can accomplish. * Al Jadid *Delivers theoretical and empirical insights to the field of Middle East, gender and women’s studies. Stephan and Charrad bring together different stories of resistances and diverse voices of change and thus challenge essentialist and ahistorical readings of women and gender in the region. * Comparative Politics *For educators teaching about the region, selections from the anthology are an excellent source of potential course material ... The editors have done a truly impressive job of collating work by a wide range of individuals writing about a large number of countries. * The Middle East Journal *Through a reading of Women Rising, one can observe how Arab women’s activism has repositioned following the Arab Spring and increasingly, Arab women are using new modes of mobilizing and organizing to better represent themselves and simultaneously, upset normative ideas of Arab women. This in itself is a reclamation of Arab women’s identity, which as this volume clearly indicates, is not a monolith. * Journal of International Women's Studies *

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Book SynopsisExamines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a complicated discourse emerged surrounding considerations of appearance of African American women and expressions of race, class, and status. Brown Beauty considers how the media created a beauty ideal for these women, emphasizing different representations and expressions of brown skin. Haidarali contends that the idea of brown as a respectable shade was carefully constructed through print and visual media in the interwar era. Throughout this period, brownness of skin came to be idealized as the real, representational, and respectable complexion of African American middle class women. Shades of brown became channels that facilitated discussions of race, class, and gender in a way that would develop lasting cultural effects for an ever-modernizing world. Building on an impressive range of visuaTrade ReviewScholarly discussions of the Harlem Renaissance–New Negro era usually focus on men. In Brown Beauty, Laila Haidarali (African American and women’s history, Univ. of Essex, UK) widens the lens to examine women and the development of a race conscious ideal of “brown-skin” beauty. * Choice *Brown Beautyintroduces us to the tension of identity and beauty through concepts of advertising during a crucial period of the 20th century. It is well researched as it includes numerous accounts about black women rarely discussed such as the first black modeling agency in the 20th century. An important read, the author impressively argues that the fusion of the two racialized standards of beauty toward the end of the Harlem Renaissance resulted in the evolution of the urban New Negro woman by the end of WWII -- Deborah Willis, New York University, author of Posing BeautyLaila Haidarali has given us a path breaking study of the color question in New Negro womanhood. Her masterful interpretation of diverse sources will ensure that the category of 'brown beauty' will have to be reckoned with in any study of modern African American identity and culture. Haidaralis ability to interpret and historicize literary and popular print culture will serve as a model for cultural and social historians of the black experience for years to come. -- Victoria Wolcott, author of Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in AmericaLaila Haidarali has written a book that should act as a foundation for students and scholars interested in understanding modern origins of colorism in American society. * Journal of American Ethnic History *A thoughtful and meticulous interdisciplinary study that explores African Americans’ use of a gendered color-coded discourse [...] Without a doubt, Brown Beauty is an important addition to the field of Africana studies * Journal of African American History *

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Book SynopsisA fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America After a half century of battling for gender equality, women have been freed from the necessity of securing a husband for economic stability, sexual fulfillment, or procreation. Marriage is a choice, and increasingly women (and men) are opting out. Yet despite these changes, the cultural power of marriage has burgeoned. What was once an obligation has become an exclusive club into which heterosexual women with the right amount of self-discipline may win entry. The newly exalted professionalized wife is no longer reliant on her husband's status or money; instead she can wield her own power provided she can successfully manage the business of being a wife. Wife, Inc. tells a fiercely contemporary story revealing that today's wives do not labor in kitchens or even homes. Instead, the work of wifedom occurs in online dating sites, on reality television, in social media, and on the campaign trail. Trade ReviewLeonard unearths the complexity of femininity and marriage in the modern day, with attention to the inescapability of women’s historical presence in the domestic sphere ... Wife, Inc. will undoubtedly interest readers in fields of both Media and Women and Gender Studies who will gain intriguing insights from Leonard’s assertions on market-controlled constructions of feminine connection. * Communication Review *A smart and trenchant examination of the notion of the & wife as both a popular culture phenomenon and an economic powerhouse. Suzanne Leonard has once again proved herself to be an incisive interpretative voice. Written in a clear and engaging style, Wife Inc.s readers are in good hands as Leonard walks us through the nuances of wifedom in the twenty-first century. -- Brenda R. Weber,editor of Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality TelevisionHow and why do women in the twenty-first century seek and perform the role of wife? What norms and expectations define it and in what ways does it comply with and deviate from its traditional definitions? Tracking the image of the wife and the aspirant wife across multiple zones of popular culture, Suzanne Leonards brilliant, timely book elucidates the new stakes of wifehood in early twenty-first century culture, unpacking it as a status category, a state of risk and a mode of female labor that demands critical reflection, and the kind of fresh take that she is ideally suited to provide. -- Diane Negra,University College DublinLeonard explores how American women look at and experience marriage. For centuries a pragmatic economic arrangement, modern marriage has become bound up in the pursuit of happiness. . . . Yet even after getting married which is seen as the prize at the end of the romance narrative women often find themselves saddled with another job: the work of being a wife. -- Kate Tuttle,Boston GlobeSlick and sophisticated, Wife Inc. is a fascinating look at the figure of the wife as a mediated phenomenon. As the first book to treat the wife as an icon of post-feminist media culture, this is an extremely timely intervention. The stakes of what Suzanne Leonard sheds light on, especially with regard to political wives, are dramatically raised in our current time. Its topicality, compounded by its engaging style, make this an exciting read for those interested in feminist and political issues in popular culture. -- Hannah Hamad,Cardiff University

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industryWhy is being a computer geek still perceived to be a masculine occupation? Why do men continue to greatly outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a growing number of employment discrimination lawsuits has called attention to a persistent pattern of gender discrimination in the tech world. Much has been written about the industry's failure to adequately address gender and racial inequalities, yet rarely have we gotten an intimate look inside these companies. In Geek Girls, France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist that lifts the Silicon veil to provide firsthand accounts of inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. This work draws on close to a hundred interviews with male and female technology workers of diverse racial, ethnic, and educational backgrounds who are curreTrade Review"France Winddance Twine casts a harsh light on the supposed meritocracy of the tech industry, where Black and Latina 'geek girls' confront painful barriers while their white and Asian coworkers leap over them, thanks to elite connections. It’s not what you know but whom you know and who you are that largely determines success in Silicon Valley—a massive injustice that stifles innovation and calls for new forms of recognition and solidarity." -- Sharon Zukin, author of The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy"The first step in dismantling unjust systems is knowing exactly how they operate. In Geek Girls, France Winddance Twine peels back the screen to illuminate the mechanisms that produce and sustain inequality in Silicon Valley. Through innovative research, this book offers conceptual tools that illuminate the way racism, sexism, classism, and casteism stifle opportunity behind the veil of meritocracy. This book should be read by everyone who is committed to broadening opportunity in our deeply stratified world." -- Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Strategies for the New Jim Code"Geek Girls explores intersectionality in women's experiences in technology careers, thinking beyond the careers of white, middle class, Indian, or heterosexual women. Twine highlights the real divide between the experiences of white and Asian women in the industry compared to Black women, including the racial advantages they receive through their relationships with white friends and partners. Geek Girls complicates our understanding of race, gender, and sexuality in Silicon Valley" * Maryann Erigha, author of The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry *"With Professor Twine's sharp eye for detail and compelling testimonials from industry insiders,Geek Girls fully captures what it is like to work as a technically skilled woman in Silicon Valley…is an exceptionally well presented expose of workplace discrimination in the computer and technology industry." * Midwest Book Review *"Geek Girls is a critical, significant sociological work on structural inequality in technology occupations…this book is a must-read for anyone interested in systemic inequality in work and occupations." * Choice *"Twine’s book is an important contribution to this canon of work, but it is also original in that it is a thoroughly sociological study … The book’s rigorous scholarship is presented in a highly accessible style, such that we become drawn into the lives and experiences of many of the ‘Geek Girls’ featured as they attempt to negotiate the ‘dominant White world’ in which they work." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Geek Girls should be on everyone’s book list because the injustices described are not going anywhere unless individuals understand where they come from and how they work. Twine tells the story of the nontraditional geek in a comprehensive and thoughtful way that we all would benefit from reading." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *

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Book SynopsisBrings to life one of the most significant figures in the crusade for women's rights in AmericaThis comprehensive biography of Susan B. Anthony traces the life of a feminist icon, bringing new depth to our understanding of her influence on the course of women's history. Beginning with her humble Quaker childhood in rural Massachusetts, taking readers through her late twenties when she left a secure teaching position to pursue activism, and ultimately tracing her evolution into a champion of women's rights, this book offers an in-depth look at the ways Anthony's life experiences shaped who she would become. Drawing on countless letters, diaries, and other documents, Kathleen Barry offers new interpretations of Anthony's relationship with feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and illuminating insights on Anthony's views of men, marriage, and children. She paints a vivid picture of the political, economic, and cultural milieu of 19th-century America. And, above all, she brings a very real Susa

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Book SynopsisBrings to life one of the most significant figures in the crusade for women's rights in AmericaThis comprehensive biography of Susan B. Anthony traces the life of a feminist icon, bringing new depth to our understanding of her influence on the course of women's history. Beginning with her humble Quaker childhood in rural Massachusetts, taking readers through her late twenties when she left a secure teaching position to pursue activism, and ultimately tracing her evolution into a champion of women's rights, this book offers an in-depth look at the ways Anthony's life experiences shaped who she would become. Drawing on countless letters, diaries, and other documents, Kathleen Barry offers new interpretations of Anthony's relationship with feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and illuminating insights on Anthony's views of men, marriage, and children. She paints a vivid picture of the political, economic, and cultural milieu of 19th-century America. And, above all, she brings a very real Susa

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers is an inspirational story of individual successes and even more important, a historical analysis of the march toward improved gender equality in America." * Trial Magazine *"I cannot even begin to do justice to these stories, so I recommend it as reading for everyone. I have always considered Ruth Bader Ginsburg an inspiration, but now I know the names and stories of other trailblazers to admire: Ruth Abrams, Joanne Garvey, Constance Harvey, Herma Hill Kay, Shirley Hufstedler, Belva Lockwood, Janet Reno, Catherine Roraback, Norma Shapiro, Ada Shen-Jaffe, and so many more... Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers is not just the story of what women went through to attain their current place in the law, but an empowerment to keep the fight for equality going strong. This book is highly recommended for law school libraries." -- Law Library Journal"[A]n interesting look at the lives of women who joined the legal profession in the middle and later part of the last century...[I]t offers tales both fascinating and frustrating about barriers and burdens women suffered as they fought their way into the legal profession" -- The Champion"This remarkable volume collects the life and career stories of more than a hundred female lawyers, all part of the so-called 'second wave'of the movement, that is the period after women gained suffrage and other full citizenship rights. These are women who have written important scholarship, served as Deans of major institutions, risen to the highest ranks of law practice while also devising new forms of public service---their stories mark a true revolution in the profession. The production of the book itself is as remarkable as the content a vast collaborative effort of oral history taking and writing, now organized with an historians fine hand. It will be useful for years to all scholars of the legal profession as a model and an inspiration." -- Barbara Babcock,Crown Professor Emerita, Stanford Law School, author of Fish Raincoats, A Woman Lawyer's Life"Jill Norgren has written a compelling portrait of women on the front lines of the ongoing struggle for gender equality in the legal profession. Her book eloquently describes a central feature of the civil rights revolution that continues today, and reminds us not to take for granted the hard-won victories of those whose stories she tells." -- John Shattuck,author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response"The words of the women lawyers here tell an inspiring yet sobering story of the path women lawyers blazed in the 20th century. They all, even the most successful and influential, faced the roadblocks of gender discrimination as they made their way through law school and up the professional ladder, and as they confronted the enduring challenge of balancing their personal and professional lives. Their stories are both a window into the past and a beacon for the future, revealing just how far women lawyers have advanced as well as what lies ahead in the 21st century." -- Virginia G. Drachman,author of Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History

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Book SynopsisAn inside look at women graffiti artists around the worldSince the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and bridges. Passersby are left to imagine who the author might be, and, despite the artists' anonymity, graffiti subculture is seen as a boys club, where the presence of the graffiti girl is almost unimaginable. In Graffiti Grrlz, Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón interrupts this stereotype and introduces us to the world of women graffiti artists. Drawing on the lives of over 100 women in 23 countries, Pabón-Colón argues that graffiti art is an unrecognized but crucial space for the performance of feminism. She demonstrates how it builds communities of artists, reconceptualizes the Hip Hop masculinity of these spaces, and rejects notions of girl power. Graffiti Grrlz also unpacks the digital side of Hip Hop graffiti subculture and considers how it widensTrade Review"Brilliantly countering any claims that feminism is dead and that the Hip-Hop culture & is detrimental to women and girls, Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón has written an impeccably researched study of the grrls who have paved their way into the predominantly male graffiti culture, claiming their own space." * Street Art NYC *"The graffiti grrlz featured here know how to throw up fresh ways of re-imagining feminism, urban belonging, and world-making practices. Through bright ethnographic accounts of graffitis gendered politics and global reach, Pabón-Colón takes down assumed notions of hip-hop culture by passing the mic to a new generation of feminist graffiti artists engaged in writing and speaking on their own terms." -- Juana María Rodríguez, author of Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings"Vibrant, complex, and totally engaging, Graffiti Grrlz recovers womens presence in graffiti subcultures around the globe. In this ambitious and passionate book, Jessica Pabón-Colón amplifies the resistant and creative practices of women graffiti artists and masterfully highlights their important contributions to contemporary feminism. In doing so, she transforms and expands our ideas about the meaning of graffiti and of feminist political action." -- Jessica Taft, author of Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas"Graffiti Grrlz will change the way we think about women's involvement in Hip Hop culture and the way we think about feminist movements. Graffiti Grrlzgives us a part of the story we didn't know we were waiting for and we didn't know how much we needed. Powerful stuff, the prose takes shape like a fly graffiti backdrop and paints a picture that perfectly captures the work these women put in. Graffiti Grrlz is groundbreaking and game-changing scholarship that answers the question, where my grrlz at, with a powerful and provocative right here. This is a must read for anyone interested in Hip Hop Studies and Women's and Gender Studies." -- Gwendolyn D. Pough, author of Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere"In her groundbreaking book, Pabón-Colón explores how the graffiti subculture has been coded as male. . . Her dedication to detail and thoroughly researching is evident throughout the book. She explores over 100 women artists in 23 countries and makes a compelling case that graffiti subculture is a place where feminists come into their own." * Bitch Magazine *"There hasnt been any significant interrogation into the gender politics of the art form or culture [of graffiti] until now. Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón has presented her work inGraffiti Grrlzin a way that is thoughtful and thorough as she asks important questions about how women navigate the world of graffiti. Anyone with an interest in the art form and the culture should do themselves a favor and read this book." * Scratched Vinyl *"Through stories from 100 womxn in 23 countries, Graffiti Grrlz examines the world of graffiti art, revealing the daily performance of feminism for the girls and womxn who write graffiti, and the spaces and subculture they inhabit." * Public Art Review *"Pabón-Colón successfully shows that women graffiti writers are fundamentally important to the development of art, despite their exclusion and omission from historic and contemporary discussion of graffiti art and practice." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *"A rigorous, loving take on women’s empowerment in a high-risk art." * Feminist Collections *"Pabón-Colón’s wonderfully engaging, important new book locates itself in the midst of still-urgent questions about how we can ethically and effectively 'face' our shared publics. More than 15 years in the making and colored brightly by Pabón-Colón’s own experiences as a writer in feminist hip hop graffiti subcultures, this detailed performance ethnography examines the work and the working practices of graffiteras across the Americas, in Europe and the UK, South Africa, and elsewhere. Written in an intentionally accessible style, and wearing its heart on its sleeve, it nevertheless does an outstanding job of asking questions important to feminist performance theory and practice." * Social Forces *

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Book SynopsisMy guilty pleasure wasn't just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.What is it about ribald romance novels, luxurious interior design, and frothy wedding dresses that often make women feel their desires come with a shadow of shame? In Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures, Arielle Zibrak considers the specifically pleasurable forms of feminine guilt and desire stimulated by supposedly lowbrow aesthetic tendencies. She takes up the overwhelming preoccupation with the experience of being humiliated, dominated, or even abused that has pervaded the stories that make up women's culturefrom eighteenth-century epistolary novels to popular twentieth-century teen magazine features to present-day romantic comedies. In three chaptersRough Sex, Expensive Sheets, and Saying Yes to the Dressthat mirror the plot structures of feminine fictions themselves, this book tells the story of the desires that only the guiltiest of pleasures evoke. Zibrak reexamines docTrade Review"Funny, smart, engrossing. I fell head over heels for this exploration of guilty pleasures. Zibrak writes with both an academic's acute eye for pattern and depth and the intimacy of the very works she explores. I feel like I've been laughing with my best friend in a closet, and I can't wait to give a copy to every single one of my friends. I urge you to read it and give it to your friends, too" * Barbara O'Neal, bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids *"Reading Arielle Zibrak’s witty and charming survey of what she calls “femme fiction” offers all pleasure and no guilt. Diving into the complex topic of “guilty pleasures,” she mines low and popular culture for nuggets of wisdom about gender, race, class, fiction and fantasy. You will love this book if you need the encouragement to indulge guilty pleasures. You will love it even more if you make no apologies for those pleasures. Enjoy!" * Jack Halberstam, author of Gaga Feminism and The Queer Art of Failure *"Arielle Zibrak’s Guilty Pleasures is such a fun and fast conversation that reading it feels like having brunch with a hilarious dear friend." * Popmatters *

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Book SynopsisMy guilty pleasure wasn't just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.What is it about ribald romance novels, luxurious interior design, and frothy wedding dresses that often make women feel their desires come with a shadow of shame? In Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures, Arielle Zibrak considers the specifically pleasurable forms of feminine guilt and desire stimulated by supposedly lowbrow aesthetic tendencies. She takes up the overwhelming preoccupation with the experience of being humiliated, dominated, or even abused that has pervaded the stories that make up women's culturefrom eighteenth-century epistolary novels to popular twentieth-century teen magazine features to present-day romantic comedies.In three chaptersRough Sex, Expensive Sheets, and Saying Yes to the Dressthat mirror the plot structures of feminine fictions themselves, this book tells the story of the desires that only the guiltiest of pleasures evTrade Review"Funny, smart, engrossing. I fell head over heels for this exploration of guilty pleasures. Zibrak writes with both an academic's acute eye for pattern and depth and the intimacy of the very works she explores. I feel like I've been laughing with my best friend in a closet, and I can't wait to give a copy to every single one of my friends. I urge you to read it and give it to your friends, too" * Barbara O'Neal, bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids *"Reading Arielle Zibrak’s witty and charming survey of what she calls “femme fiction” offers all pleasure and no guilt. Diving into the complex topic of “guilty pleasures,” she mines low and popular culture for nuggets of wisdom about gender, race, class, fiction and fantasy. You will love this book if you need the encouragement to indulge guilty pleasures. You will love it even more if you make no apologies for those pleasures. Enjoy!" * Jack Halberstam, author of Gaga Feminism and The Queer Art of Failure *"Arielle Zibrak’s Guilty Pleasures is such a fun and fast conversation that reading it feels like having brunch with a hilarious dear friend." * Popmatters *

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Book SynopsisThe surprising roots of the self-defense movement and the history of women's empowerment. At the turn of the twentieth century, women famously organized to demand greater social and political freedoms like gaining the right to vote. However, few realize that the Progressive Era also witnessed the birth of the women's self-defense movement. It is nearly impossible in today's day and age to imagine a world without the concept of women's self defense. Some women were inspired to take up boxing and jiu-jitsu for very personal reasons that ranged from protecting themselves from attacks by strangers on the street to rejecting gendered notions about feminine weakness and empowering themselves as their own protectors. Women's training in self defense was both a reflection of and a response to the broader cultural issues of the time, including the women's rights movement and the campaign for the vote. Perhaps more importantly, the discussion surrounding women's self-defense revealed powerful myTrade Review"The individual triumphs described in Her Own Hero are the sort of satisfying stories that would go hugely viral today. . . . a thorough and fascinating examination of the eruption of one important insight into public American life: Women can successfully use force against those who are assumed to be more powerful." * The New Republic *"Rouses insightful history examines the nexus of these seemingly disparate yet converging moments that serve as the birthplace of the womens self-defense movement in the United States." * American Historical Review *"Wendy L. Rouse examines the self-defense movement through an intersectional feminist lens. . . .Rouse explores boxing, jujitsu, street harassment, the suffrage movement, and domestic violence to provide historical context to the 20th-century womens movement . . .a compelling read." * Bitch Magazine *"Here is a story that seems to have been hiding in plain sight, requiring an innovative historian to tease it out of the records... Rouse's work not only expands the scholarship on gender, culture, and the empowerment of women in the early twentieth century, it also offers many lessons for our own day." * Western Historical Quarterly *"There are many pleasant surprises to be found in Her Own Hero. Rouse offers both a nuanced and intersectional assessment of self-defense within the broader social and political realities of early twentieth-century America and the explicit agendas of first-wave feminism and Progressive Era reformers… Rouse’s arguments for the inherently radical challenge raised by the bodily empowerment of women remains compelling and, especially when it comes to women facing violence in their own homes, relevant." -- Pacific Historical Review"In the cultural imagination, women's self-defense training is often traced back to the second-wave feminism of the 1960s and '70s, in which self-defense classes doubled as consciousness-raising sessions. InHer Own Hero, historian and martial artist Wendy Rouse digs deeper, locating the movement's birth in the 1910s and '20s. In this era, women across the countrymostly white and urban-dwellingtook up boxing and jiu-jitsu, with the specific purpose of warding off male attackers. White men tended to be suspicious of these lessons, and sought to frame them as needed only in response to deviants andnon-white threats . . . but the training helped kick-start conversations about genuine threatshusbands, for examplethat would resurface with force decades later." * Pacific Standard *"Martial arts turn out to be a great lens for examining increasing freedoms in a time of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration, though the book also gives a clear overview of Americas prejudices and limitations.Ahighly readable study whose historical accounts of sexism and xenophobia bear repeated discussion." * Foreword Reviews *"Her Own Hero is interesting, engaging, and makes important contributions to the scholarly literatures on the history of gender, the history of feminism, and early twentieth-century U. S. history. Wendy Rouse insightfully reconstructs the strategies that proponents of womens self-defense employed to counter assertions that self-reliant women were masculine and deviant. A terrific, influential book!" -- Jeffrey S. Adler,author of First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920"Hatpins, yes, but also boxing gloves. Who knew that around 1900 women were signing up for lessons in jiu-jitsu and taking boxing classes? Wendy Rouse catalogues a grab bag of Progressive era thought and anxieties in favor of womens self defense training from new women rhetoric about womens physical and political emancipation to fears of white slavers, menacing male strangers, and rising Japanese cultural and political power." -- Elizabeth Pleck,Professor Emerita of History, University of Illinois, Urbana

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Book SynopsisWinner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication AssociationWinner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet ResearchersTraces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thoughtBlack women are at the forefront of some of this century's most important discussions about technology: trolling, online harassment, algorithmic bias, and influencer culture. But, Catherine Knight Steele argues that Black women's relationship to technology began long before the advent of Twitter or Instagram. To truly listen to Black women, Steele points to the history of Black feminist technoculture in the United States and its ability to decenter white supremacy and patriarchy in a conversation about the future of technology. Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, Digital Black Feminism walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreTrade ReviewWith this accessible volume, Catherine Knight Steele has offered readers a compelling explanation of Black feminist technoculture. Black women have long been at the forefront of technological advances, creation and dialogue; Steele skillfully traces their influence into the present and future. * Ms. Magazine *First, Steele positions Black women online as central to the future of communication technology just as they've been central to its past. Second, per its title, Digital Black Feminism traces and critically examines a evolutionary shift in Black feminism thought, one driven and enabled by new technology … For a book with heft, it strikes an impressive balance of accessibility and intellectual innovation. * NPR Books *This book is a must-read in a time when we need to redouble our commitments to social justice. Catherine Knight Steele helps us understand and celebrate the powerful work that Black feminists do to make the world a better place. * Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism *Critically engages the digital possibilities of contemporary Black feminist thought and, in doing so, charts important new directions for Black feminism and technoculture. Steele argues that Black women’s creation of Digital Black Feminism reflects a sophisticated digital praxis that builds upon yet stands apart from historical traditions of Black feminist thought and hip hop feminism. A must-read book for understanding the possibilities and limitations of digital spaces for social justice projects. * Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment *Steele’s careful consideration of what and whom to research, particularly with regard to Black women and other marginalized groups, is an ethical model that other social media researchers should take seriously as well. Digital Black Feminism moves the work of digital black feminism from the margins to the center, where the personal is not only political but digital. * Film Quarterly *Steele emphasizes how digital Black feminists specifically broaden traditional conceptualizations of activism, complicate ideas of appropriate allegiances, and actively engage with contradictions in Black communities…The author’s analysis of contemporary Black feminist digital enclaves and counter publics and her engagement with current practices and vernacular within Black communities make the text topical and compelling. -- K. Gentles-Peart, Roger Williams University * Choice *Digital Black Feminism provides a framework for Black women to rightfully occupy a space in our society that acknowledges and values their existence, positioning Black feminists at the center of digital studies from the standpoint of Black women. * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Digital Black Feminism reemphasizes the history of marginalization of Black women in the field of technology that acts as tools for social justice by and for Black women, including physical and virtual beauty shops, digital platforms for storytelling, and creative works. Steele’s examination and definitive conversations regarding digital Black feminism are intuitive, inspiring, and engaging. * Journal of Popular Culture *

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Book SynopsisWinner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication AssociationWinner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet ResearchersTraces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thoughtBlack women are at the forefront of some of this century's most important discussions about technology: trolling, online harassment, algorithmic bias, and influencer culture. But, Catherine Knight Steele argues that Black women's relationship to technology began long before the advent of Twitter or Instagram. To truly listen to Black women, Steele points to the history of Black feminist technoculture in the United States and its ability to decenter white supremacy and patriarchy in a conversation about the future of technology. Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, Digital Black Feminism walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreneurial acumen of Black women's laborborn of survival strategies and economic necessityboth on and offline.Positioning Black women at the center of our discourse about the past, present, and future of technology, Steele offers a through-line from the writing of early twentieth-century Black women to the bloggers and social media mavens of the twenty-first century. She makes connections among the letters, news articles, and essays of Black feminist writers of the past and a digital archive of blog posts, tweets, and Instagram stories of some of the most well-known Black feminist writers of our time. Linking narratives and existing literature about Black women's technology use in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, Digital Black Feminism traverses the bounds between historical and archival analysis and empirical internet studies, forcing a reconciliation between fields and methods that are not always in conversation. As the work of Black feminist writers now reaches its widest audience online, Steele offers both hopefulness and caution on the implications of Black feminism becoming a digital product.Trade ReviewWith this accessible volume, Catherine Knight Steele has offered readers a compelling explanation of Black feminist technoculture. Black women have long been at the forefront of technological advances, creation and dialogue; Steele skillfully traces their influence into the present and future. * Ms. Magazine *First, Steele positions Black women online as central to the future of communication technology just as they've been central to its past. Second, per its title, Digital Black Feminism traces and critically examines a evolutionary shift in Black feminism thought, one driven and enabled by new technology … For a book with heft, it strikes an impressive balance of accessibility and intellectual innovation. * NPR Books *This book is a must-read in a time when we need to redouble our commitments to social justice. Catherine Knight Steele helps us understand and celebrate the powerful work that Black feminists do to make the world a better place. * Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism *Critically engages the digital possibilities of contemporary Black feminist thought and, in doing so, charts important new directions for Black feminism and technoculture. Steele argues that Black women’s creation of Digital Black Feminism reflects a sophisticated digital praxis that builds upon yet stands apart from historical traditions of Black feminist thought and hip hop feminism. A must-read book for understanding the possibilities and limitations of digital spaces for social justice projects. * Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment *Steele’s careful consideration of what and whom to research, particularly with regard to Black women and other marginalized groups, is an ethical model that other social media researchers should take seriously as well. Digital Black Feminism moves the work of digital black feminism from the margins to the center, where the personal is not only political but digital. * Film Quarterly *Steele emphasizes how digital Black feminists specifically broaden traditional conceptualizations of activism, complicate ideas of appropriate allegiances, and actively engage with contradictions in Black communities…The author’s analysis of contemporary Black feminist digital enclaves and counter publics and her engagement with current practices and vernacular within Black communities make the text topical and compelling. -- K. Gentles-Peart, Roger Williams University * Choice *Digital Black Feminism provides a framework for Black women to rightfully occupy a space in our society that acknowledges and values their existence, positioning Black feminists at the center of digital studies from the standpoint of Black women. * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Digital Black Feminism reemphasizes the history of marginalization of Black women in the field of technology that acts as tools for social justice by and for Black women, including physical and virtual beauty shops, digital platforms for storytelling, and creative works. Steele’s examination and definitive conversations regarding digital Black feminism are intuitive, inspiring, and engaging. * Journal of Popular Culture *

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Book SynopsisWINNER, 2022 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association HONORABLE MENTION, 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women''s Studies AssociationReveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global powerThe year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the counterinsurgency honed on Black and other oppressed populations at home. The next five decades saw the consolidation of the culture of the American empire through what Erica R. Edwards calls the imperial grammars of blackness.This is a story of state power at its most devious and most absurd, and, at the same time, a literary history of Black feminist radicalism at its most trenchant. Edwards reveals how the long war on terror, beginning with the lateCold War campaign against organizations like the Trade ReviewBrilliantly maps the transformations in black women’s expressive culture in response to COINTELPRO, the war on drugs, and the long war on terror. A necessary, timely history of state power and black feminist radicalism, The Other Side of Terror is, at once, a critique of empire and its myriad violence, a refusal of servitude, and a poetics of dissent. As Edwards demonstrates persuasively and eloquently: radical black feminist thought is indispensable to our collective effort to survive. * Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals *In this highly informed and deeply researched interrogation of the global security state after 9/11, Erica Edwards asks us to read black women and black women’s expressive culture as both resistant to and complicit in American global power. To expose and critique the American security regime and the cultures of imperialism, Edwards turns to a tradition of black feminist radicalism and the insurgent texts of black feminists such as Alice Randall, June Jordan, Toni Cade Bambara, Gloria Naylor, and Nikki Finney. This is a brave and unsettling book, one that makes us think about black women not as fringe actors or minority figures, but as major players in the global arena. * Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s *Erica R. Edwards presents a powerful analysis connecting politics and literature…This is a brilliant book that is likely to produce endless new insights. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

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Book SynopsisWINNER, 2022 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association HONORABLE MENTION, 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationReveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global powerThe year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the counterinsurgency honed on Black and other oppressed populations at home. The next five decades saw the consolidation of the culture of the American empire through what Erica R. Edwards calls the imperial grammars of blackness.This is a story of state power at its most devious and most absurd, and, at the same time, a literary history of Black feminist radicalism at its most trenchant. Edwards reveals how the long war on terror, beginning with the lateCold War campaign against organizations like the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Black Liberation ATrade Review"Brilliantly maps the transformations in black women’s expressive culture in response to COINTELPRO, the war on drugs, and the long war on terror. A necessary, timely history of state power and black feminist radicalism, The Other Side of Terror is, at once, a critique of empire and its myriad violence, a refusal of servitude, and a poetics of dissent. As Edwards demonstrates persuasively and eloquently: radical black feminist thought is indispensable to our collective effort to survive." * Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals *"In this highly informed and deeply researched interrogation of the global security state after 9/11, Erica Edwards asks us to read black women and black women’s expressive culture as both resistant to and complicit in American global power. To expose and critique the American security regime and the cultures of imperialism, Edwards turns to a tradition of black feminist radicalism and the insurgent texts of black feminists such as Alice Randall, June Jordan, Toni Cade Bambara, Gloria Naylor, and Nikki Finney. This is a brave and unsettling book, one that makes us think about black women not as fringe actors or minority figures, but as major players in the global arena." * Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s *"Erica R. Edwards presents a powerful analysis connecting politics and literature…This is a brilliant book that is likely to produce endless new insights." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

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Book SynopsisWhy are there so few women in science? This book uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties.Trade ReviewRosser has no doubt that women are disadvantaged at every stage along the career path in small but subtle ways - what she terms 'micro-inequities' - and that this process plays a central role in the way women drop out and burn up. In this book she discusses how these micro-inequities manifest themselves at different career stages, building on the experiences and reflections of her interviewees. She also touches upon what might be done to improve the climate. * Times Higher Education *Breaking into the Lab shows us the good, the bad, and the occasionally ugly experiences of women in science. Sue Rosser's interviews with women clarify how the difficulties they face change as they move from junior to senior positions. Her review of the gender gap in patents makes clear how easily the present repeats the past. Rosser's unparalleled knowledge of the role of gender in the workings of science, colleges and universities, and federal funding agencies informs her comprehensive prescriptions for opening the laboratory doors wider. Read and heed! -- Virginia Valian,author of Why So Slow? The Advancement of WomenIn this & must read book, Rosser reviews thirty years of work on women in science. In addition to analyzing new areas, such as womens relative representation in patenting, Rosser draws from her experience as a scientist, National Science Foundation program officer, and high-level university administrator to provide unique insights. -- Londa Schiebinger,author of Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern ScienceSue Rosser has for more than three decades epitomized what is meant by feminist studies of science. In her most recent book, Breaking into the Lab: Engineering progress for women in science, she sums up a lifetime of experiences as being a female scientist who herself encounters resistance and trouble, which is equivalent to documented discrimination experienced by other female scientists. Yet Rosser has never given up and today she holds the position of provost at San Francisco State University. Thus, in a humble and intelligent way, Rosser offers her own lifetime of learning to us. At the same time, through references to her own fighting, she acts as a role-model. Along the way describing her own career path, she contributes with a myriad of solid research results from the 1980s and onwards pointing to other role models, but also showing how little progress has actually been made. Rosser offers new disconcerting research showing that history may repeat itself with new means. . . . & The more it changes, the more it stays the same may stand as a motto for the sweeping overview of what happened to women who tried to & break into the lab. Yet Rosser herself is a living example of how women should not give up trying to fight back slowly, slowly make changes in a system that in incredibly subtle and complex ways attempts to keep women in the sidetrack of scientific progress. * Review in Cultural Studies of Science Education *The book is accessible to a wide readership and is especially important reading for students and scholars of science and gender studies, higher education leaders, and individuals involved in scientific funding or policymaking. * Sex Roles *Engagingly written and full of eye-widening narratives. * Society *The book provides helpful guidance not only for potential mentors, but for women scientists and their institutions as well. * On Campus with Women *Rosser is a noted scientist/administrator who has written widely on the subject of women and science. Therefore, her perspective and insight are important to a discussion of the topichow to compensate for the dearth of women in science, particularly in the physical sciences and engineering fields. . . . Recommended [for] graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Why Women in Science Are Still Controversial after Thirty Years 2 Starting Careers: Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose 3 Positive Interventions from Mentors and Mentoring Networks 4 New Filters for Senior Women Scientists 5 Advancing Women Scientists to Senior Leadership Positions 6 The Gender Gap in Patents 7 The Impact that Women Have Made on Science and Technology 8 Conclusion: Women in Science Are Critical for Society Appendix A: Grants to Support Women Scientists Cited in This Book References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisExplores the burgeoning menstrual advocacy movement and analyzes how law should evolve to take menstruation into account. Approximately half the population menstruates for a large portion of their lives, but the law is mostly silent about the topic. Until recently, most people would have said that periods are private matters not to be discussed in public. But the last few years have seen a new willingness among advocates and allies of all ages to speak openly about periods. Slowly around the globe, people are recognizing the basic fundamental human right to address menstruation in a safe and affordable way, free of stigma, shame, or barriers to access. Menstruation Matters explores the role of law in this movement. It asks what the law currently says about menstruation (spoiler alert: not much) and provides a roadmap for legal reform that can move society closer to a world where no one is held back or disadvantaged by menstruation. Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman examineTrade Review"If the question is, ‘Are You There, Law? It's Me, Menstruation,’ this book provides much needed answers." * Judy Blume, author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret *"An accessible introduction to contemporary legal efforts to challenge the 'culture of silence, stigma, and shame associated with menstruation.' Documenting campaigns to repeal sales taxes on tampons and pads, the authors argue that taxing menstrual products while exempting Band-Aids, adult diapers, and other hygiene supplies is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Crawford and Waldman also examine how Title IX lawsuits might be used to press school districts into removing 'restrictive bathroom-break and problematic dress-code policies,' among other accommodations, and document attempts to use the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to address workplace menstruation concerns ... This wide-ranging and well-argued study brings an important yet overlooked aspect of the fight against sex and gender discrimination into the light." * Publishers Weekly *"Crawford and Waldman present an insightful analysis of policies regarding menstruation in this groundbreaking work. An eye-opening look at how law could be used to better protect those who menstruate by providing a framework for how period products ought to be studied for health and environmental safety, how sensitive health information being sold by menstruation apps is being turned into a big business, and how incarcerated individuals face financial barriers to accessing menstrual products." * Library Journal *"I'm immensely proud of the world-leading work in Scotland to make free period products available for women. I believe that being able to access period products is fundamental to equality and dignity and I hope our historic Period Products Act, along with other action highlighted in this book, will inspire legislators everywhere to ensure period dignity within their societies. " * Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister for Scotland, MSP *"Menstrual equity is one of the most important issues of our time and one I’ve long been passionate about. I’m thrilled Menstruation Matters takes a serious look at the gender discrimination that the ‘tampon tax”’ has on women and sheds light on how we can make the lives of menstruating people better through public policy." * Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney *"Menstruation Matters is a must-read for anyone who wants to live in a world where everyone can manage their period with dignity. We still have a long way to go to eradicate stigma and menstrual inequality, however, as the Member of the Scottish Parliament who introduced the bill to make menstrual products available to all who need them in Scotland, I know that progress is possible. Momentum is with the changemakers within the menstrual equality movement. Menstruation Matters contains thoughtful suggestions for lawmakers and advocates worldwide to consider. It’s a welcome addition to the literature for those who don’t want to find themselves on the wrong side of history." * Monica Lennon, Member of the Scottish Parliament and Sponsor of the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act *"We talk and think so much about gender and inequality as it applies to work, education, healthcare, and social justice. But a throughline that is consistently ignored or dismissed across each of these areas of the law is menstruation. With Menstruation Matters, Bridget Crawford and Emily Waldman trace the legal and policy implications of an issue that you may not register as a marker of inequality, yet impacts every single aspect of a woman, girl, and transgender American's life. This is a long overdue assessment of the ways in which matters lawyers often choose to avoid, elide, and whisper about, can actually matter in profound ways." * Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Legal Correspondent, Slate *"This book is a brilliant exploration of what can happen when the realities of the body are placed at the center of legal reasoning. In Menstruation Matters, Bridget Crawford and Emily Waldman show how the law can be used to reconceptualize the state’s responsibility to ensure that all people have the resources they need to address the involuntary process of menstruation and our shared humanity." * Martha Alberton Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor, Emory University School of Law *"Access to period products is not a privilege, it is a right. It means women, girls and people who menstruate having access to basic activities, capacity to take part in work and in community. Menstruation Matters is a brilliant resource and addition to a conversation we need to have - because ultimately all women and girls, and people who menstruate are entitled to respect, dignity and bodily autonomy, and a belief in the integrity of their bodies. It’s why, at the City of Melbourne local government, I put forward an Australian first motion to make menstrual products available for free in select council facilities. It’s time to end the shame - because menstruation matters." * Jamal Hakim, Councillor at the City of Melbourne *"Menstruation is an issue of basic human rights and equality. Menstruation is not a reason to deny anyone the right to participate in education, religious worship, politics, or family life. This book brings new insight to a discussion of a topic that has too long been treated as the source of stigma and shame, when menstruation is a reality for half the world’s population. " * Indira Jaisring, former Additional Solicitor General of India and attorney for the plaintiffs in Indian Young Lawyers Association v. Kerala *"Periods have become a vital matter of law and policy, in the U.S. and around the globe. Menstruation Matters deftly melds scholarship and jurisprudence with on-the-ground advocacy – providing a vital resource for the next generation of feminist legal leaders. " * Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, author of Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity *"Menstruation Matters is insightful and thought provoking. It addresses period poverty and menstrual equity from a legal standpoint tampered with policy, practice and lived experiences, making it refreshing. Menstruation is having its moment and Menstruation Matters is part of that moment. The addition it makes to the body of knowledge is immense. I highly recommend it to everyone." * Neville Okwaro, The National WASH Hub, Ministry of Health, Kenya *"This comprehensive discussion unearths new territory for menstrual activism and makes clear the material effect that law and public policy can have on these issues. Above all, the authors show menstruation not as a women's issue to hide but as a human issue that needs worldwide attention. " * Choice *"Responding to the notion that menstruation is a private matter, Crawford and Waldman explore the burgeoning menstrual advocacy movement and consider how law should evolve to take menstruation into account in a wide range of contexts from schools, to workplaces, to prisons, to tax policies." * Law & Social Inquiry *

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Book SynopsisA real-world solution for parental leave that promotes gender equality at work and at homeWhat do Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and the United States have in common? These three nations are the only ones that do not offer some form of parental leave to new parents. The US lags far behind the rest of the world on this important issue, raising questions about our commitment to gender equality and the welfare of our families. In Fixing Parental Leave, Gayle Kaufman takes an in-depth look at parental leave policies in the US, the UK, and Sweden, and evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of leave policies in each country. She finds that there is more to parental leave policies than whether a country provides time off around the birth or adoption of a child. While most policies are designed to help women return to work, this is only half of the puzzle. The second half requires men to be meaningful partners by encouraging them to take equal time at home. Ultimately, Kaufman arrives at a ratiTrade ReviewGayle Kaufman’s incisive analysis of parental leave policies in the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Sweden convincingly demonstrates that there is no need to choose between child well-being and parental equality. By showing us what works—and what doesn’t—Fixing Parental Leave offers a blueprint for addressing the deepening caregiving crisis facing workers and parents worldwide. It deserves the attention of anyone concerned about the fate of American families, workplaces, and political culture at this critical juncture in our history. -- Kathleen Gerson, author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and FamilyKaufman provides a comprehensive and lively portrait of the parental leave landscape in the United States—both public and private—and demonstrates that the picture is bleak. She draws on policy models operating in Sweden and the United Kingdom to craft policy lessons, both inspirational and cautionary. The heart of Kaufman’s book is a blueprint for the policy reforms that are desperately needed in the United States – reforms that would enable parents to better reconcile parenting and employment, while promoting more gender-egalitarian divisions of labor. Ideally, the book will land in the hands of American policy-makers at the national, state, and local levels. -- Janet Gornick, author of Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent CountriesInducing fury as it exposes American workplaces that give lip service to family leave laws, but that do little to support new families, the book shows that having children penalizes working parents, who are shunted into “mommy track” jobs, miss out on promotions, and depend on employers’ goodwill as they adapt. Forwarding a nuanced perspective on the real consequences of leave policies, [Fixing Parental Leave] compares the US to nations including Sweden and the UK, and find that most successful leave policies take fathers into account, too… The book’s suggestions are enlightening, big picture ones that keep in mind the fact that babies need parents who provide love and stability. * Foreword Reviews *In Fixing Parental Leave, Kaufman argues that the US continues to lead the world in its lack of support for families, made apparent by its approach to parental leave. The author’s carefully constructed case study of parental leave policies in the US, UK, and Sweden reveals not only best policies and practices for ensuring healthy families and maximizing women’s participation in the labor force, but also illuminates the clear relationship between parental leave and gender equality… [A] valuable study. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection of critical, feminist reflections on interpersonal gender violenceDespite the growing interest in the subject of gender violence, surprisingly little has been written in recent years about the methodology behind this emerging field of research. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to fill this gap by empowering scholars to conduct gender violence research in ways that deconstruct rather than reinforce existing power structures and hierarchies. The book argues for new approaches to research and activism on gender-based violence grounded in the intersectional realities of individuals and communities. Each chapter discusses the role of reflective methodologies to recognize institutional and intersectional inequalities, challenging the reader to contemplate ethical considerations of an embodied feminist methodology when researching gender-based violence. By centering these issues for applied scholars, practitioners, and academic activists, the book offersTrade ReviewOffers a necessary opportunity for scholars of gender-based violence to reconsider established forms of methodology as well as effective resources for reform. This is a vastly important book. -- Claire Renzetti, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women, University of KentuckyThe contributors to this volume deftly illustrate how academia can engage in careful research to build an anti-racist, de-colonized, and intersectional methodology. They have built a text that is relevant far beyond the study of gender-based violence. -- Laura McClusky, Wells College

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection of critical, feminist reflections on interpersonal gender violenceDespite the growing interest in the subject of gender violence, surprisingly little has been written in recent years about the methodology behind this emerging field of research. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to fill this gap by empowering scholars to conduct gender violence research in ways that deconstruct rather than reinforce existing power structures and hierarchies. The book argues for new approaches to research and activism on gender-based violence grounded in the intersectional realities of individuals and communities. Each chapter discusses the role of reflective methodologies to recognize institutional and intersectional inequalities, challenging the reader to contemplate ethical considerations of an embodied feminist methodology when researching gender-based violence. By centering these issues for applied scholars, practitioners, and academic activists, the book offersTrade ReviewOffers a necessary opportunity for scholars of gender-based violence to reconsider established forms of methodology as well as effective resources for reform. This is a vastly important book. -- Claire Renzetti, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women, University of KentuckyThe contributors to this volume deftly illustrate how academia can engage in careful research to build an anti-racist, de-colonized, and intersectional methodology. They have built a text that is relevant far beyond the study of gender-based violence. -- Laura McClusky, Wells CollegeThe authors have encouraged me to pause and engage with embodied listening not only regarding how I show up in this work and am impacted by it, but also in my collaborations and partnerships with victim-survivors, students, researchers, and other activists. Even though the book is focused on methodology, with a leaning towards ethnography, I highly recommend this text to any individual actively engaged and entangled in gender-based violence work. * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *

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Book Synopsis2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineShows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence changePatricia Zavella experienced firsthand the trials and judgments imposed on a working professional mother of color: her own commitment to academia was questioned during her pregnancy, as she was shamed for having children too young. And when she finally achieved her professorship, she felt out of place as one of the few female faculty members with children. These experiences sparked Zavella's interest in the movement for reproductive justice. In this book, she draws on five years of ethnographic research to explore collaborations among women of color engaged in reproductive justice activism. While there are numerous organizations focused on reproductive justice, most are racially specific, such as the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and Black Women for Wellness. Yet Trade ReviewThoroughly researched and clearly organized, the book provides an ethnographic view of how women of color engage in social activism through reproductive justice organizations ... A well-appreciated addition to the literature on RJ. * Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine *Intersectionality is a popular concept, but this terrific study of the practical uses of an intersectional approach to organizing for social change goes far beyond the usual invocations of the term, actually illuminating its strengths and challenges ... Exhaustively researched, beautifully detailed, and theoretically powerful. * Choice *After an illustrious career, Zavella has written what reads like a magnum opus in this social movement ethnography. The Movement for Reproductive Justice captures the struggles of women of color for the human right of health care with dignity and full bodily autonomy. With this exemplary piece of feminist activist research, Zavella makes a monumental contribution to the study of social movements led by women of color. * Mobilization *

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Book SynopsisAnswers the question: Why are women freezing their eggs? Why are women freezing their eggs in record numbers? Motherhood on Ice explores this question by drawing on the stories of more than 150 women who pursued fertility preservation technology. Moving between narratives of pain and empowerment, these nuanced personal stories reveal the complexity of women's lives as they struggle to preserve and extend their fertility. Contrary to popular belief, egg freezing is rarely about women postponing fertility for the sake of their careers. Rather, the most-educated women are increasingly forced to delay childbearing because they face a mating gapa lack of eligible, educated, equal partners ready for marriage and parenthood. For these women, egg freezing is a reproductive backstop, a technological attempt to bridge the gap while waiting for the right partner. But it is not an easy choice for most. Their stories reveal the extent to which it is logistically complicated, physically taxing, financially demanding, emotionally draining, and uncertain in its effects. In this powerful book, women share their reflections on their clinical encounters, as well as the immense hopes and investments they place in this high-tech fertility preservation strategy. Race, religion, and the role of men in the lives of single women pursuing this technology are also explored. A distinctly human portrait of an understudied and rapidly growing population, Motherhood on Ice examines what is at stake for women who take comfort in their frozen eggs while embarking on their quests for partnership, pregnancy, and parenting.Trade Review"Inhorn’s book... document[s] the qualitative experience of women who are actively searching for partners — the frustration, hurt and disappointment... Her breakdown reads like a rigorous academic version of all the complaints you’ve ever heard from your single female friends." * The New York Times *"Marcia Inhorn, an anthropology professor at Yale University, embarked on a decade-long study to understand what drives healthy women to freeze their eggs. In her recent book, Motherhood on Ice, Inhorn notes that it is often men, not women, who want to delay child rearing." -- Matilda Hay * The Washington Post *"The stories in Motherhood on Ice raise raise deeper questions about heterosexual relationships today, ones that have implications for overall fertility rates, the U.S. economy, and the future of the family. Most of all, this book captures the pain of women who struggle to fulfill the human desires for companionship and parenthood, pain that has been too long overlooked in the broader discussions about egg freezing." -- Anna Louie Sussman * The Atlantic *"It is comforting to relate to so many stories as you realize how universal our struggles and worries are. [Motherhood on Ice] also helps remove any stigma or shame around this process. Egg freezing is empowering, not embarrassing and certainly shouldn’t have any shame attached to it." * Harper's Bazaar *""Contrary to stereotype, these potential mothers haven’t powered through their careers and forgotten to marry; they just haven’t been able to find suitable men to partner with. The men they believe would make good fathers — “eligible, educated and equal” — are nowhere to be found."" -- Christine Emba * The Washington Post *"Inhorn provides a provocative inquiry into a contemporary subject of interest to many." * Library Journal *"As women reach the end of their most fertile years, those who want to keep their biological motherhood options open may find hope and a sense of community in these pages." * Booklist *"Extremely rich in nuanced analysis, Motherhood on Ice vividly portrays the experiences of women—of various racial and religious backgrounds—at every stage of this oftentimes fraught process. Inhorn addresses a critical societal issue with conviction and grace." -- Chantal Collard, Concordia University"Passionate, empathic, and rigorously researched, this book will be popular amongst audiences ranging from single, well-heeled thirty-something professional women considering egg freezing to public health, medical anthropology, and gender studies academic audiences." -- Rayna Rapp, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, New York University"Simply outstanding. Inhorn exposes how the lack of suitable partners, not career ambition, has resulted in egg freezing. This book will surely garner attention and cultivate widespread appeal." -- Rosanna Hertz, author of Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin

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Book SynopsisUp-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women. An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel Dempsey, this unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of today's workplace. Often women receive messages that they have only themselves to blame for failing to get aheadNegotiate more! Stop being such a wimp! Stop being such a witch! What Works for Women at Work tells women it's not their fault. The simple fact is that office politics often benefits men over women. Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace. Distilling over 35 years Trade Review[The book] identifies four overall patterns of gender bias that high-achieving career women face. -- Jazelle Hunt * Black Voice News *Deftly combining sociological research with a more casual narrative style, What Works for Women at Workoffers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women....The authors plow nimbly through decades of research, transforming what could have been dry and impenetrable statistics into attention-grabbing revelations. -- Debora L. Spar * The New York Times Book Review *Forty years later, gender bias shouldnt exist in the workplace, but it does, in large part because many of us dont recognize its most common forms. Thats a pitfalland for me, at least, a pratfall. ReadingWhat Works for Women at Work would be a good first step in avoiding both. -- Theodore Kinni * Strategy and Business *If youre a working woman searching for the best pocket guide to success at work, here it is. Prove-It-Again, the Tightrope, The Maternal Wall, the Tug of War, Double Jeopardythe distinguished scholar Joan Williams and her daughter guide women through each of these sticky wickets. Their invaluable advice is no substitute for broader changes in the workplace, they note, but it can help position more women to accomplish that change. -- Arlie Hochschild,author of The Outsourced SelfIn their compelling new book, Williams (Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law) and Dempsey (a student at Yale Law School who blogs for Huffington Poston women's issues) spell out the two sets of rules, higher standards and closed doors that many women encounter on the job these days. -- Kerry Hannon * Forbes *Joan Williams and Rachel Dempsey clearly and vividly detail the double standards and the dead ends that so many women face in the workplace. Fortunately, the authors also provide easy-to-follow strategies to counter these scenarios. This book can help women claim their seat at the table and lean in to their careers. -- Sheryl Sandberg,author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to LeadMuch of its advice is solid career counsel for anyone looking to move up...ultimately the tone of this book is quite hopeful...[T]his book's message: If we make ourselves and the men in our lives aware of the roadblocks women still face, and we use some of the many tools the authors offer in this volume, we are likely to see women move ahead more quickly. In fact I wish there were a way to interest men in reading this book. They would get the most out of it. -- Susan Adams * Forbes.com *The book offers women advice for asking for promotions or pay raises, while acknowledging that women who ask for these things can be considered masculine in ways that might undermine their success. I particularly appreciated reading about the toxic competition between women at work that can also hinder the success of women collectively. -- Joshunda Sanders * Salon.com *The book's plentiful examples and suggestions provide smart strategies for federal workers to find work/life balance without calling their commitment to career into question. -- Katherine Reynolds Lewis * The Business of Federal Technology *Williams and Dempsey provide the essential bridge between research findings on prejudice and discrimination and the problems that women experience at work. Solutions exist, and these authors present them. What Works for Women at Work is a must-read book for everyone committed to creating gender-fair workplaces. -- Alice H. Eagly,author of Through the LabyrinthWritten by a mother-daughter duo, this decidedly unwonky examination of gender bias doubles as a playbook on how to transcend and triumph. -- Abbe Wright * O, The Oprah Magazine *Having sifted through many of the debates about how much women can and should succeed, Williams and Dempsey finally offer a template on how women can do that and how the workforce can support this integration; whether these women are homemakers or management, this book is a confidence booster. A much needed look at what women might want, but what society needs. -- Amy Richards,author of Opting InThis title is many steps beyondLean In(2013), Sheryl Sandbergs prescription for getting ahead in business.What Works for Women at Workis filled with street-smart advice and plain old savvy about the way life works in corporate America. * STARRED Booklist *Its great to have a smart compilation of helpful suggestions put together not by two self-help gurus but by two women who understand that all their advice might still not be enough. Besides, make no mistake: the guidance they offer is often quite good, and I suspect few women will not find either a strategy theyve successfully used in the past or one they can utilize in the future within its pages. [] It pretty much sums up what happens to all too many women today. * Women's Review of Books *The insights from cognitive psychology and social psychology, and the tips gleaned from experience, that this book brings to bear on experiences of gender in the workplace are worth learning. * Feminist Economics *The book offers an accessible and sound model of problems faced by women climbing the corporate ladder, and presents clear strategies to take while waiting for business to catch up. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsForeword by Anne-Marie Slaughter Preface 1. Introduction: It's Not (Always) Your Fault Part I: Prove-It-Again! 2. Spotting Prove-It-Again! Patterns 3. Prove-It-Again! Action Plan Part II: The Tightrope 4. Spotting Tightrope Patterns 5. Tightrope Action Plan: Neither a Bitch 6. Tightrope Action Plan: ... Nor a BimboPart III: The Maternal Wall 7. Spotting Maternal Wall Patterns 8. Maternal Wall Action Plan Part IV: The Tug of War 9. Spotting Tug of War Patterns 10. Tug of War Action Plan Part V: Double Jeopardy? 11. The Experience of Gender Bias Differs by Race Part VI: Leave or Stay? 12. Leave or Stay? Reading the Tea Leaves 13. Leave or Stay? Don't Dismay Part VII: 20 Lessons 14. The Science of Savvy in 20 Lessons 15. Conclusion: Jump-Starting the Stalled Gender RevolutionAcknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisArgues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United StatesOne might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the battle has been won, that gays and lesbians fought a tough fight and finally achieved equality in the United States through access to legal marriage. But that narrative tells only one version of a very complex story about family and citizenship.Queering Family Trees explores the lived experience of queer mothers in the United States, drawing on over one hundred interviews with African American, Latina, Native American, white, and Asian American lesbian mothers living in a range of socioeconomic circumstances to show how they have navigated family-making. While the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption in 2015 has provided avenues toward equality for some couples, structural and economic barriers have meant that othersespecially queer women of color who oftTrade Review"For those looking to read a comprehensive and critical analysis of the laws and policies that have historically shaped—and continue to shape—families in unequal ways based on the structures of race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality, and other inequalities, Queering Family Trees is a worthwhile read ... an important resource for understanding how lesbians create their families within the context of, and despite, and laws and policies largely meant to keep their families from forming, and invisible once created. At its very basic level, Queering Family Trees encourages us as readers to rethink how to construct our own family trees, and within the confined structure of the family tree, who we include and who we render invisible as 'family.'" * Social Forces *"Patton-Imani’s historical narrative-based exploration forces us to think about the roads not taken, the intersecting side roads of welfare, immigration, adoption, and marginalized families, from the 1990’s through Obergefell." * Jotwell *

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Book SynopsisWhatkind of woman dances naked for money? Bernadette Barton takes us insidecountless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those thatspecialize in lap dancing, table dancing, topless only, and peep shows, toreveal the startling lives of exotic dancers. Originally published in 2006, the product of years of first-hand research in strip clubs around the country, Stripped is a classic portrait of what it's like for those who choose to strip as a profession. Barton explores why women begin stripping, the initial excitement and financial rewards of the work, the dangers of the lifenamely, drugs and prostitutionand, inevitably, the difficulties in staying in the business over time, especially for their relationships, sexuality and self-esteem. In this completely revised and updated edition, Barton returns to the strip clubs she originally studied to observe the major changes in the industry that have occurred over the last decade. She examines how raunch culture affects eTrade Review"The thrust of stripper scholarship is that both dancers and customers are more like your next-door neighbors. Some are your next-door neighbors." * Philadelphia Inquirer *"Stripped is a revealing book about a revealing (and controversial) trade that focuses on a philosophical clash between old—and newschool feminism." * Courier-Journal *"Compelling. . . . This accessibly written, matter-of-fact book makes important contributions to what is known about the lives and experiences of the growing number of women who ‘dance’ naked for money. . . . Throughout, the author listens attentively to the shifting, insightful, diverse voices of women with whom she has a palpably respectful connection. Barton uses the complex picture that emerges to engage longstanding debates over the meanings of commodified femininity and sexuality." * Choice *"Makes an impressive contribution to the sociology of work and its intersection with sex and gender studies at the theoretical and applied levels. It is an excellent examples of the rich data and critical methodological insights that can emerge in the course of engaged field research." * American Journal of Sociology *"Written clearly with very little jargon, this volume sensitively explores the lives of exotic dancers." -- Noralee Frankel * Archives of Sexual Behavior *"A terrific read! Stripped is the best kind of feminist work: original, honest, and deeply engaging. Bartons remarkable insights into the work and private lives of exotic dancers move far beyond notions of strippers as exploited or empowered to uncover more hidden aspects of this worldits burdens of emotional labor, social stigma, exhaustion, and boredom as well as experiences of athleticism, ego-gratification, intimacy, and even spirituality." -- Kathleen Blee,author of Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement"Barton presents [exotic dancers] as open-minded & intelligent risk takers who are & comfortable exploring things other people are scared of.-" -- Carlin Romano * Philadelphia Inquirer *"Fascinating, insightful, and surprisingly balanced. This book will take you way beyond Hollywood's clichés and into the realities of stripping, and you'll emerge with a deeper understanding of the pleasures and the costs of being the object of male fantasies." -- Susan Bordo,author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body"With Stripped, Barton makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about the effects of stripping on the women who actually take their clothes off. The polarized nature of the debates sometimes makes it difficult to say anything complicated about sex workit is either said to be empowering for women or degrading to them. Yet, of course, things are never that simpleand Bartons arguments provide a significant alternative to such binary thinking." -- Katherine Frank,author of G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth history of selected New Religions that highlights the roles of women in their founding and continual practiceWomen in New Religions offers an engaging look at women's evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religionsMormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wiccato illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals.Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gendeTrade ReviewInWomen and New ReligionsLaura Vance offers a creative strategy for furthering this work of integration. * Nova Religio *This second volume is particularly interesting because, while much has been written on European traditional religion, these newer denominations have not had as much neutral examination. * Magistra *This work emphasizes the necessity of examining gender in the quest to understand religions. * Choice *This is an important volume in the series onWomen in Religion. It is both engaging and insightful and offers critical information about new religions and the role and influence women have had in their developments. * Catholic Book Review *This book has much to offer in terms of both history and sociological frameworks for evaluation, and for that reason it should work well in classrooms that focus on topics including gender and religion, new religious movements, and American religion, among others. * Sociology of Religion *The new Women in Religions series from NYU Press offers accessible primers on ways women have shaped and been influenced by various religious traditions. * Sojourner's Magazine *Vance has offered an excellent introduction to the histories, theories, and practices of women in Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca. * Religious Studies Review *Argues that religion is a site for both legitimating and challenging gender roles . . .The book would work well in undergraduate courses focusing on gender and religion, or new religious movements. * Review of Religious Research *Clearly the result of intensive research, this book offers invaluable insights into the differentand shiftingattitudes towards and experiences of women in four alternative religions. I recommend it most strongly not only to scholars interested in the study of gender and of new religions, but also to the general reader curious about the extraordinary variety of ways in which half the population can be viewed and treated according to widely differing perceptions of reality. -- Eileen Barker,author of New Religious Movements: A Practical Introduction"This engaging new book shows us why and how gender plays a powerful role in the formation and growth of new religions. Integrating gender and social theory with illuminating accounts of spiritual entrepreneurs both strange and familiar, this is a thorough, well-crafted, and eminently useful addition to an important field of study. -- Margaret Bendroth,Congregational LibraryTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Study Women in New Religions? 1 1. Mormonism: Gendering the Heavens 19 2. Seventh-day Adventism: Women's Changing Role in an Endtime Religion 49 3. The Family International: Sexualizing Gender 77 4. Wicca: Valuing the Divine Feminine 101 Conclusion 121 Questions for Discussion 131 Notes 135 Works Cited 169 For Further Reading 183 Index 185 About the Author 189

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Book SynopsisWhat prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choicesWhen Alison Piepmeierscholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndromedied of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about motherhood, prenatal testing, and disability. In Unexpected, George Estreich and Rachel Adams pick up where she left off, honoring the important research of their friend and colleague, as well as adding new perspectives to her work. Based on interviews with parents of children with Down syndrome, as well as women who terminated their pregnancies because their fetus was identified as having the condition, Unexpected paints an intimate, nuanced picture of reproductive choice in today's world. Piepmeier takes us inside her own daughter's life, showing how Down syndrome is misunderstood, stigmatized, and condemned, particularly in the context of prenatal testing. At a time when medical technology iTrade ReviewAsks questions such as, what is the line between illness and disability, and how can a parent deal with uncertainties? … Shares rarely heard stories from parents and prospective parents who have confronted challenging decisions about a fetus with Down syndrome … provides insight into a segment of the population rarely explored. * Library Journal *A thought-provoking book at the value of all human life … This book should reassure parents who choose to skip genetic testing or decide not to terminate pregnancies after learning their fetus may not be 'normal.' Like Piepmeier and her coauthors, they may well find unexpected joys in happy, loving kids. * Booklist *Unexpected is a beautiful, thoughtful, and challenging co-authored and deeply reflexive book. It engages the porous lessons of disability, debility, death and an enduring love that is at once familial and friendship-centered. Collectively, Alison Piepmeier recruits George Estreich and Rachel Adams into a profound conversation that narrates their experiences of raising children with Down Syndrome as an optic on injustice, advocacy, and social transformation through this most intimate of parent-child relations. -- Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

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Book SynopsisHow low-income people cope with the emotional dimensions of poverty Could a lack of close, meaningful social ties be a publicrather than just a privateproblem? In Social Poverty, Sarah Halpern-Meekin provides a much-needed window into the nature of social ties among low-income, unmarried parents, highlighting their often-ignored forms of hardship. Drawing on in-depth interviews with thirty-one couples, collected during their participation in a government-sponsored relationship education program called Family Expectations, she brings unprecedented attention to the relational and emotional dimensions of socioeconomic disadvantage. Poverty scholars typically focus on the economic use value of social tiesfor example, how relationships enable access to job leads, informal loans, or a spare bedroom.However, Halpern-Meekin introduces the important new concept of social poverty, identifying it not just as a derivative of economic poverty, but as its own condition, which also perpetuates povertTrade Review"Halpern-Meekin makes worthy critiques to try to strengthen public policy to support relationship education … Halpern-Meekin’s in-depth understanding of these couples’ lives allows her to add the lens of social poverty to help us understand why stressed and struggling couples are drawn to these programs and how the programs could actually help them." -- Institute for Family Studies"In this thoughtful and important book, Sarah Halpern-Meekin reframes decades-long debates over the value and efficacy of government-supported relationship and marriage education programs. Drawing on rich in-depth research into the lives and relationships of low-income, unmarried couples, Social Poverty powerfully shows how policy can play a key role in alleviating, not only economic deprivation, but families unmet, though equally important needs for emotional closeness, intimacy, and support. With a smart set of recommendations researchers, practitioners, and policymakers should heed, this book is crucial reading for a sophisticated and beautifully written analysis of how promoting social connection can and should be at the heart of anti-poverty policy." -- Jennifer Randles,author of Proposing Prosperity?: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America"What would happen if we considered the relationships that sustain us as important as financial resources, or if we viewed isolation or loneliness as serious social problems as we do disease? With the deceptively simple concept of 'social poverty,' Halpern-Meekin asks us to recognize the tremendous inherent value of human connection, and greatly expands our capacity to understand the costs of low-income couples thin emotional ties to other people....She picks her way through the detritus of the marriage promotion debates to issue her own clarion call: we should consider social poverty as important as income poverty, and aim to redress both." -- Allison Pugh,author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity"Essential. Halpern-Meekin writes with deep sympathy and understanding." * Choice *"Halpern-Meekin makes a compelling argument for considering essential concepts like poverty in new and multifaceted ways." * Journal of Children and Poverty *

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Book SynopsisA critical examination of the weaknesses inherent in international gender policy2018 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science AssociationGender equality has become a central aspect of global governance and development in the 21st century. States increasingly promote women in government, ensure women's economic rights and protect women from violence, all in the name of creating a more gender equitable world. No Shortcut to Change is a historical, theoretical, and political overview of why the common, liberal-feminist-driven shortcut' approach has not actually improved the status of women throughout the worldand why a new approach taking social, racial, and political hierarchies into account alongside gender is sorely needed. This innovative book unites several streams of international relations and feminist theory in pursuit of a practical solution to global gender inequality. She gives an overview of what add-women' policymaking looks like and has (or has not) accompliTrade Review"No Shortcut to Change should be in all libraries that serve gender and women’s studies programs. Not only is it beautifully written in a pedagogical style that clearly defines key terms; it also addresses the most fundamental questions and dilemmas at the core of the discipline. Individual chapters even work well as standalone texts. The book is most appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across the social sciences. It will also be of interest to activists, policy makers, and members of international organizations whose work hopes to contribute to gender equality." -- Resources for Gender and Women's Studies"No Shortcut to Change is a groundbreaking critique of common-sense approaches to improving gender equality throughout the world. A must-read book for anyone who seriously cares about this important issue." -- Laura Sjoberg,author of Women as Wartime Rapists: Beyond Sensation and Stereotyping"Kara Ellerby's book is necessary and required reading for all those engaged with debates on gender empowerment, equality, equity, or quotas in global or national contexts. This is a powerful and lucid argument about why the gender inclusion model may not achieve feminist goals or provide a path to improving women's (or anyone else's) lives. Ellerby has advanced feminist thinking and politics." -- Inderpal Grewal,author of Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms

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Book SynopsisAn updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violenceFrom Harvey Weinstein to Brett Kavanaugh, accusations of gender violence saturate today's headlines. In this fully revised edition of Gender Violence, Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan bring together a new, interdisciplinary group of scholars, with up-to-date material on emerging issues like workplace harassment, transgender violence, intersectionality, and the #MeToo movement. Contributors provide a fresh, informed perspective on gender violence, in all of its various forms. With twenty-nine new contributors, and twelve original essays, the third edition now includes emerging contemporary issues such as LGBTQ violence, sex work, and toxic masculinity. A trailblazing text, Gender Violence, Third Edition is an essential read for students, activists, and others.Trade ReviewThis volume moves beyond the binary and avoids the pitfalls of studying only white, cisgendered women as victims of gender violence. -- Gwen Hunnicutt, author of Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective: Intersections of Animal Oppression, Patriarchy and Domination of the EarthGender Violence provides a toolbox that students, teachers and scholars will find integral to understanding and re-making our world. This truly interdisciplinary volume crosscuts the broad area of gender violence, covering multiple angles of the focus topics. Chapters provide clear conceptual tools, empirical examples, and recommended readings, making it ideal for classroom use and a resource for all, regardless of prior knowledge. -- Chrysanthi Leon, author of Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America

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Book SynopsisExplores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across thelife courseAcross the United States, one in three women experiences violence in their intimate relationships. More resources are now being devoted to providing these women with immediate care; but what happens to survivors, especially those from marginalized communities, as they grow older and grapple with the long-term effects? In Violence Never Heals, Allison Bloom presents a life-course perspective on the disabling experience of violence in Latina immigrant communities.Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork performed in a Latina program at an Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) crisis center, Bloom offers insights into the long-term effects of systemic and gender-based violence, revealing that these experiences become subtly disabling long before old age. Drawing from her own background as a practitioner, Bloom further details how current IPV servTrade ReviewBloom writes in an accessible style and clearly knows her field from the inside. She draws on an array of concepts and research discussions—from intersectionality and embodiment to disability theory, to mention a few of her perspectival bases. The various conceptual discussions in the book are grounded in the author’s concrete cases and her ethnographic fieldwork... Expanding on the power of such support groups as cathartic rituals rather than opportunities for learning new strategies in life, Bloom’s book highlights a way to move forward. * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2021 AERA Outstanding Book AwardWinner, 2021 AERA Division F New Scholar''s Book AwardWinner, 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education SocietyUncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story's origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women.In their quest for education, African American girls and women faced numerous obstaclesfrom threats and harassment to violence. For them, education was a daring undertaking that put them in harm'sTrade ReviewBecause of Baumgartner, we rediscover the names and stories of many African American women and children: the missing activists.This book should be read by historians; political scientists, women’s studies, public policy and legal scholars; and educators for its in-depth understanding of African Americans’ educational strivings and its insights into how African American women and girls sought for themselves and their communities access to equal education despite institutional structures that were designed to prevent it. * The New England Quarterly *Through painstaking research and meticulous narration, Kabria Baumgartner has uncovered black women's "purposeful" educational activism in antebellum America. This book is an invaluable contribution to African American and women's history as well as the histories of abolition and education. -- Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of AbolitionOur understanding of the antebellum legacy of the black struggle for education has taken a giant step forward with Baumgartner’s important study of black women’s schooling. This is high quality scholarship: a solid grounding in secondary source material and exhaustive primary research, delivered through clear argument and well-tempered writing. -- Ronald E. Butchart, University of Georgia Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus

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Book Synopsis2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice MagazineAn exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color For Sylvia Chan-Malik, Muslim womanhood is constructed through everyday and embodied acts of resistance, what she calls affective insurgency. In negotiating the histories of anti-Blackness, U.S. imperialism, and women's rights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Being Muslim explores how U.S. Muslim women's identities are expressions of Islam as both Black protest religion and universal faith tradition. Through archival images, cultural texts, popular media, and interviews, the author maps how communities of American Islam became sites of safety, support, spirituality, and social activism, and how women of color were central to their formation. By accounting for American Islam's rich histories of mobilization and community, Being Muslim brings insight to the resistance that all Muslim women must Trade Review"This is a compelling, comprehensive, well-researched yet intimate exploration of intersectionality in the lives of African American Muslim women. Readers make an excursion through lives and contexts, from the beginning of the 20th century into the 21st. Chan-Malik demonstrates skills beyond the ordinary as she leaves little to the imagination regarding women's reasons for choosing Islam as a faith center and its relationship to homemaking, careers, and husbands … It is clear that Chan-Malik consulted every form of literature available on women engaging Islam … Chan-Malik has interrupted the stream of community biographies told through a male lens. An important book." -- CHOICE"This fascinating cultural history of Islam in the United States will surprise readers with its insights and subtleties of argument. By centering the lives, labor, and perspectives of US American Muslim women, and black Muslim women in particular, Chan-Malik makes a powerful case for conceptualizing Islam in the USin terms of its foundational blackness and the religious opposition to racism and sexism." -- Zareena Grewal,author of Islam is a Foreign Country"Rarely does a work of scholarship so seamless and skillfully interweave methods of theory, history, ethnography, and cultural interpretation to elucidate a topic of overarching importance. With rich insight and pristine originality, Sylvia Chan-Malik establishes a new, lasting standard that will redirect future scholarship on race, gender, and transnational Islam. Readers will learn immensely from the rich fruits of such careful and judicious intellectual labor." -- Sylvester Johnson,Virginia Tech"Being Muslim is a masterpiece that provides insightful analysis of the intersections among gender, race, and politics in the lives of American Muslim women." * Journal of Asian America Studies *

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Book SynopsisHow and why the election of Donald Trump inspired more women to enter politicsDonald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election shocked and dismayed many women, and motivated many to run for office at all levels of government. In The Pink Wave, Regina M. Matheson and William W. Parsons explore this inspiring phenomenon and its impact on women's representation.Drawing on national surveys and in-depth interviews of over 900 women, across almost every state, Matheson and Parsons show us why more women decided to run for state legislature during the Trump administration, the obstacles they faced on the campaign trail, and whether they ultimately succeeded or failed in their bid for office. Candidates share valuable lessons they learned from their recent campaign experiences, providing future insight for womenon both sides of the aislewho may be inspired to follow in their footsteps.Matheson and Parsons examine the impact DonaldTrade ReviewThe Pink Wave examines the current national political climate, as well as the barriers that have historically discouraged women from seeking office. Matheson and Parsons are thorough in their examination of women's decisions to run and their experiences as candidates....Easy and enjoyable to read. -- Dianne G. Bystrom, co-editor of Women in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of Women as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders

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Book SynopsisA critical analysis of white, working class North Americans' motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVFEach year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive privatized baby business, the Czech Republic has emerged as a central hub of fertility tourism, offering a plentitude of blonde-haired, blue-eyed egg donors at a fraction of the price. Fertility Holidays presents a critical analysis of white, working class North Americans' motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF. Within this diaspora, patients become consumers, urged on by the representation of a white Europe and an empathetic health care system, which seems nonexistent at home. As the volume traces these American fertility journeys halfway around the woTrade ReviewFertility Holidays focuses on a group of North Americans traveling to the Czech Republic in search of respectful medical care at market-driven low prices, combined with a European vacation. In Speiers adroit analysis, their layers of techno-hope cannot be separated from a desire to stabilize their chances of giving birth to 'white' babies. This compelling ethnographic account of Eastern European fertility entrepreneurship provides feminist insight into the marketization of reproductive bodies, showing how multilayered and multi-sited medical travel has become. -- Rayna Rapp,author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in AmericaOne of the first ethnographies on reproductive tourism, this book offers a captivating read into what these multi-faceted transnational experiences are like for the women, and men, involved as patients, clients, consumers, vacationers, and sometimes, parents. Through her nimble fieldwork, Amy Speier allows readers to see what it means in practice to seek out IVF as a patient-tourist in a global neoliberal marketplace of reproductive technologies and affective labor. . . . An intimate glimpse into the 21st century systems of hope on which many infertile heterosexual couples now depend to become parents, Fertility Holidays is timely and fascinating; a must read! -- Susan Frohlick,University of British Columbia

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Book Synopsis2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineShows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence changePatricia Zavella experienced firsthand the trials and judgments imposed on a working professional mother of color: her own commitment to academia was questioned during her pregnancy, as she was shamed for having children too young. And when she finally achieved her professorship, she felt out of place as one of the few female faculty members with children. These experiences sparked Zavella's interest in the movement for reproductive justice. In this book, she draws on five years of ethnographic research to explore collaborations among women of color engaged in reproductive justice activism. While there are numerous organizations focused on reproductive justice, most are racially specific, such as the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and Black Women for Wellness. Yet Trade ReviewThoroughly researched and clearly organized, the book provides an ethnographic view of how women of color engage in social activism through reproductive justice organizations ... A well-appreciated addition to the literature on RJ. * Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine *Intersectionality is a popular concept, but this terrific study of the practical uses of an intersectional approach to organizing for social change goes far beyond the usual invocations of the term, actually illuminating its strengths and challenges ... Exhaustively researched, beautifully detailed, and theoretically powerful. * Choice *After an illustrious career, Zavella has written what reads like a magnum opus in this social movement ethnography. The Movement for Reproductive Justice captures the struggles of women of color for the human right of health care with dignity and full bodily autonomy. With this exemplary piece of feminist activist research, Zavella makes a monumental contribution to the study of social movements led by women of color. * Mobilization *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA very useful introductory book to women's roles in Christian history. It provides a solid overview of feminist scholarship from the beginnings of Christianity to the present. It will play a key role in courses on this history. -- Rosemary Radford Ruether,Claremont School of Theology and Graduate UniversityA major contribution to the literature on women in Christianity. Moore effectively synthesizes the last thirty years of scholarship. . . . Using the template of saints, seers and scholars, she has managed to bewonder of wondersboth comprehensive and brief. Both readable and informative, this book will inform undergraduates in courses on the history of Christianity and in women's and gender studies classes. And some might want to buy it for a religious leader who should be better informed on the issues! -- Nadia Lahutsky,Texas Christian UniversityThe book would be an excellent source in an introduction to Christianity or a class on women in religion. * Religious Studies Review *An excellent conversation starter and would be a wonderful addition to any course syllabus looking to inspire classroom dialogue. * Reading Religion *Women in Christian Traditionsdirects a feminist lens at what would be, in less skilled hands, an unmanageable corpus of topics and source materials, and achieves a work that surveys the breadth and depth of its topic in a way that is informative, fresh, and engaging. * Sociology of Religion *Women in Christian Traditionsis a work that will be indispensible in course on gender and religion. Indeed, this work is essential reading for anyone interested in gender or religion. Its scope provides historians, scholars of religions, sociologists, and feminist theorists, as well as clergyand those interested in gender and religion outside of academia or religiona resource that is at once brief and thorough, concise and comprehensive. * Sociology of Religion *The scope is impressive, and this overview would serve as a valuable text in an introductory womens studies course. * Anglican and Episcopal History *Moore accomplishes a seemingly incredible feat: she tells the story of women in Christianity through 2,000 years of history...Noteworthy for itsbreadth and depth, Moores projectwill encourage smart conversations about women and Christianity. * Choice *What a pleasant surprise to find a book on women and Christianity that is not a rant against the evil inherent in this misogynistic religion. Rebecca Moore presents a balanced narrative of womens well-earned place in the history of Christianity, and a significant place it is indeed. Written with students in mind, it probably will succeed in making the reading list of many college courses. This is a good thing; it may be the best choice now available. * Catholic Historical Review *Moores volume is a thoroughly enjoyable book thateffectively outlines the continuous and significant role that women have played in the historical development of the Christian tradition. She provides an accessible sweep of Christian history with special attention to the way that women have affected its development by incorporating engaging narratives focused on the lives of influential women. * Catholic Book Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Study Women in Christian Traditions? 1 1. In the Beginning ... Eve 19 2. The Women Disciples in the Kingdom of God 27 3. Women and the Conversion of an Empire 47 4. Saints, Seers, and Scholars in the Middle Ages 67 5. Women Reformed, Women Resistant 87 6. Spirit-Filled Women in the Nineteenth Century 107 7. Churchwomen on the Margins and in the Mainstream 129 Conclusion: The Church of Martha and Mary 153 Questions for Discussion 157 Notes 159 Works Cited 181 For Further Reading 195 Subject Index 197 Index to the Bible and New Testament Apocrypha 207 About the Author 209

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Through the connecting thread of the body and embodiment, Sutton delivers a complex, creative, and powerful analysis of gender-based violence in Argentinas clandestine detention centers. The author masterfully reveals intersections of state terror and gender ideologies with clear relevance across space and time. A must read" -- Cecilia Menjívar,Author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala"Torture survivors are witnesses. Many people do not want to hear their voices. Barbara Sutton has listened to scores of Argentinian women who survived to detail the misogynist lengths to which a military junta will go to stay in power. Sutton reveals how our listening to these women is crucial for sustainable democracy." -- Cynthia Enloe,Author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy"How history is told is political. Who tells it is political. How the voices of those telling it are portrayed is political. Barbara Sutton makes clear choices in this powerful book to bring forward the voices of powerful women. Yes, women who have been tortured in ways that are unfathomable, and still their stories reveal their power." * Marina Sitrin, NACLA Report on the Americas *"Sutton’s work is both timely and pressing, illuminating how state violence is not simply a matter of perpetrators and victims but is connected to persistent discourses and practices of violence aimed at turning captive people into humiliated, objectified, and sexualized bodies, stripped of identity and rights. What is at stake are lessons ... that move between the past and the present and across geographical boundaries to connect gender discourse to materiality, survival to resistance, and embodied memories from survivors to memories about the body that are culturally produced." * Jennifer Earles, Gender & Society *"By amplifying the voices of women who endured state violence in Argentina, Sutton demonstrates the social dimensions of collective memory, the archive, and the capacities of societies to attend closely to a range of voices who have been targeted for state violence. The significance of excavating such narratives is underscored by both the parallels of state violence to the many forms of gendered violence women face daily and the impunity many torturers and state officials continue to enjoy in the aftermath of state violence. … Sutton powerfully demonstrates that state violence is at once the exception and, at the same time, is the rule." * Amina Zarrugh, Sociological Inquiry *"[B]y accessing these voices the archive in question plays an important role through which testimonies are not only stored, but are performed. In opening the potentially ‘inert’ archive, Sutton’s work is relevant for those beyond Argentina, and indeed Latin America, who are interested in violence, testimony and women’s resistance, and in the connection between sexual and political violence and resistance." * Cara Levey, Oral History *"The last military regime in Argentina (1976–1983) ended over 35 years ago. Yet, like many countries that have gone through periods of gross human rights violations under authoritarian regimes, the country still struggles with how to remember what happened and ensure that it never happens again. Barbara Sutton’s book Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina makes an important contribution to these scholarly and practical efforts toward transitional justice and collective memory." * Michelle D. Bonner, Contemporary Sociology *"Surviving State Terror nos conecta con unas utopías que son quizás más frágiles y precarias que las que conformaban el horizonte político de futuro de los setentas. Pero son utopías que se toman en serio la derrota, el dolor y la pérdida. En un momento político que invita constantemente al optimismo banal o al pesimismo rotundo, resulta profundamente esperanzador leer un libro que no le teme a la palabra utopía y que establece una relación crítica con el pasado para ayudarnos a imaginar que, a pesar de todo, el presente no está clausurado." * Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Corpus *"Las historias que Bárbara Sutton despliega con detalle y sutileza en su libro no cuentan circunstancias individuales, 'aunque individuos remarcables emergen de la historia de las luchas por los derechos humanos', sino que en su ejemplaridad establecen legados activistas que nos permiten 'imaginar de otro modo' formas de solidaridad para continuar el trabajo de fortalecer la memoria y buscar la verdad y la justicia para las futuras generaciones." * Claudia Bacci, Revista Transas *"En efecto, la potencia interpretativa (y, fundamentalmente, política) de este libro no se anuda solo en la audaz y cuidadosa recuperación de esas voces, otrora vulneradas y silenciadas, sino también, y fundamentalmente, a su advertencia precisa y contundente sobre los modos aún vigentes de sometimiento de este y otros grupos que han sido y continúan siendo social, cultural y políticamente vulnerados." * Julieta Lampasona, Clepsidra *

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Book Synopsis2023 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History WinnerThe first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX Every girl in Little League, every woman playing college sports, and every parentincluding Michelle and myselfwho watches their daughter on a field or in the classroom is forever grateful to the late Patsy Takemoto Mink.President Barack Obama, on posthumously awarding Mink the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. Fierce and Fearless is the first biography of this remarkable woman, who first won election to Congress in 1964 and went on to serve in the House for twenty-four years, her final term ending with her death in 2002. Mink was an advocate for girls and women, best known for her work shepherding and defending Title IX, the legislation that changed the face of education in America, making it poTrade Review"Challenging myths of equal opportunity and equal treatment, Fierce and Fearless chronicles Patsy Takemoto Mink’s transformative leadership as she fought for ethnic, racial, gender, and environmental justice—and an end to war—even as she encountered systemic discrimination, physical and psychological abuse, and betrayal by her party. This gripping narrative illuminates the extraordinary policy accomplishments and the astounding personal costs of a principled and pathbreaking life in U.S. politics." -- Mary Hawkesworth, author of Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings"This is an exquisite biography of Patsy T. Mink, an extraordinary woman, legislator, and the force behind the passage of Title IX. The collaboration between Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Patsy Mink’s daughter, Gwendolyn Mink, is rich, productive, and compelling. They produce a subtly textured blend of personal anecdotes and memories, biography, and post-WWII historical change. Fierce and Fearless demonstrates that Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink is a singular example of politics and policy driven by vision, ethics, and values. This inside look into the Mink family is a powerful read into the fierce, egalitarian values of Patsy T. Mink. Beautifully written, inspiring, and poignant." -- Dana Y. Takagi, author of The Retreat from Race: Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics"Wu and Mink celebrate the incredible life of this feminist advocate from Hawai’i, showing us why Congress renamed Title IX the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act in 2002. This thoroughly researched and beautifully crafted narrative highlights Mink’s environmental, civil rights, peace, and anti-poverty work, how she bridged electoral politics and grassroots advocacy, and how she challenged the establishment from within to widen the arc of social justice." * Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 *"Mink’s imprint on so many important moments—supporting the 1965 Voting Rights Act, ending the Vietnam War, introducing Title IX—have been overlooked for far too long. We need to return to her example of intersectional legislative feminism to better bridge grassroots concerns and political action today." * Leandra Ruth Zarnow, author of Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug *"Fierce and Fearless plants Patsy Mink firmly within the panoply of feminist history and makes clear her unique brand of lawmaking, one that combined her many identities as a woman of color and pioneer of intersectional legislative feminism. In this regard, the book is a must-read for scholars of intersectionality and will make an excellent addition to syllabi in a range of courses." -- Sara Sadhwani * Perspectives on Politics *

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Book SynopsisA woman''s fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accidentIn the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed.In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentraTrade ReviewA Body, Undoneis a memoir about surviving in the midst of community, reflecting on loss, the interminable nature of grief, and on the meaning of living on. Christina Crosby is a writer whose intellectually expansive reflection is simply awe-inspiring. With prose that can only be described as burning with lucidity and precision, she takes us through the aftermath of the accident and the gradual understanding of its implications for her physical and psychic life. An extraordinary and luminous book. -- Judith Butler,author of Precarious LifeChristina Crosby insists on the challenge of living on after great pain and loss and shows us what it is like to begin this altered life in ones middle years. Tender, fierce, and eloquent, A Body, Undone is a necessary, even life-altering book. -- Laura S. Levitt,author of American Jewish Loss after the HolocaustChristina Crosby has written a frank and lyrical memoir describing her traumatic experience of becoming quadriplegic and offering profound reflections on the role of the body in identity, on the humbling experiences of being cared for, on privilege and class in caregiving, and on loss of control. Crosbys eloquence and brutal honesty make this a stunning and harrowing account of the experience of human loss. * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies: A Feminist Review *Crosbys powers of articulation, her ethical convictions, her deep knowledge of politics, literature, and culture, her queer commitments, and her dedication to using language to convey the farthest limits of embodied experience combine to makeA Body, Undonea transformational read, one that underscores the basic facts of our interdependence, precarity, and capacity to sustain each other. * Vela Magazine *[I]nher surgically incisive descriptions of how it feels to live in her ravaged body and to redefine herself within extreme new limits, Crosby resists both self-pity and the too-easy narrative of hardship overcome. Instead, she asks readers to recognize how messy, precarious, and queer, in every sense of the word, life in a body can be. * TheNewYorker.com *Most memoirs about life with a disability 'almost always move toward a satisfying conclusion of lessons learned, Crosby writes. But Crosby knows that there are no satisfying conclusions when one lives 'a life beyond reason'--and that bit of wisdom alone is cause to read this elegant and harrowing book. * The Washington Post *Perhaps the most profound lesson of Crosby's book is how lonely pain is...[she] is not the person whose suffering can be made into a vessel for other people's metaphors. Her book's drama lies in trying to decode who she really is. * New Republic *[A Body, Undone]is fascinating and painful, humiliating and beautiful...There's no bitterness in these pages, no anger at the action that led to her injury. * Mediander.com *[S]harp and transformativeA Body, Undoneis about a calamitous accident, yes, but its also about the accident of all our lives, and the inevitable mortality that informs every one of our days. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Part grueling diary of living with chronic pain and part celebration of survival, this is a complicated understanding of what it means to change your definition of living while living through it. * Elle *conversations within feminist and Disability Studies classrooms and contribute to our collective effort to theorize relationality, embodiment, and interdependence. * Disability Studies Quarterly *In its intellectual generosity, its frankness, and its dexterous deployment of the resources of scholarship toward the ends of life writing,A Body, Undonerecalls other invaluable memoirs of illness and disability by feminist academics like Susan GubarsMemoir of a Debulked Womanand Eve Kosofsky SedgwicksA Dialogue on Love, though unlike those antecedents Crosby engages explicitly with the now-robust field of disability studies. * Feministing.com *Crosby discusses her reality with a candor that must be experienced to be believed. And the reader is left to face the truth that one's embodiment and the world that goes with it) can change utterly and forever, in a heartbeat. * Inside Higher Ed. *Our sense of ourselves cannot exist outside our bodies. As such, Crosby's act of writing the body is a powerful act of self-preservation. * Inside Higher Ed. *Crosby weaves poetry and literary references into her her story in an attempt to find meaning in her life. Her poignant, well-written, and thoughtful memoir will be of interest to scholars in feminist, gay, and disability studies. * Journal of American Culture *

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Book SynopsisExplores the burgeoning menstrual advocacy movement and analyzes how law should evolve to take menstruation into account.Approximately half the population menstruates for a large portion of their lives, but the law is mostly silent about the topic. Until recently, most people would have said that periods are private matters not to be discussed in public. But the last few years have seen a new willingness among advocates and allies of all ages to speak openly about periods. Slowly around the globe, people are recognizing the basic fundamental human right to address menstruation in a safe and affordable way, free of stigma, shame, or barriers to access.Menstruation Matters explores the role of law in this movement. It asks what the law currently says about menstruation (spoiler alert: not much) and provides a roadmap for legal reform that can move society closer to a world where no one is held back or disadvantaged by menstruation. Bridget J. Crawford and Emi

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