Disabled girls’ complex roles in contemporary media culture
Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos
The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society
Recovers the life and art of Bradford Ropes, author of 42nd Street and chronicler of gay lives in early show business
How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages
Examines how women in higher office must balance feminine stereotypes with exercising their power
Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies
A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village
A comprehensive account of the discrimination that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families confront and a look at how policy changes could make them more secure
Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import