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The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

Working Time

Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place

Waiting for Cancer to Come

Women's Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer

By Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A narrative-driven exploration of the effects of BRCA genetic testing on the lives of at-risk women

Coeds Ruining the Nation

Women, Education, and Social Change in Postwar Japanese Media

By Julia Bullock
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A unique glimpse into the hopes and fears of the Japanese people as coeducation was first introduced in the Occupation period.
 

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Textures of Mourning

Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls

By Reginald Jackson
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Unfolds the intimate relationship between mourning, writing, reading, painting, and viewing, through The Tale of Genji and its legacy

Transforming Gender and Emotion

The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea

By Sookja Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Korea, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Illuminates how one folktale serves as a living record of the evolving cultures and relationships of China and Korea

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

 

The Measure of Manliness

Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture

Tactics of the Human

Experimental Technics in American Fiction

By Laura Shackelford
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, American Literature, Digital Projects, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human

Waiting for Cancer to Come

Women’s Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer

By Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A narrative-driven exploration of the effects of BRCA genetic testing on the lives of at-risk women

The Feminist Spectator as Critic

2nd Edition

By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies

This groundbreaking work in gender and performance, with a new introduction and updated bibliography

The Culture of the Body

Genealogies of Modernity

By Dalia Judovitz
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments

Imagining Adoption

Essays on Literature and Culture

Edited by Marianne Novy
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists

The New Woman International

Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s

Edited by Elizabeth Otto & Vanessa Rocco
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Media Studies, New Media, German Studies

An international picture of New Woman in film and photography

Mad at School

Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life

By Margaret Price
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Composition
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education

Viral Mothers

Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS

By Bernice L. Hausman
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies

Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises

Sex, Drag, and Male Roles

Investigating Gender as Performance

By Diane Torr
Edited by Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Critical Performances

The gender-bending performances of Diane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops

Cultural Conundrums

Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics

By Natasha Barnes
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies

Caribbean popular culture—including cricket, carnival, beauty pageants, and calypso—sheds light on the evolving cultural politics of the region

Gates of Freedom

Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind

By Eugenia C. DeLamotte
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, American Studies

Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists

The Troubles in Ballybogoin

Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland

By William F. Kelleher
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A fascinating exploration of how social memory serves to hinder communication and foster disorder in Northern Ireland

Manning the Margins

Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France

By Lewis C. Seifert
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

The first book-length study of writing, men, and masculinity in seventeenth-century France

Disability Theory

By Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies

Women and War

By Jenny Matthews
Subjects: Gender Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies

An unflinching twenty-year portrait-diary of women's lives in war zones

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