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Leaving the Tomboy Behind

Sinophone Lesbian Subjectivities and Transnational Queer Media

By Carman K.M. Fung
Subjects: Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, China, Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

Turning to global LGBTQ+ media to explore selfhood and gender expressions

Anne Carson and the Unknown

Contemporary Perspectives on Poetic Experimentation

Edited by Helena Van Praet & Christine Wiesenthal
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Under Discussion

When art relies on a process of discovery

Hungry Subjects

Mapping Appetites in the African Cultural Landscape

By Njeri Githire
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Interrogating the plate, palate, and African literary imagination of food and eating

By Elizabeth Mesok
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Ethnic Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Critical Militarization Studies
Series: Critical Militarization Studies

A sobering account of the strategic leveraging of women for counterinsurgency and impossible promises of inclusion

Out for Glamour in Africa

A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine

By Wanjiru G. Mbure
Subjects: African Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies, Caribbean Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Renegotiating Black femininities through Drum magazine

Dissenting Through Dance

Folk Dance, Gender, and Political Protest in Turkey

By Sevi Bayraktar
Subjects: Dance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

How femme activists transform folk dance to a potent form of resistance in Turkey

Cripping Girlhood

By Anastasia Todd
Subjects: Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Disabled girls’ complex roles in contemporary media culture

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Edited by Jesook Song & Michelle Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian History, Media Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An interdisciplinary look at gender and sexuality in contemporary South Korea

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change

Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

By Ousseina D. Alidou
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society

Bodies on the Front Lines

Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Edited by Brenda Werth & Katherine Zien
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos

Rape at the Opera

Staging Sexual Violence

By Margaret Cormier
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Music and Social Justice

How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages

Walking the Gendered Tightrope

Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders

By Melissa Haussman & Karen M. Kedrowski
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Examines how women in higher office must balance feminine stereotypes with exercising their power

Liberating Economics, Second Edition

Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

2nd Edition

By Drucilla Barker, Suzanne Bergeron, and Susan F. Feiner
Subjects: Economics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Political Science, Sociology

Creating Gender Equality from the Ashes of Neoliberalism

The Paradox of Gender Equality

How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice

New Edition, With a New Preface

By Kristin A. Goss
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

A challenge to conventional notions about American women’s collective engagement in public policy-making

Blindness Through the Looking Glass

The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body

By Gili Hammer
Subjects: Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Anthropology
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Challenges visuality as the dominant mode through which we understand gender, social performance, and visual culture

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

By Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Subjects: Political Science, African Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series: African Perspectives

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

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.

Uncrossing the Borders

Performing Chinese in Gendered (Trans)Nationalism

By Daphne Lei
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Traces the phenomenon of gendered border-crossing in Chinese opera, as dramatic theme and powerful political rhetoric

Victorian Bestseller

The Life of Dinah Craik

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, British and Irish Literatures

An engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah Craik

Dirty Work

Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction

By Ann Mattis
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

What representations of domestic service in literature reveal about various Progressive Era cultural narratives

For Dear Life

Women's Decriminalization and Human Rights in Focus

By Carol Jacobsen
Subjects: Media Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Art, Photography, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

A bold journey through images that bear witness to the tenacious power of art and activism

Gendered Power

Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court

By Mamiko Suzuki
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the contributions of three powerful Meiji women and how their own education and ideas about Japanese women’s potential shaped how females were to participate in modern society

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, 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

Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain

Reading, Ownership, Circulation

By Leah Knight, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

Rediscovering and reframing the rich and multifaceted history of early modern British women’s book ownership and library compilation

Anatomy of a Civil War

Sociopolitical Impacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey

By Mehmet Gurses
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Illuminates the sometimes surprising positive and negative outcomes of civil war

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