Gender

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Queer and Trans Aesthetics

A study devoted to queer meaning in cultural expression

Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Queer Roots for the Diaspora

Ghosts in the Family Tree

Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity

Effeminism

The Economy of Colonial Desire

Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative

Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

Constituting Workers, Protecting Women

Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years

Studies historical constitutional development in relation to protective laws for women in the U.S. during the Progressive Era and early New Deal years

Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs

Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields

Illuminates the dynamics of social and cultural disintegration through the social construction of female infertility