Publications
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Sex/Machine
(1998)
As powerful interacting social and physical forces, gender and technology shape our experiences, cultures, and identities—sometimes in such comfortable and subtle ways that it takes effort to appreciate them; sometimes in ...
Journal of Women's History Guide to Periodical Literature
(1992)
The political activism of the 1970s was followed by an explosion of feminist scholarship in the 1908s. The Journal of Women’s History was founded to provide a means of disseminating that scholarship and to serve as the ...
Traps
(2001)
Traps is the first anthology that historicizes the writings by African American men who have examined the meanings of the overlapping categories of race, gender, and sexuality, and who have theorized these categories in ...
French Women and the Age of Enlightenment
(1992)
French Women And The Age Of Enlightenment presents a stimulating portrait of women at the most crucial and paradoxical moment in French and world history. Not until the present century have French women been as influential ...
The Practice of Love
(1994)
Between 1970 and now, in conjunction with earlier and contemporaneous social movements, feminism and poststructuralism have made way for the rise of minority discourse and gay and lesbian studies as fields of scholarly and ...
Sexualities in Victorian Britain
(1996)
"This book promises to lay to rest, once and for all, the early 20th-century truism that Victorians' primary relationship to sexuality turned on repression." —Mary L. Poovey, Johns Hopkins University An introduction to ...
European Women and Preindustrial Craft
(1995)
These essays examine key eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European industries—the production of verdigris, linen, and silk; spinning, weaving, lacemaking, embroidery; calico painting; and the lingerie trade. Focusing on ...
Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe
(1986)
The working women in this volume represent a wide diversity of stations in life, ranging from slaves and servants to respectable widows and professional midwives. Through a variety of sources including notarial records, ...
From the Other Side
(1994)
While most histories of immigrants in the United States begin with the experiences of migratory men disguised as genderless humans, From the Other Side instead begins with the experiences of migratory women. But though ...
Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest
(1998)
During the thirty year period from 1890 to 1920, the African American club women in Illinois helped establish the largest national network of black club women in the country, The National Association of Colored Women, ...
Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870
(2006)
In this study of gender and religious culture, Benjamin Maria Baader explores the transformation of Judaism during a period of profound change. In 19th-century Germany, Jews became integrated into the surrounding society, ...
Masquerade
(2003)
Masquerade is the most comprehensive anthology yet published of poetry by American gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. It includes representative poems from more than 100 writers from pre-colonial times ...
Feminine Persuasion
(2003)
Marking 50 years since the publication of noted sexologist Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Feminine Persuasion: Art and Essays on Sexuality celebrates the diverse and multifaceted expressions of women’s ...
Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender
(1996)
These essays mount a powerful critique of the tragic hero as representative of the errors and sufferings of humankind. From a variety of critical perspectives—including feminist new historicism, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, ...
Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society
(2001)
This volume, which grows out of a research project on women and philanthropy sponsored by the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at the City University of New York, expands our understanding of female beneficence in ...
Women Poets and the American Sublime
(1990)
"This is the best book on American women poets I have yet seen." Â —American Literature "... sophisticated and eloquently argued analysis of a female counter-sublime..." —Sandra Gilbert "... strong readings of Dickinson ...
Human sexuality in physical and mental illnesses and disabilities
(1978)
Contrary to common myths that portray the disabled person as sexless, there is accumulating clinical and research evidence suggesting that sexual interest and activity continue to be very important in the lives of many ...
Women as Candidates in American Politics
(1994)
In this second edition, Susan Carroll updates her pioneering study of women candidates and their campaigns in the aftermath of the "Year of the Woman." Although in many regards the political climate has become vastly more ...
Women in Cleveland
(1995)
It has been one hundred years since a formal work was published on the role of women in the history of the city of Cleveland. This book adds to the early pioneering work, Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve. ...
Gender and Social Structure in Madagascar
(1988)
This is a theoretical and ethnographic essay on sexuality and the social order using the Bara material as a vehicle for demonstrating important universal features of human social life. In this sense the style of exposition ...