NWSA: Gender and Sexuality
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
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BROWSE BOOKS:
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // TRANSGENDER STUDIES
FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORY // DISABILITY STUDIES // ENVIRONMENT
ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE // POLITICS // ART AND MEDIA
LITERATURE // GLOBALIZATION // NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES
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Lesbian Death Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer Mairead Sullivan 2022 Fall
- Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity
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Castoffs of Capital Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh Lamia Karim 2022 Fall
- Dispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industry
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Making Love with the Land Essays Joshua Whitehead 2022 Fall
- A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
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Queer Silence On Disability and Rhetorical Absence J. Logan Smilges 2022 Fall
- Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness
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Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang Nicholas de Villiers 2022 Fall
- A brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan’s greatest auteurs
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Exceptionally Queer Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism K. Mohrman 2022 Spring
- How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state
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Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring
- How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing
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Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall
- Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
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Commodities of Care The Business of HIV Testing in China Elsa L. Fan 2021 Fall
- How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve
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Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall
- The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
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Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall
- Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i
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Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall
- Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring
- The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
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Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall
- A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest
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Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring
- Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible
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The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring
- Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism
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Why We Lost the Sex Wars Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era Lorna N. Bracewell 2021 Spring
- Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances
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Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity
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The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
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The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender Marquis Bey 2020 Fall
- A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed
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Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
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The Wedding Heard ’Round the World America’s First Gay Marriage Michael McConnell 2020 Fall
- Forty-four years after two men married in a legal ceremony in Minnesota, the Supreme Court has decided the question first raised by these gay pioneers
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The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado 2020 Spring
- Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality
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When Time Warps The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence Megan Mae Burke 2019 Fall
- An inquiry into the phenomenology of “woman” based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence
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This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019 Fall
- The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States
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Daring to Be Bad Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition 2019 Fall
- An award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—30th anniversary edition
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Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field Notes from the Field Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir, Editors 2019 Spring
- An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South
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Fighting for NOW Diversity and Discord in the National Organization for Women Kelsy Kretschmer 2019 Spring
- An unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future
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Men in Place Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America Miriam J. Abelson 2019 Spring
- Daring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men