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
- Another Mother Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism Cesare Casarino and Andrea Righi, Editors 2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima
- The Right to Be Out Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, Second Edition Stuart Biegel 2018 Fall
- An updated edition of this measured, practical, and timely guide to LGBT rights and issues for educators and school officials
- Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
- Herlands Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Keridwen N. Luis 2018 Fall
- How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality
- Gay, Inc. The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Myrl Beam 2018 Fall
- A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
- Circulating Queerness Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Natasha Hurley 2018 Spring
- A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives
- Wild Mares My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life Dianna Hunter 2018 Spring
- A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s
- Governance Feminism: An Introduction An Introduction Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir 2018 Spring
- Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
- Arranging Marriage Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora Marian Aguiar 2018 Spring
- The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context
- Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall
- Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
- Juárez Girls Rising Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon 2017 Spring
- Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juárez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence
- Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent Joseph J. Fischel 2016 Spring
- Exposing the fault lines underlying our regulation of sex
- What Gender Is, What Gender Does Judith Roof 2016 Spring
- A truly new conceptualization of “genders”
- Indifference to Difference On Queer Universalism Madhavi Menon 2015 Fall
- A thought-provoking argument for abandoning identity politics
- Art Labor, Sex Politics Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance Siona Wilson 2015 Spring
- Sex and labor politics in feminist-engaged, avant-garde artistic practices in 1970s London
- The Queerness of Native American Literature Lisa Tatonetti 2014 Fall
- A comprehensive view of Indigenous queer literature since Stonewall
- Negotiating Sex Work Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic, Editors 2014 Spring
- Illustrates how the politics surrounding sex work shape individual and collective agency
- Eating Fire My Life as a Lesbian Avenger Kelly Cogswell 2014 Spring
- An outsider American recounts two decades of radical lesbian life in this urgent, ferociously funny memoir
- Nobody Is Supposed to Know Black Sexuality on the Down Low C. Riley Snorton 2014 Spring
- How the “down low” media phenomenon reinforces troubling representations of black sexuality
- Choices Women Make Agency in Domestic Violence, Assisted Reproduction, and Sex Work Carisa R. Showden 2011 Spring
- An inquiry into women’s agency—how it is developed and deployed and how it can be increased
- Private Lives, Proper Relations Regulating Black Intimacy Candice M. Jenkins 2007 Spring
- Respectability, intimacy, and sexuality in African American women’s narratives
- Transgender Rights Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter, Editors 2006 Fall
- The first comprehensive work on the transgender civil rights movement
- Aberrations in Black Toward a Queer of Color Critique Roderick A. Ferguson 2003 Fall
- A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture
- Disidentifications Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics José Esteban Muñoz 1999 Spring
- An important new perspective on the ways outsiders negotiate mainstream culture.
- Fighting Words Black Women and the Search for Justice Patricia Hill Collins 1998 Fall
- Explores what African American women and other historically oppressed groups can teach us about social justice.
- Dangerous Liaisons Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti and Ella Shohat, Editors 1997 Spring
- The first collection to emphasize the complex interaction between gender and postcoloniality.
- White Women, Race Matters The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg 1993 Fall