Disabled girls’ complex roles in contemporary media culture
Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos
The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society
How opera practitioners represent sexual violence on today’s opera stages
Examines how women in higher office must balance feminine stereotypes with exercising their power
Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies
Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village
A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
Creating Gender Equality from the Ashes of Neoliberalism
A challenge to conventional notions about American women’s collective engagement in public policy-making
Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon
Challenges visuality as the dominant mode through which we understand gender, social performance, and visual culture
Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created
A unique glimpse into the hopes and fears of the Japanese people as coeducation was first introduced in the Occupation period.
Traces the phenomenon of gendered border-crossing in Chinese opera, as dramatic theme and powerful political rhetoric
An engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah Craik
What representations of domestic service in literature reveal about various Progressive Era cultural narratives
A bold journey through images that bear witness to the tenacious power of art and activism
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
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
Rediscovering and reframing the rich and multifaceted history of early modern British women’s book ownership and library compilation
Illuminates the sometimes surprising positive and negative outcomes of civil war
Much admired by readers for decades, Alicia Ostriker is celebrated by her peers in fresh and insightful essays
The first long- term anthropological study of China’s Baby- Friendly Hospital Initiative, closely examining our assumptions about motherhood and childbirth
Analysis-driven study of female candidates and how they represent their constituents better than their male colleagues