New Books in Women's and Gender Studies

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Ahmed, Sara. What’s the Use? : On the Uses of Use. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 296. Paper $26.95.

Andrews, Maggie. Women and Evacuation in the Second World War: Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 232. Paper $114.00.

Berlant, Lauren, ed. Reading Sedgwick. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 312. Paper: $27.95.

Bourdeau, Loïc, ed. Horrible Mothers: Representations across Francophone North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Pp. 228. Paper $45.00.

Brim, Matt. Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 264. Paper $26.95.

Cohen, David S. and Joffe, Carole. Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America. University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 296. Cloth $24.95.

Cohen, Deborah J. Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 2020. Pp. 184. Cloth $26.95.

Cook, Daniel Thomas. The Moral Project of Childhood: Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children’s Consumer Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2020. Pp. 256. Paper $30.00.

Crawford, Vicki L. and Lewis V. Baldwin, eds. Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2019. Pp. 408. Paper $36.95.

Devenish, Annie. Debating Women’s Citizenship in India 1930-1960. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 288. Paper $115.00.

Diabate, Naminata. Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. Paper $26.95.

Elfenbein, Rachel. Engendering Revolution: Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Pp. 328. Paper $34.95.

Espín, Oliva M. Women, Sainthood, and Power: A Feminist Psychology of Cultural Constructions. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. Pp. 238. Paper $95.00.

Gengler, Amanda M. Save My Kid: How Families of Critically Ill Children Cope, Hope, and Negotiate an Unequal Healthcare System. New York: NYU Press, 2020. Pp. 256. Paper $30.00.

Giraud, Eva Haifa. What Comes after Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 264. Paper $26.95.

Glymph, Thavolia. The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 384. Cloth $34.95.

Goodspeed-Chadwick, Julie. Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. Pp. 232. Paper $45.00.

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Dub: Finding Ceremony. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. Paper $24.95.

Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna. Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 240. Paper $ 27.95.

Jacoway, Elizabeth, ed. No Straight Path: Becoming Women Historians. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. Pp. 264. Cloth $40.00.

Joh, Wonhee Ann and Kim, Nami, eds. Feminist Praxis against US Militarism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. Pp.194. Cloth $95.00.

Jones, Angela. Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry. New York: NYU Press, 2020. Pp.344. Paper $30.00.

Kapadia, Ronak K. Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 352. Paper $28.95.

Levine, Elana. Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 400. Paper $ 29.95.

Lillvis, Kristen. Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2019. Pp. 144. Paper $24.95.

Liogier, Raphaël. Heart of Maleness: An Exploration. New York: Other Press, 2020. Pp. 112. Paper $14.99.

Macharia, Keguro. Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora. New York: NYU Press, 2019. Pp. 224. Paper $27.00.

Margolis, Maxine L. Women in Fundamentalism: Modesty, Marriage, and Motherhood. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. Pp. 218. Paper $34.00.

Mia, Fischer. Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of The U.S. Security State. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Pp. 282. Paper $45.00.

Mitra, Durba. Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thoughts. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. Paper $29.95.

Musila, Grace A. Wangari Maathai’s Registers of Freedom: Voice of Liberation. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020. Pp. 380. Paper $35.00.

Nichols, Morgan Harper. All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Press, 2020. Pp. 192. Paper $16.99.

Orozco, Cynthia E. Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. Pp. 310. Hardcover $40.00.

Peschier, Diana. Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2019, Pp. 224. Paper $103.50.

Povitz, Lana Dee. Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 360. Paper $29.95.

Przybylo, Ela. Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019. Pp. 252. Paper $ 29.95.

Sameh, Catherine Z. Axis of Hope: Iranian Women’s Rights Activism across Borders. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. Pp. 200. Paper $30.00.

Shahrokni, Nazanin. Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 176. Paper: $34.95.

Shakhsari, Sima. Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 312. Paper. $27.95.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera. Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 174. Paper $110. 00.

Shannon, Speed. Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 176. Paper $27.95.

Siegel, Mona L. Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights After the First World War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 344. Hardcover $35.00.

Sippial, Tiffany A. Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 288. Paper 29.95.

Smith, Andrea. Unreconciled: From Racial Reconciliation to Racial Justice in Christian Evangelicalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 400. Paper $29.95.

Smith, Bonnie G. Women in World History: 1450 to the Present. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 304. Paper $ 31.95.

Snitow, Ann. Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe. New York: New Village Press, 2020. Pp. 304. Paper $24.95.

Solinger, Rickie. The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. 296. Paper $27. 95.

Stenberg, Shari J and Hogg, Charlotte eds. Persuasive Acts: Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Pp. 494. Paper $35.00.

Stockton, Kathryn Bond. Avidly Reads Making Out. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2019. Pp. 176. Paper. $14.95.

Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2019. Pp. 304. Paper $28.00.

Tierney, Matt. Dismantlings: Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 232. Paper $36.95.

Whitacre, Paula Tarnapol. A Civil Life in and Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur’s Struggle for Purpose. Potomac Books, 2020. Pp. 320. Paper $22.95.

Whitley, Collen. Feed My Sheep: The Life of Alberta Henry. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019. Pp. 392. Paper $34.95.

Wolensky, Robert P, ed. Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945-1995. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020. Pp. 416. Hardcover $99.95.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Feminist Papers: A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Layton, UT: Smith, Gibbs Publisher, 2019. Pp. 304. Cloth $16.99.

Youssef, Mariam. Gendered Paradigms in Theologies of Survival: Silenced to Survive. Lexington Books, 2019. Pp. 156. Paper $90.00.

Zarnow, Leandra Ruth. Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 464. Paper $35.00.