Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Anne Larsen explores how harness horse racing has resisted gender equalization and excluded women from key roles. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving and succeeding in this sport, Larsen provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation, and women's studies.
The female characterizations in Machado's novels are much more important to their author's narrative art and to his social vision than we have previously thought. This is the first book-length study in English to address this issue, and it will open up a new and very rich vein of Machadoan scholarship.
An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood
This book covers a variety of women's issues from different parts of the world. It also expresses various themes of oppression, marginalization, sexism, gender, and emancipation of women, showing that women's problems are the same no matter where they reside.
Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies
Addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts?
Jewish and Islamic histories have long been interrelated. Both traditions emerged from ancient cultures born in the Middle East and both are rooted in texts and traditions that have often excluded women. This book explores the relationship between these two religions through the prism of gender.
Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies
Addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts?
Jewish and Islamic histories have long been interrelated. Both traditions emerged from ancient cultures born in the Middle East and both are rooted in texts and traditions that have often excluded women. This volume focuses attention on the theoretical innovations that gender scholarship has brought to the study of Muslim and Jewish experiences.
Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism
A moving exploration of the promise and pitfalls encountered during two decades of transnational feminist workIn Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar embarks on an eloquent and moving exploration of the promises and pitfalls she has encountered during her two decades of transnational feminist work. With stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as ......
Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism
A moving exploration of the promise and pitfalls encountered during two decades of transnational feminist workIn Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar embarks on an eloquent and moving exploration of the promises and pitfalls she has encountered during her two decades of transnational feminist work. With stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as ......
