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Gender Studies

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Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers

Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

By Catherine Davy
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village

Marginal People in Deviant Places

Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism

By Janice M. Irvine
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Gender Studies

How twentieth-century ethnographers captured the diverse social worlds of outsiders

Winged Words

The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.

By Donna Krolik Hollenberg
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Gender Studies

A fresh look at the life and work of modernist poet H.D.

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

By Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Argues for the political potential of drag and trans performance in Puerto Rico and its diaspora

Jackie Ormes

The First African American Woman Cartoonist

By Nancy Goldstein
Subjects: Biography, African American Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art

Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created

Dirty Work

Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction

By Ann Mattis
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

What representations of domestic service in literature reveal about various Progressive Era cultural narratives

Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, African American Studies, History, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity

A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
 

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

 

Memories of the Revolution

The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater

Edited by Holly Hughes & Carmelita Tropicana
By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Scripts, interviews, photos, and critical commentary documenting the riotous beginnings of this long-lived experimental theater space for women 

Sounding Like a No-No

Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era

By Francesca T. Royster
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Black popular music and offbeat performance, from Eartha Kitt to Meshell Ndegeocello

American Socialist Triptych

The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

By Mark Van Wienen
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.

Mad at School

Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life

By Margaret Price
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Composition
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education

Gates of Freedom

Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind

By Eugenia C. DeLamotte
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, American Studies

Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists

Transcribing Class and Gender

Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices

By Carole Srole
Subjects: History, American History, Class Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status

Mammy

A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory

By Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Subjects: African American Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature

A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure

An Angle of Vision

Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots

Edited by Lorraine Lopez
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Memoir, Latinx Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

Moisture of the Earth

Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist

Edited by Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, History, Labor History, African American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

American Jewish Identity Politics

By Deborah Dash Moore
Subjects: American Studies, Jewish Studies, Religion, Political Science, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Explores changes among American Jews in their self-understanding during the last half of the twentieth century

Student Bodies

The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine

By Heather Munro Prescott
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

Explores the fascinating connections between university health centers and the evolution of American health and medicine

The Unraveling Archive

Essays on Sylvia Plath

Edited by Anita Helle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, American Literature, American Studies

Fresh perspectives that provide new readings of the life and work of one of our most celebrated poets

An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College

Edited by Elisabeth Israels Perry & Jennifer Ann Price
By Olive San Louie Anderson
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, Education, American Studies

A historical novel about a young woman's challenges as a member of the first coeducational class at a major university

My Body Politic

A Memoir

By Simi Linton
Subjects: Memoir, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies

An irreverent memoir of one woman's personal and political journey from 1960s counterculture to disability activism

The Color of Privilege

Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism

By Aida Hurtado
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, African American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Latinx Studies

Sheds new light on women's differing responses to feminism according to factors of ethnicity and race

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong

The Black Female Body in American Culture

Edited by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Subjects: African American Studies, Gender Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies

Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination

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