Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia
Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
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Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous....
Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism: Gender and Psychoanalysis, 1753-1835
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Debates about gender in the British Romantic period often invoked the idea of sexual enjoyment:...
The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910--1945
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This study examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's...
Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa
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In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics...
Gendering Counterinsurgency: Performativity, Embodiment and Experience in the Afghan 'Theatre of War'
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This book analyses the various ways in which counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is gendered. The book...
Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform
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In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political,...
Hadija's Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields
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In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon...
Coping with Gender Inequities: Critical Conversations of Women Faculty
Sherwood Thompson and Pamela Parry
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This book provides a discussion of women faculty members' experiences on college and university...
Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare: Feminist Political Economy, Primitive Accumulation and the Law
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This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing...
All Change Please: A Practical Guide to Achieving Gender Equality in Theatre
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Theatre needs to change. Everywhere - in its boardrooms, on its stages, throughout its repertoires -...