The Haunting of Henry Twist
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London, 1926: Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend. On the way, she is...
fiction gender studies LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction
Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference: Commentary, Conflict and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims all have a common belief in the sanctity of a core holy scripture, and...
Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle
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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of...
Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights
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Forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives....
Gender studies feminism
Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction
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What can sport do to produce social change in our world today? It is impossible to fully understand...
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
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Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France,...
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
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This “lively biography” (The New Yorker) is the first to tell the story of Julia Ward Howe as a...
Memoir Gender studies History
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
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It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive...
History Politics Gender Studies
The Open MIC Night: Campus Programs That Champion College Student Voice and Engagement
Toby S. Jenkins, Marla L. Jaksch, Crystal L. Endsley and Anthony R. Keith
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While campuses across the United States have been offering spoken word programs for over 20 years,...
Women in Asian Politics: Descriptive, Diverse, Substantive, and Sustainable Representations
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Why has Asia fallen behind other world regions in women's parliamentary representation? What kinds...