National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting: Detroit, November 14–17, 2024

conference special: Use code OSUNWSA at checkout for 30% off and free US shipping on gender and sexuality studies books through December 31st

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Meet our acquisitions editors:

Kristen Elias Rowley, Editorial Director

Acquires in: Latinx studies, race and ethnic studies, cultural studies

Series: Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture • Global Latino/a Americas • Latinx Shorts • Race and Mediated Cultures

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Becca Bostock, Associate Editor

Acquires in: Gender and sexuality studies, Victorian Studies

Series: Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment • Digital Media, Feminist Resistance

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Ana Jimenez-Moreno, Editor

Acquires in: Literary and Cultural Studies

Series: Black Performance and Social Criticism • Classical Memories/Modern Identities • Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture • New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative • Studies in Comics and Cartoons • Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

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New and notable in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking

Black Performance and Cultural Criticism

R. J. Millhouse

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Forthcoming March 2025

National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting: Detroit, November 14–17, 2024

conference special: Use code OSUNWSA at checkout for 30% off and free US shipping on gender and sexuality studies books through December 31st

Meet our acquisitions editors:

New and notable in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking

Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption

Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness

Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix

Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire

Human Rights on the Move

Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women

Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practices

Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States

Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance

The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities

Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime

Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability

Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century

Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity

Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror

Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood

Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics

Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen

Public Negotiations: Gender and Journalism in Contemporary US Latina/o Literature

The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship

Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture

Staging Black Fugitivity

Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality

Raveling the Brain: Toward a Transdisciplinary Neurorhetoric

The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border

Capturing Mariposas: Reading Cultural Schema in Gay Chicano Literature

Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature

Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance

Prevention: Gender, Sexuality, HIV, and the Media in Côte d'Ivoire

Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas

Precarious Rhetorics

Suggested for course adoption

Safe in a Midwife’s Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South

Everything I Never Wanted to Know

Engine Running: Essays

Ripe: Essays

Dark Tourist: Essays

The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book