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National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting: Atlanta, November 2026

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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 Cultural 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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Maternal Sovereignty: Reproductive Justice and the Materiality of Gestation

Naomi Morgenstern

~~$36.95~~ $25.87 Paper

Forthcoming, May 2027

National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting: Atlanta, November 2026

Meet our acquisitions editors:

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

Maternal Sovereignty: Reproductive Justice and the Materiality of Gestation

Taylor Swift as Storyteller: Identity, Power, and Digital Culture

Restorying Modernism: Black Anglophone Writers and Virginia Woolf

Masking Disclosure: Women Negotiating Disability and Trauma

Intimate Scholarship: Ways of Knowing Through Black Feminist Forms

J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic

A Conditional Embrace: Black Queer Feminism in Performance

Ordinary Abortion: Reproductive Choice in Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing

_x201C_We Must Document Ourselves Now_x201D_: Black Lesbian Cultural Legacies and the Politics of Self-Representation

At Risk: Rhetoric, Deviance, and the Politics of HIV Prevention

Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences

Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling

Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora

Men I Hate: A Memoir in Essays

Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation

Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability

Kinflix: Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Film

Sacred Sisterhoods: A Celebration of Black Women's Friendships on Television and in Film

Searching for Solidarity: Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements

Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism

Truth Be Told: White Nostalgia and Antiracist Queer Resistance in _x201C_Post-Truth_x201D_ America

Clutch: An Education at Work

The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture

Patient Sense: Rhetorical Body Work in the Age of Technology

Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination

Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow

Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life

Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption

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

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

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

Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition

Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir

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

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

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

Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women

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

Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis

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

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

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

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

Everything I Never Wanted to Know

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

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

Engine Running: Essays

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

Ripe: Essays

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance

Dark Tourist: Essays

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

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

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

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

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

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