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Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination cover

Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination

Mali D. Collins

Forthcoming

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking cover

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking

R. J. Millhouse

Forthcoming

Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life cover

Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life

Seulghee Lee

Forthcoming

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

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

Erin J. Rand

2025

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

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

Nghana tamu Lewis

2025

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

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

Kate McCullough

2024

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

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

Pamela VanHaitsma

2024

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature cover

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature

Hasnul Insani Djohar

2024

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

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

Leah Perry

2024

Human Rights on the Move cover

Human Rights on the Move

Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman

2024

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

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

Annie Hill

2024

Refusals and Reinventions book cover

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

Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman

2024

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

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

Kimberly D. McKee

2023

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

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

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo

2023

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

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

Audrey Wu Clark

2023

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption cover

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Jennifer Lin LeMesurier

2023

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

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

Lisa Biggs

2022

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives cover

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives

Edited by Eleanor Ty

2022

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces cover

Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces

Edited by Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen

2022

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics cover

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

V. Jo Hsu

2022

Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature cover

Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature

Edited by Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala

2022

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

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

Sara Austin

2022

Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History cover

Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History

Jason Barrett-Fox

2022

Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature cover

Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature

Charlie Samuelson

2022

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

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

Ally Day

2021

Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics cover

Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

Wendy S. Hesford

2021

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips cover

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Susan E. Kirtley

2021

Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre cover

Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre

Dara Rossman Regaignon

2021

Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime cover

Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime

Dana M. Olwan

2021

Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection cover

Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection

Michelle Zerba

2021

Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability cover

Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability

Eszter Szép

2020

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

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

Alyson K. Spurgas

2020

Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan cover

Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan

Edited by Yetta Howard

2020

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

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

Jennifer Domino Rudolph

2020

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

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

Casey Ryan Kelly

2020

Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen cover

Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen

Frederick Luis Aldama andWilliam Anthony Nericcio

2019

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

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

Ariana E. Vigil

2019

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship cover

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship

Shui-yin Sharon Yam

2019

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

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

Amanda Nell Edgar

2019

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

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

Guisela Latorre

2019

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality cover

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality

Ela Przybylo

2019

Raveling the Brain: Toward a Transdisciplinary Neurorhetoric cover

Raveling the Brain: Toward a Transdisciplinary Neurorhetoric

Jordynn Jack

2019

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border cover

Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border

Nina Maria Lozano

2019

Capturing Mariposas: Reading Cultural Schema in Gay Chicano Literature cover

Capturing Mariposas: Reading Cultural Schema in Gay Chicano Literature

Doug P. Bush

2019

Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions cover

Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions

Annabel L. Kim

2018

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance cover

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance

Christina N. Baker

2018

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

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

Christine Cynn

2018

Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas cover

Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas

Judith Sierra-Rivera

2018

Precarious Rhetorics cover

Precarious Rhetorics

Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Adela C. Licona, and Christa Teston

2018

Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance cover

Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance

Francesca D’Alessandro Behr

2018

Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity cover

Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity

Edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Tiffany Bourelle

2018

Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture cover

Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Keridiana W. Chez

2017

Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives cover

Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives

Edited by Debra A. Moddelmog and Martin Joseph Ponce

2017

James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity cover

James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity

Aaron Ngozi Oforlea

2017

The Drunken Duchess of Vassar: Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Classical Scholar cover

The Drunken Duchess of Vassar: Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Classical Scholar

Barbara McManus

2017

Mama's Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression cover

Mama's Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression

Marlo D. David

2016

La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades cover

La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades

Melissa Castillo-Garsow

2016

Style and the Single Girl: How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922–1977 cover

Style and the Single Girl: How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922–1977

Hope Howell Hodgkins

2016

Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism cover

Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

Bryce Traister

2016

Ancient Sex: New Essays cover

Ancient Sex: New Essays

Edited by Ruby Blondell and Kirk Ormand, epilogue by David M. Halperin

2015

Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions cover

Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions

Editor by Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser

2015

Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood cover

Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood

Mark Masterson

2014

Chaucer’s (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages cover

Chaucer’s (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages

Tison Pugh

2014

Changing the Subject: Writing Women across the African Diaspora cover

Changing the Subject: Writing Women across the African Diaspora

K. Merinda Simmons

2014

Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary cover

Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

2014

Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form cover

Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form

Katherine Saunders Nash

2013

The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution cover

The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution

Matt Richardson

2013

Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God cover

Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God

Gail Turley Houston

2012

Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite cover

Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite

Edited and with an introduction by Renée Bergland and Gary Williams

2012

The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender cover

The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender

David Greven

2012

Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas cover

Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas

Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo

2012

In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature cover

In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature

Kristin Kalsem

2012

Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 cover

Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945

Timothy R. Buckner

2011

Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making cover

Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making

Laura Engel

2011

Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing cover

Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing

Tara Williams

2011

Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology cover

Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology

Carol Colatrella

2011

Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America cover

Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America

David Anthony

2009

Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830–1885 cover

Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830–1885

Susan Ingalls Lewis

2009

Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal cover

Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal

Edited by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver

2008

Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory cover

Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory

Marleen S. Barr

2008

Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians cover

Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians

Cari M. Carpenter

2008

Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film cover

Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film

Peter Caster

2008

Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction cover

Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction

Lisa Yaszek

2007

Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy cover

Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy

Steven C. Hughes

2007

Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction cover

Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction

Beth Widmaier Capo

2007

Mutha' Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture cover

Mutha' Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture

L. H. Stallings

2007

Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893–2000 cover

Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893–2000

Arlene W. Keeling

2007

Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870–1917 cover

Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870–1917

Eleanor L. Hannah

2007

Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman’s Press on the Development of the Novel cover

Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman’s Press on the Development of the Novel

Molly Youngkin

2007

Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Literature cover

Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Literature

Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, ed.

2006

Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts cover

Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts

David Andrews

2006

Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession cover

Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession

Laura E. Ettinger

2006

A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism cover

A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism

Jaime Hovey

2006

The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature cover

The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature

Sharon Stockton

2006

Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments: Women and Elected Office in Contemporary Western Europe cover

Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments: Women and Elected Office in Contemporary Western Europe

Miki Caul Kittilson

2006

Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880–1920 cover

Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880–1920

Lise Shapiro Sanders

2006

The New Woman and the Empire cover

The New Woman and the Empire

Iveta Jusová

2005

Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680–1720 cover

Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680–1720

Jennine Hurl-Eamon

2005

Executing Race: Early American Women’s Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law cover

Executing Race: Early American Women’s Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law

Sharon M. Harris

2005

Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business cover

Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business

Thomas Heinrich and Bob Batchelor

2004

Any Friend of the Movement: Networking for Birth Control, 1920–1940 cover

Any Friend of the Movement: Networking for Birth Control, 1920–1940

Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer

2004

Beyond the Reproductive Body: The Politics of Women’s Health and Work in Early Victorian England cover

Beyond the Reproductive Body: The Politics of Women’s Health and Work in Early Victorian England

Marjorie Levine-Clark

2004

Handling the Sick: The Women of St. Luke’s and the Nature of Nursing, 1892–1937 cover

Handling the Sick: The Women of St. Luke’s and the Nature of Nursing, 1892–1937

Tom Olson and Eileen Walsh

2004

Litigation as Lobbying: Reproductive Hazards and Interest Aggregation cover

Litigation as Lobbying: Reproductive Hazards and Interest Aggregation

Julianna S. Gonen

2003

From Old Woman to Older Women: Contemporary Culture and Women’s Narratives cover

From Old Woman to Older Women: Contemporary Culture and Women’s Narratives

Sally Chivers

2003

Medea’s Daughters: Forming and Performing the Woman Who Kills cover

Medea’s Daughters: Forming and Performing the Woman Who Kills

Jennifer Jones

2003

Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917–1940 cover

Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917–1940

Robyn L. Rosen

2003

The Difference Place Makes: Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora Identity cover

The Difference Place Makes: Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora Identity

Angeletta KM Gourdine

2003

Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past cover

Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past

Edited by Kathleen Kennedy and Sharon Ullman

2003

Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms cover

Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms

Robyn R. Warhol

2003

Feminism in the Heartland cover

Feminism in the Heartland

Judith Ezekiel

2002

Advertising to the American Woman: 1900–1999 cover

Advertising to the American Woman: 1900–1999

Daniel Delis Hill

2002

Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare cover

Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare

Kim Nielsen

2001

Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries cover

Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Jacqueline H. Wolf

2001

The Tested Woman Plot: Women’s Choices, Men’s Judgments, and the Shaping of Stories cover

The Tested Woman Plot: Women’s Choices, Men’s Judgments, and the Shaping of Stories

Lois E. Bueler

2001

Bodies of Technology: Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine cover

Bodies of Technology: Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine

Edited by Ann R. Saetnan, Nelly Oudshoorn, and Marta Kirejczyk

2000

Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890–1980 cover

Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890–1980

Allison L. Hepler

2000

Prostitution and the State in Italy, 1860–1915. Second Edition. cover

Prostitution and the State in Italy, 1860–1915. Second Edition.

Mary Gibson

2000

Motherhood in Bondage cover

Motherhood in Bondage

Margaret Sanger

1999

Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900–1930 cover

Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900–1930

Lynne Curry

1999

Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America cover

Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America

Pieter Spierenburg

1998

Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York cover

Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York

Deborah A. Rosen

1997

Women’s Health: Complexities and Differences cover

Women’s Health: Complexities and Differences

Edited by Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen, and Adele E. Clarke

1997

Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History cover

Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History

Edited by Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden

1997

Making Midwives Legal: Childbirth, Medicine, and the Law. Second Edition cover

Making Midwives Legal: Childbirth, Medicine, and the Law. Second Edition

Raymond G. DeVries

1996

Listen to Me Good: The Story of an Alabama Midwife cover

Listen to Me Good: The Story of an Alabama Midwife

Margaret Charles Smith and Linda Janet Holmes

1996

The Dictionary of Feminist Theory: Second Edition cover

The Dictionary of Feminist Theory: Second Edition

1994

Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust cover

Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust

R. Ruth Linden

1992

The Selling of Contraception: The Dalkon Shield Case, Sexuality, and Women’s Autonomy cover

The Selling of Contraception: The Dalkon Shield Case, Sexuality, and Women’s Autonomy

Nicole J. Grant

1992

Justifiable Homicide: Battered Women, Self-Defense, and the Law cover

Justifiable Homicide: Battered Women, Self-Defense, and the Law

Cynthia k. Gillespie

1988