Category: Gender Studies

March 16, 2009

Political Manhood by Kevin Murphy Named as a Finalist for the Lambda Awards

The Lambda Literary Foundation named Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform, by Kevin Murphy as a finalist in the category of LGBT Studies. The winners will be announced on May 28th. In a review...

January 15, 2009

The China Beat's 10 Best Books About Chinese Women in 2008

The China Beat has a very interesting list of the best books from 2008 on Chinese women, including two titles from Columbia University Press: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi; translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan...

October 30, 2008

Interviewing Cixous

The recently published White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics includes a variety of interviews with Hélène Cixous, providing rich, new perspectives on her work and her influential ideas. The book also includes dialogues with Derrida and Foucault. Interview...

October 9, 2008

“The Change Paragraph”: A Post by Beth Loffreda

The following is a post by Beth Loffreda, author of Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder. You can also read Loffreda’s recent post: The Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Matt Shepard. A few...

September 30, 2008

The Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Matt Shepard: A Post by Beth Loffreda

The following post is by Beth Loffreda, author of Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder. Loffreda is also director of the MFA Program and associate professor of English at the University of Wyoming. Last...

March 31, 2008

Women's Letters

To close out National Women’s History Month we bring you a look at women’s history in their own words with a round-up of books featuring women’s letter writing. (For more titles in Women’s Studies.) Margaretta Jolly’s excellent study of how...

March 24, 2008

Margaretta Jolly in New York City to talk about women’s letters

From March 26 to 31 Margaretta Jolly will be in New York City to discuss her new book, In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism. You can see the full list of all author events, including Margaretta Jolly’s, on...

March 20, 2008

Award Update: Lambda and Choice

Congratulations to Beth Firestein and all of the contributors to Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan for being named a finalist in the Bisexual category of the 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. We’ve also posted an interview with Beth...

March 10, 2008

Book for National Women’s History Month: Women’s Religious History

We continue with our series of postings on books relating to National Women’s History Month with today’s look at women’s religious history. I’ve chosen one book to represent each of the four major religious traditions, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism....