April 3, 2018

Q&A: Sonja Arntzen on the The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan

Gazing at this, I might think that the snow had fallen out of season, if it were not for the fragrance of this orange blossoms tree. The inclusion of poetry in all the classical Japanese diaries is perhaps what sets...

April 3, 2018

New Book Tuesday! American Immanence, From Selma to Moscow, The Auschwitz Concentration Camp and More!

Our weekly listing of new books is now available!     American Immanence Democracy for an Uncertain World Michael S. Hogue   The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other Elliot R. Wolfson   From Selma to...

March 30, 2018

Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness: An Excerpt

Although their humble beginnings inspired comparison, Thomas’s upbringing was defined by paternal abandonment, and Hill’s, by a large and supportive family. Whereas Thomas is recalled as a boisterous consumer of porn and something of the “class clown” in his needling of straitlaced colleagues in...

March 29, 2018

Gender, Race, and Credibility in the Age of Trump

This narrative of individual healing, effort, and ultimate success is available primarily to white women, who have historically been constructed as precious and thus worthy of protection from hard manual labor, economic discomfort, and sexual violation (however ineffective that narrative...

March 29, 2018

Joan Wallach Scott Responds to “The Nightmare Begins”

Trump’s appeal to both men and women rested on his promise to impose a lost or threatened order of racial and gender hierarchies. The appeal was made not rationally or programmatically, but libidinally—it was the erotic call and response that...

March 28, 2018

Gender and the Politics of History: An Excerpt

It’s been 30 years since this book was first published; its endurance is a testimony to the continuing importance of gender in our political and cultural vocabulary. –Joan Wallach In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re closing out March with one of...

March 28, 2018

Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks: An Excerpt

  This week, our featured book is Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives, by Leigh Gilmore! Today we’re bringing you an excerpt from the book’s introduction in which the author points out how a women’s witness...

March 27, 2018

Congratulations to our AAS Book Award Winners!

Last week, the Association for Asian Studies presented three of our authors with book prizes and two honorable mentions. Today, we are happy to offer you excerpts from each of these books. Congratulations to our authors, editors, and translators for their...

March 27, 2018

Joan Wallach Scott on the Enduring Culture of Masculinity

It’s no accident that conservative forces have mounted an anti-gender campaign, determined to protect their vision of the immutable meanings of the male/female, masculine/feminine relationship. It’s not only heterosexual norms that are at stake, but a whole vision of the...

March 27, 2018

New Book Tuesday!Lust on Trial, Dust and Other Stories, Care Home Stories, Landscapes of Music in Istanbul and More!

Our weekly listing of new books is now available! Dust and Other Stories Yi T’aejun. Translated by Janet Poole Éric Rohmer A Biography Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe. Translated by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal Lust on Trial Censorship...

March 26, 2018

What Dogs Can Teach Us About Justice: A Conversation with Colin Dayan

The more I live and the more I see how politics works now in this country, the more I believe that prejudice is a perspectival technique. It’s about how someone sees, so through dogs you begin to see things differently....

March 23, 2018

Shared Advocacy: An Excerpt from Reset: Business and Society in the New Social Landscape

This week, our featured book is Reset: Business and Society in the New Social Landscape, by James Rubin and Barie Carmichael. Today we’re bringing you an excerpt from the book in which the authors explain the crucial role that advocacy plays in building an...