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Divine, Demonic, and Disordered
Women without Men in Song Dynasty China
A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused...
ISBN: 9780295748320
more detailsNisei Radicals
The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake
Demanding liberation, advocating for the oppressed, and organizing for justice, siblings Mitsuye Yamada (1923–) and Michael Yasutake (1920–2001) rebelled against respectability and assimilation, charting their own paths for what it means to be Nisei. Raised...
ISBN: 9780295748269
more detailsBad Dog
Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice
Fifty-plus years of media fearmongering coupled with targeted breed bans have produced what could be called “America’s Most Wanted” dog: the pit bull. However, at the turn of the twenty-first century, competing narratives began to...
ISBN: 9780295748023
more detailsSouth Asian Filmscapes
Transregional Encounters
In South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century created nation-states and reset national borders, forming the basis for emerging film cultures. Following the upheaval of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947...
ISBN: 9780295747859
more detailsOne Left
A Novel
During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to...
ISBN: 9780295747668
more detailsMaking Kantha, Making Home
Women at Work in Colonial Bengal
In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use...
ISBN: 9780295746999
more detailsA Fashionable Century
Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing
Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women’s participation in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture. Focusing on women’s work and fashion, A Fashionable Century presents an...
ISBN: 9780295747187
more detailsUnfinished Business
The Fight for Women's Rights
For centuries, women and their allies have fought for women’s rights in all areas of life—bodily autonomy, education, work, culture, science, politics, and history. Their efforts have fundamentally changed the world we live in. And...
ISBN: 9780295747583
more detailsCitizens of Beauty
Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China
In the early twentieth century China’s most famous commercial artists promoted new cultural and civic values through sketches of idealized modern women in journals, newspapers, and compendia called One Hundred Illustrated Beauties. This genre drew...
ISBN: 9780295747019
more detailsYumeji Modern
Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan
The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan’s rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twentieth century. His graphic works include leftist and antiwar illustrations in socialist bulletins, wrenching...
ISBN: 9780295746838
more detailsTroubling Borders
An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora
Juxtaposing short stories, poetry, painting, and photographs, Troubling Borders showcases the creative work of women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. This thematically arranged collection interrupts borders of categorization and gender, in what...
ISBN: 9780295747279
more detailsAxis of Hope
Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders
Political tensions between Iran and the United States in the post-9/11 period and the Global War on Terror have set the stage for Iranian women’s rights activists inside and outside Iran as they seek full...
ISBN: 9780295746326
more detailsOutriders
Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western rodeo hero is often a stoic white man who embodies the toughness...
ISBN: 9780295746777
more detailsResisting Disappearance
Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir
In Kashmir’s frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins...
ISBN: 9780295744988
more detailsTea and Solidarity
Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line...
ISBN: 9780295745671
more detailsUnruly Figures
Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that has a long history of...
ISBN: 9780295745572
more detailsHoly Science
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans, animals, and gods transform each...
ISBN: 9780295745596
more detailsHeroines of the Qing
Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories
Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary...
ISBN: 9780295744261
more detailsSeawomen of Iceland
Survival on the Edge
Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History
The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from...
ISBN: 9780295744216
more detailsGold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of...
ISBN: 9780295744124
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