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India's Mithila Painting
A woman's art form transforms from home to high art
Since at least the fifteenth century, Hindu women in the Mithila region of northern India have been painting images of deities, flora and fauna symbolizing fertility...
ISBN: 9780295753225
more detailsWaves of Belonging
Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup
Showcases surfing as a site of social belonging and power formation
The surf zone—the place between ocean and shore—offers a powerful space to reflect on the dynamic contemporary politics of our worlds. Surfing always occurs on...
ISBN: 9780295753416
more detailsCaring for Caregivers
Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis
A transformative look at the lives of Filipina care workers and their mutual aid practices
Migrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and private homes throughout...
ISBN: 9780295753140
more detailsRefusing Settler Domesticity
Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Traces young Native women’s lives and experiences as Bay Area domestic workers
In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor...
ISBN: 9780295753003
more detailsGood Wife, Wise Mother
Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule
Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practices
In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and...
ISBN: 9780295752648
more detailsFrom Forest Farm to Sawmill
Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
A worker-centered, woman-centered history of China's economic transformation
Socialist China’s state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land...
ISBN: 9780295752679
more detailsBotany of Empire
Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism
An accessible foray into botany’s origins and how we can transform its future
Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields...
ISBN: 9780295752464
more detailsOregon's Others
Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
Nativism, pseudoscience, and the campaign against the enemy within
In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed...
ISBN: 9780295752587
more detailsArt, Activism, and Sexual Violence
Highlights the role of creative expression in exposing, preventing, and combatting sexual violence
Since 2017 the #MeToo movement has expanded cultural awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual assault and tacit support for rape culture in the...
ISBN: 9780295752105
more detailsQueer World Making
Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art
An abundantly illustrated look at how queerness is performed within artistic practice
Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality....
ISBN: 9780295752297
more detailsSlapping Leather
Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo
Unapologetically brings gay rodeo out of the closet
Campy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that straddles the urban and rural. Since the mid-1970s, gay rodeos have provided space to both embrace and...
ISBN: 9780295752136
more detailsQueer Data Studies
Untangles how data shapes and is shaped by queer worlds
Data, perilous and powerful, is both a worldmaking and a dismantling force. The collection of data about queer lives and bodies, the consequences of data analysis...
ISBN: 9780295751979
more detailsHacking the Underground
Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures
"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying...
ISBN: 9780295751948
more detailsDancer Dawkins and the California Kid
A sapphic novel ahead of its time that delights in queer joy, love, and adventure
Dancer Dawkins is a swift-footed, weed-smoking football stud. Her lover, Jessica, left their place in Los Angeles to join a Napa...
ISBN: 9780295752075
more detailsModified Bodies, Material Selves
Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai
A comparative analysis of body politics, selfhood, and the pursuit of consumer-based agency
Thin body, white skin, and big eyes. Such beauty ideals are ubiquitous across Shanghai, where salons and weight-loss clinics offering an array of...
ISBN: 9780295751764
more detailsWide-Open Desert
A Queer History of New Mexico
Reveals the untold stories about New Mexico’s queer past
Throughout the twentieth century, New Mexico’s LGBTQ+ residents inhabited a wide spectrum of spaces, from Santa Fe’s nascent bohemian art scene to the secretive military developments at...
ISBN: 9780295751023
more detailsThe Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön
A Woman of Power and Privilege
Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699–1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war,...
ISBN: 9780295750361
more detailsPicture Bride
A Novel
Seeking an escape from life in her small village in Japan, Hana Omiya arrives in California in 1917, one of thousands of Japanese “picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to the United States. When...
ISBN: 9780295751122
more detailsFixing the Image
Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh
Introduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the twilight of socialism and after two decades of conflict and upheaval, ultrasound took root in humanitarian and then privatized medicine. Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information...
ISBN: 9780295750613
more detailsUnshaved
Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics
Gross. Dirty. Monstrous. Manly. Authentic. Beautiful. Natural. Powerful.
Body hair, especially on women, provokes, disrupts, and, at times, offends. It is tangled up with culture itself—in art, families, workplaces, relationships, sex, the beauty industry, governments, and...
ISBN: 9780295750286
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