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Decolonizing Feminisms: Antiracist and Transnational Praxis
Decolonizing Feminisms explores the integral connections between theory, activism, policy making and other forms of social action. The series brings together new work by US women of color, Indigenous, and transnational feminists to envision critical and imaginative frameworks for political resistance and progressive social change.
Series editor: Piya Chatterjee
Please send book proposals to: Larin McLaughlin
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Feminista Frequencies
Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley
How Chicana and Chicano community radio strengthened a movement and transformed the airwaves
Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the...
ISBN: 9780295749662
more detailsMaking Livable Worlds
Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
Winner of the 2022 Frank Bonilla Book Award, sponsored by the Puerto Rican Studies Association
Winner of the 2022 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Brings to life Afro-Puerto Rican women’s creative...
ISBN: 9780295749402
more detailsDancing Transnational Feminisms
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice
Reframes dance as an intersectional practice of community-building and just world-making
Through empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the practice of and commitment to...
ISBN: 9780295749556
more detailsThe Borders of AIDS
Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
Winner of the 2022 Book of the Year Award, sponsored by the Latina & Latino Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association
Winner of the 2022 Diamond Anniversary Book Award, sponsored by the National Communication...
ISBN: 9780295748979
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 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 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 detailsAsian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship. This collection, featuring work by both...
ISBN: 9780295744353
more detailsTransnational Testimonios
The Politics of Collective Knowledge Production
The activist storytelling practice of testimonio, long associated with Latin American struggles for justice, forges coalitions across social differences for the purpose of social change. Beyond Central and South America, Patricia DeRocher examines testimonios from...
ISBN: 9780295743912
more detailsHumanizing the Sacred
Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia
In recent years, global attention has focused on how women in communities of Muslims are revitalizing Islam by linking interpretation of religious ideas to the protection of rights and freedoms. Humanizing the Sacred demonstrates how...
ISBN: 9780295995328
more detailsPower Interrupted
Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations
Winner of the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, sponsored by the National Women's Studies Association
In Power Interrupted, Sylvanna M. Falcón redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Her analysis...
ISBN: 9780295995267
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