Gender Studies: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newGender.xml New Gender Studies Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois | Mark W. Van Wienen http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3834737 A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S. Seven Stories of Threatening Speech: Women's Suffrage Meets Machine Code | Ruth A. Miller http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3918350 Treating language as a type of machine code opens new avenues for the study of history and politics James Baldwin: America and Beyond | by Edited by Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1168369 An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields The First Actresses: From Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons | by Gill Perry with Joseph Roach and Shearer West http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=4693833 Transforming Masculine Rule: Agriculture and Rural Development in the European Union | by Elisabeth Prugl http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2146717 European agricultural policy has the potential to restructure gender relations A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw | by Peggy Shaw, Edited and with an Introduction by Jill Dolan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=243025 The evocative performances of Peggy Shaw, cross-dressed and class-conscious performance artist Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature | Edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Kenneth Kidd http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=363408 Significant essays on LGBTQ topics in children's literature The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s | by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco, editors; Foreword by Linda Nochlin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=997198 An international picture of New Woman in film and photography When Protest Makes Policy: How Social Movements Represent Disadvantaged Groups | by S. Laurel Weldon http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1285595 Do social movements lead to more inclusive democracy or to a more polarized, fragmented, elite-dominated polity? Viral Mothers: Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS | by Bernice L. Hausman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=194329 Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance | by Diane Torr and Stephen Bottoms http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=236704 The gender-bending performances of Diane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theatre | by Kate Davy http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192640 Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance | by James F. Wilson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1175684 The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton | by William Davies King http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=373985 The long-neglected story of a literary marriage and the wife who helped America's first canonical playwright launch his career Cutting Performances | by James M. Harding http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=359575 Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde Transcribing Class and Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices | by Carole Srole http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=232232 Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots | Edited by Lorraine M. Lopez http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=329628 Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France | by Lewis C. Seifert http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=354488 The first book-length study of writing, men, and masculinity in seventeenth-century France. Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist | Fran Leeper Buss, Editor http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=10549 A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced. What Do Gay Men Want?: An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity | by David M. Halperin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=296688 A crucial effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts. Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience, 3rd Edition | by Betty Jean Lifton http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=334810 Explores the obstacles and issues that adoptees, orphans, and foster children face when they have been separated from a parent or denied the right to know their origins. Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle | by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=322377 By introducing us to the New Woman Criminal, Framed offers a profoundly different view of the fin de siecle British crime narrative. When Women Have Wings: Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia | by Donna F. Murdock http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=286385 A vivid and detailed ethnographic account of the problems of professionalization and feminism in a community center project in one of Medellin, Colombia's most embattled working class districts . Philadelphia Freedom: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer | by David Kairys http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=297518 The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers. American Jewish Identity Politics | edited by Deborah Dash Moore http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=273452 Explores changes among American Jews in their self-understanding during the last half of the 20th century. Disability Theory | by Tobin Siebers http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=309723 Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies. Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory | by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=170676 A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure. Haunted Heart: A Biography of Susannah McCorkle | by Linda Dahl http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=190229 NEW IN PAPER! The secret life and tragic death of a great American songbird. Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir | by Joanne Leonard http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17538 The first book-length collection devoted to the extraordinary work of celebrated artist Joanne Leonard. Footpaths and Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive | edited by Shirley A. Huston-Findley and Rebecca Howard http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=105202 The first anthology to showcase the rich and diverse dramatic work of Native American women. Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist | by Nancy Goldstein http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=150236 A richly illustrated biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created.