Gender Studies: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newGender.xml New Gender Studies Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu 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.