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Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education by
This book is a “tool kit” for advancing greater gender equality and equity in higher education. It documents the challenging, sometimes hostile experiences of women academics through analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, including narratives from women academics of different races and ethnicities across disciplines, ranks, and university types.
Beyond Respectability by
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how--and who--produced racial knowledge.
Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by
From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and fertility. And just as Ezili appears in different guises and characters, so too does Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley in her voice- and genre-shifting, exploratory book Ezili's Mirrors. Drawing on her background as a literary critic as well as her quest to learn the lessons of her spiritual ancestors, Tinsley theorizes black Atlantic sexuality by tracing how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers and performers evoke Ezili.
Delusions of Gender by
Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men's and women's brains
A Decolonial Feminism by
A Decolonial Feminism grapples with the central issues in feminist debates today: from Eurocentrism and whiteness, to power, inclusion and exclusion. Delving into feminist and anti-racist histories, Verges also assesses contemporary activism, movements and struggles, including #MeToo and the Women's Strike.
Gendered Geographies in Puerto Rican Culture: Spaces, Sexualities, Solidarities by
A study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010). It analyzes gendered geographies, forms of emotional labor, and the possibility generated within the material and the symbolic spaces of the family house, the factory, the beauty salon and the brothel. Analyzes the works of Rosario Ferre, Carmen Lugo Filippi, Magali Garcia Ramis, Mayra Santos-Febres, Sonia Fritz and Ana Maria Garcia.
Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought by 
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by
In the fifteen years since the release of Gender Outlaw, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream. Today's transpeople, genderqueers, and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. Gender Outlaws, edited by the original gender outlaw, Bornstein, together with S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by 
Gender Politics by
Introduction -- 2. Gender theory -- 3. Gender, sexuality and social exclusion -- 4. Social policy implications -- 5. Activism : tensions and alliances -- 6. Gender, sexuality and the new social movements -- 7. Citizenship -- 8. Gender and democracy.
Glitter up the Dark by
Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query 'is he musical?' become code, in the twentieth century, for 'is he gay?' Why is music so inherently queer? For Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music's intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener.
Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by
Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures. For four years Morris chronicled the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged-by teachers, administrators, and the justice system-and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish.
Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics : From Daughters of Destiny to Iron Ladies by 
Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender, and Cultural Identity by 
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: a Resource for the Transgender Community by
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is widely accessible to the transgender population, providing authoritative information in an inclusive and respectful way and representing the collective knowledge base of dozens of influential experts. Each chapter takes the reader through an important transgender issue, such as race, religion, employment, medical and surgical transition, mental health topics, relationships, sexuality, parenthood, arts and culture, and many more.
Transgender History by 
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by
A young woman recounts her coming-of-age as a transgender teen--a portrait of self-revelation, adversity, and heroism.