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May 13, 2024
The Limits of Sexuality Education
The Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urban India (Routledge, 2024) explores different strands of thinking abo…
May 13, 2024
The Black Ceiling
America's elite law firms, investment banks, and management consulting firms are known for grueling hours, low odds of promotion, and personnel practi…
May 12, 2024
The Chosen We
The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education (SUNY Press, 2023) elevates the oral histories of 105 accomplished, college-educated Blac…
May 12, 2024
Gender Revolution
Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023) by Dr. Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming carefu…
May 11, 2024
Cash, Clothes, and Construction
How do alternative economic ideas and practices develop? In Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy (U Minnesota …
May 11, 2024
Just Here for the Comments
We all sometimes ‘lurk’ in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever pa…
May 9, 2024
Devotional Visualities
Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the first to focus on material visualities of bhakti imagery th…
May 8, 2024
Gendered Publics
Gendered Publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samiti in Colonial Assam (Oxford UP, 2024) is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive appraisal of th…
May 7, 2024
Knowing Silence
Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling. There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that c…
May 7, 2024
Vodou en Vogue
In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals…
May 6, 2024
The Gravity of Hope
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay's book The Gravity of Hope (Crossed Arrows, 2023) is a non-fictional account of women’s lives who sometimes endured, often res…
May 5, 2024
Working It
Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (PM Press, 2023) is an intimate portrait of the lives of…
May 4, 2024
Varieties of Nationalism
Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but also…
May 4, 2024
Singular Selves
Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies (Routledge, 2024) edited By Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne examines, for perhaps the first time,…
May 4, 2024
The Rule Book
How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work. Board games to sports, digital games t…
May 3, 2024
Solving the Climate Crisis
Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth (Seven Stories Press, 2023) is a hopeful and critical resource that make…
May 3, 2024
The Stigma Matrix
As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. They are pressed into…
May 3, 2024
The Gender of Capital
In many countries, property law grants equal rights to men and women. Why, then, do women still accumulate less wealth than men? Combining quantitativ…
May 2, 2024
Untamed Shrews
If you are familiar with traditional Chinese literature, you have likely come across the figure of the “shrew,” a morally threatening woman who is eit…
May 2, 2024
A War of Colors
Over the last two decades in Beirut, graffiti makers have engaged in a fierce “war of colors,” seeking to disrupt and transform the city’s physical an…