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Pierre W. Orelus, "The Agony of Masculinity: Race, Gender, and Education in the Age of the ‘New’ Racism and Patriarchy" (Peter Lang, 2010)
In his new book, The Agony of Masculinity: Race, Gender, and Education in the Age of the "New" Racism and Patriarchy (Peter Lang, 2010), Pierre Orelus analyzes the "heartfelt stories of fifty men of African descent who vary in age,…
Yasmin Saikia, "Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971″ (Duke UP, 2011)
It’s almost a cliché to say that war dehumanizes those who participate in it – the organizers of violence, those who commit violent acts, and the victims of violence. In her new book, Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: …
Jennifer Ring, "Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball" (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
It’s October. In the American sports calendar, that means it’s time for the baseball playoffs. My team, the Minnesota Twins, wasn’t even close this year, going from first place last year to the cellar this year. But I gained some…
Mara Hvistendahl, "Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men" (PublicAffairs, 2011)
The students in my undergraduate class on gender, sexuality, and human rights are a pretty tough bunch. They know they’re in for some unpleasant topics: sex trafficking, domestic violence, mass rape in wartime. But when I have them read Amartya…
Elizabeth Heineman, "Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse" (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
When I was in college in the 1980s, I liked to listen to Iggy Pop (aka James Newell Osterberg, Jr.). I was always mystified, however, by his song "Five Foot One," with its odd and catchy refrain "I…
Tamara Metz, "Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce" (Princeton UP, 2010)
Marriage is at the center of some of our fiercest political debates. Here are some recent developments regarding marriage in the United States. Earlier this year, the Justice Department announced that it would no longer defend the federal Defense of…
Robert J. Corber, "Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema" (Duke University Press, 2011)
The study of non-heteronormative sexualities in the academy continues to be remarkably dynamic. Despite the usual attempts to harden the frame around this scholarship, it remains consistently exciting and surprising. Robert J.
Deborah Whaley, "Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities" (SUNY, 2010)
Deborah Whaley’s new book Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities (SUNY Press, 2010) may be the first full-length study of a Black Greek-Letter Organization (BGLO) written by a non-BGL...
Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, and Dru Pagliasotti, "Boy’s Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre" (McFarland, 2010)
Growing up in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indy-car racing offered my friends and me some very exciting heroes. As children, we played "Indy 500″ on our bikes in the cul-de-sac. As we became teenagers, the Indy-car drivers who descended on…
Lucy Holmes, "The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development" (Jason Aronson, 2007)
In this interview we revisit the complicated female oedipal constellation, as New Books in Psychoanalysis speaks with Dr. Lucy Holmes about her book The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development (Jason Aronson, 2007). According to Holmes,