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Gender and Sexuality

China

Gender and Study Abroad from China

Review of Journey of the Phoenix: Overseas study and women’s changing position in China, by Anni Kajanus. Anni Kajanus’s Journey of the Phoenix is a.....
Gender

Sexual Abjection and Resistance in Modern Tamil Literature

A review of Scenes of Abjection: Power, Caste and Sexuality in Modern Tamil Literature, by Kiran Keshavamurthy Early Tamil prose from the late ninetee...
Cultural Anthropology

The Maternal Body in 18th and 19th Century America

A review of Bodies at Odds: The Maternal Body as Lived Experience and Cultural Expression in America, 1750-1850, by Nora Doyle. Historians of women an...
Gender

Online Presence for Your Early Career

Talking Shop: Creating Online Presence for Early Career Researchers Hardcopy letterhead and dossiers sent out by your department are fast becoming his...
Gender

Homosexuality and the Black Freedom Struggle

A review of The Politics of Homosexuality in the Twentieth Century Black Freedom Struggle, by Glenda Elizabeth Sherouse. In The Politics of Homosexual...
Gender

Female Same-Sex Intimacy and the Growth of Modern Sexual Categories in the U.S.

A review of ‘She’s That Way’: Female Same-Sex Intimacy and the Growth of Modern Sexual Categories in the U.S., 1920-1940, by Anastasia Jon...
Gender

Social Workers and the Creation of the Pathological Unwed Mother

A review of A Certain Kind of Girl: Social Workers and the Creation of the Pathological Unwed Mother, 1918-1940, by Cara Kinzelman Cara Kinzelman begi...
Gender

Gender, Work, and Globalization in Pakistan

A review of Chaddors and Pink Collars in Pakistan: Gender, Work, and the Global Economy by Zehran Yasmin Zaidi. Muslim women have become a central...
Eastern Central Europe

Paleography and European Languages

This spring’s paleography identification contest at the University of Chicago Library confirmed what I have long hoped—my years of paleographic traini...
Gender

Violence and Masculinity in 19th c. France

A review of Revolutionary Histrionics: Violence and the Creation of Bourgeois Masculinity in Post-Napoleonic France. Dana Drew Irwin’s Revolutionary H...
Gender

New Gender and Sexuality Studies Editor

We are very excited to welcome a new editor to “Gender and Sexuality Studies,” Yvon Wang. Our new editor will continue to bring you reviews of......
Gender

Cultural Production of Gender in Colonial Korea

A review of Between Words and Images: Gender and Cultural Productions in Colonial Korea, by Jooyeon Rhee. The scholarship on nationalism, modernity, a...
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