Critically Shaping Women, Gender, Feminist, & Sexuality Studies

In her groundbreaking third monograph, Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Wendy L. Rouse becomes the first historian to create a comprehensive history of the critical role LGBTQ+ activists played in securing women’s right to vote. The book highlights lesser-known queer suffragists from the late nineteenth century to the […]

In Redefining the Political: Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life, Alex J. Moffett-Bateau audaciously extends and re-imagines the theoretical and conceptual understandings of politics and the political. While traditional definitions of politics and the political are not inclusive of the unaccounted ways individuals interact with their communities, Moffett-Bateau’s reconceptualization offers new insights into […]

The Future that Was offers a necessary historical account of Third World[1] women’s contributions to the field of Gender and Development and Transnational Feminisms. Durba Mitra intervenes by arguing that Third World women’s contributions to knowledge production through attending conferences, writing and research, publishing, and on the ground protests, between 1970 to late 1980s set the […]