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National Women's Studies Association 2021

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Carnival Is Woman

Carnival Is Woman

Edited by Frances Henry & Dwaine Plaza
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

Contributions by Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Jan de Cosmo, Frances Henry, Jeff Henry, Adanna Kai Jones, Samantha Noel, Dwaine Plaza, Philip W. Scher, and Asha St. Bernard

Women are performing an ever-growing ...

The Comics of Alison Bechdel

The Comics of Alison Bechdel

Edited by Janine Utell
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, Leah Anderst, Alissa S. Bourbonnais, Tyler Bradway, Natalja Chestopalova, Margaret Galvan, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Katie Hogan, Jonathan M. Hollister, Yetta Howard, ...

Cherchez la Femme

Cherchez la Femme

By Cheryl Gerber
Foreword by Anne Gisleson
Categories: Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies

Contributions by Constance Adler, Karen Celestan, Alison Fensterstock, Kathy Finn, Helen Freund, Cheryl Gerber, Anne Gisleson, Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Karen Trahan Leathem, Katy Reckdahl, Melanie Warner ...

Conversations with Dorothy Allison

Conversations with Dorothy Allison

Edited by Mae Miller Claxton
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been known—along with Larry Brown and Lee Smith—as a purveyor of the working-class, contemporary ...

Something Inside So Strong

Something Inside So Strong

By Mildred Pitts Walter
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

In 1922, Mildred Pitts Walter was born in DeRidder, Louisiana, to a log cutter and a midwife/beautician. She became the first member of her family to go to college, graduating in 1940. Walter moved to ...

Gothic for Girls

Gothic for Girls

By Julia Round
Foreword by Mel Gibson
Categories: Popular Culture

Winner of the 2019 Broken Frontier Award for Best Book on Comics

Today fans still remember and love the British girls’ comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history ...

Mulata Nation

Mulata Nation

By Alison Fraunhar
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

Throughout Cuban history, the mulata, a woman of mixed racial identity, features prominently in visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure through historical eras, Alison Fraunhar looks at the ...

Conscripts of Migration

Conscripts of Migration

By Christopher Ian Foster
Categories: Literature

In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas, author Christopher Ian Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of ...

Remembering Dixie

Remembering Dixie

By Susan T. Falck
Categories: Southern Studies

Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place “Where the Old South Still Lives. ” Tourists flocked to view the town’s decaying ...

A Tyrannous Eye

A Tyrannous Eye

By Pearl Amelia McHaney
Categories: Literature

A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty’s full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pearl ...