This Woman's Work

By Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

This Woman's Work presents a social history and critical biography based on the life of award-winning writer Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006). It offers the personal story of a popular novelist, journalist, ...

Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature

Edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino & Karen Coats
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2018 Edited Book Award

Contributions by Robin Calland, Lauren Causey, Karen Coats, Sara K. Day, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, Anna Katrina ...

The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture

Edited by Elyce Rae Helford, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, and Michael R. Howard II
Categories: Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies

Contributions by Marleen S. Barr, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, Elyce Rae Helford, Michael R. Howard II, Ewan Kirkland, Nicola Mann, Megan McDonough, Alex Naylor, Rhonda Nicol, Joan Ormrod, J. Richard Stevens, ...

Drawn to Purpose

By Martha H. Kennedy
Foreword by Carla D. Hayden
Categories: Comics Studies

Winner of the 2019 Eisner Award for the Best Comics-Related Book

Published in partnership with the Library of Congress, Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists presents an overarching ...

Beyond Bombshells

By Jeffrey A. Brown
Categories: Popular Culture

Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they ...

Unveiling the Muse

By Howard Philips Smith
Foreword by Henri Schindler
Categories: Louisiana

Traditional Carnival has been well documented with a vast array of books published on the subject. However, few of them, if any, mention gay Carnival krewes or the role of gay Carnival within the larger ...

Fannye Cook

By Dorothy Shawhan
Edited by Marion Garrard Barnwell & Libby Hartfield
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Mississippi Chapter of The Wildlife Society Outstanding Book

Conservationist Fannye Cook (1889-1964) was the most widely known scientist in Mississippi and was nationally known as the go-to person for ...

Conversations with Edmund White

Edited by Will Brantley & Nancy McGuire Roche
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview ...

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

Edited by Thabiti Lewis
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The intimacy of these collaborations or conversations between ...

Minority Relations

Edited by Greg Robinson & Robert S. Chang
Categories: Race And Ethnicity

Contributions by Taunya Lovell Banks, Devon W. Carbado, Robert S. Chang, Cheryl Greenberg, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Amanda O. Jenssen, Scott Kurashige, Greg Robinson, Stephen Steinberg, Clarence Walker, ...