Social Groups

Critical Rural Theory is an attempt to bring together the concepts of structure, space, and culture in order to explain the relationship between ru...

In 1863, San Franciscos Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in a dress not belonging to his or her sex. Adopted...

This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as...

Identity and Social Change examines the thorny problem of modern identity. Trenchant critiques have come from identity politics, focusing on the co...

2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleHonorable Mention, 2019 Herndon Book Prize - (SEM-GST)A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can ...

Honorable mention, 2018 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Many Americans stil...

Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of ways, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India describes th...

While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying...

Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombays population grew twentyfold as the c...

What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have...

Winner, 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction presented by the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association Duri...

The Situationist International (SI), led by the revolutionary Guy Debord, were active throughout the 1950s and 60s. They published the journal Inte...

Groundbreaking poems in Asian American feminist literatureFierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitanis poetry and prose are as vibrant and res...

2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport A human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenge...