Life isn't always a beach in Waves, North Carolina...Summer was the busiest time of year on Hatteras Island and the entire stretch of the Outer Banks. Tourists come flocking in from everywhere, someti
Life isn't always a beach in Waves, North Carolina...Fifteen year-old Beth Rosbury has just had her life turned upside down. Her parents recently divorced and her mother decided to start fresh in Wave
Life isn't always a beach in Waves, North Carolina...Change is in the air and it’s touching everyone in Waves. Sixteen year-old Jeromie Greene’s family life is about to change. Life as he knows it wit
Reading, Feminism and Spirituality tackles the often tricky relationship between feminism and religion. Through wide-ranging analysis, Dawn Llewellyn explores the generational and secular meanings of
In Gendered Readings of Change, Clara Fischer provides a critical analysis of canonical expositions of change. Via a select history of ancient Greek and Pragmatist philosophies of change, she argues f
This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding wom
This book draws attention to the controversy that surrounds Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir’s lives and the important role that their life stories have played in
How can feminism draw productively on its own history, without passively conforming to expectations of the past, or elevating the past as a nostalgic ideal against which to measure and compare the pre
In the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwa
Theory on the Edge brings together some of the foremost specialists working at the interdisciplinary interface between Irish Studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies in
This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage, control, and con
Since the beginnings of monotheism, religion has seemed to be at war with sexuality and with women. From the crusades of Hebrew prophets against the fertility deities of Canaan, to contemporary Cathol
Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women’s bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies,
Here Welch argues that feminist concerns relating to liberal models of individual freedom cannot be addressed without a theory of social freedom. This framework bridges the gap between liberal theoris
Rousseau in Drag is a provocative new interpretation of Rousseau's gender politics. Rosanne Terese Kennedy reads Rousseau's well-known but brief flirtation with cross-dressing as a starting point to d
This exciting collection offers a range of perspectives from some of the most prominent feminist voices of our time, including Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Claire Colebrook, Elizabeth Grosz, and Jac
In an important new book, Laura Gillman argues that in this post-identity politics era, identities can still yield reliable knowledge. Focusing on womanist and mestiza theoretical writings, literary t
