The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame.

DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their politic

Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.

Sure to become a classic on female empowerment, a groundbreaking exploration of the personal, cultural, and global implications of intergenerational trauma crea

Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s exp