Gender and Sexuality Studies

Recent movers and shakers in gender and sexuality studies.

Updated November 13, 2024
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Black women taught us an intimate history of Black feminism
Jackson, Jenn M.
Ebook
A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like-from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue. "Jenn M. Jackson is a beautiful writer and excellent scholar....
Libertine London sex in the eighteenth-century metropolis
Peakman, Julie
Ebook
An eye-opening and richly detailed history of women's sexuality that upends entrenched perceptions of the long eighteenth century.   Libertine London investigates the sex lives of women throughout the period 1680 to 1830, known as the long eighteenth...
Slapping leather queer cowfolx at the gay rodeo
Ford, Elyssa
Ebook
Unapologetically brings gay rodeo out of the closet Campy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that straddles the urban and rural. Since the mid-1970s, gay rodeos have provided space to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity...
Deep care the radical activists who provided abortions, defied the law, and fought to keep clinics open
Hume, Angela
Ebook
The story of the radical feminist networks who worked outside the law to defend abortion.  Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known...
Kinky history a rollicking journey through our sexual past, present, and future
James, Esmé Louise
Ebook
A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories, from the historian and storyteller behind Kinky History, @esme.louisee on TikTok Contrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obscene hobbies long before Christian...
The end of love : racism, sexism, and the death of romance
Strings, Sabrina
Paper Book
From Playboy to Jay-Z, the racial origins of toxic masculinity and its impact on women, especially Black and "insufficiently white" women More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commitment, and instead seeking out "situationships." When these men deign to...
Dear cisgender people a guide to trans allyship and empathy
Jones, Kenny Ethan
Ebook
Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans? In this powerful, extensively researched, and deeply personal...
Ending the pursuit asexuality, aromanticism & agender identity
Paramo, Michael
Ebook
A groundbreaking deep dive into the history, politics and lived experiences of three often-misunderstood identities: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender. How did asexual identity form? What is aromanticism? How does agender identity function? Researcher and writer...
Committed on meaning and madness
Scanlon, Suzanne
Ebook
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad--and doing both at once.   When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother--feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain--she made a suicide attempt that...
Mean girl feminism how White feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss
Nguyen, Kim Hong
Ebook
White feminists performing to maintain privilege Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form, and content from racial oppression and protest while aiming meanness toward people in marginalized...
Fire dreams : making Black feminist liberation in the South
McTighe, Laura
Paper Book
For thirty-five years, the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) has fought for the liberation of their communities through reproductive justice, harm reduction, abolition feminism, racial justice, and sex workers' rights. In 2012, shortly after one of WWAV's biggest...
The myth of making it a workplace reckoning
Mukhopadhyay, Samhita
Ebook
We can bury the girlboss, but what comes next? The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the story of her personal workplace reckoning and argues for collective responsibility to reimagine work as we know it. "One of the smartest voices we have on gender, power,...
The hard way discovering the women who walked before us
Walker, Susannah
Ebook
Women and the piano a history in 50 lives
Tomes, Susan
Ebook
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano--but how many women pianists can you name?   Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the modern...

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