Category: Gender & Sexuality

Gender Paradoxes in Strip Clubs

October 29, 2010

An interview with Kim Price-Glynn about her new book, Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (Intersections) Strip Club takes a different approach to studying sex work. “Most of the… READ MORE

Radical Black Women, Reviewed

September 30, 2010

At H-Net, Antonio Lopez (University of Texas, El Paso) submits a glowing and thorough review of Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle, edited by… READ MORE

The Anthropology of Girls Kissing Girls

September 22, 2010

Leila Rupp’s book, Sapphistries, has been getting an awful lot of attention online, even showing up at the livejournal of an “Evil Librarian.” But by far the biggest debate has… READ MORE

Considering Gay Utopias

June 30, 2010

From Social Text Journal’s Periscope section: In this dossier, colleagues offer critical appreciations of long-standing Social Text collective member José Esteban Muñoz’s recent book, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There… READ MORE

Ladies Love the San Francisco Chronicle

February 24, 2010

Check out SFGate.com for the Chronicle’s review of Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp. In setting out to write a one-volume global history of… READ MORE

Rrrrriot for Girl Zines

February 1, 2010

The Announcement of NYU’s new Riot Grrl Archive at Fales Library has brought new attention to Alison Piepmeier’s book, Girl Zines. Two blog reviews, here and here, and a great… READ MORE