MU Libraries New Books: The family. Marriage. Women

About the new book list

5/15/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

A question of choice / Sarah Weddington. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ767 .W38 2013

Children, childhood and cultural heritage / edited by Kate Darian-Smith and Carla Pascoe. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ781 .C543 2013

Disturbing practices : history, sexuality, and women's experience of modern war / Laura Doan. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Review

"Disturbing Practices stands comparison to the very best work in sexuality studies. Empirically rich and rigorous, it represents a challenging and groundbreaking intervention in the field." (Matt Houlbrook, author of Queer London)"

Call #: HQ29 .D57 2013

Fortunes of feminism : from state-managed capitalism to neoliberal crisis and beyond / Nancy Fraser. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ1190 .F73 2013

Gender and power relations in Nigeria / [edited by] Ronke Iyabowale Ako-Nai. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ1815.5 .G456 2012

Researching later life and ageing : expanding qualitative research horizons / edited by Miranda Leontowitsch. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ1061 .R4525 2012

Routledge handbook of family communication / edited by Anita Vangelisti. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ519 .H36 2012

Sexual deceit : the ethics of passing / Kelby Harrison. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ76.25 .H369 2013

Sexuality, rurality, and geography / edited by Andrew Gorman-Murray, Barbara Pini, and Lia Bryant. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ21 .S4776 2013

Taming passion for the public good : policing sex in the early republic / Mark E. Kann. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ18.U5 K365 2012

The end of sex : how hookup culture is leaving a generation unhappy, sexually unfulfilled, and confused about intimacy / Donna Freitas. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Call #: HQ27 .F74 2013

The political worlds of women : gender and politics in nineteenth century Britain / Sarah Richardson. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ1236.5.G7 R53 2013

Why have kids? : a new mom explores the truth about parenting and happiness / Jessica Valenti. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: HQ759 .V277 2012

Evolution's empress : Darwinian perspectives on the nature of women / edited by Maryanne L. Fisher, Justin R. Garcia, Rosemarie Sokol Chang. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: HQ1206 .E956 2013

Pain, porn and complicity : women heroes from Pygmalian to Twilight / Kathleen McConnell. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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About the Author

Kathleen McConnell? Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth (2002) won the Lampert Award for best first book of poems in Canada, and was a finalist for the Governor General? Award. The Hundefrulein Papers (2009) chronicles the years she spent living with, and looking after the dogs of Elisabeth Mann Borgese. After a typically peripatetic writer? life she has settled in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she teaches Creative Writing and Women Writers in the English Department at St. Thomas University.

Call #: HQ1233 .M322 2012

Teenagers and technology / Chris Davies & Rebecca Eynon. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: HQ799.2.I5 D38 2012

The Oxford handbook of gender and politics / edited by Georgina Waylen ... [et al.]. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: HQ1236 .O99 2013

The Oxford handbook of retirement / edited by Mo Wang. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: HQ1062 .O96 2013

What's wrong with homosexuality? / John Corvino. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Review

"[Corvino's] work is unfailingly patient and laced with humor...an essential and accessible read for any interested parties." --Publishers Weekly

"[Corvino] writes in plain language leavened with wit, sentiment, and personality-a manner that reflects the book's origins in Corvino's half of a debate over gay marriage that he and Focus on the Family speaker Glenn Stanton have presented on college campuses throughout North America." --Booklist

"Corvino's writing style is readable and informed by intelligence and wit. He is also respectful of opposing views and deals with them fairly. Well worth reading, this book sensibly organizes ethical objections to homosexual behavior, takes the time to refute them, and clarifies how defenders of homosexual rights should respond to them."
--Library Journal

"John Corvino has written a wonderful, deeply exhilarating book. Its virtues of rigor, fair-mindedness, subtlety, and clarity should be everywhere in our public culture, but in fact they are sadly rare. Read Corvino not only to learn about moral arguments concerning homosexuality -- and you will learn a lot, regardless of your ethical starting point -- but also to be reminded that it is possible for people who deeply disagree to argue respectfully, fairly, and with empathetic imagination and even a sense of humor. This is public philosophy at its very best."--Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago

"John Corvino's new book, What's Wrong with Homosexuality?, is stunning in its clarity and logic. Corvino's is that rare combination of a brilliant and logical mind, and a warm and human heart. He is particularly adept and helpful in critiquing the natural law arguments against homosexuality, and teasing apart the various nature/nurture approaches to the question of whether gay people are "born that way." Most impressive is his combining his rational, philosophical arguments with his own (and others') experience of being gay and partnered. Anyone interested in seriously arguing against the acceptance of gay people and our relationships will have to contend with the brilliantly articulated, rational and coherent case made in this book."--The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, IX Bishop of New Hampshire

"John Corvino is a philosophically sophisticated, lucid writer who makes a serious effort here to engage those (like me) with whom he disagrees. He argues aggressively, to be sure, but does not resort to calling his critics names or impugning their motives. Moreover, he is commendably willing to come to grips with challenges to the presuppositions and implications of the position he holds. He is, in short, a worthy intellectual opponent in the debate over the ethics and meaning of sex and marriage."-- Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University

Call #: HQ76.25 .C673 2013

Women's studies : the basics / Bonnie G. Smith. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: HQ1180 .S58 2013

Children and families affected by armed conflicts in Africa : implications and strategies for helping professionals in the United States / Joanne Corbin, editor. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: HQ784.W3 C489 2012

Men trapped in men's bodies : narratives of autogynephilic transsexualism / Anne A. Lawrence foreword by Ray Blanchard. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: HQ76 .L397 2013

Mothering and motherhood in ancient Greece and Rome / edited by Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: HQ759 .M8786 2012

Sacred iconographies in Chicana cultural productions / Clara Román-Odio. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Review

“This landmark publication advances the fields of de-colonial liberation, divinity, and cultural studies. In these pages our guides are ‘anti-icons’ who stand against systems of domination, the divine mothers Tonantzin, Mary, Coatlaxopeuh, the Virgin de Guadalupe, the feminine and the matrilineal, here to teach us twenty-first-century spiritualties of dissent. Today these figures are facilitating an emerging planetary culture that functions beyond and without borders. This book’s method makes their presence visible - but only if readers are able to think in and through a de-colonizing feminism that is at once spiritual, political, global, and Chicana.” - Chela Sandoval, author of Methodology of the Oppressed

“Sacred Iconographies in Chicana Cultural Productions examines methodological and pedagogical strategies for understanding how La Virgen de Guadalupe has served and continues to serve as a venue for artistic and literary expressions of Chicana feminist ways of knowing.” - Josie Méndez-Negrete, Associate Professor, Mexican American Studies, College of Education and Human Development, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

“Sacred Iconographies in Chicana Cultural Production is a powerful treatise on the transformative and egalitarian impetus behind Chicana spiritual expression. In this book, Román-Odio deftly analyzes and deconstructs the numerous ways Chicana feminist spirituality challenges and decenters patriarchal and colonial forms of organized religion.” - Guisela Latorre, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, The Ohio State University, USA

Call #: HQ1166 .R66 2013

The seduction of the female body : women's rights in need of a new body politics / Eva De Clercq, University of Pisa, Italy. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: HQ1233 .D413 2013

Trafficked young people : breaking the wall of silence / Jenny J. Pearce, Patricia Hynes and Silvie Bovarnick. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: HQ281 .P425 2013

Why internet porn matters / Margret Grebowicz. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: HQ471 .G735 2013

Contesting publics : feminism, activism, ethnography / Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: HQ1236.5.L29 P495 2013

Gender, agency, and coercion / edited by Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips and Kalpana Wilson. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: HQ1190 .G459 2013

Jacketed women : qualitative research methodologies on sexualities and gender in Africa / edited by Jane Bennett and Charmaine Pereira. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: HQ1181.A35 J33 2013

Queering anarchism : addressing and undressing power and desire / edited by C.B. Daring ... [et al.] (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Call #: HQ76.25 .Q3855 2012

Seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia / L. Ayu Saraswati. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: HQ1220.I5 S27 2013

Unrivalled influence : women and empire in Byzantium / Judith Herrin. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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From the Inside Flap

"Herrin dissolves the most formidable barrier to any balanced history: the wall between women's history and men's. With an eye for details ignored and grand lines distorted by scholarly myopia, she offers a comprehensive history of Byzantium."--Thomas F. Mathews, author of The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art

"Herrin is acutely aware not only of Byzantium's place in the world, but also of its idiosyncrasies, which she illuminates by bringing into play the ecclesiastical sources in a way that few other Byzantine historians have done. Her essays reveal first and foremost her breadth of vision."--Michael Angold, editor of The Cambridge History of Christianity: Eastern Christianity

"Tracing her journey across the history of Byzantium, Herrin's elegant essays display her insightful approaches, solid methodology, and vast historical knowledge."--Christine Angelidi, Institute of Historical Research, Athens

"Herrin's essays reveal a capacity given to very few historians--the power to present the big picture without ever losing sight of the vital details. Their genesis over the course of her career, and more importantly their bearing on our current intellectual and political situation, illustrate what it means to be a humane and humanistic scholar in the last half century."--Anthony Cutler, author of The Hand of the Master

"All of Herrin's essays reveal a distinguished historian with a clear intellectual consciousness."--Antonio Carile, University of Bologna

"This wide-ranging collection of studies by one of the foremost medieval historians of this generation opens up new perspectives on Byzantium. The life experience of women and men is re-created with a view from the margins. Women at the court and in private households are restored to agency and the capital of Constantinople is seen from the perspective of the provinces. As a result, Byzantium no longer appears as a monolith steeped in unchanging ritual, but as a dynamic society that developed its own responses to challenges and so ensured its extraordinary longevity."--Claudia Rapp, author of Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity

Call #: HQ1147.B98 H47 2013

A marriage agreement and other essays : four decades of feminist writing / Alix Kates Shulman. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Call #: HQ1111 .S528 2012

Adolescent online social communication and behavior : relationship formation on the Internet / [edited by] Robert Zheng, Jason Burrow-Sanchez, Clifford Drew. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: HQ799.2.I5 A36 2010

Portraits of change : unparalleled freedoms, unanticipated consequences / Mary White Stewart. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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About the Author

Mary White Stewart is a professor of sociology and the director of the School of Social Research and Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She teaches in the areas of family, gender and identity, and gendered violence. Her previous books include Ordinary Violence: Everyday Assaults against Women and Silicone Spills: Breast Implants on Trial.

Call #: HQ1438.M8 S74 2013

Sex and the Citadel : intimate life in a changing Arab world / Shereen El Feki. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: HQ18.E3 E42 2013

Sexidemic : a cultural history of sex in America / Lawrence R. Samuel. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: HQ18.U5 S26 2013

Sustaining activism : a Brazilian women's movement and a father-daughter collaboration / Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Review

“This slim book is free of academic jargon and instead exudes authenticity and positivity. The women's stories about their own histories and current circumstances are handled capably by the authors who acknowledge the interesting dynamics that play out as they interview women whose own fathers rarely let them leave the house or attend secondary school. High school and undergraduate students interested in Latin American politics and women's studies will especially find this intriguing and informative.” - Jennifer Stout, Library Journal

Call #: HQ1236.5.B6 R83 2013

The joy of sexus : lust, love, & longing in the ancient world / Vicki León. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: HQ13 .L466 2013

Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness / Ruby Lal. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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Book Description

In this eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the lives of nineteenth-century Indian women in their transition from girlhood to maturity. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by prescriptive household chores and domestic duties. What the book reveals, however, is that women in the early nineteenth century experienced greater freedoms, playfulness, and creativity than their counterparts in the more restricted colonial world at the end of the century.

Call #: HQ1742 .L346 2013

Embodying masculinities : towards a history of the male body in U.S. culture and literature / edited by Josep M. Armengol. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: HQ1090 .E447 2013

Empowerment and interconnectivity : toward a feminist history of utilitarian philosophy / Catherine Villanueva Gardner. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: HQ1191.U6 G37 2013

Gender, race, and rank in a revolutionary age : the Georgia lowcountry, 1750-1820 / Betty Wood. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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Review

"Provides a telling example of how the interrelationship of gender, race, and rank constructed early southern identities."--Georgia Historical Quarterly

Call #: HQ1438.G4 W66 2000

Moscow / Yevgeniy Fiks. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: HQ76.3.R8 M674 2013

Susan B. Anthony and the struggle for equal rights / edited by Christine L. Ridarsky and Mary M. Huth with an introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: HQ1413.A55 S873 2012

Transnational feminism in the United States : knowledge, ethics, and power / Leela Fernandes. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: HQ1155 .F47 2013

Beyond feminism and Islamism : gender and equality in North Africa / Doris H. Gray. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: HQ1170 .G739 2013

Hard to get : twenty-something women and the paradox of sexual freedom / Leslie C. Bell. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: HQ29 .B42 2013

Islamic feminism in Kuwait : the politics and paradoxes / Alessandra L. González. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: HQ1170 .G657 2013

Italian women and international Cold War politics, 1944-1968 / Wendy Pojmann. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: HQ1236.5.I8 P65 2013

Queer singapore : illiberal citizenship and mediated cultures / edited by Audrey Yue and Jun Zubillaga-Pow. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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About the Author

Audrey Yue is senior lecturer in cinema and cultural studies at the University of Melbourne; she is the author of Ann Hui's Song of the Exile.

Jun Zubillaga-Pow is PhD candidate in music research at King's College London.

Call #: HQ76.3.S55 Q447 2012

The better story : queer affects from the Middle East / Dina Georgis. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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Call #: HQ76.3.M628 G46 2013

Women political leaders and the media / Donatella Campus, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: HQ1236 .C36 2013

Policing prostitution, 1856-1886 : deviance, surveillance and morality / Catherine Lee. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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Call #: HQ185.A5 L44 2013

Reproductive rights and the state : getting the birth control, RU-486, morning-after pills and the Gardasil vaccine to the U.S. market / Melissa Haussman. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: HQ766.5.U5 H387 2013

Sex cells : the medical market for eggs and sperm / Rene Almeling. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: HQ761 .A46 2011

The essential handbook of women's sexuality / Donna Castañeda, editor foreword by Florence L. Denmark. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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Book Description

Sexual desire, expression, and satisfaction are important to women personally. But beyond that, women's sexualities are central to the politics and economies of societies worldwide, some of which go to great lengths to control, regulate, and restrict women's bodies, sexual knowledge, and sexual expression. Clearly a better understanding of this compelling and complex subject is in order.

Call #: HQ29 .E87 2013

The feminist porn book : the politics of producing pleasure / edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: HQ471 .F45 2013

Dissidents : Irish Republican women, 1922-1941 / Ann Matthews. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: HQ1236.5.I73 M388 2012

Empires of love : Europe, Asia, and the making of early modern identity / Carmen Nocentelli. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: HQ18.E8 N63 2013

The challenges of being a rural gay man : coping with stigma / Deborah Bray Preston and Anthony R. D'Augelli illustrations by Mwark Preston. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: HQ76.3.U5 P74 2013