The Spiked Review of Books recently took up this issue in a review of Suzanne’s Barston’s new book, Bottled Up: How [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15634/when-breast-isnt-best-spiked-reviews-bottled-up/feed/ 0 http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15630/phil-tiemeyer-on-plane-queer-and-the-history-of-male-flight-attendants/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15630/phil-tiemeyer-on-plane-queer-and-the-history-of-male-flight-attendants/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:41:02 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15630 Phil Tiemeyer, author of Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants recently spoke about the history of the profession and how it came to be identified with gay men on the Michelangelo Signorile Show.

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Tiemeyer will be at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco on Thursday, April 11 to [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15630/phil-tiemeyer-on-plane-queer-and-the-history-of-male-flight-attendants/feed/ 0 http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15476/uc-press-podcast-leslie-c-bell-on-the-hardships-of-hookup-culture/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15476/uc-press-podcast-leslie-c-bell-on-the-hardships-of-hookup-culture/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:58:20 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15476 While young women today benefit from unprecedented education and opportunity compared to previous generations, many have trouble navigating personal and sexual relationships, Leslie C. Bell argues in her new book, Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom. Drawing from her years of experience as a researcher and a psychotherapist, Bell takes us directly into the lives [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15476/uc-press-podcast-leslie-c-bell-on-the-hardships-of-hookup-culture/feed/ 0 http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15424/hilary-hallett-on-the-women-who-made-hollywood/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15424/hilary-hallett-on-the-women-who-made-hollywood/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:42:24 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15424 Columbia history professor Hilary Hallett has been getting some wonderful advance praise for her new book, Go West, Young Women!, which explores the influx of women in early Hollywood and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. The Huffington Post included Go West, Young Women! in their list of 10 [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15424/hilary-hallett-on-the-women-who-made-hollywood/feed/ 0 http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/12815/the-micropolitics-of-mothering-cameron-macdonald-on-shadow-mothers/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/12815/the-micropolitics-of-mothering-cameron-macdonald-on-shadow-mothers/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:29:32 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=12815 UC Press author Cameron Macdonald was interviewed by Forbes.com on the complex bonds mothers forge with the “shadow mothers”—nannies, au pairs, daycare providers—in their lives. Macdonald, a professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the author of the new book Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering. Using research [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/12815/the-micropolitics-of-mothering-cameron-macdonald-on-shadow-mothers/feed/ 0 http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/12505/nature-and-art-in-the-renaissance-a-counter-narrative/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/12505/nature-and-art-in-the-renaissance-a-counter-narrative/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:59:04 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=12505 Guest Post by Mary D. Garrard

Renaissance art is a much-celebrated subject and its heroes loom large, as the numerous biographies and histories of the ‘masters’ Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Titian attest.  Art history textbooks continue to venerate the achievements of the major artists, whose ranks have been only slightly expanded to include a few [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/12505/nature-and-art-in-the-renaissance-a-counter-narrative/feed/ 1 http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/11760/barbara-and-steve-almond-discuss-the-monster-within/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/11760/barbara-and-steve-almond-discuss-the-monster-within/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:05:29 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=11760 What do you do when your mother writes a book about maternal ambivalence, which then receives a rave review in The New Yorker? After “smash[ing] your head against the wall three times,” you interview her, as The Rumpus’s Steve Almond did, to get to the bottom of why she decided to write about “women’s fears [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/11760/barbara-and-steve-almond-discuss-the-monster-within/feed/ 0 http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/11412/the-other-crime-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/11412/the-other-crime-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:50:00 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=11412 Barbara Almond, psychotherapist and author of The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood, writes about the common, but little-discussed issue of maternal ambivalence in her most recent blog post for Psychology Today. Read it below:

Granted by the Peace and Justice Studies Association, the award recognizes Enloe for her work as a “scholar-activist” in gender studies and international politics, which has [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/11204/cynthia-enloe-wins-lifetime-achievement-award/feed/ 0 http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/1860/more-than-wombs-for-rent/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/1860/more-than-wombs-for-rent/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:20:05 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=1860 by Elly Teman, author of Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self

Surrogacy has now made it to the cover pages of Newsweek and The New York Times. Whether discussing the prevalence of surrogacy in India or among American military wives, the bottom line is that these women are being unfairly judged in [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/1860/more-than-wombs-for-rent/feed/ 3