Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of …
Read More >In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, …
Read More >By Shelly Clevenger and Jordana N. Navarro, authors of Gendering Criminology: Crime and Justice Today In Gendering Criminology, we take readers on an exploration of how gender informs major criminological perspectives and …
Read More >This interview was originally published on Public Seminar and is reproduced here with permission. Marc Stein is Professor of History at San Francisco State University, where he teaches U.S. law, politics, sexuality, …
Read More >By Qitao Guo, author of Huizhou: Local Identity and Mercantile Lineage Culture in Ming China Wang Daokun (1525-1593) was a literary luminary of empire-wide standing in the Ming dynasty; he represents an …
Read More >A new release in our Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Series, Weighing the Future is an ethnographic exploration of how epigenetic thinking is changing the way pregnant women are seen as …
Read More >Series editor Rickie Solinger joined us for an interview on how the Reproductive Justice Series came about, the impact and continued relevance of the series, and the defining motivations in her own work. Rickie …
Read More >By Giancarlo Casale, editor and translator of Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe Before the dawn of our narcissistic modern age, detailed accounts of intimate …
Read More >By Reginald Jackson, author of A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji When I first began working on A Proximate Remove, my goal was to write the …
Read More >By Jan Bardsley, author of Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan This guest post is part of our #AAS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more. “What kinds of geisha stories …
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