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In addition to the featured hardcover releases, the Penn Press fall 2009 catalog announces many new paperbacks, among them: From Civil Rights to Human Rights; W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet; Visions of Progress; Mapping Decline; The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa; Faculty Towers; Hitler's Face; Monsters; Used Books; Marriage and Violence; and The Crusades and the Christian World of the East.

Complete Catalog: Gender Studies

Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.

Abusharaf, Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (hc 2006, pb 2007)

Amer, Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (hc 2008)

Argenti-Pillen, Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka (hc 2002)

Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth (hc 1991, pb 1991)

Bardsley, Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England (hc 2006)

Bennett/Froide, Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 (hc 1998, pb 1998)

Bennett, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (hc 2006, pb 2007)

Bitel/Lifshitz, Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives (hc 2008)

Body/Simon, Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years (hc 2005, pb 2009)

Bonnemère, Women as Unseen Characters: Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea (hc 2004)

Brayman Hackel/Kelly, Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (hc 2007, pb Aug 2009)

Broder, Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (hc 2002)

Brown, The Education of Jane Addams (hc 2003, pb 2007)

Brownlee, The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas (hc 2000)

Bullough/Bullough, Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender (hc 1993, pb 1993)

Burns, Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature (hc 2009)

Burrus, The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (hc 2003, pb 2007)

Claassen/Joyce, Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica (hc 1996, pb 1994)

Coletti, Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England (hc 2004)

Cook, Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (hc 1994, pb 1994)

Cook/Cusack, Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives (hc Dec 2009)

Cuklanz, Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change (hc 1995, pb 1995)

Cuklanz, Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence (hc 1999, pb 1999)

Davie, Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism (hc 1995, pb 1995)

Dolan, Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy (hc 2008, pb 2009)

Dow, Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970 (hc 1996, pb 1996)

Eggert, Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton (hc 1999)

Elias, Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture (hc 2008)

Evergates, Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (hc 1999, pb 1999)

Farrell-Beck/Gau, Uplift: The Bra in America (hc 2001, pb 2002)

Fernandes, Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (hc 1997, pb 1997)

Firenzuola, On the Beauty of Women (hc 1992, pb 1992)

Franklin/Ragoné, Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation (hc 1997, pb 1997)

French, The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death (hc 2007)

Frisken, Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America (hc 2004)

Geller/Stockett, Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future (hc 2006, pb 2007)

Gilmore, Misogyny: The Male Malady (hc 2001, pb 2009)

Griffiths, The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century (hc 2006)

Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective (hc 2000, pb 2000)

Hartigan-O'Connor, The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (hc 2009)

Heide, Television Culture and Women's Lives: "Thirtysomething" and the Contradictions of Gender (hc 1995, pb 1995)

Hults, The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe (hc 2005)

Inhorn, Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (hc 1996, pb 1995)

Inness, Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race (hc 2000, pb 2000)

Inness, Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s (hc 2003, pb 2003)

Jankowski, Pure Resistance: Queer Virginity in Early Modern English Drama (hc 2000)

Jordan/Kalcik, Women's Folklore, Women's Culture (pb 1985)

Joseph/Slyomovics, Women and Power in the Middle East (hc 2000, pb 2000)

Kapchan, Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition (hc 1996, pb 1996)

Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (hc 2002, pb 2002)

Kasserman, Fall River Outrage: Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England (hc 1986, pb 1986)

Kingfisher, Women in the American Welfare Trap (hc 1996, pb 1996)

Kingfisher, Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (hc 2002, pb 2002)

Korda, Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (hc 2002)

Lampert, Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare (hc 2004)

Landay, Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture (hc 1998, pb 1998)

Leckie, Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 (hc 1999)

Levin, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (hc 1994, pb 1994)

Levy, Reproductive Urges: Popular Novel-Reading, Sexuality, and the English Nation (hc 1999)

Lindio-McGovern, Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance (hc 1997, pb 1997)

Masten, Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York (hc 2008)

McKinley, Beverly Hills, 90210: Television, Gender, and Identity (hc 1997, pb 1997)

McSheffrey, Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London (hc 2006)

Mikell, African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa (hc 1997, pb 1997)

Miller, Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers (hc 2008)

Mooney, Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters (hc 1999, pb 1999)

Morgan/Michaels, Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions (hc 1999, pb 1999)

Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (hc 2004, pb 2004)

Mulder-Bakker/Scholz, Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe (hc 2005)

Newcomb, Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco (hc 2008)

Newman, From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (hc 1995, pb 1995)

Newman, God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (hc 2002, pb 2005)

Person, Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity (hc 2003)

Peterson, Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory (hc 2001)

Poor, Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority (hc 2004)

Press, Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience (hc 1991, pb 1991)

Quilligan, Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England (hc 2005, pb 2005)

Reichenbach/Roseman, Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward (hc 2009)

Rhodes, Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture (hc 2005, pb 2005)

Rosen, Unveiling Eve: Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature (hc 2003)

Ross, Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook (hc 2008, pb 2009)

Salmon, History and the Texture of Modern Life: Selected Essays (hc 2001)

Sanday/Goodenough, Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender (hc 1990, pb 1990)

Sanok, Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England (hc 2007)

Sawaya, Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 (hc 2003)

Shields, Measuring Up: How Advertising Affects Self-Image (hc 2001, pb 2001)

Shokeid, A Gay Synagogue in New York (pb 2002)

Simons, Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 (hc 2001, pb 2003)

Skemp, First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence (hc 2009)

Stephanson, The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750 (hc 2003)

Tobin, Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe (hc 2000)

Toth, Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia (pb 1997)

Warren, Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England (hc 2001)

Warren, Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380-1600 (hc 2005)

Waters, Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages (hc 2003)

Wheaton/Hareven, Family and Sexuality in French History (hc 1980, pb 1998)

Wright, Gender and Archaeology (hc 1996, pb 1996)

Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia (pb 2005)

Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (hc 2007, pb 2008)




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