Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy 9781926452869, 9781927335024

Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery 9780812206371

How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified—and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves.

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Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self 9783839449219

The body has become central to practices of self-tracking. By focusing on the relations between quantification, the body

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Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism 1317550420, 9781317550426

The powerful Beyonce, formidable Rihanna, and the incalculable Nikki Minaj. Their images lead one to wonder: are they a

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Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine 9780812205411

At a time when almost all African American college students attended black colleges, philosopher William Fontaine was th

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Black Women Directors 9781978813373

Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and histori

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Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting: A Black Feminist Analysis of Intensive Mothering in Britain and Canada 9781529207965

Attachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises ‘natural’ activities such as exten

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Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black 9781487528713

This path-breaking collaboration by leading Black scholars examines the complexities of Black life in Canadian post-seco

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Kamasutra and Sex Positions

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Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy 9781978806405

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways the

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The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography 9781479899425

Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for blac

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