Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender equality in all spheres of life. This collection positions marginal voices at the center of complex gender issues in today’s society. Broad thematic topic areas include parental identities, advi...

"Brittney Griner Biography” offers an illuminating and deeply personal look into the life of one of basketball's most influential figures. This biography captures the essence of Brittney Griner's journey from a young girl in Houston, Texas, to becoming a towering presence in the world of sports and an inspiring advocate for change.Griner's path to stardom is nothing short of remarkable. Standing at 6'9", her physical prowess on the court is matched only by her remarkable achievemen...

Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society.Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race, sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other contexts, the book’s chapters call into question taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the so...

Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state as well as showcases the actions and activities of women who greatly affected the history of Louisiana in profound and interesting ways.These essays on women at the forefront of...

Reality is fracturing. Evelyn, infused with the final song of a fallen goddess, stands between warring deities and a universe collapsing into endless timelines. With bloodied allies at her side—a time-traveling vampire, a mirror-wielding necromancer, and an Aztec warrior—she must seize the power of the ancient God Engine or watch existence unravel. Blood Saga: A Time-Walkers' Requiem is a cosmic horror odyssey of love, betrayal, and god-shattering war.A fractured sky. A drowned city...

Archie's first-ever original graphic novel, starring everyone's favorite BFFs Betty and Veronica!There are a number of truths in Riverdale--Archie Andrews will forever be clumsy and love-struck, Jughead Jones has an appetite that can never be satiated, Pop's will always serve the best burgers and shakes and Betty and Veronica will be best friends no matter what comes between them. But when a career day at Riverdale High has the two BFFs examining their futures, the...

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied themWomen including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves.In The Trouble with White Women, Schulle...