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Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions

Author

Susan Burch

Description

Social history of native people committed to the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians between 1902 and 1934 that examines the impacts of enforced incarceration on their families and communities. Uses archival sources, correspondence, indigenous knowledge traditions, and material objects.

Year

2021

Data Feminism

Author

Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein

Description

Uses intersectional feminism to examine topics including emotion and data representation, flawed classification systems, invisible labor, justice, and power.

Year

2020

In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

Author

Margaret Galvan

Description

Covers artists including Hannah Alderfer, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alison Bechdel, Nan Goldin, Roberta Gregory, Beth Jaker, Lee Marrs, and Marybeth Nelson.

Year

2023

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

Editor

Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt

Description

Focuses primarily on Catholicism.

Year

2021

The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature

Author

Christine Varnado

Description

Focuses on how desire is expressed rather than who expresses it and concentrates on four concepts: being used, appetite, suspicion, and longings for the impossible.

Year

2020

Negotiating Childlessness in the Middle Ages: Stories of Desired, Refused, and Regretted Parenthood

Author

Regina Toepfer

Description

Covers infertility in Germany.

Year

2025

The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism

Author

Lindsey Stewart

Description

Examines works by Beyoncé, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Eddie Glaude, Saidiya Hartman, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Imani Perry, and Audra Simpson.

Year

2021

Proper Women: Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran

Author

Fae Chubin

Description

Focuses on a nongovernmental organization in Iran intended to assist Afghan refugees and lower-class Iranians.

Year

2024

Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa

Author

Ana Paula Ferreira

Description

Covers the turn of the 20th century to the early 21st century.

Year

2020

The New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe

Editor

Sarah Franklin and Marcia C. Inhorn

Description

Case studies from 16 countries.

Year

2025