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Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum
Jun 07 2024
Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys have collaborat
In pictures: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity
Nov 16 2023
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 rabbinic literature. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classification by late anci
Q&A with Rachel Ellis, author of In This Place Called Prison
Nov 13 2023
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, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their stories, Ellis
Gender and the Criminal-Legal System
Nov 15 2022
By Shelly Clevenger and Jordana N. Navarro, authors of Gendering Criminology: Crime and Justice TodayIn Gendering Criminology, we take readers on an exploration of how gender informs major criminological perspectives and structures life experiences in terms of criminal engagement and victimizati
Marc Stein: How to Become a Queer Historian
Jun 21 2022
This interview was originally published on Public Seminar and is reproduced here with permission.Marc SteinMarc Stein is Professor of History at San Francisco State University, where he teaches U.S. law, politics, sexuality, gender, race, and social movements. He’s also an old friend: we met
Wang Daokun and Huizhou Mercantile Lineage Culture
Mar 24 2022
By Qitao Guo, author of Huizhou: Local Identity and Mercantile Lineage Culture in Ming ChinaWang Daokun (1525-1593) was a literary luminary of empire-wide standing in the Ming dynasty; he represents an outstanding instance of Confucian scholar-official engagement in local matters in his home pre
Q&A with Natali Valdez, author of Weighing the Future
Jan 14 2022
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 maternal environments, as revealed through two major clinical studies. In the intervi
Editor Spotlight: Rickie Solinger on the Reproductive Justice Series
Sep 17 2021
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 Solinger is a historian, curator and author or editor of many books about reproductive
The Intimate Lives of 17th-Century Women, Seen through the Eyes of a Muslim Slave
Sep 07 2021
By Giancarlo Casale, editor and translator of Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century EuropeBefore the dawn of our narcissistic modern age, detailed accounts of intimate life—and particularly of the intimate lives of women—are excruciatingly rare, present
How Queer Readings of Premodern Japanese Texts Help Us Redefine Desire
Aug 25 2021
By Reginald Jackson, author of A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of GenjiWhen I first began working on A Proximate Remove, my goal was to write the book about sexuality, spatial representation, and sensation I wish had existed when I first encountered premodern Japanese