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Q&A with Nicole Bedera, author of On the Wrong Side
Aug 05 2024
The debate over campus sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices. On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetr
How Five Refugee Women Found Sisterhood and Solidarity
Jun 20 2024
For World Refugee Day, we share the words of the refugee women featured in Accidental Sisters: Refugee Women Struggling Together for a New American Dream. Accidental Sisters follows five refugee women in Houston, Texas, as they navigate a program for single mothers overseen by Alia Altikrity, a form
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
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
Deleted Scene: The Archival Memo I Had To Lose To Find My Book’s Argument
Mar 30 2022
By Annie Berke, author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar TelevisionAt a recent book event– co-hosted with Liz Clarke, author of The American Girl Goes to War– one participant asked: “How did you decide what to put in the book and what to leave out?”Having relied on archiv
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
The Quiet Revolution of Women Experiencing Maternal Incarceration
Mar 07 2022
By Geniece Crawford Mondé, author of This Is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison SystemIn the wake of global protests for justice in the summer of 2020, a broader conversation about the impact of this country’s criminal legal system and its ties to systemic inequality wa
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 a 50-year Study of Women Shaped Our Understanding of Personality Development
Nov 03 2020
By Valory Mitchell, co-author of Women on the River of Life: A Fifty-Year Study of Adult DevelopmentThere is something about the long-term study of lives that is breathtaking. Perhaps it is that, by making the whole life the “unit of study” we allow ourselves to touch on the mystery of life.