A selection of recent publications by faculty in the Department of Women and Gender Studies:

AIDS & Masculinity in the African City

AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood

Jan. 26, 2017

AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging.

Beyond Partition

Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India

Jan. 25, 2017

Communal violence, ethnonationalist insurgencies, terrorism, and state violence have marred the Indian natio- state since its inception. These phenomena frequently intersect with prevailing forms of gendered violence complicated by caste, religion, regional identity, and class within communities.

A Sentimental Education for the Working Man

A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910

Jan. 23, 2017

Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City.

From Global to Grassroots

From Global to Grassroots: The European Union, Transnational Advocacy, and Combating Violence against Women

Jan. 20, 2017

Focusing on the case of the European Union and its efforts to establish women’s human rights, this study provides empirical and intersectional feminist analysis of the transnational processes that connect global, regional, and grassroots advocacy efforts.

Gender and Global Justice

Gender and Global Justice

Jan. 31, 2016

Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are often overlooked or treated as peripheral.

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