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Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation. By Imani Perry. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 304 pp. $26.95 (paperback), $99.95 (hardcover).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 16 / Issue 1 / 2020
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- 30 September 2019, E8
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Thematic Review: Women in Power: The Fight for a Seat in the Boys’ Club - Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures: The Creation of Women's Caucuses. By Anna Mitchell Mahoney. Temple University Press, 2018. 258 pp. $99.50 (hardcover), $29.25 (paperback). - A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters. By Kelly Dittmar, Kira Sanbonmatsu, and Susan J. Carroll. Oxford University Press, 2018. 272 pp. $99.00 (hardcover), $27.95 (paperback). - Women as Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security and Gender Politics in Superpower America. By Sylvia Bashevkin. Oxford University Press, 2018. 280 pp. $74.00 (hardcover).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 3 / 2019
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- 26 July 2019, E14
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Female Bodies and Sexuality in Iran and the Search for Defiance. By Nafiseh Sharifi. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 197 pp. $129.00 (hardcover). - Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia. By Shenila Khoja-Moolji. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 202 pp. $34.95 (paperback), open access at http://luminosoa.org
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 2 / June 2019
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- 22 July 2019, E9
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The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transitional Families in the Digital Age. By Valerie Francisco-Menchavez. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 256 pp. $99.00 (hardcover), $28.00 (paperback). - Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia. By Olivia Killias. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2018. 241 pp. £65.00 (hardcover), £25.00 (paperback).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 2 / June 2019
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- 22 July 2019, E8
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Thematic Review: Feminism in Neoliberal Times - The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. By Catherine Rottenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 264 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). - Pop-Feminist Narratives: The Female Subject under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain, and Germany. By Emily Spiers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 272 pp. $81.00 (hardcover). - Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change. Edited by Leela Fernandes. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 272 pp. $89.00 (hardcover), $30 (paperback).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 2 / June 2019
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- 22 July 2019, E13
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Thematic Review: The Politics of Gender and Development in Neoliberal Times - Unjust Conditions: Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs. By Tara Patricia Cookson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 192 pp. $34.95 (paperback), open-access at https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.49 - Engendering Transformative Change in International Development. By Gillian Fletcher. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019. 185pp. $140.00 (hardcover). - Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance. By Sarah Forti. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019. 192 pp. $140.00 (hardcover), $27.28 (ebook). - The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development. By Kathryn Moeller. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 292 pp. $85.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (paperback).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 3 / September 2019
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- 22 July 2019, E15
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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence. By Leigh Goodmark. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. 204 pp. $29.95 (paperback and ebook), $85 (hardcover).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 3 / September 2019
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- 24 June 2019, E16
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The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women's Rights Around the World. By Mala Htun and S. Laurel Weldon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 350 pp. $29.99 (paperback).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 2 / 2019
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- 10 June 2019, E10
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Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants. By Abigail Leslie Andrews. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 286 pp. $85.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (paperback). - Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey. By Wendy A. Vogt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 244 pp. $85.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (paperback).
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- 10 June 2019, E12
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Gender and Digital Culture: Between Irreconcilability and the Datalogical. By Helen Thornham. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 174 pp. $140 (hardcover).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 2 / June 2019
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- 17 May 2019, E11
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Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and Politics. By Eva Kit Wah Man. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016. 282 pp. $52 (hardcover).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / March 2019
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- 13 February 2019, E5
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New Forms of Revolt: Essays on Kristeva's Intimate Politics. Edited by Sarah K. Hansen and Rebecca Tuvel. New York: SUNY Press, 2017. 230 pp. $85.00 (hardcover), $22.95 (paperback).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / March 2019
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- 13 February 2019, E3
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Sex and Secularism. By Joan Wallach Scott. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017. 256 pp. $27.95 (hardcover).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / 2019
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- 13 February 2019, E7
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Thematic Review: Transgender Body Politics and the Policing of Gender Norms and Transgressions - Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? By Heath Fogg Davis. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 208 pp. $25 (hardcover), $17 (paperback). - Phenomenal Gender: What Transgender Experience Discloses. By Ephraim Das Janssen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 192 pp. $75 (hardcover), $25 (paperback). - The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. By Jasbir K. Puar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. 296 pp. $95 (hardcover), $27 (paperback). - True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century. By Emily Skidmore. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 272 pp. $27 (hardcover).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / March 2019
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- 13 February 2019, E1
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Butterfly Politics. By Catharine A. MacKinnon. Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. 504 pp. $29.95 (hardcover).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / 2019
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- 11 December 2018, E4
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Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter. By Lori Jo Marso. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2017. 272 pp. $94.95 (hardcover), $25.95 (paperback).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / March 2019
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- 11 December 2018, E6
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Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives. By Leigh Gilmore. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 240 pp. $30.00 (hardcover), $22.00 (paperback).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / 2019
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- 11 December 2018, E2
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Symposium Review: 25th Anniversary of Moral Boundaries by Joan Tronto
Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. By Joan Tronto. New York: Routledge, 1993. 242 pp. $173.00 (hardcover), $53.95 (paperback).
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 14 / Issue 4 / 2018
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- 28 November 2018, E18
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Staying Tuned: LGBTQIA Politics in the Trump Era
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 14 / Issue 4 / December 2018
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- 28 November 2018, E17
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Symposium on The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory
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The Pedagogy of Feminist Theory
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- Politics & Gender / Volume 14 / Issue 2 / 2018
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- 13 August 2018, E10
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