Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles illustrates how race, sexuality, and gender manifest in the daily labor and lives of kayayei.

The abortion market was a powerful economic force in American life. While we may have imagined securing an abortion as a hidden, woman-only experience before 1973, this history reveals the extent to which businesses and businessmen openly selling abortion access shaped the experience of buying abortions for millions of women.

In the 1970s, Black anti-rape organizers inflected Black women’s tradition of community-based caring with Black feminist condemnation of patriarchal and state violence. Between the Street and the State deepens our understanding of Black women’s anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on Crime.

To outsiders, there are two Souths: the South of the cross and the gun in the region’s interior, and the tourist’s South of Creole food and fine linen on the region’s coasts. Captive City explores the Souths between, mapping the legacy of slavery in the cities on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.

This book tells the story of the astonishing uptake of International Conflict Feminism (ICF) in the most powerful institutions of global governance. Vasuki Nesiah argues that grappling with ICF’s power is essential to achieving solidarity with dissident feminist traditions with priorities and interests that challenge the dominant world order.

Mary Ellen Curtin’s important new biography of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South to serve in Congress, explores the personal and political dimensions of her life, showing how she navigated the extraordinary pressures of office while seeking to use persuasion, governance, and popular politics as instruments of social change.

In this 10th anniversary edition of Baby Bust, Friedman draws on a groundbreaking cross-generational study to offer new insights into why fewer people are choosing to have children, how the pandemic affected these trends, and what can be done about it.