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.
Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation
Kirsten Fischer
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828764
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
In this first biography of Elihu Palmer, Kirsten Fischer depicts a once notorious freethinker who countered Christianity with the idea of an interconnected universe infused with a divine life force. Denounced as "heretical," Palmer's speeches and writings shaped the contest over freedom of religion and of speech in the new United States.
The first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic world, Reorienting the East examines Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic travel accounts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries that subvert, or reorient a decidedly Christian vision of the region and reflect changing Jewish self-perceptions.
Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean
Kim Hall
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827866
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Tracing the literal and literary uses of sugar in seventeenth-century England, The Sweet Taste of Empire shows how literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slavery.
Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism amid the War on Crime
Caitlin Reed Wiesner
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828269
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
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.
Ingrid Nelson traces the development of media concepts from the twelfth through the fifteenth century across scientific, legal, and devotional knowledge domains, offering a coherent theory of premodern media. Medieval Media expands our understanding of media history and opens new avenues for medieval literary studies.
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.
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting traces the history of what was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century. From parrots and preachers to stammerers and singers, the book delves not only into changing medical norms and musical ideals but also into the sometimes painful and awkward daily work of having a voice.
Georgina Wilson shows how the material affordances of paper shaped the work of readers, writers, and critics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing critical attention to the real and imagined women and men who made and used paper, Wilson shows how paper makes literature not only as a physical object but also as a discipline.
By analyzing ethnographic interviews with the youth of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Susanna Trnka reveals the emotional, financial, and deeply personal ideas at stake as understandings of health shift in the minds of young people, who are often at the vanguard of new trends in mental health, physical fitness, and digital health technologies.
