Category: Women’s Studies

• Cambria Press New Book for African studies, Latin American studies, slavery studies, and women’s studies

  At the 2014 LASA congress last month, there was much excitement not only for Howard University history professor Ana Lucia Araujo’s two highly praised books, Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade, but also her series, Slavery: Past and Present, because the inaugural title Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in…

  Cambria Press

  June 24, 2014

  African Studies, Africana Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Women’s Studies

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• Cambria Press Book Review! Sexing Political Culture in the History of France is “an invaluable resource for historians”!

      Cambria Press congratulates Alison Moore on the outstanding review of her book, Sexing Political Culture in the History of France, which the Canadian Journal of History has lauded because it “offers a series of fascinating vignettes on different historical instantiations of gender and sexuality across time” and “provides an insightful overview of the…

  Cambria Press

  April 16, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Book Review, Culture, International Studies, Political Science, Women’s Studies

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• Cambria Press New Book! Contemporary Chicana Literature is now available!

  Cambria Press is pleased to announce that Contemporary Chicana Literature is now available! Excerpts from this new book by Cristina Herrera: “A major element of Chicana women’s experience is navigating a society that is often racist, sexist, homophobic, and classist. … In order for the Chicana daughter to forge an identity, she must first come…

  Cambria Press

  April 8, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture, Latin American Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Women’s Studies

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• Cambria Press New Book! Rebecca Brown: Literary Subversions of Homonormalization

  “In the context of queer kinship, too, Brown’s presentation of a wide range of social options typically takes the form of a critical examination. She devotes attention to the influence of class on the possibility of constructing a “family of choice,” thereby distancing herself from the optimism of gay commentators who stress the unlimited freedom…

  Cambria Press

  April 7, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Literature, Women’s Studies

  academic publisher, American literature, American writer, Cambria Press, Contemporary literature, kinship, lesbian, lesbian domestic violence, lesbian family, lesbian identity, LGBT, literary criticism, queer, Rebecca Brown, Seattle, sexual identity, The Gifts of the Body, women writer

• AAS 2014 Highlight: Ooku, The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women

  Praise for Ooku, The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women: “A wonderfully detailed history of the shogunal harem in Japan … The study covers everything from job descriptions and employment procedures to struggles over money and power; and it does not shy away from discussion of the sex—or lack of it—at the heart of the Ooku’s raison…

  Cambria Press

  March 19, 2014

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, History, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Sociology, Women’s Studies

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• Cambria Press highlights Sex, Love, and Fidelity on Valentine’s Day!

  Happy Valentine’s Day from Cambria Press! On this day when many would like to feel special, Kassia Wosick’s book Sex, Love, and Fidelity is one to read to understand how contemporary relationships succeed (and fail). This fascinating study illuminates how “fidelity is the ultimate catalyst for feeling special and making one’s partner(s) feel significant. In…

  Cambria Press

  February 14, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Sociology, Women’s Studies

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• Cambria Press @ MLA 2014: What is better than a happy author with glowing book reviews?

  We were delighted when we had an unexpected visitor at the Cambria Press booth at the MLA annual convention–Brigitta Olubas all the way from Australia! Dr. Olubas is the author of Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist , which has garnered several excellent reviews. This book is in the Cambria Studies in Australian Literature book…

  Cambria Press

  January 15, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Australasian Studies, Book Review, Culture, International Studies, Literature, MLA, Women’s Studies

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• MLA 2014 annual convention: Incredible Success for Cambria Press!

  Cambria Press enjoyed yet another tremendously successful MLA annual convention this year! One of the many reasons was that the Cambria Press booth was in a prime location–right in front of the MLA book exhibit hall entrance. There was a great deal of traffic, and attendees had very nice things to say about the display.…

  Cambria Press

  January 14, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Australasian Studies, Culture, Latin American Studies, Literature, MLA, New Scholarly Books, Promotion, Theatre, Victorian Literature, Women’s Studies

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• Cambria Press will be at the American Historical Association in Washington D.C. – Visit booth 206!

  Cambria Press will be at the American Historical Association in Washington D.C. Visit the Cambria Press booth (206) in the exhibit hall to browse books such as: Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic Public by Ana Lucia Araujo (“An important and provocative work. No other study so thoroughly chronicles the…

  Cambria Press

  January 1, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, American Politics, Asian Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Women’s Studies

  #AHA2014, academic publisher, African history, AHA, American Historical Association, American history, Asian history, Cambria Press, History, Latin American history, slavery, world history

• Doris Lessing (1919-2013): “The salvation of this world cannot lie in any political ideology”

  Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Doris Lessing passed away yesterday, but her legacy as one of the greatest British writers will live on. A thinker ahead of her time, Lessing’s space fiction, as stated by David Waterman in his book Identity in Doris Lessing’s Space Fiction, “treats the human subject as a political text, on…

  Cambria Press

  November 18, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Literature, Women’s Studies

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