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Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures

About the Book Series

Books in the Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures series exemplifies original research in feminist histories that "subvert" dominant and normative patterns of historical narrative by centering women, gender, and feminist politics. This exciting series delves into women’s histories, queer histories, people of colour histories and reclamations of non-western world heritage and cultures through high-quality research. The series aims to utilize intersectional historical analyses to revitalize scholarship in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.

The Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures book prize is in collaboration with the National Women’s Studies Association. Prize winners represent the best of scholarship that delves into women’s histories, queer histories, people of color histories, and reclamations of non-western world.

4 Series Titles


Women, Fertility, and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence

Women, Fertility, and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence

1st Edition

By Costanza Gislon Dopfel
December 24, 2024

Women, Fertility, and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence examines maternity-centered art to reveal women’s crucial function in saving Florence from a depopulation catastrophe. Nativity and Madonna and Child images that graced many households and chapels in Florentine society formed a program of ...

Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity

Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars: Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity

1st Edition

By Elizabeth Groeneveld
April 18, 2023

Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars re-examines the heated debates about the politics of sexuality known as the sex wars, investigating how they were fundamentally engaged in the complex intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Groeneveld presents an accessible and fascinating ...

When God Lost Her Tongue Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination

When God Lost Her Tongue: Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination

1st Edition

By Janell Hobson
September 30, 2021

When God Lost Her Tongue explores historical consciousness as captured through the Black feminist imagination that re-centers the perspectives of Black women in the African Diaspora, and revisits how Black women’s transatlantic histories are re-imagined and politicized in our contemporary moment. ...

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights

1st Edition

By Kanika Batra
August 03, 2021

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance. The book’...

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