Recent Member Publications

Childbirth is a women’s rights issue and a reproductive justice issue. The United States maternity system is one of the costliest in the developed world, yet our birth outcomes compare poorly to those of other industrialized nations. The Business of Being Born: Classroom Edition …

Third World Newsreel is proud to release Dagmar Schultz’s documentary film about Black feminist lesbian poet Audre Lorde and her legacy to the Afro-German Movement. Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 explores a little-known chapter of Lorde’s …

Now available from Indiana University Press: Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy Mobbing, Well-Being, and the Workplace Noelle J. Molé “An important and path-breaking work . . . provocative and nuanced, theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich.” —David G. Horn, Ohio State …

By Margot Weiss http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=16495 Techniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area’s pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and …

Greetings, Back in July, several members of the AFA responded to my request for information on single-sex women’s communities. I am an historical archaeologist, and am doing my dissertation research at a National Register-listed women’s retreat on Lake George, NY. …

An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the “women’s rights as human rights” framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice. Drawing on detailed case studies from the United States, …

Elly Teman University of California Press, March 2010 Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological …

Nadine T. Fernandez Rutgers University Press 2010 Scholars have long heralded mestizaje, or race mixing, as the essence of the Cuban nation. Revolutionizing Romance is an ethnographic account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba, as it is experienced …