An essential guide to the Integral Movement method for managing hypermobility conditions, from an author with decades of personal, research and professional experience, particularly with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

Using research on female physiology and its effects on physical performance and psychology, this book informs physical practitioners and athletes on how best to navigate and take advantage of the female body’s cycles during physical training.

The stunning history of the first student-led, direct-action civil rights demonstration in the state of Mississippi

The first authoritative treatment of musicians who tallied platinum records and hit singles over six different decades

Collected interviews with the National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan and many other critically acclaimed works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry

An in-depth exploration of the multifaceted career of one of the most influential figures in the world of comics

The first full-length biography of a true giant of jazz

Fresh takes on the films and legacy of one of horror’s most famous directors

How three Black leaders used womanist rhetoric to announce their campaigns for president of the United States of America

Planting Thistles explores how state-sponsored settlement of Scottish Islanders in Western Canada at the height of Victorian imperialism brought core conceptions of race, class, gender, and modernity itself into question.

Who cares for parental caregivers? The short answer is, parenting groups do. Who Cares for Parents examines how parenting groups collectively build and contribute significant resources to form a broader care infrastructure for adult family caregivers with children. This book looks at the content of care parenting groups provide care for parents, through comparative research including mothers, fathers, and nonbinary parents. Cases include some of the most recognizable parenting groups in the United States, some with vast networks of parent members numbering in the thousands or even millions, like the Parent Teacher Association, La Leche League, and MOMS Club International. The book also examine newer and, perhaps, less well known groups like the City Dads Group, the Upper East Side (UES) Mommas, as well as smaller sets of local dads’ groups and a babysitting co-op. 

In the aftermath of the fall of Roe, this volume offers readers the opportunity to reorient scholarship and understanding about abortion, recognizing what was already true before Roe was overturned and how losing the protections of Roe forced, enabled, and perhaps even facilitated a new era of abortion. Only by understanding the historical moment when Roe fell can we anticipate what might happen next in the ongoing social and political contention over reproductive autonomy and freedom.
 
 

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman through cutting-edge theoretical frameworks of animal studies and posthumanism, alongside the established scholarship of Hebrew/Jewish literature and gender studies, this book innovatively revisits the Hebrew literary canon.

The Impossible Woman examines scripted television programs featuring exceptional women and how these shows contribute to sexist realism, or the cultural assumption that there is no alternative to patriarchy. This book explains how the problems facing television’s strongest women illustrates television’s inability to imagine a just feminist future.

Post-Weird explores communities formed when authority and meaning collapse, drawing parallels between serpent-handling churches, conspiracy theorists, pro-anorexia forums, and pseudoscientists. Dr. Matheson critiques their rigid worldviews and advocates for rethinking rhetoric as an approach to navigating the world's ambiguity and uncertainty.
 

Blending candid story-telling, cultural critique, and theory, Darla Schumm invites readers to reflect on the experiences of people with disabilities in religious communities. Schumm argues that it’s not disability that needs healing, it’s ableism that needs healing. To heal ableism, Schumm calls us to enact accessible love.

Finding Mr. Perfect explores the romantic relationships between Korean men and the women who were inspired by romantic Korean televisual depictions of Korean masculinity to travel to Korea as tourists. The book analyzes the disparate erotic desires that shape such transnational encounters.
 

This short volume considers conversion in a Jewish context as broadly as possible, as an act of socioreligious boundary crossing. It charts how, across the long arc of Jewish history from biblical times to the present, patterns of boundary crossing have developed and shifted, whether of Gentiles entering Jewish life or of Jews exiting from it.

Class Cultures and Social Mobility tells the stories of people who grew up working-class, became the first of their family to graduate from college, and undertook professional work that serves working-class people, drawing upon their roots to construct careers aimed at building stability, mobility, and fulfillment for the next generation.

Archaeological Structuration is a critical analysis of the theory of structuration and its utility in the study of societal development over deep time. Structuration theory was originally developed by Anthony Giddens in sociology and adopted piecemeal into archaeology. This book takes a closer look at its contributions to new materialism and develops novel ways to operationalize the theory in archaeological research in the twenty-first century.

On the conservation frontier of southern Chile, the lives of smallholding settlers, Indigenous Mapuche farmers, environmental activists, entrepreneurs, and conservation scientists all grapple with the enduring impacts of settler-caused environmental depletion, aspirations for a new ethics of care, and the promises of an ecotourism boom. Here, the question of what it means to be human is not simply an existential concern but the reflexive result of experiences of becoming human through and with nonhuman others in an increasingly uncertain world.

This volume takes a holistic approach to the American Revolutionary War era, drawing on perspectives from archaeology and related disciplines to illuminate the multifaceted nature of the conflict.