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Before Official Multiculturalism
Women’s Pluralism in Toronto 1950s-1970s
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487545642
Pub Date: February 2023
Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.
A Woman’s Empire
Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487545604
Pub Date: January 2023
A Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.
Between Orders and Heresy
Rethinking Medieval Religious Movements
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487502416
Pub Date: July 2022
Between Orders and Heresy suggests new ways of thinking about the modes of religious life that characterized the medieval religious experience.
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487523978
Pub Date: May 2022
A love story packed with gay history, this dual biography of a sexologist and his student sheds light on the early gay rights movement and the racist and imperial concepts that are embedded in queer politics.
States of Liberation
Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781487542146
Pub Date: February 2022
States of Liberation examines gay persecution and liberation in both East and West Germany during the Cold War.
Fighter, Worker, and Family Man
German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781487541248
Pub Date: December 2021
Fighter, Worker, and Family Man explores how German-Jewish men tried to maintain their understandings of masculinity under Nazi rule.
Unequal under Socialism
Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487528416
Pub Date: September 2021
Unequal under Socialism examines how and why different groups of women were not considered equal in so-called "good societies" revolving around socialist and communist principles and ideologies.
The Sword of Luchana
Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487508609
Pub Date: August 2021
The Sword of Luchana is the first full-length biography of Baldomero Espartero, the most important figure in Spain’s modern history.
On the Queerness of Early English Drama
Sex in the Subjunctive
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487508746
Pub Date: February 2021
This book probes occluded depictions of queerness in early English drama, ranging from medieval morality plays to Reformation interludes and beyond.
The Trial of Jeanne Catherine
Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781487587673
Pub Date: January 2021
This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, including her own.
Men Out of Focus
The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487505257
Pub Date: January 2021
Men Out of Focus examines how and why the Soviet public came to worry openly about the state of masculinity during the 1950s and 1960s – and how a perceived crisis really stood in for broader fears.
Assassination in Vichy
Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487588366
Pub Date: October 2020
An engrossing World War II "who done it" and a well-researched historical study of France’s deep political divisions and wartime choices, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of right-wing extremism in wartime France.
Wounded Feelings
Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870–1950
Price: $47.95
ISBN: 9781487526986
Pub Date: September 2020
Wounded Feelings explores how people brought stories of emotional injury like betrayal, grief, humiliation, and anger before the Quebec courts from 1870 to 1950, and how lawyers and judges translated those feelings into the rational language of law.
Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora
Price: $68.00
ISBN: 9781487503161
Pub Date: August 2020
In exploring the intersections of memory, migration, and subjectivity, this book attempts to understand how Iraqi migrant women negotiate identity in diaspora.
The Seduction of Youth
Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic
Price: $35.95
ISBN: 9781487525033
Pub Date: April 2020
The Seduction of Youth offers a new perspective on the history of the Weimar Republic by exploring the intersection between the homosexual movement, print culture, and homophobic fears about the seduction of young boys.
Being Fat
Women, Weight, and Feminist Activism in Canada
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487523473
Pub Date: March 2020
Being Fat examines the history of fat activism in Canada, correlating this history with second wave feminism and issues it was debating: femininity, sexuality, and health.

Before Official Multiculturalism
Women’s Pluralism in Toronto 1950s-1970s
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487545642
Pub Date: February 2023
Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.
A Woman’s Empire
Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781487545604
Pub Date: January 2023
A Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.
Between Orders and Heresy
Rethinking Medieval Religious Movements
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487502416
Pub Date: July 2022
Between Orders and Heresy suggests new ways of thinking about the modes of religious life that characterized the medieval religious experience.
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487523978
Pub Date: May 2022
A love story packed with gay history, this dual biography of a sexologist and his student sheds light on the early gay rights movement and the racist and imperial concepts that are embedded in queer politics.
States of Liberation
Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781487542146
Pub Date: February 2022
States of Liberation examines gay persecution and liberation in both East and West Germany during the Cold War.
Fighter, Worker, and Family Man
German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781487541248
Pub Date: December 2021
Fighter, Worker, and Family Man explores how German-Jewish men tried to maintain their understandings of masculinity under Nazi rule.
Unequal under Socialism
Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487528416
Pub Date: September 2021
Unequal under Socialism examines how and why different groups of women were not considered equal in so-called "good societies" revolving around socialist and communist principles and ideologies.
The Sword of Luchana
Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487508609
Pub Date: August 2021
The Sword of Luchana is the first full-length biography of Baldomero Espartero, the most important figure in Spain’s modern history.
On the Queerness of Early English Drama
Sex in the Subjunctive
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487508746
Pub Date: February 2021
This book probes occluded depictions of queerness in early English drama, ranging from medieval morality plays to Reformation interludes and beyond.
The Trial of Jeanne Catherine
Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781487587673
Pub Date: January 2021
This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, including her own.
Men Out of Focus
The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487505257
Pub Date: January 2021
Men Out of Focus examines how and why the Soviet public came to worry openly about the state of masculinity during the 1950s and 1960s – and how a perceived crisis really stood in for broader fears.
Assassination in Vichy
Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487588366
Pub Date: October 2020
An engrossing World War II "who done it" and a well-researched historical study of France’s deep political divisions and wartime choices, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of right-wing extremism in wartime France.
Wounded Feelings
Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870–1950
Price: $47.95
ISBN: 9781487526986
Pub Date: September 2020
Wounded Feelings explores how people brought stories of emotional injury like betrayal, grief, humiliation, and anger before the Quebec courts from 1870 to 1950, and how lawyers and judges translated those feelings into the rational language of law.
Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora
Price: $68.00
ISBN: 9781487503161
Pub Date: August 2020
In exploring the intersections of memory, migration, and subjectivity, this book attempts to understand how Iraqi migrant women negotiate identity in diaspora.
The Seduction of Youth
Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic
Price: $35.95
ISBN: 9781487525033
Pub Date: April 2020
The Seduction of Youth offers a new perspective on the history of the Weimar Republic by exploring the intersection between the homosexual movement, print culture, and homophobic fears about the seduction of young boys.
Being Fat
Women, Weight, and Feminist Activism in Canada
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487523473
Pub Date: March 2020
Being Fat examines the history of fat activism in Canada, correlating this history with second wave feminism and issues it was debating: femininity, sexuality, and health.