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.
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 ...
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. ...
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’...