This book examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. Between…
This article examines the advent of modeling as a profession for African American women. This new career resulted from two developments in early postwar America:…
When the Soviet Union fell, Cuba pedaled its way to independence–by bicycle. What has become of Havana’s sole-powered communities born out of the need to…
The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence,…
This book is co-authored with Meena Sharify-Funk (Wilfrid Laurier University) and William Rory Dickson (University of Winnipeg). Publisher’s Description: What is Sufism? Contemporary views vary…
In Reproduction and Resistance: An Anti-colonial Contribution to Social-Reproduction Feminism (Historical Materialism 2016), I have approached Indigenous women’s caring labours as a site of both colonial…
In this book, I trace how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship. In an unprecedented…