$2.99 e-book sale to celebrate the National Women’s Studies Association conference

For the month of November 2015, to coincide with the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting November 12-15 in Milwaukee, we have lowered the e-book list price of four titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99.

Cover for CHÁVEZ: Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities. Click for larger imageQueer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities by Karma R. Chávez
Karma R. Chávez analyzes how activists use coalition to articulate the shared concerns of queer politics and migration politics, as activists imagine their ability to belong in various communities and spaces, their relationships to state and regional politics, and their relationships to other people whose lives might be very different from their own. Advocating a politics of the present and drawing from women of color and queer of color theory, this book contends that coalition enables a vital understanding of how queerness and immigration, citizenship and belonging, and inclusion and exclusion are linked. Queer Migration Politics offers activists, queer scholars, feminists, and immigration scholars productive tools for theorizing political efficacy. Buy the Kindle version here. Buy the Kobo version here. Buy the Google Play version here. Buy the Nook version here.

Cover for Keating: Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change. Click for larger imageTransformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change by AnaLouise Keating
In this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think about identity, difference, social justice and social change, metaphysics, reading, and teaching. Through detailed investigations of women-of-color theories and writings, indigenous thought, and her own personal and pedagogical experiences, Keating develops transformative modes of engagement that move through oppositional approaches to embrace interconnectivity as a framework for identity formation, theorizing, social change, and the possibility of planetary citizenship. Buy the Kindle version here. Buy the Kobo version here. Buy the Google Play version here. Buy the Nook version here.

Cover for SUBRAMANIAM: Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity. Click for larger image
Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity by Banu Subramaniam
In a stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, Banu Subramaniam explores how her dissertation on flower color variation in morning glories launched her on an intellectual odyssey that engaged the feminist studies of sciences in the experimental practices of science by tracing the central and critical idea of variation in biology. Subramaniam reveals the histories of eugenics and genetics and their impact on the metaphorical understandings of difference and diversity that permeate common understandings of differences among people exist in contexts that seem distant from the so-called objective hard sciences. Buy the Kindle version here. Buy the Kobo version here. Buy the Google Play version here. Buy the Nook version here.

Cover for SHOME: Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture. Click for larger imageDiana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture by Raka Shome
The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper-class white British woman with “the people” raises questions. What narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? Why would a similar idealization not have appeared around a non-white, non-Western, or immigrant woman? Moving from ideas on the positioning of privileged white women in global neoliberalism to the emergence of new formulations of white femininity in the millennium, Diana and Beyond fearlessly explains the late princess’s never-ending renaissance and ongoing cultural relevance. Buy the Kindle version here. Buy the Kobo version here. Buy the Google Play version here. Buy the Nook version here.

 

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