Erica Lorraine Williams visited the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University to discuss her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. In her talk, Williams examines the impact of […]
Tag: gender studies
Autism, social skills classes and gender conformity
In Chapter 5 of Jordynn Jack’s Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks, the author considers how autistic people consider gender and sexuality. On her book blog Jack […]
Q&A with Autism and Gender author Jordynn Jack
Jordynn Jack is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is the author of Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks. She recently answered […]
Q&A with Sex Tourism in Bahia author Erica Lorraine Williams
Erica Lorraine Williams is an assistant professor of anthropology at Spelman College. She answered some questions about her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. Q: For your book research you […]
Q&A with Caribbean Spaces author Carole Boyce Davies
Carole Boyce Davies is a professor of Africana studies and English at Cornell University. She is the editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture and several other collections […]
Caribbean Spaces up for OCM Bocas Prize
Carole Boyce-Davies has been named to the long list for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones is one of three books nominated […]