the feminist librarian

Last week I reviewed Sarah Schulman's Ties That Bind  which explored from a very personal perspective the ravages of familial homobig...

Footnote mining from Paying for the Party , I ordered Patrick Carr and Maria Kefelas'  Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain...

cross-posted at the family scholars blog . via Religion Dispatches . The American Sociological Association has filed an amicus brief in...

Last week, I reviewed Public Vows  which explored the history of American custom and law surrounding marriage. This week, I have some ref...

Between the winter of 1987 and the summer of 1988, Boston-based journalist Neil Miller traveled across the United States "in search o...

The University of Minnesota Press was kind enough to send me a review copy of Geraldine Pratt's fascinating study of migrant domesti...

Ever since I heard about Amy Schalet's research and her forthcoming book,  Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex  ...

random pretty thing ( via ) 1. On Cynthia Nixon and choosing one's sexual identity . According to Cassie Murdoch @ Jezebel, actre...

I was super excited to get my hands on an advance review copy of The Lives of Transgender People  by Genny Beemyn and Susan Rankin (Columb...

find table of contents here For the past couple of months I've been making my way through Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader (Duke Un...

As promised, here are some "third thoughts" about my participation in Holly Donovan's  comparative research on social interact...