Envy has long been held to be a harmful emotion involving the desire to deprive others of
the qualities or possessions that they possess and we covet. When the various religious …

Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of
critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. In the 2010s, the term" …

With admirable clarity and impressively rich material of concrete examples and detailed
case studies, Shannon Jackson's study outlines the tensions and vectors in the very nerve …

From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, What a Girl Wants? explores the
importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture. Focusing on a …

Originally published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in
film theory and feminist criticism. The book consists of a theoretical introduction and …

South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in
many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid …

A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its
racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in …

“Whether or not you're a fan of What Not to Wear and its ilk, Makeover TV is a great read
which raises some serious questions about our society's obsessions with appearance and …

Despite strong evidence that men perpetrate most acts of sexual violence, little is known
about the factors that lead some men to commit such harmful acts. A growing body of …

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality attends to the silence around
asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present …