Books of Critical Interest

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Adler, Libby. Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2018. Pp. 288. $99.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

Davies, Russell, ed. Sex, Sects and Society: “Pain and Pleasure”: A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870–1945. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018. Pp. 448. £19.99 (cloth); £19.99 (e-book).

Doyle, Nora. Maternal Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 286. $90.00 (cloth); $32.95 (paper); $9.99 (e-book).

Fraser, Steve. Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 304. $25.00 (cloth).

Gill, Lyndon K. Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 312. $99.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Hennefeld, Maggie. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. 384. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper); $29.99 (e-book).

Hunter, Dianna. Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Pp. 248. $18.95 (paper).

Hurley, Natasha. Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Pp. 312. $108.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).

Jia, Jinhua. Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. 352. $70.00 (cloth); $69.99 (e-book).

Korinek, Valerie. Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930–1985. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. 528. $95.00 (cloth); $42.95 (paper); $42.95 (e-book).

Lefkovitz, Alison. Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women’s Liberation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 528. $95.00 (cloth); $42.95 (paper); $42.95 (e-book).

Meadow, Tey. Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. 320. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper); $29.95 (e-book).

Moeller, Kathryn. The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development. First edition. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. 320. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper); $29.95 (e-book).

Montegary, Liz. Familiar Perversions: The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018. Pp. 256. $99.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper); $26.95 (e-book).

Purton, Peter, Frances O’Grady, and Maria Exall. Champions of Equality: Trade Unions and LGBT Rights in Britain. Chadwell Heath, UK: Lawrence & Wishart, 2017. Pp. 256. £20.00 (paper).

Reiss, Matthias. Controlling Sex in Captivity: POWs and Sexual Desire in the United States during the Second World War. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. 256. £20.00 (paper).

Schulz, Kristina, ed. The Women’s Liberation Movement: Impacts and Outcomes. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. Pp. 372. $105.00 (cloth).

Smith, Howard Philips, and Frank Perez. Southern Decadence in New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. Pp. 280. $36.00 (cloth).

Stilling, Robert. Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Post-colonial Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 392. $39.95 (cloth).

Stoops, Jamie. The Thorny Path: Pornography in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Pp. 312. $39.95 (cloth).

Tortorici, Zeb. Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2018.

Umoren, Imaobong D. Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. 216. $85.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper); $34.95 (e-book).

Welch, Kimberly M. Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 328. $39.95 (cloth); $29.99 (e-book).

Zaborowska, Magdalena J. Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in France. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 408. $104.95 (cloth); $28.95 (paper).