Oxford’s new Introduction to WGSS is out!

I’m so happy to have an essay appear alongside work by my KU friends Hannah Britton, DaMaris Hill, and Liam Lair–plus contributions by  Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Marilyn Frye, CJ Pascoe, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Gloria Anzaldúa, Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gorilla Girl, Bikini Kill, Rosamarie Garland-Thomson, and dozens of other fantastic authors in Oxford’s new Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional ApproachesIntroduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, edited by  L. Ayu Saraswati, Barbara Shaw, and Heather Rellihan. For $75, your students get 90 great, teachable essays, both classic and new.

Above, Oxford’s newest reader in WGSS.

I was honored to get to contribute “Constraints and Freedoms in Conservative Christian Women’s Lives,” which appears in the book’s section on cultural debates in WGSS. If you teach the essay, I’d be happy to visit with your students to discuss it or to discuss their own work on religion and women.