Berkshire Conference of Women, Genders and Sexualities

Please enjoy this Virtual Book Exhibit and receive a 30% discount on the books listed below using the discount code S23XBCHW at checkout, good 6/28/2023 through 8/1/2023.

Involuntary Consent
The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry
Akiko Takeyama
Outrage
The Arts and the Creation of Modernity
Katherine Giuffre
Award winner
Who Needs Gay Bars?
Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
Greggor Mattson
Award winner
Daughter of History
Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Aid and the Help
International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care
Dinah Hannaford
Award winner
Forbidden Intimacies
Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance
Melanie Heath
Award winner
The Jews of Summer
Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
Sandra Fox
Climate Change, Interrupted
Representation and the Remaking of Time
Barbara Leckie
German Jews in Love
A History
Christian Bailey
Award winner
The Vulgarity of Caste
Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India
Shailaja Paik
Award winner
What Pornography Knows
Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century
Kathleen Lubey
Award winner
Academic Outsider
Victoria Reyes
Koreatown, Los Angeles
Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream"
Shelley Lee
Award winner
Sextarianism
Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Maya Mikdashi
Award winner
Lawful Sins
Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico
Elyse Ona Singer
Unknown Past
Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Hanan Hammad
Award winner
Global Burning
Eve Darian-Smith
Award winner
Strike Patterns
Notes from Postwar Laos
Leah Zani
Salinas
A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City
Carol Lynn McKibben
Policing Bodies
Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg
I. India Thusi
Years of Glory
Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa
Susan Gilson Miller
Award winner
Unfree
Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Award winner
Refusing Death
Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
Nadia Y. Kim
Award winner
It Could Lead to Dancing
Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity
Sonia Gollance
Award winner
Pious Peripheries
Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi
Award winner
The City as Anthology
Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan
Kathryn Babayan
Wild Visionary
Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context
Golan Y. Moskowitz
Award winner
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran
Niloofar Haeri
Award winner
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
Sa’ed Atshan
Award winner
Before Trans
Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France
Rachel Mesch