Sapphistries Natural disasters and new media technologies and

and new media technologies and industries have reconfigured the Bombay-based industry’s geographic reach

Winner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association

For Women and Girls Only argues that access to technology has completely transformed how ultra-Orthodox women express their way of being religious and that the digital era has enabled them to create an alternative entertainment market outside of the public

Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit

Sapphistries Natural disasters and new media technologies andA lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same sex sexuality across time and geography From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same sex