Books published by The University of Michigan Press

Examines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of perception, identifying the multiple senses involved in the formation of gender identity within social interactions.

Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. This book demonstrates the importance of African writing to animal studies.

Analyses uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative.

Presents an innovative perspective that looks beyond the simple category of "kids" media to consider how entertainment industry strategies invite producers and consumers alike to cross boundaries between adulthood and childhood, professional and amateur, new media and old.

Examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections - a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term ""gendered vulnerability"".

Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the most important German theatre artists have created plays and productions about unification. Performing Unification examines how German directors, playwrights, and theater groups have represented and misrepresented the past, confronting their nation's history and collective identity.

Examines how public water service becomes a political tool in Mexican cities and uncovers the politics of water provision in developing democracies