Books published by University of Illinois Press

Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. This title departs boldly from the dichotomy that has informed most commentary on them: Edith's authentic representations of Chinese North Americans versus Winnifred's phony portrayals of Japanese characters and settings.

Features the history of the involvement of African Americans in the early recording industry and examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved.

An ethnography on how individuals and groups confront uncertainty in all areas of their lives.

In a stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, the author explores how her dissertation on flower color variation in morning glories launched her on an intellectual odyssey that engaged the feminist studies of sciences in the experimental practices of science by tracing the central and critical idea of variation in biology.

First edition title: Coming on strong: gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport.