The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Queering Kansas City Jazz: Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene (November 2018) by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone. This is the latest book in the Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, … Continue reading Excerpt: Queering Kansas City Jazz
UNP is a proud publisher of women writers and women’s history. Celebrate Women’s History Month with these reading suggestions. Westerns: A Women’s History Victoria Lamont This thoroughly-researched and engaging history disproves the assumption that the Western genre has always … Continue reading Reading List: Women’s History Month
Early Modern Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary series that examines a wide range of aesthetic works and moments in their original cultural milieu. The series is interested in questions about a rapidly changing world where politics, religion, national identity, and gender … Continue reading A Closer Look at the Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
The following is excerpted from Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama and Early Modern England by Ann C. Christensen (Nebraska 2016). The Drama of Separate Spheres, a New Critical Approach The four tragedies and the little-known hybrid play in this study could be called … Continue reading Excerpt: Separation Scenes
Emily Giller is the Advertising and Exhibits Coordinator in the marketing department. NINE March 9-12, 2016 (Tempe, AZ) UNP conference attendee: Rob Taylor, Sports Editor “We received many positive comments about George Gmelch’s Playing with Tigers, and sold all copies … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: March Exhibit Round Up
MARCH STAFF READING LIST UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books our noses have been buried in. Marathon Woman: Running the Race to … Continue reading What We’re Reading
An excerpt from Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing by Polly Reed Myers (September 2015). The war was a turning point for the Boeing “family” in that it required the company to do more with less and to refashion … Continue reading Excerpt: Capitalist Family Values
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