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National Women’s Studies Association 2026

November 05, 2026 / Atlanta, GA

We are excited to celebrate with authors, editors, and friends of the press at NWSA 2026!

Senior Editor Elizabeth Ault and Assistant Editor Alejandra Mejía are joining you in person in Atlanta. Come find us in the exhibit hall at booth 47. Check out highlights of new and forthcoming gender, sexuality, and feminist studies titles below, or browse our complete list in the field here.

Use coupon code NWSA26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through December 17, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from Mare Nostrum Group.

If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Cover of Radicalizing Men has a dark black background with bold, white, capitalized  text.
Radicalizing Men

Fascist Desires, Great Replacement Propaganda, and Political Violence

Jessica Johnson

Book

Cover of Co-Motion features abstract designs resembling paint splatters, cut up paper, and undulating lines appear on a dark background. Dots of paint vary in size, reminiscent of the solar system.
Co-Motion

Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances

Paola Bacchetta

Book

Cover of Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun features a room with cylinders covering the floor and floating casting shadows on the walls. There appears three solid overlapping circles aligned vertically and centered on the cover in golden yellow, dark
Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun

An Elegy

Crystal Mun-hye Baik

Book

Cover of Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence features a painting of an Indigenous women with a serious expression with blurred silhouettes behind her against a maroon background.
Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence

Courts, Communities, and Care in Guatemala

Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen

Book

Cover of Notes from the Sex Worker Left features a watercolor painting of three individuals holding their faces close together with eyes closed. The central figure’s mouth is open showing teeth and bright red lips.
Notes from the Sex Worker Left

Lumpen Theory

Heather Berg

Book

Cover is a photograph of Anna Murray Douglass as a duotone in pink and red. There are three squares made of transparent gold triangle patterns overlayed.
Anna Murray Douglass

Biography of a Revolutionary

Celeste-Marie Bernier

Book

Cover of In a Field of Static: Missed Encounters with Black Feminist Theorizing by James Bliss. The cover features out-of-focus spheres of color on a white background. The title appears in large type with "In a Field" in the top third and &
In a Field of Static

Missed Encounters with Black Feminist Theorizing

James Bliss

Book

Cover of The Audacious Ministry of Zilpha Elaw. The cover features a purple-toned halftone portrait of the bust of a Black woman in a frilled bonnet with a dark purple box below. 
The Audacious Ministry of Zilpha Elaw

Race, Religion, and Rebellion

Kimberly D. Blockett

Book

Cover of Indigenous Archives features a photograph of two young Mayan women wearing traditional clothing sitting on steps.
Indigenous Archives

The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production

Floridalma Boj Lopez

Book

Cover of Content Machines is white with a tablet featuring six colorful digitally drawn images of romance book covers. There are blue thumbs ups and red hearts covering the images.
Content Machines

Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

Sarah Brouillette

Book

Cover of Close Writing is black with a black and white photograph of a couch strewn with folded papers in the upper right. A shadow of a person is centered against the light from a window.
Close Writing

Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces

Alice Butler

Book

Cover of Black Undertow is an expressionist styled painting using thick paint strokes and high contrast colors such as whites, grey blues, and a crimson. The paint features a group of black figures wearing long white garments.
Black Undertow

Hugo ka Canham

Book

Cover of Raising the Bottom features a black & white photograph is at the top of the cover featuring three Black individuals in movement. One person is standing with arms out, another is in the air, and the third is on the ground with their botto
Raising the Bottom

Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Alix Chapman

Book

Cover of Alien Encounters features an illustration of cabbages and a woman pushing a shopping cart on a bright yellow background, with lime green and red strips.
Alien Forms and Minor Genres

A Speculative Handbook of Academic Labor

Tina Chen

Book

Cover of Into the Loop features the book’s title and subtitle repeated in concentric spirals, creating a hypnotic, looping visual effect. The text varies in color—white, red, and teal—against a dark green background.
Into the Loop

An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Samuele Collu

Book

Cover of Conceptual Activism has a tangled rope-like object centered on a white background. The blue subtitle is intertwined within it. The red author's name and title are on the top right and bottom left.
Conceptual Activism

Radical Sense-Making and the Struggle for Gender

Davina Cooper

Book

Cover of Doing Nothing by James Currie. Cover is light gray. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's signature is at the bottom.
Doing Nothing

James Currie

Book

Cover of Learning from the High Priestess is a collage like drawing featuring bright colors against mostly black, using different shapes to create patterns and designs.
Learning from the High Priestess

Affect, Femme Care, and Somatic Practice

Ann Cvetkovich

Book

Cover of Faculties has bold white, orange, and pink typography against a deep purple background, with the title centered. The author's names are on the top left and the subtitle is on the bottom left.
Faculties

A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times

Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene

Book

Cover of Making Gay History features three photographs: the photo at the top is a group protesting holding signs and banners; the next is cut off only showing part of a person on a chair; the third features two people smiling into the camera.
Making Gay History

Memoir of a Scholar-Activist

John D′Emilio

Book

Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood cover image
Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood

Coming of Age in the Sixties

John D′Emilio

Book

Cover of Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans is brown featuring a print of a person huddled at a desk with their arms covering their face. Owls, bats, and other creatures surround them.
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans

Critical Theories of Decolonization

Nikita Dhawan

Book

The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it
P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

Book

The cover is a coral to sage gradient with a grainy texture featuring a white fine line illustration. The illustration is abstract featuring plant-like objects and scissors.
unrest in the nebulae

Gitan Djeli

Book

Cover of Reparative Craft features a black and white photo of someone making textile art. At the bottom there are patches of fabric in red, yellow, and dark purple. They are stitched over with overlapping loops. Larger stitches loop across the whole
Reparative Craft

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Textile Artist

Jason Edwards

Book

The cover features a photograph of a man in a black tank top and a woman in a velvet dress mid-embrace, a second woman in a sequined gown partially obscured by their figures. The photograph is rotated and superimposed upon itself twice across the cov
Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression

Jacob Engelberg

Book

Cover of Surviving the State a solid forest green. The bottom half of the cover features a photograph of an individual walking down a path in a field.
Surviving the State

Land and Democracy in Myanmar

Hilary Oliva Faxon

Book

The cover is solid orange red with a rectangular cut out centered right that displays part of a cinema section of a newspaper. The media shows photographs of films and blurbs as well as showtimes.
Curating Deviance

Programming the Queer Film Canon

Marc Francis

Book

On the cover of Erotic Knowledge, title appears at the top left in large black type on an orange background. Inset is a sketch of a powerful-looking nude woman angled away from the viewer with one arm outstretched.
Erotic Knowledge

Toward a Lesbian Feminist Political Theory

Elena Gambino

Book

Cover of The Sound of Feathers features an image of multicolored iridescent feathers fills the entire design. The title is in a white serif font at the top with the subtitle in yellow below it.
The Sound of Feathers

Attentive Living in a World Beyond Ourselves

Kathryn Gillespie

Book

Cover of Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing is white with a light pink spray-painted area at the top. Below are five hands in different art styles all reaching towards a central heart sculpture that is made from cut out hands.
Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing

Experiments in Philosophy

Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma, editors

Book

Cover of Still Dangerous! features a photograph of Harmony Hammond wearing a cowboy hat and smiling.
Still Dangerous!

The Harmony Hammond Reader

Harmony Hammond

Book

Cover of The Problem of Passing features a shadowed humans silhouette against a beige background with abstract line drawings composed of human hands.
The Problem of Passing

Sandra Harvey

Book

The cover is a a blue and coral pink duotone of a woman wearing a leotard that depicts a mushroom cloud. She is posing with her hands up and her mouth open in joy. The blue and pink are inverted to create circles around her.
Atomic Bombshells

How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies

Isabelle Held

Book

Cover of Transplanetary Americas has text in a retro sci-fi font in bright greenish yellow and an image of 2 people beneath Leo Vilareal's artwork Star Ceiling.
Transplanetary Americas

Art, Outer Space, and the Latinx Imagination

Robb Hernández

Book

Cover of My Father, the Messiah features a warm, reddish-orange overlay on a blurred photograph of a child reaching down to touch a man lying on the ground. The title is in a large white serif font across the center.
My Father, the Messiah

A Memoir

Gil Z. Hochberg

Book

Cover of Racial Beings shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type.
Racial Beings

Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms

Michelle N. Huang

Book

Cover of Materia Medica has a woven sculpture seated on a rug in a museum installation with red lighting.
Materia Medica

Black Women, White Doctors, and Spectacular Gynecology

Nicole N. Ivy

Book

Cover ofThe Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. The cover features a multicolored gradient overlaid on a photograph of modern glass-and-steel skyscrapers.
The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

The Postmodernism Essay

Fredric Jameson

Book

Afroindigenization cover image
Afroindigenization

A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice

Catherine A. John

Book

Cover of The New Politics of Online Feminism is dark purple. The title text is in a modern, geometric serif typeface in gradient shades ranging from light purple to orange. The author's name is below in green, in a smaller font.
The New Politics of Online Feminism

Akane Kanai

Book

Cover of Out of Sync is bright red with oversized layered blue, yellow, green, and orange lettering, technical illustrations of ventriloquist-dummy mechanisms, and black line drawings of a ventriloquist and puppet.
Out of Sync

Ventriloquism in Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok

Sarah Rebecca Kessler

Book

We See with the Skin cover image
We See with the Skin

On Zora Neale Hurston's Methodology

Kheshti, Roshanak

Book

Cover of Medicines That Feed Us features a vibrant, detailed illustration of various plants and flowers in shades of green, yellow, orange, blue, and red.
Medicines That Feed Us

Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

Stacey A. Langwick

Book

Cover of Personal Demons features a painting of a beige cat-like creature caught in branches against a painted black background.
Personal Demons

Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism

Grace Lavery

Book

The cover is a duotone of teal green and a berry red. A crowd is gathered with their arms wrapped around each other. In the background hung on a building is an art piece showing two figures and text in Korean.
The Minjung Art Movement

Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea

Sohl Lee

Book

Cover of Loving Black Boys features a purple and orange color overlay depicting two young boys walking together on a street, one with an arm around the other's shoulder.
Loving Black Boys

A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

Tamura Lomax

Book

Cover of Climbing is a grayish purple color. At the top of the cover the word Practices is centered in a handwritten script. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's hand printed name is at the bottom.
Climbing

Hil Malatino

Book

Cover of Breaking the World features the Pillars of Creation, a star forming region in the galaxy, in orange and warm hues against a brilliant star-filled sky.
Breaking the World

Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Justin L. Mann

Book

Cover of Star Charting by Bess Matassa. Cover is sky blue. The main title is in the middle in the same script (a star replaces the dot in the i in "Charting") and the author's signature is at the bottom.
Star Charting

Bess Matassa

Book

Cover of Gay Print Culture features an image of a handsome young man with dark hair wearing a blue tank top and a beige hat with its strap around his neck. The background includes green foliage and colorful flowers.
Gay Print Culture

A Transnational History of North America

Juan Carlos Mezo González

Book

Cover of The Connector has a black background featuring a white, abstract illustration resembling two branching, neuron‑like forms connected by a web of fine filaments.
The Connector

Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics

Alexandra Middleton

Book

Cover of Riding into History features a sepia-toned historical photograph of a young Black woman wearing a military uniform with buttons and a matching hat. The overall color scheme is a warm brownish tone.
Riding into History

The Surprising Story of Sarah Keys Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel

Amy Nathan

Book

Cover of Forms of Worship is purple with two photographs at the bottom. The left photograph is of a parade of people wearing colorful clothing and playing music. The smaller photo is of people in white looking up at a window.
Forms of Worship

How Orisa Worship Became Religion in Nigeria and Brazil

Ayodeji Ogunnaike

Book

Cover of Love in the Time of Zika features a red photograph of an individual wearing a hazmat suit, gas mask, and boots and carrying an insecticide sprayer.
Love in the Time of Zika

Environmental Crisis and the Future of Reproduction

Paige Marie Patchin

Book

Cover of Inside the Body of Black Feminism features a piece of art made with paint and oil pastels. There is a black figure against a deep red circle which is outlined in multiple colors.
Inside the Body of Black Feminism

Science, Race, Culture

Samantha Pinto

Book

Cover of California Futures features the silhouette of a bear with colorful cosmos inside, bold blue-and-white text, and a peach background.
California Futures

Haunted Ecologies, Decolonial Relations

Daniel Lanza Rivers

Book

Cover of Sweatshop Capital features a pink and blue-tinted image of women marching in protest, holding signs.
Sweatshop Capital

Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century

Beth Robinson

Book

Cover of Strange Tastes features hot pink plastic. Flames appear at the left border and in the top right corner melting the material. The title is aligned left central on the cover in a gradient of white to yellow to white mirroring the flames.
Strange Tastes

Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms

Monique Roelofs

Book

Sick Work cover image
Sick Work

Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness

Emily Lim Rogers

Book

The cover of Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom.
Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies

Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, editors

Book

Cover of From Hate to Hallows features an orange and red sky scattered with dark flecks above a black silhouetted church with a cross. The title appears in large white letters across the upper half.
From Hate to Hallows

Reframing Black Church Arson

Todne Thomas

Book

Cover of Sex Isn't Real features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background.
Sex Isn′t Real

The Invention of an Incoherent Binary

Beans Velocci

Book

Cover of The Violence of Protection features a textured print of lush grass with two fences extending from the left and right. There is a small orange chair in front of each fence.
The Violence of Protection

Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women

Lee Ann S. Wang

Book

Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black.
Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures

Kathi Weeks

Book

Cover of The Gloria Wekker Reader has a sepia photograph of Gloria Wekker. The title appears to the left of Wekker's face in a cream sans-serif font. A dotted line is under the title.
The Gloria Wekker Reader

Gloria Wekker

Book

The cover art is a detail from the installation "Biography of a thought" by Tenzing Rigdol, a vibrant, colorful piece with stylized waves in various shades of blue and swirling, multicolored clouds.
Ocean, as Much as Rain

Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet

Tsering Woeser

Book

Cover of Sonorous Passages features a sculpture of three black ceramic torsos expanding vertically, linked by bead-like orbs of glossy black and gold leaf. 
Sonorous Passages

Black Maternal Soundings and the Liberation Imaginary

Meina Yates-Richard

Book

Cover of Cisgender is a teal blue with navy blue loops and curls tangled across it. They have the texture of brush strokes.
Cisgender

Disorienting a Category

Perry Zurn

Book

Camera Obscura cover image
Camera Obscura

Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

Bishnupriya Ghosh, Lalitha Gopalan, Lynne Joyrich, Homay King, Bliss Cua Lim, Constance Penley, Tess Takahashi, Patricia White, and Sharon Willis, editors

Journal

Differences cover with bold yellow background and centered text asking For Whom Do We Read
For Whom Do We Read?

Journal Issue

Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies cover with veiled figure reaching toward light in blue green panel on orange background
Queer Apocalypse

Journal Issue

Cover of Meridians journal Volume 25 Number 1 featuring artwork of a person in a pink dress against a mandala backdrop.
Theory in the Flesh

Journal Issue

Journal cover featuring a silhouetted profile filled with Arabic script and small illustrated figures on a rose background
Comics, Politics, and Gender in the Arab World and Turkey

Journal Issue

QTR cover image
QTR

A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion

Joseph A. Marchal and Thelathia Nikki Young, editors

Journal

Cover of Social Text 167 featuring sculptural arrangement of curved metal tools against a white gallery wall and wooden floor
Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology

Journal Issue

Journal cover showing person in suit stepping from truck on suburban street beneath Transgender Studies Quarterly title
Trans Philosophy

Journal Issue