Past Book Award Recipients

2023 Winner

Evelyn Autry

Paper Title: "Singing Feminist Ch'ixi+Art Music from las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and the Fractured Locus"

2022 Winners

Fauzia Erfan Ahmed, Jyotsana Parajuli, and Anna Lucia Feldman

Paper Title: "Is Income Enough? Socio-Legal Empowerment for Working Women in Bangladesh"

2022 Honorable Mention

Jocelyn E. Marshall

Paper Title: "Dis/Embodied Articulation: Exilic Protest in Ana Mendieta’s Borderlands"

2023 Co-Winners

Kemi Adeyemi, Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago 

Emily Owens, Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans 

2023 Honorable Mention

Marie Bernadine Hernández, Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital and Violence in the 19th C Borderlands 

2022 Co-Winners
Rana Jaleel, The Work of Rape
Duke University Press, 2021

micha cárdenas, Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media
Duke University Press, 2022

2022 Co-Honorable Mentions

Erica Edwards, The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire

New York University Press, 2021

Jennifer Nash, Birthing Black Mothers

Duke University Press, 2021

2021 Winner 
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
New York University Press, 2020

Ghassan Moussawi,Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut
Temple University Press, 2020

2020 Winner
Sarah Luna, Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
University of Texas Press, 2020

2019 Winner
Jennifer Nash, Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality
Duke University Press, 2019

2019 Honorable Mention
Alys Weinbaum, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History
Duke University Press, 2019

2018 Winner
Debarati Sen, Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling
State University of New York Press, 2017

2018 Honorable Mention
T. Jackie Cuevas, Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
Rutgers University Press, 2018

2017 Winner
Lorgia García-Peña, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
Duke University Press, 2018

2017 Honorable Mentions
Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life
Duke University Press, 2017

Lalaie Ameeriar, Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Duke University Press, 2017

2016 Winner
Sylvanna M. Falcon, Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism in the United Nations
University of Washington Press, 2016

2016 Honorable Mentions
Aimee Meredith Cox, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
Duke University Press, 2015

Sujey Vega, Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest
New York University Press, 2015

2015 Winner
Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
University of California Press, 2015

2015 Honorable Mention
Richa Nagar, Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism
University of Illinois Press, 2014

2014 Winner
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
University of Minnesota Press, 2014

2014 Honorable Mention
AnaLouise Keating, Transformation Now
University of Illinois Press, 2014

2013 Winner
L. Ayu Saraswati, Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia
University of Hawaii Press, 2013

2012 Winner
Elora Chowdhury, Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh
SUNY Press, 2011

2012 Honorable Mentions
Theresa Delgadillo, Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative
Duke University Press, 2011

Layli Maparyan, The Womanist Idea
Routledge, 2011

2011 Winner
Barbara Sutton, Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentia
Rutgers University Press, 2010

2011 Honorable Mention
Megan Sweeny, Title
University of North Carolina Press, 2010

2010 Winner
Suzanne Bost, Encarnacion: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature
Fordham University Press, 2009

2010 Honorable Mention
Lisa Thompson, Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class
University of Illinois Press, 2009

2009 Winner
Maria Eugenia Cotera, Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez and the Poetics of Culture
University of Texas Press, 2008

2008 Winner
Amira Jarmakani, Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

2008 Honorable Mention
Cari M. Carpenter, Seeing Red
Ohio State University Press, 2008

2023 Winner

Arseli Dokumaci, Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds

2023 Honorable Mention

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice

2022 Winner

Allyson Day, The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities
The Ohio State University Press, 2021

2021 Winner
Susan Burch, Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
University of North Carolina Press, 2021

2020 Winner
Cynthia Barounis, Vulnerable Constitutions
Temple University Press, 2019

2019 Winner
Megan Glick, Infrahumanisms: Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood
Duke University Press, 2018

2018 Winners
Jasbir K. Puar, The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability
Duke University Press, 2017

Subini Ancy Annamma, The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus
Routledge, 2018

2017 Winner
Eunjung Kim, Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Korea
Duke University Press, 2017

2023 Winner

Sarah McNamara, Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South

2023 Honorable Mention

Crystal Moten, Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee

2022 Winner
Sara Matthiesen, Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade
University of California Press, 2021

2022 Honorable Mention
Priya Kandaswamy, Domestic Contradictions: Race and Gendered Citizenship from Reconstruction to Welfare Reform
Duke University Press, 2021

2021 Winners
Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras
University of Texas Press, 2021

Arunima Datta, Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya
Cambridge University Press, 2020

2019 Winners
Alys Weinbaum, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History
Duke University Press, 2019

Tara Patricia Cookson, Unjust Conditions: Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs
University of California Press, 2018

2019 Honorable Mention
Sarah Jane Blithe, Anna Wiederhold Wolfe, & Breanna Mohr, Sex and Stigma: Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada’s Legal Brothels
New York University Press, 2019

2018 Winner
Kathryn Moeller, The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development
University of California Press, 2018

2018 Honorable Mention
Yasemin Besen-Cassino, The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
Temple University Press, 2017

2017 Winners
Hanan Hammad, Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt
University of Texas Press, 2016
Shatema Threadcraft, Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic
Oxford University Press, 2016

2017 Honorable Mention
Attiya Ahmad, Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
Duke University Press, 2017

2016 Winners
Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
University of North Carolina Press, 2016
Premilla Nadasen, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
Beacon Press, 2016

2015 Winner
Mireille Miller-Young, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography
Duke University Press, 2014

2014 Winners
Sonia Hernandez, Working Women Into the Borderlands
Texas A&M University Press
Anne Balay, Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers
The University of North Carolina Press

2013 Winner
Merike Blofield, Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America
Penn State Press, 2013

2012 Winners
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, Caring for America
Oxford University Press, 2012
Nancy Plankey-Videla, We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm
Rutgers University Press, 2012

2011 Winners
Sarah Damske, For the Family?: How Class and Gender Shape Women's Work
Oxford University Press, 2011
Jane Collins and Victoria Mayer, Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market
University of Chicago Press, 2010

2010 Winners
Tiantian Zheng, Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
University of Minnesota Press, 2009
Erynn Masi de Casanova, Making Up the Difference: Ecuadorian Women and Direct Selling
University of Texas Press, 2011

2009 Winners
Michelle Dowd, Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Millann Kang, The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work
University of California Press, 2010

2008 Winner
Carrie Baker, The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment
Cambridge University Press, 2007

2023 Co-Winners

Michaela Machicote, Jezebel by Another Name: Black Women, Carceral Geography and the Practice of Urban Marronage in Chicago.

Cinnamon Williams, Slave of a Slave No More: Gender, Domestic Labor, and Black Feminist Theories of Domestic Life

2022 Co-Winners
Amanda Buffalo, Kēdzéntēdé Kedzedı̨̄: Aunties, Disestablishment, and the Making of Communiversitea

Harshita Yalamarty, Across Seven Seas, I Followed You Here: Caste, Marriage Migration and Multiculturalism in the Indian Diaspora

2021 Winners
SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji
Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera

2019 Winner
Shamara Wyllie Alhassan, Re-Membering the Maternal Goddess: Rastafari Women’s Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan-African World

2018 Winner
Wen Liu, Assembling Asian America: Psychological Technologies and Queer Subjectivities

Nishant Upadhyay, Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity

2017 Winner
Nicosia M. Shakes, Gender, Race and Performance Space: Women’s Activism in Jamaican and South African Theatre

2017 Honorable Mention
Elizabeth Verklan, Objects of Desire: Feminist Inquiry, Transnational Feminism, and Global Fashion

2016 Winner
Michele Eggers, Embodying Inequality: The Criminalization of Women for Abortion in Chile

2015 Winner
Erin. L Durban-Albrecht, Postcolonial Homophobia: United States Imperialism in Haiti and the Transnational Circulation of Antigay Sexual Politics

2014 Winner
Ethel Tungohan, Migrant Care Worker Activism in Canada: From the Politics of Everyday Resistance to the Politics from Below

2013 Winner
Christina Holmes, Chicana Environmentalisms: Decolonizing the Body, Nature, and Spirit

2012 Winner
Sophie Richter-Devroe, How Women do Politics: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival in Palestine

2011 Winner
Erica Williams, Ambiguous Entanglements: Sex, Race, and Tourism in Bahia