Cynthia Chris and David A. Gerstner are co-editing an upcoming special issue of WSQ. As part of the journal’s format, each issue contains book reviews that relate to the volume’s theme. The theme under which we are working is “Engage!” (please see our CFP for full details: http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/current-call-papers ). Book reviews are bundled with two or three books that conceptually relate to the issue’s theme. This model has the advantage of both providing reviews of several new books while ‘engaging’ a dialogue between or among authors.

With this in mind we seek book reviewers who wish to rigorously discuss topical works and contribute to the scholarly mission that underlines WSQ. While we include a list of books available for your consideration to review, we encourage you to suggest books about which you have interest in writing and have intellectual and conceptual relationship to ‘Engage!’ The deadline for reviews is: March 12, 2013.

Please contact both Cynthia and David by December 1, 2012 if you wish to take part in our project: (Cynthia.Chris@csi.cuny.edu and dgerstner@gc.cuny.edu). Please include your cv.

A list of books is included here and currently available for review from the WSQ offices. Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, edited by Catherine M. Orr, Ann Braithwaite, and Diane Lichtenstein. New York: Routledge, 2012. The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott’s Critical Feminism, edited by Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference by Roderick A. Ferguson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Object Lessons by Robyn Wiegman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. Transfeminist Perspectives in and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies, edited by Anne Enke. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature by Juliana Chin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, October 2012. Depression: A Public Feeling by Ann Cvetkovich. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Y. Chen. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. Humanimal: Race, Law, Language by Kalpana Rahita Seshadri. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century by Kyla Wazana Tompkins. New York: New York University Press, 2012. Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters: Gay Representation in Israeli Cinema by Nir Cohen. Wayne State University Press, 2011. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation After 9/11 by Evelyn Alsultany. New York: New York University Press, 2012. Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Belonging, edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany and Nadine Naber. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco by Zakia Salime. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.