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Everything I Never Wanted to Know

Christine Hume

“Provocative and intelligent … A thoughtfully disturbing, sharp sociological study.” —Kirkus

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Art for the Ladylike

An Autobiography through Other Lives

Whitney Otto

“Startling, funny, and compassionate ... this is an invaluable guide to the life of the mind and the soul of an artist.” —Diana Abu-Jaber

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Untimely Women

Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History

Jason Barrett-Fox

“Barrett-Fox’s scholarship is impressively interdisciplinary, and his medio-materialist historiography will be of great interest to feminist rhetorical scholars.” —Sarah Hallenbeck, author of Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America

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Listen to Me Good

The Story of an Alabama Midwife

Margaret Charles Smith and Linda Janet Holmes

“This fascinating oral history will interest students of the health sciences, women’s studies, and history, as well as general readers. Highly recommended for all collections.” —Library Journal

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Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel

Livia Arndal Woods

“Woods shows us how much is at stake in representing women’s bodies.” —Megan Ward, author of Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character

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Motherhood in Bondage

Margaret Sanger

With a foreword by Margaret Marsh

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New & Forthcoming Titles:

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Softly Undercover

Hanae Jonas

Front cover of Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory, edited by Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin, featuring a modern bronze sculture of Niobe.

Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory

Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin, Eds.

Front cover of Through Fences, Written by Frederick Luis Aldama and Illustrated by Oscar Garza, featuring images of several characters from the interior peeking through openings in a chain link fence.

Through Fences

Frederick Luis Aldama and Oscar Garza

Front cover of Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts, edited by Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates, with plant stems and roots emerging from the letters in Grassroots.

Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts

Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates, Eds.

Front cover of City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures, featuring a tall concrete wall, set with two large industrial fans, one red and one blue.

City Scripts: Narratives of Post-Industrial Futures

Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma, Eds.

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Slow Narrative across Media

Edited by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova

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Human Rights on the Move

Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman

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About the Ohio State University Press:

The Ohio State University Press was established in 1957 and currently publishes 50-60 new books a year. We specialize in literary and cultural studies (including comics, narrative theory, Victorian studies, and medieval studies), American studies, rhetoric and communication, gender and sexuality studies, and race and ethnic studies (including Black studies and Latinx studies). We also acquire books in regional studies on our Trillium imprint, creative works on our Mad Creek imprint, and linguistics, and we publish the annual winners of The Journal’s non/fiction and poetry prizes.

In addition to its books, the Press publishes a distinguished group of journals including Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, Adoption & Culture, American Periodicals, Victorians, North American Journal of Celtic Studies, and Narrative.


The Ohio State University Press is a proud member of the Association of University Presses. For a spreadsheet list of the Association's members and the subjects they publish in, click here. For a PDF of the Association's publication, Best Practices for Peer Review, click here.

Latest News:

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed is a Finalist for the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies!

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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito is a Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography!

Front cover of I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir, by Susan Kiyo Ito, featuring a background of blue fabric with white cranes and an evergreen branch sewn onto it.

Congratulations to our 2023 Eisner nominees: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins’s How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies is nominated for Best Academic/Scholarly Work, and José Alaniz’s Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia is nominated for Best Comics-Related Book.

American Magnitude by Christa Olson has won the 2023 RSA Book Award!

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Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize coeditor Kathy Fagan is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow!