Pregnant bodies rarely appear in Victorian novels. When they are revealed, they are metonymy, metaphor, or symbol that represent ideology around womanhood, instructing morality or medical judgment, according to Livia Arndal Woods. Indeed, Woods observes that visible pregnant bodies often signal transgression of boundaries for a “modest” woman, while the “ideal” woman’s body is veiled….

Suicide in Popular Media and Culture: Studies in Framing a Social Catastrophe responds to a particular mode of cultural interpretation that frames readings of death beyond the physical and more as an enactment of societal norms. The anthology aligns with the concerns of the Death and Culture series by centering its theme on suicidology and…

In Brother Epistles, Shanda McManus, a family medicine physician, pens a memoir that encapsulates the Black lived experience across an array of topics, including residential segregation, the prison-industrial complex, environmental injustice, and health disparities, among others, laying bare the personal consequences of systemic inequity. McManus also unpacks how black guilt takes shape for those, like…