Jane Ward is professor and chair of Feminist Studies at University of California Santa Barbara.  She teaches and writes about gender and sexual cultures and has published on topics including the anti-gender movement, masculinity and online misogyny, the marriage self-help industry, the ebb and flow of interest in lesbian feminism, the meaning of sex between straight-identified men, queer childhood and parenting, the corporatization of gay pride festivals, feminist pornography, and trans relationships. 


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Ward is the author of multiple  books, including The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,  described by The New York Times Book Review as "at heart a somber, urgent academic examination of the many ways in which opposite-sex coupling can hurt the very individuals who cling to it most." Her book  Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (2015) was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her co-edited book (with Soma Chaudhuri), THE WITCH STUDIES READER, is forthcoming with Duke University Press in March 2025.​

​CONTACT:  For print and digital inquiries and for press copies of The Tragedy of Heterosexuality or Not Gay, please contact Jenny Rossberg ([email protected]) at NYU Press.