Ethical issues, topics and debates Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zippy and well illustrated, this book persuasively argues that 'equating hypersexualization with sex positivity is a form of Orwellian doublespeak.'" * New York Times Book Review *"Barton, a professor of sociology and gender studies at Morehead State University, assembles her case against porn and pornification through a blend of pop-culture analysis and interviews (mostly with young women in their 20s)...The Pornification of America is a solid update of the traditional feminist case against porn." * The Washington Post *"Once dismissed as a teenage phase, raunch culture is now a path to the presidency. Barton inspires us to take America back. Deftly teasing apart notions of sex positivity, sexual liberation, and radical feminism, she exposes raunch culture's pernicious lie: that pornification is empowerment. And not a moment too soon." -- Lisa Wade, author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus"Feel anger, rage, or hope. It is impossible to read The Pornification of America without feeling something about the thorny issues of mediated sexual desire in the 21st century. Bernadette Barton writes about the relentless capitalist commodification of female sexiness and the people who participate in it. From incels to pastors to politicians, nobody is exempt from the objectified and self-objectified raunch culture that Barton portrays. This book aims to deprogram readers’ subconscious conditioning and create the mental space to imagine a sex-positive revolution, not merely sexist shadows of that goal." -- Shira Tarrant, author of The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know"In The Pornification of America, Bernadette Barton offers a multi-faceted examination of what she calls 'raunch culture' in American society. She has a sophisticated awareness of feminist debates that are attuned to both protecting women's right to bodily self-determination—and our right to do what we please with our bodies—while simultaneously remaining critical of sexist and racialized cultural commodifications that can have insidious effects on women's sense of feminist freedoms." -- Lynn Chancer, author of After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution"In her timely book, Bernadette Barton shows us how raunch culture has invaded every aspect of our lives—personally, professionally and politically. This book should be used on college campuses across the country to stimulate debate on how we got here, why it matters and what we can do to change it." -- Kathleen A. Bogle, author of Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships on Campus"The Pornification of America is an excellent book for considering how sexism shapes popular culture and consequently public vernacular and social relationships. This is a great read for students or for any reader curious about the politics of raunch culture." -- Kristen Barber, author of Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry"Barton argues that something counterintuitive and grave is happening: as our culture becomes increasingly sexualized, it is actually becoming less sex-positive ... Barton is insightful too about the shortcomings of a culture that upholds consent as the best (and too often only) way for girls and everyone else to articulate their feelings about sex, sexual desire, and sexual attention." * Boston Review *"A valuable contribution to works about sex, the pornication of culture, feminism and the objectication of women. Undoubtedly, the book has a place in every Gender and Women’s Studies class taught in college, but discussions brought up in the book should start earlier than that, with High School students and between parents/caregivers and children." * Metapsychology *

Read more less

Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the American Society of Criminology's Division of Policing SectionThe first in-depth history and analysis of a much-abused policing policyNo policing tactic has been more controversial than stop and frisk, whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael White and Hank Fradella show in Stop and Frisk, the first authoritative history and analysis of this tactic, there is a disconnect between our everyday understanding and the historical and legal foundations for this policing strategy. First ruled constitutional in 1968, stop and frisk would go on to become a central tactic of modern day policing, particularly by the New York City Police Department. By 2011 the NYPD recorded 685,000 stop-question-and-frisk' interactions with citizens; yet, in 2013, a landmark decision ruled that the police had over- and mis-used this tactic. Stop and Frisk tells the story Trade Review"[A] critical but balanced examination of [stop-and-frisk], offers a basis for judging whether Trump or Clinton has the better arguments, and charts a way forward...[T]hey also insist, rightly, that when properly regulated, stop-and-frisk is an important tool in the police officer's arsenal. They want to mend it, not end it." * The Washington Post *"Stop and Frisktakes the most balanced perspective in weighing SQF policings benefits and social costs." * Polar Journal *"White and Fradella...broach the topic of the use of stop and frisk as a widespread crime-control strategy leading to the violation of constitutional rights of minorities...Recommended." * Library Journal *"Stop and Frisk brings together a considerable volume of previously scattered history, research, theory and commentary on a specific form of police misconduct. In doing so, the authors offer up a treatment of the topic that should be of interest to practitioners and scholars alike." -- Victor E. Kappeler,author of Community Policing"An uncompromising look at the racist legacies that haunt the contemporary police use of stop and frisk. The authors make a compelling case for why essential constitutional values like dignity are the key to restoring the legitimacy of policing in the 21st century." -- Jonathan Simon,author of Governing through Crime"The most comprehensive discussion of the topic to date.White and Fradella offer plausible recommendations for reining in this contentious police practice that promises public safety, but in some communities, has replaced fear of crime with fear of the police." -- Delores Jones-Brown,co-author of Policing and Minority Communities"This compelling book provides an insightful legal-historical genealogy of the practice of stop and frisk. White and Fradella provide solid recommendations for police departments to implement in order to reduce racial profiling and harassment." -- Victor Rios,author of Punished

Read more less

Book SynopsisA sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedomReproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has the power to decidelawmakers, the courts, clergy, physicians, or the woman herself. Authorities have rarely put women's needs and interests at the center of these debates. Instead, they have created reproductive laws and policies to solve a variety of social and political problems, with outcomes that affect the lives of different groups of women differently. Reproductive politics were at play when slaveholders devised breeding schemes, when the US government took indigenous children from their families in the nineteenth century, and when doctors pressured Latina women to be sterilized in the 1970s. Tracing the main plot lines of women's reproductive lives, the leading historian Rickie Solinger redefines the idea of reproductive freedom, putting race and class at the center of the effort to control sex and pregnancy in America over time. RevisitingTrade Review"This succinct, highly readable political and cultural history of a wide range of reproductive issues is a near-perfect primer on the topic." -- Publishers Weekly"Readers will find within this book a deeply researched and fine analysis of reproductive politics spanning 250 years. It definitely should be of interest to legal scholars and law students and also to political and social historians." -- The American Journal of Legal History"Offers a thoughtful, lucid overview of reproductive issues throughout US history—an extremely valuable contribution that should be widely read." -- Linda Gordon, author of The Moral Property of Women

Read more less

Book SynopsisWinner, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2021 Sexualities Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationThe first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living The erotic webcam industry, also known as camming, is a thriving global business. Angela Jones takes readers inside this multi-billion dollar industry, revealing how its workers experience intimacy, community, empowermentand, as she compellingly argues, pleasure. Drawing on in-depth interviews, survey data, web analytics, and more, Jones highlights not only the dangers, but also the rewards, of working in one of the most taboo corners of the Internet. She provides an inside look at the public and private shows between cam models and their customers, from exotic dancing and pornographic videos, to masturbation shows and erotic chatrooms. Trade ReviewAngela Jones’s Camming offers a roller-coaster ride through the often and, according to mainstream norms, necessarily hidden world of online erotic performances and relationships, camera-guided sex work, and the joys and downsides of its many professional possibilities ... Jones’s book provides a lens through which we can witness what happens on both sides of cameras in the (online) sex industries as well as contemplate our taken-for-granted norms and biases about sexualities, as triggers of both consumption and discrimination or exclusion (e.g., via criminalization). * American Journal of Sociology *Camming signifies a brilliant sociological analysis of race, ethnicity, class, nationality, gender, and sexuality while providing a detailed portrait of how cam models earn money and gain power and pleasure in the adult webcam industry. * Teaching Sociology *Sex work and desire are complicated issues for a technologically mediated society. In Camming, Jones documents how pleasure is refracted through social structures that reproduce inequality, but also how pleasure and sex work may 'crack' capitalism by resisting alienation and other forms of inequality. * Men and Masculinities *A thorough examination of the online sex-work industry and a theoretical treatise about pleasure, a topic long neglected in sociology [...] As quarantines resulting from the recent coronavirus pandemic have temporarily shut down most physical sex-work venues, Jones’s analysis of online sex work is an even more timely contribution to the field. * Choice *Camming is an important study that offers an innovative paradigm for examining not only sex work but other intimate industries. * Social Forces *Finally, a smart and profoundly feminist analysis of the webcamming industry. Readers get an inside look at what is worth celebrating about the emergence of erotic camming—namely that it is a relatively safe, often pleasurable, and accessible source of income during a time of tremendous global economic disparity. Angela Jones also shows us the ways that camming remains subject to broader social, political, and economic forces, such as racial hierarchies of desirability and transphobia/fetishization. This is a fascinating and deeply ethical and de-stigmatizing account of an understudied form of sex work. Sociology has never been this sexy! -- Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White MenA groundbreaking book by the leading expert on the erotic webcam industry. Jones illuminates key structural features of the business as well as the lived experiences of the performers. She shows that commercial webcamming is not only profitable but also safe and quite pleasurable for most of those engaged in this kind of sex work. -- Ronald Weitzer, author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful BusinessThis book lies at the intersection of feminist legal and psychology. It provides a serious and honest appraisal of the sex work industry as it manifests in camming, which is the live videocam performance of sex to a remote paid audience. The analysis here challenges contemporary regulatory ideas that sex work should be criminalized and that the law, at least in the way it is currently focused, should regulate this emerging industry. -- David Schultz * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *

Read more less

Book SynopsisAn up-close look at how porn permeates our culture Pictures of half-naked girls and women can seem to litter almost every screen, billboard, and advertisement in America. Pole-dancing studios keep women fit. Men airdrop their dick pics to female passengers on planes and trains. To top it off, the last American President has bragged about grabbing women by the pussy.This pornification of our society is what Bernadette Barton calls raunch culture. Barton explores what raunch culture is, why it matters, and how it is ruining America. She exposes how internet porn drives trends in programming, advertising, and social media, and makes its way onto our phones, into our fashion choices, and into our sex lives. From twerking and breast implants, to fake nails and push-up bras, she explores just how much we encounter raunch culture on a daily basisporn is the new normal. Drawing on interviews, television shows, movies, and social media, Barton argues that raunch culture matters not because itTrade ReviewZippy and well illustrated, this book persuasively argues that 'equating hypersexualization with sex positivity is a form of Orwellian doublespeak.' * New York Times Book Review *Barton, a professor of sociology and gender studies at Morehead State University, assembles her case against porn and pornification through a blend of pop-culture analysis and interviews (mostly with young women in their 20s)...The Pornification of America is a solid update of the traditional feminist case against porn. * The Washington Post *Once dismissed as a teenage phase, raunch culture is now a path to the presidency. Barton inspires us to take America back. Deftly teasing apart notions of sex positivity, sexual liberation, and radical feminism, she exposes raunch culture's pernicious lie: that pornification is empowerment. And not a moment too soon. -- Lisa Wade, author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on CampusFeel anger, rage, or hope. It is impossible to read The Pornification of America without feeling something about the thorny issues of mediated sexual desire in the 21st century. Bernadette Barton writes about the relentless capitalist commodification of female sexiness and the people who participate in it. From incels to pastors to politicians, nobody is exempt from the objectified and self-objectified raunch culture that Barton portrays. This book aims to deprogram readers’ subconscious conditioning and create the mental space to imagine a sex-positive revolution, not merely sexist shadows of that goal. -- Shira Tarrant, author of The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to KnowIn The Pornification of America, Bernadette Barton offers a multi-faceted examination of what she calls 'raunch culture' in American society. She has a sophisticated awareness of feminist debates that are attuned to both protecting women's right to bodily self-determination—and our right to do what we please with our bodies—while simultaneously remaining critical of sexist and racialized cultural commodifications that can have insidious effects on women's sense of feminist freedoms. -- Lynn Chancer, author of After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a RevolutionIn her timely book, Bernadette Barton shows us how raunch culture has invaded every aspect of our lives—personally, professionally and politically. This book should be used on college campuses across the country to stimulate debate on how we got here, why it matters and what we can do to change it. -- Kathleen A. Bogle, author of Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships on CampusThe Pornification of America is an excellent book for considering how sexism shapes popular culture and consequently public vernacular and social relationships. This is a great read for students or for any reader curious about the politics of raunch culture. -- Kristen Barber, author of Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming IndustryBarton argues that something counterintuitive and grave is happening: as our culture becomes increasingly sexualized, it is actually becoming less sex-positive ... Barton is insightful too about the shortcomings of a culture that upholds consent as the best (and too often only) way for girls and everyone else to articulate their feelings about sex, sexual desire, and sexual attention. * Boston Review *A valuable contribution to works about sex, the pornication of culture, feminism and the objectication of women. Undoubtedly, the book has a place in every Gender and Women’s Studies class taught in college, but discussions brought up in the book should start earlier than that, with High School students and between parents/caregivers and children. * Metapsychology *

Read more less

Book SynopsisPublic Health in the Age of Anxiety enhances both the public and scholarly understanding of the motivations behind vaccine hesitancy in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction and Theory Introduction: Seeking a Better Conversation Paul Bramadat 1. Crises of Trust and Truth: Religion, Culture, and Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada Paul Bramadat 2. Vaccine Hesitancy: Ethical Considerations from Multiple Perspectives Kieran C. O'Doherty, Christine Smith, and C. Meghan McMurtry 3. The Role of Risk Perception in Vaccine Hesitancy and the Challenge of Communication Conrad G. Brunk HISTORY 4. Learning from Smallpox Inoculation Refusal: Early Scientific Debates and the Evolution of Vaccine Refusal Real Roy 5. Not Without Risk: The Complex History of Vaccine Resistance in Central Canada, 1885-1960 Heather MacDougall and Laurence Monnais Biomedicine, the State and Vaccine Hesitant/Rejecting Communities 6. A Portrait of Vaccine-hesitant Canadians Maryse Guay, Eve Dube, and Caroline Laberge 7. Vaccine Hesitancy and the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Eve Dube, Chantal Sauvageau, and Dominique Gagnon 8. Epidemiologic Trends in Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization in Canada Julie A. Bettinger and Shannon E. MacDonald 9. Canada's Vaccine Safety System Monika Naus, Barbara Law, and Aline Rifret vaccine politics IN Clinical, MEDIA, and community SETTINGS 10. "It's Your Body, Your Decision": An Anthropological Exploration of HPV Vaccine Hesitancy: Jennafer Roberts and Lisa M. Mitchell 11. Approaching Vaccine-hesitant Parents - The Clinician's Perspective Francois D. Boucher 12. The Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy Andre Picard 13. Public Health and Personal Heuristics Noni E. MacDonald CONCLUSION 14. Continuing the Conversation Paul Bramadat, Julie A. Bettinger, and Maryse Guay APPENDIX INDEX Contributors

Read more less

Book SynopsisAccess to Medicines as a Human Right identifies innovative solutions applicable in both global and domestic forums, making it a valuable resource for the vast field of scholars, legal practitioners, and policymakers who must confront this challenging issue.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction 1. "Access to Medicines as a Human Right and Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibilities." Part One: Rights, Norms and Ethics 2. "Human Rights Responsibilities of Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines." 3. "Improving Access to Essential Medicines: International Law and Normative Change." 4. "Corporate Social Responsibility and the Right to Essential Medicines." Part Two: Social versus Business Responsibilities 5. "Benchmarking and Transparency: Incentives for the Pharmaceutical Industry's Corporate Social Responsibility." 6. "Social Responsibility and Marketing of Drugs in Developing Countries: A Goal or an Oxymoron." Part Three: Case-Studies for Achieving Corporate Responsibility 7. "Managing the Market for Medicines Access: Realizing the Right to Health by Facilitating Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceuticals - A Case Study of Legislation and the Need for Reform." 8. "Ubuntu, AIDS and the King II Report: Reflections on Corporate Social Responsibility in South Africa." Annexure Human Rights Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines Bibliography

Read more less

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lisa Riggin's San Francisco’s Queen of Vice . . . tells with impressive research the story of abortionist Inez Brown Burns."—Marvin Olasky, World Magazine"An important, timely book and an enjoyable read."—Rebecca Kluchin, Journal of American History“With a novelist’s eye for detail and pacing, Lisa Riggin recounts a chapter of San Francisco history that mixes vice and virtue as only the City by the Bay can. . . . It is a gripping narrative that chronicles America’s struggle with an issue that remains a critical political battleground even today.”—Ethan Rarick, author of California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown“Lisa Riggin has penned an insightful, entertaining, and important book that reads almost like a novel. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in twentieth-century California history and the slippery relationship between politics, society, and culture.”—Kathleen A. Cairns, author of The Case of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, and the California CourtsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Prologue: The Beginning of the End Part 1: The Queen Bee Chapter 1. On Trial Chapter 2. From the Palace to a Tent . . . and Back Again Chapter 3. Love Pirate Chapter 4. Off the Hook Chapter 5. “Miss X” Chapter 6. The Fixer Part 2: Edmund “Pat” Brown Chapter 7. “Five-to-One” Odds Chapter 8. A “New Broom” Chapter 9. Cops and Robbers Chapter 10. Disappeared Part 3: The Supervisor and the Socialite Chapter 11. Houseguests Chapter 12. On the Lam Chapter 13. “The Prophet” Chapter 14. Death House Part 4: A Grand Fight Chapter 15. The Lone Holdout Chapter 16. “Accomplices and Co-Conspirators” Chapter 17. A Grand Fight Chapter 18. The End of the Road Part 5: Follow the Money Chapter 19. “Baghdad by the Bay” Chapter 20. Wise Guys Chapter 21. Murder “Mis-Trial” Chapter 22. The Corrupt and Contented IRS Chapter 23. The Kefauver Committee Chapter 24. “Hello Again” Part 6: The Bone Rattler Chapter 25. Official Closets Chapter 26. “That Big Wind” Epilogue: Death and Taxes Notes Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisSex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women''s exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of women is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation as migration fundamentally reshapes women''s emotional worlds and aspirations. Bloch documents how, as women have crossed borders between the former Soviet Union and Turkey since the early 1990s, they have forged new forms of intimacy in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often work for years on end. Sex, Love, and Migration takes as its subject the lives of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three distinct spheressex work, the garment trade, and domestic work. Bloch challenges us to decouple images of women on the move from simTrade ReviewThese estimable monographs on postsocialist space reflect upon the plight of families as they seek ethical and economic identities and develop care-giving practices and strategies in landscapes haunted by globalization. * Slavic Review *Sex, Love, and Migration makes a significant contribution to the anthropologies of postsocialism, migration, and gendered labor. Using the concepts of affect, emotional labor, and structures of feeling, Alexia Bloch skillfully and engagingly guides readers through many of the positionalities comprising multinational and multigenerational networks of migrant women and those they leave behind. * American Ethnologist *Captivatingly written and rich with thick descriptions that virtually transport the reader to the featured locations and people, Sex, Love, and Migration makes an impressive contribution to the scholarship on gender and transnational migration in postsocialist societies. * REGION *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Part 1 Introduction 1. Magnificent Centuries and Economies of Desire Part 2 2. Gender, Labor, and Emotion in a Global Economy 3. "We Are Like Slaves—Who Needs Capitalism?" Part 3 4. Strategic Intimacy, "Real Love," and Marriage 5. Intimate Currencies 6. "Other Mothers," Grandmothers, and the State Conclusion Appendix Bibliography

Read more less

Book SynopsisWhen people encounter consumer goods—sugar, clothes, phones—they find little to no information about their origins. The goods will thus remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which they traveled, will remain obscured. In this book, Tad Skotnicki argues that this encounter is an endemic feature of capitalist societies, and one with which consumers have struggled for centuries in the form of activist movements constructed around what he calls The Sympathetic Consumer. This book documents the uncanny similarities shared by such movements over the course of three centuries: the transatlantic abolitionist movement, US and English consumer movements around the turn of the twentieth century, and contemporary Fair Trade activism. Offering a comparative historical study of consumer activism the book shows, in vivid detail, how activists wrestled with the broader implications of commodity exchange. These activists arrived at a common understanding of the relationship between consumers, producers, and commodities, and concluded that consumers were responsible for sympathizing with invisible laborers. Ultimately, Skotnicki provides a framework to identify a capitalist culture by examining how people interpret everyday phenomena essential to it.Trade Review"A path-breaking work. This book contributes significantly to scholarship on consumer society and to broader debates about how to understand the economic culture of capitalism."—Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame"This fascinating comparative account reveals striking similarities and interesting differences between three social movements across two centuries. Skotnicki relates these to the form of capitalism itself, thus making the book an excellent companion for teaching Marx's Capital."—Andreas Glaeser, The University of Chicago"This book is a joy to read for many reasons, but mostly for its careful work in identifying the moral appeals of consumer activism and what the sympathetic consumer tells us about capitalism."—Caroline Heldman, American Journal of SociologyTable of Contents1. The Rise of the Sympathetic Consumer 2. Abolitionist Visions 3. Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Visions 4. Practicing Sympathetic Consumption 5. Moral Arguments 6. The Sympathetic Consumer, Challenged 7. Whither the Sympathetic Consumer?

Read more less

Book SynopsisMexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it one of just three places across Latin America where it was permitted at the time. Abortion care is now available on demand and free of cost through a pioneering program of the Mexico City Ministry of Health, which has served hundreds of thousands of women. At the same time, abortion laws have grown harsher in several states outside the capital as part of a coordinated national backlash. In this book, Elyse Ona Singer argues that while pregnant women in Mexico today have options that were unavailable just over a decade ago, they are also subject to the expanded reach of the Mexican state and the Catholic Church over their bodies and reproductive lives. By analyzing the moral politics of clinical encounters in Mexico City's public abortion program, Lawful Sins offers a critical account of the relationship among reproductive rights, gendered citizenship, and public healthcare. With timely insights on global struggles for reproductive justice, Singer reorients prevailing perspectives that approach abortion rights as a hallmark of women's citizenship in liberal societies.Trade Review"This engrossing ethnography shows legal abortion in Mexico City to be a much-needed expansion of healthcare—and a site where norms of 'good' and 'responsible' womanhood are perpetuated rather than challenged. By sharing patients, staff, and activist experiences of this conundrum with nuance and care, Singer enables readers to think in new ways about what reproductive justice might truly mean."—Emily Wentzell, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The University of Iowa"Elyse Ona Singer's beautiful, riveting account takes us inside Mexico's reckoning with reproductive rights. Her moving, honest stories from Mexico City abortion clinics show staff and patients acting with humility, humanity, and a healthy dose of ethical ambivalence. Lawful Sins is a brilliant, timely ethnography, offering insights into the tangled relations between Church and state as each strives to control reproductive lives and bodies."—Lynn M. Morgan, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College"In lucid and lively prose, Elyse Ona Singer tells a surprising story about abortion in Mexico. Yes, in Mexico City abortion is now legal. But the women who seek it refuse to live as autonomous rights bearers. Instead, they reckon with abortion only in relation to others: their families and God. Crucial reading for anyone engaged in debates about contemporary personhood, autonomy and reproductive governance."—Elizabeth F.S. Roberts, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan"Elyse Ona Singer provides an antidote to rigid U.S. abortion discourse by inviting the reader to delve into Mexico's abortion climate—characterized as it is by its endless shades of gray and nuance. ... despite being an 'outsider' in her research, Singer paints a vivid and moving account that indicates a deep respect for and desire to understand both Mexico and its people."—Andréa Becker, Gender & Society"An incredibly timely book,Lawful Sinsis an important intervention in hemispheric and indeed global debates about women and reproduction. Highly recommended."—B. A. Lucero, CHOICE"At such a turbulent time for abortion access in the Americas, Singer's book offers a chance for reflection and deeper understanding of the many issues at stake....Lawful Sins invites the reader to think beyond rights and engage instead with justice-oriented frameworks."—Lucía Guerra Reyes, American Ethnologist"A central contribution of Singer's book is the clear window it provides into the everyday goings-on inside Mexico City's ILE clinics. The reader gets a vivid sense of clinicians' and patients' experiences at clinics, as well as the infrastructural problems that make abortion difficult to provide and to access, including resource shortages, long wait times, limited appointments, and challenging commutes."—Natalie L. Kimball, Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Past Is Never Dead ... : Reproductive Governance in Modern Mexico 2. The Right to Sin: Abortion Rights in the Shadow of the Church 3. Being (a) Patient: The Making of Public Abortion 4. Abortion as Social Labor: Protection and Responsibility in Public Abortion Care 5. At the Limit of Rights: Abortion in the Extralegal Sphere Conclusion

Read more less

Book SynopsisMexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it one of just three places across Latin America where it was permitted at the time. Abortion care is now available on demand and free of cost through a pioneering program of the Mexico City Ministry of Health, which has served hundreds of thousands of women. At the same time, abortion laws have grown harsher in several states outside the capital as part of a coordinated national backlash. In this book, Elyse Ona Singer argues that while pregnant women in Mexico today have options that were unavailable just over a decade ago, they are also subject to the expanded reach of the Mexican state and the Catholic Church over their bodies and reproductive lives. By analyzing the moral politics of clinical encounters in Mexico City's public abortion program, Lawful Sins offers a critical account of the relationship among reproductive rights, gendered citizenship, and public healthcare. With timely insights on global struggles for reproductive justice, Singer reorients prevailing perspectives that approach abortion rights as a hallmark of women's citizenship in liberal societies.Trade Review"This engrossing ethnography shows legal abortion in Mexico City to be a much-needed expansion of healthcare—and a site where norms of 'good' and 'responsible' womanhood are perpetuated rather than challenged. By sharing patients, staff, and activist experiences of this conundrum with nuance and care, Singer enables readers to think in new ways about what reproductive justice might truly mean."—Emily Wentzell, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The University of Iowa"Elyse Ona Singer's beautiful, riveting account takes us inside Mexico's reckoning with reproductive rights. Her moving, honest stories from Mexico City abortion clinics show staff and patients acting with humility, humanity, and a healthy dose of ethical ambivalence. Lawful Sins is a brilliant, timely ethnography, offering insights into the tangled relations between Church and state as each strives to control reproductive lives and bodies."—Lynn M. Morgan, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College"In lucid and lively prose, Elyse Ona Singer tells a surprising story about abortion in Mexico. Yes, in Mexico City abortion is now legal. But the women who seek it refuse to live as autonomous rights bearers. Instead, they reckon with abortion only in relation to others: their families and God. Crucial reading for anyone engaged in debates about contemporary personhood, autonomy and reproductive governance."—Elizabeth F.S. Roberts, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan"Elyse Ona Singer provides an antidote to rigid U.S. abortion discourse by inviting the reader to delve into Mexico's abortion climate—characterized as it is by its endless shades of gray and nuance. ... despite being an 'outsider' in her research, Singer paints a vivid and moving account that indicates a deep respect for and desire to understand both Mexico and its people."—Andréa Becker, Gender & Society"An incredibly timely book,Lawful Sinsis an important intervention in hemispheric and indeed global debates about women and reproduction. Highly recommended."—B. A. Lucero, CHOICE"At such a turbulent time for abortion access in the Americas, Singer's book offers a chance for reflection and deeper understanding of the many issues at stake....Lawful Sins invites the reader to think beyond rights and engage instead with justice-oriented frameworks."—Lucía Guerra Reyes, American Ethnologist"A central contribution of Singer's book is the clear window it provides into the everyday goings-on inside Mexico City's ILE clinics. The reader gets a vivid sense of clinicians' and patients' experiences at clinics, as well as the infrastructural problems that make abortion difficult to provide and to access, including resource shortages, long wait times, limited appointments, and challenging commutes."—Natalie L. Kimball, Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Past Is Never Dead ... : Reproductive Governance in Modern Mexico 2. The Right to Sin: Abortion Rights in the Shadow of the Church 3. Being (a) Patient: The Making of Public Abortion 4. Abortion as Social Labor: Protection and Responsibility in Public Abortion Care 5. At the Limit of Rights: Abortion in the Extralegal Sphere Conclusion

Read more less

Book SynopsisSocial Work Ethics in a Changing Society analyzes the challenges social workers face in applying social work values and ethics due to recent significant social, political, cultural, and technological changes. It provides readers with guidelines for ethical practice based on a philosophic foundation rooted in social justice principles. The book begins with a summary of key ethical concepts and principles. It then provides a brief history of social work ethics and analyzes their core assumptions in the context of new realities. The book provides readers with several frameworks through which to analyze a variety of contemporary ethical issues. In subsequent chapters, it applies these frameworks to situations largely derived from real world experience.Global sources provide a comparative perspective on the interpretation and implementation of social work values and ethics. The book contains extensive case examples and reflection exercises that illustrate ethical dilemmas in all areas of practice and those created or complicated by increasing social and cultural diversity. It includes content on the application of ethics to policy practice through examples drawn from the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic, and other current policy issues. Designed to help current and future social workers navigate a fractious, ever-evolving society, Social Work Ethics in a Changing Society is an excellent resource for students, faculty, and practitioners within the discipline.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an eruption of nonfiction films on sex work. The first book to examine a cross-section of this diverse and transnational body of work, Sexography confronts the ethical questions raised by ethnographic documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized subjects. Nicholas de Villiers argues that carnal and cultural knowledge are inextricably entangled in ethnographic sex work documentaries.De Villiers offers a reading of cinema as a technology of truth and advances a theory of confessional and counterconfessional performance by the interviewed subject who must negotiate both loaded questions and stigma. He pays special attention to the tactical negotiation of power in these films and how cultural and geopolitical shifts have affected sex work and sex workers. Throughout, Sexography analyzes the films of a range of non–sex-worker filmmakers, including Jennie Livingston, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Shohini Ghosh, and Cui Zi’en, as well as films produced by sex workers. In addition, it identifies important parallels and intersections between queer and sex worker rights activist movements and their documentary historiography.De Villiers ultimately demonstrates how commercial sex is intertwined with culture and power. He advocates shifting our approach from scrutinizing the motives of those who sell sex to examining the motives and roles of the filmmakers and transnational audiences creating and consuming films about sex work.Trade Review"Nicholas de Villiers’s deeply felt and sharply focused transcultural purview of documentary representations of sex work is all the more urgent at a historical moment that threatens to close down not only desire and difference but also documentary’s historical aspirations toward democracy and social justice. The critical questions he raises extend far beyond the narrow bounds of the selected films as he behooves us to join him in trying to answer them."—Thomas Waugh, Concordia University"Unlike former work focusing on prostitutes as characters in film, Nicholas de Villiers launches an entirely new discourse around the motivations, inventions, and methods of sex worker cinema in this groundbreaking book. His integration of perspectives of both non-sex-worker filmmakers and films made by sex workers is absolutely crucial. In a book that's been a long time coming, de Villiers embraces the 'whore’s eye view' of experiential makers and presents an inquiry that is central to investigations of politics, political art, and empowerment."—Carol Leigh, producer of Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes"de Villiers has sought to be, as he says, “a queer ally” to sex workers — meaning that he seeks to assist in the process of destigmatization and to problematize the discourse of sex worker as victim. In a world that is dominated by anti-sex work bias, such an analysis is sorely needed."—Los Angeles Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsPreface. Venus: Paris Is BurningIntroduction: How Much Does It Cost for Cinema to Tell the Truth of Sex?1. Street Talk and Love: Pasolini’s Cinéma Vérité in Comizi d’amore2. Confession Porn: Wiktor Grodecki’s Body without Soul and Not Angels but Angels3. Save Us from Saviors: Reflexive Feminist Documentary and Shohini Ghosh’s Tales of the Night Fairies4. Gray Mornings of Tolerance: Cui Zi’en’s Night Scene and Queer China, “Comrade” China5. Truth under the Uniform: Youth and Sexuality in Hideaki Anno’s Love & PopConclusion. Plot Twists: Live Nude Girls, Unite!AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Read more less

Book SynopsisCracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy In an era of open data and ubiquitous dataveillance, what does it mean to “share”? This book argues that we are all “shareveillant” subjects, called upon to be transparent and render data open at the same time as the security state invests in practices to keep data closed. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s “distribution of the sensible,” Clare Birchall reimagines sharing in terms of a collective political relationality beyond the veillant expectations of the state. Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionReal PeopleThe Attack on TenureFailed LeadershipEye on the BallNo ConfidenceConclusion: Where Are We Now?Acknowledgments

Read more less

Book SynopsisWhat might the world look like in the aftermath of COVID-19? Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change. A rapid intervention into current commentary and debate, Life After COVID-19 looks at a wide range of topical issues including the state, co-operation, work, money, travel and care. It invites us to see the pandemic as a dress rehearsal for the larger problem of climate change, and it provides an opportunity to think about what we can improve and how rapidly we can make changes.Table of ContentsBeginning, Again ~ Martin Parker; Telling a New Story ~ David Hunter; A World of Care ~ Neil Howard; From Conflict to Collaboration ~ Emilia Melville, Hen Wilkinson; The Contested Home ~ Harriet Shortt, Michal Izak; Working Lives ~ Vanessa Beck, Vanesa Fuertes, Daiga Kamrāde, Clare Lyonette, Tracey Warren; Democracy and Work ~ Alex Bird, Pat Conaty, Anita Mangan, Michael McKeown, Cilla Ross, Simon Taylor; New Foodscapes ~ Jonathan Beacham, Alice Willatt; Cash ~ Dan Tischer, Jamie Evans, Sara Davies; Artificial Intelligence ~ Dan McQuillan; Resilience and the City ~ Malu Villela; The Nation and the State ~ Bridget Anderson; Unleadership ~ Carol Jarvis, Selen Kars-Unluoglu, Hugo Gaggiotti; Carbon and Climate ~ Colin Nolden, Michele Stua; Growth ~ Kate Simpson, Jonathan Gosling, Ed Gillespie; Innovation and Responsibility ~ Richard Owen; Together into a Future ~ Miki Kashtan

Read more less

Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This collection scrutinizes the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers face when working with and for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the context of global crises. Contributors assess the impact of the pandemic on their engaged research, evaluating novel methods and technologies. They reveal how current research practice blurs the borders between activism and scholarship, and they argue the need for innovative collaborations with local communities. Showcasing emerging aspects of GRT-related scholarship, this book makes a key contribution to larger debates on the positionality of researchers and the politics of research, and affirms the continued value of rigorous ethnography.

Read more less

Book SynopsisDrawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates to reconsider the divergent afterlives of artworks that were challenged or banned over their taboo sexual content to reveal how these controversies affected their critical reception and commercial success in ways that were often determined at least in part by racial, gender, or sexual stereotypes and pernicious ethnographic reading practices. Starting with early postwar touchstone cases and continuing through the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements, Lawrence demonstrates on one level that breaking sexual taboos in literary and cultural works often comes with cultural cachet and increased sales. At the same time, these benefits are distributed unequally, leading to the persistence of exclusive hierarchies and inequalities. Obscene Gestures takes its bearings from recent studies of the role of obscenity in literary history and canon formation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending their insights into the postwar period when broad legal latitude for obscenity was established but when charges of obscenity still carried immense symbolic and political weight. Moreover, the rise of social justice movements around this time provides necessary context for understanding the application of legal precedents, changes in the publishing industry, and the diversification of the canon of American letters. Obscene Gestures, therefore, advances the study of obscenity to include recent developments in the understanding of race, gender, and sexuality while refining our understanding of late-twentieth-century American literature and political culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Outlaws vs. Outcasts: Defining Narratives of Obscenity | 1 1. Classic Counter-Narratives: Deep Psychology vs. Deep Pathology in Two Early Twentieth-Century Novels | 29 2. Geniuses Abroad, Deviants at Home: Racial Counter-Narratives of the Global and Domestic | 65 3. Porn Wars and Pornotroping: Counter-Narratives of Obscenity amid Transitions in Feminist Activism | 102 4. AIDS Politics Is Local: Narratives of Plague and Place in the Culture Wars | 136 Epilogue | 171 Acknowledgments | 177 Notes | 179 Works Cited | 201 Index | 215

Read more less

Book SynopsisDrawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates to reconsider the divergent afterlives of artworks that were challenged or banned over their taboo sexual content to reveal how these controversies affected their critical reception and commercial success in ways that were often determined at least in part by racial, gender, or sexual stereotypes and pernicious ethnographic reading practices. Starting with early postwar touchstone cases and continuing through the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements, Lawrence demonstrates on one level that breaking sexual taboos in literary and cultural works often comes with cultural cachet and increased sales. At the same time, these benefits are distributed unequally, leading to the persistence of exclusive hierarchies and inequalities. Obscene Gestures takes its bearings from recent studies of the role of obscenity in literary history and canon formation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending their insights into the postwar period when broad legal latitude for obscenity was established but when charges of obscenity still carried immense symbolic and political weight. Moreover, the rise of social justice movements around this time provides necessary context for understanding the application of legal precedents, changes in the publishing industry, and the diversification of the canon of American letters. Obscene Gestures, therefore, advances the study of obscenity to include recent developments in the understanding of race, gender, and sexuality while refining our understanding of late-twentieth-century American literature and political culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Outlaws vs. Outcasts: Defining Narratives of Obscenity | 1 1. Classic Counter-Narratives: Deep Psychology vs. Deep Pathology in Two Early Twentieth-Century Novels | 29 2. Geniuses Abroad, Deviants at Home: Racial Counter-Narratives of the Global and Domestic | 65 3. Porn Wars and Pornotroping: Counter-Narratives of Obscenity amid Transitions in Feminist Activism | 102 4. AIDS Politics Is Local: Narratives of Plague and Place in the Culture Wars | 136 Epilogue | 171 Acknowledgments | 177 Notes | 179 Works Cited | 201 Index | 215

Read more less

Book SynopsisTo invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco industry, knowing it sells a deadly product? And what social responsibilities do investors bear with respect to compulsive gamblers who have lost so much money that suicide becomes an attractive option?Canada the Good considers more than five hundred years of debates and regulation that have conditioned Canadians' attitudes towards certain vices. Early European settlers implemented a Christian moral order that regulated sexual behaviour, gambling, and drinking. Later, some transgressions were diagnosed as health issues that required treatment. Those who refused the label of illness argued that behaviours formerly deemed as vices were within the range of normal human behaviour. This historical synthesis demonstrates how moral regulation has changed over time, how it has shaped Canadians' lives, why some debates have almost disappeared and others persist, and why some individuals and groups have felt empowered to tackle collective social issues. Against the background of the evolution of the state, the enlargement of the body politic, and mounting forays into court activism, the author illustrates the complexity over time of various forms of social regulation and the control of vice.Trade Review"Canadians have been sticking their noses into each other's business for about as long as they've had noses and business. That part is perhaps no surprise. But, what Martel does so impressively well in this concise volume is to uncover the mutability of that 'business'--what he has defined as 'vices'--in the long sweep of Canadian history. In other words, this is a book about the changing and highly contingent ways Canadians have understood taboos and prosecuted transgression. It traces what Canadians have been afraid of (HINT: it's usually something to do with sex or race), what activities they have tried to control (at every level from the familiar to the federal), and what kinds of tools they have used in an effort to protect a shifting set of ideas about propriety over 500 years. It's fascinating stuff." -- Stuart Henderson, author of 'Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s' (2011), features editor at popmatters.com"Vice exerts a perennial interest, regardless of how and by whom it is defined. In Canada the Good: A Short History of Vice since 1500, an admirably condensed social history of Canadian vices over the past five centuries, York University historian Marcel Martel shows exactly how during this time the definition of vice in Canada has shifted from a discourse centred on sin to one that, when still applied, is viewed primarily in medical terms.... A well-researched and informative discussion of the trajectory of Canadian morality and the significant actors who have sought to define it.... Even when the particular causes taken on by present-day reform movements may diverge markedly from those in the past, there is a discernible continuity in the methods and tactics. By giving his readers a sense of the long-term trajectory of Canadian moral beliefs and their practical application, Martel allows us to see how the regulatory compromises of today are likely to be just as transitory and provisional as those of the past." -- James F. Cosgrave -- Literary Review of Canada"Our uniquely Canadian concept of liberty and vice is documented by Professor Marcel Martel of York University's Department of History. Canada the Good is a sweep through three centuries of gambling, drinking, and fornication. There emerges a kind of consensus that Canadians should be left alone to do what they want in the privacy of their homes, but for heaven's sake don't make a fuss about it. When Parliament held an 1898 plebiscite on prohibition a majority voted to ban booze, and MPs promptly ignored the result. In Catholic Quebec and New Brunswick, liquor was never much restricted. In Protestant Ontario and Alberta, dry laws were so successfully enforced the crime rate fell. It seemed everybody was happy.... Martel's research is delightful. Who is not wiser on knowing Canada's first lottery was licensed in 1732; or that Confederation-era Halifax had 600 working prostitutes; or that Parliament's 1869 Act Respecting Vagrants targeted any 'night walker wandering in the fields...not giving a satisfactory account of themselves.' They just don't write Acts like that anymore.... 'The regulation of vice has changed over time,' notes Martel. 'This should give us pause for reflection." -- Holly Doan -- Blacklock's ReporterTable of Contents Canada the Good: A Short History of Vice Since 1500 by Marcel Martel Introduction Chapter 1 Different Worlds, Different Values: Encounters from 1500 to 1700 Encounters Free Sexuality ""An Inveterate Passion for Brandy"" Gambling Tobacco Conclusion: Interacting with Aboriginals Chapter 2 In the Name of God, the King, and the Settlers: Regulating Behaviors during the Colonial Era (1700-1850) Sexuality: Only for Procreation Drinking: Very Thirsty People? Gambling: No ""Unlawfull Games to Be Used in House"" Tobacco: A ""Successful"" Cultural Transfer Conclusion Chapter 3 Triumphs: Vices in Retreat, 1850-1920 Building the Kingdom of God on Earth Sexuality: Repression and Resistance Drinking: Chasing the Liquor Demon Gambling: A Disrespectful Activity Drugs: Getting Rid of Them Tobacco: A Fashionable Habit Conclusion Chapter 4 No Longer Vices: Call Them Health Issues, 1920 to the Present Different Values and Sexual Openness Alcohol: State Monopoly and Responsible Drinking A New Addict: Governments and Gambling Drugs: Let's Help Young White Kids Tobacco: A Health Threat and An Annoying Habit Conclusion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn 1987, Professor Richard Stivers was the recipient of an Earhart Foundation research fellowship to undertake a study of American morality. The Culture of Cynicism is the result. It is not only the most wide-ranging book yet written on the subject, tracing the intellectual history of American morality from its European origins in the Middle Ages to the 1990s, but alos by far the most thought-provoking.Trade Review"A bitingly powerful critique of American morality: Stivers's analysis is keen, penetrating, devastating." Professor Andrew M. Greeley, The University of Chicago Table of ContentsPreface. 1. The Absence of Morality, or Morality Assumes New Forms. 2. Success Morality: From Economic to Political Ideology. 3. A Morality of Happiness and Health: Advertising as Liturgy. 4. From the Moral to the Technical: the Necessary. 5. From the Moral to the Normal: the Ephemeral. 6. From the Moral to the Visual: the Compensatory. 7. A Morality of Power, A Morality Without Meaning. 8. Against the New Morality.

Read more less

Book SynopsisFans and detractors of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellwether of an individual's political and cultural values. In the United States, for example, one cannot think of the counterculture apart from its music. For that reason, in virtually every country in the world, some group identifies popular music as a source of potential danger and wants to regulate it. "Policing Pop" looks into the many ways in which popular music and artists around the world are subjected to censorship, ranging from state control and repression to the efforts of special interest or religious groups to limit expression. The essays collected here focus on the forms of censorship as well as specific instances of how the state and other agencies have attempted to restrict the types of music produced, recorded and performed within a culture. Several show how even unsuccessful attempts to exert the power of the state can cause artists to self-censor. Others point to material that taxes even the most liberal defenders of free speech. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that censoring agents target popular music all over the world, and they raise questions about how artists and the public can resist the narrowing of cultural expression. Author note: Martin Cloonan teaches Popular Music Culture at the University of Glasgow and is the author of "Banned! Censorship of Popular Music in Britain, 1967-1992". Reebee Garofalo is Professor at the College of Public and Community Service and is affiliated with the American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston; his most recent book is "Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA".Trade Review"All in all, Policing Pop takes the reader on quite a ride. Its contributing authors include, among others, musicologists, sociologists, and law professors who offer intellectually rewarding insights and eloquent arguments for the political and cultural importance of popular music, something with which even young people would agree, if they could be enticed to read them." Popular Music and Society "Policing Pop works well as a collection that reinforces the common themes of music regulation and practice, and is an effective teaching text for popular music and cultural studies." Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture "Policing Pop not only provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which pop has been censored and restricted, it also makes an eloquent argument for the political and social importance of popular music. This book serves as a rich reminder of how songs can make the powerful nervous and the powerless bold." --John Street, University of East Anglia "Music censorship! What censorship? Policing Pop introduces the reader to the underlying mechanisms of music censorship and its effects on individuals and society in different parts of the world. Policing Pop will inspire and challenge further dissemination and the unveiling of appalling cases as well as concealed causes for censorship in this hitherto disregarded area of academic research." --Marie Korpe, Executive Director, Freemuse (Freedom of Musical Expression), The World Forum on Music & Censorship "This fascinating, albeit at times disturbing, read will make you nod in agreement or sigh in disbelief at the measures people have taken to control popular music." --Multicultural Review "An invigorating and thought-provoking selection of essays...it's a fascinating read...With its easily accessible style and deep relevance, Policing Pop is hopefully already on the reading list of every Media Culture and Society and related courses. Its pink cover and sexy PP title will ensure it will walk off the shelves for those who still frequent bookshops." Popular Music 26/2 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Defining Issues and Themes 1. Call That Censorship? Problems of Definition Martin Cloonan 2. I Want My MP3: Who Owns Internet Music" Reebee Garofalo 3. Twenty Years of Music Censorship Around the World Vanessa Bastian and Dave Laing 4. Remote Control: Legal Censorship of the Creative Process Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn Part II: Controlling the Artistic 5. Death Metal and the Limits of Musical Expression Keith Kahn-Harris 6. Marxists in the Marketplace Mike Jones 7. Argh Fuck Kill Canadian Hardcore Goes on Trial: The Case of the Dayglo Abortions Rob Bowman 8. Strelnikoff: Censorship in Contemporary Slovenia David Parvo Part III: Up Against the State 9. Music in the Struggle to End Apartheid: South Africa Michael Drewett 10. Confusing Confucius: Rock in Contemporary China Jeroen de Kloet (Holland) 11. German Nazi Bands: Between Provocation and Repression Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Germany) 12. Popular Music and Policing in Brazil Jose Roberto Zan (Brazil) 13. Challenging Music as Expression in the US Paul D. Fischer (US) About the Contributors

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis“Contraceptive sex,” wrote social science researcher Mary Eberstadt in 2012, “is the fundamental social fact of our time.” In this important and pointed book, Charles E. Rice, of the Notre Dame Law School, makes the novel claim that the acceptance of contraception is a prelude to persecution. He makes the striking point that contraception is not essentially about sex. It is a First Commandment issue: Who is God? It was at the Anglican Lambeth Conference of 1930 when for the first time a Christian denomination said that contraception could ever be a moral choice. The advent of the Pill in the 1960s made the practice of contraception practically universal. This involved a massive displacement of the Divine Law as a normative measure of conduct, not only on sex but across the board. Nature abhors a vacuum. The State moved in to occupy the place formerly held by God as the ultimate moral Lawgiver. The State put itself on a collision course with religious groups and especially with the Catholic Church, which continues to insist on that traditional teacher. A case in point is the Obama Regime’s Health Care Mandate, coercing employees to provide, contrary to conscience, abortifacients and contraceptives to their employees. The first chapter describes that Mandate, which the Catholic bishops have vowed not to obey. Rice goes on to show that the duty to disobey an unjust law that would compel you to violate the Divine Law does not confer a general right to pick and choose what laws you will obey. The third chapter describes the “main event,” which is the bout to determine whether the United States will conform its law and culture to the homosexual (LGBTQ) lifestyle in all its respects. “The main event is well underway and LGBTQ is well ahead on points.” Professor Rice follows with a clear analysis of the 2013 Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. Part II presents some “underlying causes” of the accelerating persecution of the Catholic Church. The four chapter headings in this part outline the picture: The Dictatorship of Relativism; Conscience Redefined; The Constitution: Moral Neutrality; and The Constitution: Still Taken Seriously? The answer to the last question, as you might expect, is: No. Part III, the controversial heart of the book, presents contraception as “an unacknowledged cause” of persecution. The first chapter argues that contraception is not just a “Catholic issue.” The next chapter describes the “consequences” of contraception and the treatment of women as objects. The third chapter spells out in detail the reality that contraception is a First Commandment issue and that its displacement of God as the ultimate moral authority opened the door for the State to assume that role, bringing on a persecution of the Church. The last chapter, “A Teaching Untaught,” details the admitted failure of the American Catholic bishops to teach Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae. But Rice offers hope that the bishops are now getting their act together Part IV offers as a “response” to the persecution of the Church three remedies: Speak the Truth with clarity and charity; Trust God; and, most important, Pray. As the last sentence in the book puts it: “John Paul II wrote in a letter to U.S. bishops in 1993: ‘America needs much prayer – lest it lose its soul.’” This readable and provocative book is abundantly documented with a detailed index of names and subjects.

Read more less

Book SynopsisHearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation is the first book of its kind that focuses on the critical urgency of integrating creativity, mindfulness, and compassion in which social and ecological justice are forefronted in teacher preparation. This is especially significant at a time of cultural turmoil, educational reform, and inequities in public education. The book serves as a vehicle to unmask fear within current educational ethical deficiencies and revitalize hope for community members, teacher educators, pre-service, in-service teachers, and families in school communities. The recipients of these strategies are explicitly presented in order to build understanding of a compassionate paradigm shift in schools that envisions possibility and social imagination on behalf of our children in schools and our communities. The authors unabashedly place the arts and aesthetics at the core of the educational paradigm solution. The book lives its own message. Within each seed chapter, the authors practice authentically what they preach, offering a refreshing perspective to bring our schools back to life and instil hope in children’s and educators’ hearts and minds.

Read more less

Book SynopsisHearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation is the first book of its kind that focuses on the critical urgency of integrating creativity, mindfulness, and compassion in which social and ecological justice are forefronted in teacher preparation. This is especially significant at a time of cultural turmoil, educational reform, and inequities in public education. The book serves as a vehicle to unmask fear within current educational ethical deficiencies and revitalize hope for community members, teacher educators, pre-service, in-service teachers, and families in school communities. The recipients of these strategies are explicitly presented in order to build understanding of a compassionate paradigm shift in schools that envisions possibility and social imagination on behalf of our children in schools and our communities. The authors unabashedly place the arts and aesthetics at the core of the educational paradigm solution. The book lives its own message. Within each seed chapter, the authors practice authentically what they preach, offering a refreshing perspective to bring our schools back to life and instil hope in children’s and educators’ hearts and minds.

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn this richly illustrated book, Robert Macieski examines Lewis W. Hine's art and advocacy on behalf of child laborers as part of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) between 1909 and 1917. A ""social photographer"" -- as he called himself -- Hine created images that documented children at work throughout New England, making the case for their exploitation in the North as he had for rural working children in the South. Hine staged his images, highlighting particular types of labor in specific places: the ""newsies"" in Connecticut cities; sardine canners in Eastport, Maine; cranberry pickers in Cape Cod bogs; industrial homeworkers in Boston and Providence; and cotton textile workers throughout the region. His association with the NCLC connected him to a network of local and national reformers, social workers, and child welfare professionals, a broad coalition he supported in their fight to end this unethical labor practice. Macieski also chronicles Hine's efforts to mount major exhibitions that would help move public opinion against child labor.In Picturing Class, Macieski explores the historical context of Hine's photographs and the social worlds of his subjects. He offers a detailed analysis of many of the images, unearthing the stories behind the creation of these photographs and the lives of their subjects. In telling the story of these photographs, their creation, and their reception, Macieski demonstrates how Hine worked to advance an unvarnished picture of a rapidly changing region and the young workers at the center of this important shift.

Read more less

Book SynopsisAmericans love to hate consumerism. Scholars, intellectuals, musicians, and writers of all kinds take pleasure in complaining that consumer culture endangers the ""real"" things in life, including self-determination and individualism. In Authenticity Guaranteed, Sally Robinson brings to light the unacknowledged gender and class assumptions of anti-consumerist critique in the second half of the twentieth century. American anti-consumerism, despite its apparent complexity, takes a remarkably consistent and predictable narrative form. From the mid-century Organization Man to the millennial No Logo, anti-consumerist critique reinforces the gender order by insisting that authenticity is threatened, and masculine agency curtailed, by the feminizing forces of consumer culture.Robinson identifies a tradition of masculine protest and rebellion against feminization in iconic texts such as The Catcher in the Rye and Fight Club, as well as in critiques of postmodernism, academic denunciations of shopping, and a variety of other discourses that aim to diagnose what ails American consumer culture. This fresh and timely argument enters into conversation with a wide range of existing scholarship and opens up new questions for scholarly and political discussion.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare.Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading - especially for young women - publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.

Read more less

Book SynopsisA study of the rhetorical power of shame and its effect on reproductive politicsNot long ago, unmarried pregnant women in the United States hid in maternity homes and relinquished their "illegitimate" children to more "deserving" two-parent families—all to conceal "shameful" pregnancies. Although times have changed, reproductive politics remain fraught. In Enduring Shame Heather Brook Adams recasts the 1960s and '70s—an era of presumed progress—as a time when expanding reproductive rights were paralleled by communicative practices of shame that cultivated increasingly public interventions into unwed and teen pregnancy and new forms of injustice.Drawing from personal interviews, archival documents, legal decisions, public policy, journalism, memoirs, and advocacy writing, Adams articulates how the rhetorical power of shame persuaded the American public to think about reproduction, sexual righteousness, and unwed pregnancy. Despite the aspirational goals of reproductive liberation, public sentiment frequently reflected supremacist beliefs regarding racial, economic, and moral fitness—notions that informed new public policy. Enduring Shame maps a range of experiences across these decades from women's experiences in homes for unwed mothers to policy and legal changes that are typically understood as proof of shame's dissipation, including Title IX legislation and Roe v. Wade. Rhetorical historiography and questions of reproductive justice guide the analysis, and women's testimonies provide essential perspectives and context. Through these histories, Adams articulates a network of language, affect, and embodiment through which shame moves; expands rhetorical understandings of the discursive power of the identities of woman and mother; and considers how the gendered, raced, and classed aspects of shame can help us understand and support reproductive dignity.Enduring Shame recovers a misunderstood part of women's recent history by considering why reproductive politics continue to be so volatile despite previous gains and why shame still figures centrally in discourse about women's reproductive and sexual freedoms.

Read more less

Book SynopsisAnimal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (WLU Press, 2008) challenged cultural studies to include nonhuman animals within its purview. While the "question of the animal" ricochets across the academy and reverberates within the public sphere, Animal Subjects 2.0 builds on the previous book and takes stock of this explosive turn. It focuses on both critical animal studies and posthumanism, two intertwining conversations that ask us to reconsider common sense understandings of other animals and what it means to be human. This collection demonstrates that many pressing contemporary social problemsâhow and why the oppression and exploitation of our species persistâare entangled with our treatment of other animals and the environment. Decades into the interrogation of our ethical and political responsibilities toward other animals, fissures within the academy deepen as the interest in animal ethics and politics proliferates. Although ideological fault lines have inspired important debates about how to address the very material concerns informing these theoretical discussions, Animal Subjects 2.0 brings together divergent voices to suggest how to foster richer humanâanimal relations, and to cultivate new ways of thinking and being with the rest of animalkind. This collection demonstrates that appreciation of difference, not just similarity, is necessary for a more inclusive and compassionate world. Linking issues of gender, disability, culture, race, and sexuality into species, Animal Subjects 2.0 maps vibrant developments in the emergent fields of critical animal studies and posthumanist thought.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Might Makes Right: The Origins of Ethics and the Use of Animals for Human Ends / Rod Preece 2 Critical Animals Studies and the Property Debate in Animal Law / Maneesha Deckha 3 âPopular Affectionâ: Edwin Landseer and Nineteenth-Century Animal Advocacy Campaigns / J. Keri Cronin 4 âThe Animal,â Systems, and Structures: An EcofeministâPosthumanist Enquiry / Rhys Mahannah 5 Animal Narrativity: Engaging with Story in a More-Than-Human World / Joshua Russell 6 Canine Cartography: On the Curious and Queer Pleasures of Being a Dog / Peter Hobbs 7 Navigating Difference (Again): Animal Ethics and Entangled Empathy / Lori Gruen 8 All My Relations: Interview with Margaret Robinson / Lauren Corman 9 Rampant Compassion: A Tale of Two Anthropomorphisms and the âTrans-species Epistemeâ of Knowledge-Making / Jodey Castricano 10 The Limits of the âHumanâ: An Alternative Ethics of Dependence on Animals / Kelly Oliver 11 Vegans for Vick: Dogfighting, Intersectional Politics, and the Limits of Mainstream Discourse / Garrett M. Broad 12 Disability, Animals, and Earth Liberation: Eco-ability and Ableism in the Animal Advocacy Movement / Anthony J. Nocella II 13 On Being a Pragmatist: Reflections on Animals, Feminism, and Personal Politics / Lynda Birke 14 Campaigning with the Enemy: Understanding Opportunity Fields and the Tactic of Corporate Incorporation / Carol L. Glasser 15 Nose-to-Tail Eating: A Prematurely Post-Factory-Farm Biopolitics / Jessica Carey 16 The New Carnivores / John Sorenson and Atsuko Matsuoka 17 Rats! Being Social Requires Empathy / Leesa Fawcett 18 The Ventriloquistâs Burden : Animal Advocacy and the Problem of Speaking for Others / Lauren Corman About the Contributors Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisUntil the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the mostpart men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whomhad an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when wehear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually thoseof the leaders of women’s and abortion rights organizations,women who hold political office, and, on occasion, female physicians.We also hear quite frequently from spokeswomen for anti-abortiongroups. Rarely, however, do we hear the voices of ordinarywomen—women whose lives have been in some way touched byabortion. Their thoughts typically owe more to human circumstance thanto ideology, and without them, we run the risk of thinking and talkingabout the issue of abortion only in the abstract. Without Apology seeks to address this issue by gatheringthe voices of activists, feminists, and scholars as well as abortionproviders and clinic support staff alongside the stories of women whoseexperience with abortion is more personal. With the particular aim ofmoving beyond the polarizing rhetoric that has characterized the issueof abortion and reproductive justice for so long, WithoutApology is an engrossing and arresting account that will promoteboth reflection and discussion.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Without Apology / Shannon Stettner 1 Abortion in Canada: A History / Shannon Stettner Part I Speaking from Experience 2 Giving Voice to the Unspeakable / Judith Mintz 3 T.A. / Clarissa Hurley 4 But I Kept All These Things, and Pondered Them in My Heart / JessWoolford 5 Keep It Small / Evey Hornbeck 6 A Bad Law and a Bold Woman / Bernadette Wagner 7 I Don’t Blame the Abortion / Rebecca 8 [untitled] / Mackenzie Part II Abortion Rights Activism 9 The Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics: Reproductive Freedomand the Campaign to Overturn the Federal Abortion Law / Carolyn Eganand Linda Gardner 10 The Radical Handmaids and Stephen Harper’s War on Women,Battleground 2012: Reopening the Abortion Debate / Aalya Ahmad /Radical Handmaids 11 Arts4choice.com / Martha Solomon 12 "We Can Get There Faster If We All Move Together": TheBirth of a Reproductive Justice Academic Activist / ColleenMacQuarrie 13 We Need to See Change: One Woman’s Motivations for PushingWaves on Prince Edward Island / Sadie Roberts 14 Pro-Choice Organizing on Canadian University Campuses: Unpackingthe Debate over Free Speech Versus Hate Speech / Kelly Holloway Part III Challenging Opposing Positions 15 Blinded by the Right: My Past as an Anti-abortion Activist /Natalie Lochwin 16 One Woman’s Evolving View of Abortion / Tracey L.Anderson 17 Pro-Choice for God’s Sake / Shannon Pinkney 18 Abortion Commentary / Laura Wershler 19 Pro-abortion and Proud: Exploring Alternative ReproductiveJustice Labels / Laura Gillespie 20 Same as It Ever Was: Anti-Choice Extremism and the "ThirdWay" / Jane Cawthorne 21 Women over Ideology / Nick Van der Graaf Part IV Practitioners and Clinic Support 22 Lessons from Life in Abortion Care / Peggy Cooke 23 "Do you think I will go to hell for this?" / RuthMiller 24 The Counsellor’s Voice / Erin Mullan 25 Empathy: Whose Choice Is OK? / Ellen Wiebe 26 Therapeutic Abortion / Sterling Haynes 27 "I am proud to provide abortions" / Evan James Part V Sites of Struggle 28 The Choice Between Rights and Revolution / Karen Stote 29 Sex Selection Abortions: The Politics of Race in MulticulturalCanada / Bindy Kang 30 The Public Pregnancy: How the Fetal Debut and the Public HealthParadigm Affect Pregnancy Practice / Jen Rinaldi 31 A Harm-Reduction Approach to Abortion / Shannon Dea The Unfinished Revolution / Shannon Stettner

Read more less

Book SynopsisTransformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, as well as environmental threats; it identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism.Table of ContentsPart I: Initial Reflections 1: Reflections on Life Purpose 2: Personal Transformation and Travel and Tourism Part II: Foucault and Transformation 3: Destination under Discipline: Foucault and the Transformation of Place Makers 4: The Normalization of Places and Spaces: Tourism and Transformation – A Glossary on the Eye-of-Authority Part III: Where is the Host? 5: Where is the Host? An Analytic Autoethnographic Inquiry in Transformational Tourism Part IV: Transformation of Different Local Communities 6: The Political and Social Transformation of Roma and Jewish Communities through Tourism in Budapest 7: Tourism, Transformation and Urban Ethnic Communities: The Case of Matonge, Brussels 8: The Travelling Favela: Cosmopolitanisms from Above and from Below 9: Transforming Nature’s Value – Cultural Change Comes from Below: Rural Communities, the ‘Othered’ and Host Capacity Building Part V: Transformation through Different Types of Tourism 10: Transformation of Local Lives through Volunteer Tourism: Peruvian and Thai Case Studies 11: The Impact of Extreme Sports on Host Communities’ Psychological Growth and Development 12: Transformation and the WWOOF Exchange: The Host Experience Part VI: Problems and Solutions 13: Ethnic Conflict: Is Heritage Tourism Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? 14: Developing a Tourism Poverty Reduction Strategy

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe ancient moral philosophy of Epicureanism offers many valuable lessons for the modern world. How to Live Well updates and modifies Epicurean philosophy to offer an exciting new framework for contemporary social reform.How To Live Well provides a synopsis of the key facets of Epicureanism and offers a history of Epicureanism across the past twenty centuries. Fitzpatrick identifies the core criticisms of Epicureanism and compares it with Aristotelian thought. In light of these criticisms, he proposes a ?new epicureanism?, based around four key subjects: liberty and freedom, justice and community, our obligations to other humans and nonhumans, and social justice and reform. Rejecting classical Epicurean hostility towards public intervention, How To Live Well proposes that ?new Epicureans? must promote and defend social fairness, and equate personal with communal well-being. An ethos of ?social guarantee? could help rethink our social welfare systems, our use of public spaces, economic and employment systems, contextualising all of these in terms of the need for long-term ecological sustainability. Relating Epicurus to contemporary ideas and debates in politics and social reform, this book will be of interest to students of applied philosophy, ethics and social policy, as well as those with an interest in social theory and welfare.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Epicurus: in Outline and in History 2. From Five Puzzles to Three Objections 3. Aristotle to the Rescue? Interlude: Rowing for Beginners 4. Being Free 5. Being Just 6. Being Green 7. Being Better Conclusion References Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe People's Porn is the first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, which offers the back story to the explosion of amateur pornography on the Internet. In doing so, it is a much-needed counterweight to the ahistorical and ideological arguments that dominate most discussions about pornography. Critics focus on mass-produced materials and make claims about pornography as plasticized or commodified. In contrast, this book looks at what people made rather than what they bought, revealing how people thought about sexuality for themselves. Whalers and craftsmen, prisoners and activists, African Americans and feminists, all made their own pornography. The People's Porn challenges preconceptions as it tells a new and fascinating story about American sexual history.Trade Review"Sigel’s great subject is the way consumerism eradicates the creative libido. Her book, for all its alarming examples, is convincing in its argument that homemade porn is a valuable anthropological indicator of sexuality that speaks to the era and place in which it was made. Her reader will certainly look at rude phalluses scraffitoed on subway seats with softer eyes. Behold, before me! A radical, unquenchable expression of the irrepressibly horny human spirit." * New York Review of Books *"Perhaps unsurprisingly for a book of this nature, the accompanying photographs are just as compelling as the text itself, if not more so. There are 97 of them, and they are frequently hilarious. . . . Sigel is a companionable guide . . . with occasional flashes of wit and bawdy remarks." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Sigel’s The People’s Porn attempts the ambitious, unglamorous, but fascinating work of drawing together for the firs time an archive of handmade erotic objects made over two centuries of American history. From erotic scrimshaw made by nineteenth-century sailors to amateur polaroids, it charts a course through the ways in which apparently ‘ordinary’ men and women represented sex in all its variety—cis and trans, straight and queer, in couples or groups, with people or animals and somewhere in between—via prison pornography, pop-up erections, masturbating Santas, and feminist embroidery. In doing so, it tells a story of hidden desire that has often been overlooked . . . The People’s Porn is at its most illuminating when exploring the place of sex in shared cultures of humor and conviviality, showing that pornography was as much about male (and sometimes female) bonding as it was about private fantasy." * History Today *"Sigel’s research glimpses into the history of sexuality in America through handmade pornographic objects, asking what handmade 'trashy' sex objects reveal about our culture and its historical expressions of sexuality. The People’s Porn provides timelines and contexts showing that, no matter what obscenity laws our nation puts in place, individuals have always expressed their sexuality through art and crafts." * Full Stop *"In The People's Porn, Sigel explores the history of handmade smut. . . . Is that a doctored coin in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" * Chicago Magazine *"Sigel has opened the drawer for good with her new book, The People’s Porn, where the historian speaks to the prolific creation of pornography and our unique culture that both harbors and represses it." * Antiques and the Arts Weekly *"Flipping through The People’s Porn, you will see some amazing things. . . . The contrast between these objects—ridiculous, funny, sexy, disturbing—and our idea of what old porn might have been like—sepia, staid—is Sigel’s point. . . . I appreciated the historian’s commitment to letting us know why the groups of objects she analyzes have survived to the present and explaining why the archive of handmade porn is so small. . . . When private pornography goes public, she writes, there’s always a risk." * SLATE *"Masturbation is the only sex act that’s both universal and forbidden. Universal in that everyone does it—unless they exercise peculiar restraint or are lying—but forbidden in that it’s taboo to practice in public and an untouchable topic in polite conversation. . . . The Peoples’ Porn reveals one of America’s bigger hypocrisies, simultaneously producing and consuming scads of soft- to hardcore filth while demonizing and concealing it. As Sigel, among others, points out, porn has the strange power to unite the puritanical right, anti-porn feminists, and vanilla-sex moderates against its supposed society-destroying effects. However, when self-produced, imaginary, and created of one’s own free will for one’s own use, those arguments become as ephemeral and insubstantial as the homemade pornography they critique. A masturbatory activity, to be sure." * Third Coast Review *"Sigel effectively refutes several misconceptions about pornography. First, despite commercial pornography’s extensive reach and impact, much of pornography is 'small business' and not industrialized. Given that, historically, both production and distribution of pornography were limited, pornography for most of its history has been amateur and homemade, both past and present. Second, although the rise of amateur pornography is commonly attributed to the rise of the internet and the spread of more affordable technology in the last twenty years, its contemporary history dates back at least to the early nineteenth century, primarily in the form of homemade pornography. Although studying pornography from the past can be challenging because much has been destroyed by 'anti-porn crusaders,' with close to one hundred pictures, this book clearly illustrates that amateur pornography existed as drawings on scrimshaw teeth, carved compass cases, and coffin figures, among many other forms. These handmade and homemade pornographic objects that escaped destruction reveal the history of amateur pornography in the United States, which showcases consumers’ pursuit of something real, even if the notion of authentic sex and sexuality in itself may be nebulous. Recommended." * Choice *“Sigel fearlessly explores popular erotica, an unknown country where few scholars dare to venture. Her latest book is a fascinating feat of historical archaeology, uncovering rare sexual artefacts and perceptively revealing their significance. She proves that pornography is not always ‘commercialized’: it can often be a lively folk art produced by ordinary men and, yes, women.” -- Jonathan Rose, William R. Kenan Professor of History, Drew University, and author of “The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes”“A magnificent and highly original book that convincingly argues homemade and handmade ‘porn’ objects can tell us important things about history and about sexuality. The People's Porn will be indispensable to anyone with an interest in the continuing debates about the relations between sex, media, and culture.” -- Feona Attwood, author of “Sex Media” and coeditor of “Porn Studies”“From the delicately obscene anonymous scrimshaw carvings of the early nineteenth century to the primitively obscene imaginings of the prolific Henry Darger in the twentieth century, to the contemporary obscene repurposing of the anatomy of Barbie Dolls, The People’s Porn refutes the overblown truism that commercial pornography has been the only game in town.” -- Linda Williams, Professor Emerita of Film, Media, and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of “Screening Sex and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the ‘Frenzy of the Visible’”

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook unpacks the underlying common factors that give rise to corrupting environments. Investigating opportunities to deliver ethical public policy, it proposes strategies for building integrity and diminishing corruption in public administration. Beginning with an exploration of contemporary global trends in public administration and its vulnerability to corruption today, this Handbook sheds light on the avenues for corruption to access health care, education and local government sectors, as well as the effects of corruption on environmental protection, policing and the justice system and border administration. Employing an international approach, chapters consider how different national administrative environments shape corruption, and how governments seek to eradicate the unique problems that it poses. It concludes by scrutinizing the responses taken by public administrators in dealing with corrupt activities and highlighting opportunities to build integrity in the future. Featuring both theoretical illuminations and real-word insights, this Handbook is key reading for academics and researchers of public administration and management. Policymakers will also benefit from the proposed strategies for tackling public administrative corruption and building integrity. Contributors include: E. Butkevicien , M. Camerer, E. Dávid-Barrett, G. De Graaf, M. Fotaki, G. Fuller, A. Goldsmith, A. Graycar, D. Harris, M. Heide, S.P. Heyneman, M. Howlett, L.W.J.C. Huberts, S.K. Ivkovic, D. Jancsics, A. Jiang, M. Johnston, M.W. Katusiimeh, N. Kirby, E. Kolthoff, C. Lui, M. Macaulay, G. Marcetic, T. Minh Le, V. Morkevi ius, G. Mugellini, T. Oberman, B.J. Palifka, M. Pyman, J.S.T. Quah, T.H.S. Rice, B. Sarican, A. Shaipov, W. Slingerland, K. Smith, R.G. Smith, A.R. Timilsina, E. Vaidelyt , Z. van der Wal, A. van Montfort, T. Vian, S.R. Vidli ka, J.-P. Villeneuve, L. Vyas, R. White, A.M. Wu, A. YatesTrade Review‘This Handbook includes a variety of thought-provoking short works on public sector corruption and related topics. The collection is wide-ranging, allowing for excellent coverage of topics of interest to both scholars and practitioners.’ -- Chris Atkinson, Public Organization Review‘The volume presents a valuable and essential source for everyone interested in the study of corruption, ethics and integrity in public administration.’ -- Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und ManagementTable of ContentsContents: 1 Corruption and Public Administration Adam Graycar Part 1: Public administration and its vulnerabilities 2. Trends and drivers of public administration in the 21st century Zeger van der Wal 3. Typologies of anti-corruption frameworks Jean-Patrick Villeneuve, Giulia Mugellini and Marlen Heide 4. Virtue and morality in public administration: Values driven leadership in public sector agencies Michael Macaulay 5. Anti-Corruption and Its Discontents: Reforming Reform Michael Johnston 6. Dealing with the dark side of policy making: Corruption, malfeasance and the volatility of policy mixes Michael Howlett 7. Corruption of public officials by organised crime: Understanding the risks, and exploring the solutions. Russell G Smith, Tony Oberman and Georgina Fuller Part 2: Corruption in sectors 8. Redefining sectors: a more focussed approach to tackling corruption. Mark Pyman 9. Corruption and administration in health care Taryn Vian 10. Corruption in the education secto Stephen Heyneman 11. Corruption and administration in local government Allan Yates 12. Curbing Corruption in Tax Administration with Enhanced Risk Mapping of Business Processes Tuan Minh Le and Beytullah Sarican 13. Corruption and administration in environmental protection Rob White 14. Studying Police Integrit Sanja Kutnjak Ivković 15. Prison corruption: an ecological framework Andrew Goldsmith 16.Corruption in border administration David Jancsics Part 3: Case studies from around the world 17. Features of corruption and anti-corruption work in China and India Lina Vyas and Alfred Wu 18. Corruption in Lithuania: between institutions and perceptions Eglė Butkevičienė, Eglė Vaidelytė, Vaidas Morkevičius 19. Public Administration and Corruption: A comparative case study of Police Services in Ghana and Uganda Donna Harris and Mesharch Walto Katusiimeh 20. Corruption, Organized Crime and the Public Sector in Mexico Bonnie J. Palifka 21. Public Administration and Integrity in South Africa: The case of the National Prosecuting Authority Marianne Camerer 22. Corruption, Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration in Ukraine Speedy Rice, Alora Jiang Artem Shaipov 23. Catharsis and Reform: an Australian example of building institutional integrity following systemic corruption Ken Smith 24. Corruption and Public Administration in Croatia Gordana Marčetić and Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička 25. Singapore’s Effective Anti-Corruption Recipe: Lessons for other Countries Jon S.T. Quah 26. The Netherlands: an impression of corruption in a less corrupt country Willeke Slingerland and Gjalt de Graaf Part 4 Responses to corruption in public administration 27. What works: global experiences in public administration Anga R. Timilsina and Charlene Lui 28. Regulating Conflicts of Interest in Public Office Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett 29. Whistleblowers counteracting institutional corruption in public administration Marianna Fotaki 30. Criminological responses to corruption Emile Kolthoff 31. Building ethical organisations: The importance of organizational integrity systems Leo Huberts and André van Montfort 32. From anti-corruption to building integrity Nikolas Kirby Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisEven today, many people think of 'social problems' as involving poor and powerless individuals in society. "Research in Social Problems and Public Policy" seeks to improve the balance by adding a focus on important and powerful institutions. Such organizations often play key roles in managing, and mismanaging, the ways in which some of today's most important social problems are handled by the public policy system. The book series are compiled and written by the most highly regarded authors in their fields and are selected from across the globe. The papers discuss policy sciences, public policy analysis and public management. It addresses operations and design issues for government organizations.Table of ContentsCollaboration between science and social science: Issues, challenges, and opportunities. Knowing a Hawk from a Handsaw: Interdisciplinarity and STEM education research. Engineering ethics and STS subcultures. Understanding earth resources: What's sociology got to do with it?. Teaching sociology to science and engineering students: some experiences from an introductory science and technology studies course. Why sociology courses combined with a required STS project are mutually enhancing: The WPI experience. Advancing educational reform: Lessons from a collaborative workshop among engineering educators and sociologists. Pedagogical partnerships: Faculty learning communities as a foundation for linking science and society. Improving educational change agents’ efficacy in science, engineering, and mathematics education. The convergence of sociology and computer science. The social sciences and the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM): Toward the building of improved, two-way bridges. Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. Integrating the sciences and society: Challenges, practices, and potentials. Copyright page. Introduction: The importance and challenge of integrating scientific and societal perspectives. About the Authors.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis insightful book discusses the use of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for transport policy options from an ethical perspective.Each detailed chapter deals with issues such as; the use and ethical aspects of CBA in transport, social exclusion, the environment and long term sustainability, safety, ethics of research and modeling transport. It summarizes ethics-based critics on CBA and discusses their relevance for accessibility, the environment and safety. In addition it explores ethical dilemmas of doing CBAs and CBA related research. The book concludes with possible avenues for furthering exploring the links between transport and ethics.Transport and Ethics will appeal to researchers in the area of CBA for transport, postgraduate and undergraduate students in transport economics, transport policy, transport planning and transport geography, as well as policy makers in the area of transport.Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The Opinion of the Target Group; 3. How Suitable is CBA for the Ex-ante Evaluation of Transport Projects and Policies?; 4. Social Exclusion; 5. Long Term Sustainability and Transport Evaluation; 6. Safety: Indicators, Pricing Humans and Democracy; 7. The Ethics of Doing Transport Research; 8. The Use of Models; 9. Epilogue and Discussion; IndexTrade Review'Prof. van Wee draws on extensive research and nearly three decades of professional experience to shine a welcome spotlight on a neglected yet critical area of transportation research and practice: the role of ethics in the ex ante evaluation of infrastructure projects and transportation policies. Aiming more to raise questions and provoke thought than to provide answers, his balanced and systematic treatment of the subject makes the book an invaluable resource - one which should be on the shelves and (more importantly) in the minds of every transportation policymaker, planner, and modeler.' - Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis, US 'This book on transport ethics fills a clear gap in the literature. Many researchers and practitioners in the transport field are aware that transport policies have important ethical dimensions, but these have not been systematically explored in the literature. Bert van Wee did a great job by bringing transport and ethics together. His decision to focus on ex ante evaluations of transport policies works out very well, since it enables him to achieve considerable depth on a theme that might otherwise be too broad.' - Piet Rietveld, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Transport impacts on all aspects of our lives and businesses, but the inclusion of ethics is not seen as a central concern. This book fills a major gap in the literature, through its understanding of the many important dimensions of ethics and its treatment of a range of situations in transport, through asking about the why, what and how as it relates to ethics. The clear conclusion is reached that ethics should feature much more prominently in all transport decisions, but that it is also context specific in both time and space. The approach adopted is transparent and informative, and the author guides the reader through the main conceptual and theoretical issues, using examples to illustrate the range of important ethical choices raised in the evaluation of transport policies and practices.' --- David Banister, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Opinion of the Target Group 3. How Suitable is CBA for the Ex ante Evaluation of Transport Projects and Policies? 4. Social Exclusion 5. Long-term Sustainability and Transport Evaluation 6. Safety: Indicators, Pricing Humans and Democracy 7. The Ethics of Doing Transport Research 8. The Use of Models 9. Epilogue and Discussion Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisA bystander is someone who does not become involved when someone else needs help. This book investigates the meaning of bystanding behaviour in ordinary life as well as in counselling psychology and psychotherapeutic practice, its supervision and organization. It is about helping and not helping, giving and getting help, and some ways of thinking and acting in our increasingly complex moral world. Bystanding is seen as a major way in which people disempower themselves and others. It works at the juncture of the individual and the collective, the person and the group, the citizen and the state, the patient and the psychotherapist. This book provides an exploration of the psychological and social costs of convenience-neutrality, non-involvement or avoidance of responsibility and gives some guidelines on dealing with the difficult issues of bystanding in ourselves and others.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I - What and Who is a Bystander? Chapter 1 Bystanding - What Is It? Chapter 2 Bystanding - Cultural and Historical Context. Chapter 3 The Dramatic Structure of Human Life. Part II - Bystander Patterns. Chapter 4 'And Washed His Hands'. Chapter 5 'And I did not speak out'. Chapter 6 'Look behind you'. Part III - The Retrieval of Human Relationship. Chapter 7 From 'Bystanding' to 'Standing by'. Chapter 8 Bystanding in Counselling, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Chapter 9 Beyond Bystanding. Appendix I A Socio-cultural Context for Psychotherapy. Appendix II Bystanding: A Block to Empowerment. Appendix III About Protective Behaviours. References. Index.

Read more less

Book SynopsisHave you ever Wondered how to deal with a family that repeatedly fails to keep clinic appointments? Disagreed with colleagues over a proposed course of treatment for a child? Considered ways to 'bump' a child on a waiting to speed up their assessment? These are a few of the scenarios faced by clinicians in neurodisability on a daily basis. Ethics in Child Health explores the ethical dimensions of these issues that have either been ignored or not recognised. Each chapter is built around a scenario familiar to clinicians and is discussed with respect to how ethical principles can be utilised to inform decision-making. Useful "Themes for Discussion" are provided at the end of each chapter to help professionals and students develop practical ethical thinking. Ethics in Child Health offers a set of principles that clinicians, social workers and policy-makers can utilise in their respective spheres of influence.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 SECTION A: SETTING THE STAGE: ATTUNING MORAL AND ETHICAL THINKING 1 A parent’s perspective on everyday ethics 7 Jennifer Johannesen 2 Present-day health and neurodevelopmental disability 17Peter L. Rosenbaum and Gabriel M. Ronen with contributions by Barbara J. Cunningham 6 The importance of beliefs and relationships in the decision-making process 75 Howard Needelman and David Sweeney 7 Humanism in the practice of neurodevelopmental disability: examples of challenges and opportunities 85Garey Noritz 8 Truth with hope: ethical challenges in disclosing ‘bad’ diagnostic, prognostic and intervention information 97Iona Novak, Marelle Thornton, Cathy Morgan, Petra Karlsson, Hayley Smithers-Sheedy and Nadia Badawi SECTION C: ETHICAL ISSUES IN ADDRESSING FAMILIES’ PRIORITIES 9 Different perspectives, different priorities: using a strengths-based approach to gain trust and find common ground 111Dinah S. Reddihough and Jane Tracy 3 Can moral problems of everyday clinical practice ever be resolved? A proposal for integrative pragmatist approaches 33Eric Racine SECTION B: EARLY DAYS, THE START OF THE DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENTAL JOURNEY 4 Prenatal consultation: ethical challenges and proposed solutions 49Jennifer Cobelli Kett, Hannah M. Tully and Dan Doherty 5 Evidence-based neonatal neurology: decision-making in conditions of medical uncertainty 61Isabelle Chouinard, Eric Racine and Pia Wintermark 10 The importance of patients’ and families’ narratives: developing a philosophy of care to support patient/family goals 123Jean C. Kunz Stansbury and Scott Schwantes SECTION D: RESPECTING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL VALUES 14 Terminology in neurodevelopmental disability: is using stigmatizing language harmful? 161Lisa Samson-Fang 15 Everyday ethics in Rwanda: perspectives on hope, fatigue, death and regrowth 169Emily Esmaili and Christian Ntizimira 16 When expectations diverge: addressing our cultural differences differently 177Laura S. Funkhouser with contributions by Suzanne Linett 17 Service provision for hard-to-reach families: what are our responsibilities? 193Michelle Phoenix 18 The obligation to report child abuse/neglect is more complex than it seems 203Lucyna M. Lach and Rachel Birnbaum 11 The ethics of patient advocacy: bending the rules on behalf of patients 133Raymond Tervo and Paul J. Wojda 12 Responding to requests for novel/unproven alternative and complementary treatments 143Edward A. Hurvitz and Garey Noritz 13 A miracle cure for neurological disability: balancing hype and hope for parents and patients in the absence of evidence-based recommendations 153Paul C. Mann, Russell P. Saneto and Sidney M. Gospe Jr. 19 The dilemmas for siblings of children with disabilities: personal reflections on ethical challenges 215Peter Blasco 20 Paying attention to parental mental health: is this our responsibility? 223Dinah S. Reddihough and Elise Davis SECTION E: THERAPIES, REHABILITATION AND INTERVENTIONS 21 Tensions regarding the processes associated with decision-making about intervention 233Lora Woo, Eunice Shen and Elizabeth Russel 22 Can’t you just do therapy? When there is disagreement about discharge from therapy 249Janey McGeary Farber and Harriet Fain-Tvedt 23 Concurrent therapy in pediatric neurorehabilitation 259Marilyn Wright, Sandra Gaik and Kathleen Dekker 24 Ethical considerations regarding surgical treatment of severe scoliosis in children with cerebral palsy 271M. Wade Shrader SECTION F: ETHICAL ISSUES IN SPECIFIC CONDITIONS AND CONTEXTS 25 Considering best interest, quality of life, autonomy and personhood in the intensive care unit 279Michael A. Clarke 26 How much is too much care? Interventions and life support in children with profound impairments and life-threatening conditions 291Christopher J. Newman and Eric B. Zurbrugg 27 Discussing sudden unexpected death in newly diagnosed epilepsy 303James J. Reese Jr. and Phillip L. Pearl 28 Ethical challenges of diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: when diagnosis has sociopolitical consequences 311Ilona Autti-Rämö SECTION G: EMERGING INDEPENDENCE AND PREPARING FOR ADULTHOOD 29 Growth and pubertal manipulation in children with neurodisabilities: what are the ethical implications? 323M. Constantine Samaan 30 Independence in adulthood: ethical challenges in providing transitional care for young people with neurodevelopmental impairments 335Jan Willem Gorter and Barbara E. Gibson 31 Conservatorship in emerging adults: ethical and legal considerations 349Henry G. Chambers Epilogue: Looking back to the future 353Bernard Dan

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis new collection explores for the first time male sex work from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines. It aims to help enrich the ways in which we view both male sex work as a field of commerce and male sex workers themselves. Leading contributors examine the field both historically and cross-culturally from fields including public health, sociology, psychology, social services, history, filmography, economics, mental health, criminal justice, geography, and migration studies, and more. Synthesizing introductions by the editors help the reader understand the implications of the findings and conclusions for scholars, practitioners, students, and members of the interested/concerned public.Trade ReviewMuch-needed... Most of the articles are research centered and bring quantitative analysis to historical, national, and cultural events. This research constitutes the most evident strength of the collection... Scholars researching male sex work will appreciate this crucial step in the right direction. Publishers Weekly A compelling new book. The Huffington Post Beautifully designed and filled with surprising statistics, historic photos, and artfully shot man-candy, Male Sex Work and Society is an interesting and insightful read. The Fight Magazine A valuable resource on an elusive topic. A & U Magazine By the conclusion of the collection you are confident that the subject has well and truly been considered from every angle. Out in Perth Much-needed exploration of male sex work marks the relaunching of Harrington Park Press, a long-standing publisher of gender and queer studies titles...Most of the articles are research centered and bring quantitative analysis to historical, national, and cultural events. This research constitutes the most evident strength of the collection, as the public understanding of male sex work has largely been defined by false assumptions, gaps in information, and prejudices. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Extensively researched from cover to cover, Male Sex is a highly accessible tome. Seventeen chapters discuss every possible aspect of male sex work, including the history, the issues male sex workers face, and ways that male sex work is treated in various parts of the world. Male Sex not only focuses on workers who service male clients but also explores workers who work with female clients. The male role in this line of work is a fascinating topic the book wholly explores...Academic, public, and GLBT libraries would benefit greatly by including this book in their collection. Whether for sociology, GLBT, or public health sections, Male Sex can be suggested to patrons to give them a view into the world of male sex work. The book is highly recommended for readers 18 years and older. CHOICE Achieves its goal to an astonishing degree...This is a pathbreaking, well illustrated book about many aspects of male sex work - historical, cultural, economical, ethnological, legal, medical, psychological and artistic. As the editors explain their aim (p. 462): "to open and clarify a new conceptually broader perspective on the male sex industry...For this reviewer, the book has been an eye-opener, and I suspect that it will have the same effect on many other readers. Especially all those involved with public health issues - from doctors and nurses, social workers and community leaders to the police and the criminal justice system, to public officials and politicians - would greatly profit from reading the various papers included in this volume. -- Archives of Sexology Featuring a fantastic selection of authors from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, this collection sets a new standard for scholarly accounts of male sex work. The empirical depth is remarkable, and the conceptual contributions are refined. Male Sex Work and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in sex, sexuality, identity, work, and GLTBQ issues. -- Kevin Walby, PhD, University of Victoria, author of Touching Encounters: Sex, Work and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting Thoroughly researched and lavishly documented... of considerable interest to social workers, psychologists, therapists, counselors and academics in relevant fields... an important work, a serious contribution to queer studies, and a valuable tool for professionals. Out in Jersey Minichiello and Scott must be lauded for an intense scholarly work on a hitherto untouched territory... while providing a critically needed resource in the academic space, it manages to open up vast new avenues of research for social scientists. Pink Pages A wide-ranging, scholarly consideration of male sex work... Male Sex Work and Society is accessible to any who might be interested in the topic. This book is a valuable resource on an elusive topic. A&U [A] groundbreaking book... the essays and empirical research demonstrate how serious study of male sex workers may assist gender studies scholars when it comes to theorizing issues of masculinity, commodification of the male body, and the social construction of gender, sexuality, and power relations. Choice Full of intriguing information. -- Yoav Sivan Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide By offering a variety of different cultural and systemic nuances to studying sexuality more broadly and sex work more specifically, the authors provide a needed document for the important dialogues in research involving sex workers. -- Theodore Burnes Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity An invaluable resource to academics and (under)graduate students interested in gender, sexuality and the political economy of prostitution. -- Tan Qian Hui Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific Anyone who is interested in any aspect of male sex work will find something of immense value... I would highly recommend this book for academics and nonacademics alike. -- Jerry Watkins Journal of the History of Sexuality Intriguing and engaging from the outset... This collection is extremely well researched and passionately written, deeming it a necessary companion for anyone who has an interest in the broad and engaging field of male sex work research. -- Lorna Barton Wagadu: a Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies This collection provides the most comprehensive purview of research on the subject matter. -- Michelle Manning Contemporary Sexuality Editors Minichiello and Scott have produced a beautiful, diverse, wide-ranging and highly accessible collection of articles... I highly recommend this volume, especially to researchers just getting involved with this field or to educators who are looking to break students out of their beliefs that only women sell sex. -- Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette Wagadu A comprehensive overview... Male Sex Work and Society is a timely addition to the study of male sex workers and a strong contribution to the field of sexuality, health and gender. -- Dr. Andrea Waling Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Reframing Male Sex Work, by John Scott and Victor Minichiello Male Sex Work in Sociohistoric Context 1. Male Sex Work from Ancient Times to the Near Present, by Mack Friedman 2. Male Sex Work in Modern Times, by Kerwin Kaye 3. Representations of Male Sex Work in Film, by Russell Sheaffer Marketing of Male Sex Work 4. Advertising Male Sexual Services, by Allan Tyler 5. Economic Analyses of Male Sex Work, by Trevon D. Logan Social Issues and Cultures in Male Sex Work 6. Clients of Male Sex Workers, by John Scott, Denton Callander, and Victor Minichiello 7. Regulation of the Male Sex Industry, by Thomas Crofts 8. Public Health Policy and Practice with Male Sex Workers, by David S. Bimbi and Juline A. Koken 9. Mental Health Aspects of Male Sex Work, by Juline A. Koken and David S. Bimbi 10. Gay Subcultures, by Christian Grov and Michael D. Smith 11. Health and Wellness Services for Male Sex Workers, by Mary Laing and Justin Gaffney Male Sex Work in Its Global Context 12. Male Sex Work in Southern and Eastern Africa, by Paul Boyce and Gordon Isaacs 13. Male Sex Work in China, by Travis S. K. Kong 14. Male Sex Work in Post-Soviet Russia, by Linda M. Niccolai 15. Male Sex Work from Latin American Perspectives, by Victor Minichiello, Tinashe Dune, Carlos Disogra, and Rodrigo Marino 16. Migrant Male Sex Workers in Germany, by Heide Castaneda 17. Male Sex Work in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, by Paul J. Maginn and Graham Ellison Conclusion: Future Directions in Male Sex Work Research, by Victor Minichiello and John Scott Contributors Glossary Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn the United States, the “right to choose” an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didn’t really have a choice? What if state laws, federal policies, stigma, and a host of other obstacles push that choice out of her reach? Based on candid, in-depth interviews with women who considered but did not obtain an abortion, No Real Choice punctures the myth that American women have full autonomy over their reproductive choices. Focusing on the experiences of a predominantly Black and low-income group of women, sociologist Katrina Kimport finds that structural, cultural, and experiential factors can make choosing abortion impossible–especially for those who experience racism and class discrimination. From these conversations, we see the obstacles to “choice” these women face, such as bans on public insurance coverage of abortion and rampant antiabortion claims that abortion is harmful. Kimport's interviews reveal that even as activists fight to preserve Roe v. Wade, class and racial disparities have already curtailed many women’s freedom of choice. No Real Choice analyzes both the structural obstacles to abortion and the cultural ideologies that try to persuade women not to choose abortion. Told with care and sensitivity, No Real Choice gives voice to women whose experiences are often overlooked in debates on abortion, illustrating how real reproductive choice is denied, for whom, and at what cost. Trade Review"The Femtastic Podcast with Katie Breen: interview with Katrina Kimport"— The Femtastic Podcast "Kimport’s discovery of women receiving prenatal care who have not 'chosen' to have a baby offers a revelatory corrective to the way we talk about abortion, childbirth, and choice in America."— Katie Watson, author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion "Kimport’s book will be of interest to scholars of reproduction, social movements, legal studies, and social inequalities. It is written in accessible prose that makes the book a suitable text for both graduate and undergraduate courses as well as the broader public. As the United States stands at the precipice of a dramatic change to laws governing the right of pregnant people to reproductive autonomy, No Real Choice is a must-read." — Gender & Society "No Real Choice marks the definitive end of arguing for a 'pro-choice' America by proving how policies, assumptions, and histories of medical injustice often make abortion utterly unchooseable. Collecting voices from those who considered abortion but went to term anyway, Katrina Kimport charts the logistical obstacles to terminating unwanted pregnancies and illustrates the need for promoting the right to parent for low income individuals and people of color. The lived reality of racism shapes these ethnographic stories of struggle over reproductive possibilities and impossibilities to affirm abortion not as an option but as a necessary element of a just society."— Carol Mason, author of Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics "Chocolate Opera Cake and No Real Choice with Prof. Katrina Kimport"— Proofing and Lies podcast "No Real Choice offers important insights into the reproductive experiences of women, especially poor women of color. The result is a reframing of the choice for women, from one of deciding between abortion and the continuation of pregnancy to one of deciding whether or not to have an abortion."— Nazli Kibria, author of Becoming Asian American "For those skeptical that there’s anything new to say about abortion, Kimport’s book is a must-read. Her careful analysis shows—startlingly—that many women give birth because abortion is 'unchoosable.'" — Lisa Harris, MD, University of Michigan "I came away from the book appreciative that Kimport had collected and shared so many moving and important stories of women whose voices are otherwise unlikely to be heard." — Nursing Clio "We Need to Do More Than “Protect Roe'" by Katrina Kimport— The NationTable of Contents1. No Real Choice 2. Policies, Poverty, and the Organization of Abortion Care 3. Privileging the Fetus 4. Seeing Irresponsibility and Harm 5. Fearing the Experience of Abortion 6. Choosing a Baby 7. Toward Reproductive Autonomy Methodological Appendix Acknowledgments References Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn the United States, the “right to choose” an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didn’t really have a choice? What if state laws, federal policies, stigma, and a host of other obstacles push that choice out of her reach? Based on candid, in-depth interviews with women who considered but did not obtain an abortion, No Real Choice punctures the myth that American women have full autonomy over their reproductive choices. Focusing on the experiences of a predominantly Black and low-income group of women, sociologist Katrina Kimport finds that structural, cultural, and experiential factors can make choosing abortion impossible–especially for those who experience racism and class discrimination. From these conversations, we see the obstacles to “choice” these women face, such as bans on public insurance coverage of abortion and rampant antiabortion claims that abortion is harmful. Kimport's interviews reveal that even as activists fight to preserve Roe v. Wade, class and racial disparities have already curtailed many women’s freedom of choice. No Real Choice analyzes both the structural obstacles to abortion and the cultural ideologies that try to persuade women not to choose abortion. Told with care and sensitivity, No Real Choice gives voice to women whose experiences are often overlooked in debates on abortion, illustrating how real reproductive choice is denied, for whom, and at what cost. Trade Review"The Femtastic Podcast with Katie Breen: interview with Katrina Kimport"— The Femtastic Podcast "Kimport’s discovery of women receiving prenatal care who have not 'chosen' to have a baby offers a revelatory corrective to the way we talk about abortion, childbirth, and choice in America."— Katie Watson, author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion "Kimport’s book will be of interest to scholars of reproduction, social movements, legal studies, and social inequalities. It is written in accessible prose that makes the book a suitable text for both graduate and undergraduate courses as well as the broader public. As the United States stands at the precipice of a dramatic change to laws governing the right of pregnant people to reproductive autonomy, No Real Choice is a must-read." — Gender & Society "No Real Choice marks the definitive end of arguing for a 'pro-choice' America by proving how policies, assumptions, and histories of medical injustice often make abortion utterly unchooseable. Collecting voices from those who considered abortion but went to term anyway, Katrina Kimport charts the logistical obstacles to terminating unwanted pregnancies and illustrates the need for promoting the right to parent for low income individuals and people of color. The lived reality of racism shapes these ethnographic stories of struggle over reproductive possibilities and impossibilities to affirm abortion not as an option but as a necessary element of a just society."— Carol Mason, author of Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics "Chocolate Opera Cake and No Real Choice with Prof. Katrina Kimport"— Proofing and Lies podcast "No Real Choice offers important insights into the reproductive experiences of women, especially poor women of color. The result is a reframing of the choice for women, from one of deciding between abortion and the continuation of pregnancy to one of deciding whether or not to have an abortion."— Nazli Kibria, author of Becoming Asian American "For those skeptical that there’s anything new to say about abortion, Kimport’s book is a must-read. Her careful analysis shows—startlingly—that many women give birth because abortion is 'unchoosable.'" — Lisa Harris, MD, University of Michigan "I came away from the book appreciative that Kimport had collected and shared so many moving and important stories of women whose voices are otherwise unlikely to be heard." — Nursing Clio "We Need to Do More Than “Protect Roe'" by Katrina Kimport— The NationTable of Contents1. No Real Choice 2. Policies, Poverty, and the Organization of Abortion Care 3. Privileging the Fetus 4. Seeing Irresponsibility and Harm 5. Fearing the Experience of Abortion 6. Choosing a Baby 7. Toward Reproductive Autonomy Methodological Appendix Acknowledgments References Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn this book, eighteen Chinese women tell how they came to sell sex in Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Los Angeles, and New York. The women’s candid stories put a human face on issues of globalized commercial sex and provide a raw, inside view of the money-driven transnational sex industry. The author, an expert in the field of criminal justice, frames their personal accounts with contextual details and incisive commentary to provide a rich understanding of the realities and myths of prostitution and global sex trafficking. While the interviews were gathered as part of an extensive research project for the author’s 2012 book, Selling Sex Overseas, the full accounts are published here for the first time. The women describe, in their own words, what motivated them to leave China to work in the sex trade abroad, how much they earn, what hardships they face, and what they hope for in the future.

Read more less

Book SynopsisAmong the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study sketches in the trade in women and children in Asia, and - making innovative use of Coroner's Inquests and other records - hones in on the details of the prostitutes' lives in the colonial city: the daily brothel routine, crises and violence, social relations, leisure, mobility, disease and death.The result is a powerful historical account of human nature, of human relationships, of pride, prejudice, struggle and spirit. Ordinary people tumble from the pages of the records: they talk about choice of partners, love and betrayal, desperation and alienation, drawing us into their lives. This social history is a powerful corrective to the romantic image of colonial Singapore as a city of excitement, sophistication, exotic charm and easy sex. In the years since its original publication in 1992, this book, and its companion Rickshaw Coolie, have become an inspiration to those seeking to come to grips with Singapore's past.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists, and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgements. Stefan Collini examines the characteristic idioms and strategies of argument employed in periodical and polemical writing, and reconstructs the sense of identity and of relation to an audience exhibited by social critics from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J. M. Keynes and F. R. Leavis.Dr Collini begins by situating the leading intellectuals in the social and political world of the Victorian governing classes. He explores fundamental values like `altruism'', `character'', and `manliness'', which are revealed as the animating dynamic of much of the politiTrade ReviewStefan Collini is a sophisticated, witty and thoughtful historian of ideas ... Collini is a fertile and gifted author ... His book on Matthew Arnold ... is a marvel of a compression and trenchant good sense ... [Public Moralists is] a superior book ... sets the mind spinning. * Sheldon Rothblatt, The Higher *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part One: Governing Values: Leading minds: The world of the Victorian intellectual; The culture of altruism: Selfishness and the decay of motive; The idea of character: private habits and public virtues; Part Two: Public Voices: Their master's voice: John Stuart Mill as a public moralist; Manly fellows: Fawcett, Stephen, and the liberal temper; Part Three: Moral Sciences: Their title to be heard: professionalization and its discontents; An exclusively professional subject: the jurist as public moralist; Part Four: English Geneologies: From dangerous partisan to national possession: John Stuart Mill in English culture 1873-1933; The Whig interpretation of English literature: literary history and national identity; Index

Read more less