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Book SynopsisA firsthand account of how public officials and other well-connected individuals have been compromised or blackmailed by their sexual improprieties, Confessions of a D.C. Madame relates the author’s time running the largest gay escort service in Washington, DC, and his interactions with VIPs from government, business, and the media who solicited the escorts he employed. The book details the federal government’s pernicious campaign waged against the author to ensure his silence and how he withstood relentless, fabricated attacks by the government, which included incarceration rooted in trumped up charges and outright lies. This fascinating and shocking facet of government malfeasance reveals the integral role blackmail plays in American politics and the unbelievable lengths the government perpetrates to silence those in the know.Trade Review"It has become an accepted fact that politicians are dirty. They lie, cheat, steal, and are above the law. Prostitutes are part of an underground part of this society, which America turns away from. There isn't much to be done to stop it, as paying for sex existed hand in hand with the power dynamic of governing people and society. Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail is a scary eye-opener of how naive American society is to this world." Wendy Stevens, Portland Book Review

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Book SynopsisThe book is a compilation of five true stories of adults (4 woman & 1 man) trafficked as children. Each story is preceded by an overview of the type of trafficking the story addresses and followed up by a statement from the survivors themselves. The purpose of the book is to provide insights on how American children are taken captive and often coerced to remain in a lifestyle of commercial sexual exploitation. All profits from the book will be distributed to nationally recognized agencies providing either preventive or restorative service for child survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking.

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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

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Book SynopsisWhen the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (Viby, Denmark) published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed nine years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech. The paper's culture editor, Flemming Rose, defended the decision to print the 12 drawings, and he quickly came to play a central part in the debate about the limitations to freedom of speech in the 21st century. Since then, Rose has visited universities and think tanks and participated in conferences and debates around the globe in order to discuss tolerance and freedom. In The Tyranny of Silence, Flemming Rose writes about the people and experiences that have influenced the way he views the world and his understanding of the crisis, including meetings with dissidents from the former Soviet Union and ex-Muslims living in Europe. He provides a personal account of an event that has shaped the debate about what it means to be a citizen in a democracy and how to coexist in a world that is increasingly multicultural, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic.Table of Contents800x600 Nine chapters consisting of the author's own experiences and interviewswith individuals who were close to the Cartoon Crisis. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4

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Book SynopsisDuring the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion laws and where NGOs relied on US family planning aid, PAC offered an apolitical approach to addressing the consequences of unsafe abortion. In Dying to Count, Siri Suh traces how national and global population politics collide in Senegal as health workers, health officials, and NGO workers strive to demonstrate PAC’s effectiveness in the absence of rigorous statistical evidence that the intervention reduces maternal mortality. Suh argues that pragmatically assembled PAC data convey commitments to maternal mortality reduction goals while obscuring the frequency of unsafe abortion and the inadequate care women with complications are likely to receive if they manage to reach a hospital. At a moment when African women face the highest risk worldwide of death from complications related to pregnancy, birth, or abortion, Suh’s ethnography of PAC in Senegal makes a critical contribution to studies of global health, population and development, African studies, and reproductive justice. Trade Review"Siri Suh's Dying to Count is a powerful exploration of the women caught by reproductive governance and surveillance in Senegal...an excellent choice for scholars of reproductive health, transnational/global sociology, and public policy." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Dying to Count is a model of excellent academic writing...Suh's writing is clear, persuasive, and urgent: she skillfully blends different forms of empirical evidence and nuanced arguments to push the boundaries of major debates in gender and development policy." * Gender & Development *"[A]n impressive and detailed ethnographic exploration of post abortion care as a form of reproductive governance...Suh's critical and feminist lens infuses the book, evident not just in her incisive and reflection writing but in the methodological care that has gone into the research design and data collection." * Sociology of Health & Illness *"Dying to Count represents an important addition to the literature on reproduction. Even though the primary focus of the book is on abortion care, its analyses go beyond abortion and contribute to contemporary debates on reproductive governance and justice." -- Mounia El Kotni * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Siri Suh’s illuminating book Dying to Count offers a rare window into the politics of postabortion care (PAC) in Senegal, a country where induced abortion is illegal. At a time when restrictive abortion laws are on the rise in the United States and parts of Latin America, Suh’s book is a meticulously crafted achievement that has important implications for scholars doing work in the Global North and South." -- Joseph A. Harris * American Journal of Sociology *"In this fascinating account, Siri Suh describes how tools, policies, institutions, and data come together in Senegal to make post-abortion care into 'good care.' PAC suits policy-makers' needs for targets, funders' demands for metrics, and clinicians' interests in misclassifying abortions. With devastating analytical and moral clarity, Suh shows that there’s almost nothing PAC cannot do—except put women’s dignity and interests first." -- Claire Wendland * author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School *"This is a magnificent book. Feminist scholar Siri Suh has written an exquisitely detailed and meticulously researched account of the introduction and use of post-abortion care in Senegal during the late 20th and early 21st century. By taking a clearheaded and compassionate look at maternal health and abortion politics in Senegal, Suh draws attention to the fact that as long as there are restrictive abortion laws women need PAC, no matter where they are living. What a superb addition to global health scholarship!" -- Susan Bell * author of DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women’s Health Politics *"Dying to Count is for anyone who wishes to better understand how reproductive governance operates—via medical technology, global development policies, NGO mission statements, and moral regimes. Scholars and graduate students of science and technology, global health, population and development, and African studies will find Suh’s analysis to be a valuable model for future analysis of reproductive governance across a range of social and political contexts." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsIllustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson Abbreviations Note on Anonymity and Language Introduction: PAC as Reproductive Governance 1 A “Transformative” Intervention 2 A Troublesome Technology: The Multiple Lives of MVA in Senegal 3 “We Wear White Coats, Not Uniforms”: Abortion Surveillance in Hospitals 4 When Abortion Does Not Count: Interpreting PAC Data Conclusion: Evidence, Harm Reduction, and Reproductive Justice Appendix A: Methodology Appendix B: Cases of Admitted and Suspected Induced Abortions Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion laws and where NGOs relied on US family planning aid, PAC offered an apolitical approach to addressing the consequences of unsafe abortion. In Dying to Count, Siri Suh traces how national and global population politics collide in Senegal as health workers, health officials, and NGO workers strive to demonstrate PAC’s effectiveness in the absence of rigorous statistical evidence that the intervention reduces maternal mortality. Suh argues that pragmatically assembled PAC data convey commitments to maternal mortality reduction goals while obscuring the frequency of unsafe abortion and the inadequate care women with complications are likely to receive if they manage to reach a hospital. At a moment when African women face the highest risk worldwide of death from complications related to pregnancy, birth, or abortion, Suh’s ethnography of PAC in Senegal makes a critical contribution to studies of global health, population and development, African studies, and reproductive justice. Trade Review"Siri Suh's Dying to Count is a powerful exploration of the women caught by reproductive governance and surveillance in Senegal...an excellent choice for scholars of reproductive health, transnational/global sociology, and public policy." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Dying to Count is a model of excellent academic writing...Suh's writing is clear, persuasive, and urgent: she skillfully blends different forms of empirical evidence and nuanced arguments to push the boundaries of major debates in gender and development policy." * Gender & Development *"[A]n impressive and detailed ethnographic exploration of post abortion care as a form of reproductive governance...Suh's critical and feminist lens infuses the book, evident not just in her incisive and reflection writing but in the methodological care that has gone into the research design and data collection." * Sociology of Health & Illness *"Dying to Count represents an important addition to the literature on reproduction. Even though the primary focus of the book is on abortion care, its analyses go beyond abortion and contribute to contemporary debates on reproductive governance and justice." -- Mounia El Kotni * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Siri Suh’s illuminating book Dying to Count offers a rare window into the politics of postabortion care (PAC) in Senegal, a country where induced abortion is illegal. At a time when restrictive abortion laws are on the rise in the United States and parts of Latin America, Suh’s book is a meticulously crafted achievement that has important implications for scholars doing work in the Global North and South." -- Joseph A. Harris * American Journal of Sociology *"In this fascinating account, Siri Suh describes how tools, policies, institutions, and data come together in Senegal to make post-abortion care into 'good care.' PAC suits policy-makers' needs for targets, funders' demands for metrics, and clinicians' interests in misclassifying abortions. With devastating analytical and moral clarity, Suh shows that there’s almost nothing PAC cannot do—except put women’s dignity and interests first." -- Claire Wendland * author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School *"This is a magnificent book. Feminist scholar Siri Suh has written an exquisitely detailed and meticulously researched account of the introduction and use of post-abortion care in Senegal during the late 20th and early 21st century. By taking a clearheaded and compassionate look at maternal health and abortion politics in Senegal, Suh draws attention to the fact that as long as there are restrictive abortion laws women need PAC, no matter where they are living. What a superb addition to global health scholarship!" -- Susan Bell * author of DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women’s Health Politics *"Dying to Count is for anyone who wishes to better understand how reproductive governance operates—via medical technology, global development policies, NGO mission statements, and moral regimes. Scholars and graduate students of science and technology, global health, population and development, and African studies will find Suh’s analysis to be a valuable model for future analysis of reproductive governance across a range of social and political contexts." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsIllustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson Abbreviations Note on Anonymity and Language Introduction: PAC as Reproductive Governance 1 A “Transformative” Intervention 2 A Troublesome Technology: The Multiple Lives of MVA in Senegal 3 “We Wear White Coats, Not Uniforms”: Abortion Surveillance in Hospitals 4 When Abortion Does Not Count: Interpreting PAC Data Conclusion: Evidence, Harm Reduction, and Reproductive Justice Appendix A: Methodology Appendix B: Cases of Admitted and Suspected Induced Abortions Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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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

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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

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Book SynopsisHardcore pornographic films combine fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. Pornographic films are also historical documents that give us access to the sexual behavior and eroticism of different historical periods. This book shows how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts, and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies. Yet hardcore pornographic films have also created a body of knowledge that constitutes, in this digital age, an enormous archive of sexual fantasies that serve as both a form of sex education and self-help guides. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography focuses on sex and what can be learned about it from pornographic representations.Trade Review“With Bigger than Life Jeffrey Escoffier had already proved himself the most informative and lively chronicler of the history of gay pornography. Now, against the background of this history, he turns his attention to the making of gay sexual fantasies to convincingly explain how the unfaked realities of sexual acts work to connect with fantasmatic sexual scripts to sell alluring performances.” -- Linda Williams * author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" *"Jeffrey Escoffier brilliantly lays bare what really drives pornography: less the pumping bodies than the underlying sexual scripts, which draw on historical conditions to shape individual desires. No scholar has tracked this process so comprehensively, from the labor arrangements of production to the evolving sites of consumption. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography offers pointed observations on everything from 1970s 'homo-realism' to contemporary gay-for-pay performance, as well as comprehensive theorization that reshapes porn studies." -- Whitney Strub * author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right *"Escoffier returns to the topic of gay pornography that made his previous book Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema From Beefcake To Hardcore so notable. This one examines how the sexual imagination and identifies of the performers, writers, directors and editors have shaped the contours of gay porn." * DNA Magazine *"The study investigates several aspects of the porn industry, including straight and, later, transgender porn, focusing on pay disparity (men get less than women) the rise and fall of 'narrative' stories in features, the persistence of the fictive 'story' told via sex acts, and even a chapter on 'gay-for-pay' among the likes of Jeff Stryker and Ryan Idol. With a focus primarily on the rise and fall of studio porn and its related scenarios and economics, toward the end, Escoffier touches on other forms of porn; actors' cam-shows, nightclub appearances, strip acts and escorting." * Bay Area Reporter *"Published as a collection in February, Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography reflects some 25 years’ worth of interviewing on-and behind-camera talent." * BLOOP *"Escoffier covers porn’s relation to the sexual revolution, he movement from softcore to hardcore porn, the emergence of gay porn, identity through porn, porn screenplays, gay for pay, female actors in straight porn, porn stars, trans porn and porn and the technological revolution." * Reviews by Amos Lassen *"Enlightening and even affordable." * Lambda Literary *"While many might think of pornography as only a minor aspect, Escoffier offers a strong argument that hardcore pornography has been integral to the recent historical developments of sex and sexuality. Hardcore, it is claimed, is an archive of desires and the structural conditions that both propagate and constrain them." * Gotham Center for New York City History *"Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge: A Conversation between Whitney Strub and Jeffrey Escoffier" * NOTCHES *"A key point for Escoffier...is that porn’s supply creates its own demand, restructuring and expanding viewers’ desires: someone might not be into or even know about a particular kink until they see it. And porn is obliged to endlessly introduce new content since viewers bore easily." * Boston Review *"The GLR talks with the author of Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography: 'In porn there are scripts at various levels.'" * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Engaging and accessible. This volume can serve as an excellent introduction both to Escoffier's work and the broader scholarship on pornography (gay, straight, and trans)." * Gay & Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Pornography and the History of Sexuality Chapter One - Pornography, Perversity and Sexual Revolution Chapter Two - Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and Sexual Revolution Chapter Three - Sex in the Seventies: Gay Porn Cinema as an Archive for the History of Sexuality Chapter Four - Porn's Historical Unconscious: Sex, Identity and Everyday Life in the Films of Jack Deveau and Joe Gage Part II: Producing Sex: Sexual Scripts, Work and the Making of Pornography Chapter Five - Scripting the Sex: Fantasy, Narrative and Sexual Scripts in Pornographic Films Chapter Six - Gay-for-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography Chapter Seven - The Wages for Wood: Do Female Performers in the Adult Film Industry Earn More than Male Performers Chapter Eight - Porn Star/Stripper/Escort: Economic and Sexual Dynamics in a Sex Work Career Chapter Nine - Trans Porn, Heterosexuality and Sexual Identity Epilogue: From the Secret Museum to the Digital Archives: Constructing the Sexual Imaginary Acknowledgements About the Author

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Book SynopsisHardcore pornographic films combine fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. Pornographic films are also historical documents that give us access to the sexual behavior and eroticism of different historical periods. This book shows how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts, and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies. Yet hardcore pornographic films have also created a body of knowledge that constitutes, in this digital age, an enormous archive of sexual fantasies that serve as both a form of sex education and self-help guides. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography focuses on sex and what can be learned about it from pornographic representations.Trade Review“With Bigger than Life Jeffrey Escoffier had already proved himself the most informative and lively chronicler of the history of gay pornography. Now, against the background of this history, he turns his attention to the making of gay sexual fantasies to convincingly explain how the unfaked realities of sexual acts work to connect with fantasmatic sexual scripts to sell alluring performances.” -- Linda Williams * author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" *"Jeffrey Escoffier brilliantly lays bare what really drives pornography: less the pumping bodies than the underlying sexual scripts, which draw on historical conditions to shape individual desires. No scholar has tracked this process so comprehensively, from the labor arrangements of production to the evolving sites of consumption. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography offers pointed observations on everything from 1970s 'homo-realism' to contemporary gay-for-pay performance, as well as comprehensive theorization that reshapes porn studies." -- Whitney Strub * author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right *"Escoffier returns to the topic of gay pornography that made his previous book Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema From Beefcake To Hardcore so notable. This one examines how the sexual imagination and identifies of the performers, writers, directors and editors have shaped the contours of gay porn." * DNA Magazine *"The study investigates several aspects of the porn industry, including straight and, later, transgender porn, focusing on pay disparity (men get less than women) the rise and fall of 'narrative' stories in features, the persistence of the fictive 'story' told via sex acts, and even a chapter on 'gay-for-pay' among the likes of Jeff Stryker and Ryan Idol. With a focus primarily on the rise and fall of studio porn and its related scenarios and economics, toward the end, Escoffier touches on other forms of porn; actors' cam-shows, nightclub appearances, strip acts and escorting." * Bay Area Reporter *"Published as a collection in February, Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography reflects some 25 years’ worth of interviewing on-and behind-camera talent." * BLOOP *"Escoffier covers porn’s relation to the sexual revolution, he movement from softcore to hardcore porn, the emergence of gay porn, identity through porn, porn screenplays, gay for pay, female actors in straight porn, porn stars, trans porn and porn and the technological revolution." * Reviews by Amos Lassen *"Enlightening and even affordable." * Lambda Literary *"While many might think of pornography as only a minor aspect, Escoffier offers a strong argument that hardcore pornography has been integral to the recent historical developments of sex and sexuality. Hardcore, it is claimed, is an archive of desires and the structural conditions that both propagate and constrain them." * Gotham Center for New York City History *"Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge: A Conversation between Whitney Strub and Jeffrey Escoffier" * NOTCHES *"A key point for Escoffier...is that porn’s supply creates its own demand, restructuring and expanding viewers’ desires: someone might not be into or even know about a particular kink until they see it. And porn is obliged to endlessly introduce new content since viewers bore easily." * Boston Review *"The G&LR talks with the author of Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography: 'In porn there are scripts at various levels.'" * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Engaging and accessible. This volume can serve as an excellent introduction both to Escoffier's work and the broader scholarship on pornography (gay, straight, and trans)." * Gay & Lesbian Review *“With Bigger than Life Jeffrey Escoffier had already proved himself the most informative and lively chronicler of the history of gay pornography. Now, against the background of this history, he turns his attention to the making of gay sexual fantasies to convincingly explain how the unfaked realities of sexual acts work to connect with fantasmatic sexual scripts to sell alluring performances.” -- Linda Williams * author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" *"Jeffrey Escoffier brilliantly lays bare what really drives pornography: less the pumping bodies than the underlying sexual scripts, which draw on historical conditions to shape individual desires. No scholar has tracked this process so comprehensively, from the labor arrangements of production to the evolving sites of consumption. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography offers pointed observations on everything from 1970s 'homo-realism' to contemporary gay-for-pay performance, as well as comprehensive theorization that reshapes porn studies." -- Whitney Strub * author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right *"Escoffier returns to the topic of gay pornography that made his previous book Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema From Beefcake To Hardcore so notable. This one examines how the sexual imagination and identifies of the performers, writers, directors and editors have shaped the contours of gay porn." * DNA Magazine *"The study investigates several aspects of the porn industry, including straight and, later, transgender porn, focusing on pay disparity (men get less than women) the rise and fall of 'narrative' stories in features, the persistence of the fictive 'story' told via sex acts, and even a chapter on 'gay-for-pay' among the likes of Jeff Stryker and Ryan Idol. With a focus primarily on the rise and fall of studio porn and its related scenarios and economics, toward the end, Escoffier touches on other forms of porn; actors' cam-shows, nightclub appearances, strip acts and escorting." * Bay Area Reporter *"Published as a collection in February, Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography reflects some 25 years’ worth of interviewing on-and behind-camera talent." * BLOOP *"Escoffier covers porn’s relation to the sexual revolution, he movement from softcore to hardcore porn, the emergence of gay porn, identity through porn, porn screenplays, gay for pay, female actors in straight porn, porn stars, trans porn and porn and the technological revolution." * Reviews by Amos Lassen *"Enlightening and even affordable." * Lambda Literary *"While many might think of pornography as only a minor aspect, Escoffier offers a strong argument that hardcore pornography has been integral to the recent historical developments of sex and sexuality. Hardcore, it is claimed, is an archive of desires and the structural conditions that both propagate and constrain them." * Gotham Center for New York City History *"Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge: A Conversation between Whitney Strub and Jeffrey Escoffier" * NOTCHES *"A key point for Escoffier...is that porn’s supply creates its own demand, restructuring and expanding viewers’ desires: someone might not be into or even know about a particular kink until they see it. And porn is obliged to endlessly introduce new content since viewers bore easily." * Boston Review *"The GLR talks with the author of Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography: 'In porn there are scripts at various levels.'" * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Engaging and accessible. This volume can serve as an excellent introduction both to Escoffier's work and the broader scholarship on pornography (gay, straight, and trans)." * Gay & Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Pornography and the History of Sexuality Chapter One - Pornography, Perversity and Sexual Revolution Chapter Two - Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and Sexual Revolution Chapter Three - Sex in the Seventies: Gay Porn Cinema as an Archive for the History of Sexuality Chapter Four - Porn's Historical Unconscious: Sex, Identity and Everyday Life in the Films of Jack Deveau and Joe Gage Part II: Producing Sex: Sexual Scripts, Work and the Making of Pornography Chapter Five - Scripting the Sex: Fantasy, Narrative and Sexual Scripts in Pornographic Films Chapter Six - Gay-for-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography Chapter Seven - The Wages for Wood: Do Female Performers in the Adult Film Industry Earn More than Male Performers Chapter Eight - Porn Star/Stripper/Escort: Economic and Sexual Dynamics in a Sex Work Career Chapter Nine - Trans Porn, Heterosexuality and Sexual Identity Epilogue: From the Secret Museum to the Digital Archives: Constructing the Sexual Imaginary Acknowledgements About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis contributed volume reflects on the collective wisdom and ongoing efforts of the social work profession that has been in the forefront of the global pandemic of COVID-19. The contributors are seasoned social work academics, practitioners, administrators, and researchers. Working on the frontlines with patients and families, these social workers have garnered experiences and insights, and also have developed innovative ways to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on the psychosocial well-being of their clients and themselves. The 36 reflections, experiences, and insights in this curated collection address the behavioral, mental health, socioeconomic, and other repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic that have impacted their client base, most of whom are vulnerable populations: Repurposed, Reassigned, Redeployed Safety Planning with Survivors of Domestic Violence: How COVID-19 Shifts the Focus COVID-19 and Moral Distress/Moral Anguish Therapeutic Support for Healthcare Workers in Acute Care: Our Voice Shared Trauma and Harm Reduction in the Time of COVID-19 Wholeheartedness in the Treatment of Shared Trauma: Special Considerations During the COVID-19 Pandemic The Role of Ecosocial Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Natural World Black Lives, Mass Incarceration, and the Perpetuity of Trauma in the Era of COVID-19: The Road to Abolition Social Work Teaching Social Work Practice in the Shared Trauma of a Global Pandemic The COVID-19 Self-Care Survival Guide: A Framework for Clinicians to Categorize and Utilize Self-Care Strategies and Practices Shared Trauma, Shared Resilience During a Pandemic: Social Work in the Time of COVID-19 is an early and essential work on the impact of the pandemic on the social work field with useful practice wisdom for a broad audience. It can be assigned in masters-level social work practice and elective courses on trauma, as well as inform both neophyte and experienced practitioners. It also would appeal to the general public interested in the work of social workers during a pandemic. Table of ContentsThe proposed edited work begins with a foreword by Dr. Charles Figley, the Paul Kurzweg Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health and Director of the Tulane University Traumatology Institute. Dr. Figley is perhaps best known as the originator of the term compassion fatigue. Foreword by Professor Charles FigleyCh 1: Introduction by the Co-Editors, to contextualize and frame the contributors’ discussionsReflection papers (as individual chapters) The chapter are anticipated to be relatively short (7-10 typewritten, double-spaced pages) and inclusive of relevant literature. Each contributor will follow a suggested guideline of questions: How does your topic reflect a unique aspect related to COVID-19 (i.e., why does your topic need to be addressed at this time)? How has this topic been addressed in the professional literature (i.e., a brief literature review)? If you are using a case illustration, how does it demonstrate unique work related to the coronavirus pandemic? What have you identified personally or through your work that is important to the social work profession or to yourself (i.e., what are some of the themes you have identified)? And finally, what lessons can/should we take forward from this experience? Reflection chapters organized by:Areas of practice and work with specific populations: Health care/hospital social work Community-based mental health care Older Adults Children and Adolescents Homeless adults Individuals with Substance Use Problems Specialty topics: Diversity/Structural Racism Traumatic Grief and Loss Areas of Practice: Social Work Education Policy/Program Development Research Epilogue by Co-Editors, as a conclusion and to address next steps suggested by the contributors

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Book SynopsisThis contributed volume offers a holistic understanding of social work practice in deprived communities through its thematization of understanding deprived communities globally, the development of competencies for social work practice in and with deprived communities, social work education as a community development tool, and the empowerment of social workers in deprived communities. Inequality as a globally recognized challenge is extensively elaborated within the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Agenda program for social work, making this a timely and important contribution to the literature. Deprived communities, used in this book to mean slums, ghettos, favelas, and low-income, remote, underserved, vulnerable, impoverished, underdeveloped, disadvantaged, or less-favoured communities, exist worldwide and are conceptualized under different terms and concepts. For that reason, social work, specifically in deprived areas, is not sufficiently recognized as a specific field of practice within community work. As a result, this volume features contributions that: provide a conceptual clarification of many different terms that are used for describing deprived communities and offer a systematic literature review on community processes and effects on well-being in underdeveloped communities; map different fields of social work involvement in deprived communities with concrete practice examples; and, stress why social work as a profession needs support and how it can be empowered to improve its capacities in deprived communities. With international authorship and perspectives on social work approaches for deprived communities from India, Sub-Saharan Africa, North and Central Europe, and North America, Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities is an essential resource for social workers, social work educators, and community development practitioners. The text also should be of interest to students of social work, as well as other professionals and researchers working within community development and deprived communities.Table of ContentsPart I: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Deprived Communities 1 Understanding deprived communities globally; Author: Ana Opacic In this chapter different meanings of deprived communities are discussed and positioned within a specific global context. These meanings refer to the following concepts: ˝low income˝, ˝impoverished˝, ˝vulnerable˝, ˝remote˝, ˝disadvantaged˝, ˝undeserved˝, ˝less favoured˝ community, ˝slum˝, ˝ghetto˝, ˝favela˝. Different deprived communities are classified in five groups. The first group is based on lower income or health indicators as a proxy for poverty. The second group is the deprived community and based on a multidimensional approach that can be compared with non-deprived neighborhoods. The third group consists of marginalized, disadvantaged, and less favored communities with a focus on development trajectories within a wider social context. The fourth group reflects communities with a severe exposure to risks that result from geographical isolation in remote communities. In the fifth group, there are so-called controversial communities in urban settings that do not differ solely from their surroundings, but also exhibit a specific lifestyle and identity leading towards stigmatization in a wider context. 2 Effects of deprived community on personal well-being and community processes; Author: Ana Opacic In this chapter the author discusses what it means to live in a deprived community based on systematic literature review. Deprived community as a context produces adverse effects on both the individual level and community level. Existing research show that people who live in a deprived community face poverty, higher rates of crime, and have lower health and education prospects. In deprived communities lack of social services is notable. Research show that deprived communities are characterized by community processes such as segregation, exclusion, and lower sense of autonomy, resilience, and empowerment. In this chapter the author places these effects in the frame of theoretical approach, such as community development theory, diversity, and multicultural context and community resilience. Part II. Social Work Practices in Deprived Communities Throughout the World 3 Community development principles in the context of deprived communities. Authors: Ana Opacic, Carmen Luca Sugawara, Nino ŽganecIn this chapter the authors outline central principles of community development and position them within the frame of deprived communities. Specific attention is given to principles of autonomy (including community participation, ownership, self-help), principles of inclusive communities (advocacy, access and equity, inclusion), and principles of active communities (social action, networking, empowerment, lifelong learning). Many times deprived communities as systems demonstrate system archetypes that suggest challenges of implementing community development principles into practice. For example, deprived communities may demonstrate addiction on external relief; there is a strong sense of powerlessness, communities may face stigmatization, and communities with scarce resources may develop inner inequalities and lack of trust towards community structures. These challenges are supported through empirical findings and the authors outline the importance of these principles for sustainable community development. 4 Strategies for increasing community engagement in a community with a lack of perspectives, Author Baiju P.Vareed Engaging community or following participatory practice in development was initiated by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and subsequently by various government departments. Working with stakeholders in communities demands an understanding of the local culture, social milieu, and power dynamics. Local problems need local solutions as well as support and resources from outside of the community. Community engagement is imperative while working with culturally diverse countries like India, where there is no one-size-fits-all. The vast voluntary sector comprising community-based staff of NGOs and trained social workers have vigorously embraced engagement since the last decade of the last century. Community agencies ensure involvement of stakeholders and community members in all sorts of development activities including agriculture, livelihood, gender development, micro business, and health and sanitation. This article discusses how citizen engagement is undertaken in community development programs in India by NGOs and government departments, with case studies from rural, urban, and slum dwellings5 Strengthening social capital in deprived communities: From Empty Foyer to Shared Social Space, Authors. Anna Metteri, Tuula Kostiainen, Joonas Kiviranta, Matilda Leppänen This chapter offers a descriptive analysis of the process -- how social work competencies develop in a process of collaborative learning in an enhanced integration project in Hervanta, one of the biggest multicultural suburbs in Finland. The three-year pilot project called TEKO started in 2016 and was aimed at enhancing refugee integration into the Finnish society through community social work and two-way integration. The project established a community pop-up center Kototori, where a social worker and a social instructor worked two days a week to develop a community approach. Kototori is a result of the co-operation among partners The City of Tampere, Federation of Tampere Evangelical Lutheran Parishes, and Tampere University. Gradually, the reflective community approach was leading to the practice of mutually shared competences, changing the way professional competencies were used. This meant deconstructing power relations between individuals, community, and social workers. 6 Social work practice in places of resettlement and sustainable community development; Author: Odessa Gonzalez Benson This chapter aims to provide a descriptive summary and conceptual analysis of social work practice conducted within refugee communities upon resettlement. Place-based social work practice within the context of the resettlement city is examined. It is at the scale of the city that is more often the site for community development with refugees, rather than the state-level as determined by federal policy. Social workers thus engage not only with refugees and their organizations, but also with other stakeholders and actors who are invested in economic and urban development at a broader sense. Also, participatory approaches as a form of practice are highlighted, considering both the promise and limits or challenges to such practice. Analyses also account for the sociopolitical and economic landscape in which social work practice with refugees emerges and evolves in the United States. Data are model programs in resettlement cities in the United States, as determined by the federal resettlement office. 7 Violence prevention and neighborhood collective efficacy in deprived communities. Author: Mary L Ohmer Deprived communities often face high rates of community crimes and violence, which is particularly visible in slum, ghetto, and favela communities, but also in many other examples across the globe. In this chapter, the author discusses theoretically why deprived communities may face higher violence and crime rates. Furthermore, it analyzes through lenses of neighborhood collective efficacy how crime and violence can be prevented and how civic engagement and participation can be employed in dealing with substantive neighborhood problems, including community and youth violence. In particular, practice examples are provided as well as examples of intervention research results in order to make stronger argument of theoretical contribution. 8 Community projects for socioeconomic empowerment. Authors Makhubele, JC; Mafa, P; Matlakala, FK and Mabvurira, V The history of the rural communities of Africa is one of land dispossession, forced removals, and immiseration. Most underdeveloped areas have traditionally been supplying cheap labor to the developed areas, providing low wages and neglect of welfare and cultural support of the underdeveloped areas. Underdeveloped communities are still essentially characterized by lines of division between commercial farming and the underdeveloped and under-resourced communities. Specific focus in this chapter is on conceptualizing the theoretical framework rooted in African realities, African geo-political contexts of poverty eradication strategies, conceptualization and nexus of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda 2030 for sustainable development, and Agenda 2063 aspirations, participatory democracy, land issue, sociocultural orientation of communities; processes and outcomes of community-based development; knowledge base (values, skills, principles, techniques, roles, and methods) that social workers engaging with undeveloped African communities should embody/possess, and challenges that arise from community engagement when working with underdeveloped communities. 9 Developing smart social services for mending the gap in development inequalities; Author: Nino Žganec Deprived communities are underserved communities with lack of many basics services. This is s difficult task because of increased demands, lack of existing or available experts, change of priorities, lack of strategic planning, and weak intersectoral cooperation with a lack of information. Thus, local services should reach to the end user (outreach programs), experts should facilitate achieving administrative assumptions, programs should be based on already existing resources, and partnerships should be continually developed to facilitate coordination and information sharing. Many times deprived communities are remote, and there is great potential of using technology to mend the gap and make services more accessible. Due to a lack of resources, social services should be more holistic, while very specific services that require specialized skills can be provided as e-service and other alternative ways. 10 Advocacy strategies and skills for raising the issue of regional development inequalities; Author Jelena Matančević Usually social workers empower communities within communities. But when it comes to deprived communities, social workers should also reach outside communities using advocacy strategies in order to set up the agenda on wider regional or national and even international levels. Unequal local development is the result of many local and global factors and structural barriers. In this chapter the author discusses why social work should be engaged in wider structural examples and provide examples on how finding allies in a regional network can improve political status of deprived communities that are many times stigmatized and disempowered. Part III. Supporting Social Work Practice in Deprived Communities 11 Higher education institutions of social work as allies of the most vulnerable communities. Authors: Ana Opacic, Carmen Luca Sugawara In this chapter the authors discuss the complex relationship that exists between higher education in social work and deprived communities. Higher education institutions are strong allies of the most vulnerable communities. Higher education institutions, sometimes before other stakeholders, recognize deprived communities and serve as social advocates on a wider level. There are at least three dimensions of relationships between higher education institutions of social work and deprived communities: a) higher education institutions with their third mission to actively promote and enhance community development projects; b) there are specific strategies for recruiting social work students from deprived communities since it is of crucial importance to have experts working in these communities; and c) innovative methods of teaching and using distant or tele-education can support social work students and professionals and decrease professional isolation. 12 Being more than a social worker in environments with scarce human resources. Author: Glen Schmidt In this chapter the author elaborates different challenges that social workers are facing in their practice in deprived communities. Context of their practice are remote Canadian communities, but with clear implications for similar contexts across the globe. Canadian social workers practicing in remote parts of the country face a number of challenges. Workers in the resource extraction communities have high-income levels while Indigenous communities tend to be poor, at least in the sense of disposable income. In both types of communities there is a lack of health and social service resources. For social workers this means that it is difficult to access specialist services, and social workers have to develop generalist practice skills. The physical environment plays a role in social work practice as people’s activities are shaped with weather and climate in mind. Social workers practicing in smaller isolated communities are also highly visible, and their practice comes under scrutiny in ways that their urban counterparts usually don’t experience. To be effective, social workers in remote and isolated Canadian communities need to be competent generalist practitioners capable of adapting to life in a small isolated settlement. 13 Social work in conflict with other community development oriented professions: Authors Ana Opacic and Odessa Gonzalez Benson In this sort of conclusion chapter, authors wrap up what is specific about social work practice in deprived communities on the level of micro practice (resolving concrete issues), meso-practice (working across similar topics), macro-practice (advocating on a wider social level), and meta practice (supporting social workers themselves). However, since social workers act in transdisciplinary arenas meeting other professionals, such as urban planners, local developers, and geographers, authors try to elaborate what is shared space and what are specific values that social workers bring into practice. Concrete examples of transdisciplinary practices are displayed, such as potential innovative solutions for practice, and research and education in and about deprived communities that provide more opportunities for community development. Part IV: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis timely, relevant text is a comprehensive compendium of critical information about voting in the United States. It frames voting as an integral aspect of social work practice and provides concrete suggestions for how students can increase their involvement in expanding voter participation by marginalized groups.This book: Examines the current social and political context Introduces multiple perspectives on why voting matters Presents a brief history of voting rights in the United States Explains the nuts and bolts of campaigns and elections Discusses who votes and who doesn’t, how people vote, and why Describes voter suppression tactics and identifies obstacles facing low-turnout groups Highlights strategies to expand voter participation Provides concrete examples of how students can help maximize voter participation Explores how voter engagement intersects with social work at all levels of professional practice The only social work textbook devoted entirely to the topic of voting, Promote the Vote: Positioning Social Workers for Action is the ideal supplement for classes in social welfare policy, policy practice, human rights, and social justice. Filled with research findings, practical information, and case examples, this book provides social work students and professionals with the knowledge, strategies, and tools to engage clients and their communities in the electoral process. With voting rights quickly becoming a flashpoint in the struggle for equity and justice, now is the perfect time for this valuable resource.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Context for Voter Engagement The Social and Economic Context The Political Context Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 2: Why Voting Matters Voting Is a Human Right Voting Is Consistent with Social Work Values Voting Builds Political Power Voting Benefits Individuals Voting Benefits Communities Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 3: How We Got Here: A Brief History of Voting Rights Early Voting in America Voting Rights for African Americans The Women’s Suffrage Movement The Youth Vote Additional Policies to Expand Voting Rights Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 4: Voting Processes and Procedures Elected Officials Political Parties Registration and Voting Political Campaigns Presidential Elections Congressional, State and Local Elections Ballot Measures Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 5: Voting Patterns and Trends Voter Turnout Who Votes? Why People Vote How People Vote Voting by Social Workers Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 6: Special Populations People of Color Naturalized Citizens and Linguistic Minorities People in Poverty People Experiencing Homelessness Citizens with Felony Convictions People with Disabilities LGBTQ+ Voters Survivors of Domestic Violence Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 7: Barriers to Voting Structural Barriers Intimidation and Suppression Gerrymandering Money in Politics Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 8: Expanding Opportunities Registration Initiatives Voting Initiatives Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 9: A Better Future The Need for Change Legal and Ethical Considerations Strategies for Action Developing a Culture of Voting Summary and Conclusion Try This! Appendix I: State Election Information Websites Appendix II: Helpful Resources

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Book SynopsisThis timely, relevant text is a comprehensive compendium of critical information about voting in the United States. It frames voting as an integral aspect of social work practice and provides concrete suggestions for how students can increase their involvement in expanding voter participation by marginalized groups.This book: Examines the current social and political context Introduces multiple perspectives on why voting matters Presents a brief history of voting rights in the United States Explains the nuts and bolts of campaigns and elections Discusses who votes and who doesn’t, how people vote, and why Describes voter suppression tactics and identifies obstacles facing low-turnout groups Highlights strategies to expand voter participation Provides concrete examples of how students can help maximize voter participation Explores how voter engagement intersects with social work at all levels of professional practice The only social work textbook devoted entirely to the topic of voting, Promote the Vote: Positioning Social Workers for Action is the ideal supplement for classes in social welfare policy, policy practice, human rights, and social justice. Filled with research findings, practical information, and case examples, this book provides social work students and professionals with the knowledge, strategies, and tools to engage clients and their communities in the electoral process. With voting rights quickly becoming a flashpoint in the struggle for equity and justice, now is the perfect time for this valuable resource.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Context for Voter Engagement The Social and Economic Context The Political Context Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 2: Why Voting Matters Voting Is a Human Right Voting Is Consistent with Social Work Values Voting Builds Political Power Voting Benefits Individuals Voting Benefits Communities Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 3: How We Got Here: A Brief History of Voting Rights Early Voting in America Voting Rights for African Americans The Women’s Suffrage Movement The Youth Vote Additional Policies to Expand Voting Rights Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 4: Voting Processes and Procedures Elected Officials Political Parties Registration and Voting Political Campaigns Presidential Elections Congressional, State and Local Elections Ballot Measures Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 5: Voting Patterns and Trends Voter Turnout Who Votes? Why People Vote How People Vote Voting by Social Workers Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 6: Special Populations People of Color Naturalized Citizens and Linguistic Minorities People in Poverty People Experiencing Homelessness Citizens with Felony Convictions People with Disabilities LGBTQ+ Voters Survivors of Domestic Violence Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 7: Barriers to Voting Structural Barriers Intimidation and Suppression Gerrymandering Money in Politics Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 8: Expanding Opportunities Registration Initiatives Voting Initiatives Summary and Conclusion Try This! Chapter 9: A Better Future The Need for Change Legal and Ethical Considerations Strategies for Action Developing a Culture of Voting Summary and Conclusion Try This! Appendix I: State Election Information Websites Appendix II: Helpful Resources

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Book SynopsisKann ein Mensch religiös gebildet sein, ohne an einer religiösen Praxis zu partizipieren? Was unterscheidet überhaupt einen gebildeten Menschen von einem ungebildeten, und was einen religiösen von einem nichtreligiösen? Und wäre es angesichts endlos scheinender Konflikte zwischen Konfessionen und Religionen nicht besser, wenn es überhaupt keine Konfessionen und Religionen gäbe? David Käbisch bezieht diese Fragen auf den evangelischen Religionsunterricht, den nicht nur konfessions- und religionsverschiedene, sondern auch konfessionslose Kinder und Jugendliche besuchen. Im empirischen Teil seiner Studie beschreibt er typische Kirchenaustrittsgründe und religionskritische Überzeugungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland, ferner die heterogenen Erwartungen konfessionsloser Eltern an den Religionsunterricht und die Lernvoraussetzungen ihrer Kinder. Ausgehend von der oft zu Recht beklagten Konflikthaftigkeit von Religion erarbeitet er im systematischen Teil eine altersgemäße Differenz- und Konflikthermeneutik, die eine Antwort auf die Frage gibt, warum bestimmte Differenzen im religiösen Denken zu Konflikten im Leben führen, andere hingegen nicht. Im Zentrum des didaktischen Teils stehen schließlich kompetenzorientierte Beispielaufgaben, die für das gemeinsame Lernen mit Konfessionslosen, aber auch für das ökumenische und interreligiöse Lernen geeignet sind. Das Thema der Konfessionslosigkeit ist damit auch für diese beiden Lerndimensionen einer pluralitätsfähigen Religionspädagogik aufschlussreich.

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Book SynopsisBernd Schröder erschließt die Religionspädagogik unter fünf verschiedenen, methodisch reflektierten Perspektiven. Sein Lehrbuch entfaltet das Fach mit historischer Tiefenschärfe und unter vergleichender Wahrnehmung religiöser Erziehung in anderen Religionen (Judentum und Islam) und Ländern (England und Frankreich); er verbindet empirische Bestandsaufnahmen mit systematischer Konzept- und Begriffsentwicklung, ohne darüber sein handlungsorientierendes Interesse aus dem Blick zu verlieren.Auf diese Weise entsteht ein umfassendes Panorama religionspädagogischer Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze für die Lernorte Schule und Gemeinde, Medien und Familie sowie - erstmals explizit entfaltet - Öffentlichkeit. Religionspädagogik wird als theologische Disziplin profiliert, die mit ihrer unerlässlichen Methodenvielfalt an eine Fülle theologischer wie nicht-theologischer Disziplinen anschließt. Sie sichtet deren Erträge unter dem ihr eigenen Fokus auf Bildung aus christlicher, hier: evangelischer Perspektive, wertet sie kritisch aus und führt sie weiter zu einer integralen Theorie, die mannigfaltiges Handeln der Akteure bestimmt und orientiert.Die 2. Auflage bietet u.a. aktuelle empirische Daten und Analysen; zudem wurden etwa Abschnitte zu Heterogenität und Digitalität als Vorzeichen religiöser Bildung, zur Hochschuldidaktik, zur religiösen Bildung im Lebenslauf sowie Anleitungen für die Erarbeitung von Unterrichtsentwürfen in Schule und Gemeinde ergänzt.

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Book SynopsisDie US-amerikanische Praktische Theologie ist dem Anliegen verschrieben, Menschen in ihrer Selbständigkeit als Interpretinnen und Interpreten ihres Glaubens zu stärken. Insbesondere erforscht sie die bildsame Begegnung mit akademischer Theologie in Hochschulen und Kirchengemeinden - die Chiffre dafür lautet "Theological Education". In dieser Studie legt Moritz Emmelmann dar, unter welchen disziplingeschichtlichen Bedingungen Bildung in den 1980er Jahren zu einem zentralen Thema Praktischer Theologie in den USA avancierte. Vor diesem Hintergrund rekonstruiert er die methodologischen, enzyklopädischen, und bildungsbezogenen Konzeptionen Edward Farleys und Don S. Brownings. Es tritt ein Verständnis von Theological Education als intellektuelle, handlungsorientierende und personengerechte Bildung hervor, das der Religionspädagogik transatlantische Gesprächsmöglichkeiten eröffnet und Grund gibt zu neuem Elan bei der Arbeit an einer Hochschuldidaktik der Theologie.

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Book SynopsisPeople in serious illness, crises, suffering and grief are particularly vulnerable in their reliance on the support and help of others. Therefore, all full-time and voluntary workers involved should always reflect ethically on their offers and their actions towards them in order not to "run over" them in their dependency, not to exploit them or even to enrich themselves with them. It is always important to respect the values ​​of the sick, suffering person, to respect his dignity. Practiced ethics lead to pausing in everyday life and then to systematic, discursive reflection on the often opposing values ​​of care and autonomy. Doing no additional damage to sufferers should be taken for granted, but everyone knows counterexamples. Special ethical challenges arise in the treatment and support of suffering people with regard to fairness in the distribution of resources, for example with people from other cultures, with seriously ill people whose hope is to be supported without senseless (possibly self-paid) treatment attempts, as well in observing the wishes of the dying. And how does the volunteer companion deal with cross-border behavior in interaction? What ethical considerations are important when advising believers of other religions? This booklet is dedicated to the importance of ethics in counseling, support and treatment of suffering people.

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Book SynopsisThe book offers unique access to theoretical approaches and practical examples of international social work in the context of war and conflicts. The reader gains knowledge about the competences and role of social work, which contributes to mitigating the effects of war and conflict. The book raises the question of how to connect international social work with local approaches and offers suggestions for a development of social work with respect to exchanging knowledge and experiences between the West and the East, the Global North and the Global South. It furthermore discusses the role of social work in reducing the problem of gender-based violence and in the methods of peacebuilding processes in post-war and post-conflict societies.Table of ContentsSocial Work, Armed Conflict and Post-war Reconstruction.- International Social Work and the Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles.- Knowledge production in International Social work – Postcolonial Perspectives.- There are many roads to a school of social work: Importance of the International for Modern Social Work.- Systematising Local Knowledge: Hierarchies, Power Relations and Decontextualisation in West-East Knowledge Transfer.- Community-based psychosocial work to change the cycle of violence in post conflict areas.- Children born of Wartime Rapes: An Analysis from a Gender-Sensitive and Psychosocial Perspective.- The refugee as a stigmatized individual: Spoiled identities, possible causes and courses of action for Social Work.

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Book SynopsisThe elephant is a much-admired animal, but it is also endangered. The ivory from its tusks has been in great demand across the centuries and throughout all cultures. What sort of material is it? How has it been used in the past and the present? And what can we do today to protect the world’s largest mammals from poachers? This lavishly illustrated volume embarks on a journey through cultural history and takes up a contemporary position. Ivory fascinates. As long as 40,000 years ago people carved mammoth tusks into artful figures and musical instruments, and it remains popular as a material to this day. Ivory polarises, because the animal’s tusks also stand for injustice and violence. The exploitation of man and nature, the threatened extinction of the elephant, poaching and organised crime are phenomena which we associate with ivory. The publication approaches the subject critically and poses the question as to our responsibility in our dealings with both animal and material.Trade Review“Terrible Beauty: Elephant, Human, Ivory . . . . was one of the first exhibits sponsored by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum, a newly formed partnership of cultural institutions in Berlin. This catalog, of the same name, documents the primary challenge undertaken in the exhibit: to examine ethical questions related to the appreciation, study, and exhibition of ivory, a material that is inevitably tied to and dependent upon the killing of elephants. The conflicting dynamics of this ‘fatal combination of beauty and cruelty’ are woven throughout the catalog, poignantly leaving the reader both awed and saddened.” * ARLIS/NA Reviews *

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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.

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Book SynopsisBelgium and the Netherlands - the Low Countries - are the first countries in the world to have legalized euthanasia. Physicians who terminate life at the patient's request no longer have to fear criminal prosecution. However, end-of-life legislation in the Low Countries has provoked diverse responses and sparked vigorous and divisive ethical debate. For some, the new legislation has become a shining example; for others it is a lamentable materialization of a culture of death. A"Euthanasia and Palliative Care in the Low CountriesA" provides an overview and comparison of the legal specifics of the Belgian and Dutch Euthanasia Acts, a discussion of palliative care initiatives and an ethical examination of the new legislation. In addition, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the arguments used in the end-of-life debate and a critical examination of the positions taken by the churches. The book concludes with an overview of how Christian health-care institutions accommodate to this new legal situation.

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Book SynopsisMainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of groundbreaking, previously unpublished essays, The Business of Sex corrects this lacuna. Moving beyond the traditional feminist focus on slavery and trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and other health issues, the contributors to this volume engage fully with the political and theoretical implications of sex work. Dismissing old antagonisms, they argue that feminism - thanks to its role in revolutionizing perspectives on sexuality and labor - is a natural ally for the sex workers' rights movement. In the process, these innovative scholars provocatively critique the dominant moral paradigm of heterosexual monogamy, which has created a pervasive "victim" discourse and limited our understanding of sex work's complex realities. Drawing on firsthand stories of sex workers and prostitutes, this volume gives voice to newly articulated movements such as "whore feminism" and "queer feminism" - feminisms that have the potential to move discussions about sex work onto new and fruitful terrain.

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Book SynopsisWeaving in stories she has lived through and those that have been painstakingly entrusted to her, the journal takes us to a world both familiar and unknown. Translated from the 2017 Hindi publication of the journal Deh Hi Desh, the book guides us through Europe in a way that most shy away from, one that shows.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the political and economic dimensions of food security in Bangladesh and assesses the role of the state in meeting the challenges of food security. The key concern, which is at the heart of this study, is to explore how Bangladesh responds, when its people go hungry. There are no detailed empirical studies that examine the Bangladesh's role by providing an historical cum political analysis; however conventional approaches are primarily concerned with a partial diagnosis of the economic or nutritional problems of food security. This work provides a detailed picture of the missing dimensions of stateness that include the strength of institutions, the scope of state functions, and other important attributes. In doing so, it uses the concept of neo-patrimonialism to explore the political system of Bangladesh. This book explicates the various impediments to food security, ranging from the process of policy formulation to their implementation mechanisms.

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Book SynopsisTo those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must ask: What kind of a Hindu Rashtra is this where a billion-strong Hindus have been, through our parliament, through our courts, our education system, and our constitution, reduced to not just second-class but, rather, eighth-class citizens? What kind of Hindu Rashtra is this where Ram Navami, Hanuman Jayanti, Durga pooja processions, and even Garba celebrations, are attacked and stoned with impunity? What kind of Hindu Rashtra is this where a sitting Prime minister says minorities have the first right to resources? What kind of Hindu Rashtra is this where Hindus are forced to be refugees in their own land, where one can settle 40,000 Rohingya Muslims but not 700,000 Kashmiri Hindus

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