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Book SynopsisA field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography.Feminist Geography Unbound is a call to action—to expand imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies. The original essays in this collection center three themes to unbind and enable different feminist futures: discomfort as a site where differences generate both productive and immobilizing frictions, gendered and racialized bodies as sites of political struggle, and the embodied work of building the future.Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a range of field sites, contributors consider how race, gender, citizenship, and class often determine who feels comfort and who is tasked with producing it. They work through bodies as terrains of struggle that make claims to space and enact political change, and they ask how these politics prefigure the futures that we fear or desire. The book also champions feminist geography as practice, through interviews with feminist scholars and interludes in which feminist collectives speak to their experience inhabiting and transforming academic spaces. Feminist Geography Unbound is grounded in a feminist geography that has long forced the discipline to grapple with the production of difference, the unequal politics of knowledge production, and gender's constitutive role in shaping social life.Trade ReviewFeminist Geography Unbound is a must-read for students and scholars interested in the diversity of feminist geographic thought, action, and activism. This is an exceptionally edited collection of leading scholars’ research and reflections on gender, race, sexuality, identity, vulnerability, and power relations. I highly recommend this book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses engaging with feminist geographic scholarship and methods." — Jennifer L. Fluri, coauthor of The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements: Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and GriefTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction — Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins, Christopher Neubert, and Sara Smith Part I. — Discomfort across Encounters — 1. Brown Scholar, Black Studies: On Suffering, Witness, and Materialist Relationality — Pavithra Vasudevan 2. The Path to Radical Vulnerability: Feminist Praxis and Community Food Collaborations — Carrie Chennault3. Toilets and the Public Imagination: Planning for Safe and Inclusive Spaces — Rachael Cofield and Petra L. Doan4. Interview with Kumarini Silva Part II. — Gendered Bodies as a Terrain of Political Struggle — 5. "Real" and "Mythical" Bodies Weaving Social Skin: Two Waorani Women Disrupting Genres of Amazonian Humanity — Gabriela Valdivia, Kati Álvarez, Alicia Weya Cawiya, Manuela Ima Omene, Dayuma Albán, and Flora Lu 6. (Tiny) Houses and Black Feminist Geographic Praxis: Building More Humanly Workable Geographies — Tia-Simone Gardner 7. Decolonizing Development, Challenging Patriarchy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Genders in Diné Bikeyah — Melanie K. Yazzie and Andrew Curley 8. Women-Only Spaces as a Method of Policing the Category of Woman — Abigail Barefoot 9. Interview with Petra Doan Part III. — Temporality and Feminist Futures — 10. Making Memory: Care and Dalit Feminist Archiving — Anusha Hariharan 11. From the Women's Movement to the Academy: Feminist Urban Planning, 1970–1985 — Bri Gauger 12. Challenging Anglocentric Feminist Geography from Latin American Feminist Debates on Territoriality — Sofia Zaragocin 13. Interview with LaToya Eaves Interlude: Calling All Collectives — Interviews with Feminist Geography Collectives — Jess Linz, Araby Smyth, Emily Billo, Winifred Curran, Roberta Hawkins, Beverley Mullings, Alison Mountz, Kate Parizeau, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Risa Whitson, Annie Elledge, Caroline Faria, Dominica Whitesell, Danya Al-Saleh, Elsa Noterman, and FLOCK Geography Collective Afterword — Lorraine Dowler Contributors — Index

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Book SynopsisThe Visual is Political examines the growth of feminist photography as it unfolded in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. This period in Britain was marked by instability following the collapse of the welfare state, massive unemployment, race riots, and workers’ strikes. However, this was also a time in which various forms of social activism emerged or solidified, including the Women’s Movement, whose members increasingly turned to photography as a tool for their political activism. Rather than focusing on the aesthetic quality of the images produced, Klorman-Eraqi looks at the application of feminist theory, photojournalism, advertising, photo montage, punk subculture and aesthetics, and politicized street activity to emphasize the statement and challenge that the photographic language of these works posed. She shows both the utilitarian uses of photography in activism, but also how these same photographers went on to be accepted (or co-opted) into the mainstream art spaces little by little, sometimes with great controversy. The Visual is Political highlights the relevance and impact of an earlier contentious, creative, and politicized moment of feminism and photography as art and activism.Trade Review"A wide-ranging history of feminist photography as it unfolded, embracing documentary, activist and artistic practices." — Source Thinking Through Photography "Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars" https://www.wiareport.com/2019/07/recent-books-of-interest-to-women-scholars-77/— WIA Report Photographs did much more than take on representations of women in 1970s Britain, which Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi demonstrates in her valuable contribution to feminist historiography. As a form of countermedia, feminist photography disrupted conventions of artistic production and display, illuminated power dynamics in public and private space, complicated theoretical debates, and framed a growing social movement identity. With attention to the street, the home, the museum, the media, and the government, this book offers an engaging, interdisciplinary account of aesthetics in politics that will undoubtedly appeal to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. — Agatha Beins, co-editor of Women's Studies for the Future "Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi makes a powerful statement with this book. She tackles power dynamics through aesthetic portrayals of politics in 1970’s and 1980’s Britain. This book packs a real punch."— Pretty Progressive In The Visual is Political Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi brings together a number of important debates concerning the politics of representation in the 1970s and 1980s. Her lucid analysis and wide-ranging themes bring the feminist investments of artists and photographers in Britain to life. This is a timely and important book, which synthesizes information of a number of practices that have so far been peripheral to the history of art. The Visual is Political will surely put these debates back into the spotlight. — Amy Tobin, co-editor of London Art Worlds " A seminal work of original and insightful scholarship [and] an extraordinary study that is enhanced for academia....Impressively informative and exceptional in organized and presentation."— Midwest Book Review "Books for July 2019" monthly round-up http://www.indiebookshops.com/2019/06/01/books-for-july-2019/?fbclid=IwAR0fqqv20TfpiRLX_eMbVvHm4SDwxoBeh53bZG6nqFAL9m0fZ5AM69Fwxj8— Indie BookshopsTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Feminist Photography and the Media 3 Photography and the Street / Feminist Documentary 4 Entering the Museum 5 Conclusion and Afterthoughts Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Although the premier genres of writing postcoloniality in the Caribbean have been understood to be fiction and poetry, established figures such as Erna Brodber, Maryse Condé, Lorna Goodison, Edwidge Danticat, Saidiya Hartmann, Ruth Behar, and Dionne Brand and emerging writers such as Yvonne Shorter Brown, and Gaiutra Bahadur use life writing to question the relationship between the past and the present. Stitt theorizes that the remarkable flowering of life writing by Caribbean women since 2000 is not an imitation of the “memoir boom” in North America and Europe; instead, it marks a different use of the genre born out of encountering gendered absences in archives and ancestral memory that cannot be filled with more research. Dreams of Archives makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding commitment to creating counter-archives. Trade Review"In Dreams of Archives Unfolded, Jocelyn Stitt answers the 'Caribbean quarrel with history' by convincingly arguing for the place of contemporary Caribbean women's memoir, from across its diasporas and linguistic schisms, as integral to the constitution of our archives, past and future. A well-argued work which will open new vistas for scholars of women's life-writing and Caribbean studies in the, hoped for, decolonial future."— Myriam J. A. Chancy, author of Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora "Introducing an innovative theoretical framing of long-standing critical debates about history, biography, archive, and belonging, this lucid study of Caribbean women’s life-writing points to their remarkable contributions to new modes of knowledge production about the past and its aporias. Stitt’s analyses of the writers’ imaginative formal strategies are a timely and valuable intervention in Caribbean and Gender Studies."— Françoise Lionnet, author of Writing Women and Critical Dialogues: Subjectivity, Gender, and IronyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Archival Dreams and Caribbean Life Writing 1 “Autobiography in a Graveyard”: Doors of No Return and Revolutionary Failures 2 Speculative Autobiography: Ghosts and Feminist Fugitivity 3 Repicturing the Picturesque: Genealogical Desire, Archives, and Descendant Community Autobiography 4 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Indo-Caribbean Archival Impossibility 5 “Put My Mom in There”: Memorialization as Caribbean Counter-Archive Coda: Untelling History Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUtilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women’s sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in this period hesitated to advocate for adolescent sexual and reproductive rights, revealing a new culture war altogether--one between adults of various political stripes in the cultural mainstream who prioritized the desire to delay girlhood sexual experience at all costs, and adults who remained culturally underground in their support for teenagers’ access to frank sexual information, and who would dare to advocate for this in public. The book tells the story of how the latter group of adults fought alongside teenagers themselves, who constituted a large and increasingly visible part of this activism. The history of the debates over teenage sexual behavior reveals unexpected alliances in American political battles, and sheds new light on the resurgence of the right in the US in recent years.Trade Review“Teenage Dreams is a vital contribution to our historic understanding of the US culture wars from the 1980s to the present moment. This rich analysis uncovers a wealth of youth activism around sexuality, revealing how we might benefit if we heard the voices of youth who are typically left out of public conversations on their own sexuality.” -- Julie Bettie * author of Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity *"Teenage sexuality has long been a site of contention in US politics and popular culture. Examining policies and popular ideologies starting in the 1980s, Charlie Jeffries brings to light political and social histories that have long restricted teenage girl sexuality. Jeffries’ research into how multiple influencers of US policy have denied teen girls access to sex-positive education and information is as timely as it is informative." -- Rebekah J. Buchanan * author of Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics *“Teenage Dreams is a vital contribution to our historic understanding of the US culture wars from the 1980s to the present moment. This rich analysis uncovers a wealth of youth activism around sexuality, revealing how we might benefit if we heard the voices of youth who are typically left out of public conversations on their own sexuality.” -- Julie Bettie * author of Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity *"Teenage sexuality has long been a site of contention in US politics and popular culture. Examining policies and popular ideologies starting in the 1980s, Charlie Jeffries brings to light political and social histories that have long restricted teenage girl sexuality. Jeffries’ research into how multiple influencers of US policy have denied teen girls access to sex-positive education and information is as timely as it is informative." -- Rebekah J. Buchanan * author of Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Teenage Girls and the New Right 2. Women and Children? Sexual Speech and Sexual Harm 3. Explicit Content: Cultures of Girlhood 4. The Third Wave and the Third Way 5. Medicine, Education, and Sexualization Epilogue: Girlhood Sexualities in the Contemporary Culture Wars Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAmid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the intersectional feminist activism among young people within Islam and Evangelical Christianity. These religious misfits—marginalized from traditional religious spaces due to their sexuality, gender, or race—employ the creative tactics of digital media in their work to seek justice and to display their fundamental equality in the eyes of God. Through an analysis of various digital projects from hip-hop music videos and Instagram accounts to Twitter hashtags and podcasts, Kristin Peterson argues that the hybrid, flexible, playful, and sensory nature of digital media facilitate intersectional feminist activism within and beyond religious communities. Drawing on work from queer theory, decolonial theory, and Black feminist theory, this study explores how those who have been marginalized are able to effectively deploy their disregarded status along with digital media tactics to cultivate empathetic communities for those recovering from religious trauma. Trade Review“This book offers a compelling examination of how calls for gender equity, in concert with critiques of colonialism and empire, are playing out within contemporary Evangelical Christianity and American Muslim communities. With its focus on those who do not come from political or activist backgrounds yet find themselves engaging in feminist activism, the book will hold great interest to young women, especially those who have experienced religious trauma, who are similarly considering how best to act, perform, and express who they are in relation to their communities.”— Lynn Schofield Clark, author of Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism “This book is an inspiration for anyone interested in digital religion, the experiences of women in religious spaces, and how digital media can serve as a tool to resist sexual abuse, religious abuse, and fight patriarchal structures.”— Ruth Tsuria, co-editor of Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity "This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to gain an intersectional understanding of religion online. It moves away from essentialist framings to shed light on real, lived digital lives."— Rosemary Pennington, co-editor of On Islam: Muslims and the MediaTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Souls Chapter 2: #KissShameBye: Textual Critiques of Evangelical Purity Culture Chapter 3: Bold and Beautiful: Images of Unruly Bodies Destabilize Pious Muslim Icon Chapter 4: A Seat at the Table: Podcasts Facilitate Dialogue for Marginalized Christian Perspectives Chapter 5: “We Them Barbarians”: Digital Videos Creatively Rearticulate Muslim Identity Conclusion: Convergences and Connections

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Book SynopsisAmid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the intersectional feminist activism among young people within Islam and Evangelical Christianity. These religious misfits—marginalized from traditional religious spaces due to their sexuality, gender, or race—employ the creative tactics of digital media in their work to seek justice and to display their fundamental equality in the eyes of God. Through an analysis of various digital projects from hip-hop music videos and Instagram accounts to Twitter hashtags and podcasts, Kristin Peterson argues that the hybrid, flexible, playful, and sensory nature of digital media facilitate intersectional feminist activism within and beyond religious communities. Drawing on work from queer theory, decolonial theory, and Black feminist theory, this study explores how those who have been marginalized are able to effectively deploy their disregarded status along with digital media tactics to cultivate empathetic communities for those recovering from religious trauma. Trade Review“This book offers a compelling examination of how calls for gender equity, in concert with critiques of colonialism and empire, are playing out within contemporary Evangelical Christianity and American Muslim communities. With its focus on those who do not come from political or activist backgrounds yet find themselves engaging in feminist activism, the book will hold great interest to young women, especially those who have experienced religious trauma, who are similarly considering how best to act, perform, and express who they are in relation to their communities.” -- Lynn Schofield Clark * author of Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism *“This book is an inspiration for anyone interested in digital religion, the experiences of women in religious spaces, and how digital media can serve as a tool to resist sexual abuse, religious abuse, and fight patriarchal structures.” -- Ruth Tsuria * co-editor of Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity *"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to gain an intersectional understanding of religion online. It moves away from essentialist framings to shed light on real, lived digital lives." -- Rosemary Pennington * co-editor of On Islam: Muslims and the Media *“This book offers a compelling examination of how calls for gender equity, in concert with critiques of colonialism and empire, are playing out within contemporary Evangelical Christianity and American Muslim communities. With its focus on those who do not come from political or activist backgrounds yet find themselves engaging in feminist activism, the book will hold great interest to young women, especially those who have experienced religious trauma, who are similarly considering how best to act, perform, and express who they are in relation to their communities.” -- Lynn Schofield Clark * author of Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism *“This book is an inspiration for anyone interested in digital religion, the experiences of women in religious spaces, and how digital media can serve as a tool to resist sexual abuse, religious abuse, and fight patriarchal structures.” -- Ruth Tsuria * co-editor of Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity *"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to gain an intersectional understanding of religion online. It moves away from essentialist framings to shed light on real, lived digital lives." -- Rosemary Pennington * co-editor of On Islam: Muslims and the Media *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Dismantling the Hierarchy of SoulsChapter 2: #KissShameBye: Textual Critiques of Evangelical Purity CultureChapter 3: Bold and Beautiful: Images of Unruly Bodies Destabilize Pious Muslim IconChapter 4: A Seat at the Table: Podcasts Facilitate Dialogue for Marginalized Christian PerspectivesChapter 5: “We Them Barbarians”: Digital Videos Creatively Rearticulate Muslim Identity Conclusion: Convergences and Connections

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