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Book SynopsisHere is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love.

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Book SynopsisMove over cupid here is the love potion we've all been waiting for!Containing 85 proven techniques, this fascinating guide reveals the recipe for making anyone fall head over heels in love with you.In this irresistible, witty guide, internationally-acclaimed relationships expert Leil Lowndes reveals the tips and secrets to helping you capture the heart of anyone you choose. This is your short-cut to sure-fire success in love.How To Make Anyone Fall In Love With You is packed full of information, social research and psychological insight into human behaviour, sexuality, body language, and the differences in how men and women think and communicate.You'll learn exactly how to use the secrets of attraction in your own life. Leil will show you:How to awaken primal sexual feelings in your partner,How to give first date butterflies,How to make a lasting impression,When to play hard to get and when not to,How to learn in one hour what will drive you partner wild in bed,And in short how to Trade ReviewPraise for Leil Lowndes: ‘Leil is the best. Absolutely the best!’ Sally Jessy Raphael Praise for How To Talk To Anyone: ‘Your ability to communicate with power and impact can change your life – and Leil shows you HOW! Truly extraordinary.’ Brian Tracy

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Book SynopsisThe legendary relationships guide that mothers recommend to their daughters, friends give as gifts and brothers steal from their sisters, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is inarguably the definitive book on having a happy relationship.Trade Review“Devoted readers praise Mr. Gray as the saviour of their marriages and his book as the brick that finally knocks some sense into their mates” Washington Times “When I was 21 and freshly dumped by Harry, my first really grown-up boyfriend, where did I turn but John Gray’s Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus? It was reassuring to know the reason I’d been dumped wasn’t because I was rubbish in bed” New Woman “Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus has shed light on countless relationship problems, offering an explanation for many social inequalities…a hot topic of debate in households and offices throughout the world” Eastern Daily Press

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Book SynopsisRadical alternatives to consent and traumaArguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent, limit consent, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience. Saketopoulou thereby shows why sexualities beyond consent may be worth risking-and how risk can solicit the future.Moving between clinical and cultural case studies, Saketopoulou takes up theatrical and cinematic works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter, to chart how trauma and sexuality join forces to surge through the aesthetic domain. Putting the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche in conversation with queer of color critique, performance studies, and phTrade ReviewLavishly brilliant. Rarely has a book so daringly startled me. Clarity, nuance, pain, even tenderness here braid uniquely, keyed to sexual collisions with race. A series of showstopping claims result, glistening with seduction. Never have I felt so welcomed into trauma as a mode of doing, a mode of expanding, a mode of greeting what is foreign in oneself. Take this invitation laced with surprise. * Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of Gender(s) *Making a vibrant argument for psychoanalysis’s importance in grappling with our modern racial dramas, Sexuality Beyond Consent weaves together insights from queer theory, performance studies, and critical race theory to explore overwhelm. Saketopoulou’s clear and compelling prose brings together clinical case studies, Laplanche, and Slave Play to arrive at an ethics for dealing with power and difference now—the result is a dazzling, brilliant read. * Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance *Offers nothing less than a theory of sexuality, one that refuses contemporary pieties. In a series of profound and sometimes personal reflections, Saketopoulou subjects our reigning models of consent to close scrutiny, and asks what happens when fantasy—intractable, recalcitrant, but also protean and surprising—belies our most dearly held political and ethical commitments. The result is a work that excavates the complex enmeshments of the sexed body, race, and history, and demonstrates the ongoing salience of psychoanalytic concepts to feminist and anti-racist cultural analysis. Saketopoulou’s critique of the liberal sexual subject is politically necessary and intellectually thrilling. * Damon Ross Young, University of California, Berkeley *This brilliant, often counter-intuitive examination of sexuality, race, and consent explores how we might yield to the opacity in ourselves. Saketopoulou unpacks with startling insight moments beyond the politics of identity and trauma to imagine how the surrendering of consent might lead to an ethical expansion rather than diminishment of the self. * David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania *

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Book SynopsisIn a Different Voice is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond.Trade ReviewTo those of us searching for a better understanding of the way men and women think and the different values we bring to public problems and to our private lives, [this book] is of enormous importance. -- Judy Mann * Washington Post *Theories of moral development are not mere abstractions. They matter—to the way children are raised, to female and male self-esteem, as ammunition for personal and political attack—and that is why Carol Gilligan’s book is important… [It] is consistently provocative and imaginative. -- Carol Tavris * New York Times Book Review *Girls in our society learn early on that they are expected to behave in certain ways. In her 1982 book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan, a psychologist at Harvard University, wrote about the powerful messages young girls receive from those around them. Girls are expected to be compliant, quiet and introspective. They soon learn that they should suppress any open expression of aggression or even strong non-compliant feelings. They also learn…to value relationships more than rules. -- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. * New York Times Syndicate *It has the charge of a revelation… [Gilligan] flips old prejudices against women on their ears. She reframes qualities regarded as women’s weaknesses and shows them to be human strengths. It is impossible to consider [her] ideas without having your estimation of women rise. -- Amy Gross * Vogue *Gilligan’s book is feminism at its best… Her thesis is rooted not only in research but in common sense… Theories of human development are never more limited or limiting than when their bias is invisible, and Gilligan’s book performs the vital service of illuminating one of the deepest biases of all. -- Alfie Kohn * Boston Globe *A profound and profoundly important book. It poses a challenge to psychology… But it may be just what we need to revitalize our field and bring it into a more meaningful alignment with reality. -- Elizabeth Douvan * Contemporary Psychology *An important and original contribution to the understanding of human moral development in both men and women. Carol Gilligan writes with literary grace and a real sensitivity to the women she interviewed… Her book has important implications for philosophical as well as psychological theory. -- Lawrence Kohlberg

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Book Synopsis100 men bare all in a collection of photographs and interviews about manhood and ‘manhood’. These days we are all less bound by gender and traditional roles, but is there more confusion about what being a man means? From veteran to vicar, from porn addict to prostate cancer survivor, men from all walks of life share honest reflections about their bodies, sexuality, relationships, fatherhood, work and health in this pioneering and unique book. Just as Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories presented the un-airbrushed truth about breasts for women, Manhood: The Bare Reality shows us the spectrum of ‘normal’, revealing men’s penises and bodies in all their diversity and glory, dispelling body image anxiety and myths. Sensitive and compassionate, Manhood will surprise you and reassure you. It may even make you reconsider what you think you know about men, their bodies and masculinity.

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Book SynopsisChristology is especially problematic for feminists. Because Jesus was undeniably male and because the Christian church claims him as the unique God-bearer, feminist christology confronts the dual tasks of explaining the significance of a male God-bearer for women and creating a christological model adequate to feminist experience. Jacquelyn Grant rehearses the development and challenges of feminist christology and argues that, because it has reflected the experience of White women predominantly, it fails to speak to the concerns of non-white and non-western women. In response to this failure, Grant proposes a womanist theology and christology that emerge from and are adequate to the reality of contemporary Black women.

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Book SynopsisKatherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies, exploring how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness.Trade Review“Drawing from black anticolonial thought and study, black poetics, music, and expressive arts, Katherine McKittrick's Dear Science and Other Stories is an experiment in materializing black method and black wonder in stories of black livingness and relation, in spite of conditions of racial colonial violence and antiblack science of maps, algorithms, and life chances. It insists on other sensoria, consciousness, creation, and knowing—a black sense of place.” -- Lisa Lowe, author of * The Intimacies of Four Continents *“Freedom is a place made through rehearsals of thought and human-environment inter-action. Katherine McKittrick's stories show geography in the making through their persistent refusal to recite empirics of suffering and catastrophe. What a gift to travel these surprising, complex paths through rage toward life. I am grateful for this book.” -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of * Change Everything! Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition *"In this innovative, rich work, Katherine McKittrick works tirelessly to make us aware of how Black thought is a form of knowledge production. McKittrick uses a fascinating essay structure — stories and letters to science — to discuss jazz, computer science, poetry, Black history, and more. It contains one of the most powerful analyses of scientific racism that I’ve read in recent times, arguing that sometimes our efforts to articulate race and racism as social phenomena actually reinforce the idea that they are somehow biological in nature." -- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein * Bookriot *"McKittrick’s prose is beautiful and timely, and she demonstrates that there is a cost to reducing Black life to any description without deep thought. Her readers—no matter their relationship to science—are pressed to question what we know, how we know, and who we know. Dear Science urges us to be cautious of a single narrative, to articulate our thoughts with exacting labor, and it provides insight into how we can create a universe beyond Black suffering." -- Edna Bonhomme * The Baffler *"Reading the richly poetic and sonically-driven Dear Science, we can see the many complex projects and thoughts of McKittrick’s work. The stories are citational observations and calls for a theory and method of storytelling and reading practice as a way to undo discipline (41), a reimagination of the academic text as a genre and incomplete visions of defining ‘science’. The text itself is artfully arranged, breaking from the conventional academic structure. . . ." -- Anna Nguyen * LSE Review of Books *"For those of us working inside, along, and through environmental studies, the environmental humanities, science studies, and all disciplines in between, Dear Science challenges us to confront the stories that our fields of study tell us about ourselves and the world around us and to consider what is possible if we center Black ways of knowing to imagine more equitable futures." -- Erin Gilbert and Leah Rubinsky * ISLE *"You are my black feminist answer to Borges and his short story, 'On Rigor in Science.' In the rigor and incisiveness of your stories you challenge and dismantle singular, unified, totalizing representations, narratives of classification and ways of knowing and being that discipline and punish, stifle, crush and suffocate. In their stead, you offer and practice relationality, generative collaborative praxis, black creative consciousness, method, and life. Thank you." -- Hazel Carby * Society and Space *"Dear Science is like no other scholarly book." -- Dina Georgis * Society and Space *"Dear Science and Other Stories is a one-of-a-kind,theoretical-practical-creative work that promises to intrigue, inspire, and question the reader, urging them toward new relational ways of thinking and living. It is a wonderful book, which encourages the reader to step out of their comfort zone and to explore interdisciplinary and cross-theory-making and art, in and through Black creativity and ‘livingness’, storytelling, and ways of knowing." -- Lena Anggren * Feminist Studies Association *"Katherine McKittrick's book about Black livingness and Black knowledge is a mind-altering and world-bending read that rarely leaves my side. I turn to it constantly, as a way to recognize the world that the Black studies tradition is constantly building. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in finding alternative ways of being and knowing rooted in abolition." -- Orlando Serrano * Smithsonian Magazine *"Refreshingly, Dear Science . . . [shows] what science misses in trying to define Black spiritual and corporeal existence. McKittrick urges Black studies thinkers to resist the hold of biocentric knowledge and to imagine ways of being and thinking that exist beyond and beside it." -- Cera Smith * The Black Scholar *"Dear Science is generous and expansive—disrupting normative disciplinary approaches often rehearsed in academic writing. It demands careful engagement and deep study. . . . Reading this book will, borrowing from Fanon, cause your heart to make your head swim." -- Jade How and Gada Mahrouse * Lateral *"Each exquisite sentence of Dear Science is comprised of layers of meaning. Still, McKittrick thought carefully about the importance of readability. . . . On each page of Dear Science, readers will find a reminder that Black (livingness) is beautiful, complex, and brilliant." -- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein * Catalyst *"Though McKittrick’s short book may seem humble, it offers a wide-ranging examination of both racist and liberatory methodologies. . . . To anyone working within Western academia, especially to those invested in anti-racist, feminist, and anti-colonial study, this book provides teachings, guidance, and support for re-examining one’s critical practices so they may better serve and imagine non-colonial futures." -- Tavleen Purewal * Letters in Canada *"By reading in and with black studies, Dear Science is a discipline-shattering love letter to the possibilities imbued in the black imagination." -- Ladipo Famodu & Temitope Famodu * Antipode *"McKittrick’s work, and Black Studies more broadly, are offering us a home, a safe space, outside, which is empowering and life-affirming and generous. I want us to applaud McKittrick’s work. I want us to celebrate and cherish and protect this place, outside, and to get lost in it." -- Lioba Hirsch * Antipode *Table of ContentsHe Liked to Say that This Love was the Result of a Clinical Error ix Curiosities (My Heart Makes My Head Swim) 1 Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor) 14 The Smallest Cell Remembers a Sound 35 Consciousness (Feeling like, Feeling like This) 58 Something That Exceeds All Efforts to Definitively Pin It Down 71 No Place, Unknown, Undetermined 75 Notes 79 Black Ecologies. Coral Cities. Catch a Wave 83 Charmaine's Wire 87 Polycarbonate, Aluminum (Gold), and Lacquer 91 Black Children 95 Telephone Listing 99 Failure (My Head Was Full of Misty Fumes of Doubt) 103 The Kick Drum Is the Fault 122 (Zong) Bad Made Measure 125 I Got Life/Rebellion Invention Groove 151 (I Entered the Lists) 168 Dear Science 186 Notes and Reminders 189 Storytellers 193 Diegeses and Bearings 211

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Book SynopsisThis visionary book on gender and sexuality weaves together high theory and intimate memoir, with "spectacular" results—"and the gendered body will never be the same again" (Jack Halberstam). What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny.In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault''s The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado''s diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.

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Book SynopsisRobert Bly is a poet, storyteller, translator and worldwide lecturer. His poetry has won many awards, including the National Book Award. This is his first full-length book of prose. He lives with his wife in Madison, Minnesota.Trade ReviewThis book needs to be read, I believe, not as a dry work of scholarship to be judged coolly by the mind, but as the work of a poet struggling to convey an emotional experience and lead us to what he has found within himself * Guardian *Eclectic and unclassifiable. Iron John is a work whose mentors are the prophetic poets and crazies, William Blake and Walt Whitman * Sydney Morning Herald *Important. timely. and powerful * New York Times *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] Kenyan writer and LGBT activist who made a revolutionary impact on literature from and about the African continent -- Margaret Busby * Guardian *Barbed, playful, inventive . . . African literature would never be the same . . . An outsize figure on the literary landscape, his omnivorous brilliance matched by ambition and vision on a continental scale -- Anderson Tepper * The New York Times *A collection of brilliant writing - essays, stories, journalism, and even recipes. I admire Wainaina's humour, flamboyance and intelligence and the way he skewers the usual stereotypes about Africa -- Deborah Levy * Times *[An] award-winning Kenyan writer whose humorous, incisive books and essays explored themes of post-colonialism, gender and sexual identity . . . with wit and humour he took apart the paternalism of certain writers who talk of Africa as one country * Independent *He was an intellectual . . . Someone who could have become the Edward Said of Africa or the James Baldwin of our time -- Leila AboulelaAn uncompromising commentator . . . [Binyavanga Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché -- Nesrine Malik * Guardian *[A] barrier-shattering presence in African literature * Washington Post *Unflagging in his generosity, unflinching and direct in his criticism, [Binyavanga] produced work in his short life that will have impact longer lasting than those whose time here is twice as long -- Ellah Wakatama AllfreyA trail-blazing Kenyan legend * Al Jazeera *Hilarious, worldly, biting, flippant, and meaningful -- Achal Prabhala * Africa is a Country *[A] Kenyan literary icon . . . [Binyavanga Wainaina's] work continues to challenge stereotypes and prejudices about Africa * The Stream *[Binyavanga Wainaina's] writing dances beyond the borders of language, lineage, genre, containment . . . [His] imagination hops, skips and jumps, in that space of infinite possibilities and worlds waiting to be made and unmade * Bubblegum Club *Everything that made Binyavanga so great was there on the page - his righteous passion, his biting wit, his eye for hypocrisy, his arch turn of phrase -- Matt WeilandCutting and incisive, witty and confrontational, and deeply revealing -- Remy NgamjieWainaina's sharp wit and penetrating analysis . . . shows off his talent for withering satire * Publishers Weekly *Both an ode and an introduction to one of the continent's most inimitable literary geniuses -- Edith Amoafoa-Smart * Africa is a Country *Provocative . . . A lively selection of work that well represents the scope of this fine author * Kirkus *How to Write About Africa gathers vivid, powerful essays and fiction by the late Kenyan icon * Open Country *Glimmering, strobe-lit language . . . a complex, cosmopolitan African experience too rarely depicted in books -- Teju Cole, author of Open City, on One Day I Will Write About This Place[A] standup-and-cheer coming-of-age memoir * New York Times Book Review on One Day I Will Write About This Place *

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Book SynopsisAt a time when issues of gender and sexuality are as prominent as they have ever been, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides an authoritative exploration of the history of these deeply connected subjects over the last 250 years. Incorporating a blend of history and historiography, Annette F. Timm and Joshua A. Sanborn write engagingly on gender and sexuality in a way that illuminates our understanding of historical change and individual experience throughout Europe.The new and improved 3rd edition of this textbook now includes: Personal vignette textboxes which shed light on key themes through individual life stories Added material on Russia, Eastern Europe, the Holocaust and the 21st century Historiographical updates throughout that bring the text up-to-date with new scholarship 30 new images and mapsThrough 6 thematic chapters that cover democracy, capitalism, imperialism and war, Timm and Sanborn trace the social construction ofTrade ReviewThis revised and expanded version of Joshua Sanborn’s and Annette Timm’s widely acclaimed study is essential reading for students and teachers of modern European history alike. In their thorough examination of how sex and gender have shaped and were shaped by the various social, cultural, and political contexts of modern Europe, the authors bring together broad thematic discussions with a wide range of lively individual vignettes, from Catherine the Great to Idris Elba. The result is an engaging and panoramic overview of Europeans’ experiences as gendered and sexual citizens across the past two and a half centuries. * Dr Siobhán Hearne, Historian of Gender and Sexuality, University of Durham, UK *The third edition of Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe improves on what was already an excellent text notable for its clarity, accessibility, and thoughtfulness. The inclusion of individualized vignettes at the beginning of each section brings abstract ideas to life and clearly establishes that personal is political, and vice versa. Also to be emphasized is this edition’s enhanced attention to trans lives and individuals. This updated volume remains a stand-out in the field. * Marko Dumancic, Director of Graduate Studies; Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Prefaces Introduction 1. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity 2. Gendered Capitalism and its Discontents 3. The Imperial Drive and the Colonial World 4. Brothers and Sisters at War 5. The Long Sexual Revolution 6. 21st-Century Europe Conclusion Works Cited Appendix: Further Images Index

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Book SynopsisAre you wrestling with questions surrounding your gender that just don’t seem to go away? Do you want answers to questions about your gender identity, but aren’t sure how to get started?In this groundbreaking guide, Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC—accomplished gender therapist and thought leader whose articles, blogs, and videos have empowered thousands worldwide—helps you navigate your journey of self-discovery in three approachable stages: preparation, reflection, and exploration.In You and Your Gender Identity, you will learn: Why understanding your gender identity is core to embracing your full being How to sustain the highs and lows of your journey with resources, connection, and self-care How to uncover and move through your feelings of fear, loneliness, and doubt Why it’s important to examine your past through the lens of gender exploration How to discover and begin living as your authentic self What options you have after making your discoveries about your gender identity This unique, interactive guide can help you answer the questions you’ve been asking yourselfTrade Review“What sets You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery apart is its interactive nature . . . it is an invaluable experience.” —Sally Bend, Bending the Bookshelf “Dara’s comprehensive guide presents a detailed walk-through of the process of more firmly establishing your gender . . . With an impressively detailed toolkit of exercises, Dara’s book has the potential to streamline and accelerate this process in an extraordinary fashion. This is the book I wish I had on hand when I felt helpless in the face of my anxiety about my changing body.” —Zinnia Jones “I wish a book like You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery had been available when I began to question my gender identity . . . Had I been exposed to the concepts found within these pages back then, I might have been spared some of the intrapersonal and interpersonal struggles that ensued.” —Zander Keig, LCSW“What sets You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery apart is its interactive nature . . . it is an invaluable experience.” —Sally Bend, Bending the Bookshelf “Dara’s comprehensive guide presents a detailed walk-through of the process of more firmly establishing your gender . . . With an impressively detailed toolkit of exercises, Dara’s book has the potential to streamline and accelerate this process in an extraordinary fashion. This is the book I wish I had on hand when I felt helpless in the face of my anxiety about my changing body.” —Zinnia Jones “I wish a book like You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery had been available when I began to question my gender identity . . . Had I been exposed to the concepts found within these pages back then, I might have been spared some of the intrapersonal and interpersonal struggles that ensued.” —Zander Keig, LCSW

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Book SynopsisSetting out advice, research and personal reflections to inform professionals' daily practice and overall understanding of the lives and experiences of autistic transgender and non-binary people, this edited volume is an invaluable resource for anyone who seeks to engage more with autistic transgender, non-binary or gender-variant people.Aiming to contextualise the overlap of autism and gender variance, this book features chapters by leading authorities such as Wenn Lawson, Damian Milton, Isabelle Hénault, Reubs Walsh, Lydia X. Z. Brown, and Shain Neumeier as well as other contributors from around the world. The collection is structured in three sections; the first provides interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches on autism and gender as well as the experiences of transgender and non-binary autistic people; the second features professionals discussing their work, the challenges they face and the solutions they find helpful; and the final section presents thoughts and perspectives from trans and non-binary autistic people on various aspects of their experiences, focusing on information that professionals will need to consider and discuss with the people they support.Combining rich and nuanced accounts of the lives of autistic trans people, practical guidance and information as well as the latest academic research about autistic transgender and non-binary individuals, this unique collection is essential reading for any professional wanting to develop their daily practice.Trade ReviewThis collection articulates -- with nuance, care, and determination -- the multi-faceted issues faced by autistic transgender people in accessing gender-affirming care. The authors host a robust discussion of autism and gender at the intersections of race and age. This volume is an essential resource for professionals in education, psychiatry, and medicine. -- Rua M. Williams, Assistant Professor, Purdue UniversityI cannot emphasize enough how important this book is, particularly in centering the voices of autistic trans and gender diverse people, rather than allistic cisgender people speaking on their behalf. A must read for educators, therapists, health care providers, parents, and anyone else who engages with these populations. -- Dr. Shanna K. Kattari, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Social Work and Director of the [Sexuality | Relationships | Gender] Research CollectiveThis book is an excellent, inclusive and helpful resource on neurodiversity, gender diversity and intersectionality. Highly recommended. -- Yenn Purkis - autistic and non-binary advocate and authorThis is an excellent resource for professionals who work with all autistic people. As Kourti reveals, gender variance is far more common among autistic people so it's important to learn how to be safe for transgender and non-binary people. Academically rigorous, accessible to professionals from a variety of fields, and written by the leading experts: Autistic people themselves. -- - Maxfield Sparrow, editor of Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020)Parents and professionals need to listen to the voices of autistic transgender and non-binary people as well as the professionals who support them. We can then share the journey together with acceptance and authentication. -- Dr Tony Attwood, Minds and Hearts Clinic, BrisbaneA useful collection of essays about gender in relation to Autism, and by Autists, to boot. More please! * The Spectrum *Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Here comes trouble (Damian Milton). 3. Beyond 'for your own good' (Shain M. Neumeier). 4. Autistic Cognition and Gender Identity (Reubs Walshe and David Jackson-Perry). 5. Trans, Autistic and BIPOC (Kielsgard Taylor and Lydia Brown). 6. Autistic transgender and non-binary individual (Isabelle Henault). 7. Reflections on the spectra of autism and gender identity (Wenn Lawson). 8. Developing a good relationship with an autistic transgender or non-binary person as a professional (Marianthi Kourti and Ella Griffin). 9. Autism, gender variance and alexithymia (Alyssa Hillary-Zisk and Jo Minchin). 10. The resonant self (Lexi Orchard). 11. Doing gender in my own terms (Olivia Pountney). 12. The experience of gender dysphoria in older autistic adults (Wenn Lawson).

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Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearUpdated with a new afterword by the author ''Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today''s most divisive issues'' Jordan B. Peterson ''[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone'' Richard Dawkins Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive. One of the few writers who dares to counter the Trade ReviewDouglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues -- Jordan B. Peterson, bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life[Murray’s] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone. He mercilessly exposes the hypocrisy and embarrassingly blatant contradictions that run rife through the current ‘woke’ vogue. -- Richard DawkinsWhether one agrees with him or not, Douglas Murray is one of the most important public intellectuals today. -- Bernard-Henri LévyHow can you not know about The Madness of Crowds? It’s actually the book I’ve just finished. You can’t just not read these books, not know about them. -- Tom StoppardSimply brilliant. Reading it to the end, I felt as though I’d just drawn my first full breath in years. At a moment of collective madness, there is nothing more refreshing – or, indeed, provocative – than sanity. -- Sam Harris, author of five New York Times bestsellers and host of the Making Sense podcast.An abomination -- Titania McGrath, author of Woke: A Guide to Social JusticeThis is an author who specialises in expressing what everyone sort of knows already and is afraid to say ... well argued, well supported and well observed -- The Times * Lionel Shriver *Graceful and witty * Guardian *Necessary and provocative * Evening Standard *Impressive and lively … Murray’s comprehensive survey of the prevailing madness will not persuade every reader. But it raises the real questions of our times. -- Roger Scruton * Unherd *Murray’s book performs a great service * Financial Times *Fascinating … Much of what Murray writes is pertinent and hard to disagree with * Sunday Times *Murray is a superbly perceptive guide through the age of the social justice warrior * Daily Telegraph *Murray’s book raises urgent questions about how people should conduct themselves in today’s age of “wokeness”’ * Catholic Herald *Murray's was the third critical interrogation of this subject that I read this summer, and it is the best. * The Times Saturday Review *A profoundly helpful insight on the hysteria of cancel culture. -- Saba Douglas-Hamilton * Scottish Field *Table of ContentsIntroduction Gay Interlude – The Marxist Foundations Women Interlude – The Impact of Tech Race Interlude – On Forgiveness Trans Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POPULAR SCIENCEAN iNEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022A TELEGRAPH BIG IDEAS BOOK 2022'Read this book and feel furious, uplifted and galvanised to take its findings out into the world and fight for change' - LAURA BATESEmotions can be difficult things to define, yet we all recognise them when we feel them or see them in others. How we interpret those emotions and act on them has been heavily gendered, as far back as Ancient Greek and Roman times and - despite the improvements in societal equality - continues to be today.We've all heard the sayings that girls should be 'sugar and spice and all things nice', while 'boys don't cry'. In Hysterical, Pragya Agarwal dives deep into the history and science that has determined the gendering of emotions to ask whether there is any truth in the notion of innate differences between the male and female experience of emotions. She examines the impact this has on men and women - especially the role it has played in the subjugation of women throughout history - and how a future where emotions are ungendered might look.Trade ReviewIn her latest fascinating book, Agarwal investigates the gendering of human emotions . . . The result is an impassioned and highly convincing book * * Observer * *Agarwal debunks well-worn myths in this fascinating account of gendered emotions -- The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 * * i * *Are women really more emotional than men? Pragya Agarwal answer[s] precisely that question in almost all the ways it could be answered. Fun . . . Persuasive * * The Times * *Analytical and wide-ranging . . . Agarwal reaches back to the medieval era to show how entrenched gender ideologies are in our society * * New Statesman * *Fascinating and ambitious . . . Will resonate with many * * Daily Telegraph * *Enlightening . . . [Agarwal] makes her point clearly [and] is at her best when relating the impact of gendered emotion on her personal life (something that comes up time and time again as the mother of twin girls), and making insightful pop culture references * * Independent * *Any time Dr Pragya Agarwal writes something, I want to read it. Her words illuminate the hidden patterns of bias and therefore injustice that impact us. This book will make you question everything you thought you knew about emotions and make you want to reclaim your emotions as an integral part of your full humanity -- LAYLA F. SAAD, author of Me and White SupremacyA necessary, thought-provoking book that demands we urgently rethink the terms of the debate on gender and emotion -- DR TIFFANY WATT SMITH, author of The Book of EmotionsHugely readable and meticulously researched, Hysterical unpicks the myths, stereotypes and double standards that warp our judgments about the way men and women feel -- MARY ANN SIEGHARTHysterical is absolutely fascinating. Like all of Pragya's work, this book is both robustly researched and deeply moving. In a whistle stop tour, she traces our gendered and misogynistic assumptions about male and female brains back thousands of years. She demonstrates how these stereotypes have been used throughout history both to create and to maintain a power imbalance. This book is brave, unapologetic and at times rightly furious . . . All emotions for which women have been labelled hysterical. Read this book and feel furious, uplifted and galvanised to take its findings out into the world and fight for change -- LAURA BATES, author of Men Who Hate WomenThe world I see is always changed by reading a Pragya Agarwal book and Hysterical is no different - this is an informed, passionate and enlightening book -- ROBIN INCE, author of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING INTERESTEDThey came for our bodies and our brains - then for our emotions. Read how women's emotional prowess has been weaponised against them - and be angry. Very angry! This closely argued sweep through the science and culture and politics of emotions shows what we lose by downgrading empathy and compassion. Heart or head - why not both? -- PROF GINA RIPPON, author of The Gendered BrainThis timely and significant book is a smart, compelling read for any woman who has ever been told she is 'too much' so that's all of us. It'll make you realise you were right all along, you're definitely not 'too much' it's that our cultural history of inequality has tricked you into feeling this way. Buy this for the men in your life, for your daughters and sisters, spread the word so we're all better informed about the power of language over women and can fight an informed fight in order to achieve gender parity -- LORRAINE CANDYA brilliant exploration of the history and science of how the perception of emotions came to be gendered . . . I learn so much from anything Agarwal writes -- CAROLINE SANDERSONPraise for (M)otherhood: An exhilarating, genre-defying read . . . seamlessly interwoven with statistics, quotes and scientific evidence to clever narrative effect . . . The whole thing adds up to the most thoughtful, empathic and inspiring science of the self -- VIV GROSKOP * * Observer * *

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Book SynopsisBe the caring and positive force that girls need Social media, friendships, dating culture, academic pressures, bullying, self-concept, fear of failure These are just a few of the complex challenges facing adolescent girls. In a world that is changing rapidly, it can be difficult to know how to foster effective communication and provide authentic support for the girls that we teach, parent, mentor, and coach. The newly updated edition of Girls Without Limits offers relevant insights and concrete strategies that will help you: Understand the unique challenges girls face, including relationship troubles, social and academic pressures, disrespect and harassment, body image, academic and career choices, and becoming leaders Teach girls the skills they need to safely and confidently navigate social media and other evolving technologies Empower girls with the skills they need to establish healthy and supportive relationships, build a strong sense of self, and develop the confidence they need to confront negative societal expectations and make healthy, positive decisions Combining relevant research, findings from a large-scale national survey of more than 10,000 girls, and the voices and experiences of today's adolescents, Girls Without Limits equips educators, parents, school counselors, mentors, and coaches with the skills and strategies they need to build solid relationships, handle difficult conversations, and cultivate a generation of girls who are strong, capable, confident, and successful. What your colleagues have to say: Girls Without Limitsis the first book I recommend to anyone I know who has daughters or works with girls. It's timely, relevant, and contains eye-opening insights for understanding their world, and is packed with practical tools and tips for engaging the girls in your life. A pivotal read, it forever put me on the path of empowering our girls to change the world around them! Kaishauna Johnson, School Counselor Chino High School, CA In this second edition, the data from Dr. Hinkelman's research on the experiences, opinions, and behaviors of girls is combined with practical ways of engaging them on a variety of topics, from body image and confidence to healthy relationships and leadership. Readers will gain tangible ways of actually relating to girls and teaching them the skills needed to live in a world that is saturated with technology.Girls Without Limitsis a must-read for anyone who works with, educates, or parents girls! Sibyl West, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Counselor Education and co-director of the Frederick Douglass Institute on Intercultural Research Indiana University of PennsylvaniaTrade Review"This is one of the most candid, inspiring, empowering, and generous books you will read this year. Today is unlike any moment in history. We have an opportunity to transform the narrative and provide genuine, educated support for girls on their journeys. This book reveals what it means to be a girl today and provides adults with relevant tools for having purposeful conversations and creating authentic connections. I highly recommend that Girls Without Limits be read and shared with all!" -- Janice Jones, Licensed Clinical Social Worker "Dr. Hinkelman is the only person writing about girls who has conducted large-scale, national research on the experiences, opinions, and behaviors of girls. In this second edition, the data from her research is combined with practical ways of engaging with all girls on a variety of topics, from body image and confidence to healthy relationships and leadership. Readers will gain tangible ways of actually relating to girls and teaching them the skills needed to live in a world that is saturated with technology. Girls Without Limits is a must-read for anyone who works with, educates, or parents girls!" -- Sibyl West, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Counselor Education and Co-Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute on Intercultural Research "As a school counselor, Girls Without Limits prepares me for the stresses that my students bring to my office. It helps me meet my students where they are and it provides a great communication tool to use with their parents. As a father to a young girl, this book is invaluable. It seamlessly merges research with practical suggestions, insight, and resources that give me more confidence for the road ahead with my family. Girls Without Limits is most valuable in helping me reinterpret and better understand the behaviors, stressors, and unique challenges that accompany growing up as a young girl in this world. Where I previously experienced frustration, I now have opportunities for understanding and connecting with the girls I work with and who are in my family." -- Justin Fields, PhD, Lead Counselor "Dr. Hinkelman’s energy and the fresh perspectives woven throughout her work make learning fun and engaging. This is an excellent book to add to your toolbox." -- Marisa Castello, National Board Certified School Counselor "Girls Without Limits is the first book I recommend to anyone I know who has daughters or works with girls. It’s timely, relevant, and eye-opening and contains insights and context for understanding the world of girls. It′s also packed with practical tools and tips for engaging the girls in your life. This is a pivotal read; it forever put me on the path of empowering our girls to change the world around them!" -- Kaishauna Johnson, School Counselor "Girls without Limits offers real insight and practical solutions in my work with girls. It has also changed how I communicate with my own daughter in order to create a more supportive relationship with her. This is a MUST-read for anyone who has girls that they care about in their life." -- Amanda Mariucci, School Counselor "Girls Without Limits is a must for anyone who has girls in their lives. Combining practical advice with researched-based data, Dr. Hinkelman has provided parents, educators, and other supporters of girls with the tools they need to help girls thrive." -- Jennifer Ciccarelli, Head of School"As a mother of four daughters and a social worker who works with countless girls every year, I find myself needing resources to help me make a difference. Girls Without Limits is my go-to both professionally and personally. It is packed with knowledge on how to manage the ever-changing world of girls. The tools in this book have helped me have relevant, meaningful conversations with girls in a time they need them the most." -- Jaime Fogarty, LSWTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments About the Author Chapter 1: What’s Really Going on for Girls, and How Can We Help Them? Chapter 2: Streaks, Likes, Followers, and Friends: The Impact of Social Media in Girls’ Lives Chapter 3: Being a Girl Today Is Hard: Gender Roles, Body Image, and Confidence Chapter 4: Mean Girls: Dealing With Drama and Relationships Chapter 5: Relationships, Dating, and Coercion: Developing Healthy Relationships in an Age of Sexting, Swiping, and Snapping Chapter 6: “Lighten Up,” “I Was Just Joking,” “Boys Will Be Boys,” and Other Stuff Girls Hear: Addressing Disrespect and Sexual Harassment Chapter 7: Looking Out for the Girls: Identifying and Preventing Sexual Violence Chapter 8: The Pressure to Be Perfect: Stress and Coping in an Age of Perfectionism and Helicopter Parents Chapter 9: Academic or Instagram Influencer? Why Girls Feel They Have to Choose Chapter 10: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? How Stereotypes Are Holding Girls Back Chapter 11: CEOs, Politicians, and Superintendents: But Where Are All the Female Leaders? Chapter 12: What Girls Want Chapter 13: What Girls Need References Index

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Book SynopsisCountersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.Trade ReviewPaul Preciado’s work has been immensely important to me, as well as to countless others. It’s so fantastic, then, that we finally have his first book on offer. Like so much that he has offered since, Countersexual Manifesto is freewheeling and learned, rabble-rousing and meticulous, spirited and essential. Whether you want to argue with it, mine it, or become a convert to its call, you should definitively read it, keep it by your side. -- Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsCountersexual Manifesto is a well-lubricated double dong: phantasmagorical poetry on one end, penetrating theory on the other, and a thorough examination of body politics being the shaft. Each sentence delivers a thrust, deep inside, that elicits a yes, yes, yes! Bend over, insert this book, and enjoy the ride. -- Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, ecosexual artists and educatorsCountersexual Manifesto is a utopian cry to manifest revolutionary change in the face of necropolitical practices and planetary destruction. -- RL Goldberg * Los Angeles Review of Books *Rather than calling for a revolution, Preciado’s Manifesto argues the revolution has already begun. * Advocate *Preciado offers a refreshingly radical take on recognizing and renegotiating supposedly biological scripts to support inclusivity, diversity, and equity...the work is rewarding in its refreshing take on the queer history of sexual technologies and gender development. The positionality and layout of the book suggestthat it is truly centered on organizing, bringing to life many of the core tenets of queer theory in accessible and tangible ways. * RGWS *Table of ContentsForeword, by Jack HalberstamIntroduction1. Countersexual Society2. Countersexual Reversal Practices3. Theories4. Countersexual Reading ExerciseAuthor’s NoteAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the only way to get ahead. Nordberg follows women such as Azita Rafaat, a parliamentarian who once lived as a Bacha Posh, the mother of seven-year-old Mehran, who she is raising as a Bacha Posh as well, but for different reasons than in the past. There's Zahra, a teenage student living as a boy who is about to display signs of womanhood as she enters puberty. And Skukria, a hospital nurse who remained in a bacha posh disguise until she was 20, and who now has three children of her own. Exploring the historical and religious roots of this tradition, The Underground Girls of Kabul is a fascinating and moving narrative that speaks to the roots of gender.Trade ReviewNordberg's subtle, sympathetic reportage makes this one of the most convincing portraits of Afghan culture in print Publishers Weekly Five years of research, and an almost novelistic approach to her findings, has produced a book full of fresh stories -- Razia Iqbal Independent Nordberg's hopeful yet heart-breaking account offers a dazzling picture of Afghan life ... She is refreshingly non-judgmental ... Thanks to this book, a little more light has been shone on a country and society so often misunderstood Independent on Sunday Partly a reflection on the politics of sex and gender ... but it is also a tale of discovery Sunday Telegraph a fascinating study The Glasgow Herald This fascinating study sheds new light on what it's like to be female in the country declared the worst in the world to be a woman ... This powerful account of powerlessness resonates with the most silenced voices in society Observer

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ambitious and field-defining, Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam laid the foundations for decades of scholarship on Muslim history and thought."—Kecia Ali, Boston University

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Book SynopsisJulietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.Trade Review"A deft intervention in several different fields, Unthinking Mastery powerfully examines the insidious ways that the legacies of colonialism have infiltrated critical conversations in affect, queer, and ecocritical studies." -- Melinda Backer * ASAP/Journal *"Singh’s work stands out in its truly transdisciplinary approach and simultaneous mobilization of feminist, posthuman, and decolonial thought." -- Justyna Poary-Wybranowska * Contemporary Women's Writing *"While the approach of Unthinking Mastery is clearly interdisciplinary, the author turns foremost to the field of comparative literature to unravel forms of systemic dehumanizing violence that become obvious in forms of embodiment and language/narration. ... Her engagement not only touches on feminist and queer theories but also provides a powerful interconnection between environmental and postcolonial studies." -- Monika Jaeckel * Anthropocenes *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Reading against Mastery 1 1. Decolonizing Mastery 29 2. The Language of Mastery 65 3. Posthumanitarian Fictions 95 4. Humanimal Dispossessions 121 5. Cultivating Discomfort 149 Coda. Surviving Mastery 171 Notes 177 References 187 Index 197

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Book SynopsisEvery year in England and Wales alone, one in twenty adults suffer domestic abuse, two thirds of them women. Every week, two men kill a woman they were intimate with. And still we ask the wrong question: Why didn't she leave? Instead, we should ask: Why did he do it? Investigative journalist Jess Hill puts perpetrators -- and the systems that enable them -- in the spotlight. Her radical reframing of domestic abuse takes us beyond the home to explore how power, culture and gender intersect to both produce and normalise abuse. She boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, but can't seem to protect their victims, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. 'See What You Made Me Do' is a profound and bold confrontation of this urgent crisis and its deep roots. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse.Trade Review'A shattering book: clear-headed and meticulous, driving always at the truth' -- Helen Garner'[Offers] a clinical view on why domestic abuse happens, why it's so prevalent across the world and what the psychology is behind it.' -- Joanne Froggatt, Harper’s Bazaar UK'A much-needed, thought-provoking exploration of how victims can be blamed or disbelieved, and their experiences dismissed, whilst their abusers are often excused. Hill asks difficult questions about perpetrators and their need to exert power and control. A must-read.' -- Rosie Duffield MP'An absolute must-read for anyone concerned about domestic abuse. It is well-researched, well-written and raises the voices of survivors everywhere. An important contribution to our understanding in the UK.' -- Sarah Hill, Chair of Women's Aid'A widely researched and incisive analysis of domestic abuse, its multiple behaviours and harms, and possible solutions. Powerful and important.' -- Dame Vera Baird, Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales'A vital step forward. This is required reading for all politicians, and all who wish to better understand the diverse, complex nature of domestic terrorism.' -- David Challen, domestic abuse campaigner and Freedom Programme ambassador'Should be compulsory reading for politicians at every level' -- The Sydney Morning Herald'A call for action . . . unlike any that has yet been written . . . capture[s] the visceral feeling of domestic terror.' -- Sydney Review of BooksShortlisted for General Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2020 Australian Book Industry AwardsFinalist for the 2019 Walkley Book Award'At a time when misogyny and male violence appear to be unbridled, this book gives hope to women everywhere. Its pages are a call to arms: Hill has outlined a manifesto that will contribute to ending male brutality in all its forms.' -- Julie Bindel, journalist and feminist campaignerLonglisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards, AustraliaFinalist for the 2019 Australian Human Rights Commission Media AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An unsettling illumination of what happens when abortion rights are nonexistent, this book is a reflection on where we came from, a warning of what might lie ahead, and a chilling reminder that history repeats itself." * Electric Literature *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface to 2022 Edition Notes to Preface to 2022 Edition Selected Bibliography Introduction 1 An Open Secret 2 Private Practices 3 Antiabortion Campaigns, Private and Public 4 Interrogations and Investigations 5 Expansion and Specialization 6 Raids and Rules 7 Repercussions 8 Radicalization of Reform Epilogue: Post-Roe, Post-Casey Note on Sources List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an "Other" In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of family and justice. In Forbidden Intimacies, Melanie Heath comparatively investigates the regulation of polygamy in the United States, Canada, France, and Mayotte. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and archival sources, Heath uncovers the ways in which intimacies framed as "other" and "offensive" serve to define the very limits of Western tolerance. These regulation efforts, counterintuitively, allow the flourishing of polygamies on the ground. The case studies illustrate a continuum of justice, in which some groups, like white fundamentalist Mormons in the U.S., organize to fight against the prohibition of their families' existence, whereas African migrants in France face racialized discrimination in addition to rigid migration policies. The matrix of legal and social contexts, informed by gender, race, sexuality, and class, shapes the everyday experiences of these relationships. Heath uses the term "labyrinthine love" to conceptualize the complex ways individuals negotiate different kinds of relationships, ranging from romantic to coercive. What unites these families is the secrecy in which they must operate. As government intervention erodes their abilities to secure housing, welfare, work, and even protection from abuse, Heath exposes the huge variety of intimacies, and the power they hold to challenge heteronormative, Western ideals of love. Trade Review"An important intervention into racialized gendered states and their making of marriage and intimacy norms. It beautifully exposes the social consequences of government regulation, reminding us that the family and home are not private spheres, especially among those stigmatized as different."—Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara"This is a valuable contribution to the literature. It provides a fresh look at globalized pressures to rid western culture of controversial or unsavory practices, such as polygyny. Highly recommended."—Janet Bennion, Northern Vermont University"Forbidden Intimacies provides an outstanding and much-needed map of the many forms that polygamy takes across borders of nation, race, language, culture, law, policy, and time period. Melanie Heath's innovative methodologies, extensive data set, and analysis make the book an essential tool for historical, sociological, and legal investigations of family, and also for work on gaps between law-on-the-books and law-in-action."—Martha Ertman, University of Maryland Law School"This beautifully honed study definitively overturns misconceptions of polygamy. Indeed, it transforms our understandings of these non-monogamous racialized marital forms through multi-sited ethnography and comparative, intersectional, and transnational analysis. Its gift is to show that plural marriages endure in complex ways due to and despite impositions of state governance and white Christian nationalisms in the west."—Jyoti Puri, Simmons University"With empathy and intelligence, Forbidden Intimacies examines the troubled debates around polygyny, marriages involving one husband with two or more wives. Tradition? Oppression? Choice? Crime? With illuminating case studies from three countries, Melanie Heath throws new light on women's agency, patriarchal power, criminalization, and the racial projects of modern states."—Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney"[Heath] explores how the state shapes (and is shaped by) intimate expression and concludes that governments oftenprohibitthese forms of intimacy in an effort to 'uphold the white, monogamous, heterosexual family ideal' and demarcate boundaries of sexual acceptance, boundaries that ultimately contribute to notions of national identity. An important contribution to the field of sexuality, marriage, and family studies. Recommended."—J. R. Mitrano, CHOICE"[Forbidden Intimacies] is methodologically innovative, and the data and analysis provided by Heath make important contributions to our understanding of national identities, colonialism, culture, gender, race, and family.... Heath's methods provide an excellent example of how to do Sociology and should be required reading for anyone who does or is learning to do sociological research."—Mimi Schippers, Social ForcesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Forbidden Intimacies in Global Perspective 1. Racial Projects and Unexpected Divergences in Regulating Polygyny 2. Labyrinthine Love and Homegrown Polygamies 3. Migratory Polygamies: Racialization and Colonial Reckonings 4. Patriarchal Musings: Gender, Power, and Agency in Living Forbidden Intimacies 5. Race, Religion, and Stigmatized Intimacies: Pushing Polygynous Families Underground 6. Recognizing Polygamies: Fighting Over Intimacy Conclusion: Forbidden Intimacies, Racial Projects, and Legal Jeopardy

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Book SynopsisThe history of men's needlework has long been considered a taboo subject. This is the first book ever published to document and critically interrogate a range of needlework made by men. It reveals that since medieval times men have threaded their own needles, stitched and knitted, woven lace, handmade clothes, as well as other kinds of textiles, and generally delighted in the pleasures and possibilities offered by all sorts of needlework. Only since the dawn of the modern age, in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, did needlework become closely aligned with new ideologies of the feminine. Since then men's needlework has been read not just as feminising but as queer. In this groundbreaking study Joseph McBrinn argues that needlework by male artists as well as anonymous tailors, sailors, soldiers, convalescents, paupers, prisoners, hobbyists and a multitude of other men and boys deserves to be looked at again. Drawing on a wealth of examples of men's needlework, as well asTrade ReviewThis book pricks your creative imagination. It will enable you to unpick and weave the history of men’s needlework and it will encourage you to pay a little more attention to those queer and subversive stitches. * Textile: Cloth and Culture *A comprehensive study of men who turned to needlework ... [McBrinn's] present-day analyses are the liveliest, unpicking long-held notions of femininity and masculinity within the field of cultural production. * Elephant Magazine *An insightful, humorous, yet poignant and empathetic exploration of the history of men in the field of embroidery. * Book Threads *McBrinn’s book marks an urgent intervention in the field of craft studies and it will be an essential text for those interested in the history of needlework and masculinity ... it will also become an important starting point for scholars looking to explore much wider, more diverse and inclusive approaches to investigations of queerness and craft in the future. * Art History *I devoured this in one sitting ... McBrinn has drawn together such a readable history of this hitherto overlooked subject, which not only demands to be recognised alongside Rozsika Parker’s, but prompts fresh discourse on men’s history in needlework. * Embroidery *[A] thoughtfully fluid theorization of masculinity, homosexuality and subcultures, as well as class and race, into a nuanced analysis grounded in fascinating textual and visual primary sources. * Journal of Design History *Joseph McBrinn adds immeasurably to [needlework] literature through an unprecedented focus on men who sew. His richly researched and engagingly written narrative shows how various formations of modern masculinity have found expression through this medium. Queering the Subversive Stitch is at once a major scholarly contribution and a moving story about men’s lives. * Glenn Adamson, Yale Center for British Art, USA *But for the fact I couldn’t put this book down, I would have taken up a needle and thread and started sewing. McBrinn takes us on an astonishing journey through the needlepoint and embroidery of nineteenth century sailors, Hollywood film idols, trade unionists and those in mourning at the height of the AIDS pandemic. Over 80 images show us men at work with their needles on deck, at home, in groups and in public; they illustrate the gamut of that work – from the floral and religious to the activist and tenderly homoerotic. This is very far from a niche history – it stiches together countercultures and elites, histories of masculinity and sexuality, and queer and gender theory. And McBrinn does this deftly – developing sophisticated, incisive arguments about the history, status and meaning of men sewing with wit and an enviable light touch. * Matt Cook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1. “Only sissies and women sew”: an introduction 2. Needlework and the creation of masculinities: “the prick” of patriarchy 3. “Killing the angel in the house”: Victorian manliness, domestic handicrafts and homosexual panic 4. “The mesh canvas”: amateur needlecrafts, masculinity and modernism 5. Masculinity and “the politics of cloth”: from the “bad boys” of postmodern art to the “the boys that sew club” of the new millennium 6. Conclusion: “Men who Embroider” Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProbing the ominous side of career advice to follow your passion, this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work. Follow your passion is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. Passion-seeking seems like a promising path for avoiding the potential drudgery of a life of paid work, but this passion principleseductive as it isdoes not universally translate. The Trouble with Passion reveals the significant downside of the passion principle: the concept helps culturally legitimize and reproduce an exploited, overworked white-collar labor force and broadly serves to reinforce class, race, and gender segregation and inequality. Grounding her investigation in the paradoxical tensions between capitalism's demand for ideal workers and our cultural expectations for self-expression, sociologist Erin A. Cech draws on interTrade Review"As the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many people to contemplate the meaning of their work and life, this book offers particularly relevant insights for those wanting a career change to consider how they should make career decisions and the role work should play in their life. The Trouble with Passion should also be revelatory to people who potentially shape others’ career decisions, such as educators and career counselors; those who can influence the career outcomes of people in the labor market, such as hiring managers and organization leaders; and policymakers who have the power to rectify the structural factors producing the dark side of the passion principle in the first place. I would also recommend this book to social science scholars interested in careers, passion, the meaning of work, segregation, and inequality in general." * Administrative Science Quarterly *"If you’re looking for a book that can offer you new insights into career choices while making you think critically about librarianship, passion, and labor, this is a recommended read." * College & Research Libraries *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. What Is the Passion Principle? 2. Why Is the Passion Principle Compelling? 3. The Privilege of Passion? Passion-Seeking and Socioeconomic Inequality among Career Aspirants 4. The Passion Principle as Prescriptive and Explanatory Narrative? How the Passion Principle Choicewashes Workforce Inequalities 5. Exploiting Passion? The Demand Side of the Passion Principle Conclusion Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Supplemental Analysis of 2020 College Student Survey Appendix C: Supporting Data Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIncreasingly adopted by therapists and mental health professionals, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients to cope with social, emotional and mental health issues by using the six core ACT processes: Acceptance, Cognitive Defusion, Being Present, the Self as Context, Values and Committed Action.This is the go-to-guide for evidence-based ACT techniques to be used by professionals to help their transgender, genderqueer, genderfluid, third gender and agender clients. It provides the tools to help these clients develop emotional processing skills they can implement throughout their life, from coping with mental health issues and substance abuse, to navigating prejudice and social pressure, to building a career and developing a family.Trade ReviewAlex Stitt has written a truly delightful, comprehensive, thoughtful, and engaging book about working with trans and nonbinary clients in therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) - a mindfulness based approach - provides a meta framework for understanding gender, sexuality, and intersectional identities. I have learned so much from Alex Stitt's perspective, about the complexity of gender, the power of relational therapy, and of course, about ACT - a series of skills and techniques available to all clinicians, regardless of your background and training. The tone is deceptively casual, the language is decidedly queer, and the range of tools is broad and comprehensive. -- Arlene Lev, School of Social Welfare, University of Albany, Choices Counseling and Consulting, Author of Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender Variant People and Their FamiliesAlex Stitt has accomplished something wonderful; they have fully elaborated the relevance of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to working with gender and gender identity. This book is grounded in cultural awareness of the needs of gender diverse clients with a strong unifying thread of respect for the agency and autonomy of transgender, genderfluid, and non-binary clients. -- Matthew D. Skinta, Ph.D., ABPP, Peer-Reviewed ACT Trainer, Assistant Professor, Roosevelt University, Chicago, ILA courageous volume that leaves no issue unexamined in its goal of modifying and applying ACT to function as a gender affirmative therapy. Never condemning, and yet never avoidant, this book asks practitioners to look deeply within themselves and to embark on a values-based journey to create a space in which the full range of issues in gender identity, expression, and experience can be approached openly, competently, and compassionately. Moving, wise, and effective it rises to the challenge it sets for itself, and invites readers to do likewise.Highly recommended. -- Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, Co-developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and author of A Liberated MindTable of ContentsIntroduction: Storm Cloud Butterflies. 1. Gender Affirmative ACT. 2 Awareness. 3. Acceptance. 4. Actualization. 5. Adaption: ACT for Transgender Mental Health. 6. Affirmation. 7. Epilogue: Of Moths & Meaning.

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Book SynopsisThis volume showcases ten years of research on language, gender and sexuality informed by queer theory. In line with a queer dislike for any normalizing discourse and practice, the book gives a multi-faceted set of applications of queer theoretical ideas to linguistic analysis. The chapters that open the book engage with theoretical debates about identity and desire, and the relationships between these concepts. The following contributions offer linguistic precision to two key areas of queer theoretical interest, namely the critique of heteronormativity and the deconstruction of the gender binary. The final chapters pick up on some of the thematic threads of the book, but locate them within recent developments in the study of language and space. With examples from a variety of sociopolitical contexts - Denmark, Greece, Serbia, Sweden, South Africa, USA - and discursive sites - phrasebooks, school interactions, literary texts, as well as online dating sites and chats - the book gives a critical overview of how gender, sexuality and power can be queered through linguistic analysis.Table of ContentsIntroductionQueering Language, Gender and Sexuality: Theory and PracticeTommaso M. MilaniIdentity and Desire1. Models of Gay Male Identity and the Marketing of 'Gay Language' in Foreign-Language Phrasebooks for Gay MenRusty Barrett, University of Kentucky2. Incomprehensible Language? Language, Ethnicity and Heterosexual Masculinity in a Swedish School Tommaso M. Milani and Rickard Jonsson, University of Stockholm3. The Desire for Identity and the Identity of Desire: Language, Gender and Sexuality in the Greek Context Costas Canakis, University of AegeanUnpacking Heteronormativity4. Constructing Hegemonic Masculinities in South Africa: The Discourse and Rhetoric of Heteronormativity Russell Luyt, University of Winchester5. On-line Constructions of Metrosexuality and Masculinities: A Membership Categorization Analysis Matthew Hall, University of Derby6. A Bit too Skinny for Me: Women's Homosocial Constructions of Heterosexual Desire in Online DatingKristine Kohler Mortensen, University of California, Santa BarbaraBeyond Binaries?7. Do Bodies Matter? Travestis' Embodiment of (Trans)Gender Identity through the Manipulation of the Brazilian Portuguese Grammatical Gender System Rodrigo Borba, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and Ana Cristina Ostermann, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos8. Butch Camp: On the Discursive Construction of a Queer Identity Position Veronika Koller, Lancaster University9. The Other Kind of Coming Out: Transgender People and the Coming out Narrative Genre Lal Zimman, University of California, Santa BarbaraGender, Sexuality and Space10. Language, Sexuality and Place: The View from CyberspaceBrian W. King, City University of Hong Kong11. Homophobia as Moral Geography William L. Leap, American University12. Normal Straight Gays: Lexical Collocations and Ideologies of Masculinity in Personal Ads of Serbian Gay Teenagers Ksenija Bogetic, University of Belgrade

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Book SynopsisIn Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the matter of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She clarifies the notion of performativity introduced in Gender Trouble and via bold readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud explores the meaning of a citational politics. She also draws on documentary and literature with compelling interpretations of the film Paris is Burning, Nella Larsen's Passing, and short stories by Willa Cather.Trade Review"As a philosopher of gender [Judith Butler] is unparalleled." – Village Voice"Butler gives us a new way to think about the materiality of the body in the discursive performity operative in the materialization of sex. Following a common move in postmodern feminism, Butler sets out to demolish the sex/gender distinction that has formed the mainstay of the de Beauvorian and radical feminism's notion that gender, as a cultural construction, could be critiqued and politicized against the givenness of the body's biological sex. . . .What is new in Bodies That Matter is Butler's attempt to write more directly about race." – Signs"Extending the brilliant style of interrogation that made her 1990 book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity a landmark of gender theory/queer theory, Butler here continues to refine our understandings of the complexly performative character of sexuality and gender and to trouble our assumptions about the inherent subversiveness of dissident sexualities. . . . indispensable reading across the wide range of concerns that queer theory is currently addressing." – Artforum"What the implications/limitations of 'sexing' are and how the process works comprise the content of this strikingly perceptive book. . . . Butler has written a most significant and provocative work that addresses issues of immediate social concern." – The Boston Book Review "A brilliant and original analysis." – Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University, USA"...a classic." – Elizabeth GroszTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Part 1: 1. Bodies that Matter 2. The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary 3. Phantasmatic Identification and the Assumption of Sex 4. Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion Part 2: 5. 'Dangerous Crossing': Willa Cather's Masculine Names 6. Queering, Passing: Nella Larsen Rewrites Psychoanalysis 7. Arguing with the Real 8. Critically Queer. Notes. Index

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Book SynopsisProfessor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors'' experiences together with those of other women who have successfully combined parenting with professorships. Professor Mommy addresses key questionswhen to have children and how many, what kinds of academic institutions are the most family friendly, how to negotiate around the myths that many people hold about academic life, etc.for women throughout all stages of their academic careers, from graduate school through full professor. The authors follow the demands of motherhood all the way from the infant stages through the empty nest. At each stage, the authors offer invaluable advice and tested strategies from women who have successfully juggled the demands and rewards of an academic career and motherhood. Written in clear, jargon-free prose, the book is accessible to women in all disciplines, with concise chaptTrade ReviewBowdoin faculty members Connelly and Ghodsee are mothers who’ve struggled with the challenges of research, teaching, publishing, and caring for children in defiance of the conventional wisdom that women in academia have to choose between family and career. They devote an entire chapter to debunking the myths that discourage many women from pursuing tenure during their most fertile reproductive years. Drawing on their experiences and on surveys of and interviews with a variety of women in academia, they first review the decision to have an academic career and the decision to have children, including how many and when to have them. They proceed with a detailed chronology of the tenure track, a comprehensive guide, and unwavering encouragement. They are frank about sacrifices and challenges encountered during graduate study and the PhD dissertation, and they detail the hurdles presented by low salaries, undesirable work locations, and long working hours. But they also note the rewards of both academic life and motherhood. Women interested in careers in academia should appreciate this helpful, encouraging resource. * Booklist *In Professor Mommy, Rachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee present a thorough set of questions for women to consider and strategies to utilize in order to make informed decisions about pursuing both an academic career and family life. ... Professor Mommy is a practical guide written for women who are considering or currently combining family life and the pursuit of tenure. The authors recognize that tenure-track fathers have challenges when they are involved parents of small children, but Connelly and Ghodsee intentionally speak to the particular concerns and situations that mothers face. ... Professor Mommy has many helpful insider tips for any junior faculty member or graduate student who has not had these conversations with a trusted (mommy) mentor. ...[F]or those of us who desire to seek tenure within the existing system, having access to the information in Professor Mommy is invaluable. The book does what it sets out to do, providing information and options for women to make decisions that will position them as best as possible for tenure and promotion within the existing system. Recognizing that the assimilationist approach will not work for every woman, it provides guidance for the many. * Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Of Women's Studies Resources *Don't believe the myths—you can conquer the academy while raising children. It isn't easy, but few worthwhile things in life are. Connelly and Ghodsee show, step by step, how smart women win at work and win at home by protecting their time and focusing on what matters most (hint: it's not grading papers or ironing shirts!). -- Laura Vanderkam, author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You ThinkDo read this 'can do book for mothers who want to pursue an academic career! Yes, you can succeed and this book guides you through every step and pitfall—from choosing the type of institution that is for you to coming up for full professor. It doesn't shy away from the very real obstacles, like exhaustion during the early child-raising years, but offers alternative strategies for climbing the ladder. The sound advice is aimed at mothers—but it could be the handbook for any Ph.D. who is deciding on an academic career. I will recommend it to all my graduate students. -- Mary Ann Mason, professor and co-director of the Center, Economics & Family Security at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; aRachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee have written a book that is not just a must-read for anyone contemplating the intricate and as-yet imperfect balance of academic life and family life, but for anyone at all interested in promoting equity in the workplace and more importantly, in the world of ideas. Professor Mommy lays out in stark detail the dismal record and very real statistics of the “maternal wall,” “glass ceiling” and the steep personal costs that women academics often face. But rather than stop there, they offer detailed, practical and user-friendly guidance on how to set your own priorities, draw boundaries and forge a path through this thorny obstacle course. They show it is not easy, but it is indeed possible to be both a successful academic and a loving parent with a rich family life. More, Professor Mommy is a call to action: that lasting change and that longed-for balance will come only when men become aware of the stacked deck against women and when women academics make the hard decision not to opt out, but to opt in, writing, publishing, thinking, promoting their ideas, and by their very presence, change the calcified system from within. -- Brigid Schulte, Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize co-winnerProfessor Mommy is a well-researched, yet anecdotal account of parenting across disciplines relevant to all family forms in academia. It’s one-of-a-kind, doesn't present 'defeatist' statements of sacrifice, but provides real strategies and support for anyone in their child-bearing years attempting to navigate this challenging yet rewarding period in life. -- Tiffany Jenson, Brigham Young University-IdahoTable of ContentsChapter 1 Contents Chapter 2 Introduction: Why We Decided to Write this Book and Who We Are Anyway Chapter 3 Chapter 1: A Success Story Told with the Hindsight of 20/20 Vision Chapter 4 Chapter 2: The Nefarious Nine or the Not-So-Pretty Truth about Motherhood and Academia Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Know Thyself Part I -Deciding to Become an Academic Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Know Thyself Part II -Deciding How Many Children to Have and When To Have Them Chapter 7 Chapter 5: The Last Year of Graduate School: Heading for the Job Market and Choosing the Institution that is Right for You Chapter 8 Chapter 6: On the Tenure Track Part I - Scholarship and Networking Chapter 9 Chapter 7: On the Tenure Track Part II - Teaching, Service, and Your Family Chapter 10 Chapter 8: The Immediate Post-Tenure Years Chapter 11 Chapter 9: Coming up for Full Professor Chapter 12 Conclusion Chapter 13 Appendix 1: Different Types of Institutions Chapter 14 Appendix 2: The Other Perspective: Words from our Children Chapter 15 Suggested Reading

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Book SynopsisWith numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, the author builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. She discusses the extent to which we may truly care for plants, animals, or ideas.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE TO THE 2013 EDITION PREFACE TO THE 2003 EDITION INTRODUCTION 1. WHY CARE ABOUT CARING? The fundamental nature of caring What does it mean to care? Problems arising in the analysis of one-caring The cared-for Aesthetical caring Caring and acting Ethics and caring 2. THE ONE-CARING Receiving Thinking and feeling: turning points Guilt and courage Women and caring Circles and chains Asymmetry and reciprocity in caring The ethical ideal and the ethical self Rules and conflicts 3. THE CARED-FOR The one-caring's attitude and its effects Apprehension of caring necessary to the caring relationship; unequal meetings Reciprocity The ethics of being cared for 4. AN ETHIC OF CARING From natural to ethical caring Obligation Right and wrong The problem of justification Women and morality: virtue The toughness of caring 5. CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDEAL The nature of the ideal Constraints and attainability Diminished ethical capacity Nurturing the ideal Maintaining the ideal 6. ENHANCING THE IDEAL: JOY Our basic reality and affect How should we describe emotion? Perception and emotion: the object of emotion and its appraisal Emotions as reasons Joy as exalted Receptivity and joy in intellectual work Joy as basic affect 7. CARING FOR ANIMALS, PLANTS, THINGS AND IDEAS Our relation with animals Our relation to plants Things and ideas Summary 8. MORAL EDUCATION What is moral education? The one-caring as teacher Dialogue Practice Confirmation Organizing schools for caring AFTERWORD NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisThree women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem between 1876 and 1924 describe the lifeways of the imperial family, dispelling Western stereotypes of harem debauchery.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. The Concubine Filizten Part Two. The Princess Ayse Part Three. The Teacher Safiye Conclusion Notes Glossary of Names Glossary of Terms and Places Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Feminist History Reader gathers together key articles, from some of the very best writers in the field, that have shaped the dynamic historiography of the past thirty years, and introduces students to the major shifts and turning points in this dialogue.The Reader is divided into four sections: early feminist historians' writings following the move from reclaiming women's past through to the development of gender history the interaction of feminist history with âthe linguistic turnâ and the challenges made by post-structuralism and the responses it provoked the work of lesbian historians and queer theorists in their challenge of the heterosexism of feminist history writing the work of black feminists and postcolonial critics/Third World scholars and how they have laid bare the ethnocentric and imperialist tendencies of feminist theory. Each reading has a comprehensive and clearly structured introduction with a guide to further reading, this wide-ranging guide to developments in feminist history is essential reading for all students of history.Trade Review"a stylish set of readings which will enable important issues about feminist historical theorizing to be addressed and debated in the classroom"Liz Stanley, Feminist Review‘Advanced readers are likely to find much of interest in the Feminist History Reader … Morgan’s was a difficult editorial task and the result is a stylish set of readings which will enable important issues about feminist historical theorizing to be addressed and debated in the classroom, particularly given that Morgan’s editorial viewpoint on the field is discussed in such an interesting and in-depth way.’ – Feminist ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Bringing the Female Subject into View 1. The Trouble With Patriarchy 2. Feminism and History 3. Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History 4. Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium 5. Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate 6. History and the Challenge of Gender History Part 2: Deconstructing the Female Subject: Feminist History and 'The Linguistic Turn' 7. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis 8. Does Sex Have a History? 9. Gender History/Women's History: Is Feminist Scholarship Losing its Critical Edge? 10. Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis 11. Postmodern Blackness 12. Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism' Part 3: Searching for the Subject: Lesbian History 13. Who Hid Lesbian History? 14. Does it Matter if They Did it? 15. Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and No Theory? 16. Queer: Theorizing Politics and History 17. 'Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms 18. Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality Part 4: Centres of Difference: Decolonising Subjects: Rethinking Boundaries 19. Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought 20. Challenging Imperial Feminism 21. An Open Letter to Mary Daly 22. 'What Has Happened Here?': The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics 23. Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Postcolonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India 24. Gender and Nation 25. 'Introduction' to Civilizing Subjects 26. Rethinking Boundaries: Feminism and (Inter)Nationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century India 27. Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West Africa 28. 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles 29. Feminism's History

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Book SynopsisExplores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. This book looks at both the sex workers and their clients to show how Vietnamese high finance and benevolent giving are connected to the intimate spheres of the informal economy.Trade Review"The topic of Dealing in Desire is arresting and the book is destined to gain a wide readership. Furthermore, not only is the fieldwork impressive, but the arguments are provocative and well substantiated." -- Erik Harms Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review "A valuable contribution to our understanding of the sex industry ... The praise that Hoang's research has received is well deserved, and Dealing in Desire is a must-read." -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database "This book is ethnographically rich and is an intriguing and gripping read." American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Dealing in Desire 1. Sex Work in HCMC, 1867--Present 2. The Contemporary Sex Industry 3. New Hierarchies of Global Men 4. Entrepreneurial Mommies 5. Autonomy and Consent in Sex Work 6. Constructing Desirable Bodies 7. Sex Workers' Economic Trajectories Conclusion: Faltering Ascent Appendix: The Empirical Puzzle and the Embodied Cost of Ethnography Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book provides a much-needed exploration and examination of honor abuse, violence, and killings from a psychological perspective. Written by a leading authority on the subject, the book draws on a wide range of research and theory on victims and perpetrators to bridge the gap between research and practice.Presented in two parts, the book begins with a focus on teaching, research, and practice issues in forensic psychology and related criminal justice fields, integral to studying and working with victims and perpetrators of honor abuse, violence, and killing. The second part provides an overview of the main issues relevant to the psychology of honor abuse, violence, and killings. These include definitions, prevalence, crime characteristics, victims, and perpetrators. The final chapter presents a new explanatory three-phase model of honor-based abuse perpetration. Firsthand personal accounts and detailed cases studies are interwoven throughout, giving a voice to victims and bringing their real-life stories to the forefront.As the first psychologically based book to synthesize existing and new knowledge on honor abuse, the book is a must-read for anyone working with victims and/or perpetrators of honor abuse and domestic violence, including criminal justice professionals, mental health practitioners, policymakers, support agencies, emergency workers, and activists. It is also relevant for any students or researchers of gender-based violence and racially minoritized communities.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about how U.S. immigration policies and immigrants' gendered experiences stratify the well-being of Salvadoran mothers and fathers in the United States and their children who remain in El Salvador.Trade Review"Leisy Abrego renders in heart-wrenching detail what it means to live as a family separated by thousands of miles. Sacrificing Families is a must read on why families choose to become transnational, how they struggle to overcome distance and time, and the United States immigration policies that force this cultural and emotional divide." -- Leo R. Chavez * University of California, Irvine, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *"Sacrificing Families is an important new book analyzing what can be described as the psychosocial interior of transnational Salvadoran families and how that familial social life is structured and traumatized by America's current immigration regime . . . The book is an important step in what is developing into a very promising scholarly career." -- Robert C. Smith * American Journal of Sociology *"Sacrificing Families approaches the issue of transnational migration from El Salvador to the United States from a unique perspective. Instead of the public debate in the United States, it's the debate in El Salvador that frames Leisy Abrego's argument. And while the experiences of migrants play a role, her focus is more on the children left behind when parents leave to work in the United States . . . In a debate dominated by rhetoric and statistics, the voices of these children raise extremely important issues . . . [T]his is a book that will stay with me and that I intend to assign to both undergraduate and graduate students." -- Aviva Chomsky * Hispanic American Historical Review *"In this insightful and compassionate book, Leisy Abrego sheds light on the devastating and far-reaching effects of the contemporary immigration regime on immigrant families and their relatives back home. The voices of these immigrant families vividly combine with Abrego's sophisticated analysis to make us rethink what it means to live in transnational spaces today. A must read for anyone interested in families and immigration policy." -- Cecilia Menjívar * Arizona State University *"Leisy Abrego provides an eloquent, empathic view of the agonizing choices made by transnational parents and the consequences for their children. The poignant quotes—from parents and children alike—along Abrego's thoughtful analysis make this an essential read." -- Carola Suárez-Orozco, University of California * Los Angeles *"Abrego examines the causes and consequences of migration of parents from El Salvador to the U.S. She focuses on the structure of trauma of long-term family separation, different experiences based on gender, and the impact on the socioeconomic and emotional lives of children . . . Using in-depth interviews of parents in the U.S. and children in El Salvador, the author reveals the tragedies and triumphs of these families' living arrangements; patterns of inequalities; migrant parents' sacrifices, including monetary remittances to their children; the profound emotional suffering; and children's school performances and aspirations. Furthermore, this research demonstrates how U.S. immigration policy determines the life chances and well-being of children and how gender ideologies influence women's and men's opportunities and behavior. Abrego presents a detailed, careful analysis of the micro-social realities of family separation across nations. She outlines the policy implications of this research and emphasizes the need for comprehensive U.S. immigration reform as a human rights issue. An outstanding contribution to immigration, family, Chicana/o, and policy studies . . . Highly recommended." -- D. A. Chekki * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisA manual on household management, the "Domostroi" is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible.Trade ReviewThe Domostroi is a wonderful resource for the social history of the Muscovite period that is, sadly, little seen by any but the most serious specialist.... This translation goes a long way toward opening the Domostroi to a wider audience.... The translation itself reads well—a difficult feat, considering the abstruse style of the original. Throughout, Pouncy uses footnotes to educate readers with fuller information about the history and society of Muscovy, controversies among modern historians, choices she made for the translation and bibliographic citations for her work. * Russian Review *The Domostroi, which literally means 'household order,' is a 16th-century Russian guide to life for noblemen, an exhaustive inventory of homilies, rules and recipes ranging from how to instill obedience in a wife to instructions for making mead and storing cabbage. Students of Russian history have long valued the Domostroi for its insights into how society was ordered in the early days of czarist rule. But even the merely curious can revel in the domestic preoccupations and atavistic advice in this ably translated and annotated edition.. Much of the Domostroi reads like a kind of 'Hints from Heloise'—and Abelard. -- Alessandra Stanley * New York Times Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionThe DomostroiAppendix: Contents of Manuscripts Glossary Suggestions for Future Reading Printed Editions of the Domostroi Index

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Book SynopsisA sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics by one of feminism’s most important and critical voicesTrade Review'An intelligently critical, inclusive, personal and very accessible feminist polemic' -- Theory.orgTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction 1. The Subversive Image 2. Inner Experience 3. Sovereignty 4. The Tears of Eros 5. The Accursed Share Conclusion Notes and References Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary. Nuanced storytellers break away from mainstream portrayals of gender diversity, cutting across lines of age, race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, family, and relationships.Trade ReviewNonbinary is a beautiful collection, filled with moving and personal stories from life outside the binary. Reading it felt like coming home to a community I'd always longed for. Folks from all across the gender spectrum should dive into these gorgeous insights and revelations about living a life of authenticity. -- Jill Soloway, creator of TransparentThis book is beyond vital. It is the anthology I've always yearned for, but never realized could be real. Nonbinary blows open the core of the thing, goes straight for the heart, burrows deep and then some. In a world that insists trans and nonbinary people adopt consistent, easy-to-digest messaging about who we are, this anthology stands bravely above the noise, boldly declaring our multiplicity as our beauty, our contradiction as our multifaceted shimmer. -- Jacob Tobia, author of Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender StoryA thoughtfully assembled collection of fresh and alert writing about the beautiful past, complex present, and dazzling future of nonbinary people and identities. Nonbinary contains the kind of specific stories, redolent of truth and feeling, that open a door for anyone, of any gender, to walk through and be engaged (and entertained, too!). -- S. Bear Bergman, author of Blood, Marriage, Wine, & GlitterWhat a treat to expand my understanding of gender through time and space, and be reminded that we are not a monolith. These memoirs are sure to captivate and comfort the nonbinary community and open the eyes of those who have had little reason to question the gender binary. -- Charlie McNabb, author of Nonbinary Gender Identities: History, Culture, ResourcesNonbinary is a great book—timely, wide-ranging, interesting, readable, and relatable. This will be a great primer for parents, teachers, doctors, and anyone else who wants to understand the nonbinary community. -- Jen Manion, Amherst CollegeIt is fascinating to witness, as a queer scholar, how much has been accomplished in these past decades. Nonbinary makes a profound contribution through an insistence upon increasing exposure to the concepts and lived experiences of contemporary queer people and ideas. This book will do amazing things. This is a vital queer theory textbook. -- K. W. Mott, Seton Hall UniversityThe time is certainly right for a book of this sort that puts a human face on an otherwise theoretical subject. It is, altogether, an original and necessary contribution to the ever-expanding body of LGBTQIA+ literature. * Booklist *[These] essays evince a sincere desire to candidly share difficult feelings on a complicated topic. This well-meaning book will be an asset in college classroom conversations about queer theory. * Publishers Weekly *The collection is an overall strong and diverse one. . . . Nonbinary is a useful snapshot of what it means to be nonbinary now and in the past with hopes for the way forward. * Library Journal *The anthology is a good resource for people exploring their own nonconforming identity, but it's also a useful, honest read about being human in general. -- Rebecca Rafferty * Rochester City Newspaper *Engaging and accessible. . . . [Nonbinary] provides a sense of vibrant community that will be invaluable to a group often marginalized in mainstream society and queer culture alike. The book’s unpretentious tone and its glossing of technical terminology will also make it a helpful resource for friends, relatives and allies. -- Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston * Times Literary Supplement *The voices given agency here speak to everyone who has ever questioned their identity and the rigid roles assigned to them by a non-accepting society. * Advocate *This book is highly recommended for its diversity of viewpoints and the care it takes in allowing individuals to tell their own stories freely and honestly. * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsForeword: From Genderqueer to Nonbinary to . . . , by Riki WilchinsIntroduction, by Micah Rajunov and Scott DuanePart I. What Is Gender?1. War Smoke Catharsis, by Alex Stitt2. Deconstructing My Self, by Levi S. Govoni3. Coatlicue, by féi hernandez4. Namesake, by michal “mj” jones5. My Genderqueer Backpack, by Melissa L. Welter6. Scrimshaw, by Rae TheodorePart II. Visibility: Standing Up and Standing Out7. Being Genderqueer Before It Was a Thing, by Genny Beemyn8. Token Act, by Sand C. Chang9. Hypervisible, by Haven Wilvich10. Making Waves in an Unforgiving Maze, by Kameron Ackerman11. Life Threats, by Jeffrey Marsh12. Just Genderqueer, Not a Threat, by Jace ValcorePart III. Community: Creating a Place for the Rest of Us13. What Am I?, by CK Combs14. Questions of Faith, by Jaye Ware15. Coming Out as Your Nibling: What Happened When I Told Everyone I Know That I’m Genderqueer, by Sinclair Sexsmith16. Purple Nail Polish, by Jamie Price17. Uncharted Path: Parenting My Agender Teen, by Abigail18. The Name Remains the Same, by Katy KooncePart IV. Trans Enough: Representation and Differentiation19. Lowercase Q, by Cal Sparrow20. Not Content on the Sidelines, by Suzi Chase21. You See Me, by Brian Jay Eley22. Clothes Make the Gender/Queer, by Aubri Drake23. The Flight of the Magpie, by Adam “PicaPica” Stevenson24. An Outsider in My Own Landscape, by s. e. smithPart V. Redefining Dualities: Paradoxes and Possibilities of Gender25. Not-Two, by Avery Erickson26. Kitchen Sink Gender, by Nino Cipri27. What Growing Up Punk Taught Me About Being Gender Nonconforming, by Christopher Soto28. Rock a Bye Binary, by Jules De La Cruz29. To Gender and Back, by Kory Martin-Damon30. Rethinking Non/Binary, by Eli ErlickAcknowledgmentsFurther ReadingList of ContributorsIndex

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Book Synopsis* Explores the fascinating world of sex and gender roles in the classical period. * Accessible to general readers whilst encouraging them to confront new theories and methodologies, and contemporary assumptions about gender and sexuality.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgments. Editor's Introduction. Part I: Greece. 1. Classical Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour. (K. J. Dover). Source: Aristophanes' Speech from Plato, Symposium 189d7-192a1. 2. Double-Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics. (J. J. Winkler). Sources: Sappho 1 and 31; Homer, Iliad 5.114-132; Odyssey 6.139-85. 3. Bound to Bleed. Artemis and Greek Women. (H. King). Excerpts: Hippocrates, On Unmarried Girls; Euripides, Hippolytus 59-105. 4. Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama. (F. Zeitlin). Sources: Sophocles, Women of Trachis 531-587, 1046-1084; Euripides, Bacchae 912-944. Part II: Rome. 5. The Silent Women of Rome. (M. I. Finley). Sources: Funerary Inscriptions: CE 81.1-2, 158.2, 843, 1136.3-4; ILS 5213, 8402, 8394; CIL 1.1211, 1.1221, 1.1837. 6. The Body Female and the Body Politic. Livy's Lucretia and Verginia. S. R. Joshel. Sources: Livy, On the Founding of Rome, 1.57.6-59.6. 7. Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy.(M. Wyke). Excerpts: Propertius, 1.8a-b and 2.5; Cicero, In Defense of Marcus Caelius 20.47-21.50. 8. Pliny's Brassiere. Source: Pliny, Natural History 28.70-82. Part III: Classical Tradition. 10. "The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours." (Patricia Klindienst). Source: Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.424-623. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIntegrating psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, this book describes the social and psychic dynamics of what has come to be called homophobia and on how the 'homosexual' as social being has come to be constituted in capitalist society.Trade Review"Homosexual Desire represents the best of left social theory of sexual politics, a tradition that has never had an adequate reception in the United States. Reprinting this book now is a step toward recovering that tradition, and could therefore open debates about the significance of sexuality."—Michael Warner"Written over two decades ago, in the aftermath of May '68 and Stonewall, Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire may well be the first example of what we now call queer theory. But its significance is more than historical: it remains an indispensable analysis of, and polemic against, institutionalized homophobia.”—Douglas CrimpTable of ContentsNew Introduction / Michael Moon 9 Preface to the 1978 Edition / Jeffrey Weeks 23 1. Introduction 49 2. Anti-Homosexual Paranoia 55 "Unnatural acts": nature and the law 61 A myth: the progress of public morals 62 The strengthening of anti-homosexual paranoia 66 Homosexuality and crime 67 Homosexuality and disease 69 "Latent" and "patent" homosexuality 72 3. "Disgusting perverts" 73 The polymorphously perverse, bisexuality, and non-human sex 74 Hatred of woman 77 The Oedipalisation of homosexuality 79 Castration and narcissism 79 Oedipus or the chromosomes? 82 The homosexual judge 83 Cure: the infernal cycle 86 Homosexuality and shame 88 4. Capitalism, the Family, and the Anus 93 The phallic signifier and the sublimated anus 95 Homosexuality and the anus 97 Homosexuality and the loss of identity 100 The competitive society and the rule of the phallus 103 Oedipal reproduction and homosexuality 106 Homosexual grouping 110 5. Homosexual "object-choice" and Homosexual "Behaviour" 113 The "object-choice" 114 The "third sex" and "masculine-feminine" 121 Masochism and homosexuality 127 The pick-up machine 130 6. The Homosexual Struggle 133 The revolution of desire 133 Why homosexuality? 138 The perverse trap 142 Against the pyramid 145 7. Conclusion 148 Notes 151 Index 155

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Book SynopsisAvatar of girl power or sexual plaything? The ambiguity of being Lara.Table of ContentsContents Foreword By Sue-Ellen Case 1. The Phenomenon of Lara Croft2. A Duplicitous Gift3. The Origins of a Cultural Icon4. The Market and the Hardware5. Medial Origins and Sexual Grounds6. Virtual Reality7. The Interactive Movie8. The Loss of Surface9. The Medialization of the Body10. The Universal Medium11. Tomb Raider: the Movie12. The Question of Sexual Difference13. Afterplay: the Next Generation NotesBibliographyIndex

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