Gender studies, gender groups Books
The University of Chicago Press Music Gender Perspectives from the
Book SynopsisThe contributors explore the intimate relationships between music & gender, across the wide range of cultures around the Mediterranean. Essays examine musical behaviour as representation, assertion, and transgression of gender identities.
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The University of Chicago Press Sites of DesireEconomies of Pleasure
Book SynopsisExamining erotic encounters between European, Asian and Pacific people, these essays explore how sexual practice and sexual meanings have been constructed across cultural borders in Thailand, the Philippines, Burma/Myanmar, Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Polynesian islands.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure in Asia and the Pacific Lenore Manderson, Margaret Jolly. Ch. 1: Educating Desire in Colonial Southeast Asia: Foucault, Freud and Imperial Sexualities Ann Staler Ch. 2: Contested Images and Common Strategies: Early Colonial Sexual Politics in the Massim Adam Reed Ch. 3: Gaze and Grasp: Plantations, Desires, Indentured Indians, and Colonial Law in Fiji John D. Kelly Ch. 4: From Point Venus to Bali Ha'i: Eroticism and Exoticism in Representations of the Pacific Margaret Jolly Ch. 5: Parables of Imperialism and Fantasies of the Exotic: Western Representations and Thailand - Place and Sex Lenore Manderson Ch. 6: Primal Dream: Masculinism, Sin and Salvation in Thailand's Sex Trade Annette Hamilton Ch. 7: Kathoey >< Man: The Historical Emergence of Gay Male Identity in Thailand Peter A. Jackson Ch. 8: State of Desire: Transformations in Huli Sexuality Jeffrey Clark Ch. 9: A Plague on the Borders: HIV, Development, and Traveling Identities in the Golden Triangle Doug Porter Ch. 10: A Matter of "Choice": Discourses on Prostitution in the Philippines Lisa Law Ch. 11: The Foreign Devil Returns: Packaging Sexual Practice and Risk in Contemporary Japan Sandra Buckley Notes Bibliography Filmography Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press Taxing Women
Book SynopsisThe US tax system was designed in the 1930s and 1940s, when the typical American household was a single-income family with a male breadwinner and a female homemaker. Writing for an audience with no prior knowledge of tax, this study shows how the modern tax system penalizes two-earner families.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Women on the Margin 2: A Bit of History, 1913 to 1948 3: Still His Story, 1948 to the Present 4: Social Security Isn't What It Looks to Be 5: Piling It on the Margin 6: Taxing Families 7: Some Taxing Hope 8: Not Just the Facts 9: The Curious Nostalgia of the Contracts 10: Not Just Tax 11: Not Just the Gender Gap 12: On Doing Nothing, and Some Things to Do Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press National Performances
Book SynopsisThis study explores how Puerto Ricans in Chicago construct and perform nationalism. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Ramos-Zyas shows how the performance of Puerto rican nationalism in Chicago serves as a critique of social inequality and imperialism.
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The University of Chicago Press Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisIn this text, Mary Beth Rose argues that from the late 16th century to the late 17th century, a passive, more female, but equally potent dimension of heroic identity began to dominate English culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Sexuality across the Life Course
Book SynopsisA collection of 14 essays on sexual behaviour, from adolescence to old age, and covering such groups as singles, married couples, homosexuals and African-American men and women. This volume also looks at topics such as the effects of chronic disease and medication on sexual functioning.Table of ContentsI The Biopsychosocial Perspective1 Eros and Caritas: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Human Sexuality and Reproduction, Alice S. Rossi II Sexual Diversity: History, Culture, and Lifestyle 2 Human Sexuality, Life Histories, and Evolutionary Biology, Jane B. Lancaster 3 Attitudes toward Sexual Permissiveness: Trends, Correlates, and Behavioral Connections, Tom W. Smith 4 Sexuality among African-American Women, Claire Sterk-Elifson 5 African-American Male Sexuality through the Early Life Course, Benjamin P. Bowser 6 Single Worlds and Homosexual Lifestyles: Patterns of Sexuality and Intimacy, Martha R. Fowlkes III Sexuality at Selected Phases of the Life Course 7 Getting Started on Sexual Behavior, J. Richard Udry and Benjamin C. Campbell 8 Changing Lives, Changing Genres: Teenage Girls' Narratives about Sex and Romance, Sharon Thompson 9 Sexuality, Marriage, and Well-Being: The Middle Years, John N. Edwards and Alan Booth 10 Age-Related Variation in Sexual Activity and Interest in Normal Men: Results from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, John B. McKinlay and Henry A. Feldman 11 Sex and Sexuality in Later Life Stages, Judith A. Levy IV Selected Health Issues 12 Impact of Chronic Disease and Medication on Sexual Functioning, Raul C. Schiavi 13 Sexual Problems and Therapies: A Quarter Century of Developments and Changes, Richard Green 14 Sexual Offending and Victimization: A Life Course Perspective, Richard J. Gelles and Glenn Wolfner
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The University of Chicago Press Erotic Triangles
Book SynopsisIn West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drumbeat to make a man get up and dance. The author draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities.Trade Review"This is a highly original and illuminating study of Sundanese performing arts and gender ideology. Theoretically challenging and historically rich, Erotic Triangles frames men's improvisational dance as the playful working out of gendered identity relations." - Andrew N. Weintraub, University of Pittsburgh"
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The University of Chicago Press The Cassowarys Revenge The Life Death of
Book SynopsisDonald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. Years later he returned to find that the village's men had voluntarily destroyed their secret cult which allowed them dominance over women. This study examines the labyrinth of motives behind this improbable, devastating act.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Going Home Ch. 2: The Mission Ch. 3: The Repeal of Custom Ch. 4: The Cassowary and the Swan Maiden Ch. 5: The Web of True Prophecy Ch. 6: Millennium Ch. 7: Fear in the Heart Ch. 8: Sanctuary Notes Maps References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Dangerous Frames How Ideas about Race and Gender
Book SynopsisIn addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we think - and vote - about a vast array of issues that don't seem related to either category. This title illuminates the emotional underpinnings of American politics.Trade Review"This is a very exciting book, and one of the finest pieces of work in the area of politics, identity, and the mass media. It will have a broad impact on the fields of American political psychology, public opinion, political communication, and racial and gender attitudes." - Nicholas Valentino, University of Texas at Austin"
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MO - University of Illinois Press Queer Pollen White Seduction Black Male
Book SynopsisA provocative triptych of black queer desire, articulated through aesthetic works and experiencesTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2012. "Gerstner is a master theorist who renders a compelling and cutting-edge narrative about the complexity of black homosexual desire. The first book of its kind to specifically address the formation of black queer subjectivity in relation to white seduction, Queer Pollen offers a major contribution to African American studies, gender studies, film studies, literary studies, and art history."--E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South"[Gerstner] is extremely well informed on the landmark work in critical theory...and continues to establish his reputation as an influential daredevil theorist who probes the complexity of identity. Highly recommended."--Choice "Queer Pollen examines the work of three queer black creators: Harlem Renaissance aesthete Richard Bruce Nugent, novelist James Baldwin and filmmaker Marlon Riggs. . . . Like all twentieth and even twenty-first century creators, all three have a relationship to film which emerges in their work in multimedia and in the written word. . . . Gerstner asks us to de-naturalise the cinematic frame of reference and understand how it can be used as a strategy to examine how power relations are manifested as looks and inscribed on the body through desire and shame. Instead of poisoned fruit, these three authors offer insight into the ways in which desire draws its own authenticity by consuming and re-appropriating a collage of different cultural forms."--Dr. Scott Beattie, Somatechnics"A true companion piece to Baldwin's [Go Tell It on the Mountain]. Provides good intellectual theory."--Film InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-87) 19 2. James Baldwin (1924-87) 73 3. Marlon Riggs (1957-94) 138 Notes 215 Bibliography 261 Index 277
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MO - University of Illinois Press Global Masculinities and Manhood
Book SynopsisWhat makes a man, within his own cultureTrade Review"A fine collection of original essays, each of which illustrates how dominant conceptualization of masculinity can inform and/or harm the everyday lives of particular populations. . . . Recommended."--Choice"This accessible collection interrogates the cultural constructions of masculinity across a wide range of cultures. Focusing on cultures that are typically overlooked in discussions on masculinity, the contributors raise important issues and highlight the many tensions that create and construct masculinities worldwide."--Thomas K. Nakayama, coeditor of The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication"This stimulating collection provides a succinct and consolidated examination of global cultures of masculinity and the basis for future comparative research and teaching in this area. A solid compliment to the existing and growing literature in the field of masculinity studies."--Corey D. B. Walker, author of A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in AmericaTable of ContentsForeword by Molefi Asante; Introduction by Ronald L. Jackson II and Murali Balaji 1. Negotiating Jamaican Masculinities / Maurice Hall; 2. Queer(y)ing Masculinity(ies) / Bryant Keith Alexander; 3. Disposable Masculinities in Istanbul / Nil Mutluer; 4. Wounded Masculinity and Nationhood in Peru / Margarita Saona; 5. Postcolonial Masculinity and Commodity Culture in Kenya / Mich Nyawalo; 6. War, Masculinity, and Native American Communities / Kathleen Glenister Roberts; 7. Representing Aboriginal Masculinity in Howard's Australia / Shino Konishi; 8. Beyond Jackie Chan / Murali Balaji; 9. Body Politics: Masculinities in Sport / Kath Woodward
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University of Illinois Press Gender in Modernism
Book SynopsisGrouped into twenty-one thematic sections, this work offers theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and gender in different directions. It provides an understanding of the complex intersections of gender with an array of social identifications.Trade Review“An excellent resource in its own right as well as a welcome and judiciously framed companion volume to Scott’s ground-breaking collection.”--The Review of English Studies "Gender in Modernism is an indispensable volume that belongs in university as well as personal libraries and in courses focused on literature, history, gender, Women's Studies, and more."--Clio “Compelling, thought-provoking, and invaluable resource for anyone working in modernist studies today.”--Modernism/Modernity “[Gender in Modernism] is a book any modernist will want to own, the starting point for new research projects, a guide for revising an undergraduate syllabus, a potential text for graduate seminars. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the volume and applaud both the many highly valuable contributors of the individual editors and the vision and editorial acumen of Scott.”--James Joyce Literary Supplement
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University of Illinois Press AsiaPacifiQueer
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary, multicultural reassessment of gender and sexuality in the Asian PacificTrade Review"Opens up new paradigms in understanding LGBTQ cultures in Asia and beyond."--Intersections"Needs to be read by everyone interested in sex and gender."--Pacific Affairs
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University of Illinois Press The Battle over Marriage
Book SynopsisReveals both the promises and the limitations of commercial media as a route to social change.Trade Review"As Leigh Moscowitz illustrates, some of the most prominent debates have taken place in the mass media, and thus, much of the story of same-sex marriage has been shaped by the early 21st-century mass media environment and journalist norms. . . . Moscowitz effectively shows that when activists pushed for same-sex marriage on a national stage in 2003-2004, they chose to present gay and lesbian couples as mainstream, White, middle-class, and embodying essentially conservative values. . . . The Battle Over Marriage is well worth the read."--Journalism "A very significant contribution to advancing understanding of media coverage of gay marriage. Moscowitz presents a controversial topic in a way that lets the facts and players speak for themselves."--Felix F. Gutierrez, coauthor of Racism, Sexism, and the News Media: Multicultural Issues into the New Communications Age"Highly accessible, well-written, and engaging, Moscowitz's The Battle Over Marriage proves to be a very thought provoking book that depicts the evolution of coverage and the debate surrounding marriage equality in America. This is a must read for scholars of LGBT studies, social change, family studies, and anyone with an interest in understanding the power of the media in shaping public discourse and attitudes."--Contemporary Sociology "A comprehensive, engaging, and required study for those interested in same-sex marriage, social activism, journalism, media studies, and the benefits and consequences of visibility. Highly Recommended."--Choice“The book provides an invaluable road map for historians who are interested in traversing the maze of developments that led to gay marriage as it came to be defined in 2013.”--American Journalism "An invaluable road map for historians who are interested in traversing the maze of developments that led to gay marriage as it came to be defined in 2013."--American Journalism
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University of Washington Press Outriders
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n engaging, insightful, wonderfully researched social and cultural study of forgotten or ignored participants in United States rodeo." * Great Plains Quarterly *"This is an ambitious book in which Scofield deftly tackles multiple historical contexts, secondary literatures, and political sensitivities...a foundational monograph that will no doubt inspire further research into the diversity of communities and traditions in rodeo and the North American West." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Controversial and dutifully written, Outriders...will be of interest to scholars while causing rodeo fans to think deeply about the conflicts within the myth of the sport." * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"Outriders offers an alternative perspective about what inspires people to enter rodeo, arguing that many do so as a way to claim a presence in the history of the West, and explores how rodeo gave agency to groups previously omitted from the history of cowboy lifestyle...provocative and contributes a framework for revisiting fringe groups." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Outriders function as a compendium of current cowboy and rodeo research. Scofield takes this research, and—with engaging style—demonstrates how women, Blacks, Gay men, and incarcerated men have chosen the cowboy as a symbol of what it means to be authentically American." * Journal of Popular Culture *"This well-researched book is a good introduction to rodeo beyond the mainstream and will be of interest to rodeo and western scholars, along with a more popular audience unfamiliar with rodeo’s more varied history." * Pacific Historical Review *
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University of Washington Press Indias Mithila Painting
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University of Washington Press Oregons Doctor to the World
Book SynopsisTells the story of this important western woman, exploring her approach to politics, health, and society and her civic, economic, and medical activismTrade Review"Jensen offers a richly textured narrative of Lovejoy's remarkable life, opening a window into the worlds of Northwest timber country, Progressive Era Portland, and the medical profession during the early twentieth century. . . immensely valuable addition to the history of women, social reform, and medicine . . ." -- Marisa Chappell * Oregon Historical Quarterly *“Jensen has unearthed an extraordinary level of detail about the life and work of Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy …address[ing] a number of themes, including women in medicine, social justice, women’s rights, politics, peace activism, public health, international health, and health activism. -- Susan Smith * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Kimberly Jensen has written an incredibly rich, exhaustively researched biography. A simple narrative chronology of this exceptional woman would alone be exciting to read. But Jensen gives us so much more. -- Barbara Winslow * Journal of American History *“Kimberly Jensen sheds new light on the life of Esther Pohl Lovejoy, an Oregon activist whose legacy continues well beyond the campaign for suffrage. -- Ben Waterhouse * Oregon Humanities *". . . a vivid biography of the pioneering physician and activist Esther Pohl Lovejoy. Jensen does an excellent job of bringing to life the story of Esther Pohl Lovejoy. Jensen's writing is approachable for undergraduates as well as graduates." -- Cody Stanley * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"A story of inspiration, courage, and leadership— a worthy read for anyone interested in the history of women in medicine." -- American Medical Women's Association News Flash * December 2012 *"Brings to life an overlooked leader in Portland's history." -- Steve Law * Portland Tribune *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction | Oregon’s Doctor to the World 1. Lessons in Constructive Resistance 2. Becoming a Woman Physician 3. Golden Hopes for Family and Career 4. City Health and the Business of Women 5. Women, Politics, and Power 6. The First World War and Transnational Activism 7. Candidate Lovejoy and a Shopgirl’s Rise 8. The Quay at Smyrna and Beyond 9. Feminist Transnational Activism and International Health Conclusion | A Legacy of Constructive Resistance Chronology Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Troubling Borders
Book SynopsisShowcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. This book features storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women.Trade Review"The combination of image with texts complementing and conversing with each other provides a textured, layered engagement with the subject matter." * Art Radar Asia *"[A] collection that is at once scholarly yet accessible, purposely fragmented yet also deliberately interconnected, and always centering women in ways that surprise, challenge, and even provoke." * International Examiner *"[The] stories told dispel stereotypes and take on the complex challenges of colonialism, militarization, love, resistance, family, migration, and more. They reveal the intersectional and multilayered experiences of Southeast Asian women in the diaspora." * NBC News *"Inspiring . . . uses a collage of art forms to portray varied, and usually under-represented, female identities . . . [and] shows how marginalized women have become empowered through their fervent and thought-provoking artwork and writings." * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *Table of ContentsPreface by Shirley Geok-lin Lim Acknowledgments Introduction by Mariam B. Lam, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong, and Kathy L. Nguyen Part One | Wombs and Wounds: Family Relations in the Diaspora Karen Llagas, Open Vi Ly, Terrain 15 and Terrain 17 Karen Llagas, Manananggal Vi Ly, Postpartum #5 Phayvanh Luekhamhan, Rubber Bands Ann Phong, Mending Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Mother Shell Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Flesh of My Flesh Linda Saphan, Togetherness Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, 30 Diep Tran, Visitation Julie Thi Underhill, Tra Cang Monastery Diep Tran, Schools Diep Tran, Tet 1976 Kao Lee Thao, Way of Life Anh-Thu Ngo, Profile of the Life Tree Julie Thi Underhill, Grandma Heang Ly, The Lotus Gift Amy Lee Sanford, Broken Tran Mong Tu, Letter after Thanksgiving Kou Vang, Widow Phayvanh Luekhamhan, April, 1993 Kao Lee Thao, Yukai Phayvanh Luekhamhan, Foreman v. Moorer Amy Lee Sanford, Suspended Phet Mahathongdy, Mother Love Anne Le, Spool Phuong M. Do, Self and Aunts Christilily Chiv, My Mother’s Hands Bleed Kou Vang, Letter from Laos May Lee-Yang, Correspondence from Laos Tran T. Kim-Trang, Still from Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life Part Two | Coming to Voice: Language, Writing, Literacy Marine Ky, Untitled VI (such as you are, so is the world) Jai Arun Ravine, and then entwine lesson plans, poems, knots Marine Ky, Ted’s Garment Karen Llagas, From a Lighthouse Keeper Linda Saphan, S-21 No Flying Away 1 Barbara Jane Reyes, polyglot incantation Linda Saphan, S-21 No Flying Away 2 Linda Saphan, S-21 No Flying Away 3 Tran Tue Quan, Cuoc noi chien cua nhung identities Tran Tue Quan, The civil war of identities Phuong M. Do, Self and Uncles Souvankham Thammavongsa, The Sun in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away Reanne Estrada, Keep It Together #5 Souvankham Thammavongsa, This Is the Direction Part Three | Homes and Homelands Gina Osterloh, Impossible Delineation (from the series Blank Attempt) Karen Llagas, Archipelago Dust Gina Osterloh, Anonymous Front (from the series Copy Flat) Anne Le, In the Heart of the Country Gina Osterloh, Blind Rash (from the series Rash Room) Anne Le, The Fish Houses at Go Vap Tiffany Chung, Go Vap Vo Hong Chyong-Dai, National Highway 1 (Vietnam, December 1996) Hong-An Truong, Description #3 (Three Clocks) Vo Hong Chyong-Dai, The Corner of Nguyen Bỉnh Khiem and Tue Tĩnh (Ha Noi, 2005) Kou Vang, Forgotten Vo Hong Chyong-Dai, Across the ocean and beyond the mind Anida Yoeu Ali, Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (performance) Phayvanh Luekhamhan, I Think of This Every Time I Think of Mountains Azizah Ahmad, Homeless Gina Osterloh, Looking Back, I Accepted Your Invitation (from the series Somewhere Tropical) Anh Thang Dao, Song for a Lost Home Anh Thang Dao, The Pigeon Scandal Jenifer K. Wofford, Point of Departure (Nurse with Cap) Jenifer K. Wofford, Curtain Nurse I Part Four | Loving Sex/Sexing Love Angela Narciso Torres, Cardiac Debbie Nguyen, Dark Green Connie Pham, The Story of Pomegranate Told in Three Pieces Debbie Nguyen, Plum Lian Guow, First and Last Times Kao-Ly Yang, Three Pearls Facing Unfaithfulness Debbie Nguyen, Wood Chau Nguyen, Kisses of Heat Tran T. Kim-Trang, Still from Kore Mong-Lan, On the Tango and Buenos Aires Part Five | Militarized Lives Yer Yang, Virgin Land, Virgin Body Hong-An Truong, Still from Wheel in the Sky Aimee Phan, Excerpt from The Reeducation of Cherry Truong Anida Yoeu Ali, Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (performance) Pimone Triplett, The Rumor of Necessity Hong-An Truong, Florida 1979 (Love You, Miss You a Lot) Gayle Romasanta, NutDriver Hong-An Truong, Florida 1978 (Goes to Heaven) Kathy L. Nguyen, Excerpt from The Inheritors Barbara Jane Reyes, Call It Talisman (If You Must) Part Six | Asians in America Lin + Lam, This Is Not Me Azizah Ahmad, A Letter to Asian America Melba L. Abela, God Bless America Azizah Ahmad, San Francisco Anne Le, Chinatown Julie Thi Underhill, Progress Report Linda Tran, The Flea Market Ann Phong, Box of Water 2 Melba L. Abela, San Francisco Ab(ove) Normal, 1967–2007 Marsha C. Galicia-Monroe, #6–Other Female Ann Phong, Boats Part Seven | Race, Roots, Religion Nalyne Lunati, Sea Ghost Barbara Jane Reyes, In the City, a New Congregation Finds Her Hong-An Truong, Description #4 (Three Figurines) Davorn Sisavath, The Value of a Catholic Education Nalyne Lunati, Kranok 1 Julie Thi Underhill, Corner Shore Nalyne Lunati, Vihara of the Mind Reanne Estrada, General Tri-Corn (6) Pimone Triplett, Motherland Eliza O. Barrios, Industry of Yoga series Grace Talusan, Boobie Cakes Eliza O. Barrios, Pending Part Eight | Travel Narratives and Narratives That Travel Linda Saphan, Amey on Bike Chi Vu, Suitcases Julie Thi Underhill, Fear of Ambivalence Mai Der Vang, The Sounds of Leaving Rachel Quý Collier, Salt Lake Reanne Estrada, Tenuous (tentatively titled) Pang Houa Moua Toy, Leaving Home Anida Yoeu Ali, Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (installation view) Mai Der Vang, From Within, a View Part Nine | Speech Acts: Labor, Activism, Resistance Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride (Flowers) Connie Pham, Quarterlife Crisis: A Quiet Activism Emily P. Lawsin, No Moments of Silence (In Memory of Joseph Ileto, Fong Lee, and Chon Buri Xiong) Linda Saphan, Incognito 31 Emily P. Lawsin, Where I Am From (Freewrite Remix) Melba L. Abela, International Worker Tiffany Chung, Here We Go Grace Kong, I Demand Respect Tiffany Chung, Bubble Shooter and Friends Grace Kong, Miss Boss Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., Education Reform Karen Llagas, Imelda Lin + Lam, Stills from Unidentified Viet Nam No. 18 Leakhena Leng, Give Me Your Best Performance Piece Lin + Lam, Stills from Unidentified Viet Nam No. 18 Leakhena Leng, Breathing Fire Performance Piece Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., Through the Looking Glass Epilogue About the Contributors and Editors
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University of Washington Press Gender and Chinese History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This anthology sets a new benchmark for the creative and rigorous use of a broad range of sources to extend the scope of gender-focused enquiry in Chinese late imperial history. It will be read with benefit by students and scholars of comparative modernities, comparative gender issues, as well as Chinese social and political history." -- Anne E. McLaren * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"This collection of groundbreaking essays delivers enough inspiration not only for expanding gender-related historic studies in new directions, but also for questioning some of the well-established assumptions within the academic field, as well as popular gender stereotypes." -- Justyna Jaguścik * Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques *"Insightful and provoocative . . . This edited volume is an enlightening and delightful reading for a wide range of scholars." -- Yu Zhang * New Books Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Terminology Chronology Introduction Part One: Early Modern Evolutions 1. Les Noces Chinoises / Ann Waltner 2. The Control of Female Energies / Guotong Li 3. Collecting Masculinity / Yulian Wu 4. Writing Love / Weijing Lu Part Two: “Cloistered Ladies” to New Women 5. “Media-Savvy” Gentlewomen of the 1870’s and Beyond / Ellen Widmer 6. The Fate of the Late Imperial “Talented Woman” / Joan Judge 7. Moving to Shanghai / Yan Wang Part Three: Radicalism and Ruptures 8. The Life of a Slogan / Emily Honig 9. Bad Transmission / Gail Hershatter Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Onnagata
Book SynopsisKabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a labyrinth of gendering, the practice of men playing women's roles has affected the manifestations of femininity in Japanese society. In this case study of how gender has been defined and redefined through the centuries, Maki Isaka examines how the onnagata's theatrical gender impersonation has shaped the concept and mechanisms of femininity and gender construction in Japan. The implications of the study go well beyond disciplinary and geographic cloisters.Trade Review"A well-researched and thorough historical study of the artificial and artistic construction of femininity by onnagata that provides a great deal of information as well as many thought-provoking insights." -- Akiko Kusunoki * Early Modern Women *"It is an important addition to the study of women performers in kabuki and supports the idea that onnagata is an action or performance" -- Colleen Lanki * Asian Theater Journal *"Isaka makes a number of important interventions in understanding how femininity is constructed and presented on the Japanese stage as well as in society as a whole. . . . The book’s exploration of gender performance goes far beyond the worlds of dramatic literature and theatrical performance." -- Megan Ammirati * Theatre Survey *"Isaka’s approach enables her to successfully situate onnagata within current discourse on gender identity. . . . Onnagata [is an] important additio[n] to the growing library of kabuki studies." * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on Textual Conventions Part One | Fundamentals: Invitation to Labyrinths of Gendering Introduction: A Labyrinth of Onnagata 1. Geneses of a Maze: Androgyne Fatale Part Two | Femininity Inside Out: Onnagata Who Pass 2. Denial of Transience: Forfeiting the Androgynous Charm 3. Prescription for Femininity: Onnagata Who Pass 4. Canonization: Creating Onnagata Traditions 5. Femininity in Circulation: Texts in Kabuki, Kabuki in Texts Part Three | Marginalized Centers: Bodies and Personnel 6. Naturally Disciplined: Moving Real on Procrustean Beds 7. Female Onnagata in the Porous Labyrinth: The Enunciated Femininity and the Enunciating Masculinity Part Four | Origins of Onnagata: Modern Reformation 8. Toward Contemporary Onnagata: Art in Their Blood Epilogue: The Journey Continues Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press The Gender of Caste
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The significant impact of this book is that it has not only sharpened gender sensitivity but also heightened awareness of the immensely complex challenges of diversity management in India as a whole. . . . It will be a reference point for much future research." -- Vineeth Mathoor * South Asia Research *"Gupta adds to overall Dalit and global feminist scholarship a rich and dense analysis of texts and contexts to unpack the 'biopolitics of caste.' It is an engaging example of interdisciplinary work focused on close readings of print and popular culture representations from colonial India, including present-day representations, that construct, contest, revise, and influence narratives of gender and caste." -- Veena Deo * Journal of Asian Studies *"Charu Gupta has made her contribution in the field of historical research at the intersection of gender and caste in India widely acclaimed. . . .This book serves as a timely reminder for gender scholars working on colonial India that gendering is experienced by all bodies, and hence the time has come to question the central subjectivity of women in most works." -- Arpita Chakraborty, Dublin City University, Ireland * Religion and Gender *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Gendering Dalits 1. Dirty “Other” Vamp: (Mis)Representing Dalit Women 2. Paradoxes of Victimhood: Iconographies of Suffering, Sympathy, and Subservience 3. Dalit Viranganas: (En)Gendering the Dalit Reinvention of 1857 4. Feminine, Criminal, or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities 5. Intimate and Embodied Desires: Religious Conversions and Dalit Women 6. Goddesses and Women’s Songs: Negotiating Dalit Popular Religion and Culture 7. Caste, Indentured Women, and the Hindi Public Sphere Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Confucian Image Politics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zhang’s great strength is in finding new angles from which to tell the story of the late Ming . . . as well as strategic uses of the vernacular never before explored in a systematic way." -- Katherine Carlitz * Journal of Asian Studies *"With its insightful observations and unique viewpoint, Confucian Image Politics is a major addition to the field of late imperial Chinese history. This book is essential to scholars interested in the study of gender history and political culture in the Ming and the Qing periods." -- Haihong Yang * New Books Asia *"A masterful analysis of how the long-established practices of moralistic discourse and political conflict were intensified through the two actions of Yangming-inspired individual agency and the market imperatives of commercial publishing." -- Kenneth J. Hammond * American Historical Review *"A powerful, highly original analysis of political discourse and factional struggle from the late Ming dynasty through the early Qing. This is outstanding scholarship, demonstrating an encyclopedic knowledge of primary sources from the seventeenth century. Professor Zhang combines sophisticated discourse analysis (refreshingly free of theoretical cant), with a close reading of high literati culture (calligraphy, poetry, memoirs), to provide an utterly fresh perspective on the politics of the crucial seventeenth century in Chinese history." -- Matthew H. Sommer * China Review International *"This persuasive book will change the way seasoned scholars think about Ming-to-Qing factionalism. [This] very strong first book by an emerging leader in late-imperial Chinese history leads me to expect even greater contributions from her in the future." -- Lynn Struve * Journal of Chinese History *"Masterfully demonstrates the unprecedented importance assumed by print culture in the image politics of the late Ming. This reviewer. . . is deeply impressed by the richness of this study and its analytical rigor and nuances, a result of the author’s masterful command of primary sources (many of which have been rarely explored by previous scholars) and her ability to weave a fascinating and compelling historical narrative about this important period. She has done a marvelous job in defamiliarizing several familiar issues in late imperial Chinese history, such as those of literati factionalism during the late Ming and early Qing imperial politics and the relationship between the Ming loyalists and so-called turncoats in the post-Manchu conquest era, by reexamining and reframing them from new angles and thus offering so many refreshing insights. Students and scholars of Chinese history, culture, and literature, as well as comparative historians, will benefit so much from the insights and information abundant in this study, not only because it is a well-researched scholarly monograph, but also because the author has so many fascinating stories to tell about this tumultuous period in Chinese history." -- Martin W. Huang * Ming Studies *"Professor Zhang’s fine-grained study of how the many competing factions that rose and fell during the tumultuous years of the late Ming and early Qing deployed Confucian image politics complicates and defamiliarizes a political and cultural landscape that is central to understanding the late imperial period. Confucian Image Politics stands out for its first-rate close readings of a wide range of primary documents, methodological insights, and skillful storytelling that teach us how to read sources from this crucial period of fierce factional battles and whipsaw reputational changes." -- Maram Epstein * Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in China *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Ming-Qing Reign Periods Introduction Part One | The Late Ming 1. Lists, Literature, and the Imagined Community of Factionalists: The Donglin 2. Displaying Sincerity: The Fushe 3. A Zhongxiao Celebrity: Huang Daozhou (1585–1646) Interlude: A Moral Tale of Two Cities, 1644–1645: Beijing and Nanjing Part Two | The Early Qing 4. Moralizing, the Qing Way 5. Conquest, Continuity, and the Loyal Turncoat Conclusion Glossary List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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Voracious The Intersectional Environmentalist
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Flaneuse
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA New York Times Notable Book of 2017The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk. Virginia Woolf called it street haunting; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York.Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's l
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W. W. Norton & Company Assigned Life with Gender 0 Society Pages
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WW Norton & Co Delusions of Gender
Book Synopsis“[Fine’s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is.”—The New York TimesTrade Review"Starred Review, Pick of the Week. A fabulous combination of wit, passion, and scholarship. . . . This marvelous and important book will change the way readers view the gendered world." -- Publishers Weekly"Forceful, funny. . . . These are the right questions to be asking." -- Boston Globe"Fine turns the popular science book formula on its head. Chapter-by-chapter, she introduces ideas about innate differences between the sexes… and then tartly smacks around studies supposedly supporting them." -- Dan Vergano - USA Today"[Fine] effectively blows the lid off of old tropes… Weaving together anecdotes, dense research and quotes from numerous experts, she offers a well-balanced testament to the many ways in which cultural rules inform behaviors often mistaken as organic to our brains, as opposed to learned… [An] informative and often surprising study." -- Kirkus Reviews"Cordelia Fine has a first-rate intellect and writing talent to burn. In her new book, Delusions of Gender, she takes aim at the idea that male brains and female brains are ‘wired differently,’ leading men and women to act in a manner consistent with decades-old gender stereotypes. Armed with penetrating insights, a rapier wit, and a slew of carefully researched facts, Fine lowers her visor, lifts her lance, and attacks this idea full-force. Whether her adversaries can rally their forces and mount a successful counter-attack remains to be seen. What’s certain at this point, however, is that in Delusions of Gender Cordelia Fine has struck a terrific first blow against what she calls ‘neurosexism.’" -- William Ickes, author of Everyday Mind Reading: Understanding What Other People Think and Feel"In Delusions of Gender Cordelia Fine does a magnificent job debunking the so-called science, and especially the brain science, of gender. If you thought there were some inescapable facts about women’s minds—some hard wiring that explains poor science and maths performance, or the ability to remember to buy the milk and arrange the holidays—you can put these on the rubbish heap. Instead, Fine shows that there are almost no areas of performance that are not touched by cultural stereotypes. This scholarly book will make you itch to press the delete button on so much nonsense, while being pure fun to read." -- Uta Frith FBA, FMedSci, FRS; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Histories of Sexuality Antiquity to Sexual
Book SynopsisA history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears that academics are capable of ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) can enlighten and, occasionally, even delight. At their best such histories offer a means of investigating the clash of instinct and culture how seemingly timeless and natural behaviours shape and are in turn shaped by history. Sexual practices may persist through time but history also illuminates how sex and sexuality are surprisingly mutable. This capacity of history to unsettle and surprise is evident in many of the works discussed here. In less than 40 years the history of sexuality, as a definable area of scholarly enterprise, has grown from a few works describing past attitudes and behaviours into an enormously rich field that sustains its own journal, a number of monograph series and countless seminars, conferences, articles and books. MTable of ContentsPreface 1. Writing Sexual History 2. Rule of the Phallus 3. Sexual Austerity 4. Christian Friendships 5. Making Heterosexuality 6. Victorianism 7. Dominance and Desire 8. Feminism and Friendship 9. Imagining Perversion 10. Normalising Sexuality 11. Sexual Revolution Epilogue
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The University of Michigan Press Borders of Being
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The University of Michigan Press Transgender Rights and Politics
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The University of Michigan Press Virtual Gender
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The University of Michigan Press Borders of Being
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The University of Michigan Press LGBT Youth in Americas Schools
Book SynopsisJason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill, experts on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public policy advocacy, combine an accessible review of social science research with analyses of school practices. In addition, portraits of LGBT youth and their experiences with discrimination at school bring human faces to the issues the authors discuss.
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The University of Michigan Press The Changing Face of Representation
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The University of Michigan Press The Political Consequences of Motherhood
Book SynopsisInvestigates the complex relationship between motherhood and women’s political attitudes. Combining a historical overview of the ways motherhood has been used for political purposes with recent political opinion surveys and individual-level analysis, Jill S. Greenlee explains how and when motherhood shapes women’s thoughts and preferences.
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The University of Michigan Press Medieval Women and Their Objects
Book SynopsisPresents multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of gender negotiation and resistance and as extensions of women’s bodies. Others reconsider the concept of objectification in the lives of medieval women.
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Vintage Espanol Querida Ijeawele Cómo educar en el feminismo
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Penguin Young Readers Mujeres del alma mía The Soul of a Woman
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Random House Canada Woman Enough How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed
Book SynopsisA powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity.In 1966, a male baby, Chris, was adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto couple. From early childhood, Chris felt ill-at-ease as a boy and like an outsider in his conservative family. An obsession with sports--running, waterskiing and especially cycling--helped him survive what he would eventually understand to be a profound disconnect between his anatomical sexual identity and his gender identity. In his twenties, with the support of newfound friends and family and the medical community, Chris became Kristen. Chris had been a world-class cyclist, and now Kristen wanted to compete for her country and herself in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She became the first athlete in the world to submit to the International Olympic Committee's gender verification process, the Stockholm Consensus. An all-male jury determined she fit th
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University of British Columbia Press Sex Work
Book SynopsisA lucid and unflinching argument for the reframing of the debate on sex work, ending limiting moralistic approaches, and respecting the unique perspectives of workers.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Colette Parent, Chris Bruckert, Patrice Corriveau, Maria Nengeh Mensah, and Louise Toupin1 The Current Debate on Sex Work / Colette Parent and Chris Bruckert2 Regulating Sex Work: Between Victimization and Freedom to Choose / Patrice Corriveau3 The Work of Sex Work / Chris Bruckert and Colette Parent4 The Idea of Community and Collective Action: Reflections on Forum XXX / Maria Nengeh Mensah5 Clandestine Migrations by Women and the Risk of Trafficking / Louise ToupinIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Primers for Prudery Sexual Advice to Victorian
Book SynopsisHe provides an updated bibliographical note.Trade ReviewWalters warns that by today's standards, the advice may appear naive, even ludicrous. Nevertheless, he urges us to put aside our smug presentism. The Victorians were not the wretched victims of sexual repression we may imagine. Rather they were women and men who found in restrictive sexual codes something of value appropriate to their lives. Why else would the repressive codes have endured so long? American QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface, 2000Introduction Chapter 1. Approaching This Delicate SubjectChapter 2. A Destructive ImpulseChapter 3. The Path DownwardChapter 4. Woman, Sensuous and OtherwiseChapter 5. MarriageChapter 6. and Other Forms of ExploitationChapter 7. Controls and CuresChapter 8. The Welcome ChildChapter 9. Perfecting the RaceAfterword: Some Nineteenth-Century LivesEpilogue: Cross CurrentsBibliographical NoteIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Aspiring Saints
Book SynopsisPlacing the events in a context larger than just the inquisitorial process, Aspiring Saints sheds new light on the history of religion, the dynamics of gender relations, and the ambiguous boundary between sincerity and pretense in early modern Italy.Trade Review[An] engagingly written and meticulously researched book... Schutte surveys an impressive array of material dealing with how pretense of holiness was conceptualized. -- Andrew Keitt Sixteenth Century Journal A compendious, broad-ranging account of the theological and canonical culture of the Counter-Reformation... Schutte deploys her twelve cases to illustrate the class and gender characteristics of the Inquisition's examination of would-be saints and their disciples. -- Stanley Chojnacki Journal of Social History The greatest merit of this masterfully-structured and elegantly-written book consists in its efforts to explore the discourse concerning the pretense of holiness and the judges' mental and cultural categories. -- Adelisa Malena Renaissance Quarterly A masterful synthesis of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Inquisitional history, demonstrating how-at least from the Church's perspective-its post-Tridentine efforts to discipline, confessionalize, and centralize had paid off. Journal of Religion 2004 Learned and insightful... Schutte embarks upon a wide-ranging examination of the intellectual underpinnings of accusations of false sanctity and provides a wealth of information about court procedure, canon law, and theology. She is as interested in the development of ideas about 'genuine' and 'false' holiness as she is in their practitioners. -- Jodi Bilinkoff Journal of Modern History 2004 Schutte provides lucid introductions to topics as varied as inquisitorial procedure, medical theories of ecstasy, theologians' efforts to distinguish good spirits from evil ones, and learned and commonplace assumptions about gendered bodies. -- Daniel Bornstein Historian 2006Table of ContentsContents: Twelve True Stories The Roman Inquisition in Venice "Little Women" and Discernment of Spirits From Study to Courtroom Refashioning "True" Holiness Sorceresses, Witches, and Inquisitors Healers of the Soul Healers of the Body Rings and Other Things Time and Space Gender and Sex Pretense?
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Johns Hopkins University Press After the Revolution
Book SynopsisLuciak cautions that while active measures to advance the political role of women have strengthened formal gender equality, only the joint efforts of both sexes can lead to a successful transformation of society based on democratic governance and substantive gender equality.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the study of the democratization processes in Central America from a gender perspective. -- Monica Escudero Canadian Journal of Political Science Ilja A. Luciak argues persuasively that examining the [revolutionary] process through the lens of gender can give us important insights into the degree of democratic consolidation that has taken place in three key countries... Whatever lessons we may take from this excellent comparative study, it is very clear that an end to conflict in the Central American region is only the beginning of the process of constructing a just and lasting peace. -- Florence E. Babb Hispanic American Historical Review Luciak sets out to provide a balanced assessment of the revolutionary Left's record on gender equality in the years after former guerilla movements were transformed into political parties... Luciak's study confirms the persistence of patriarchy in the revolutionary and postrevolutionary politics of Central America. -- Waltraud Queiser Morales Perspective on Politics This is a book not to be missed by anyone with an interest in transitions from revolution to democratic consolidation. -- Lorraine Bayard de Volo Journal of Latin American StudiesTable of ContentsContents:List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments List of AcronymsChapter 1: The Gender Composition of the Central American Guerrilla Movements Chapter 2: Gender Equality and the Central American Peace Accords Chapter 3: Voices from the Salvadoran Grass Roots: A Case Study of San Jose Las Flores, Meanguera, and San Esteban Catarina Chapter 4: The Vanguard in Search of a New Identity: Incipient Democratization Chapter 5: Transforming the Party: Gender Equality in the Revolutionary Left Chapter 6: Gender Equality and Recent ElectionsConclusion Gender Equality and DemocratizationNotes Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Bathshebas Breast Women Cancer and History
Book SynopsisOlson concludes that, although it has not yet been conquered, breast cancer is no longer the story of individual women struggling alone against a mysterious and deadly foe.Trade ReviewA well-written, accessible account of the history of breast cancer from ancient times to today... Olson simultaneously presents a history of breast cancer, culture, and science. His multi-layered analysis of the history of breast cancer is most striking when he demonstrates the differing attitudes toward therapy that American and European medical practitioners hold; and how the development of medicine in different areas of the globe affects the way breast cancer is treated... Overall, Olson's book is a satisfying examination of the history of breast cancer. It would be a welcome addition to a course dedicated to the history of medicine, the history of women in medicine, or gender history. -- Karol K. Weaver H-Women, H-Net Reviews An engaging historical survey of the interplay between the science of breast cancer and the wider culture of which it is a part. -- Richard Horton Times Literary Supplement An engrossing history... This book is definitely a thought-provoking read and reminds us that some diseases and their physical and emotional trauma transcend time. -- Sharon DeBartolo Carmack Family Tree Magazine An invaluable aid to those breast cancer survivors with an interest in taking the long view of their illness... Today's cancer research offers plenty of hope to all those courageous people on the journey initiated by their diagnosis, and Bathsheba's Breast is an important traveling companion whose most promising chapters have yet to be written. -- Nick Owchar Los Angeles Times 2003 Historian James S. Olson provides us with an extremely interesting and often terrifying history of breast cancer through the ages... An excellent, moving and informative read. CancerFutures In elegant, captivating prose, Bathsheba's Breast brings to life dramatic tales to illustrate the history of breast cancer treatment... The historical detail and absorbing storytelling appeal equally to scholarly and general audiences. -- Paula Viterbo History: Reviews of New Books James Olson's compelling book suggests that breast cancer is one of history's oldest diseases. From Queen Atossa of Persia, daughter of Cyrus, consort of Darius, mother of Xerxes, to Dr. Jerri Nielsen, isolated from medical help in Antarctica, who self-diagnosed and self-treated her cancer, he tells stories of the sufferers, their doctors and their treatments... It is impossible to read this book without being moved-by pity, horror, awe and respect at the suffering of ordinary women whose normal lives were cut short by abnormal malignancy; by anger at the longevity of some of the barbaric treatments and the dismissive arrogance of mutilating surgeons; but finally by hope that molecular biology, genetic counselling, and pharmaceutical innovation will produce if not a cure, then techniques to transform the disease from an acute killer into a treatable, chronic malaise. -- Tilli Tansey History Today James S. Olson has taken on the task of recounting the entire history of breast cancer-from Queen Atossa, who lived in Babylon in 490 B.C., to Dr. Jerri Nielsen, who was trapped in Antarctica in 1999-and has done it in a concise, attractive, enjoyable book. -- Susan Lester New England Journal of Medicine Provides a fascinating view of the ways in which culture, politics, and science interact... A lucid account of an ongoing war on a changing battlefield with at least the hope of new weapons. Kirkus Reviews Provides a most readable survey contrasting past and present options for breast cancer treatment. Library Bookwatch Utilizing accounts of the experiences of well-known historical figures from Anne of Austria to Linda McCartney, the author weaves a story important to every woman who fears breast cancer and to all those who care about her. An excellent, thought-provoking reference for lay audiences as well as health care professionals. Choice 2003 In sum, Bathsheba's Breast does an admirable job of summarizing the history of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. -- Barron H. Lerner Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2003 Olsen embarks on the complicated, current history of the multiple choices for the treatment of breast cancer since 1970... the inclusion of individual stories makes the debates very real and the outcomes not always positive. -- Mary Tarbox, EdD, RN Nursing History Review 2003 Olson... has written a book that is part history, packed with fascinating details about important figures from ancient times to the present, and part history of medicine... beyond all that, the author-who lost an arm to a recurring cancer and last year was diagnosed with brain cancer-bares his own humility. -- Marina Pisano San Antonio Express-News 2003 Honesty and empathy make the book worthwhile for lay and professional readers alike. -- Jessica B. Mandell Journal of Clinical Investigation 2005 [Olson's] honesty and empathy make the book worthwhile for lay and professional readers alike. Journal of Clinical Investigation 2005Table of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments Prologue ACROSS TIME 1. Dark Ages 2. "Unkindest Cut of All" THE ORIGINS OF THE MASTECTOMY 3. William Stewert Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy 4. Superradicals and the Medicine of Mutilation 5. New Beginnings ASSAULT ON THE RADICAL MASTECTOMY 6. Beauty and the Breast THE GREAT AMERICAN OBSESSION 7. Out of the Closet BREAST CANCER IN THE 1970'S 8. Patient Heal Thyself QUACKS AND CURES IN THE AGE OF NARCISSISM 9. Choices MEDICAL TREATMENT IN THE AGE OF LIBERATION 10. The Breast Cancer Wars 11. Biology, Society, and Destiny Epilogue THE NEW MILLENIUM Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French
Book SynopsisFinally, he examines the relation of the Dreyfus Affair to the culture of forcethat marked French society during the prewar years, thus accounting for the rise of the youthful athlete as a more compelling manly ideal than the bookish and sedentary intellectual.Trade ReviewBy shifting the main focus from race to gender, from anti-Semitism to masculinity, Forth demonstrates just how deeply rooted in French culture the Dreyfus Affair was. -- Margaret H. Darrow H-France 2004 Forth provides an important contribution to the study of the scandal and to the broader cultural history of fin-de-siecle France by arguing that the divisive events of the Affair were framed by participants on both sides as a crisis in the French male body Choice 2004 Original and exciting... Forth uses the Dreyfus Affair as a means to explore not only the contingency of manhood but also the subtle ways in which gender norms are implicated in racist imagery, class boundaries, and the construction of the intellectual in fin-de-siecle France. -- Carolyn J. Dean American Historical Review 2004 A nuanced and sophisticated analysis of French manhood. -- Lisa O'Sullivan Medical History 2006 Forth's analysis... lends important insight into the problematic ways in which this rhetoric has operated historically. -- Judith Surkis Journal of Modern History 2006 Innovative and articulate, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the Dreyfus Affair, masculinity, or medical discourses in fin-de-siecle France. -- Nancy Fitch English Historical Review 2007 Erudite and interesting book. -- Rhonda Garelick Men and Masculinities 2008 A compelling portrait of a cultural crisis, and a book that should both interest the general reader and fascinate the area specialist. -- Joseph Zizek Journal of French Studies 2008 A rich and provocative study of the Dreyfus affair and the crisis of fin-de-siecle masculinity... This is a valuable book because it presents the Dreyfusards from a new perspective and because it disrupts the teleology that has surrounded the Dreyfus affair. -- Judith F. Stone Patterns of Prejudice 2008Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Body Politics of the Dreyfus AffairPart I: Masculinity and the Jewish Question1. Masculine Performances: Alfred Dreyfus and the Paradox of the Jewish SoldierPart II: Dreyfusard Fantasies2. Sanctifying Dreyfus: Intellectuals, Jews, and the Body of Christ3. Educating the Will: Crowds, Contagion, and the Dreyfusard Body4. Adventures of the Naked Truth: Women and the Dreyfusard ImaginationPart III: Remaking the Male Body5. The Belly of Paris: Manhood, Obesity, and the Body of Zola6. The New Man and the Culture of ForceConclusion: An Affair to RememberNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Against Obscenity Reform and the Politics of
Book SynopsisIt cautions against framing debates over sexual material narrowly in terms of harm to children while highlighting the dangers of surrendering discourse about sexuality to the commercial realm.Trade ReviewWhat constitutes obscenity is a contentious issue, and Wheeler makes it clear that historically, it has been dangerous ground for feminists... Her analysis is convincing. Choice 2005 Wheeler's account of the anti-obscenity campaign illuminates the importance of gender to that history; she seamlessly explores the movement as it shifted from the local to the national level; and she meticulously recounts the day-to-day struggles women faced. Along the way, she draws on an impressive list of archival sources to reconstruct women's involvement in the campaign, provides a detailed account of the victories and hardships women experienced as they attempted to shape the... anti-obscenity movement, and offers a thoughtful and well-argued addition to a growing number of studies about women activists and how their concerns for mothers and children shaped public policy. American Historical Review 2005 Tells the complicated and compelling story of women's meteoric rise to prominence in competing branches of the anti-obscenity movement prior to and immediately following passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, and their arguably more rapid exit from the scene during the late 1920s and early 1930s... A superbly written book. -- Heather Lee Miller Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 2005 A welcome addition to the growing historiography of obscenity and censorship. In its solid research, Wheeler's book is [also] an important addition to the historiography of grassroots struggles over free speech and other rights in twentieth-century America. Journal of American History In this important book, Leigh Ann Wheeler examines a little-discussed corner of popular culture, women's campaigns to regulate 'obscenity' in the late 1800[s] and early 1900s. Those interested in issues of obscenity and the development of the concept of free speech in the United States will find Wheeler's work compelling. -- Lisa K. Boehm Journal of Popular Culture Wheeler has uncovered a fascinating chapter in the story of women's perennial attempts to protect children and vulnerable young women from the dangers of commercial vice. Her study considers several of these dangers, such as prostitution and burlesque shows, but focuses above all on the new medium of film. -- Cynthia Eagle Russett H-Net Book Review/H-SHGAPE Deftly illuminates the 'possibilities in our past' while addressing the complex struggles of women and citizens in more recent times. -- Hiroshi Kitamura American Quarterly 2006 The study gives a very good sense of the anti-obscenity reform activity and concern in the period under study. -- Encarna Trinidad Journal of American Studies 2006 This is a very good book about an important topic. -- Rebecca J. Mead Journal of Social History 2007 Wheeler's impressively researched study is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of anti-obscenity reform and women's activism in general. -- Christine Erickson American StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Crossing the Great Divide: Women, Politics, and Anti-obscenity Reform Chapter 1. " "Protect the Innocent!": Men, Women, and Anti-obscenity Reform, 1873 - 1911 Chapter 2. Dressing Elsie: Women's Theater Reform, 1912 - 1919 Chapter 3. "Censorship Does Not Protect": Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1919 - 1922 Chapter 4. "Woman vs. Woman": The Leading Ladies of Motion Picture Reform, 1923 - 1930 Chapter 5. "We Don't Want Our Boys and Girls in a Place of That Kind": Women's Burlesque Reform, 1925 - 1934 Chapter 6. "Thinking as a Woman and of Women": Sex Education, Obscenity's Antidote, 1925 - 1934 Chapter 7. "Sinful Girls Lead": Crises in Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1932 - 1934 Chapter 8. "'Catholic Action' is Blazing a Spectacular Trail!": The Collapse of Women's Anti-obscenity Leadership, 1934 - 1935 Conclusion: Anti-obscenity Reform and Women's History List of Abbreviations Notes Notes on Sources Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Writing for Immortality Women and the Emergence
Book SynopsisAlthough these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women.Trade ReviewScholars interested in examining the contributions of 19th-century women writers to American literature will appreciate the fresh perspective offered here. Choice 2005 Radically expands the literary world of nineteenth-century American women, considering them in conversation with European women writers as well as male writers in Europe and America. -- Renee Bergland American Literature 2005 Boyd's close textual work gives the reader a valuable introduction to the work and lives of these four authors. -- Martha Saxton Journal of American History 2005 Boyd successfully reconstructs the era through an examination of the historical evidence, ranging from letters, diaries, reviews, essays, and literary social events, and close readings of the fiction of Alcott, Phelps, Stoddard, and Woolson to demonstrate that these pioneering artists took an active role in contemporary discussions on the nature of genius and art. -- Felicia L. Carr Legacy: Journal of American Women Writers 2005 A comprehensively researched and impressively detailed study. -- Annamaria Formichella Elsden Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 2005 A highly satisfying analysis of the contexts within which women's literary ambitions shifted and the sensibilities of the male literary elite were forcefully challenged. -- Mary Rigsby Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 2005 Boyd offers a multi-layered thesis in this important book. -- Claire Brock Journal of American Studies 2006 Well written and appealingly produced, it is a thoughtful contribution to the field of late-nineteenth-century American literature and to the women, men, and above all institutions that produced it. -- Susan K. Harris American Literary Realism 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Ambitions1. Solving the ''old riddle of the Sphinx'': Discovering the Self as Artist2. ''Prov[ing] Avis in the Wrong'': The Lives of Women Artists3. ''The crown and the thorn of gifted life'': Imagining the Woman Artist4. ''Recognition is the thing'': Seeking the Status of ArtistConclusion: The Question of ImmortalityChronologyNotesBibliography EssayIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Reading Benedict Reading Mead Feminism Race and
Book SynopsisNewman, University of Florida; Dolores E. Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington; Christopher Shannon, University of Notre Dame; Gerald Sullivan, University of Notre Dame; Sharon Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Jean Walton, University of Rhode Island; Virginia Yans, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyTrade Review"A handy compendium of current writing on Benedict and Mead - enormously informative, stimulating, and intellectually sound." - Howard Brick, Washington University, St. Louis"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being and Becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret MeadPart I: Becoming Benedict, Becoming MeadChapter 1. Woven Lives, Raveled Texts: Benedict,Mead, and Representational DoublenessChapter 2. "The Bo-Cu Plant": Ruth Benedict and GenderChapter 3. Margaret Mead, the Samoan Girl and the Flapper: Geographies of Selfhood in Coming of Age in SamoaPart II: Erasures and InclusionsChapter 4. Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa: Reflections on Margaret Mead's Legacy for Western Liberal FeminismChapter 5. "A World Made Safe for Differences": Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 6. White Maternity, Rape Dreams, and the Sexual Exile in A Rap on RacePart III: Imperial VisionsChapter 7. Of Feys and Culture Planners:Margaret Mead and Purposive Activity as ValueChapter 8. The Lady of the Chrysanthemum: Ruth Benedict and the Origins of The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 9. Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese CultureChapter 10. The Parable of Manus: Utopian Change, American Influence, and the Worth of WomenPart IV: Echoes and ReverberationsChapter 11. Imagining the South Seas:Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa and the Sexual Politics of ParadiseChapter 12. Symbolic Subordination and the Representation of Power in "Margaret Mead and Samoa"Chapter 13. Misconceived Configurations of Ruth BenedictPart V: Re-Thinking Benedict and MeadChapter 14. Margaret Mead: Anthropology's Liminal FigureChapter 15. "It is besides a pleasant English word"—Ruth Benedict's Concept of Patterns RevisitedChapter 16. On the Political Anatomy of Mead-bashing, or Re-thinking Margaret MeadNotesContributorsIndexIllustrations
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Johns Hopkins University Press Brutes in Suits Male Sensibility in America
Book SynopsisThis timely assessment of the evolution of masculine culture will be welcomed and debated by social and intellectual historians for years to come.Trade ReviewCasts a challenge against conventionally accepted Darwinian notions of brutishness as an essential and natural male trait. He argues that male dominance and aggression are not predestined by instinct, but culturally and ideologically constructed, desigrred and performed through time... contributes to intellectual and cultural history on gender and manhood. Choice 2008 Pettegrew's book remains rigorous and passionate in its narration of the historic appeal as well as the immediate dangers of de-evolutionary masculinity. -- Jennifer Travis American Historical Review 2008 Ambitious study... valuable in exploring the vast cultural production of masculine instinct as a fact of life. -- Woody Register Labor History 2009 To Pettegrew's great credit, his study looks both forward and back: at the way masculinity was naturalized as aggressive in turn-of-the-century society; and, perhaps more importantly, at the extent to which modern-day historians, scientists, and ordinary citizens deploy discourses of evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and psychology in a misplaced effort to read gender as the offspring of biology and society. -- Martin A. Berger Journal of American History 2008 Will be of interest to scholars of cultures of violence and middle-American masculinity. He offers a solid history of the naturalizing revelry of men in the violence they do. -- Neal King American Journal of Sociology 2009 It will spark debate within the field for its bold explanation of why modern men feel as though violence is both their burden and right. -- Ryan Anderson H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews 2008 An instructive and provocative view of men's dark side. -- Peter Filene Men and Masculinities 2008 This well-researched and engaging volume will certainly enrich the ever-growing field of men's studies. -- Christina Jarvis Gender and History 2008Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The De-Evolutionary Turn in U.S. MasculinityDarwin and Evolutionary Psychology, Then and NowJohn Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and Masculinity as a Habit of Mind"The Caveman within Us" and the Masculinist Culture of Mimicry1. Rugged IndividualismFrederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis: Origins, Composition, and MeaningsTurner's Influence on the Social Psychology of the CityRadical Individualism: Masculinist Art, Angst, and Alienation in the CityDudism, Cowgirl Feminism, and the Search for Authenticity in the "Old West"2. Brute FictionsThe American Literary Genre of Hunting and KillingReading for Plot: Call of the Wild, The Virginian, and the New Male ReadershipIrony, Atavism, and Other Variations on the De-Evolutionary Theme3. College FootballThorstein Veblen and the Rise of "Exotic Ferocity" in American College FootballVictor Turner, Stanford Football, and Hypermasculine Liminal SubjectsClifford Geertz at the Big Game: "Thick Description" of Football as the Cultural Equivalent of War4. War in the HeadCivil War Memory, Blood Sacrifice, and Modern American Fighting SpiritOf Rough Riders, Blood Brothers, and Roosevelt the BerserkerWar as Sport for Doughboys, Golden Boys, and SlackersPostscript: Marine Corps Spirit and the U.S. Warrior Class, 1941–20035. Laws of Sexual SelectionRace, Lynch Law, and the Manly ProvocationMarriage, Cultural Defense in The People v. Chen, and the Heat-of-Passion Defense in TexasCompulsory Heterosexuality, the Charles Atlas Muscle-Beach Fable, and Sexual Dimorphism UnboundEpilogue: Irony, Instinct, and WarIrony, Sam Fussell's Muscle, and Masculinity as a "Parodic Tableau Vivant"Instinct, Deep Masculinity, and the Decline of MalesThe Iraq War, Hypermasculinity, and the Metaphor of DiseaseNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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