Gender studies, gender groups Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Race Sex and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Book SynopsisStrikingly argued, richly researched, and methodologically sound, this wide-ranging look at how choices about sex triumphed over established class systems and artificial racial boundaries supplies a refreshing contribution to the history of early Louisiana.Trade ReviewBreak[s] fresh analytical and methodological ground and respond[s] intelligently to alternative explanatory models pertaining to [its] respective subject. [It is a] significant contribution that will elicit scholarly engagement. -- John David Smith Florida Historical Quarterly 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Indian Women, French Women, and the Regulation of Sex2. Legislating Slavery in French New Orleans3. Affranchis and Sang-Mêlé4. Slavery and Freedom in Spanish New Orleans5. Limpieza de Sangre and Family Formation6. Negotiating Racial Identities in the 1790s7. Codification of a Tripartite Racial System in Anglo-LouisianaEpilogueNotesGlossaryEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press New Choices New Families How Lesbians Decide
Book SynopsisNew Choices, New Families provides thoughtful insights into questions about sexual identity, social and cultural expectations, and what and who constitute a family.Trade Review"A multiracial feminist analysis of how lesbians make choices about motherhood. This book should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in twenty-first century families." - Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University "Through her masterful analysis of how and why lesbian women choose to become mothers or remain childfree, Nancy Mezey makes an essential contribution to understanding the profound and irreversible forces now transforming family life. Must reading for anyone who wishes to understand the changing contours of motherhood for all women." - Kathleen Gerson, author of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood"Table of ContentsPreface1. At the Crossroads2. The Historical Rise of Lesbian Families3. Recruiting Lesbian Participants and Collecting Data4. Developing Mothering Desires5. Understanding Motherhood6. Negotiating Lesbian Support Networks7. Weighing Intimate Partner Relationships8. Considering the Benefits and Barriers of Work9. New Choices, New FamiliesAppendixesA. Recruitment QuestionnaireB. Interview Guide for Lesbian MothersC. Interview Guide for Childfree LesbiansReferencesIndex
£50.00
Johns Hopkins University Press New Choices New Families How Lesbians Decide
Book SynopsisNew Choices, New Families provides thoughtful insights into questions about sexual identity, social and cultural expectations, and what and who constitute a family.Trade Review"A multiracial feminist analysis of how lesbians make choices about motherhood. This book should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in twenty-first century families." - Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University "Through her masterful analysis of how and why lesbian women choose to become mothers or remain childfree, Nancy Mezey makes an essential contribution to understanding the profound and irreversible forces now transforming family life. Must reading for anyone who wishes to understand the changing contours of motherhood for all women." - Kathleen Gerson, author of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood"Table of ContentsPreface1. At the Crossroads2. The Historical Rise of Lesbian Families3. Recruiting Lesbian Participants and Collecting Data4. Developing Mothering Desires5. Understanding Motherhood6. Negotiating Lesbian Support Networks7. Weighing Intimate Partner Relationships8. Considering the Benefits and Barriers of Work9. New Choices, New FamiliesAppendixesA. Recruitment QuestionnaireB. Interview Guide for Lesbian MothersC. Interview Guide for Childfree LesbiansReferencesIndex
£29.22
Johns Hopkins University Press Wielding the Pen Writings on Authorship by
Book SynopsisThis anthology of primary materials-the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women."Trade Review"An important addition to our library of nineteenth-century American women's writing, illuminating in their own voices their literary ambitions, frustrations, and triumphs." - Karen L. Kilcup, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro"
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Johns Hopkins University Press Selling Beauty Cosmetics Commerce and French
Book SynopsisRather than disappearing along with the Old Regime, the commerce of cosmetics, reimagined and redefined, flourished in the early 19th century, as political ideals and Enlightenment philosophies radically altered popular sentiment.Trade ReviewSelling Beauty is a well-written and impressively researched book. -- Jennifer M. Jones H-France 2010 This book makes a scholarly and critical contribution to histories of the consumer revolution, commercial culture, and gender. -- John Shovlin American Historical Review 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Practices of Beauty: The Creation of a Consumer Market2. A Market for Beauty: The Production of Cosmetics3. Advertising Beauty: The Culture of Publicity4. Maligning Beauty: The Critics Take on Artifice5. Domesticating Beauty: The Medical Supervision of Women's Toilette6. Selling Natural Artifice: Entrepreneurs Redefine the Commerce of Cosmetics7. Selling the Orient: From the Exotic Harem to Napoleon's Colonial Enterprise8. Selling Masculinity: The Commercial Competition over Men's HairConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Gender and Higher Education
Book SynopsisTheoretically grounded and based on the newest research, Gender and Higher Education provides an excellent overview for students of higher education, gender studies, and sociology, as well as for anyone interested in the current state of scholarship and practice.Trade ReviewGender and Higher Education provides an excellent overview for students of higher education, gender studies, and sociology, as well as for anyone interested in the current state of scholarship and practice... You will want to have this book in your library. Book Bargains and Previews 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Theoretical Perspectives and Educational ResearchOverviewChapter 1. Academic CapitalismChapter 2. Black Feminism, Womanism, and Standpoint TheoriesChapter 3. College Student DevelopmentChapter 4. Feminist Critiques of Educational Research and PracticesChapter 5. Feminist Reproduction TheoryChapter 6. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Identity Development TheoriesChapter 7. LIberal and Radical FeminismsChapter 8. Multicultural and Global FeminismsChapter 9. Postmodern and Poststructural TheoriesChapter 10. Queer TheoryPart II: Instritutional Structures and ContextsChapter 11. Coeducational Colleges and UniversitiesChapter 12. Community CollegeChapter 13. Distance EducationChapter 14. Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesChapter 15. Men's College and UniversitiesChapter 16. Military Colleges and AcademiesChapter 17. Tribal Colleges and UniversitiesChapter 18. Women's Colleges and UniversitiesPart III: Gender Constructions and Controversies in the Academic CurriculumChapter 19. Academic Programs: Undergraduate, Graduate, and ProfessionalChapter 20. Biological and Physical SciencesChapter 21. Black Studies and Black Women's StudiesChapter 22. EngineeringChapter 23. Feminist PedagogyChapter 24. From Home Economics to Family and Consumer SciencesChapter 25. HistoryChapter 26. Literary StudiesChapter 27. MathematicsChapter 28. Men's StudiesChapter 29. Multicultural EducationChapter 30. Teach EducationChapter 31. Technology and Computer ScienceChapter 32. Women's and Gender StudiesPart IV: Gender Constructions in the ExtracurriculumChapter 33. Campus Resources and Support for LGBTQQIA Students, Faculty and StaffChapter 34. FraternitiesChapter 35. Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)Chapter 36. Service Learning and ActivismChapter 37. SoroitiesChapter 38. Women's CentersV. Gendered Faculty and AdministrationChapter 39. Academic Career PatternsChapter 40. Administrative Leadership SylesChapter 41. Advising and Mentoring Graduate StudentsChapter 42. Faculty WorkloadsChapter 43. Mentoring Women FacultyVI: Gender and Higher Education PoliciesChapter 44. Affirmative ActionChapter 45. Evaluation Policies for AcademicsChapter 46. Sexual Harassment Policies and PracticesChapter 47. Students' RightsChapter 48. Title IX and College AthleticsChapter 49. University Women's Commissions and Policy DiscoursesChapter 50. Work-Family Conflicts and PoliciesContributorsIndex
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MJ - Ohio University Press Body Story
Book SynopsisSomething other than a memoir of a life well lived, Body Story conveys Julia K. De Pree’s troubling journey from adolescence to adulthood and from anorexia to health.For De Pree, between being a girl and being a woman, there was starvation. Body Story is her intimate account of girlhood, virginity, anorexia, and motherhood.Trade Review“Body Story conveys a vivid, direct experience. I especially love the contrast between her girlhood and the time of her adolescence, when her virginity was at stake and when she began wanting a body that was almost too thin to see. It is a beautifully written story.”“Avoiding the cliches and conventions of the usual eating disorders memoir, Julia De Pree’s Body Story captures the complexity and fragility of one woman's struggle to attain peace with her body. In language that is both spare and lyrical, De Pree creates a compelling narrative that is hard to put down.”“Julia K. De Pree's memoir Body Story is as sparse and clear as the American plains. Her journey from anorexia to a state of well-being serves as both comfort and warning to other contemporary women—women who believe in ‘having it all’—that even though old demons may continue to haunt them, in moments of fleeting bliss these demons can be conquered.” * author of I'll Know It When I see It: A Daughter's Search for Home in Ireland *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Disarming Manhood Roots of Ethical Resistance
Book SynopsisMasculine codes of honor and dominance often are expressed in acts of violence, including war and terrorism.Trade ReviewDisarming Manhood is one of the most important books of our time. David Richards brings a novelists eye and a psychologists questions to the lives of men who have notably challenged the linkages between manhood and violence. He traces the roots of their resistance to a close relationship with a loved mother or maternal caretaker, whose ethical voice they carry inside them. This is a book for all mothers of sons—for everyone invested in human survival. * author of In a Different Voice and The Birth of Pleasure *“Professor Richards offers an illuminating study about how … traditional beliefs can be disarmed to produce new, democratic manhood.” * International Journal of Intelligence Ethics *
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Beacon Press Inferior
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Beacon Press Straight
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Rutgers University Press TV Family Values Gender Domestic Labor and 1980s
Book SynopsisDuring the 1980s, US television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert focuses on the impact the decade's television shows had on middle class family structure.Trade Review"The sharp and insightful analysis of 1980s family sitcoms we need! An engaging assessment of TV comedy in a changing culture of gender, work, and home during a transitional decade."— Elana Levine, author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television "Recommended."— Choice “Insightful, well-argued and carefully researched, TV Family Values gives a rich and multifaceted picture of the social, cultural and political currents at play in 80s sitcoms.”— Joanne Morreale, author of Advertising and Promotional Culture: Case Histories "Leppert provides an excellent analysis of the significant storylines and “fantasies” that provided a lens with which to view the realities of the Reagan Era." — H-NetTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Selling Ms. Consumer 2 “I Can’t Help Feeling Maternal—I’m a Father!”: Domesticated Dads and Career Women 3 Solving the Day-Care Crisis, One Episode at a Time: Family Sitcoms and Privatized Child Care in the 1980s 4 “You Could Call Me the Maid—But I Wouldn’t”: Lessons in Masculine Domestic Labor 5 Disrupting the Fantasy: Reagan Era Realities and Feminist Pedagogies Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Already Doing It
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Already Doing It is consistent and radical in its insistence on pleasure as a gauge for thinking about discourses of intellectual disability. It is an indispensable contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on sex and disability."—Robert McRuer, author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability"This book will provide new and interesting ideas for many people (LGBT or not) working at all levels of primary and secondary school, whether as teachers or otherwise...If lessons and ideas from this book were fully taken on board, I could see a real difference being made to the way sexuality is viewed in school."—Sex Education"An accessible and interesting read."—CHOICE"Michael Gill’s Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency is an important book at an important time in the history of sexuality and people with intellectual disability."—PsycCritiques"Provocative and thought provoking, the text, through specific examples, urges the reader to examine actual individuals and their varied sexual expression in a new light. A successful argument for rights of the intellectually disabled."—Lavender Magazine"A powerful call for the necessity of supporting sexual citizenship for persons with disability through liberatory action efforts that challenge sexual ableism."—H-NetTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Violations of Sexual LifeIntroduction: Sexual Ableism Exposed 1. Questions of Consent: Rethinking Competence and Sexual Abuse2. Pleasure Principles: From Harm Reduction to Diversity in Sex Education3. Sex Can Wait, Masturbate: The Politics of Masturbation Training4. Reproductive Intrusions: The Fight against Forced Sterilization5. Not Just an Able-Bodied Privilege: Toward an Ethics of Parenting6. Screening Sexuality: Media Representations of Intellectual Disability7. Smashing Disability: Sexual Transgression and the Lady Boys of BangkokConclusion: Dismantling Ableist AssumptionsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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The University of Alabama Press The Motherhood Business Consumption Communication
Book SynopsisA piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers how different forms of privilege (class, race, and nationality) inform discourses about mothering, consumption, mobility, and leisure.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Pompilia A Feminist Reading of Robert Brownings
Book SynopsisWhen Count Guido Franceschini was tried by a Roman court in 1698 for the rape and murder of his young wife Pompilia, he had the church, the state, and “all of sensible Rome” supporting him.Trade Review“Brady’s argument is clear and persuasive…[a] valuable book.” * Journal of English and Germanic Philology *“This well-written and scholarly book should be on the must-read list of all serious students of Browning.” * Choice *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Recollections of Ana239s Nin By Her
Book SynopsisRecollections of Anaïs Nin presents Nin through the eyes of twenty-six people who knew her.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Recollections of Ana239s Nin By Her
Book SynopsisRecollections of Anaïs Nin presents Nin through the eyes of twenty-six people who knew her.
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Ohio University Press Midwives of Revolution Female Bolsheviks Women
Book SynopsisThe Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man’s revolution, with women as bystanders or even victims.
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Tangled Roots of Feminism Environmentalism
Book SynopsisContemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development.Trade Review“In examining the ‘tangled roots’ of ecological feminism, the author brings together a wealth of primary materials—archival documents such as journals, photographs, letters, and diaries and marginalized published work.… [T]he archival work is superb, and the modeling of feminist methodology is admirable.… Summing up: Highly recommended.” * Choice *Only a superficial observer could fail to understand that the mountain people really love the wilderness—love it for its beauty, for its freedom. * The Spirit of the Mountains *“Engelhardt’s book is readable, engaging, provocative...a notable contribution to the cultural history of Appalachia.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press Fortunes Wheel Dickens and the Iconography of
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the nineteenth century, England became quite literally a world on wheels.Trade Review“You have put yourself in Fortune’s power; now you must be content with the ways of your mistress. If you try to stop the force of her turning wheel, you are the most foolish man alive. If it should stop turning, it would cease to be Fortune’s wheel.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press Red White Black and Blue
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking approach to studying not only cultural linguistics but also the cultural heritage of a historic time and place in America. It gives witness to the issues of race and class inherent in the way we write, speak, and think.Trade Review“An extremely accessible and compelling work.” * Journal of Appalachian Studies *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Subjects on Display
Book SynopsisSubjects on Display explores a recurrent figure at the heart of many nineteenth-century English novels: the retiring, self-effacing woman who is conspicuous for her inconspicuousness.Trade ReviewThis book is highly original, making a very significant contribution to the fields of Victorian and feminist, as well as psychoanalytic and historicist literary studies.By treating the gaze both in its historical and its psychoanalytic dimensions, Newman offers a satisfying corrective to studies which follow a single track into visual culture.“Beth Newman’s Subjects on Display is worth the time of anyone interested in the precise implications of cultural display in either its psychoanalytic or social dimensions, or in the nineteenth century, or in British fiction generally. But it is in its primary purview of Victorian Femininity that this good book is at its best. Subjects on Display is well worth the time of anyone interested in women from whatever gendered perspective.” * Studies in the Novel *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Sugar Girls and Seamen A Journey into the World of Dockside Prostitution in South Africa
Book SynopsisSugar Girls and Seamen illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality to foreign sailors.Dockside “sugar girls” work at one of the busiest cultural intersections in the world.Trade Review“Adamantine research and thoughtful analysis … brilliant and detailed.” * Sunday Times, South Africa *“Trotter presents a depth and richness of narrative that could only be achieved through prolonged and personal enquiry… The result is a series of narratives through which the reader, in turn, is able to become familiar with the characters involved.” * International Journal of Maritime History *“Sugar Girls and Seamen is simultaneously racy and light, critical and profound. Trotter shines a light on this shadowy world, helping readers understand the role that sex workers and sailors play in the social, economic and cultural realities of South African port cities, possibly even illuminating how their activities connect us all with each other and to the rest of the world.” * SirReadalot.org *“Sugar Girls and Seamen is a major contribution to our understanding of bar prostitution in harbor areas frequented by international sailors. It is the most in-depth and insightful exploration of this type of sexual commerce available—a wonderfully written, groundbreaking ethnographic study.” * George Washington University *“Trotter is so fascinated with the culture, that his drive to understand makes the book really readable. You are drawn into a world where the rules are important, but they are not the rules you know. A provocative read.” * The Citizen *“The author’s skills of observation, and affection for the real-life characters, results in stories that remain with you.” * O Magazine, South African edition *“We owe Henry Trotter, an American, a great debt for this work which South Africans have shied away from.”“This book is an eye-opener; it’s an entertaining read that will have you laughing in places and gasping in others.” * Daily Dispatch *
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Ohio University Press A Room of His Own
Book SynopsisIn nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen's clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as clubland in Victorian Londonthe City of Clubs that arose during the Golden Age of Clubs. Why were these associations for men only such a powerful emergent institution in nineteenth-century London? Distinctly British, how did these single-sex clubs help fashion men, foster a culture of manliness, and assist in the project of nation building? What can elite male affiliative culture tell us about nineteenth-century Britishness?A Room of His Own sheds light on the mysterious ways of male associational culture as it examines such topics as fraternity, sophistication, nostalgia, social capital, celebrity, gossip, and male professionalism. The story of clubland (and the literature it generated) begins with Britain's military heroes home from the NapoleonTrade Review“(Black’s) book is an absorbing and enlightening study of the importance of clubs to the formation of upper-and upper-middle class Victorian masculinity…. Black deftly reveals how every club is a statement of both exclusion and inclusion; it needs its outsiders to help to define those whom it chooses to let in.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Barbara Black’s ‘Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland’ fills a notable gap in the existing literature…. She builds a persuasive case for the iconic status of clubs in Victorian literature, drawing on a range of contemporary printed sources, and paying particular attention to the prevalence of clubs in novels. Many novelists chronicling Clubland were also club members and Black effectively connects the real-life club experiences of such writers as Dickens, Galsworthy, Thackeray, Trollope, and Wilde; she highlights their overlapping journalistic, social and personal worlds, while teasing out the broader context of Victorian society.” * Canadian Journal of History *“The strength of (A Room of His Own) lies in establishing Victorian men’s clubs as a culturally specific response to the transformations of British society at a particular phase of modernization.” * Journal of British Studies *“This splendid book boldly lifts the curtain and raises the sash of Victorian private gentlemen’s clubs, which often were more comfortable, intimate, and yet sociable than the prized domestic hearth. According to Professor Black, clubs functioned as heterotopic spaces that were simultaneously apart from and part of the social fabric that constituted them. This is a beautifully conceived, thoroughly researched, and deftly argued book that expands our awareness of the homosocial associations out of which personal and national identities were forged in the nineteenth century and persist, with modifications and adjustments, even today.”“Black credits both her own family background and her students' interest in ‘club culture‘ for this intriguing study, which is a major contribution to scholarship on British clubs and their effect upon society and literature…. Thorough research combined with well-selected anecdotes and a jargon-free style makes this volume a delightful read.” * Review 19 *“Barbara Black has written a valuable examination of the world of Victorian men’s clubs and their importance to some major novelists of the age…. (An) interesting and useful book.” * The Victorian Web *“Barbara Black’s wonderfully informative discussion of nineteenth-century London club culture is something of a revelation. She makes us see how significant were men’s clubs in the social life of the expanding propertied classes of Britain; how ubiquitous, if critically overlooked, are their representations in the Victorian novel and the Victorian press; and how powerfully the sociability they fostered has shaped notions of English masculinity and national identity. That she does so in prose that is itself sociable—often witty and always appealing—is an added pleasure.” * Associate Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Associate Faculty in English, Columbia University *
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Ohio University Press The Gender of Piety
Book SynopsisThe Gender of Piety is an intimate history of the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe, or BICC, as related through six individual life histories that extend from the early colonial years through the first decade after independence.Trade Review“Urban-Mead uses African church-goers’ biographies from the early and mid-twentieth century to illuminate, from the inside, the environment of Zimbabwean nationalism in Matabeleland, its birthplace. A wonderful recovery of the lives of a forgotten and betrayed cohort of people.”“Urban-Mead should be commended for writing a book that challenges scholars to reconsider how they study and theorize about practices of faith in a social world.” * The Mennonite Quarterly Review *“Through close examination, Wendy Urban-Mead illuminates the gendered connections of individual women and men to the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe. The detailed biographies to reveal a pattern: proper female behavior intersected with church teachings, while men encountered difficulties in combining Ndebele masculine expectations with church ideology. The Gender of Piety is a major contribution to studies of family, church, and gender history in Africa.”
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Pilgrim Press Bible and the Transgender Experience How
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Kent State University Press Rhetorical Drag
Book SynopsisPresenting an examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, this work argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of these documents. It is aimed at those interested in early American literary studies and historiography as well as women's and gender studies.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Gender Thinking
Book SynopsisA comprehensive philosophical exploration of the concept of gender. Asking the question, what is gender? - that is, what sort of thing do we take femininity and masculinity to be? - it considers how gender thinking is interwoven with ideas about human nature.Trade Review"This is quite an extraordinary piece of sustained 'thoughtwork,' laying out its own weave of analysis, synthesis, and proposal in conversation with a wonderful array of other works and positions. The depth and care of engagement with the problem and promise of rethinking humankind with respect for gender marks is as an accomplishment that makes a crucial point: that thinking about the human without thinking as gendered creatures about gender is both impossible and, as we might say, in bad faith. Thus, the book helps us take a step toward rectifying what we think about, who and what we think as, when we engage in the curious reflexivity of thinking about our own humanity."—Elizabeth Minnich, Union Institute, author of Transforming KnowledgeTable of Contents Preface A Prologue on Democracy 1. The Two Sides of Gender ThinkingPositive Gender Thinking • Critical Gender Thinking • Implications for Our Study 2. On Conceiving the HumanThe "Human" • "Nature" • Following Nature • Gender as an Anthropological Theme 3. Gender and HumanityThe Problem: How to Behave • How Gender Qualifies Gender • Gender and Central Human Projects • Gender and Other Human Kinds Compared • Human Nature as an Endowment of Diversities 4. The Sex "Basis" of GenderThe Problem of Junction Between Intentional and Descriptive Concepts • The Structure of Embodiment • Qualifications of Intention by Sex • Gender and Biological Facts • Human Nature as Animal Nature: Human Biology and Anthropology • Human Nature as animal nature: The Beast Within • The Case of Sexual Jealousy • Human Nature as Sexual Consistency: The Racial Parallel 5. Gender, Valuation, and SelfhoodThe Attractions of Gender and "Finer Feelings": Kant • The Structure of Valuing • A Puzzle: How can a Valuer Value a Different Way of Valuing? • The Gendering of Ethics: Gilligan • Pornography and Other Pathologies of Gender Valuation • Androgyny and Perplexity • Gender Character and "True Self" • Gendered Selfhood and the Asymmetry Problem in High Noon • Human Nature as a Set of Gendered Métiers 6. Gender and DualityThe Problem: How to Think • Structures of Duality • Metaphysical Gender-Duality Theories: Hegel and Levinas • Theological Gender-Duality Theories: The Shakers and Paul • Social-Scientific Gender-Duality Theories: Freud and Lévi-Strauss • Human Nature as a Harmony of the Sexes and Genders 7. Gender and ProcreationThe Relevance of Procreation to Gender and Human Nature • The Structure of Procreative Activity • Generationality, Potentiation, and Determination • Gender and Issues of Procreative Choice Conclusion: Realizing SexRealized Imaginatively • Realized Intellectually • Realized Spiritually • Realized Practically Notes Index
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Massey University Press 30 Queer Lives
Book Synopsis30 Queer Lives explores the lives, struggles and successes of LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders. From the famous — Grant Robertson, Gareth Farr, Chlöe Swarbrick — to the less well known, these 30 stories encourage empathy and understanding, challenge stereotypes, and offer courage and hope.Table of Contents6 Introduction 11 Grant Robertson 21 Takunda Muzondiwa 31 Leilani Tominiko 39 Nathan Joe 49 Eliana Rubashkyn 57 Scott Mathieson 67 Henrietta Bollinger 75 Andy Davies 87 Sawyer Hawker 97 James Dobson 107 Taupuruariki ‘Ariki’ Brightwell 121 Jonny Rudduck 135 Chlöe Swarbrick 145 David Sar Shalom Abadi 157 Sarah Bickerton 165 Peter Macky 179 Carole Beu 191 Gareth Farr 199 Shaneel Shavneel Lal 209 Tom Sainsbury 217 Six 231 Robbie Manson 241 Charlotte Goodyear 251 Meagan Goodman 261 Edward Cowley 271 Ross and John Palethorpe 285 Ramon Te Wake 295 Victor Rodger 303 Loughlan Prior 313 Ann Shelton 326 Further reading 327 About the author
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SAGE Publications Inc Questioning Gender
Book SynopsisQuestioning Gender: A Sociological Explorationaims to spark productive conversations and questions about gender and serve as a resource for exploring answers to many of those questions. Rather than providing definitive answers, this book aims to challenge students' preconceptions about gender and demonstrate how gender as a system creates and reinforces inequality. Taking a global approach, author Robyn Ryle uses both historical and cross-cultural approaches to help students understand the socially constructed nature of gender. Through examining contemporary topics, including the #MeToo movement, sexual harassment in the workplace, and the gender wage gap, students will be prompted to think critically about past, present, and future gender-related issues. The Fifth Edition has been updated with expanded coverage of disability as it relates to gender, discussion of issues related to transgender and nonbinary people, and examination of the COVID-19 pandemic's gender-related effects, as well as updated data throughout.Table of ContentsPart I What Are the Important Questions to Ask About Gender? Chapter 1 What Is Gender and Why Should We Care About It? Introducing Gender Chapter 2 What’s the “Sociology” in the Sociology of Gender? Understanding Sociology and Gender Chapter 3 How Do Disciplines Outside Sociology Study Gender? Some Additional Theoretical Approaches Part II How Are Our Lives Filled With Gender? Chapter 4 How Do We Learn Gender? Gender and Socialization Chapter 5 How Does Gender Matter for Whom We Want and Desire? The Gender of Sexuality Chapter 6 How Does Gender Impact the People You Spend Your Time With? The Gender of Friendship and Dating Chapter 7 How Does Gender Matter for How We Think About Our Bodies? The Gender of Bodies and Health Part III How Is Gender an Important Part of the Way Our Society Works? Chapter 8 How Does Gender Impact the People We Live Our Lives With? The Gender of Marriage and Families Chapter 9 How Does Gender Affect the Type of Work We Do and the Rewards We Receive for Our Work? The Gender of Work Chapter 10 How Does Gender Affect What You Watch, What You Read, and What You Play? The Gender of Media and Popular Culture Chapter 11 How Does Gender Help Determine Who Has Power and Who Doesn’t? The Gender of Politics and Power
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Random House USA Inc Gender Outlaw
Book Synopsis“I know I’m not a man ... and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either.... The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity.With a new introduction by the authorOn one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions. Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work—one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Multicultural Gender Roles
Book Synopsis'Multicultural Gender Roles continues to advance multidimensional identity models. Each data-informed chapter introduces genuine reflections and accountings that lead to a proposed process model highlighting the complexities of negotiating gender roles, rules, and responsibilities for ethnic minority individuals.Trade Review“In addition to these practical applications, others working to facilitate changes in behavioral health or instructing future mental health practitioners will find useful information for discussions of gender and multicultural issues. I also recommend this book for those who are interested in gender role research or who are looking for an example of well–done qualitative research.” (PsycCRITIQUES, 5 May 2014) Table of ContentsPreface xi Chapter One Gender Role Construction among Men and Women of Color 1Marie L. Miville, Lucinda Bratini, Melissa J. Corpus, and Manuel A. Diaz Gender and Gender Roles 2 Racial–Ethnic Contexts of Gender and Gender Roles 6 Constructivist Grounded Theory Method 14 Concluding Remarks 17 References 18 Chapter Two Gender Roles among African American Men 23Marie L. Miville and Joel Sahadath Negotiating Gender Roles 25 Negotiating Gender Roles Revisited 54 Applications for Mental Health Professionals and Educators 56 References 63 Chapter Three Gender Roles among African American Women 65Jorja A. K. Redway and Marie L. Miville Confl ict and Evolution of Gender Roles 67 Applications for Mental Health Professionals and Educators 88 References 94 Chapter Four Latino Male Gender Roles 97Manuel A. Diaz, Marie L. Miville, and Natalia Gil Defining Male Gender Roles within a Latino Cultural/Family Context 100 Applications for Mental Health Professionals and Educators 125 References 130 Chapter Five Latina Gender Roles 133Lucinda Bratini, Marilyn C. Ampuero, and Marie L. Miville Latinas in Process of Transformation and Negotiation 135 Applications for Mental Health Professionals and Educators 162 References 167 Chapter Six Gender Roles among Asian / Asian American Men 169Michael Y. Lau, Yu–Kang Chen, Jill Huang, and Marie L. Miville Culture, Socializing Infl uences, and Agency in Gender Role Constructions 171 Applications for Mental Health Professionals and Educators 198 References 204 Chapter Seven Asian American Female Gender Roles 207Melissa J. Corpus and Marie L. Miville Model Minority, Model Woman 209 Applications for Mental Health Professionals and Educators 224 References 229 Chapter Eight Negotiating Multicultural Gender Roles: A Proposed Model 231Marie L. Miville, Lucinda Bratini, Melissa J. Corpus, Michael Y. Lau, and Jorja A. K. Redway Summary of Our Analyses 232 Multicultural Gender Role Model 235 Future Directions for Research and Practice 244 Concluding Remarks 245 References 245 Appendix Supporting Research Materials 247 Gender Role Interview Guide 247 Acknowledgments 263 About the Editor 265 Contributors 267 Author Index 269 Subject Index 273
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Picador USA The Better Half
Book SynopsisA Guardian Book of the WeekLonglisted for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardAn award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of lifeHere are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. They''re better at fighting cancer and surviving famine, and even see the world in a wider variety of colors. They are simply stronger than men at every stage of life. Why is this? And why are we taught the opposite?To find out, Dr. Sharon Moalem drew on his own medical experiences - treating premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit; recruiting the elderly for neurogenetic studies; tending to HIV-positive orphans in Thailand - and tried to understand why in every instance men were consistently less likely to thrive. The answer, he discovered, lies in our genetics: two X chromosomes offer a powerful survival advan
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Consuming the Body
Book SynopsisDawn Woolley is an artist and research fellow at Leeds Arts University examining consumer culture, social media, and gender. She completed an MA in Photography (2008) and PhD by project in Fine Art (2017) at the Royal College of Art. Her artwork is a feminist critique of consumer culture, encompassing photography, video, installation, and performance to draw attention issues of sexualisation, objectification, and idealisation. Recent solo exhibitions include; Consumed: Stilled Lives', Perth Centre for Photography, Australia (2021) and Dance for Good & Exercise Your Rights' in collaboration with Davin Watne, Public Space One gallery, Iowa City (2020).Trade ReviewA brilliant analysis of consumerism exposing how we are manipulated by capitalism seeking to turn our subjectivity into an object for corporate profit. By drilling into the shiny surface of corporate deceit Consuming the Body uncovers ways to resist the deceptions foisted on us. * Peter Kennard, Professor of Political Art, Royal College of Art, UK *What are we to do with the idealised mirror-images that capitalism beams at us through social media, making us all fetishists and hysterics? Consuming the Body is written urgently but elegantly, finally offering ways of thinking outside this dangerous box. * Professor Naomi Segal, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, UK *This book is a fascinating take on selfie culture and beyond, taking up classic feminist psychoanalytic discussions of the fetishistic gaze to think about the impact of social networks, cosmetic surgery, health surveillance and the ‘sadistic commands’ of capitalist consumer culture. Focusing on the increasingly blurred lines between neoliberal self-surveillance and neurosis, the book explores how hysteria, anorexia and bulimia share much with contemporary online imperatives around fitness, health and beauty. Offering some solace through activist work on social networks, the book proposes that selfie culture needs a new set of rules for it to become a space of empowerment and to loosen the disciplinary control that it exerts. * Catherine Grant, Senior Lecturer, Art and Visual Cultures department, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *Selfies and social media have an image problem - in more ways than one. In this compelling book, Dawn Woolley challenges the narrow stereotypes criticising how bodies are portrayed in these digital media. She elucidates their complex meanings, practices and politics, and in doing so, recuperates their value, particularly for women with non-normative bodies. * Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Dawn Woolley offers up an exciting and eloquent exploration of the often sadistic ways that contemporary capitalism compels us to consume. Importantly Woolley gives us valuable insight into radical self-presentation approaches on social media that glitch and refuse the ‘ideal’ in order to empower a body’s presence. * Dr. Jacki Willson, Associate Professor in Performance and Gender, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Sadistic Commands 2 The Fetishistic Gaze 3 Hystericized Insistent Presence 4 Self(ie) Discipline 5 The Hysteria Economy 6 The Clinical Fetishistic Gaze 7 Anti-Consumers and the Fetishistic Gaze 8 The Bulimic Economy 9 Empowering Presence Conclusion Bibliography Glossary Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Gender Studies
Book SynopsisA Companion to Gender Studies presents a unified and comprehensive vision of its field, and its new directions. It is designed to demonstrate in action the rich interplay between gender and other markers of social position and (dis)privilege, such as race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Presents a unified and comprehensive vision of gender studies, and its new directions, injecting a much-needed infusion of new ideas into the field; Organized thematically and written in a lucid and lively fashion, each chapter gives insightful consideration to the differing views on its topic, and also clarifies each contributor''s own position; Features original contributions from an international panel of leading experts in the field, and is co-edited by the well-known and internationally respected David Theo Goldberg. Trade Review"This ambitious volume is an essential sourcebook in Gender Studies at all levels and the point de départ for future research. It transcends the boundaries of a quite remarkable range of traditional disciplines, highlighting the gender issues within each, directly and accessibly. Fascinating and illuminating! Recommended to all academic libraries.” H.G.A. Hughes, Reference Reviews "After twenty years of discussions on the importance of combining poststructuralist anti-foundationalism with intellectual, political and ethical accountability, here is a volume that actually practices what it preaches. This is a very important and necessary collection that conveys a flair for theoretical complexity in a direct and accessible way. It succeeds in addressing gender issues within an impressive range of disciplines and a broad span of interdisciplinary areas. It drives home time and again the notion that gender today should function as a verb that connects multiple differences and not as an essential entity. Compulsory reading for us all." Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University "This Companion is a landmark text in establishing dialogues of critical race theory, postcolonialism, and globalization with studies on gender." Jeff Hearn, Swedish School of Economics and University of HuddersfieldTable of ContentsList of Contributors viii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: A Curriculum Vitae for Gender Studies 1 Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, Audrey Kobayashi Part I Interdisciplinarity 1 Women’s Studies 29 Mary Maynard 2 Area Studies 40 Ella Shohat 3 Postcolonial Scholarship 51 Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan 4 Queer Studies 62 Judith Halberstam Part II Re-positionings 5 Epistemologies 73 Laura Hyun Yi Kang 6 Genetic Sex 87 Amâde M’charek 7 Lived Body versus Gender 102 Iris Marion Young 8 Masculinity 114 Toby Miller 9 Heterosexuality 132 Lorraine Nencel Part III Jurisdictions 10 Nation 145 Lois A. West 11 Law 160 Katherine Franke 12 Policy 181 Carol Lee Bacchi 13 Domestic Violence 192 Madelaine Adelman 14 Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing 202 Jennifer Hyndman 15 Crime 212 Tony Jefferson Part IV Nonconformity 16 Science and Technology 241 Sandra Harding 17 Prostitution and Sex Work Studies 255 Kamala Kempadoo 18 Global Social Movements 266 Nitza Berkovitch and Sara Helman 19 Arab Women: Beyond Politics 279 Ratiba Hadj-Moussa Part V Mobility 20 Development under Globalization 293 Enakshi Dua 21 Migration and Refugees 307 Cecilia Menjívar 22 Class and Globalization 319 Abigail B. Bakan 23 Unions: Resistance and Mobilization 329 Linda Briskin 24 Corporate Masculinity 342 Agneta H. Fischer and Annelies E. M. van Vianen Part VI Familiality 25 Family and Culture in Africa 357 Ifi Amadiume 26 The Caribbean Family? 370 D. Alissa Trotz 27 Family and Household in Latin America 381 Nina Laurie 28 Family in Europe 392 Joanna Regulska Part VII Physicality 29 Reproduction 405 Laura Shanner 30 Disability 415 Anita Silvers 31 Health 428 Lesley Doyal 32 Sport 437 Martha Saavedra Part VIII Spatiality 33 Environment and Sustainable Development 457 Irene Dankelman 34 Space and Cultural Meanings 467 Tovi Fenster 35 Architecture and Planning 475 Mona Domosh 36 Museums 484 Ellen Fernandez-Sacco Part IX Reflectivity 37 Ethics 497 Vikki Bell 38 Religion 509 Pamela Dickey Young 39 Discourse 519 Ruth Wodak 40 The Violence of Gender 530 Mieke Bal Index 544
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Prodigious Muse
Book SynopsisJuxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed.Trade ReviewThis is a worthy sequel to Cox's last book, full of little-studied literature, some of it completely new. Choice Highly recommended to all, offering new faces and new facts, even a new tone in female authors suffering in an age of misogyny. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance An important contribution to a field about which too little is now written. -- Kathleen Olive Parergon To list the many literary discoveries of this book would be an impresa difficult even for the many guerriere of the Counter-Reformation, let alone for a reviewer constricted by space... astonishing research. -- Laura Giannetti Sixteenth Century Journal As Cox stresses, the religious literature of this period has, like that of women, been comprehensively neglected for far too long. -- Jane Everson Times Literary Supplement Such a wide-ranging and thoughtful book makes an impressive contribution to what is a lively and developing field, and will surely encourage further research on the complexities of women's writing in these particular decades in Italy and beyond. -- Clare Copeland Journal of Ecclesiastical History Building on her encyclopedic Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 (2008), Virginia Cox's latest monograph, The Prodigious Muse, continues to emphasize the depth and breadth of early modern Italian women's writing... The Prodigious Muse amply sustains its argument that understanding early modern women's writing requires assimilating the full range of authors and genres at play in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries -- Sarah Gwyneth Ross Journal of Modern History After the acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy 1450-1650, in which Virginia Cox offered a crucial critical overview of the phenomenon of Renaissance women writers, she now develops the most critically innovative section of her previous work with this important, intriguing, impressive, beautifully written, and comprehensive new book. The Prodigious Muse -- which implies in its title the variety, ambition, originality, and exceptionality of women's creativity of the period -- is the result of a huge amount of research that opens the way to a new perspective on late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century literature and culture, not only contributing to studies of women but also offering a new view of the history of Counter-Reformation politics and culture. The book is fascinating reading for those who want to learn more on the subject. It proposes a stimulating and well-documented new approach, offering important sources of information to those who work on Counter-Reformation literature and history, as well as on women's writing. -- Eleanora Carinci Catholic Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Contexts1. The Female Writer in Context: Opportunities, Attitudes, Models2. Women's Writing and the Counter-Reformation3. Religious Writing in Post-Tridentine Italy: A Poetics of Conversion4. Secular Writing in Post-Tridentine Italy: The New Sensualism and the Misogynist TurnChapter Two: Lyric Verse1. Women's Lyric Output, 1580–16302. Pietosi avetti: Spiritual Lyric and the Female Poet3. The Dwindling Muse: Female-Authored Secular Lyric in Post-Tridentine ItalyChapter Three: Drama1. Drama for the Doge: Moderata Fonte's Le feste2. Arcadian Adventures: Women Writers and Pastoral Drama3. The Challenge of Tragedy: Valeria Miani's CelindaChapter Four: Sacred Narrative1. Women Writers and the New Sacred Narrative2. Refashioning the Gospels: New Testament Narrative in Moderata Fonte and Francesca Turina3. Hagiographic Epic: Lucrezia Marinella's Lives of Saints Columba and Francis4. Hagiographic Epic Remade: Marinella's Lives of Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena5. A Medicean Sacred Epic: Maddalena Salvetti's David perseguitatoChapter Five: Secular Narrative1. Women Writers and the Literature of Chivalry2. Ideology and History in Female-Authored Chivalric Epic3. Gender, Arms, and Love in Female-Authored Chivalric Fiction4. The Fortunes of Female-Authored Chivalric Fiction5. Beyond Chivalry: Lucrezia Marinella's Experiments in Mythological Epic and Pastoral RomanceChapter Six: Discursive Prose1. Output and Principal Trends2. Authorizing Women: The Problem of Docere3. Preachers in Print: Religious Institutio in Maddalena Campiglia and Chiara Matraini4. Proclaiming Women's Worth: Fonte, Marinella, and the Querelle des femmesCodaAppendix: Italian Women Writers Active 1580-1635NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Pythagorean Women
Book SynopsisPomeroy sets the Pythagorean and Neopythagorean women vividly in their historical, ecological, and intellectual contexts, illustrated with original photographs of sites and artifacts known to these women.Trade ReviewIn this book Pomeroy translates and critiques all the extant writings of female followers of Pythagoras, nearly all of which have been ignored or sidelined by male scholars... a very valuable addition to the literature. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Miami A delight to read... This look at the female followers of Pythagoras in ancient times is a very valuable addition to the literature. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Miami One could hardly hope for a better guide to this subject. Choice Pomeroy's highly informative and carefully argued book touches on significant elements of the Neopythagorean women authors. It is a welcome addition to the literature, opening up much fertile ground for future work. -- George Lazaroiu Journal of Research in Gender Studies [Pythagorean Women] will be a major impulse for future scholars to study these texts and their authors. -- Kai Broderson Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on AbbreviationsChronologyIntroduction1. Who Were the Pythagorean Women?2. Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Daughters3. Who Were the Neopythagorean Women Authors?4. Introduction to the Prose Writings of Neopythagorean Women5. The Letters and Treatises of Neopythagorean Women in the East6. The Letters and Treatises of Neopythagorean Women in the West7. The Neopythagorean Women as Philosophers, by Vicki Lynn HarperNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Boy Problem
Book SynopsisGrant's cogent analysis will interest education policy-makers and educators, as well as scholars of the history of education, childhood, gender studies, American studies, and urban history.Trade ReviewGrant is a superb historian who does more than just chronicle events; she also sketches their context and thus their significance. Choice Grant's study is successful for its engaging prose and ability to reach across a broad variety of fields, including education, juvenile justice, and childhood, youth, and gender studies, to delineate the interlocking histories of institutions of social control for young people and reveal the deeply entrenched ideologies of gender, class, ethnicity, and race that shaped their establishment and development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- Miroslava Chavez-Garcia American Historical Review This short book provides a much-needed historical perspective on a question that has generated a lot of debate: why do boys so often perform poorly academically and act disruptively at school?... The Boy Problem is a valuable historical study of a pressing social problem that will find wide readership in social work, childhood studies, and education. -- Molly Ladd-Taylor Historical Studies in Education [Grant] makes an original contribution by keeping her eye on the prize: understanding the many ways in which gender shaped the world and life chances of lower class boys since the nineteenth century. That is a major accomplishment in this succintly written history. Journal of the History of Childhood and YouthTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Schooling the "Dangerous Classes": Reforming Boys in Nineteenth-Century America2. The Nature of Boy Nature: Education and Recreation for Masculinity3. The Perils of Public Education: Truants, Underachievers, and School Leavers4. Bad or Backward? Gender and the Genesis of Special Education5. "The Boys' Own Story": "The Boys' Own Story"6. Black Boys and Native Sons: Race, Delinquency, and Schooling in the Urban NorthEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press From Playgrounds to PlayStation
Book SynopsisAlong the way, he shows readers how technology enables the forms, equipment, and devices of play to evolve constantly, both reflecting consumer choices and driving innovators and manufacturers to promote toys that involve entirely new kinds of play-from LEGOs and skateboards to beading kits and videogames.Trade ReviewAn engaging social history of play... Pursell's text helps inform readers how capitalist structures focus as much on leisure as they do work or politics to cement their structures in US culture. Choice [From Playgrounds to PlayStation] is a fascinating read, and the mixture of facts, anecdotes, quotes, and other sources of research makes it quite an impressive work. PsycCRITIQUES Pursell's account is masterful in its ability to draw a wide range of cultural sources, sometimes from unexpected quarters, into a unified yet nuanced historical narrative. Journal of American History A most engaging read...one that no scholar or layperson interested in the parallel development and interplay of technology and leisure activities can ignore without missing out on a significant contribution. Australasian Journal of American Studies ... The real strength of this book is his striking detail in analyzing the technologies that have shaped play, especially his frequent and imaginative use of sources like patent records and advertising, too often neglected in histories of play and leisure. Journal of the History of Childhood and YouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Toys for Girls and Boys2. The Safe and Rational Playground3. From Pleasure Gardens to Fun Factories4. The Hobbyist5. Games and Sports6. Extreme and (Sometimes) Impolite Sports7. Electronic GamesConclusionNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Calendar of Loss
Book SynopsisAn innovative and moving study, The Calendar of Loss illuminates how AIDS mourning confounds and traverses how we have come to think about loss and grief, insisting that the bereaved can confront death in the face of shame and stigma in eloquent ways that imply a fierce political sensibility and a longing for justice.Trade ReviewEarly AIDS mourning, especially by gay men of color, is more than worthy of study. However, with the recent rise of Black Lives Matter, Woubshet's larger questions about the ways in which mourning structures Black subjectivity and the political value of sorrow in the midst of unspeakable loss make this work especially timely. In The Calendar of Loss, Woubshet brings together queer studies and African-Americans' studies to examine a rich and varied "archive of mourning" . . . Herein lies Woubshet's chief contribution to AIDS scholarship, as he reads the mourning of both Black and White gay men through an analytical lens that is explicitly both Black and queer. Whereas much of the critical AIDS scholarship has marginalized people of color, and particularly queer people of color, here they take center stage.—Dan Royles, Florida International University, Modesto Maidique Campus, National Political Science ReviewWoubshet's text demonstrates the indispensability of the arts to more democratic imaginings of the history, aesthetics, and politics of AIDS. A model of interdisciplinary scholarship, the book develops a new theory of mourning that will be of interest to scholars in African diaspora studies, queer studies, literary studies, gender and sexuality studies, and American studies. Woubshet's engagement with critical theory makes the text appealing to specialists and graduate students, but the author's careful distillation of these theories through lucid prose makes the book accessible to multiple readers, including undergraduates and community activists.—Darius Bost, CallalooTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking for the Dead1. Lyric Mourning2. Archiving the Dead3. Visions of Loss4. Epistles to the DeadConclusionTallying LossNotesIndex
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Sourcebooks The Vagina Business
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John Wiley & Sons Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities
Book SynopsisThe Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities (EQOSOGI) is a new initiative that applies established World Bank methodology in new areas in development. It seeks to identify laws that discriminate against or protect sexual and gender minorities in six categories around the world.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion Sexuality and
Book SynopsisHow do religion, gender and sexuality interact? How have they impacted, and continue to impact, human culture? The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender brings together, for the first time, the key texts in the field. Designed as a textbook for use in a classroom setting, it offers thought-provoking selections of some of the most compelling and timely readings available today.The Reader is divided into three parts (bodies; desires; performances). Each considers, from a thematic perspective, the ways in which people have made sense of their religious and sexual experiences, the ways they imagine and talk about gender, sex and the sacred, and the multiple meanings they ascribe to them. Traditions represented include indigenous spiritualities, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Asian traditions and new religious movements. Some readings are more theoretical or historical in nature, thereby providing wide-ranging contexts for reflection and discussion. The reader inclTrade ReviewBringing together a wide-ranging collection of readings from feminist, gender, and queer studies, this volume is a useful sourcebook for those wishing an initial introduction to historical and contemporary conversations in these key areas within the study of religion. * Melissa M. Wilcox, Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies, Whitman College, USA *The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender provides a provocative, thematically rich, and theoretically sophisticated collection of essays for college and university courses dealing with the attitudes of different religious traditions toward sexuality and gender. The reader is divided into three parts: the first on “Bodies” and the ambivalent ways in which they have been and are viewed; the second on “Desires” and how they are expressed, repressed, and normalized in religious discourse; and the third on “Performances,” which underscores the performative nature of gender and its inherent instability. The essays included in the reader are all “classics” in this relatively new field of scholarship. In order to help readers engage and evaluate the various essays a series of questions has been appended to each part and a glossary of terms and concepts appears at the end. The Boomsbury Reader fills an important gap in the literature available for introductory courses on the intersection between religion and gender studies. It should have a wide appeal across the disciplines. * Allison P. Coudert, Paul and Marie Castelfranco Chair in the Study of Religion, University of California at Davis, USA *This volume does not only present a careful selection of seminal (to use a word with a sexual undertone) readings into the rich and dynamic field of religion, sexuality and gender, but it also does an excellent job in introducing these readings. The introductions to the book as a whole, the main sections, and the individual texts are extremely helpful in providing context and orientating the reader to some of the broader questions and relevant issues. Covering a wide range of religious traditions, historical periods and geographical regions, this volume is a great resource for students in undergraduate courses in religion, sexuality and gender. * Adriaan van Klinken, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsPermissions Acknowledgements Introduction to the Volume Part I: Bodies 1. Introduction 2. Stereotypes, False Images, Terrorism: The White Assault upon Black Sexuality. (Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective) Kelly Brown Douglas 3. Sin (Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America) Lynne Gerber 4. Blood, Sweat, and Urine: The Scent of Feminine Fluids in Anton Szandor LaVey’s The Satanic Witch.(International Journal for the Study of New Religious Movements)Cimminnee Holt 5. Sex (Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism) Janet Gyatso 6. The Ultimate Man (A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism) John Powers 7. Mitzvot Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy and Childbirth. (People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective) Chava Weissler 8. Gendering the Ungendered Body: Hermaphrodites in Medieval Islamic Law. (Women in Middle Eastern History) Paula Sanders 9. "Mildred, Is It Fun to Be a Cripple?" The Culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth Century American Catholicism.” (Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them) Robert Orsi 10. Discussion Questions Part 2: Desires 1. Introduction 2. Introduction: Axiomatic (Epistemology of the Closet) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 3. Scientia Sexualis (The History of Sexuality: An Introduction: Volume I) Michel Foucault 4. Law and Desire in the Talmud (Eros and the Jews) David Biale 5. Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a Pentecostal Boyhood.” (Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology) Michael Warner 6. Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines (Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline) Amy Hollywood 7. Kukai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese Buddhism (Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender) Paul Gordon Schalow 8. The Passions of St. Pelagius (The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology) Mark Jordan 9. Masturbation, Salvation, and Desire: Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico (Journal of the History of Sexuality) Zeb Tortorici 10. Discussion Questions Part 3: Performances 1. Introduction 2. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler 3. Witches, Female Priests, and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)stabilizing Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin. (Gender and History) Carolyn Watson 4. Mama Lola and the Ezilis: Themes of Mothering and Love in Haitian Vodou (Unspoken Words: Women’s Religious Lives) Karen McCarthy Brown 5. (Per)formative Selves: The Production of Gender.” (With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India) Gayatri Reddy 6. Toward a Queer Theology of Flourishing: Transsexual Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Moral Agency (Queer Religion: LGBT Movements and Queering Religion) Jakob Hero 7. Intimacy Surveiled: Religion, Sex, and Secular Cunning (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society) Mayanthi Fernando 8. Release from Bondage: Sex, Suffering, and Sanctity (The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality) Daniel Lehrman 9. “Nakedness, Non-Violence, and Brahmacharya: Gandhi’s Experiments in Celibate Sexuality.” (Journal of the History of Sexuality) Vinay Lal 10. Discussion Questions Glossary Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Maternal Digital Subjectivity and the
Book SynopsisBringing together philosophies of the maternal with digital technology may appear to be an arbitrary pairing. However, reading them intertextually through select creative practices reveals how both encompass an aesthetics of interruption that becomes a novel means of understanding subjectivity.EL Putnam investigates how the digital performances of certain artists, creators, and technologists rupture existing representations of the maternal, taking advantage of the formal properties of digital media. What results are interruptions of visual and aural constructions through an immanent merging of the performing body with digital technologies.Putnam bases her analysis on close examinations of the way certain makers use the formal properties of digital imagery, such as the gap, the glitch, and the lag, as means of rendering images of the maternal uncanny in order to challenge mediation, constituting an aesthetics of interruption. The result is a radical critical strategy for engaTrade ReviewEL Putnam’s The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption is a new direction in studies of the maternal and the visual, using digital and maternal philosophy to expand the definition of maternal subjectivities and ideologies. The strength of this book lies in the integration of politics, aesthetics, feminist maternal theory and digital forms of art making that subscribe to an aesthetic of interruption, pauses, immanence, and care giving. It will be an essential text for studies of the maternal and digital subjectivity and an important addition to the burgeoning bibliography on visual art and the maternal. * Jennie Klein, Professor of Art History, Ohio University, USA and Editor of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art (2011) *Thank you El Putnam for writing the book I needed to read right now. This is a timely and insightful contribution to the emergent and expanding field of studies in the maternal that will speak to many womxn, mothers, parents, and digital artists out there, as well as to those constantly being interrupted. And, though interruption is rightly positioned in this book as 'the norm for maternal subjectivity,' arguably, we all live in the age of interruption overload — the aesthetics of interruption applying to every subject in the 21st Century. * Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Associate Dean of Research, Business, and Innovation, Kingston School of Art, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Dedication List of Illustrations Introduction: Strange Mothers 1. Digital Performance and the Maternal Subject 2. The Aesthetics of Interruption 3. Uncanny Encounters 4. Maternal Immanence and Embodied Transcendence 5. Networked Individuals and Maternal Ambivalence 6. Distributed Mother Bibliographic References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Reel Gender
Book SynopsisReel Gender is a groundbreaking collection that addresses the collective realities and the filmic representations of Palestinian and Israeli societies. The eight essays, by leading scholars, demonstrate how Palestinian and Israeli film productiondespite obvious overlaps and similarities and while keeping in mind the inherent asymmetry of power dynamicsare at the forefront of engaging gender and sexuality. The scholars of this volume construct and deconstruct still and moving images, characters, and stories that create an entanglement of Palestinian and Israeli cinema. Together they portray the region's diverse but unexpectedly intermingled ethnic, religious, and national communities, framed or countered by various societal norms, laws, and expectations, while also defined by colonial realities. The essays draw methodologically from the fields of media and cultural studies, critical and postcolonial theory, feminism, post-feminism, and queer theory.Trade ReviewA double lens on Israeli and Palestinian film, 2 distinctive yet enmeshed sets of films addressing contemporary connundra of gender, sexuality, and identity in a desperate, yet vital world inhabited so differently by both, yet with similar anxieties and to a degree, aspirations. The book begins with a superb introduction by the pair of editors, one Israeli the other Palestinian, and is followed by trenchant and interesting studies by top scholars. This book is a must for anyone wishing to decipher the complex double reality of Israel/Palestine. * Daniel Herwitz, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor, Comparative Literature, Philosophy and History of Art, University of Michigan, USA *Without losing sight of the 'inherent asymmetry of power dynamics,' Reel Gender projects the entanglement of Palestine/Israel for us to see. Against the backdrop of settler colonialism and through the lens of gender which puts power and inequality in focus, Atshan and Galor bravely invite their contributors and readers to a difficult and necessary conversation about the making of fiction and reality. * Huda J. Fakhreddine, Associate Professor of Arabic Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Film and the Gender Lens Katharina Galor (Brown University, USA) and Sa’ed Atshan (Emory University, USA) Part I: Feminist Perspectives 1. The Religious Feminism of Rama Burshtein’s Romances Karen E. H. Skinazi (University of Bristol, UK) 2. Silence…No More…: Palestinian Cinema of Transgression Lema M. Salem (Independent Scholar, Germany) 3. Families on the Edge: Interstitial Relations in Recent Palestinian Women’s Cinema Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Part II: Approaching Masculinities 4. Disappearances and Remains: Masculinity in the Cinema of Elia Suleiman Kamran Rastegar (Tufts University, USA) 5. “Queer As Can Be”: On Masculinity in Jumana Manna’s Blessed, Blessed Oblivion Gil Hochberg (Columbia University, USA) Part III: Israeli-Palestinian Intersections 6. Our African Palestine: Intersectional Specters in the House of Zion Greg Burris (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) 7. Write Down, I Am a Woman Shai Ginsburg (Duke University, USA) 8. Identity (Ex)Changes, Gender, and Family Ties: Cinematic Representations of Israeli Jews and Palestinians Yael Zerubavel (Rutgers University, USA) Filmography Figures Index
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Seal Press (CA) Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
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Basic Books X + Y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish
Book Synopsis***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-FictionWhile the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender and gender-variant people have emerged as a distinct Jewish population and as a new chorus of voices. Inspired and nurtured by the successes of the feminist and LGBT movements in the Jewish world, Jews who identify with the “T” now sit in the congregation, marry under the chuppah, and create Jewish families. Balancing on the Mechitza offers a multifaceted portrait of this increasingly visible community.The contributors—activists, theologians, scholars, and other transgender Jews—share for the first time in a printed volume their theoretical contemplations as well as rite-of-passage and other transformative stories. Balancing on the Mechitza introduces readers to a secular transwoman who interviews her Israeli and Palestinian peers and provides cutting-edge theory about the construction of Jewish personhood in Israel; a transman who serves as legal witness for a man (a role not typically open to persons designated female at birth) during a conversion ritual; a man deprived of testosterone by an illness who comes to identify himself with passion and pride as a Biblical eunuch; and a gender-variant person who explores how to adapt the masculine and feminine pronouns in Hebrew to reflect a non-binary gender reality.
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University of Massachusetts Press Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in
Book SynopsisAnalyzes media coverage and public discussion of five highly visible cases of gender ambiguity; An expert on the rhetoric of the mass media, John M. Sloop has written several books on how the spoken and written word can influence political and cultural debate. In Disciplining Gender, he turns his attention to a topic that has attracted widespread public discussion - the treatment of gender ambiguity in American culture. He offers critical readings of five cases, showing the extent to which, in each instance, public discourse and media representations have served to reinforce dominant norms and constrain or ""discipline"" any behavior that blurs or subverts conventional gender boundaries. The five cases include John/Joan or David Reimer, Brandon Teena, k.d. lang, Janet Reno, and Barry Winchell/Calpernia Addams. Sloop draws on queer theory and research in the field of critical rhetoric to examine representations of ""gender trouble"" in these much-publicized stories. In each case, he provides a comprehensive analysis of the public discussions of their significance. In short, rather than simply study the people and circumstances involved in each case, he examines the public meanings attached to them and the implications of those meanings for how contemporary culture comes to understand what ""man"" and ""woman"" mean and which sexual behaviors are appropriate and inappropriate. In highlighting the ideological constraints imposed by our society, Sloop also suggests the ways that these constraints might be loosened and understandings of gender and sexuality diversified.Trade ReviewBy arguing persuasively that bigenderism and heteronormativity structure, emerge in, and are reinforced by popular discourses, Sloop makes a strong case for why as cultural critics we must remain suspicious of popular representations of not only these cases but also others like them. - Sarah Projansky, author of Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture; ""The argument is both compelling and well supported.... The book is readable and scholarly, engaging and studious."" - Lisa M. Cuklanz, author of Rape on Prime-Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence
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