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Book SynopsisRevealing stories about the ways in which social programs help and harm women struggling to change their livesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Prelude: The North Country 2. Two Wars on Poverty Part II: Women Reformed 3. Taking Control of Everyday Life 4. Making Good Work 5. The American Dream Part III: Women Empowered 6. Power and Ceremony 7. The Bureaucratization of North Country Head Start 8. Defiance...and Withdrawal 9. Devotion, Social Class, and the Union 10. The Limits on/of Empowerment: What Is to Be Done? References Index

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Book SynopsisThis story explodes the popular belief that women white-collar workers tend to reject unionization and accept a passive role in the workplace. On the contrary, the women workers of Harvard University created a powerful and unique union--one that emphasizes their own values and priorities as working women and rejects unwanted aspects of traditional unionism. The workers involved comprise Harvard's 3,600-member "support staff," which includes secretaries, library and laboratory assistants, dental hygienists, accounting clerks, and a myriad of other office workers who keep a great university functioning. Even at prestigious private universities like Harvard and Yale, these workers--mostly women--have had to put up with exploitive management policies that denied them respect and decent wages because they were women. But the women eventually rebelled, declaring that they could not live on "prestige" alone. Encouraged by the women's movement of the early 1970's, a group of women workers (and a few men) began what would become a 15-year struggle to organize staff employees at Harvard. The women persisted in the face of patronizing and sexist attitudes of university administrators and leaders of their own national unions. Unconscionably long legal delays foiled their efforts. But they developed innovative organizing methods, which merged feminist values with demands for union representation and a means of influencing workplace decisions. Out of adversity came an unorthodox form of unionism embodied in the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Its founding was marked by an absorbing human drama that pitted unknown workers, such as Kris Rondeau, a lab assistant who came to head the union, against famous educators such as Harvard President Derek Bok and a panoply of prestigious deans. Other characters caught up in the drama included Harvard's John T. Dunlop, the nation's foremost industrial relations scholar and former U.S. Secretary of Labor. The drama was played out in innumerable hearings before the National Labor Relations Board, in the streets of Cambridge, and on the walks of historic Harvard Yard, where union members marched and sang and employed new tactics like "ballooning," designed to communicate a message of joy and liberation rather than the traditional "hate-the-boss" hostility. John Hoerr tells this story from the perspective of both Harvard administrators and union organizers. With unusual access to its meetings, leaders, and files, he examines the unique culture of a female-led union from the inside. Photographs add to the impact of this dramatic narrative. postamble();Trade Review"Hoerr's book breaks new ground as it traces how the rising feminist consciousness of the 60's and early 70's fused with working-class, union sensibilities, and how...organizers made mainstream unions bend to accommodate this new mix." -Ellen Clegg, The Boston Globe "Hoerr provides a comprehensive account of the history of the history of the Harvard office workers' struggle to unionize at Harvard...instructive for labor educators, union organizers, and general readers who are interested in women's role in the labor movement and union organizing in academia or in the female-dominated service industries." -Labor Studies Journal "Hoerr's tale of staunch women and Harvard's comeuppance make his book exciting reading." -Jean Alonso, The Women's Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisHow do unions around the world respond to issues raised by sexual minorities? Much as been written on labor's response to issues raised by women and racial minorities, but there has been little work done on labor's engagement with gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered. The original essays in this collection attempt to fill that void by bringing together a group of experts who examine labor's response to such issues as benefits for same-sex partners, anti-discrimination language in collective agreements, and education. Speaking from a variety of racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, and political views, the contributors bring their unique personal perspectives and scholarly approaches to this groundbreaking book. The chapters included in Laboring for Rights give a global vision to the increasingly important subject of equity in the workplace. They offer a much-needed look at labor's involvement with current international workplace conditions from such diverse countries as the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and South Africa, as well as parts of the South Pacific. Some of these countries have strong and progressive labor unions; some, like the U.S., have relatively weak labor organizations. But whatever the context, as these articles demonstrate, there seems to be a growing and in some instances prospering gay/lesbian labor alliance in many parts of the world. Laboring for Rights is a pioneering text in an important new area of labor study. It will engage readers interested in equality in the workplace, labor and organizational studies, gay and lesbian activism, and international, comparative studies.Trade Review"For the majority of industrial relations academics whose training and research keep us focused on the classical problems of labour-management relations, Laboring for Rights, edited by Gerald Hunt, offers a decided, and much-needed, shift in perspective. This book provides readers with information, much of which will be unknown to most readers, about the extent of 'bridge-building' between the lesbian/gay and union movements in a wide variety of countries. It is a first attempt to document what organized labour is doing in relation to lesbian/gay issues... Laboring for Rights is an important and useful book because it broadens the common understanding about what unions do and why." -Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsCONTENTS "What Can Be Done? Sexual Diversity and Labor Unions in Perspective" -- Gerald Hunt "No Longer Outsiders: Labor's Response to Sexual Diversity in Canada" -- Gerald Hunt "Fighting It Out in Canadian Courts" -- Cynthia Petersen "A Short History of Gay and Lesbian Labor Activism in the United States" -- Christian Arthur Bain "Lesbian and Gay Caucuses in the United States Labor Movement" -- Miriam Frank "Domestic Partner Health Benefits: The Corporate Model vs. the Union Model" -- Desma Holcomb "The Limits to Union: Labor, Gays and Lesbians, and Marriage in Hawaii" -- Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller "Silence at Work: Trade Unions, Gender, and Sexual Diversity in the South Pacific" -- Jacqueline Leckie "Sexual Diversity and the Australian Labor Movement in Historical Perspective" -- Shane Ostenfeld "At a Turning Point: Organized Labor, Sexual Diversity, and the New South Africa" -- Mazibuko K. Jara, Naomi Webster, and Gerald Hunt "On the Fringes of the New Europe: Sexual Diversity Activism and the Labor Movement" -- David Rayside "Labor Unions and Sexual Diversity in Germany" -- Ron Holzhacker "British Trade Unions and Sexual Diversity: Survey Evidence Since the 1980s" -- Phil Greasley "Moving Forward in UNISON: Lesbian and Gay Self-Organization in Action" -- Fiona Colgan "Laboring for Rights in Global Perspective" -- Gerald Hunt

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Book SynopsisTold with humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood. Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent transitional surgery in Los Angeles in 1962, one of the first such operations in the United States. (The famous sexual surgery pioneer Harry Benjamin himself broke the news to Brevard's parents.)Under the stage name Lee Shaw, Brevard worked as a drag queen at Finocchio's, a San Francisco club, doing Marilyn Monroe impersonations. (Like Marilyn, she sought romance all the time and had a string of entanglements with men.) Later, she worked as a stripper in Reno and as a Playboy Bunny at the Sunset Strip hutch.After playing opposite Don Knotts in the movie The Love God, Brevard appeared in other films and broke into TV as a regular on the Red Skelton Show. She created the role of Tex on the daytime soap opera One Life To Live. As a woman, Brevard returned to teach theater at East Tennessee State, the same university she had attended as a boy.This memoir is a rare pre-Women's Movement account of coming to terms with gender identity. Brevard writes frankly about the degree to which she organized her life around pleasing men, and how absurd it all seems to her now.Trade Review"...an entertaining and heartfelt journey from male to female, ostracism to acceptance, and obscurity to fame. ... Aleshia Brevard's journey is a brilliant, gutsy, and insightful look at a life simultaneously marginalized and in the spotlight."—Lambda Book Report"The Woman I Was not Born to Be is not the kind of book one really expects from an academic press: no statistics, no elaborate theoretical structure. Nor is it the story of people whom history has utterly ignored. Mocked, crucified, tortured, and jailed, yes; ignored, no. But I'm glad Temple University Press chose to publish it: in academia as in real life, a reasonably well-adjusted, kind-hearted woman who was born male is not so common."—Amy Bloom, Wilson Quarterly"Brevard's story adds an entertaining curve to the growing body of literature—academic scientific, theoretical and literary—on transgendered experience, without the self-pity or sentimentality found in many such memoirs....Written in a gossipy style reminiscent of 1950's movie-star autobiographies (which at heart, it is)."—Publishers WeeklyTable of Contents1. Just for a Change 2. Farm Boy 3. Drag Queen 4. A Man in the House 5. Alfred, Adieu 6. The Coed 7. Burlesque Queen 8. Miss Congeniality 9. Call Me Mrs. 10. Teacher! Teacher! 11. A Playboy Bunny 12. That Female Bunch 13. Fashion's Guru 14. Off-Broadway Baby 15. A Faceless Intruder 16. Mother's Final gift 17. The Finished Produce Index

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Book SynopsisDemocratic Theorizing from the Margins lays out the basic parameters of diversity-based politics as a still emerging form of democratic theory. Students, activists, and scholars engage in diversity politics on the ground, but generally remain unable to conceptualize a broad understanding of how \u0022politics from the margins\u0022-that is, political thinking and action that comes from groups often left on the outside of mainstream organizing and action-operates effectively in different contexts and environments. Brettschneider offers concrete lessons from many movements to see what they tell us about a new sort of democratic politics. She also addresses traditional democratic theories and draws on the myriad discerning practices employed by marginalized groups in their political activism to enhance the critical capacities of potential movements committed both to social change and democratic action.Trade Review"Neither democracy nor democratic theory is automatically pluralist. Diversity is a challenge to both. Democratic Theorizing from the Margins clarifies crucial issues in the demanding assimilation to elite styles and norms." -Craig Calhoun, Professor of Sociology and History, NYU "In Democratic Theorizing from the Margins, Brettschneider moves beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries to create a democratic theory from the work of activists. This book is an original and important contribution to debates amongst democratic theorists, feminist thinkers and organizers, as well as debates concerning multicultural theory and politics. It is written in a lively and engaging manner and will appeal to a wide audience of scholars and students." -Lori J. Marso, Feminist Theory and Political Philosophy, Union CollegeTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. When: History 3. Who: Identity 4. What: Recognition 5. Why: Rethinking Universals and Particulars 6. Where: Multiple Publics 7. How: Minoritizing and Majoritizing Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisEmphasizes the place of the male body in the sociology of medicalization and genderTrade Review"[A]n excellent collection that will be required reading for scholars interested in gender and health. Its clear and lively writing, the wealth of background information in the introduction, and its contributors’ compelling identification and analysis of key sites for the medicalization of masculinity in American today make it a pivotal addition to the fields of medicalization and gender research. Its accessibility and topicality will also make it an excellent teaching resource." —Archives of Sexual Behavior

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature (eg., Rushdie, Mistry, Sidwa and Lahiri), Bollywood film, personal testimonies and journalism represent the violence, migration and questions of national belonging unleashed by that pivotal event during which two million people died and sixteen million were displaced. In addition to challenging the official narratives of independence and Partition, these narratives challenge our contemporary understanding of gender and ethnicity in history and politics. Violent Belongings argues that both male and female bodies, and heterosexual coupledom, became symbols of the nation in public life. In the newly independent Indian nation both men and women were transformed into ideal citizens or troubling bodies, immigrants or refugees, depending on whether they were ethnically Hindu, Muslim, Jewish or Sikh. The divisions set in motion during Partition continue into our own time and account for ethnic violence in South Asia.Trade Review"Daiya has argued persuasively and perceptively for the combination of literary and cinematic texts, deftly combining these with social history and journalism to produce informed, contextualized readings of the cultural moment. Engagingly written, covering a longish (fifty-year) history of literary and film texts with surprising contextual detail, Violent Belongings embraces a dauntingly sophisticated theoretical repertoire which Daiya handles with confidence, tact, and common sense." -Henry Schwarz, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER ONE: Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere CHAPTER TWO: Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance and Secular Citizenship CHAPTER THREE "A Crisis Made Flesh:" Women, Honor and National Coupledom CHAPTER FOUR "We Were Never Refugees:" Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State CHAPTER FIVE War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema CHAPTER SIX Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisIn this honest memoir, May recounts how she came to feel connected with her body again. It's a moving work for new moms about a subject that is often overlooked in conversations about postpartum depression. —Real Simple Molly Caro May grapples with questions of grief and rage as she undergoes several unexpected health issues after the birth of her first child. Body Full of Stars both reveals deeper truths about how disconnected many modern women are from their bodies and celebrates the greatest story of all time: mothers and daughters, partners and co-parents, and the feminine power surging beneath it all.

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Book SynopsisIlluminating accounts of how stripping and sex work informs writers’ experiences of friendship, motherhood, teaching, working, creating art, and activism.No one knows more than strippers about being looked at: as objects of desire, objects of curiosity, as angels or Jezebels or hookers with hearts of gold. In this anthology, twenty-three dancers whose careers span decades, geographies, and identities demand to be seen. Through stories from first nights on the job to the day they hung up their sky-high heels—or decided they never will—these writers offer glimpses into lives of camaraderie and celebration, joy, pride, despair, frustration, self-doubt, and fear. Their unfiltered perspectives on their lives, onstage and off, are a powerful counternarrative to the whorephobia that shrouds the conventional portrayals of strippers in crime movies, TV shows, music videos, newspaper articles, and legislative debates. Each of these illuminating essays and interviews peels away tired myths and salacious speculation and presents the naked truth: that sex work is real work and strippers are real people. Contributors:Cookie Mueller • Kathy Acker • Jo Weldon • Susan McMullen • Maggie Estep • Chris Kraus • Jodi Sh. Doff • Terese Pampellonne • Jill Morley • Susan Walsh • Debi Kelly Van Cleave • Elissa Wald • Essence Revealed • Sassy Penny • Jacq Frances • Reese Piper • Lindsay Byron • The Incredible, Edible Akynos • Antonia Crane • Lily Burana • A M Davies • Kayla Tange • Selena the Stripper

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Book SynopsisMaking the Right Choice unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency. The book uncovers how "becoming modern" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and independent women capable of making "right" choices. The consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum: agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make the "right" choice; hence agency is experienced not as a sense of "freedom," but rather as a burden of responsibility.Trade Review"In Making the Right Choice, Abeyasekera navigates the micro-politics of class and gender in contemporary Sri Lanka with skill and grace, providing the reader with a compelling picture of the fraught territory of marriage in twenty-first century Sri Lanka. Throughout, the argument is highly original and incisive, yet written with a novelist’s eye for the telling detail."— Jonathan Spencer, co-editor of The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives "With delicate prose and thoughtfulness, Abeyasekera draws us into the heart of middle-class Colombo, where personal choices on who to love reflect back on family narratives of progress and social mobility. Offering fresh perspectives on agency and responsibility, she moves between life stories across generations to unravel how, in South Asia, marriage is inexorably tied to crafting a self that is both modern and moral."— Ammara Maqsood, author of The New Pakistani Middle Class "Asha Abeyasekera gives us exquisitely wrought portraits of three generations of women in modernizing Sri Lanka as they navigate decisions of who, when, how, and why to marry. Attending to their stories about their marriages, Abeyasekera reveals the repertoires of meaning that enable the women to produce selves that honor traditional kin obligations while embodying modern values of personal choice and self-determination."— Jeanne Marecek, co-author of Gender and Culture in Psychology: Theories and PracticesTable of ContentsContents Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction 1 – Sinhala Marriage Practices: Then and Now 2 – Making the ‘Right’ Choice 3 – Structuring the ‘Right’ Choice 4 – The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages 5 – The Valued Self: Singleness 6 – The Vindicated Self: Divorce Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAfter World War II, studies examining youth culture on the silver screen start with James Dean. But the angst that Dean symbolized—anxieties over parents, the “Establishment,” and the expectations of future citizen-soldiers—long predated Rebels without a Cause. Historians have largely overlooked how the Great Depression and World War II impacted and shaped the Cold War, and youth contributed to the national ideologies of family and freedom. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors explores this gap by connecting facets of boyhood as represented in American film from the 1930s to the postwar years. From the Andy Hardy series to pictures such as The Search, Intruder in the Dust, and The Gunfighter, boy characters addressed larger concerns over the dysfunctional family unit, militarism, the “race question,” and the international scene as the Korean War began. Navigating the political, social, and economic milieus inside and outside of Hollywood, Peter W.Y. Lee demonstrates that continuities from the 1930s influenced the unique postwar moment, coalescing into anticommunism and the Cold War. Trade Review"A specter was haunting mid-twentieth century Hollywood – the specter of the rebellious boy. Peter W.Y. Lee ably shows how US filmmakers of the period created a cast of culturally potent boy characters to arbitrate conflicts of age, gender, race, class, and political ideology at the dawning of the American Century. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors is required reading for historians of youth, film, and the early Cold War." -- Mischa Honeck * author of Our Frontier Is the World, The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy *"A specter was haunting mid-twentieth century Hollywood – the specter of the rebellious boy. Peter W.Y. Lee ably shows how US filmmakers of the period created a cast of culturally potent boy characters to arbitrate conflicts of age, gender, race, class, and political ideology at the dawning of the American Century. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors is required reading for historians of youth, film, and the early Cold War." -- Mischa Honeck * author of Our Frontier Is the World, The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Chronology List of Abbreviations Introduction: Are the Kids All Right? 1 The Family in Trouble, 1920-1945 2 Gable is Able: Re-Creating the Postwar Family 3 Curbing Delinquency: Hot Rods and Hotrodding 4 Whitewashing the Race Cycle in 1949 5 The International Picture Conclusion: Revising the “Deanlinquent” Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAfter World War II, studies examining youth culture on the silver screen start with James Dean. But the angst that Dean symbolized—anxieties over parents, the “Establishment,” and the expectations of future citizen-soldiers—long predated Rebels without a Cause. Historians have largely overlooked how the Great Depression and World War II impacted and shaped the Cold War, and youth contributed to the national ideologies of family and freedom. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors explores this gap by connecting facets of boyhood as represented in American film from the 1930s to the postwar years. From the Andy Hardy series to pictures such as The Search, Intruder in the Dust, and The Gunfighter, boy characters addressed larger concerns over the dysfunctional family unit, militarism, the “race question,” and the international scene as the Korean War began. Navigating the political, social, and economic milieus inside and outside of Hollywood, Peter W.Y. Lee demonstrates that continuities from the 1930s influenced the unique postwar moment, coalescing into anticommunism and the Cold War. Trade Review"A specter was haunting mid-twentieth century Hollywood – the specter of the rebellious boy. Peter W.Y. Lee ably shows how US filmmakers of the period created a cast of culturally potent boy characters to arbitrate conflicts of age, gender, race, class, and political ideology at the dawning of the American Century. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors is required reading for historians of youth, film, and the early Cold War."— Mischa Honeck, author of Our Frontier Is the World, The Boy Scouts in the Age of American AscendancyTable of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Chronology List of Abbreviations Introduction: Are the Kids All Right? 1 The Family in Trouble, 1920-1945 2 Gable is Able: Re-Creating the Postwar Family 3 Curbing Delinquency: Hot Rods and Hotrodding 4 Whitewashing the Race Cycle in 1949 5 The International Picture Conclusion: Revising the “Deanlinquent” Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisScholars and social critics are looking at gender and sexuality, as well as masculinity, in new ways and with more attention to the way cultural ideologies affect men’s and women’s lives. With the rise of an online “incel” (involuntarily celibate) community and the perpetration of acts of violence in their name, as well as increased awareness about the complexities of sexual interaction brought to the fore by the #metoo movement, it has become critical to discuss how men’s sexuality and masculinity are related, as well as the way men feel about the messages they get about being a man. Prior research on masculinity and masculine sexuality has examined the experiences of adolescent boys. But what happens to boys as they become men and as many move away from homo-social environments into sexual relationships? What happens when they no longer have a crowd of peers to posture or perform for? How do their sexual experiences and sexual selves change? How do they prove their masculinity in a society that demands it when they are no longer surrounded by peers? And how do they cultivate sexual selves and sexual self-confidence in a culture that expects them to always already be knowledgeable, desiring sexual subjects? In Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up, Beth Montemurro explores the cultivation of heterosexual men’s sexual selves. Based on detailed, in-depth interviews with a large, diverse group of heterosexual men between the ages of 20 and 68, she investigates how getting sex, having sex, and keeping up their sex lives matters to men. Ultimately, Montemurro uncovers the tension between public, cultural narratives about hetero-masculinity and men’s private, sexual selves and their intimate experiences. Trade Review"A timely book documenting men’s stories about their own sexual lives to underscore the importance of helping men to develop healthy relationships with women, with each other and with themselves.""Grounded in extraordinarily rich interview data, this book offers a fascinating and sociologically compelling account of heterosexual men’s sexuality over the life course in the United States. Montemurro’s analysis speaks to numerous sociological phenomena, and is a pleasure to read." -- Laura Carpenter * author of Sex for Life: From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives *"This book is essential reading for scholars of masculinity and sexuality. Its methods are robust, the conclusions are well supported by data, the organization is clear, and the writing style is highly accessible for both undergraduate and graduate students." * Gender & Society *"Grounded in extraordinarily rich interview data, this book offers a fascinating and sociologically compelling account of heterosexual men’s sexuality over the life course in the United States. Montemurro’s analysis speaks to numerous sociological phenomena, and is a pleasure to read." -- Laura Carpenter * author of Sex for Life: From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives *"This book is essential reading for scholars of masculinity and sexuality. Its methods are robust, the conclusions are well supported by data, the organization is clear, and the writing style is highly accessible for both undergraduate and graduate students." * Gender & Society *Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I: Getting It 2. Getting It: Understanding Sex and Becoming Sexually Aware 3. Getting It: Gaining Access to Sex Part II: Having It 4. Having It: Proficiency, Pressure, and Performance 5. Having It: Desire, Relationships, and Sex Part III: Keeping It Up 6. Keeping It Up: Sexual and Relationship Problems 7. Keeping It Up: Maintaining Aging and Changing Bodies 8. Wrapping It Up Appendix 1: Descriptive Table of Research Participants Appendix 2: Demographic Characteristics of Participants, in alphabetical order Notes Index

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Book SynopsisStained Glass Ceilings speaks to the intersection of gender and power within American evangelicalism by examining the formation of evangelical leaders in two seminary communities.Southern Baptist Theological Seminary inspires a vision of human flourishing through gender differentiation and male headship. Men practice “Godly Manhood," and are taught to act as the "head" of a family, while their wives are socialized into codes of “Godly Womanhood" that prioritize prescribed gender roles. This power structure privileges men yet offers agency to their wives in women-centered spaces and through marital relationships. Meanwhile, Asbury Theological Seminary promises freedom from gendered hierarchies. Appealing to a story of gender-blind equality, Asbury welcomes women into classrooms, administrative offices, and pulpits. But the institution’s construction of egalitarianism obscures the fact that women are rewarded for adapting to an existing male-centered status quo rather than for developing their own voices as women. Featuring high-profile evangelicals such as Al Mohler and Owen Strachan, along with young seminarians poised to lead the movement in the coming decades, Stained Glass Ceilings illustrates the liabilities of white evangelical toolkits and argues that evangelical culture upholds male-centered structures of power even as it facilitates meaning and identity.Trade ReviewIn this remarkably perceptive study, Lisa Weaver Swartz shows us precisely how male power is perpetuated and embodied in white evangelical institutions. She describes this process in captivating detail, both at the complementarian stronghold of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and at egalitarian Asbury Seminary, and the result is an altogether fresh, sometimes surprising, and always deeply illuminating examination of gender, power, and American evangelicalism. -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez * author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation *"Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this book takes readers into the hallways and classrooms of places that shape – through what is said and what is practiced – the lives of evangelical pastors. Both the differences between the seminaries and their similarities may surprise you. How they create gendered religious worlds is worth knowing about." -- Nancy Ammerman * author of Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention *"In a brilliant and compelling narrative, Lisa Weaver-Swartz shows how patriarchy persists and adapts even in spaces supportive of women in ministry. Her research explains why women defend complementarianism as well as why the gender-blindness of egalitarianism fails. Regardless of your theology, you should read this book. I promise it will help you better understand the plight of evangelical women." -- Beth Allison Barr * author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth *In this remarkably perceptive study, Lisa Weaver Swartz shows us precisely how male power is perpetuated and embodied in white evangelical institutions. She describes this process in captivating detail, both at the complementarian stronghold of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and at egalitarian Asbury Seminary, and the result is an altogether fresh, sometimes surprising, and always deeply illuminating examination of gender, power, and American evangelicalism. -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez * author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation *"Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this book takes readers into the hallways and classrooms of places that shape – through what is said and what is practiced – the lives of evangelical pastors. Both the differences between the seminaries and their similarities may surprise you. How they create gendered religious worlds is worth knowing about." -- Nancy Ammerman * author of Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention *"In a brilliant and compelling narrative, Lisa Weaver-Swartz shows how patriarchy persists and adapts even in spaces supportive of women in ministry. Her research explains why women defend complementarianism as well as why the gender-blindness of egalitarianism fails. Regardless of your theology, you should read this book. I promise it will help you better understand the plight of evangelical women." -- Beth Allison Barr * author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Male and Female: Gendered Discourse at Southern Seminary 2 Beard Oil and Fine China: Embodied Practice at Southern Seminary3 All One in Christ: Gender-Blind Discourse at Asbury Seminary 4 Men, Churchwomen, and Wives: Embodied Practice at Asbury Seminary 5 Conclusion IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisIntimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.Trade Review"Intimate Connections is an elegant and nuanced ethnographic account of gendered intimacy as experienced by women in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Eschewing simplistic formulations such as 'love vs. arranged marriages' and 'agency vs. gendered subordination,' Anna-Maria Walter instead pushes us to consider emotions anew, in particular 'love,' as sites of embodied, ethical formation of the self, and as significant to gendered norms that shape marriage and emergent forms of conjugality." -- Attiya Ahmad * author of Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait *"Intimate Connections is a richly ethnographic account of women’s and men’s experiences of kinship and sexuality in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, showing how young women’s changing expectations of marriage and love are reforming the institution from within." -- Katherine Lemons * author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Foreword by Péter Berta Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Transcription 1 Politics of the Sensible 2 Embodying Modest Reserve 3 Arranging Affection 4 Fearing Passion 5 Romancing Marriage Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhen Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. One particularly important strand of thought, which influenced later anxieties over “other-direction” and “conformity,” argued that masculinity was not defined by traits like bravery, stoicism, and competitiveness but instead by authenticity, shared camaraderie, and emotional honesty. To elucidate this challenge to traditional “frontiersman” masculinity, Aaron George presents three intellectual biographies of important veterans who became writers after the war: James Jones, the writer of the monumentally important war novel From Here to Eternity; Stewart Stern, one of the most important screenwriters of the fifties and sixties, including for Rebel without a Cause; and Edward Field, a bohemian poet who used poetry to explore his love for other men. Through their lives, George shows how wartime disabused men of the notion that war was inherently a brave or heroic enterprise and how the alienation they felt upon their return led them to value the authentic connections they made with other men during the war. Trade Review"A fascinating story of three writers—veterans of World War II in search of authenticity." -- James B. Gilbert * author of Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s *"Beautifully written and sensitively wrought, When Cowboys Come Home rejects the images of WWII veterans as pugilists or Organization Men. Through neglected figures, including James Jones and Edward Fields, Aaron George audaciously insists that vets took from their war experience a thirst for male bonding, camaraderie, and intense relationships." -- David Steigerwald * author of The Sixties and the End of Modern America *Table of ContentsPreface: What We Bring Home Introduction: Hemingway's Shadow Part I Cowboys on the Wartime Frontier 1 Never a Secondhand Man: James Jones and the Perils of Homecoming 2 The Big Noise: Stewart Stern's Long March to Gar Naruah 3 The "Age of Heroes": Edward Field and Gay Authenticity in the Midst of War Part II Coming Home 4 The Hipster, the Prophet, and the Angel: Writers on the Edge of Eternity 5 The Men Who Came Running: James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony 6 Waiting for Peter Pan: Adulthood and How to Attain It 7 The Continuing Adventures of Icarus: Edward Field's Life in the Postwar Closet Conclusion: A Nation of Gray Flannel Men Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRecently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Being childfree challenges the ‘procreation imperative’ residing at the center of our hetero-normative understandings, occupying an uneasy position in relation to—simultaneously—traditional academic ideologies and prevalent social norms. After all, as Adi Avivi recognizes, "if a woman is not a mother, the patriarchal social order is in danger." This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models. Foundational pieces from established experts on the childfree choice--Rhonny Dam, Laurie Lisle, Christopher Clausen, and Berenice Fisher--appear alongside both activist manifestos and original scholarly work, comprehensively brought together. Academics and activists in various disciplines and movements also riff on the childfree life: its implications, its challenges, its conversations, and its agency—all in relation to its inevitability in the 21st century. Childfree across the Disciplines unequivocally takes a stance supporting the subversive potential of the childfree choice, allowing readers to understand childfreedom as a sense of continuing potential in who—or what—a person can become.Trade Review"Offering a timely rejoinder to pronatalism, Childfree Across the Disciplines features numerous authors who see 'reproductive consciousness' as a key component of reproductive justice. This volume’s perspective is especially vital in a world that too often assumes childlessness to be a sacrifice, default, or deficit, rather than accurately representing what childfreedom is: a reasoned and purposeful attempt to forge identities and life pathways that are not circumscribed by reproductive imperatives." -- Suzanne Leonard * co-editor of Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture *"Childfree Across the Disciplines is a first of its kind, bringing academic and activist voices together as it challenges readers to rethink what they think they know to be true about the childfree choice, who makes it, and why." -- Amy Blackstone * author of Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence *"Offering a timely rejoinder to pronatalism, Childfree Across the Disciplines features numerous authors who see 'reproductive consciousness' as a key component of reproductive justice. This volume’s perspective is especially vital in a world that too often assumes childlessness to be a sacrifice, default, or deficit, rather than accurately representing what childfreedom is: a reasoned and purposeful attempt to forge identities and life pathways that are not circumscribed by reproductive imperatives." -- Suzanne Leonard * co-editor of Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture *"Childfree Across the Disciplines is a first of its kind, bringing academic and activist voices together as it challenges readers to rethink what they think they know to be true about the childfree choice, who makes it, and why." -- Amy Blackstone * author of Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines by Davinia Thornley Part I: Childfree Subjectivities Chapter 1. Affirming Social Value: Women without Children [republished] by Berenice Fisher Chapter 2. Childfree Minority Stress by Melanie Brewster and Olivia Snow Chapter 3. “You will Change Your Mind”: The Controlling Function of Microaggressions on the Minds of Parents and Non-Parents by Adi Avivi Chapter 4. Selfish is Not a Four-Letter Word: Self-Care and Other-Care among Childfree Women by Amanda Michiko Shigihara Part II: Childfree Representation Chapter 5. Childfree in Toyland [republished] by Christopher Clausen Chapter 6. The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day by Laura Carroll Chapter 7. Reproductive Villains: The Representation of Childfree Women in Mainstream Cinema and Television by Natalia Cherjovsky Part III: Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives Chapter 8. Excerpts from An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body [republished] by Rhonny Dam Chapter 9. The Breadwinner Dilemma: The Real and Opportunity Cost of Children by Laura S. Scott Chapter 10. Voluntary Childlessness: An Upstream Choice in the Anthropocene by Erika M. Arias Part IV: Childfree Redefinitions Chapter 11: Recognizing Our Womanhood, Redefining Femininity [republished] by Laurie Lisle Chapter 12. Refusing to be Othered: Re-defining the “Silent Bodies” of Childfree Women by Anna Gotlib Concluding Thoughts by Davinia Thornley Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWhen it comes to the topic of romantic and sexual intimacy, social observers are often quick to throw criticisms at millennials. However, we know little about millennials’ own hopes, fears, struggles, and triumphs in their relationships from the perspectives of millennials themselves. Intimate Inequalities uses millennials’ own stories to explore how they navigate gender, race, social class, sexuality, and age identities and expectations in their relationships. Situating millennials’ lives within contemporary social and cultural conditions in the United States, Intimate Inequalities takes an intersectional approach to examining how millennials challenge—or rather, uphold—social inequalities in their lives as they come into their own as full adults. Intimate Inequalities provides an in-depth look into the intimate lives of one group of millennials living in the United States, demystifying what actually goes on behind closed doors, and arguing that millennials’ private lives can reveal much about their ability to navigate inequalities in their lives more broadly. Trade Review“Dalessandro gives us a rich glimpse into the stories Millennials tell about themselves, their intimate partners and the world as they navigate an emerging adulthood of economic precarity and social stagnation. This powerful generational portrait will surprise and move you.”— Jennifer Lundquist, author of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance "Intimate Inequalities provides a fascinating view into the romantic and sexual lives of sixty Millennials. Dalessandro centers gender, age, race, and social class in turn, showing how each dimension is crosscut by others. This intersectional approach generates novel insights into the inequalities that pattern Millennial sex lives. This book will be appreciated by scholars and students of gender, family, sexuality, and the transition to adulthood."— Elizabeth Armstrong, author of Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994 “Dalessandro gives us a rich glimpse into the stories Millennials tell about themselves, their intimate partners and the world as they navigate an emerging adulthood of economic precarity and social stagnation. This powerful generational portrait will surprise and move you.”— Jennifer Lundquist, author of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance "Intimate Inequalities provides a fascinating view into the romantic and sexual lives of sixty Millennials. Dalessandro centers gender, age, race, and social class in turn, showing how each dimension is crosscut by others. This intersectional approach generates novel insights into the inequalities that pattern Millennial sex lives. This book will be appreciated by scholars and students of gender, family, sexuality, and the transition to adulthood."— Elizabeth Armstrong, author of Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994Table of ContentsPreface: You Are Who You Date? 1 Introduction: Millennials, Intimacy, and Negotiating Inequalities Today 2 He Said, She Said: Making Sense of Gender through Stories 3 Age Is Nothing but a Number? The Importance of Age in Intimacy 4 The Color of Intimacy: Seeing and Not Seeing Race 5 No Compromise on Class: Expectations and Limitations 6 Millennial Marriage: Not a One-Size-Fits-All 7 Relationship Goals: Millennials, Inequalities, and Intimacy Futures Appendix A: Participant Demographics Appendix B: Methods Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhen it comes to the topic of romantic and sexual intimacy, social observers are often quick to throw criticisms at millennials. However, we know little about millennials’ own hopes, fears, struggles, and triumphs in their relationships from the perspectives of millennials themselves. Intimate Inequalities uses millennials’ own stories to explore how they navigate gender, race, social class, sexuality, and age identities and expectations in their relationships. Situating millennials’ lives within contemporary social and cultural conditions in the United States, Intimate Inequalities takes an intersectional approach to examining how millennials challenge—or rather, uphold—social inequalities in their lives as they come into their own as full adults. Intimate Inequalities provides an in-depth look into the intimate lives of one group of millennials living in the United States, demystifying what actually goes on behind closed doors, and arguing that millennials’ private lives can reveal much about their ability to navigate inequalities in their lives more broadly. Trade Review“Dalessandro gives us a rich glimpse into the stories Millennials tell about themselves, their intimate partners and the world as they navigate an emerging adulthood of economic precarity and social stagnation. This powerful generational portrait will surprise and move you.”— Jennifer Lundquist, author of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance "Intimate Inequalities provides a fascinating view into the romantic and sexual lives of sixty Millennials. Dalessandro centers gender, age, race, and social class in turn, showing how each dimension is crosscut by others. This intersectional approach generates novel insights into the inequalities that pattern Millennial sex lives. This book will be appreciated by scholars and students of gender, family, sexuality, and the transition to adulthood."— Elizabeth Armstrong, author of Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994 “Dalessandro gives us a rich glimpse into the stories Millennials tell about themselves, their intimate partners and the world as they navigate an emerging adulthood of economic precarity and social stagnation. This powerful generational portrait will surprise and move you.”— Jennifer Lundquist, author of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance "Intimate Inequalities provides a fascinating view into the romantic and sexual lives of sixty Millennials. Dalessandro centers gender, age, race, and social class in turn, showing how each dimension is crosscut by others. This intersectional approach generates novel insights into the inequalities that pattern Millennial sex lives. This book will be appreciated by scholars and students of gender, family, sexuality, and the transition to adulthood."— Elizabeth Armstrong, author of Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994Table of ContentsPreface: You Are Who You Date? 1 Introduction: Millennials, Intimacy, and Negotiating Inequalities Today 2 He Said, She Said: Making Sense of Gender through Stories 3 Age Is Nothing but a Number? The Importance of Age in Intimacy 4 The Color of Intimacy: Seeing and Not Seeing Race 5 No Compromise on Class: Expectations and Limitations 6 Millennial Marriage: Not a One-Size-Fits-All 7 Relationship Goals: Millennials, Inequalities, and Intimacy Futures Appendix A: Participant Demographics Appendix B: Methods Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisEveryday Violence is based on ten years of scholarly rage against catcalling and aggression directed at women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people of New York City. Simone Kolysh recasts public harassment as everyday violence and demands an immediate end to this pervasive social problem. Analyzing interviews with initiators and recipients of everyday violence through an intersectional lens, Kolysh argues that gender and sexuality, shaped by race, class, and space, are violent processes that are reproduced through these interactions in the public sphere. They examine short and long-term impacts and make inroads in urban sociology, queer and trans geographies, and feminist thought. Kolysh also draws a connection between public harassment, gentrification, and police brutality resisting criminalizing narratives in favor of restorative justice. Through this work, they hope for a future where women and LGBTQ people can live on their own terms, free from violence. Trade Review"In this dazzling work of engaged scholarship, Simone Kolysh responds to a terribly pressing need: to understand anti-woman and anti-LGBTQ street harassment as related forms of public violence. Kolysh reveals these intersecting phenomena to be as unwieldy as they are ubiquitous, freighted with sexism, racism, transphobia, and class power. Yet change is possible, and Kolysh’s 'everyday' represents both the problem and the promise of the public realm."— Matt Brim, author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University "Everyday Violence is a grounded, unapologetically feminist intersectional analysis of catcalling and LGBTQ-directed aggression on the New York City streets. Catcalling and LGBTQ-directed aggression are manifestations of overlapping systems of oppression and evidence of the widespread and normalized violence women and LGBTQ people face. Everyday Violence is a must-read for academics and activists fatigued of carceral feminism—who seek bold and innovative solutions to gendered and sexual violence based on transformative justice and community accountability."— Angela Jones, author of Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry Pride Month June 2021 round-up— Bookshop.org "Everyday Violence is a grounded, unapologetically feminist intersectional analysis of catcalling and LGBTQ-directed aggression on the New York City streets. Catcalling and LGBTQ-directed aggression are manifestations of overlapping systems of oppression and evidence of the widespread and normalized violence women and LGBTQ people face. Everyday Violence is a must-read for academics and activists fatigued of carceral feminism—who seek bold and innovative solutions to gendered and sexual violence based on transformative justice and community accountability."— Angela Jones, author of Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry "In this dazzling work of engaged scholarship, Simone Kolysh responds to a terribly pressing need: to understand anti-woman and anti-LGBTQ street harassment as related forms of public violence. Kolysh reveals these intersecting phenomena to be as unwieldy as they are ubiquitous, freighted with sexism, racism, transphobia, and class power. Yet change is possible, and Kolysh’s 'everyday' represents both the problem and the promise of the public realm."— Matt Brim, author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University Pride Month June 2021 round-up— Bookshop.org "The book’s strengths are its conceptual contributions and readability — with direct and sometimes provocative claims—that will appeal to many audiences. Everyday Violence is necessary reading for everyone committed to understanding and ending street harassment. The book will benefit scholars and students of public health, criminology, gender studies, queer studies, trans studies, women’s studies, urban sociology, and urban planning."— Vanessa R. Panfil, Gender & SocietyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: On Our Own Terms, Free from Violence 1 The Anatomy of Everyday Violence: Initiators 2 From the Catcall to the Slur: Recipients 3 Can We Be Queer Here? LGBQ+ Formations 4 Toxciscity: Violence against Transgender People in the Public Sphere 5 Linked Violence: Everyday Violence and Intersections Conclusion: Voicing Resistance, Finding Solutions Acknowledgments Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisEveryday Violence is based on ten years of scholarly rage against catcalling and aggression directed at women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people of New York City. Simone Kolysh recasts public harassment as everyday violence and demands an immediate end to this pervasive social problem. Analyzing interviews with initiators and recipients of everyday violence through an intersectional lens, Kolysh argues that gender and sexuality, shaped by race, class, and space, are violent processes that are reproduced through these interactions in the public sphere. They examine short and long-term impacts and make inroads in urban sociology, queer and trans geographies, and feminist thought. Kolysh also draws a connection between public harassment, gentrification, and police brutality resisting criminalizing narratives in favor of restorative justice. Through this work, they hope for a future where women and LGBTQ people can live on their own terms, free from violence. Trade Review"In this dazzling work of engaged scholarship, Simone Kolysh responds to a terribly pressing need: to understand anti-woman and anti-LGBTQ street harassment as related forms of public violence. Kolysh reveals these intersecting phenomena to be as unwieldy as they are ubiquitous, freighted with sexism, racism, transphobia, and class power. Yet change is possible, and Kolysh’s 'everyday' represents both the problem and the promise of the public realm." -- Matt Brim * author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University *"Everyday Violence is a grounded, unapologetically feminist intersectional analysis of catcalling and LGBTQ-directed aggression on the New York City streets. Catcalling and LGBTQ-directed aggression are manifestations of overlapping systems of oppression and evidence of the widespread and normalized violence women and LGBTQ people face. Everyday Violence is a must-read for academics and activists fatigued of carceral feminism—who seek bold and innovative solutions to gendered and sexual violence based on transformative justice and community accountability." -- Angela Jones * author of Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry *Pride Month June 2021 round-up * Bookshop.org *"In this dazzling work of engaged scholarship, Simone Kolysh responds to a terribly pressing need: to understand anti-woman and anti-LGBTQ street harassment as related forms of public violence. Kolysh reveals these intersecting phenomena to be as unwieldy as they are ubiquitous, freighted with sexism, racism, transphobia, and class power. Yet change is possible, and Kolysh’s 'everyday' represents both the problem and the promise of the public realm." -- Matt Brim * author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University *"Everyday Violence is a grounded, unapologetically feminist intersectional analysis of catcalling and LGBTQ-directed aggression on the New York City streets. Catcalling and LGBTQ-directed aggression are manifestations of overlapping systems of oppression and evidence of the widespread and normalized violence women and LGBTQ people face. Everyday Violence is a must-read for academics and activists fatigued of carceral feminism—who seek bold and innovative solutions to gendered and sexual violence based on transformative justice and community accountability." -- Angela Jones * author of Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry *Pride Month June 2021 round-up * Bookshop.org *"The book’s strengths are its conceptual contributions and readability — with direct and sometimes provocative claims—that will appeal to many audiences. Everyday Violence is necessary reading for everyone committed to understanding and ending street harassment. The book will benefit scholars and students of public health, criminology, gender studies, queer studies, trans studies, women’s studies, urban sociology, and urban planning." -- Vanessa R. Panfil * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: On Our Own Terms, Free from Violence 1 The Anatomy of Everyday Violence: Initiators 2 From the Catcall to the Slur: Recipients 3 Can We Be Queer Here? LGBQ+ Formations 4 Toxciscity: Violence against Transgender People in the Public Sphere 5 Linked Violence: Everyday Violence and Intersections Conclusion: Voicing Resistance, Finding Solutions Acknowledgments Glossary References Index

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