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Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development is a carefully curated conversation that brings together the top researchers in child and adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts, and debates in the field. The Handbook is organized around three foundational questions: first, what is sexual development? Second, how do we study sexual development? And third, what roles might adults - including the institutions of the media, family, and education - play in the sexual development of children and adolescents? As the first of its kind, this collection integrates work from sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, education, cultural studies, and allied fields. Writing from different disciplinary traditions and about a range of international contexts, the contributors explore the role of sexuality in children''s and adolescents'' everyday experiences of identity, family, school, neighborhood, religion, and popular media.Trade Review'Too often, views of sexuality in childhood and adolescence are negative, presenting children and young people as 'innocent', 'reckless' or 'victims'. At last, we have a book that redresses the balance. Focusing on topics as diverse as the media, family and education, and examining sexuality from the early years to young adulthood, this outstanding book offers a beacon of hope in dark times.' Peter Aggleton, University of New South Wales and Australian National University'The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development is a timely, much-needed resource for those who crave context and depth. This book tackles the landscape of sexual development with well-written, engaging, thought-provoking interdisciplinary contributions. Readers at every level will find theories, methods, and data to mull over, learn from, and explore.' Rebecca Plante, Ithaca College, New York'This comprehensive and innovative Handbook will rapidly become the standard reference in the field, as it smoothly engages the complexities of interdisciplinary academia along with rapidly changing cultural contexts. The editors gave their contributors the freedom to define 'sexual development' from their own point of view, which has produced a uniquely rich and readable tapestry of topics and perspectives.' Leonore Tiefer, Founder, New View CampaignTable of ContentsIntroduction: interdisciplinary approaches to sexual development in childhood and adolescence Jen Gilbert and Sharon Lamb; Part I. What is Sexual Development?: Section 1. Children: 1. Are children sexual? Who, what, where, when and how? Sharon Lamb, Lindsay White and Aleksandra Plocha; 2. Towards a central theory of childhood sexuality: a relational approach Allison Moore; 3. A sociological exploration of childhood sexuality: a discursive analysis of parents' and children's perspectives Kerry H. Robinson and Cristyn Davies; 4. Not innocent, but vulnerable: an approach to childhood innocence Lucie Jarkovská and Sharon Lamb; 5. The dynamic expression of sexual-minority and gender-minority experience during childhood and adolescence Lisa M. Diamond; 6. Sexual embodiment in girlhood and beyond: young migrant and refugee women's discourse of silence, secrecy and shame Jane Ussher, Alex Hawkey and Janette Perz; Section 2. Adolescence: 7. The diversity of adolescent male sexuality John DeLamater; 8. Developmental trajectories and milestones of sexual-minority youth Ritch C. Savin-Williams; 9. Bad choices: how neoliberal ideology disguises social injustice in the sexual lives of youth Laina Y. Bay-Cheng; 10. From tightrope to minefield: how the sexual double standard 'lives' in adolescent girls' and young women's lives Deborah L. Tolman and Jennifer F. Chmielewski; 11. Gender, class, and campus sexual cultures: white first-generation college students and the transition to college Amy C. Wilkins and Aubrey Limburg; 12. Yellow fever and yellow impotence: the polarity of Asian American sexuality Rosalind Chou and Brittany Taylor; 13. Conceptualizing sexuality in research about trans youth Julia Sinclair-Palm; Part II. How Do We Study Sexual Development?: 14. Critical methods for studying adolescent sexuality Sarah I. McClelland; 15. Loving possibilities in studies of sexuality education and youth Jessica Fields and Lorena Garcia; 16. Difficulties in the study, research, and pedagogy of sexuality Deborah P. Britzman; 17. Numbers and stories: bridging methods to advance social change Stephen T. Russell; 18. Doing it: participatory visual methodologies and youth sexuality research Katie MacEntee and Sarah Flicker; 19. Research under surveillance: sexuality and gender-based research with children in South Africa Deevia Bhana; Part III. Media, Family, Education: What Roles Might Adults Play?: Section 1. Media: 20. Entertainment media's role in the sexual socialization of Western youth: a review of research from 2000–17 L. Monique Ward, Jessica Moorman and Petal Grower; 21. Adventure, intimacy, identity and knowledge: exploring how social media are shaping and transforming youth sexuality Marijke Naezer and Jessica Ringrose; 22. A sociological/psychological model for understanding pornography and adolescent sexual behavior Jennifer A. Johnson and Ana J. Bridges; 23. Young people, pornography and gendered sexual practices Maddy Coy and Miranda A. H. Horvath; Section 2. Family: 24. Puberty as bio-psycho-social enfolding: mothers' accounts of their early-developing daughters Celia Roberts; 25. Stolen childhood: understanding sexualisation of young girls through 'child marriage' in Zimbabwe Sandra Bhatasara, Manase K. Chiweshe and Nelson Muparamoto; Section 3. Education: 26. The fertile, thorny and enduring role of desire and pleasure in sexuality education Sarah Garland-Levett and Louisa Allen; 27. Norm-critical sex education in Sweden: tensions within a progressive approach Anna Bredström, Eva Bolander and Jenny Bengtsson; 28. Robot babies, young people and pregnancy prevention: alternative imaginings of sexual futures Mary Lou Rasmussen and Aoife Neary.

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Book SynopsisA mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir that will open up much-needed conversations about identity and mental health'This will blow you away'- Stylist'Joly's prose is sensitive and heartbreaking...darkly compelling' - Business Post'An extraordinary and thought-provoking memoir' - Belfast TelegraphIt was an ordinary day in 2016. In Gatwick Airport, Jonathan and his wife Anna were having breakfast with their two little children while waiting for their flight to be called. And then it happened, a familiar sensation that Jonathan hadn't had for decades: an out-of-body experience that transported him to another place, the safe place he used to escape to in his mind when he was a boy. Because growing up in conservative 1980s Dublin, where there was little tolerance for children who were 'different', Jonathan Joly was, indeed, a different sort of child: creative, expressive, and - on the inside - a girl. The limitations of the people around him to understand his differences led to years of tyrannical bullying and abuse, forcing him to withdraw within himself to the point of clinical absence. His only chance for survival was the inner world he created for himself, rich with loving and supportive friends and playmates, that only he could see. Jonathan's invisible friends were his lifeline, and on that day at the airport, they came flooding back, and have remained with him to this day. This extraordinary childhood memoir is not only an important, thought-provoking and exhilarating read, it gives hope and community for all those who have ever felt 'other', and proves how vital it is to provide children with the safe space to be themselves. In All My Friends are Invisible, Jonathan Joly, known widely as one of social media's most successful content creators, shares the secret he's kept hidden these many years. He shows the beautiful world he retreated to time and time again when life was unbearable for his 'skin machine'. Most importantly, he introduces us to his invisible friends, and in so doing you may be transported back to the friends you had as a child that no one else could see, and who may have saved you, too.'When you find yourself living in a world that doesn't understand you, and you lack any connection to anyone or any place, you are faced with few options. You can choose to leave this world and hope whatever lies beyond ends up being better, or you can create your own. It will require grit, hardship, pain and suffering, but the rewards will be great, and the journey will be greater, and the adventures will be endless. So, at a very young age and faced with these options, I chose the latter.'Trade ReviewAn extraordinary and thought-provoking memoir * Belfast Telegraph *This will blow you away * Stylist *An admirable triumph * Irish Independent *A well-placed and well-structured narrative * Irish Times *An intriguing story of a child's unique response to identity bewilderment, bullying and toxic households * Strong Words *A starkly elegant account by a YouTube star of how an imaginary friend saved him from a hellish Dublin childhood * Sunday Times *Simple and friendly with a definite lack of filters and a good dose of self-revelation * Irish Examiner *Movingly describes how his friends, with the support of a sympathetic school, eventually helped him find a place in the real world * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisSociology of Sexualities takes a unique sociological approach to the study of sexualities and explores the ways sexuality operates in and through institutions. Drawing on the most up-to-date scientific research on sexuality, as well as the latest political developments on the issues, this core text helps students connect knowledge about sexuality with their broader understanding of society. The thoroughly revised Second Edition includes updated and expanded discussions of the latest sociological research and social justice movements regarding gender and sexuality, as well as a new chapter exploring sexuality and social class, space, and place. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank. Trade Review"[Sociology of Sexualities] has a strong intersectional focus, strong connections to contemporary social events and research, and clear and accessible writing." -- Rachel Schmitz"This book has a nice balance with regard to micro and macro level examples, data, and theories." -- Kassia WosickTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface to the Second Edition Chapter 1: The Social Construction of Sexuality The Sociology of Sexualities Terminology Evidence of the Social Construction of Sexuality Sexual Revolutions Sexual Relationships: Beyond Monogamy Sexual Invisibility Sexuality Across the Life Course Sexualizing Racial/Ethnic Minorities Sexual Minorities Beyond LGBTQ Conclusion Chapter 2: The Science of Sexuality Understanding Sexuality Through Science Sociology and Social Constructionism The Science of Homosexuality The Science of Monogamy Sexuality Studies in Academia Researching Sex: Methodological and Ethical Concerns Conclusion Chapter 3: Gender and Sexuality Social Construction of Gender Challenging the Gender Binary: Gender in Non-Western Cultures Intersection of Gender and Sexuality Transgender Intersex Intersex and Sexuality Conclusion Chapter 4: Social Class, Space, Place, and Sexuality Social Class and Sexuality Colonialism, Capitalism, and Sexuality Class and Sexual Behaviors Class, Poverty, and Sexual Rights Space, Place, and Sexuality Conclusion Chapter 5: Sexuality, Inequality, and Privilege The Sociology of Inequality Legal Discrimination Sexuality and Social Control Transgender Discrimination and Inequality Heterosexual and Cisgender Privilege Conclusion Chapter 6: LGBTQ and Sexuality-Based Mobilization and Activism The Sociology of Social Movements Before Stonewall: The Homophile Movement After Stonewall: The Modern Gay Rights Movement Transgender Activism and Rights Bisexual Activism Sexuality-Based Activism Beyond LGBTQ Activism Conclusion Chapter 7: Media, Sport, and Sexuality Media and Sexuality LGBTQ Representations in Television and Film Sexuality and Sport Coming Out of the Athletic Closet Creating Space for Intersex and Transgender Athletes Conclusion Chapter 8: Sexuality, Schools, and the Workplace Schools, Sexuality, and Social Control Sex Education Sexuality and the Workplace Conclusion Chapter 9: Religion, Family, and Sexuality Religion and Sexuality LGBTQ Families Intimate Partner Violence Conclusion Chapter 10: Sexuality and Reproduction Compulsory Reproduction The Body as a Social Construction Stratified Reproduction Pregnancy and Childbirth Breastfeeding Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Pregnancy Teen Pregnancy and Birth Birth Control Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Choice Conclusion Chapter 11: Sexual Health Understanding Sexual Health Sexuality and Disability Sexually Transmitted Infections Conclusion Chapter 12: Commodification of Sex Pornography Sex Work Globalization and Sexuality Sex Tourism Conclusion Chapter 13: Sexual Violence Understanding Sexual Violence Racialized Homophobic and Transphobic Violence Carceral Sexuality Conclusion References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis study of eunuchs guides readers as they travel through various lands and periods, familiarizing themselves with the duties and responsibilities, the unspeakable torments and the passions and joys of these individuals. Eunuchs were not simply ""bedchamber attendants"", as the Greek term suggests. Nor were they always slaves. They could just as well be ascetics, priests, magicians, scholars, physicians, military commanders, admirals or senior officials at the courts of both eastern and western rulers. In the Byzantine empire, the only office they were precluded from attaining was that of emperor. The rich and varied forms of religious, social and sexual life associated with eunuchs and castrati embrace a wealth of myths relating to gods and demons, initiation rites, rituals and magic. They touch on the history of law and medicine, various systems of government, and secret societies. And they are presented to us in terms of the cruellest punishments and tortures. On the one hand, they facilitated unique developments in the evolution of vocal music, and on the other, they gave rise to a multiplicity of human behavioural patterns that reflect every aspect of good and evil. Readers should become acquainted with various forms of sexuality, such as androgyny, transvestism, transsexualism and homosexuality, and learn about the historical, religious and social issues associated with their characteristic ""life settings"". Whether out of a sense of shame or because of moral considerations, these phenomena appear only on the margins of the history of customs and mores.

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Book SynopsisWhile everyone alive today is guaranteed to have ancestors, no one is born with a similar guarantee to have descendants. In a parallel truism, everyone alive in the year 2200 AD will be able to trace his or her lineal ancestry to a parental stock in the year 200 AD. This book addresses two questions 1) Which facets of current cultures are aligned with enhanced fertility of their members and which facets of current cultures are aligned with reduced fertility of their members? and 2) What evolutionary pressures sculpted the reproductive psychology of current women and the behavioural consequences of that psychology?.

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Book SynopsisThis book is dedicated to new research which is defined as a set of perceived behavioural norms associated particularly with males or females, in a given social group or system. It can be a form of division of labour by gender. It is a focus of analysis in the social sciences and humanities. Gender is one component of the gender/sex system, which refers to "The set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of human activity, and in which these transformed needs are satisfied". Almost all societies, to a certain effect, have a gender/sex system, although the components and workings of this system vary markedly from society to society. Gender refers to an individual''s "psychological type", it is acquired through experience. An individual can be viewed as either masculine or feminine. Gender role refers to the attitudes and behaviours that class a person''s stereotypical identity, e.g. women cook and clean, men fix cars. To associate oneself as either masculine or feminine is identifying with gender. Researchers recognise that the concrete behaviour of individuals is a consequence of both socially enforced rules and values, and individual disposition, whether genetic, unconscious, or conscious. Some researchers emphasise the objective social system and others emphasise subjective orientations and dispositions. Creativity may cause the rules and values to change over time. Cultures and societies are dynamic and ever changing, but there has been extensive debate as to how, and how fast, they may change. Such debates are especially contentious when they involve the gender/sex system, as people have widely differing views about how much gender depends on biological sex.

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Book SynopsisWhen women have fewer opportunities than men to develop their capacities in an egalitarian way, then we say that there is a gender gap. Although great conceptual and methodological advances have been achieved, and national policies have been developed in some countries to put an end to gender inequalities, what has really happened, in general, is an attenuation of those inequalities. This book reviews research in the study of the gender gap and have included herein a statistical analysis on gender and ethnicity; gender differences in second language learning; the gender pay gap in the self-employed in the U.S., evolutionary aspects of sex differences and gender disparities between men and women scientists in academia.

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Book SynopsisWithin psychology and psychiatry, gender identity has developed at least two distinguishable meanings: awareness of anatomy and endorsing specific traits that are stereotypical of different gender groups. However, neither existing approach has considered gender identity to be a self-categorization process that exists within personality science. In this book, gender identity is examined as a disorder, along with developmental perspectives and social implications. Some of the topics discussed include gender identity as a personality process; the intersection of gender and sexual identity development in a sample of transgender individuals; gender dysphoria; representations of teachers about the relation between physical education contents and gender identities; and common hypothetical etiology of excess androgen exposure in female-to-male transsexualism and polycystic ovary syndrome.

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Book SynopsisThe link among health, well-being and social support is well-known. Social support represents an important protective factor against stress both directly (see the main effect hypothesis) and as a mediator. Nevertheless, it fosters health but at the same time may create a burden for those who work as caregivers and perceive the strain of their professional responsibility. This book discusses gender differences, the psychological importance and impacts on well-being of social support. Chapter One presents some theoretical consideration about health and social support from a gender perspective. Chapter Two clarifies the impacts of caring and their gender differentials. Chapter Three outlines empirical research on the determinants of gender-specific effects in tonic or stress-related physiological responses, along with potential mechanisms responsible for gender-specific effects. Chapter Four investigates the relationship between social support and both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being controlling for the effects of fluid intelligence and personality traits Italian high school students. Chapter Five creates a better understanding of universal (etic) and unique (emic) social support patterns of aging adults around the world. Chapter Six investigates the mediating role of social support in the relationships between the religious meaning system and psychological well-being. Chapter Seven discusses the importance of taking the central role of social support in the etiology and prognosis of a cardiac disease into account in cardiac rehabilitation and preventive programs.

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Book SynopsisAfter the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the establishment of close relations between the West and the Kurds after 2003, there has been an increase in the demand towards reading and learning about this ethnic group. However, while in Western countries, there is substantial literature on the politics of gender, giving a deeper insight into the role that women play in the field, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), women rarely come up as a topic of discussion. This trend has also affected the literary works that detail their role in social and political affairs. Little has been written to establish the position in politics and their unexploited potential. On the other hand, in Iraq and in the Middle East at large, the Iraqi Kurdish society has made significant strides towards modernization and observation of the rule of law and governance in line with international standards. The National Action Plan and the Declaration of the Elimination of Violence against Women among others are the documents that are binding over Kurdistan to work towards ensuring the rights of women and their participation in politics. However, whether the contents of these documents on the involvement of women in the political landscape and respect for their rights are being honoured or just remain on paper is still debatable. With a focus on these issues, this book examines the politics of gender in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, delving into the regional phenomena (ie: resource curse, tribalism, religion, elitist feminism, and political culture). Using a mixed-methods approach, this book also acts as a pointer to how the country regards women even in the private spheres, including in the civil society level. Understanding the challenges that women face in articulating and shaping their interests and the place of tribal structure of the society and religion besides the oil economy that lead to gender inequality in political, social, and economic spheres is important towards helping them increase their representation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI).Table of ContentsIntroduction; Political History of Kurdish Women in Middle East: A Brief Introduction; Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Kurdistan Region of Iraq; Tribalism and Political Culture in Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Impacts on Gender Equality; The Waves of Feminism Applied to the Case of Kurdistan Region of Iraq: An Elitist Approach of Gender; State Building, Nationalism and Feminism in Kurdistan Region of Iraq: An Elitist Approach of Gender; The Politics of Oil Economy and Resource Curse on Gender in Iraqi Kurdistan; Conclusion; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered as a time of great freedom for women. But did the sexual revolution have the same goals as the Women’s Liberation Movement? Was it truly liberation for women or just another insidious form of oppression? In this provocative book, Sheila Jeffreys argues that sexual freedom sometimes directly opposed actual freedom for women. Anticlimax traces sexual mores and attitudes from the 1950s to the 1990s, exploring the nature of both straight and gay relationships and offering original and compelling commentary on Lolita, Naked Lunch, The Joy of Sex, the Masters/Johnson report, and other representations in the literature on sexuality. At the root of sexual liberation, Sheila Jeffreys finds an increasing eroticisation of power differences within heterosexual, lesbian and gay communities. Her alternative vision of sexual relations based on equality is a major statement in the debates over sex and violence, that remain relevant in discussions over SlutWalk, sexualisation of girls and the pervasiveness of porn culture.Trade ReviewAnticlimax is the most impressing and critical book that I have read in a long time. Jeffreys is clear, concise, smart, and critical and in all this incorporates a dark sense of humor that I truly appreciate. She delivers strong arguments that are difficult to disprove or argue against.Elin Weiss, Metaphsychology

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Book Synopsis“Despite Canada’s claim to be a gender equitable nation, militarism continues to function in ways that protect inequality.” -- from the Introduction Little has been done to examine, critique, and challenge the ways ingrained societal ideas of militarism and gender influence lifelong learning patterns and practices of Canadians. Editor Nancy Taber and ten other contributors explore reasons why Canadian educators should be concerned with how learning, militarism, and gender intersect. Readers may be surprised to discover how this reaches beyond the classroom into the everyday lessons, attitudes, and habits that all Canadians are taught, often without question. Pushing the boundaries of education theory, research, and practice, this book will be of particular interest to feminist, adult, and teacher educators and to scholars and students of education, the military, and women’s and gender studies. Foreword by Patricia Gouthro. Contributors: Mark Anthony Castrodale, Gillian L. Fournier, Andrew Haddow, Cindy L. Hanson, Laura Lane, Jamie Magnusson, Robert C. Mizzi, Shahrzad Mojab, Snežana Ratković, Roger Saul, Nancy Taber.Trade Review"Canada in the First World War with a population of 8 million lost 61,000 dead. The tiny Kingdom of Serbia, half our size, lost 1.1 million. By any measure of modesty or good sense Canadians have some nerve in boasting of our wartime exploits as a defining moment in history. Yet the sheen of reflected military glory even today is irresistible to certain politicians who promote a 'national identity that is masculinist and militarized', writes Prof. Nancy Taber of Brock University. Gendered Militarism in Canada examines the contradiction. It is a thoughtful book. Editor Taber brings street cred to the topic; she is a former Sea King navigator." [Full article at https://www.blacklocks.ca/book-review-our-uniform-fetishism/] -- Holly Doan“[Gendered Militarism] provides both a theoretical and practical foundation for the necessary consideration of gendered militarism in a wide range of applications. The book’s language is accessible, its examples are many and clear, and its theoretical frameworks provide a wide variety of complementary approaches as applied to personal, local, national and international contexts. The diversity of the approaches and contributors undoubtedly add validity to the book’s findings, and each author provides different ways of resisting and opposing gendered militarism…. [W]hether the reader comes from education, gender studies, communication and cultural studies, or government, military or civilian organizations, they will find the book helpful in identifying where and when gendered militarism is replicated and advanced.” -- Patricia Mazepa * TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 37 *Table of ContentsForeword // Patricia Gouthro Preface Acknowledgements Introduction / Learning, Gender and Militarism // Nancy Taber 1 War of Gender Games // Jamie Magnusson and Shahrzad Mojab 2 Militarizing or Anti-Militarizing Facebook Resisting and Reproducing Gendered Militarism Online // Laura Lane 3 Popular Media, Pedagogy, and Patriarchy Gender, Militarism, and Entertainment in Canada // Andrew Haddow 4 Official (Masculinized and Militarized) Representations of Canada Learning Citizenship // Nancy Taber 5 A Critical Discussion on Disabled Subjects Examining Ableist and Militarist Discourses in Education // Mark Anthony Castrodale 6 Uncovering Rainbow (Dis)Connections Sexual Diversity and Adult Education in the Canadian Armed Forces // Robert C. Mizzi 7 The Complexities of Gender Training in Contexts of Conflict and Peacebuilding // Cindy Hanson 8 Militarism, Motherhood, and Teaching A Yugoslav-Canadian Case // Snežana Ratković 9 An Invisible Web Examining Cyberbullying, Gender, and Identity through Ethnodrama // Gillian L. Fournier 10 War Games School Sports and the Making of Militarized Masculinities // Roger Saul Conclusion / Final Thoughts and Connecting Threads // Nancy Taber Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA moving and inspiring memoir of a same-sex couple as they create a life together, adopt twins, and overcome challenges, from outside and within, to build their family. Rarely do we know what life will hold. When starting the adoption process, Jane Byers and her wife could not have predicted the illuminating and challenging experience of living for two weeks with the Evangelical Christian foster parents of their soon-to-be adopted twins. Parenthood becomes even more daunting when homophobia threatens their beginnings as a family, seeping in from places both unexpected and familiar. But Jane and Amy are up for the challenge. In this moving and poetic memoir, Byers draws readers into her own tumultuous beginnings: her coming out years, finding love, and the start of her parenting journey. Love imprints itself where loneliness lived, but sometimes love, alone, is not enough to overcome trauma. Little did Byers know that her experiences when coming out was merely training for becoming an adoptive parent of racialized twins. Small Courage: A Queer Memoir of Finding Love and Conceiving Family is a thoughtful and heart-warming examination of love, queerness and what it means to be a family.

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards (Best Memoir by a Parliamentarian)Why is gender inequality so stubbornly persistent? Power. Even today, power remains concentrated in the hands of men right across the worlds of business, politics and culture. Decisions taken by those with power tend to perpetuate gender inequality rather than accelerate solutions. And those who see the problem often feel powerless: ingrained sexism and gender inequality can seem too huge to solve.Equal Power holds a mirror up to society, showing the stark extent of gender inequality while making the case that everyone has the power to create change. Whether you are a teenage student, a global CEO or a taxi driver, there is much we can do as friends, consumers, parents and colleagues to create a world of Equal Power. In this inspiring and essential book, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats and former Government Minister for Women Jo Swinson outlines the steps we can all take, small and large, to make our society truly gender equal.Trade ReviewProvides clear-eyed analysis of the challenges facing women * Sunday Business Post *I loved this book... Inspiring... There is something for everyone. -- Cath Sell * Nudge *In the wake of #MeToo and #TimesUp this book is what we need to arm ourselves to make the final push for equality. Real and tangible equality is possible but we need to work together to achieve it and we all need to read this book. -- Nimco AliI love this book. Everyone should read it, particularly future generations and those who see themselves as architects of new solutions. We must all acknowledge our absorption of inequality to gain clarity, not just about gender bias, but the bigger picture of marginalization and under-representation as a whole. -- Professor Caryn Franklin MBE

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Book SynopsisOffering a new take on the psychology of human sexuality, Sexpositive integrates modern day themes such as technology and the use of social media with self-help. This is the book that millennial's will turn to in order to rewrite the story of their love lives. THE DIGITAL AGE IS USHERING IN A SEX POSITIVE REVOLUTION Millennial disrupter Dr Kelly Neff believes radical change is underway in our love and sex lives. Fuelled by developing technology and shifting cultural beliefs, the Sex Positive movement is a social, political and philosophical wave that promotes and embraces sexuality and sexual expression, with an emphasis on safety and consent. In this ground-breaking study of modern sexuality, Dr Kelly Neff explores this new cultural movement and examines LGBTQI issues, #MeToo, female orgasm, the rise of non-monogamous relationships and robotic sex partners, among many other contentious topics emerging as part of the ongoing social and political shifts surrounding sex, love and identity. "Redefining sex and love as a constructive, harmonizing experience comprises a crucial part of how we move forward as a human collective... It's not a movement solely for women, but one that can apply to all genders and lifestyles. Being sex positive is inherently inclusive, and this is the tone that I take in this book."Trade Review"Sex Positive takes much of the guesswork and uncertainty out of understanding the new challenges of social and sexual relationships."- California Bookwatch"An exiting and insightful look into the landscape of modern sex and sexuality."- Grazia"Dr. Kelly Neff holds a daunting charge: to refute centuries of religious, political, social and cultural teachings... Sex Positive probes a hot topic of learned and changing behavior patterns in a survey that any young person, Millennials and earlier, will want to consider."- The Bookwatch

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Book SynopsisAn outstanding study of Aboriginal women's lives. Living in the community, developing friendships which spanned decades, Diane Bell shines a light on the importance of women's role in Australian Aboriginal desert culture. As maintainers of land, ritual and culture, indigenous women of central Australia share the patterns of their lives in this remarkable and enduring book. Diane Bell was controversial in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and remains so today. Not everyone agrees with her but she demands to be read.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly familiar—especially the six wives of Henry VIII—and exceedingly unfamiliar, such as George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne. These innovative and authoritative biographies recognise the important role consorts played in a period before constitutional monarchy: in addition to correcting popular assumptions that are based on limited historical evidence, the chapters provide a fuller picture of the role of consort that goes beyond discussions of exceptionalism and subversion. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, DynastyPart I: Tudor ConsortsChapter 2: The Tudor Consorts: History and MemoryChapter 3: Elizabeth of York: Tudor Trophy WifeChapter 4: Katherine of Aragon: Diligent Diplomat and Learned Queen Chapter 5: Anne Boleyn: Traditionalist and ReformerChapter 6: Jane Seymour: Saintly QueenChapter 7: Anne of Cleves: Survivor QueenChapter 8: Katherine Howard: Victim?Chapter 9: Katherine Parr: Wartime Consort and AuthorChapter 10: Philip II of Spain: King, Consort, and SonChapter 11: The Literary Afterlives of the Tudor ConsortsPart II: Stuart ConsortsChapter 12: The Stuart Consorts and Scotland, 1603–1707Chapter 13: Anna of Denmark: Daughter, Wife, Sister, and Mother of KingsChapter 14: Henrietta Maria: Dangerous ConsortChapter 15: Elizabeth and Dorothy Cromwell: InterreginasChapter 16: Catherine of Braganza: The PoliticianChapter 17: Mary Beatrice of Modena: A Queen ObservedChapter 18: George of Denmark: The Quiet Protestant Hero Chapter 19: The Stuart Consorts, 1603–1714: Representation, Agency, and Anxiety

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Book SynopsisThe concept of "worldmaking" is based on the idea that "the world" is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing "dance worlds": through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form and dance material.The essays in this volume critically reflect the predominant topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral - an embodiment of the Other in modernity. Moreover, they demonstrate that there is more than just one universal "world of dance", but rather a multitude of interrelated dance worlds with more emerging every day.

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Book SynopsisWhile feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed, alternative media to transport their messages, to challenge the status quo, and to spin novel social processes, this topic has been an under-researched area. Hence, this book explores the processes of women's and feminist media production in the context of participatory spaces, technology, and cultural citizenship. The collection is composed of theoretical analyses and critical case studies. It highlights contemporary alternative feminist media in general as well as blogs, zines, culture jamming, and street art.

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Book SynopsisWhat role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the design of information and communication technologies, epistemologies of biology and chemistry to teaching mathematics and professional processes in engineering. Contributions by Anne Balsamo, Wendy Faulkner, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Barbara Orland, Els Rommes, and others.Trade ReviewBesprochen in: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 8/2 (2016), Marie Larsson

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Book SynopsisGender- and sex-related norms have an impact on us from the first to the last day of our lives. What are the effects of such norms on the education of children and adolescents? Conveyed via parents/family, school, and peers, they seem to be an inseparable part of human relations. After its favorable reception in German-speaking countries from 2014 onwards, this title is now available in English. The texts show that the traditional assumption of a dualistic, bipolar normativity of sex and gender leads to children being taught gender-typical behavior. The contributions in this volume explore the reasons for these practices and open the debate on the divergence between the prevailing norms and the plurality of different life plans. In addition, the book helps to disengage the topic of sex and gender from a hitherto narrowly circumscribed context of sexual orientation. The contributions point the way towards a culture of respect and mutual acceptance and show new methodological as well as theoretical approaches, e.g. by introducing the figure of the continuum, so that, in future research projects, more than just the two sexes and genders of female and male might be considered as a new normality.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies. Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productions like novels and TV series centering around intersex, Viola Amato provides a first systematic analysis of an activism-triggered resignification of intersex.Trade Review"Interesting and reliable." -- Florian G Mildenberger, Sexuality & Culture, 21 (2017)"A groundbreaking study that clearly closes a research gap in American Studies. It is particularly Amatos rootedness in poststructuralist theories of sex and gender and her awareness of the indebtedness of academic discourse to the largely underrepresented history of the intersexmovement that lets the better-known intersexnarratives appear in a new light and provides a new ground for nuanced future readings of intersex narratives." -- Simon Dickel, Amerikastudien, 62/1 (2017)

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Book Synopsis"Houses, Secrets, and the Closet" investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the "closet" - the male homosexual secret - which reveals a more general notion of male secrecy in modern society. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the cultural history of masculinities and sexualities.

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Book SynopsisThe Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. Contesting the differentiated access to housing, social movements occupy empty buildings in the cities to challenge historically-rooted and excluding urban politics. Exploring the occupants' agency, Bea Wittger draws attention to the important role of female actors within the buildings. Through oral histories of participants of two squats in Rio de Janeiro, the book delivers a deep insight "from below" into their own perspectives on citizenship and gender.

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Book SynopsisPinar Tuzcu explores rapper Lady Bitch Ray's performance and particularly her use of the term Kanackin. She combines issues of popfeminism and postmigration through speculative methodology and invites us to forget prescriptive definitions by proposing paradoxicality as a source to diversify our concepts of feminism. By means of Situational Analysis, her study works through the contradictory forms of positioning that occurred in group discussions with Turkish-German university students about Lady Bitch Ray's music videos. In this book, Tuzcu argues that these contradictory forms of positioning bear traces of emergent discourses that reach beyond Western-centric descriptions of feminism in Germany.

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Book SynopsisGender impact assessment has been both celebrated as a beacon of hope for the cause of gender equality and criticised as being ineffectual. More than 20 years of gender mainstreaming have demonstrated that equality governance with and through impact assessment is an intersectional and still evolving process. Arn T. Sauer's study examines the instruments of gendered policy analysis and the conditions under which they are being used by the Canadian federal government and the European Commission. Interviews with experts from public administration and instrument designers as well as document analyses reveal benefits and challenges and show that the success of equality governance depends upon whether knowledge about gendered policy and appropriate administrative practices are embedded, embodied and entrenched in public administration.

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Book SynopsisIs the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his fictional social context? Why is the pícara so 'non-female'? What effect has her gender constitution on her fictional social context?In terms of a gendered subject, the picaresque figure has hardly been analyzed so far. Although scholars have recognized it as a transgressive and subversive model, the 'queer' effect of the figure is yet to be examined. With regard to the categories of class, generation, topography, and gender, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels narratologically from the perspective of culture and gender theories.

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Book SynopsisWhat exactly is rape? And how is it embedded in society?Hilkje Charlotte Hänel offers a philosophical exploration of the often misrepresented concept of rape in everyday life, systematically mapping out and elucidating this atrocious phenomenon. Hänel proposes a theory of rape as a social practice facilitated by ubiquitous sexist ideologies. Arguing for a normative cluster model for the concept of rape, this timely intervention improves our understanding of lived experiences of sexual violence and social relations within sexist ideologies.Trade Review"The book is an ambitious undertaking, and it should be praised for what it accomplishes in asking readers to think critically about how debates over gender, inequality, and accountability frame their key terms." Michael Connors, H-Net Reviews, 3 (2021)

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Book SynopsisWhile social change regarding trans(sexuality) has evolved within an expanding nexus of concepts, practices, regulations and institutions, this process has barely been analysed systematically. Against the background of legislative processes on gender recognition in a society shaped by heteronormative hegemony, Adrian de Silva traces how sexology, the law, federal politics and the trans movement interacted to generate or challenge concepts of trans(sexuality) from the mid-1960s to 2014 in the Federal Republic of Germany. The interdisciplinary study draws upon and contributes to debates in (trans)gender and queer studies, political science, sociology of law, sexology and the social movement.

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Book SynopsisCritical analysis of the dramatisation of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have seldom focused on literary representations of homosexuality during the war. Natalie Marena Nobitz closes a glaring gap in the critical attention of four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalised heteronormativity: Walter Baxter's Look Down in Mercy (1951), Mary Renault's The Charioteer (1953), Sarah Waters' The Night Watch (2006) and Adam Fitzroy's Make Do and Mend (2012).

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Book SynopsisLGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analysing these strategies in terms of narration, performance, bodies, and space. Resilience turns out to be a highly interactive mode of being in the world, which can set free creative energy as well as draw inspiration and energy from artistic work. Authors and artists discussed include Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Isherwood, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jeanette Winterson, Michael Cunningham, and Ian McKellen.Trade Review"Bouncing Back' will be of great interest to queer scholars, with many ideas that can inform further research on LGBTIQ+ literature and cultural studies." -- Noah Riseman, Anglistik, 31/1 (2020), translated from German

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Book SynopsisIs the family in crisis? Or do crises crystallize in families' lived realities? Families as constitutive units of all social architectures are central to our democracies. In this book, scholars from cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today's rainbow variety of families crosses borders and how cultural texts - films, TV-series, novels, short stories and magazines, from Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain) and the US - (de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses around topics such as father(hood)s, mother(hood)s and parentage, reproductive decisions and adoption, marriage and divorce, poverty and welfare, and the rhetoric of the nuclear family.

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Book SynopsisThe expression "to come out of the closet" calls for an analysis of how language and notional as well as social spaces interact and intersect to constitute "queer". This performative book, a product of artistic research, is an exploration of the proverbial closet through linguistics, queer, and postcolonial theory. It is a project in which opacity, minority, and improvisation happen on the levels of content, analysis, and typography. Eleven queer slangs from around the world become part of an exploration of queerness and knowledge from the Periphery through autoethnography, Édouard Glissant's concept of opacity, José Muñoz's disidentifications, and Gloria Anzaldúa's performative writing. Theory, personal accounts, and art are interwoven to offer an interdisciplinary reading of the slangs as queer methods of survival and resistance.

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Book SynopsisThis study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, sexuality, and social and cultural hierarchies brings to light the past of socialist Yugoslavia, its cultural and literary itineraries and its dissolution in the Yugoslav wars. The analysis also focuses on the particularities of different feminist writings, together with their picturing of possible futures. The title of the book suggests an attempt to interpret post-Yugoslav literature as feminist writing, but also a process of conceptualizing a post-Yugoslav literary field, in this study represented by contemporary fiction from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.Trade Review"A book full of detailed descriptions and analyses that are highly relevant to how post-Yugoslavia deals with the future. An insightful read for people who are not interested in easy and ready-made answers." Jasen Philipps, www.kritisch-lesen.de, 13.04.2021, translated from German

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Book SynopsisLesbian Web Series narrate female-centred stories, strengthen identity construction, and generate transnational communities beyond cultural barriers. Julia Obermayr explores the first definition of a new format, the first representations of lesbian women in US-American, Canadian, and Spanish web series from 2007 and onward, as well as their reciprocal effects regarding identity construction and community building of their transnational, mainly female, audience.The analyzed corpus comprises scenes taken from Venice the Series (2009) and its backstory "Otalia" on the soap opera Guiding Light (1952-2009), Seeking Simone (2009), Out With Dad (2010), Féminin/ Féminin (2014), Chica Busca Chica (2007) and its cinematic sequel De Chica En Chica (2015), as well as Notas Aparte (2016).Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Questions of Methodology; Lesbian Identities; Lesbian Web Series: The Medium; The Lesbian Code; Approaching Female Identities in Lesbian Web Series within Anglo-, Hispano-, and Francophone Contexts; Effects of Lesbian Web Series on their Audiences; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Table of Figures; References.

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Book SynopsisHow do migrant women living in illegality build intimate relationships? How do they experience, resist or take advantage of the tight link between intimacy and migration status created by the German migration legislation? Drawing on rich biographical accounts and ethnographic methods, the book offers an insightful and sensitive look at a mostly unknown aspect of life in illegality. Adopting a critical feminist perspective, Flaminia Bartolini shows how intimacy should be understood in its intrinsic power dimension and looks critically at the German migration regime and on its effects on migrants' lives.Trade Review"This book results to be a very good reading for those engaging with qualitative research in gender and migration studies, able to provide original insights and an inspiring perspective." Alba Angelucci, Ethical and Racial Studies, 06.12.2021

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Book SynopsisThrough biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, gender, and nation. Situated between heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women on the one hand, and the implicitly white figure of the lesbian on the other, queer migrant women are often rendered "impossible subjects." Claiming Home maps how they negotiate conflicting loyalties in this field and how they, in their own way, claim a sense of belonging and home.

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Book SynopsisIn the complex and multi-layered process of migration and identity-building, classical migration theories and approaches of transnationalism seem no longer able to grasp how belonging and home are to be found in movement. This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors by following the intricate mental and physical trajectories of their deep-rooted yearning to return home.

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Book SynopsisIn the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualisation and feminisation have been crucial in the construction of the "Jewish Other". Ulrike Brunotte explores how these processes came about by addressing imaginative, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. She analyses how literature, psychoanalysis and the performing arts traverse and react to the ambivalence of racialised stereotypes. The "femininity puzzle" presents itself in two ways: first in the role of effeminisation of the male Jew in antisemitic discourse, and then in the transgressive forms of femininity connected to Jewish women, especially the allosemitic Orientalisation in the figure of the "Beautiful Jewess".

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Book SynopsisIf pictures can be sexist, can analysing sound reveal sexism, too? Where is the language to discuss sexism in music? L.J. Müller tackles these important questions in their 2018 German book titled Sound und Sexismus, which was awarded the IASPM 2019 book prize. Analysing the voices of Kurt Cobain, Kate Bush, Björk and others, Müller demonstrates how gender is performed vocally and interacts with gendered aspects of embodiment and affect. The book is written from a strongly positioned and personal feminist perspective and is appealing to readers from various backgrounds -- singers, producers, music lovers, as well as academics and anyone with an interest in feminist takes on pop culture.

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