Gender studies, gender groups Books

Book SynopsisMaternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother.Trade Review"Arnold draws upon a wide scope of theoretical writing in psychoanalysis and film studies to explore the parallels between the mother's position in horror and melodrama, while also investigating the differences between Western and Japanese psychological analyses of the mother-child bond through a series of close readings of 'transnational' films. The book will make a vital contribution to both women's and film studies." - Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Good Mother 2. The Bad Mother 3. A Comparative Analysis of Motherhood in Recent Japanese and US Horror Films 4. Pregnancy in the Horror Film Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFrom a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the United States, Singapore and Spain, the book explores gender vulnerabilities and racial and class privilege in contemporary feminized migration, filling a gap in literature on race and migration.Trade Review“The strength of Lundström’s study lies in the comparative findings of white femininity in different transnational locations. … Catrin Lundström has conducted meticulous research from an engaging perspective and provides the reader with a highly engaging journey through the contradictory locations of white Swedish woman migrants.” (Nelli Ruotsalainen, Nordic Journal of Migration Research NJMR, Vol. 08 (02), 2018)“The book does a wonderful job at exploring the complex intersections of whiteness, gender and class, sexuality and national identity experienced by affluent migrant women in different national contexts. … With its focus on a neglected case of ‘white migration’, the book makes a valuable and refreshing contribution to the increasingly diverse scholarship on migration, and should also appeal to anyone interested in whiteness or gender studies more generally.” (Laura Moroşanu, Review European Journal of Women's Studies White Migrations, ejw.sagepub.com, Vol. 23 (2), May, 2016)"White Migrations is [...] a remarkably precise and lucid analysis of heterosexuality in its intersection with Swedish whiteness. The heterosexuality of her informants is crucial to how their white privilege moves with them, and to the forms it takes in the new contexts where they build their lives. The very specificity of the heterosexual female embodiment of Swedish whiteness is constantly in focus, despite the fact that all Lundström's informants appear to be straight. Heterosexuality is not conflated with gender, and it is not universalized. Although this should be expected in feminist research, it is still a rare accomplishment. Lundström does not make a point of it, but the job she does of describing the specificity of living normative lives in relation to sexuality makes the book a contribution to sexuality studies as well as to migration studies and critical whiteness studies.[...] "For gender studies, White Migrations offers a lesson in how gender, race, class, and sexuality are co-constituted in both the private and the public sphere, and how Nordic whiteness in its heterosexual female variety produces particular life conditions (depending on destination), for those who migrate with it. To silence race in studies of this group is deeply problematic because it extends the naturalization of white privilege. Lundström's book gives an excellent example of how privileged lives can be studied without naturalizing their standpoint. It will be extremely valuable for gender studies scholars who want to explore how white privilege becomes significant in gendered ways, and how it can be understood by those who benefit from it." - Stine H. Bang Svendsen, Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 23(2)Table of Contents1. White Migrations: a Theoretical Framework 2. A Multi-sited Ethnography of Whiteness 3. Doing Similarity in a White-Women's Network 4. Hierarchies of Whiteness in the United States 5. Racial Divisions in Expatriate Lives in Singapore 6. Disintegrating Whiteness in Southern Spain 7. Gender and Whiteness in Motion 8. Migration Studies Revisited

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Book SynopsisThis book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.Trade Review“Hunting Africa is a valuable tool for scholars who study late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. … Hunting Africa adds to the field of scholarship on imperial masculinity and femininity. Moreover, Thompsell’s thorough investigation of personal accounts, social contracts, and violence deepens our understanding of the fraught and complex relationship between colonizers and colonized.” (Precious Mckenzie, American Historical Review, February, 2017)“Angela Thompsell’s Hunting Africa is relatively short at just over 150 pages of text … . The book touches on themes of gender, the social history of both African and colonial communities, the economics of hunting, and the image of Africa in British culture. … Hunting Africa was published by Palgrave Macmillan in conjunction with the British Scholar Society, which indicates that the audience is specialist historians of empire and gender … .” (Toby Harper, H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, May, 2016)Table of Contents1. Real Men / Savage Nature: The Rise of African Big Game Hunting 2. 'The Bitter Thraldom of Dependence': Negotiating the Hunt 3. Guns and Reeds: Africanizing British Big Game Hunting 4. Lady Lion Hunters: An Imperial Femininity 5. 'To Make a Fetish of Roughing It': Reimagining Hunting in the Age of Safaris, 1900-1914

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the significant role education plays in the promotion of human development and gender equality in India, situating this progression in relation to developed nations, the other BRIC countries and the ongoing attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.Trade Review'This is an illuminating study of the role of education, particularly higher education, in gender equity and justice in a rapidly globalizing world. Geeta Nair's careful empirical analysis brings out many important relations that deserve much greater attention than they have received so far. A good addition to a literature with theoretical interest and practical relevance.'- Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University, USATable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Macroeconomic Scenario in India 3. Review of Growth of Higher Education System in India 4. Promotion of Human Development Indices Through Higher Education 5. Reinforcing Micro Foundations of Macroeconomic Parameters 6. Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisBesides tracing the evolution of representations through both art and popular films, this book also analyses connections with consumer culture, film criticism and politics. Through archival research and a survey of more than 600 films, the author enriches our understanding of thirty years of Italian film and cultural history.Trade Review“The book sounds like it will adopt a historicist approach that reads Italian films in terms of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ images of homosexuality. … One of the strengths of this highly readable, often witty book is precisely the author’s flexibility of approach. … Giori’s book is a valuable contribution to a growing body of work in Queer Italian Studies.” (John Champagne, gender / sexuality / Italy, Vol. 6, 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Silence.- 3. Enjoying the Darkness.- 4. Undressing the Other.- 5. Luchinidi and Pasolinidi.- 6. Love in the Time of Panic.- 7. Sexual Revolution, Italian Style.- 8. Pornography of Death.- 9. The Only Good Thing.- 10. Homophiles and Gays Go to the Movies.- 11. Conclusion: Martyrdom and Pleasure.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing ninety professional women's autobiographies from 1900-1920, the first part of this book concentrates on the endeavours of groups such as headmistresses, doctors, nurses, artists and writers to record their own lives, while the second part examines frontispiece photos, prefatory marginalia and the role of silences in autobiography.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements PART I Introduction Headmistresses Doctors Nurses and VADs Artists and Practitioners Writers PART II Frontispiece Photographs Prefaces, Forewards and Introductions Silences Self and Identity Memory and Accuracy Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.Trade Review"Mobility and Modernity crackles with new perspectives." - Charlotte MacDonald, Victoria University of WellingtonTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction: Modernity, Mobility and Women's Agency Home and Away: North and South and Adam Bede Travelling Companions: Moths and Miss Brown The New Woman's 'Wheels of Daily Existence': The Daughters of Danaus and Red Pottage Street Politics: The Convert and Clash Moving Dangerously: Cold Comfort Farm and To the North Destinations of the Modern Woman Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis original analysis of correspondence between E.M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood illuminates how these two influential writers grappled with WII, their personal relationships, and their creative works.Table of ContentsThe 1930s The War Years: 1939-1945 The Post-War Years

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Book Synopsis Part I. First Wave, 1900-1945.- 1. Raising the Curtain on Suzanne Bing's Life in the Theatre; Jane Baldwin.- 2. From Neva Boyd to Viola Spolin; Scott Proudfit.- 3. A Democratic Legacy; Elizabeth A. Osborne.- 4. Aleksandra Remizova; Andrei Malaev-Babel.- PART II. Second Wave, 1945-1985.- 5. Mnouchkine & Co.; David Calder.- 6. Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and the Mabou Mines Family Aesthetic; Jessica Silsby Brater;- 7. Hers and His;Siobhan O'Gorman.- 8. From the Center to the Heartland; Anne Fletcher.- 9. Historiographing a Feminist Utopia; Michelle MacArthur.- 10. Monstrous Regiment; Sarah Sigal.- PART III. Third Wave, 1985-2014.- 11. Judith Malina and the Living Theatre; Cindy Rosenthal.- 12. Bryony Lavery; Karen Morash.- 13. Women, Transmission, and Creative Agency in the Grotowski Diaspora; Virginie Magnat.- 14. The Women of Odin Teatret; Adam Ledger.- 15. Doing What Comes Naturally?; Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart.- 16. Collective Creation Downtown 2Table of ContentsPart I. First Wave, 1900-1945.- 1. Raising the Curtain on Suzanne Bing’s Life in the Theatre; Jane Baldwin.- 2. From Neva Boyd to Viola Spolin; Scott Proudfit.- 3. A Democratic Legacy; Elizabeth A. Osborne.- 4. Aleksandra Remizova; Andrei Malaev-Babel.- PART II. Second Wave, 1945-1985.- 5. Mnouchkine & Co.; David Calder.- 6. Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and the Mabou Mines Family Aesthetic; Jessica Silsby Brater;- 7. “Hers and His”;Siobhan O'Gorman.- 8. From the Center to the Heartland; Anne Fletcher.- 9. Historiographing a Feminist Utopia; Michelle MacArthur.- 10. Monstrous Regiment; Sarah Sigal.- PART III. Third Wave, 1985-2014.- 11. Judith Malina and the Living Theatre; Cindy Rosenthal.- 12. Bryony Lavery; Karen Morash.- 13. Women, Transmission, and Creative Agency in the Grotowski Diaspora; Virginie Magnat.- 14. The Women of Odin Teatret; Adam Ledger.- 15. Doing What Comes Naturally?; Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart.- 16. Collective Creation Downtown 2014; Rachel Anderson-Rabern.- 17. Between Africa and America; Nia O. Witherspoon.- 18. Hands like starfish/Feet like moons; Victoria Lewis.- 19. Pussy Riot and Performance as Social Practice; Julia Listengarten.

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at the centerpiece of the international women’s rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.- List of tables, figures and boxes.- List of Acronyms.- Introduction.- 1. Theorizing norm translation – women’s rights as transnational practice.- 2. The creation of CEDAW within the global discourse on gender equality.- 3. CEDAW as a ‘living document’ – 30+ years of Committee work.- 4. A new tool in the toolbox: the Optional Protocol to the Convention.- 5. Creating ‘thick connections’ - translating activism in the CEDAW process.- 6. Auditing the contract partners: States parties’ connectivity with CEDAW.- 7. Some patches in the quilt – cases of impact translation.- Conclusion: How far can CEDAW reach? Lessons for a better understanding of norm translation.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Appendices.- Index.

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Trade ReviewLeinarte's book is an important contribution. It is based on impressive source material… any area specialist, gender researcher or forensic sociologist will be enriched. * Nordisk Østforum *Focusing on women's lives in Soviet-era Lithuania, Leinarte pinpoints Soviet family and labor policies as two aspects that impinged most strongly on their existences and examines relevant ideological precepts, legal mandates, and policy directives. * CHOICE *In this book, Dalia Leinarte presents the first detailed study of family policy and gender relations in Soviet Lithuania. Based on both meticulous archival research and sensitive oral history, the work is an impressive achievement. It effectively integrates political, legal, social, and cultural perspectives to produce an analytical survey that is wide-ranging, perceptive and insightful. It is a story of legal principles betrayed, intractable contradictions between policy intentions and outcomes, moral confusion and controversy, and everyday struggles for sufficiency and security. Engagingly and accessibly written, it will be of the greatest interest to scholars and to students at all levels in Soviet and East European studies, social history, women’s history and gender studies. * Nick Baron, Associate Professor of History, University of Nottingham, UK *Written by a leading feminist scholar, this meticulously researched and clearly written book explores gendered Soviet family policies and the ways they were experienced. Drawing on a wealth of material, including archival sources, letters and newspapers, it traces the construction of “a New Soviet Woman” in Lithuania and related issues, such as Soviet marriage and divorce, battles with tradition, and the Soviet understanding of gender equality. This outstanding, path-breaking work is essential reading for anyone interested in gender issues in the USSR. * Dovile Budryte, Professor of Political Science, Georgia Gwinnett College, USA *Leinarte’s monograph opens up a bounty of fascinating material about the complexity of the transition from the interwar Lithuanian republic to Soviet Lithuania. The details of the court materials, for example lists of family belongings, will offer readers specific insight into the material possibilities of the era. Those interested in the legal code concerning families in Soviet Lithuania, the way the court system functioned, and the changes in family structure over the Soviet decades will find a valuable source in Leinarte’s monograph. * Besprechungen *Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Soviet Family Policy 2. Marriage and Divorce 3. Parents and Children 4. Household Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUlrike Lindner is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne, Germany. Dörte Lerp is Senior Researcher in Modern History at the University of Cologne, Germany.Trade ReviewNew Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire is a compelling contribution to the investigation of the entanglements between gender and imperialism … The several case studies not only add important insights to scholarship on the specific settings but also shed new light on the centrality of the entanglements between violence, intimacy, sexuality, domesticity, and citizenship in the production of colonial rule. * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *This fascinating and lucidly written collection of essays advances the historical study of gender and empire through a focus on comparative and global approaches and a combination of case studies relating to both overseas and land-based empires. The introduction provides a valuable critical survey of the state of the field, while the individual case studies provide fascinating insights which move beyond earlier binary interpretations of coloniser-colonised dynamics to give insights into the complex intersectionality of affective and power relationships in colonial contexts. * Clare Midgley, Research Professor in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK *This volume on "gendered imperial formations" brings us truly new research on less-studied settings as well as fresh findings on more established themes. Thoughtfully conceptualized and carefully written, these essays offer information and insights that are simply not available elsewhere. The authors’ work perfectly demonstrates the necessity of skillful gender analysis for investigations of colonialism. * Lora Wildenthal, Professor of History, Rice University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Perspectives on Gender and Empire: Comparative and Global Approaches Ulrike Lindner and Dörte Lerp (both University of Cologne, Germany) I. Intimate Relationships and Marriages 1. The Domestic Foundations of Imperial Sovereignty: Mixed Marriages in the Fascist Aegean Alexis Rappas (Koç University, Turkey) 2. In the Forge of the Empire: Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Northern Black Sea Steppe Julia Malitska (Södertörn University, Sweden) 3. Love Affair? State’s Affair? Interpreting a Hanging in German East Africa, or Questions of Gender and Race in Colonial Historiography Bettina Brockmeyer (Bielefeld University, Germany) II. Masculinity, Femininity and Imperial Encounters 4. Colonial Views: Approaching Gender and Empire through the Snapshots of an American Woman in the Philippines (1900-1902) Silvan Niedermeier (Erfurt University, Germany) 5. Male Same-Sex Desire and Masculinity in Colonial German Southwest Africa Jan Severin (Humboldt University, Germany) III. Indigenous Servants and Colonial Homes 6. “Where the home life is white”: Domestic Service Debates in New Zealand and South Africa, c. 1897-1913 Elizabeth Dillenburg (University of Minnesota, USA) 7. Being at Home: Settler Colonial Biopower and the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Australia Eva Bischoff (Trier University, Germany) IV. Education and Schooling 8. Between Patriarchy, Imperialism, and Women’s Empowerment: Female Education in Colonial India Jana Tschurenev (University of Göttingen, Germany) 9. “Saving Our Sisters”: Female education and the London Missionary Society in Nineteenth-Century South India Divya Kannan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Index

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Book SynopsisK. S. Batmanghelichi is Associate Professor for the Study of Modern Iran in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway.Trade ReviewThis is a well-written book on a very important topic, which readers will find interesting and perhaps surprising. * CHOICE *Batmanghelichi provides a fascinating analysis of how the regulation of sexuality has evolved in Iran. The book takes us on an illuminating journey from reforming the visual arts, to regulating prostitution in red-light parks before the 1979 revolution and relying on temporary marriage after the revolution, to refashioning “modest” statues post-revolution, and finally to contradictory government approaches to dealing with HIV/AIDs. This is a must read if you want to understand sexuality before and after the Islamic revolution. * Melanie Heath, Associate Professor of Sociology, McMaster University, Canada *In this perceptive, well documented and illustrated study, Batmanghelichi depicts the scope, determination as well as failures of Iran’s policy of moral cleansing targeting women’s sexuality. Combining historical analysis and ethnographic research, this is a welcome addition to the literature on the resilience of women’s sexuality to the power of moral engineering grounded in religion. * Marnia Lazreg, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA *Drawing on an innovating combination of archival, historical material; social policies including sexual health policies; art, women’s magazines, and the rearrangement of public spaces in Iran over the last 100 years under two very different states, the author skillfully counters current understandings of the Islamic regime’s treatment of women, their bodies, their dress and as a rupture from the Pahlavi era treatment of women. This book convincing argues that the policies of both regimes, and their perspectives on women, a part of a a continuum that views women and their public representation as central to national ideology as imagined by the state, regardless of each regime’s particular political perspective. Readers are taken on an intriguing tour of a century of social and oral history and exploration of policy directives. This tour highlights the failures of these successive regimes to understand the diversity of Iranian women, to successfully manipulate women’s bodies as a collective vehicle for state ideology, or to entrench their desired ideological hegemony. An unparalleled account of the role and the centrality of female citizens in the political imaginations of both the current Iranian regime and the Pahlavi monarchy it unseated, this is a work of original and interestingly sourced scholarship, and of thoughtful analysis. * Homa Hoodfar, Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Concordia University, Canada *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements A Note On Transliteration Introduction 1. Reform: An Art Of Visual Persuasion 2. Red-lights In Parks: A Social History Of Park-E Razi 3. Safety valves and post-revolutionary “prostitution” 4. Naked Modesty And The Reformation Of Statues 5. When Hiv/Aids Meets Government Morality Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDarío Luis Banegas is Lecturer in Language Education in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Navan Govender is Lecturer in English Language Education in the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, UK.Trade ReviewBanegas and Govender have put together a timely collection of thoroughly engaging and innovative studies from around the globe that explore how issues surrounding gender and sexuality are being incorporated into English teaching pedagogies. Whatever your location or teaching context you are sure to find something here to inform and inspire. * Luke Lawrence, Toyo University, Japan *Banegas and Govender have brought together a polyvocal text that provides a robust view on the evolving construct of gender and its role in language teaching, learning, and research. * J. M. Paiz, The George Washington University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Foreword, Jane Sunderland (Lancaster University, UK) Introduction, Dario Luis Banegas and Navan Govender (University of Strathclyde, UK) 1. Queer Critical Literacies and Initial Teacher Education: Transnational Moments, Grant Andrews (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Navan Govender (University of Strathclyde, UK) 2. An Intercultural Experience with a Gender Perspective Between Post-secondary Students from Argentina and Canada, Antonella Romiti (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS), Argentina) and Jessie Smith (Langara College, Canada) 3. Visually Significant Spaces: Mediating Queer Picturebooks for Deep Reading in Primary ELT, David Valente (Nord University, Norway) 4. Breaking the Heteronormative Prosody: What a Family Tree Tells Us about Gender and Sexuality in the EFL Classroom, Germán Canale (Universidad de la Repúlica, Uruguay) 5. Exploring the Effects of Stereotype Threat on Men’s Foreign Language Listening Performance in a Sample of Turkish University Students, Gulsah Kutuk (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 6. Dating as an Alternative Educational Site: An Analysis of a Female Bisexual International Student’s Access to English Learning in Canada, Liang Cao (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 7. Multimodal and Critical Representations of Gender and Sexuality: The Journeys (not) Taken, Shin-ying Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) 8. Gendered Discourses in Global and Glocal ELT Textbooks, Suha Alansari (The University of Warwick, UK) 9. Gender, Sexuality and ELT Course Books: Where Are We Now? Chris Richards (BRAYS English, Spain) 10. Addressing Critical Perspectives in Language Teacher Education: Challenging Norms and Structures, David Gerlach (University of Wuppertal, Germany) 11. Gender Diversity and Online English Language Teaching During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh Sayeedur Rahman (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Mohammad Hamidul Haque (American International University-Bangladesh, Bangladesh) 12. New Transnational Voices on Gender Diversity in English Language Education: Moving Forward Joanna Pawelczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) References Index

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Book SynopsisVanessa May and Petra Nordqvist are both based in the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives at the University of Manchester, UK.Trade ReviewThis is an important and compelling introduction to the sociology of personal life, now updated to present chapters on a broad range of topics, which clearly illustrate the intersections and connections between public and private lives. * Jenny van Hooff, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *The sociology of personal life comes of age in this compelling and highly readable second edition, which develops new and exciting insights into the politics and practices that link the individual and the social in both public and private worlds. * Raelene Wilding, La Trobe University, Australia *In this wonderful introductory text leading Sociologists bring together insights from the sociology of families, sexuality, friendship, consumption and the body to lay out the developing field of personal life. By focussing on the interconnections between the personal and the public and the emotional and the material, a fresh perspective on everyday life emerges. * Jo Lindsay, Monash University, Australia *This wonderfully accessible new edition expands and deepens our sociological understanding of contemporary personal life. May and Nordqvist bring together some of the most exciting names in the field to demonstrate sociology in its most engaging and challenging form. This book is essential reading for anyone studying the ways in which complex, modern inter-personal relationships work. * Carol Smart, University of Manchester, UK *This is a fresh, timely and accessible contribution to the sociology of the family, intimacy and relationships. The authors bring to life the many and varied dimensions of personal life encompassing the relational and the socio-political. Destined to become a ‘must read’ for teachers and researchers alike. * Deborah Dempsey, Swinburne University, Australia *Combining fascinating insights from current research with key theoretical concepts, this is an essential text for any student of family and relationships. Chapters on 'home' and 'the body' are welcome additions to this new edition which offers an accessible and engaging guide to the contemporary sociology of personal life. * Esther Dermott, University of Bristol, UK *Table of Contents1.What is a ‘Sociology of Personal Life’? 2.Conceputalising the personal 3.Couple relationships 4.Kinship: How being related matters in personal life 5.Friendship and personal life 6.Material cultures 7.Personal life across the life course 8.Consumer culture 9.The body in personal life 10. Home 11.Personal Life in Public Spaces 12.Sexuality and politics of personal life 13.Conclusion: Why a Sociology of Personal Life?

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Book SynopsisThis short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally.The authors engage with a wide range of developments in queer theory thinking including discussions of identity politics, transgender theory, intersectionality, post-colonial theory, Indigenous studies, disability studies, affect theory, and more.In offering an updated reflection on the present tensions that queer theory must negotiate, as well as its unfolding future(s), Queer Theory Now is an ideal resource for anyone starting out on their queer theory journey; for students who want to get a grasp of the basic concepts, for teachers looking for a textbook for their queer theory course, or for scholars who want a quick go-to resource for key queer theory ideas and terms.Trade ReviewQueer Theory Now is a thorough synthesis of thirty years of queer theory and its precursors. It should be required reading in classrooms around the world. An essential primer! * Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University, USA *Queer Theory Now is an invaluable resource for newcomers to queer theory. McCann and Monaghan define key terms with outstanding clarity. Centering the work of theorists of colour and trans theorists, the authors uncover the variegated histories that have converged on, and diverged from, queer theory. Eminently teachable. * Jean-Thomas Tremblay, New Mexico State University, USA *This is a rigorous and pedagogically designed introduction to queer theory that covers not only the field’s foundations but also more recent debates. Moreover, the inclusion of case studies, definitions of key terms and film recommendations makes complex ideas accessible for students finding their way in queer theory. – Sam McBean, Queen Mary University of London, UK * Sam McBean, Queen Mary University of London, UK *Part disciplinary history, part field assessment, part critical reference, Queer Theory Now is perhaps most importantly a primer for the queer work ahead. It will be a welcome queer pedagogy text in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. * Matt Brim, College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA *An absolute must read! Queer Theory Now, carefully crafted by McCann and Monaghan, is an incredibly timely, necessary and rich resource. Undergraduates and post-graduate students interested in engaging with historical and contemporary debates in queer theories will find much to stimulate their thinking in this book. * Leanne Coll, Deakin University, Australia *The last real primer for queer theory was Annemarie Jagose’s Queer Theory over 20 years ago. Queer Theory Now fills that enormous gap, covering key areas such as intersectionality, the global dimensions of queerness, and the history of the field, while remaining attentive to the difficulties of defining the complex and ever-evolving perspectives on sexuality and gender. * Ross Forman, University of Warwick, UK *The most concise and comprehensive explanation of the past, present and future of queer theory available today. This book traces queer theory’s significant histories and locates its renewed relevance in contemporary times. It makes queer theory’s evolution and complexities easy to access and is a must-have for any university library. * Joanna McIntyre, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia *McCann and Monaghan have written one of the most insightful overviews of queer theory currently on the market. It is highly recommended for those seeking an accessible guide to key ideas, issues, developments, and controversies in this field. The writers deserve credit for their ample demonstration of queer theory's applicability to a range of disciplines, lives, and events. * Páraic Finnerty, University of Portsmouth *Table of Contents1. Defining Queer Theory 2.From Pathology to Pride 3.Sexuality and Feminism 4.AIDS and Acting Up 5.Outing the Closet 6.Theory Meets Identity 7.Negotiating Intersections 8.Temporality and Queer Utopias.

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Book SynopsisNotes on Contributors Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: 'Talking your body's language': The Menstrual Materialisation of Sexed Ontology; A.Shail & G.Howie PART 1: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE Menses in the Corpus Hippocraticum ; L.Arata Menstruation in Aristotle's Concept of the Person; G.Hiltmann The Art and Science of Menstrual Balancing in Early Medieval China; S.Wilms Flowers, Poisons and Men: Menstruation in Medieval Western Europe; M.H.Green The Secrets of Women (c. 1300): A Medieval Perspective on Menstruation; B.Bildhauer Menstrual Knowledge and Medical Practice in Early Modern France, c. 1555-1761; C.McClive Menstruation and Sexual Difference in Early Modern Medicine; M.Stolberg 'I believe it to be a case depending on menstruation': Madness and Menstrual Taboo in British Medical Practice, c. 1840-1930; J-M.Strange Embryological and Agricultural Constructions of the Menstrual Cycle, 1890-1910; H.Blackman Of Sex, Nationalities and Populations: The Construction of MenstruatioTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: 'Talking your body's language': The Menstrual Materialisation of Sexed Ontology; A.Shail & G.Howie PART 1: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE Menses in the Corpus Hippocraticum ; L.Arata Menstruation in Aristotle's Concept of the Person; G.Hiltmann The Art and Science of Menstrual Balancing in Early Medieval China; S.Wilms Flowers, Poisons and Men: Menstruation in Medieval Western Europe; M.H.Green The Secrets of Women (c. 1300): A Medieval Perspective on Menstruation; B.Bildhauer Menstrual Knowledge and Medical Practice in Early Modern France, c. 1555-1761; C.McClive Menstruation and Sexual Difference in Early Modern Medicine; M.Stolberg 'I believe it to be a case depending on menstruation': Madness and Menstrual Taboo in British Medical Practice, c. 1840-1930; J-M.Strange Embryological and Agricultural Constructions of the Menstrual Cycle, 1890-1910; H.Blackman Of Sex, Nationalities and Populations: The Construction of Menstruation as a Patho-Physiology; Z.Meghani PART 2: MYTH AND CULTURE Menstrual Misogyny and Taboo: The Medusa, Vampire and the Female Stigmatic; M.Mulvey-Roberts The Swan Maiden's Flight Over Time: Rituals, Fairytales and Matriarchy; J.K.Thomas Menstruating Women/Menstruating Goddesses: Sites of Sacred Power in South India; D.E.Jenett Medieval Responsa Literature On Niddah : Perpetuations of Notions of Tumah ; H.Ner-David 'Let Him Pass for a Man': The Myth of Jewish Male Menstruation in The Merchant of Venice ; A.M.Balizet A Menstrual Lesson for Girls: Maria Edgeworth's "The Purple Jar"; H.Robbins 'A rag and a bone and a hank of hair': The Menstrual Background of "the Vampire"; A.Shail Masking Menstruation: The Emergence of Menstrual Hygiene Products in the United States; S.L.Vostral Blood, Laughter and the Medusa: The Gothic Heroine as Menstrual Monster; R.Munford PART 3: APPENDIX A Guide to Bibliographical and Archival Resources for the Study of the History of Menstruation; A.Shail Index

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Book SynopsisThese essays explore the place, function and meaning of women as characters, authors, constructs and symbols in Medieval epics from Persia, Spain, France, England, Germany and Scandinavia. Usually believed to narrate the deeds of men at war, this book looks at the key roles often played by women and the impact of this on the history of gender.Trade Review'...a welcome and imaginative treatment of a too-little investigated topic.' - Carolyne Larrington, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; S.S.Poor & J.K.Schulman FEMALE HEROICS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER Ethical Acts and Annihilation: Feminine Heroics in Girart de Roussillon; W.Burgwinkle Women Characters and the Limits of Patriarchy in the Poema de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo; T.Caldin Caught Between Worlds: Gendering the Maiden Warrior in Old Norse; W.Layher GENDER AND GENRE Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle and Other Epic Works: From Historical Background to Anxiety Personified; S.G.Heller Women in the Shahnameh: Exotics and Natives, Rebellious Legends, and Dutiful Histories; D.Davis Chaucer's Queer Epic; E.Salisbury Monstrous Mates: The Leading Ladies of the Nibelungenlied and V÷lsunga Saga; K.Grimstad & R.M.Wakefield 'A Guest is in the Hall': Gendered Violence at Feasts in Icelandic Epic; J.K.Schulman AUTHORSHIP, PATRONAGE, AND THE GESTURES OF LORDSHIP What Hrotsvit Did to Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries of the Classical Epic in Tenth-Century Ottonian Saxony; K.Olson Female Nobility, Patronage, and the Making of Castilian-Leonese Epic; M.Vaquero Beowulf's Queens and the Politics of Eleventh-Century England; H.Damico Brunhild's Smile: The Politics of Emotion in the Nibelungenlied; K.Starkey

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Book SynopsisThis study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly submissive and masochistic posture toward women exhibited by many of Hemingway's heroes, from Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises to David Bourne in The Garden of Eden. The discussion draws on the ideas of diverse authors revealing that 'masochistic aesthetic' informs many of the texts.Trade Review"This is a daring and fascinating book, which adds yet another chapter to the recent revisionist work that has altered forever the way we read Hemingway and his writings. Arguing that Hemingway and his male protagonists are consumed by a need to be dominated sexually by women, Fantina alters our understanding of the heterosexuality of Hemingway and his heroes. Sorting carefully through theories of masochism, Fantina cleverly explains the contradictory impulses of Hemingway and his men: their attraction to forbidden desires and acts which seem to stand in such stark contrast to their dominating bravado when in the public eye. Ultimately, this book makes a compelling case for the queer heterosexuality of Hemingway and the male characters he created in his own image. Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism fills an important gap in recent work on the transgressive sexuality of Hemingway and his characters, and as such will be a welcome contribution by many Hemingway scholars." - Debra A. Moddelmog, author of Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway "Considerations of gender and sexuality have been central to Hemingway studies for the past decade. This book s great virtue is that it has something new to tell us about Ernest Hemingway. It has outstanding insights into Hemingway s work." - Carl P. Eby, author of Hemingway s Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of ManhoodTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism Hemingway and Theories of Masochism Elements of Hemingway's Masochism Hemingway and the Feminine Complex Defying the Code: Masochism in the Major Texts Hemingway, Race, and Colonialism Reaffirming the Code: Reinscribing Patriarchy

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Book SynopsisThe Discursive Strategies of the Marginalized St. Agnes and the Emperor's Daughter in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Feminizing the Founding of the Early Roman Church Marie de France Versus King Arthur: Lanval's Gender Inversion as Breton Subversion Marguerite Porete's Annihilation of the Character Reason in Her Fantasy of an Inverted Church Unhomely Margery Kempe and St. Catherine of Siena: 'Comownycacyon' and 'Conversacyon' as Homily Toward a Minor Literature: Julian of Norwich's Annihilation of Original SinTrade Review'Chance has been a pioneer of feminist literary criticism on the Middle Ages ever since her book, Woman as Hero in Old English Literature, first appeared in the mid-1980s. Some two dozen books later, in the course of a distinguished career, Chance has accumulated a reputation not only for feminist scholarship, but also for her thoughtful and generous mentoring of two generations of women medievalists.The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women is the culmination of Chance's scholarship as a feminist medievalist, and the jewel in her crown.' - Geraldine Heng, Director of Medieval Studies at the University of Texas at Austin; Author of Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (2003) "Chance's study is an incisive, eloquent, and erudite survey of the wide-ranging strategies which medieval women writers in Latin, French, German, and Italian deployed to turn the tables on the misogynist literary culture of their time, to restore in effect the abused ideal of a universal republic of letters. It combines the latest scholarship in critical and cultural studies, especially post-colonialist and feminist theory, with a sweeping, often breath-taking command of more traditional medievalist scholarship. It opens up, in a pioneering fashion, a new dialogue about women writers in medieval (and also modern) culture. One might not always agree with Chance nor does she expect this response but no one can fail to be stimulated by this deeply provocative study." - Jeff Richards, Professor of Romance Literatures, University of Wuppertal 'Chance has long been recognized as a leading scholar of the Middle Ages. This book is an exceptional achievement by a medievalist at the top of her game. Her work reinvigorates the study of important medieval women writers like Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich, suggesting exciting new directions for the discipline of medieval studies.' - Laurie Finke, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Kenyon CollegeTable of ContentsThe Discursive Strategies of the Marginalized St. Agnes and the Emperor's Daughter in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Feminizing the Founding of the Early Roman Church Marie de France Versus King Arthur: Lanval's Gender Inversion as Breton Subversion Marguerite Porete's Annihilation of the Character Reason in Her Fantasy of an Inverted Church Unhomely Margery Kempe and St. Catherine of Siena: 'Comownycacyon' and 'Conversacyon' as Homily Toward a Minor Literature: Julian of Norwich's Annihilation of Original Sin

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Book SynopsisIntroduction; R.Halwani Sexual Desire and Virtue in Ancient Philosophy; J.Sihvola Sexuality and the Unity of the Virtues; J.Jacobs Virtue and Sex Education; J.Steutel Kantian Virtue and Sexual Desire; L.Denis Carnal Wisdom and Sexual Virtue; N.Badhwar Radical Feminism, Sex, and Virtue; M.Nussbaum Temperance; P.Geach Sexual Morality; R.Scruton Deliberation and Sense-Desire: The Virtue of Temperance; N.J.H.Dent On the Prospects of Chastity as a Present Day Virtue; D.Carr Sexual Temperance and Intemperance; R.Halwani The Wrongness of Adultery: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach; D.Baltzly Coming Out, Outing, and Virtue Ethics; J.Stramel Virtue, Casual Sex, and Promiscuity; R.Halwani Intellectual Virtue and Knowing One's Sexual Identity; H.Battaly Virtue, Pornography and Sexual Health; S.Kershnar Concluding Commentary; A.Soble IndexTrade Review'This book, which covers the full range of what one might call "progressive" and "conservative" positions, makes a valuable contribution to that process and project as people strive to integrate their sexuality into a flourishing, well-lived and virtuous life.' - John A. Dick, Ethical PerspectivesTable of ContentsIntroduction; R.Halwani Sexual Desire and Virtue in Ancient Philosophy; J.Sihvola Sexuality and the Unity of the Virtues; J.Jacobs Virtue and Sex Education; J.Steutel Kantian Virtue and Sexual Desire; L.Denis Carnal Wisdom and Sexual Virtue; N.Badhwar Radical Feminism, Sex, and Virtue; M.Nussbaum Temperance; P.Geach Sexual Morality; R.Scruton Deliberation and Sense-Desire: The Virtue of Temperance; N.J.H.Dent On the Prospects of Chastity as a Present Day Virtue; D.Carr Sexual Temperance and Intemperance; R.Halwani The Wrongness of Adultery: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach; D.Baltzly Coming Out, Outing, and Virtue Ethics; J.Stramel Virtue, Casual Sex, and Promiscuity; R.Halwani Intellectual Virtue and Knowing One's Sexual Identity; H.Battaly Virtue, Pornography and Sexual Health; S.Kershnar Concluding Commentary; A.Soble Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, business and the media, where people are increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female speech is often evaluated differently.Trade Review'I appreciate the breadth of contexts studied, from media, politics, work settings, religion courtrooms and classrooms. I believe they constitute a solid coverage that potentially make the book a classic, bridging a broad spectrum of evidence that will be very useful both to advanced undergraduate and to graduate students and to researchers...There is no other text that does similar work...very exciting and satisfying.' - Victoria Bergvall, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Michigan Technological University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Baxter PART 1: THEORISING THE FEMALE VOICE IN PUBLIC CONTEXTS Theorising the Female Voice in Public Contexts; D.Cameron Gaining a Public Voice: An Historical Perspective on American Women's Speech in Public Contexts; J.M.Bean Constructing Gender in Public Arguments: The Female Voice as Emotional Voice; L.Litosseliti PART 2: RESEARCHING THE FEMALE VOICE IN PUBLIC CONTEXTS Gender and Performance Anxiety at Academic Conferences; S.Mills Governed by the Rules?: The Female Voice in Parliamentary Debates; S.Shaw Silence as Morality: Lecturing at a Theology College; A.Julé Gender and the Genre of the Broadcast Political Interview; C.Walsh Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-making: Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities; S.Ehrlich 'Do we have to agree with her?' How High School Girls Negotiate Leadership in Public Contexts; J.Baxter Positioning the Female Voice within Work and Family; S.Kendall Culture, Voice and the Public Sphere: A Critical Analysis of the Female Voices on Sexuality in Indigenous South African Society; P.Hanong 'They say it's a man's world, but you can't prove it by me': African-American Comediennes' Construction of Voice in the Public Space; D.Troutman Effective Leadership in New Zealand Workplaces: Balancing Gender and Role; M.Marra, S.Schnurr & J.Holmes Index

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Book SynopsisAs American women make decisions about anesthesia today, Deliver Me from Pain offers them insight into how women made this choice in the past and why each generation of mothers has made dramatically different decisions.Trade ReviewIt is sometimes difficult to reconcile the attitudes of contemporary thought with the historical event that is under consideration. As I closed the book, I was still uncertain about whether more anesthesia is better. But I am relieved that we live in an era in which it is no longer accepted that there is a physiological advantage to pain during labor. -- Samuel Lurie, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine I would recommend this book to health professionals who are committed to understanding and acknowledging that every woman experiences childbirth in an individual and unique manner. -- Carol Piercey Health and History It is perhaps Wolf's utter engagement with the material that is responsible for producing such a dynamic history. -- Cara Kinzelman Journal of the History of Biology Wolf opens her readers' eyes to the vast history that has layered the medical community's ignorance onto a persistent belief that childbirth is the worst pain a human will ever experience, then topped it off with a population's growing need to 'schedule' birth into our increasingly busy lives, and come up with a society... [that] should not-really, cannot-labor without numbing their bodies to the sensations of birth. Midwifery Today Much needed addition to the blossoming scholarly work on childbirth history. -- Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. Women's Review of Books Wolf has written a fascinating overview of childbirth from the 1840s to the present day. In doing so she has used women's voices to advantage, letting them tell their own experiences. -- Wendy Mitchinson Medical History Wolf's unique focus on pain management brings a fresh perspective to the literature about childbirth and new understandings of this life-changing event in women's lives and histories. -- Rebecca M. Kluchin Bulletin of the History of Medicine Like many of the women she describes, Wolf has delivered a beautiful product that is both painless and joyful to encounter. -- Philip K. Wilson American Historical Review Deliver Me from Pain is an important addition to the literature, especially in the history of gender and pharmaceuticals... An absorbing and informative tale. -- Shannon K. Withycombe Pharmacy in History An important study of the choices made by other generations. For those who care about and study birth, understanding how we got here and why is imperative in considering where we go from here. -- Donna Harvel Balo CNM, ARNP, MS. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health This book will be of great interest to scholars in the field, to young men and women researching their birth options, and to veterans of childbirth, wanting to understand their place in this fascinating history. -- Susan K. Rishworth WatermarkTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Terrible Torture" or "The Nicest Sensation I've Ever Had"?: Conflicting Perceptions of Labor in U.S. History1. Ether and Chloroform: The Question of Necessity, 1840s through 1890s2. Twilight Sleep: The Question of Professional Respect, 1890s through 1930s3. Developing the Obstetric Anesthesia Arsenal: The Question of Safety, 1900 through 1960s4. Giving Birth to the Baby Boomers: The Question of Convenience, 1940s through 1960s5. Natural Childbirth and Birth Reform: The Question of Authority, 1950s through 1980s6. Epidural Anesthesia and Cesarean Section: The Question of Choice, 1970s to the PresentGlossary of Medical TerminologyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisCorpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in large computerised collections of text - patterns which then must be interpreted and explained by human researchers. This book critically explores how corpus linguistics techniques can help analysis of language and gender by conducting a number of case studies on topics which include: directives in spoken conversations, changes in sexist and non-sexist language use over time, personal adverts, press representation of gay men, and the ways that boys and girls are constructed through language. The book thus covers both gendered usage (e.g. how do males and females use language differently, or not, from each other), and gendered representations (e.g. in what ways are males and females written or spoken about). Additionally, the book shows ways that readers can either explore their own hypotheses, or approach the corpus from a naïve position, letting the data drive their analysis from the outset. The book coversTrade ReviewThe author does a splendid job of providing food for thought for both corpus linguistics and gender researchers alike. The book as a whole is well written and very accessible ... Each chapter provides stimulating research on gender and language (for the corpus linguist) and a useful description of corpus linguistic approaches to language (for the researcher in gender and language). * International Journal of Corpus Linguistics *[In Using Corpora to Analyze Gender] Baker examines very thoroughly the issue of male and female differences in language, perhaps one of the most convincing interrogations of this issue that I have read ... This impressive book gives a thorough introduction to the use of corpora in gender and language research ... and offers insights about data interpretation that are essential for all gender and language research. * Gender and Language *Written in what is now Baker's familiar, accessible style ... [This book] will satisfy corpus linguistics wanting to explore and write about questions relating to language and gender. * Discourse Studies *Strongly recommended ... A range of techniques and measures are discussed in the book ... all in an accessible style [and] with the help of case studies ... [Q]uite manageable and pleasant to read. * Linguist List *Paul Baker’s excellent introductory book effectively shows how corpus linguistics can be used to study language and gender. Employing contemporary real-life research case studies Baker shows, on the one hand, how people interested in Gender and Language can make use of corpora in their work, and, on the other hand, how corpus linguists who are not already familiar with Gender and Language studies might examine gender in their corpus work. -- John Flowerdew, Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong KongIf you want to know what corpus linguistics can offer to sociolinguists interested in the relationship between language and gender, this book is the answer. I found it hard to put down. Written in a wonderfully accessible style, it provides detailed examples of the challenging questions, messy data, and satisfying, though often approximate, answers that corpus linguistics can provide. It confronts researchers with the real nitty-gritty of the challenges and rewards of each step of a corpus linguistics project. Researchers and students will both find it invaluable. -- Janet Holmes, Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Exploring gendered directives in a spoken corpus. 3. Corpus-driven research: going beyond "do women say "lovely" more than men?" 4. Examining changes in (non-) sexist language over time: where are all the spokeswomen? Frequency-based analysis 5. Identifying discourses in corpora: why there was nothing natural about the Daily Mail's representation of gay men 6. Gender representation via word sketches: boys grin, girls giggle 7. Combining approaches - the case of personal adverts 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMichelle M. Sauer is Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Dakota, USA.Trade ReviewGender in Medieval Culture is a serviceable and functional resource for students and instructors. It is based on a solid understanding of recent developments in medieval gender studies, provides vivid case studies, and offers a clear overview of the medieval medical and ecclesiastical discourses and ideals of gender and sexuality. * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Gender in Medieval Culture is an engaging, informative, and stimulating account of men and women in the Western European Middle Ages. In this lively and ambitious study, Michelle M. Sauer explores how gender is informed by, and informs the religious, social, economic, political, legal and medical spheres. . . arguing that only by fully understanding the interaction of gender and power in the distant past, can we fully understand it today. * Diane Watt, Professor of English Literature, University of Surrey, UK *This is a wide-ranging and detailed introduction to the problems of applying gender theory to medieval society. It presents a comprehensive overview of the key scholarly works of the past 30 years, and explores with admirable clarity the often conflicting views of medieval commentators on the definition and display of gendered roles. Dr Sauer's study illustrates the many constraints on women's lives in both sacred and secular spheres, utilizing examples drawn from historical, literary and legal sources, but also demonstrates the ways in which men, too, were governed by a set of norms. Her comparative work will be of great use to instructors and students alike. * Patricia Skinner, Reader in Medieval History, University of Winchester, UK *Professor Sauer's refreshingly clear and direct prose conveys not only information but the excitement and sheer joy of intellectual exploration. It consistently demystifies jargon, and yet all the while provides the vocabulary and critical styles its readers will need to use. The book embodies pedagogy and learning. Drawing upon Professor Sauer's experience in the classroom, her book's explanations and readings of events and texts engage readers in the act--the art--of scholarship as well as the knowledge scholarship produces. * Lisa Weston, California State University, Fresno, USA *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements A Note on Texts Introduction Chapter 1: The Social World: Law, Medicine, & Science Chapter 2: The Expected Ideal: Marriage & Virginity Chapter 3: The Unexpected Actuality: ‘Deviance’ & Transgression Chapter 4: The Gendered Christ: Sexuality & Religion Chapter 5: The Political Sphere: Power, Labor, & Economics Further Reading Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisIn an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how soldiers and their female kin thought about their causes and obligations in wartime.

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