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Book SynopsisA book that rigorously interrogates the language of body politics in the context of neo-colonialist dominationTrade Review"Thomas offers here one of the most provocative and consequential analyses of empire and sexual politics in recent years. His work provides new ways of conceptualizing sexuality, race, and empire which makes the case for rethinking all of the ways in which these fields are studied. His erudition is vast and the acuity of his analysis, unparalleled." —Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley"This book is an amazing intervention into a range of related contemporary discourses as it provides important and informed critiques of imperialism. As we witness new formations of empire and sexuality via incidents like Abu Ghraib, it is important to recall these old manifestations of imperialism. This is perhaps the only text now that one can read about pan—Africanist projects and the particular conjunctions of sexuality and colonialism. Greg Thomas, a leading member of a new generation of scholars, advances well the activist intellectual work of the best in the black radical intellectual tradition. This is a scholar whose stunning intellectual energy already challenges, troubles, bothers entrenched, fixed positions as it clearly stimulates new discussions and reverberates in a range of related fields. —Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africa" —New World Studies and English, Florida International University"I found this book to be not only a stimulating and thought-provoking read, butalso one that was impressive for how accessible Thomas made such a thoroughgoing analysis of a broad range of fields. This review can only hint at the richness of the text and the powerful nature of the argumentation. Thomas must be commended for his ability to so clearly capture such an in-depth critique in ways that are always already reconstructive at the same time as they are deconstructive." —Body & SocietyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Pan-Africanism or Sexual Imperialism: White Supremacy, Hellenomania, and Discourses of Sexuality2. The Madness of Gender in Plantation America: Sex, Womanhood, and U.S. Chattel Slavery, Revisited3. Sexual Imitation and the Lumpen-Bourgeoisie: Race and Class as Erotic Conflict in E. Franklin Frazier4. Sexual Imitation and the "Little Greedy Caste": Race and Class as Erotic Conflict in Frantz Fanon5. Colonialism and Erotic Desire—in English: The Case of Jamaica Kincaid6. Neo-colonial Canons of Gender and Sexuality, after COINTELPRO: Black Power Bodies/Black Popular Culture and Counter-insurgent Critiques of Sexism and HomophobiaConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the largely neglected place ofwomen defendants in contemporary international criminal law, beyond the construction of women as victims, and asks what the analysis ofwomen perpetrators, defendants and suspects reveals about international criminal law, the media and feminism.The book uses the topic ofwomen perpetrators, defendants and suspects as a way to explore the concept of legal subjectivity via a gender analysis. It highlights how women perpetrators, defendants and suspects are constituted through three spheres, namely the areas of international criminal law, the media and feminism. In examining the relationship between women perpetrators, defendants and suspects and each of these spheres, the book exposes embedded gender biases and structural gender fractures. These reveal that problematic assumptions about how gender operates in conflict are embedded in the very foundations of legal imaginations. Ultimately, the book argues that this has far reaching

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Book SynopsisQueer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing the ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept 'queer' is adapted in different national contexts, where it takes on subtly different overtones, determined by local political specificities and intellectual traditions. Bringing together contributions by carefully chosen experts, this book explores key aspects of queer in a range of European national contexts, namely: Belgium, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Nordic Region, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Spain. Rather than prescribing a universalizing definition, the book engages with a wide spectrum of what is meant by 'queer', as each chapter negotiates the contested border between direct queer activist action based on identity categories, and more plural queer strategies that call these categories into question. The first volume in English devoted to the exploration of queer in Europe, this book makes an important intervention in contemporary queer studies.Trade Review'Given how queer theory has been haunted by a troubling lack of specificity inherent in its central term, this volume comes as welcome relief. By focusing on concrete case studies and gathering a range of local stories, Queer in Europe does justice to the conceptual and geographical heterogeneity of the category queer.' Tim Dean, SUNY-Buffalo, USA 'This excellent book is a timely reminder that ’queer’ goes far beyond the debates between activists and academics in English-speaking countries. Differing cultural, social and political circumstances have brought forth a huge number of vibrant, productive and contentious takes on queerness across "Europe" which in itself is a concept impossible to reduce to a single definition.' Michael Gratzke, University of St Andrews, UK '... give[s] a much clearer picture of modern European Queer citizenship, activist movements, and issues as they have been affected by the historical influences of communism and capitalism... 'Queer in Europe' centers each chapter on one country and is less concerned with trying to locate a homogenous state of Queer activism on the European continent...' M/C Reviews 'It is an important intervention into current queer studies agenda by engaging and exploring the very status and notion of ’queerness’. By asking what is its meaning outside the originating cultural context of the United States, the book poses questions about the ontology of queer politics, and asks for the epistemological underpinning of queer studies... Downing and Gillett have done a praise-worthy job of collecting a vast range of European examples, and reading about them will be rewarding to anyone interested in the queer/sexuality studies. The book’s greatest strength and appeal is its richness and diverse a panorama of cases that sometimes may seem almost too hard to harness together. We are offered not only a range of country examples but also various ways of theorising/writing about them...' Psychology and SexualityTable of ContentsQueer in Europe

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic theory has often found it difficult to come to terms with issues of power within gender relations. Both theory and clinical practice have tended to replicate the cultural idealization of men and the denigration of women, splitting masculinity and femininity between the sexes in a way which depletes both. In Men, Women, Passion and Power, Marie Maguire argues that it is only when psychoanalysis integrates the male and female in its theorizing that the possibility of a more balanced and fluid psychological relation between the sexes will emerge. Making detailed use of case material, she introduces the reader to the contemporary debates about sexuality and explores them with sensitivity from a feminist viewpoint. Looking at such topics as false memories of sexual abuse, perverse sexuality, homosexuality, pornography and bulimia, she shows how current thinking is trammelled by sexist, homophobic and culturally biased assumptions about gender identity and sexual orientation. Trade Review'Marie Maguire brings a fresh and feminist perspective to the way psychoanalysis and its theoreticians have handled the basic issues of 'Men, Women, Passion and Power.'' - Self and SocietyTable of ContentsTheories of female and male sexuality; sexual controversy; from the penis to the womb - male sexuality; what do women want?; contemporary debates in clinical context; are men really fragile?; the power of female sexuality; gender in the transference; false memories of sexual abuse?; male and female perversions?; is homosexuality pathological?

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Book SynopsisHow do you know when it''s time to leave a relationship? When do fixable issues become unavoidable barriers? And how to you put your self-worth first?Brilliantly incisive, witty and extremely informative, Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay is the essential companion to every person needs when navigating love and relationships.________''This book empowers you to make changes in your life for the better'' 5***** Reader Review''This book put all my relationship doubts into perspective. I really believe it has saved my marriage!'' 5***** Reader Review''Absolutely brilliant book for anyone struggling to make sense of their relationship'' 5***** Reader Review''This isn''t just a book, it''s a whole series of top-expert counselling sessions'' 5***** Reader Review________Every relationship has its ups and downs. But when problems do arise, so often we can''t find the way fo

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Book SynopsisLearn about the real lives of sex workers by exploring the sex industry from the inside!Explore the insightful--and oftentimes intense--accounts of sex workers who look squarely into the eyes of their clients, the sex industry, and society as a whole. Tricks and Treats delivers private stories about homo- and heterosexual encounters that sex workers usually confide only in each other. Not another âœwhy I became a prostituteâ book, it provocatively turns the tables on the buyers of sex, giving you a window into sex workersâlives. Tricks and Treats gives you straightforward accounts by sex workers to help you understand the pleasures, attractions, and truths of this profession. Tricks and Treats tantalizes with its powerful collection of tales from a diverse group of male, female, and transgendered sex workers. Their commercial, cultural, emotional, sexual, (il)legal, and even spiritual relationships with their clients are discussed in intimate detail. You will explore accounts from sTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Tricks and Treats: An Introduction Tricks 1. Shut Up 2. My Path to Sanity 3. Man of God 4. The Porn Queen 5. Champagne Tastes on a Crystal Budget 6. Getting Fucked 7. Porn Moguls 8. A Slice of “The Life” Treats 9. Bodhisattvas Among Us: Compassionate Sex Workers 10. Clocking In 11. The House I Grew Up In 12. Numbers 13. Joel 14. Toward a Taxonomy of Tricks: A Whore Considers the Age-Old Question, “What Do Clients Want?” 15. In Love with My Work Tricks & Treats 16. Thirty Years 17. A Few Friends 18. Scrapbook 19. Two Sides 20. A Complicated Business 21. Payment by Donation: Every Sperm is Sacred 22. Orange Phone 23. Outreach 24. Luck Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and spaceTrade ReviewThis small seductive book pours warmth as Halberstam confesses and connects movements of pop culture and high art to a deeper understanding of the potentials of the body. She includes us in her world and its privileged understanding of her subject....In a Queer Time displays Halberstams sophisticated understanding of contemporary culture in a plain and engaging tone. * Pop Matters *Halberstams text is academically important, critiquing identity politics and examining uncommon but essential transgender representations in art, film, and society * The Bloomsbury Review *The wide-ranging scope of (Halberstams) work both serves to make her book accessible to many kinds of readers as well as to show the wide scope in which her argument registers. This makes her book a joy to read. Similarly, her wit and ability to capture large theoretical terms in rich and layered (and funny!) images contributes to the pleasure of this book of & theory. * The Cream City Review *An extremely honest and provocative book. Judith Halberstams In A Queer Time and Place both validates and admires the beauty of the transperson as well as the genderqueer in this new era of identity performance. It is an incredible portrayal of the partnership between trans issues and gay and lesbian issues that I applaud with a full heart. -- JD Samson,from the band Le TigreHalberstams marvelous new book combines fierce argumentation, vivid description, astute as well as hilarious commentary. The author not only provides a powerful critique of common defenses and dismissals of 'postmodernism,' but offers a redefinition of & identity politics for the new millennium as well. -- Lisa Duggan,author of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on DemocracyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Queer Temporality and Postmodern Geographies2 The Brandon Archive 3 Unlosing Brandon: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and Transgender Biography 4 The Transgender Look 5 Technotopias: Representing Transgender Bodies in Contemporary Art 6 Oh Behave! Austin Powers and the Drag Kings 7 What's That Smell? Queer Temporalities and Subcultural Lives Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisSince the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable 'true' transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the 'true' homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran. Najmabadi argues that this collaboration among medical authorities, specialized clerics, and state officials—which made transsexuality a legally tolerated, if not exactly celebrated, category of being—grew out of Iran''s particular experience of Islamicized modernity. Paradoxically, state regulation has produced new spaces for non-normative living in Iran, since determining who Trade Review"Professing Selves is one of the best recent works on contemporary Iran. Arguing that transsexuals' legal and psychiatric negotiations reveal more general processes of proceduralism, negotiation of legal categories, and state formation, Afsaneh Najmabadi challenges the lumping of transsexuals and homosexuals as identical human rights issues, and argues that poorly targeted universalistic campaigns can damage the conditions of life for the people they are intended to help. She works refreshingly at the level of real lives, jurists, and psychiatrists."—Michael M. J. Fischer, author of Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry"In this important, timely, and erudite work, Afsaneh Najmabadi brings her nuanced understanding of multiple discourses and institutions in Iran to bear on the recent and remarkable visibility of transsexuality in that country. Professing Selves is likely to have a wide-ranging appeal—to historians, Middle East specialists, sexuality and gender scholars, and social scientists interested in issues of state formation and biopolitics. It will be the definitive text on its topic for a long time to come."—Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History"In her theoretically sophisticated book, historian Najmabadi investigates the political and cultural evolution of Iranian attitudes toward 'sexual deviancy and sexual disorder,' beginning in the 1930s. . . .Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- A. Rassam * Choice *"A fascinating book that... challenges the Western media’s depiction of transsexuality and sex reassignment surgery as coercive while ignoring the vibrant reform movement and history of progressive activism in Iran." -- Nancy Gallagher * Middle East Media and Book Reviews *“Under guise of an ethnography of transsexuality in contemporary Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi has written a nuanced ethnography of the transition of the Iranian state and public sphere from one type (jins) to another. Building on Joan Scott’s (1986) observation that gender is a useful category for historical analysis, Najmabadi goes beyond showing that sex and sexuality are also useful categories for historical analysis to suggest that somatic-constitutional transformation can be as well. … Najmabadi is an excellent guide through this world of nonconforming confirmers of the core gender categories of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” -- Leila Hudson * TSQ *“Here we find that nuanced and adept reading of power, subjectivity, submission, and subversion—this time of lived, contemporary cultural practices—that we have grown to expect from a scholar of her caliber.” -- Roshanak Kheshti * GLQ *“ Afsaneh Najmabadi’s new book Professing Selves is a great start to understanding how gender and sexuality work within Iran. It makes the point that geography, history, culture, and on-going macro- and microsocial processes are crucial to understanding transsexuality and same-sex desire…. This is a work that speaks to the historical and cultural relativity of social meanings and practices—the importance of the local and specific.” -- Darryl B. Hill * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Entering the Scene 15 2. "Before" Transexuality 38 3. Murderous Passions, Deviant Insanities 75 4. "Around" 1979: Gay Tehran? 120 5. Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith 163 6. Changing the Terms: Playing "Snakes and Ladders" with the State 202 7. Living Patterns, Narrative Styles 231 8. Professing Selves: Sexual/Gender Proficiencies 275 Glossary of Persian Terms and Acronyms 303 Notes 305 Works Cited 373 Index 389

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Book SynopsisOffering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential to disturb dominant modes of world making and to forge spaces of queer belonging.Trade Review"Absolutely productive and provocative. . . . An important intervention that has stakes for the field of media studies [and] for social justice." -- Regina Longo * Film Quarterly *"Queer Cinema in the World is both brilliant and maddening. It is a daring attempt by Schoonover and Galt to explode the relationship between queer theory and film studies that is bound by Western intellectual conventions. Highly recommended." -- G. R. Butters Jr. * Choice *"A wildly ambitious configuring of contemporary queer cinema that has no less than a holistic revision of cinematic representation on its mind. . . . Queer Cinema in the World belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who consistently grapples with understanding human difference as a positive quality of social and political life." -- Clayton Dillard * Slant Magazine *"[A] willingness to attend to the surprising ways and spaces where queer cinema can appear is part of what makes the book so dizzyingly comprehensive and enjoyable. . . . This commitment to searching out queer world cinema’s as yet unthought possibilities of pleasure and intimacy shines through." -- Brandon Kemp * Hong Kong Review of Books *"Queer Cinema in the World is a work of remarkable capaciousness and intellectual adventure, written in welcome defiance of the scholarly demand for tight focus and narrow specialization. Maximalist rather than minimalist, it offers a wide view that, among its other pleasures, will provide many readers with introductions to neglected films and filmmakers as well as with compelling treatments of works that are now part of the canon of queer cinema." -- Corey K. Creekmur * Cineaste *"By providing such an array of critical analysis and scholarly resources and by showcasing diverse filmic expressions of queer identity, the authors successfully open countless channels for future research, crucial to creating a larger space for and attention to queer representations in cinema and society at large." -- Joanna Randall * Journal of Film and Video *"Wonderfully ambitious and carefully argued." -- Lindsey Green-Simms * College Literature *"Theoretically daring. . . . it is not difficult to see [Queer Cinema in the World] serving as a cornerstone of future scholarship on queer cinema, and the authors should be commended." -- James Hodgson * Screen *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Queer, World, Cinema 1 1. Figures in the World: The Geopolitics of theTranscutlural Queer 35 2. A Worldly Affair: Queer Film Festivals and Global Space 79 3. Speaking Otherwise: Allegory, Narrative, and Queer Public Space 119 4. The Queer Popular: Genre and Perverse Economies of Scale 167 5. Registers of Belonging: Queer Worldly Affects 211 6. The Emergence of Queer Cinematic Time 259 Notes 305 Bibliography 339 Index 357

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Book SynopsisWomen play a prominent role in pro-democracy movements and contemporary revolutions around the globe. This book proposes a typology of women's participation in revolutions and demonstrates various motivations for their activism, their diverse forms participation, and the multifaceted gender outcomes, using the case of Euromaidan in Ukraine.

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Book SynopsisTranscending the sex and gender dichotomy, rethinking sexual difference, transgenerational trauma, the decolonization of gender, non-Western identity politics, trans*/feminist debates, embodiment, and queer trans* psychoanalysis, these specially commissioned essays renew our understanding of conventionally held notions of sexual difference.Looking at the intersections between psychoanalysis, feminism, and transgender discourses, these essays think beyond the normative, bi-gender, Oedipal, and phallic premises of classical psychoanalysis while offering new perspectives on gender, sexuality, and sexual difference. From Freud to Lacan, Kristeva, and Laplanche, from misogyny to the #MeToo movement, this collection brings a timely corrective that historicizes our moment and opens up creative debate.Written for professionals, scholars, and students alike, this book will also appeal to psychoanalysts, psychologists, and anyone in the fields of literature, film and media studiTrade Review'A broad and important collection of essays on feminist psychoanalysis, bringing together the authoritative major figures in the field with provocative work by emerging scholars and analysts. Proof, if it were needed, of the vitality of feminist psychoanalytic study, which appears more necessary, as well as richer, than ever.'Grace Lavery, University of California, Berkeley'One of the fundamental discoveries of psychoanalysis was that sexuality is not simply about intimacy, but is ridden by the social. Social relations are very much at work in sexuality, which is why shifts in social relations often play out on the ground of sexuality, as questions of sexuality and its vicissitudes. Contemporary debates are striking evidence of this connection, and this collection of essays captures, reiterates and reflects on it most impressively.'Alenka Zupančič, Institute of Philosophy at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and the ArtsTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Genealogy of Sex and Gender 1. Tim Dean, 'Freud's Ménage à Quatre' 2. Elissa Marder, 'Glôssa and "Counter-Will": The Perverse Tongue of Psychoanalysis' 3. Darian Leader, 'The Gender Question from Freud to Lacan' 4. Jamieson Webster and Marcus Coelen, 'Two Analysts Ask, "What is Genitality? Ferenczi's Thalassa and Lacan's Lamella"' 5. Genevieve Morel, 'Undoing the Interpellation of Gender and the Ideologies of Sex' Part 2: Queering Psychoanalysis: Fantasy, Anthropology and Libidinal Economy 6. Eve Watson, 'The Role of Phantasy in Representations and Practices of Homosexuality: Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship and Edmund White's Our Young Man' 7. Ray O'Neill, 'Oscar Wilde: Father and Som' 8. Monique David-Ménard, 'Does the Anthropology of Kinship Talk about Sex?' 9. Kelly Oliver, 'From Fundamentalism to Forgiveness: Sex/Gender Beyond Determinism or Volunteerism' 10. Juliet Flower MacCannell, 'Sexual (In)difference in Late Capitalism: "Freeing Us from Sex"' Part 3: Being and Becoming TRANS-* 11. Sheila L. Cavanagh, 'Tiresias and the Other Sexual Difference: Jacques Lacan and Bracha L. Ettinger' 12. Oren Gozlan, 'In-Difference: Feminisim and Transgender in the Field of Fantasy' 13. Ranjana Khanna, 'Translation, Geschlecht and Thinking Across: On the Theory of Trans-' 14. Dina Al-Kassim, 'Scenes of Self-Conduct in Contemporary Iran: Transnational Subjectivities Knitted On Site' 15. Calvin Thomas, 'Lacanistas in the Stalls: Urinary Segregation, Transgendered Abjection, and the Queerly Ambulant Dead' 16. Dany Nobus, 'Becoming Being: Chance, Choice and the Troubles of Trans*cursivity' 17. Elena Comay del Junco, 'Just Kidding: Valeria Solana's SCUM and Andrea Long Chu's Females' 18. Yannik Thiem, 'Transgender Quarrels and the Unspeakable Whiteness of Psychoanalysis'

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Book SynopsisThe Social Production of Research offers critical perspectives on the interrelations between research funding and gender, in a climate where universities expect accountability and publishing productivity to be maintained at peak levels.Drawing upon a range of qualitative methods, contributors investigate experiences with research funding; the nature of institutional, funding body and country contexts; and the impact of social change and disruptions on research ecosystems and academic careers in Canada, Finland, Sweden and the UK. Nuanced accounts call attention to the social, emotional and political conditions within which research is produced, while identifying the ways academics enact, shape, negotiate and resist those conditions in their everyday practice.Featuring thought-provoking and critical insights for an international readership, this volume is an essential resource for researchers, academics, administrators, managers, funders, politicians and others w

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Book SynopsisHundreds of anthologies of womenâs short stories have appeared in the literary market between the 1970s and now. This publishing and cultural phenomenon is considered for the first time in this book, which argues that during this period anthologies have become a literary technology used not only to make visible female short story writers, but also to think about, and mould ideas of, womanhood. Through creative and contextualised readings of the most important anthologies produced in this period, this study shows that this literary form has contributed to, and in some cases pioneered, key developments in gender theory and feminist thought, including questions of political combination among women which underlie contemporary global movements such as #MeToo. In doing so, the book also develops the first book-length conceptualisation of the features and meaning-making mechanisms of the short story anthology as a literary form.This book will benefit academics and students working in the fields of short fiction, publishing and womenâs studies, as well as feminist scholars and a growing number of specialists interested in the anthology as a literary form worldwide.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1983 Which Way is Up presents a selection of Bob Connell's writings on three key issues of modern social analysis- sex and gender, class and power, and culture. The essays range from psychoanalysis and contemporary feminism to the role theory, from the analysis of class and culture to the debate about intellectuals and the new class'. In critically reviewing contemporary thought on these issues, the author has developed a perspective centred on the analysis of social practice. Easy to read, often witty, the essays represent an attempt to shift social theory into the real world of the late twentieth century, to go beyond the limits of orthodox sociology and radical dogmas, to think through theoretical questions without losing touch with practical politics. This is a must read for students and scholars of sociology. Table of ContentsPreface Part I 1. Dr Freud and the course of history 2. Men’s bodies 3. Crisis tendencies in patriarchy and capitalism 4. How should we theorise patriarchy? 5. Class, gender and Sartre’s theory of practice Part II 6. Logic and politics in theories of class 7. Complexities of fury leave…A critique of the Althusserian approach to class 8. The black box of habit on the wings of history: reflections on the theory of social reproduction 9. Class formation on a world scale Part III 10. The concept of role and what to do with it 11. ‘The glory of God and the permissible delectation of the spirit’. J. S. Bach- some sociological notes 12. The Porpoise and the elephant: Birmingham on class, culture, and education 13. Intellectuals and intellectual work References Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume introduces the field of Kardashian Studies through collections of essays based in sociology, media studies, cultural studies, critical race theory and fashion theory.The Kardashian empire and dynasty is intertwined with some of the most important movements of the early twenty-first century. Celebrity, cultural appropriation, new forms of feminism, social media, ideal bodies, evolving notions of physical beauty and the global fashion system have all been affected by the quintessential influencers in this family of matriarchs. The anthology is structured around core thematic parts. From Storytelling and Race, through Fashion and Celebrity, to Time and Embodiment, each part contains an accessible introduction followed by chapters that together take a unique approach to exploring the Kardashians from multiple viewpoints. The inclusion of discussion points suitable for classroom use enhances the utility of the anthology for both study and teaching pur

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Book SynopsisThis concise, clear, accessible book is meant to truly engage students by using personal stories, solid research, and key theories that illustrate how sociologists look at life, the way we understand social dynamics, what âœsocially constructedâ means, and how a sociological sensibility can, ultimately, be liberating.With engaging stories, provocative historical examples, compelling case studies, and key theoretical insights, this cogent âœanti-textbookâ, written by leading sociologist Phil Zuckerman, introduces students to the discipline of sociology. Sociology, Unplugged covers foundational concepts â from socialization, dramaturgy, and intersectionality to deviance, social change, and sociological methodology â in a way that avoids the heavy-handedness of typical intro texts. Unique contributions of this volume include: an explicit exploration of social construction; consistent inclusion of race, class, and gender and their intersections; the centralizing of W.E.B. Du Bois as the key founder of American sociology; a sociological exploration of sex and sexuality; attention to transgender identity; an incorporation of insights from Peter Berger; a cogent introduction to sociological methods; all written in a voice that is student friendly.This book is a vital and dynamic essential resource for instructors and students in foundational level sociology, social theory, and culture and society courses. This text is especially designed to be an accessible springboard to undergraduate reading and study of beginning, introductory sociology in a 'one-stop' manner: if you only read one sociology book, you'll want to read this one!

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Book SynopsisEssential study guides for the future linguist.Table of Contents1. Historical perspectives: 1.1. Introduction: the gender debate; 1.2. The 'deficit' approach; 1.3. The variationist approach to gender study; 1.4. The 'dominance' approach; 1.5. The 'difference' approach; 1.6. The 'diversity' approach; 1.7. Gendered language: censorship or correction; 1.8. The 'performance' approach; 1.9. Recognising and celebrating diverse identities; 1.10. Conclusion; 2. Language and gender: 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Defining gender: it's all in the name; 2.3. Male firstness: word order and generic terms; 2.4. Marking gender; 2.5. Patterns and metaphors; 2.6. Cleaning up language; 2.7. Conclusion; 3. Gender and representation: 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Exploring gender and discourse; 3.3. Semiotics: Signs and gender; 3.4. Representing gender through metaphor; 3.5. Gender and power; 3.6. Gender and social actor representation; 3.7. Different discourses about gender; 3.8. Gender representation in the media: health magazines; 3.9. Gender and argumentation theory; 3.10. Gender representation in corpus data: talking and writing about sports people; 3.11. Conclusion; 4. Gender and identity: 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Identity in discourse: socially constructed selves in private talk; 4.3. Exploring identity and masculinities; 4.4. Identity and constructing selves through phonological choices; 4.5. Occupational talk: conveying a gendered identity in the workplace; 4.6. Social constructing self: performing gender in public and written contexts; 4.7. Performing and constructing gender identity in a modern world; 4.8. Conclusion; 5. Exploring gender: applying research methods to data: 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Creating your own research project; 5.3. Finding spoken data; 5.4. Analysing conversations and making transcripts; 5.5. Reading about language and gender; 5.6. Acknowledging your sources; 5.7. Practising decision-making; 5.8. Conclusion; Ideas and answers; References.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being organized around a set of literary texts defined by a particular theme, literary movement, or demographic, this volume foregrounds a queer critical approach that moves across a wide array of literary traditions, genres, historical periods, national contexts, and media. This book traces the intellectual and political emergence of queer studies, addresses relevant critical debates in the field, provides an overview of queer approaches to genres, and explains how queer approaches have transformed understandings of key concepts in multiple fields.Trade Review'The collection is both an invaluable and authoritative resource for scholars and an excellent teaching tool for use in the classroom.' A. J. Ramirez, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Genealogies; 1. Genealogies of Queer Theory Kadji Amin; 2. Queer Writing, Queer Politics: Working Across Difference Keguro Macharia; Part II. Confluences; 3. Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicities: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique Chandan Reddy; 4. Transgender Studies, or How to Do Things With Trans* Cáel Keegan; 5. Queer Indigenous Studies, or Thirza Cuthand's Indigequeer Film June Scudeler; 6. Queer Disability Studies Alison Kafer; 7. Queer Ecologies Nicole Seymour; Part III. Representation; 8. Queer Poetics: Deviant swerves, in three Ren (Rachel) Ellis Neyra; 9. Queer Narrative Anne Mulhall; 10. Trace a Vanishing: or, Queer Performance Study Nadia Ellis; 11. Queer and Trans Studies in Pop Culture: Transgender Tripping Points in the Carceral State Erica Rand; 12. Queer Digital Cultures Kate O'Riordan; Part IV. Key Words; 13. Queer Diasporic Crossings and the Persistence of Desire in The Book of Salt Martin Joseph Ponce; 14. Diaspora, Displacement, and Belonging: The Politics of Family and the Future of Queer Kinship Richard T. Rodríguez; 15. Queer Critical Regionalism J. Samaine Lockwood.

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Book Synopsis''The book everyone''s talking about'' The Times (Book of the Year)''Titania McGrath is a genius'' Spectator (Book of the Year)''Beautiful classic satire'' Ricky Gervais ''Hilarious . . . the most artful form of subtle parody'' Joe Rogan ''Just as Bridget Jones was the embodiment of the anxiety-ridden Nineties feminist, a creation whose diary entries encapsulated all our hopes, fears and failures, so Titania McGrath is her millennial successor, a girl every bit as lost and confused, every bit as accurately observed - and equally, catastrophically, hilarious.'' Sarah Vine, Daily MailIn Woke, Titania McGrath demonstrates how everybody can play their part in the pursuit of social justice. As a millennial icon on the forefront of online activism, Titania is uniquely placed to guide her readers through the often bewildering array of terminology and concepts that constitute twenty-first-Trade ReviewTitania McGrath is a genius * Spectator *Hilarious . . . the most artful form of subtle parody * Joe Rogan *As a straight white man I don't think I was allowed to read the @TitaniaMcGrath book. But I did anyway, and I'm here to recommend it. Funniest thing I've ever read. Brilliant * Daniel Sloss *The book everyone's talking about * The Times *Why Titania is perfect for our times . . . Titania is a creation of genius . . . Finally, the plodding, establishment satire of recent years might have finally been subject to the disruption it has so badly needed . . . not just funny, but fatally accurate and true -- Douglas Murray * Unherd *Just as Bridget Jones was the embodiment of the anxiety-ridden Nineties feminist, a creation whose diary entries encapsulated all our hopes, fears and failures, so Titania McGrath is her millennial successor, a girl every bit as lost and confused, every bit as accurately observed - and equally, catastrophically, hilarious -- Sarah Vine * Daily Mail *Hilarious * Evening Standard *Hilarious . . . perfectly captures the chiding, self-righteous, intolerant, joyless tone of the "woke" Stasi -- Janice Turner * The Times *The latest genius twist in Britain's long tradition of satirical spoof . . . Brilliantly funny take on a generation obsessed with gender fluidity, sexism, stereotyping, fat-shaming, no platforming . . . -- Virginia Blackburn * Daily Express *Absolutely hilarious * Piers Morgan *She pricks pomposity and tempers moral certitude with a hint of doubt; in short, she keeps us honest. And as a lover of satire, I treasure anyone who can hold a mirror up with wit and intelligence to the more sanctimonious and narrow-minded elements of the left that bother and suffocate people, even me -- Shappi Khorsandi * Independent *The funniest spoof Twitter account bar none. Titania's feed is a delight -- Charles Moore * Evening Standard *Outrageous and hilarious * Irish Independent *Hilarious -- Camilla Long * Sunday Times *Titania McGrath mercilessly satires the Left's online umbrage brigade, the permanently offended, those who have taken on the role of policing thoughts and words to the point of absurdity * The Herald *Absolutely brilliant . . . has revealed the malign hilarity of woke culture * New Criterion *This may be the most important book of 2019 * Standpoint *Woke is the funniest, best-crafted satire against the stifling conformity and censorship of illiberal liberals that I've ever seen * Entertainment Focus *She's at her sharpest when taking a quote from a real-life idiot of the left and just tweaking it a little -- Rod Liddle * Spectator *A sharp satire on the new Puritanism * Catholic Herald *

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Book SynopsisCarol J. Adams is the author of numerous books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat, Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals, and The Pornography of Meat. Her work is the subject of two recent anthologies, Defiant Daughters: 21 Women of Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat, in which a new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to Adams' groundbreaking work. Lori Gruen is William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, USA, where she is also a professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies. Her work lies at the intersection of ethical theory and ethical practice, with a particular focus on ethical issues that impact those often overlooked in traditional ethical investigations, e.g. women, people of color, non-human animals. She is the authTrade ReviewCarol J. Adams and Lori Gruen are two of the leading scholars in the field of animal studies. This is a pathbreaking book with current, relevant, and important insights for the entire field. It should be required reading for anyone concerned with animals, feminism, or the environment – which is to say, everyone. * Vasile Stanescu, Associate Professor of Communication Studies & Theatre, Mercer University, USA *This is a breakthrough collection of updated influential essays in the field and fresh and diverse animal-centered analyses addressing urgent questions of climate, care, and affect. Adams and Gruen have curated a superb text for readers new to ecofeminist thought as well as seasoned scholars. * Maneesha Deckha, Professor and Lansdowne Chair, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada *Climate justice requires attention to the historical roots of our environmental crises, and transformative philosophies to help foster liberation, respect for other animals, and a flourishing Earth. The multicultural conversation woven together in this brilliant volume shows why ecofeminist praxis is crucial for understanding the manifold harms of oppression, and nurturing more powerful ethics of resistance, caring, and solidarity. * Christine J. Cuomo, Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Georgia, USA *With the growing interest in intersectional theories there has been a recent, renewed interest in ecofeminism. This book rises to meet this demand in the form of a collection of essays, which answers the concern of essentialism by embracing a wide range of scholarly voices from the field ... engaging and mind-opening ... a must-read for both feminists and also, no doubt, for meat-eaters. * Anna Maguire, U.S. Studies Online [on the 1st edition] *This provocative new anthology is to be warmly welcomed for the diversity of its voices and the breadth of its critical analyses and agenda. Ecofeminism encompasses theory and lived experience at the multiple and sometimes contested intersections of gender identity, disability rights, race, and animal advocacy. * Martin Rowe, Author of The Polar Bear in the Zoo: A Speculation [on the 1st edition] *The past three decades or so have seen the publication of a fair number of collections presenting feminist perspectives on human-animal relations. So when coming to a new volume that walks this well-traversed terrain, it's hard not to approach it with the thought that there had really better be something new here. Happily, Ecofeminism delivers the fresh goods. … What the collection as a whole conveys, primarily, is the roots-in-the-dirt entanglement of the various strands of social life with human and nonhuman animals. With animal studies now making the transition from applied ethics to social philosophy, Ecofeminism makes worthy contributions to an emerging and exciting literature. * Jason Wyckoff, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy [on the 1st edition] *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Carol J. Adams (Independent Scholar, USA) and Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA) 1. Ecofeminist Footings Carol J. Adams (Independent Scholar, USA) and Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA) Part 1 Affect Introduction to Affect 2. Caring to Dialogue: Feminism and the Treatment of Animals Josephine Donovan (University of Maine, USA) 3. Compassion and Being Human Deane Curtin (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA) 4. Ecology is a Sistah's Issue Too Shamara Shantu Riley (Independent Scholar) 5. Joy Deborah Slicer (University of Montana, USA) 6. Eros and the Mechanisms of Eco-Defense pattrice jones (Independent Scholar and Co-founder of Vine Sanctuary, USA) 7. Interdependent Animals: A Feminist Disability Ethics of Care Sunaura Taylor (University of California at Berkeley, USA) 8. Facing Death and Practicing Grief Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA) Part 2 Context Introduction to Context 9. Inter-Animal Moral Conflicts and Moral Repair: A Contextualized Ecofeminism Approach in Action Karen S. Emmerman (University of Washington, USA) 10. Michael Vick, Race, and Animality Claire Kim (University of California at Irvine, USA) 11. Caring Cannibals: Testing Contextual Edibility for Speciesism Ralph Acampora (Hofstra University, USA) 12. Ecofeminism and Veganism: Revisiting the Question of Universalism Richard Twine (Edge Hill University, UK) 13. Why a Pig? A Reclining Nude Reveals the Intersections of Race, Sex, Slavery, and Species Carol J. Adams (Independent Scholar, USA) 14. Toward New EcoMasculinities, EcoGenders, and EcoSexualities Greta Gaard (University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA) Part 3 Climate Introduction to Climate 15. Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals: Tracking Gender in Animal Studies Susan Fraiman (University of Virginia, USA) 16. Black Feminist Ecological Thought: A Manifesto Chelsea Mikael Frazier (Cornell University, USA) 17. The Animals Call It: Climate Crisis, Gender Crisis, and Ecofeminist Listening Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (University of Wollongong, Australia) 18. Global Atmospheres of Exploitation: Shifting Terrains of Othering in Ecofeminist Kathryn Gillespie (University of Kentucky, USA) and Yamini Narayanan (Deakin University, Australia) 19. Maximum Plunder: The Global Context and Multiple Threats of Animal Agriculture Mia MacDonald (Policy Analyst, Executive Director and Founder of Brighter Green, USA) 20. Upsetting Boundaries: Trans Queer Interspecies Ecofeminisms Leah Kirts (Freelance Writer and Activist, USA) References Index

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Book SynopsisSince its first publication in 1998, Mary Talbot’s Language and Gender has been a leading textbook, popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth it achieves in a single volume. This anticipated third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated for the era of #MeToo, genderqueer, Trump, and cyberhate. The book is organized into three parts. An introductory section provides grounding in early ‘classic' studies in the field. In the second section, Talbot examines language used by women and men in a variety of speech situations and genres. The last section considers the construction and performance of gender in discourse, reflecting the interest in mass media and popular culture found in recent research, as well as the preoccupation with social change that is central to Critical Discourse Analysis. Maintaining an emphasis on recent research, Talbot covers a range of approaches at an introductory level, lucidly presenting sometimes difficult and complex issues. Each chapter concludes with a list of recommended readings, enabling students to further their interests in various topics. Language and Gender will continue to be an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates in linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural and media studies, gender studies and communication studies.Trade Review"The author moves smoothly and coherently from more traditional approaches to language and gender through to very recent research in areas such as discourse and consumerism, and language, gender and sexuality. Different approaches, including Critical Discourse Analysis and social constructionism, are demonstrated, and difficult concepts are clearly and comprehensibly presented. Mary Talbot's own research enriches and enlivens the discussion throughout. The text is extensively illustrated with interesting examples, many of which are taken from recent published research, thus introducing students to relevant and authentic material." Janet Holmes, Victoria University of WellingtonTable of Contents 20 years on... Preface to the third edition Acknowledgements Transcription conventions PART I: Preliminaries: Airing Stereotypes and Early Models 1 Language and gender 2 Talking proper 3 ‘Women’s language’ and ‘man made language’ PART II: Interaction among Women and Men 4 Telling stories 5 Conversation 6 Difference-and-dominance and beyond PART III: Discourse and Gender: Construction and Performance 7 Critical perspectives on gender identity 8 Consumerism 9 New men and old boys 10 Professionally speaking 11 Language, gender and sexuality 12 Reclaiming the language References Index

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Book Synopsis‘There is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty. Behold, and rejoice.’ – Tim Winton, author of CloudstreetWas he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is?As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell’s sense of self was dominated by his father’s absence. Now, years later, he is a father, and his daughter is becoming his son.Starting with his own childhood in the Sussex beachlands, Howard tells the story of the years of self-destruction that defined his young adulthood and the escape he found in reading and the natural world. Still he felt compelled to destroy the relationships that mattered to him.Saved by love and responsibility, Cunnell charts his journey from anger to compassion, as his daughter Jay realizes he is a boy, and a son.Most of all, this is a story about love – its necessity and fragility, and its unequalled capacity to enable us to be who we are.Deeply thoughtful, searingly honest and exquisitely lyrical, Fathers and Sons is an exploration of fatherhood, masculinity, authenticity and family.Trade ReviewThere is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty. Behold, and rejoice -- Tim Winton, author of CloudstreetThis book tells the story of how family is made. It tells it frankly, unexpectedly and in such a way that both family and expectations are rewritten and renewed. I couldn't put it down. Bold, brave, beautiful - much more than biology. This is life itself. -- Jackie Kay, author of Red Dust RoadA miracle of a book: sad, wise, strong and hopeful, its depiction of parenthood will stay with me for a long time -- Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways Fathers and Sons is a beautiful, moving, and marvellously honest book. I relished its resolutely masculine point of view, especially on such a subject, and the tenderness and sensuality with which Cunnell depicts child-rearing. -- Kate Clanchy, author of Antigona and MeWith Fathers & Sons, Howard Cunnell rips himself apart and reminds us what true artists do with all the mistakes they've ever made. They turn them into art. Dazzling and memorable, here is a strong and moving mosaic depicting the wayward mystery of our souls -- Austin Collings, author of The Myth of Brilliant SummersHoward Cunnell has forged from the most painful of raw materials a modern masterpiece of fiction. . . The lonelieness of a boy who never knew his father, Jason, who in turn became a father to Jay, a boy trapped in the wrong female body. Their journeys are rendered in prose as exquisite as the spaces of sea, sun and freedom Cunnell always chased for salvation and worked so hard to describe, finally finding himself and that redemption in the gift that was denied to him: being a father to a son -- Cathi Unsworth, author of WeirdoCunnell's memoir Father and Sons explores what it is to come from a family, what it is to start one, and what it is to raise one. It explores what we do to each other within that embrace, bad and good, and what we can do better, even while we fail. Cunnell's memoir is cast in light, and water, and bodies. It is a memoir burnished with love and goodwill. It will leave you watching the world differently -- Naomi Wood, author of Mrs. HemingwayA riveting work, remarkable and beautifully written, Fathers & Sons takes you to utterly unexpected places. -- Chris Salewicz, Redemption Song: The Definitive Biography of Joe StrummerJumping with beautiful compression through decades, handsomely written, honest and deeply moving, Cunnell's remarkable memoir is a work of guts, grit, and love. -- Richard House, author of The KillsI admire Cunnell's eye, his precise notation of light and water, whether in Mexico or Brixton, and the emotional commitment of his book. There is a resilience here that is on intimate terms with powerlessness. -- Adam Mars-JonesEssential reading. Agonisingly beautiful and honest. One man's uncompromising testament to love. -- Sarah Winman, author of When God Was A RabbitSpell-binding, life force of a memoir . . . For this book is all kinds of exceptional: an urgent, agonising exploration of fatherhood, masculinity and family; a testament to the power of the written word to reach out to us in dark times; and, above all, a hymn to the "shaping axe" of human love: motherly love, sibling love, erotic love, and ultimately, the transcending love of a father for a child, his in all but biology. And how, fragile as it may sometimes seem, that love can conquer a whole sea of strife. -- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller *Fathers & Sons will be one of 2017's most memorable memoirs . . . Concise and beautifully written, it is an unforgettable exploration of fatherhood, masculinity and family * Express *Truly heart-stopping writing: a unique and hard-won perspective unfolded in lucid and unforgettable prose * Financial Times *This tender yet hard-boiled memoir is a searing exploration of parenting and gender-creation…Cunnell deserves the accolades he will receive for his book’s painterly, masculine honesty * Socialist Review *It is one of the most good-hearted, big-souled books I’ve read, a memoir about what it means to be a man, but more importantly what it means to be a parent. I don’t cry easily, but I read the final pages through a luminous wash of tears. -- Alex Preston * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisDefenders and critics of the controversial Spitzer study analyze its methodologies and findingsIn 2001, Robert L. Spitzer, MD, presented his study on sexual conversion therapy with its controversial findings that some homosexuals can change their sexual orientation. The resulting media sensation and political firestorm enraged the study’s critics and emboldened its supporters. Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture presents leading experts examining Spitzer’s research methodology and findings to discern whether the study itself deserves deeper consideration or outright dismissal. Every facet of the study is reviewed to discuss the positive or negative aspects of the results, its significance in political and social terms, and the implications for the future. Dr. Spitzer himself was an instrumental figure in the American Psychiatric Association's decision in 1973 to remove homosexuality as a mental illness listing from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III. His later study that states that in some individuals, homosexuality may be more fluid than previously thought stirred controversy in the psychiatric community and society at large. His study is presented here to allow the reader to evaluate and consider it for themselves. Leading experts then voice their own pro or con views on the methodology and findings. Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture fearlessly illustrates the sometimes fuzzy boundary between science and politics, courageously spotlighting the culture wars now dividing our society.Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture discusses: the ex-gay movement the nature of scientific inquiry the relationship between science and politics the results of sexual conversion therapies gay and lesbian rights Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture is essential reading for sex researchers, mental health professionals, pastoral counselors, political activists, and any person asking if one can truly change his or her homosexuality.Table of Contents About the Editors Contributors Preface Section I: Editors’ Introductions 1. The Politics and Science of Reparative Therapy (Kenneth J. Zucker) 2. Gold or Lead? Introductory Remarks on Conversions (Jack Drescher) Section II: Perspectives on Changing Sexual Orientation 3. Position Statement on Therapies Focused on Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation (Reparative or Conversion Therapies) (Commission on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists [COPP] and American Psychiatric Association) 4. Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Sexual Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation (Robert L. Spitzer) Section III: Commentaries on the Spitzer Study and Dr. Spitzer’s Response from Archives of Sexual Behavior 5. Can Sexual Orientation Change? A Long-Running Saga (John Bancroft) 6. Understanding the Self-Reports of Reparative Therapy Successes (A. Lee Beckstead) 7. The Malleability of Homosexuality: A Debate Long Overdue (A. Dean Byrd) 8. A Methodological Critique of Spitzer’s Research on Reparative Therapy (Helena M. Carlson) 9. Are Converts to Be Believed? Assessing Sexual Orientation Conversions (Kenneth M. Cohen and Ritch C. Savin-Williams) 10. Reconsidering Sexual Desire in the Context of Reparative Therapy (Lisa M. Diamond) 11. The Spitzer Study and the Culture Wars (Jack Drescher) 12. Sexual Orientation Change: A Study of Atypical Cases (Richard C. Friedman) 13. The Politics of Sexual Choices (John H. Gagnon) 14. Too Flawed: Don’t Publish (Lawrence Hartmann) 15. Evaluating Interventions to Alter Sexual Orientation: Methodological and Ethical Considerations (Gregory M. Herek) 16. Guttman Scalability Confirms the Effectiveness of Reparative Therapy (Scott L. Hershberger) 17. Methodological Limitations Do Not Justify the Claim That Same-Sex Attraction Changed Through Reparative Therapy (Craig A. Hill and Jeannie D. DiClementi) 18. Initiating Treatment Evaluations (Donald F. Klein) 19. A Positive View of Spitzer’s Research and an Argument for Further Research (Richard B. Krueger) 20. Penile Plethysomography and Change in Sexual Orientation (Nathaniel McConaghy) 21. Finally, Recognition of a Long-Neglected Population (Joseph Nicolosi) 22. Sexual Orientation Change and Informed Consent in Reparative Therapy (Bruce Rind) 23. Reparative Science and Social Responsibility: The Concept of a Malleable Core As Theoretical Challenge and Psychological Comfort (Paula C. Rodríguez Rust) 24. A Candle in the Wind: Spitzer’s Study of Reparative Therapy (Donald S. Strassberg) 25. Spitzer’s Oversight: Ethical-Philosophical Underpinnings of Reparative Therapy (Marcus C. Tye) 26. Sexual Diversity and Change Along a Continuum of Bisexual Desire (Paul L. Vasey and Drew Rendall) 27. Science and the Nuremberg Code: A Question of Ethics and Harm (Milton L. Wainberg,Donald Bux, Alex Carballo-Dieguez, Gary W. Dowsett, Terry Dugan, Marshall Forstein, Karl Goodkin, Joyce Hunter, Thomas Irwin, Paulo Mattos, Karen McKinnon, Ann O’Leary, Jeffrey Parsons, and Edward Stein) 28. Sexual Reorientation Therapy: Is It Ever Ethical? Can It Ever Change Sexual Orientation? (Jerome C. Wakefield) 29. Heterosexual Identities, Sexual Reorientation Therapies, and Science (Roger L. Worthington) 30. How Spitzer’s Study Gives a Voice to the Disenfranchised Within a Minority Group (Mark A. Yarhouse) 31. Study Results Should Not Be Dismissed and Justify Further Research on the Efficacy of Sexual Reorientation Therapy (Robert L

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Book SynopsisTrans clients are frequently doubted, misunderstood, infantilised and judged by professionals, and this book presents an approach that ensures psychological wellbeing and trust is built between counsellor and client. This person-centred, affirmative approach is based around unlearning assumptions about gender and destabilising professionals' ideas of 'knowing better' than, and judging the client, so that they can forge a relationship and connection that is on an equal footing. The book explores a range of topics such as the overlap of gender diversity and autism, sex and sexuality, intersectionality, unconscious bias and reflective practice. Essential reading for professionals that want to support trans people's mental health and social wellbeing.Trade ReviewThis excellent book provides therapists, counsellors, and other practitioners with all they need to know about working with trans and gender-diverse clients. Given the current climate of panic and misinformation in this area, the book provides a much-needed counterbalance: a straightforward, accessible, and engaging overview of how sex and gender work, what key terms mean, what is involved in various forms of transition, the impact of transphobia, and the importance of community, among other topics. The chapters covering autism and other forms of neurodivergence, and diversity within trans communities, were particularly welcome. I would heartily recommend this to any clinician or practitioner wanting to improve their knowledge in this area. Absolutely superb. -- Dr Meg-John Barker, author of How to Understand Your Gender and Queer: A Graphic HistoryThis is a deeply inclusive book and a must read for therapists and anyone working with trans and gender diverse people. I spent most of my time reading this book nodding and saying 'YES!' emphatically. Highly recommended. -- Yenn Purkis, Autistic and non-binary advocate author and presenterTable of ContentsPreface; A Note About Terminology; 1. The Story of Gender and Sex; 2. Who Are the Trans Community?; 3. Is it the Right Thing to Transition?; 4. Transitioning and its Impact; 5. Divergent People; 6. Minority Stress and its Causes; 7. A Diverse Community; 8. Trans Sexuality; 9. Do's and Don'ts for Counsellors; Glossary; References

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Book Synopsis'My Dad's name is Haley. She used to be a he but now she is a she! Last year she did this thing called transition. She grew her hair long, painted her nails in bright colours and started wearing different clothes.'When Mini's cousin accidentally misgenders her dad Haley, Mini explains why misgendering is hurtful and why we need to treat trans people with respect. Mini speaks with confidence about transitioning and gender identity, and helps to educate and empower others with trans relatives or friends.This brightly illustrated book for children aged 3 - 7 will aid discussion with children about a loved one transitioning or about trans people in general. Featuring a child with a dad who has transitioned, this book passes on an important message about acceptance and respect, and covers pronouns, dysphoria, family diversity and misgendering.Trade ReviewA simple story that speaks volumes about the kindness and joy in acceptance. An incredibly useful book for an early years setting. -- Juno Roche, author of Gender Explorers, Queer Sex and Trans PowerA sweet, gentle book that doesn't make being transgender a big deal at all. It's presented as a part of every day life and will allow kids to connect to the characters and at the same time learn about different types of families. An wonderful book for people's home collection, schools and libraries. -- Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir (Owl), writer and co-director of My GenderationSarah's book gives our young people, teachers and families much needed vocabulary and knowledge to have open and safe conversations about gender identity in 2020 - the perfect resource for schools and libraries! -- Dr Elly Barnes MBE, CEO & Founder Educate & CelebrateWhen I transitioned a decade ago, there was nothing like this for our children. "She's my Dad," provides children with a gentle story to assuage their worries about what it means when a parent transitions while emphasizing their parents unconditional love through it all. I wish something like this had been available for our children in 2011 when we told them I was transitioning. -- Brynn Tannehill, Author of "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Trans* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)"She's My Dad is much needed ... a book that manages to be both explanatory and upbeat. * Mombian *Presented with fun and with key messages being about friends, cuddles, kittens, family & respect, this is a great book to support children whose parents may have transitioned, or starting off on a journey towards their authentic selves. It's an intergenerational book, with people presented as varied, diverse and accepting as most folk are in real life. -- Gscene Magazine

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Book SynopsisWhat do you like? How do you feel? Who are you?This brightly illustrated children's book provides a straightforward introduction to gender for anyone aged 5-8. It presents clear and direct language for understanding and talking about how we experience gender: our bodies, our expression and our identity. An interactive three-layered wheel included in the book is a simple, yet powerful, tool to clearly demonstrate the difference between our body, how we express ourselves through our clothes and hobbies, and our gender identity. Ideal for use in the classroom or at home, a short page-by-page guide for adults at the back of the book further explains the key concepts and identifies useful discussion points.This is a one-of-a-kind resource for understanding and celebrating the gender diversity that surrounds us.Trade ReviewA much-needed non-fiction children's book exploring gender. Who Are You? will benefit every child! -- Pamela Wool, Director of Family Services, Gender SpectrumA gem that promises to make these concepts accessible to teachers and immediately useful in their classroom contexts. It will certainly become a "go to" resource in teacher education. -- Thomas M. Philip, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Teacher Education and Urban Schooling, UCLAEvery book for kids talks about gender, whether intentionally or not. For a variety of reasons, there aren't a whole lot of teaching tools -- in books or elsewhere -- that address just what the heck gender is. Brook Pessin-Whedbee has been thinking about this a lot. She's written a book that looks directly at gender and celebrates its many manifestations. It's pretty straightforward actually. So straightforward that it's kind of shocking there aren't a pile of books like this at the local library. Who Are You? introduces young people and the folks who care about them to some vocabulary to describe our varied experiences by separating our understanding of gender into our bodies, our expression, and our identities. How do we feel? How do we express ourselves? These are the kinds of questions that help people grow. Who Are You? doesn't have a hint of conflict in it. There's plenty of conflict in the world. Who Are You? is a celebration. When we read it, everything becomes instantly bigger, kinder, and more interesting. -- Jon Nichols, author of ‘Crabtree’A straightforward and long overdue book for kids about the gender spectrum. We can hope that, years from now, the existence of the gender spectrum is so well understood and appreciated that a book like this is not necessary. Until then, there is an urgent need, and Pessin-Whedbee fills it with compassion and clarity. -- Ty Alper, Director, Berkeley Unified School BoardBrook Pessin-Whedbee brings us a delightfully creative and playful children's book on gender... accessible to children and teachers alike. It is what those of us thinking about social issues in the classrooms of young children have really been needing! -- Anna Richert, Professor, Mills College School of EducationHow do we give young children the opportunity to think in complex ways about gender? This is a question that many teachers and parents are asking and Who Are You? provides a wonderful response... In order to create truly welcoming schools and to address the social emotional needs of our children, classrooms need texts like Who Are You?. -- Carrie Wilson, Executive Director, Mills Teacher ScholarsWho Are You? will undoubtedly help numerous children and their communities learn about the diversity of gender experiences. -- Dr. Kristina Olson, Director, TransYouth Project, University of WashingtonThrough simple yet compelling writing, paired with the interactive gender wheel, our program's future elementary and middle school teachers will finally have an excellent resource for teaching about the gender spectrum... a touchstone resource for any school, teacher, or parent that strives to create a more inclusive world. -- Elisa Salasin, Director, Developmental Teacher Education, UC BerkeleyChildren are teaching us that gender comes in all kinds of shapes and colors, rather than two boxes, and Brook Pessin-Whedbee has given us the wonderful gift of Who Are You? to help all little people learn just how this works and how they can know their own gender. And for the adults-Who Are You? ends with an inspiring discussion guide for parents, for teachers, for anyone who wants to support children in their gender creativity. -- Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., author of ‘The Gender Creative Child’ and ‘Gender Born, Gender Made’ and Director of Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Gender CenterI really liked this little book. Information is presented in a simple yet engaging style which will enable parents/carers, or even teachers, to help children explore what gender identity or gender expression may mean to them in a way they will understand. It is a welcome addition to the growing range of books for children and young people. -- Allison Ewing, Mermaids TrusteeThis primer on sex, gender, and identity is an ideal title for caregivers and educators to share with children. An opening 'Note for the Grown-Ups' instructs adult readers on how to use and discuss the book with kids. The text addresses young readers directly ('This is a story about you') and goes on to define sex (a guess based on body parts observed at birth) and gender identity ('who you feel like inside, who you know yourself to be'). A middle section features a number of illustrated clothes, toys, and accessories accompanied by the question, 'What do you like?' A removable 'Gender Wheel' that students can turn to complete three sentences ('I have,' 'I am,' and 'I like') using a range of terms/expressions (gender neutral, trans, not sure, etc.) is also included. Bardoff's illustrations are colorful and bright and depict a diverse group of carefree children playing together in a variety of settings. VERDICT A solid package for families and educators interested in an introduction to gender identity -- Elaine Fultz, Madison Jr. Sr. High School, Middletown, OH * School Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisA courageously personal exploration of gender identity across Muslim cultures, from the West to South Asia. From an early age, Leyla Jagiella knew that she would be defined by two things: being Muslim and being trans. Struggling to negotiate these identities in her conservative, small hometown, she travelled to India and Pakistan, where her life was changed by her time among third-gender communities. Known as hijras in India, khwajasaras in Pakistan, these marginal communities have traditionally been politically and culturally important, respected for their supernatural powers to bless or curse, and often serving as eunuchs in Mughal India’s palaces. But under British colonialism, the hijras were criminalised and persecuted, entrenching taboos they still battle today. Among the Eunuchs reveals vastly varied interpretations of religion, gender and sexuality, illuminating how deeply culture informs our experiences. As identity becomes an ideological battlefield, Jagiella complicates binaries and dogma with her rich personal reflections. Her fascinating journey speaks to all who find themselves juggling different kinds of belonging.Trade Review'An amazing, intricately detailed and personal history of the life of hijras and the modern-day trans community. From the glory of royal courts to the loss of respect and a fight for survival, this is a powerfully written exploration of sexuality, gender, Islam and South Asian culture.' -- Madian Al Jazerah, author of 'Are You This? Or Are You This?''A brave and compelling account of the author's transnational journey, interrogating questions of gender, faith, belonging and their complex intersections. It provides a fascinating lens through which to explore the politics of difference, gendered and otherwise, during these polarising times.' -- Gayatri Reddy, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Illinois Chicago'Brimming with critical insight, this is a rich account of transfeminine experience, exploring political questions of faith, gender, race, sexuality and belonging, and highlighting how personal and social history enmesh. An important and timely intervention.' -- Avtar Brah MBE, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Birkbeck, University of London'A compelling narrative of transition, moving from rural Germany to South Asia, and located within a rich trajectory of trans folk in Islamic societies. Jagiella interweaves personal and political challenges, arguing for sexual and gender liberation across the world.' -- Shahnaz Khan, Professor Emerita of Women and Gender Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, and author of 'Transnational Feminism and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women'

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Book SynopsisWith 5 fun tales featuring merpeople, a rainbow wedding and a back-to-front horse, this captivating guide to LGBTQ+ identities takes you on a journey through Clear Sky Castle to promote inclusion for children aged 6 to 9.The interactive stories and games - including drawing, sculpting, word searches and quizzes - raise awareness of different kinds of families, as well as identities such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and non-binary, and teach acceptance for all. The resourceful 'Guide for Adults' at the end of the book offers advice, answers to activities throughout, and signposts to helpful organisations for the adult reading the book with the child.Trade ReviewThis book is a very exciting publication. It is engaging and practical, making LGBT+ young people feel included and offering support and guidance for their families in a fun way. I wish it existed when I was young! -- Daniel Tomlinson-Gray, co-founder and director LGBTedTable of ContentsAbout this Book; SECTION 1: Stories and Activities; 1. The Story of the Princess Who Loved to Invent + Activities; 2. The Story of the Unicorn That Sneezed + Activities; 3. The Story of Arthur's Big Day + Activities; 4. The Story of Kai in the Snow + Activities; 5. The Story of the Back-to-Front Horse + Activities; SECTION 2: Guide for Adults; How this Book Works; Common Questions; How to Support an LGBT+ Child

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Book Synopsis'The resource trans people need right now' MEG-JOHN BARKER'An excellent book' JOS TWIST'Straightforward and accessible' JENNIE KERMODEThis empowering self-help guide provides advice and strategies for trans and/or non-binary people on a range of common mental health issues including anxiety, depression, body image, trauma, suicidal thoughts and dissociation. It provides advice on neutralising negative thoughts, coping with transphobia, coming out, dealing with imposter syndrome, and implementing achievable self-care strategies and mindfulness techniques.Whether you are in a crisis or just looking for ways to improve your life, this reassuring guide is there for you to use in the way that helps you the most, regardless of where you are in your transition, or if you decide not to transition in conventional ways. Combining therapeutic expertise alongside first-hand experience, the book also highlights the importance of understanding and being proud of who you are, to help you live life to the fullest.Trade ReviewKaty Lees has produced an excellent book to assist trans people with their mental health. Their easy to read guide includes straightforward information about various theoretical models and approaches, with useful strategies, tips and techniques to aid readers to manage challenges such as self-harm, shame, depression, trauma and much more. -- Dr Jos Twist, Clinical PsychologistWe're living through a tough time indeed - particularly for trans folk - and most of us are feeling the toll it's taking on our mental health. Katy Lees provides just the kind of friendly voice, and helping hand, we need at such times, reminding us why we're struggling, and helping us to find what will work for get us through the hardest moments, whatever form those take. With plenty of practical suggestions and a lot of kindness, this book is just the resource trans people need right now. -- Meg-John Barker, author of Hell Yeah Self-Care.I wish someone had handed me this book ten years ago. In compassionate, accessible language Lees sets down what it takes many trans people decades to find out: that we are unique, valuable and loved, and it does get better. I can already tell that this book's lucid, practical advice is going to help so many people - I can't wait to recommend it to everyone I know! -- Eris Young, author of They/Them/TheirThis is such a useful book, looking at the mental health struggles of trans people in both a systemic and a personal way, with flexible and creative approaches to self-care and a very community-based conceptualisation of healing. The book doesn't flinch away from how hard it is being trans in the UK right now, and looking closely at the ways in which our mental health can be impacted. I appreciated that it doesn't give easy answers but still creates a wealth of resources. The self disclosure of the author also humanised the book and gave it a vibe of "we are all struggling with this, here's a few things that can help", which made it affirming and encouraging without being patronising. There is also an incredible resource list at the end of the book and a practical guide to seeking therapy and other forms of help. -- Sam Hope, author of Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse PeopleThis straightforward, accessible book is a great guide to techniques that you can use to improve your mental health even if you don't have access to counselling or support. It addresses key issues facing trans and non-binary people with clarity and understanding, explaining how common they are and what you can do to feel better. Do try this at home. -- Jennie Kermode, authorThis book contains everything I wish my younger non-binary self had known. As a trans elder and experienced psychotherapist, Katy shares just the right balance of information about mental health, practical tips and personal insight to support trans people in navigating this complex issue. The supportive and nurturing tone of the book made me feel as Katy was walking alongside me. Every trans person (and those wanting to support trans people) should read it! -- Gem Kennedy, Transformational Practitioner, Activist & Founder of Queers & Co. podcastAn indispensable and empowering guide to dealing with transphobia, depression and anxiety, imposter syndrome, and more. * Ms. Magazine *Table of Contents1. Hello, You!2. A Bit About Me3. Self-Care4. Trauma5. Depression 6. Anxiety 7. Self-Harm 8. Body Image 9. Dissociation 10. When You Can't Go On 11. There's Help Out There12. Further Reading

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Book SynopsisIncludes New and Never Before Seen Stories!Follow young trans girl, Stephie, and her group of queer friends as they navigate school, family and relationships, and experiences of being trans.Humorous and acerbic, this ground-breaking graphic narrative brilliantly explores the journey of discovering and embracing your evolving gender identity, and promotes a sense of community and empowerment through artfully illustrated stories. Based on the hugely successful and influential webcomic Assigned Male, and in print for the first time, this expanded collection contains exclusive content as well as familiar, well-loved characters.Trade ReviewHurray for Stephie and her friends in The Best Of Assigned Male! Labelle's comics are wonderfully sharp, with all the wry humor and hearty indignation that transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming kids deserve, and her written narrative provides valuable context. Get all the lip gloss! -- Alex Gino, Stonewall-Award winning author of Melissa's Story (a.k.a. GEORGE)Sophie makes it possible to imagine a world in which the lives of trans youths are possible and happy. This is a world in which critical conversations can take place and which fosters alternatives to the daily discrimination that trans people face. Thanks to Sophie, this is not a utopian future, but rather a dream within our grasp. -- Lucas Platero, Spanish trans scholar and activist

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to lactation and chestfeeding for queer parents, trans parents, non-binary parents, helpers, and even cisgender male parents.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative collection offers a reappraisal of gender as a category of analysis in modern Welsh history. Beginning with sex work in the eighteenth century and concluding with women’s late twentieth-century anti-nuclear activism, the contributors show how gender has been constructed, represented, performed and experienced by men and women at different times and places throughout Wales’s modern past. Using a variety of approaches, the collection interrogates gender as a concept that encompasses both femininity and masculinity, provides fresh perspectives on familiar themes, and demonstrates the value of gender analysis for our understanding of the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Wales. Chapters by leading historians and early career academics each set an agenda for exploring the intersection of gender with nationality, race, class, age and sexuality. Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Contributors Foreword Introduction Angela Muir, ‘Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c. 1750-1830’ Marion Löffler, ‘Family Matters: War-Time Discourses on Women in Wales, 1793–1805’ Paul O’Leary, ‘Masks and Matter: Mining Masculinities in the South Wales Coalfield, 1870-1914’ Steven Thompson, ‘“Can You Look in the Mirror and Say, I See a Man?’ Masculinity and the Labour Movement in South Wales, c.1870-1939’ Neil Evans and Beth Jenkins, ‘Spaces and Places of Women’s Social Movements in Wales, 1890-1914’ Mike Benbough-Jackson, ‘Nation and Gender: St David, St David’s Day and Masculinity during the Great War’ Simon Jenkins, ‘Exploring Race and Gender in Cardiff, c.1900-c.1945’ Stephanie Ward, ‘Heroic Housewives: Political Worlds, Domesticity and the Welsh Mam in Interwar Wales’ Jay Rees, ‘“Beware you free, emancipated girls, your warden wouldn’t like it”: Women’s Activism at Swansea University, 1970-1990’ Elaine Titcombe, ‘Reflections of gender in anti-nuclear politics in Wales 1970-2000’ Endnotes

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Book SynopsisEllie and Casey are back to talk about gender! In this gloriously illustrated guide to gender identity, you'll meet demiboys and demigirls, agender people, greygender people, those who are AFAB and AMAB, and many more as Ellie and Casey guide curious children through the world of people who don't identify as their assigned gender at birth. An invaluable resource for parents, classrooms and children alike.Trade ReviewThe Gender Book is a gem of a non-fiction resource for grade-schoolers everywhere. Covering the biggest questions in the right amount of detail to be clear and complete. I can easily see families with trans children handing this book out to friends and extended family when their child shares their gender identity. -- Tammy Plunkett, author of Beyond PronounsExplores gender identity in a robust and modern way, walking the line between simplicity and detail. Covers a wide range of experiences that account for just how varied gender identity and expression can be! -- Laura Kate Dale, author of Me and My Dysphoria Monster

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Book SynopsisThe home has become a laboratory for capital but also for forms of financial disobedience.  It has become increasingly clear that home is not a site of private life and isolation, but a battleground where the conflict over the reorganization of working days, over what even counts as labor, is waged. In the very spaces that capital historically sought to portray as an “unproductive” and apolitical space, and refused to pay for, now emerge new forms of debt and profit extraction. Although the home has been transformed into a favored site of finance’s colonization of social life and of experimentation for capital, this is not a finished process—or one without its resistance.  The Home as Laboratory traces this story through the links between debt and financial technologies, the violence of property, and reproductive and feminized labor, and everyday forms of feminist organizing. Drawing on militant research and interventions with feminist organizers in informal settlements and renters’ organizations in Buenos Aires, Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago, and Liz Mason-Deese offer a powerful feminist methodology that points to the vital space of the home as an open dispute. They critically analyze the changes that have occurred in domestic routines, in labor dynamics, in the very cuts imposed by the pandemic’s reorganization of the sensible and of logistics. Thus, the home—its spatiality, functioning, and dynamics—suffered from reconfigurations during these novel years of the COVID-19 pandemic that have not ended. Yet, these processes are also resisted by feminist organizations, which have put the question of debt at the forefront of alliance-building, political education, and public interventions.  The Home as Laboratory provides key insights into transformations in the home leading up to and during the pandemic, showing how what was historically considered an “unproductive space” became a crucial laboratory for capital and new financial technologies. Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago, and Liz Mason-Deese analyze how the home has become a site of battles over what work is considered essential, the intensification of paid and unpaid work, often at the same time, the expansion of new forms of financial extraction, and multiple and interconnected forms of violence. But, importantly, by highlighting the research and action of feminist and housing organizations, they also demonstrate how these processes are being resisted on a daily basis.

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Book SynopsisThis international and multidisciplinary volume focuses on the male body and constructions of gender in a variety of cultural productions and formats. Locating the subject matter in relevant theoretical fields, it looks at representations of male bodies in various contexts through paranoid and reparative lenses. Organized into four major sections, the contributions assembled in this book feature engaging readings of ‘non/conforming bodies’, ‘fashionable bodies’, ‘passing bodies’, and ‘pioneering bodies’ that to different degrees foreground their critical and creative potentials. In its full scope, the book acknowledges the plurality of gendered experiences and the diversity of male bodies. The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter adds to Cultural Studies scholarship interested in the body and gender in general and contributes to the fields of Masculinity and Body Studies in particular.Table of Contents1. Returning to Matter: Critical Perspectives on Representations of the Male Body.- 2. Brother to Brother: A Rereading of Black Masculinities in Embodied Performance.- 3. ‘You’re a Real Man After All’: Fashioning the Male Physique in Twentieth-Century Boxing and Wrestling Magazines.- 4. Basil Dearden’s Violent Playground (1958): Masculinity, Class, and Sentimental Politics.- 5. Refashioning the Male Body: Contemporary Media Representations of the Spornosexual and the Waif.- 6. English Dandies and French Lions: Policing the Male Body in Popular Print and Visual Culture between 1815 and 1848.- 7. Stiliagi Masculinity and the Re-Fashioning of the Male Body in the Soviet Union (1948–1958).- 8. Claiming the Flâneur’s Body: Cross-Dressing Women, Autobiographical Self-Fashioning, and the Pleasures of Passing and Not Passing as a Man on the Street.- 9. Jake and Ellen in Transition: On Clarissa Sligh’s Mutable Bodies.- 10. “A Most Unlikely Hero”: Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels.- 11. Of Cyborgs, Aliens, and Tricksters: Posthumanist Perspectives on the Male Body in Caribbean Speculative Literature.- 12. Fashionable Men in Skin-Tight Pants: Shifts in Body Images and Concepts of Masculinity in the History of Men’s Legwear.- 13. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” – Disability and the Queering of Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.- 14. Rereading the Male Body: The Cultural Power of Representation.

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Book SynopsisThis book urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental illness beyond the diagnoses that specifically target gender and sexual dissidence. In this first comprehensive application of Mad Studies to queer and trans experiences of mental distress, Pilling advances a broad critique of the biomedical model of mental illness as it pertains to 2SLGBTQ people, arguing that Mad Studies is especially amenable to making sense of queer and trans madness. Based on empirical data from two qualitative research studies, this book includes analyses of inpatient chart documentation from a psychiatric hospital and interviews with those who have experienced distress. Using an intersectional lens, Pilling critically examines what constitutes mental health treatment and the impacts of medical strategies on mad queer and trans people. Ultimately, Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice explores the emancipatory promise of queer and trans madness, advocating for more resources to respond to crisis and distress in ways that are non-coercive, non-carceral, and honour autonomy as well as interdependence within 2SLGBTQ communities. Table of Contents1. Chapter 1 Introduction: Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice2. Chapter 2 Reclaiming the Lunatic Fringe: Toward a Mad-Queer-Trans Lens3. Chapter 3 Expanding the Struggle Against Queer and Trans Pathologization: Challenging Biomedicalism4. Chapter 4 The Biomedical Model in Practice I: Encounters with Mental Health Care Practitioners5. Chapter 5 The Biomedical Model in Practice II: Inpatient Chart Documentation on Trans and Non-Binary People6. Chapter 6 Creating Social Change: The Emancipatory Promise of Queer and Trans MadnessIndex

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Book SynopsisOffering historical identity fortified by the presence of women belonging to the various areas of creative and intellectual life, this book allows readers to understand greater contexts of their identity. The history of female artists is an indicator of how social identity was erased from the historiography which asserted itself in nineteenth-century Europe. Analysis of the biographical pathways traced here reveals how women in the Middle Ages and beyond have been active protagonists of the arts, received reviews, as well as had an authoritative role as the esteemed and attentive witnesses of the society around them.Reconstruction of social relationships, intellectual and creative production as well as of the life stories of some of Europe’s most important female artists, foregrounds this omission and highlights their extraordinary nature.The different stories contained in this book narrate the lives and works of Hildegard von Bingen, Francesca Caccini, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Sand, Lou Andreas Salomé and Elke Mascha Blankenburg.By reinforcing the awareness of social and historical origins, the informed reader is better equipped to tackle their futures and build up their personalities.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Research: Hildegard Von Bingen.- Francesca Caccini.- Mary Wollstonecraft.- George Sand.- Lou Andreas Salomé.- Elke Mascha Blankenburg.- To conclude: A short story of Saint Cecilia.- Teaching and female artists in Italy.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is a groundbreaking volume that creates a new field within the intersection of “global health” and “LGBTQ health” delineating specific health challenges and resiliencies. There has been increasing awareness of the importance in recognizing LGBTQ health issues and disparities. However, there is a dearth of research and scholarship that examines LGBTQ health through global and comparative perspectives. This book addresses this gap.In the pursuit of scientific inquiry, the disciplines in public health have often emphasized reductionist perspectives that are particularized to a specific locale, municipality, or country. This book's provision of broader perspectives, cross-cutting disparities and issues, and socio-political-cultural contextualization inform the development of new research, policies, interventions, and programs. Students benefit by learning about LGBTQ health research, policies, and programs in various countries and regions. Public health researchers benefit by learning about research conducted in various countries and regions, along with understanding how research has been linked to and impacted by various policies and programs. Policymakers benefit from learning about overarching and comparative perspectives that could inform more effective policies, including those connected to multiple locations. Practitioners learn about various public health practices in multiple countries and regions that could contribute to novel and creative solutions and approaches within the respective contexts. The nine chapters of this volume facilitate greater socio-political-cultural awareness, sensitivity, and competence; undertake an in-depth literature review of health factors and outcomes; and provide recommendations for increasing health-related capacity through development and collaborations between agencies, organizations, and institutions across countries and/or regions. Global LGBTQ Health: Research, Policy, Practice, and Pathways is primarily intended for students and instructors in public health, medicine, nursing, other health professions, psychology, social work, LGBTQ or gender/sexuality studies, human rights, and the social sciences. The book is also a useful resource for public health researchers and practitioners, policymakers, and healthcare and social service providers.Table of Contents1. Introduction Authors: Sel J. Hwahng & Michelle R. Kaufman 1.1 Why global LGBTQ health? 1.2 Genesis of the book 1.3 On COVID-19 1.4 History, culture, and religion 1.5 Racial/ethnic stratification and indigeneity 1.6 Intersectionality 1.7 Chapter summaries 2. LGBTQ Stigma Authors: Valerie A. Earnshaw, Carmen Logie, Jeffrey A. Wickersham, and Adeeba Kamarulzaman 2.1 Stigma definitions and key concepts 2.1.1 Functions of stigma 2.1.2 Stigma contextualized 2.1.3 Intersectional stigma 2.2 LGBTQ stigma manifestations and experiences 2.2.1 Structural stigma 2.2.2 Individual level 2.3 Processes linking LGBTQ stigma with health 2.3.1 Social isolation 2.3.2 Access to resources 2.3.3 Biological, psychological, and behavioral responses 2.4 Interventions to address LGBTQ stigma 2.4.1 Structural change 2.4.2 Stigma reduction among perceivers 2.4.3 Enhancing resilience among targets 2.5 Conclusion 3. Global LGBTQ Mental Health Authors: Richard Bränström, Tonda L. Hughes, and John E. Pachankis 3.1 Differences in mental health between LGBTQ individuals and cisgender heterosexual individuals 3.1.1 Types of mental health problems 3.1.2 Cultural differences in understanding mental health 3.2 Differences in mental health across diverse populations of LGBTQ individuals 3.2.1 Age and sex 3.2.2 Sexual identity and gender identity 3.2.3 Socioeconomic status 3.2.4 Race/ethnicity 3.2.5 Migration status 3.2.6 Geographic variations in LGBTQ mental health 3.3 Determinants of LGBTQ mental health 3.3.1 The cross-cultural relevance of minority stress theory 3.3.2 Cross-country variation in structural stigma 3.3.3 Barriers to societal integration across countries 3.4 Interventions to improve LGBTQ mental health 3.4.1 Interventions to reduce LGBTQ stigma 3.4.2 Interventions to promote coping with stigma 3.5 Future directions 3.5.1 Improved research methodologies for global LGBTQ mental health 3.5.2 Comparative research to identify cultural variation in LGBTQ mental health 3.5.3 Dissemination of LGBTQ-affirmative mental health interventions 3.5.4 Aging-related dementia and cognitive decline 3.6 Conclusion 4. If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Count: Elements to Consider in Understanding Global Sexual and Gender Minority Data on Non-Communicable Diseases Authors: Jane A. McElroy & Bennett J. Gosiker 4.1 Introduction 4.2 On the impact of COVID-19 4.3 Chronic stress and Immune dysregulation 4.4 Factors contributing to chronic illnesses 4.5 Health disparities theories 4.6 Methodological considerations 4.7 Conclusion 5. Sexual and Gender Minority Population’s Health Burden of Five Non-Communicable Diseases: CVD, Cancer, Diabetes, Asthma, COPD Authors: Jane A. McElroy & Bennett J. Gosiker 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Cardiovascular disease (CVD) 5.2.1 Epidemiology of CVD in sexual minority populations 5.2.2 Epidemiology of CVDD in transgender and non-binary populations 5.3 Cancer 5.3.1 Epidemiology of cancer in sexual minority populations 5.3.2 Epidemiology of cancer among transgender populations 5.4 Diabetes Mellitus 5.4.1 Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus in sexual minority populations 5.4.2 Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus in transgender and non-binary populations 5.5 Asthma 5.5.1 Epidemiology of asthma in sexual minority populations 5.5.2 Epidemiology of asthma in transgender and non-binary populations 5.6 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) 5.6.1 Epidemiology of COPD in sexual minority populations 5.6.2 Epidemiology of COPD in transgender and non-binary populations 5.7 Conclusion 6. Community and Social Support Authors: Chichun Lin & Sel J. Hwahng 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Support in families 6.2.1 Parental support 6.2.2 Sibling support 6.3 Support in schools 6.4 Support in other relationships 6.4.1 Intimate partners 6.4.2 Parenting and family-building 6.4.3 Colleague support 6.4.4 LGBTQ elders 6.5 LGBTQ communities 6.5.1 Same-sex male communities 6.5.2 Same-sex female communities 6.5.3 Bisexual communities 6.5.4 Transgender and non-binary gender communities 6.5.5 Biphobia and transphobia in lesbian/gay communities 6.5.6 Intersex communities 6.5.7 Asexual/aromantic communities 6.5.8 Online communities and social media 6.5.9 Religious and spiritual groups 6.5.10 BDSM/leather and polyamory communities 6.5.11 Other support groups 6.5.12 LGBTQ-related organizations 6.6 Conclusion 7. HIV/AIDS Among Sexual and Gender Minority Communities Globally Authors: S. Wilson Beckham, Jennifer Glick, Jowanna Malone, Ashleigh J. Rich, Andrea Wirtz, & Stefan Baral 7.1 Introduction 7.1.1 Subpopulations 7.2 Methodological and ethical challenges in global HIV research among SGM 7.2.1 Ethical issues 7.2.2 Methodological issues 7.3 Multi-level factors and interventions 7.3.1 Structural level factors 7.3.2 Structural interventions 7.3.3 Interpersonal & community level factors 7.3.4 Interpersonal/community-level interventions 7.3.5 Individual & biomedical level factors 7.3.6 Individual-level & biomedical interventions 7.4 Chronic disease & sexual and gender minorities living with HIV 7.5 Conclusions 7.6 Future directions 8. Global Epidemiology and Social Ecological Determinants of Substance Use Disparities, Consequences of Use, and Treatment Options Among Sexual and Gender Minority Populations Authors: Matthew J. Mimiaga, Lynn Klasko-Foster, Christopher Santostefano, Harry Jin, Taryn Wyron, Jackie White Hughto, & Katie Biello 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Epidemiology 8.2.1 Epidemiology of substance use among sexual and gender minorities: Africa and the Middle East 8.2.2 Epidemiology of substance use among sexual and gender minorities: Asia and Australia 8.2.3 Epidemiology of substance use among sexual and gender minorities: Central and South America 8.2.4 Epidemiology of substance use among sexual and gender minorities: North America 8.2.5 Epidemiology of substance use among sexual and gender minorities: Europe 8.3 Social ecological determinants 8.3.1 Sexual and gender minority stress model: A framework for understanding disparities 8.3.2 Psychosocial factors that potentiate substance use 8.3.3 Social, interpersonal, and cultural factors that drive use among sexual and gender minorities 8.3.4 The role of contextual, environmental, and structural factors in substance use among sexual and gender minorities 8.4 Consequences of use 8.4.1 HIV, Hepatitis C virus, and other sexually transmitted infections 8.4.2 Chronic disease 8.4.3 Incarceration 8.4.4 Social isolation 8.5 Intervention and treatment options 8.5.1 Alcohol use 8.5.2 Smoking 8.5.3 Stimulant use disorder 8.5.4 Opioid use disorder 8.5.5 Need for integrated services 9. Victimization and Intentional Injury in Global LGBTQI Populations Authors: Casey D. Xavier Hall, G. Nic Rider, Nova Bradford, Eunice M. Areba, & Katy Miller 9.1 Victimization and intentional injury in LGBTQI populations 9.2 Frameworks for understanding intentional injury and victimization in. LGBTQI populations 9.2.1 Syndemics 9.2.2 Minority stress and multilevel influences 9.2.3 Colonization, intergenerational trauma, and historical trauma 9.2.4 LGBTQI rights as human rights 9.3 Types of intentional injury and victimization 9.3.1 State-sanctioned victimization 9.3.2 Community and organizational victimization 9.3.3 Interpersonal victimization across the life course 9.3.4 Polyvictimization 9.4 Risk factors for victimization 9.5 Health consequences of victimization 9.6 Prevention and interventions 9.6.1 Decolonization 9.6.2 Structural/policy interventions 9.6.3 Organizational or community interventions 9.6.4 Individual interventions 9.7 Conclusions and highlight gaps in the literature

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Book SynopsisTrans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history.Trade Review"The first thing one observes about Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography is that it is a beautiful object. The cover image, by medievalist and artist Jonah Coman, is a sumptuous study in gold, like a Book of Hours, with vignettes of both holy images and protest marches in a band that encircles an image of a medieval saint holding a trans pride flag. We do not often talk about the physical form of scholarly books, but this one is a joy to hold. It is also a useful object, containing an appendix on trans and genderqueer terminology, language, and usage that serves as an important snapshot of how to talk about gender in the early twenty-first century and should prove enormously useful to those just coming to explore trans studies. [...] With this kind of work in the offering, the future of the profession has a chance to be as wonderful as this collection."- Masha Raskolnikov, The Medieval Review22.03.10 (2022) "The inspiring volume is a must-read for all scholars working with religion and history. Most importantly, it is an admirable effort to dismantle cis-heteronormative conceptions of the Middle Ages (propagated alarmingly by white supremacist groups). [...] The volume is of the utmost importance for the trans and genderqueer people of today, as it is in essence a serious academic endeavour to imagine a transgender past and, thus, offer a sense of historical belonging."- Rose-Marie Peake, Mirator 1/21 (2021) "By establishing transness as holy, the authors are not only working to put trans and genderqueer subjects back into the narrative of history, but at its center. Transness is being rewritten as something beautiful and divine."- - Milo, What Lives Here Now blog (2021) "In this important volume, Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt bring together scholarship that rethinks, in creatively productive ways, how gender figures in medieval representations of sainthood and sanctity. [...] All the varied scholarship collected here is excellent, and the volume as a whole mounts a persuasive and invigorating argument about the importance of attending to trans and genderqueer texts and experiences in the Middle Ages."- Steven F. Kruger, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures "Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography is an excellent collection that, by offering a platform for both new and established scholars to revisit their earlier assessments of medieval texts, offers an understanding of the past predicated upon the need for a more just future." - Alexander Flores, Comitatus, Vol. 53, 2022Table of ContentsIList of Figures Acknowledgements 'Introduction', Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt Following the Traces: Reassessing the Status Quo, Reinscribing Trans and Genderqueer Realities 1.'Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau and the Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries', Martha G. Newman 2.'Inherited Futures: Capgrave's Life of St Katherine', Caitlyn McLoughlin 3.'Juana de la Cruz: Gender-Transcendent Prophetess', Kevin C.A. Elphick 4.'Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David's Life of Patriarch Ignatios', Felix Szabo Peripheral Vision(s): Objects, Images, and Identities 5.'Gender-Querying Christ's Wounds: A Non-Binary Interpretation of Christ's Body in Late Medieval Imagery', Sophie Sexon 6.'Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine', Vanessa Wright 7.'The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia', Lee Colwill Genre, Gender, and Trans Textualities 8.'St Eufrosine's Invitation to Gender Transgression', Amy V. Ogden 9.'Holy Queer and Holy Cure: Sanctity, Disability, and Transgender Embodiment in Tristan de Nanteuil', Blake Gutt 10.'The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints: imago Dei and imitatio Christi in the Life of Saint Marinos the Monk', M.W. Bychowski Epilogue: 'Beyond Binaries: The (Trans) Gender(s) of Saints', Mathilde van Dijk Appendix: 'Trans and Genderqueer Studies Terminology, Language, and Usage Guide' Index

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