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Book SynopsisGender Relations in an Indonesian Society offers a comprehensive ethnography of Bugis marriage through an exploration of gender identity and sexuality in this bilateral, highly competitive, hierarchical society. Nurul Ilmi Idrus considers the fundamental concept of siriq (honour; shame) in relation to gender socialization, courtship, sex within marriage, the regulation of sexuality between genders, the importance of kinship and status in marriage, and the dynamics of marriage, divorce, and reconciliation. This analysis considers the practical combination of Islamic tenets with local adat (custom; customary law) and the effect of contemporary Indonesia’s national ideology on cultural practices specific to Bugis society.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface List of Maps, Tables, Plates, and Diagrams Chapter I: Introduction Chapter II: Siri’, Gender and Sexuality Chapter III: Asseajingeng: Marriage, Family and Social Status Chapter IV: Assikalaibinéngeng: The Couple, the House and the Household Chapter V: Beliefs and Sexual Manners: Islam, Lontara’ and Everyday Practices Chapter VI: Marriage, Divorce and Reconciliation: between Islamic Court and Customary Law Chapter VII: Family Dynamics in Urban Life: Violence, Media and the State Chapter VIII: The Ethnography of Marriage: Understanding Bugis Domestic Life Appendices Glossary Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume is the first comprehensive compilation of texts on gender constructions, normative gender orders and their religious legitimizations, as well as current gender policies in Islamic Southeast Asia, which besides the Islamic core countries of Malaysia and Indonesia also comprises southern Thailand and Mindanao (the Philippines). The authors trace the impact of national development programmes, modernization, globalization, and political conflicts on the local and national gender regimes in the twentieth century, and elaborate on the consequences of the revitalization of a conservative type of Islam. The book, thus, elucidates the boundary lines of cultural and political processes of negotiation related to state, society, and community. It employs a broad analytical framework, offers rich empirical data and gives new insights into current debates on gender and Islam. Contributors include Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Farish A. Noor, Siti Musdah Mulia, Amporn Marddent, Maila Stivens, Alexander Horstmann, Amina Rasul-Bernardo, Monika Arnez, Susanne Schröter, Nurul Ilmi Idrus, Vivienne S.M. Angeles and Birte Brecht-Drouart.Trade ReviewAbout the hardback: 'This rich text is a welcome addition to the scant literature on women in Southeast Asia. [...] Highly recommended.' A. B. McCloud, CHOICE 51.5 (January 2014). doi: 10.5860/CHOICE.51-2959 'The main strength of the book lies in the examination of gender discourses in countries and organizations that have been under-researched. […] … an important contribution to gender studies and Islam.' Norshahril Saat in Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 29.2 (2014). DOI: 10.1355/sj29-2oTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Susanne Schröter: Introduction Susanne Schröter: Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia. An Overview. Indonesia Nelly van Doorn-Harder: Polygamy and Harmonious Families: Indonesian Debates on Gender and Marriage Monika Arnez: A Dialogue with God? Islam and Lesbian Relationships in Two Post-Suharto Narratives Nurul Ilmi Idrus: Islam, Marriage and Gender Relations in Bugis Lontara’: A Critical Analysis of the Lontara Daramatasia Siti Musdah Mulia: Towards Justice in Marital Law: Empowering Indonesian Women Malaysia Maila Stivens: ‘Family Values’ and Islamic Revival: Gender, Rights and State Moral Projects in Malaysia Philippines Amina Rasul-Bernardo: The Role of Muslim Women in Democracy, Development, and Peace: The Philippine Case Vivienne S. M. Angeles: From Catholic to Muslim: Changing Perceptions of Gender Roles in a Balik-Islam Movement in the Philippines Birte Brecht-Drouart: Muslim Women Leaders in the Philippines Thailand Alexander Horstmann: Female Missionaries and Women’s Participation in Southern Thailand’s Chapter of the Tablighi Jama’at Amporn Marddent: Religious Piety and Muslim Women in Thailand Transnational Farish A. Noor: Woman as the Constitutive Other? The Place and Meaning of ‘Woman’ in the Worldviewof the Tablighi Jama’at Bibliography About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisSTEM of Desire: Queer Theories and Science Education locates, creates, and investigates intersections of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and queer theorizing. Manifold desires—personal, political, cultural—produce and animate STEM education. Queer theories instigate and explore (im)possibilities for knowing and being through desires normal and strange. The provocative original manuscripts in this collection draw on queer theories and allied perspectives to trace entanglements of STEM education, sex, sexuality, gender, and desire and to advance constructive critique, creative world-making, and (com)passionate advocacy. Not just another call for inclusion, this volume turns to what and how STEM education and diverse, desiring subjects might be(come) in relation to each other and the world. STEM of Desire is the first book-length project on queering STEM education. Eighteen chapters and two poems by 27 contributors consider STEM education in schools and universities, museums and other informal learning environments, and everyday life. Subject areas include physical and life sciences, engineering, mathematics, nursing and medicine, environmental education, early childhood education, teacher education, and education standards. These queering orientations to theory, research, and practice will interest STEM teacher educators, teachers and professors, undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, policy makers, and academic libraries. Contributors are: Jesse Bazzul, Charlotte Boulay, Francis S. Broadway, Erin A. Cech, Steve Fifield, blake m. r. flessas, Andrew Gilbert, Helene Götschel, Emily M. Gray, Kristin L. Gunckel, Joe E. Heimlich, Tommye Hutson, Kathryn L. Kirchgasler, Michelle L. Knaier, Sheri Leafgren, Will Letts, Anna MacDermut, Michael J. Reiss, Donna M. Riley, Cecilia Rodéhn, Scott Sander, Nicholas Santavicca, James Sheldon, Amy E. Slaton, Stephen Witzig, Timothy D. Zimmerman, and Adrian Zongrone.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illyria  Charlotte Boulay Prolegomenon: Queer Theories and STEM Education  Steve Fifield and Will Letts 1. I : Snow Queen :: “Nigger” : (School) Science  Francis S. Broadway 2. Queering Science Education without Making Too Much Sense  Steve Fifield and Will Letts 3. Beyond Nature Talk: Transforming Environmental Education with Critical and Queer Theories  Blake M. R. Flessas and Timothy D. Zimmerman 4. Wonder in the Science Classroom  Andrew Gilbert and Emily M. Gray 5. Teaching Queering Physics: An Agenda for Research and Practice  Helene Götschel 6. What Does Queer Theory Have to Do with Teaching Science in Elementary Schools?  Kristin L. Gunckel 7. Queering STEM Learningscapes  Joe E. Heimlich 8. What’s in a Name? Reflections on Learning and Teaching in Central Texas  Tommye Hutson 9. Strange Precipitate: How Interest in Science Produces Different Kinds of Students  Kathryn L. Kirchgasler 10. What Makes Girls and Boys So Desirable? STEM Education beyond Gender Binaries  Michelle L. Knaier 11. Children, Nomads, and Queering: Desire and Surprise in a Wiggly World  Sheri Leafgren and Scott Sander 12. Inviting the Mess: A Children’s Museum’s Transgressive Tactics for Unleashing Play  Anna MacDermut and Adrian Zongrone 13. Thinking Like a Fox: Queering the Science Classroom When Teaching about Sex and Sexuality  Michael J. Reiss 14. Exhibiting Doctors and Nurses: Queering Professional Education in a Medical Museum  Cecilia Rodéhn 15. Camping Science Education: A Trip to Camp Wilde and the Queer Nature of Nature  Nicholas Santavicca, Jesse Bazzul and Stephen Witzig 16. Towards a Queer Curriculum of Infinity  James Sheldon 17. Yearning, Learning, and Earning: The Gritty Ontologies of American Engineering Education  Amy E. Slaton, Erin A. Cech and Donna M. Riley 18. The Bargain  Charlotte Boulay

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Book SynopsisGendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.Table of ContentsPart I: Gendering the Trans-Pacific 1. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 2. Notes on Trans-Pacific Archives, by Denise Cruz 3. The Many Labors of the Gendered Trans-Pacific World, by Karen J. Leong Part II: Geographies of Empire 4. Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines: Interracial Intimacies in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, 1898–1921, by Tessa Ong Winkelmann 5. A Fascist Triangle or a Rotary Wheel: The Sino-Japanese War and the Gendered Internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo, by Erika Huckestein and Mark L. Reeves 6. Moving Within Empires: Korean Women and Trans-Pacific Migration, by Ji-Yeon Yuh 7. Re-franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920: The Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, Race, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific, by Rumi Yasutake 8. Currencies of U.S. Empire in Hawaiʻi’s Tourism and Prison Industries, by Liza Keānuenueokalani Williams Part III: Intimacies and Affect 9. The Sexualized Child and Mestizaje: Colonial Tropes of the Filipina/o, by Gladys Nubla 10. “Ashamed of Certain Japanese”: The Politics of Affect in Japanese Women’s Immigration Exclusion, 1919–1924, by Chrissy Yee Lau 11. Gendered Adoptee Identities: Performing Trans-Pacific Masculinity in the 21st Century, by Kimberly McKee 12. Up in the Air: Circuits of Transnational Asian and Asian American Mothering, by Miliann Kang Part IV: Beauty and the Body 13. Pageant Politics: Tensions of Power, Empire, and Nationalism in Manila Carnival Queen Contests, by Genevieve Clutario 14. “Golden Lilies” across the Pacific: Footbinding and the American Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws, by Fang He 15. Traces of Empires in Breast Cancer in South Korea and the Trans-Pacific, by Laura C. Nelson 16. Graphical and Ethical Spectatorship: Human Trafficking in Stanford Graphic Novel Project’s From Busan to San Francisco and Mark Kalesniko’s Mail Order Bride, by Stella Oh Part V: Culture and Circulation 17. Performing between Two Empires: Colonial Modernity and the Racialized Politics of Filipino Masculinity in Okinawa and Japan, by Nobue Suzuki 18. A Careful Embrace: Race, Gender, and the Consumption of Hawaiʻi and the South Pacific in Mid-Century Los Angeles, by Shawn Schwaller 19. We Are Pacific Men, by Craig Santos Perez 20. Gendering the K-Vampire, by Hyungji Park 21. Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens: The Cinemas of Vietnam and the Diaspora, by Lan Duong

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Book SynopsisGender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. Gender under Construction takes a non-essentialist view of gender and provides illustrative examples of gender constructive processes by pursuing them in various contexts and by means of diverse methodologies. In so doing, the book demonstrates that it is unfeasible to consider gender as a fixed biological trait. Instead, the authors propose to look at gender performance as ongoing processes in which femininities and masculinities enter multiple and dynamic intersections with a myriad of categories, including those of nationality, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age. Contributors are Iqbal Akthar, Renata Ćuk, Ewa Glapka, Deirdre Hynes, Borja Ibaseta, Martin King, Ana Cristina Moreira Lima, Mervi Patosalmi, Marcia Bastos de Sá, Andréa Costa da Silva, Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Christi van der Westhuizen and Isabelle V. Zinn.Table of ContentsIntroduction  Ewa Glapka and Barbara Braid Part I Gender in Talk: Construction of Identity versus Hegemonic Discourses of Gender   Masculinity in Media Consumption: Readers’ Positioning to the Discourse of a Men’s Magazine   Ewa Glapka   Still Pink and Pale: White Afrikaans Hetero-Femininity in Postapartheid South Africa   Christi van der Westhuizen   Gendering the Workplace: Between Transgression and (De-)Naturalisation   Isabelle V. Zinn Part II Dynamic Masculinities and Their Representations   Inscribing the Male: Representations of Masculinity and Male Bodies in Contemporary Literature   Borja Ibaseta   ‘Imprisoned in a System of Work, Produce, Consume’: So How Did Jack Kerouac, Hugh Hefner, Albert Finney and John Lennon Challenge the Link between Masculinity and Responsibility?   Martin King   Desperately Becoming a Father: Representations of Fatherhood in Desperate Housewives   Iqbal Akthar and Deirdre Hynes Part III Gender, Sexuality and the Coercive Power of Institutions   Sexual Violence against Men in Armed Conflict: Why Is It still Invisible?   Renata Cuk   Marital Rape and Constructions of Sexual Agency   Mervi Patosalmi   Sexuality and Gender at a Brazilian School: Constructing Femininities   Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Marcia Bastos de Sá, Andrea Costa da Silva, and Ana Cristina Moreira Lima

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Book SynopsisWhat is the place of women in global labour policies? Women’s ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present gathers new research on a century of ILO engagement with women’s work. It asks: what was the role of women’s networks in shaping ILO policies and what were the gendered meanings of international labour law in a world of uneven and unequal development? Women’s ILO explores issues like equal remuneration, home-based labour, and social welfare internationally and in places such as Argentina, Italy, and Ghana. It scrutinizes the impact of both power relations and global feminisms on the making of global labour policies in a world shaped by colonialism, the Cold War and post-colonial inequality. It further charts the disparate advancement of gender equity, highlighting the significant role of women experts and activists in the process. Contributors are: Paula Lucía Aguilar, Lucia Artner, Eloisa Betti, Chris Bonner, Eileen Boris, Akua O. Britwum, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Dorothea Hoehtker, Pat Horn, Sonya Michel, Silke Neunsinger, Renana Jhabvala, Marieke Louis, Yevette Richards, Mahua Sarkar, Kirsten Scheiwe, Françoise Thébaud, Susan Zimmermann “This is a must-read volume for scholars and students interested in women, labor and international/transnational history.” – Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine, USA “This fascinating collection of essays assesses the ILO’s role in securing social justice for women workers around the world and asks how that role might change as the world of work is transformed in the next century.” — Celia Donert, University of Liverpool “This exciting collection provides a long-overdue state of the art on gender politics and the ILO. It will no doubt be the work of reference on the topic for years to come.” – Elisabeth Prügl, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, GenevaTrade Review"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Elizabeth Faue, in: CHOICE, 56:4 (2018) "This collection provides a thorough overview of the shifting position of women – and of concerns about women’s work, gender equity, and gender policy – within the International Labor Organization (ILO) from 1919 to the present. [...] This is a comprehensive and rigorous discussion of women as both subjects and objects of the ILO. It will be valuable to anyone working on the history of international organizations, transnational activism, gender and labour activism, and/or the intersections between race, class, and gender in the twentieth century". Nicole Bourbonnais. Endorsements: “This fascinating collection of essays assesses the ILO’s role in securing social justice for women workers around the world over the past hundred years, and asks how that role might change as the world of work is itself transformed in the next century. Essential reading for scholars and students interested in the history of labour, feminist activism, social rights and international organizations.” - Celia Donert, University of Liverpool “This is an exciting collection that provides a long-overdue state of the art on gender politics and the ILO. It brings to life a feminist and historical perspective—broadening the consideration of women at the ILO to an exploration of gender politics, intersectionally weaving race, class, and coloniality into such politics, exploring the power of the ILO’s gender expertise to define new realities, recognizing the institutional conflicts between the ILO and the UN regarding gender politics during the Cold War, valorizing the power of women’s and feminist networks, bringing into view the translations of ILO ideas into multiple contexts around the world, and showing how the very meaning of work needs re-evaluation when women’s experiences are taken seriously. In addition to doing all this, the collection offers rich empirical materials based on original research. It will no doubt be the work of reference on the topic for years to come.” – Elisabeth Prügl, Professor of International Relations, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva “Women’s ILO is a groundbreaking anthology that explores how women’s transnational political networks have shaped the International Labour Organization and how the ILO has sought to create standards for work conditions for women throughout the 20th century. In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ILO, founded in 1919, this volume brings together established as well as emerging scholars from across the globe to explore issues related to women, labor, and international regulation. The essays, written by historians and social scientists, have a broad geographical as well as chronological reach. The authors explore issues related to gender, work, and economic justice in the global South and North. They also trace the developments of the ILO, women’s networks, and gendered regulations across the interwar years, World War II and the Cold War, and the rise and expansion of neoliberalism and globalization. This is a must-read volume for scholars and students interested in women, labor, and international/transnational history.” – Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Annotated List of Organizations and Abbreviations/Acronyms Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Century of Women’s ilo  Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker and Susan Zimmermann Part 1: The Work of Transnational Networks 1“The Other ilo Founders”: 1919 and Its Legacies  Dorothy Sue Cobble 2Difficult Inroads, Unexpected Results: The Correspondence Committee on Women’s Work in the 1930s  Françoise Thébaud 3International Networking in the Interwar Years: Gertrud Hanna, Alice Salomon, and Erna Magnus  Kirsten Scheiwe and Lucia Artner 4Equality’s Cold War: The ilo and the un Commission on the Status of Women, 1946–1970s  Eileen Boris 5The Unobtainable Magic of Numbers: Equal Remuneration, the ilo, and the International Trade Union Movement, 1950s–1980s  Silke Neunsinger 6Transnational Links and Constraints: Women’s Work, the ilo, and the icftu in Africa, 1950s–1980s  Yevette Richards 7Informal Women Workers Open ilo Doors through Transnational Organizing, 1980s–2010s  Chris Bonner, Pat Horn and Renana Jhabvala 8Women’s Representation at the ilo: A Hundred Years of Marginalization  Marieke Louis Part 2: Developing and Negotiating Global Labour Standards 9Globalizing Gendered Labour Policy: International Labour Standards and the Global South, 1919–1947  Susan Zimmermann 10Motherhood at the Heart of Labour Regulation: Argentina, 1907–1941  Paula Lucía Aguilar 11Unexpected Alliances: Italian Women’s Struggles for Equal Pay, 1940s–1960s  Eloisa Betti 12Organizing Rural Women in Ghana since the 1980s: Trade Union Efforts and ilo Standards  Akua O. Britwum 13Mothers Working Abroad: Migrant Women Caregivers and the ilo, 1980s–2010s  Sonya Michel 14When Maternity is Paid Work: Commercial Gestational Surrogacy at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century  Mahua Sarkar Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. How foreigners could live, communicate, move around – even whom they could interaction with – were all things strictly regulated by the Chinese authorities. The Europeans sometimes adapted to, and sometimes subverted, these rules. Focusing on this conditional domesticity shows the importance of gender relations, especially the construction of masculinity. Using the Swedish East India Company, a minor European actor in an expanding Asian empire, as a point of entry highlights the multiplicity of actors taking part in local negotiations of power. The European attempts at making a home in China contributes to a global turn in everyday history, but also to an everyday turn in global history.Trade Review"Hellman’s book provides an important basis for further research on Canton as the core of a multi-pole, multi-scale, multi-empire urban network established across the ports of the Pearl River Delta. It should be read by anyone interested in the social and urban processes of globalization of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries". Regina Campinho, in Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, October 2020. "The book provides many new insights into the daily activities of the European community in Canton and Macao. [...] Maritime historians who are theoretically oriented will likely find much of interest in this study". Paul A. Van Dyke, in The International Journal of Maritime History, 31(4).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations and Terminology 1 Entering Canton and Macao  1 Asian Power and European Compliance  2 The Daily Making of a Home  3 The Practices of Daily Life  4 Tactics in the Face of a Conditional Everyday Life  5 What is Missing is the Commonplace Abroad  6 The Remains of the Days 2 The Who’s Who of Canton and Macao  1 The Foreign Trade Groups   1.1 -Chinese Traders and Masculinities   1.2 The Foreign Women   1.3 Sailors and Slaves  2 The People of Macao  3 The Local Trade Groups   3.1 The Merchants, the Officials – and ‘the mandarins’   3.2 The Labourers of the Pearl River Delta   3.3 The Prostitutes  4 The ‘Chinese’   4.1 ‘The Chinese men’   4.2 ‘The Chinese women’  5 Conclusion  Colin Campbell and the 1730s 3 A Space for Intersections  1 The City Space  1.1 Walking Around the City  1.2 City of Women  2 The Factory Space  2.1 nside the Factories  2.2 The Dining Space  3 Macao  4 The Harbour Space  5 The Water Space  6 Conclusion  Michael Grubb and the 1750s and 1760s 4 The Communication Struggle  1 Separate Groups, Separate Languages?   1.1 Circumventing the Rules   1.2 Pidgin English  2 Local and Global Communication Channels   2.1 The Role of the Interpreters   2.2 Letters from Near and Far   2.3 Channels for Circulation of Knowledge<  3 Conclusion  Olof Lindahl and the 1770s and 1780s 5 Spending Time and Spending Money  1 Domestic Consumption  2 Food as Cultural Evaluation and Adaptation  3 Drinking Right and Drinking Wrong  4 Sharing a Cup of Tea and a Smoke  5 What You Get from Giving Away  6 Boredom and What to do about it  7 Going Outside  8 Conclusion  Anders Ljungstedt and the Early Nineteenth Century 6 Finding and Becoming Trustworthy Men  1 Spaces for Trust  2 Finding a Language for Trust   2.1 Gossip and Secrets   2.2 The Myth of Special Friendship  3 How to Look Trustworthy  4 How to Act Trustworthy   4.1 Finding a Certainty of Response   4.2 Accepting Distrust   4.3 Adapting Masculinities  5 Conclusion 7 This House is Not a Home  1 Multi-faceted Control and a Plurality of Responses  2 Everyday Relations of Ethnicity, Class and Gender  3 Globalisation, not European Expansion  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSTEM of Desire: Queer Theories and Science Education locates, creates, and investigates intersections of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and queer theorizing. Manifold desires—personal, political, cultural—produce and animate STEM education. Queer theories instigate and explore (im)possibilities for knowing and being through desires normal and strange. The provocative original manuscripts in this collection draw on queer theories and allied perspectives to trace entanglements of STEM education, sex, sexuality, gender, and desire and to advance constructive critique, creative world-making, and (com)passionate advocacy. Not just another call for inclusion, this volume turns to what and how STEM education and diverse, desiring subjects might be(come) in relation to each other and the world. STEM of Desire is the first book-length project on queering STEM education. Eighteen chapters and two poems by 27 contributors consider STEM education in schools and universities, museums and other informal learning environments, and everyday life. Subject areas include physical and life sciences, engineering, mathematics, nursing and medicine, environmental education, early childhood education, teacher education, and education standards. These queering orientations to theory, research, and practice will interest STEM teacher educators, teachers and professors, undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, policy makers, and academic libraries. Contributors are: Jesse Bazzul, Charlotte Boulay, Francis S. Broadway, Erin A. Cech, Steve Fifield, blake m. r. flessas, Andrew Gilbert, Helene Götschel, Emily M. Gray, Kristin L. Gunckel, Joe E. Heimlich, Tommye Hutson, Kathryn L. Kirchgasler, Michelle L. Knaier, Sheri Leafgren, Will Letts, Anna MacDermut, Michael J. Reiss, Donna M. Riley, Cecilia Rodéhn, Scott Sander, Nicholas Santavicca, James Sheldon, Amy E. Slaton, Stephen Witzig, Timothy D. Zimmerman, and Adrian Zongrone.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illyria  Charlotte Boulay Prolegomenon: Queer Theories and STEM Education  Steve Fifield and Will Letts 1. I : Snow Queen :: “Nigger” : (School) Science  Francis S. Broadway 2. Queering Science Education without Making Too Much Sense  Steve Fifield and Will Letts 3. Beyond Nature Talk: Transforming Environmental Education with Critical and Queer Theories  Blake M. R. Flessas and Timothy D. Zimmerman 4. Wonder in the Science Classroom  Andrew Gilbert and Emily M. Gray 5. Teaching Queering Physics: An Agenda for Research and Practice  Helene Götschel 6. What Does Queer Theory Have to Do with Teaching Science in Elementary Schools?  Kristin L. Gunckel 7. Queering STEM Learningscapes  Joe E. Heimlich 8. What’s in a Name? Reflections on Learning and Teaching in Central Texas  Tommye Hutson 9. Strange Precipitate: How Interest in Science Produces Different Kinds of Students  Kathryn L. Kirchgasler 10. What Makes Girls and Boys So Desirable? STEM Education beyond Gender Binaries  Michelle L. Knaier 11. Children, Nomads, and Queering: Desire and Surprise in a Wiggly World  Sheri Leafgren and Scott Sander 12. Inviting the Mess: A Children’s Museum’s Transgressive Tactics for Unleashing Play  Anna MacDermut and Adrian Zongrone 13. Thinking Like a Fox: Queering the Science Classroom When Teaching about Sex and Sexuality  Michael J. Reiss 14. Exhibiting Doctors and Nurses: Queering Professional Education in a Medical Museum  Cecilia Rodéhn 15. Camping Science Education: A Trip to Camp Wilde and the Queer Nature of Nature  Nicholas Santavicca, Jesse Bazzul and Stephen Witzig 16. Towards a Queer Curriculum of Infinity  James Sheldon 17. Yearning, Learning, and Earning: The Gritty Ontologies of American Engineering Education  Amy E. Slaton, Erin A. Cech and Donna M. Riley 18. The Bargain  Charlotte Boulay

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Book SynopsisGender and love are so intimately interconnected that it sometimes seems as though they bring each other into being. But their relationship is shifting as human society develops new understandings of identity, gender and the self. The chapters in this volume explore the convoluted and ever-changing nature of love, gender and identity from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, bearing testimony to the perennial appeal of this field of inquiry. There are chapters on the historical constructions of love and gender; the philosophical aspects; the faultlines in twenty-first-century heteronormativity; and the challenges of love from and within the margins. Gender and love are interdisciplinary and this volume will appeal to scholars from all disciplinary protocols.Trade Review“Byrne … and Ade … have assembled a fascinating and diverse collection of essays about cultural variations of gender, sexuality, and love.” — T. E. Adams, Bradley University, CHOICE connect 56.11 (July 2019)

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Book SynopsisPopular representations of teachers and teaching are easy to take for granted precisely because they are so accessible and pervasive. Our lives are intertextual in the way lived experiences overlap with the stories of others presented to us through mass media. It is this set of connected narratives that we bring into classrooms and into discussions of educational policy. In this day and time—with public education under siege by forces eager to deprofessionalize teaching and transfer public funds to benefit private enterprises—we ignore the dominant discourse about education and the patterns of representation that typify educator characters at our peril. This edited volume offers a fresh take on educator characters in popular culture and also includes important essays about media texts that have not been addressed adequately in the literature previously. The 15 chapters cover diverse forms from literary classics to iconic teacher movies to popular television to rock ‘n’ roll. Topics explored include pedagogy through the lenses of gender, sexuality, race, disability, politics, narrative archetypes, curriculum, teaching strategies, and liberatory praxis. The various perspectives represented in this volume come from scholars and practitioners of education at all levels of schooling. This book is especially timely in an era when public education in the United States is under assault from conservative political forces and undervalued by the general public. Contributors are: Steve Benton, Naeemah Clark, Kristy Liles Crawley, Elizabeth Currin, Mary M. Dalton, Jill Ewing Flynn, Chad E. Harris, Gary Kenton, Mark A. Lewis, Ian Parker Renga, Stephanie Schroeder, Roslin Smith, Jeff Spanke, and Andrew Wirth.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 A Loyalty Test for the American Educator, from Ichabod Crane to Erin Gruwell  Steve Benton 2 Schooling the State: Teachers and Democratic Dispositions on The West Wing  Stephanie Schroeder 3 Rethinking Student-Teacher Relationship Intimacy as Attachment  Andrew Wirth 4 Mr. Miller Goes to War: Saving Private Ryan and the Children Left Behind  Jeff Spanke 5 In Loco Parentis Redux: Bob and Linda Belcher at Wagstaff School  Elizabeth Currin 6 What’s a Nice White Lady to Do?: A Critical Literacy Lens on Teaching and Learning in Pop Culture Portrayals  Jill Ewing Flynn 7 The Dis-Education of Rock ‘n’ Roll  Gary Kenton 8 Promoted to Control?: School Office Culture in HBO’s Vice Principals  Chad E. Harris 9 The Insecure Teacher: How Issa Rae Has Normalized the Black Woman to Create TV Magic  Naeemah Clark 10 Contrasting the Archetypal Sage with the Mentor Coach in Young Adult Literature: Insights for Teacher Reflection  Ian Parker Renga and Mark A. Lewis 11 Saved by the Belles: Gender Roles in the Quintessential Teen Comedy  Elizabeth Currin and Stephanie Schroeder 12 “Good” Teacher on Her Own Terms: Miss Shaw in ABC’s The Wonder Years  Chad E. Harris 13 Liberatory Pedagogy in Action: The Embodied Performance of Community College Instructors in Film and Television  Kristy Liles Crawley 14 Q the Teacher. TV Lessons from the 24th Century: You Do Not have to Be an Omniscient Teacher, But It Helps  Roslin Smith 15 Speechless to Speechless: Nontraditional Teacher Characters in Recent Sitcoms  Mary M. Dalton Film Sources Television Sources

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Book SynopsisCritical stories are more than just anecdotes or tales. They are narratives that raconter, or recount, the author’s own experiences, situating them in broader cultural contexts. Just as the autoethnographer situates the self in relation to the “others” of which the self is both a part and from which it is distinct, the critical storyteller situates his or her story of conflict in relation to the broader reality from which the conflict arises. The key is the reality that is being related and the perspective from which it is being shared. In Critical Storytelling in Millennial Times, marginalized, excluded, and oppressed people share insights from their liminality and help readers learn from their perspectives and experiences. Examples of stories in this volume range from undergraduate perspectives on financial aid for college students, to narratives on first-hand police brutality, to heartbreaking tales about addiction, bullying, and the child sex trade in Cambodia. Undergraduate authors relate their stories and pose important questions to the reader about inciting change for the future. Follow along in their journeys and learn what you can do to make a change in your own reality. Contributors are: Ben Brawner, Dwight Brown, Bryce Cherry, Kaytlin Jacoby, Jimmy Kruse, Dean Larrick, Bric Martin, Kara Niles, Claire Parrish, Grace Piper, Claire Prendergast, Alexsenia Ralat, Alec Reyes, Stephanie Simon, S. H. Suits, Katy Swift, Morgan Vogels, and Brittany Walsh.Trade Review"For students to have a say in the world in which they live is a necessity. They give voice to specific challenges and hopes imposed or otherwise overlooked by those to whom we (too often uncritically) depend upon to narrate the world on our behalf. Future generations will look to stories of the past to help make sense of the world they’ve inherited. The contributors to Critical Storytelling in Millennial Times offer some critical insights to such a project that will be invaluable in the work of describing our "now" then. These undergraduates – by sharing their stories of struggle with identity, university demands, and how to cope – expertly take up the incredibly important work of telling their own rather than waiting for their stories to be told and, in the process, making history ...." – A. D. Carson, Assistant Professor of Hip Hop and the Global South, University of Virginia

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Book SynopsisCritical stories are more than just anecdotes or tales. They are narratives that raconter, or recount, the author’s own experiences, situating them in broader cultural contexts. Just as the autoethnographer situates the self in relation to the “others” of which the self is both a part and from which it is distinct, the critical storyteller situates his or her story of conflict in relation to the broader reality from which the conflict arises. The key is the reality that is being related and the perspective from which it is being shared. In Critical Storytelling in Millennial Times, marginalized, excluded, and oppressed people share insights from their liminality and help readers learn from their perspectives and experiences. Examples of stories in this volume range from undergraduate perspectives on financial aid for college students, to narratives on first-hand police brutality, to heartbreaking tales about addiction, bullying, and the child sex trade in Cambodia. Undergraduate authors relate their stories and pose important questions to the reader about inciting change for the future. Follow along in their journeys and learn what you can do to make a change in your own reality. Contributors are: Ben Brawner, Dwight Brown, Bryce Cherry, Kaytlin Jacoby, Jimmy Kruse, Dean Larrick, Bric Martin, Kara Niles, Claire Parrish, Grace Piper, Claire Prendergast, Alexsenia Ralat, Alec Reyes, Stephanie Simon, S. H. Suits, Katy Swift, Morgan Vogels, and Brittany Walsh.Trade Review"For students to have a say in the world in which they live is a necessity. They give voice to specific challenges and hopes imposed or otherwise overlooked by those to whom we (too often uncritically) depend upon to narrate the world on our behalf. Future generations will look to stories of the past to help make sense of the world they’ve inherited. The contributors to Critical Storytelling in Millennial Times offer some critical insights to such a project that will be invaluable in the work of describing our "now" then. These undergraduates – by sharing their stories of struggle with identity, university demands, and how to cope – expertly take up the incredibly important work of telling their own rather than waiting for their stories to be told and, in the process, making history ...." – A. D. Carson, Assistant Professor of Hip Hop and the Global South, University of Virginia

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Book SynopsisIn Time for Educational Poetics the author addresses a discussion in the context of today’s philosophy of education and educational research. Conceptually, educational poetics is not limited to a theoretical construction, but rather focuses on the creative, imaginative and poetic experience, to being recreated in the teaching-learning process. Educational poetics is rooted in the philosophical and aesthetic thought of South Asia, specifically in how contemplative and creative practices re-introduced by Rabindranath Tagore. Educational poetics is the convergence of research in creative contemplation and poetic creation, practices of conscious attention and mindfulness, and practices of peace education and philosophy of non-violence. This book leads to a perspective in thinking about the risks that jeopardize the future of young generations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part 1: Time for Educational Poetics: A Philosophy of Education for Our Time Chapter 1: The Basics of Educational Poetics  What Is Educational Poetics?  The Space between Two Rhythms: Unconventional Pedagogies Chapter 2: The Society of Predetermination Chapter 3: Poetics and Pedagogy of Freedom  Pedagogy for Freedom Part 2: Why We Care Now for Educational Poetics and a Philosophy of Responsible Innovation? Chapter 4: A Creative Contemplation Approach and Responsible Innovation  Prospective Philosophy of Education and Responsible Innovation  Demographics: Why Do We Care Now for Responsible Innovation  Reconsidering the Future: AI from an Outlook of Responsible Innovation  Future-Oriented Humanistic Perspective: Towards 2030  Educative Interventions to Nourish Responsible Innovation Chapter 5: The Value of Future: Infosphere and Conscious Attention  Notes for a Philosophy of Infosphere  Are We Instruments of Our Instruments?  Conscious Attention, Egocentrism and the Infosphere  A Call for Digital Ethics of Infosphere  Egocentrism, Selfish Gene and Conscious Attention  Future under Risk or Innovation with No Ethic Regulation  Our Daily Life in the Infosphere Chapter 6: A Claim for Non-Violence and Peace Education  Unemployment and Costs of Violence  Unemployment, Multifactorial Violence: The Claim for Ahimsa  Youth and Re-Approaching the Future through Non-Violence  Again Greek Êthos Part 3: Why Does the Future Need Educational Poetics? Chapter 7: Interpreting Poetics, Cognitions and Aesthetic Emotion  Educational Poetics Is Polysemic  Creative Improvisation  Harmony and Environmental Awareness Chapter 8: Creative Contemplation  How Are Tagore’s Educational Ideas Still Relevant in the Era of Hyperconnectivity?  Tagore, Creative Contemplation and Freedom  Creative Contemplation in Educational Poetics  Imagination and Recreation  Freedom and the Art of Movement Chapter 9: Conscious Attention and Philosophy of Non-Violence  Contemplation, Mindfulness and Meditation  Philosophy of Non-Violence for Young People Epilogue: Autumn Dissipates Index

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Book SynopsisPopular representations of teachers and teaching are easy to take for granted precisely because they are so accessible and pervasive. Our lives are intertextual in the way lived experiences overlap with the stories of others presented to us through mass media. It is this set of connected narratives that we bring into classrooms and into discussions of educational policy. In this day and time—with public education under siege by forces eager to deprofessionalize teaching and transfer public funds to benefit private enterprises—we ignore the dominant discourse about education and the patterns of representation that typify educator characters at our peril. This edited volume offers a fresh take on educator characters in popular culture and also includes important essays about media texts that have not been addressed adequately in the literature previously. The 15 chapters cover diverse forms from literary classics to iconic teacher movies to popular television to rock ‘n’ roll. Topics explored include pedagogy through the lenses of gender, sexuality, race, disability, politics, narrative archetypes, curriculum, teaching strategies, and liberatory praxis. The various perspectives represented in this volume come from scholars and practitioners of education at all levels of schooling. This book is especially timely in an era when public education in the United States is under assault from conservative political forces and undervalued by the general public. Contributors are: Steve Benton, Naeemah Clark, Kristy Liles Crawley, Elizabeth Currin, Mary M. Dalton, Jill Ewing Flynn, Chad E. Harris, Gary Kenton, Mark A. Lewis, Ian Parker Renga, Stephanie Schroeder, Roslin Smith, Jeff Spanke, and Andrew Wirth.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 A Loyalty Test for the American Educator, from Ichabod Crane to Erin Gruwell  Steve Benton 2 Schooling the State: Teachers and Democratic Dispositions on The West Wing  Stephanie Schroeder 3 Rethinking Student-Teacher Relationship Intimacy as Attachment  Andrew Wirth 4 Mr. Miller Goes to War: Saving Private Ryan and the Children Left Behind  Jeff Spanke 5 In Loco Parentis Redux: Bob and Linda Belcher at Wagstaff School  Elizabeth Currin 6 What’s a Nice White Lady to Do?: A Critical Literacy Lens on Teaching and Learning in Pop Culture Portrayals  Jill Ewing Flynn 7 The Dis-Education of Rock ‘n’ Roll  Gary Kenton 8 Promoted to Control?: School Office Culture in HBO’s Vice Principals  Chad E. Harris 9 The Insecure Teacher: How Issa Rae Has Normalized the Black Woman to Create TV Magic  Naeemah Clark 10 Contrasting the Archetypal Sage with the Mentor Coach in Young Adult Literature: Insights for Teacher Reflection  Ian Parker Renga and Mark A. Lewis 11 Saved by the Belles: Gender Roles in the Quintessential Teen Comedy  Elizabeth Currin and Stephanie Schroeder 12 “Good” Teacher on Her Own Terms: Miss Shaw in ABC’s The Wonder Years  Chad E. Harris 13 Liberatory Pedagogy in Action: The Embodied Performance of Community College Instructors in Film and Television  Kristy Liles Crawley 14 Q the Teacher. TV Lessons from the 24th Century: You Do Not have to Be an Omniscient Teacher, But It Helps  Roslin Smith 15 Speechless to Speechless: Nontraditional Teacher Characters in Recent Sitcoms  Mary M. Dalton Film Sources Television Sources

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Book SynopsisExpanding the Rainbow is the first comprehensive collection of research on the relationships of people who identify as bi+, poly, kinky, asexual, intersex, and/or trans that is written to be accessible to an undergraduate audience. The volume highlights a diverse range of identities, relationship structures, and understandings of bodies, sexualities, and interpersonal relationships. Contributions to the volume include original empirical research, personal narratives and reflections, and theoretical pieces that center the experiences of members of these communities, as well as teaching resources. Collectively, the chapters present a diverse, nuanced, and empirically rich picture of the variety of relationships and identities that individuals are creating in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Altogether an important contribution, Expanding the Rainbow provides not only valuable information but also insight into the lives, relationships, and identities of people who are sexually marginalized." – C. Apt, South Carolina State University, in: CHOICE Magazine "If you want to understand the identities, relationships, and family forms in the contemporary US, you need this book. Too much in the sociology (often unconsciously) treats the terms that define what’s largely considered ‘normal’ as essential to humanity and society: that sex and gender are binaries; that true love occurs only in sexual pairings; that intimate relationships, while usually full of power relations, only work when that power remains invisible; that there’s something wrong with the people who reveal how wrong these assumptions can be. Expanding the Rainbow shows us how the world works from the perspectives of people who are bi/pan+, asexual, polyamorous, intersex, trans, and into BDSM—the very people whose experiences, because they have been marginalized, stand to teach us the most about what it means to relate intimately to others, to form families and communities, to be human." – Dawne Moon, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender/Sexuality Studies, Marquette University "This book is the urgently needed next step in examining relationships and families, as well as the lives of LGBTIQ+ people. Through theoretical, empirical, and personal pieces, the authors in Expanding the Rainbow push sociological work on ‘the family’ to take seriously types of families that are systematically ignored by researchers. They push us past the mainstream (even normative) profile of ‘same-sex families’: two middle-class white cisgender gay men (sometimes lesbian women) who are married and have 2.5 kids. The text introduces readers to relationships and families that are hardly ever visible in the mainstream, even in this time of ‘marriage equality.’ It also does the important work of pushing us to stop viewing trans and intersex individuals as just ‘individuals,’ as though these members of the LGBTIQ+ community are perpetually single, sexless, and lonely. As a Black queer non-binary person, I’m so happy to finally encounter a book that reflects me, my identities, and my family." – Eric Anthony Grollman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Richmond "Expanding the Rainbow is a breath of fresh air in the field of sexualities and gender. The current lack of scholarship on bi+, poly, kink, asexual, intersex, and/or trans presents a challenge in the classroom when discussing the intricacies of these relationships and identities. Now, Expanding the Rainbow offers a comprehensive review of the LGBTQQIAP spectrum that´s accessible to academic and non-academic audiences alike. The insightful and deeply personal narratives of members from these diverse communities, including activists and scholars, help readers to better relate to experiences outside their own purview. This timely volume would make a great addition to undergraduate courses addressing sexualities, gender identities, relationships and the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, and nationality." – Mandi Barringer, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Florida "Expanding the Rainbow illuminates complexities of sex, gender, and sexuality that remain largely overlooked and underemphasized within sociology. Editors Brandy L. Simula, J. E. Sumerau, and Andrea Miller begin this volume with great care, introducing readers to the marginalized identities and corresponding terminology that the content showcases: bisexuality, polyamory, kink, asexuality, intersex, and transgender. The ensuing content is carefully curated, featuring the research and personal experiences of established scholars alongside the innovative perspectives of emerging scholars. The diverse standpoints, methods, and theoretical insights of these writers highlight complex hues of the rainbow that many people struggle to see." – Helana Darwin, Doctoral Candidate, Stony Brook University "The collection is an accessible read and useful for readers who want to know more about people on the sexual fringes of society, as it considers a seemingly exhaustive list of sexual orientations and identities. Altogether an important contribution, Expanding the Rainbow provides not only valuable information but also insight into the lives, relationships, and identities of people who are sexually marginalized." – C. Apt, South Carolina State University, in: CHOICEconnectTable of ContentsForeword  R. F. Plante Preface Acknowledgements Introduction  Brandy L. Simula, Andrea Miller and J. E. Sumerau Part 1: Bi+ and Plurisexual Relationships 1. “By Definition They’re Not the Same Thing”: Analyzing Methods of Meaning Making for Pansexual Individuals  Ashley Green 2. You Cared before You Knew: Navigating Bi+ Familial Relationships  Nik Lampe 3. Sibling Relationships and the Bi+ Coming out Process  Lain A. B. Mathers 4. Autoethnographic Insights on Media Representations of Bi Narratives  Brittany M. Harder Part 2: Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships 5. Polyamory and a Queer Orientation to the World  Mimi Schippers 6. Monogamy vs. Polyamory: Negotiating Gender Hierarchy  Michelle Wolkomir 7. Margins of Identity: Queer Polyamorous Women’s Navigation of Identity  Krista L. Benson 8. Race, Class, Gender, and Relationship Power in Queer Polyamory  Emily Pain 9. Relational Fluidity: Somewhere between Polyamory and Monogamy (Personal Reflection)  J. E. Sumerau and Alexandra “Xan” C. H. Nowakowski Part 3: Kinky/BDSM Relationships 10. BDSM Relationships  Robin Bauer 11. Kink Work Online: The Diffuse Lives of Erotic Webcam Workers and Their Clients  Angela Jones 12. BDSM Disclosures and the Circle of Intimates: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Identity and Disclosure Audience and Response  Katherine Martinez 13. Finding Yourself in the Dark: On Submission, Healing, and Acceptance (Personal Reflection)  Mar Middlebrooks Part 4: Asexual Relationships 14. Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality  Tiina Vares 15. At the Intersection of Polyamory and Asexuality  Daniel Copulsky 16. Asexuality and the Re/Construction of Sexual Orientation  C. J. Chasin 17. Queering the Nuclear Family: Navigating Familial Living as an Asexual (Personal Reflection)  Katie Linder Part 5: Intersex Relationships 18. Understanding Intersex Relationship Issues  Cary Gabriel Costello 19. Not Going to the Chapel? Intersex Youth and an Exploration of Marriage Desires and Expectations  Georgiann Davis and Jonathan Jimenez 20. Shifting Medical Paradigms: The Evolution of Relationships between Intersex Individuals and Doctors  Sarah S. Topp Part 6: Transgender Relationships 21. Trans Relationships and the Trans Partnership Narrative  Carey Jean Sojka 22. “I Try Not to Push It Too Far”: Trans/Nonbinary Individuals Negotiating Race and Gender in Intimate Relationships  alithia zamantakis 23. Generational Gaps or Othering the Other? Tension between Binary and Non-Binary Trans People  stef m. shuster 24. Research on Gender Identity & Youth: Incorporating Intersectionality  Griffin Lacy 25. Symbiotic Love: On Dating, Sex, and Interpersonal Relationships between Transgender People (Personal Reflection)  Shalen Lowell For Use in the Classroom: Notes on Teaching outside the Rainbow  Andrea Miller Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisExpanding the Rainbow is the first comprehensive collection of research on the relationships of people who identify as bi+, poly, kinky, asexual, intersex, and/or trans that is written to be accessible to an undergraduate audience. The volume highlights a diverse range of identities, relationship structures, and understandings of bodies, sexualities, and interpersonal relationships. Contributions to the volume include original empirical research, personal narratives and reflections, and theoretical pieces that center the experiences of members of these communities, as well as teaching resources. Collectively, the chapters present a diverse, nuanced, and empirically rich picture of the variety of relationships and identities that individuals are creating in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Altogether an important contribution, Expanding the Rainbow provides not only valuable information but also insight into the lives, relationships, and identities of people who are sexually marginalized." – C. Apt, South Carolina State University, in: CHOICE Magazine "If you want to understand the identities, relationships, and family forms in the contemporary US, you need this book. Too much in the sociology (often unconsciously) treats the terms that define what’s largely considered ‘normal’ as essential to humanity and society: that sex and gender are binaries; that true love occurs only in sexual pairings; that intimate relationships, while usually full of power relations, only work when that power remains invisible; that there’s something wrong with the people who reveal how wrong these assumptions can be. Expanding the Rainbow shows us how the world works from the perspectives of people who are bi/pan+, asexual, polyamorous, intersex, trans, and into BDSM—the very people whose experiences, because they have been marginalized, stand to teach us the most about what it means to relate intimately to others, to form families and communities, to be human." – Dawne Moon, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender/Sexuality Studies, Marquette University "This book is the urgently needed next step in examining relationships and families, as well as the lives of LGBTIQ+ people. Through theoretical, empirical, and personal pieces, the authors in Expanding the Rainbow push sociological work on ‘the family’ to take seriously types of families that are systematically ignored by researchers. They push us past the mainstream (even normative) profile of ‘same-sex families’: two middle-class white cisgender gay men (sometimes lesbian women) who are married and have 2.5 kids. The text introduces readers to relationships and families that are hardly ever visible in the mainstream, even in this time of ‘marriage equality.’ It also does the important work of pushing us to stop viewing trans and intersex individuals as just ‘individuals,’ as though these members of the LGBTIQ+ community are perpetually single, sexless, and lonely. As a Black queer non-binary person, I’m so happy to finally encounter a book that reflects me, my identities, and my family." – Eric Anthony Grollman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Richmond "Expanding the Rainbow is a breath of fresh air in the field of sexualities and gender. The current lack of scholarship on bi+, poly, kink, asexual, intersex, and/or trans presents a challenge in the classroom when discussing the intricacies of these relationships and identities. Now, Expanding the Rainbow offers a comprehensive review of the LGBTQQIAP spectrum that´s accessible to academic and non-academic audiences alike. The insightful and deeply personal narratives of members from these diverse communities, including activists and scholars, help readers to better relate to experiences outside their own purview. This timely volume would make a great addition to undergraduate courses addressing sexualities, gender identities, relationships and the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, and nationality." – Mandi Barringer, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Florida "Expanding the Rainbow illuminates complexities of sex, gender, and sexuality that remain largely overlooked and underemphasized within sociology. Editors Brandy L. Simula, J. E. Sumerau, and Andrea Miller begin this volume with great care, introducing readers to the marginalized identities and corresponding terminology that the content showcases: bisexuality, polyamory, kink, asexuality, intersex, and transgender. The ensuing content is carefully curated, featuring the research and personal experiences of established scholars alongside the innovative perspectives of emerging scholars. The diverse standpoints, methods, and theoretical insights of these writers highlight complex hues of the rainbow that many people struggle to see." – Helana Darwin, Doctoral Candidate, Stony Brook University "The collection is an accessible read and useful for readers who want to know more about people on the sexual fringes of society, as it considers a seemingly exhaustive list of sexual orientations and identities. Altogether an important contribution, Expanding the Rainbow provides not only valuable information but also insight into the lives, relationships, and identities of people who are sexually marginalized." – C. Apt, South Carolina State University, in: CHOICEconnectTable of ContentsForeword  R. F. Plante Preface Acknowledgements Introduction  Brandy L. Simula, Andrea Miller and J. E. Sumerau Part 1: Bi+ and Plurisexual Relationships 1. “By Definition They’re Not the Same Thing”: Analyzing Methods of Meaning Making for Pansexual Individuals  Ashley Green 2. You Cared before You Knew: Navigating Bi+ Familial Relationships  Nik Lampe 3. Sibling Relationships and the Bi+ Coming out Process  Lain A. B. Mathers 4. Autoethnographic Insights on Media Representations of Bi Narratives  Brittany M. Harder Part 2: Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships 5. Polyamory and a Queer Orientation to the World  Mimi Schippers 6. Monogamy vs. Polyamory: Negotiating Gender Hierarchy  Michelle Wolkomir 7. Margins of Identity: Queer Polyamorous Women’s Navigation of Identity  Krista L. Benson 8. Race, Class, Gender, and Relationship Power in Queer Polyamory  Emily Pain 9. Relational Fluidity: Somewhere between Polyamory and Monogamy (Personal Reflection)  J. E. Sumerau and Alexandra “Xan” C. H. Nowakowski Part 3: Kinky/BDSM Relationships 10. BDSM Relationships  Robin Bauer 11. Kink Work Online: The Diffuse Lives of Erotic Webcam Workers and Their Clients  Angela Jones 12. BDSM Disclosures and the Circle of Intimates: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Identity and Disclosure Audience and Response  Katherine Martinez 13. Finding Yourself in the Dark: On Submission, Healing, and Acceptance (Personal Reflection)  Mar Middlebrooks Part 4: Asexual Relationships 14. Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality  Tiina Vares 15. At the Intersection of Polyamory and Asexuality  Daniel Copulsky 16. Asexuality and the Re/Construction of Sexual Orientation  C. J. Chasin 17. Queering the Nuclear Family: Navigating Familial Living as an Asexual (Personal Reflection)  Katie Linder Part 5: Intersex Relationships 18. Understanding Intersex Relationship Issues  Cary Gabriel Costello 19. Not Going to the Chapel? Intersex Youth and an Exploration of Marriage Desires and Expectations  Georgiann Davis and Jonathan Jimenez 20. Shifting Medical Paradigms: The Evolution of Relationships between Intersex Individuals and Doctors  Sarah S. Topp Part 6: Transgender Relationships 21. Trans Relationships and the Trans Partnership Narrative  Carey Jean Sojka 22. “I Try Not to Push It Too Far”: Trans/Nonbinary Individuals Negotiating Race and Gender in Intimate Relationships  alithia zamantakis 23. Generational Gaps or Othering the Other? Tension between Binary and Non-Binary Trans People  stef m. shuster 24. Research on Gender Identity & Youth: Incorporating Intersectionality  Griffin Lacy 25. Symbiotic Love: On Dating, Sex, and Interpersonal Relationships between Transgender People (Personal Reflection)  Shalen Lowell For Use in the Classroom: Notes on Teaching outside the Rainbow  Andrea Miller Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThere has never been a more crucial time for an intimate and thorough examination of the ways in which sexuality informs people’s lives. In Living Sexuality: Stories of LGBTQ Relationships, Identities, and Desires, the authors use autoethnography and personal narrative to provide first-hand accounts of the connections between sexuality, particularly LGBTQ identities, and the everyday experiences of relationships. Each story also invites readers to understand how sexuality informs communication as it occurs within diverse cultural contexts. In addition, the stories often focus on taboo issues overlooked or ignored in mainstream research about sexuality. Discussion questions appear at the end of each story that should stimulate engagement by students, instructors, and researchers.Trade Review"Living Sexuality explores the diverse ways that people who identify as LGBTQ experience and live their sexualities. The authors show how sexualities are constructed, changed, and understood, and how desires and relationships with family, friends, and partners are animated in day-to-day social practices. Unique in its attention to everyday details, embodiment, and emotional vulnerability, the autoethnographic stories add both a personal and conceptual dimension to our understanding of sexuality, evoking a rich and textured experience of the complexities, fears, joys, and sorrows of living LGBTQ lives. Discussions at the end of each chapter will stimulate lively and introspective discussions in classrooms, particularly those focused on human sexuality, queer studies, and gender. This is an important and welcome addition to the literature on LGBTQ issues." - Carolyn Ellis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Communication, University of South Florida "Living Sexuality makes good on its claim that engaging stories provide valuable insight into the lived experience of desire, identity, and communication. Berry, Gillotti, and Adams (with welcome trans cameos from their colleague Billy Huff) exhibit their diverse and complementary strengths in personal narrative and authoethnography. Through the LGBQ(T) stories they tell across ably disposed chapters, and across the arcs of their lives to date, we understand better how relational communication matters in complex contexts of friendship, family, mentorship, religion, sexual liaison, partnership, and more. They offer much to reflexively contemplate as we strive as queer people to communicate better with those who share the sexuality of our daily lives." - Charles E. Morris III, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University, Co-Editor, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking "Demonstrating that sexualities should be more naturalized and less subject to ideological critique, Living Sexuality weaves the deeply personal, sometimes painful, and often joyful experiences of authors Keith Berry, Catherine M. Gillotti, and Tony E. Adams into a thinking/feeling experience not soon forgotten. Whether celebrating The Golden Girls or musing about monogamy, the authors offer meaningful, productive, and candid accounts of their sexual being. This book is a must for my next Sexuality & Communication seminar." - Jimmie Manning, Chair and Professor, Communication Studies, University of NevadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ode to the Boys  Keith Berry 2. The Closet  Tony E. Adams 3. Mental Gymnastics  Catherine M. Gillotti 4. Walls  Billy Huff 5. Things I Don’t Have to Do  Keith Berry 6. Queer Duck  Tony E. Adams 7. True Companion  Catherine M. Gillotti 8. Relational Gifts  Keith Berry 9. The Girls  Tony E. Adams and Keith Berry 10. Language Matters  Tony E. Adams 11. Rumination  Catherine M. Gillotti 12. The Sexual Relationship  Billy Huff 13. Monogamy  Tony E. Adams 14. The Joy  Catherine M. Gillotti 15. Things I Must Still Do  Keith Berry 16. Refrain  Catherine M. Gillotti 17. Resilient You  Keith Berry 18. Estrangement - Pride - Forgiveness  Tony E. Adams About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the mutual constitutions of visuality and empire from the perspective of gender, probing how the lives of China’s ethnic minorities at the southwest frontiers were translated into images. Two sets of visual materials make up its core sources: the Miao album, a genre of ethnographic illustration depicting the daily lives of non-Han peoples in late imperial China, and the ethnographic photographs found in popular Republican-era periodicals. It highlights gender ideals within images and develops a set of “visual grammar” of depicting the non-Han. Casting new light on a spectrum of gendered themes, including femininity, masculinity, sexuality, love, body and clothing, the book examines how the power constructed through gender helped to define, order, popularise, celebrate and imagine possessions of empire.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: The Chinese Imperial Model in the Southwest Borderland: Gender, Visuality and Transitions  1 Observational Practices: Detractor, Defender and Truth  2 Ethnographic Illustrations in Chinese History: Long Tradition, Multiple Genres and Various Pictorial Practices  3 Ways of Seeing: a Visual Grammar of Gender, the Power of Representation  4 Empire, Visuality and Structure of Feelings: Engendering the Ethnic Minorities in China’s Southwest Borderland  5 Imperial Context: Native Chieftain System, Gaitu Guiliu and Miao Rebellions  6 Wartime China: the Reproduction of Borderland Images  7 Chapter Organisation 1 Gender Inversion and the Power of Representation: Imagining and Visualising Ethnic Minority Women’s Masculinity  1 Women in Power: the Fancy of Images of “Nüguan 女官 (Female Government Official)”  2 Interpreting “Nanyi Nülao 男逸女勞 (Men Relax, While Women Work)” as “Nangui Nüjian 男貴女賤 (Men are Exalted, while Women are Humble)”: Defaming Women’s Work through Space  3 The Most Respected Women in China: Refashioning Images of Non-Han Women at Work in Republican China  4 China’s Domestic Feminists?: Reinterpreting Non-Han Gender Roles  5 The Essentialness of Work: “Women Question” and Family Status  6 Concluding Remarks 2 Dancing in the Moonlight: Fashioning Sexuality of Non-Han People  1 Naked Female Bodies: Images of the Duanqun Miao and Shuibai Yi  2 Chuzi Shuangfu 處子孀婦 (the Virgin and the Widow): Copulation and Chastity  3 Dancing under the Moonlight: Marriage Customs, Rites and Sexual Regulation  4 Encountering Sexuality: Enlightenment Plans and the Diversity of Representation  5 Refashioning Moon Dancing: The Freedom of Lian’ai 戀愛 (love)  6 A Romantic Land with Freedom: Ze’ou 擇偶 (Choice), Lihun 離婚 (Divorce) and Taohun 逃婚 (Escape before the Wedding Night)  7 Freedom, Xing 性 and Women’s Desire  8 Concluding Remarks 3 Yiguan Zhuangmao衣冠狀貌 (Clothes, Hat, and Physical Body): Materialising and Symbolising Human Variations  1 Delineating a Typical Non-Han Face in the Southwest: Black Skin, Deep Eyes, White Teeth and Hooked Nose  2 Highlighting Xianzu 跣足 (Bare Feet)  3 The Hierarchy of Dressing: the Representation of the Non-Han Subject in Simple and Casual Clothes  4 Republican Anthropometric Photography: New Styles and the Ambiguity of Racial Differences  5 Conceptualising and Visualising an Ethnographic Body: the Implications in China  6 Ambiguous Attitudes: How Should the Statistics of Body Measurements be Interpreted?  7 Shengzhuang 盛裝 (Festival Costumes): New Ways of Visualising the Non-Han  8 Collecting, Exhibiting and Preserving Non-Han Material Culture  9 Concluding Remarks 4 Imperial Images? Rethinking Miao albums and Ethnographic photography  1 Zhengqi Haoyi爭奇好異(Competing over Eccentricity and Chasing Exoticism): the Anxiety of Pleasure  2 Multiple Viewers: the Growing Market for Popular Ethnography  3 Making Ethnographic Truth? The Paradox of Copying and the Participation of Artists in the Market Place  4 Resurrection in Republican China: Collection, Preservation, Reproduction and New Styles  5 Beyond Identity: Commercial Ethnographic Photography  6 Concluding Remarks Conclusion Appendix: Table of Miao Albums with Collection Date and Original Collector Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDorothy Fujita-Rony’s The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate cartographies of memory and belonging within the diaspora. It thus explores how women’s memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. Thirty-five years in the making, The Memorykeepers is the first book on Indonesian Americans written within the fields of US history, American Studies, and Asian American Studies. See inside the book.Trade Review“This book makes significant contributions to Asian American studies, studies of empire and colonialism, US Cold War history, women’s history, and gender studies. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony marshals a wealth of evidence from personal narratives and material culture to reveal how women’s “memorykeeping” constitutes a practice of resistance and critique. Her study illuminates the workings of multiple empires in the everyday life of two Toba Batak women, H.L. Tobing and Minar T. Rony, making visible the intertwined forces of gender and empire." - Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles "Dr. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony’s book, The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History, is an original and pioneering manuscript in the field of Indonesian American Studies. Particularly valuable is how the scholarship highlights women’s memorykeeping across time and space. A work of this importance is long overdue." - Shirley Lim, State University of New York at Stony BrookTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Note on Orthography and Names Introduction: Daughter of a Daughter: the Labor of Memorykeeping  1 Questions  2 The ‘Indonesian American’ Context  3 ‘Return’ and ‘Belonging’ Part 1: Empire and Gender 1 Empires:Interimperialism, Migration, and the United States  1 Introduction  2 When Empires Came to You: the Toba Batak  3 Multilingualism and Interimperial Temporality  4 The United States Cold War  5 Conclusion 2 Gendered Knowledges:Patriarchies and the Politics of Belonging  1 Introduction  2 The Toba Batak Culture as Political Location  3 Colonial Domesticity  4 Converging Gender Hierarchies  5 Negotiation and Challenge  6 Conclusion Part 2: Curating Time 3 Stories and Silences: Telling the Past  1 Introduction  2 Searching for Archives  3 What Is Said  4 What Is Not Said  5 Two Pictures  6 Conclusion 4 Artifacts and Memories: Representing Meaning  1 Introduction  2 Knowledge as Legacy  3 Memorykeeping as Response to Precarity  4 The Labor of Artifacts  5 Conclusion Part 3: Memorykeeping Prologue to Part 3: A Journey and a Path 5 Across Empires: The Narrative of H.L. Tobing  1 Raja Pontas  2 The Old Times  3 Family  4 The Adat  5 Christianity  6 Tarutung  7 Living in the Village  8 Dutch Rule  9 Elementary School  10 Salatiga  11 Early Marriage  12 Semarang  13 Magetan  14 Pearaja  15 Bengkalis  16 Japanese Occupation and World War II  17 Kisaran  18 Medan  19 Progress  20 Opportunities  21 United States  22 Homecoming 6 For Those Who Follow: The Autobiography of Minar T. Rony  1 Beginnings  2 Bengkalis  3 Siantar  4 Return to Bengkalis  5 Bukit Batu  6 Pearaja  7 Jakarta  8 Return to Siantar  9 Medan  10 Teacher and Guide  11 The United States Conclusion: The Urgency of Time Timeline Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Engendering the Woman Question, Zhang Yun adopts a new approach to examining the early Chinese women’s periodical press. Rather than seeing this new print and publishing genre as a gendered site coded as either “feminine” or “masculine,” this book approaches it as a mixed-gender public space where both men and women were intellectually active and involved in dynamic interactions to determine the contours of their discursive encounters. Drawing upon a variety of novel textual modes such as polemical essays, historical biography, public speech, and expository essays, this book opens a window onto men’s and women’s gender-specific approaches to a series of prominent topics central to the Chinese woman question in the early twentieth century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 Articulating the Woman Question: Women’s Literary Heritage, Education, and the Nation 1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space in Nü xuebao 2 Debates on the Cainü Legacy 3 Asserting Intellectual Authority in the Public Space 4 Ambivalence: a Debate of Linguistic Registers 5 Conclusion 2 Nationalism and Beyond: Nüjie and the Construction of a New Gendered Collective Identity 1 The Cure for the Nation: Mobilizing Nüjie 2 A Nüjie of Their Own 3 Beyond Nationalism: Demanding a Revolution in Nüjie 4 Conclusion 3 The Manchu Woman Commits Suicide: Ethnicity and the Composition of the New Chinese Woman 1 A Sacrificial Martyr for a National Cause 2 Making a Manchu Heroine 3 Ethnicity and Gender: Manchu Women’s Envisioning of Modern Womanhood 4 Conclusion 4 Fashioning Hygienic Womanhood: Women’s Health and Bodies in Commercial Women’s Journals 1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space of the Commercial Women’s Journals: Male Editorial Agency and Female Authorial Subjectivity 2 The Ideal of “Wise Mothers and Good Wives” 3 Women and Weisheng in the Household 4 Women’s Hygiene and Reproductive Health  4.1 Menstruation  4.2 Childbirth 5 Conclusion 5 Policing Girl Students 1 Female Students in the Late Qing 2 The Republican Girl Students 3 Debates on Girl Students 4 Personal Accounts from Girl Students 5 Conclusion Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisFemale protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women’s scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women’s passivity, arguing that women’s crimes were far too common to be viewed as an anomaly. Based on over two thousand criminal complaints and investigation dossiers, Sanne Muurling charts the multifaceted impact of gender on patterns of recorded crime in early modern Bologna. While various socioeconomic and legal mechanisms withdrew women from the criminal justice process, the casebooks also reveal that women – as criminal offenders and savvy litigants – had an active hand in keeping the wheels of the court spinning.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  1 Historical Involvement of Women in Crime in Early Modern Europe  2 Crime and Gender in an Early Modern Italian City  3 Criminal Court Records as Sources for Social History  4 Composition of This Book 2 Women’s Roles, Institutions, and Social Control  1 Political and Demographic Developments  2 Household Structures, Property Rights and Legal Capacity  3 Women within the Urban Economy  4 Interlocking Systems of Assistance and Control  5 Conclusion: Agency within a Culture of Constraint 3 The Torroneand the Prosecution of Crimes  1 The Tribunale del Torrone within Bologna’s Legal Landscape  2 The Administration of Criminal Justice  3 Criminal Procedures  4 Italian Women’s Involvement in Recorded Crime  5 The Character of Indicted Crime in Bologna  6 Gender Dynamics in the Sentencing of Crimes  7 Conclusion: Distinguishing Features of Women’s Prosecution 4 Denunciations and the Uses of Justice  1 Women and the Uses of Justice  2 Denunciations before the Torrone  3 The Torrone as a Forum for Conflict Resolution  4 The Urban Context of Women’s Litigation  5 The Users of Justice  6 Objectives of Litigation  7 Conclusion: Criminal Litigation, Gender and Agency 5 Violence and the Politics of Everyday Life  1 The Culture of Violence between Prosecution and Reconciliation  2 Lethal Violence in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries  3 Insults and the Politics of Daily Life  4 The Importance of Petty Physical Violence  5 Severity and Weapons  6 Violence and Social Relations  7 The Gendered Geography of Violence  8 Framing Men’s and Women’s Violence  9 Conclusion: Everyday Violence and the Uses of Justice 6 Theft and Its Prosecution  1 Legal Attitudes towards Theft  2 Prosecution and Sentencing  3 The Social Profile of Thieves and Economies of Makeshift  4 Stolen Goods  5 The Geographies of Theft  6 The Distribution of Stolen Goods  7 Conclusion: Judicial Paternalism and Women’s Roles in Thieving 7 Conclusion  1 The Case of Bologna and Patterns of Female Crime  2 The Impact of Institutionalisation, Judicial Paternalism and Peacemaking Practices  3 Crime and Italian Women’s Agency  4 Avenues for Future Research Appendix: Information on Samples Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume critically examines gender inequality, its origins, and its social and economic implications in Latin America, with a particular focus on Ecuador. For that purpose, Pablo Quiñonez and Claudia Maldonado-Erazo bring together a collection of articles that provide insights from different disciplines, including political economy, history, development studies, political science, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. In Ecuador, as in Latin America as a whole, women dedicate more time than men to unpaid activities while being discriminated against in multiple areas, including labor markets, politics, and access to high-ranking positions. Furthermore, these problems are even greater for women from rural areas and ethnic minorities. Contributors include: Rafael Alvarado, María Anchundia Places, Esteban Arévalo, Diana Cabrera Montecé, Edwin Espinoza Piguave, Gabriela Gallardo, Danny Granda, Claudia Maldonado-Erazo, Wendy Mora, Diana Morán Chiquito, Sayonara Morejón, Carlos Moreno-Hurtado, María Moreno Zea, Ana Oña Macías, Pablo Ponce, Pablo Quiñonez, Valeria Recalde, Josefina Rosales, Ximena Songor-Jaramillo, and Daniel Zea.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables  List of Abbreviations  Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Pablo Quiñonez and Claudia Maldonado-Erazo Part 1: Latin America  1An Overview of Gender Inequality in Latin America from a Political Economy Perspective  Pablo Quiñonez and Claudia Maldonado-Erazo  2Labor and Human Capital Gender Gap and Economic Growth in Latin America  Rafael Alvarado, Pablo Ponce, and Danny Granda  3Debates about Women’s Precarization: Scholz and Federici  Josefina Rosales  4Gender and Economics in Latin America: a Systematic Analysis of Scientific Production in Scopus  Claudia Maldonado-Erazo and Pablo Quiñonez Part 2: Ecuador  5Gender Imaginary in Ecuador: A Literature Review  Esteban Arévalo  6Gender Wage Gaps in Ecuador  Ximena Songor-Jaramillo and Carlos Moreno-Hurtado  7The Cost of Femininity: Evidence for the City of Guayaquil  Diana Morán, Diana Cabrera, and María Moreno  8Political Representation of Women in the Ecuadorian Legislature  Gabriela Gallardo Part 3: Rural and Indigenous Women in Ecuador  9The Invisible Economy of Ecuadorian Peasant Women  Valeria Recalde and Daniel Zea  10Inequality of Income and Job Satisfaction in Ecuador between Genders and Ethnic Groups  Diana Cabrera, Edwin Espinoza, and Ana Oña  11Southern Craftswomen: Weaving Networks in the Solidarity Economy  María Anchundia, Wendy Mora, and Sayonara Morejón  Index

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Book SynopsisGendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.Table of ContentsPart I: Gendering the Trans-Pacific 1. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 2. Notes on Trans-Pacific Archives, by Denise Cruz 3. The Many Labors of the Gendered Trans-Pacific World, by Karen J. Leong Part II: Geographies of Empire 4. Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines: Interracial Intimacies in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, 1898–1921, by Tessa Ong Winkelmann 5. A Fascist Triangle or a Rotary Wheel: The Sino-Japanese War and the Gendered Internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo, by Erika Huckestein and Mark L. Reeves 6. Moving Within Empires: Korean Women and Trans-Pacific Migration, by Ji-Yeon Yuh 7. Re-franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920: The Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, Race, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific, by Rumi Yasutake 8. Currencies of U.S. Empire in Hawaiʻi’s Tourism and Prison Industries, by Liza Keānuenueokalani Williams Part III: Intimacies and Affect 9. The Sexualized Child and Mestizaje: Colonial Tropes of the Filipina/o, by Gladys Nubla 10. “Ashamed of Certain Japanese”: The Politics of Affect in Japanese Women’s Immigration Exclusion, 1919–1924, by Chrissy Yee Lau 11. Gendered Adoptee Identities: Performing Trans-Pacific Masculinity in the 21st Century, by Kimberly McKee 12. Up in the Air: Circuits of Transnational Asian and Asian American Mothering, by Miliann Kang Part IV: Beauty and the Body 13. Pageant Politics: Tensions of Power, Empire, and Nationalism in Manila Carnival Queen Contests, by Genevieve Clutario 14. “Golden Lilies” across the Pacific: Footbinding and the American Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws, by Fang He 15. Traces of Empires in Breast Cancer in South Korea and the Trans-Pacific, by Laura C. Nelson 16. Graphical and Ethical Spectatorship: Human Trafficking in Stanford Graphic Novel Project’s From Busan to San Francisco and Mark Kalesniko’s Mail Order Bride, by Stella Oh Part V: Culture and Circulation 17. Performing between Two Empires: Colonial Modernity and the Racialized Politics of Filipino Masculinity in Okinawa and Japan, by Nobue Suzuki 18. A Careful Embrace: Race, Gender, and the Consumption of Hawaiʻi and the South Pacific in Mid-Century Los Angeles, by Shawn Schwaller 19. We Are Pacific Men, by Craig Santos Perez 20. Gendering the K-Vampire, by Hyungji Park 21. Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens: The Cinemas of Vietnam and the Diaspora, by Lan Duong

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Book SynopsisDorothy Fujita-Rony’s The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate cartographies of memory and belonging within the diaspora. It thus explores how women’s memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. Thirty-five years in the making, The Memorykeepers is the first book on Indonesian Americans written within the fields of US history, American Studies, and Asian American Studies.Trade Review“This book makes significant contributions to Asian American studies, studies of empire and colonialism, US Cold War history, women’s history, and gender studies. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony marshals a wealth of evidence from personal narratives and material culture to reveal how women’s “memorykeeping” constitutes a practice of resistance and critique. Her study illuminates the workings of multiple empires in the everyday life of two Toba Batak women, H.L. Tobing and Minar T. Rony, making visible the intertwined forces of gender and empire." - Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles "Dr. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony’s book, The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History, is an original and pioneering manuscript in the field of Indonesian American Studies. Particularly valuable is how the scholarship highlights women’s memorykeeping across time and space. A work of this importance is long overdue." - Shirley Lim, State University of New York at Stony BrookTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Note on Orthography and Names Introduction: Daughter of a Daughter: the Labor of Memorykeeping  1 Questions  2 The ‘Indonesian American’ Context  3 ‘Return’ and ‘Belonging’ Part 1: Empire and Gender 1 Empires:Interimperialism, Migration, and the United States  1 Introduction  2 When Empires Came to You: the Toba Batak  3 Multilingualism and Interimperial Temporality  4 The United States Cold War  5 Conclusion 2 Gendered Knowledges:Patriarchies and the Politics of Belonging  1 Introduction  2 The Toba Batak Culture as Political Location  3 Colonial Domesticity  4 Converging Gender Hierarchies  5 Negotiation and Challenge  6 Conclusion Part 2: Curating Time 3 Stories and Silences: Telling the Past  1 Introduction  2 Searching for Archives  3 What Is Said  4 What Is Not Said  5 Two Pictures  6 Conclusion 4 Artifacts and Memories: Representing Meaning  1 Introduction  2 Knowledge as Legacy  3 Memorykeeping as Response to Precarity  4 The Labor of Artifacts  5 Conclusion Part 3: Memorykeeping Prologue to Part 3: A Journey and a Path 5 Across Empires: The Narrative of H.L. Tobing  1 Raja Pontas  2 The Old Times  3 Family  4 The Adat  5 Christianity  6 Tarutung  7 Living in the Village  8 Dutch Rule  9 Elementary School  10 Salatiga  11 Early Marriage  12 Semarang  13 Magetan  14 Pearaja  15 Bengkalis  16 Japanese Occupation and World War II  17 Kisaran  18 Medan  19 Progress  20 Opportunities  21 United States  22 Homecoming 6 For Those Who Follow: The Autobiography of Minar T. Rony  1 Beginnings  2 Bengkalis  3 Siantar  4 Return to Bengkalis  5 Bukit Batu  6 Pearaja  7 Jakarta  8 Return to Siantar  9 Medan  10 Teacher and Guide  11 The United States Conclusion: The Urgency of Time Timeline Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the role played by Spanish formal education in providing feminist pedagogies to adolescents and young people, throughout the first two decades of the 21st century. The images of Spanish feminist protests in recent years, with a considerable presence of young girls but also boys, have spread around the world. But what is their relationship with gender-based inequalities? What is the role of formal education in their understanding of social reality? The authors combine a sociological and historical analysis of the social and educational changes that have taken place in Spanish youth during these decades, with a pedagogical orientation towards practice.Table of ContentsContents Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Spanish Adolescence and Youth through a Gendered and Feminist Lens  2 An Advanced Country in Gender Equality Legislation  3 Despite the Legislation: Feminist Knowledge in the Educational Curricula  4 Putting Coeducation into Practice: How Schools Can Help Achieve Equality  5 Perspectives  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWriting in the late 19th century, Mózes Salamon, rabbi of a small Hungarian community, hoped to convince his fellow rabbis to recognize women as equally privileged members of the People Israel. The result was his The Path of Moses: A Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith, a ground-breaking enquiry into the causes of women’s exclusion from most of Judaism’s religious practices. Predating contemporary feminism, it gave early expression to ideas found in today’s religious feminist critique of women’s role in Judaism, thus undermining attempts to dismiss those ideas as shallowly mimicking fashionable secular opinion. The Path of Moses is here published for the first time in English, accompanied by the Hebrew original, an introduction, and commentary.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction  1 The Significance of Netiv Moshe: Maamar Mehkari ʿal Mishpat haNashim baEmunah  2 Historical Background  3 Rabbi Mózes Salamon (1838–1912)  4 Netiv Moshe: Maamar Mehkari ʿal Mishpat haNashim baEmunah  5 The Roots of Gender Inequality in Judaism  6 The Main Arguments  7 Examples of Gender Inequality  8 Outstanding Women  9 Closing Remarks  10 Notes on the Translation English Translation and Hebrew Original Translator’s Notes to the Text Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom rethinking feminist archives, to inserting postpornography in academia, to approaching sex toys from a transpositive perspective, to dismantling the foundations of techno-capitalism, the areas of inquiry in this book are lenses through which to explore the relationships between genders, bodies and technologies. All the various chapters work to reimagine the body as a hybrid, malleable and subversive source of potentiality. These essays offer readers road maps for unimagined and uncharted social scapes: the relationship between bodies–technologies–genders means working within a space of monstrosity. Through this embodied discomfort the book questions existing techno-social norms, and imagines tranfeminist futures. Contributors are: Carlotta Cossutta, Valentina Greco, Arianna Mainardi, Stefania Voli, Lucía Egaña Rojas, Ludovico Virtù, Angela Balzano, Obiezione Respinta, Elisa Virgili, Rachele Borghi, and Diego Marchante “Genderhacker”.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Translators’ Note   Julia Heim and Sole Anatrone A Note on the English Edition 1 Where the Margins Aren’t Borders   Carlotta Cossutta, Valentina Greco, Arianna Mainardi and Stefania Voli 2 Technofeminism Notes for a Transfeminist Technology (Version 3.0)   Lucía Egaña Rojas 3 Dis/Organizing D-I-Y Sexuality A Trans Perspective   Ludovico Virtù 4 Virtual Interfaces of Biotech Reproduction   Angela Balzano 5 Objection Denied   Obiezione Respinta 6 If I Was a Rich Girl Three Manifestos for Rethinking the Relationship between Gender, Technology and Capital   Elisa Virgili 7 eva kunin * Arigato (Gozaimasu) ebook   eva kunin 8 Notes from the Center’s Margins   Rachele Borghi (Zarra Bonheur) 9 Transcyborgdyke A Transfeminist and Queer Perspective on Hacking the Archive   Diego Marchante “Genderhacker” 10 Surveillance, Subjectivity and Public Space A Gendered Look at Technologies   Carlotta Cossutta and Arianna Mainardi Translators’ Epilogue   Julia Heim and Sole Anatrone Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection is the first comprehensive history of Fichte’s reception in America, highlighting the existence of a long and strong tradition of Fichtean studies throughout the continent and demonstrating the centrality of Fichtean ideas in contemporary discussions of issues such as feminism, social criticism, and decolonial thought. Read and reinterpreted in the highly diverse circumstances across the American continent, Fichte’s ideas are presented in a radically new light, uncovering the Fichtean spirit of self-activity and autonomous thought in an American context.Table of ContentsForeword Notes on Contributors PART 1: Fichte and the Current Debates in the Americas 1 The Reception, Development, and Application of J. G. Fichte’s Account of Gender, Marriage, and Family in the Americas  Yolanda Estes 2 Et in America ego. Fichte’s Liberal and Egalitarian Critique of Colonization, Servitude, and Slavery  Günter Zöller 3 Triple Fichtean Revolution: Notes to a Freer Latin-American Thinkingbr/>  Thiago S. Santoro 4 Modernity and Its Peripheries: Originary Existence and Decolonization of Thought in Light of Fichte’s Late Work  Manuel Tangorra 5 Intersubjectivity, Common Consciousness, and the Death of the Milkman  Francisco Augusto de Moraes Prata Gaspar PART 2: Fichte’s Spirit at the Foundation of the American Independent Nations 6 Echoes and Reverberations: Fichte’s Voice in the Independence of South American Countries  Virginia López-Domínguez 7 Fichte, Progress, and the Rise of Positivism in Latin America  Elizabeth Millán Brusslan 8 Philosophy and Emancipation: Fichte’s Spirit in Alberdi’s Letter  María Jimena Solé 9 Fichte and the Democratic Self According to Walt Whitman  Federico Vicum 10 An Accomplice Reading of Fichte from the Other Side. Towards a Real Independence of Latin America  Marco Rampazzo Bazzan 11 “Still Fichte”: Individual, State, and Democracy in J.D. Perón’s Organized Community  Santiago Nápoli PART 3: Fichte’s Reception, Influence and Appropriation by American Thinkers 12 Raimundo de Farias Brito, Kritiker des Positivismus zwischen Fichte und Jacobi  Christian Klotz 13 Fichte’s Metaphysics in Esteban Echeverría and José Mármol. Continuities around Pilgrim Subjectivity  Lucas Damián Scarfia 14 Fichte and Rojas  Alberto Sandoval 15 Fichte and Korn: Some Messages for Free Spirits  María Paz Lamas 16 Fichte by Taborda: Idealism and Critique of Modernity  Mariano Gaudio 17 The Spirit between Two Continents. Fichte in Turin, in São Paulo  Giorgia Cecchinato Appendix: Pragmatismus als Idealismus. Peirce, Fichte und der radikale Anti-Cartesianismus  Jakub Kloc-Konkolowicz Index

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Book SynopsisViolette Leduc (1907-1972) a inventé une écriture de soi puissante et tragique. Cette étude critique de son oeuvre démontre en premier lieu comment la théâtralité d'une écriture autobiographique est issue du dédoublement spectaculaire entre l'individu et le sujet de l'énonciation. L'ouvrage approfondit la notion de théâtralité, non tant au sens rimbaldien du "je est un autre", que dans une perspective qui allie sémiologie du texte et sémiologie de la représentation dramatique. On y étudie la façon dont l'espace et le temps textuels dessinent des "jeux de scène" avec, au centre, la figure de l'écrivain en train d'écrire. Chez Leduc la théâtralité prend appui sur un usage caractéristique des discours perçus comme voix. Le "pari" de l'autobiographe se mue, de fait, en tentation de représenter l'inénarrable, la démence ou encore la possession amoureuse. Mais c'est bien au lecteur, figure tutélaire, que revient le plaisir d'effectuer la dernière représentation, celle qui unit l'auteur et le spectateur dans le plaisir de mettre en scène le "je".

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Book SynopsisThis study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women’s fiction by Carol Shields (Small Ceremonies, 1976), Daphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, 1988), and Susan Swan (The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, 1983). These three texts reveal definite problems in the formation of Canadian female identities, but they also revalorise the traditionally underprivileged halves of binary structures such as: female/male, other/self, body/intellect, subjectivity/objectivity, and Canada/imperial centres.Trade Review”Represents a significant contribution to Canadian Studies” in: Canadian Literature 182, Autumn 2004Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Abbreviations used in the text. Introduction. Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature. Part I Chapter 1 Postmodernism, Postcolonialism and Feminism in Canada Chapter 2 Canadian Identity Part II Chapter 3 Ontario Chapter 4 British Columbia Chapter 5 Nova Scotia Conclusion Samenvatting Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPendant l'été 1918, André Gide passa trois mois à Cambridge en compagnie de son jeune amant Marc Allégret. Ce séjour fut l'occasion de sa rencontre avec maints intellectuels anglais mais aussi la cause de la grande crise de son mariage, qui conduisit sa femme Madeleine à brûler toutes les lettres qu'il lui avait écrites depuis leur jeunesse. La complexité du désir chez Gide, son attitude envers les femmes et le féminin et envers la pédérastie et la pédagogie, son besoin inlassable des départs et des retours, l'exploitation du vécu dans ses oeuvres romanesques et la création de soi dans ses écrits non-fictionnels - voilà quelques-unes des matières qui sont développées dans ce livre.Trade Review”There are rich insights and finely tuned interpretations here, a wealth of knowledge…” in: Modern and Contemporary France, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2002Table of ContentsRemerciements Sigles et abréviations Naomi Segal, « Introduction : Gide amoureux » Gide à Cambridge 1918 David Steel, « Gide à Cambridge 1918 : considérations géo-sexuelles » Catherine Savage Brosman, « L’Évasion anglaise » Daniel Durosay: « L'Adieu aux larmes : Naissance d’une passion. : pour Marc » Écrivain et lecteur Christine Latrouitte Armstrong, « Je lis à Em.’ » Diane Setterfield, « La part de l’inconscient, la part de Dieu et la part du lecteur » Michael Lucey, « Gide et la postérité : la place de la sexualité » Écrivain et mari Candace D. Lang, « La Séduction d’Emmanuèle » Evelyne Méron, « Mariage, lien, mensonge » Yaffa Wolfman, « Du personnage de la femme dans l’œuvre de Gide » Le désir à l’œuvre. Sandra Travers De Faultrier, « Désir, de la subjectivité désirante à l’invitation au réel » Scott M. Sprenger, « Gide, Narcisse et la question de la psycho-biographie. Clara Debard, ´Œdipe et Gide » John Gillespie, « Fictions et théologie dans La Symphonie pastorale » Gide en analyse Jean-Marie Jadin, « André Gide 13, 16, 18 : un calcul du désir” Catherine Millot : « La croix de Saint-André » Gide pédéraste David H. Walker, « Gide, les enfants et la loi » Lawrence R. Schehr, « André Gide et les figures de l’homosexualité » Naomi Segal, « Des oncles et des tantes » Appendice : Marc à Cambridge Détails des auteurs Index des noms propres Table des matières

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Book SynopsisThis closely focused study of the inner movements, dynamic tensions and tactile richness of an intensely sensual but deeply searching poetry, is the first full-length monograph devoted to one of France’s foremost contemporary woman poets. Marie-Claire Bancquart’s work explores, primarily through the vulnerabilities and sensitivities of the body (hence this book’s ‘carnal’ title), the possibility of releasing a cry: a salvation of language and spirit from indifference, abstraction and dehumanisation, a celebration of a moment’s reunion with the recreative vitality of the physical universe, an act of love in its most private yet cosmic expression. Bancquart has described her language as a ‘braille of the living’: minimal, interrupted and riddled with obscurities and gaps of the unsayable, but apprehending the world and composing its significance in a singularly tactile translation. This study will appeal to those keen to discover one of the most original voices of present-day European poetry, the distinctive poetic resonances of one of its most self-aware and vibrant female sensibilities, and the provocative orientations of ‘new writing’ traversed by the dilemmas and paradoxes of our own era.Table of ContentsIntroduction Mémoire d’abolie Définition Opportunité des oiseaux Trains Opéra des limites Suite au dieu-lune Sans lieu sinon l’attente Cariatides Énigmatiques Carnet La vie, lieu-dit Habitée par une tendresse La paix saignée À la morte Bio-Bibliography Index of proper names

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Book SynopsisWomen Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories. Arranged chronologically, the essays discuss encounters with Greece by, among others, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Montagu, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley, Felicia Skene, Emily Pfeiffer, Eva Palmer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, Christa Wolf, Penelope Storace and Gillian Bouras, and analyse them through a variety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames.Table of ContentsVassiliki KOLOCOTRONI and Efterpi MITSI: Introduction Efterpi MITSI: Lady Elizabeth Craven’s Letters from Athens and the Female Picturesque Vassiliki MARKIDOU: Travels Off-centre: Lady Hester Stanhope in Greece Evgenia SIFAKI: A Gendered Vision of Greekness: Lady Morgan’s Woman: Or Ida of Athens Maria KOUNDOURA: Real Selves and Fictional Nobodies: Women’s Travel Writing and the Production of Identities Churnjeet KAUR MAHN: The Sculpture and the Harem: Ethnography in Felicia Skene’s Wayfaring Sketches TD OLVERSON: ‘A world without woman in any true sense’: Gender and Hellenism in Emily Pfeiffer’s Flying Leaves from East and West Martha KLIRONOMOS: British Women Travellers to Greece, 1880-1930 Artemis LEONTIS: Eva Palmer’s Distinctive Greek Journey Christina DOKOU: ‘No Place Like Home’: Gillian Bouras and the ‘Others’ Helga RAMSEY-KURZ: Going Back to the Mother: Postcolonial Inscriptions and Migrant Tales Asimina KARAVANTA: The Greek Ideal in Patricia Storace’s Dinner with Persephone and Christa Wolf’s Cassandra Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisNegotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance affords new theoretical approaches and insights into the complexity of sexual discourse pervading contemporary cultures, exploring sexuality’s role in dominant conceptualisations of self and society, in patterns of political belonging and exclusion, and in societal transformations. Opening with a substantial critical introduction, this collection of twelve essays and creative pieces contributes to significant current debates regarding sexual rights and their violation, queer theory and identity politics, sexual fantasy formations and strategies of pleasure, and the celebration of sexual diversity, topics explored through a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gender and film studies, religious philosophy, neo-Victorian and postcolonial literature, sociology, pornography, and performance art. The volume positions the subjects of sex and sexuality as crucial to our ethical understanding of the human, both in individual and communal terms, exploring how claims for sexual subjectivity and citizenship are formulated and the entitlements they entail. The analytical insights offered signal important new directions for critical engagement with the socio-political construction of sexuality and its strategic deployment within the cultural imaginary. Designed to appeal equally to scholars, students, and general readers, Negotiating Sexual Idioms will prove essential reading for those interested in multi-disciplinary approaches to reading sex and sexuality within inter-cultural contexts, from the early modern period to the present-day.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Marie-Luise KOHLKE and Luisa ORZA: Introduction: The Intricacies of Sexual Idioms PART I Desiring Subjects and Sexual Others Ilana SHILOH: Spiritual Carnality: Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” Tahseen BÉA: Is My Yearning for You Sexual or Spiritual? Cultivating the Divine between Us Jan Peterson RODDY: Country-Queer: Reading & Rewriting Sexuality in Representations of the Hillbilly Marie-Luise KOHLKE: Sexsation and the Neo-Victorian Novel: Orientalising the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Fiction PART II Beings and Bodies in Sexual Discourse Shalmalee PALEKAR: Soma-Rasa Kateřina LIŠKOVÁ: Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological, Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography Erzsébet BARÁT: Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and Desire Marek M. WOJTASZEK: Brokeback Mountain and the Nature of Desire: Love beyond Transcendence PART III Sexibition, Power, and the Gaze Jennifer TYBURCZY: Perverting the Museum: The Politics and Performance of Sexual Artefacts Benjamin JACOB: Whore, Court, Church, and Europe’s First Modern Obscene Text Godwin SIUNDU: Imagining Manhoods: Voyeurism and Masculine Anxieties in East African Asian Fiction Luisa ORZA: One Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisLes Spirales du sens chez Renaud Camus a pour but de donner une idée de l’œuvre multiforme de Renaud Camus, laquelle comprend maintenant plus de soixante-dix livres, sans parler des sites de l’auteur, dont Vaisseaux brûlés, et celui du parti de l’In-nocence. Peu de lecteurs de Camus ont tout lu; quant à ses critiques et détracteurs, lors de l’affaire Camus ou après, on sait que souvent ils n’avaient lu de cette vaste œuvre que quelques phrases tronquées citées hors contexte. C’est pourquoi il semble opportun de jeter un (nouveau) coup d’œil sinon sur toute l’œuvre, tâche quasi impossible, du moins sur certains de ses versants, tenants et aboutissants. Vu les travaux déjà accomplis, on a fait le choix de ne pas trop s’attarder sur les textes romanesques inépuisables. On poursuivra plutôt la discussion au sujet de cette Affaire dont certains se plaisent à nier l’existence aujourd’hui. Notre collectif tient compte aussi du site du Parti fondé par Renaud Camus en 2002. D’autre part plusieurs articles insistent de manière variée sur l’importance du Journal qu’on peut considérer comme le tronc d’une œuvre qui n’arrête pas de croître, poussant ses feuilles en maintes directions, tantôt du côté de la pure littérature, tantôt de la polémique politique ou autre.Table of ContentsRenaud Camus, wordsmith à l’œuvre Sjef Houppermans: Paysages : pays sages Ralph Sarkonak: La chute dans la folie Catherine Rannoux: Renaud Camus, remarqueur mélancolique Charles A. Porter: À la recherche de l’autobiographie Thomas Clerc: Le Journal de Renaud Camus est-il bathmologique ? Paul Léon: Flatters, peintre et psychagogue, personnage camusien par l’écrivain lui-même Hugo Frey: Contradiction Without End : Renaud Camus and the Parti de l’In-nocence Charles A. Porter: Interview Bruno Chaouat: Interview Alain Finkielkraut: Interview

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Book SynopsisSexed Sentiments provides a gender perspective on the recent turn to affect in criticism. It presents new work by scholars from different disciplines working on gender and emotion, a field par excellence where an interdisciplinary focus is fruitful. This collection presents essays from disciplines like history, literary studies, psychology, sociology and queer studies, focusing on subjects varying from masculinity in the cult of sensibility to the role of empathy in forging feminist solidarities. The volume illuminates how new theoretical approaches to both gender and emotion may be productively applied to a variety of fields.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Willemijn Ruberg: Introduction Historical Perspectives E. Deidre Pribram: An Individual of Feeling: Emotion, Gender, and Subjectivity in Historical Perspectives on Sensibility Kevin O’Neill: ‘Pale & Dejected Exhausted by the Waste of Sorrow’: Courtship and the Expression of Emotion, Mary Shackleton, 1783-1791 Odette Clarke: Divine Providence and Resignation: The Role of Religion in the Management of the Emotions of the Anglo-Irish Countess of Dunraven, Caroline Wyndham-Quin (1790-1870) Literary Perspectives Kristine Steenbergh: Emotion, Performance and Gender in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Evert Jan van Leeuwen: Monstrous Masculinity and Emotional Torture in William Godwin’s Fleetwood; or, the New Man of Feeling Sinéad McDermott: The Double Wound: Shame and Trauma in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan Ingrid Hotz-Davies: Quentin Crisp, Camp and the Art of Shamelessness Social Science Perspectives Abigail Locke: The Social Psychologising of Emotion and Gender: A Critical Perspective Breda Gray: Empathy, Emotion and Feminist Solidarities Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDas Theater als körperbezogene Kunst eignet sich in besonderem Maße für Geschlechterexperimente. Es stellt einen ästhetischen Raum bereit, in dem weitgehend gezielte und reflektierte (Körper-)Aktionen stattfinden, während sich alltägliche Geschlechterperformanzen eher unbewusst vollziehen. Das Theater übersetzt diese ‘natürlichen Prozesse’ in ästhetische Spiele und eröffnet damit sowohl in seiner illusionistisch-mimetischen wie postdramatischen Variante GeschlechterSpielRäume. Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive die Gender-Konstellationen in Dramen und Theatertexten vom 17. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert in unterschiedlichen Nationalliteraturen und er nimmt das Theater als Institution in den Blick, um den Zusammenhang von Gender, Kunstsparten und Beruf zu verdeutlichen. Darüber hinaus werden sowohl die Performativität anderer Wirklichkeiten wie Medizin und Museum als auch die zeitgenössische Performance fokussiert.Table of ContentsGeschlechterSpielRäume. Einleitung Drama und Theatertext Stefan Horlacher: ‘Mothers Reign Supreme’? Weiblichkeit, Mutterschaft und die Wiederkehr des Abjekts in der elisabethanisch-jakobäischen Tragödie: John Webster Gaby Pailer: Selbstentleibung der Königin. Szenarien von Geschlecht und Herrschaft im Drama der Frühaufklärung Claudia Liebrand: Furioses Vexierspiel. Gender in Mozarts Zauberflöte Romana Weiershausen: “Wo ist die Gabe der Verstellung hin?” Systematiken des Gefühls auf der Bühne. Lessings Miß Sara Sampson, Diderots Der natürliche Sohn und Schlegels Düval und Charmille Ortrud Gutjahr: Das unkalkulierbare Andere. Geschlechter-Szenen auf dem Schauplatz des Krieges in Heinrich von Kleists Penthesilea Helga Kraft: Das Theater als moralische Anstalt? Deutsche Identität und die Migrantenfrage auf der Bühne Birte Giesler: Zur Performativität des Materials. Biomedizin und Identität in aktuellen Theaterstücken Ljubinka Petrovic´-Ziemer: Alles braucht (s)ein ‘Geschlecht’ – wie im Krieg, so im Frieden. Geschlechter-Szenarien in der bosnisch-herzegowinischen Gegenwartsdramatik Irina Gradinari: Theater des kollektiven Unbewussten. Pelmeni von Vladimir Sorokin Eva Kormann: Rastlose Medienspiele. Kathrin Rögglas Theaterstück wir schlafen nicht Schauspiel und Institution Annette Bühler-Dietrich: Heldische Männer, Weibpersönlichkeiten, Androgynität und das Ereignis des Schauspielers. Die Schauspielkunst der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Kritik Ina Schabert: Ceci est une ‘femme’. Wie das bürgerliche Illusionstheater die Illusion essentieller Weiblichkeit zerstört Christine Künzel: “Die Kunst der Schauspielerin ist sublimierte Geschlechtlichkeit”. Anmerkungen zum Geschlecht der Schauspielkunst Franziska Schößler und Axel Haunschild: Genderspezifische Arbeitsbedingungen am deutschen Repertoiretheater. Eine empirische Studie Christian Janecke: Wie Performance Art ‘Frauensache’ wurde – ein Erklärungsversuch Performativität und Performance Nikola Roßbach: Der Frau, die Mann. Geschlechterverrückungen in den Malus Mulier-Texten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts Susanne Kord: Etikette oder Theater? Kindsmörderinnen auf dem Schafott Peter M. McIsaac: Die medizinische Venus. Zur performativen Basis von anatomischen Zurschaustellungen vor und um 1900 Katharina Pewny: Der Penis als Dildo oder: Das letzte Spektakel der Männlichkeit (in der Performancekunst) Gerald Siegmund: Double Acts. House/Lights von The Wooster Group und die Spektralisierung der Geschlechteridentität Miriam Dreysse: Heterosexualität und Repräsentation. Markierungen der Geschlechterverhältnisse bei René Pollesch Beiträger und Beiträgerinnen

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Book SynopsisClones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication explores cloning and related phenomena that inform each other, like twins, fakes, replica, or homogeneities, through a cultural prism. What could it mean to think of a cloning mentality? Could it be that a “cloning culture” has made biotechnological cloning desirable in the first place, and vice versa that biotechnological cloning then enforces technologies of social and cultural cloning? What does it mean to say that a culture replicates? If biotechnological cloning has to do with choice and repetitive reproduction of selected characteristics, how are those kinds of desires expressed socially, politically and culturally? Lifting the issue of cloning above the biotechnological domain, we problematize the cultural context, including modernity’s readiness to imitate and manipulate nature, and the skewed privileging of desirable socialities as a basis for exclusive replication. We also explore possible relations between a cloning mentality and a consumer society that fosters a brand-name mentality. The construction and (coercive) implementation of copy-prone technological and symbolic items are at the very heart of the consumer society and its modes of mass production as they have emerged from and seek to articulate, define, and refine modernity and modernization.Table of ContentsPhilomena Essed and Gabriele Schwab: Introduction: Cloning and Cultures of Replication Technologies, Fantasies and Philosophies of Life Verena Stolcke: Homo Clonicus Heleen van den Hombergh: Gentech Agriculture Rosi Braidotti: Transposing Life Gabriele Schwab: Replacement Humans Cultural Cloning Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg: Cloning, Cultures, and the Social Injustices of Homogeneities Ross D. Parke, Christine Ward Gailey, Scott Coltrane, and M. Robin DiMatteo: The Pursuit of Perfection Philomena Essed: Cloning the Physician Ackbar Abbas: Cloning Disappearance, Consuming Fakes Replicating and Marketing Faith Eileen Luhr: Marketing Religion Rebecca Kugel: Civilizing Missions Toby Miller: The Yanqui Makeover The Cloning Imaginary: Proliferations of a Fantasy Gabriele Schwab: Twin Enemies Carole-Anne Tyler: Dead Ringer – Knock Off Nancy Postero: Destiny – Eternity The Contributors

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Book SynopsisTransgressive Transcripts examines the construction of women’s subjectivity and the textual production of Canadian female voices orchestrated in history, culture, ethnicity, and sexuality. The book, stressing the dissemination and re-inscription of femaleness and femininity in Chinese Canadian history, employs critical models that defy the sexual/textual imaginary of the Canadian literary scene. Four fields of study are conjoined: feminist theories of the body, gender and sexuality studies, women’s writing, and Asian North American studies. Analysing four writers, SKY Lee, Larissa Lai, Lydia Kwa, and Evelyn Lau, the book anchors its thematic and theoretical concern with female sexuality in the context of Chinese Canadian writing. Feminist narratives and gender politics in contemporary Asian North American literature are highlighted via the trope of ‘transgression’.Trade Review"Transgressive Transcripts offers sophisticated readings of recent Chinese Canadian women’s writing as a form of powerful agency that resists stereotypical representations and opens up new possibilities for heterogeneous feminist and queer identity formations. Building on a comprehensive critical overview of the current state of Asian Canadian literary studies, and combining studies of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, the interpretations are illuminating, provocative, and original." – Donald Goellnicht, Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies, McMaster University "This book, a substantial contribution to an understanding of the ways sexuality mediates histories of national and transnational belonging, helps constitute the field of Chinese Canadian women’s writing yet resists turning that writing into an object of knowledge or writers into informants. Of central interest is textual agency and the critical spaces literature opens within minority and feminist studies. Engaging with thorny, silenced issues such as how to write about sexuality and subjectivity, Fu uncovers transcripts subtending dominant culture and unacknowledged within Chinese Canadian culture. Particularly compelling is the analysis of processes of hyper-feminization, desexualization, exoticization, demonization, and abjection that have come to stand phantasmically for Chinese Canadian women’s sexuality." – Lianne Moyes, Professor and Chair, Department of English Studies, Université de MontréalTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue Spatial Transcript: SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café Morphological Transcript: Larissa Lai’s When Fox Is a Thousand Genealogical Transcript: Lydia Kwa’s This Place Called Absence Hypersexual Transcript: Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and Inside Out: Reflections on a Life So Far Epilogue Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisDans la lignée des études postcoloniales et des études sur le genre, Scènes des genres au Maghreb examine les manifestations du genre dans différentes formes d’expression artistique de l’espace franco-maghrébin. Ce volume réunit les réflexions et analyses captivantes de spécialistes en littérature, cinéma et linguistique dans le but d’éclairer la fonction structurante des mythes génériques et de souligner l’impact social des images et des codes genrés ainsi que leur incidence dans les différents champs artistiques. D’Isabelle Eberhardt à Yasmina Khadra en passant par Bernard-Marie Koltès, Assia Djebar, Abdelkébir Khatibi ou Rachid Boudjedra, la littérature du (ou en rapport avec le) Maghreb y occupe une place de choix, à côté d’œuvres cinématographiques de Julien Duvivier, Mehdi Ben Attia ou encore Merzak Allouache. L’ouvrage, qui aborde en outre la question de la musique (raï) et des traditions iconographiques et culturelles, interroge ainsi l’ensemble des modes de création, réécriture, subversion ou perpétuation des mythes.Table of ContentsClaudia Gronemann et Wilfried Pasquier: Introduction Construction d’espace et du genre Trudy Agar: Villes impénétrables, villes de fitna: la ville sexuée chez Yasmina Khadra et Assia Djebar Emilie Notard: Les (mur)mur(e)s de cette féminité détestée dans Nos silences de Wahiba Khiari Irmgard Scharold: Le désert comme emblème du non-lieu de la femme: Isabelle Eberhardt et sa construction de soi en musulman nomade Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner: Quand il n’est pas là, elle danse... Transgressions de rôles de genre et d’espaces chez Malika Mokeddem, Leïla Marouane et Maïssa Bey Doris Ruhe: Le Désert de la ville ou la légende de Romulus et Rémus revisitée. Bernard-Marie Koltès et sa pièce « algérienne » Intersections et traditions du masculin/féminin Mourad Yelles: Passages de genres et traversée(s) du « Texte maghrébin » Rachid Boutayeb: La violence du texte fondateur: Abdelkébir Khatibi et la question du corps en Islam Gabriele Birken-Silverman: (Un)Doing gender dans le raï? L’auto-représentation et l’hétéro-représentation des genres Charles Bonn: Le sexe de l’écriture et son rapport à l’histoire, dans le roman algérien Masculinités Denise Brahimi: Déconstruction d’un mythe: la virilité au Maghreb Claudia Gronemann: Omar Gatlato de Merzak Allouache (1977): une étude de cas sur le masculin Wilfried Pasquier: Les 1001 années de la nostalgie de Rachid Boudjedra, un laboratoire du genre? L’hybridité et « queer » Khalid Zekri: Récits homoérotiques et récits au féminin dans la littérature marocaine Sonia Zlitni-Fitouri: « La mélancolie des Genres » ou l’écriture hybride Renaud Lagabrielle: Maghrébinité et homosexualité. A propos du long-métrage Le Fil (Mehdi Ben Attia, 2010) Paroles d’écrivain Regina Keil-Sagawe et Habib Tengour: Les « Odysséennes » de Habib Tengour

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Book SynopsisThis volume introduces ten emerging voices in German-language literature by women. Their texts speak to the diverse modalities of transition that characterise society and culture in the twenty-first century, such as the adaptation to evolving political and social conditions in a newly united Germany; globalisation, the dissolution of borders, and the changing face of Europe; dramatic shifts in the meaning of national, ethnic, sexual, gender, religious, and class identities; rapid technological advancement and the revolutionary power of new media, which in turn have radically altered the connections between public and private, personal and political. In their literature, the authors presented here reflect on the notion of transition and offer some unique interventions on its meaning in the contemporary era.Trade Review"Valerie Heffernan and Gillian Pye rightly claim that women have never played a stronger role in German literature than since the turn of the twenty-first century but that they are still marginalized in academic criticism of recent German-language writers. This book, comprising ten essays on contemporary women’s writing, goes a long way towards filling that gap. The essays do more than merely introduce us to emerging authors, however; they also offer new and theoretically informed interpretations of important works. […] Overall this is a stimulating and important book to be recommended for all interested in contemporary writing and culture. Several essays will become important and foundational interpretations of authors who will continue to interest students and scholars of German literature in the future."– Teresa Ludden, Newcastle University, in: MLR – Modern Language Review 110.2 (2015) pp. 612-3Table of ContentsValerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye: Trends and Transitions in Contemporary German-language Writing by Women Daphne Seemann: The Re-Construction and Deconstruction of a Family Narrative: Eva Menasse’s Vienna Linda Shortt: No Place like Home? Eleonora Hummel and the Russian German Past Valerie Heffernan: Perspectives on the Borderline: Julia Franck’s Lagerfeuer Emily Jeremiah: Sewing an Account of Oneself: Materiality, Femininity, and Germanness in Larissa Boehning’s Lichte Stoffe Gillian Pye: Jenny Erpenbeck and the Life of Things Elaine Martin: New-Economy Zombies: Kathrin Röggla’s wir schlafen nicht Siobhán Donovan: Illness, Creativity and Self-Discovery in Lea Gottheil’s Sommervogel Deirdre Byrnes: Writing on the Threshold: Memory, Language and Identity in Kathrin Schmidt’s Du stirbst nicht Carrie Smith-Prei & Lars Richter: Politicising Desire in Juli Zeh’s Spieltrieb Carmel Finnan: Cartographies of Self: Ilma Rakusa’s Autobiographical Narrative Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFictions written between 1939 and 2005 by indigenous and white (post)colonial women writers emerging from an African–European cultural experience form the focus of this study. Their voyages into the European diasporic space in Africa are important for conveying how African women’s literature is situated in relation to colonialism. Notwithstanding the centrality of African literature in the new postcolonial literatures in English, the accomplishments of the indigenous writer Grace Ogot have been eclipsed by the critical attention given to her male counterparts, while Elspeth Huxley, Barbara Kimenye, and Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, who are of Western cultural provenance but adopt an African perspective, are not accommodated by the genre of ‘expatriate literature’. The present study of both indigenous and white (post)colonial women’s narratives that are common to both categories fills this gap. Focused on the representation of gender, identity, culture, and the ‘Other’, the texts selected are set in Kenya and Uganda, and a main concern is with the extent to which they are influenced by setting and intercultural influences. The ‘African’ woman’s creation of textuality is at once the expression of female individualities and a transgression of boundaries. The particular category of fiction for children as written by Kimenye and Macgoye reveals the configuration of a voice and identity for the female ‘Other’ and writer which enables a subversive renegotiation of identity in the face of patriarchal traditions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Agency, Voice, and Sense of Self: Re-Writing African Women’s Identity Space and ‘African’ Women Writers Woman, the Visitor: Re-Presenting the Female Authorial Voice Delineating the Position of African Women Creative Dialogue, Signification, Gender, and Space: Talking Through Contemporary Children’s Stories Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume of original essays celebrates Barbara Becker-Cantarino, whose prolific publications on German literary culture from 1600 to the twentieth century are major milestones in the field of German cultural studies. The range of topics in the collection reflects the breadth of Becker-Cantarino’s scholarship. Examining literature from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the contributors explore the intersections of gender, race, and genre, history and gender, and gender and violence. They provide fresh readings of the works of known and lesser-known writers, including Cyriacus Spangenberg, Maria Anna Sager, Luise Gottsched, Heinrich von Kleist, Frank Wedekind, Christa Wolf, Helga Schütz, Terézia Mora, and Martina Hefter. Their discussions explore the possibilities and limitations of theoretical discourses on travel literature, deconstruction, and gender and suggest new avenues of investigation.Table of ContentsJohn Pustejovsky: The Experience of Words. A Tribute to Barbara Becker-Cantarino Katherine Goodman: Luise Gottsched, Freethinker Stefanie Stockhorst: Schwangerschaft und Geburt in der ‘schönen’ Literatur. Überlegungen zum Funktionswandel eines Motivs Helga Meise: Dispositive der Macht in Maria Anna Sager Die verwechselten Töchter (1771) und Karolinens Tagebuch (1774) Theodore Ziolkowski: Recent German Literature: ‘Romantic’ or ‘romantic’? Ursula Kocher: Transferleistungen: Formen des Traditionsverhaltens bei Paul Fleming Anna Grotans, Berit Jany, Kathryn Corl, and Annett Krause: The Gruber Manuscript: Alms, Books and the New World Gaby Pailer: Gewalt, Geschlecht und die Kunst der Novelle: Boccaccio, Schiller und Kleist Gregory H. Wolf: The Desire to Control Death: Heinrich von Kleist’s Epistolary Correspondence on Schicksal, Tod and Selbstmord Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly: “Meine liebe Mutter.” Cyriacus Spangenberg and his Treatise on “WeiberAdel” (1591) Stephanie E. Libbon: Revamping Frank Wedekind’s Prostitutes. A Liberating Re-Creation or Male Recreation? Christiane Caemmerer: Die Schäferliteratur und die Frauen Elke Frederiksen: Journeys Across Continents – Writing Across Borders. From Europe to Africa – from Africa to Europe Rachel J. Halverson: Living in the Moment, Reflecting on the Past: Exploring Loss, Language, and Identity in Martina Hefter’s Zurück auf Los and Die Küsten der Berge Marie-Luise Gättens: Eingemauert: Helga Schütz, Grenze zum gestrigen Tag Monika Shafi: “Mit der Wende kam der Appetit”: Work, Food, and Gender in Terézia Mora’s Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent Alexander Schwarz: Körper, Gender, Eulenspiegel Publications by Barbara Becker-Cantarino Index of Names

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Book SynopsisGender Matters opens the debate concerning violence in literature and the arts beyond a single national tradition and engages with multivalent aspects of both female and male gender constructs, mapping them onto depictions of violence. By defining a tight thematic focus and yet offering a broad disciplinary scope for inquiry, the present volume brings together a wide range of scholarly papers investigating a cohesive topic—gendered violence—from the perspectives of French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Japanese literature, history, musicology, art history, and cultural studies. It interrogates the intersection of gender and violence in the early modern period, cutting across national traditions, genres, media, and disciplines. By engaging several levels of discourse, the volume advances a holistic approach to understanding gendered violence in the early modern world. The convergence of discourses concerning literature, the arts, emerging print technologies, social and legal norms, and textual and visual practices leverages a more complex understanding of gender in this period. Through the unifying lens of gender and violence the contributions to this volume comprehensively address a wide scope of diverse issues, approaches, and geographies from late medieval Japan to the European Enlightenment. While the majority of essays focus on early modern Europe, they are broadly contextualized and informed by integrated critical approaches pertaining to issues of violence and gender.Trade Review“Gender Matters is a fascinating piece of reading, and, although the scope of scholarship presented seems too wide initially, the thematic chapters offer novel approaches to early modern studies. The main strength of the volume is its heterogeneity; it tackles interdisciplinary subjects and, more importantly, it introduces a broad perspective that points beyond the European framework in early modern studies and includes such rarely addressed issues in early modern art and culture in Japan. […] the volume fulfills its main goal and presents a holistic view of the early modern period that helps with the understanding of this era more fully, and similar endeavors would be greatly welcomed in future early modern studies.” - Zita Turi, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in: Sixteenth Century Journal 46.1 (2015), pp. 197-199 “A major strength of this collection is its transnational focus. Readers seeking a global perspective on early modern culture will find this text particularly fulfilling. […] Another strength of this collection is that the essays are widely interdisciplinary. Unlike many similar essay collections, the variety in this text demonstrates the pervasiveness of gendered violence — and it shows how easily scholars can arrive at similar conclusions about the systems of power in society while using different toolsets. […] Scholars specifically focused on violence or gender will easily find plenty to love here, of course, and the interdisciplinary focus might provide some necessary breadth to such research.” - Matt Carter, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in: Renaissance Quarterly 68.3, pp. 1105-1106Table of ContentsMara R. Wade: Introduction Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts Women Warriors, Fact and Fiction Judith P. Aikin: The Militant Countesses of Rudolstadt: When an unruly army stops by on its way through, it’s time to call on a woman for help. Elizabeth Oyler: The Woman Warrior Tomoe in Medieval and Early Modern Japanese Nō Plays Violent Women, Violated Men Helmut Puff: Violence, Victimhood, Artistry: Albrecht Dürer’s The Death of Orpheus Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly: The Eroticization of Judith in Early Modern German Art Julie Singer: For Palle and Patrie: Re-gendering Violence from Benedetto Varchi to Marguerite de Navarre Marcus Keller: Framing Men: Violent Women in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron Violence and the Gendered Body Politic Catharine Gray: Tears of the Muses: 1649 and the Lost Political Bodies of Royalist War Elegy Brian Sandberg: Calm Possessor of his Wife, but Not of her Château: Gendered Religious Violence in the French Wars of Religion Lori Humphrey Newcomb: The Law Against Lovers: Dramatizing Civil Union in Restoration England Gender in Print Elizabeth Black: One Gender in the Legal System? An Examination of Gender in a Trio of Emblems from Pierre Coustau’s Pegme (1560) Tara L. Lyons: Prayer Books and Illicit Female Desires on the Early Modern English Stage Gerhild Scholz Williams: Romancing the News: History and Romance in Eberhard Happel’s Deß Teutschen Carls (1690) and Deß Engelländischen Eduards (1691) Gender and Violence on the Stage Susan Parisi: Transforming a Classical Myth in Seventeenth-Century Opera: the Story of Cybele and Atys in the Libretti of Francesco Rasi and Philippe Quinault Curtis Perry: Gismond of Salern and the Elizabethan Politics of Senecan Drama Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich: “Drabs of State vext”: Violent Female Masquers in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women Virtue and Violence Carmen Ripollés: Death, Femininity, and the Art of Painting in Frans Francken’s The Painter’s Studio Lisa Rosenthal: Masculine Virtue in the Kunstkamer: Pictura, Lucre, and Luxury Anne J. Cruz: The Walled-In Woman in Medieval and Early Modern Spain Carl Niekerk: Violence, Gender, and the Construction of the Other in the Story of Inkle and Yarico Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisTextual Transvestism analyzes the flourishing of imitative versions of Heloise’s and Abelard’s love correspondence in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Current theoretical approaches on epistolarity, narratology, cultural, feminist and gender studies have been used to focus on the various transformations (rewriting, adapting, veiling, fragmenting) of Heloise’s epistles, mainly in the hands of male writers. I employ close textual analysis to investigate how the multiple (re)visions of her epistolary discourse and persona over two hundred years might have been indicative of, and helped construct, ideological changes in expectations concerning the role of women. The scope of this study is relevant, but not limited, to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French Studies, especially since it explores contemporary cultural issues such as sexual discourse and gender construction throughout the nine chapters. In an age where women’s roles are shifting constantly, this project is especially germane because it traces historical roots of gender redefinition within French culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Writing Love: The Origins of the Letter Novel in France 1. Abelard’s Historia Calamitatum 2. The Genesis of the Love Letter 3. Grenaille’s Eloize as “La Magdalene Française” 4. Bussy Rabutin’s Letters 5. Fictional Transformation of the Lovers 6. Dom Gervaise’s Repentant Translation of Heloise and Abelard 7. The Hysterical and Pastoral Heloise 8. Julie or the Devout Heloise 9. Learned Heloise Regained 10 Textual Transvestism Epilogue: The Revival of Heloise in Popular Culture Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, which was originally written as a dissertation, broadens the approach to gender equality in primary education by exploring the magnitude of complex interactions between schools and rural livelihood household processes in the context of HIV/AIDS. The arguments are based on recent ethnographic research using dimensions of rural pupils', parents', and teachers' responses to the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS on their livelihoods. It gives insight into some of the current debates that have been generated in the field of education, HIV/AIDS and rural livelihoods.

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