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WW Norton & Co Testosterone Rex
Book SynopsisBeliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine's funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we've heard Testosterone rex's last roar. -Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"An important, yet wickedly witty, book.… Pressingly contemporary, it’s the ideal companion read to sit alongside The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power." -- judges, 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize"[A] witty corrective." -- Barbara Kiser - Nature, “Best Science Picks”"Testosterone Rex is a debunking rumble that ought to inspire a roar." -- Guardian"Totally convincing, even life-changing.… The expression ‘essential reading for everyone’ is usually untrue as well as a cliché, but if there were a book deserving of that description this might just be it." -- Antonia Macaro - Financial Times"Graced with precisely focused humour, the author makes a good case that men and women are far more alike than many would claim. Feminist? Possibly. Humanist? Certainly. A compellingly good read." -- Professor Richard Fortey, author of Earth: An Intimate History"Convincingly and entertainingly demonstrates that, despite stereotypes, such characteristics as risk-taking, competitiveness and nurturing are not 'essential' to one sex over the other and cannot be blamed for the lack of equality between males and females in contemporary society." -- Clara Moskowitz - Scientific American"Cordelia Fine’s Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society does the public service of deconstructing the biological and societal tenets on which the continued inequality of the sexes is largely founded.… Using humor and her uniquely accessible academic writing style,… [Fine disrupts] what we think we know about gender difference." -- Katie Klabusich - Rewire"Fine has done us a service by reminding us of the dangers of misapplications of research to policy." -- Sheri Berenbaum - Science"A provocative and often fascinating book." -- The Economist"Exciting, eloquent, and effective. Deftly weaving together research from anthropology, biology, neuroscience, and psychology, Fine shows exactly why and how the myth of testosterone and maleness plays out and why it is false." -- Agustín Fuentes, professor of anthropology, University of Notre Dame
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Boys Girls and Achievement
Book SynopsisGirls are now out-performing boys at GCSE level, giving rise to a debate in the media on boys' underachievement. However, often such work has been a 'knee-jerk' response, led by media, not based on solid research. Boys, Girls and Achievement - Addressing the Classroom Issues fills that gap and:*provides a critical overview of the current debate on achievement;*Focuses on interviews with young people and classroom observations to examine how boys and girls see themselves as learners;*analyses the strategies teachers can use to improve the educational achievements of both boys and girls.Becky Francis provides teachers with a thorough analysis of the various ways in which secondary school pupils construct their gender identities in the classroom. The book also discusses methods teachers might use challenge these gender constructions in the classroom and thereby address the 'gender-gap' in achievement.Trade Review'... deserves to be widely bought and used in classrooms and teacher training.' - The Times Educational Supplement'Becky Francis provides us with a very clear and level-headed account of these debates and her own reflections on them. She has written a most thoughtful and carefully researched book ... This is an excellent book.' - Miriam E. David, Educational ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1.Gender and Achievement: A Summary of Debates 2.Theoretical Perspectives of Gender Identity 3.Gendered Classroom Culture 4.Young People's Constructions of Gender and Status 5.Young People's Talk about Gender and Studentship 6.Young People's Views of the Importance of Gender and Education for their Lives 7.Young People's Talk about Gender and Behaviour 8.Discussion: Gender, Achievement and Status 9.Teaching Strategies for the Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer
Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of Dance, Education, Film, Health, Homophobia, the Internet, Literature, Music, Performance, and Politics. Slang is also covered. The international contributors come from a wide array of backgrounds: scholars, journalists, artists, doctors, scientists, lawyers, activists, and an enormous range of ideologies and points of view are represented. Major entries provide in-depth information and consider the intellectual and cultural implications of their subjects in a global context. Information is completely up-to-date, including full coverage and analysis of such current or ongoing issues as same-sex marriage/civil union and the international AIDS epidemic. Additionally, there arTrade Review"This Encyclopedia ranges widely, thematically and internationally, and is bang up to dat, even expatiating on such ongoing issues as same-sex marriage/civil partnerships or unions, and on the new global plague of AIDS." - Reference Reviews '...a worthy addition to queer studies collections in large public and all academic libraries' - Library Journal"This title will be worth the investment for public and academic libraries that seek broad coverage in queer issues" - Library Journal"Thematically arranged categories allow for productive browsing across subjects approached from an international perspective" - Booklist"This unique, well-executed volume will appeal to general readers interested in popular culture and scholars in academic disciplines like sociology and queer studies....Highly recommended" - Choice'This Encyclopedia ranges widely, thematically and internationally, and is bang up to dat, even expatiating on such ongoing issues as same-sex marriage/civil partnerships or unions, and on the new global plague of AIDS.' − Reference Reviews'...a worthy addition to queer studies collections in large public and all academic libraries.' − Library Journal'This title will be worth the investment for public and academic libraries that seek broad coverage in queer issues.' − Library Journal'Thematically arranged categories allow for productive browsing across subjects approached from an international perspective.' − Booklist'This unique, well-executed volume will appeal to general readers interested in popular culture and scholars in academic disciplines like sociology and queer studies....Highly recommended.' − ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction, acknowledgements, consultant editors, contributors, thematic list of entries, alphabetical list of entries, entries A–Z, appendix a: archives of glbt research materials (international), appendix b: sex laws (international), appendix c: international political and community organizations, index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Quotas and Politics
Book SynopsisThis is the first world-wide, comparative study of the controversial new trends of gender quotas now emerging in global politics, presenting a comprehensive overview of changes in women's parliamentary representation across the world. This is important reading for all those working to increase women's influence in politics, because it scrutinizes under what circumstances gender quotas do increase women's representation and why they sometimes fail. These distinguished international scholars also show how gender balance in politics has become important to a nation's international image and why quotas are being introduced in many post-conflict countries. They present key case studies of Afghanistan, Iraq, Argentina, Sweden, South Africa, Belgium, covering almost all major regions of the world: Latin America, Africa, the Arab world, South Asia, the Balkans, The Nordic countries and Europe, New Zealand, Australia and the USA - and Rwanda, which in 2003 unexpectedly surpassTable of ContentsPart I 1. Introduction 2. Arguing for and against quotas: theoretical issues Part II: Regional Chapters 3. The Nordic Countries: An incremental model 4. Latin America: The experience and the impact of quotas in Latin America 5. Sub-Saharan Africa: On the Fast Track to Women’s Political Representation 6. The Balkans: From total rejection to gradual acceptance of gender quotas 7. The Arab Region: Women's Access to the Decision-Making Process Across the Arab Nation 8. Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand: Gender Quotas in the Context of Citizenship Models 9. South Asia: Gender Quotas and the Politics of Empowerment : A comparative study Part III: Short Case Studies 10. Gender Quotas in Post-Conflict States: East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq 11. Indonesia: The struggle for gender quotas in the world’s largest Muslim country 12. Affirmative action at the IPU Part IV: Concluding Chapters 13. Electoral Quotas: Frequency and Effectiveness 14. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Men Women and Relationships A PostJungian
Book SynopsisThis book offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male-female relationships. Phil Goss places this discussion within an archetypal context drawing on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to consider the deep tension in western culture between the transcendent masculine and the immanent feminine.Offering both developmental and socio-cultural frameworks, areas of discussion include: the use of story and myth to understand gender Jungian and post-Jungian approaches: updating anima/animus working clinically with men, and with women the developmental pathways of gender difference power relations between men and women in the home. Men, Women and Relationships A Post-Jungian Approach will be a valuable resource for all those with an interest in analytical psychology including psychotherapists, psychoanalTable of ContentsIntroduction. Jack and the Beanstalk: Magic Beans and Angry Mothers. Gender Illusion, Gendered Reality. Gender Electrics: Eros, Thanatos and the Currents of the Past. Thanima. Thanimus. Climbing the Beanstalk: Personal and Collective Adolescence. Walking on Clouds: Male and Female Territories. Bringing the Giants Down from the Sky: Men, Women, Relationships and the Problem of Home.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and Japanese Society
Book SynopsisCompiled and introduced by D. P. Martinez, the editor of an acclaimed four-volume anthology on Modern Japanese Culture and Society (Routledge, 2007) (978-0-415-41609-2), this new title from Routledge's Critical Concepts in Asian Studies series, is a collection of classic and the very best cutting-edge scholarship on themes and issues around gender in historical and contemporary Japan.Fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor, which carefully situates the collected material in its intellectual context, Gender and Japanese Society is an essential reference work. It is destined to be welcomed by scholars and students as a vital research resource.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender
Book SynopsisNew from the Routledge Major Works programme, this landmark title is a four-volume collection of canonical and the very best cutting-edge research on gender.Taking gender to mean both the forms of identity which follow biological definitions of sex (the social identities of male and female, masculine and feminine), as well as the social and intimate relations which are constructed and defined through gender, serious work in the field is inevitably very wide-ranging, and draws on scholarship and insights from across the humanities, the social sciences, and beyond. Much of this literature remains inaccessible, or is highly specialized and compartmentalized, so that it is ever more difficult to gain an informed and comprehensive overview of the current and historical issues and debates. The sheer scale of the growth in research output in genderas well as its breadthmakes this collection especially useful and meets the demand for a one-stop ''mini library''
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and Crime
Book SynopsisIn the late 1950s, Barbara Wootton memorably remarked that if men behaved like women the criminal courts would be idle and the prisons empty. Wootton was among the first to ask fundamental and challenging questions of criminology; about its structure as a discipline and its explanatory potential about crime. In the following decades, serious academic work on the relationship between gender, crime, and criminal victimization has continued to flourish. It has been particularly concerned to challenge the sex-based assumptions for female criminality, on the one hand, and the invisibility of women as victims of crime, on the other. If criminology was once a discipline run âby the boys, with the boys, about the boysâ, its domain assumptions are now severely tested in terms of theory, policy, and practice, by a large and growing corpus of scholarship.This new title from Routledgeâs Critical Concepts in Criminology series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to map and make sense of this body of literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited by a leading scholar in the field, Gender and Crime is a four-volume collection which brings together the very best foundational and cutting-edge contributions.The four volumes focus on the nature of the feminist challenge and the criminological response to it. The collection is organized thematically. Volume I (âSex and Crime or Gender and Crime?â) traces the emergence and development of the gender agenda within criminology, identifying its strengths and weaknesses, while Volume II (âGender, Crime, and Criminal Victimizationâ) brings together the best thinking on the various ways in which different crimesâand experiences of crimeâmight be informed by a gendered perspective. Volume III (âGendered Experiences of the Criminal-Justice Processâ), meanwhile, focuses on the criminal-justice system and the professionals engaged within it. Does the question of gender help to make better sense of how it does its work? The final volume in the collection (âGender, Crime, and Punishmentâ) collects the key literature on the extent to which prisons, community penalties, and restorative justice reflect gendered presumptions.Gender and Crime is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the gathered material in its historical and intellectual context. Indeed, it is an essential resource and is destined to be valued by scholars and other users as a vital one-stop research tool.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and Chinese Society
Book SynopsisCompiled and introduced by Xiaowei Zang, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sheffield, this new title from Routledgeâs Critical Concepts in Asian Studies series is a collection of classic and the very best cutting-edge scholarship on themes and issues around gender in historical and contemporary China.The collection will enable users to make sense of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Key topics covered include: gender, marriage, and the family; gender inequality; gender and migration; and gender and empowerment.Fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor, which carefully situates the collected material in its intellectual context, Gender and Chinese Society is an essential reference work. Indeed, it is destined to be welcomed by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Inequality in Our Changing World
Book SynopsisGender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach focuses on the contemporary United States but places it in historical and global context. Written for sociology of gender courses, this textbook identifies conditions that encourage greater or lesser gender inequality, explains how gender and gender inequality change over time, and explores how gender intersects with other hierarchies, especially those related to race, social class, and sexual identity. The authors integrate historical and international materials as they help students think both theoretically and empirically about the causes and consequences of gender inequality, both in their own lives and in the lives of others worldwide.Trade ReviewKenschaft and Clark’s Gender Inequality in Our Changing World is a treasure trove for teachers. The book has theory and empirical data woven through each chapter and addresses the gender issues of our time from a clearly outlined and integrated comparative, historical and global perspective. The framework promotes higher-level thinking and the thorough examination of key subjects and concepts in the sociology of gender. Each chapter features a section of suggested activities and pedagogical resources that can serve as any teacher’s best allies in the process of creating a collaborative, interactive, reflective and intellectually challenging classroom.-Ana S.Q. Liberato, Sociology, University of KentuckyThis book’s contribution to undergraduate education in gender inequality is that the authors provide a strong historical perspective on the area of gender inequality they discuss in each chapter. Traditional college students do not have a depth of historical knowledge, especially about gender inequality and the author’s inclusion of history makes the problem of gender inequality more understandable.-Nancy Sonleitner, Sociology, The University of Tennessee at MartinTable of Contents1. Introduction: What Is Gender? Section I. Four Core Issues 2. Work and Its Rewards 3. Families as the Crucible of Gender Inequality 4. Gender and Violence 5. The Control of Sexuality Section II. Consequences 6. Life and Death Matters: Consequences of Inequality Section III. Continuity and Change 7. Learning and Performing Gender in School 8. Gender, Power, and Politics 9. Religion and Gender Inequality 10. Displaying and Constructing Gender in the Media 11. Acting Out Gender on the Sports Field Section IV. Looking Towards the Future 12. Conclusion: Possible Futures of Gender Inequality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Crazy for Democracy Women in Grassroots Movements
Book SynopsisCrazy for Democracy vividly shows, through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa, just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives. At a time when we're depressed about democracy, pessimistic about race relations, and anxious about feminism, Crazy for Democracy vividly shows, through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa, just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives. In building real social movements to achieve a safe environment, win human rights, and safeguard their homes, these grassroots feminist leaders have been creating democratic institutions to achieve social justice for us all.Trade Review"A delightfully refreshing account of what is so often not said about women's participation in movements for social change...Read this book for the excellent histories of the struggle at Love Canal, the birth of the environmental justice movement in the South, and the fight for housing and an end to apartheid in South Africa. Read it for inspiration when despondent about the seeming inevitability of pollution and toxic waste dumps in your communities. Above all, read it for the well-told and inspiring stories of ordinary women who rose to the challenge of extraordinary circumstances, thus paving the way for future efforts at redeeming the land and preserving our common environment." -- The Green Pages"Temma Kaplan's Crazy for Democracy: Women in GrassrootsMovements is written the way all history should be written, with passionate humanity. It provides an intellectual framework for understanding these movements in context, and in addition is a work that honors not only the historical; but the moral imagination." -- Mary Gordon"In this dramatic and timely study of six courageous women activists, Temma Kaplan at last puts women at the center of citizens' movements for social change and human rights, where they belong. Kaplan's narrative is riveting, her analysis sophisticated, her prose vigorous, her book original and important." -- Alix Kates Shulman, author of Drinking the Rain"Crazy for Democracy is a wonderful book. At once scholarly and personal, it tells the human story behind some of the most pathbreaking social movements of our time. Kaplan's incisive analysis shows us how women's social activism grows out of the gendered construction of women's lives. She has given us a vivid ethnography of social struggle as it is being waged on planet earth in the late twentieth century." -- Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York, Binghamton"[A]n engaging read ... Crazy for Democracy is an important contribution in the fields of women's studies, history, and political science. It challenges dominant frameworks for understanding democracy that focus almost exclusively on electoral politics." -- Political ScienceQuarterly"Crazy for Democracy breaks new ground by focusing specifically on women leaders of grassroots movements. [Kaplan's] lively and detailed accounts of movement activities reveal the complexity of activists' experiences defy the dichotomous theotetical frameworks that have been used to categorize women's activities." -- American AnthropologistTable of Contents1. Introduction: Women Prophets and the Struggle for Human Rights2. Suburban Blight and Situation Comedy3. When it Rains, I get Mad and Scared: Women and Environmental Racisms4. Homemaker Citizens and New Democratic Organizations5. Generation X, Southern Style6. We Sleep on Our Own Graves: Women at Crossroads7. Surplus People and Grassroots Women's Leadership in the New South Africa8. Conclusion: Social Movements and Democratic Practices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Resisting Citizenship
Book SynopsisPolitical participation in Americasupposedly the world's strongest democracyis startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity initiatives that were instituted in the 1960s and ''70s have been abandoned, as significant proportions of the populace seem to believe that the civil rights battle has been won. However, rates of collective engagement, like community activism, are surprisingly high. In Resisting Citizenship, renowned feminist political scientist Martha Ackelsberg argues that community activism may hold important clues to reviving democracy in this time of growing bureaucratization and inequality.This book brings together many of Ackelsberg's writings over the past 25 years, combining her own field work and interviews with cutting edge research and theory on democracy and activism. She explores these efforts in order to draw lessonsand attempt to incorporate knowledgeabout current notions of democracy from those who engage in non-traditionalTrade Review"How might our understanding of democracy change if democratic politics entailed a serious commitment to eradicate the pervasive inequalities that structure citizens’ lives? In Resisting Citizenship, Martha Ackelsberg envisions a mode of democratic practice that could transform communities and public policy in the United States and offers provocative insights about how to foster such transformative practices." —Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University."Few scholars bring theory to bear on lived activist—and feminist—politics as lucidly as Ackelsberg does. Resisting Citizenship unpacks with extraordinary analytic clarity the complicated histories and problematic dichotomies surrounding the private and public, dependency and autonomy, individual and community. A superb book."—Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Cornell University"Drawing on examples that span the globe and the era of modern democracy, Martha Ackelsberg deepens our appreciation for women’s activism and thinking about power and community. From anarchism to electoral politics, from rural protest to urban community organizing, she highlights how ordinary people, too often ignored in political science, can create political change and alter the very meaning of democracy." —Joan Tronto, Hunter College"As this collection of extraordinary essays written over the last three decades demonstrates, Martha A. Ackelsberg has been a trailblazer in examining the interrelationships among feminism, grassroots activism, and democratic theory and practice. Ackelsberg uses the prism of gender to challenge us to rethink some of our most basic political concepts, including citizenship, community, participation, the public/private split, independence, and even politics itself." —Susan J. Carroll, Rutgers University"This compilation of essays is cause for celebration and sustained reflection by feminist scholars who are engaged with issues of political participation, mobilization, and democratization. Martha Ackelsberg's political-theoretical interventions into conventional and disciplinary tropes of the political, the public/private distinction, and citizenship, informed by her thoughtful attention to the practical knowledges and accomplishments of women activists, offer critical and productive insights into vital possibilities for contemporary research and theory." —Christine Di Stefano, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsPart 1: Rethinking Politics/Rethinking Community 1. Women's Collaborative Activities and City Life: Politics and Policy 2. Communities, Resistance, and Women's Activism: Reflections on Democratic Theory 3. Terrains of Protest: Striking City Women (with Myrna Margulies Breitbart) Part 2: Challenging Dichotomies: Dependency, Privacy, Identity, Power 4. Dependency or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy 5. Privacy, Publicity, and Power: A Feminist Rethinking of the Public-Private Distinction (with Mary Lyndon Shanley) 6. Gender, Resistance, and Citizenship: Women's Struggles With/In the State (with Mary Lyndon Shanley) 7. Rethinking Anarchism/Rethinking Power: A Contemporary Feminist Perspective Part 3: Is Citizenship the Goal? 8. Exclusion or Inclusion? The Ambiguities of Citizenship 9. Broadening the Study of Women's Participation 10. Women's Community Activism and the Rejection of 'Politics': Some Dilemmas of Popular Democratic Movements 11. Families, Care, and Citizenship: Notes Toward A Feminist Approach 12. Democracy and (In)Equality: Community Activism and Democracy in a Time of Retrenchment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Future Of Democratic Equality
Book Synopsis2011 David Easton Award, presented for the best book by the Foundations of Political Theory section of APSA:The Future of Democratic Equality, by Joseph Schwartz, takes on three tasks, and accomplishes all brilliantly. Any one of these tasks well fulfilled would have been a laudable achievement. First, Schwartz argues for the centrality of the question of equality to democratic politics. Second, he critically analyzes and explains the shocking rise in inequality in the United States over the last three decades. This he does with conceptual clarity, rich interdisciplinary analysis, and a thorough examination of hard socioeconomic data. Third, he assails the near absence of concern for this soaring inequality among contemporary political theorists, and offers a cogent, and stinging, explanation that takes to task the disciplineâs preoccupation with difference and identity severed from the pragmatics of democratic equality. The FutureTrade Review* * Winner * * The APSA David Easton Book Award 2011 'The Future of Democratic Equality is a courageous and disciplined effort to tackle a hugely important political problem and intellectual puzzle. It is a must read for anyone who cares about democracy.' – The David Easton Book Award Committee, 2011 "I think very highly of Schwartz’s work: he is one of the few theorists who is concerned with the unity of theory and practice." – Stephen Eric Bronner 2011 David Easton Award, presented for the best book by the Foundations of Political Theory section of APSA: "The Future of Democratic Equality, by Joseph Schwartz, takes on three tasks, and accomplishes all brilliantly. Any one of these tasks well fulfilled would have been a laudable achievement. First, Schwartz argues for the centrality of the question of equality to democratic politics. Second, he critically analyzes and explains the shocking rise in inequality in the United States over the last three decades. This he does with conceptual clarity, rich interdisciplinary analysis, and a thorough examination of hard socioeconomic data. Third, he assails the near absence of concern for this soaring inequality among contemporary political theorists, and offers a cogent, and stinging, explanation that takes to task the discipline’s preoccupation with difference and identity severed from the pragmatics of democratic equality. The Future of Democratic Equality is a courageous and disciplined effort to tackle a hugely important political problem and intellectual puzzle. It well embodies the spirit of the Easton Book Award by providing well-grounded normative theory targeted to an urgent matter of contemporary concern. It is a must read for anyone who cares about democracy." - Respectfully submitted by Leslie Paul Thiele, University of Florida (chair) and Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University "Joseph Schwartz is one of the leading progressive political theorists in the country. His recent book is a superb historical narrative and political analysis of both the undemocratic turn in American society and the anti-political turn in American academia. His radical democratic project avoids the pitfalls of a narrow politics of identity and an arrogant politics of old-style left solidarity—and it is powerful and propitious!" --Cornel West, Princeton University "In this excellent book, Joseph Schwartz provides what has been missing in recent political theory: a strong theoretical account of the causes of contemporary inequality and of the politics of citizenship and solidarity necessary to overcome it." --Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study "Joseph Schwartz offers a brilliant critique of the failures of contemporary political theory to address the urgent quandaries of our time. In the process, he points in a direction that would once again place the problems of inequality and class at the center of theoretical inquiry. A welcome intervention indeed!"-- Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York "The Future of Democratic Equality is an important book, and Schwartz succeeds in laying out a comprehensive and invigorating approach for challenging race-to-the-bottom forms of globalization. His book is both sharply argued and politically relevant, and attention to it is sure to benefit both the field of political science and the field of democratic politics itself."—Erin E. O’Brien, University of Massachusetts Boston; reviewed in Perspectives on Politics Table of Contents1. Introduction – Bringing "Difference" and "Identity" Back into the Study of Democratic Equality 2. From Domestic to Global Solidarity 3. Post-Structuralist Political Theory: Living in an Unreal World -- Where’s You? Me? Agency? 4. Can a "Politics of Difference" (or "Identity Politics") Ground a Radical Democratic Conception of Justice? 5. The Rise of Global "Casino Capitalism": Short-Term Financial Profit vs. Long-Term Equitable Growth 6. Does Globalization Necessitate the Demise of Democratic Egalitarian Politics? 7. Racism, Racial Politics, and Undemocratic "Difference": The Challenge for the Politics of Social Solidarity 8. Conclusion – Ending the False Antinomy of "Difference" and "Equality": Towards a Democratic Egalitarian Pluralist Politics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s Joanna Russ
Book SynopsisThis book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as well as the political, and of criticizing a patriarchal social order. Teslenko reveals feminists' attempt through fiction to envision a new political order.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: List of Tables Preface Introduction Rhetoric of Identification New Rhetoric of Genre Chapter 1: Utopia and Utopianism Utopia and Ideology Utopia as Literary Genre Chapter 2: Utopianism and Feminism Scraping False Dichotomies Genre Transformation Chapter 3: Dorothy Bryant: Saving the Human Race The Real World Utopian Chronotope Utopian People Dream-time: Fluid Meaning and Rigid Word The Law of Light Chapter 4: Joanna Russ: New Meaning for Old Concepts Calculated Ambiguity Janet the Savior Jeannine: Cognitive Starvation Jael: Terror of Terrorism Joanna: Usurp the Denied Identification Revisited Conclusion: Utopian Genre as Feminist Strategy Glossary Bibliography
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Basic Books Justice Gender and the Family
Book SynopsisIn the first feminist critique of modern political theory, Okin shows how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermines our most cherished democratic values but has led to a major crisis over gender-related issues.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud
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Random House USA Inc The Soul of a Woman
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Lexington Books Gender Religion and Migration
Book SynopsisGender, Religion and Migration is the first multidisciplinary collection on the intersection of gender and religion in the integration of different groups of immigrants, migrant workers, youths, and students in host societies in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America. It investigates the linkages and tensions between religion and integration from a gendered perspective. By examining the contemporary significance of religion in the context of global migrations, the fifteen research-based essays provide new insights and perspectives on the often missed link between the differing ways in which male and female immigrants find meanings of faith-beliefs and religious traditions to belong in foreign lands, even residents'' faith-based activism involving illegal migrants. While religion provides mechanisms for negotiating immigrant life in the host countries, it also inhibits integration of immigrants especially in countries where the majority religion is different. This dual phenomenon of religion promoting and inhibiting integration is critically examined in the lives of Filipinos, Brazilians, Indians, Polish, Mexicans, Vietnamese, Kenyans, Nigerians, and Middle Eastern peoples. The book also engages various theories on gender, religion and migration and demonstrates the fluidity of gender construction as people cross borders.Trade ReviewThis edited volume makes a major intervention into the field of migration studies by charting new ground through the vectors of gender and religion. The editors have skillfully managed to arrange provocative essays that cut across multiple disciplines, geographical sites, research methodologies, and religious orientations. A major facet of this critical work is the way it gives significant space to the gendered realities of both women and men. All together, it promises to alter forever the way we think about migratory processes and the religiously gendered lives of those who dare to move. -- Zain Abdullah, Author of Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem (Oxford University Press)An excellent collection of complex, nuanced, and deeply informative research on how religion intersects with gender and shapes migration. The editors and authors have successfully produced an extremely cohesive and consequently insightful body of work! -- Sara R. Curran, University of WashingtonFor those who are looking for empirically grounded studies into the genderization of immigrant religiosity, this book is a true treasure trove. * Religion and Gender *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Part 2 Asia-Pacific Chapter 3 Chapter 2. It Cuts Both Ways: Religion and Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Faith(ing) Japan: Japanese Brazilian Migrants and the Roman Catholic Church Chapter 5 Chapter 4. On Being Part of the Whole: Positioning the Value of Muslim Men in Sydney Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Praying for Food: Class and Indian Overseas Students in Australia Part 7 Europe Chapter 8 Chapter 6. Islam as a New Urban Identity? Young Female Muslims Creating a Religious Youth Culture in Berlin Chapter 9 Chapter 7. Female Believers on the Move: Vietnamese Pentecostal Networks in Germany Chapter 10 Chapter 8. Islam: A Dead End for Integration of Female Immigrants in Denmark? Chapter 11 Chapter 9. Muslim Immigrants in France: Religious Markets and New Mechanisms of Integration Part 12 Latin America Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Muslim Women in Brazil: Notes on Religion and Integration Part 14 North America Chapter 15 Chapter 11. Polish-Catholic Religiosity in California Chapter 16 Chapter 12. Acculturation of Kenyan Immigrants in the United States: Religious Service Attendance and Transnational Ties Chapter 17 Chapter 13. Ethno-Religious Power: Yoruba Immigrant Women in the United States Chapter 18 Chapter 14. New Guadalupanos: Mexican Immigrants, a Grassroots Organization, and a Pilgrimage to New York Chapter 19 Chapter 15. Building Communities through Faith: Filipino Catholics in Philidelphia and Alberta Chapter 20 Chapter 16. No Greater Law: Illegal Immigration and Faith-based Activism
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Border Sexualities Border Families in Schools
Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind internationally, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools explores the experiences of bisexual students, mixed sexual orientation families, and polyamorous families in schools. For the first time, a book foregrounds the voices and experiences of these students and families who are falling into the gaps or on the borders of a school's gay/straight divide in anti-homophobia policies and programs, and schools recognizing families as meaning either heterosexual couples, or, increasingly, homosexual couples. Drawing from interviews and online research with students, parents, and teachers, as well as providing a comprehensive overview and analysis of international educational and health research, and media/popular cultural texts, this book addresses the following: what are the problematic and/or empowering experiences and strategies of bisexual students, multisexual and polyamorous families in educational systems ? what could schools be doing to promote healtTrade ReviewSexual identity is a hot topic today, with the national debates over the "don't ask, don't tell" military policy and same-sex marriage, and the increasing numbers of university programs in queer studies. Pallotta-Chiarolli (Deakin Univ. Melbourne, Australia) asks readers to set aside a bifurcated view of sexual identity (gay/straight) and consider the lives of those who are bisexual and/or are involved in committed polyamorous relationships....Recommended. * CHOICE *Pallotta-Chiarolli seeks in Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools to show us how bi students and poly family members need educators’ attention and compassion as well....Pallotta-Chiarolli has set herself an ambitious task, and she rises to the occasion again and again....Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools is a compelling study of overlooked students. Moreover, it functions as an academic and an activist text, calling attention to the needs of bi students and those from alternative family structures, while also showing us ways to address their concerns and, in the process, making education truly more accessible, more enlightened and more humane. * Journal of Bisexuality *Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools is a timely publication, given the recent press attention given to teenage suicides as a direct result of homophobic bullying-mistreatment by their peers relating to perceived or actual sexual orientation….The book is a first of its kind, and as such, takes great pains to do background work and to share first hand experience by students and their parents. -- Lisa Keele * Bi Women Magazine At Biwomenboston.Org.Au *This is an important and provocative book that challenges conventional notions of family, sexuality and identity. It takes the reader beyond the heteronormative and binary limits for imagining a politics of difference to a place that exposes the erasure of the silenced voices of bisexual and multi-sexual subjects from the field of equity and social justice education. -- Wayne Martino Ph.D, University of Western OntarioAll educators, all families need this book. It asks questions that must be asked, yet have not been asked, and shares thoughtful perceptions and suggestions, in ways that may help humanity grow more whole. -- Loraine Hutchins Ph.D, Bi Any Other Name, BiNet USA, Towson UniversityBorder Sexualities is a groundbreaking work which gives an in-depth glimpse of the issues that face sexual minority students, families and teachers within the school system. Furthermore, Pallotta-Chiarolli offers realistic ideas about how to address these issues. This book is a must-read for educators who wish to make their schools safer for all, and for bi, poly and gender-queer folks who are looking for ways to survive and thrive at school. -- Geri Weitzman Ph.D, Psychologist, San FranciscoPallota-Chiarolli describes her aims in writing this book as, ‘broadening, interrogating and adding to ongoing debates and activism regarding sexual diversity and relationship diversity’. She does so in a passionate, yet well-documented manner. * Sex Education:Sexuality, Society and Learning *Table of ContentsChapter 1 "Messing Up the School Sex-Filing Cabinet": Introducing The Research Chapter 2 "On the Bi- and Poly-Borders": Theorizing Dichotomy and Diversity Chapter 3 "We're the X-Files": When Bisexuality "Messes Up" Sexual Dichotomy in Schools Chapter 4 "Messing Up the Couples-Cabinet": Polyamorous Families in Schools Chapter 5 "From Difference to Diversity": From "X-files" to "whY- files?"
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Edinburgh University Press Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
Book SynopsisThis volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French.For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then the subjects were transformed, first by Sir Kenneth Dover, then by Michel Foucault.This book charts and illustrates the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once hidden aspect of the ancient world. In doing so it sheds light on fascinating and curious aspects of ancient lives and thought.Trade ReviewUsefully brings together essays not all of which are easily accessible ! more interesting still - breathtaking, in fact - is the way it shows how the field has developed in thirty years ! Overall, a book which is highly entertaining, instructive, accessible to teenagers, essential for students and extremely useful for teachers. Usefully brings together essays not all of which are easily accessible ! more interesting still - breathtaking, in fact - is the way it shows how the field has developed in thirty years ! Overall, a book which is highly entertaining, instructive, accessible to teenagers, essential for students and extremely useful for teachers.
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Edinburgh University Press Fantasies of Fetishism
Book SynopsisThis book is about cultural fantasies of fetishism, the different forms they take and the various ways in which the transformative processes they depict can reaffirm accepted definitions of identity or reconfigure them in an entirely new fashion.Trade ReviewA compelling, demanding and often entertaining discussion of the extensive cultural implications of 'fetishism'! littered with fascinating photographic imagery ! an important contribution to contemporary cultural theory and, more specifically, to the ever growing field of post-human thought ... this work provides fascinating insights into an oft-ignored aspect of human behaviour and culture. The combination of succinct close reading of accessible texts with information gained in interviews and via observation at venues not usually frequented by academics, such as fetish clubs and dungeons is one of the strengths of Fernbach's analysis. Fantasies of Fetishism is an interesting and challenging work that is even more admirable for its explication of sophisticated and original arguments. There is no doubt that this book is a major achievement in opening up new directions for psychoanalytic cultural criticism and studies of contemporary technoculture. -- Zoe Sofoulis, School of Humanities, University of Western Sydney The author has brought together a great deal of thinking that challenges or expands traditional Freudian theory of fetishism and, in effect, thereby creates a new master theory to use in her history. I respect and approve of such bold work. -- Professor John Maynard, School of English, New York University This book provides a genuinely original contribution to cultural criticism. The way Fernbach educates as she entertains is a rare and welcome achievement. -- Dr Rosalyn Diprose, School of Philosophy, University of New South Wales A compelling, demanding and often entertaining discussion of the extensive cultural implications of 'fetishism'! littered with fascinating photographic imagery ! an important contribution to contemporary cultural theory and, more specifically, to the ever growing field of post-human thought ... this work provides fascinating insights into an oft-ignored aspect of human behaviour and culture. The combination of succinct close reading of accessible texts with information gained in interviews and via observation at venues not usually frequented by academics, such as fetish clubs and dungeons is one of the strengths of Fernbach's analysis. Fantasies of Fetishism is an interesting and challenging work that is even more admirable for its explication of sophisticated and original arguments. There is no doubt that this book is a major achievement in opening up new directions for psychoanalytic cultural criticism and studies of contemporary technoculture. The author has brought together a great deal of thinking that challenges or expands traditional Freudian theory of fetishism and, in effect, thereby creates a new master theory to use in her history. I respect and approve of such bold work. This book provides a genuinely original contribution to cultural criticism. The way Fernbach educates as she entertains is a rare and welcome achievement.Table of ContentsPart One: Cultural Fetishisms; Introduction; 1. Millennial Decadence and Decadent Fetishism; 2. Magical Fetishism: Worshipping at the Technological Altar; Part Two: Fetishised Subjectivities; 3. Forms of Technofetishism and Future Selves: Negotiating the Post-Human Terrain; 4. Fetishism at the Professional Dungeon: the Dominatrix and her Male Slave; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Gender in Scottish History Since 1700
Book SynopsisGender in Scottish History offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700, viewing some of the main themes with a gendered perspective.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Gendering the Agenda, Lynn Abrams; 2. Gender and Scottish Identity, Esther Breitenbach and Lynn Abrams; 3. Women, Gender and Politics, Sue Innes and Jane Rendall; 4. Religion, Callum G. Brown; 5. Education and Learning, Lindy Moore; 6. Science, Medicine and the Body, Eileen Janes Yeo; 7. Gender, the Arts and Culture, Sian Reynolds; 8. Work, Trade and Commerce, Deborah Simonton; 9. The Family, Eleanor Gordon; List of Contributors.
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Edinburgh University Press Gender in Scottish History Since 1700
Book SynopsisGender in Scottish History offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700, viewing some of the main themes with a gendered perspective.Trade ReviewAs this rich collection reveals, there is a great deal of scope for further research in the history of Scottish women, while the ongoing challenge is to integrate them into mainstream studies. -- Jane McDermid Scottish Affairs Gender in Scottish History offers both a welcome summation of recent scholarship and an exciting outline for future research... Applying the lens of gender to Scottish history produces a kaleidoscope of narratives, each of which suggests new possibilities in thinking about identity and about our past. -- Gledna Norquay, Liverpool John Moores University Scottish Studies Review As this rich collection reveals, there is a great deal of scope for further research in the history of Scottish women, while the ongoing challenge is to integrate them into mainstream studies. Gender in Scottish History offers both a welcome summation of recent scholarship and an exciting outline for future research... Applying the lens of gender to Scottish history produces a kaleidoscope of narratives, each of which suggests new possibilities in thinking about identity and about our past.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Gendering the Agenda, Lynn Abrams; 2. Gender and Scottish Identity, Esther Breitenbach and Lynn Abrams; 3. Women, Gender and Politics, Sue Innes and Jane Rendall; 4. Religion, Callum G. Brown; 5. Education and Learning, Lindy Moore; 6. Science, Medicine and the Body, Eileen Janes Yeo; 7. Gender, the Arts and Culture, Sian Reynolds; 8. Work, Trade and Commerce, Deborah Simonton; 9. The Family, Eleanor Gordon; List of Contributors.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Revisioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion
Book SynopsisA passion for justice and truth motivates the bold challenge of Revisioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion. Unearthing the ways in which the myths of Christian patriarchy have historically inhibited and prohibited women from thinking and writing their own ideas, this book lays fresh ground for re-visioning the epistemic practices of philosophers. Pamela Sue Anderson seeks both to draw out the salient threads in the gendering of philosophy of religion as it has been practiced and to re-vision gender for philosophy today. The arguments put forth by contemporary philosophers of religion concerning human and divine attributes are epistemically located; yet the motivation to recognize this locatedness has to come from a concern for justice. This book presents invaluable new perspectives on the philosopherâs ever-increasing awareness of his or her own locatedness, on the gender (often unwittingly) given to God, the ineffability in both analytic and Continental philosophy, the still critical role of reason in the field, the aims of a feminist philosophy of religion, the roles of beauty and justice, the vision of love and reason, and a gendering which opens philosophy of religion up to diversity.Trade Review'Until quite recently the significance of gender and epistemic locatedness in philosophy of religion was virtually unacknowledged. But thanks to the gallant efforts of Pamela Sue Anderson and others, there is a new horizon emerging. A re-visioning of the field has begun, and signs of the crumbling of patriarchy and objectification are at hand. In this insightful and provocative book, Anderson offers a fresh, au fait, and much-needed feminist voice in contemporary philosophy that will most certainly play a central and subversive role in this ensuing transformation.' Chad Meister, Bethel College, USA 'Analytic and continental, feminist and non-feminist philosophers of religion should all find much to engage with here, in part because Anderson has created a conversation across borders that are not often traversed.' APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy ’This important study full of insight, wisdom and critical comment is fired by a passion for truth and justice and a deep concern for advancing the case for reason, love and beauty in the contemporary global world.... I chose this new publication for an attentive, close reading since, knowing Anderson’s earlier work, I was full of expectations, eagerly anticipating new perspectives opening up before my mind. I have not been disappointed as I have learnt a great deal and been encouraged to reflect critically and constructively on some of her ideas in my own work.’ Religion and Gender 'Anderson fulfils her own call for philosophers to confront and transform oppressive ways, and paves a way for others to 'be more bold' in re-visioning not only gender but other dimensions of existence in philosophy of religion.' Modern BelievingTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Re-visioning gender and the myths of patriarchy; Gender in philosophy of religion; Gendering theism and feminism; Philosophy on and off ’the Continent’ Gendering love in philosophy of religion; Restoring faith in reason; Feminist philosophy of religion; Gender justice and unselfish attention; Re-visioning love and reason; Epistemic locatedness: diversity and gender; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sexuality and Law Volume II Crime and Punishment
Book SynopsisThe continued criminalization of same-sex sexual acts, variously labeled sodomy, buggery, or the crime against nature, is inconsistent throughout the world. The criminalization of other sexual acts, such as public sex, commercial sex, or HIV-transmission, is more common. The relationship between sexuality and criminality is not limited to a direct criminalization of sexual acts, however. The victimization of sexual minorities because of their sexuality has garnered attention in the conceptualization of hate crimes in many countries. When sexual minorities are accused of victimizing others, the criminal justice system can conflate sexual identity with the criminal acts resulting in biased convictions. Imprisonment and punishment norms can pose special problems in the context of gender minorities or for sex offenses. The papers reprinted in this volume cover doctrinal, theoretical and political analysis of the current and historical criminalization of a wide variety of sexual Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Sodomy: Legal discrimination against homosexuals - a blind spot of the Commonwealth of Nations?, Michael Kirby; The myth of lesbian impunity: capital laws from 1270 to 1791, Louis Crompton; Lawrence v. Texas and the limits of the criminal law, Adil Ahmad Haque; Genealogy of the Australian homocriminal subject: a study of two explanatory models of deviance, Derek Dalton. Part II Criminalization of Other Types of Sex: Ordinary folk and cottaging: law, morality and public sex, Paul Johnson; Risk-taking, recklessness and HIV transmission: accommodating the reality of sexual transmission of HIV within a justifiable approach to criminal liability, Samantha Ryan; Gender outlaws before the law: the courts of the borderland, Aeyal Gross; Morality-based legislation is alive and well: why the law permits consent to body modification but not sadomasochistic sex, Kelly Egan; Abuse of a corpse: a brief history and re-theorization of necrophilia laws in the USA, John Troyer; Work, sex, and sex-work: competing feminist discourses on the international sex trade, Kate Sutherland. Part III Sexual Minority Victims: No straight answer: homophobia as both an aggravating and mitigating factor in New Zealand homophobia cases, Elisabeth McDonald; Hate crime and the image of the stranger, Gail Mason; The same difference: protecting same-sex couples under the Domestic Violence Ordinance, Puja Kapai. Part IV Sexual Minority Defendants: The Geronimo bank murders: a gay tragedy, Joan W. Howarth; Lesbianism and the death penalty: a 'hard core' case, Ruthann Robson. Part V Punishment: Safety and solidarity across gender lines: rethinking segregation of transgender people in detention, Gabriel Arkles; Sex offender as scapegoat: the monstrous other within, John Douard; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sexuality and Law Volume III Sexual Freedom 3 The
Book SynopsisTheorizing sexual freedom is a difficult task; as a legal goal, it is neither universal nor absolute. Sexual freedom encompasses notions of liberty, dignity and autonomy. It also incorporates equality for sexual and gender minorities. This volume''s treatment of sexual freedom includes issues of politics and power, as well as imperialism, national and other identities and the goals of scholarship and advocacy. The volume opens the difficult conversation of sexual freedom by discussing foundational theorists whose work has influenced conceptualizations of the relationships between sexuality and law. It considers hierarchies of sex in legal frameworks and hierarchies of nationalism in sexual-legal frameworks. The persistent issue of sexual identity is analyzed through the lens of asylum and gender identity. The notion of inevitable ''progress'' toward sexual freedom is addressed and challenged. The volume concludes by examining legal education, judges and their discourse and proTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Opening the Conversation: Sexual traffic, Gayle Rubin with Judith Butler; Remembering Foucault, Jeffrey Weeks. Part II Hierarchies of Sex: Homosexuality and the PIB argument, John Corvino; A woman's right to be spanked: testing the limits of tolerance of SM in the socio-legal imaginary, Ummni Khan; Sexual democracy, Ruthann Robson; The dignity of sex, Libby Adler. Part III Nation: Queer times, queer assemblages, Jasbir K. Puar; Toward a gay-friendly China? Legal implications of transition for gays and lesbians, John Balzano; Beyond the brother: radical freedom, A.J. Barnard-Naudé; Sexual citizenship: articulating citizenship, identity, and the pursuit of the good life in urban Brazil, Tomi Castle. Part IV Sexual Identities: Constructing the personal narratives of lesbian, gay and bisexual asylum claimants, Laurie Berg and Jenni Millbank; 'At the time she was a man': the temporal dimension of identity construction, Robin Conley. Part V The Politics of Sexual 'Progress': Closet cases: 'conscientious objection' to lesbian and gay legal equality, Carl F. Stychin; Sexual politics and social change, Darren Lenard Hutchinson. Part VI Queering the Legal Profession: Queering legal education: a project of theoretical discovery, Kim Brooks and Debra Parkes; Judicial bodies as sexual bodies: a tale of two portraits, Leslie J. Moran; The construction of homosexuality in New Zealand judicial writing, Edward Clark; Be professional!, Dean Spade; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Judaism and Islam
Book SynopsisThis volume on Judaism and Islam in The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion series overviews perceptions of human sexuality through two major monotheistic faiths, namely Judaism and Islam. Part 1 presents previously published articles on Judaism and sexuality from a historical perspective, in particular, through the writings of the Tanakh and traditional Judaic attitudes. Part 2 focuses more cogently on contemporary themes including both the contestation and defence of conventional Jewish standpoints on sexuality via orthodox and liberal renderings of the faith. Part 3 includes articles examining Islamic views of sexuality from a historical perspective. Here there is a special focus on the faith''s construction of sexual categories, as well as the relationship between sexuality, gender and patriarchy. Part 4 takes a cross-cultural and global perspective of the subject with a particular emphasis on the connection between sexuality and moral regulation, besides scrutinising varyiTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Judaism: Part I Judaism and Sexuality: Exploring Historical Viewpoints: Are there any Jews in 'the history of sexuality'?, Daniel Boyarin; The Song of Songs and the Garden of Eden, Francis Landy; The One: God's unity and genderless divinity in Judaism, Hagar Lahav; Gender and sexuality in the Garden of Eden, Jerome Gellman; The hole in the sheet and other myths about sexuality and Judaism, David S. Ribner and Peggy J. Kleinplatz. Part II Judaism and Sexuality: the Traditional-Modernist Divide: Lived regulations, systemic attributions: menstrual separation and ritual immersion in the experience of Orthodox Jewish women, Tova Hartman and Naomi Marmon; Observance of the laws of family purity in modern-orthodox Judaism, Mark A. Guterman; Jewish women and sexuality, Judi Keshet-Orr; Of pearls and fish: an analysis of Jewish legal texts on sexuality and their significance for contemporary American Jewish movements, Rachel Sara Rosenthal; Homosexuality and the Orthodox Jewish community, Marc Angel, Hillel Goldberg and Pinchas Stolper. Islam: Part III Islam and Sexuality in Historical Context: She's upright: sexuality and obscenity in Islam, A.E. Souaiaia; Gender boundaries and sexual categories in the Arab world, As'ad AbuKhalil; The Sharia, Islamic family laws and international human rights law: examining the theory and practice of polygamy and talaq, Javaid Rehman; Islamic female sexuality and gender in modern feminist interpretation, Elizabeth Shlala Leo; Migration challenges views on sexuality, Nader Ahmadi. Part IV Islam and Sexuality in Global Perspective: 'He is your garment and you are his ...': religious precepts, interpretations, and power relations in marital sexuality among Javanese Muslim women, Lily Zakiyah Munir; Sexuality in contemporary Arab society, Abdessamad Dialmy; Zina and the moral regulation of Pakistani women, Shahnaz Khan; Sexuality and the moral 'construction' of women in an Islamic society, Janet L. Bauer; Negotiating spa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Cult of Saint Catherine of Siena A Study in
Book SynopsisThis book examines the origins, development and history of the cult of Saint Catherine of Siena. Gerald Parsons argues that the cult of Catherine of Siena constitutes a remarkable example of the cult of a particular saint which, across more than six centuries, has been the vehicle for an evolving sequence of civil religious rituals and meanings. He shows how the cult of this particular saint developed, firstly, as an expression of Sienese civil religion; secondly, as a focus for Italian civil religion; and finally into an expression of European civil religion. Instead of the predominantly devotional - and frequently essentially hagiographical - approach of much of the literature on Catherine of Siena, Parsons examines the significance of her cult from the perspective of civil religion and the social history of religion.Trade ReviewAt one level this book is an account of a Catholic saint: Catherine of Siena. At another it provides a ’history’ of Italy as it moves - at times unsteadily - from a collection of city states to a member of the European Union. The link can be found in the deployment of Catherine as a symbol of first Siena, then Italy and then Europe. It is a captivating tale. Grace Davie, University of Exeter, UK Civil religion has re-emerged as an important scholarly concept, and in this, Parsons' work is vital. He demonstrates the way in which the religious and the secular, the local and the national, combine to locate religious identity in an ever-changing form. In Siena over five centuries, the cult of St Catherine is shown to have been resilient, adaptable and ideologically promiscuous. Written with verve and clarity, Parsons bowls the reader along with rich examples combining in a story that ranges from medieval clerics to twentieth-century fascists. The story adds significantly to our understanding of the way religion adapts to different centuries and conditions, and can be warmly recommended to social, cultural and church historians. Callum G Brown, University of Dundee, UK Parsons has achieved a very sophisticated blending of popular religious devotion, church-state relations, and the ongoing interface between Roman Catholicism and modern politics. The Cult of St. Catherine of Siena explores the complex negotiations around the making of a late-medieval saint, but what is more fascinating, charts how the identity of an essentially local saint became intertwined with the ambivalent and frequently tense relationships between the Roman Catholic Church and Italian nationalism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Cult of St. Catherine of Siena is based on wide-ranging research that draws upon the history of art, the history of celebration, commemoration, and memory, as well as documenting the intricate relationship between Catholic clerics and Italian poTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: civil religion and the cult of Catherine of Siena; 'La santa senese': Catherine and the civil religion of Siena 1384-1857; From 'santa senese' to 'Patrona d' Italia': the cult of Catherine of Siena 1859-1939; Catherine of Siena and the Second World War: 1940-1945; From 'Patrona d' Italia' to 'Patrona d' Europa': the cult of Catherine of Siena 1946-2007; Conclusion: Catherine of Siena and the varieties of civil religion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ashgate Research Companion to Political
Book SynopsisAimed at scholars, students and lay persons interested in peace and conflict studies, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence is a comprehensive resource to understand the principal debates on political violence, a field which is becoming an increasingly important part of courses on peace and conflict. Organized into seven main sections, this volume deals with a wide range of issues covering the following important research areas: Issues of definition and nomenclature and how contests over these relate to political violence. Theoretical frameworks and methods for understanding and researching political violence. Motivations and goals of those who use political violence. The various forms of political violence. Perspectives on countering political violence, by state and non-state actors. Why and how political violence ends. The aftermath of political violence. Contributions by leading scholars in the field provide an authoritative guide and source boTrade Review’A balanced, tight-knit collection of essays from experts who write on the subject of political violence with an authority founded both on meticulous scholarship and, in many cases, direct experience. Under the editorial hand of Breen-Smyth, political violence is never reduced to a mere academic concept but is instead scrutinised and explained as a real force with devastating ramifications.’ Katy Hayward, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland ’If you want to choose one book to introduce you to different perspectives on political violence then this is the one. The editor has gathered scholars, practitioners and activists together to clarify the meaning of political violence. They consider its diverse genealogies and short, medium and long term impacts. These are then woven into a series of discussions about how to end different kinds of political violence and transform the relationships that brought them into existence. It is a must read book for anyone interested in how to conduct politics by peaceful rather than violent means.’ Kevin P. Clements, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand 'The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence is very readable and easy to understand, and is an excellent resource for undergraduate researchers and students. The book offers a good introduction to the topic of political violence with helpful and relevant additional resources for undergraduates and researchers as well as being easy enough to understand for the layperson... highly recommended...' Reference Review 'This edited collection offers an interesting and comprehensive introduction to the core issues, problems and debates in the study of political violence and its aftermath. An impressive mix of leading scholars and practitioners in the field tackle a wide range of questions from motivations, goals and forms of political violence to counter-terrorism in the UK, transitional justice and the relationship betwTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I Defining Political Violence; Chapter 1 Political Violence: An Overview, John Darby; Chapter 2 Orthodox Accounts of Terrorism, Jason Franks; Chapter 3 Critical Accounts of Terrorism, Richard Jackson; Chapter 4 State Violence as State Terrorism, Ruth Blakeley; Chapter 5 The ‘War on Terror’ as Political Violence, Richard Seymour; Chapter 6 The Concept of Security in Political Violence, Jessica Wolfendale; Part II Motivations and Goals of Political Violence; Chapter 7 From Dissent to Revolution: Politics and Violence, Harmonie Toros; Chapter 8 Why Do Individuals Resort to Political Violence? Approaches to the Psychology of Terrorism, Jeff Victoroff, Janice Adelman; Chapter 9 The Motivation of the Irish Rebel and Resistance to the Label ‘Terrorist’, Anthony McIntyre; Chapter 10 Martyrs without Borders: The Puzzle of Transnational Suicide Bombers, Mohammed M. Hafez; Chapter 11 The Origins and Inhibiting Influences in Genocide, Mass Killing and Other Collective Violence, Ervin Staub; Chapter 12 Religion as a Motivation for Political Violence, Jeroen Gunning; Part III Theorising, Understanding and Researching Political Violence; Chapter 13 Social Movement Studies and Political Violence, Donatella della Porta; Chapter 14 Feminist Reflections on Political Violence, Laura Sjoberg; Chapter 15 National Identity, Conflict and Political Violence: Experiences in Latin America, Peter Lambert; Chapter 16 Staying Alive while Conducting Primary Research: Fieldwork on Political Violence, Jeffrey A. Sluka; Part IV Manifestations of Political Violence; Chapter 17 Genocide as Political Violence, Adam Jones; Chapter 18 War as Political Violence, R. Gerald Hughes; Part V Countering Political Violence; Chapter 19 Intelligence and Political Violence: The Case of Counter-Terrorism, Frank Gregory; Chapter 20 Counter-Terrorism and its Effectiveness in the UK since 1969: Does It Pay to Be Tough on Terrorism?, Robert Lambert; Chapter 21 Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights since 9/11, Michael McClintock; Chapter 22 Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights in the UK, Clive Walker; Part VI Ending Political Violence; Chapter 23 The State’s Role in the Management and Resolution of Violent Conflict: Learning from Northern Ireland?, Bill Rolston; Chapter 24 Political Violence and Peace Processes, Roger Mac Ginty; Chapter 25 Civil Society Actors and the End of Violence, Avila Kilmurray; Part VII Dealing with the Aftermath; Chapter 26 Defining and Building the Rule of Law in the Aftermath of Political Violence: The Processes of Transitional Justice, Richard J. Goldstone, Adam M. Smith; Chapter 27 Political, Economic and Social Reconstruction after Political Violence: The Case of Afghanistan, William Maley; conclusion Conclusions;
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Taylor & Francis Inc A Theology of Gay and Lesbian Inclusion
Book SynopsisEncourage the Church to address the gift of human sexualityhow to view it, how to deal with it, and how it relates to spiritualityA Theology of Gay and Lesbian Inclusion: Love Letters to the Church challenges traditional church teachings that brand homosexuality as immoral, using pertinent scripture from the central Gospel to promote a full acceptance of gay and lesbian Christians. This powerful book questions the assumption that gay Christians are morally inferior, presenting testimony from gay men and lesbians about prejudice they’ve experienced at the hands of the Churchand its straight members. Written as a series of ten letters, the book addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the church and appeals for a new understanding and commitment to the acceptance of its gay members. From the author:The purpose of this book is to equip you, Christian warrior of the Gospel of peace, to stand against those who use the Bible to resist chaTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Letter 1. Letter of Introduction Letter 2. Identifying the Core of Our Common Faith Letter 3. What Gets in the Way of Love Letter 4. Recognizing the Church As Both Human and Divine Letter 5. Humans As Sexual Beings: A Fresh Look at a Sensitive Topic Letter 6. What Are Gay People Like? Letter 7. What Do Gay People Want? Letter 8. What the Bible Really Says Letter 9. From Being to Doing Letter 10. Appeal to the Bride of Christ Index Reference Notes Included
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Pambazuka Press Confronting Female Genital Mutilation the Role of
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Orion Publishing Co 200 Words to Help you Talk about Sexuality
Book SynopsisIf you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren''t confident about, this new series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart subject. Gender and Sexuality can seem like a big subject to decode. Let Kate Sloan guide you through it.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Gender Issues Sex Offenses and Criminal Justice
Book SynopsisHere is a powerful look at gender issues in the criminal justice system, particularly as gender is related to sex offenses and the system''s response to those offenses. Experts examine inmate sexual aggression, gender disparity in bail setting, racial patterns of rape, the female offender''s adjustment to prison life, the psychological profile of female first offenders, and the self-image of juvenile prostitutes.Table of ContentsContents Inmate Sexual Aggression: Some Evolving Propositions, Empirical Findings, and Mitigating Counter-Forces Gender Disparity in the Setting of Bail: Prostitution Offenses in Buffalo, New York 1977–1979 The Female Offender’s Adjustment to Prison Life: A Comparison of Psychodidactic and Traditional Supportive Approaches to Treatment Evidence of Unidimensionality of Locus of Control in Women Prisoners: Implications for Prisoner Rehabilitation CB Radio Prostitution: Technology and the Displacement of Deviance A Comparison of Delinquent Prostitutes and Delinquent Non-Prostitutes on Self-Concept An Analysis of the Factors Related to the Rate of Violent Crimes Committed by Incarcerated Female Delinquents The Psychological Profile of the Female First Offender and the Recidivist: A Comparison Rape and Racial Patterns Rape: A Social Perspective Rape as Instrumental Violence: A Study of Youth Offenders
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Taylor & Francis Inc Homosexuality and Family Relations
Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind, Homosexuality and Family Relations focuses on the effects of homosexuality and being homosexual on individuals in families and on the family as a group. Edited by Frederick W. Bozett, RN, DNS, and Marvin B. Sussman, PhD, this informative and enlightening volume examines the multiple varieties of family forms in which gay men and lesbians live, addresses the ramifications of homosexuality on family relationships, and explores the countless aspects of parenthood as they are experienced by gay men and lesbians, including adoption and foster care by lesbians and gay men, and the choice of increasing numbers of lesbians to bear children through artificial fertilization. Any professional who is interested in the family--educators, clinicians, academicians, researchers, and students, as well as others interested in families and in human sexuality and men's and women's studies--family science, gay studies, nursing, medicine, law, psychology, sociology, social work--Table of ContentsContents Homosexuality and Family Relationships: Views and Research Issues Hidden Branches and Growing Pains: Homosexuality and the Family Tree Married Homosexual Men: Prevalence and Background Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner This Time? A Study of Gay Intimate Relationships and the Support for Those Relationships Adoption and Foster Parenting for Lesbians and Gay Men: Creating New Traditions in Family The Married Lesbian Lesbians and the Choice to Parent Parenting by Gay Fathers Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents Gay and Lesbian Adolescents Ethnic Minority Families and Minority Gays and Lesbians Older Lesbian and Gay People: Responding to Homophobia Institutional Religion and Gay/Lesbian Oppression AIDS: Impact on the Gay Man’s Homosexual and Heterosexual Families The Shaman: The Gay and Lesbian Ancestor of Humankind Homosexuality and Family Relations: Glossary of Terms
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Black Rose Books Social and Sexual Revolution
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Ite Ad Thomam Books and Media The Book of Gomorrah and St Peter Damians Struggle Against Ecclesiastical Corruption
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Face of the Firm
Book SynopsisDespite decades of greater awareness of gender at work in Western countries, gender inequality in the executive suites is alive and well. The Face of the Firm highlights new critical perspectives on the relationship between hegemonic masculine cultures, gender embodiment and gender disparities in corporate organizations. Using multiple methodologies including over 100 interviews, mainly with British female and male executives in the UK who worked for some of the most prestigious American and British multinational advertising agencies and computer companies, the book makes important connections between the empirical data and contemporary sexism in the UK and US. The book refocuses the debate of executive work, organizational spaces and gender inequality on gendered bodies at work. It also demonstrates that gendered and sexualized relations among executives often construct the production process. The book makes a contribution to masculinity, gender and work scholarship aTrade Review"Michele Gregory's The Face of the Firm is a detailed study of what was happening in the late 1980s in advertising and computing industries. But it is also much more in charting continuities with and differences from business today, including how the two industries, then distinct and largely separate, have now become so closely intertwined. It is a 'must read' not only for those committed to the critical analysis of gender, diversity and organizations, but also those concerned with HRM, ICTs, and technology more generally."Jeff Hearn, Örebro University, Sweden; University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the World"In this compelling book, Professor Gregory considers the role of hegemonic masculinity in creating and proscribing gendered roles, work, and experiences in advertising and computing industries in the United Kingdom and the United States. The rich, multi-method study documents disparities between beliefs, attitudes, perceptions, and experiences of corporate men and women as they work and live. Relevant to countless other industries, organizations, and settings, this book provides eye-opening evidence of the continued need to pursue gender equality and inclusion." Myrtle Bell, University of Texas at ArlingtonTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Corporate Masculine Embodiment and Mechanisms of Inequality at WorkChapter 2: Gendered Structures and Masculine Cultures in Advertising and ComputingChapter 3: Homogeneity: In His ImageChapter 4: Homosociability: Make Way for the Men’s RoomChapter 5: A League Of Their Own: A Minor League with Major PotentialChapter 6: Heterosexuality: Mad Men British StyleChapter 7: Conclusion: New Businesses, Old Habits and Challenges to EqualityAppendices:Appendix A: MethodologyAppendix B: The Interview ScheduleAppendix C: Computer Personnel DataAppendix D: Questionnaire ResultsAppendix E: Advertising Department and Gender DataReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Encyclopedia of Homosexuality
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1990, The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality brings together a collection of outstanding articles that were, at the time of this book's original publication, classic, pioneering, and recent. Together, the two volumes provide scholarship on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality, and, reaching beyond questions of physical sexuality, they examine the effects of homophilia and homophobia on literature, art, religion, science, law, philosophy, society, and history. Many of the writings were considered to be controversial, and often contradictory, at that time, and refer to issues and difficulties that still exist today.
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Palgrave Macmillan A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias Critical Studies in Gender Sexuality and Culture
Book SynopsisNotes on Contributors Introduction: Queer Utopias, Queer Futurity and Potentiality in Quotidian Practice; Angela Jones PART I: THEATRE PERFORMANCE 1. The Play Within the Film: Tel Aviv, History and the Queer Utopia, David Gorshein 2. It's about time, Queer Utopias, and Theatre Performance; Stephen Farrier PART II: EROTICIZED SPACES 3. Queer Utopias in Painful Spaces: BDSM Participants' Interrelational Resistance to Heteronormativity and Gender Regulation; Brandy L. Simula 4. The Queer Potentiality of Barebacking: Charging, Whoring, & Breeding as Utopian Practices; Brandon Andrew Robinson PART III: QUEER COUNTERPUBLICS 5. Performing Utopia: Queer Counterpublics and Southerners on New Ground; Sarah Steele 6. Landscaping Classrooms toward Queer Utopias; Kat Rands, Jess McDonald, and Lauren Clapp PART IV: QUEER POLITICAL ACTIVISM 7. The Utopia of Europe's LGBTQ Visibility Campaigns in the Politics of Everyday Life: the Utopic of Social Hope in the Images of Queer Spaces; Pawel Leszkowicz aTrade Review'This volume brings a level of sophistication to both the social sciences and humanities-based queer theory as a way to ignite a new queer cultural studies. Using interdisciplinary methods, it makes the reader seize a queer futurity we already have access to if only at momentarily times and spaces refusing to accept that belonging, and making community, aren't happening today. This book moves beyond simple, neoliberal markers of 'equality,' paying attention to other axes of power besides sexuality - truly embodying the minoritarian subject positions of queer utopias. Through sites such as NGOs and classrooms, practices such as barebacking and BDSM, and the use of parenting and performance, these chapters 'move' us all toward a productive sense of queer politics.' - Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Editor, The Sexuality of Migration, Associate Sociology Professor, American University, USA "This fascinating volume assembles qualitative research that, by tracing the extraordinary potential inherent in ordinary lives and everyday practices of freedom, gives the lie to anti-futurity polemics in queer theory. A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias pushes a vital conversation to the next level." Tim Dean, Professor of English, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USATable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Queer Utopias, Queer Futurity and Potentiality in Quotidian Practice; Angela Jones PART I: THEATRE PERFORMANCE 1. The Play Within the Film: Tel Aviv, History and the Queer Utopia, David Gorshein 2. It's about time, Queer Utopias, and Theatre Performance; Stephen Farrier PART II: EROTICIZED SPACES 3. Queer Utopias in Painful Spaces: BDSM Participants' Interrelational Resistance to Heteronormativity and Gender Regulation; Brandy L. Simula 4. The Queer Potentiality of Barebacking: Charging, Whoring, & Breeding as Utopian Practices; Brandon Andrew Robinson PART III: QUEER COUNTERPUBLICS 5. Performing Utopia: Queer Counterpublics and Southerners on New Ground; Sarah Steele 6. Landscaping Classrooms toward Queer Utopias; Kat Rands, Jess McDonald, and Lauren Clapp PART IV: QUEER POLITICAL ACTIVISM 7. The Utopia of Europe's LGBTQ Visibility Campaigns in the Politics of Everyday Life: the Utopic of Social Hope in the Images of Queer Spaces; Pawel Leszkowicz and Tomasz Kitlinski 8. Utopian Pragmatics: Bash Back! and the Temporality of Radical Queer Action; Hilary Malatino PART V: FAMILY 9. Radical Experiments Involving Innocent Children: Locating Parenthood in the Queer Utopia; Jane Ward 10. Utopian Kinship?: Queer Families with Children; Laura HestonIntroduction PART I: THEATRE PERFORMANCE
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Palgrave Macmillan Women and the City
Book SynopsisList of Tables and Figures Foreword: Baroness Helena Kennedy QC Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Women and the City; S.Ledwith, J.Darke, & R.Woods Gender, Crime and Community; B.Campbell Five Voices from South Side Chicago: Health Care Experiences for Elderly African-American Women; S.Harper Homeless Women and Health Advocacy in Inner City Liverpool; S.Graham-Jones & S.Reilly Concentration, Marginalization and Exclusion: Women's Housing Needs and the City; R.Woods The Family Friendly Workplace? British and European Perspectives; L.Doherty, S.Manfredi & H.Rollin Women, Transport and Cities: an Overview and an Agenda for Research; C.Coleman The Gap Between the Spires: Single Women and Homelessness in Oxford, 1890s and 1990s; C.Morrell & K.Kuehne Regen(d)eration: Women and Urban Policy in the UK; S.Brownill Servicing the City: Women's Employment in Oxford; S.Kartara & H.Simpson Women and Popular Music Making in Urban Spaces; M.Bayton Organizing Rural Women Migrants in Beijing; CTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Foreword: Baroness Helena Kennedy QC Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Women and the City; S.Ledwith, J.Darke, & R.Woods Gender, Crime and Community; B.Campbell Five Voices from South Side Chicago: Health Care Experiences for Elderly African-American Women; S.Harper Homeless Women and Health Advocacy in Inner City Liverpool; S.Graham-Jones & S.Reilly Concentration, Marginalization and Exclusion: Women's Housing Needs and the City; R.Woods The Family Friendly Workplace? British and European Perspectives; L.Doherty, S.Manfredi & H.Rollin Women, Transport and Cities: an Overview and an Agenda for Research; C.Coleman The Gap Between the Spires: Single Women and Homelessness in Oxford, 1890s and 1990s; C.Morrell & K.Kuehne Regen(d)eration: Women and Urban Policy in the UK; S.Brownill Servicing the City: Women's Employment in Oxford; S.Kartara & H.Simpson Women and Popular Music Making in Urban Spaces; M.Bayton Organizing Rural Women Migrants in Beijing; C.Milwertz Frustrated Housewives or Unemployed Workers: The Case of Domestic Returners; H.Russell The Future of Women; E.Wilson Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Are You Not Entertained
Book SynopsisAnglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an archetypal character embodying this impulse and his brand of violent and eroticised masculinity has become a cultural shorthand that signals a transhistorical version of heroic masculinity. Frequently the gladiator or celebrity fighter - from the amphitheatres of Rome to the octagon of the Ultimate Fighting Championships - is used as a way of insisting that a desire to fight, and to watch men fighting, is simply a part of our human nature. This book traces a cultural interest in stories about gladiators through twentieth and twenty-first-century film, television and videogames.Trade ReviewSteenberg moves deftly across time, space, media and story type, interrogating the gladiator as a powerful archetype of joyous nostalgic violence. This definitive study maps cinema, genre histories and masculinity in new and thought-provoking ways: a truly spectacular achievement. -- Yvonne Tasker, Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UKAre You Not Entertained offers a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of the figure of the gladiator across visual media. From Ancient Rome to The Hunger Games and The Bachelor, the volume carefully traces the contested place of the gladiator. -- Frances Smith, Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex, UKAre You Not Entertained is a brilliant, engaging, and innovative examination of the archetypal gladiator character, from its origins in Ancient Rome to its depictions in movies and other popular media, and brings timely attention to the complex intersections between gladiatorial masculinity, violence, nostalgia, and eroticism. -- Cynthia Felando, Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, USATable of ContentsList of Figures, Tables and Illustrations Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Millennial Masculinity and the Gladiators of Y2k - “Are You Not Entertained?” 1. A Gladiatorial Genealogy: “My Name Is Gladiator” 2. Genre Play: “Playthings of the Crowd” 3. The Arena Fight: “Two Men Enter. One Man Leaves” 4. Nostalgia: “Is Rome Worth One Good Man’s Life?” 5. The Gladiatorial Burlesque: “Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?” 6. Celebrity: “Win the Crowd” Conclusion: We Were Entertained Bibliography Filmography Appendix: Arena Fight Analysis
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fashioning the Modern Middle East
Book SynopsisIn the first book to address the critical role of the (un)dressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary struggles over nation, gender, modernity and post-modernity. Contributions from leading interdisciplinary scholars, exploring gender representation, photography, dress and visual culture, recount the role of the visible elite body in campaigns for gender and social emancipation, dress histories concerning early nationalist women and men, and legal frameworks used by those who seek to control the movement of gendered bodies. The result is a rich picture of a historical period and cultural landscape which brings dress and visual culture back into historical narratives of the modern Middle East.Recognising multiple modernities, multiple imperialisms and diverse regional experiences of post-colonialism, Fashioning the Modern Middle East contains a range of theoretical frameworks invaluable to students of fashion studies, Middle Eastern sTrade ReviewThese thoughtful essays on the historical meanings of dress, and what it might tell us about choices, compulsions, and self-representations, engage readers in the compelling work of interpretation. Narratives about power, these are also stories about visual archives: not only what they tell us, but how elusive they are. These scholars’ passion for the archives they’ve allowed us to view is evident. It’s a rich read. * Marilyn Booth, University of Oxford, UK *Examining the ‘corporeal’ Middle East, this innovative and multi-disciplinary volume explores different forms of representation of image on film and canvas, how both individuals and the state sought to fashion themselves, and the ways in which sartorial choice could be used to challenge established norms. * Kate Fleet, University of Cambridge, UK *This volume sheds new light on the Middle East. The underlying theme throughout the essays is in order to claim modernity people had to be prepared to absorb into their daily lives all that they perceived as that which constituted the western modernity. The book makes fascinating reading uncovering a life which few westerners could envisage. * The Journal of Dress History *Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Mapping Modern Bodies in the Middle East: Introduction Reina Lewis and Yasmine Nachabe Taan 2. Fashion and the camera: Istanbul in the late Ottoman Empire Nancy Micklewright 3. Training Slaves for the Camera: Race and Memory in Representations of Slaves, Cairo and Khartoum, 1882-1892 Eve M. Troutt Powell 4. Patronage, Taste, and Power: Slave, Manumitted, and Free Subjects in the Fashioning of Middle Eastern Modernity Reina Lewis 5. Constantin Guys and the Painters of Global Modernity Mary Roberts 6. Looking at/as Nudes: A Study of a Space of Imagination Kirsten Scheid 7. Another Look: “The Body that Is,” Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Post-Ottoman Egypt Wilson Chacko Jacob 8. The Arab Garçonne: Being Simultaneously Modern and Arab in 1920s and 1930s Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt Yasmine Nachabe Taan 9. The Photograph, the Dress, and the Conjugalization of the Family Afsaneh Najmabadi Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Needlework Affect and Social Transformation
Book SynopsisNeedlework, Affect and Social Transformation offers an original framework for moving beyond binary discourses that class practices of needlework as either feminist or reactionary. Using transnational, contemporary case studies such as the Social Justice Sewing Academy, fictionalised Bangladeshi garment workers as well as the famous Pussyhat Project Katja May suggests a new approach to the interpretation of textile crafts as an affective social practice, and draws on under-represented issues of race.May connects her study to broader material and social conditions of inequality, allowing for a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the role of needlework in feminist political activism. This broader look at how textile crafts function in the realms of politics and activism conceptualizes quilting, dressmaking, embroidery and knitting as routine activities invested with emotions and entangled with material and social conditions as well as political potential.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Affective Politics of Needlework 1. Quilting Black Resistance: Slavery’s Afterlives, Creativity and Social Justice 2. Sewing Desire: Homework, Gendered Agency and Bangladeshi Diaspora 3. Stitching Transnational Solidarity: Textile Crafts and Cross-Cultural Encounters 4. Knitting Feminist Politics: Craftivism and Affective Tension Coda : Un-making Whiteness Notes Bibliography Appendix 1 Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Feminist Bestseller From Sex and the Single Girlto Sex and the City
Book SynopsisIMELDA WHELEHAN is Professor of English and Women's Studies at De Montfort University, UK. She is the author of a number of undergraduate texts including Modern Feminist Thought, Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies and Reading Bridget Jones' Diary.
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Khamr
Book SynopsisKhamr: The Makings of a Waterslams is a true story that maps the author’s experience of living with an alcoholic father and the direct conflict of having to perform a Muslim life that taught him that nearly everything he called home was forbidden. A detailed account from his childhood to early adulthood, Khan lays bare the experience of living
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Gender Roles in American Life
Book SynopsisThis two-volume set examines how the evolution of gender roles in the United States has changed family dynamics, business practices, concepts of womanhood and manhood, and affected debates about equality, political and military service, and childrearing roles and practices.In the centuries that have passed since colonial America was first established, gender roles in American society have undergone massive transformations, with impacts that have been felt in every aspect of our culture. This evolution in gender roles has affected society in practically every conceivable manner, from family dynamics, the economy, and entertainment to business practices, how politics and military training are conducted, and childrearing roles and practices. In some places, it has sparked a tremendous backlash among Americans who see traditional gender roles as one of the country''s foundational pillars. This set surveys all of these issues, making use of a wide assortment of primary documents to h
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