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Book SynopsisIntroducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexuality, this collection is designed to serve as a comprehensive yet accessible textbook for sexuality courses at the undergraduate level. The fourth edition adds 51 new essays whilst retaining 33 of the most popular essays from previous editions.It features perspectives that are intersectional, transnational, sex positive, and attentive to historically marginalized groups along multiple axes of inequality, including gender, race, class, ability, body size, religious identity, age, and, of course, sexuality. Essays explore how a wide variety of social institutions, including medicine, religion, the state, and education, shape sexual desires, behaviors, and identities. Sources of, and empirical research on, oppression are disTable of ContentsPart 1: Laying the Foundations 1.Welcome to the New Sexuality Studies 2. Construction as a Social Process 3. The Shifting Boundaries of Sexual Morality 4.Trans Categories and the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System: How Transforming Understandings of Sex and Gender can Shift Sexuality 5. Unthinking Compulsory Sexuality: Introducing Asexuality 6. The Dos and Don'ts of Dating: Heterosexual and LGBTQ Dating Rituals as Sexual Scripts 7. Why Sexual Identities, Behaviors, and Attractions Do Not Always "Match" 8. Method Matters: Discovering How Early Motherhood, Monogamy, and Social Class Shape Young Women’s Sexuality 9. Suicide Is Only Part of the Story: Telling Wounded Truths About LGBTQ Youth 10. Sex-Positivity: A Black Feminist Gift Part 2: Bodies and Behaviors 11. The History and Politics of Sexual Intercourse 12. Polishing the Pearl: Discoveries of the Clitoris 13. But Can You Ever Win? Genital Cosmetic Procedures, the Promise of Vulval Perfection, and the Production of Vulval Distress 14. The Social Meanings and Practices of Orgasm 15. Anal Sex: Phallic and Other Meanings 16. Rethinking Dick Pics 17. Reconceiving Unintended Pregnancy: Considering Context in Sexual and Reproductive Decision-Making 18. Sex in Later-Life: Beyond Dysfunction and the Coital Imperative 19. "There’s Really No Reason to Settle": Size Acceptance as a Path to Sexual Empowerment Part 3: Relating and Relationships 20. Romance and Other Threats to Our Future 21. One is Not Born a Bride: Weddings and the Heterosexual Imaginary 22. Yes, No, Maybe So?: Inequalities in Sexual Consent and Sexual Pleasure for Young Adults 23. What Do Vulnerability, Shame, and Mindfulness Have To Do With Intimacy? 24. Interracial Romance: The Logic of Acceptance and Domination 25. Romantic Apartheid: Digital Sexual Racism in Online Dating 26. Sexualized Othering in Multiracial Women’s Experiences with Sex and Romance 27. Gay Racism: The Institutional and Interactional Patterns of Racism in Gay Communities 28. Gender Labor, Racework, and Trans Pleasure: Transgender Individuals’ Experiences in Intimate Relationships 29. "We Were on a BREAK!": Men Chasing Masculinity and Women Seeking Pleasure in Affairs 30. Polyamory, Mononormativity, and Polyqueer Kinship Part 4: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 31. Intersexy, but Fat: On the Selective Celebration of Bodily Differences 32. Trans Sexualities: Identities, Relationships, and Desires 33. Adolescent Girls’ Sexuality: Sexual Agency and the Renovated Sexual Double Standard 34. "There’s No Such Thing as a Slut": Creating and Destroying the "Good Girl" in Taylor Swift’s Musical Persona 35. "Guys Are Just Homophobic": Rethinking Adolescent Homophobia and Heterosexuality 36. Not "Straight" But Still a "Man": Negotiating Non-Heterosexual Masculinities 37. Straight Men and Women: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Straightness 38. How "Regular Sex" Contributes to the Gender Gap in Orgasms 39. Sacred and Beastly Sex: Abstinence Pledges and Masculinity 40. Heteroflexibility Part 5: Social Structures and Institutions 41. The Economy and American Marriage: Change and Continuity 42. The Marriage Contract: The Legal Context of Marriage 43. The Elusive Goal of Sexual Health 44. Medicine and the Making of the Sexual Body 45. The Feminization of "Responsive" Desire 46. The Coloniality of Sexuality 47. "I Am God’s Creation": Religion as a Positive Force in the Lives of LGBTQ+ Persons of Faith 48. The Politics of Sexuality and Gender Expression in Schools 49. Sexual Education and Its Failures: From Social Inequalities to Intimate Possibilities Part 6: Navigating Inequalities and Oppressions 50. The Body, Disability, and Sexuality 51. The Intersection of Sexuality and Intellectual Disabilities: Shattering the Taboo 52. Disrupting Dichotomies: Non-Binary Sexual Identities 53. Creando Una Familia: LBQ Latinas Facilitating Bonds Through Shared Race/Ethnicity 54. "Heterosexual Families Do Not Have to Explain themselves": Heteronormativity in the Lives of LGBTQ+ Children and Parents 55. Intersected Lives: Race, Class, and Gender in Lesbian- and Gay-Affirming Protestant Congregations 56. "The Thorn in My Side": How Ex-Gays, Ex-Ex-Gays, and Celibate Gays Negotiate Their Religious and Sexual Identities 57. The Racial and Sexual Stereotypes of the "Down Low" 58. Unspoiling Stigmatized Identities: Combatting Racial and Sexual Stigma Part 7: Sexual Cultures, Places, and Scenes 59. Sexual Capital and Social Inequality: The Study of Sexual Fields 60. Belonging in Gay Neighborhoods and Queer Club Nights 61. Queering the Sexual and Racial Politics of Urban Revitalization 62. "We Will Always Remember": Reactivating Queer Places as Expressions of Grief, Solidarity, and Protest After Pulse 63. The Changing Role of Gay Bars in American LGBTQ+ Life 64. Learning to be Queer: College Women’s Sexual Fluidity 65. Critical Consent: Negotiating Consent in Trans-Les-Bi-Queer BDSM Communities 66. Nurturing through Normalizing, Endangering through Dramatizing: Approaches to Adolescent Sex and Love Part 8: Sexual Labor and Commerce 67. The Sexual Economy and Nevada’s Legal Brothels 68. Inclusive Pleasure: Feminist Sex Shops 69. Looks for Sale: The Impact of Aesthetic Labor on Men Who Strip 70. Intimate Labor in the Adult Film Industry 71. Migrant Sex Work and Trafficking: Sorting them Out 72. Sex Work, the Victim, and the Anti-Trafficking Movement 73. Sex Workers’ Rights Activism in the United States: Navigating the Internet in an Age of S*x Work Censorship, State, and Corporate Surveillance 74. Challenging the Controlling Images of Vamps and Victims: Sex Work Activism in India Part 9: Sexual Politics, Social Movements, and Empowerment 75. Sexuality, State, and Nation 76. Anti-Homosexuality Legislation and Religion Viewed from a Transnational Frame 77. The Religious Right, Same-Sex Marriage, and LGBTQ+ Rights Activism 78. The Evolution of Same-Sex Marriage Politics in the United States 79. The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Queer Safer Sex 80. Children’s Sexual Citizenship 81. War and the Politics of Sexual Violence 82. The History of Activism against Sexual Violence and the Modern #MeToo Movement 83. A Public Health Approach to Campus Sexual Assault Prevention: Sexual Citizenship, Projects, and Geographies 84. The Ally Paradox

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the silence that surrounds the sexual abuse of children by women; uncovering the denial, minimization and rationales used by the victims, the perpetrators and the professionals.Trade Review"Refreshing as both an academically thought-provoking work and a helpful practice guide. For anyone working in the area of child welfare...Highly recommended." -- D.A. Mathews, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Putting Child Sexual Abuse into Context 3. The Professionals 4. The Child Victim 5. The Female Offender 6. The Last Word

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and self-historicizing. Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways. Biographical Objects is an ethnography of persons which takes the form of a study of things, showing how the object is not only a metaphor for the self but a pivot for reflexivity and introspection, a tool for autobiographic elaboration, a way of knowing oneself through things.Trade Review"[T]he book's heart really lies in the vicissitudes of personal experience, and the ethnographer's relationships with certain individuals. In this respect, the book properly takes its place among other recent works that center on the particularities of experience. Here the author's long fieldwork in Kodi serves her well." -- Indonesia"The stories are beautifully told, and Hoskins makes it easy to enjoy them. ...she is a very welcome guide, helping the reader follow the chains of metaphors that turn experience into poetry. Any student who has suffered through Saussure and Levi-Strauss deserves the pleasure of reading this book." -- The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Betel Bag; Chapter 3 Domesticating Animals and Wives; Chapter 4 The Royal Snake Shroud; Chapter 5 Spindles and Spinsters; Chapter 6 The Drum and Masculinity; Chapter 7 Green Bottles and Green Death; Chapter 8 Conclusions;

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Book SynopsisAIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. This book tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda - a country known as Africa's great AIDS success story.Trade Review"AIDS and Masculinity in the African City will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, gender scholars and global/public health practitioners, but the book is also a compelling must-read for people concerned with and interested in urban ethnography, HIV/AIDS, feminist theory and masculinities." Centre for Medical HumanitiesTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1. Remaking Masculinity in Bwaise 2. The Making of Masculinity in Urban Uganda 3. Providing in Poverty 4. Women’s Rights in the Remaking of Masculinity 5. The Intersection of Masculinity, Sexuality, and AIDS 6. Beyond Bwaise Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. This book shows how reproductive justice is a political movement of reproductive rights and social justice. It illuminates how a low-income, physically disabled woman living in West Texas with no viable public transportation, healthcare clinic, and more.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Reproductive Justice History 2. Reproductive Justice in the Twenty-First Century 3. Managing Fertility 4. Reproductive Justice and the Right to Parent Epilogue: Reproductive Justice on the Ground Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book Synopsisaeo An important re--assessment of the idea of agency in the context of changing relations between men and women. aeo Brings together the owrk of leading feminist theorists with the work of key continental social theorists.Trade Review'This is a fine piece of theoretical work that deftly negotiates some complex debates. It is rigorous, scholarly and has something significant to say.' Feminist Theory 'Complex and elegantly written ... Anyone frustrated by the simple assertion that identity is like a trap which necessarily forecloses the prospect of true female agency will find this book to be a useful contribution to the ways we think about what it means to become a female subject in culture.' Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "McNay's book would benefit very greatly from the use of examples, to demonstrate the power of the approach she endorses in relation to contemporary feminist dilemmas and contentions." European Journal of Social TheoryTable of Contents1. Gender, Subjectification and Agency: Introductory Remarks. 2. Body, Position, Power: Bourdieu and Butler on Agency. 3. Gender and Narrative: Ricoeur on the Coherence of Self. 4. Psyche and Society: Castoriadis and the Creativity of Action. 5. Gender and Change: Concluding Remarks. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisFrom Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men.Trade Review''Laura Sjoberg has written a valuable, teachable and up-to-the-minute gender-smart book about war. With its mix of gritty case studies and Big Questions, Gender, War and Conflict offers lucky readers the tools to reassess mainstream International Relations' theories and to start fashioning explanations of their own.'' Cynthia Enloe, Clark University "Laura Sjoberg's book is a feminist international relations primer for the real world. She shows that we can’t understand - let alone end - wars and conflicts if we don’t understand the masculinities and femininities that fuel them. This is the book that everyone - students, academics, and policy-makers - needs to read." Jacqui True, Monash University"Gender, War, and Conflict provides a solid analysis about women and gender in conflict and war by highlighting gendered assumptions, experiences and values. An extremely useful study that examines conflict from a feminist perspective, Sjoberg makes an important contribution to the fields of international relations and political science to think in new ways about war."Terrorism and Political ViolenceTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introducing Gender, War, and Conflict Chapter 2. Where are the Women? Chapter 3. Where are the Men? Chapter 4. Why Men and Women Are Not Enough Chapter 5. Redefining War, Understanding Gender Chapter 6. War(s) as if Gender Mattered References

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Book SynopsisThe History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous documents and honors the ways thousands of LGBT people have carried Alcoholics Anonymous'' message. This illuminating chronicle includes interviews and documents that detail the compelling history, recovery, and wisdom of gay people in AA. The book examines the challenges AA faced as the fellowship endeavored to become a more inclusive and cohesive community. The first-person accounts narrate the important work of influential gay and straight AA members that led key events in AA's history. The author includes material on the steps and traditions of AA, and on becoming an ally to LGBT people on the road to recovery.Topics in The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous include: the gay origins of AA's Third Tradition a comparison of treatments for alcoholism and homosexuality compelling portraits of sober gay life in the 1950s and 1960s the debate in Trade Review"This volume fills in a previously missing chapter in the history of addiction recovery in America. Well-research and well-written." William M. White, M.A., Senior Research Coordinator, Chestnut Health Systems, Bloomington, IL "This groundbreaking book about an important but little-known part of the history of Alcohilics Anonymous belongs on the shelves of every alcoholic and addict, straight or gay. . . . An invaluable resource. . . . Magnificent." Rev. Sally Brown, M.S., MDiv, United Church of Christ, Board Certified Clinical Chaplain, Ret., Palo Alto, CA "This fascinating book is an important first step in chronicling and understanding the experiences of gays and lesbians in AA." Thomasina Borkmman, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Emerita at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA"The author lets a number of people speak in their own voices, from their own powerful and moving experiences. . . . It is useful, hopeful, and most welcome. The men and women interviewed here are wonderful to meet, and wonderful to listen to." Fr. Thomas Weston, S.J., Oakland, CA Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. PART I: FROM THE BEGINNING, 1935–1970. 1. The Recovering Gay Community. 2. Barry L. and the Gay Origins of AA’s Third Tradition. 3. Alcoholism and Homosexuality: A Brief History of Treatment. 4. Five Views of Sober Gay Life in the 1950s and 1960s. 5. Finding AA: Groups, Directories, and the First Gay AA Meeting. 6. Printer’s Ink: A Conversation with Nancy T. 7. Special Purpose Groups and the Debate over Meetings for Gay Alcoholics in AA. PART II: BUILDING SOBER COMMUNITIES, 1970–2004. 8. Washington DC. 9. New York. 10. New Jersey. 11. We Never Looked Back: A Conversation with NALGAP Cofounders Drs. Dana Finnegan and Emily McNally. 12. San Francisco. 13. AA’s Pamphlet for Gay and Lesbian Alcoholics. 14. The Home Front. 15. On Our Way: A Conversation with Lillene Fifield. 16. Pass It On. 17. Side by Side in Southern California: Alcoholics Together. 18. A Few Conclusions (and Mysteries Solved). Appendix A. The Steps and Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. Appendix B. List of Narrators. Appendix C. Becoming an Ally. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny - invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide - to investigate trauma, addiction, and forces of oppression.

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Book SynopsisThe first truly philosophical exploration of the drag queen in the context of this ground-breaking reality TV showTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword by Sasha Velour Introduction 1. That’s All! The Incompossible Vixen by Kyler Chittick 2. We’re All Born Naked and the Rest Is Drag by Oliver Norman 3. Exploring drag culture and performance with Friedrich Nietzsche by Ben Glaister 4. Fire WERK With Me: Media Subcultures Crossover into Meta-Entertainment by Carolina Are 5. Playing with Glitter by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Mariana Zárate, and Leonardo Acosta 6. You Want to be Anonymous? You Better Work by Alice Fox 7. Like God in Drag by Julie van der Wielen, Alice van der Wielen, and Anna Heuer Hansen 8. Performance and the Real by Dawn Gilpin and Peter Nagy 9. RuPaul’s Drag Race as Femme-Queer Utopia Reality by Samantha Wesch 10. Searching for Reality in Drag Race by Sandra Ryan 11. Debunking the Femininity of Female Impersonation by Holly Onclin 12. Reading Is Fundamental by Lucy McDonald 13. The Origins of Self-Love by Anna Fennell 14. Eliminate Your Strongest Competition? The Social Dynamics of All Stars by Marta Sznajder 15. If You Can’t Love Yourself: On Drag and Vulnerability by Anneliese Cooper 16. Drag Queens and Mall Santas: Performing and Performing Performance by Benjamin Stalnaker 17. Lip-Sync for Your Life by Guilel Treiber 18. The Library Is Open: The Ethics of RuPaul’s Reading by Rutger Birnie 19. RuPaul Is a Better Warhol: Pop and the Ethical Judgment of Realness by Megan Volpert 20. Flazéda and the Meaning of Words by Hendrik Kempt Bibliography About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisFollowing Mary Pickford's life, this book gives an overview of her enduring contribution to American film and mass culture. It also explores her struggles to surpass her confining public film persona as 'America's Sweetheart', mirroring how women, both then and today, must reconcile domestic life with professional aspirations and work.Trade Review"Mary Pickford emerges as a woman of depth and business acumen that bely her reputation as America's Sweetheart. In this biography Pickford is the product of an underprivileged childhood and a rapidly changing America who has the wherewithal and talent to make it on her own. Her influence is felt far beyond the screen into the very depths of Hollywood's development." --Tonia M. Compton, Columbia College of Missouri Praise for the Lives of American Women series: "Finally! The majority of students--by which I mean women--will have the opportunity to read biographies of women from our nation's past. (Men can read them too, of course!) The 'Lives of American Women' series features an eclectic collection of books, readily accessible to students who will be able to see the contributions of women in many fields over the course of our history. Long overdue, these books will be a valuable resource for teachers, students, and the public at large." --Cokie Roberts, author of Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty "Just what any professor wants: books that will intrigue, inform, and fascinate students! These short, readable biographies of American women--specifically designed for classroom use--give instructors an appealing new option to assign to their history students." --Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, Cornell University "For educators keen to include women in the American story, but hampered by the lack of thoughtful, concise scholarship, here comes 'Lives of American Women,' embracing Abigail Adams's counsel to John--'remember the ladies.' And high time, too!" --Lesley S. Herrmann, Executive Director, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History "These books are, above all, fascinating stories that will engage and inspire readers. They offer a glimpse into the lives of key women in history who either defied tradition or who successfully maneuvered in a man's world to make an impact. The stories of these vital contributors to American history deliver just the right formula for instructors looking to provide a more complicated and nuanced view of history." --Rosanne Lichatin, 2005 Gilder Lehrman Preserve America History Teacher of the YearTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 From Gladys Smith to Mary Pickford: A Childhood on Stage and At Work, 1892-1909 2 Pickford and the Moving Pictures: Creating the Art and Business of Film, 1909--1913 3 A Star and a Producer are Born, 1913-1916 4 America's Sweetheart and American Empire in the Age of the Great War, 1917-1920 5 Mary and Doug: American Royalty, Hollywood Style, 1920-1926 6 Weathering Personal, Industrial, and Economic Crises, 1927-1936 7 Studio Executive and Philanthropist: A Life Beyond Performing, 1936-1979 Epilogue Primary Sources Study Questions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the gendered identities of two generations of men in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. Gustavo Barbosa compares the fida'iyyin, the men who served as freedom fighters to reconquer Palestine in the 1970s, to the shabab, their sons who lead seemingly mundane lives with limited access to power.Table of Contents List of Illustrations, Tables, and Charts xi Acknowledgments xiii Acronyms xix Timeline: History of the Palestinian Diaspora in Lebanon xxi Introduction: Thinking through Water 1 1. Submerging: Under Siege 43 2. Drowning by Numbers and Legislation: Statistics and (Non)State Making in Shatila 73 3. Swirling and Twirling: The Fida’iyyin’s Heroism and the Shabab’s Burden 122 4. Pororoca, Thinking through Music: Fida’iyyin and Shabab Talk (Sometimes) Past Each Other 181 5. Reemerging: Noncockfights 236 6. Resurfacing: The Antilove of Empire 251 Glossary of Levantine Arabic Terms 273 References 285 Index 311

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Book SynopsisDraws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bomori, or temple guardians) at its centre. Throughout, Jessica Starling focuses on domestic religion, a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression.

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Book SynopsisWritten in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more than four decades. This book finally brings it to light, giving the long-lost feminist workaccompanied here by an afterword from Judith Butleran overdue spot in feminist history. Strathern incisively engages some of the leading feminist thinkers of the time, including Shulamith Firestone, Simone de Beauvoir, Ann Oakley, and Kate Millett. Building with characteristic precision toward a bold conclusion in which she argues that we underestimate the materializing grammars of sex and gender at our own peril, she offers a powerful challenge to the intransigent mythologies of sex that still plague contemporary society.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents urban transition experiences over nearly three decades in Bangalore based on the narratives of the city''s street-based sex workers. Sex workers female, male, and transgender have been omnipresent in Bangalore''s streets for decades. However, despite being blacklisted as ''undesirable'' and hazards to the ''ideal public'', they have their own unique imaginaries and narratives of the city and its mutations. In mapping out their spatial and social ecosystems and experiences with technology, this book redraws, rewrites, and relooks at a city and its transformations from their perspectives. The analysis of their experience is anchored to concepts around neoliberal urbanism, gender, labour informality, and the politics of technology. The authors take an unconventional journey through their spaces, comrades, and battles to announce and affirm their individuality and agency through their empowerment strategies, and through their struggles to reclaim their spaces and asserTable of ContentsList of images; 1. Libidinal City, Outcast Workers; 2. Narrators and Settings; 3. People; 4. Places; 5. Upheaval; 6. Technology; 7. Their city; Appendix; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first modern scholarly edition of the published writings of historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay, who made a significant contribution to debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. Influencing Wollstonecraft and proto-feminism, she wrote about education, the rights of women, and animal rights.Table of ContentsSelections from The History of England (1763–83); Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes's 'Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society', with a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, in a Letter to Signor Paoli (1767); Observations on a Pamphlet entitled 'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770); A Modest Plea for the Property of Copy Right (1774); An Address to the People of England, Scotland and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs (1775); Selections from The History of England from the Revolution to the Present Time in a Series of Letters to a Friend (1778); Selections from Letters on Education, with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects (1790); Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France (1790).

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Book SynopsisFifty years after the passage of Title IX, the institutions that govern college sports undermine initiatives for advancing gender equality. Sex-based segregation, androcentric organizational cultures, and overbearing market incentives prevent policy change. These institutional barriers can sideline any marginalized group from achieving equality.Table of Contents1. Gender equality in college athletics: assessing 50 years of Title IX; 2. Using survey data to study policy support; 3. Student-athlete contact and policy support; 4. Organizational culture and policy support; 5. The public, fans, and policy support; 6. Gender equality in college sports and beyond.

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Book SynopsisThis collection aims to fill in the deep gaps of vital contributions that have been erased from the sexuality field, illuminating the historical and current work, strategies, solutions, and thoughts from sexologists that have been excluded until now. Historically, the US sexuality field has not included the experiences and wisdom of racialized sexologists, educators, therapists, or professionals. Instead, sexuality professionals have been trained using a color-free narrative that does an injustice by excluding their work as well as failing to offer a fuller examination of how they have expanded the field and held it accountable. The result of this wholesale erasure is that today many sexuality professionals understand these contributions as extra or tangential, and not part of the full vision and history of the field of sexology. Highlighting the voices and experiences of those who have been racialized and thus excluded, isolated, erased, and yet have still emerged as vital cTrade Review"The People’s Book of Human Sexuality: Expanding the Sexology Archive offers us a compelling narrative and strategy for leading and engaging in inclusive conversations. This literary collective will be used by sexuality and wellness educators for years to come." -James C. Wadley, Ph.D.; CST-S Director of Sex Therapy Program Council for Relationships (Philadelphia, USA)"Astounding and comprehensive, The People’s Book of Human Sexuality: Expanding the Sexology Archive explores human sexuality deeply rooted in justice and with stunning range. Centering seasoned and community-driven voices, this text is a stellar composition on humanity and our radical needs as we evolve."-Kay Ulanday Barrett, Writer; Cultural strategist; Poet of More Than Organs, A 2021 Stonewall Honor Award Book + 2021 Lambda Literary Finalist "This book is timely & necessary! Centering the voices, experiences and wisdom of folx who do the critical work in community with people every single day is important. We deserve to be seen and heard and this book is a wonderful reflection and resource for those who keep pushing us and our profession forward."-Mariotta Gary-Smith, MPH, CSE Co-Foundress, WoCSHN (Women of Color Sexual Health Network)"It's about time there was an inclusive interdisciplinary sexuality textbook! This text will not only serve folks in marginalized populations and identities, but also those who work in sexuality studies and on the front lines. As we seek to build a just future for all, this text will help shift the culture."-Aiesha Turman, Ph.D; Interdisciplinary Scholar and Founder, The Black Girl Project"As a Black queer person who came into the field of sexuality education over 10 years ago, there has always been a gap in information on sexuality and the lives of BIPOC folks, at minimum our lives are seen as an afterthought. This book continues to pave new ways for sexuality practitioners and all people, to see themselves through an affirming lens for healing and growth."-Dr. Shanéa Thomas, LICSW (he/she/Dr.); LGBTQ+ Training Specialist and Assistant Clinical Research; Professor at University of Maryland (College Park)/School of Public Health/ Prevention Research Center"As a Latina working in Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice for almost 20 years, I am ecstatic about The People’s Book of Human Sexuality: Expanding the Sexology Archive! For far too long the lived experiences and brilliance of BIPOC folks in the field of sexuality education have been set aside, erased, or appropriated by others. I cannot wait to share it."-Aimee R. Thorne-Thomsen, MPA; Founder, Guerrera Strategies; Board Member, Collective Power for Reproductive Justice"Like a baobab tree, this collection is an anchor, a shelter, and will provide deep nourishment for sexologists and practitioners alike." -Jamila M. Dawson, LMFT; sex therapist and author of With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships and Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers: A Sex-Positive Handbook for Mental Health Practictioners"This book provides inclusive content and diverse authorship that centers the most impacted on both sides of the work. This holistic textbook is a practice of intersectionality and helps create a multi-dimensional analysis that instigates deep yet practical change at the ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized levels."-Aisha Chaudhri, Co-Director of ICAH (Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health); Steering Committee member of ASEC (American Society for Emergency Contraception)"Essential reading not only for sexuality professionals, but for anyone seeking body autonomy and sexual liberation! In our efforts to end rape culture and endemic child sexual abuse, the wisdom and expertise of Black, Indigenous and of color folks (especially those who are queer and trans) must be at the foundation of the new world we co-create. I'm hopeful for the ways this book will bring us closer to the world we need and deserve."-Amita Y. Swadhin, MPA Founding Co-Director, Mirror Memoirs"Growing up, all my sexual health educators in both media and in person, were white. Here is a book that provides space for voices often overlooked and ignored. This book will create a necessary space where we see ourselves and others in this field as well as a chance to learn, heal and grow as individuals and scholars."-Danielle Cole, Creator of UKnowTheAnswer.com and qualitative sociology scholar"It is so important that sexuality be taught and shared from a variety of sources, people, and cultures. This book will equip the reader with a broader depth of knowledge around sexuality."-Erin Tillman, CSE Certified Intimacy Coordinator & Sex EducatorTable of ContentsSection 1: Origin Stories of Safety & Care 1. Transforming Sex Education Curricula Through Media Literacy, Media Justice, and Power 2. We Vision Our Dreams of Safety Into Reality: An Interview with Kalash Magenta Fire 3. "Buying People Everyday": Power, Intimacy, and Money at Work 4. Sex Ed Happens 5. Solidarity as Liberation: A Queer Mad Legacy Section 2: Movement for BodyMinds 6. The Erotic Power of the Professional Nurse, and the Body They Move In 7. Yoga: A Liberatory Praxis 8. My Grandmother, the Unlikely Ally: How Binary Thinking about Social Change Impedes Social Change 9. A Vulgar Sex Education 10. Changing the Narrative: Abortion as a Family Value Section 3: Oral Narratives 11. Intersex Activism, Movement, and Joy: In Conversation with Sean Saifa Wall 12. Muslim Sexuality 13. The F.A.C.E Model: Introduction To Using Fashion as a Sexual Health Tool 14. BJ: Bianca and Juan in Conversation

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective.Agricultural commercialization, involving not only the shift to selling crops and buying inputs but also the commodification of land and labour, has always been controversial. Strategies for commercialization have often reinforced and exacerbated inequalities, been blind to gender differences and given rise to violations of the human rights to food, land, work and social security. While there is a body of evidence to trace these developments globally, impacts vary considerably in local contexts. This book systematically considers these dynamics in two countries, Cambodia and Ghana. Profoundly different in terms of their history and location, they provide the basis for fruitful comparisons because they both transitioned to democracy in the early 1990s, made agricultural development a priority, and adopted orthodox policies of commercialization to develop the sector. Chapter

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Book SynopsisQueering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern public museum, and the ontological assumptions that inform them, the authors consider recent discourse around inclusion in museums and explore the ways this has been taken up in practice. Highlighting the limits of particular approaches to inclusion, and the failure to move away from a traditional museological paradigm, the book outlines an alternative critical museological approach that the authors refer to as âqueerâ. Providing readers with the critical tools necessary for a profound rethinking of museum practice, the book also responds to and problematises the growing call for social inclusion. Queering the Museum will appeal to academics, students, and museTrade Review"In Nikki Sullivan’s and Craig Middleton’s Queering the Museum, we witness alternative offerings that question, deconstruct, and reimagine what museums can be doing. They critique the institution of museums by exploring queer methodologies within and outside of the museum and addressing this institution as much as an entity as an action. Delving into critical race theory, indigenous studies, queer studies, feminist methodologies, cultural studies, the authors position museums as being shaped by the world around them, aspiring for inclusion yet continuing to hide and exclude the other-ed, and needing to advocate for museums’ participation in critical reflections and approaches to this work. While this book can serve as a helpful toolkit for pushing, reimagining, and queering museums, Sullivan and Middleton resist the notion that there is a prescribed remedy or formula to queering the museum." Sarita Hernández, SQS 1-2/2020, Queer Eye reviews.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1.From LGBTIQ+ inclusion to queer ethics; 2. Queer/ing display; 3. Queer/ing meaning-making; 4.Queer/ing engagement; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSexuality is the fifth revised and updated edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality. This new edition brings the arguments and evidence fully up to date and explores their implication for many topical controversies, around LGBTQ+ rights, the trans experience and gender fluidity, same-sex marriage, sexual autonomy and consent, and the meanings of sexual choice.Since it was first published in the 1980s, Sexuality has been at the cutting edge of the study of the social and historical meanings of sexuality. Blending deep empirical knowledge with theoretical sophistication and an acute sensitivity to the politics of sexuality, the book offers an informed framework for understanding the complexities of sexual life. A key insight of the book is that the ways we think and speak about sexuality make a major contribution to the ways we live it. Sexuality may be rooted in biological possibilities, but it is shaped and experienced through languages anTable of Contents1. Introduction: languages of sex 2. The invention of sexuality 3. The meanings of sexual difference 4. The challenge of diversity 5. Sexuality, intimacy and politics 6. Private pleasures and public policies

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Book SynopsisSince the publication of the second edition in 2010, the field of sex work studies has expanded. This fully updated edition of Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing presents an innovative, in-depth, and nuanced analysis of sex work, its risks, and benefits, and pays attention to newer and everchanging types of sex work and its actors, as well as public policies and laws that govern its trade. Now in its third edition, this volume includes updated research on traditional forms of sexual labor and incorporates original, empirically grounded research on newer or less researched phenomena. New chapters explore the use of technology among street sellers, blurring the line between street and online solicitation, in addition to chapters on historical prostitution, transgender workers, illicit massage parlors, male strippers, commercial webcamming, alternative policies and legal systems, and the sex workers' rights movement. The combination of cuTrade ReviewThis third edition is as important as the first but expands the reach of markets and sex workers included in the collection. This is an exciting, broad and highly relevant book which is an excellent introduction for students and equally insightful on the complexities of niche sex work communities and experiences for researchers alike. The expanse of topics demonstrates how new studies and reflections on existing knowledge make such an edited book essential reading across disciplines and scholarly boundaries. Teela Sanders, University of LeicesterThis third edition of Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing provides new and updated studies of the diverse dimensions of sex commerce around the world today. Endorsing a polymorphous paradigm to develop a deep understanding of the organization of sex work at the macro level and its everyday reality for people in sex work, Weitzer’s edited book is a ground-breaking addition to the interdisciplinary scholarship linking sexuality, work and politics. Cecilia Benoit, University of Victoria, CanadaEminently teachable and readable, this new edition of Sex for Sale is packed with up-to-date studies mapping the many territories of a fast-changing industry. Especially welcome is the attention to massage parlors staffed by Asian-American women and migrants, shifting trends in pornography from the perspectives of performers and producers, and strip clubs with male dancers in both straight and gay venues. In this third edition, Weitzer has recruited skilled researchers and writers, providing a useful scholarly resource that will also fill many days of classroom discussions.Gregory Mitchell, Williams CollegeTable of ContentsContents Part 1: Historical and Theoretical Foundations 1. Sex Work: Types and Paradigms Ronald Weitzer 2. Sex Work Around the World: A Historical Overview Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Part 2: Pornography 3. Key Trends in Pornography Eran Shor and Kimberly Seida 4. Professional Female Pornography Performers James D. Griffith 5. Transgender Women in the Adult Film Industry Marrusia Role 6. Pornography By and For Women Jill A. Bakehorn Part 3: Erotic Performance 7. Gender Roles at the Male Strip Show Maren T. Scull 8. Gay Strip Clubs Joseph R. G. DeMarco 9. Webcamming: The Expansion of Sex Work Online Angela Jones Part 4: Prostitution 10. Selling Sex on the Streets Susan C. Dewey 11. Street-Based Sex Work in the Digital Age Katie Hail-Jares and Sharon S. Oselin 12. Illicit Massage Parlors John J. Chin and Lois M. Takahashi 13. Comparing Male and Female Escorts Juline Koken and David S. Bimbi 14. Clients: The Rhetoric and Realities of Sex Buying Martin Monto and Xtine Milrod Part 5: State Policies and Political Struggles 15. The U.S. Sex Workers’ Rights Movement Crystal A. Jackson and Barbara G. Brents 16. Criminalization, Decriminalization, and Legalization Ronald Weitzer

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Women's Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research by academics and music practitioners from around the world, engaging with an extraordinarily wide range of topics on women's contributions to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world music, music education, ethnomusicology as well as in the music industries.The handbook falls into six parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the rich variety of subject matter the reader can expect to encounter in the handbook as a whole. Part II focuses on what might be termed the more traditional strand of feminist musicology research which highlights the work of historical and/or neglected composers. Part III explores topics concerned with feminist aesthetics and music creation and Part IV focuses on questions addressing the performance and reception of music and musicians. The narrative of the handbook shifts in Part V to focus on opportunities and leadership in the music profTable of ContentsEditor’s IntroductionPart I: Challenging Gender Inequalities Sophie Fuller, Grace, Betty, Maude and Me: 30 Years of Fighting for Women Composers Susan Wollenberg, ‘Where Are We Now?’: Teaching and Studying Women Composers post-Citron Helen Elizabeth Davies, ‘Because I’m a Girl’: Exploring Experiences, Practices and Challenges Relating to Gender and Sexuality for Female Musicians in Popular Music Higher Education Emily Doolittle, Composer, Mother Stephen Wilford, ‘The Algerian woman is very strong’: Music, Identity and Gender in Algerian London Valentine Harding, In Search of the Field: Reflections on an Ethnomusicological Project in India Christina Homer, Women’s Work in Ethnomusicology: Alternative Spaces Part II: (Re)Discoveries Zaina Shihabi, A Brief Historical and Sociological Examination of Twentieth-Century Arab Women Composers and Performers in Egypt Sally Macarthur, The Rise and Rise of Women in Australian Composition Susan Clauson-Elliott, Women Composers and the Proms: The First 100 Years (1895–1994) Claudia Chibici-Revneanu, Chasing María Teresa Lara: An Autoethnographic Account of Trying to Recuperate the Story of a ‘Lost’ Woman Composer Joanna Schiller-Rydzewska, The Artistic Path and Achievement of Polish Composer Ewa Synowiec Eva M. Maschke, Composer, Performer, Teacher: Jeanne Barbillion (1895-1992) and the Schola Cantorum de Paris Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg, How Theocritus Sang: Eleanor Everest Freer’s Sonnets from the Portuguese Rhian Davies, A Life in Fragments: Morfydd Owen (1891–1918) Part III: Aesthetics and Music Creation Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi, Overcoming the ‘Male Gaze’ of Music: Towards Renewed Compositional Strategies Isabel Nogueira, Voices, Sounds and Herstories: Constructing Feminist Research in Experimental Music Angela Elizabeth Slater, Invisible Canons: A Reflective Commentary on the Formation of my Personal Canon of Women Composers Lucy Hollingworth, Storytelling in Autoethnography – The Poetess J. Michele Edwards, Chen Yi: Trauma, Myths, and Representation Laura Dallman, Considering Autonomy and Collaboration in Three Concerti by Jennifer Higdon Ji Yeon Lee, Decoding the Riddle: The Tea-Party Scene in Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland David Forrest, Kate Bush’s Uncanny Harmonic Language Part IV: Performance and Reception Bella Powell, Notions of Virtuosity, Female Accomplishment, and the Violin as Forbidden Instrument in Early-Mid Nineteenth-Century England Nuppu Koivisto, Visitors from ‘the Merry Town by the Danube’: Viennese Ladies’ Orchestras, Public Image and Variety Shows in Finland from 1870 to 1914 Maren Bagge, Women Song Composers and the London Ballad Concerts Ivette Janet Céspedes Gómez, Sara Gonzáles: A Different Song About Women Grace Takyi Donkor, Changing Roles of Women in the Gospel Music Performance Space in Ghana Maree Sheehan, Māori Women at the Forefront of Aotearoa/New Zealand Music in the Mid 1980s and Early 1990s Li-ming Pan, The Stereotypical Image and Body Representation of Taiwanese Female Musicians Part V: Opportunities and Leadership in the Music Professions Jessica Duchen, Climb Every Mountain Edwina Wolstencroft, Celebrating Women Composers on BBC Radio 3 Miia Laine, Contested Spaces: Gender Dynamics in Independent Radio Stations in London Karlyn King, ‘And her voice is a backwards record’: The Gendering of Phonograph Technology Carolyn Watson, Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Women Conductors, New Trends, Old Challenges Frances Novillo, Personal Reflections on Professional Experience of Women’s Liturgical Leadership as Musicians in the Roman Catholic Church Gabriela Sanchez Diaz, Re-Mapping and Connecting Bodies of Women Musicians Part VI: New Perspectives on Women’s Work in Music Yuemin He, Materiality, Editorship and Canonisation in Wang Duanshu’s Collection of Elegance (1667) Jennifer Cable, Mary Carlisle Howe (1882–1964) and Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869–1950): Creating an Arts Culture in America, One Woman at a Time Elina G. Hamilton, Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884–1962): Patroness of Music Publishing Lia Lonnert and Helen Davies Mikkelborg, Lady Llanover and the Swedish Connection: A Welsh Musical Legacy Jessica Beck, The Women Musicians of the British Ethical Movement, 1887–1927 Kirstie Alison Muldoon, The Role of Women in Irish Music Institutions in the Early Twentieth Century Helen C. Thomas, The Beedle-Carter Correspondence: An Analysis of the Cultural Work Undertaken by Maureen Beedle to Promote Elliott Carter’s Music in the UK and Europe

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Book SynopsisWhat might the impact be on a grown woman of having a nursery school teacher change and anglicise her name at the age of three? That three year old was me. In our world, we face more and more polarisation and so it feels imperative that we understand the concept and lived experience of Othering'. Othering takes away individuality and reduces whole groups to they'.This book explores the theory, examining why Othering is so much part of human biology and conditioning. Through a narrative approach, the experiences of women of colour growing up in 1970s and 1980s Britain are explored, sharing individual stories and common themes. Ultimately this book is a celebration of their deep commitment to self-work and development and their success in navigating the additional burden of being different.We hear from other thinkers and activists, and offer active hope and potential ways forward in how we might create more inclusive, sustainable societies. This is a monumental task, but

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1994, this book brings together papers developing feminist analyses of the rural condition from a wide range of industrialised countries, informed by the national and local cultural constructions of gender and rurality which they interpret.

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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Indigenous Feminisms introduces important concepts and approaches for understanding what Indigenous feminisms are, why we use the term in plural, and why Indigenous feminisms are not just for academics.This engaging and accessible textbook, the first of its kind in this subject, provides instructors and students with the historical contexts, analytical tools, and the practice-driven possibilities for creative and epistemic engagement with Indigenous feminist knowledge. As well including useful pedagogical features, the volume explores: How Indigenous feminist conversations have evolved; What political practices have developed over time; Stories, theories, and histories about Indigenous womenâs experiences. An Introduction to Indigenous Feminisms provides students with ways to practice Indigenous ways of thinking, learning, especially those studying Gender Studies, Social and Cultural History, S

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Book SynopsisReading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class focuses on the crossover of queer and class, examining a range of texts across languages and genres and spanning nearly a century.This collection of essays considers the intersection of queer and class in relation to literary aesthetics, a locus in which the interaction between sexuality and class is rendered with lucidity. Each chapter puts forward class and its manifestations as central to queer analysis of literary and cultural texts in historical and contemporary contexts. The readings adopt Kimberlé Crenshaw's intersectional paradigm by pointing to its activist as well as literary precedents and elaborations.These essays emerged from a long-standing collaboration among three Central European universities whose faculty and graduate students established a joint queer literature and theory research seminar. They are supplemented by a roundtable discussion in which the contributing authors an

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Book SynopsisThis book uses an intersectional lens to explore the lived experiences of sexually traumatized girls in school. It provides a deep understanding of the students' experiences, viewed through the prism of their multiple identities. The author employs a qualitative phenomenological study to investigate the psychological, social, and academic impacts of such trauma.The book's core strength lies in its exploration of the intersectionality between identity and sexual trauma. It does this by examining the impacts of historical trauma, through the lens of four major historical events: transatlantic slavery, the Holocaust, World War II, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This research highlights potential mental health, social, and academic outcomes prevalent in historically marginalized groups, which is then connected to a broader understanding of intersectionality and trauma. It underscores the urgent need for educators and school leaders to understand this phenomenon in order to be effecti

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography. It also considers the intersections between and the diversities within these categories. Eller presents students with an unprecedented combination of history, conceptual analysis, discussion of academic literature, and up-to-date statistics. The book includes a range of illustrations, figures and tables, text boxes, a glossary of key terms, and a comprehensive bibliography. New to this edition are updated numerical and statistical data, as well as discussions of sociopolitical developments over the past decade, includingâ The controversies over the 2020 census itself (e.g., the âœcitizenship question,â funding for the census)â The #MeToo movementâ The Black Lives Matter movement, Critical Race Theory, and race-related police violenceâ The rise in r

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Book SynopsisThis compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women's health and healthcare across the world.Written by scholars and activists from a range of disciplines, including law, sociology, and the health sciences, the book spotlights a range of products that have had a damaging impact on women's health, laying bare the values and assumptions engrained within the marketing campaigns that promoted them. Examples include the advertisement of household and personal care products that expose users to toxic chemicals, empowerment messaging to persuade women to use tobacco products in low- and middle-income countries, and the deceptive marketing of benzodiazepines and opioids that disproportionately impacts women and their families.A powerful critique of the unethical and paternalistic approach of some corporations, this book will find readers among students taking courses in Public Health, A

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Book SynopsisThis book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of class and caste, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, disability, religion, and nation, questions of age and its importance for feminism have been less well defined. Drawing on recent literature on childhood, the chapters in this volume cover a range of fresh perspectives. These include: What kinds of biological, legal, chronological histories age has and the fundamental ways in which these links are being recast. How gender differences occupy a prominent place in historical constructions of identities, especially the frequent infantilisation of women, who are never seen as adults in the full sense of the term nor equally allowed to be children beyond the first years of life. Ways in which class, caste, gender, and ethnicity shaped classrooms and op

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Book SynopsisThis book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a world view â that guides many of our actions in concrete everyday life â and as a philosophy â that guides our epistemological understanding of the reality around us. It explores the multifaceted manifestations of the idea in the Enlightenment philosophy, modern sociological theorising and post-structural standpoints. The volume also critiques rationality from feminist, subaltern and postcolonial perspectives. Finally, it delves into the multi-layered sociological significances of rationalisation of different domains of life. Transdisciplinary in scope and with essays by foremost scholars in the field, this volume will be a major intervention across the humanities and the social sciences. It will be of interest to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, gender studies, political science, cultural anthropology, education, and religious studies.

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Book SynopsisIn an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as life, love, death, sex. From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age, sexualities and genders, hooks and Hall dissect topics and themes of continual contemporary relevance, including feminism, home and homecoming, class, black masculinity, family, politics, relationships, and teaching. In their fluid and honest dialogue they push and pull each other as well as the reader, and the result is a book that speaks to the power of conversation as a place of critical pedagogy.Trade Review"Imagine if you could listen to a conversation between bell hooks and Stuart Hall about feminism, race, sexuality and love? With this book, we do not have to rely on our imaginations. This conversation between hooks and Hall flickers with life and is full of wit, warmth and wisdom. The book gives us the opportunity to learn from two of the most important black critical thinkers of our time." -Sara Ahmed, independent scholarTable of ContentsForeword by Paul GilroyPreface by bell hooksDialogue between bell hooks and Stuart Hall

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Book SynopsisIn pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in high fire danger weather with climate change have triggered concern for the safety of such amenity-led migrants in wildfire-prone landscapes. This book examines wildfire awareness and preparedness amongst women, men, households, communities and agencies at the interface between city and beyond. It does so through an examination of two regions where wildfires are common and disastrous, and where how to deal with them is a major political issue: southeast Australia and the west coast United States. It follows women's and men's stories of surviving, fighting, evacuating, living and working with wildfire to reveal the intimate inner workings of wildfire response and especially the culturally and historically distinct gender relations that underpin wildfire resilience. Wildfire iTable of Contents1. Between Three Fires 2. The Gendered Dimensions of Wildfire 3. Wildfire and Dilemmas of Everyday Life 4. Wildfire, Resilience and Sense of Belonging 5. Indigenous Fire Knowledge Retention: Spatial, Temporal, Gendered 6. Engaging Women with Bushfire Safety Issues 7. Toeing the Line or Breaking the Glass Ceiling 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAlthough the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives. As a result many of these neighborhoods are losing their special character as safe havens for sexual and gender minorities. Urban planners and municipal officials have sometimes ignored the transformation of these neighborhoods and at other times been complicit in these changes. Planning and LGBTQ Communities brings together experienced planners, administrators, and researchers in the fields of planning and geography to reflect on the evolution of urban neighborhoods in which LGBTQ populations live, work, and play. The authors examine a variety of LGBTQ residential and commercial areas to highlight policy and planning links to the development of these neighborhoods. Each chapter explores a Trade Review"This book represents a clarion call to student, academic and practising planners and politicians to open their ears, eyes and minds to the question of sexuality. Petra Doan is to be commended for assembling this landmark contribution to planning scholarship, which highlights the challenges LGBTQ communities continue to endure in the twenty-first century whilst also showcasing the contributions they make in creating dynamic and vibrant cities." Paul J. Maginn, Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia"How can planners contribute to building urban societies that are truly diverse and inclusive? Planning and LGBTQ Communities helps answer this critical question as the authors unpack how LGBTQ residents, who also embody a range of intersectional differences, experience and shape urban life outside the familiar gay neighborhoods. This is a necessary contribution to an overlooked subject." Dr. Renia Ehrenfeucht, University of New Orleans"Planning lags behind its sister disciplines in the scholarship of LGBTQ communities and issues. With Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces, Petra Doan and colleagues close some of this gap. As a course text, their book will bring fresh ideas to planning students' understanding of diversity, and provides practical advice for the practice of planning. Cases presented extend well beyond the "iconic" locales and will make visible to readers layers of LGBTQ communities that have been relatively invisible to the institutions of planning." - Gwen Urey, Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona "Moving beyond conceptions of a static, bounded 'gay ghetto', this important and timely volume considers the varied ways in which LGBTQ identified individuals have occupied, moved through and transformed cities. Though mainly focused on US cities, the questions raised by this book are far from parochial, and encourage a wider reflection on the ways that planning serves the interests of diverse communities. A provocative plea that LGBTQ rights to the city should be recognised, and honoured." - Professor Phil Hubbard, University of Kent"This book is a wonderful collection of excellent essays that addresses a key issue, how do we plan for LGBTQ people? Bringing together the world’s leading scholars, this insightful, perceptive and engaging book is a must read for all in planning, urban studies as well as geographies. There can be little doubt that this is a groundbreaking book that will be useful for teaching as well as research." - Dr. Katherine Browne, University of BrightonTable of ContentsChapter 1 –Why Plan for the LGBTQ Community? PART ONE PLANNING AND LGBTQ POPULATIONS IN TRADITIONAL GAY NEIGHBORHOODS Chapter 2 -Gay Commercial Districts in Chicago and the Role of Planning Chapter 3 -The Dallas Way: Property, Politics, and Assimilation Chapter 4 -Fractures and Fissures in "Post-Mo" Washington, DC: The Limits of Gayborhood Transition and Diffusion PART TWO: PLANNING AND LGBTQ POPULATIONS OUTSIDE THE GAY VILLAGE Chapter 5 -Thinking Beyond Exclusionary Gay Male Spatial Frames in the Developing World Chapter 6 -The Pervasiveness of Hetero-Sexism and the Experiences of Queers in Everyday Space: The Case of Cambridge, Massachusetts Chapter 7 -Identifying and Supporting LGBTQ Friendly Neighborhoods in the American South: The Trade-off Between Visibility and Acceptance PART THREE: EXPANDING PLANNING HORIZONS: RECOGNIZING LGBTQ INTERSECTIONALITY Chapter 8 -Finding Transformative Planning Practice in the Spaces of Intersectionality Chapter 9 -Southern Discomfort: In Search of the LGBT-Friendly City Chapter 10 -The Queer Cosmopolis: The Evolution of Jackson Heights Chapter 11 -Lesbian Spaces in Transition: Insights from Toronto and Sydney PART FOUR: LINKING PLANNING AND LGBTQ ACTIVIST GROUPS TO ENSURE SERVICE DELIVERY Chapter 12 -Act Up versus Straighten Up: Public Policy and Queer Community-Based Activism Chapter 13 -Place / Out: Planning for Radical Queer Activism Chapter 14 -The Racial Politics of Precarity: Understanding Ethno-specific AIDS Service Organizations in Neoliberal Times Chapter 15 -Beyond Queer Space: Planning for Diverse and Dispersed LGBTQ Populations

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Media and Gender offers a comprehensive examination of media and gender studies, charting its histories, investigating ongoing controversies, and assessing future trends.The 59 chapters in this volume, written by leading researchers from around the world, provide scholars and students with an engaging and authoritative survey of current thinking in media and gender research.The Companion includes the following features: With each chapter addressing a distinct, concrete set of issues, the volume includes research from around the world to engage readers in a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives. Authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field, including postfeminism, sexual violence, masculinity, media industries, queer identities, video games, digital policy, media activism, sexualizationTrade Review"This ambitious project investigates longstanding gender concerns in light of today’s media landscape. Its internationally diverse authors analyze production and reception of recent media texts—journalism, film, reality TV, gaming, music, sports and more—within a postfeminist, neoliberal, and networked popular culture. They also consider consequences of broader shifts in media ecology, such as unequal Internet access that exacerbates discrimination and the roles of social media in both empowering and commodifying women. Scholars will find a wide range of timely case studies and provocative ideas in this rich resource." Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism, Temple University, USA "The editors have put together a valuable compendium of essays from some of the leading scholars in the field. The anthology offers a diverse array of perspectives —theoretical, political, and methodological — on the vital, complex, and ever-evolving sub-discipline of gender and media studies." Meenakshi Gigi Durham, University of Iowa, USA "With this Routledge Companion, three prominent feminist scholars have master-minded an important collection of chapters on gender and media contributed by accomplished scholars. This is truly a companion for the novice scholar needing an entrée into the vast and confusing literature that has grown over the past several decades and that ranges from theory on gender, sexuality, masculinity, intersectionality, transnationalism, and globalism to issues of violence, activism, pornography, news, gaming, social media, and sports. For the advanced scholar, the volume takes stock of where we have been and analyzes why we haven't arrived yet. A particular strength is the attention to reports from countries around the world and essays that don't let us forget the politics, economics, labor, production, and creative appropriation that must be accounted for in our approach to gender and media. We have the foundation documented for us. The next step is to imagine the world we want to live in and the communication systems we will need to make that world possible." Lana F. Rakow, Professor of Communication, University of North Dakota, USA "Dedicated to an “extensive examination of a wide array of contemporary critical perspectives and diverse contexts,” the collection is essential for libraries and for those who study children, popular culture, psychology, sexual orientation, sociology, women and gender issues, and other areas of inquiry." Jan Whitt, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "[This collective volume] will prove to be of invaluable help to anyone – faculty staff and students – involved in teaching and working on this topic... Overall, [it] is an excellent effort that will find a natural fit in many course syllabuses in the fields of both media and women’s studies." Iolanda Tortajada, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Table of ContentsIntroduction: Re-Imagining Media and Gender PART I: Her/Histories 1. Media and the Representation of Gender 2. Mass Media Representation of Gendered Violence 3. Lone Wolves: Masculinity, Cinema and the Man Alone 4. To Communicate is Human; To Chat is Female: The Feminization of U.S. Media Work 5. Rediscovering 20th Century Feminist Audience Research 6. Historical Mapping Contemporary Intersectional Feminist Media Studies 7. Sexualities/Queer Identities 8. Gender, Media and Trans/National Spaces Part II: Media Industries, Labor, and Policy 9. Women and Media Control: Feminist Interrogations at the Macro-level 10. Risk, Innovation, and Gender in Media Conglomerates 11. Putting Gender in the Mix: Employment, Participation and Role Expectations in the Music Industries 12. Gender Inequality in Cultural Industries 13. Shifting Boundaries: Gender, Labor, and New Information and Communication Technology 14. Gendering the Commodity Audience in Social Media 15. Youthful White Male Industry Seeks "Fun"-Loving Middle-Aged Women for Video Games: No Strings Attached 16. Boys are… Girls are….: How Children’s Media and Merchandizing Construct Gender 17. Girls’ and Boys’ Experiences of Online Risk and Safety 18. Holy Grail or Poisoned Chalice? Three Generations of Men’s Magazines 19. Making Public Policy in the Digital Age: The Sex Industry as a Political Actor 20. Gender and Digital Policy: From Global Information Infrastructure to Internet Governance 21. Gender and Media Activism: Alternative Feminist Media in Europe 22. Between Legitimacy and Political Efficacy: Feminist Counter-Publics and the Internet in China Part III: Images and Representations across Texts and Genres 23. Buying and Selling Sex: Sexualization, Commerce and Gender 24. Class, Gender and the Docusoap: The Only Way is Essex 25. Society's Emerging Femininities: Neoliberal, Postfeminist and Hybrid Identities on Television in South Africa 26. A Nice Bit of Skirt and the Talking Head: Sex, Politics and News 27. Transgender, Transmedia, Transnationality: Chaz Bono in Documentary and Dancing with the Stars 28. Celebrity, Gossip, Privacy and Scandal 29. "Shameless Mums" and Universal Pedophiles: Sexualization and Commodification of Children 30. Glances, Dances, Romances: An Overview of Gendered Sexual Narratives in Teen Drama Series 31. Smoothing the Wrinkles: Hollywood, "Successful Aging" and the New Visibility of Older Female Stars 32. Globalization, Beauty Regimes, and Mediascapes in the New India 33. Perfect Bodies, Imperfect Messages: Media Coverage of Cosmetic Surgery and Ideal Beauty 34. Narrative Pleasure in Homeland: The Competing Femininities of "Rogue Agents" and "Terror Wives" 35. Above the Fold and Beyond the Veil: Islamophobia in Western Media 36. Sport, Media and the Gender-Based Insult Part IV: Media Audiences, Users, and Prosumers 37. Subjects of Capacity? Reality TV and Young Women 38. Telenovelas, Gender and Genre 39. Gendering and Selling the Female News Audience in a Digital Age 40. Looking Beyond Representation: Situating the Significance of Gender Portrayal within Game Play 41. Textual Orientation: Queer Female Fandom Online 42. Delivering the Male – And More: Fandom and Media Sport 43. Men’s Use of Pornography 44. Gender and Social Media: Sexism, Empowerment or the Irrelevance of Gender? 45. Slippery Subjects: Gender, Meaning and the Bollywood Audience 46. Asian Women as Audiences, Asian Popular Culture and Media Globalization 47. Women as Radio Audiences in South Africa 48. Reading Girlhood: Opportunities for Social Literacy 49. Investigating Users’ Responses to Dove’s "Real Beauty" Strategy: Feminism, Freedom and Facebook 50. Feminism in a Postfeminist World: Women Discuss who’s "Hot" - And Why We Care – On the Collegiate "Anonymous Confession Board" 51. Gendered Networked Visualities: Locative Camera Phone Cultures in Seoul, South Korea 52. Gendering the "Arab Spring:" Arab Women Journalists/Activists, "Cyberfeminism," and the Socio-Political Revolution Part V: Gendered Media Futures and the Future of Gender 53. Latinas on Television and Film: Exploring the Limits and Possibilities of Inclusion 54. Intersectionality, Digital Identities and Migrant Youths: Moroccan-Dutch Youths as Digital Space Invaders 55. Feminist Debates about the Sexualization of Culture 56. Post Post Feminism 57. Policing the Crisis of Masculinity: Media and Masculinity at the Dawn of the New Century 58. Glassy Architectures in Journalism 59. Online Anti-Sexism Political Action in the UK and USA: The Importance of Collaborative Anger for Social Change

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