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The University of Chicago Press Primate Paradigms Sex Roles and Social Bonds
Book SynopsisThis critical review of behavior patterns in nonhuman primates is a study of the importance of female roles in different social groups and their significance in the evolution of human social life.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Forbidden History
Book SynopsisThis anthology encompasses a broad range of essays on sexuality spanning European history from the fifteenth century to the present.
£23.50
The University of Chicago Press Identities A Critical Inquiry Book
Book SynopsisA collection of 20 essays which discusses topics such as: gypsies in the Western imagination; the mobilization of the West in Chinese television; the lesbian identity and the woman's gaze in fashion photography; and the regulation of Black women's bodies in early 20th-century urban areas.
£22.00
The University of Chicago Press The Marriage Exchange Property Social Place and
Book SynopsisThis study of how 282 men in the United States found their jobs demonstrates the importance of social connections and emphasizes how social activity influences labour markets. The importance of networking as a link between labour mobility and individual motivation is also studied.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. 1: Toward Causal Models Ch. 1: "Job Search" and Economic Theory Ch. 2: Contacts and Their Information Ch. 3: The Dynamics of Information Flow Ch. 4: The Dynamics of Vacancy Structure Ch. 5: Contacts: Acquisition and Maintenance Ch. 6: Career Structure Ch. 7: Some Theoretical Implications Pt. 2: Mobility and Society Ch. 8: Mobility and Organizations Ch. 9: Comparative Perspectives Ch. 10: Applications Afterword 1994: Reconsiderations and a New Agenda Appendix A: Design and Conduct of the Study Appendix B: Coding Rules and Problems Appendix C: Letters and Interview Schedules Appendix D: Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness References Index
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Anxious Pleasures The Sexual Lives of an
Book SynopsisGood fish get dull but sex is always fun. So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate ritualsespecially those practiced by the men in their secret societiesthe Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. If we look carefully, writes Gregor, we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazonian people. The book is illustrated with Mehinaku drawings of ritual texts and myths, as well as with photographs of the villagers taking part in both everyday and ceremonial activities.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Sex Museums The Politics and Performance of Display
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£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Sambia Sexual Culture Essays from the Field
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on the sexual culture of the Sambia of Papua New Guinea examines: fetish and fantasy; ritual nose-bleeding; the role of homoerotic insemination; the role of the father and mother in the process of identity formation; and the creation of a third sex in nature and culture.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Pronouncing and Persevering Gender and the
Book SynopsisSusan Hirsch's observations of Islamic courts uncover how Muslim women actively use legal processes to transform their domestic lives. This achieves victories on some fronts, but also reinforces their image as subordinate to men through the speech they produce in court.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Covenant of Blood Circumcision and Gender in
Book SynopsisA study to examine why circumcision holds such an important place in the Jewish psyche. The text traces the symbolism of circumcision through history, examining its evolution as a symbol of the covenant in the post-exilic period of the Bible and its meaning in the era of Mishnah and Talmud.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Foucault and the Kamasutra The Courtesan the
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£33.25
The University of Chicago Press Ventures into Childland
Book SynopsisBehind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as "Through the Looking Glass", lurks the spectre of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. The author considers the relationships between adults and children, and adults and their own childhood selves.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Corporate Tribalism White MenWhite Women and
Book SynopsisEmphasizes the need for a multicultural - rather than homogenizing - approach and offers ideas for turning the workplace into a more interactive community for everyone who works there.Trade Review"Kochman and Mavrelis provide analyses, anecdotes, and examples from their research and training experiences that give richness and credibility to their reasoning. As a consequence, their discussions are vivid, insightful, and stimulating. Their arguments about the connections between the culture of racial, gender, and ethnic groups and the conflicts that can surface between and among members of these groups merit consideration. And their timely conclusions will be relevant in the workplace and to society at large." - R. Roosevelt Thomas, author of Building on the Promise of Diversity: How We Can Move to the Next Level in Our Workplaces, Our Communities, and Our Society"
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press The Burdens of Intimacy Psychoanalysis and
Book SynopsisShowing why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy, this text examines works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that undermined the utilitarian ethos of the age.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Manhood A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Book of Minor Perverts Sexology Etiology and
Book SynopsisA historical, scientific, and political analysis of how sexuality is represented at the intersection of queer studies, modernist studies, American studies, history of sexuality, and medical humanities.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press The Sleep of Reason Erotic Experience and Sexual
Book SynopsisSex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of Ancient Greece and Rome.This work considers how erotic experience is understood in classical texts, and what ethical and philosophical arguments are made about sex?
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press On the Origin of Language
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The University of Chicago Press Memas House Mexico City On Transvestites Queens
Book SynopsisMema lives in a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her house is a sanctuary for young homosexual men and transvestites. Mema is an AIDS educator and leader of the group. This study follows the transvestites in their daily activities, and analyzes their complicated relations.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Peculiar Places A Queer Crip History of White
Book SynopsisThe queer recluse, the shambling farmer, the clannish hill folkwhite rural populations have long disturbed the American imagination, alternately revered as moral, healthy, and hardworking, and feared as antisocial or socially uncouth. InPeculiarPlaces, Ryan Lee Cartwright examines the deep archive of these contrary formations, mapping racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural twentieth-century United States. Sensationalized accounts of white rural communities' aberrant sexualities, racial intermingling, gender transgressions, and anomalous bodies and minds, which proliferated from the turn of the century, created a national view of the perversity of white rural poverty for the American public.Cartwright contendsthat these accounts, extracted and estranged from their own ambivalent forum of community gossip, must be read in kind: through a racialized, materialist queercrip optic of the deeply familiar and mundane. Taking in popular scienTrade Review“Peculiar Places represents applied queercrip theory at its best. Cartwright’s writing is lucid, even page-turning, and his scholarship sound and persuasive, arguing that sensationalized accounts of the disabled, dispossessed, and marginalized in twentieth-century rural America can be repurposed to unpack countless norms and deviancies. In its bold theoretical interventions, innovative historical analysis, and stunning argumentation, Peculiar Places is outstanding, a model of intellectual courage. This pathbreaking work will inspire and steer scholarship for decades to come.” * John Howard, King’s College London *“By offering detailed analyses of quotidian encounters, Cartwright reveals the complex ways ‘poor rural white folks living on the margins’ were defined, pathologized, surveilled, and violated. But rather than present binary narratives of ableist victimization and heroic transgression, Cartwright underscores the way these same people often relied on racial hierarchies and settler claims to indigenous land. Peculiar Places offers a way of doing disability studies that can simultaneously recognize queercrip practices of interdependence and violence.” * Alison Kafer, University of Texas at Austin *"Offers generative contributions, more broadly, to the field of queer studies through a nuanced and complicated view of the rural, and. . . a necessary intersectional queer lens to rural studies. Ultimately, [Peculiar Places] asks the reader to interrogate not just ways of looking but also the implications of being seen. " * Cleveland Review of Books *"Peculiar Places challenges the reader to consider the complex interconnections and interdependencies of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability in rural spaces in an effective and accessible manner. As such, this book contributes to a better understanding of the anti-idyllic lens through which individuals are taught to read rural America." * Gender Forum *"Ryan Lee Cartwright’s Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity is a clear and well-researched book, one that deploys insights from queer and disability studies to explore the contradictory place of white rural nonconformity." * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: QueerCrip Historical Analysis and the Rural White Anti-Idyll One: Harlots from the Hollow: Eugenic Detectives on the Lookout for the Rural White Hovel Family Two: Curious Scenes: The Fringes of Rural Rehabilitation in 1930s Documentary Photography Three: Madness in the Dead Heart: Ed Gein and the Fabrication of the Transgender Heartland “Psycho” Killer Myth Four: “Maimed in Body and Spirit”: The Spectacle of White Appalachian Poverty Tours during the 1960s Five: Banjos, Chainsaws, and Sodomy: Making 1970s Rural Horror Films and the Apex of the Anti-Idyll Six: Estranged but Not Strangers: Nonconformity Encounters Identity in 1990s Hate-Crime Documentaries Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press National Performances
Book SynopsisThis study explores how Puerto Ricans in Chicago construct and perform nationalism. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Ramos-Zyas shows how the performance of Puerto rican nationalism in Chicago serves as a critique of social inequality and imperialism.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press With Respect to Sex
Book SynopsisWith Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the third sex of Indiaindividuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. By focusing on the hijra community, Gayatri Reddy sheds new light on Indian society and the intricate negotiations of identity across various domains of everyday life. Further, by reframing hijra identity through the local economy of respect, this ethnography highlights the complex relationships among local and global, sexual and moral, economies. This book will be regarded as the definitive work on hijras, one that will be of enormous interest to anthropologists, students of South Asian culture, and specialists in the study of gender and sexuality.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisIn this text, Mary Beth Rose argues that from the late 16th century to the late 17th century, a passive, more female, but equally potent dimension of heroic identity began to dominate English culture.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Sexuality across the Life Course
Book SynopsisA collection of 14 essays on sexual behaviour, from adolescence to old age, and covering such groups as singles, married couples, homosexuals and African-American men and women. This volume also looks at topics such as the effects of chronic disease and medication on sexual functioning.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Erotic Triangles
Book SynopsisIn West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drumbeat to make a man get up and dance. The author draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities.Trade Review"This is a highly original and illuminating study of Sundanese performing arts and gender ideology. Theoretically challenging and historically rich, Erotic Triangles frames men's improvisational dance as the playful working out of gendered identity relations." - Andrew N. Weintraub, University of Pittsburgh"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Intimate States
Book SynopsisFourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history.Trade Review"Intimate States is a stunning achievement, challenging conventional thinking that sharply divides public from private; sex and gender from politics; identity from material concerns. In its breadth and depth, originality, and cohesiveness, Intimate States also manages to avoid the usual pitfalls of edited volumes; while far-ranging, it offers a single and coherent argument of profound importance."-- "Deborah Dinner, Emory University"Table of ContentsIntroduction Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self 1: Reconstructing Belonging: The Thirteenth Amendment at Work in the World Stephanie McCurry 2: The Comstock Apparatus Jeffrey Escoffier, Whitney Strub, and Jeffrey Patrick Colgan 3: Morals, Sex, Crime, and the Legal Origins of Modern American Social Police William J. Novak 4: The Commerce (Clause) in Sex in the Life of Lucille de Saint-André Grace Peña Delgado 5: “Facts Which Might Be Embarrassing”: Illegitimacy, Vital Registration, and State Knowledge Susan J. Pearson 6: Race, the Construction of Dangerous Sexualities, and Juvenile Justice Tera Eva Agyepong 7: Eugenic Sterilization as a Welfare Policy Molly Ladd-Taylor 8: “Land of the White Hunter”: Legal Liberalism and the Shifting Racial Ground of Morals Enforcement Anne Gray Fischer 9: Sex Panic, Psychiatry, and the Expansion of the Carceral State Regina Kunzel 10: The Fall of Walter Jenkins and the Hidden History of the Lavender Scare Timothy Stewart-Winter 11: The State of Illegitimacy after the Rights Revolution Serena Mayeri 12: What Happened to the Functional Family? Defining and Defending Alternative Households Before and Beyond Same-Sex Marriage Stephen Vider 13: Abortion and the State after Roe Johanna Schoen 14: The Work That Sex Does Paisley Currah Afterword: Frugal Governance, Family Values, and the Intimate Roots of Neoliberalism Brent Cebul Acknowledgments Contributors Index
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Born This Way Science Citizenship and Inequality
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Bristling with insight, Born This Way is one of the most important and thought-provoking works of LGBTQ+ scholarship this century. The clearest path to genuine equality, Wuest argues, may not rest on biological claims about the nature of sexuality and gender, but, rather, on claims about the forms of social provision to which everyone is entitled.” -- Cary Franklin | University of California, Los Angeles“Addressing crucial questions that are both timely and timeless, this powerful, persuasive, nuanced book is a conversation-changing account of the sources and consequences of scientific authority in the struggles over LGBTQ+ rights and politics in the United States.” -- Dara Strolovitch | Yale University“A devastatingly smart analysis, Born This Way deftly reveals the political pitfalls of relying too heavily on scientific claims in securing rights and legal protections—and, more fundamentally, that we can never divorce science from politics.” -- Katrina Karkazis | Amherst CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Origins 1 The Science of Civil Rights: The Rise and Demise of Sexual Deviancy 2 Desire in the Throes of Power: Gay Liberation, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Classification 3 “Why Is My Child Gay?”: The Liberal Foundations of Born This Way 4 Immutability before the Gay Gene: Biology and Civil Rights Litigation Part 2 Evolutions and Adaptations 5 Rise of the Gay Gene: Science, Law, Culture, and Hype 6 From Pathology to “Born Perfect”: Marriage Equality and Conversion Therapy Bans 7 The Scientific Gaze in Transgender and Bisexual Politics Conclusion: Beyond Born This Way: Fluid Desires, Fixed Identities, and Entrenched Inequalities Acknowledgments Notes Index
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press See Jane Run
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£87.40
The University of Chicago Press The Scene of Harlem Cabaret
Book SynopsisHarlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Scene of Harlem Cabaret Race Sexuality
Book SynopsisHarlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Cholas Pishtacos Stories of Race Sex in the
Book SynopsisCholas and Pishtacos are two provocative characters from South American popular culture. In this book, these two figures become vehicles for an exploration of race, sex, and violence beginning with three forms of social and economic interaction: estrangement, exchange and accumulation.
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press Dangerous Frames How Ideas about Race and Gender
Book SynopsisIn addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we think - and vote - about an array of issues that don't seem related to either category. This title illuminates the emotional underpinnings of American politics.Trade Review"This is a very exciting book, and one of the finest pieces of work in the area of politics, identity, and the mass media. It will have a broad impact on the fields of American political psychology, public opinion, political communication, and racial and gender attitudes." - Nicholas Valentino, University of Texas at Austin"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Playing the Other Gender and Society in Classical
Book SynopsisThis study explores the influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods ranging from epic and didactic poetry to the theatrical productions of tragedy and comedy in 5th-century Athens. The workings of gender as a factor in Greek social, religious and cultural practices are explored.
£30.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Identities Under Construction
Book SynopsisExamining how young adults construct their sexual, gender, and religious identities.Trade Review"Dickey Young and Shipley let their participants define their gender, sexuality, and religiosity in their own words - a sophisticated and thoughtful choice that truly reflects the spirit of their findings. Several of the compelling participants' narratives promise to stay with readers long after they put down this book. The authors wield an impressive amount of data, revealing a generation's lived experiences of religion and sexuality in Canada as we have never seen before." Jennifer A. Selby, Memorial University of Newfoundland
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice
Book SynopsisA timely critique of the entrenchment of tradition in Islam, with solutions to recover the religion's dynamism.Trade Review"Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice offers many original and compelling insights into Qur'anic exegesis, Muslim laws, and Islamic traditions and is likely to open up new interpretive horizons for rethinking religious knowledge." Asma Barlas, Ithaca College and author of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
£105.40
McGill-Queen's University Press Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s, Muslim women reformers have made great strides in critiquing and reinterpreting the Islamic tradition. Yet these achievements have not produced a significant shift in the lived experience of Islam, particularly with respect to equality and justice in Muslim families. A new approach is needed: one that examines the underlying instruments of tradition and explores avenues for effecting change. In Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice leading intellectuals and emerging researchers grapple with the problem of entrenched positions within Islam that affect women, investigating the processes by which interpretations become authoritative, the theoretical foundations upon which they stand, and the ways they have been used to inscribe and enforce gender limitations. Together, they argue that the Islamic interpretive tradition displays all the trappings of canonical texts, canonical figures, and canon law despite the fact that Islam does not ordain religious authoritTrade Review"Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice offers many original and compelling insights into Qur'anic exegesis, Muslim laws, and Islamic traditions and is likely to open up new interpretive horizons for rethinking religious knowledge." Asma Barlas, Ithaca College and author of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
£27.08
McGill-Queen's University Press Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of appropriating voices through narrative, examining her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales.Trade Review"Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories contributes substantively to Warner criticism and completely overhauls conventional conceptions of her writing. This is a hugely impressive, highly original book." Mike Marais, Rhodes University
£92.70
McGill-Queen's University Press The Ones We Let Down
Book SynopsisThe “decade of darkness” was a tumultuous time for women in Canada’s military. A human rights tribunal ordered the military to open combat positions to women and reach full gender integration by 1999. Charlotte Duval-Lantoine looks at failed efforts to accomplish this goal, revealing an organization –and leaders – unwilling and unable to change.Trade Review“Clearly written, Duval-Lantoine offers a detailed history and close reading of the failure of Canada's military gender integration during the 1990s, filling an important gap as the first book-length publication on the topic.” Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger, Royal Military College of Canada and co-editor of Transhumanizing War: Performance Enhancement and the Implications for Policy, Society, and the Soldier“Duval-Lantoine deftly unpacks the period of institutional challenges and trauma for the Canadian Armed Forces between 1989 and 1999. Her rich analysis exposes the depth of toxic leadership behaviours within the CF during this time, and its impact on the recruitment and retention of servicewomen. She offers a stark reminder of the importance of effective leaders, and the consequences that befall those around them when leadership fails.” International Affairs“In The Ones We Let Down, Charlotte Duval-Lantoine guides the reader through gender integration initiatives of the CAF with a focus on the 1990s, which were characterized by an organizational culture that failed to develop leadership accountability—a ‘toxic culture of leadership.’ Duval-Lantoine argues that toxic leadership culture is what has limited culture change in support of gender integration.” Canadian Military Journal“This accessible, readable book should be required for all who seek to make change within a respectful, diverse, and fully effective military. The book provides an opportunity to pause and reflect on what has occurred and for leaders at all levels to consider useful lessons as to why change initiatives fail and why people are let down.” Grounded Curiosity Online Journal
£25.19
Columbia University Press En Travesti Women Gender Subversion Opera Paper
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£29.75
Columbia University Press The Political Consequences of Being a Woman
Book SynopsisKahn examines the impact of sex role stereotyping on the electability of women candidates, and as a central factor in the conduct and consequences of statewide campaigns.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Stereotypes in Statewide Campaigns 3. Gender Differences in Campaign Appeals for the U.S. Senate 4. Differences in Campaign Coverage: An Examination of U.S. Senate Races 5. The Impact of Coverage Differences and Sex Stereotypes 6. Differences in Campaign Appeals for Governor 7. Press Coverage of Male and Female Candidates for Governor 8. New Coverage and Gender in Gubernatorial Campaigns: An Experimental Study of the Female Candidate's "Potential" Advantage 9. The Electoral Consequences of Stereotypes 10. Conclusions and Implications
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Columbia University Press From Partners to Parents The Second Revolution
Book SynopsisExamining the changes that have occurred in families, family research, and family law in the late 20th century, this volume describes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children, rather than to each other.Trade ReviewDescribes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family from an emphasis on partners' relationships with each other to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children. Family TherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction: From Parents to Partners--The Second Revolution in Family Law Part I. From Partners to Parents: The Philosophical Divide 1. Economics and the Family: Reformulating the Old Order 2. Feminism and Political Theory: The Traditional Family and Its Discontents 3. Feminism and Economics: Becker Meets Okin 4. Law, Public Policy, and the Feminism of Difference 5. Liberal Feminism vs. the Feminism of Difference: Or, The Huxtables vs. Grace Under Fire 6. Fineman and Becker: Feminism vs. Economics 7. Morality, Family, and the State 8. What Is the Purpose of Family Policy? Galston vs. Fineman--with the Others Watching from the Sidelines 9. Conclusion Part II. From Partners to Parents: The Empirical Debate 10. History and the Making of the Modern Family (with Apologies to Edward Shorter) 11. Race, Class, and Controversy 12. What Did Happen? Economics Revisited 13. Economics and History: The Chapter Yet to Be Written 14. And What About the Children? 15. Conclusion Part III. From Partners to Parents: The Legal Revolution 16. The Meaning of Marriage 17. Partnership Revisited 18. Child Support and the Parenthood Draft 19. The Remaking of Fatherhood 20. Child Custody at Divorce: Ground Zero in the Gender Wars 21. Welfare Reform and the Permissibility of Motherhood 22. Renegotiating Childhood Conclusion: From Partners to Parents--The Unfinished Revolution
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Columbia University Press Gendering World Politics Issues Approaches in
Book SynopsisTickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethnic conflict and other new security issues, globalizations, democratization, and human rights.Trade ReviewTickner offers a massive survey of the literature in international relations, both traditional and feminist... Highly recommended for research libraries. Choice Very good... Tickner manages to convey both the breadth and the subtleties of feminist contributions in IR... She does not water down what she sees as the ultimate implications for IR of feminist analyses. American Political Science ReviewTable of Contents1. Gendering World Politics 2. Troubled Encounters: Feminism Meets IR 3. War, Peace, and Security 4. Gendering the Global Economy 5. Democratization, the State and the Global Order: Gendered Perspectives 6. Conclusions and Beginnings: Some Pathways for IR Feminist Futures Bibliography
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Columbia University Press Sex and World Peace
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSex and World Peace should be on top of every introductory International Relations reading list. -- Sara E. Davies International Affairs [A] pioneering and readable book... Highly recommended. Choice This is an important, well written, and inf ormative book that will serve a wide audience of graduate and undergraduate students, academics, and policymakers, as well as the interested public. -- Helen M. Kinsella Ethics and International Affairs highly readable and provides a thought-provoking introduction to the reasons why equality between women and men within the family matters for the relations between states and, ultimately, world peace. -- Marijke Breuning Peace and Conflict A landmark book. -- Gloria Steinem Ms. Since violence against females is the normalizer of all other forms of violence, this book is vital, from family life to foreign policy. -- Gloria Steinem T: The New York Times Style MagazineTable of ContentsList of Maps Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Roots of National and International Relations 2. What Is There to See 3. When We Do See the Global Picture 4. The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States 5. Wings of National and International Relations 6. Wings of National and International Relations 7. Taking Wing Appendix A. Operationalizations for Data Analysis in Chapter 4 Appendix B. Data Analysis Results for Chapter 4 Notes Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The Rey Chow Reader
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction Acknowledgments Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation 3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions 4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation 5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, by Miscegenation 6. When Whiteness Feminizes ... : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic Part 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics 7. Film and Cultural Identity 8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship 9. The Dream of a Butterfly 10. Film as Ethnography; or, by Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World 11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, by Sixty 12. From Sentimental Fabulations, by Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility 13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, by a Different Type of Migration Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Rey Chow Reader
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction Acknowledgments Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation 3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions 4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation 5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, by Miscegenation 6. When Whiteness Feminizes ... : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic Part 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics 7. Film and Cultural Identity 8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship 9. The Dream of a Butterfly 10. Film as Ethnography; or, by Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World 11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, by Sixty 12. From Sentimental Fabulations, by Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility 13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, by a Different Type of Migration Notes Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Truth About Girls and Boys
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBRAVO! This is a much needed, informative, and engaging book. The authors, Rosalind C. Barnett (a highly respected research psychologist) and Caryl Rivers (a skilled journalist), take the reader on a critical and clarifying tour of claims about categorical, biologically-based sex differences used to justify the move towards more publicly funded single-sex schooling. This book is a significant contribution to an area of heated debate and policy struggle. Parents, teachers, and policy-makers can turn to it as a reliable guide through a thicket of hype and over-claiming. The authors do an excellent job of unpacking empirical assertions, exposing shabby "science," unfounded generalizations and jumps of logic. -- Barrie Thorne, Professor of Sociology, and Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. The gloves are off. Rivers and Barnett provide a convincing case that much of what parents, teachers, and the general public know about differences between girls and boys is based on highly publicized accounts of shoddy and misleading science. They provide readers with an understanding of the ways girls and boys are similar and different and how we can use that knowledge to raise happy, healthy, and successful children. -- Diane F. Halpern, past-president, American Psychological Association, and author of Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities (fourth edition) A bracing antidote to conventional wisdom. Like Malcolm Gladwell, Rivers and Barnett take readers into the world of research and emerge with surprising and unsettling conclusions. Teachers, educators, parents, journalists, and researchers would do well to read this book before hopping on the bandwagon about the 'differences' between girls and boys. -- Jonathan Kaufman, Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter and education editor at Bloomberg News The Truth About Girls and Boys is exactly that-the real story behind over-hyped claims of sex difference and their harming of girls and boys. Rivers and Barnett expose the sloppy journalism that has allowed pseudoscientific ideas to percolate into our collective beliefs about gender development. Parents, teachers, and policymakers will do well to read this book, to rescue today's girls and boys from false claims of 'hardwired' differences limiting their learning and stunting their futures. -- Lise Eliot, author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett's dissection of the ways tired stereotypes are being repackaged as 'science' is urgently important. It must be read immediately by parents, educators-anyone who believes children should develop their full intellectual and emotional potential. -- Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture The Truth About Girls and Boys is a must read for anyone vouchsafed with the upbringing, care, teaching, or social policy that impacts our most precious legacy: our children-girls and boys. We must read this 'game changing' book, ponder its meaning, and not put it down until we move from our present position of empty-minded acceptance to open-minded and critical thinking. Rivers and Barnett throw out a sturdy life preserver to bring us back from the harm of mangled pseudoscience to the shores of thoughtful, gender equitable understanding. -- William S. Pollack, author of Real Boys: Rescuing Our Boys from the Myths of Boyhood Rivers and Barnett provide insightful examples to show how sex stereotypes ranging from aggression to sexualized body images are based on inaccurate and often harmful generalizations. They make a powerful case against a key rationale for sex-segregated education - that girls and boys learn differently, and therefore should be taught differently and in sex segregated classes. Instead, they conclude that heterogeneous groups and attention to individuals will do more to maximize opportunities and improve society. -- Sue Klein, Ed.D, Education Equity DirectorFeminist Majority Foundation This is an excellent and important book, clearly written yet also packed with documentation. Lis Carey's Blog Buy It RIGHT NOW. Run to the bookstore. Knock over children and old ladies if you have to. Just get your hands on this book! Bookshelf Bombshells ...simple, direct, and accessible prose. Things Mean a Lot Blog Should be given to new parents, educations, coaches, and anyone with the ability to influence the path of young lives. It's packed with excellent advice. -- Sheila Gibbons Media Report to Women Thought-provoking. PsycCritiques Because of the topic and accessibility of the writing, parents and teachers should be encouraged to read this book. -- Emily Keener Psychology of Women QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Brains in Pink and Blue? 3. More Pink and Blue 4. Math Wars 5. Word Play 6. Toy Choice 7. The More Aggressive Sex? 8. Caring 9. The Ideal Classroom 10. Single-Sex Education, Pros and Cons 11. Conclusion Notes Index
£61.20
Columbia University Press The Truth About Girls and Boys
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBRAVO! This is a much needed, informative, and engaging book. The authors, Rosalind C. Barnett (a highly respected research psychologist) and Caryl Rivers (a skilled journalist), take the reader on a critical and clarifying tour of claims about categorical, biologically-based sex differences used to justify the move towards more publicly funded single-sex schooling. This book is a significant contribution to an area of heated debate and policy struggle. Parents, teachers, and policy-makers can turn to it as a reliable guide through a thicket of hype and over-claiming. The authors do an excellent job of unpacking empirical assertions, exposing shabby "science," unfounded generalizations and jumps of logic. -- Barrie Thorne, Professor of Sociology, and Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. The gloves are off. Rivers and Barnett provide a convincing case that much of what parents, teachers, and the general public know about differences between girls and boys is based on highly publicized accounts of shoddy and misleading science. They provide readers with an understanding of the ways girls and boys are similar and different and how we can use that knowledge to raise happy, healthy, and successful children. -- Diane F. Halpern, past-president, American Psychological Association, and author of Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities (fourth edition) A bracing antidote to conventional wisdom. Like Malcolm Gladwell, Rivers and Barnett take readers into the world of research and emerge with surprising and unsettling conclusions. Teachers, educators, parents, journalists, and researchers would do well to read this book before hopping on the bandwagon about the 'differences' between girls and boys. -- Jonathan Kaufman, Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter and education editor at Bloomberg News The Truth About Girls and Boys is exactly that-the real story behind over-hyped claims of sex difference and their harming of girls and boys. Rivers and Barnett expose the sloppy journalism that has allowed pseudoscientific ideas to percolate into our collective beliefs about gender development. Parents, teachers, and policymakers will do well to read this book, to rescue today's girls and boys from false claims of 'hardwired' differences limiting their learning and stunting their futures. -- Lise Eliot, author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett's dissection of the ways tired stereotypes are being repackaged as 'science' is urgently important. It must be read immediately by parents, educators-anyone who believes children should develop their full intellectual and emotional potential. -- Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture The Truth About Girls and Boys is a must read for anyone vouchsafed with the upbringing, care, teaching, or social policy that impacts our most precious legacy: our children-girls and boys. We must read this 'game changing' book, ponder its meaning, and not put it down until we move from our present position of empty-minded acceptance to open-minded and critical thinking. Rivers and Barnett throw out a sturdy life preserver to bring us back from the harm of mangled pseudoscience to the shores of thoughtful, gender equitable understanding. -- William S. Pollack, author of Real Boys: Rescuing Our Boys from the Myths of Boyhood Rivers and Barnett provide insightful examples to show how sex stereotypes ranging from aggression to sexualized body images are based on inaccurate and often harmful generalizations. They make a powerful case against a key rationale for sex-segregated education - that girls and boys learn differently, and therefore should be taught differently and in sex segregated classes. Instead, they conclude that heterogeneous groups and attention to individuals will do more to maximize opportunities and improve society. -- Sue Klein, Ed.D, Education Equity DirectorFeminist Majority Foundation This is an excellent and important book, clearly written yet also packed with documentation. Lis Carey's Blog Buy It RIGHT NOW. Run to the bookstore. Knock over children and old ladies if you have to. Just get your hands on this book! Bookshelf Bombshells ...simple, direct, and accessible prose. Things Mean a Lot Blog Should be given to new parents, educations, coaches, and anyone with the ability to influence the path of young lives. It's packed with excellent advice. -- Sheila Gibbons Media Report to Women Thought-provoking. PsycCritiques Because of the topic and accessibility of the writing, parents and teachers should be encouraged to read this book. -- Emily Keener Psychology of Women QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Brains in Pink and Blue? 3. More Pink and Blue 4. Math Wars 5. Word Play 6. Toy Choice 7. The More Aggressive Sex? 8. Caring 9. The Ideal Classroom 10. Single-Sex Education, Pros and Cons 11. Conclusion Notes Index
£999.99
Columbia University Press Unlikely Collaboration
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBarbara Will's Unlikely Collaboration is a beautifully written and engaging work that illuminates the lives and works of Gertrude Stein and Bernard Fay, their friendship, and the fascinating and troubled times in which that friendship formed and flourished. Will's book, penetrating in its psychological, literary, and historical insights, will appeal especially to readers interested in literary modernism and its often disturbing political connections. -- Richard J. Golsan, author of French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s An unlikely collaboration indeed. One was perhaps America's most celebrated avant-garde writer, living in France; the other a French biographer of Benjamin Franklin turned anti-Masonic zealot and collaborator with the Nazis from 1940 to 1944. Gertrude Stein wanted to persuade Americans that the Vichy collaborationist leader Philippe Petain was a French George Washington; Bernard Fay helped save Stein's art collection, and maybe Stein herself, from the Nazis. Barbara Will brings alive their association and ponders the compatibility of literary modernism with political reaction. -- Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 Brilliant and fascinating... This exceptional study provides new insights into previously hidden corners of Stein's life. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Barbara Will's story is well told... -- Phyllis Gaffney Irish Times A revealing and absorbing work of scholarship. -- Robert Fulford National Post ...revisited the relationship of Stein and Fay, offering the fullest account to date of their professional and personal ties. -- Eric Banks Chronicle Review [Unlikely Collaboration] reveals a considerably more complex, and perhaps devious, Gertrude Stein than currently accepted legend would dictate. -- T.L. Ponick Washington Times A tenacious work of literary detection and analysis -- Jerome Boyd Maunsell Times Literary Supplement A fine-grained, unflinching, and nuanced history. -- Michal Kimmelman New York Review of Books Exceptionally well researched and elegantly written, this book is certain to make an important contribution to and beyond Stein studies... Highly recommended. Choice Unlikely Collaboration is a fascinating book that explores a sensitive topic with solid documentation. The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Extremely detailed and erudite. -- Eitan Kensky Jewish Ideas Daily She has given us a fuller, more realistic picture of a multilayered Stein who was fairly talented, but who also, in Will's own words, was in morally significant ways a 'despicable individual.' -- Gerald Sorin Haaretz Fascinating. Yale Alumni Magazine [An] absorbingly detailed and even-handed book. -- Christopher Benfey The New Republic Will's most significant contribution is to challenge the assumption that an individual with a liberal personal lifestyle and/or creative interests will inherently be someone with liberal political views. -- Miriam Intrator French History Her study is a valuable and well-informed portrait of a troubled and troubling literary and political relationship. -- Angela Kershaw French Studies A brilliant, disturbing, even shocking historical saga about modernist icon Gertrude Stein. -- Phillipe Mora WeHo News
£79.80
Columbia University Press Unlikely Collaboration
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBarbara Will's Unlikely Collaboration is a beautifully written and engaging work that illuminates the lives and works of Gertrude Stein and Bernard Fay, their friendship, and the fascinating and troubled times in which that friendship formed and flourished. Will's book, penetrating in its psychological, literary, and historical insights, will appeal especially to readers interested in literary modernism and its often disturbing political connections. -- Richard J. Golsan, author of French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s An unlikely collaboration indeed. One was perhaps America's most celebrated avant-garde writer, living in France; the other a French biographer of Benjamin Franklin turned anti-Masonic zealot and collaborator with the Nazis from 1940 to 1944. Gertrude Stein wanted to persuade Americans that the Vichy collaborationist leader Philippe Petain was a French George Washington; Bernard Fay helped save Stein's art collection, and maybe Stein herself, from the Nazis. Barbara Will brings alive their association and ponders the compatibility of literary modernism with political reaction. -- Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 Brilliant and fascinating... This exceptional study provides new insights into previously hidden corners of Stein's life. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Barbara Will's story is well told... -- Phyllis Gaffney Irish Times A revealing and absorbing work of scholarship. -- Robert Fulford National Post ...revisited the relationship of Stein and Fay, offering the fullest account to date of their professional and personal ties. -- Eric Banks Chronicle Review [Unlikely Collaboration] reveals a considerably more complex, and perhaps devious, Gertrude Stein than currently accepted legend would dictate. -- T.L. Ponick Washington Times A tenacious work of literary detection and analysis -- Jerome Boyd Maunsell Times Literary Supplement A fine-grained, unflinching, and nuanced history. -- Michal Kimmelman New York Review of Books Exceptionally well researched and elegantly written, this book is certain to make an important contribution to and beyond Stein studies... Highly recommended. Choice Unlikely Collaboration is a fascinating book that explores a sensitive topic with solid documentation. The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Extremely detailed and erudite. -- Eitan Kensky Jewish Ideas Daily She has given us a fuller, more realistic picture of a multilayered Stein who was fairly talented, but who also, in Will's own words, was in morally significant ways a 'despicable individual.' -- Gerald Sorin Haaretz Fascinating. Yale Alumni Magazine [An] absorbingly detailed and even-handed book. -- Christopher Benfey The New Republic Will's most significant contribution is to challenge the assumption that an individual with a liberal personal lifestyle and/or creative interests will inherently be someone with liberal political views. -- Miriam Intrator French History Her study is a valuable and well-informed portrait of a troubled and troubling literary and political relationship. -- Angela Kershaw French Studies A brilliant, disturbing, even shocking historical saga about modernist icon Gertrude Stein. -- Phillipe Mora WeHo News
£25.20
