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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA much needed text. -- Judy Martin, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay This volume is broad-ranging yet thematically coherent, providing a useful roadmap for those seeking to navigate a burgeoning and decidedly interdisciplinary literature on parents and children. Readers in different disciplines will gain a firm foothold even as they are challenged to rethink the framing of questions regarding the relationship between gender and parenthood. -- Colin R. Johnson, Indiana University-Bloomington W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathleen Kovner Kline's outstanding compilation of the latest research from the biological and social sciences sheds new light on the physical and social changes that accompany the transition to parenthood. A profound mediation on the contribution of mothers and fathers to the well-being of children, this volume both challenges and confirms prevailing wisdom about the interaction of gender and parenthood. A must read for young parents, those planning to become parents, and scholars of family life. -- Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and codirector of the Center for Child and Youth Policy, University of California, Berkeley A solid handbook of current research generally showing real sex differences in parenting. Highly recommended. Choice There are many valuable insights to be gleaned from this volume... thoughtful and carefully-nuanced... a valuable point of reference to current research on gender and parenthood. Family Education Trust

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA much needed text. -- Judy Martin, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay This volume is broad-ranging yet thematically coherent, providing a useful roadmap for those seeking to navigate a burgeoning and decidedly interdisciplinary literature on parents and children. Readers in different disciplines will gain a firm foothold even as they are challenged to rethink the framing of questions regarding the relationship between gender and parenthood. -- Colin R. Johnson, Indiana University-Bloomington W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathleen Kovner Kline's outstanding compilation of the latest research from the biological and social sciences sheds new light on the physical and social changes that accompany the transition to parenthood. A profound mediation on the contribution of mothers and fathers to the well-being of children, this volume both challenges and confirms prevailing wisdom about the interaction of gender and parenthood. A must read for young parents, those planning to become parents, and scholars of family life. -- Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and codirector of the Center for Child and Youth Policy, University of California, Berkeley A solid handbook of current research generally showing real sex differences in parenting. Highly recommended. Choice There are many valuable insights to be gleaned from this volume... thoughtful and carefully-nuanced... a valuable point of reference to current research on gender and parenthood. Family Education Trust

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis exciting volume defamiliarizes our understanding of secularization as process and practice. The contributors raise profound questions regarding the persistence of 'the religious' as a form of ethicality, as a resistant presence and practice, and as an animating constraint in women's lives. The theoretical range and global scope of the volume is a remarkable achievement. -- Anupama Rao, Barnard College Rather than taking what is often viewed as the high road of secularism, the contributors challenge the ability of both religion and secularism to provide master narratives for the equality of women. This book is a vital contribution to the new feminism that is currently emerging at local, national, and global levels. It opens space for new collaborations and theoretical innovations and encourages us to 'imagine differently.' -- Lori G. Beaman, University of Ottawa Many feminists have hoped-and many fundamentalists have feared-that the decline of religion would lead inevitably to women's liberation. This bold, thought-provoking book shows how, around the world, the gender politics of secularism are confounding the easy assumptions of progressives and conservatives alike. -- Joseph Kip Kosek, George Washington University This book both genders and shatters the divide between the secular and the religious in a global context. By historicizing the privatization of both women and religion in modernity, these essays unhinge any simple alignment between feminism and secularism. Cady and Fessenden have produced a collection that coheres, a must read for scholars of gender and all those engaged with the question of the secular. -- Laura S. Levitt, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Part 1 by Gendering the Divide 1. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference: An Introduction, by Linell E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden 2. Secularism and Gender Equality, by Joan Wallach Scott 3. Sexuality and Secularism, by Saba Mahmood 4. Must It Be Either Secular or Religious? Reflections on the Contemporary Journeys of Women's Rights Activists in Egypt, by Azza Karam 5. Religion and Women's Political Mobilization, by Ann Braude Part 2 by Gender and the Privatization of Religion 6. Secular Liberalism, Roman Catholicism, and Social Hierarchies: Understanding Multiple Paths, by Gene Burns 7. Gendering the Secular and Religious in Modern Egypt: Woman, Family, and Nation, by Margot Badran 8. Women, Religion, and Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Zilka Spahi?-Siljak Part 3 by Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Politic 9. Bodies-Politics: Christian Secularism and the Gendering of U.S. Policy, by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini 10. Crimes of Moral Turpitude: Questions at the Borders of Religion, the Secular, and the U.S. Nation-State, by Molly K. McGarry 11. On French Religions and Their Renewed Embodiments, by Nacira Guenif-Souilamas Part 4 by Bridging the Divide 12. Rescued by Law? Gender and the Global Politics of Secularism, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd 13. The Brahmin Widow and Female Religious Agency: Anticaste Critique in Two Modern Indian Texts, by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 14. Issues with Authority: Feminist Commitments in a Late Secular Age, by David Kyuman Kim Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis exciting volume defamiliarizes our understanding of secularization as process and practice. The contributors raise profound questions regarding the persistence of 'the religious' as a form of ethicality, as a resistant presence and practice, and as an animating constraint in women's lives. The theoretical range and global scope of the volume is a remarkable achievement. -- Anupama Rao, Barnard College Rather than taking what is often viewed as the high road of secularism, the contributors challenge the ability of both religion and secularism to provide master narratives for the equality of women. This book is a vital contribution to the new feminism that is currently emerging at local, national, and global levels. It opens space for new collaborations and theoretical innovations and encourages us to 'imagine differently.' -- Lori G. Beaman, University of Ottawa Many feminists have hoped-and many fundamentalists have feared-that the decline of religion would lead inevitably to women's liberation. This bold, thought-provoking book shows how, around the world, the gender politics of secularism are confounding the easy assumptions of progressives and conservatives alike. -- Joseph Kip Kosek, George Washington University This book both genders and shatters the divide between the secular and the religious in a global context. By historicizing the privatization of both women and religion in modernity, these essays unhinge any simple alignment between feminism and secularism. Cady and Fessenden have produced a collection that coheres, a must read for scholars of gender and all those engaged with the question of the secular. -- Laura S. Levitt, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Part 1 by Gendering the Divide 1. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference: An Introduction, by Linell E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden 2. Secularism and Gender Equality, by Joan Wallach Scott 3. Sexuality and Secularism, by Saba Mahmood 4. Must It Be Either Secular or Religious? Reflections on the Contemporary Journeys of Women's Rights Activists in Egypt, by Azza Karam 5. Religion and Women's Political Mobilization, by Ann Braude Part 2 by Gender and the Privatization of Religion 6. Secular Liberalism, Roman Catholicism, and Social Hierarchies: Understanding Multiple Paths, by Gene Burns 7. Gendering the Secular and Religious in Modern Egypt: Woman, Family, and Nation, by Margot Badran 8. Women, Religion, and Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Zilka Spahi?-Siljak Part 3 by Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Politic 9. Bodies-Politics: Christian Secularism and the Gendering of U.S. Policy, by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini 10. Crimes of Moral Turpitude: Questions at the Borders of Religion, the Secular, and the U.S. Nation-State, by Molly K. McGarry 11. On French Religions and Their Renewed Embodiments, by Nacira Guenif-Souilamas Part 4 by Bridging the Divide 12. Rescued by Law? Gender and the Global Politics of Secularism, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd 13. The Brahmin Widow and Female Religious Agency: Anticaste Critique in Two Modern Indian Texts, by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 14. Issues with Authority: Feminist Commitments in a Late Secular Age, by David Kyuman Kim Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA leading scholar of gender studies and speculative realism carves a universal conception of identity and the subject. Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered "unthinkable" by postmodern feminist philosophies, critically repositioning poststructuralist feminist philosophy and gender/queer studies.Trade ReviewCut of the Real is an important and original contribution to the complex discussions relating to subjectivity and identity. Through her nuanced reading of Lacan and Laruelle, Katerina Kolozova creates a powerful argument for a notion of democratic love that allows us to break through some of the ambiguities that have attended discussions of subjectivity, human nature, and the possibility of meaningful or radical social change. Her book will be a must-read in fields as diverse as philosophy, anthropology, and law. -- Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers UniversityKolozova's important new book is a fascinating disruption of the assumptions of poststructuralist feminism. Her creative extension of the 'non-philosophy' of Laruelle radicalizes feminist philosophy as it expands possibilities for theorizing the real as experienced. This is a major contribution to the new materialism. -- Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith CollegesCut of the Real is destined to be an important contribution to ongoing debates in feminist, queer, gender, and race theory, as well as the newly emerging philosophical trend of speculative realism. It is my belief that Kolozova's book is the best introduction to Laruelle's thought to date and that it does an exceptional job discussing why it is valuable and what it can do. -- Levi R. Bryant, Collin CollegeCut of the Real is polemical and adventurous. It is also innovative in the positions it carves out for itself and in the figures and traditions it employs to carve them. On the one hand, it illuminates the value of [speculative realism and object-oriented ontology] for feminist theory, which in itself is an important theoretical achievement seeing as certain figures associated with these traditions. . . . systematically dismiss feminist theory as unimportant. On the other hand, this work also brings to the fore the ethical and political implications of the realist perspective. * Hypatia *Kolozova not only provides a valuable critique of the discursive grammar of contemporary continental philosophy, but also points the way beyond critique towards new constructive iterations of the concepts of the One and the Real. * Parrhesia *This work is an intersection of gender studies, philosophy, culture studies, with pertinent aspects of subjectivity. Anyone interested in any of these fields or connected with the humanities should read this book. * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of ContentsForeword: Gender Fiction, by François LaruelleAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. On the One and on the Multiple2. On the Real and the Imagined3. On the Limit and the Limitless4. The Real Transcending Itself (Through Love)5. The Real in the IdentityGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisCountersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.Trade ReviewPaul Preciado’s work has been immensely important to me, as well as to countless others. It’s so fantastic, then, that we finally have his first book on offer. Like so much that he has offered since, Countersexual Manifesto is freewheeling and learned, rabble-rousing and meticulous, spirited and essential. Whether you want to argue with it, mine it, or become a convert to its call, you should definitively read it, keep it by your side. -- Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsCountersexual Manifesto is a well-lubricated double dong: phantasmagorical poetry on one end, penetrating theory on the other, and a thorough examination of body politics being the shaft. Each sentence delivers a thrust, deep inside, that elicits a yes, yes, yes! Bend over, insert this book, and enjoy the ride. -- Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, ecosexual artists and educatorsCountersexual Manifesto is a utopian cry to manifest revolutionary change in the face of necropolitical practices and planetary destruction. -- RL Goldberg * Los Angeles Review of Books *Rather than calling for a revolution, Preciado’s Manifesto argues the revolution has already begun. * Advocate *Preciado offers a refreshingly radical take on recognizing and renegotiating supposedly biological scripts to support inclusivity, diversity, and equity...the work is rewarding in its refreshing take on the queer history of sexual technologies and gender development. The positionality and layout of the book suggestthat it is truly centered on organizing, bringing to life many of the core tenets of queer theory in accessible and tangible ways. * RGWS *Table of ContentsForeword, by Jack HalberstamIntroduction1. Countersexual Society2. Countersexual Reversal Practices3. Theories4. Countersexual Reading ExerciseAuthor’s NoteAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPenelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault’s thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. Foucault’s Futures brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to provide new insights into the conflicted political status of reproductive conduct and what it means for feminism and critical theory.Trade ReviewFoucault's Futures opens up a new future for Foucault by showing how profoundly, and how unexpectedly, his account of biopolitical power informs the procreative politics implicit in his various writings on sex. Combining theoretical rigor with intellectual generosity, Penelope Deutscher proposes and enacts a critical ethics that mobilizes the "suspended reserves" of Foucault (and many other theorists) to generate striking conceptual convergences that make for a brilliantly productive critique of reproductive reason. -- Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University Foucault's Futures teaches us to read, with generosity and curiosity, for the limits that enable contemporary work on reproductive biopolitics. With impeccable intellectual skill, Deutscher maps the illegibilities, resistances, inclusions, violences, gatherings and vulnerabilities that form the infrastructure of reproductive futurism, maternal bodies, and fetal life. This is feminist theory at its finest: an accomplished and exquisitely argued book that expands the conceptual space within which feminism can engage text and world. -- Elizabeth A. Wilson, Emory University The book is unique not only for the originality of its complex philosophical argument about life, children, and maternity in biopower but also for the interdisciplinary range of works it thinks together in surprising new ways. -- Lynne Huffer, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University This strikingly imaginative book brings Foucault into dialogue with unexpected interlocutors and explores fascinating themes and figures in his thought - fetuses, viruses and marsupial mothers. Deutscher's ideas never fail to interest and provoke. -- Johanna Oksala, University of Helsinki Foucault's Futures, the latest of Penelope Deutscher's many pathbreaking works, not only challenges us to rethink what we know about recent French thought, feminism, queer studies, biopolitics, the very question of futurity. It also shows us how to work with the peculiar "resources" of debates that do not give us what we seem to want from them. Capacious in its breadth, riveting in its prose, surprising in its arguments and choice of examples, Foucault's Futures is itself the resource we will turn to frequently for help in imagining futures for theory. -- Andrew Parker, author of The Theorist's Mother Deutscher has an enticing facility with her material, and illuminates previously neglected texts. When you read Foucault's Futures, you become wholly aware of the brilliant mind at work weaving together disparate material eloquently and forcefully. Pedagogically brilliant and conceptually surprising, this is a deeply pleasurable and innovative book that allows us to see all its characters in a new light. -- Ranjana Khanna, Duke University In Foucault's Futures, Penny Deutscher stages a series of perverse encounters-between Foucault and Derrida, between reproductive futurism and feminism, between Judith Butler and the biopolitical-carefully interrogating some of contemporary critical theory's most fertile missed opportunities. Through her surprising juxtapositions and her slyly brilliant readings, Deutscher unlocks the "suspended resources of Foucault's work" for thinking the mother, the child, and the family thanopolitically, and offers a fresh and original consideration of the logics and politics of reproduction. Essential reading. -- Gayle Salamon, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Suspensions of Sex: Foucault and Derrida 2. Reproductive Futurism, Lee Edelman, and Reproductive Rights 3. Foucault's Children: Re-Reading The History of Sexuality 4. Immunity, Bare Life, and the Thanatopolitics of Reproduction: Foucault, Esposito, Agamben 5. Judith Butler, Precarious Life, and Reproduction: From Social Ontology to Ontological Tact Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. In this anniversary edition, Scott reflects on the book’s legacy and implications for contemporary politics as well as her engagement with psychoanalytic theory.Trade ReviewA real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott’s project to rethink gender and history simultaneously. * New York Times *Thoughtful and pioneering. * Nation *Scott has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgment, of history. * New Republic *At once a ‘how-to’ manual . . . and a broad assessment of the state of women’s history in the 1980s. It will clearly become a classic volume for both feminist theory and women’s history. * Gender and Society *Scott’s book makes a powerful case not only for a historical scholarship that recognizes the depth of gender difference in human experience but also for a renewed self-consciousness about the role of the historian in constructing the meanings of our past. * American Historical Review *A radical book, provocative, exciting, and very satisfying. * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsPreface to the Thirtieth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Toward a Feminist History1. Women’s History2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical AnalysisPart II: Gender and Class3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History4. Women in The Making of the English Working ClassPart III: Gender in History5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 18486. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l’industrie à Paris, 1847–18487. “L’ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .”: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840–1860Part IV: Equality and Difference8. The Sears Case9. American Women Historians, 1884–198410. The Conundrum of EqualityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. She calls for a philosophical turn in the study of gender in Islam based on resources for gender equality that are unlocked by feminist engagement with the Islamic ethical tradition.Trade ReviewWell-suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, Gendered Morality makes a monumental intervention to debates in philosophy, feminist studies, and Islamic studies. -- Joud Alkorani, University of Toronto * Religious Studies Review *I recommend this book to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics working in the broad field of Islam and Gender, Gender and Religion and more specifically feminist approaches (philosophy) of religion or Islam. * Reading Religion *This book has much to offer a diverse set of readers. -- Justine Howe * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi’s first book, is a substantial contribution to the study of Islamic ethics, law, and philosophy. -- Benjamin P. Beames * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *Zahra Ayubi’s Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society represents a major feminist intervention in the field of Islamic ethics (akhlāq). -- Samuel Kigar Religion Department, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, USA * Journal of Islamic Ethics 4 *In revealing the deep-rooted gendered and hierarchical cosmology prevailing in the classical Islamic world view, the author provides a realistic pathway to her goal of establishing a feminist philosophy of Islamic ethics...Recommended. * Choice *In Gendered Morality, Ayubi explores Muslim masculinity as imagined by influential medieval scholars. Her turn to ethics—understood not as a vague catch-all phrase for right living but as a rigorous and exacting genre within Muslim thought—represents a significant contribution to scholarship. She also offers a constructive feminist account of what might be retrievable for Muslim philosophical ethics. This is an essential and innovative book. -- Kecia Ali, Boston UniversityTurning the lens of gender analysis to the study of Islamic ethics, Zahra Ayubi interrogates the most formidable texts of the Persianate philosophical tradition. The result is a persuasive demonstration of feminist scholarship and a welcome contribution to Islamic studies. -- Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillIn this brilliant and wonderfully creative book, Zahra Ayubi combines a sophisticated analysis of Islamic ethics with a strikingly original feminist critique. Her work is a major achievement in the fields of medieval Islamic philosophy as well as feminist theory. Indeed, this is one of the most important and innovative works in the field of feminism and religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeZahra Ayubi presents compelling evidence to show how medieval Islamic scholars created a philosophical system of ethics that is inherently gendered. The insights she provides as to how truth and virtue were cast in masculine, paternal terms and how those terms shaped beliefs about human agency and happiness are profound. Her concluding vision of a 'feminist philosophy' based on justice promises to render Gendered Morality a tour de force in the field. -- Kathryn Kueny, author of Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and PracticeTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Epistemology and Gender Analytics of Islamic Ethics2. Gendered Metaphysics, Perfection, and Power of the (Hu)man’s Soul3. Ethics of Marriage and the Domestic Economy4. Homosocial Masculinity and Societal EthicsConclusion: Prolegomenon to Feminist Philosophy of IslamGlossary of Persian and Arabic TermsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. She calls for a philosophical turn in the study of gender in Islam based on resources for gender equality that are unlocked by feminist engagement with the Islamic ethical tradition.Trade ReviewWell-suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, Gendered Morality makes a monumental intervention to debates in philosophy, feminist studies, and Islamic studies. -- Joud Alkorani, University of Toronto * Religious Studies Review *I recommend this book to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics working in the broad field of Islam and Gender, Gender and Religion and more specifically feminist approaches (philosophy) of religion or Islam. * Reading Religion *This book has much to offer a diverse set of readers. -- Justine Howe * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi’s first book, is a substantial contribution to the study of Islamic ethics, law, and philosophy. -- Benjamin P. Beames * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *Zahra Ayubi’s Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society represents a major feminist intervention in the field of Islamic ethics (akhlāq). -- Samuel Kigar Religion Department, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, USA * Journal of Islamic Ethics 4 *In revealing the deep-rooted gendered and hierarchical cosmology prevailing in the classical Islamic world view, the author provides a realistic pathway to her goal of establishing a feminist philosophy of Islamic ethics...Recommended. * Choice *In Gendered Morality, Ayubi explores Muslim masculinity as imagined by influential medieval scholars. Her turn to ethics—understood not as a vague catch-all phrase for right living but as a rigorous and exacting genre within Muslim thought—represents a significant contribution to scholarship. She also offers a constructive feminist account of what might be retrievable for Muslim philosophical ethics. This is an essential and innovative book. -- Kecia Ali, Boston UniversityTurning the lens of gender analysis to the study of Islamic ethics, Zahra Ayubi interrogates the most formidable texts of the Persianate philosophical tradition. The result is a persuasive demonstration of feminist scholarship and a welcome contribution to Islamic studies. -- Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillIn this brilliant and wonderfully creative book, Zahra Ayubi combines a sophisticated analysis of Islamic ethics with a strikingly original feminist critique. Her work is a major achievement in the fields of medieval Islamic philosophy as well as feminist theory. Indeed, this is one of the most important and innovative works in the field of feminism and religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeZahra Ayubi presents compelling evidence to show how medieval Islamic scholars created a philosophical system of ethics that is inherently gendered. The insights she provides as to how truth and virtue were cast in masculine, paternal terms and how those terms shaped beliefs about human agency and happiness are profound. Her concluding vision of a 'feminist philosophy' based on justice promises to render Gendered Morality a tour de force in the field. -- Kathryn Kueny, author of Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and PracticeTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Epistemology and Gender Analytics of Islamic Ethics2. Gendered Metaphysics, Perfection, and Power of the (Hu)man’s Soul3. Ethics of Marriage and the Domestic Economy4. Homosocial Masculinity and Societal EthicsConclusion: Prolegomenon to Feminist Philosophy of IslamGlossary of Persian and Arabic TermsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSolimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.Trade ReviewArchives of Conjure makes important contributions to the study of religion in the Caribbean and Latin America by challenging scholarly understandings of the archive, centering the connection between Afrolatinx communities and non-human agents, as well as the attention it pays to the nuances of religious belief and practice for women and LGBTQ+ spiritual practitioners. -- Sierra L. Lawson * Reading Religion *Solimar Otero's timely work unites an array of Afrolatinx religious perspectives with fresh ethnographic and folkloristic interventions. Archives of Conjure confidently and sensitively furthers our understanding of enmeshed interactions of spirits, deities, and persons - and reconceptualizes the types of work that help unite rather than separate the realms of the living and the dead. -- Mastin Tsang * Journal of Folklore Research Reviews *The value of this book is in pointing out what lies at the margins, out of the official transcripts, … what is only alluded to, what is not classifiable, what is only gleaned or available through gossip, or dreams…what sits outside the norm of scholarship with its claims to knowledge. * New West Indian Guide *Archives of Conjure is a poetic, fluid, and compelling book. By producing an 'archive of conjure' pieced together through interwoven elements of ethnography, literature, archival notations, bolero music, poetry, and other Afrolatinx inspirations, Solimar Otero provides humanities scholarship with a new, transdisciplinary technique and approach. This is a powerful intervention and must read! -- Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, author of Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational ReligionGoing beyond academic analysis and theorizing, Archives of Conjure highlights the power of ethnography that is an act of resistance and empowerment as well as sustenance for the researcher and the community. Otero’s own life experiences along with the experiences of those she works with—both in the spirit world and in the physical world—become part of the archival research that elucidates the role of vernacular religion in contemporary world. This book is a gift of magic. -- Norma E. Cantú, coeditor of meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity ConstructionIn Archives of Conjure, Solimar Otero calls forth a profound new vista on how the dead make life matter. Led by her teachers among the living and the dead in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil, Otero vitalizes history and quotidian materials to bring us closer to the scintillating poetry of African-inspired creativity in the Black Atlantic. At once a work of ingenious scholarship and skillful piece of writing, Archives of Conjure is an invitation to worlds where what is most important—kin, dreams, memories and views into the future—is made and unmade by the surging potentials of the dead. -- Todd Ramón Ochoa, author of A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban TownArchives of Conjure is at times a hypnotic séance conjuring such ancestors as Reinaldo Arenas, Lydia Cabrera, Edouard Glissant, Ruth Landes, and Fernando Ortiz and at times a siren call to attune our scholarship to the feminist, queer, subaltern spiritual 'work' of performance and its archival traces, hidden in plain sight. Through the generative metaphors produced by narratives of 'the two waters,' personified in the orichas Yemayá and Ochún, Otero explores critical engagements between circum-Caribbean scholarship and religious practice. I recommend Otero’s brilliant book as required reading for folklorists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and all who would better understand 'redoubled' global-Caribbean histories that manifest in and through vernacular Afrolatinx spiritual perspectives. -- Kristina Wirtz, author of Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and HistoryThis book is particularly useful as a model of a collaborative approach to ethnographic research.. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Archives of Conjure1. Residual Transcriptions2. Crossings3. Flows4. SirensConclusion: Espuma del Mar, Sea- FoamNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisSolimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.Trade ReviewArchives of Conjure makes important contributions to the study of religion in the Caribbean and Latin America by challenging scholarly understandings of the archive, centering the connection between Afrolatinx communities and non-human agents, as well as the attention it pays to the nuances of religious belief and practice for women and LGBTQ+ spiritual practitioners. -- Sierra L. Lawson * Reading Religion *Solimar Otero's timely work unites an array of Afrolatinx religious perspectives with fresh ethnographic and folkloristic interventions. Archives of Conjure confidently and sensitively furthers our understanding of enmeshed interactions of spirits, deities, and persons - and reconceptualizes the types of work that help unite rather than separate the realms of the living and the dead. -- Mastin Tsang * Journal of Folklore Research Reviews *The value of this book is in pointing out what lies at the margins, out of the official transcripts, … what is only alluded to, what is not classifiable, what is only gleaned or available through gossip, or dreams…what sits outside the norm of scholarship with its claims to knowledge. * New West Indian Guide *Archives of Conjure is a poetic, fluid, and compelling book. By producing an 'archive of conjure' pieced together through interwoven elements of ethnography, literature, archival notations, bolero music, poetry, and other Afrolatinx inspirations, Solimar Otero provides humanities scholarship with a new, transdisciplinary technique and approach. This is a powerful intervention and must read! -- Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, author of Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational ReligionGoing beyond academic analysis and theorizing, Archives of Conjure highlights the power of ethnography that is an act of resistance and empowerment as well as sustenance for the researcher and the community. Otero’s own life experiences along with the experiences of those she works with—both in the spirit world and in the physical world—become part of the archival research that elucidates the role of vernacular religion in contemporary world. This book is a gift of magic. -- Norma E. Cantú, coeditor of meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity ConstructionIn Archives of Conjure, Solimar Otero calls forth a profound new vista on how the dead make life matter. Led by her teachers among the living and the dead in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil, Otero vitalizes history and quotidian materials to bring us closer to the scintillating poetry of African-inspired creativity in the Black Atlantic. At once a work of ingenious scholarship and skillful piece of writing, Archives of Conjure is an invitation to worlds where what is most important—kin, dreams, memories and views into the future—is made and unmade by the surging potentials of the dead. -- Todd Ramón Ochoa, author of A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban TownArchives of Conjure is at times a hypnotic séance conjuring such ancestors as Reinaldo Arenas, Lydia Cabrera, Edouard Glissant, Ruth Landes, and Fernando Ortiz and at times a siren call to attune our scholarship to the feminist, queer, subaltern spiritual 'work' of performance and its archival traces, hidden in plain sight. Through the generative metaphors produced by narratives of 'the two waters,' personified in the orichas Yemayá and Ochún, Otero explores critical engagements between circum-Caribbean scholarship and religious practice. I recommend Otero’s brilliant book as required reading for folklorists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and all who would better understand 'redoubled' global-Caribbean histories that manifest in and through vernacular Afrolatinx spiritual perspectives. -- Kristina Wirtz, author of Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and HistoryThis book is particularly useful as a model of a collaborative approach to ethnographic research.. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Archives of Conjure1. Residual Transcriptions2. Crossings3. Flows4. SirensConclusion: Espuma del Mar, Sea- FoamNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence.Trade ReviewThe First Political Order offers the strongest possible proof that male control of reproduction—and the violence necessary to control women's bodies—is the first step in normalizing violence and hierarchy in every society. From now on, there will be no more separating questions of politics and peace from the treatment of the females. Those days are over. Thanks to Valerie Hudson and her team of global researchers, we have a long, practical, intimate way of diminishing violence and increasing democracy. -- Gloria SteinemThe First Political Order’s description of the pervasive damaging social consequences of institutionalized male dominance, based on a fascinating new dataset, makes devastating reading. The authors say that their findings should be foundational for any discussion about national or international security. Their argument is lucid, hugely important, and entirely convincing. -- Richard Wrangham, author of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human EvolutionIn The First Political Order, Hudson and her collaborators make the case that the subordination of women is irrefutably tied to the well-being of a nation. Skeptical? The hard data is here, drawn from an exhaustive survey of 176 countries in the WomanStats project. This is the definitive work that ends the debate about the consequences of gender inequality. The focus now must shift to how we address a global syndrome that threatens us all. -- Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to AfghanistanThe First Political Order is a magisterial tour de force that transforms our understanding of international relations. Hudson, Bowen, and Nielsen provide a comprehensive and meticulous examination of how the systematic subordination of women around the world affects every critical outcome in world politics, from governance and security to environmental, economic, and social development. In so doing, they demonstrate how personal decisions produce systemic political consequences. -- Rose McDermott, Brown UniversityConvincingly argue[s] that the fate of a nation is tied to the status of its women. . . . The great achievement of this book is the extensive data underpinning its argument that the subordination of women anywhere undermines national security and stability everywhere. * Ethics and International Affairs *By exposing the shortcomings of political regimes across the globe and bringing into sharp focus how longstanding sexual inequalities work to exacerbate tensions and instability worldwide, The First Political Order makes a significant contribution to gender, development and security discourse. . . . Essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and students alike. * RUSI Journal *An in-depth exploration of the interplay between the socially constructed relationship between women and men, characterized by women’s subordination, and wider political systems...few existing works provide the depth and breadth of analysis in this book. -- Leah de Haan, Chatham House, UK * International Affairs *The importance of this decade-long research project in developing understandings of state security cannot be understated and Hudson and her co-authors offer a timely intervention in the field of International Relations. * Hague Journal of Diplomacy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The First Political Order1. The First Political Order Is the Sexual Political Order2. The Oldest Security Provision Mechanism3. Assessing the Patrilineal/Fraternal Syndrome TodayPart II: The Effects of the First Political Order4. The Effects of the Syndrome, Part One: Governance and National Security5. The Tremors Caused by Obstructed Marriage Markets: A Closer Look6. The Effects of the Syndrome, Part Two: Human, Economic, and Environmental Security7. The Effects by the Numbers: The Syndrome and Measures of National OutcomesPart III: Change8. Change: Historical Successes and Failures9. Conclusion: Contemporary ApplicationsAppendix I: Syndrome Scores for 176 Countries Appendix II: Colonial Heritage Status Scores Appendix III: Testing the Effects: Methods and Extended ResultsAppendix IV: Dichotomization Cutpoints for Logistic Regression AnalysisAppendix V: High-Syndrome-Encoding Nations with Unexpectedly Good National OutcomesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence.Trade ReviewThe First Political Order offers the strongest possible proof that male control of reproduction—and the violence necessary to control women's bodies—is the first step in normalizing violence and hierarchy in every society. From now on, there will be no more separating questions of politics and peace from the treatment of the females. Those days are over. Thanks to Valerie Hudson and her team of global researchers, we have a long, practical, intimate way of diminishing violence and increasing democracy. -- Gloria SteinemThe First Political Order’s description of the pervasive damaging social consequences of institutionalized male dominance, based on a fascinating new dataset, makes devastating reading. The authors say that their findings should be foundational for any discussion about national or international security. Their argument is lucid, hugely important, and entirely convincing. -- Richard Wrangham, author of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human EvolutionIn The First Political Order, Hudson and her collaborators make the case that the subordination of women is irrefutably tied to the well-being of a nation. Skeptical? The hard data is here, drawn from an exhaustive survey of 176 countries in the WomanStats project. This is the definitive work that ends the debate about the consequences of gender inequality. The focus now must shift to how we address a global syndrome that threatens us all. -- Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to AfghanistanThe First Political Order is a magisterial tour de force that transforms our understanding of international relations. Hudson, Bowen, and Nielsen provide a comprehensive and meticulous examination of how the systematic subordination of women around the world affects every critical outcome in world politics, from governance and security to environmental, economic, and social development. In so doing, they demonstrate how personal decisions produce systemic political consequences. -- Rose McDermott, Brown UniversityConvincingly argue[s] that the fate of a nation is tied to the status of its women. . . . The great achievement of this book is the extensive data underpinning its argument that the subordination of women anywhere undermines national security and stability everywhere. * Ethics and International Affairs *By exposing the shortcomings of political regimes across the globe and bringing into sharp focus how longstanding sexual inequalities work to exacerbate tensions and instability worldwide, The First Political Order makes a significant contribution to gender, development and security discourse. . . . Essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and students alike. * RUSI Journal *An in-depth exploration of the interplay between the socially constructed relationship between women and men, characterized by women’s subordination, and wider political systems...few existing works provide the depth and breadth of analysis in this book. -- Leah de Haan, Chatham House, UK * International Affairs *The importance of this decade-long research project in developing understandings of state security cannot be understated and Hudson and her co-authors offer a timely intervention in the field of International Relations. * Hague Journal of Diplomacy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The First Political Order1. The First Political Order Is the Sexual Political Order2. The Oldest Security Provision Mechanism3. Assessing the Patrilineal/Fraternal Syndrome TodayPart II: The Effects of the First Political Order4. The Effects of the Syndrome, Part One: Governance and National Security5. The Tremors Caused by Obstructed Marriage Markets: A Closer Look6. The Effects of the Syndrome, Part Two: Human, Economic, and Environmental Security7. The Effects by the Numbers: The Syndrome and Measures of National OutcomesPart III: Change8. Change: Historical Successes and Failures9. Conclusion: Contemporary ApplicationsAppendix I: Syndrome Scores for 176 Countries Appendix II: Colonial Heritage Status Scores Appendix III: Testing the Effects: Methods and Extended ResultsAppendix IV: Dichotomization Cutpoints for Logistic Regression AnalysisAppendix V: High-Syndrome-Encoding Nations with Unexpectedly Good National OutcomesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExploring the intersection of ideas about woman, subjectivity, and literary authority, this title reveals the female subject as crucial in framing contradictions central to modernism, particularly the tension between modernism's claim to timeless art and its critique of historical conditions.Trade Review"Katz argues that the feminine subject is central to modernism, but she focuses less on the critical and theoretical divide between women/femininity and modernism, and more on the ways in which gender shapes more complex tensions between authority and subversion, or order and chaos, within modernist texts. Highly recommended." -- Choice"Katz's study is a sophisticated contribution towards current debates on the gender and historicizing of modernism." -- Deborah Parsons, Modern Language Review"Intelligent and thoughtful. . . . An important contribution to our understanding of the conceptual ambiguities inherent in modernist experimental technique as well as women's role in making such new writing 'persuasive.' . . . [Katz's readings of core texts are sharp and incisive." -- Maureen Moran, English Literature in Translation

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Book SynopsisA sophisticated analysis of the complicated state of Irish masculinityTrade Review"The Myth of Manliness is a work of exemplary scholarship and astute analysis. Fluently written and beautifully presented, it marks an original and very significant contribution to the study of Irish culture in this remarkably formative period."--Modernism/Modernity"Required reading for all interested in gender studies in both Irish and postcolonial contexts, and a landmark in the field of masculinity studies, Valente's book is a major, and lasting intervention."--Irish University Review "Joseph Valente's densely argued, path-breaking study of the cultural dynamics of manliness in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Ireland and England deserves to be as widely read and discussed as his earlier seminal work on the queer dimensions of Joyce's writing. . . . Rewarding and challenging. Valente's path-breaking contribution to understanding Joyce and his cultural context engages, in a committed, extraordinarily rewarding way. --James Joyce Quarterly"This is undoubtedly a pioneering study. It discusses constructions of Irish manhood in one of the most decisive periods of Irish nationalist mobilization with a degree of ingenuity, authority, and commitment that is simply unmatched in the field."--Joe Cleary, author of Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland"Joseph Valente's book on manliness and Irish nationalism is one of the most startlingly illuminating books I have ever read on Irish literature, and I have read many; it is not only historically informed, like much of the finest critical work of the last fifteen years, it has also uncovered new historical material and intertwined those discoveries with a sophisticated and original theoretical model about how the ideal of manliness operated in both Victorian England and pre-treaty Ireland."--Vicki Mahaffey, author of Reauthorizing Joyce"[The Myth of Manliness] successfully links socio-political dimensions to gender performance."--Victoriographies"In a work of soaring ambition and equivalent achievement, Joseph Valente's study of the Victorian trope of manliness in Irish national culture has the potential not only to influence postcolonial studies beyond its subfield—Irish studies—but also to bring the subfield itself into broader geopolitical circuits of scholarly exchange." -- Interventions"Gender identity and its formation have . . . become dominant critical and theoretical problems in Irish Studies. Joseph Valente's new book, The Myth of Manliness, explores the vital importance of masculinity for our understanding of these problems, especially in a nationalist framework."--Irish Literary Supplement "The book convincingly demonstrates how gendered norms shaped British imperialism and Irish political resistance."--Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies "Sheds interesting light on Irish nationalism and its complex appropriation of Victorian gendered norms."--Études irlandaises "This book's strengths are undoubted, and are mainly in the perspicacious double-bind of manliness that is in evidence in spheres political, cultural and literary; its power is thus immeasurable."--Irish Studies Review "A growing number of publications [address] Irish masculinities. Joe Valente’s recent The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture (2011) has set the bar in this area, and it will take some time before it is surpassed."--Beckett Circle Book Reviews "A significant contribution to the field of Irish literary and gender studies. . . . A new map for reading some of the foundational texts of twentieth-century Irish literature."--Modern Fiction Studies "Rewarding and challenging."--James Joyce Quarterly "One of the most important contributions to Irish Victorian studies in recent years. . . . This is a major study from one of our preeminent critics. It challenges and extends received wisdom on every page. It rewards careful reading and deserves a wide audience."--Victorian Studies "There is not only a powerful analysis of Victorian manliness to be found in this book, but also invaluable pockets of surprising information and new readings for historians, feminist and queer critics, scholars of the Renaissance and modernism, and those interested in Irish literature, theater, and culture."--College Literature "Valente proceeds to significantly reshape our sense of what the major ideological structures of Irish nationalist culture were during this period. He demonstrates so convincingly that his conception of manliness was absolutely crucial to a wide range of cultural discourses that, by the time I finished I was wondering why no one had seen all this before. But no one had."--Marjorie Howes, author of Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History

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Book SynopsisCalls for and enacts innovative, radically inclusionary ways of reading, teaching, and communicating.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), 2014. "This truly unique and exciting study uses the writings of U.S. women of color to transform the ways in which we do academic and political work, positing a model of interconnectivity between the individual and the community as an alternative to identity politics. The book will appeal to intellectuals interested in social justice of any kind."--Suzanne Bost, author of Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature"Offers a thoughtful and provocative theoretical framework for moving through and beyond binary thinking and identity politics. . . . Those interested in social justice work will benefit from Keating's post-oppositional framework for bringing about social change. Highly Recommended."--Choice"Transformation Now! is an important addition to the body of visionary literature by feminists and womanists of color."--Women's Review of Books "Keating's text simultaneously offers a sense of urgency and hope, a utopian view paired with a sense of possibility and sometime even inevitability if her stance is adopted, considered, or even pushed against. Her desire for igniting a new conversation about making change is inspiring to practitioners looking for a new way to approach the challenges they face in and out of the classroom."--Journal of American Culture"AnaLouise Keating has presented us with what is perhaps the biggest innovation in critical theory in decades: a roadmap for moving beyond oppositional frameworks and the conflict/resistance-based models of social change and identity that they invariably produce. New vistas for deep and sustainable change open up on the heels of Transformation Now!"--Layli Maparyan, author of The Womanist Idea

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Book SynopsisEmploying theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, the author explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration.Trade Review"A significant contribution to the field. Njeri Githire sensitively illuminates island literatures rarely considered in depth alongside one another." --Nicole Simek, author of Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation "The book will be compelling for humanists and analytical social scientists interested in the gendered transformation of postimperial cultures caught up in the vortex of globalization today."--Research in African Literatures

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Book SynopsisBreaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, this book illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. It shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's "civilizing mission".Trade ReviewNSA Book Award, Nigerian Studies Association, 2016. "The first comprehensive history of sexuality of colonial Nigeria, Aderinto's book is an invaluable addition to both historiographies of colonial Africa and African sexualities."--Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality"This book makes important inroads in the history of sexuality and gender, childhood, urban history, colonialism, the military, and the history of medicine in Africa and in twentieth-century world history."--American Historical Review "This noteworthy text brings to light the intimate connection between sexual politics and nationalism in colonial Nigeria during the first half of the twentieth century. . . . A solid contribution to scholarly works on sexuality in Africa and is of interest to scholars and students in the fields of African studies, gender, and history."--Journal of West African History"Aderinto's exploration of the special role of soldiers in the history of prostitution control in Lagos is especially fascinating and insightful."--Africa"Saheed Aderinto has produced a very important contribution to African social history and Nigerian historiography specifically. His intellectual journey, as revealed in his introduction, is a 'must read' for graduate students for this book is the outcome of a scholar who listened closely to his sources and grappled with the complex realities they revealed. . . . Of great value to scholars interested in public health, colonial law and policy, gender studies, as well as urban history."--Canadian Journal of History"Saheed Aderinto's fine book demonstrates how the politics, policies, and popular culture debates about sexuality both animated and crystalized many of the ambitions and struggles of colonial and nationalist projects in twentieth-century Nigeria. . . . Particularly persuasive is the author's ability to show how concerns about illicit sexuality could be simultaneously a colonial rationale for subjugating the native population and a pillar of Nigerian nationalists' demands for independence. . . . It certainly shows that concerns about illicit sexuality continue to be central to postcolonial statecraft, just as Aderinto has persuasively demonstrated for Nigeria's colonial and nationalist projects in this excellent book."--International Journal of African Historical Studies"A fine study of that rarity in South African history: a proud tradition of educational achievement for African students that has endured for more than a century."--American Historical Review"When Sex Threatened the State will stand the test of time, not only for the quality of Aderinto's analyses, sources, and interpretations, but also for the ways he placed sexuality at the center of core structures of everyday life in colonial Nigeria. This is a major contribution to African studies and historical scholarship on Nigeria."--Journal of Retracing Africa "Engagingly written, perspective in its analysis, and concerned with issues of deep historical and contemporary importance, this book has much to offer those interested in not only African and sexuality studies but also urbanization and migration studies, as well as colonialism, nationalism, and race."--Journal of the History of Sexuality "A rigorous and innovative study of illicit sexuality and attempts at regulating it in colonial Lagos. . . . Without question the most detailed and systematic examination of prostitution in west Africa. . . . This is an innovative, well-researched, and extremely valuable work of scholarship."--Steven Pierce, author of Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination "A significant contribution to Nigerian and African historical studies as well as to the study of sex and sexuality within the British Empire."--Gloria Chuku, author of Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria

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Book SynopsisThe geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. This book explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race - created to overcome US colonial power - simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism.Trade ReviewCo-winner of the Frank Bonilla Book Award, Puerto Rican Studies Association, 2016. "Scripts of Blackness exposes the complexities derived from the intersections of race, class, and colonialism. This book can be used as a reference or complementary text for both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. It is a valuable contribution to American, Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American studies, and other related fields."--The Journal of American History"A strong contribution to the burgeoning literatures on Puerto Rico, race, and nationalism. Highly recommended."--Choice"Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico is a testimony to the importance for anthropology of the longue durée in one place. . . . Godreau's writing flows easily, as she details each thread of her complicated analysis in terms that make the book accessible and of interest to a wide audience."--Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology"An invaluable contribution to historical and anthropological understandings of race on the island. . . . A much anticipated resource for Puerto Rican studies scholars, as well as for anthropologists writing on race and nationalism more broadly."--Arlene Dávila, author of Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A wonderful addition to dramatic literature, this important volume brings the talents of these remarkable playwrights to a broader audience. With this anthology of plays we see the larger conversations--loud voices of a new, unsatisfied generation. These women join their foremothers taking on form and content to take on the most pressing issues of our day. They relentlessly ensure that by reading this collection your beliefs will be tested and you will come to a better understanding about the world."--Nadine George-Graves, author of Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It OutA fascinating collection that brings important but rarely presented perspectives on African American life to the stage. I have a hard time imagining aspiring actresses not having a copy of this book on their bookshelves and mining it for audition material.--Harvey Young, author of Theatre and Race"Adell's compendium offers an opportunity for new scholarly inquiries in theatre history and puts, at the fingertips of educators and students, a dramatic sampling of the best and freshest African American women playwrights of the twenty-first century."--Artisia Green, College of William and Mary"Dr. Adell's book is a refreshingly contemporary collection of plays by both newer, and some more prominent, African-American female playwrights. It is an essential anthology for scholars and practitioners interested in reading, discovering, and collecting early twenty-first-century plays by these artists and a great complement to other anthologies that feature the work of African-American female playwrights."--Martine Kei Green-Rogers, University of Utah

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Book SynopsisStephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one''s dignity while doing hard work in hard world. Trade ReviewBook of the Year, International Labor History Association, 2016 "Richly detailed. . . . The strength of Manhood on the Line is its unvarnished examination of the power of masculinity."--The Annals of Iowa"Meyer has produced an important work—a readable, revealing, well-researched, insightful piece of history."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"Manhood on the Line does an excellent job, helping the reader to understand the importance of the emergence of white working-class masculinity in the automotive factory through an examination of the complex relations between labor, race, and gender, during the twentieth century."--Men and Masculinities"A well-reasoned, thoroughly researched history that makes an important contribution to masculinity and gender studies, the sociology of work, labor history, and industrial relations. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"An incredibly rich social history."--The Michigan Historical Review"In the scholarly study of masculinity, the history of working class masculinity has often been neglected in favor of more accessible middle-class men's stories. Stephen Meyer's book is a valuable . . . contribution to the work being done to rectify this omission."--Kansas History"A richly textured, highly readable study, which should have a significant impact on the writing of a more complicated history of the working class in all advanced capitalist societies."--Labour"A landmark of twentieth-century U.S. history. The research is extraordinary; the argument compelling. It is about our century and nation, and the many blue-collar men who worked in lousy, tough jobs and figured out ways to make a living, and also remain a man."--Roger Horowitz, author of Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, and Transformation "This important and thoughtful book should remove any remaining doubts about the significance of creating a men's history that takes gender seriously."--Ava Baron, author of Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor "Represents a kind of coming of age for labor history after decades of exciting scholarship. Attentive to the power of gender and race in shaping working-class experience, it navigates the difficult terrain between the rough and respectable cultures of working-class men in the auto industry. It's also a terrific read. A master craftsman of working class history, Meyer compellingly shows us how automation, economic crisis, and the presence of women and African American workers reshaped the shop floor and working-class white men’s identity and politics. Finally, Manhood on the Line addresses the difficult questions of sexual harassment and racism in the industrial heartland and illuminates the social worlds of white and black working-class men and women in the twentieth century."--Elizabeth Faue, author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945 "In both argument and evidence, Manhood on the Line is among the richest studies of U.S. working class history. Meyer explores the intersections of gender and class with great clarity and subtlety."--David Roediger, author Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 "Sex Testing is the first comprehensive account of the various sex and gender tests that sports authorities have devised from the 1930s on for female athletes. It offers great documentation of significant developments, well-written throughout, accompanied by incisive, penetrating insights as to what is going on below the surface in the world of women's sports. It is a stellar, informative read that public libraries should acquire. It is certainly, above all, a scholarly resource that colleges and universities should purchase."--ARETE, publication of the Sport Literature Association."Sociology of gender scholars will find the book of interest given its historical evidence of the ways in which sex testing reflected 'larger cultural perceptions of womanhood' in the twentieth century."--Gender and Society"Pieper's well-written and carefully crafted narrative and analysis provides enormous insight into a topic previously unexplored at such depth."--Sport History Review"Pieper does an exceptional job of detailing the history and methods of sex/gender testing and of connecting the phenomenon to larger sociological issues about appropriate physical activity for women. . . . Essential."--Choice"Chock full of terrific research from primary sources. . . . Pieper's message comes through loud and clear: sex testing is a political act. It is about enforcing gender norms, not ensuring fair play."--Women's Review of Books"Pieper takes on the complex and infinitely important topic of sex testing in women's sport with fresh insight and a measured hand. In the process, she deftly unpacks how attempts to 'control' sex are continually fraught with elements of sexism, gender anxieties, and geopolitical tensions. This is an enlightening and necessarily disturbing analysis."--Jaime Schultz, author of Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women's Sport"For the first time, someone is pulling together the complete history of sex testing in sport. A very important book that makes a significant and unique contribution."--Alison M. Wrynn, former editor, Journal of Sports History"A timely and important book, the first in-depth history of its kind. Rich in detail and thorough in research, it is a must read for understanding the multiple layers of politics and ideology that inform gender policing in sport."--Kathryn Henne, author of Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental practices among Mexican American woman have spurred a reconsideration of ecofeminism among Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examines ecological themes across the arts, Chicana activism, and direct action groups to reveal how Chicanas can craft alternative models for ecofeminist processes. Holmes revisits key debates to analyze issues surrounding embodiment, women's connections to nature, and spirituality's role in ecofeminist philosophy and practice. By doing so, she challenges Chicanas to escape the narrow frameworks of the past in favor of an inclusive model of environmental feminism that alleviates Western biases. Holmes uses readings of theory, elaborations of ecological narratives in Chicana cultural productions, histories of human and environmental rights struggles in the Southwest, and a description of an activist exemplar to underscore the importance of living with decolonializing feminist commitment in body, nature, and spirit.Trade ReviewHolmes offers us new ways to consider what she calls performative ecological intersubjectivities that emerge from Chicana and Mexican American women's creative thinking, art-making, and spirituality, as well as from their commitments to social and ecological justice.--Irene Lara, coeditor of Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women's LivesThis brilliant, accessible, and complex intervention should be read not just by those interested in environmentalism and feminism, but by all transnational, decolonizing, and materialist thinkers and doers, whether scholars, students, or activists.--Noel Sturgeon, author of Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a much needed volume reflecting on feminist movements of the past to inform the future. As we face our contemporary era, Currans's volume is urgent and pressing."--Kath Browne, coauthor of Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power"As we enter a new era of public protest, Currans offers a feminist and queer guide to holding public space. Her beautifully rendered and theoretically sharp ethnography illuminates the effect of organizing, the ways that witnessing, marching, lobbying, and demonstrating transforms lives in the process of developing counterpublics."--Eileen Boris, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State"Empirically rich, and boasting extensive quotations from protest participants, the main strength of Curran's account--from a cultural geographer's perspective--is that it examines how space can be transformed via embodied performance: she turns to queer, feminist and critical race theory to emphasize the performance force of counterpublic spaces." --Cultural Geographies "Currans's cogent prose, combined with the integration of multidisciplinary academic work and on-the-ground accounts, appeals to broad audiences of scholars and activists alike." --Gender & Society"Currans draws from feminist, queer, and critical race theory in fashioning an ethnography that illuminates much about the ever problematic relationship between gender and geography." --Politics & Gender

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Book SynopsisFemale-to-male crossdressing became all the rage in the variety shows of nineteenth-century America and began as the domain of mature actresses who desired to extend their careers. These women engaged in the kinds of raucous comedy acts usually reserved for men. Over time, as younger women entered the specialty, the comedy became less pointed and more centered on the celebration of male leisure and fashion. Gillian M. Rodger uses the development of male impersonation from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century to illuminate the history of the variety show. Exploding notions of high- and lowbrow entertainment, Rodger looks at how both performers and forms consistently expanded upward toward respectable—and richer—audiences. At the same time, she illuminates a lost theatrical world where women made fun of middle-class restrictions even as they bumped up against rules imposed in part by audiences. Onstage, the actresses'' changing performance styles refTrade ReviewMarcia Herndon Book Award, Gender and Sexualities Section, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2018 "Magisterial." --Jezebel"An important study that offers valuable insights into the lives and careers of significant performers, reasons for the popularity of male impersonators, and the types of songs male impersonators included in their repertories."--William Everett, author of Rudolf Friml"Gillian M. Rodger's new book is a welcome addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century performance culture and the history of gender and sexuality more broadly. Just One of the Boys is a lively, important study, one that will delight readers in performance history, gender history, and U.S. cultural history." --The Journal of American History"The contributions of Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage to the history of gender illusion are tremendous." --Journal of the American Musicological Society"Serious students of variety entertainment will find much to delight them in Rodger's impeccably researched and explicated work. . . Recommended."--Choice"Gillian Rodger's Just One of the Boys is a welcome and fascinating addition to the history of cross-dressed performance and 19th-century Anglo-American theater more generally." --The Gay & Lesbian Review"Through her analysis of performance styles and management strategies in the heyday of variety, Rodger demonstrates the significant role played by women impersonating men, despite the form's declining importance with the transition to vaudeville in the twentieth century." --American Historical Review

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Trade Review"I read this book with great pleasure, interest, and excitement. Downing effectively grounds her main argument and supporting points through analysis of her rich ethnographic data. Not only am I convinced, but I felt like I was in Bali with her, meeting her consultants, hearing them speak, getting a sense of their personalities, and watching them grow and mature."--Christina Sunardi, author of Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance"Deftly painting a close-grained landscape mixing Balinese voices and perspicuous eyewitness reflection, Downing guides us through inspiring stories of girls and women making music in millennial Bali, where few had made it before. The characters and friendships feel so alive because they are changing their world from the bottom up. Their experience of our lived moment is powerfully resonant and inspires reflection on changing gender roles far beyond Bali."--Michael Tenzer, University of British Columbia

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Queering the Global Filipina Body makes a significant contribution to Asian American Studies." --QED"An epistemological interruption of Filipinx and queer studies' approaches to nationalism and diasporic belonging, Queering the Global Filipina Body calls for new modes of political organizing for those indebted to migrant and queer of color life." --Feminist Formations"A rich analysis of the transnational circuits of culture, labor, goods, and ideology circulating around the material and symbolic body of the Filipina. With its uniquely nuanced documentation and theorization of multiple, competing nationalisms, this book clear-sightedly accounts, on the one hand, for heteropatriarchy within the Filipino diaspora and, on the other hand, the limits of queer white definitions of desire and liberation."--Sarita See, author of The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance"In this important book, Velasco critically assembles and analyzes an eclectic queer Filipinx American diasporic archive that includes films, video-art, performances, websites, and a heritage language program. She develops smart and well-written close readings of these materials, and in doing so, she reveals how Filipinx American cultural producers critique the heteropatriarchal nation in the Philippines and US. Velasco’s Queering the Global Filipina Body is a must read in Filipinx Studies, Asian American Studies, feminist studies, LGBTQ Studies and migration studies."--Kale Bantigue Fajardo, author of Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and GlobalizationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Filipina BodyChapter 1. Mapping Diasporic Nationalisms: The Filipina/o American Balikbayan in the PhilippinesChapter 2. Imagining the Filipina Trafficked Woman/Sex Worker: The Politics of Filipina/o American SolidarityChapter 3. Performing the Filipina Mail Order Bride: Queer Neoliberalism, Affective Labor, and HomonationalismChapter 4. El Otro Encuentro: Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s “Neo-Queer Precolonial Imagining”Conclusion: Queer Necropolitics and the Afterlife of U.S. ImperialismNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A dynamic, much-needed read." --Variety "Essential Reading." --No Depression"Dazzling." --Country Queer"An important work." --Washington Blade "Shana Goldin-Perschbacher's examination of the history of the artists that proudly declared their sexuality displays how the fearlessness of earlier generations made things possible for today's artists that previously weren't." --The Boot​"An empathetic and illuminating study, sure to expand country playlists. For scholars interested in queer studies and fans of country music." --Library Journal​"Thought-provoking. The author offers a number of valuable insights into the music and you find yourself considering the white patriarchy that has dominated most genres of the music industry, but in particular, aspects of roots music, especially country, and how that has worked not only against LGBT musicians but also women, Black artists and other marginalized sections of society. On the surface, this would appear to be a book aimed at a niche market. In fact, it addresses issues that should be important to all of us." --Americana UK"Goldin-Perschbacher's research is meticulous, making the book particularly welcome. . . . Recommended." --Choice"Goldin-Perschbacher uncovers a treasure trove of non-binary and queer artists working in what has long been a conservative, male-dominated field." --Ticketmaster"At this unprecedented moment when queer artists dominate the Americana Awards nominations, Shana Goldin-Perschbacher's Queer Country arrives offering a timely, necessary, and radically fresh perspective on roots music--as a space for expression of sincerity by queer and trans artists." --Nadine Hubbs, author of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music "Shana Goldin-Perschbacher's Queer Country shines a light on the long-overlooked but persistent and subversive community of queer musicians in country music history. Of course, we have been there all along! Her in-depth explorations into the voice of each musician explored are lively, personal, and emotional depictions. In French, the word for gender is genre. This is no coincidence! Goldin-Perschbacher connects the dots for us in her exploration of many transgender and queer folks playing country music. The connections are sheer magic, obvious at second glance, and very insightful. Discover why transgender artists defy genre--get it? Just because we are queer doesn't mean we are carbon copies. Goldin-Perschbacher allows each of us to share our light in personal, social, and political motifs. We are all unique, but bound to one another in our struggles to liberate country music from its stereotypical and corporate confinements. Queer Country rips the cover off these and exposes the truths that have existed from the beginning."--Patrick Haggerty, recording artist, Lavender Country (1973)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 1CHAPTER ONE: Queer Country and Sincerity 25CHAPTER TWO: Genre Trouble 70CHAPTER THREE: Rurality and Journey as Queer and Trans Musical Narratives 125CHAPTER FOUR: (Mis)representation, Ownership, and Appropriation 153CHAPTER FIVE: Masks, Sincerity, and (Re)claiming Country Music 172Notes 201Discography 229Bibliography 235Index 251

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary investigation of the co-creation of gender and technologyTrade Review"This book adds a new focus to the important implications of technological influence on gender relations and the gendered construction of knowledge. I recommend this book for scholars of all disciplines who are looking for a collection of essays to extend their lens toward gender and technology."--Review of Policy Research Crucial to deepening feminist theory as a contribution to social transformation."--Signs"A good view of a world in which technology and gender are intertwined."--JAC"A broad feminist introduction to issues of gender and technology."--NWSA Journal"[Rosser's] treatment of issues of workforce, design, and use through these genres of theory is useful for students and others new to thinking about feminism and technology. . . . A solid collection of use to women's studies collections and courses on the social impacts of new technologies. Recommended."--Choice“Contains a great deal of information that can enrich critical analyses of how gender works in capitalist societies . . . . Teachers of courses in Women’s Studies, Sociology and cultural Studies will find it a useful resource.”--Science and Society

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Book SynopsisThe first integrated theory of manhood's relationship to hunting, animal experimentation, and animal sacrificeTrade Review"Fascinating. . . . Luke makes a compelling case that constructions of manhood are deeply connected with the exploitation of animals."--Left History

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Book SynopsisInvestigating how gender affects votingTrade Review"Complete with insightful analysis and interesting conclusions, this book examines an important and much-speculated-on topic from a number of perspectives. The chapters report on original data analysis and examine factors and aspects of the gender gap that have not been examined elsewhere."--Christina Wolbrecht, author of The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change

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Book Synopsis Queer Pollen discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists--painter and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, author James Baldwin, and filmmaker Marlon Riggs--and the unique ways they turned to various media to work through their experiences living as queer black men. David A. Gerstner elucidates the complexities in expressing queer black desire through traditional art forms such as painting, poetry, and literary prose, or in the industrial medium of cinema. This challenge is made particularly sharp when the terms 'black' and 'homosexuality' come freighted with white ideological conceptualizations. Gerstner adroitly demonstrates how Nugent, Baldwin, and Riggs interrogated the seductive power and saturation of white queer cultures, grasping the deceit of an entrenched cultural logic that defined their identity and their desire in terms of whiteness. Their work confounds the notion of foundational origins that prescribe the limits of homosexuTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2012. "Gerstner is a master theorist who renders a compelling and cutting-edge narrative about the complexity of black homosexual desire. The first book of its kind to specifically address the formation of black queer subjectivity in relation to white seduction, Queer Pollen offers a major contribution to African American studies, gender studies, film studies, literary studies, and art history."--E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South "[Gerstner] is extremely well informed on the landmark work in critical theory...and continues to establish his reputation as an influential daredevil theorist who probes the complexity of identity. Highly recommended."--Choice "Queer Pollen examines the work of three queer black creators: Harlem Renaissance aesthete Richard Bruce Nugent, novelist James Baldwin and filmmaker Marlon Riggs. . . . Like all twentieth and even twenty-first century creators, all three have a relationship to film which emerges in their work in multimedia and in the written word. . . . Gerstner asks us to de-naturalise the cinematic frame of reference and understand how it can be used as a strategy to examine how power relations are manifested as looks and inscribed on the body through desire and shame. Instead of poisoned fruit, these three authors offer insight into the ways in which desire draws its own authenticity by consuming and re-appropriating a collage of different cultural forms."--Dr. Scott Beattie, Somatechnics "A true companion piece to Baldwin's [Go Tell It on the Mountain]. Provides good intellectual theory."--Film InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-87) 19 2. James Baldwin (1924-87) 73 3. Marlon Riggs (1957-94) 138 Notes 215 Bibliography 261 Index 277

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Book SynopsisGenre meets gender in films from around the worldTrade Review"A superb collection of essays representing an exceptionally high order of film scholarship: thoughtful, insightful, and well-written. With provocative insights and stellar contributors, the volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of cinema studies."--Virginia Wright Wexman, coeditor of Women and Experimental Filmmaking"These essays suggest that the dual conceits of genre and gender are no longer viable markers for how viewers watch films, and the traditional modes of identification have to be deconstructed in order to recognize this kind of spectatorial fluidity. Overall, this is an intriguing addition to the endless historiographical conversations that tie together its two subjects."--Film MattersTable of ContentsChristine Gledhill / Introduction Part One: Refiguring Genre and Gender Jane Gaines / The Genius of Genre and Ingenuity of Women; Pam Cook / No Fixed Address: the Women's Picture from Outrage to Blue Steel; Deidre Pribram / Circulating Emotion: Race, Gender and Genre in Crash; Luke Collins / '100 % Pure Adrenaline:' Gender and Generic Surface in Point Break Part Two: Postfeminism and Generic Re-inventions E. Ann Kaplan / Troubling Genre/Reconstructing Gender; Yvonne Tasker / Bodies and Genres in Transition: Girlfight and Real Women Have Curves; Samiha Matin / Private Femininity, Public Femininity: The Tactical Aesthetics in the Costume Film; Lucy Fischer / Generic Gleaning: Agnes Varda, Documentary and the Art of Salvage Part Three: Gender Aesthetics in "Male" Genres Adam Segal / It's a Mann's World?; Deborah Thomas / Up Close and Personal: Faces and Names in Casualties of War; Katie Model / Gender Hyperbole and the Uncanny in the Horror Film: The Shining Part Four: Genre and Gender Transnational Ira Bhaskar / Subjectivity and the Limits of Desire: Melodrama and Modernity in 1940s-50s Bombay Cinema; Xiangang Chen / Woman, Generic Aesthetics and the Vernacular: Huangmei Opera Films from China to Hong Kong; Vicente Rodriguez Ortega / Homoeroticism Contained: Gender and Sexual Translation in John Woo's migration to Hollywood Part Five: Generic Trans-ings: Between Genres, Genders and Sexualities Derek Kane-Meddock / Trash Comes Home: Gender/Genre Subversion in the Films of John Waters; Chris Straayer / Femme Fatale or Lesbian Femme: Bound in Sexual Difference; Steven Cohan / The Gay Cowboy Movie: Queer Masculinity on Brokeback Mountain Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExplanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a range of national contexts.Trade ReviewScholar Award, LGBTQA Caucus of the International Studies Association, 2015. "A cohesive yet complex account of the phenomenon of global homophobia. This impressive scholarship will be useful for scholars and students in LGBT studies, women's and gender studies, comparative political science, and political history."--Susan Burgess, author of The New York Times on Gay and Lesbian Issues"This is a timely and significant collection that will further our understanding of both the national political reasons for homophobia and how these relate to an emerging transnational homophobic movement. The conceptualization of political homophobia as a state and global strategy represents a real advance in contemporary debates about the globalization of LGBT politics."--Momin Rahman, coauthor of Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches

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Book SynopsisIn this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think about identity, difference, social justice and social change, metaphysics, reading, and teaching. Through detailed investigations of women of color theories and writings, indigenous thought, and her own personal and pedagogical experiences, Keating develops transformative modes of engagement that move through oppositional approaches to embrace interconnectivity as a framework for identity formation, theorizing, social change, and the possibility of planetary citizenship. Speaking to many dimensions of contemporary scholarship, activism, and social justice work, Transformation Now! calls for and enacts innovative, radically inclusionary ways of reading, teaching, and communicating.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), 2014. "This truly unique and exciting study uses the writings of U.S. women of color to transform the ways in which we do academic and political work, positing a model of interconnectivity between the individual and the community as an alternative to identity politics. The book will appeal to intellectuals interested in social justice of any kind."--Suzanne Bost, author of Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature"Offers a thoughtful and provocative theoretical framework for moving through and beyond binary thinking and identity politics. . . . Those interested in social justice work will benefit from Keating's post-oppositional framework for bringing about social change. Highly Recommended."--Choice"Transformation Now! is an important addition to the body of visionary literature by feminists and womanists of color."--Women's Review of Books "Keating's text simultaneously offers a sense of urgency and hope, a utopian view paired with a sense of possibility and sometime even inevitability if her stance is adopted, considered, or even pushed against. Her desire for igniting a new conversation about making change is inspiring to practitioners looking for a new way to approach the challenges they face in and out of the classroom."--Journal of American Culture"AnaLouise Keating has presented us with what is perhaps the biggest innovation in critical theory in decades: a roadmap for moving beyond oppositional frameworks and the conflict/resistance-based models of social change and identity that they invariably produce. New vistas for deep and sustainable change open up on the heels of Transformation Now!"--Layli Maparyan, author of The Womanist Idea

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Book SynopsisExamining what makes a man who he is within his own culture.Trade Review"A fine collection of original essays, each of which illustrates how dominant conceptualization of masculinity can inform and/or harm the everyday lives of particular populations. . . . Recommended."--Choice"This accessible collection interrogates the cultural constructions of masculinity across a wide range of cultures. Focusing on cultures that are typically overlooked in discussions on masculinity, the contributors raise important issues and highlight the many tensions that create and construct masculinities worldwide."--Thomas K. Nakayama, coeditor of The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication"This stimulating collection provides a succinct and consolidated examination of global cultures of masculinity and the basis for future comparative research and teaching in this area. A solid compliment to the existing and growing literature in the field of masculinity studies."--Corey D. B. Walker, author of A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America

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Book SynopsisThe geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. This book explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race - created to overcome US colonial power - simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism.Trade ReviewCo-winner of the Frank Bonilla Book Award, Puerto Rican Studies Association, 2016. "Scripts of Blackness exposes the complexities derived from the intersections of race, class, and colonialism. This book can be used as a reference or complementary text for both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. It is a valuable contribution to American, Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American studies, and other related fields."--The Journal of American History"A strong contribution to the burgeoning literatures on Puerto Rico, race, and nationalism. Highly recommended."--Choice"Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico is a testimony to the importance for anthropology of the longue durée in one place. . . . Godreau's writing flows easily, as she details each thread of her complicated analysis in terms that make the book accessible and of interest to a wide audience."--Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology"An invaluable contribution to historical and anthropological understandings of race on the island. . . . A much anticipated resource for Puerto Rican studies scholars, as well as for anthropologists writing on race and nationalism more broadly."--Arlene Dávila, author of Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEmily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), 2016 Finalist, 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Studies, 2016 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 2016 "Funk the Erotic opens a new avenue in black thought and feeling, one dis/oriented by the sensorium rather than the cerebrum."--Feminist Wire"Funk the Erotic is a groundbreaking work in its scope, its methodological breadth, and the creativity and originality of the ideas in introduces into several discourses. In theorizing funk as a specifically erotic, bodily, and embodiable hermeneutic for understanding sexuality across mediums and genres, Stallings proposes exciting shifts in black feminist, performance studies, sexuality studies, and literary studies methodologies."--American Quarterly "Stallings reframes Black (female) sexualities for us in a fashion that moves us closer to recognizing and thinking it as a form of freedom in its practice."--Rinaldo Walcott, author of Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada"Where Toni Morrison theorized 'eruptions of funk' in African American literature, this book funks the erotic taking up trans politics, nineteenth-century freaks, funky beats, and other queerly sexed subjects that make up 'profane sites of memory.'"--Jennifer Brody, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play"Funk the Erotic is a passionately delivered and urgently necessary analysis of black sexuality, literature, and popular culture. By reading the 'funky erotixxx' of black sexual cultures against the dominant trends in black studies, L. H. Stallings offers us an alternative archive of African American literature, one composed of forgotten novels, sex manuals, YouTube videos, adult magazines, and so much more. Funk the Erotic is a bold, brilliant, unapologetically superfreaky text."--Erica R. Edwards, author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership

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Book SynopsisOver 277,000 African Americans migrated to Chicago between 1900 and 1940, an influx unsurpassed in any other northern city. From the start, carceral powers literally and figuratively created a prison-like environment to contain these African Americans within the so-called Black Belt on the city''s South Side. A geographic study of race and gender, Spatializing Blackness casts light upon the ubiquitous--and ordinary--ways carceral power functions in places where African Americans live. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as maps and memoirs, Rashad Shabazz explores the myriad architectures of confinement, policing, surveillance, urban planning, and incarceration. In particular, he investigates how the ongoing carceral effort oriented and imbued black male bodies and gender performance from the Progressive Era to the present. The result is an essential interdisciplinary study that highlights the racialization Trade Review"Shabazz does an excellent job of demonstrating how Black Chicago's prisonscapes leave little place for the presence of black masculinity to exist without feeling like a fugitive."--Society and Space "An important and timely book that should be widely read and carefully discussed." --Environment, Space, Place"In Spatializing Blackness Shabazz elucidates how the carceral operates in the everyday lives of Black Chicago. In doing so he forges a new historical geography of Blackness that provides a path for others to follow."--Laura Pulido, author of Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles"Rashad Shabazz's Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago answers this question with particular attention to the lives (and deaths) of black men in Chicago from the Progressive era through 2015. . . . The book's organization, its argumentative imaginativeness, and its author's great conviction in its importance are its greatest strengths. . . . If readers would like to get a sense of the "architectures of confinement" that defined poor black living in Chicago, there Shabazz is rhetorically strongest." --H-Net Reviews"Beautifully crafted. . . . Rashad Shabazz makes an indelible contribution to the complex study of racial formations as they intertwine with emergent Black masculinities."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews"An original work that teases out how the question of black masculinity has been linked to different processes of confinement and imprisonment with carceral power--both inside and outside the prison industrial complex--shaping and relegating black lives and inciting acts of preventable death."--Katherine McKittrick, author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle"An engaging, interdisciplinary, historically situated examination of the creation of 'carceral' space in Chicago as a constituting dimension of the city's modern policing and de facto segregation of black people and communities. The work makes use of several vital intellectual traditions to make its case and thus pushes against dominant scholarly narratives of Chicago's racial-gender social formations."--Dylan Rodriguez, author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime"Highlights the crucial importance of the racialization of space, the role of containment in maintaining the subordination of black people, and the politics of mobility under conditions of 'freedom.'"--Tricia Rose, author of The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A wonderful addition to dramatic literature, this important volume brings the talents of these remarkable playwrights to a broader audience. With this anthology of plays we see the larger conversations--loud voices of a new, unsatisfied generation. These women join their foremothers taking on form and content to take on the most pressing issues of our day. They relentlessly ensure that by reading this collection your beliefs will be tested and you will come to a better understanding about the world."--Nadine George-Graves, author of Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It OutA fascinating collection that brings important but rarely presented perspectives on African American life to the stage. I have a hard time imagining aspiring actresses not having a copy of this book on their bookshelves and mining it for audition material.--Harvey Young, author of Theatre and Race"Adell's compendium offers an opportunity for new scholarly inquiries in theatre history and puts, at the fingertips of educators and students, a dramatic sampling of the best and freshest African American women playwrights of the twenty-first century."--Artisia Green, College of William and Mary"Dr. Adell's book is a refreshingly contemporary collection of plays by both newer, and some more prominent, African-American female playwrights. It is an essential anthology for scholars and practitioners interested in reading, discovering, and collecting early twenty-first-century plays by these artists and a great complement to other anthologies that feature the work of African-American female playwrights."--Martine Kei Green-Rogers, University of Utah

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Book SynopsisStephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one''s dignity while doing hard work in hard world. Trade ReviewBook of the Year, International Labor History Association, 2016 "Richly detailed. . . . The strength of Manhood on the Line is its unvarnished examination of the power of masculinity."--The Annals of Iowa"Meyer has produced an important work—a readable, revealing, well-researched, insightful piece of history."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"Manhood on the Line does an excellent job, helping the reader to understand the importance of the emergence of white working-class masculinity in the automotive factory through an examination of the complex relations between labor, race, and gender, during the twentieth century."--Men and Masculinities"A well-reasoned, thoroughly researched history that makes an important contribution to masculinity and gender studies, the sociology of work, labor history, and industrial relations. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"An incredibly rich social history."--The Michigan Historical Review"In the scholarly study of masculinity, the history of working class masculinity has often been neglected in favor of more accessible middle-class men's stories. Stephen Meyer's book is a valuable . . . contribution to the work being done to rectify this omission."--Kansas History"A richly textured, highly readable study, which should have a significant impact on the writing of a more complicated history of the working class in all advanced capitalist societies."--Labour"A landmark of twentieth-century U.S. history. The research is extraordinary; the argument compelling. It is about our century and nation, and the many blue-collar men who worked in lousy, tough jobs and figured out ways to make a living, and also remain a man."--Roger Horowitz, author of Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, and Transformation "This important and thoughtful book should remove any remaining doubts about the significance of creating a men's history that takes gender seriously."--Ava Baron, author of Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor "Represents a kind of coming of age for labor history after decades of exciting scholarship. Attentive to the power of gender and race in shaping working-class experience, it navigates the difficult terrain between the rough and respectable cultures of working-class men in the auto industry. It's also a terrific read. A master craftsman of working class history, Meyer compellingly shows us how automation, economic crisis, and the presence of women and African American workers reshaped the shop floor and working-class white men’s identity and politics. Finally, Manhood on the Line addresses the difficult questions of sexual harassment and racism in the industrial heartland and illuminates the social worlds of white and black working-class men and women in the twentieth century."--Elizabeth Faue, author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945 "In both argument and evidence, Manhood on the Line is among the richest studies of U.S. working class history. Meyer explores the intersections of gender and class with great clarity and subtlety."--David Roediger, author Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental practices among Mexican American woman have spurred a reconsideration of ecofeminism among Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examines ecological themes across the arts, Chicana activism, and direct action groups to reveal how Chicanas can craft alternative models for ecofeminist processes. Holmes revisits key debates to analyze issues surrounding embodiment, women's connections to nature, and spirituality's role in ecofeminist philosophy and practice. By doing so, she challenges Chicanas to escape the narrow frameworks of the past in favor of an inclusive model of environmental feminism that alleviates Western biases. Holmes uses readings of theory, elaborations of ecological narratives in Chicana cultural productions, histories of human and environmental rights struggles in the Southwest, and a description of an activist exemplar to underscore the importance of living with decolonializing feminist commitment in body, nature, and spirit.Trade ReviewHolmes offers us new ways to consider what she calls performative ecological intersubjectivities that emerge from Chicana and Mexican American women's creative thinking, art-making, and spirituality, as well as from their commitments to social and ecological justice.--Irene Lara, coeditor of Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women's LivesThis brilliant, accessible, and complex intervention should be read not just by those interested in environmentalism and feminism, but by all transnational, decolonizing, and materialist thinkers and doers, whether scholars, students, or activists.--Noel Sturgeon, author of Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a much needed volume reflecting on feminist movements of the past to inform the future. As we face our contemporary era, Currans's volume is urgent and pressing."--Kath Browne, coauthor of Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power"As we enter a new era of public protest, Currans offers a feminist and queer guide to holding public space. Her beautifully rendered and theoretically sharp ethnography illuminates the effect of organizing, the ways that witnessing, marching, lobbying, and demonstrating transforms lives in the process of developing counterpublics."--Eileen Boris, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State"Empirically rich, and boasting extensive quotations from protest participants, the main strength of Curran's account--from a cultural geographer's perspective--is that it examines how space can be transformed via embodied performance: she turns to queer, feminist and critical race theory to emphasize the performance force of counterpublic spaces." --Cultural Geographies "Currans's cogent prose, combined with the integration of multidisciplinary academic work and on-the-ground accounts, appeals to broad audiences of scholars and activists alike." --Gender & Society"Currans draws from feminist, queer, and critical race theory in fashioning an ethnography that illuminates much about the ever problematic relationship between gender and geography." --Politics & Gender

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, girls'' and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance. The change heralds a fundamental shift in how Balinese think about gender roles and the gender behavior taught in children''s music education. It also makes visible a national reorganization of the arts taking place within debates over issues like women''s rights and cultural preservation. Sonja Lynn Downing draws on over a decade of immersive ethnographic work to analyze the ways Balinese musical practices have influenced the processes behind these dramatic changes. As Downing shows, girls and young women assert their agency within the gamelan learning process to challenge entrenched notions of performance and gender. One dramatic result is the creation of new combinations of femininity, musicality, and Balinese identity that resist messages about gendered behavior from the Indonesian nation-state and beyond. Such experimentation expands the accepted gender aesTrade Review"I read this book with great pleasure, interest, and excitement. Downing effectively grounds her main argument and supporting points through analysis of her rich ethnographic data. Not only am I convinced, but I felt like I was in Bali with her, meeting her consultants, hearing them speak, getting a sense of their personalities, and watching them grow and mature."--Christina Sunardi, author of Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance"Deftly painting a close-grained landscape mixing Balinese voices and perspicuous eyewitness reflection, Downing guides us through inspiring stories of girls and women making music in millennial Bali, where few had made it before. The characters and friendships feel so alive because they are changing their world from the bottom up. Their experience of our lived moment is powerfully resonant and inspires reflection on changing gender roles far beyond Bali."--Michael Tenzer, University of British Columbia

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Book SynopsisContemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization. Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital insTrade Review"Queering the Global Filipina Body makes a significant contribution to Asian American Studies." --QED"An epistemological interruption of Filipinx and queer studies' approaches to nationalism and diasporic belonging, Queering the Global Filipina Body calls for new modes of political organizing for those indebted to migrant and queer of color life." --Feminist Formations"A rich analysis of the transnational circuits of culture, labor, goods, and ideology circulating around the material and symbolic body of the Filipina. With its uniquely nuanced documentation and theorization of multiple, competing nationalisms, this book clear-sightedly accounts, on the one hand, for heteropatriarchy within the Filipino diaspora and, on the other hand, the limits of queer white definitions of desire and liberation."--Sarita See, author of The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance"In this important book, Velasco critically assembles and analyzes an eclectic queer Filipinx American diasporic archive that includes films, video-art, performances, websites, and a heritage language program. She develops smart and well-written close readings of these materials, and in doing so, she reveals how Filipinx American cultural producers critique the heteropatriarchal nation in the Philippines and US. Velasco’s Queering the Global Filipina Body is a must read in Filipinx Studies, Asian American Studies, feminist studies, LGBTQ Studies and migration studies."--Kale Bantigue Fajardo, author of Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and GlobalizationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Filipina BodyChapter 1. Mapping Diasporic Nationalisms: The Filipina/o American Balikbayan in the PhilippinesChapter 2. Imagining the Filipina Trafficked Woman/Sex Worker: The Politics of Filipina/o American SolidarityChapter 3. Performing the Filipina Mail Order Bride: Queer Neoliberalism, Affective Labor, and HomonationalismChapter 4. El Otro Encuentro: Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s “Neo-Queer Precolonial Imagining”Conclusion: Queer Necropolitics and the Afterlife of U.S. ImperialismNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisLanguage is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relationsTrade ReviewThe scope and depth of Bleich's work in The Materiality of Language are impressive. This book offers intriguing views of historical developments in language philosophies, the ways in which rigid views of language have supported institutional hegemony and androcentrism, and the positive implications of acknowledging language's materiality. The systematic links he draws among language, gender, institutions, and politics offer generative insights that will certainly be of interest to scholars in rhetoric and composition. * Rhetoric Review *[The author's] thesis is interesting and provocative. He argues forcefully for the relevance of language, construed as a material entity, across a wide range of disciplines (and to life in general), and challenges the focus on treating language as a cognitive phenomenon and studying it in abstract terms.11/7/13 * New Books in Language *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Contested SubjectPart One: The Materiality of LanguageChapter 1: Premises and Backgrounds Chapter 2: Received Standards in the Study of Language Chapter 3: Materiality and Genre Chapter 4: The Unity of Language and Thought Chapter 5: Materiality and the Contemporary Study of Language Chapter 6: Recognizing Politics in the Study of Language Part Two: Language in the UniversityChapter 7: Frustrations of Academic Language Chapter 8: The Protected Institution Chapter 9: The Sacred Language Chapter 10: Language Uses in Science, the Heir of Latin Chapter 11: Language and Human Survival Chapter 12: The Materiality of Literature and the Contested Subject Works Cited and ConsultedIndex

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