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Indiana University Press The B Word
Book SynopsisMaintains that the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiencesTrade ReviewMaria San Filippo turns her razor-sharp intellect on the representation of bisexuality in modern media, where it still remains somewhat unspoken, often overshadowed by the hard-won visibility of gays and lesbians. Placing bisexual desire center stage, San Filippo's book is a much-needed addition to the field of queer media studies. * Next Magazine *...[A] comprehensive, no-holds-barred examination of the portrayal and impact of bisexuality in modern entertainment...Power, privilege, exploitation, the dominance of monosexuality—no permutation goes unexplored, no bisexual presence goes unmentioned...It's a passionate, knowledgeable, educational study, drawing from old and new sources alike. * Publishers Weekly *...[O]ne of the most compelling and thoughtful academic reads from the first half of 2013. * Slant Magazine *[San Filippo's] study is full of fresh insights about a mostly neglected subject, and she makes good use of a wealth of cultural material. * Gay & Lesbian Review *San Filippo is well-read in feminist and queer theory, and the book is sprinkled with ideas from those fields, which makes this most suitable for graduate-level reading. It can, however, serve as undergraduate coursework for students with a solid background in those subjects. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This captivating new study by Maria San Filippo raises numerous persuasive questions about the perspectives that our culture has of bisexuality while it explores the ongoing and, typically, problematic efforts to portray it on screen. * Cinema Journal *For anyone interested in the politics of bisexuality, The B Word should be on your reading list. * Journal of Bisexuality *Table of ContentsPrologue: Chasing Amy and Bisexual (In)visibilityIntroduction: Binary Trouble and Compulsory Monosexuality1. Unthinking Monosexuality: Bisexual Representability in Art Cinema2. Power Play/s: Bisexuality as Privilege and Pathology in Sexploitation Cinema3. Of Cowboys and Cocksmen: Bisexuality and the Contemporary Hollywood Bromance4. Bisexuality on the Boob TubeConclusion: Queer/ing BisexualityNotesBibliographyIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press The B Word Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and
Book SynopsisMaintains that the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiencesTrade ReviewMaria San Filippo turns her razor-sharp intellect on the representation of bisexuality in modern media, where it still remains somewhat unspoken, often overshadowed by the hard-won visibility of gays and lesbians. Placing bisexual desire center stage, San Filippo's book is a much-needed addition to the field of queer media studies. * Next Magazine *...[A] comprehensive, no-holds-barred examination of the portrayal and impact of bisexuality in modern entertainment...Power, privilege, exploitation, the dominance of monosexuality—no permutation goes unexplored, no bisexual presence goes unmentioned...It's a passionate, knowledgeable, educational study, drawing from old and new sources alike. * Publishers Weekly *...[O]ne of the most compelling and thoughtful academic reads from the first half of 2013. * Slant Magazine *[San Filippo's] study is full of fresh insights about a mostly neglected subject, and she makes good use of a wealth of cultural material. * Gay & Lesbian Review *San Filippo is well-read in feminist and queer theory, and the book is sprinkled with ideas from those fields, which makes this most suitable for graduate-level reading. It can, however, serve as undergraduate coursework for students with a solid background in those subjects. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This captivating new study by Maria San Filippo raises numerous persuasive questions about the perspectives that our culture has of bisexuality while it explores the ongoing and, typically, problematic efforts to portray it on screen. * Cinema Journal *For anyone interested in the politics of bisexuality, The B Word should be on your reading list. * Journal of Bisexuality *Table of ContentsPrologue: Chasing Amy and Bisexual (In)visibilityIntroduction: Binary Trouble and Compulsory Monosexuality1. Unthinking Monosexuality: Bisexual Representability in Art Cinema2. Power Play/s: Bisexuality as Privilege and Pathology in Sexploitation Cinema3. Of Cowboys and Cocksmen: Bisexuality and the Contemporary Hollywood Bromance4. Bisexuality on the Boob TubeConclusion: Queer/ing BisexualityNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.99
Indiana University Press Namibias Rainbow Project
Book SynopsisTells the story of the unexpected effects of The Rainbow Project (TRP), a LGBT rights program for young Namibians begun in response to President Nujoma's notorious hate speeches against homosexuals.Trade ReviewOverall, Lorway convincingly illustrates that the refiguring of identity categories and subjectivities by Western aid organizations is not the solution to Africa's problems with homophobia or to the violent dilemmas faced by so many LGBT Africans. As in many other circumstances involving Western aid, it often does more harm than good. * Africa *Namibia's Rainbow Project is a very important book as it helps make sense of the time the Rainbow Youth live in and of how they can transform the situations they are facing. This book is creative and formulates key questions on the current Namibia's social, economic, and political reality that help enlighten the African situation as a whole. This book is ideal for teaching and for young researchers who need to know the complexity of projects about politics and health in Africa. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *[This book] should be compulsory reading for all those GLBT groups that have embraced global issues and forgotten the dangers of wading in without very carefully thinking through the long-term implications of immediate action. * Gay and Lesbian Review *Namibia's Rainbow Project is a monograph that will captivate readers and help to dispel persisting misconceptions about queer Africans. This book is likely to interest students and scholars of social movements, gender, and sexuality in southern Africa and scholars who specialise in Namibia. * Journal of Southern Africa Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrologue: Approaching the TransnationalIntroduction1. The Instrumentality of Sex2. Subjectivity as a Political Territory 3. Remaking Female Citizenship4. The Naturalization of Intimate Partner Violence5. Thinking Through the Foreigner FetishConclusion: Post-structural ViolenceNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.04
Indiana University Press Cubas Racial Crucible
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMorrison's book opens up several new avenues for research on sexuality and family formation in Cuba, and she does so with a masterful grasp on colonial sources and raises critical questions for the twentieth century. While most scholars accept the primacy of race and sexuality in Cuban history, Morrison succeeds at excavating these questions on a micro-level, providing new insights into the choices and family formations forged by both enslaved and free Cubans over time. * Cuban Studies *This thought-provoking book will appeal to specialists and should be quite useful in graduate seminars dealing with race, nation, and Latin American history. * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *What is most striking about Cuba's Racial Crucible is the manner in which it records why enslaved individuals labored to document paternity, maternity, and racial ascendency for social mobility, love, and individual stability. Those social actors are the highlight of Morrison's research. * American Quarterly *This rigorous yet accessible monograph covers an extensive period of Cuban history from a unique and innovative intersectional perspective. For these reasons, it would make an excellent addition to undergraduate collections in African and African American studies, Latin American studies, women's and gender studies, and history. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social IdentitiesAcknowledgments1. Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments of Afro-Cuban Social Value to 18202. Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763–18203. The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820–18674. Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of Cuban Whiteness5. Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868–18866. "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886–19407. Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920–1958Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National Family, 1959–2000NotesReferencesIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Cubas Racial Crucible
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMorrison's book opens up several new avenues for research on sexuality and family formation in Cuba, and she does so with a masterful grasp on colonial sources and raises critical questions for the twentieth century. While most scholars accept the primacy of race and sexuality in Cuban history, Morrison succeeds at excavating these questions on a micro-level, providing new insights into the choices and family formations forged by both enslaved and free Cubans over time. * Cuban Studies *This thought-provoking book will appeal to specialists and should be quite useful in graduate seminars dealing with race, nation, and Latin American history. * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *What is most striking about Cuba's Racial Crucible is the manner in which it records why enslaved individuals labored to document paternity, maternity, and racial ascendency for social mobility, love, and individual stability. Those social actors are the highlight of Morrison's research. * American Quarterly *This rigorous yet accessible monograph covers an extensive period of Cuban history from a unique and innovative intersectional perspective. For these reasons, it would make an excellent addition to undergraduate collections in African and African American studies, Latin American studies, women's and gender studies, and history. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: A Crucible of Race: Historicizing the Sexual Economy of Cuban Social IdentitiesAcknowledgments1. Ascendant Capitalism and White Intellectual Re-Assessments of Afro-Cuban Social Value to 18202. Slavery and Afro-Cuban Family Formation during Cuba's Economic Awakening, 1763–18203. The Illegal Slave Trade and the Cuban Sexual Economy of Race, 1820–18674. Nineteenth-Century Racial Myths and the Familial Corruption of Cuban Whiteness5. Afro-Cuban Family Emancipation, 1868–18866. "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban Family, 1886–19407. Mestizaje Literary Visions and Afro-Cuban Genealogical Memory, 1920–1958Epilogue: Revolutionary Social Morality and the Multi-Racial National Family, 1959–2000NotesReferencesIndex
£22.49
Indiana University Press Oxbridge Men
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A very welcome book that certainly reaffirms--with new material and approaches--that the entrance of women into the world of the historical university was arguably the most revolutionary event in the long social history of a special kind of institution." —Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Constructing Superiority: The University and the Undergraduate2. The Transition from Boyhood to Manhood3. "Your Name and College, Sir?" Discipline and Authority4. Those "Horrid," "Holy" Schools: Examinations, Competition, and Masculine Struggle5. "Impervious to the Gentler Sex?" Boat Races, Heterosocial Relations, and Masculinity6. Girl Graduates and Colonial StudentsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£24.29
Indiana University Press Czech Feminisms Perspectives on Gender in East
Book SynopsisIveta Jusová is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Literature at Carleton College.Jirina Šiklová, CSc., is an acclaimed Czech sociologist, writer, former dissident, and one of the most influential Czech feminists. She is founder of the Gender Studies Center in Prague.Trade ReviewEssential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity Issues in the Czech Culture: Past and Present / Iveta Jusová Part 1: Gender Issues in Czech Society Prior to 19891. Situating Czech Identity: Postcolonial Theory and "the European Dividend" / Iveta Jusová 2. The Importance of Being Nationalist / Jitka Malečková 3. The Czech 1930s through Toyen / Karla Huebner 4. Women as the Object and Subject of the Socialist Form of Women's Emancipation / Alena Wagnerová 5. Women's Memory: Searching for Identity under Socialism / Pavla Frýdlová Part 2: Gender Issues in Czech Society Post-19896. Contested Feminism: The East/West Feminist Encounters in the 1990s / Simona Fojtová 7. Czech Women's NGOs: Women's Voices and Claims in the Public Sphere / Hana Hašková and Zuzana Uhde 8. Czech Anarchofeminism: Against Hierarchy and Privileges / Linda Sokačová 9. Aspects of Sex and Gender in Romany Communities in the Czech Republic / Karolína Ryvolová 10. The Lives of Vietnamese Women in the Czech Republic / Mária Strašáková11. Sex Work, Migration, and Law: La Strada and Human Trafficking in the Czech Republic / Simona Fojtová12. Idle Ally: LGBT Community in the Czech Republic / Kateřina Nedbálková 13. Condemned to Rule: Masculine Domination and Hegemonic Masculinities of Doctors in Czech Maternity Wards / Iva Šmídová 14. Some Issues and Challenges Faced by Elderly and Retired Women in the Czech Republic / Jiřina Šiklová 15. The East Side Story of (Gendered) Art: Framing Gender in Czech and Slovak Contemporary Art / Zuzana Štefková16. Typological Differences Between Languages as an Argument Against Gender-Fair Language Use? / Jana ValdrováBibliography List of ContributorsIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Czech Feminisms
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEssential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity Issues in the Czech Culture: Past and Present / Iveta Jusová Part 1: Gender Issues in Czech Society Prior to 19891. Situating Czech Identity: Postcolonial Theory and "the European Dividend" / Iveta Jusová 2. The Importance of Being Nationalist / Jitka Malečková 3. The Czech 1930s through Toyen / Karla Huebner 4. Women as the Object and Subject of the Socialist Form of Women's Emancipation / Alena Wagnerová 5. Women's Memory: Searching for Identity under Socialism / Pavla Frýdlová Part 2: Gender Issues in Czech Society Post-19896. Contested Feminism: The East/West Feminist Encounters in the 1990s / Simona Fojtová 7. Czech Women's NGOs: Women's Voices and Claims in the Public Sphere / Hana Hašková and Zuzana Uhde 8. Czech Anarchofeminism: Against Hierarchy and Privileges / Linda Sokačová 9. Aspects of Sex and Gender in Romany Communities in the Czech Republic / Karolína Ryvolová 10. The Lives of Vietnamese Women in the Czech Republic / Mária Strašáková11. Sex Work, Migration, and Law: La Strada and Human Trafficking in the Czech Republic / Simona Fojtová12. Idle Ally: LGBT Community in the Czech Republic / Kateřina Nedbálková 13. Condemned to Rule: Masculine Domination and Hegemonic Masculinities of Doctors in Czech Maternity Wards / Iva Šmídová 14. Some Issues and Challenges Faced by Elderly and Retired Women in the Czech Republic / Jiřina Šiklová 15. The East Side Story of (Gendered) Art: Framing Gender in Czech and Slovak Contemporary Art / Zuzana Štefková16. Typological Differences Between Languages as an Argument Against Gender-Fair Language Use? / Jana ValdrováBibliography List of ContributorsIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Feeling Normal
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Feeling Normal provides an important addition to the existing scholarship in the field. This book will serve those interested in cultural studies, media studies, and LGBTQ studies well. * Critical Studies in Media Communication *"Offers a piercing examination of modern identity politics focused on relationships among new forms of media consumption and marketplaces, urban centers, and the experiences of sexual minorities. ... Feeling Normal is a must-read for scholars and students in queer studies and communication, media studies, film studies, and sociology." * Choice Reviews *"Altogether, Griffin's analysis provides a pathway for understanding how gay and lesbian media, including films like Elena Undone, can make LGBTQ people feel normal. Furthermore, he underlines the importance of these feelings for identifying media's discursive role in constructing the boundaries of gay and lesbian citizenship." * Mobile Media & Communication *Griffin offers a compelling analysis of how sexual desire and identity are created, circulated, and consumed in contemporary media culture... [The book] provides an important addition to the existing scholarship in the field. * Critical Studies in Media Communication *There are certain scholars and critics who have a knack for combining a theoretically rich analysis of a varied archive with a distinctive voice. Griffin is one of those. While never lacking in rigor or scholarly address, the book does have moments of genuine humor, when it is clear that Griffin understands the ironic posture that many queer people take toward the media that they consume. As such, Feeling Normal, while scholarly in outlook and perspective, is actually a pleasure to read. * Information, Communication, & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Cities as Affective Convergences2. The Aesthetics of Banality After New Queer Cinema3. Commodity Activism and Corporate Synergy on Cable TV4. Toward an Actually Queer Criticism of Television5. Wanting Something OnlineAfterword: #LoveWinsSelected BibliographyIndex
£48.60
Indiana University Press Feeling Normal
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Feeling Normal provides an important addition to the existing scholarship in the field. This book will serve those interested in cultural studies, media studies, and LGBTQ studies well. * Critical Studies in Media Communication *"Offers a piercing examination of modern identity politics focused on relationships among new forms of media consumption and marketplaces, urban centers, and the experiences of sexual minorities. ... Feeling Normal is a must-read for scholars and students in queer studies and communication, media studies, film studies, and sociology." * Choice Reviews *"Altogether, Griffin's analysis provides a pathway for understanding how gay and lesbian media, including films like Elena Undone, can make LGBTQ people feel normal. Furthermore, he underlines the importance of these feelings for identifying media's discursive role in constructing the boundaries of gay and lesbian citizenship." * Mobile Media & Communication *Griffin offers a compelling analysis of how sexual desire and identity are created, circulated, and consumed in contemporary media culture... [The book] provides an important addition to the existing scholarship in the field. * Critical Studies in Media Communication *There are certain scholars and critics who have a knack for combining a theoretically rich analysis of a varied archive with a distinctive voice. Griffin is one of those. While never lacking in rigor or scholarly address, the book does have moments of genuine humor, when it is clear that Griffin understands the ironic posture that many queer people take toward the media that they consume. As such, Feeling Normal, while scholarly in outlook and perspective, is actually a pleasure to read. * Information, Communication, & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Cities as Affective Convergences2. The Aesthetics of Banality After New Queer Cinema3. Commodity Activism and Corporate Synergy on Cable TV4. Toward an Actually Queer Criticism of Television5. Wanting Something OnlineAfterword: #LoveWinsSelected BibliographyIndex
£22.79
Indiana University Press Gender Justice and the Problem of Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture speaks to a wide range of disciplines and should find pride of place in our curricula. * African Studies Review * Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture makes a significant contribution to the study of law in East Africa and elsewhere among colonized peoples, and it should be required reading not only for academics interested in such matters but for activists and policymakers. * American Anthropologist *Hodgson's book is both rich in detail and broad in its implications for understanding struggles for justice for marginalised groups. It deserves the attention of students and scholars of African studies, anthropology, history, political science and women's and gender studies. * Journal of Modern African Studies *[T]this book [is] an excellent addition to scholarship and courses on gender, human rights, legal anthropology, critical development studies, and more. * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Creating "Law": Colonial Rule, Native Courts, and the Codification of Customary Law2. Debating Marriage: National Law and the Culture of Postcolonial Rule3. Criminalizing Culture: Human Rights, NGOs, and the Politics of Anti-FGM Campaigns4. Demanding Justice: Collective Action, Moral Authority, and Female Forms of PowerConclusionBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Gender Justice and the Problem of Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture speaks to a wide range of disciplines and should find pride of place in our curricula. * African Studies Review * Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture makes a significant contribution to the study of law in East Africa and elsewhere among colonized peoples, and it should be required reading not only for academics interested in such matters but for activists and policymakers. * American Anthropologist *Hodgson's book is both rich in detail and broad in its implications for understanding struggles for justice for marginalised groups. It deserves the attention of students and scholars of African studies, anthropology, history, political science and women's and gender studies. * Journal of Modern African Studies *[T]this book [is] an excellent addition to scholarship and courses on gender, human rights, legal anthropology, critical development studies, and more. * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Creating "Law": Colonial Rule, Native Courts, and the Codification of Customary Law2. Debating Marriage: National Law and the Culture of Postcolonial Rule3. Criminalizing Culture: Human Rights, NGOs, and the Politics of Anti-FGM Campaigns4. Demanding Justice: Collective Action, Moral Authority, and Female Forms of PowerConclusionBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Dolly Parton Gender and Country Music
Book SynopsisLeigh H. Edwards explores Partons roles as musician, actor, author, philanthropist, and entrepreneur to show how her gender subversion highlights the challenges that can be found even in the most seemingly traditional form of American popular music. As Parton depicts herself as simultaneously "real" and "fake," she offers new perspectives on country music's claims of authenticity.Trade ReviewA stellar exploration of how Parton deftly balanced traditional country aesthetics with her willingness to rebel against those same trappings by completely owning her image and how she performed her femininity. Thanks to thorough research that digs into Parton's personal statements across her autobiography, social media outlets, and interviews in a variety of mediums, the reader is presented with a woman completely in control of who she is, her art, and how people interact with her. -- Adam P. Newton * BeardedGentlemenMusic.com *With her generous, comprehensive examination of Parton's image and career, Edwards makes a valuable contribution to studies of celebrity, gender, music, media, and popular culture that should be useful to scholars working in any of these areas. -- Jennifer Lynn Jones * Celebrity Studies *"The new book Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music investigates the character behind the chart-topping musician we've come to know and love." * Shondaland *Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music is a timely full-length monograph on a figure who has endured on the national and international scene for more than one-half century. Fittingly, this study is authored by a leading scholar of contemporary popular culture. The keyword in Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music is 'transgression,' for Professor Edwards demonstrates the terms by which, over decades, Parton's personae both conform to well-established patterns of identity and simultaneously subvert them. -- Cecelia Tichi, Journal of Popular Music Studies The book moves seamlessly from the mythology of Dolly Parton and the crafting of her gender persona to the singer's performance within different types of frameworks through Hollywood, crossover markets, and the digital stage. Edwards has allowed us to look deeper into how that combination of femininity has been a platform of change for both Parton and our perception of her persona, while opening the door for exploration of how Parton's influence may help craft the careers of future performers. * The Journal of Popular Culture *The book is full of solid arguments for the worthiness of Parton as a scholarly subject, including the complexities and juxtapositions of her life as a media figure with an enduring career. * Music Reference Services Quarterly *Overall, Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music examines Parton's trailblazing career in the male-dominated world of country music through the lens of gender themes and identity, including the expansion of her media empire of music, movies, theme park, and numerous other efforts. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Deftly introduces the public and private Dolly Parton in this well-researched study of a cultural phenomenon. * AudioFile *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dolly Mythology1. "Backwoods Barbie": Dolly Parton's Gender Performance2. My Tennessee Mountain Home: Early Parton and Authenticity Narratives3. Parton's Crossover and Film Stardom: The "Hillbilly Mae West"4. Hungry Again: Reclaiming Country Authenticity Narratives5. "Digital Dolly" and New Media FandomsConclusion: Brand Evolution and DollywoodWorks CitedIndex
£49.30
Indiana University Press Queering Drag
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDrawing on a rich body of archival and ethnographic research, Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending (Indiana UP, 2020) illuminates diverse examples of theatrical gender-bending. It shows how, in each case, standard drag discourses do not sufficiently capture the complexity of performers' intents and methods or provide a strong enough foundation for holistically evaluating the impact of this work. Queering Drag offers a redefinition of the genre centralized in the performer's construction and presentation of a "queer" version of hegemonic identity. It also models a new set of tools for analyzing drag as a process of intents and methods enacted to effect specific goals. The book won the 2021 John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Book in LGBTQ Studies from the Popular Culture Association and was named one of NBC's "10 LGBTQ books to watch out for in 2020." -- Isabel Machado * New Books Network *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. What's in a Name? Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending 2. "Masculine Women, Feminine Men": Variety and Vaudevillian Male Impersonators 3. Mythical, "Sexless" Characters: Identity Borders in El Teatro Campesino 4. The "First Punch" at Stonewall: Counteridentification Butch Acts 5. Bent Means "Not Quite Straight": Kinging as DisidentificationConclusion: Bending RhetoricBibliographyIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender
Book SynopsisPowerful new readings of the Shakespearean tragic hero.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Gendered Subject of Shakespearean Tragedy, Madelon Sprengnether1. Tragic Subjects History into Tragedy: The Case of Richard III, Phyllis Rackin A Woman of Letters: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, Sara Eaton "Documents in Madness": REading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture, Carol Thomas Neely "Born of Woman": Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth, Janet Adelman "Magic of Bounty": Timon of Athens, Jacobean Patronage, and Maternal Power, Coppélia Kahn2. Implicating Othello Desdemona's Disposition, Lena Cowen Orlin "The Moor of Venice," or the Indian on the Renaissance English Stage, Margo Hendricks The Heroics of Marriage in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi, Mary Beth Rose3. Shakespeare Our Contemporary? The Fatal Cleopatra, Carol Cook What's Love Got to Do with It? Reading the Liberal Humanist Romance in Antony and Cleopatra, Linda CharnesShakespeare in My Time and Place, Shirley Nelson Garner Leaving Shakespeare, Gayle GreeneNotes on Contributors Index
£18.89
MH - Indiana University Press A Question of Manhood Volume 1 A Reader in U.S. Black Mens History and Masculinity Manhood Rights The Construction of Black Male History an
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Indiana University Press A Question of Manhood Volume 2 A Reader in U.S.
Book SynopsisAn anthology of historical studies focusing on themes and issues central to the construction of Black masculinities and Black men's history. This book covers themes in the lives of black men that touch on leadership, work and the professions, family and community, sports and the military, and the image of black men in the larger society.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction / Earnestine Jenkins and Darlene Clark Hine Part One: Constructing Citizenship: The Evolution of Black Male Leadership 1. "Your Old Father Abe Lincoln is Dead and Damned": Black Soldiers and the Memphis Race Riot after 1866 / Kevin Hardwick 2. Black Politicians in Reconstruction Charleston, South Caroline: A Collective Study / William Hine 3. The Freedman's Bureau and Local Black Leadership / Richard Lowe 4. For Justice and a Fee: James Milton Turner and the Cherokee Freedmen / Gary Kremer Part Two: "To Own Our Own Labor": Black Men, Economic Self-Sufficiency, and Working Class Consciousness 5. Black Policemen in New Orleans during Reconstruction / Dennis Rousey 6. Negro Labor in the Western Cattle Industry, 1866-1900 / Kenneth W. Porter 7. The Politics of Black Land Tenure, 1877-1915 / Manning Marable 8. "Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down": The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920 / Eric Arnesen 9. A Constant Struggle between Interest and Humanity: Convict Labor in the Coal Mines of the Old South / Alex Lichtenstein Part Three: Black Men, the Professions, and Fraternal Organisations 10. A High and Honorable Calling: Black Lawyers in South Caroline, 1868-1915 / R. J. Oldfield 11. Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the New South, 1880-1920 / Todd Savitt 12. The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood / Vicki Howard 13. The African Derivation of Black Fraternal Orders in the United States / Betty Kuyk Part Four: Proving Black Manhood: The Allure of Sport and the Military in the Late 19th Century 14. "Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship": A Black Athlete's Struggle against the Late Nineteenth Century Color Line / David K. Wiggins 15. The Black Bicycle Corps / Marvin Fletcher 16. African Americans and the War against Spain / Piero Gleijeses Part Five: End of the Century Archetypes: Symbolic Constructions in Black Manhood and Masculinity 17. The Anatomy of Lynching / Robyn Wiegman 18. The Heroic Appeal of John Henry / Brett Williams 19. Stack Lee: The Man, the Music, and the Myth / George Eberhart 20. Where Honor Is Due: Frederick Douglas as Representative / Wilson Moses Sources Selected Bibliography Index
£25.19
Indiana University Press American Sweethearts
Book SynopsisLooking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, this book shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent girl as an individual who is simultaneously sexualized and infantilized. It explores the intersecting histories of adolescence, and popular culture.Trade ReviewNash's book is a fascinating and insightful look at the figure of the teenage American girl through the guise of popular culture. . . .Compelling and and persuasive, American Sweethearts goes a long way in showing where our mid-century views of teenage women came from, and, sadly, how those stereotypes still pervade our popular culture to this day. * Bloomsbury Review *. . . Nash . . . adds to growing body of work in 'girls' studies.' . . . Overall, this book makes a valuable contribution to this emergent field. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Radical Notions: Nancy Drew and Her Readers, 1930–19492. "Pretty Baby": Nancy Drew Goes to Hollywood3. "Delightfully Dangerous" Girls in the 1940s4. The Postwar Fall and Rise of Teen GirlsEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.04
Indiana University Press Village Mothers Three Generations of Change in
Book SynopsisDescribes the reception of medical ideas and practices by three generations of Russian and Tatar village women in the 20th century. This book shows how the women mediated the inherited beliefs of their families and communities, the claims of the state to control reproduction, and their personal desires for a better life.Trade Review"[A]n outstanding work of historical ethnography... The book offers wonderful insight into how women created and understood the great changes of the 20th century. It is unique in its scope and its intimate knowledge of rural life." --Russian Review "[A] major contribution to the field... an important book that should be of considerable interest to medical historians and historians of peasants, the family, and of women." --American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Child Welfare before the Revolution2. Soviet Efforts to Transform Village Mothering3. Courtship and Marriage4. Fertility Choices5. Giving Birth6. Baptism and Equivalent Muslim Rites7. Coping with Infant Death8. Child Care9. Conclusion: Life and Loyalty in Hard TimesAppendix A: List of InformantsAppendix B: QuestionnaireNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Africa After Gender
Book SynopsisNew essays on how gender works in AfricaTrade Review. . . this book is an important contribution to the location of knowledge production and the study of gender in Africa. The multi- and transdisciplinary essays emphasize in various pragmatic ways how local custodians immeasurably enrich collaborative scholarly research. Other essays offer fresh approaches to gender and gender performance while situating such enactments within a transcontinental global framework with the clear aim of promoting less antagonistic North-South dialogue and groundbreaking studies of women's and gender issues in Africa.39.4 Winter 2008 -- JULIANA MAKUCHI NFAH-ABBENYI * NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY *[This] is a truly remarkable and important book . . . . This text offer[s] a fresh and challenging analysis on African gender issues. . . . This book is very accessible and engaging . . . . It should have widespread appeal to Africanists from all subfields, as well as scholars of women and gender studies. Africa after Gender? makes a significant contribution to African studies and illuminates the changing discourse of gender within African contexts.June 2010 -- Jacqueline-Bethel T. Mougoue * Purdue University *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: When Was Gender? Stephan F. Miescher, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Catherine M. ColePart 1. Volatile Genders and New African Women1. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in Uganda Sylvia TamalePostscript compiled by Bianca A. Murillo2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender Commission Gay W. Seidman3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African History Lynn M. Thomas4. Dialoging Women Nwando Achebe and Bridget TebohPart 2. Activism and Public Space5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and the Public Sphere in Africa Susan Z. Andrade6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular Theatre Adrienne MacIain7. Doing Gender Work in Ghana Takyiwaa Manuh8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990s Hussaina J. AbdullahPart 3. Gender Enactments, Gendered Perceptions9. Constituting Subjects through Performative Acts Paulla A. Ebron10. Gender After Africa! Eileen Boris11. When a Man Loves a Woman: Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinkas's Death and the King's Horseman and Mariama Bâ's Scarlet Song Eileen Julien12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National Cultures Nana Wilson-TagoePart 4. Masculinity, Misogyny, and Seniority13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "Male Breadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria Lisa A. Lindsay14. Becoming an Opanyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth Century Stephan F. Miescher15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory and Ghana's Popular Culture Catherine M. Cole16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African Studies Helen Nabasuta MugambiThe Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital AgeResources for Further ReadingList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Wives Widows and Concubines The Conjugal Family
Book SynopsisDebates about family, property, and nation in Tamil IndiaTrade Review"Scholarly and eminently readable, this book commends itself to both scholars and non-scholars across disciplines. While analysing the debates about ‘family’ that proliferated in the Tamil region of India during the late 19th century and the mid-20th century, it examines the claims about the family — its appropriate membership, its role in buttressing ‘culture’ and ‘tradition’, and the property relations of its members — that, according to the author, became critical to the formulation and contestation of Tamil social relations." —The Hindu, Dec. 22, 2009"Sreenivas's discussion points to the importance for feminist scholarship of exploring the links among conjugality, kinship, and capitalisms both historically and today." —Feminist Formations"Sreenivas’s study is, without a doubt, a ‘must read’ for scholars interested in the history of the family, women and gender, as well as the development of anti-colonial nationalist politics. Her careful historicization of the ‘family’ as an equally powerful force alongside the ‘nation,’ and the many qualifications to Chatterjee’s influential work that this approach pulls into the foreground makes 'Widows, Wives and Concubines' an invaluable addition to both Indian social history and colonial studies." —Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 10.3 Winter 20009"Whenever my husband felt amorous, he would occasionally cohabit with any woman and pay her occasionally. This is all. They were concubines." —Muthuverammal, 1885"The Zemindar used to take his meals with me. The Zemindar used to sleep during nights in the upstairs of the new palace. I and he used to sleep in the same bed." —Menakshi Sundra Nachiar, 1893"Rather than settling on one conception of the family, Sreenivas tracks how ideals changed over time through very public debates in Tamil society. She does not settle for quick or easy answers about family values and demonstrates how different social groups engaged the question to advance their interests in political and economic spheres." —DURBA GHOSH, Cornell University, USA, Gender and History, Vol. 21.2 August 2009"Overall, this book is a valuable addition in the list of historical research works on the issues of women, community politics and colonial legislative ventures in southern India. The research related strength of the book is that it draws information from a variety of primary sources, ranging from archives of court cases, women’s narratives and women’s writings in the magazines. The author, in a very articulate manner, simplifies the complex history of family, politics, caste, class and economic pressures in Tamil Nadu." —Human Rights and Human Welfare, 2009"This volume about the changing family in colonial South India is a welcome addition to the literature on marriage and family." —The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 69/1, February 2010"This is... a well-researched, theoretically informed and stylistically refined study of the articulation of a new—the conjugal—family ideal in colonial India." —SUDHIR CHANDRA, Mizoram University, American Historical Review, Vol. 114. 4 Oct. 2009"The very principle of the joint family is against giving equal rights to females." —P. C. Tyagaraja Iyer, 1935Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Situating Families1. Colonizing the Family: Kinship, Household, and State2. Conjugality and Capital: Defining Women's Rights to Family Property3. Nationalizing Marriage: Indian and Dravidian Politics of Conjugality4. Marrying for Love: Emotion and Desire in Women's Print CultureConclusion: Families and HistoryNotesBibliographyIndex
£16.14
Indiana University Press Yoruba Women Work and Social Change
Book SynopsisThe Yoruba, one of the most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria, are noted for the economic activity, confidence, and authority of their women. This title traces the history of women in Yorubaland from around 1820 to 1960 and Nigerian independence. It shows how and why women's roles and status changed during the 19th century and the colonial era.Trade Review. . . well researched and based on a vast array of sources, such as missionary accounts, records of native courts, British colonial office documents, newspapers, diaries, letters, and financial accounts of Yoruba women as well as oral histories and interviews. The work is nicely written, clearly discussing the author's themes of gender and patriarchy, women and colonialism, and female agency in Yorubaland. It is a welcome addition to texts on gender history in Africa as well as West African history.April 2009 -- Cyrelene Amoah * Southern Illinois University *This book is recommended for courses in African women's history, African history, and Gender and Women's Studies courses. It is well-researched and documented and it covers a span of history that is invaluable to the broader understanding of Nigeria in general and the Yoruba in particular before, during, and after colonial rule. The book is well-written and organised and would interest readers who are new to African studies or African women's history. * Feminist Africa *Yoruba Women is valuable as a reflection of the state of knowledge on the Yoruba and as the benchmark from which the future of Yoruba studies can proceed. It will be well referred to for a long time. * Journal of African History *McIntosh's approach makes her book a valuable addition to introductory and survey courses of Africa. Volume 73/3, 2010 * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *[T]his comprehensively researched and compellingly rendered study is sure to be valued by Africanists and will prove of considerable interest to non-Africanists concerned with its themes. June 2010 * American Historical Review *Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change provides an excellent overview of Yoruba history and culture as well as illuminating descriptions of the activities of Yoruba women . . . it is an essential place to start for anyone interested in the history and culture of Yoruba women in south-western Nigeria. Its descriptive nature, chronological organisation, and flowing prose make this work highly accessible . . . .Vol. 34.1 March 2010 -- Ann Genova * Roanoke College *[This] book provides highly interesting insights into Yoruba history and culture, including the effects of slave trade and colonialism, the arrival of Islam and Christianity, changes through the introduction of British legal system, and Western schooling. . . . a good read for anybody interested in African culture, history, or women's roles.#41 April 2009 * MISSIOLOGY: Intnl Review *Clearly written and cogently argued, this book is the first comprehensive survey of Yoruba women's lives from the precolonial period until independence. . . . A major contribution to Nigerian and African women's history, this book should be included in all college and university libraries. . . . Highly recommended.September 2009 * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Language and OrthographyAbbreviations, Terms, and ExplanationsPart 1. Introduction 1. Opening 2. Sources and QuestionsPart 2. The Context of Women's Lives 3. Yorubaland, 1820–1893 4. Colonial Yorubaland, 1893–1960 5. Family and MarriagePart 3. Women's Economic Activities 6. Labor, Property, and Agriculture 7. Income-Generating Activities in the Nineteenth Century 8. New Approaches to Familiar Roles during the Colonial Period 9. Western Skills and Service CareersPart 4. Other Public Roles and Broader Issues 10. Religion, Cultural Forms, and Associations 11. Regents and Chiefs, Economic Organizations, and Politics 12. Patriarchy, Colonialism, and Women's AgencyGlossary of Yoruba WordsNotesList of ReferencesIndex
£20.89
Indiana University Press Queer in Black and White
Book SynopsisAnalyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. This book explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity.Trade Review"Dunning uses the trope of interraciality... to demonstrate how [it] actually reifies rather than obfuscates the black queer's 'blackness'." —E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University"Dunning's text is beneficial to any scholar whose research explores race, gender, and sexuality." —MELUS, Vol. 35, No. 3, Fall 2010"The small paperback, light on jargon and devoid of pretension, is eminently readable, permitting Dunning's ideas to transmit fluidly across multifarious dsciplines and research interests in the arts and humanities." —Benjamin Grimwood, Black Camera"... an intellectual illustration challenging the notion that the black queer is 'not black enough' and both examines and explains 'the frequent representation of the interracial as a device signifying the ideas of nation, authenticity and blackness.'" —Brandon Copeland, Feminist Review, Oct. 17, 2009"Queer studies has been disproportionately 'white' and androcentric.... Dunning's book helps fill this lacuna.... Her prose is concise, cogent, and readable." —LaShonda Barnett, Sarah Lawrence CollegeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Ironic Soil": Recuperative Rhythms and Negotiated Nationalism2. "No Tender Mercy": Same-Sex Desire, Interraciality, and the Black Nation3. (Not) Loving Her: A Locus of Contradictions4. "She's a B*(u)tch": Centering Blackness in The Watermelon WomanEpilogue: Reading Robert Reid-Pharr NotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Love in the Time of AIDS
Book SynopsisIntimacy and AIDS in South AfricaTrade ReviewIn this timely and important book, Hunter interrogates misperceptions about AIDS, sexuality, human rights, and gender injustices that perpetuate harmful constructions of African sexuality. Challenging the assumption that Africa is 'loveless,' an emancipatory concept typically reserved for those living in modern Western democracies . . . Hunter restores questions of love, tenderness, and intimacy in this rich ethnography of gender and sexuality in South Africa. * American Journal of Sociology *Mark Hunter's Love in the Time of AIDS is one of the most important books on AIDS in Africa that has been published so far. . . . Among its many virtues, Mark Hunter's book does well in reminding us that, though often difficult, even in the hardest conditions love is possible. * African Studies Review *This is a sobering and complex book, and the powerful ethnographic excavation of the multiple factors transforming everyday intimacy in contemporary South Africa is a testament to Hunter's skills as a researcher and author. * Gender, Place & Culture *Mark Hunter's work is an important contribution to the historical and anthropological literature on the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic and should be considered required reading for scholars and graduate students interested in the social, cultural, and economic dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa. * Journal of African History *The book is rich in ethnographic detail, especially life stories, and very convincing in its analysis.Hunter avoids economism through demonstrating the real emotions of love and intimacy among women and men linked in a devastating HIV epidemic. His study is a 21st century classic. * writingrights.nu.org.za *Love in the Time of AIDS is an exceptional book. . . . [It] challenges dominant assumptions about the spread of AIDS and foregrounds the real everyday lives of people in contexts of deep poverty and violence. . . . This book is a must read for all those who recognise AIDS beyond epidemiology. * Global Public Health *Hunter writes skilfully, building on important topics to explain the many layers of influence on the everyday worlds of people affected by HIV/AIDS. This powerful and complex book would appeal to anthropologists interested in historical ethnographies or HIV/AIDS and also to those in public health with an interest in understanding sexual behaviours that can contribute to HIV/AIDS. * sti.bmj.com *Love in the Time of AIDS shows that detailed ethnographic works are no longer the preserve of anthropologists. The monograph is written in an accessible style, makes excellent use of case material, and shows the importance of taking local isiZulu concepts seriously. * Transformation *Hunter's book deserves the widest possible audience—for its superb methodology and handling of its sources and materials as much as for its powerful and moving account of one of the worst public health disasters of modern times. * Progress in Development Studies *C]ontribute[s] a stirring history of the present of South Africa, and of the unequal world of which it has been and remains a materially and ideologically formative part. * South African Historical Journal *Many books continue to be written on the phenomenon of AIDS. Most of these limit themselves to particular facets of this multifaceted disease. Love in the time of AIDS attempts, and achieves, a remarkable comprehensiveness. * English Academy Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Racial TermsList of Acronyms 1. Gender and AIDS in an Unequal World 2. Mandeni: "The AIDS Capital of KwaZulu-Natal"Part 1. Revisiting Intimacy and Apartheid 3. Providing Love: Male Migration and Building a Rural Home 4. Urban Respectability: Sundumbili Township, 1964–94 5. Shacks in the Cracks of Apartheid: Industrial Women and the Changing Political Economy and Geography of IntimacyPart 2. Intimacy after Democracy, 1994– 6. Postcolonial Geographies: Being "Left Behind" in the New South Africa 7. Independent Women: Rights amid Wrongs, and Men's Broken Promises 8. Failing Men: Modern Masculinities amid Unemployment 9. All You Need Is Love? The Materiality of Everyday Sex and LovePart 3. Interventions 10. The Politics of Gender, Intimacy, and AIDSGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.89
MH - Indiana University Press Love in the Time of AIDS
Book SynopsisIntimacy and AIDS in South AfricaTrade ReviewIn this timely and important book, Hunter interrogates misperceptions about AIDS, sexuality, human rights, and gender injustices that perpetuate harmful constructions of African sexuality. Challenging the assumption that Africa is 'loveless,' an emancipatory concept typically reserved for those living in modern Western democracies . . . Hunter restores questions of love, tenderness, and intimacy in this rich ethnography of gender and sexuality in South Africa. * American Journal of Sociology *Mark Hunter's Love in the Time of AIDS is one of the most important books on AIDS in Africa that has been published so far. . . . Among its many virtues, Mark Hunter's book does well in reminding us that, though often difficult, even in the hardest conditions love is possible. * African Studies Review *This is a sobering and complex book, and the powerful ethnographic excavation of the multiple factors transforming everyday intimacy in contemporary South Africa is a testament to Hunter's skills as a researcher and author. * Gender, Place & Culture *Mark Hunter's work is an important contribution to the historical and anthropological literature on the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic and should be considered required reading for scholars and graduate students interested in the social, cultural, and economic dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa. * Journal of African History *The book is rich in ethnographic detail, especially life stories, and very convincing in its analysis.Hunter avoids economism through demonstrating the real emotions of love and intimacy among women and men linked in a devastating HIV epidemic. His study is a 21st century classic. * writingrights.nu.org.za *Love in the Time of AIDS is an exceptional book. . . . [It] challenges dominant assumptions about the spread of AIDS and foregrounds the real everyday lives of people in contexts of deep poverty and violence. . . . This book is a must read for all those who recognise AIDS beyond epidemiology. * Global Public Health *Hunter writes skilfully, building on important topics to explain the many layers of influence on the everyday worlds of people affected by HIV/AIDS. This powerful and complex book would appeal to anthropologists interested in historical ethnographies or HIV/AIDS and also to those in public health with an interest in understanding sexual behaviours that can contribute to HIV/AIDS. * sti.bmj.com *Love in the Time of AIDS shows that detailed ethnographic works are no longer the preserve of anthropologists. The monograph is written in an accessible style, makes excellent use of case material, and shows the importance of taking local isiZulu concepts seriously. * Transformation *Hunter's book deserves the widest possible audience—for its superb methodology and handling of its sources and materials as much as for its powerful and moving account of one of the worst public health disasters of modern times. * Progress in Development Studies *C]ontribute[s] a stirring history of the present of South Africa, and of the unequal world of which it has been and remains a materially and ideologically formative part. * South African Historical Journal *Many books continue to be written on the phenomenon of AIDS. Most of these limit themselves to particular facets of this multifaceted disease. Love in the time of AIDS attempts, and achieves, a remarkable comprehensiveness. * English Academy Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Racial TermsList of Acronyms 1. Gender and AIDS in an Unequal World 2. Mandeni: "The AIDS Capital of KwaZulu-Natal"Part 1. Revisiting Intimacy and Apartheid 3. Providing Love: Male Migration and Building a Rural Home 4. Urban Respectability: Sundumbili Township, 1964–94 5. Shacks in the Cracks of Apartheid: Industrial Women and the Changing Political Economy and Geography of IntimacyPart 2. Intimacy after Democracy, 1994– 6. Postcolonial Geographies: Being "Left Behind" in the New South Africa 7. Independent Women: Rights amid Wrongs, and Men's Broken Promises 8. Failing Men: Modern Masculinities amid Unemployment 9. All You Need Is Love? The Materiality of Everyday Sex and LovePart 3. Interventions 10. The Politics of Gender, Intimacy, and AIDSGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£49.30
University of Notre Dame Press Whores of Babylon
Book SynopsisIn Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She contends that despite sharing the same blood, origins, and history as their Protestant antagonists, Catholics provoked more prolific and intemperate visual and verbal representation, and more elaborate and sustained legal regulation, than any other marginal group in seventeenth-century England. This careful and thorough study examines legal and literary representations of the Catholic menace during three crises in Protestant/Catholic relations, from the Gunpowder Plot (1605) to the Popish Plot and Meal Tub Plot (1678-80). It also offers the first sustained analysis of the extent to which gender issues informed both Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in the early modern period. Available for the first time in paperback, this book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern England, Catholic Trade Review“[Dolan] reveals a historical picture that theorizes the interaction between religion, politics, and gender. For scholars who study other religions and time periods, Dolan’s book usefully demonstrates how and why closely-related religious groups deploy gender to mark difference. For specialists in early modern Christianity, Whores of Babylon provides convincing arguments about why Catholic women and (even more surprisingly) the Catholic couple so fascinated pamphleteers, preachers, playwrights, and polemicists as they promoted a white, Protestant, masculine, English national identity.” —Journal of the American Academy of Religion“Whores of Babylon is essential reading for scholars working on the intersections of gender, religion, law, and nationalism in early modern England. Dolan’s scholarship combines meticulous historical research and textual analysis with a sophisticated grasp of theoretical and historiographical questions. Moreover, Dolan’s lucid prose makes her exemplary form of cultural criticism a pleasure to read.” —Sixteenth Century Journal“This is an excellent book, one that painstakingly yet engagingly illuminates the bifurcated social and discursive positions of Catholic women in early modern England.” —Albion“Whores of Babylon is not about religion, as the term has been understood by many scholars who study early modern Catholicism. Religion is not the main concern of this book; religion serves instead mainly to highlight and underline points made about some ways seventeenth-century Englishwomen were valued and employed, used and abused, in print.” —Archivum Historicum
£22.79
University of Notre Dame Press Music Postcolonialism and Gender
Book SynopsisA study of the construction of Irish national identity focusing on Irish music and the colonial relationship between Ireland and EnglandTrade Review“Leith Davis’ book . . . is, ambitiously, ‘concerned with how the discourse of music became increasingly gendered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as gender was utilized variously in the representation of both nationalist and colonialist formations.’ . . . Davis traces these knotted lines of resistance and hegemony through eight cogent and convincing essays, each one studying a particular moment in Irish musical discourse.” —British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review“Davis writes very much as a literary and cultural critic, not as a musicologist, but hers is a stimulating interdisciplinary study, illustrated with engravings and sheet music that demonstrate how the association of Ireland and orality grew out of print culture.” —Studies in English Literature"Leith Davis has written an exemplary, original, and sophisticated book that displays both a wide and deep knowledge of the discourse about Irish music from its earliest beginnings and a complete mastery of postcolonial theory as it relates to Irish studies." —Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, University of Texas at Austin"This is an original, well-written book that will be of great interest to scholars in Irish studies, particularly the many working within postcolonial and feminist theoretical frameworks." —Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University
£87.55
University of Notre Dame Press Ruling Women
Book SynopsisIn Ruling Women, Stacy S. Klein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts. Focusing on pre-Conquest works ranging from Bede to Ælfric, Klein argues that Anglo-Saxon writers drew upon accounts of legendary royal wives to construct cultural ideals of queenship during a time when that institution was undergoing profound change. Also a study of gender, her book examines how Anglo-Saxon writers used women of the highest social rank to forge broader cultural ideals of femininity, even as they used female voices to articulate far less comfortable social truths. Capitalizing on queens' strong associations with intercession, Anglo-Saxon writers consistently looked to royal women as mediatory figures for negotiating sustained tensions, and sometimes overt antagonisms, among different peoples, institutions, and systems of belief. Yet as authors appropriated legendary queens and inserted them into contemporary Anglo-Saxon culture, these royal peaceTrade Review"Legendary royal wives glitter here and there in the Anglo-Saxon corpus, from Bede's History to Beowulf and from Cynewulf's Elene to Aelfric's tales of Jezebel and Esther. Stacy Klein's book shows how writers mobilized these queens to address, indirectly, contemporary issues such as the downside of heroism or the upside of lay spirituality. This is a rich, learned, eloquent, and often surprising study." —Roberta Frank, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University"With Ruling Women, Stacy S. Klein makes a highly original contribution to Anglo-Saxon literary studies in her examination of how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Old English texts. Well-written, engaging, and theoretically informed, her book offers a very fresh treatment of some materials that have seen considerable work and, very welcome indeed, some materials that have been scarcely treated in the literature." —Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, University of Notre Dame"Ruling Women makes important contributions to current academic debates in many areas, among them historiography, queenship, sanctity, gender and identity, Ælfric and his age, Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, and the Anglo-Saxon sense of the past. By bringing these varied discourses together in one book, carefully reconstructing the cultural, theoretical, literary and historical contexts in which Anglo-Saxon texts were made and read, Klein achieves a complex depth of vision that is enlightening, imaginative, innovative and exemplary." —R. M. Liuzza, University of Tennessee, Knoxville“[Ruling Women has] much [to say] about the literary texts it studies: apart from Beowulf, Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica, Cynewulf’s Elene and Ælfric’s Kings and Esther. . . . These tales depict queens less as representative of women—partly because the authors were not much interested in gender—or even of queens in general, but instead use them to discuss a range of other concerns. It is in the brief conclusion that Klein probes deepest into why this may be the case, suggesting it may have to do with the queens’ position as both close to the centre of political power, and somewhat marginalized by their gender. In pre-Norman Conquest England, women could become reigning monarchs, but this rarely happened in reality or in fiction, where a queen was usually the wife of a king, and her power resided in her influence over him. . . . Perhaps the very fact that Ruling Women yields few generalizable results about queenship or gender . . . is its most important message. Such notions are historically and culturally specific, and they ought to be considered afresh for each text and writer, in the way Stacy S. Klein exemplifies with such skill.” —Times Literary Supplement"Klein shows how Anglo-Saxon writers used queens figuratively to comment on social and cultural issues of their times. Much of her discussion is on the political situations that underlie the portrayals of queens, including social hierarchy, the Benedictine Reform, and conversion. Chapters focus on works by Bede, the Beowulf poet, Cynewulf, and Ælfric. Although these works are not typically presented together, Klein unites them to illustrate the myriad roles of literary queens. . . An important contribution to Anglo-Saxon feminist theory, this book will have a significant impact on Anglo-Saxon studies in general." —Choice"Stacy Klein demonstrates how representations of queens played integral roles in issues that are now recognized as crucial to Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, including 'conversion, social hierarchy, heroism, counsel, idolatry, and lay spirituality.' . . . Klein's integration of gender studies with more traditional forms of scholarship and her commitment to challenging traditional readings yield rewarding and provocative new insights into the constitutive role of queens in Anglo-Saxon literature." —Arthuriana“Klein's work supplies a refreshing breath of air for those studying and teaching Old English literature, providing a discussion which steers an easy course between complex theoretical discussion (of which there is some) and careful reading of texts (of which there is much).” —Medium Aevum“Ruling Women is a refreshingly independent and thought-provoking study which challenges any tendency to assume that Anglo-Saxon depictions of women were solely and simply driven by straightforward misogyny. Klein has made a valuable contribution in establishing the cultural significance of Anglo-Saxon literary representations of queens, and also in demonstrating that Ælfric’s presentation of Biblical and legendary queens in their relation to the politics of the Benedictine Reform and Æthelred’s reign merit further study.” —Journal of English and Germanic Philology
£21.59
University of Notre Dame Press Ruling Women
Book SynopsisKlein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts as mediatory figures for negotiating sustained tensions and antagonisms among different peoples, institutions, and systems of belief.Trade Review"Legendary royal wives glitter here and there in the Anglo-Saxon corpus, from Bede's History to Beowulf and from Cynewulf's Elene to Aelfric's tales of Jezebel and Esther. Stacy Klein's book shows how writers mobilized these queens to address, indirectly, contemporary issues such as the downside of heroism or the upside of lay spirituality. This is a rich, learned, eloquent, and often surprising study." —Roberta Frank, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University"With Ruling Women, Stacy S. Klein makes a highly original contribution to Anglo-Saxon literary studies in her examination of how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Old English texts. Well-written, engaging, and theoretically informed, her book offers a very fresh treatment of some materials that have seen considerable work and, very welcome indeed, some materials that have been scarcely treated in the literature." —Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, University of Notre Dame"Ruling Women makes important contributions to current academic debates in many areas, among them historiography, queenship, sanctity, gender and identity, Ælfric and his age, Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, and the Anglo-Saxon sense of the past. By bringing these varied discourses together in one book, carefully reconstructing the cultural, theoretical, literary and historical contexts in which Anglo-Saxon texts were made and read, Klein achieves a complex depth of vision that is enlightening, imaginative, innovative and exemplary." —R. M. Liuzza, University of Tennessee, Knoxville“[Ruling Women has] much [to say] about the literary texts it studies: apart from Beowulf, Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica, Cynewulf’s Elene and Ælfric’s Kings and Esther. . . . These tales depict queens less as representative of women—partly because the authors were not much interested in gender—or even of queens in general, but instead use them to discuss a range of other concerns. It is in the brief conclusion that Klein probes deepest into why this may be the case, suggesting it may have to do with the queens’ position as both close to the centre of political power, and somewhat marginalized by their gender. In pre-Norman Conquest England, women could become reigning monarchs, but this rarely happened in reality or in fiction, where a queen was usually the wife of a king, and her power resided in her influence over him. . . . Perhaps the very fact that Ruling Women yields few generalizable results about queenship or gender . . . is its most important message. Such notions are historically and culturally specific, and they ought to be considered afresh for each text and writer, in the way Stacy S. Klein exemplifies with such skill.” —Times Literary Supplement"Klein shows how Anglo-Saxon writers used queens figuratively to comment on social and cultural issues of their times. Much of her discussion is on the political situations that underlie the portrayals of queens, including social hierarchy, the Benedictine Reform, and conversion. Chapters focus on works by Bede, the Beowulf poet, Cynewulf, and Ælfric. Although these works are not typically presented together, Klein unites them to illustrate the myriad roles of literary queens. . . An important contribution to Anglo-Saxon feminist theory, this book will have a significant impact on Anglo-Saxon studies in general." —Choice"Stacy Klein demonstrates how representations of queens played integral roles in issues that are now recognized as crucial to Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, including 'conversion, social hierarchy, heroism, counsel, idolatry, and lay spirituality.' . . . Klein's integration of gender studies with more traditional forms of scholarship and her commitment to challenging traditional readings yield rewarding and provocative new insights into the constitutive role of queens in Anglo-Saxon literature." —Arthuriana“Klein's work supplies a refreshing breath of air for those studying and teaching Old English literature, providing a discussion which steers an easy course between complex theoretical discussion (of which there is some) and careful reading of texts (of which there is much).” —Medium Aevum“Ruling Women is a refreshingly independent and thought-provoking study which challenges any tendency to assume that Anglo-Saxon depictions of women were solely and simply driven by straightforward misogyny. Klein has made a valuable contribution in establishing the cultural significance of Anglo-Saxon literary representations of queens, and also in demonstrating that Ælfric’s presentation of Biblical and legendary queens in their relation to the politics of the Benedictine Reform and Æthelred’s reign merit further study.” —Journal of English and Germanic Philology
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University of Notre Dame Press Transformations of La Familia on the U.S.Mexico
Book SynopsisNo international relationship of the United States is as encumbered by history, geography, culture, language, and economics as the one with Mexico. Given the scale and importance of the flow of commerce and culture across the border, however, surprisingly few studies have examined the micro-level impact of border immigration patterns, economic systems, and policies on families in the region. Recognizing this void, the women scholars represented hereall of whom have studied and lived near la fronteraexplore the complexity of border dynamics. They offer a well-rounded portrayal of Latino families and their response to changes at the border.The authors focus primarily on women and changes within families on the borderin response to women''s economic strategies, labor market participation, and interactions with relatives and others. Quantitative chapters provide demographic analyses of population changes in new immigrant areas, the conditions of children and families alongTrade Review“This timely volume provides a unique comprehensive presentation of cultural and socioeconomic issues tied to the border, particularly as it relates to the everyday lives of transnational families and their on-going negotiation of identities. As a result, the authors’ conclusions and recommendations are imbued with a power of analysis that is grounded in their complex engagement of the issues. This is an outstanding book of significance for scholars and students working on issues of transnationalism, the political economy of migration, immigration, and border culture.” —Antonia Darder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“[It] is an anthology of papers by expert scholars discussing how Mexican and Mexican-origin families living in the transnational space of the U.S.-Mexico border. Analyzing demographic, historic, economic, political and public policy factors, [it] is an astute and balanced close study that especially highlights the challenges faced by women, who increasingly work outside the home, whether married or not, and migrant children, who are at high risk for dropping out of school on either side of the border.” —Wisconsin Bookwatch“Scholars from Texas, California, and Arizona bring perspectives both of women and social sciences to bear on how conditions, opportunities, and constraints of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have changed families on both sides of the border.” —Book News“Eleven papers examine how families in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands negotiate identities while interacting within changing social, political, and economic dynamics.” —Journal of Economic Literature"Transformations of La Familia on the U.S.-Mexico Border illustrates how the border is a meaningful phenomenon in the changing structure and dynamics of fronteriza families, and in particular for women. Written by fronteriza researchers who both grew up along the border and now focus their work there, this multidisciplinary collection provides a unique and complex view of how the peculiar politics of the border affects families and individuals within families." —Latino Studies"In Transformations of La Familia on the U.S. Mexico Border, Raquel Marquez and Harriet Romo provide an excellent volume in which female scholars native to the border region are convened to restore attention to the social institution least discussed but most impacted by neoliberal economic and law enforcement policies: the family. By focusing on the family, the authors show how macro and the micro institutions and forces converging on the border interact with families and individuals." —Contemporary Sociology“This is an excellent and highly coherent collection of papers dealing with the impact on Mexican and Mexican origin families of living in the transnational space of the U.S.-Mexico border. It is particularly useful because of its exceptional range of perspectives, combining demography, history, ethnography and public policy analysis. Census and survey data from the U.S. and Mexico, life histories, cross-border social and economic relationships, and the perceptions of border residents bring out in rich detail the complex interdependence of both sides of the border. There are valuable accounts of the ways in which women and youth are socialized into transnational identities on both sides of the borders through family and community rituals and even through the teaching of English in Mexico. The focus on families brings out graphically the particular challenges of poverty and migration for women, who increasingly work outside the home even when married and for migrant children who are vulnerable to school drop-out on both sides of the border. “ —Bryan R. Roberts, C.B. Smith Sr. Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations, University of Texas at Austin
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University of Texas Press The Women of Karbala Ritual Performance and
Book SynopsisTwelve ethnographic essays that explore women's roles in the rituals that commemorate the Battle of Karbala, the central religious observance of Shi'i Islam.Table of Contents A Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction. Gendered Aspects of the Emergence and Historical Development of Shi'i Symbols and Rituals (Kamran Scot Aghaie) Part 1: Iran Chapter 1. Ta'ziyeh: A Twist of History in Everyday Life (Negar Mottahedeh) Chapter 2. The Gender Dynamics of Moharram Rituals in the Latter Years of Qajar Rule (Kamran Scot Aghaie) Chapter 3. "Oh, My Heart Is Sad. It Is Moharram, the Month of Zaynab": The Role of Aesthetics and Women's Mourning Ceremonies in Shiraz (Ingvild Flaskerud) Chapter 4. The Daughters of Karbala: Images of Women in Popular Shi'i Culture in Iran (Faegheh Shirazi) Chapter 5. Iconography of the Women of Karbala: Tiles, Murals, Stamps, and Posters (Peter J. Chelkowski) Part 2: The Arab World, South Asia, and the United States of America Chapter 6. Sakineh, The Narrator of Karbala: An Ethnographic Description of a Women's Majles Ritual in Pakistan (Shemeem Burney Abbas) Chapter 7. Sayyedeh Zaynab: The Conqueror of Damascus and Beyond (Syed Akbar Hyder) Chapter 8. Gender and Moharram Rituals in an Isma'ili Sect of South Asian Muslims (Rehana Ghadially) Chapter 9. Women of Karbala Moving to America: Shi'i Rituals in Iran, Pakistan, and California (Mary Elaine Hegland) Chapter 10. Women's Religious Rituals in Iraq (Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Basima Q. Bezirgan) Chapter 11. From Mourning to Activism: Sayyedeh Zaynab, Lebanese Shi'i Women, and the Transformation of Ashura (Lara Z. Deeb) Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Shamans of the Foye Tree Gender Power and
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking examination of Chile’s Mapuche shamans and their use of a unique tree in ritual transvestitism and political defiance.Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree 2. The Ambiguous Powers of Machi: Illness, Awingkamiento, and the Modernization of Witchcraft 3. Gendered Rituals for Cosmic Order: Shamanic Struggles for Wholeness 4. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery, and Machi Modes of Personhood 5. The Struggle for Machi Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power 6. Machi as Gendered Symbols of Tradition: National Discourses and Mapuche Resistance Movements 7. The Responses of Male Machi to Homophobia: Reinvention as Priests, Doctors, and Spiritual Warriors 8. Female Machi: Embodying Tradition or Contesting Gender Norms? 9. Representing the Gendered Identities of Machi: Paradoxes and Conflicts Notes References Index
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University of Texas Press Kinship to Kingship
Book SynopsisThe first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.Trade Review"Gailey has tacked with confidence and thoroughness a range of extremely challenging issues fundamental to feminist anthropology and Polynesian ethnography in a pioneering and ambitious analysis for which she is to be congratulated." - Journal of Polynesian SocietyTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: The Quest for Origins 1. The Subordination of Women: Gender in Transitions from Kinship to Class 2. State Formation Part Two: Gender and Kinship Relations in Precontact Tonga 3. Authority and Ambiguity: Rethinking Tongan Kinship 4. The Reproduction of Ambiguity: Succession Disputes, Marriage Patterns, and Foreigners 5. Division of Labor 6. Exchange and Value 7. Gender Relations at Contact Part Three: Conversion, Commodities, and State Formation 8. Early Contact 9. Missionaries: The Crusade for Christian Civilization 10. A Native Kingdom: Creating Class and Gender Stratification 11. Changing Production: Commodities, Tribute, and Forced Labor 12. Dialectics of Class and State Formation Appendix: Sources and Methods Notes Glossary References Index
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University of Texas Press Our Lady of Controversy
Book Synopsis Months before Alma López''s digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats ensued, but the provocative image of la Virgen de Guadalupe (hands on hips, clad only in roses, and exalted by a bare-breasted butterfly angel) remained on exhibition. Highlighting many of the pivotal questions that have haunted the art world since the NEA debacle of 1988, the contributors to Our Lady of Controversy present diverse perspectives, ranging from definitions of art to the artist''s intention, feminism, queer theory, colonialism, and Chicano nationalism. Contributors include the exhibition curator, Tey Marianna Nunn; award-winning novelist and Chicana historian Emma Pérez; and Deena González (recognized as one of the fifty most importaTrade Review"An exceptionally important and powerful collection of essays, opening new interpretive paths and new tools for the activist-scholar-student. This is the most serious consideration of the oeuvre of Alma Lopez published to date." - --Charlene Villasenor Black, Associate Professor of Art History, UCLA "This book has many great and laudable qualities. First, it doesn't "wax poetic" or try to sound overly intellectual, just strict reporting of events. Secondly, the plain tone of the writing allows for balanced and unbiased reporting; it gives equal weight to both the artist and her critics, without passing judgment on either. The author respects the fact that the icons are important to some people, and Lopez' artwork isn't something they're accustomed to." - Olive Branch United blogTable of Contents Acknowledgments Our Lady of Controversy: A Subject That Needs No Introduction (Alicia Gaspar de Alba) 1. The Artist of Our Lady (April 2, 2001) (Alma López) 2. It's Not about the Art in the Folk, It's about the Folks in the Art: A Curator's Tale (Tey Marianna Nunn) 3. The War of the Roses: Guadalupe, Alma López, and Santa Fe (Kathleen FitzCallaghan Jones) 4. Making Privates Public: It's Not about La Virgen of the Conquest, but about the Conquest of La Virgen (Deena J. González) 5. Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma López (Luz Calvo) 6. Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Consciousness in Alma López's Visual Art (Clara Román-Odio) 7. The Decolonial Virgin in a Colonial Site: It's Not about the Gender in My Nation, It's about the Nation in My Gender (Emma Pérez) 8. It's Not about the Virgins in My Life, It's about the Life in My Virgins (Cristina Serna) 9. Do U Think I'm a Nasty Girl? (Catrióna Rueda Esquibel) 10. Devil in a Rose Bikini: The Second Coming of Our Lady in Santa Fe (Alicia Gaspar de Alba) 11. It's Not about the Santa in My Fe, but about the Santa Fe in My Santa (Alma López) Appendix: Selected Viewer Comments About the Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press Uncivil Wars
Book SynopsisThe first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.While Paz’s privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro’s literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that shaped Mexico, and in turn shaped Garro and Paz, from the Conquest period to the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War, which the couple witnessed while traveling abroad; and the student massacre at Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968, which brought about social and poTrade Review"...[A] book of great importance for Latin American Literature scholars..." - HispaniaTable of Contents Contents Preface Chapter One. Introduction: Uncivil Wars Chapter Two. All in the Family: Paz and Garro Rewrite Mexico’s Cultural Memory Chapter Three. War at Home: Betrayals of/in the Mexican Revolution Chapter Four. Love and War Don’t Mix: Garro and Paz in the Spanish Civil War Chapter Five. Tlatelolco: The Undeclared War Chapter Six. From Civil War to Gender War: The Battle of the Sexes Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Dangerous Gifts Gender and Exchange in Ancient
Book SynopsisInspired by anthropological writing on reciprocity and kinship, this book applies the idea of gendered wealth to ancient Greek myth for the first time, and also highlights the importance of the sister-brother bond in the Classical world.Trade ReviewIn this compact and engaging book, Lyons adds to a sophisticated and growing body of work on Greek myth, literature, and culture in terms of the theory and cross-cultural study of exchange and the gift. * New England Classical Journal *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction Chapter One: Gender and Exchange Chapter Two: Marriage and the Circulation of Women Chapter Three: Women in Homeric Exchange Chapter Four: Women and Exchange in the Odyssey: From Gifts to Givers Chapter Five: Tragic Gifts Chapter Six: A Family Romance Chapter Seven: Conclusion: The Gender of Reciprocity Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press The Bear and His Sons
Book SynopsisHow two men tell common Hispanic folktales, and how their stories present different ways of being a man in their respective cultures.Table of Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. “The Bear’s Son” in Spain 3. “The Bear’s Son” in Mexico 4. Tricksters in Spain 5. Tricksters in Mexico 6. “Blood Brothers” 7. “The Two Travelers” 8. Florencio’s “Blancaflor” 9. Nacho’s “Blancaflor” 10. “Orpheus” 11. Conclusions Appendix: “The Bear’s Son” in Spanish and Nahuat Notes References Index
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University of Washington Press Queering Contemporary Asian American Art
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Susette Min Introduction: For the Love of Unicorns: Queering Contemporary Asian American Art by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 1 QUEERING SURVEILLANCE “You Blushed”: Queering Surveillance after 9/11 in the Work of Jill Magid and Hasan Elahi by Harrod J. Suarez Performance, Surveillance, and Sousveillance: A Conversation with Wafaa Bilal and Hasan Elahi by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 2 QUEERING TIME Pacific Standard Time: Queering Temporality in Asian American Visual Cultures by Mariam B. Lam Promiscuous Time Traveling (on Leaving and Returns): A Conversation with Lin + Lam and Việt Le by Laura Kina CHAPTER 3 QUEERING AFFECT Filipino Diasporic Queer Killjoy: Recuperating Failure in Jeffrey Augustine Songco’s Guilty Party and BOMH Series by Jan Christian Bernabe Negotiating Desire and (Queer) Masculinity: An Interview with Kenneth Tam by Jan Christian Bernabe CHAPTER 4 QUEERING METHODOLOGY Queer Zen: Unyoking Genealogy in Asian American Art History by Alpesh Kantilal Patel Pin@y Projections: Urban Spaces, Digital Ephemerality, and Planned Obsolescence: An Interview with Eliza Barrios by Jan Christian Bernabe Queer Traveler–on Desiring and Failing Sublime Landscapes: An Interview with Kim Anno by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 5 QUEERING SUBJECTIVITY Risky Subjectivity: Select Works by Korean Adoptee Artists by Eun Jung Park Dazzle: A Conversation on Transgender Subjectivity with Greyson Hong and Kiam Marcelo Junio by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina CHAPTER 6 QUEERING MIXED RACE Liminal Possibilities: Queering Mixed-Race Asian American Strategies in the Art of Maya Mackrandilal and Zave Gayatri Martohardjono by Laura Kina Chimera: A Conversation on Mixed Race/Mixed Methods with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Saya Woolfalk by Laura Kina CHAPTER 7 QUEERING ASIAN AMERICA Open-Source Identities: Identity and Resistance in the Work of Three Asian American Artists by Valerie Soe Muscles, Mash-Ups and Warning Shots–Queering Japanese American History: An Interview with Tina Takemoto by Jan Christian Bernabe and Laura Kina The Buddhist Bug—Spanning Borders and Bodies: An Interview with Anida Yoeu Ali by Laura Kina Afterword: To be Queer Being to Queer It . . . by Kyoo Lee
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University of Washington Press Gender and Chinese History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This anthology sets a new benchmark for the creative and rigorous use of a broad range of sources to extend the scope of gender-focused enquiry in Chinese late imperial history. It will be read with benefit by students and scholars of comparative modernities, comparative gender issues, as well as Chinese social and political history." -- Anne E. McLaren * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"This collection of groundbreaking essays delivers enough inspiration not only for expanding gender-related historic studies in new directions, but also for questioning some of the well-established assumptions within the academic field, as well as popular gender stereotypes." -- Justyna Jaguścik * Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques *"Insightful and provoocative . . . This edited volume is an enlightening and delightful reading for a wide range of scholars." -- Yu Zhang * New Books Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Terminology Chronology Introduction Part One: Early Modern Evolutions 1. Les Noces Chinoises / Ann Waltner 2. The Control of Female Energies / Guotong Li 3. Collecting Masculinity / Yulian Wu 4. Writing Love / Weijing Lu Part Two: “Cloistered Ladies” to New Women 5. “Media-Savvy” Gentlewomen of the 1870’s and Beyond / Ellen Widmer 6. The Fate of the Late Imperial “Talented Woman” / Joan Judge 7. Moving to Shanghai / Yan Wang Part Three: Radicalism and Ruptures 8. The Life of a Slogan / Emily Honig 9. Bad Transmission / Gail Hershatter Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Onnagata
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A well-researched and thorough historical study of the artificial and artistic construction of femininity by onnagata that provides a great deal of information as well as many thought-provoking insights." -- Akiko Kusunoki * Early Modern Women *"It is an important addition to the study of women performers in kabuki and supports the idea that onnagata is an action or performance" -- Colleen Lanki * Asian Theater Journal *"Isaka makes a number of important interventions in understanding how femininity is constructed and presented on the Japanese stage as well as in society as a whole. . . . The book’s exploration of gender performance goes far beyond the worlds of dramatic literature and theatrical performance." -- Megan Ammirati * Theatre Survey *"Isaka’s approach enables her to successfully situate onnagata within current discourse on gender identity. . . . Onnagata [is an] important additio[n] to the growing library of kabuki studies." * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on Textual Conventions Part One | Fundamentals: Invitation to Labyrinths of Gendering Introduction: A Labyrinth of Onnagata 1. Geneses of a Maze: Androgyne Fatale Part Two | Femininity Inside Out: Onnagata Who Pass 2. Denial of Transience: Forfeiting the Androgynous Charm 3. Prescription for Femininity: Onnagata Who Pass 4. Canonization: Creating Onnagata Traditions 5. Femininity in Circulation: Texts in Kabuki, Kabuki in Texts Part Three | Marginalized Centers: Bodies and Personnel 6. Naturally Disciplined: Moving Real on Procrustean Beds 7. Female Onnagata in the Porous Labyrinth: The Enunciated Femininity and the Enunciating Masculinity Part Four | Origins of Onnagata: Modern Reformation 8. Toward Contemporary Onnagata: Art in Their Blood Epilogue: The Journey Continues Notes Bibliography Index
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MV - University of Washington Press Heroines of the Qing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This study is not only of interest to students of traditional Chinese women’s literature. It ranges over fields as widely apart as print culture, art history, social history and medical history. In each of these fields it shows a far more assertive participation of women than is commonly assumed. . . . Equally relevant to the students of Republican history as to the students of Qing history. The book is very well written and throughout a pleasure to read." -- Wilt L. Idema * Nan Nu: Men, Women, & Gender in China *"Through women’s own writings, Yang greatly expands our picture of gentry women’s roles in Qing society. She shows how women used their writings, not just to seek literary immortality through publication, but to empower themselves and to reform and renew their society. . . . Binbin Yang has made a most valuable contribution to our understanding of late Qing social, literary and political history." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) - Modern *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note to Readers Introduction 1. Breaking the Silence: Cases of Outspoken Exemplary Women 2. Visualizing Exemplarity: Women’s Portraits and Paintings for Self-Representation 3. Staging Family Drama: Genealogical Writing as Ritual Authority 4. Enacting Guardians of Family Health: From Exemplary Wife to Reformer Conclusion Chinese Character Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets
Book SynopsisThis anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspired by their daily life and reflections, provide fascinating insights into the experiences and emotions of these women, most of whom belonged to the elite families of Manchu society. Each selection is accompanied by biographical material that illuminates the life stories of the poets. The volume's introduction describes the printing history of the collections from which these poems are drawn, the authors' practice of poetry writing, ethnic and gender issues, and comparisons with the poetry of women in South China and of male authors of the Qing dynasty (16441911).Trade Review"Exhibiting the deft touch of an experienced translator, Idema has rendered these women’s compositions into exquisite yet accessible language. . . . [This anthology] challenges us to confront and rethink many of the preconceived notions and categories that we have used to analyze topics regarding gender and ethnicity, potentially opening the door for new exciting research in these fields." -- Bingyu Zheng * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"This volume is a very welcome addition to the growing body of women’s poetry from late imperial China. Idema’s fine translation makes accessible once again the rich lives, experiences and feelings of poets long forgotten by history." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) - Modern *"Offers new insights into how these women both accommodated and adapted Chinese poetic conventions to their own situation. The translations are sensitively written and reflect the impressionistic nature, emotionality and poignancy that characterize the oeuvre of these women." -- Anne E. McLaren * Monumenta Serica *"Idema presents fine translations of the poetry of nineteen Manchu women in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) in fourteen chapters, contextualizing each poet and her work by providing vital biographical background. In doing so, Idema offers English readers a fascinating body of materials that invites comparative thinking and discussion on issues of writing, identity, and life experience in relation to gender and ethnicity. . . . The field of women’s literature is much enriched by his wide-ranging scholarship and superb skill in translation." -- Grace S. Fong * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (TSWL) *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Women of the Nalan Family: Miss Nalan, Sibo, and Madam Zhaojia 2. A Prisoner’s Mother and Wife: The Mistress of the Study for Nurturing Simplicity and the Mistress of the Orchid Pavilion 3. Chastity and Suicide: Xiguang 4. Mourning Royalty: Lady Zhoujia, Lady Tongjia, and Lady Fucha 5. Sacrifice and Friendship: Bingyue 6. A Tomboy in a Silly Dress: Mengyue 7. Unbridled Energy: Yingchuan 8. Releasing Butterflies: Wanyan Jinchi 9. Seeking Refuge in Truth: Guizhen Daoren 10. Traveling throughout the Empire: Baibao Youlan 11. A Proud Descendant of Chinggis Khan: Naxun Lanbao 12. From Hengyang to Beijing: Lingwen Zhuyou 13. The Modest Pursuit of a Minor Way: Duomin Huiru 14. A Poet from the Homeland: Lady Husihali Abbreviations Notes Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Outriders
Book SynopsisRodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western rodeo hero is often a stoic white man who embodies the toughness and independence of America's frontier past. However, marginalized people have starred in rodeos since the very beginning. Cast out of popular western mythology and pushed to the fringes in everyday life, these cowboys and cowgirls found belonging and meaning at the rodeo, staking a claim to national inclusion. Outriders explores the histories of rodeoers at the margins of society, from female bronc-riders in the 1910s and 1920s and convict cowboys in Texas in the mid-twentieth century to all-black rodeos in the 1960s and 1970s and gay rodeoers in the late twentieth century. These rodeo riders not only widened the definition of the real American cowboy but also, at times, reinforced the persistent and exclusionary myth of an idealized western identity. In this nuanced study, RTrade Review"[A]n engaging, insightful, wonderfully researched social and cultural study of forgotten or ignored participants in United States rodeo." * Great Plains Quarterly *"This is an ambitious book in which Scofield deftly tackles multiple historical contexts, secondary literatures, and political sensitivities...a foundational monograph that will no doubt inspire further research into the diversity of communities and traditions in rodeo and the North American West." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Controversial and dutifully written, Outriders...will be of interest to scholars while causing rodeo fans to think deeply about the conflicts within the myth of the sport." * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"Outriders offers an alternative perspective about what inspires people to enter rodeo, arguing that many do so as a way to claim a presence in the history of the West, and explores how rodeo gave agency to groups previously omitted from the history of cowboy lifestyle...provocative and contributes a framework for revisiting fringe groups." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Outriders function as a compendium of current cowboy and rodeo research. Scofield takes this research, and—with engaging style—demonstrates how women, Blacks, Gay men, and incarcerated men have chosen the cowboy as a symbol of what it means to be authentically American." * Journal of Popular Culture *"This well-researched book is a good introduction to rodeo beyond the mainstream and will be of interest to rodeo and western scholars, along with a more popular audience unfamiliar with rodeo’s more varied history." * Pacific Historical Review *
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University of Washington Press Making Kantha Making Home Women at Work in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ghosh’s monograph elevates kantha as a living tradition that enables women to express their own agency. Her treatise deliberately deviates from the 19th century intellectual engagement with kantha by art curators by going beyond the surface-level of the kantha as a decorative piece of cloth and speculates the intentions of the women behind these handiworks." * International Examiner *"Ghosh has crafted a heartwarming and sophisticated understanding of how home and kantha are inextricably tied to Bengali culture, connecting kantha makers, users and researchers across time and space." * Textiles Asia *
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University of Washington Press Troubling Borders
Book SynopsisJuxtaposing short stories, poetry, painting, and photographs, Troubling Borders showcases the creative work of women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. This thematically arranged collection interrupts borders of categorization and gender, in what preface author Shirley Geok-Lin Lim describes as a leap over the barbed fences that have kept these women apart in these, our United States of America.The sixty-two contributors have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization. For some of these women on the margins of the margin, crafting and showing their work is a bold act in itself. Their provocative and accessible creations tell unique stories, provide sharp contrasts to familiar stereotypesSoutheast Asian women as exotic sex symbols, dragon ladies, prostitutes, or bar girlsand serve as entry points for broader discussions about questions of history, memory, and identity.Trade Review"The combination of image with texts complementing and conversing with each other provides a textured, layered engagement with the subject matter." * Art Radar Asia *"[A] collection that is at once scholarly yet accessible, purposely fragmented yet also deliberately interconnected, and always centering women in ways that surprise, challenge, and even provoke." * International Examiner *"[The] stories told dispel stereotypes and take on the complex challenges of colonialism, militarization, love, resistance, family, migration, and more. They reveal the intersectional and multilayered experiences of Southeast Asian women in the diaspora." * NBC News *"Inspiring . . . uses a collage of art forms to portray varied, and usually under-represented, female identities . . . [and] shows how marginalized women have become empowered through their fervent and thought-provoking artwork and writings." * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *Table of ContentsPreface by Shirley Geok-lin Lim Acknowledgments Introduction by Mariam B. Lam, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong, and Kathy L. Nguyen Part One | Wombs and Wounds: Family Relations in the Diaspora Karen Llagas, Open Vi Ly, Terrain 15 and Terrain 17 Karen Llagas, Manananggal Vi Ly, Postpartum #5 Phayvanh Luekhamhan, Rubber Bands Ann Phong, Mending Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Mother Shell Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Flesh of My Flesh Linda Saphan, Togetherness Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, 30 Diep Tran, Visitation Julie Thi Underhill, Tra Cang Monastery Diep Tran, Schools Diep Tran, Tet 1976 Kao Lee Thao, Way of Life Anh-Thu Ngo, Profile of the Life Tree Julie Thi Underhill, Grandma Heang Ly, The Lotus Gift Amy Lee Sanford, Broken Tran Mong Tu, Letter after Thanksgiving Kou Vang, Widow Phayvanh Luekhamhan, April, 1993 Kao Lee Thao, Yukai Phayvanh Luekhamhan, Foreman v. Moorer Amy Lee Sanford, Suspended Phet Mahathongdy, Mother Love Anne Le, Spool Phuong M. Do, Self and Aunts Christilily Chiv, My Mother’s Hands Bleed Kou Vang, Letter from Laos May Lee-Yang, Correspondence from Laos Tran T. Kim-Trang, Still from Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life Part Two | Coming to Voice: Language, Writing, Literacy Marine Ky, Untitled VI (such as you are, so is the world) Jai Arun Ravine, and then entwine lesson plans, poems, knots Marine Ky, Ted’s Garment Karen Llagas, From a Lighthouse Keeper Linda Saphan, S-21 No Flying Away 1 Barbara Jane Reyes, polyglot incantation Linda Saphan, S-21 No Flying Away 2 Linda Saphan, S-21 No Flying Away 3 Tran Tue Quan, Cuoc noi chien cua nhung identities Tran Tue Quan, The civil war of identities Phuong M. Do, Self and Uncles Souvankham Thammavongsa, The Sun in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away Reanne Estrada, Keep It Together #5 Souvankham Thammavongsa, This Is the Direction Part Three | Homes and Homelands Gina Osterloh, Impossible Delineation (from the series Blank Attempt) Karen Llagas, Archipelago Dust Gina Osterloh, Anonymous Front (from the series Copy Flat) Anne Le, In the Heart of the Country Gina Osterloh, Blind Rash (from the series Rash Room) Anne Le, The Fish Houses at Go Vap Tiffany Chung, Go Vap Vo Hong Chyong-Dai, National Highway 1 (Vietnam, December 1996) Hong-An Truong, Description #3 (Three Clocks) Vo Hong Chyong-Dai, The Corner of Nguyen Bỉnh Khiem and Tue Tĩnh (Ha Noi, 2005) Kou Vang, Forgotten Vo Hong Chyong-Dai, Across the ocean and beyond the mind Anida Yoeu Ali, Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (performance) Phayvanh Luekhamhan, I Think of This Every Time I Think of Mountains Azizah Ahmad, Homeless Gina Osterloh, Looking Back, I Accepted Your Invitation (from the series Somewhere Tropical) Anh Thang Dao, Song for a Lost Home Anh Thang Dao, The Pigeon Scandal Jenifer K. Wofford, Point of Departure (Nurse with Cap) Jenifer K. Wofford, Curtain Nurse I Part Four | Loving Sex/Sexing Love Angela Narciso Torres, Cardiac Debbie Nguyen, Dark Green Connie Pham, The Story of Pomegranate Told in Three Pieces Debbie Nguyen, Plum Lian Guow, First and Last Times Kao-Ly Yang, Three Pearls Facing Unfaithfulness Debbie Nguyen, Wood Chau Nguyen, Kisses of Heat Tran T. Kim-Trang, Still from Kore Mong-Lan, On the Tango and Buenos Aires Part Five | Militarized Lives Yer Yang, Virgin Land, Virgin Body Hong-An Truong, Still from Wheel in the Sky Aimee Phan, Excerpt from The Reeducation of Cherry Truong Anida Yoeu Ali, Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (performance) Pimone Triplett, The Rumor of Necessity Hong-An Truong, Florida 1979 (Love You, Miss You a Lot) Gayle Romasanta, NutDriver Hong-An Truong, Florida 1978 (Goes to Heaven) Kathy L. Nguyen, Excerpt from The Inheritors Barbara Jane Reyes, Call It Talisman (If You Must) Part Six | Asians in America Lin + Lam, This Is Not Me Azizah Ahmad, A Letter to Asian America Melba L. Abela, God Bless America Azizah Ahmad, San Francisco Anne Le, Chinatown Julie Thi Underhill, Progress Report Linda Tran, The Flea Market Ann Phong, Box of Water 2 Melba L. Abela, San Francisco Ab(ove) Normal, 1967–2007 Marsha C. Galicia-Monroe, #6–Other Female Ann Phong, Boats Part Seven | Race, Roots, Religion Nalyne Lunati, Sea Ghost Barbara Jane Reyes, In the City, a New Congregation Finds Her Hong-An Truong, Description #4 (Three Figurines) Davorn Sisavath, The Value of a Catholic Education Nalyne Lunati, Kranok 1 Julie Thi Underhill, Corner Shore Nalyne Lunati, Vihara of the Mind Reanne Estrada, General Tri-Corn (6) Pimone Triplett, Motherland Eliza O. Barrios, Industry of Yoga series Grace Talusan, Boobie Cakes Eliza O. Barrios, Pending Part Eight | Travel Narratives and Narratives That Travel Linda Saphan, Amey on Bike Chi Vu, Suitcases Julie Thi Underhill, Fear of Ambivalence Mai Der Vang, The Sounds of Leaving Rachel Quý Collier, Salt Lake Reanne Estrada, Tenuous (tentatively titled) Pang Houa Moua Toy, Leaving Home Anida Yoeu Ali, Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (installation view) Mai Der Vang, From Within, a View Part Nine | Speech Acts: Labor, Activism, Resistance Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride (Flowers) Connie Pham, Quarterlife Crisis: A Quiet Activism Emily P. Lawsin, No Moments of Silence (In Memory of Joseph Ileto, Fong Lee, and Chon Buri Xiong) Linda Saphan, Incognito 31 Emily P. Lawsin, Where I Am From (Freewrite Remix) Melba L. Abela, International Worker Tiffany Chung, Here We Go Grace Kong, I Demand Respect Tiffany Chung, Bubble Shooter and Friends Grace Kong, Miss Boss Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., Education Reform Karen Llagas, Imelda Lin + Lam, Stills from Unidentified Viet Nam No. 18 Leakhena Leng, Give Me Your Best Performance Piece Lin + Lam, Stills from Unidentified Viet Nam No. 18 Leakhena Leng, Breathing Fire Performance Piece Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., Through the Looking Glass Epilogue About the Contributors and Editors
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University of Washington Press South Asian Filmscapes
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction. Transregional Archives, Cinematic Encounters: Filmscapes across South Asia Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De Part I: Nations and Regional Margins 1.) National Identity and Cinematic Representation: Independent Films in Bangladesh Fahmidul Haq 2.) Female Friendship and Forbidden Desire: Two Films from 1960s Pakistan Kamran Asdar Ali 3.) Bringing Back Sikhs after the 1984 Pogrom: The Politics of Picturization in Hindi Cinema Amit Ranjan 4.) Silencing Films from the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Cinema’s Challenge to the Imagined Cultural Homogeneity of Bangladesh Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma 5.) Pakistan, History, and Sleep: Hassan Tariq, a Progressive Patriarch, and Neend Nasreen Rehman Part II: Transregional Crossings 6.) The Public in the Cities: Detouring through Cinemas of Bombay, Calcutta, and Lahore (1920s–1930s) Madhuja Mukherjee 7.) Cross-Wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive Lotte Hoek 8.) Action Heroines and Regional Gifts: Authorship Crossing Pakistan Esha Niyogi De 9.) Realism and Region in South Indian Cinemas, 1947–1977 Hariprasad Athanickal 10.) "This Is London, Not Pakistan!": Articulations of the Diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi Film Gwendolyn S. Kirk 11.) The Birth of a Cinema in Post-9/11 Pakistan Zebunnisa Hamid Part III: Fractured Geographies, South Connectivities 12.) Zahir Raihan's Stop Genocide (1971): A Dialectical Cinematic Message to the World Fahmida Akhter 13.) Gender, War, and Resistance: The Case of Kashmir Alka Kurian 14.) Cinema That Raises a Critical Consciousness: The Films of Alamgir Kabir Naadir Junaid 15.) Ethical Encounters: Friendship and Healing in Contemporary Films about the Bangladesh Liberation War Elora Halim Chowdhury Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press South Asian Filmscapes
Book SynopsisNew political realities and shared histories connect film cultures across bordersIn South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century created nation-states and reset national borders, forming the basis for emerging film cultures. Following the upheaval of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, new national cinemas promoted and reinforced prevailing hierarches of identity and belonging. At the same time, industrial and independent cinemas contributed to remarkably porous and hybrid film cultures, reflecting the intertwining of South Asian histories and their reciprocal cultural influences. This cross-fertilization within South Asian cultural production continues today. South Asian Filmscapes excavates these complex politics and poetics of bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in South Asia. Several essays reveal ways in which fixed notions of national identity have been destabilized by the Table of ContentsIntroduction. Transregional Archives, Cinematic Encounters: Filmscapes across South Asia Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De Part I: Nations and Regional Margins 1.) National Identity and Cinematic Representation: Independent Films in Bangladesh Fahmidul Haq 2.) Female Friendship and Forbidden Desire: Two Films from 1960s Pakistan Kamran Asdar Ali 3.) Bringing Back Sikhs after the 1984 Pogrom: The Politics of Picturization in Hindi Cinema Amit Ranjan 4.) Silencing Films from the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Indigenous Cinema’s Challenge to the Imagined Cultural Homogeneity of Bangladesh Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma 5.) Pakistan, History, and Sleep: Hassan Tariq, a Progressive Patriarch, and Neend Nasreen Rehman Part II: Transregional Crossings 6.) The Public in the Cities: Detouring through Cinemas of Bombay, Calcutta, and Lahore (1920s–1930s) Madhuja Mukherjee 7.) Cross-Wing Filmmaking: East Pakistani Urdu Films and Their Traces in the Bangladesh Film Archive Lotte Hoek 8.) Action Heroines and Regional Gifts: Authorship Crossing Pakistan Esha Niyogi De 9.) Realism and Region in South Indian Cinemas, 1947–1977 Hariprasad Athanickal 10.) "This Is London, Not Pakistan!": Articulations of the Diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi Film Gwendolyn S. Kirk 11.) The Birth of a Cinema in Post-9/11 Pakistan Zebunnisa Hamid Part III: Fractured Geographies, South Connectivities 12.) Zahir Raihan's Stop Genocide (1971): A Dialectical Cinematic Message to the World Fahmida Akhter 13.) Gender, War, and Resistance: The Case of Kashmir Alka Kurian 14.) Cinema That Raises a Critical Consciousness: The Films of Alamgir Kabir Naadir Junaid 15.) Ethical Encounters: Friendship and Healing in Contemporary Films about the Bangladesh Liberation War Elora Halim Chowdhury Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Pioneering Death
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A kaleidoscopic study of the whole societal context surrounding the Montgomery crime. It expands outward from standard criminology turf... to explore the grinding economic depression of the late 1800s and the complex financial and social pressures felt by Willamette Valley farm families." * The Columbian *"In his study, Boag successfully accomplishes two tasks: he assesses the environmental pressures that may have led Montgomery to slay his parents while offering a rare and intimate portrait of ordinary people in agrarian Oregon during the Gilded Age...Boag's engaging prose, provocative ideas, and the inherent luridness of his subject matter make this work that rarest of things: an academic page-turner that should appeal to broad audiences of readers." * Pacific Historical Review *"Peter Boag's excellent Pioneering Death is, at its heart, an outstanding study of community in late nineteenth-century rural Oregon...[The] book shows that there is still much to be learned about Oregon history and that community studies are a particularly powerful way of getting at that sory." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"Rigorous and compelling...Boag's insightful work does much to help us understand these shocking crimes and these unresolved stories that never seem to go away." * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"Like the best microhistories, Boag's book uses the minutiae of [an 1895 triple murder] to open a window into broader currents--exploring violence, uncertainty, expectation, and despair in the rural Pacific Northwest of the time, and beyond...[T]he vivid writing and careful detail in Boag's Pioneering Death make the book suitable for an audience beyond specialists." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *"A compelling story that incorporates a diverse set of analytical methods to describe an eighteen year-old's parricide and murder in the 1895 Willamette Valley...Boag recounts this event, and the circumstances leading to it, with elegant prose and engaging detail." * Reviews in American History *
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