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University of California Press The Wages of Sin Censorship and the Fallen Woman
Book SynopsisIn this text, Lea Jacobs uses the fallen woman film, which served as a focal point for public criticism of the film industry, to explore Hollywood's system of self-censorship and the evolution of the rules governing representations of sexuality.Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Fallen Woman Film and the Impetus for Censorship 2. The Studio Relations Committee's Policies and Procedures 3. Glamour and Gold Diggers 4. Something Other than a Sob Story 5. The Production Code Administration's Policies and Procedures 6. Class and Glamour in the Films of the Late Thirties 7. Afterword Appendix: Censorship Cases Reviewed Notes Bibliography Index
£24.30
University of California Press The Struggle for the Breeches Gender and the
Book SynopsisLinking the personal and the political, this book depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a 'struggle for the breeches.' Focusing on Lancashire, Glasgow, and London, it contrasts the experience of artisans and textile workers, demonstrating how each created distinctively gendered communities and political strategies.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments 1 Introduction PART ONE WOMEN AND MEN IN PLEBEIAN CULTURE 2 Setting the Stage: Work and Family, 1780-1825 3 Men and Women Together and Apart: Plebeian Culture and Communities 4 Plebeian Sexual Morality, 1780-1820 5 The Struggle for the Breeches: Conflict in Plebeian Marriage PART TWO THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS 6 Sin and Salvation: Men, Women, and Faith 7 The Struggle over the Gender Division of Labor, 1780-1826 8 Manhood and Citizenship: Radical Politics, 1767-1816 9 A Wider Vision of Community, 1815-1820 PART THREE DOMESTICITY AND THE MAKING OF THE WORKING CLASS, 1820-1850 10 Sexual Radicalism and the Pressure of Politics 11 Equality or Domesticity: the Dilemma for Labor 12 Chartism: Domesticity and Politics 13 Chartism and the Problem of Women Workers 14 A Difficult Ideal: Domesticity in Popular Culture and Practice 15 Conclusion Appendix on 1841 Glasgow Census Sample Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Emblems of Eloquence
Book SynopsisDrawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Editorial Principles Introduction 1. The Emblematic Woman 2. Bizzarrie Femminile: Opera and the Accademia degli Incogniti 3. Didone and the Voice of Chastity 4. "Disprezzata regina": Woman and Empire 5. The Nymph Calisto and the Myth of Female Pleasure 6. Semiramide and Musical Transvestism 7. Messalina la Meretrice: Envoicing the Courtesan Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Looking at Lovemaking
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University of California Press Gender and U.S. Immigration
Book SynopsisResurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories shaping immigration patterns. This collection of essays brings together work on this subject.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. Gender and Immigration: A Retrospective and Introduction Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 2. Engendering Migration Studies: The Case of New Immigrants in the United States Patricia R. Pessar 3. Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy Saskia Sassen PART TWO: GENDER AND EMPLOYMENT 4. The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration From the Philippines to the United States James A. Tyner 5. Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families Yen Le Espiritu 6. The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California Cecilia Menjivar 7. Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return Migration Steven J. Gold PART THREE: ENGENDERING RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES 8. Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States Prema Kurien 9. Disentangling Race-Gender Work Experiences: Second-Generation Caribbean Young Adults in New York City Nancy Lopez 10. Gendered Geographies of Home: Mapping Second- and Third-Generation Puerto Ricans' Sense of Home Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea PART FOUR: GENDER, GENERATION, AND IMMIGRATION 11. De madres a hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity Across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez 12. Raising Children, and Growing Up, Across National Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Age, Gender, and Migration Barrie Thorne, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Wan Shun Eva Lam, and Anna Chee 13. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives. Yen Le Espiritu PART FIVE: GENDER, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL 14. Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans Sarah J. Mahler 15. "I'm Here, but I'm There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila 16. Gender Status and the State in Transnational Spaces: The Gendering of Political Participation and Mexican Hometown Associations Luin Goldring 17. "The Blue Passport": Gender and the Social Process of Naturalization Among Dominican Immigrants in New York City Audrey Singer and Greta Gilbertson Contributors Index
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University of California Press What Is Sexual Harassment
Book SynopsisIn France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. This title explores nthe social problem of sexual harassment.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Making of a Concept 1. Sexual Harassment Law on the Books: Opportunity Loss v. Violence 2. Sexual Harassment Law in Action: Legitimacy and Liability 3. Sexual Harassment in the Press: National Scandal, Pride, or Superiority? 4. Discrimination, Violence, Professionalism, and the Bottom Line: How Interview Respondents Frame Sexual Harassment Conclusion: Institutions, Framing, and Political Power Epilogue: Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose Appendix: Methodological Details Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press American Sexual Character
Book SynopsisWhen Alfred Kinsey's studies "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" appeared in 1948 and 1953, their data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. This work examines national debates about sexuality, gender, and Americanness after World War II.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Sexual Order in Our Nation": American Sexuality and National Character in the Postwar United States 2. "A Missing Sense of Maleness": Male Heterosexuality, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, and the Crisis of American Masculinity 3. "Much the Same Desires as Men": Sexual Behavior in the Human Female and the "American Woman" 4. "I'm a Much Better Citizen Than If I Were Single": Remaking Postwar Marriage and Reconfiguring Marital Sexuality 5. "An Age of Sexual Ambiguity": Homosexuality and National Character in the Postwar United States Epilogue. "All America Is One Big Orgone Box": American Sexual Character Revisited Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£56.80
University of California Press Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice
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University of California Press Trans Kids
Book SynopsisTrans Kidsis a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing they choose, and approach the state to alter the gender designation on their passports and birth certificates. Drawing from sociology, philosophy, psychology, and sexuality studies, sociologist Tey Meadow depicts the intricate social processes that shape gender acquisition. Where once atypical gender expression was considered a failure of gender, now it is a form of gender. Engaging and rigorously argued,Trans Kidsunderscores the centrality of ever more particular configurations of gender in both our physical and psychological lives, and the increasing embeddedness of personal identities in social institutions.Trade Review“Meadows is a superb scholar and storyteller and, with this work, makes a critical contribution to family and gender studies. Everyone should read this book.” * CHOICE *"Invites readers — and anyone genuinely interested in studying or understanding gender-nonconforming people — to ask questions that reach beyond readily available vocabulary, arguing that that's the next right, respectful thing to do.” * Bay Area Reporter *“Trans Kids is excellent work that combines compelling narratives with extensive ethnographic descriptions of parents’ and children’s experiences.” * ForeWord *"Clearly, more information is urgently needed to counteract ignorance, and one hopes, accordingly, that this fine book will be enlightening.” * Booklist *“[A] landmark study." * Public Books *“A vital and necessary read. . . . Beyond the daring of its title, this is a book whose depth and sensitivity pull you in throughout.” * PopMatters *“Presents an important sociological snapshot of the experiences of parents and guardians of transgender and gender nonconforming children and youth. . . . The stories of individuals' interactions with the medical industry, parent-support groups, child-protection services, and the anxiety produced in these navigations provides valuable information for social and moral analysis.” * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *"Meadow captures the rapidly changing and charged social landscape of trans and transitions. . . . Today trans childhood represents one iteration by which gender is done." * Contemporary Sociology *"Altogether, Trans Kids advances our understandings of gender in critically important ways and will stand as an important text for future generations of scholarship." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. Studying Each Other 2. Gender Troubles 3. The Gender Clinic 4. Building a Parent Movement 5. Anxiety and Gender Regulation 6. Telling Gender Stories 7. From Failure to Form Appendix A: A Note on the Language of Gender Appendix B: Methodology Appendix C: List of Interviewees Notes Glossary References Index
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University of California Press Haunting Images
Book SynopsisBased on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, this book offers an account of the moral quandaries that accompany innovations in biomedical technology. Arguing for more sustained anthropological attention to human quests for belonging, it addresses existential questions of love and loss that concern us all.Trade Review"This deft and often moving volume makes a signature contribution to the growing anthropological literature on Vietnam ... Keenly observed and compellingly written." -- Martha Lincoln Medicine Anthropology Theory "Beautifully written ... of interest to scholar's in Asian, women's, and gender studies and anthropology, reproductive health, and disability studies." CHOICE "This is a powerful, haunting cultural account of selective reproduction in Vietnam. I encourage each reader to think through what this means and what this tells us about pregnancy management throughout the world." -- Barbara Katz Rothman Sociology of Health & Illness "This is a moving ethnography that 'haunts' the reader long thereafter... Daring and promising." -- Catalina Tesar Social Anthropology "Powerful, heart-wrenching, and beautifully written ... As anthropology, the book is also a fine example of the ethnographer's craft... Highly recommended." -- Erik Harms Journal of Southeast Asian Studies "Fascinating and powerful ... Haunting Images is an outstanding piece of scholarship that brings new dimensions to thinking about key themes in social theory." -- Tsipy Ivry Medical Antrhopology Quarterly "Beautifully written ... a must read." -- Ann Marie Leshkowich American EthnologistTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Haunting Decisions Introduction: Choice as Belonging 1. Sonographic Imaging and Selective Reproduction in Hanoi 2. A Collectivizing Biopolitics 3. Precarious Maternal Belonging 4. "Like a Loving Mother": Moral Engagements in Medical Worlds 5. "How Have We Lived?" Accounting for Reproductive Misfortune 6. Beyond Knowledge: Everyday Encounters with Disability 7. Questions of Conscience Conclusion: Toward an Anthropology of Belonging Appendix: Core Cases Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Caught Up
Book SynopsisFrom home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. This book follows the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline.Trade Review"By centering the compelling testimonials of 30 young Latinas, Flores details the multiple impacts and varied forms of gendered, socioeconomic, and racialized violence the participants encounter at home, school, in intimate relationships, and while in detention. Especially significant are the tolls that trauma and inequality take and the ways the participants are caught up in the California juvenile justice system, despite its intended focus on rehabilitation. The book ends with concrete experiences from Latinas who have been able to leave the criminal justice system and those who have not—highlighting Flores's main finding that increased contact with criminal justice agencies reduces the possibilities of escaping from them." * CHOICE *"This worthy work deserves a caring examination as it helps us to understand the consequences of the frightening accelerated fusion between education and the criminal justice system for Latina girls. It was written with passion and academic accuracy." * Border Criminologies *"Caught Up offers an interesting and provocative discussion of primarily Latina youth who are justice involved and caught in the school-to-prison pipeline. ... extremely well researched, organized, and thorough." * International Criminal Justice Review *"Very informative and engaging... To the reader, Flores can seem as if he is closely tied to his participants, and as if he wants his readers to feel that same connection." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Trouble in the Home, and First Contact with the Criminal Justice System 2. Life behind Bars 3. Legacy Community School and the New Face of Alternative Education 4. School, Institutionalization, and Exclusionary Punishment 5. Hooks for Change and Snares for Confinement Conclusion Appendix A: "Who Is Th is Man in the Classroom?" Appendix B: Demographic Information Notes References Index
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University of California Press Cohabitation Nation Gender Class and the Remaking
Book SynopsisLiving together is a typical romantic rite-of-passage in the United States today. In fact, Census data shows a 37 per cent increase of couples that choose to commit to and live with one another, foregoing marriage. This book provide us with an inside view of how cohabiting relationships play out before and after they move in together.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. Cohabitation Exploring Contemporary Courtship Trajectories 2. In the Beginning Becoming a Couple 3. Shacking Up, Living in Sin, Saving on Rent? The Process of Moving In Together 4. “I Like Hugs, I Like Kisses, but What I Really Love Is Help with the Dishes” The Dance of Domesticity 5. Family Planning or Failing to Plan? Communication, Contraception, and Conception 6. For Better or for Worse? Perceptions of Cohabitation, Marriage, and Parenthood 7. Waiting to Be Asked or Taking the Bull by the Horns? Gender and Social Class Diff erences in Marriage Talk, Proposals, and Wedding Planning 8. Cohabitation Nation? The Role of Gender and Social Class in Relationship Progression Appendix A. Interview Guide Appendix B. Methods and Sample Information Appendix C. Specific Characteristics of Cohabiting Couples Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Cohabitation Nation Gender Class and the Remaking
Book SynopsisLiving together is a typical romantic rite-of-passage in the United States today. In fact, Census data shows a 37 per cent increase of couples that choose to commit to and live with one another, foregoing marriage. This book delivers surprising insights about the impact of class and education on how relationships unfold.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. Cohabitation Exploring Contemporary Courtship Trajectories 2. In the Beginning Becoming a Couple 3. Shacking Up, Living in Sin, Saving on Rent? The Process of Moving In Together 4. “I Like Hugs, I Like Kisses, but What I Really Love Is Help with the Dishes” The Dance of Domesticity 5. Family Planning or Failing to Plan? Communication, Contraception, and Conception 6. For Better or for Worse? Perceptions of Cohabitation, Marriage, and Parenthood 7. Waiting to Be Asked or Taking the Bull by the Horns? Gender and Social Class Diff erences in Marriage Talk, Proposals, and Wedding Planning 8. Cohabitation Nation? The Role of Gender and Social Class in Relationship Progression Appendix A. Interview Guide Appendix B. Methods and Sample Information Appendix C. Specific Characteristics of Cohabiting Couples Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Separation Solution
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in single-sex education across the United States, and many public schools have created all-boys and all-girls classes for students in grades K through 12. This title provides an analysis of controversies sparked by efforts to separate boys and girls at school.Trade Review"This book greatly contributes to conversations about single-sex schooling by illuminating how racism and sexism have undergirded arguments for public single-sex schooling." * American Journal of Sociology *"In The Separation Solution, Juliet Williams revisits the issue of single-sex education with a well-written combination of personal experience and scholarly research . . . the author is deeply involved in her topic, which makes for very good reading." * Sex Roles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Rethinking Gender Equality 2. Single-Sex Education in Historical Perspective 3. “We’ve Got to Try Something”: The Male Academy Initiatives 4. What about the Girls? 5. Single-Sex Education and the Popular Neuroscience of Sex Difference 6. Different but Equal?: Reflections on the Future of Gender Discourse Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press The Separation Solution
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in single-sex education across the United States, and many public schools have created all-boys and all-girls classes for students in grades K through 12. This title provides an analysis of controversies sparked by efforts to separate boys and girls at school.Trade Review"This book greatly contributes to conversations about single-sex schooling by illuminating how racism and sexism have undergirded arguments for public single-sex schooling." * American Journal of Sociology *"In The Separation Solution, Juliet Williams revisits the issue of single-sex education with a well-written combination of personal experience and scholarly research . . . the author is deeply involved in her topic, which makes for very good reading." * Sex Roles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Rethinking Gender Equality 2. Single-Sex Education in Historical Perspective 3. “We’ve Got to Try Something”: The Male Academy Initiatives 4. What about the Girls? 5. Single-Sex Education and the Popular Neuroscience of Sex Difference 6. Different but Equal?: Reflections on the Future of Gender Discourse Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Making Modern Meals How Americans Cook Today 66 California Studies in Food and Culture
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University of California Press GUYnecology The Missing Science of Mens
Book SynopsisWhat is healthy spermor themale biological clock?This book details why we don't talk aboutmen's reproductive health and how this lackshapes reproductive politics today. For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men's health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. What explains this gap in knowledge, and what are its consequences? Rene Almeling examines the production, circulation, and reception of biomedical knowledge about men's reproductive health. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men's age, health, and exposures. Analyzing historical documents, media messages, and qualitative interviews, GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today. Trade Review"GUYnecology is methodologically rich, including analysis of historical documents, investigating how scientific knowledge is (or is not) disseminated and engaged by the media, and presenting Almeling's qualitative interviews about subjects' impressions of men’s reproductive health. Together with her previous work (Sex Cells) on the gendered rhetoric used in the reproductive industry, GUYnecology offers the sociologist a robust understanding of the gendered cultural discourses that inform people’s approaches to reproductive health. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Almeling explains why no medical specialty exists that is devoted to male reproductive health—the guy equivalent of gynecology. When it comes to penis science, it seems, men have gotten shafted." * Scientific American *"A methodical writer. . . , Almeling puts new data about male reproduction to work." * Times Literary Supplement *"By convincingly documenting the active construction of this non-knowledge, this book makes a key contribution to our understanding of the ways that Western gender ideologies have become naturalized in biomedicine and reified in public imaginations of sexed bodies." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In its core argument that knowledge and non-knowledge about reproductive health stem from binary and 'opposite' conceptualizations of gender, GUYnecology is a critical contribution to our understanding of men, masculinities, and reproduction." * Men and Masculinities *"GUYnecology is both accessible and imaginative from the opening tableau. . . . Almeling makes use of helpful analogies and metaphors to explain what can sometimes be complex or highly theoretical concepts, such as those of relationships between gender and sex. Aside from the specific research contained in the book, these introductory explanations will no doubt be of use to those new to the subject (or process) of gender from an academic perspective, and for those teaching these subjects." * Social History of Medicine *"GUYnecology is a generative book and acts as a foundation from which future scholars can build the field of reproductive health. The book convincingly argues the interconnectedness of political, social, and medical constructs in the production, circulation and reception of men’s reproduction. Studies of reproduction must destabilize the notion that reproduction relates specifically to cis-gendered women, and Almeling leaves us to ponder the implications of considering all people as reproductive. It is, perhaps, this tantalizing conclusive thought that will prove most generative for future research." * New Genetics and Society *"An engaging and informative read. . . . Almeling’s conclusion about what should be done with regard to male reproductive health and paternal effects is, happily, parallel to what many feminists have recommended with regard to women’s reproductive care: she believes that what is needed is a combination of broad research and attention to social and environmental structures of health and illness." * Nursing Clio *"Accessibly written and highly engaging, GUYnecology should prove an effective teaching tool for undergraduate and post graduate students alike." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Medical Specialization and the Making of Biomedical Knowledge 1. Whither GUYnecology? 2. Andrology Again Part II Circulating Knowledge about Men’s Reproductive Health 3. Making Knowledge about Paternal Effects (with Jenna Healey) 4. Reproductive Health for Half the Public Part III Men’s Views of Reproduction 5. Sex, Sperm, and Fatherhood 6. Healthy Sperm? Conclusion: The Politics of Men’s Reproductive Health Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Interviewees Notes Bibliography
£64.00
University of California Press GUYnecology
Book SynopsisWhat is healthy spermor themale biological clock?This book details why we don't talk aboutmen's reproductive health and how this lackshapes reproductive politics today. For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men's health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. What explains this gap in knowledge, and what are its consequences? Rene Almeling examines the production, circulation, and reception of biomedical knowledge about men's reproductive health. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men's age, health, and exposures. Analyzing historical documents, media messages, and qualitative interviews, GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today. Trade Review"GUYnecology is methodologically rich, including analysis of historical documents, investigating how scientific knowledge is (or is not) disseminated and engaged by the media, and presenting Almeling's qualitative interviews about subjects' impressions of men’s reproductive health. Together with her previous work (Sex Cells) on the gendered rhetoric used in the reproductive industry, GUYnecology offers the sociologist a robust understanding of the gendered cultural discourses that inform people’s approaches to reproductive health. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Almeling explains why no medical specialty exists that is devoted to male reproductive health—the guy equivalent of gynecology. When it comes to penis science, it seems, men have gotten shafted." * Scientific American *"A methodical writer. . . , Almeling puts new data about male reproduction to work." * Times Literary Supplement *"By convincingly documenting the active construction of this non-knowledge, this book makes a key contribution to our understanding of the ways that Western gender ideologies have become naturalized in biomedicine and reified in public imaginations of sexed bodies." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In its core argument that knowledge and non-knowledge about reproductive health stem from binary and 'opposite' conceptualizations of gender, GUYnecology is a critical contribution to our understanding of men, masculinities, and reproduction." * Men and Masculinities *"GUYnecology is both accessible and imaginative from the opening tableau. . . . Almeling makes use of helpful analogies and metaphors to explain what can sometimes be complex or highly theoretical concepts, such as those of relationships between gender and sex. Aside from the specific research contained in the book, these introductory explanations will no doubt be of use to those new to the subject (or process) of gender from an academic perspective, and for those teaching these subjects." * Social History of Medicine *"GUYnecology is a generative book and acts as a foundation from which future scholars can build the field of reproductive health. The book convincingly argues the interconnectedness of political, social, and medical constructs in the production, circulation and reception of men’s reproduction. Studies of reproduction must destabilize the notion that reproduction relates specifically to cis-gendered women, and Almeling leaves us to ponder the implications of considering all people as reproductive. It is, perhaps, this tantalizing conclusive thought that will prove most generative for future research." * New Genetics and Society *"An engaging and informative read. . . . Almeling’s conclusion about what should be done with regard to male reproductive health and paternal effects is, happily, parallel to what many feminists have recommended with regard to women’s reproductive care: she believes that what is needed is a combination of broad research and attention to social and environmental structures of health and illness." * Nursing Clio *"Accessibly written and highly engaging, GUYnecology should prove an effective teaching tool for undergraduate and post graduate students alike." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Medical Specialization and the Making of Biomedical Knowledge 1. Whither GUYnecology? 2. Andrology Again Part II Circulating Knowledge about Men’s Reproductive Health 3. Making Knowledge about Paternal Effects (with Jenna Healey) 4. Reproductive Health for Half the Public Part III Men’s Views of Reproduction 5. Sex, Sperm, and Fatherhood 6. Healthy Sperm? Conclusion: The Politics of Men’s Reproductive Health Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Interviewees Notes Bibliography
£18.90
University of California Press Beyond Exemplar Tales New Perspectives on Chinese
Book SynopsisDrawing upon a vast array of sources, this volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women's biography.
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University of California Press Screw Consent
Book SynopsisWhen we talk about sexwhether great, good, bad, or unlawfulwe often turn to consentas both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionableyouth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy? What if these are all the wrong questions? What if our preoccupation with consent is hindering a safer and better sexual culture? By foregrounding sex on the social margins (bestial, necrophilic, cannibalistic, and other atypical practices), Screw Consentshows how a sexual politics focused on consent can often obscure, rather than clarify, what is wrong about wrongful sex. Joseph J. Fischel argues thatthe consent paradigm, while necessary for effective sexual assault law, diminishes and perverts our ideas about desire, pleasure, and injury. In addition to the criticisms against consent leveled by feminist theorists of earlier generations, Fischel elevates three more: consent is insufficient, inapposiTrade Review“Powerful and provoking. . . . Screw Consent is a must-read for those vested in better understanding of sexuality, sexual violence, and sexual justice.” * CHOICE *"Drawing from case law and written in an engaging manner, Screw Consent explores the meanings of giving consent to sexual relations in unusual arenas where the definition and even the possibility that a traditionally defined affirmative, active, vocalized consent, legal or not, may be at best limited." * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: When Consent Isn't Sexy 1. Kink and Cannibals, or Why We Should Probably Ban American Football 2. The Trouble with Mothers' Boyfriends, or Against Uncles 3. The Trouble with Transgender "Rapists" 4. Horses and Corpses: Notes on the Wrongness of Sex with Children, the Inappositeness of Consent, and the Weirdness of Heterosomething Masculinity 5. Cripping Consent: Autonomy and Access With Hilary O’Connell Conclusion: #MeFirst—Undemocratic Hedonism Appendices Notes Court Cases Cited Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Decriminalizing Domestic Violence Gender and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The multifaceted aspect of domestic violence as a criminal justice, economic, public health, community, and human rights problem . . . creates sites of conversations across these axes." * Politics & Gender *"[Goodmark] reminds us that expanding our perspectives of what interventions could look like are 'worth exploring.' . . . Readers will likely take away a great deal from this book, but at the very least, they will close the book with an expanded sense of what may be possible." * Affilila: Journal of Women and Social Work *"Provides a fresh and well-considered perspective on the field for anyone who is interested to learn more." * Contemporary Justice Review *"Decriminalizing Domestic Violence provides a good overview for readers concerned with crime control and advocates who seek to rebuild a broken system." * Journal of Children and Poverty *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Intimate Partner Violence Is... 1. A Criminal Justice Problem? 2. An Economic Problem 3. A Public Health Problem 4. A Community Problem 5. A Human Rights Problem 6. A Balanced Policy Approach Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Decriminalizing Domestic Violence
Book SynopsisDecriminalizingDomesticViolenceasks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partnerviolencein the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse andviolencein their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partnerviolence. The book examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or to prevent intimate partnerviolencein the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics indomestic violence, familyviolence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partnerviolencenot solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public health, community, anTrade Review"The multifaceted aspect of domestic violence as a criminal justice, economic, public health, community, and human rights problem . . . creates sites of conversations across these axes." * Politics & Gender *"[Goodmark] reminds us that expanding our perspectives of what interventions could look like are 'worth exploring.' . . . Readers will likely take away a great deal from this book, but at the very least, they will close the book with an expanded sense of what may be possible." * Affilila: Journal of Women and Social Work *"Provides a fresh and well-considered perspective on the field for anyone who is interested to learn more." * Contemporary Justice Review *"Decriminalizing Domestic Violence provides a good overview for readers concerned with crime control and advocates who seek to rebuild a broken system." * Journal of Children and Poverty *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Intimate Partner Violence Is... 1. A Criminal Justice Problem? 2. An Economic Problem 3. A Public Health Problem 4. A Community Problem 5. A Human Rights Problem 6. A Balanced Policy Approach Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Maiko Masquerade Crafting Geisha Girlhood in
Book SynopsisMaiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the chaste keeper of Kyoto's classical artistic traditions. Insider accounts by maiko and geisha, their leaders and fans, show pride in the training, challenges, and rewards maiko face. No longer viewed as a toy for men's amusement, she serves as catalyst for women's consumer fun. This change inspires stories of ordinary girlsand even one boystriving to embody the maiko ideal, engaging in masquerades that highlight questions of personal choice, gender performance, and national identity.Trade Review"[An] informative and stimulating book. . . .Maiko Masquerade… highlights a complex and relatively unknown world." * Monumenta Nipponica *"Bardsley presents a provocative, comprehensive look at the representation of maiko and girl culture in Maiko Masquerade. Not only is it a great contribution to scholarship on maiko, but it also demonstrates the politics and power of representation." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Bardsley’s deep and thoughtful analysis also draws our attention to the elements of maiko life and work that are not publicly discussed. . . .an ideal resource for teachers of undergraduate and postgraduate Japanese Studies and Gender Studies…The provocative and perceptive questions that the volume raises will inform future scholarship on this fascinating topic." * Journal of Gender Studies *"Deeply researched and carefully constructed. . . .Maiko Masquerade is full of many surprising discoveries. Bardsley writes with a light touch that successfully draws the reader in to her analytic project. Even to one who lives here, Kyoto and Japan appear different now." * Journal of Gender Studies/Jenda Kenkyu *"Maiko Masquerade…should be read by anyone with an interest in millennial Japanese culture and society. . . .Bardsley provides a nuanced and detailed account of how the maiko came to be this beloved and iconic Kyoto cultural figure of the 2000s." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Why Study Maiko Stories? Notes on Japanese Terms and Currency Introduction: The Maiko, Kyoto’s Apprentice Geisha 1. The Maiko's Hanamachi Home 2. The Well-Mannered Career Path 3. Life in the Hanamachi: Voices of Maiko and Geiko 4. From Victim to Artist: Maiko Stories in Movies and Manga 5. Adventures of a Boy Maiko: There Goes Chiyogiku! 6. Hit a Homer, Maiko! Maiko Visual Comedy Conclusion: The Ordinary Girl in the Maiko Masquerade Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Maiko Masquerade
Book SynopsisMaiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the chaste keeper of Kyoto's classical artistic traditions. Insider accounts by maiko and geisha, their leaders and fans, show pride in the training, challenges, and rewards maiko face. No longer viewed as a toy for men's amusement, she serves as catalyst for women's consumer fun. This change inspires stories of ordinary girlsand even one boystriving to embody the maiko ideal, engaging in masquerades that highlight questions of personal choice, gender performance, and national identity.Trade Review"[An] informative and stimulating book. . . .Maiko Masquerade… highlights a complex and relatively unknown world." * Monumenta Nipponica *"Bardsley presents a provocative, comprehensive look at the representation of maiko and girl culture in Maiko Masquerade. Not only is it a great contribution to scholarship on maiko, but it also demonstrates the politics and power of representation." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Bardsley’s deep and thoughtful analysis also draws our attention to the elements of maiko life and work that are not publicly discussed. . . .an ideal resource for teachers of undergraduate and postgraduate Japanese Studies and Gender Studies…The provocative and perceptive questions that the volume raises will inform future scholarship on this fascinating topic." * Journal of Gender Studies *"Deeply researched and carefully constructed. . . .Maiko Masquerade is full of many surprising discoveries. Bardsley writes with a light touch that successfully draws the reader in to her analytic project. Even to one who lives here, Kyoto and Japan appear different now." * Journal of Gender Studies/Jenda Kenkyu *"Maiko Masquerade…should be read by anyone with an interest in millennial Japanese culture and society. . . .Bardsley provides a nuanced and detailed account of how the maiko came to be this beloved and iconic Kyoto cultural figure of the 2000s." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Why Study Maiko Stories? Notes on Japanese Terms and Currency Introduction: The Maiko, Kyoto’s Apprentice Geisha 1. The Maiko's Hanamachi Home 2. The Well-Mannered Career Path 3. Life in the Hanamachi: Voices of Maiko and Geiko 4. From Victim to Artist: Maiko Stories in Movies and Manga 5. Adventures of a Boy Maiko: There Goes Chiyogiku! 6. Hit a Homer, Maiko! Maiko Visual Comedy Conclusion: The Ordinary Girl in the Maiko Masquerade Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Gendering Criminology
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface: New Language for a New Way of Thinking 1. The Story of Gender: Definitions, Origins, and Current Issues 2. The Why and How: Theories of Gender, Crime, and Victimization 3. “Manly” Crimes: The Relationship between Masculinity and Criminality 4. “Ladies Only”: An Examination of Women and Crime 5. At the Margins: Criminalization in the LGBTQIA+ Communities 6. Gender-Based Online Victimization 7. “Boys Will Be Boys” and “Sugar and Spice”: The Relationship between Gender and Victimization 8. The Victimization of Individuals Who Identify as LGBTQIA+ 9. Policing Crime: How Gender Influences Arrest Decisions and Court Cases 10. The Gendered Nature of Punishment 11. “Boys’ Clubs”: Gender and Employment in the Criminal-Legal System 12. Gender, Crime, and the Media References Index
£50.40
University of California Press The Mating Game
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Noting that 'the more things change, the more they stay the same,' Lamont finds that traditional gender-role expectations have not changed much; men still ask women out more often and hope for sex sooner than women, and women generally still wait to be asked out and are reticent to have sex 'too soon.' This book provides an interesting take on some presupposed assumptions." * CHOICE *"The Mating Game is an ambitious project that strategically investigates views held by three distinct groups, each navigating complex social structures and cultural narratives around romantic courtship. Lamont offers a refreshing and strong framework to analyze courtship on an individual, group, and societal level. It is a strong addition to growing scholarship on young adults as well as the possible application of queerness in mainstream cultural reform." * Men and Masculinities *"Lamont’s well-designed empirical project and insightful theoretical analysis advance our conversations about the state of the gender revolution in the 21st century." * American Journal of Sociology *"Lamont’s analysis of these stories reminds us that there are possibilities beyond what society currently offers us. I ultimately came away from this book feeling inspired and empowered to turn such possibilities into reality." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Puzzling Persistence of Gendered Dating 2. The Quest for Egalitarian Love 3. New Goals, Old Scripts: Heterosexual Women Caught between Tradition and Equality 4. A Few Good (Heterosexual) Men: Inequality Disguised as Romance 5. Queering Courtship: LGBQ People Reimagine Relationships 6. The More Things Change . . . 7. Dated Dating and the Stalled Gender Revolution Appendix 1: Summary of Interview Respondents Appendix 2: Interview Guide Notes References Index
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University of California Press Luminous Traitor
Book SynopsisMartin Duberman is a national treasure.Masha Gessen,The New Yorker Roger Casement was an internationally renowned figure at the beginning of the 20th century, famous for exposing the widespread atrocities against the indigenous people in King Leopold's Congo and his subsequent exposurefor which he was knighted in 1911of the brutal conditions of enslaved labor in Peru. An Irish nationalist of profound conviction, he attempted, at the outbreak of World War I, to obtain German support and weapons for an armed rebellion against British rule. Apprehended and convicted of treason in a notorious trial that captured worldwide attention, Casement was sentenced to die on the gallows. A powerful petition drive for the commutation of his sentence was inaugurated by George Bernard Shaw and a host of other influential figures. A gay man, Casement kept detailed diaries of his sexual escapades, and the British government, upon discovering the diaries, circulated its pages to public figures, thereTrade Review"Duberman calls his book a biographical novel, though it is more biography of the real-life Casement than novel. But, in either case, it is a painstaking, sympathetic portrait of a celebrated humanitarian. The result is both a political history and also an examination of the history of homosexuality. It is valuable on both counts." * Booklist *"...a deeply informed biographical novel, skillfully told in present tense, that brings [a] lesser-known historical era and its principal actors to light." * The Bay Area Reporter *""Duberman’s presentation of [Casement's] life story is impressive." * The Gay & Lesbian Review *"A biographical novel about a complex man in complex times, but someone who burnt with a sense of justice, and when he wasn’t pursuing that (in the Congo or Peru or Ireland) was burning with forbidden sexual desire for men wherever he could find them. We hanged him." -- Stephen Hough * The Times of London *“In the last year alone, renowned gay historian Martin Duberman, Ph.D. ’57, has published a memoir, a polemic about gay activism, and a “novel/history” about the inner circle of Kaiser Wilhelm. He adopts the third genre for Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, A Biographical Novel: cleaving to the historical record and using “informed speculation” to fill in the gaps.” * Harvard Magazine *Table of ContentsPart 1 • The Years of Innocence Part 2 • The Congo Part 3 • The Putumayo Part 4 • Ireland Part 5 • The Trial and Its Aftermath Author’s Note Acknowledgments
£25.20
University of California Press Birth Control Battles How Race and Class Divided
Book SynopsisConservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Melissa J. Wilde shows how today's modern divisions began in the 1930s in the public battles over birth control and not for the reasons we might expect. By examining thirty of America's most prominent religious groupsfrom Mormons to Methodists, Southern Baptists to Seventh Day Adventists, and many othersWilde contends that fights over birth control had little do with sex, women's rights, or privacy. Using a veritable treasure trove of data, including census and archival materials and more than 10,000 articles, statements, and sermons from religious and secular periodicals, Wilde demonstrates that the push to liberalize positions on contraception was tied to complex views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny among America's most prominent religious groups. Taking us from the Depression era, when support for the eugenics movement saw birth control as an act of duty for less desirable groups, to the 1960s, by which time most groups had forgotten the reasons behind their stances on contraception (but not the concerns driving them), Birth Control Battles explains how reproductive politics divided American religion. In doing so, this book shows the enduring importance of race and class for American religion as it rewrites our understanding of what it has meant to be progressive or conservative in America.Trade Review"For observers of American religion who are left scratching their heads at the state of contemporary American religion, race relations, and reproductive politics, Birth Control Battles is an essential read." * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *"Wilde’s Birth Control Battles is a thoroughly enlightening and impressively researched book . . .Her monograph is a landmark contribution to scholarship on modern American religion and politics with a critically important perspective on the roots of contemporary and ongoing debates over reproductive rights, religious freedom, and privacy." * Reading Religion *“Birth Control Battles is a gift to scholars of religion, gender, class, and immigration who work from both historical and sociological perspectives, modelling precise qualitative methods and careful reading and interpretation.” * Feminist Encounters *"This book accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do: Wilde produces an impeccable account of the doctrinal trajectories ofU.S. denominations on the birth-control issue, questioning widespread assumptions about present-day alignments. She also raises the bar for design, rigor, and clarity in comparative historical research." * American Journal of Sociology *"Melissa Wilde’s book is a unique—and uniquely powerful—examination of a topic far broader and more complex than the title suggests. . . . the book [is] insightful and useful to a much broader audience." * Contemporary Sociology *"Birth Control Battles gives scholars new and necessary starting points for exploring the linkages between religion and contraception.” * American Catholic Studies *"Readers can come away from the work understanding that progressive and conservative thought have not always existed monolithically, that religiously motivated political activism is complex, and that historical perspectives remain important in understanding current political conversations." * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *"This clearly written, well-organized, and cogently argued book offers new ways of studying the history of birth control politics in the United States. . . . Invigorating." * Church History *"Meticulously researched…a true exemplar of intersectional research." * Social Forces *"Birth Control Battles provides a compelling angle for why reproductive politics divided—and continues to dominate—American religion." * Religiology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Part I From Abolition to Eugenics 1. American Religious Activism in the Twentieth Century 2. Mobilizing America’s Religious Elite in the Service of Eugenics Part II Liberalization, 1929–1931 3. The Early Liberalizers: "The Church Has a Responsibility for the Improvement of the Human Stock" 4. The Supporters: "God Needed the White Anglo-Saxon Race" 5. The Critics: "Atlanta Does Not Believe in Race Suicide" 6. The Silent Groups: "Let the Christian Get Away from Heredity" Part III From Legality to the Pill, 1935–1965 7. The Religious Promoters of Contraception: Remaining Focused on Other People's Fertility 8. The Forgotten Half: America's Reluctant Contraceptive Converts Conclusion: A Century Later Notes References Index
£999.99
University of California Press The Trouble with Passion How Searching for
Book SynopsisProbing the ominous side of career advice to follow your passion, this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work. Follow your passion is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. Passion-seeking seems like a promising path for avoiding the potential drudgery of a life of paid work, but this passion principleseductive as it isdoes not universally translate. The Trouble with Passion reveals the significant downside of the passion principle: the concept helps culturally legitimize and reproduce an exploited, overworked white-collar labor force and broadly serves to reinforce class, race, and gender segregation and inequality. Grounding her investigation in the paradoxical tensions between capitalism's demand for ideal workers and our cultural expectations for self-expression, sociologist Erin A. Cech draws on interviews that follow students from college into the workforce, surveys of US workers, and experimental data to explain why the passion principle is such an attractive, if deceptive, career decision-making mantra, particularly for the college educated. Passion-seeking presumes middle-class safety nets and springboards and penalizes first-generation and working-class young adults who seek passion without them. The ripple effects of this mantra undermine the promise of college as a tool for social and economic mobility. The passion principle also feeds into a culture of overwork, encouraging white-collar workers to tolerate precarious employment and gladly sacrifice time, money, and leisure for work they are passionate about. And potential employers covet, but won't compensate, passion among job applicants. This book asks, What does it take to center passion in career decisions? Who gets ahead and who gets left behind by passion-seeking? The Trouble with Passion calls for citizens, educators, college administrators, and industry leaders to reconsider how we think about good jobs and, by extension, good lives.Trade Review"As the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many people to contemplate the meaning of their work and life, this book offers particularly relevant insights for those wanting a career change to consider how they should make career decisions and the role work should play in their life. The Trouble with Passion should also be revelatory to people who potentially shape others’ career decisions, such as educators and career counselors; those who can influence the career outcomes of people in the labor market, such as hiring managers and organization leaders; and policymakers who have the power to rectify the structural factors producing the dark side of the passion principle in the first place. I would also recommend this book to social science scholars interested in careers, passion, the meaning of work, segregation, and inequality in general." * Administrative Science Quarterly *"If you’re looking for a book that can offer you new insights into career choices while making you think critically about librarianship, passion, and labor, this is a recommended read." * College & Research Libraries *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. What Is the Passion Principle? 2. Why Is the Passion Principle Compelling? 3. The Privilege of Passion? Passion-Seeking and Socioeconomic Inequality among Career Aspirants 4. The Passion Principle as Prescriptive and Explanatory Narrative? How the Passion Principle Choicewashes Workforce Inequalities 5. Exploiting Passion? The Demand Side of the Passion Principle Conclusion Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Supplemental Analysis of 2020 College Student Survey Appendix C: Supporting Data Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Women in Place
Book SynopsisWhile much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing.Women in Placeoffers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and women's rights in contemporary Iran. AuthorNazaninShahrokni takes us onto gender-segregated buses, inside a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of stadiums where women are banned from attending men's soccer matches.The Islamic character of the state, she demonstrates, has had to coexist, fuse, and compete with technocratic imperatives, pragmatic considerations regarding the viability of the state, international influences, and global trends.Through a retelling of the past four decades of state policy regulating gender boundaries,Women in Placechallenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces and pushes us to contemplate the changing place of women in a social order shaped by capitalism, state-sanctioned Islamism, and debates about women's rights.Shahrokni throws into sharp relief the ways in which the state strives to constantly regulate and contain women's bodies and movements within the boundaries of the proper but simultaneously invests in and claims credit for their expanded access to public spaces.
£27.00
University of California Press The Feminist War on Crime
Book SynopsisMany feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women's protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female victimhood, expanding the power of police and prosecutors, touting the problem-solving power of incarceration, and diverting resources toward law enforcement and away from marginalized communities. Deploying vivid cases and unflinching analysis, The Feminist War on Crime documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Zero-tolerance anti-violence law and policy tendto make women less safe and more fragile. Mandatory arrests, no-drop prosecutions, forced separation, and incarceration embroil poor women of color in a criminal justice system that is historically hostile to them. This carceral approach exacerbates social inequalities by diverting more power and resources toward a fundamentally flawed criminal justice system, further harming victims, perpetrators, and communities alike. In order to reverse this troubling course, Gruber contends that we must abandon the conventional feminist wisdom, fight violence against women without reinforcing the American prison state, and use criminalization as a technique of lastnot firstresort.Trade Review“This interesting, densely written, challenging book illustrates the phenomenon of unintended consequences. . . . Following from Gruber's main point that now is the time to recognize that incarceration is not a solution, the state should concentrate on increasing the resources available to women affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and rape. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"Gruber offers an exciting and brave book that tackles the cause and effect between gender-based violence, mass incarceration, and a broken legal system." * PEN America *"The Feminist War on Crime is a timely call for feminists to reckon with the harms of the criminal institutions they helped to build. Ultimately, Gruber is asking for a new wave of feminism that prioritizes material gains for all women over expressive protection for the elite few. . . . The key lesson from Gruber’s book is that instead of punishing our way into good governance, feminists should define new modes for accountability and devote energy toward the provision of resources that actually improve the lives of women. As Gruber argues, now is the time for millennial feminists to move away from punishment." * Harvard Law Review *"The Feminist War on Crime is at the same time provocative, educational, and necessary for our moment where people are beginning to question the utility of imprisonment as a panacea for social ills without denying the fact that those ills demand our attention and effort." * Law & Society Review *"Deeply researched and forcefully argued. Gruber outlines the long-term corrosiveness of carceral anti-violence policies and compels readers to take anti-violence and anti-incarceration as inseparable political commitments." * Feminist Formations *"Gruber brings to light the ties between feminist movements and mass incarceration in this deeply researched, timely analysis." * Library Journal *"The Feminist War on Crime is cutting, provocative, and crucial reading for critical scholars, intersectional feminist thinkers, and anyone who seeks to pursue justice without further retrenching unjust systems." * Springer Nature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Opening Battle: Fighting Patriarchy with Purity 2 • The Enemy: From “the Man” to Bad Men 3 • The Battle Plan: Arrest Is Best 4 • The Weapon: Ideal Victims 5 • The New Front: Date Rape 6 • From the Sexual Cold War to the New Sex Panic 7 • Endless War? Conclusion Notes Index
£22.50
University of California Press Women and Economics
Book SynopsisWhen Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the mid-1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was long out of print. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman's pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with today's continuing debate about gender difference and inequality.Gilman's ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly all-male canon of American economic and social thought. She stresses the connection between work and home and between public and private life; anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for housework; calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental leave policies; and argues for new housing arrangements with communal kitchens and hired cooks. She contends that women's entry into the public arena and the reforms of the family would be a win-win situation for both women and men as the public sphere would no longer be deprived of women's particular abilities, and men would be able to enlarge the possibilities to experience and express the emotional sustenance of family life.The thorough and stimulating introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson provides substantial information about Gilman's life, personality, and background. It frames her impact on feminism since the Sixties and establishes her crucial role in the emergence of feminist and social thought.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.
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University of California Press Women Rapping Revolution
Book SynopsisDetroit, Michigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit's ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the Foundation, a women-centered hip hop collective,Women Rapping Revolutionargues that the hip hop underground is a crucial site where Black women shape subjectivity and claim self-care as a principle of community organizing. Through interviews and sustained critical engagement with artists and activists, this study also articulates the substantial role of cultural production in social, racial, and economic justice efforts.Trade Review"Women Rapping Revolution covers a lot of ground in a relatively condensed space, but it doesn’t lack for information or thoughtful analysis. On top of all this, they also manage to make it a very accessible book. Farrugia and Hay do an excellent job of not only getting you to understand all of the different factors in play within the hip hop scene in Detroit, but they’ll get the wheels spinning in your head as you consider all of the factors in play in your own city." * Scratched Vinyl *Table of ContentsForeword By Piper Carter Foreword By Mahogany Jones Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Intersections of Detroit, Women, and Hip Hop 1 Detroit Hip Hop and the Rise of the Foundation 2 Hip Hop Sounds and Sensibilities in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit 3 Negotiating Genderqueer Identity Formation 4 Vulnerable Mavericks Wreck Rap’s Conventions 5 “Legendary,” Environmental Justice, and Collaborative Cultural Production 6 Hip Hop Activism in Action Conclusion: Women, Hip Hop, and Cultural Organizing Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Distributing Condoms and Hope The Racialized
Book SynopsisDistributing Condoms and Hope is a feminist ethnographic account of how youth sexual health programs in the raciallyand economically stratified city of Millerston reproduce harm in the marginalized communities they are meant to serve. Chris A. Barcelos makes space for the stories of young mothers, who often recognize the narrow ways that public health professionals respond to pregnancies. Barcelos's findings show that teachers, social workers, and nurses ignore systemic issues of race, class, and gender and instead advocate for individual-level solutions such as distributing condoms and promoting hope. Through a lens of reproductive justice, Distributing Condoms and Hope imagines a different approach to serving marginalized youtha support system that neither uses their lives as a basis for disciplinary public policies nor romanticizes their struggles. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: This Is What Happens When You Get Pregnant as a Teenager 1. Race, Pregnancy, and Power in Millerston 2. The Messy Narratives of Disidentifying with Teen Motherhood 3. "It's their culture": Youth Sexual Health Promotion as a Gendered Racial Project 4. Sex, Science, and What Teens Do When It’s Dark Outside 5. Educated Hope: Imagining Reproductive Justice in Millerston Appendix A. Organizations and Projects in Millerston Appendix B. Methodological Notes Notes References Index
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University of California Press Sporting Blackness Race Embodiment and Critical
Book SynopsisSporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only skin in the game, or how racial representation shapes the genre's imagery, but also skin in the genre, or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre's modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain critical muscle memories: embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film's plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society.Trade Review"Samantha N. Sheppard addresses the spectacle of blackness in sports as a sustained effort to challenge our amnesiac public discourse by creating a cinematic archive of black movement. . . . Sporting Blackness offers a version of endurance — a capacity for sustaining movement together — that can help us remember, or even affect, how it all plays out." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Sheppard’s exploration of documentary sports films connects to how audiences view and understand contemporary Black athletes’ public articulations of dissent. Highlighting the real and perceived representations of Blackness expressed through film allows a recognition of the fundamental response to racial bias and antagonism that pervade sports; it also foregrounds the ways these portrayals articulate resistance to racial injustices." * Public Books *"In her fusion of theories of race and blackness with her concept of critical muscle memory, Sheppard offers a new analytical paradigm applicable beyond the genre at the center of her study. . . . Sporting Blackness is packed with joy, resistance, and hope—much-needed attributes in this time." * Film Quarterly *"Sporting Blackness represents a thoughtful, vibrant and absorbing contribution to our understanding of race, sport and media. . . . As we look to make sense of the current racialized and racist world we live in, and facilitate our students to do the same, Sheppard’s outstanding book will no doubt prove to be an instructive and indispensable resource." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Sporting Blackness, with its incisive close readings and its exciting weave of film-phenomenology, critical race theory and more, is an exemplary work of film studies that must surely influence much work to come." * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: SPORTING BLACKNESS AND CRITICAL MUSCLE MEMORY ON SCREEN 1. HISTORICAL CONTESTANTS IN BLACK SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES 2. RACIAL ICONICITY AND THE TRANSMEDIA BLACK ATHLETE 3. BLACK FEMALE INCOMMENSURABILITY AND ATHLETIC GENDERS 4. THE REVOLT OF THE CINEMATIC BLACK ATHLETE CONCLUSTION: THE FITNESS OF SPORTING BLACKNESS Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sovereign Attachments Masculinity Muslimness and
Book SynopsisSovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution. Trade Review"Khoja-Moolji’s success lies in highlighting the imbrications of sovereignty with religion as well as gender. . . . Sovereign Attachments would be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of international relations, gender and sexuality studies, Islamic studies and Asian studies." * LSE Review of Books *"Khoja-Moolji’s book, with its focused context and excellent feminist analysis, illuminates the complex dynamics of sovereignty, forcing the reader to move beyond visible sovereign contests of violence and to consider those contests that occur in the cultural sphere." * Al-Raida *“Khoja-Moolji presents critical new material that contributes to debates regarding the role of emotion, kinship, and gender in political movements. . . . Sovereign Attachments is a fascinating read” * Ethos *"The interdisciplinary depth and reach of the book make it an impressive contribution to the study of gender, religion, and politics. . . . Khoja-Moolji’s creative, vivid, and nuanced textual analysis provides a convincing bulwark for her central thesis." * Reading Religion *"The book is a remarkable contribution on how sovereignty is maintained by the Pakistani state and challenged by the Taliban through the performativity of Islamo-masculinity, kinship metaphors and memory in the public culture of Pakistan." * Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific * “An interesting and engaging treatise, this book will interest scholars of Islam, gender, politics, and Pakistan.” * Economic and Political Weekly *"Khoja-Moolji’s work is an engaging and well-organized piece of literature that is remarkably relevant to not only understanding Pakistan’s current political landscape, but also today’s international relationships." * Feminist Media Studies *"Such a masterful takedown of Pakistani visions of masculinity — both state and non-state — makes Khoja-Moolji one of the clearest and most original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, South Asia, Islam and cultural and gender studies. . . .An essential read for anyone interested in imagining more hopeful and generous futures." * Dawn *"Scholars in numerous other fields—postcolonialism, gender, media, and so forth—can benefit from Khoja-Moolji’s game-changing re-theorization of sovereignty and deep investigation." * Gender & Politics *"Khoja-Moolji’s work. . . . makes a significant contribution to the understanding of gender and the contestation of sovereignty in Pakistan and more broadly, Muslim majority contexts." * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *"Those who want to better understand the delicate but resolute efforts employed by the [Pakistani State] and other actors for nurturing consent for violence should grab a copy of Sovereign Attachments." * Strategic Analysis *"This ability to simultaneously show the strong hold of the ideas hitherto discussed as well as their fragility, while also ensuring lucid prose and cutting-edge analysis spotlights Shenila Khoja-Moolji as one of the most clear and original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, Islam, and cultural and gender studies today." * Gender, Place & Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Public Lives of Sovereignty Part One: Sovereign Islamo-Masculinities 1 • Narrating the Sovereign 2 • Identity, Alterity 3 • Competing Sovereigns Part Two: Stylizing Political Attachments 4 • Subordinated Femininities 5 • Kinship Metaphors 6 • Managing Affect Conclusion: Imbricated Sovereignties Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sovereign Attachments
Book SynopsisSovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution. Trade Review"Khoja-Moolji’s success lies in highlighting the imbrications of sovereignty with religion as well as gender. . . . Sovereign Attachments would be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of international relations, gender and sexuality studies, Islamic studies and Asian studies." * LSE Review of Books *"Khoja-Moolji’s book, with its focused context and excellent feminist analysis, illuminates the complex dynamics of sovereignty, forcing the reader to move beyond visible sovereign contests of violence and to consider those contests that occur in the cultural sphere." * Al-Raida *“Khoja-Moolji presents critical new material that contributes to debates regarding the role of emotion, kinship, and gender in political movements. . . . Sovereign Attachments is a fascinating read” * Ethos *"The interdisciplinary depth and reach of the book make it an impressive contribution to the study of gender, religion, and politics. . . . Khoja-Moolji’s creative, vivid, and nuanced textual analysis provides a convincing bulwark for her central thesis." * Reading Religion *"The book is a remarkable contribution on how sovereignty is maintained by the Pakistani state and challenged by the Taliban through the performativity of Islamo-masculinity, kinship metaphors and memory in the public culture of Pakistan." * Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific * “An interesting and engaging treatise, this book will interest scholars of Islam, gender, politics, and Pakistan.” * Economic and Political Weekly *"Khoja-Moolji’s work is an engaging and well-organized piece of literature that is remarkably relevant to not only understanding Pakistan’s current political landscape, but also today’s international relationships." * Feminist Media Studies *"Such a masterful takedown of Pakistani visions of masculinity — both state and non-state — makes Khoja-Moolji one of the clearest and most original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, South Asia, Islam and cultural and gender studies. . . .An essential read for anyone interested in imagining more hopeful and generous futures." * Dawn *"Scholars in numerous other fields—postcolonialism, gender, media, and so forth—can benefit from Khoja-Moolji’s game-changing re-theorization of sovereignty and deep investigation." * Gender & Politics *"Khoja-Moolji’s work. . . . makes a significant contribution to the understanding of gender and the contestation of sovereignty in Pakistan and more broadly, Muslim majority contexts." * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *"Those who want to better understand the delicate but resolute efforts employed by the [Pakistani State] and other actors for nurturing consent for violence should grab a copy of Sovereign Attachments." * Strategic Analysis *"This ability to simultaneously show the strong hold of the ideas hitherto discussed as well as their fragility, while also ensuring lucid prose and cutting-edge analysis spotlights Shenila Khoja-Moolji as one of the most clear and original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, Islam, and cultural and gender studies today." * Gender, Place & Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Public Lives of Sovereignty Part One: Sovereign Islamo-Masculinities 1 • Narrating the Sovereign 2 • Identity, Alterity 3 • Competing Sovereigns Part Two: Stylizing Political Attachments 4 • Subordinated Femininities 5 • Kinship Metaphors 6 • Managing Affect Conclusion: Imbricated Sovereignties Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
Book SynopsisNationally representative studies confirm that LGBTQ individuals are at an elevated risk of experiencing intimate partner violence. While many similarities exist between LGBTQ and heterosexual-cisgender intimate partner violence, research has illuminated a variety of unique aspects of LGBTQ intimate partner violence regarding the predictors of perpetration, the specific forms of abuse experienced, barriers to help-seeking for victims, and policy and intervention needs. This is the first book that systematically reviews the literature regarding LGBTQ intimate partner violence, draws key lessons for current practice and policy, and recommends research areas and enhanced methodologies.Trade Review"Messinger provides a meticulous examination of the challenges for studying LGBTQ IPV and offers keen recommendations for policy makers, practitioners, and researchers. A must-read for those interested in social work, counseling, and intimate relationships, as well as anyone working with LGBTQ populations." * CHOICE *"An insightful and detailed discussion of the institutional and legal obstacles to the integration of LGBTQ individuals into U.S. society, and how that impacts LGBTQ intimate partner abuse." * PsycCRITIQUES *"The author brings to light an often-overlooked problem and offers practical suggestions for increasing protections and improving service provision for LGBTQ people who are victimized by intimate partners... compelling." * American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible 2. How Do We Know What We Know? 3. What Is LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)? 4. Why Does LGBTQ IPV Happen? 5. How Can We Improve Nongovernmental Responses? 6. How Can We Improve Government Responses? 7. Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here? Appendix: Book Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Recovering Identity
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Recovering Identityexamines a critical tension in criminalized women's identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as criminal-addicts. While these discourses made it possible for women to carve out spaces of personal protection, growth, and joy, they also promoted individualistic understandings of criminalization and the violence and dehumanization that followed. Honoring criminalized women's stories of personal transformation, Rumpf nevertheless strongly critiques institutions' promotion of narratives that impose lifelong moral judgment while detracting attention from the structural forces of racism, sexism, and poverty that contribute to women's vulnerability to violence.
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University of California Press Violent Inheritance
Book SynopsisViolent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialism's endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them. E Cram redefines sexual modernity through extractivism, wherein sexuality functions to extract value from life including land, air, minerals, and bodies. Analyzing struggles over memory cultures through the region's land use controversies at the turn of and well into the twentieth century, Cram unpacks the consequences of western settlement and the energy regimes that fueled it. Transfusing queer eco-criticism with archival and ethnographic research, Cram reconstructs the linkagesland linesbetween infrastructure, violence, sexuality, and energy and shows how racialized sexual knowledges cultivated settler colonial cultures of both innervation and enervation. From the residential school system to elite health seekers desiring the electric climates of the Rocky Mountains to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, Cram demonstrates how the environment promised to some individuals access to vital energy and to others the exhaustion of populations through state violence and racial capitalism. Grappling with these land lines, Cram insists, helps interrogate regimes of value and build otherwise unrealized connections between queer studies and the environmental and energy humanities.Trade Review"This inclusion of energy in telling the story of sexual modernity and the framework of land lines will be of value to scholars in queer studies, energy and environmental humanities, and studies of the North American West." * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface: Rooted Kinship Acknowledgments Introduction: Land Lines of Violent Inheritance 1. Cartographies of Sexual Modernity 2. Settler Intimacies and the Social Life of the Archive 3. Childhood and Settler Aesthetics of Violence 4. Affected Persons, Sexual Transits, and Contested Public Memories 5. Petroculture and Intimate Atmospheres Conclusion: Infrastructures of Feeling and Queer Collaborative Stewardship Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Violent Inheritance
Book SynopsisViolent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialism's endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them. E Cram redefines sexual modernity through extractivism, wherein sexuality functions to extract value from life including land, air, minerals, and bodies. Analyzing struggles over memory cultures through the region's land use controversies at the turn of and well into the twentieth century, Cram unpacks the consequences of western settlement and the energy regimes that fueled it. Transfusing queer eco-criticism with archival and ethnographic research, Cram reconstructs the linkagesland linesbetween infrastructure, violence, sexuality, and energy and shows how racialized sexual knowledges cultivated settler colonial cultures of both innervation and enervation. From the residential school system to elite health seekers desiring the electric climates of the Rocky Mountains to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, Cram demonstrates how the environment promised to some individuals access to vital energy and to others the exhaustion of populations through state violence and racial capitalism. Grappling with these land lines, Cram insists, helps interrogate regimes of value and build otherwise unrealized connections between queer studies and the environmental and energy humanities.Trade Review"This inclusion of energy in telling the story of sexual modernity and the framework of land lines will be of value to scholars in queer studies, energy and environmental humanities, and studies of the North American West." * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface: Rooted Kinship Acknowledgments Introduction: Land Lines of Violent Inheritance 1. Cartographies of Sexual Modernity 2. Settler Intimacies and the Social Life of the Archive 3. Childhood and Settler Aesthetics of Violence 4. Affected Persons, Sexual Transits, and Contested Public Memories 5. Petroculture and Intimate Atmospheres Conclusion: Infrastructures of Feeling and Queer Collaborative Stewardship Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Violated Frames
Book SynopsisWhen Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly challenging contemporary norms. Their Argentine films developed a large and international fan base. Analyzing the couple's films and their subsequent censorship,Violated Frames develops a new, roughly constructed, and bad archive of relocated materials to debate questions of performance, authorship, stardom, sexuality, and circulation. Victoria Ruétalo situates Bó and Sarli's films amidst the popular culture and sexual norms in post-1955 Argentina, and explores these films through the lens of bodies engaged in labor and leisure in a context of growing censorship. Under Perón, manual labor produced an affect that fixed a specific type of body to the populist movement of Peronism: a type of body that was young, lower-classed, and highly gendered. The excesses of leisure in exhibition, enjoyment, Trade Review"Violated Frames: Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits is an essential read for anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating piece of World Cinema history and the fabulous icon that was Isabel Sarli." * CinemaRetro *Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Note on Translation Foreword by Annie Sprinkle Acknowledgments Introduction The Signature of a “Bad Cinema” Part I: Bodies and Archives 1. Bodies through Time . . . Time through Bodies 2. Reading Bad Cinema through “Bad Archives” Part II: Censoring Bodies in Labor and Leisure 3. Disciplining Bodies through Censors’ Shears 4. Collective Working-Class Male Bodies 5. Affective Intimate Interludes The Risky Female Body Conclusion “You won with the censors. . . . They couldn’t stop you!” Notes Selected Filmography Index
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University of California Press Violated Frames
Book SynopsisWhen Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly challenging contemporary norms. Their Argentine films developed a large and international fan base. Analyzing the couple's films and their subsequent censorship,Violated Frames develops a new, roughly constructed, and bad archive of relocated materials to debate questions of performance, authorship, stardom, sexuality, and circulation. Victoria Ruétalo situates Bó and Sarli's films amidst the popular culture and sexual norms in post-1955 Argentina, and explores these films through the lens of bodies engaged in labor and leisure in a context of growing censorship. Under Perón, manual labor produced an affect that fixed a specific type of body to the populist movement of Peronism: a type of body that was young, lower-classed, and highly gendered. The excesses of leisure in exhibition, enjoyment, and ecstasy in Bó and Sarli's films interrupted the already fragmented film narratives of the day and created alternative sexual possibilities. Trade Review"Violated Frames: Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits is an essential read for anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating piece of World Cinema history and the fabulous icon that was Isabel Sarli." * CinemaRetro *Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Note on Translation Foreword by Annie Sprinkle Acknowledgments Introduction The Signature of a “Bad Cinema” Part I: Bodies and Archives 1. Bodies through Time . . . Time through Bodies 2. Reading Bad Cinema through “Bad Archives” Part II: Censoring Bodies in Labor and Leisure 3. Disciplining Bodies through Censors’ Shears 4. Collective Working-Class Male Bodies 5. Affective Intimate Interludes The Risky Female Body Conclusion “You won with the censors. . . . They couldn’t stop you!” Notes Selected Filmography Index
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University of California Press This Is Our Freedom Motherhood in the Shadow of
Book SynopsisFor the overwhelming majority of women leaving correctional institutions in the United States, there is one aspect of their identity that informs their needs, opportunities, hopes, and dreams: their roles as mothers. This Is Our Freedom provides an intimate and moving portrait of women's journeys prior to and after incarceration. In interviews with seventy formerly incarcerated mothers, Geniece Crawford Mondé captures how women reframe their marginalized identity and place themselves at the center of their own stories. With incisive analysis, Mondé reveals the complex ways that motherhood shapes post-incarceration life, while highlighting how the lasting legacy of mass incarceration continues to impact society's most vulnerable members.Trade Review"Mondé presents a ripe opportunity for criminology to develop life course theory and understand the complexities that exist when motherhood becomes intertwined with experiences of incarceration and marginalisation." * Journal of Criminology. *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Marginalized from the Beginning 2. Love, Baby, and Chaos 3. Crime, Agency, and Postcarceral Narratives 4. The Duality of Marginalized Motherhood 5. The Project of Rehabilitation: The Duality of Place and People Conclusion: The Unasked Question Appendix: Research Methods and Respondent Characteristics Notes References Index
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University of California Press This Is Our Freedom
Book SynopsisFor the overwhelming majority of women leaving correctional institutions in the United States, there is one aspect of their identity that informs their needs, opportunities, hopes, and dreams: their roles as mothers. This Is Our Freedom provides an intimate and moving portrait of women's journeys prior to and after incarceration. In interviews with seventy formerly incarcerated mothers, Geniece Crawford Mondé captures how women reframe their marginalized identity and place themselves at the center of their own stories. With incisive analysis, Mondé reveals the complex ways that motherhood shapes post-incarceration life, while highlighting how the lasting legacy of mass incarceration continues to impact society's most vulnerable members.Trade Review"Mondé presents a ripe opportunity for criminology to develop life course theory and understand the complexities that exist when motherhood becomes intertwined with experiences of incarceration and marginalisation." * Journal of Criminology. *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Marginalized from the Beginning 2. Love, Baby, and Chaos 3. Crime, Agency, and Postcarceral Narratives 4. The Duality of Marginalized Motherhood 5. The Project of Rehabilitation: The Duality of Place and People Conclusion: The Unasked Question Appendix: Research Methods and Respondent Characteristics Notes References Index
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University of California Press Panics without Borders
Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of great panic about sex traffickingan idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-eventsbut police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts t
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University of California Press Panics without Borders
Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of great panic about sex traffickingan idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-eventsbut police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts t
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University of California Press After Misogyny
Book SynopsisA rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend it through constitutional change beyond litigation in the courts. Just as racism is embedded in the legal system, so is misogynyeven after the law proclaims gender equality and criminally punishes violence against women. In After Misogyny, Julie C. Suk shows that misogyny lies not in animus but in the overempowerment of men and the overentitlement of society to women's unpaid labor and undervalued contributions. This is a book about misogyny without misogynists. From antidiscrimination law to abortion bans, the law fails women by keeping society's dependence on women's sacrifices invisible. Via a tour of constitutional change around the world, After Misogyny shows how to remake constitutional democracy. Women across the globe are going beyond the antidiscrimination paradigm of American legal feminism and fundamentally resetting baseline norms and entitlements. That Trade Review"In this intriguing scholarly treatise, Fordham University law professor Suk (We the Women) documents how the law protects men’s 'overentitlement' and 'overempowerment' and examines efforts to correct the problem through constitutional reform. . . . a well-informed and actionable diagnosis of one of society’s most persistent ills" * Publishers Weekly *"'This world has always belonged to males, and none of the reasons given for this have ever seemed sufficient,' Simone de Beauvoir wrote in her 1949 foundational text, The Second Sex. The spirit of de Beauvoir pervades After Misogyny, a provocative new book by Julie C. Suk, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. . . . Credit is due to Suk for detailing how progress has been accomplished in other countries, and for inviting us to think about how true gender equality can be achieved—after misogyny." * Ms. Magazine *“Ambitious. . . . Contributes to a feminist literature on equality and care spanning centuries and national boundaries, yet offers timely diagnoses and prescriptions for the United States at a very particular moment.” * Jotwell *"Suk ’03 traces how misogyny has persisted in the law even after the end of legal patriarchy. Adopting a global perspective, Suk defines misogyny not only as hatred against women but also as overentitlement to women’s sacrifices. She examines how abortion bans compel women’s reproductive labor and assume a patriarchal notion of the public good. Suk also discusses how past generations of women have resisted misogynistic legal structures, including through the temperance movement." * Yale Law Report *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Legal Patriarchy and Its Aftermath PART I HOW THE LAW FAILS WOMEN: MISOGYNY BEYOND MISOGYNISTS 1. The Equal Protection of Feminists and Misogynists 2. Overentitlement and Overempowerment 3. Misogyny and Maternity: Abortion Bans as Overentitlement PART II WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT: REMAKING CONSTITUTIONS AND DEMOCRACY 4. From Patriarchy to Prohibition: Resetting Entitlements through Constitutional Change 5. Rebalancing Power through Parity Democracy 6. Building Feminist Infrastructures: The Constitutionalism of Care Conclusion: Toward a Feminist Remaking of Constitutional Democracy Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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