Gender studies, gender groups Books
University of California Press A Few Good Gays
Book SynopsisThe US military has done an about-face on gender and sexuality policy over the last decade, ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell, restrictions on women in combat, and transgender exclusion. Contrary to expectations, servicemembers have largely welcomed cisgender LGB individualsyet they continue to vociferously resist trans inclusion and the presence of women on the front lines. In the minds of many, the embodied deficiencies of cisgender women and trans people of all genders puts othersand indeed, the nationat risk. In this book, Cati Connell identifies the homonormative bargain that underwrites these uneven patterns of receptiona bargain that comes with significant concessions, upholding and even exacerbating race, class, and gender inequality in the pursuit of sexual equality. In this handshake deal, even the widespread support for open LGB service is highly conditional, revocable upon violation of the bargain. Despite the promise of inclusivity, in practice, the military has made room only Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Dawning of a Kinder, Gentler US Military Part 1 Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1. “The Hard Work to Get Me in the Door”: A History of the Gay Ban 2. “What They Do in Their Private Life, I Couldn’t Care Less”: Striking the Homonormative Bargain 3. “He Acts Straight but He Has This One Thing . . .”: Open LGB Service and Queer Social Control Part 2 Ending Combat Exclusion 4. “When You Want to Create a Group of Male Killers, You Kill the Woman in Them”: Feminine Abjection and the Impossibility of Women Warriors 5. “My Problem’s Not That I’m Gay; My Problem Is That I’m a Woman”: The Patriotic Paternalism of Combat Exclusion Part 3 Removing Medical Restrictions on Transgender Service 6. “Once He Saw Them as Soldiers, I Knew We Had It”: The Trans Ban Tug of War 7. “You Can’t Have Three Bathrooms at a Forward Operating Position”: Gender Panic in the Transgendering Organization Part 4 Conclusion 8 . We Will Be Greeted as Gay Liberators? Methodological Appendix A Methodological Appendix B Methodological Appendix C Notes References Index
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University of California Press Walking Mannequins
Book SynopsisIn malls across the United States, clothing retail workers navigate low wages and unpredictable schedules. Despite these problems, they devote time and money to mirror the sleek mannequins stylishly adorned with the latest merchandise. Bringing workers' voices to the fore, sociologists Joya Misra and Kyla Walters demonstrate how employers reproduce gendered and racist beauty standards by regulating workers' size and look. Interactions with customers, coworkers, and managers further reinforce racial hierarchies. New surveillance technologies also lead to ineffective corporate decision-making based on flawed data. By focusing on the interaction of race, gender, and surveillance, Walking Mannequins sheds important new light on the dynamics of retail work in the twenty-first century. Trade Review"Walking Mannequins is an enjoyable and engaging read, and an important contribution to the literature on work and occupations." * Contemporary Sociology *"Misra and Walters’ findings broaden our understanding of the multiple ways race and gender shape the workplace from the relationships people form with their coworkers to unequal labor expectations, dress codes, and surveillance technologies." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"A fascinating and useful read for scholars and students interested in work, gender, emotional and/or aesthetic labor, technology and surveillance, and inequality." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Part I Introduction Introduction “If They Could Put You in the Store as a Mannequin, They Would” 1. Low Wages, Little Training, and Unpredictable Hours “It Makes You Realize How Awful These Retail Jobs Are” Part II Managers, Coworkers, and Customers 2. Multilevel Management and the Service Panopticon “We’ve Only Had One District Manager That Was a Normal Human Being” 3. Coworkers and Belonging “We Are Like a Family”; “If It Weren’t for Work, I Wouldn’t Talk to You” 4. Customer Expectations and Emotional Labor “It’s All about the Customer’s Experience” Part III Aesthetic Labor 5. Beautiful Bodies on the Sales Floor “They Basically Look for People That Look Like the Posters” 6. Modeling the Merchandise “They Always Check You, from Head to Toe” Conclusion Appendix: Research Design and Methods Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Walking Mannequins
Book SynopsisIn malls across the United States, clothing retail workers navigate low wages and unpredictable schedules. Despite these problems, they devote time and money to mirror the sleek mannequins stylishly adorned with the latest merchandise. Bringing workers' voices to the fore, sociologists Joya Misra and Kyla Walters demonstrate how employers reproduce gendered and racist beauty standards by regulating workers' size and look. Interactions with customers, coworkers, and managers further reinforce racial hierarchies. New surveillance technologies also lead to ineffective corporate decision-making based on flawed data. By focusing on the interaction of race, gender, and surveillance, Walking Mannequins sheds important new light on the dynamics of retail work in the twenty-first century. Trade Review"Walking Mannequins is an enjoyable and engaging read, and an important contribution to the literature on work and occupations." * Contemporary Sociology *"Misra and Walters’ findings broaden our understanding of the multiple ways race and gender shape the workplace from the relationships people form with their coworkers to unequal labor expectations, dress codes, and surveillance technologies." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"A fascinating and useful read for scholars and students interested in work, gender, emotional and/or aesthetic labor, technology and surveillance, and inequality." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Part I Introduction Introduction “If They Could Put You in the Store as a Mannequin, They Would” 1. Low Wages, Little Training, and Unpredictable Hours “It Makes You Realize How Awful These Retail Jobs Are” Part II Managers, Coworkers, and Customers 2. Multilevel Management and the Service Panopticon “We’ve Only Had One District Manager That Was a Normal Human Being” 3. Coworkers and Belonging “We Are Like a Family”; “If It Weren’t for Work, I Wouldn’t Talk to You” 4. Customer Expectations and Emotional Labor “It’s All about the Customer’s Experience” Part III Aesthetic Labor 5. Beautiful Bodies on the Sales Floor “They Basically Look for People That Look Like the Posters” 6. Modeling the Merchandise “They Always Check You, from Head to Toe” Conclusion Appendix: Research Design and Methods Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Refashioning Race How Global Cosmetic Surgery
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: From Standardization to Customization—Race in Cosmetic Surgery PART I GLOBAL EXPERT DISCOURSE 1. Standardizing Noses in Global Cosmetic Surgery 2. Standardizing Techniques: Asian Cosmetic Surgery and the Art and Science of Asian Difference PART II DISCUSSING CLINICAL PRACTICE IN THE U.S. AND MALAYSIA 3. “Looking Right”: Crafting Natural Looks in Cosmetic Surgery 4. Race and Customization in the Market for Cosmetic Surgery 5. Customizing Bodies: Seeing Race on the Body Conclusion: The Art and Science of Racial Difference in Global Cosmetic Surgery Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£63.90
University of California Press Refashioning Race
Book SynopsisCosmetic surgery was once associated with a one-size-fits-all approach, modifying patients to conform to a single standard of beauty. As this surgery has become more accessible worldwide, changing beauty trends have led to a proliferation of beauty standards for members of different racial groups. Alka V. Menon enters the world of cosmetic surgeons, journeying from a sprawling convention center in Kyoto to boutique clinics in the multicultural countries of the United States and Malaysia. She shows how surgeons generate and apply knowledge using racial categories and how this process is affected by transnational clinical and economic exchanges. Surgeons not only measure and organize but also elaborate upon racial differences in a globalized field of medicine. Focusing on the role of cosmetic surgeons as gatekeepers and producers of desired appearances, Refashioning Raceargues that cosmetic surgeons literallyreshape raceboth on patients' bodies and at the broader level of culture.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: From Standardization to Customization—Race in Cosmetic Surgery PART I GLOBAL EXPERT DISCOURSE 1. Standardizing Noses in Global Cosmetic Surgery 2. Standardizing Techniques: Asian Cosmetic Surgery and the Art and Science of Asian Difference PART II DISCUSSING CLINICAL PRACTICE IN THE U.S. AND MALAYSIA 3. “Looking Right”: Crafting Natural Looks in Cosmetic Surgery 4. Race and Customization in the Market for Cosmetic Surgery 5. Customizing Bodies: Seeing Race on the Body Conclusion: The Art and Science of Racial Difference in Global Cosmetic Surgery Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Equality within Our Lifetimes
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. Well into the twenty-first century, achieving gender equality in the economy remains unfinished business. Worldwide, women's employment, income, and leadership opportunities lag men's. Building and using a one-of-a-kind database that covers 193 countries, this book systematically analyzes how far we've come and how far we have to go in adopting evidence-based solutions to close the gaps. Spanning topics including girls' education, employment discrimination of all kinds, sexual harassment, and caregiving needs across the life course, the authors bring the findings to life through global maps, stories of laws' impact in courts and beyond, and case studies of making change. A powerful call to action, Equality within Our Lifetimes reveals how gender equality is both feasible and urgently needed to address some of the greatest challenges of our generation.Trade Review"This volume is an essential contribution to the analysis of women’s economic equality around the world and the steps required to move closer to that important objective." * Population and Development Review *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Gender Discrimination at Work 3. Equal Rights at Work for Women Must Mean All Women 4. Why Ending Sexual Harassment Is Integral to Ending Gender Discrimination 5. Putting Nondiscrimination into Practice: Realizing the Promise of Gender Equality Laws 6. How Laws and Policies Reinforce Inequality in Caring for Children 7. How the Law’s Neglect of Caregiving across the Life Course Fuels Inequality 8. Education: Investing in Girls to Advance Equality Long-Term 9. Civil Society as a Powerful Source for Change 10. Achieving Gender Equality in the Economy in Our Lifetimes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Gun Present
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£56.80
MP-MEL Melbourne University Transgender Australia A History Since 1910
Book SynopsisCharts the changing social, medical, legal and lived experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia since 1910. Drawing on oral history interviews and previously unexamined documents and media reports, it highlights how trans people have tried to live authentically while navigating a society that often treated them like outcasts.
£23.70
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Language and Masculinity
Book SynopsisFeminist linguistics has come of age. Yet, in more than two decades of research, male speaking patterns have largely been taken for granted. This is the first extensive account of mena s language -- of male ways of speaking and of language in the construction of masculinity.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Sally Johnson (Bradford University and Lancaster University). 1. Theorizing Language and Masculinity: A Feminist Perspective: Sally Johnson (Lancaster University). 2. 'Box-out' and 'Taxing': Roger Hewitt (Institute of Education, London). 3. Performing Gender Identity: Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity: Deborah Cameron (University of Strathclyde). 4. Power and the Language of Men: Scott Fabius Kiesling. 5. Masculinity in a Multilingual Setting: John Pujolar (Lancaster University). 6. 'One-at-a-Time': The Organization of Men's Talk: Jennifer Coates (Roehampton Institute). 7. Do Men Gossip?An Analysis of Football Talk on Television: Sally Johnson and Frank Finlay (Lancaster University). 8. The Role of Expletives in the Construction of Masculinity: Vivian de Klerk (Rhodes University). 9. 'Aceptarlo con hombria': Representations of Masculinity in Spanish Political Discourse: JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer (Universidad Complutense). 10. 'Randy Fish Boss Branded a Stinker': Coherence and the Construction of Masculinities in a British Tabloid Newspaper: Mary M. Talbot (Odense Universitet). 11. 'The Object of Contempt is the Object of Desire': Representations of Masculinity in Straight to Hell Magazine: John Heywood (Lancaster University). 12. 'The Most Important Event of My Life!'A Comparison of Male and Female Written Narratives: Ulrike Hanna Meinhof (Bradford University). Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean
Book Synopsisaeo Adds to explosion of interest in issues of gender, the body, and history. aeo Investigates the centrality of gender distinctions to ancient societies. aeo Complements the study of women in antiquity.Trade Review"This is an excellent addition to the study of gender in the ancient world." The Classical ReviewTable of ContentsAbstracts. Introduction (Maria Wyke). Articles. The Essential Body: Mesopotamian Conceptions of the Gendered Body (Julia M. Asher-Greve). Auguries of Hegemony: The Sex Omens of Mesopotamia (Ann Kessler Guinan). With This Body I Thee Worship: Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (Mary Beard and John Henderson). Men Without Clothes: Heroic Nakedness and Greek Art (Robin Osborne). Women’s Costume and Feminine Civic Morality in Augustan Rome (Judith Lynn Sebesta). The Ideology of the Eunuch Priest (Lynn E. Roller). Why Aren’t Jewish Women Circumcised? (Shaye J. D. Cohen). Creation, Virginity and Diet in Fourth-Century Christianity: Basil of Ancyra’s On the True Purity of Virginity (Teresa M. Shaw). Thematic Reviews. Engendering Egypt (Lynn Meskell). Re(ge)ndering Gender(ed) Studies (Alison Sharrock). Manhood in the Graeco-Roman World (Jonathan Walters). Getting/After Foucault: Two Postantique Responses to Postmodern Challenges (Paul Cartledge). Reading the Female Body (Helen King). Gendered Religions (Gillian Clark). Gender and Sexuality on the Internet (John G. Younger). Notes on Contributors. Index
£17.81
John Wiley and Sons Ltd TwentiethCentury Sexuality
Book SynopsisThis book provides a fascinating history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality has been shaped by race, class, gender and generational preoccupations.Trade Review"This highly informative text is comprehensive, clearly written, and relies on the most up-to-date scholarship in its field. McLaren's interpretive outlook is unfailingly tolerant and invariably insightful." Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University "McLaren's book is to be highly recommended as a general textbook which illuminates the evolving debates and practices concerned with twentieth-century sexuality. Both undergraduates and professional historians will find it useful as is lays out the evidence and provides copious footnotes to help with further exploration of the topic." History "A valuable, fluently-written and very well-documented history of sexuality ... a most impressive work." Contemporary British History "... the book is stuffed full of goodies ... written in McLaren's usual readable style." American Historical Review "In Twentieth Century Sexuality: A History, Angus McLaren succeeds in accomplishing exactly what his title promises; to provide a history of twentieth century sexuality. And in the process of reaching this ambitious goal, he gives us vast stimulation and food for thought. "McLaren has therefore written a very important book and one that crackles with insights while being as comprehensive as can be imagined. As such, the work is quite unique." Journal of Social History "Angus McLaren's ability to provide an overview of as complex a topic as sexuality in the mercurial twentieth-century is truly outstanding. In this book, he summarizes - with wit as well as historical accuracy - many of the key issues that have shaped sexual identity throughout the last century." Medical History "Writing in clear, well-organized prose, he is mindful of the influences of popular culture and media on sexual attitudes. The book succeeds best as a broad-ranging survey of Western European and Anglo-American attitudes." Publishers Weekly "Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History ...seeks to explore its topic in its quintessential complexity." Journal of Family StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. 'The Cult of the Clitoris': Sexual Panics and the First World War. 2. 'Hypersexual Youths': Premarital Sex and the Sex Educators. 3. 'Selfish Beasts': Marriage Manuals and the Eroticization of Marriage. 4. 'Race Suicide': Birth Control, Abortion and Family Stability. 5. 'Perverts': Mannish Women, Effeminate Men and the Sex Doctors. 6. 'Frigidity': Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis and Gender. 7. 'Compulsory Heterosexuality': Eugenicists, Fascists and Nazis. 8. 'Surveying Sex': From Alfred C. Kinsey to Hugh Hefner. 9. 'Sexual Revolution?': the Pill, Permissiveness and Politics. 10. 'Backlash': AIDS and the Sexual Counter-revolution. Conclusion. Notes. Index.
£41.75
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race Class Gender and Sexuality
Book Synopsisaeo Offers all the current topics of liberatory scholarship. aeo Readings consist of scholarly, popular, autobiographical, and literary writings that engage issues in racial theory, social and political philosophy, and feminism.Trade Review"This collection provides both classic and creative new analyses of four kinds of social identity that have been the focus of so much recent scholarly research, intellectual debate, and social policy. The excellent selection of papers in each area reflects the valuable resources that these philosophers bring to the project. This first-rate anthology will be a gift not only for philosophers but also for teachers and scholars in many disciplines, and for policy analysts." Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles "A welcome addition...I highly recommend the volume." James Wong, Dialogue, Vol 40.Table of ContentsAbout the Editors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Naomi Zack. Part I: Race: Edited by Naomi Zack:. Race: Introduction to the Readings. 1. The Real Status of Blacks Today: Derrick Bell. 2. The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race: Kwame Anthony Appiah. 3. Racism in the Head, Racism in the World: Judith Lichtenburg. 4. The Status of Blacks in Academic Philosophy: Leonard Harris. 5. Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified: Lisa H. Newton. 6. The Morality of Reparation: Bernard R. Boxhill. 7. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon. 8. Prison of Color: Virginia R. Harris. 9. Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy: Naomi Zack. Questions about Race. Recommended Reading for Part One. Part II: Class: Edited by Crispin Sartwell:. Class: Introduction to the Readings. 10. Civil Government is for Defence of Rich Against Poor: Adam Smith. 11. Manifesto of the Communist Party: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 12. Economy and Society: Max Weber. 13. Men and Jobs: Elliot Liebow. 14. Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of the "Other": an Intellectual and Spiritual Journey: Dasiea Cavers-Huff and Janice Kollitz. 15. Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt: Patricia J. Williams. 16. Working-class Culture: Joanna Kadi. Questions about Class. Recommended Reading for Part Two. Part III: Gender: Edited by Laurie Shrage:. Gender: Introduction to the Readings. 17. Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities: Patrick D. Hopkins. 18. Interpreting 'Gender': Linda J. Nicholson. 19. A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy: Susan E. Shapiro. 20. Stages on Kant's Way: Aesthetics, Morality and the Gendered Sublime: Christine Battersby. Questions about Gender. Recommended Reading for Part Three. Part IV: Sexuality: Edited by Laurie Shrage:. Sexuality: Introduction to the Readings. 21. Saint Foucault: David M. Halperin. 22. Refiguring Lesbian Desire: Elizabeth Grosz. 23. Markets in Women's Sexual Labour: Debra Satz. 24. Talking Sex: Bell Hooks. 25. Deconstructive Strategies and the Movement against Sexual Violence: Renée Heberle. Questions about Sexuality. Recommended Reading for Part Four. Part V: Intersections: Edited by Crispin Sartwell:. Intersections: Introduction to the Readings. 26. Mother Tongue: Amy Tan. 27. Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved my Head: Robin D. G. Kelley. 28. The Green Frog Skin: John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. 29. Aren't You in the Wrong Neighbourhood?: William Upski Wimsatt. 30. Sunset Trailer Park: Allan Bérubé with Florence Bérubé. 31. The Culture of Complaint: Robert Hughes. 32. Have We Got a Theory for You!: María C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman. 33. A Long Line of Vendidas: Cherríe Morga. Questions about Intersections. Recommended Reading for Part Five. Index.
£117.85
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race Class Gender and Sexuality
Book SynopsisThis philosophical anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorizing on social identity. The editors redirect classic philosophical questions about personal identity to the categories of race, class, gender and sexuality.Trade Review"This collection provides both classic and creative new analyses of four kinds of social identity that have been the focus of so much recent scholarly research, intellectual debate, and social policy. The excellent selection of papers in each area reflects the valuable resources that these philosophers bring to the project. This first-rate anthology will be a gift not only for philosophers but also for teachers and scholars in many disciplines, and for policy analysts." Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles "A welcome addition...I highly recommend the volume." James Wong, Dialogue, Vol 40.Table of ContentsAbout the Editors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Naomi Zack. Part I: Race: Edited by Naomi Zack:. Race: Introduction to the Readings. 1. The Real Status of Blacks Today: Derrick Bell. 2. The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race: Kwame Anthony Appiah. 3. Racism in the Head, Racism in the World: Judith Lichtenburg. 4. The Status of Blacks in Academic Philosophy: Leonard Harris. 5. Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified: Lisa H. Newton. 6. The Morality of Reparation: Bernard R. Boxhill. 7. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon. 8. Prison of Color: Virginia R. Harris. 9. Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy: Naomi Zack. Questions about Race. Recommended Reading for Part One. Part II: Class: Edited by Crispin Sartwell:. Class: Introduction to the Readings. 10. Civil Government is for Defence of Rich Against Poor: Adam Smith. 11. Manifesto of the Communist Party: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 12. Economy and Society: Max Weber. 13. Men and Jobs: Elliot Liebow. 14. Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of the "Other": an Intellectual and Spiritual Journey: Dasiea Cavers-Huff and Janice Kollitz. 15. Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt: Patricia J. Williams. 16. Working-class Culture: Joanna Kadi. Questions about Class. Recommended Reading for Part Two. Part III: Gender: Edited by Laurie Shrage:. Gender: Introduction to the Readings. 17. Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities: Patrick D. Hopkins. 18. Interpreting 'Gender': Linda J. Nicholson. 19. A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy: Susan E. Shapiro. 20. Stages on Kant's Way: Aesthetics, Morality and the Gendered Sublime: Christine Battersby. Questions about Gender. Recommended Reading for Part Three. Part IV: Sexuality: Edited by Laurie Shrage:. Sexuality: Introduction to the Readings. 21. Saint Foucault: David M. Halperin. 22. Refiguring Lesbian Desire: Elizabeth Grosz. 23. Markets in Women's Sexual Labour: Debra Satz. 24. Talking Sex: Bell Hooks. 25. Deconstructive Strategies and the Movement against Sexual Violence: Renée Heberle. Questions about Sexuality. Recommended Reading for Part Four. Part V: Intersections: Edited by Crispin Sartwell:. Intersections: Introduction to the Readings. 26. Mother Tongue: Amy Tan. 27. Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved my Head: Robin D. G. Kelley. 28. The Green Frog Skin: John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. 29. Aren't You in the Wrong Neighbourhood?: William Upski Wimsatt. 30. Sunset Trailer Park: Allan Bérubé with Florence Bérubé. 31. The Culture of Complaint: Robert Hughes. 32. Have We Got a Theory for You!: María C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman. 33. A Long Line of Vendidas: Cherríe Morga. Questions about Intersections. Recommended Reading for Part Five. Index.
£43.65
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Women and Men Political Theorists
Book SynopsisThis much-anticipated work is a rich and insightful collection of essays that restores women and minorities to the arena of political theory and debate. Philosophers such as Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft argue alongside traditional theorists, including Rousseau and Locke, in a unique historical dialogue. Arranged by several key themes, each covered by both men and women theorists, the book amounts to a rediscovery of women''s political philosophy in arguments over both traditional and feminist concepts. Also provided are substantial biographical details about the writers, and secondary source material for the student and researcher.Trade Review"This carefully crafted sourcebook makes available almost forgotten work in political philosophy by women and men authors from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Set in its historical and intellectual context with substantial introductions, the material reveals an exciting body of critical literature that contests modern liberal theory and demonstrates the need to rethink the canon of Western political theory." Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado "Kristin Waters' anthology is an egalitarian and inclusive conversation between political theorists of different races, times, and genders. Her thorough introductions to each of the participants and her insightful interpretive suggestions turn Women and Men Political Theorists into a unique text and an excellent addition to political theory." Bat-Ami Bar On, Binghamton University (SUNY)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Part I sources of Political Authority Introduction 5 1 The Second Treatise of Government 20 John Locke 2 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies/Some Reflections upon Marriage/An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of Rebellion and Civil War/The Christian Religion 39 Mary Astell Part II Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment Introduction 63 3 Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 73 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4 A Vindication of the Rights of Women 94 Mary Wollstonecraft Part III Conservation or Revolution as the Path to Democratic Change Introduction 125 5 Reflections on the Revolution in France 131 Edmund Burke 6 A vindication of the Rights of Men 147 Mary Wollstonecraft Part IV Federalism and Anti-Federalism Introduction 171 7 The Federalist 178 James Madison 8 Observations on the New Constitution 192 Mercy Otis Warren Part V Thoughts on Minority Rights and Liberty – From Servitude to Privilege Introduction 205 9 Writings and Addresses 214 Maria W. Stewart 10 On Liberty 233 John Stuart Mill Part VI Abolitionism, Socialism, and Feminism Introduction 245 11 Writings and Addresses 261 Frederick Douglass 12 The Communist Manifesto 283 Karl Marx 13 Woman, Church and State 298 Matilda Joslyn Gage Part VII From Utilitarianism to Womanist Theory Introduction 317 14 Utilitarianism 328 John Stuart Mill 15 A Voice from the South. By a Black Woman of the South 339 Anna Julia Cooper Bibliography 357 Index 363
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gender and History Retrospect and Prospect Gender
Book SynopsisThis book presents a wide-ranging and important collection of new work on gender history. It includes a variety of international contributions which provide the reader with a global perspective on how gender history has developed and where it is going.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Leonore Davidoff, Keith Mcclelland and Eleni Varikas. 1. Woman in Nineteenth-Century America: Christine Stansell (Princeton University). 2. Silences Broken, Silences Kept: Gender and Sexuality in African-American History: Michele Mitchell (University of Michigan). 3. Giving Masculinity a History: Some Contributions from the Historiography of a Colonial India: Mrinalini Sinha (Southern Illinois University At Carbondale). 4. The Gender of Militancy: Notes on the Possibilities of a Different History of Political Action: Marco Aurelio Garcia (Universidade Estadual de Campinas). 5. Women and the Public Sphere: Jane Rendall (University of York). 6. The Difficulties of Gender in France: Reflections on a Concept: Michele Riot Sarcey (University of Paris VIII). 7. The Body as Method? Reflections on a Concept: Kathleen Canning (University of Michigan). 8. Gender and Science: Ilana Lowy (Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Scientifique). 9. Work, Gender & History in the 1990's and Beyond: Efi Avdela (University of Athens). 10. Close Relations? Bringing Together Gender and Family in English History: Megan Doolittle (Middlesex University). 11. Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernisation: Ferhinde Ozbay (Booazici University). 12. Paradoxes of Gender: Writing History in Post-Communist Russia 1987-1998: Irina Korovushkina (University of Essex). 13. Conceptualising Gender in a Swedish Context: Asa Lundqvist (Lund University). 14. Gender and the Categories of Experienced History: Selma Leydesdorff (Belle van Zuylen Onderzoeks Instituut). 15. Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating a Nation and Australian Historiography: Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gender Violence
Book SynopsisGendered Violence: A Cultural Perspective challenges readers to confront gender violence as a social problem deeply embedded in inequalities of class, race, and nation as well as gender. It offers a highly readable and clear overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and its history as a public issue.Trade ReviewThis acute analysis raises a troubling paradox: neither the growing awareness of gender violence, nor the activism directed toward it have lessened its incidence. If anything can make a difference, however, this book will. -Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Gender Violence skillfully charts a tempered course through some of the most charged and globally relevant issues today. Sally Merry draws on her extensive and long-term research both to provide a primer for neophytes in how to think about gender violence and a sophisticated analysis of the structural conditions that unevenly distribute those subject to it. With critical care, she adheres to the complex and ambiguous social, personal, and political predicaments that foster its occlusion while addressing how activism has shaped the changing terms in which it is made visible, confronted, and understood. -Ann Laura Stoler, The New SchoolTable of ContentsPreface vi 1 Introduction 1 2 Gender Violence and Social Movements 25 3 Punishment, Safety, and Reform: Interventions in Domestic Violence 48 4 Gender Violence as a Human Rights Violation 77 5 Poverty, Racism, and Migration 102 6 Violent "Cultural" Practices in the Family 127 7 Women and Armed Confl ict 156 8 Conclusions 179 References 187 Index 207
£80.70
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gender Violence
Book SynopsisTaking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform. Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to provide a vivid and engaging portrait of forms of violence in gendered relationships Extensively covers many forms of gender violence including domestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison and police violence, female genital cutting, dowry murders, female infanticide, honor killings, and sex trafficking Examines major approaches to diminishing gender violence such as criminalization, batterer retraining programs, and human rights interventions Highlights the role of social movements in defining the problem and mobilizing reforms in the US and internationally Trade ReviewThis acute analysis raises a troubling paradox: neither the growing awareness of gender violence, nor the activism directed toward it have lessened its incidence. If anything can make a difference, however, this book will. -Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Gender Violence skillfully charts a tempered course through some of the most charged and globally relevant issues today. Sally Merry draws on her extensive and long-term research both to provide a primer for neophytes in how to think about gender violence and a sophisticated analysis of the structural conditions that unevenly distribute those subject to it. With critical care, she adheres to the complex and ambiguous social, personal, and political predicaments that foster its occlusion while addressing how activism has shaped the changing terms in which it is made visible, confronted, and understood. -Ann Laura Stoler, The New SchoolTable of ContentsPreface vi 1 Introduction 1 2 Gender Violence and Social Movements 25 3 Punishment, Safety, and Reform: Interventions in Domestic Violence 48 4 Gender Violence as a Human Rights Violation 77 5 Poverty, Racism, and Migration 102 6 Violent "Cultural" Practices in the Family 127 7 Women and Armed Confl ict 156 8 Conclusions 179 References 187 Index 207
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World
Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating world of sex and gender roles in the classical period. It provides readers with essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgments. Editor's Introduction. Part I: Greece. 1. Classical Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour. (K. J. Dover). Source: Aristophanes' Speech from Plato, Symposium 189d7-192a1. 2. Double-Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics. (J. J. Winkler). Sources: Sappho 1 and 31; Homer, Iliad 5.114-132; Odyssey 6.139-85. 3. Bound to Bleed. Artemis and Greek Women. (H. King). Excerpts: Hippocrates, On Unmarried Girls; Euripides, Hippolytus 59-105. 4. Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama. (F. Zeitlin). Sources: Sophocles, Women of Trachis 531-587, 1046-1084; Euripides, Bacchae 912-944. Part II: Rome. 5. The Silent Women of Rome. (M. I. Finley). Sources: Funerary Inscriptions: CE 81.1-2, 158.2, 843, 1136.3-4; ILS 5213, 8402, 8394; CIL 1.1211, 1.1221, 1.1837. 6. The Body Female and the Body Politic. Livy's Lucretia and Verginia. S. R. Joshel. Sources: Livy, On the Founding of Rome, 1.57.6-59.6. 7. Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy.(M. Wyke). Excerpts: Propertius, 1.8a-b and 2.5; Cicero, In Defense of Marcus Caelius 20.47-21.50. 8. Pliny's Brassiere. Source: Pliny, Natural History 28.70-82. Part III: Classical Tradition. 10. "The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours." (Patricia Klindienst). Source: Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.424-623. Bibliography. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gendering the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisA collection in which a group of leading historians of medieval Europe apply a gendered analysis to a series of questions ranging from the transformation of the Roman world and the Christian challenge to late antique masculinity, through canon law and Byzantine coinage to the childhood of medieval visionaries.Table of Contents1. The Gender of Grace: Impotence, Servitude, and Manliness in the Fifth-Century West: Kate Cooper and Conrad Leyser (University of Manchester). 2. Did women have a transformation of the Roman world?: Julia M. H. Smith (University of St Andrews). 3. The Gender of Money: Byzantine Empresses on Coins (324-802): Leslie Brubaker and Helen Tobler (University of Birmingham and independent researcher). 4. "Ex utroque sexu fidelium tres ordines" - The Status of Women in Early Medieval Canon Law: Eva M. Synek (University of Vienna). 5. "Halt! Be men!" Sikelgaita of Salerno, Gender and the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy: Patricia Skinner (University of Southampton). 6. The Metamorphosis of Woman: Transmission of Knowledge and the Problems of Gender: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). 7. Visions of My Youth: Representations of the Childhood of Medieval Visionaries: Rosalynn Voaden and Stephanie Volf (Arizona State University). 8. Female Petitioners in the Papal Penitentiary: Ludwig Schmugge (University of Zurich). 9. Gendering Princely Dynasties. Some Notes on Family Structure, Social Networks, and Communication at the Courts of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach around 1500: Cordula Nolte (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald). Thematic Reviews Gender, Memory and Social Power: Janet L. Nelson (King's College London). Gender and Sanctity in the Middle Ages: Katherine J. Lewis (University of Huddersfield). Gendering the Black Death: Women in Later Medieval England: S. H. Rigby (University of Manchester). Nunneries, Communities and the Revaluation of Domesticity: Felicity Riddy (University of York).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd SameSex Cultures and Sexualities
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. Moves beyond other lesbian and gay studies readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities across cultures. Offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology: cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological (along with historical and applied anthropology). Includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, kinship, development, and policymaking. Trade Review“It is volumes like this one that allow us to see all sorts of new connections and possibilities. The vibrant thematic coherence of these articles is intellectually exciting, and one can genuinely say that, in this volume, the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. It is a particular strength that the articles come from across the anthropological subfields.” Margaret Conkey, University of California, Berkeley “An exquisite collection! The ethnographic reach and theoretical sophistication of this reader ensure that it is destined to become a classic reference and an indispensable tool for teaching. In addition to its contributions to the study of same-sex cultures, it boldly articulates anthropology’s special claims and unique role in the study of human sexualities.” Gayle Rubin, University of Michigan “An exceptionally coherent collection, with uniformly strong contributions. Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities is a lucid demonstration of the ways that research on same-sex sexualities has intervened in and redefined core problems and debates in anthropology and history.” Mary Hancock, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Sexualizing anthropology’s fields (Jennifer Robertson). Part 1: Anthropology’s Sexual Fields. 1. “Anthropology rediscovers sexuality: A theoretical comment.” (Carole Vance). 2. “Biological determinism and homosexuality.” (Bonnie Spanier). 3. “Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeological study of past sexualities.” (Barbara Voss). 4. “No.” (Don Kulick). 5. “Resources for lesbian ethnographic research in the lavender archives.” (Alisa Klinger). Part 2: Problems and Propositions. 6. “Erotic anthropology: ‘ritualized homosexuality’ in Melanesia and beyond.” (Deborah Elliston). 7. “Gender, genetics, and generation: reformulating biology in lesbian kinship.” (Corinne Hayden). 8. “Transsexualism: reflections on the persistence of gender and the mutability of sex.” (Judith Shapiro). 9. “Problems encountered in writing the history of sexuality: Sources, theory and interpretation.” (Estelle B. Freedman and John D’Emilio). Part 3: Ethics, Erotics and Exercises . 10. “Choosing the sexual orientation of children.” (Edward Stein). 11. “Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and outspoken in practice and prose.” (Jennifer Robertson). 12. “Outing as performance/outing as resistance: a queer reading of Austrian (homo)sexualities.” (Matti Bunzl). 13. “Tombois in West Sumatra: constructing masculinity and erotic desire.” (Evelyn Blackwood). 14. “Freeing South Africa: the ‘modernization’ of male-male sexuality in Soweto.” (Donald Donham). 15. “Gay organizations, NGOs, and the globalization of sexual identity: the case of Bolivia.” (Timothy Wright).
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Harvard University Press Hermaphrodites The Medical Invention of Sex
Book SynopsisPunctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them in late 19th-century France and England. It takes us inside the doctors’ chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men constructed sex, gender, and sexuality.Trade ReviewIn her study of the medical response to human hermaphrodites, Alice Dreger draws on over 300 scientific and medical commentaries in France and Britain, of which over half the cases reported occurred between 1860 and 1915...As Dreger observes, there was no single opinion among doctors or the public at large about which traits were essentially male or female, or even what they might signify. In Britain, female facial hair was likely to be associated with insanity, while in France it was more likely to be seen as a mark of remarkable strength. Other interesting differences emerge...Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex is richly researched, detailed and fascinating. -- Angelique Richardson * Times Literary Supplement *This is a well-researched, sober history of a problem that Alice Dreger shows has directly affected more people than we might think and which shapes the sense of sexual identity of us all...Avoiding preachy judgementalism, Dreger shows how deeply ingrained are our assumptions about gender normality (sexual anatomy is destiny) and on how flimsy a basis they have been grounded. The book offers us all a lesson in self-awareness. -- Roy Porter * Nature *Alice Dreger ascribes the growing visibility of the hermaphrodite to Victorian anxieties about gender-blurring social phenomena, including homosexuality and feminism, as well as to improvements in medical science. During the Victorian era, Dreger argues, a greater number of women gained access to gynecological care, and as a result, infant anatomy came under more professional scrutiny; medical journals of the period, widely accessible for the first time, publicized anomalous cases. Scientific knowledge of embryological development began turning the one-time monster or marvel into, in the words of the turn-of-the-century French doctor Xavier Delore, 'a scientific matter and a degraded organism.' -- Emily Nussbaum * Lingua Franca *Dreger...has found a rich mine in the clinical case histories of hermaphroditism, which outline the physicians' complex struggle to find a foolproof way of fitting individuals into a binary sexual scheme. -- Laurence A. Marschall * The Sciences *This engaging, well-written book will benefit scholars and lay readers interested in the history of sex, sexuality, gender, and medicine. The book traces the evolution of what makes a person male or female and shows how the answer has changed depending on when the question was asked and where it was asked. Dreger has succeeded in compelling the reader to ask the same question. -- Patricia Y. Fechner * New England Journal of Medicine *The historic records of [hermaphrodites]...are carefully documented by this meticulous author and merit study...To read this book is to become aware of the tremendous complexity of human sexuality and gender identity--beyond genitals, hormones, enzymes, and even chromosomes and genes. Behavior, feelings, and values blend with intellect and how each individual is sexually drawn to each other. -- Domeena C. Renshaw, MD * Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) *Most people have heard the term 'hermaphrodite,' but aren't quite sure what it means. [This book serves] as an introduction to that topic, bringing the voices of intersex people...into dialogue with...experts. Dreger also includes many fascinating historical photographs. Her stories of detective doctors presiding over 'doubtful-sex gatherings' show how 'again and again, consultations with fellow medical men almost invariably, rather than clearing up confusion, resulted instead in deeper and broader doubt...Medical men often discovered that too many diagnosers spoiled the certainty'...What makes [this book] important and provocative also makes [it] a little dangerous because [it] is so ahead of [its] time. -- Leonore Tiefer * Women's Review of Books *This is a very strange and a very good book, tackling an important topic with humanity, and in a readable style. This is a subject where biology, psychology and medical authority conflict, and where prudery, ignorance and dogmatism drive people to suicide. Dreger deals with the history of definitions of man or woman by myth and by medicine, and provides case histories, together with photographs of the problematic genitalia...As biologists, we should treasure variation--if you doubt that for human sexuality, read this book. -- Jack Cohen * Biologist *Through a collection of dramatic and moving medical case histories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Dreger argues that the medical profession increasingly claimed the knowledge and authority to determine 'true' gender and to effectuate such determination by surgical means...[This] is a wonderful example that historical writing is not merely about revisiting the past, but reshaping the future. This book will prove fascinating and moving reading for those concerned with the ways in which biomedical knowledge is deployed in the service of the cultural regulation of gender and sexuality. -- Vernon Rosario * Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review *[A] perceptive, erudite and superbly-written book...Concentrating on late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and France, Dreger analyses how defining and 'managing' hermaphroditism were crucial to the destabilization as well as a simultaneous--and only seemingly paradoxical--reinforcement of the sexual division of humanity into male and female. In a surprisingly well-integrated epilogue of the book, she establishes that present-day treatment of hermaphrodites in America, in spite of phenomenal advancements in surgical technologies and theoretical understanding of sexual physiology, continues to be guided by ideas about the nature and meaning of sex that would not have seemed unfamiliar to fin-de-siècle doctors. -- Chandak Sengoopta * Medical History *In her compelling, highly engaging and carefully researched book, Dreger charts the individual stories of many hermaphrodites--often with accompanying photographs...[It is] vital reading for feminists in that [it] offers detailed illustrations of scientific and medical complicity with social norms of 'sex' and 'gender', and raises important questions about how cultures enforce ideas about 'normal' bodily conditions and behaviours. -- Celia Kitzinger * Feminism & Psychology *Dregerhas produced a well-written, lucid and sensitive account of the medical treatment of hermaphrodites from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the present day...Dreger's description of the way modern doctors persist in assuming that they, and not the individual concerned or society, have the right to define an individual's sex are particularly illuminating. This book will be immensely interesting to historians working in this area and anyone concerned with intersexuality. -- Helen Blackman * Social History of Medicine *In her book, Alice Dreger sets out to convince the reader that the history of hermaphrodites, or people of ambiguous sex, is an important and interesting topic, and she more than accomplishes her goal. Not only does she deliver, but she does so with grace, ease, and compassion. This is a marvelous book, an unexpected surprise which is as readable and engaging as it is informative...Within pages of opening the book, I was enthralled. -- H. Hughes Evans * Journal of the History of Medicine *Traces the history of the biomedical treatment of hermaphrodites during what Dreger calls the "Age of Gonads."...She offers the reader a complex and lucid account of the process by which hermaphrodites moved from a public space (some as performers in traveling circuses and shows) to a private space where all hermaphrodite identities became increasingly shaped and defined by physicians who gained in power and prestige by intervening in the lives of these individuals...Dreger makes a convincing argument for a new approach to individuals born with ambiguous genitalia. -- Heather Harris * Journal of the History of Biology *Dreger has identified an important and suggestive topic, not only in the history of medicine, but for cultural history more generally. Hermaphrodites were, after all, only among the most striking members of the parade of anomalies that engaged the attention of both specialists and the general public at the turn of the century. Any liminal creature was apt to trigger anxieties about the defense of social as well as natural boundaries, and any breach of the barriers that divided the sexes was particularly unnerving. -- Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe casual browser who picks up this book and thinks that hermaphrodism has nothing to do with her or him is mistaken. Dreger illuminates the process by which medicine appropriated to itself the authority first to interpret and then to 'fix' sex difference. This is a specific example of a widespread but largely invisible phenomenon, in which cultural agendas are disguised as scientific authority. The medical abuse of individuals born with atypical sex anatomy in fact serves everyone who holds the unscientific belief that the world is divided neatly into two clearly distinguished sexes. Dregerhas written a book that should interest not only medical historians, professionals concerned with intersexuality, and intersexuals themselves, but everyone who thinks she knows her sex. -- Cheryl Chase, Director Intersex Society of North AmericaIn Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Alice Dreger illuminates life stories that had been recast, subsumed, and ultimately 'disappeared' by the medical profession...Dreger's book is clearly written and easy to read. Fascinating, entertaining, disturbing, and thought-provoking all at once, it makes one ask, 'what is the difference between a male and a female?' and even more unsettling, 'why does it matter so much in our society.' * Synapse: University of California San Francisco Weekly *This fascinating book consists of numerous case studies on hermaphrodites (intersexes) and their abusive treatment by the medical and scientific community during the late 19th century and early 20th centuries in Britain and France... Dreger believes that by studying the cultural history and climate that prevailed relating to intersexuality at the turn of the last century, we may be better able to understand the concept of gender, sex, and sexuality. There are interesting sections on famous hermaphrodites and hermaphrodites in love. -- H.S. Pitkow * Choice *This history is important to our understanding of how the categories of "male" and "female" have come to be understood in the medical community. This history is also relevant to the current questioning of modern intersex medicine Overall, this book is well written and considers important influences of history on the treatment of hermaphrodites that have been previously ignored. -- Amy B Wisniewski, Ph.D. * The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease *In Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Alice Domurat Dreger looks at the debates concerning intersexed peole which circulated in the medical communities of France and Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In so doing, Dreger has also offered insight into our own fin-de-siècle quandaries about the limits of usefulness of the concepts of sex and gender as categorizations of human beings...Overall, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex is an excellent book. -- Holly Devor * Journal of Sex Research *Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Prologue: But My Good Woman, You Are a Man! * Doubtful Sex * Doubtful Status * In Search of the Veritable Vulva * Hermaphrodites in Love * The Age of Gonads * Epilogue: Categorical Imperatives * Notes * Index
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Harvard University Press Bodies and Souls Politics and the
Book SynopsisThis political history shows how the turmoil and transformation of nursing during the French Third Republic reflected the political and cultural tensions at work in the nation, including critical conflicts over the role of the Church in society, the professionalization of medicine, and the emancipation of women.Trade ReviewSchultheiss's study is positioned at the point of intersection of a number of critical conflicts in this formative period of the Third Republic. The book is essentially a political study of nursing. The social history of nurses, their daily work, living conditions, ages, marital status, and earnings makes an appearance, but is not the focus. The focus is the debate over, and within, nursing, how this debate interacted with the political forces, and its results upon hospital nursing and nursing education but also in forging a feminine version of citizenship. It is very well written. -- Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth CollegeAn exhaustively researched and documented study. A major work. -- Louise A. Tilly, New School UniversityKatrin Schultheiss...is one of a handful of non-nurses who understand what the profession has to teach us about the complex process of female emancipation, as well as about the development of modern healthcare systems. She recounts the torturous history of how the "professionalization" of nursing in France coincided with anticlericalism and the secularization of the field. Although her story focuses on the forty-year period from 1880 to 1922 and takes place in one country, the gender dilemmas Schultheiss explores have hampered nurses' ability to care for patients in healthcare systems around the globe, including in the United States. -- Suzanne Gordon * The Nation *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Hospital Nursing in Paris 2. The Nursing Sisters of Lyons 3. The Gardes-malades of Bordeaux 4. Class, Gender, and Professional Identity 5. The Nursing Profession in World War I 6. Nursing in Postwar France Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Gender Emotion and the Family
Book SynopsisIntegrating a wealth of perspectives and research—biological, sociocultural, developmental—Brody’s work explores the nature and extent of gender differences in emotional expression, and the complex question of how such differences come about. Nurture, far more than nature, emerges here as the stronger force.Trade ReviewGender, Emotion, and the Family focuses on gender differences in the experience and expression of emotion...[Brody] has gathered an amazing amount of data from innumerable studies...[and gives] a balanced account of the effect of environmental variables on the development of emotion. -- Lucy Horwitz * Boston Book Review *Finally, an accurate and well-balanced discussion of topics that are on everybody's mind. Brody integrates research on the socialization of violence in boys and of the caretaking role for girls. Both this book and actual scientific research strongly support the role of nurture rather than nature in gender socialization...[A] highly recommended book. -- F. Smolucha * Choice *Drawing on a wealth of information, [Leslie Brody] illuminates the ways in which men and women, boys and girls, develop and express emotions in the context of the family...This in-depth research addresses many issues, from power in relationships to the physiological expression of emotion; evidence of contradictory findings is detailed. This is a valuable addition to the ever-changing frontiers of behavior research. -- Margaret Cardwell * Library Journal *Brody has formidable mastery of this burgeoning field. Gender, Emotion, and the Family offers new theoretical insights for lay readers and fellow scholars alike. Highly readable, responsible, and original, this will be the major work on the socialization of emotion for a long time to come. -- Judith A. Hall, Northeastern UniversityA beautifully written text that integrates theory and research in a sophisticated yet highly readable way. Brody examines the development of emotional experience and expression in the family and the intimate connections between emotion, familial relationships, and gender. Brody's tremendous breadth of scholarship shows in every chapter, and her thoughtful, comprehensive, and insightful responses to the complex questions in the field are a must read for students and scholars alike. -- Amy G. Halberstadt, North Carolina State UniversityLeslie Brody provides a careful evaluation of the research data on precisely what the gender differences are--and are not--in emotional experience and expression, but that is only the first strength of her book. With an original and complex transactional theory, she shows how physiological, relational and cultural factors interact in creating gender differences in emotion, and reminds us how peculiar it is to try--as psychologists have!-- to make much of any single factor. Gender, Emotion, and the Family outlines a compelling research agenda that will move the next generation of empirical studies to a new and much more exciting level. -- Abigail Stewart, Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, University of MichiganAn invaluable resource for researchers on all aspects of the psychology and sociology of gender, Gender, Emotion, and the Family comprehensively synthesizes and re-analyzes the enormous research literature on supposed gender differences in emotional expression. Leslie Brody offers a clear and compelling critique of the widespread belief that males and females have essentially different emotional styles. Arguing that apparent gender differences in emotion are closely related to gender differences in dominance and power, Brody illuminates the great diversity of experience and behavior found among members of the same sex, and reminds us of the powerful role played by stereotypes in dictating emotions that men and women should display, and the pressures they feel to conform to those stereotypes. -- Elizabeth Aries, Amherst CollegeBeyond the main points about the complexities and contingencies of gender differences and their development, the book contains accounts of many, many fascinating studies and intriguing points of view...Brody ultimately succeeds in articulating a comprehensive, thoughtful, and intellectually rigorous review of the research literature on gender differences in emotional expression, from a feminist empiricist perspective. This is an important book to own...a valuable reference for researchers and professionals. * Contemporary Psychology *Table of ContentsIntroduction THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF GENDER DIFFERENCES Understanding Emotional Expression Words, Faces, Voices, and Behaviors Physiological Arousal and Patterns of Emotional Expression Sad or Mad? The Quality of Emotions GENDER, BIOLOGY, AND THE FAMILY The State of the Art: Biological Differences? Transactional Relationships within Families Gender Identification and De-identification in the Family Fathers and the Family Climate CULTURAL ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENDER DIFFERENCES Social Motives, Power, and Roles Stereotypes and Display Rules The Power of Peers The Health Consequences of Gender-Stereotypic Emotional Expression Rethinking Gender and Emotion Notes References Index
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Harvard University Press Sex in the Heartland
Book SynopsisThis is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing oft-told tales of radicals and revolutionaries on the coasts, Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as ordinary people struggled over boundaries of sexual behavior in postwar America.Trade Review[A] vivid reminder of just how national and chaotic the events we call ‘the sixties’ really were… Bailey’s exploration of the sexual revolution offers a subtler sense of the underlying forces of that era, which unified even while dividing a nation and, ultimately, the world. -- Tom Engelhardt * The Nation *[Beth Bailey’s] applied research here is interesting, imaginative and compassionate, and the final treat is that Bailey is a very good writer. Sex in the Heartland is simply a fascinating read. I’m sorry I can’t call her up and congratulate her on this book in person… [This book is] beautifully shaped, carefully thought out, a treasury of useful information. -- Carolyn See * Washington Post *One of the great strengths of this book is Bailey’s ability to make local characters, institutions and fights vital and compelling, all the while keeping an eye on the broader issues at stake. She gives us a vivid portrait of one university town in transition and a case study for U.S. social history. A cast of local characters comes alive… Virtually every chapter has surprising, subtle turns in which Bailey’s thesis of historical paradox and unintended consequences is amply demonstrated. -- Maureen McLane * Chicago Tribune *The book’s greatest strength is its delineation of ‘social and cultural changes’ as effected by watershed events (panty raids, the advent of the Pill, birth control clinics, co-ed dorms, coffee houses, and underground newspapers); [and] local and national institutions (which provided moral direction and financial and social support). -- Jay A. Gertzman * American Historical Review *Bailey’s account of the sexual revolution in Lawrence, Kansas is a rejoinder to American critics on the right who continue to see this process as something imposed on ordinary people by bohemian intellectuals and sex radicals located on either coast, and not as a phenomenon integral to America’s ‘heartland.’ In Bailey’s account, the sexual revolution was a grassroots movement happening in any number of college towns across the USA, and created unwittingly by ‘people who had absolutely no intention of abetting a revolution in sex.’ Bailey argues that the replacement of moral with therapeutic frameworks for understanding sexual and emotional problems undermined any remaining moral consensus by offering non-punitive judgments on homosexuality and other forms of deviance. Unnoticed developments like the reform of parietals were far more important, in Bailey’s reading, than the pill or the counter culture… The fact that Bailey’s attention is directed towards the less renowned, everyday sources of sexual revolution makes this a valuable book. -- H. G. Cocks * Journal of Contemporary History *Published by the prestigious Harvard University Press, the book suggests that out-of-the-mainstream states such as Kansas actually were on the cutting edge of the nation’s sexual revolution during the early 1960s. -- Matt Moline * Capital-Journal (Topeka, KS) *[Bailey] points out that those who claim the radical nature of the [sexual] revolution may be surprised by just how deep-seated and mainstream the origins of many of those revolutionary changes were. -- Philip Godwin, M.D. * Lawrence Journal-World *Bailey examines the 20th-century ‘sexual revolution’ as it played out in the midwestern college town of Lawrence, Kansas… Bailey is especially perceptive on the ambivalent and conflicted relationship of both the feminist and gay rights movements to the sexual revolution. She also has strong sections on the birth control pill and other more mundane but long-lasting changes in American sexual culture… [A] fascinating and impressive book. -- K. Blaser * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction Before the Revolution Sex and the Therapeutic Culture Responsible Sex Prescribing the Pill Revolutionary Intent Sex as a Weapon Sex and Liberation Remaking Sex Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Why Do Men Barbecue Recipes for Cultural
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic studies of the distinctive modes of psychological functioning in communities around the world, Shweder explores ethnic and cultural differences in ideals of gender, in the life of the emotions, in conceptions of mature adulthood and the stages of life, and in moral judgments about right and wrong.Trade ReviewHow much cultural relativism is enough? Whether you consider yourself a modernist with universalist sympathies or a post-modernist with completely pluralist preferences, you will be given pause by the arguments in this book. You will be informed, amused, infuriated, moved, and prompted to doubt deep personal convictions - often within the space of a single paragraph. No serious student of psychological anthropology or cultural psychology can ignore Shweder's commentary on the great issues confronting those fields. -- Richard E. Nisbett, University of MichiganRichard Shweder is the authentic voice of a concerned and critical anthropology: unbuttoned, funny, courageous, and mercilessly precise. Why Do Men Barbecue? takes no prisoners. It is a major contribution to the exposure of all forms of ethnocentrism, with special and loving attention to our own. -- Clifford Geertz, Institute for Advanced StudyIn fresh, brisk, and arresting language, Shweder challenges us to see the world in new ways or else come up with new arguments for holding on to the views we already have. This insightful and provocative book isn't just for anthropologists and other social scientists, but for those who value having to look twice at the world they think they know. -- Martha Minow, Harvard Law SchoolIn our globalized world there are, and will always be, many divergent views of what is real, good, and true, and how to think and feel and be a person. Rick Shweder's spirited and beautifully written essays remind us that it is not just right but necessary to recognize and understand differences in ideas and ways of life. His provocative insights give us an agenda for a cultural psychology we can really use in the turbulent years ahead. -- Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford UniversityShweder's "recipes" are lucid, timely investigations of suffering, the domestic life of Hindu women, the sleeping arrangements parents of different nationalities and classes institute with their children, and female genital mutilation--to name a few. * Publishers Weekly *Whether writing about the lives of Hindu women in rural India, comparing the family sleeping arrangements of different societies, or challenging feminist criticisms of female genital surgery in sub-Saharan Africa, Shweder describes the results of his ethnography of difference with elegance and wit. He avoids the dehumanizing fetishism of difference that characterizes all too much contemporary social science and social theory, and resists familiar relativist bromides demanding 'tolerance.' -- Michele M. Moody-Adams * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Anti-Postculturalism (or, The View from Manywheres) 1. Who Sleeps by Whom Revisited (with Lene Balle-Jensen and William Goldstein) 2. The "Big Three" of Morality (Autonomy, Community, Divinity) and the "Big Three" Explanations of Suffering (with Nancy C. Much, Manamohan Mahapatra, and Lawrence Park) 3. Cultural Psychology of Emotions: Ancient and New (with Jonathan Haidt) 4. "What about Female Genital Mutilation?" And Why Understanding Culture Matters 5. The Return of the "White Man's Burden" and the Domestic Life of Hindu Women (with Usha Menon) 6. Culture and Mental Development in Our Poststructural Age 7. A Polytheistic Conception of the Sciences and the Virtues of Deep Variety 8. Fundamentalism for Highbrows: The Aims of Education Address at the University of Chicago Conclusion: From Manywheres to the Civilizing Project, and Back Notes References Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Passing Lines
Book SynopsisPassing Lines seeks to stimulate dialogue on the role of sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the U.S. from Latin America and the Caribbean. The book looks at the complexities, inconsistencies, and paradoxes of immigration from the point of view of both academics and practitioners in the field.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Gendering Modern Japanese History
Book SynopsisThe sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. Separately, each chapter examines how Japanese have (en)gendered their ideas, institutions, and society.
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Harvard University Press Forced to Care Coercion and Caregiving in
Book SynopsisOffers an interpretation of care labor in the United States by tracing the roots of inequity along two interconnected strands: unpaid caring within the family; and slavery, indenture, and other forms of coerced labor.Trade ReviewA powerful and persuasive critique, Forced to Care weaves together an insightful historical narrative about caregiving. Why is care of the ill and infirm a private, family responsibility and not a public entitlement? This important and timely book should be part of the national discussion about America's health care system. -- Karen Brodkin, University of California, Los AngelesIn a strikingly original book, Glenn provides the kind of full view that will be foundational to a major advance in our thinking about caring labor. She offers an impressive account of how gender and race have intertwined in caring labor and how coercion in care work has endured despite considerable change over time. Creative, astute, and compelling, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers in health care, labor relations, and law and social welfare policy. -- Marjorie DeVault, Syracuse UniversityA tour de force! Glenn presents a powerful interpretation of the social construction of care work, moving beyond the standard focus on individuals to pinpoint the ideological and material underpinnings of the care system. She reveals an evolving system that remains rooted in the coercion of women, especially immigrant women and women of color, and she offers thoughtful recommendations for a profound reorganization of care work that truly meets the needs of both those who give and those who receive care. -- Mimi Abramovitz, author of Regulating the Lives of WomenIn this incisive analysis, Glenn turns a brilliantly critical eye on the institutions that pit money against love. Taking the long historical view on the relationship between freedom and labor that made her prize-winning book Unequal Freedom so eye-opening, she reveals how the supposedly 'free' market still rests on a basis of coercive social demand rather than choice. -- Myra Marx Ferree, University of WisconsinScouring the history of Native American boarding schools, nineteenth-century reformatories, and programs to Americanize immigrants, Glenn brilliantly reveals the role of coercion in caregiving. An important read for us all. -- Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time BindGlenn advocates for both care providers and those receiving care and uses her vast knowledge of the history and foundation of the problems to offer concrete solutions to the difficulties both face as our aging society pushes us closer to a crisis in the fastest growing segment of healthcare in America -- Kari O'Driscoll * Feminist Review *[Glenn's] evidence is compelling and deals with a wide variety of examples that proves how coercion and caregiving have gone hand in hand. She uses evidence from the coercion of African-American women in general, slavery, Native-American women, as well as White women. She provides the reader with information on how class, race, and gender have formed the caregiving policies of twenty-first century America and how policies and laws have favored women as carers. -- Elin Weiss * Metapsychology *
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Harvard University Press The Gender of Modernity
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Harvard University, Asia Center Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial
Book SynopsisWai-yee Li examines the discursive space of women in seventeenth-century China. Using texts written by women or by men writing in a feminine voice, as well as writings that turn women into signifiers of lamentation or nostalgia, Li probes the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and subsequent moments of national trauma.
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Harvard University Press The Two Sexes
Book SynopsisHow does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male or female mean? In this book, distinguished psychologist Eleanor Maccoby explores how individuals express their sexual identity at successive periods of their lives, from infancy through adolescence and into adulthood.Trade ReviewMaccoby's book is beautifully written and organized. In the first half she takes us on a journey from infancy through pre-school behavior, to elementary school and adolescence. Fascinating evidence is adduced for the formation of sex-segregated social groups, which are amazingly resistant in middle childhood to well-meaning adult attempts to force integration. In the second half...issues of sex roles in the workplace and in parenthood are discussed. A variety of explanations for the seemingly universal existence of sex role differentiation are proposed, from biology to evolutionary psychology. -- David H. Skuse * Nature *[Eleanor Maccoby's] book is an important contribution to what some social scientists call a 'two cultures approach' to gender. She views boys and girls as members of two distinct subcultures, each of which is characterized by radically different kinds of behavior...The Two Sexes is in many ways a tour de force, as it offers us cohesive and intelligent argument about gender that brings together diverse disciplinary concerns...Maccoby's book, as an insightful review of the literature supporting a two-cultures approach to gender, will undoubtedly win an important place on the millennial bookshelf. -- Kira Hall * Science *In this volume the eminent scholar Eleanor Maccoby has provided a highly readable account of gender development, a field in which her own research and perspective play a central role...This book represents a major contribution to the field of psychology. It provides a plausible hypothesis, an accessible and scholarly review of research findings, and a clear summary of three perspectives on the possible origin of preferences for same-gender playmates--the biological, socialization and cognitive perspectives. Particularly convincing was the argument that differential treatment by parents is an incomplete explanation for childhood gender segregation. The integrated conclusion acknowledges the complexity of gender differences and points to strategies for creating social change...In summary, this landmark work by a distinguished scientist will be certain to provoke discussion among feminist psychologists, the psychological community at large and members of the public. The Two Sexes is an original and important contribution to the current lively gender debates. -- Judith L. Gibbons * Feminism & Psychology *Heavy but worthwhile reading that can help us better understand those gender-based reading interests, how boys and girls see themselves in relation to others, and the ways in which gender identification is influenced. -- Mary Arnold * Kliatt *An absolutely marvelous new look at gender differences in behavior! Eleanor Maccoby has provided an immensely readable, and thought-provoking, reappraisal of the relevant research findings, which are presented throughout in ways that immediately bring to life what the findings mean in real-life situations. The basic message is that gender differences mainly operate in terms of their effects on social interactions. When boys and girls are by themselves, their behavior differs only slightly, but the behavior of groups of boys is very different from that of groups of girls. The implications for theory and practice that stem from this conclusion are considerable. The book is a 'must' for anyone interested in either development or gender issues; it is fascinating to read and constitutes a splendid integration of concepts and findings. -- Sir Michael Rutter, FRS, Professor of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London[The Two Sexes] describes the confrontation between one of social science's premier scholars and the Gordian Knot of how to account for gender differences. It is a masterful account that sweeps through a half-century of studies in the search for underlying mechanisms. This is Maccoby at her best. -- Dr. Gerald R. Patterson, Oregon Social Learning Center[This is a] wonderful book on gender differences...What Maccoby does supremely well...is discuss how a biologically influenced propensity on which boys and girls differ to a minor degree can nevertheless lead to quite large differences in behaviour through their indirect influence brought about by effects on interaction styles and social groups. She skilfully integrates qualitative and quantitative research findings, with helpful verbatim quotes on how children talk about themselves and their social interchanges, and pursues a carefully argued discussion of what the research might mean. The academic critique is of the highest order but the style is flowing, engaging and intensely interesting. The book is provocative in forcing a rethinking of gender differences and challenging in its conclusions...Maccoby is persuasive in her claim that gender distinctions arise mainly in social interactions and that peer groups are highly influential in greatly enhancing gender differences...Maccoby's book provides a fascinating account of how this comes about during the course of development and how it operates during adult life as well as childhood. This is a really important book for anyone concerned to understand psychological development. The findings and concepts have crucially important implications, too...for the understanding of gender differences in problem behaviours such as crime and depression. Similarly, there are implicit messages for how development is involved in nature-nurture interplay. -- Michael Rutter * Times Higher Education Supplement *Maccoby has taken a terrific stab at the paradox of gender. The most important theme of her book is that the behavior we attribute to gender is not a matter of individual personality; it is an emergent property of relationships and groups. -- Carol Tavris * Scientific American *Eleanor Maccoby sets out to show how male and female children are reared to regard themselves as different, when the real differences are slight. She says that the 'measures of IQ, aptitude or achievement in any intellectual domain, or a personality dimension, usually reveal little or no sex differentiation' [and] highlights the absurdity of many of the measures used to define 'masculinity' and 'femininity'...[The Two Sexes] is scholarly and well-written. -- Claire Rayner * New Statesman & Society *Parents and teachers have always recognized that the sexes diverge in early childhood, typically forming mutually exclusive societies. In this book Maccoby draws on more than 20 years of research to argue that this phenomenon is an inevitability, something that occurs in spite of and not because of socialization. Even the most progressive, gender-sensitive settings will produce the familiar cliques of rampaging boys and doll-playing girls...Maccoby wisely recommends cautious experimentation with different kinds of single-sex schools, something that has already begun to occur across the country. -- David Ruenzel * Teacher *The foremost authority in the field of gender development, Eleanor Maccoby, has just published a fascinating book, The Two Sexes. She includes a thorough survey of the literature and notes 'the ubiquity and power of sex segregation in childhood and the fact that adult efforts to change the situation are usually ineffective and may backfire.' * Child Education *Maccoby presents a well-balanced analysis of gender development, drawing on her own experience as one of the foremost academics in this field and on extensive research done over the past 30 years. -- Wendy Earle * LM Magazine *Attempting to relate childhood social experience to sexist behavior in adulthood is an inherently complex undertaking, which Maccoby does with a great deal of competence and professionalism. The author is not afraid to bring up competing interpretations of relevant research...This is a provocative book, accessible but challenging, and I would highly recommend it for cross-disciplinary use in graduate classes in the areas of gender or child development. -- Michele A. Adams * British Journal of Educational Psychology *Maccoby brings her expertise to bear on an important but neglected issue in child development: the segregation of children into largely same-sex dyads and groups, which begins around the age of three and continues into puberty...This work is destined to be an important resource. -- B. Ayers-Nachamkin * Choice *Eleanor Maccoby was one of the first to examine sex differences, and she is still one of the wisest. What a gift her new book is, full of incisive analyses and vital conclusions. It provides a rare, balanced overview of the relations between the sexes across the life span. -- Deborah Tannen, University Professor, Georgetown University, and author of Talking from 9 to 5 and The Argument CultureTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Divergence in Childhood Gender Segregation in Childhood The Two Cultures of Childhood Cross-Sex Encounters The Explanatory Web What Needs to Be Explained The Biological Component The Socialization Component The Cognitive Component Convergence in Adulthood Heterosexual Attraction and Relationships The Two Sexes in the Workplace Men and Women As Parents Overview Notes References Index
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Harvard University Press Paternity
Book SynopsisFor most of human history, paternity was uncertain. Blood types, fingerprinting, and, recently, DNA analysis promised to solve the riddle of paternity. But even genetic certainty did not end the quest for the father. Rather, as Nara Milanich reveals, it confirms the social, cultural, and political nature of the age-old question: Who’s your father?Trade ReviewSolidly researched and enlightening. -- Margaret Talbot * New Yorker *Milanich follows the incremental changes, through the emergence of DNA fingerprinting in the 1980s all the way to mobile units—resembling ice-cream vans—testing DNA on the streets, all part of the billion-dollar industry of genetic knowledge. * The Economist *Expertly uses vignettes…to richly contextualize a history of paternity in the twentieth century…The transatlantic sweep and the dense, archivally supported detail of Milanich’s analysis is breathtaking. -- Michele Pridmore-Brown * Times Literary Supplement *Milanich has a knack for finding a gripping story and telling it in almost novelistic or journalistic cadences. Surely, this is the definitive book on the subject of paternity testing. -- Lennard Davis * Times Higher Education *Very readable, occasionally riveting…Milanich’s basic claim, that the search for the father reveals central aspects of modernity, proves convincing. -- Kerstin Maria Pahl * Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung *A compelling history of the transnational making of twentieth-century paternity science. -- Jenna Tonn * Isis *Milanich, a skilled storyteller, offers a fascinating social history, from the earliest times and across cultures to the rise of Big Paternity…This deeply researched and engaging exploration will likely challenge readers’ notions about paternity and shift their perspectives. -- B. K. Jackson * Severance *Sifts through decades worth of family sagas, articles, and court records to reveal how cultural ideas about fatherhood have remained stubbornly consistent in the face of scientific progress. -- Elizabeth Svoboda * Undark *In this rigorous and beautifully researched volume, Milanich considers the tension between social and biological definitions of fatherhood, and shows how much we still have to learn about what constitutes a father. -- Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for IdentityDazzling in scope and masterfully written, Milanich’s book delves beneath the quest for certainty to find what we are really looking for in paternity and why it continues to haunt us. -- Steven Mintz, author of The Prime of Life: A History of Modern AdulthoodThis splendid work shows how the development and use of paternity testing over several centuries determined individuals’ fates. For millions of people, ‘Who’s your daddy?’ was not simply an idle question, but often a matter of life or death. -- Sonya Michel, author of Children’s Interests/Mothers’ Rights: The Shaping of America’s Child Care Policy‘Mama’s baby, Papa’s maybe.’ DNA testing has all but destroyed the uncertainty that has attended paternity for millennia. Milanich has written a fascinating history of the ways societies have coped with anxiety about paternity, and how that anxiety has helped construct notions of fatherhood, masculinity, race, and family. -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyOriginal, well-written, and wonderfully researched, this exciting new book provides an analysis of paternity that is rich and global in scope. -- Alexandra Minna Stern, author of Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in AmericaPaternity offers a rich, erudite, and often humorous historical analysis of how paternity testing technologies developed at the intersection of science, national governance, and popular culture. -- Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
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Princeton University Press Myth Religion and Mother Right
Book SynopsisThe Swiss thinker JJ Bachofen is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or 'mother right,'. This book includes an autobiographical essay and selections from "An Essay on Ancient Mortuary Symbolism", "Mother Right", and "The Myth of Tanaquil".
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Princeton University Press In Search of Self in India and Japan Toward a
Book SynopsisDrawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, this title explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. It features case studies that illustrate this argument: the 'familial self', rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches.Trade Review"While Western psychology assumes that human nature is the same everywhere, there are profound psychological differences from culture to culture, according to a growing body of evidence ... One of the most extensive criticisms of Western psychology has been made by Dr. Roland in [this] book."--The New York Times "Roland compares the extended familial-self typical of Indian and Japanese experience with the individualized self-concept of America... This book adds crucial psychological dimensions to our study of Eastern philosophy and religion. It catches the vital nuances of self-experience that escape philosophical and historical approaches."--Harold Coward, Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin "This book addresses a fundamental question--the universality of human nature... Drawing upon work with patients and therapists in both India and Japan, [Roland] describes the profound differences between the Western individualized self and the familial self so central to Asian culture... Of particular value is Roland's sensitive treatment of the evolving identity of women in the two cultures, as well as his exploration of the deeply significant spiritual self, a topic that is largely neglected in Western theory and practice."--Choice
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Princeton University Press Poets in the Public Sphere The Emancipatory
Book SynopsisTraces the emergence of the 'New Woman' by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. This book tracks how US women exploited the freedom offered by the nation's periodical press columns to engage in debate with each other and with men over matters of mutual concern.Trade Review"Bennett has uncovered a number of unknown and anonymous writers who sought a public forum for their often highly publicized views. Beautiful illustrations from a number of journals, meticulous explanatory notes, and a comprehensive index supplement this engaging volume."--Choice "[Bennett advances] the critical discussions of poetry, sentimentality, women's cultural production, and the histories of gender and race."--Janet Gray, Legacy "A] richly researched and superbly documented study... Bennett has provided a democratizing narrative of women's self-definition that is beautifully written."--Vivian R. Pollak, Modern Language QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction: Poetry in the Public Sphere 1 PART ONE 1.Literary Sentimentality and the Genteel Lyric 17 2.High Sentimentality and the Politics of Reform 40 3.The Politics and Poetics of Difference 62 4.Harper, Parnell, Lazarus, and Johnson 86 PART TWO 5.Domestic Gothic and Sentimental Parody 113 6.Irony's Edge: Sarah Piatt and the Postbellum Speaker 135 7.Sex, Sexualities, and Female Erotic Discourse 159 8.Making It New in the Fin de Siecle 181 Coda: After 1910 205 Notes 217 Index 253
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Princeton University Press Outsiders Together Virginia and Leonard Woolf
Book SynopsisFocusing on Virginia Woolf's writings in conjunction with those of her husband, Leonard, this book illuminates Leonard's sense of ambivalent social identity and its affinities to Virginia's complex ideas of subjectivity.Trade Review"For all its theoretical knowingness, Outsiders Together is a rather old-fashioned celebration of a long, intimate heterosexual relationship... The strength of Outsiders Together is that it moves beyond the working and emotional relationship of Leonard and Virginia to subtly address larger issues--such as Leonard's Jewishness and Virginia's politics--which have hitherto been treated rather crudely."--Bryan Cheyette, Times Literary Supplement "Rosenfeld's study is broad in scope, covering most of the lives of and the major works of both writers, while dwelling long enough on the writing to provide several illuminating cross-readings of texts... Clearly and elegantly written, Outsiders Together makes a very persuasive case."--Jessica Berman, Virginia Woolf MiscellanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Abbreviations Xiii Introduction: Border Cases 3 Chapter I. Strange Crossings 18 Chapter II. Incongruities; or, The Politics of Character 55 Chapter III. Links into Fences 96 Chapter IV. Translations 113 Chapter V. Monstrous Conjugations 153 Notes 183 Works Consulted 201 Index 209
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Princeton University Press Selling Women Short
Book SynopsisRocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. This work serves as an indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug.Trade Review"This research will be helpful to women if powerful Wall Street management learns of the findings and takes action."--Mary Whaley, Booklist "This book reveals that we still have a long way to go regarding gender equality... While blatant discrimination based on gender and race has virtually disappeared in politically correct American businesses, a more subtle ad widespread discrimination remains... This readable account concludes by offering recommendations to help businesses come an even longer way toward true gender equality."--Library Journal "Selling Women Short is a thoughtful examination of how ostensibly merit-based systems can result in unequal outcomes."--Brook Masters, Financial Times "Highly recommended... Louise Marie Roth provides a valuable addition to the literature on the earnings gap between women and men... The reader gains a multifaceted description and statistical analysis of factors affecting careers of both men and women, including the very successful."--Choice "Roth's well-written, well-researched book deftly integrates qualitative and quantitative data in a manner that makes it accessible to a variety of audiences who are interested in the topic of pay inequality."--Sarah Y. Moore, International Review of Modern Sociology "Clearly written in jargon-free and accessible language, it should appeal to a general audience, as well as being suitable for either undergraduate- or graduate-level courses in gender, labor, or economic sociology. It could also productively be used in business and finance classes at the graduate or undergraduate level. Managers or university administrators interested in combating gender inequality could learn from this book as well... I highly recommend the book as a significant contribution to our understanding of the subtle ways in which discrimination operates on Wall Street and beyond."--Abigail C. Saguy, American Journal of Sociology "[T]his is a highly teachable book that could be assigned in economics, business, labor, and women's studies courses at either the undergraduate or graduate levels... The combination of the academic study with the journalistic account should lead to a spirited discussion among students of the ways in which the structures of organizations allow people to realize opportunity or limit their success."--Swan Yohn, Feminist EconomicsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1: The Playing Field: Wall Street in the 1990s 11 CHAPTER 2: Pay for Performance: Wall Street's Bonus System 36 CHAPTER 3: A Woman's Worth: Gender Differences in Compensation 58 CHAPTER 4: Making the Team: Managers, Peers, and Subordinates 71 CHAPTER 5: Bringing Clients Back In: The Impact of Client Relationships 100 CHAPTER 6: Having It All? Workplace Culture and Work-Family Conflict 118 CHAPTER 7: Window Dressing: Workplace Policies and Wall Street Culture 148 CHAPTER 8: Beating the Odds: The Most Successful Women 167 CHAPTER 9: The Myth of Meritocracy: Gender and Performance-Based Pay 179 APPENDIX A: Methodology 197 APPENDIX B: Quantitative Measures and Models 205 APPENDIX C: Interview Schedule 213 Notes 237 References 253 Index 265
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Princeton University Press Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisExamines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. This work explores how gender relations among the Pomaks had to be renegotiated after the collapse of both Communism and the region's state-subsidized lead and zinc mines.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2011 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe/American Anthropological Association Winner of the 2011 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Winner of the 2011 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies Association Winner of the 2010 Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies "Islamic studies scholars who increasingly focus on a wide range of Muslim societies in both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority countries will find this volume informative. The author presents her work in an accessible fashion, and the volume will appeal to people with diverse interests."--Choice "Ghodsee accomplishes a great deal with Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe... [T]his work may be a useful teaching tool for classes focusing on political transitions and may help steer young students and international bureaucrats away from crude stereotypes about Muslims in the Balkans."--Isa Blumi, H-Net Reviews "Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe offers an insightful analysis of the social and economic factors that propelled the spread of new forms of religious allegiances and gender roles among Pomaks in Bulgaria. It is an excellent contribution to the study of Islam in postcommunist society."--Ina Merdjanova, Religion, State & Society "Ghodsee does an excellent job at unpacking the complexities of Muslim life in Madan and beyond. Her thought-provoking book gives life to a world in which the dust of the past is still settling on the complex world of post-1989."--Mary Neuburger, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsIllustrations ix A Note on Transliteration xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Changing Face of Islam in Bulgaria 1 Chapter One: Names to Be Buried With 34 Chapter Two: Men and Mines 56 Chapter Three: The Have-nots and the Have-nots 86 Chapter Four: Divide and Be Conquered 109 Chapter Five: Islamic Aid 130 Chapter Six: The Miniskirt and the Veil 159 Conclusion: Minarets after Marx 184 Appendix 205 Notes 207 Selected Bibliography 235 Index 243
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Princeton University Press The New Arab Man
Book SynopsisMiddle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. This book challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Winner of the 2014 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies One of Choice's Editors' Picks, October 2012 Shortlisted for the 2013 Book Prize, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness of the British Sociological Association "Yale anthropologist Inhorn's readable ethnography tackles the subject of infertility among Arab men. The author draws primarily on her research in Lebanese clinics that offer in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intrcytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) but also utilizes data from research in Egypt and the UAE... Inhorn's engagin writing style, clear analysis of relevant literature and theory, and compelling interviews make this book an excellent choice for both undergraduate and graduate collections."--Choice "Not only does this book provide scholars with innovative anthropological theoretical tools for the study of gender and masculinity in a field increasingly dominated by queer theoretical paradigms, it also offers a fascinating insight into the intersection of gender, religion and art in the Middle East, setting an example for new research. Yet above all, The New Arab Man effortlessly succeeds in offering 'a more realistic and humanizing portrayal of Middle Eastern men's lives.'"--Wim Peumans, Social Anthropology "In the end, I think Inhorn is right; her book does provide a corrective to those who conceptualize Middle Eastern men in a two-dimensional way, but I also think her book goes much further than this, delving into the complex navigations of religion, cultural tradition, science, and technology faced by many religious people in everyday life. For those interested in exploring such issues--including scholars and students of religion, immigration, science studies, medical sociology, and medicine--her book is a wonderful resource."--John O'Brien, Sociology of Religion "[This] is without doubt an important contribution to medical anthropology in the Middle East and to our understanding of the complex and changing nature of masculinity in the Arab world."--Ramy Aly, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Prologue: Hamza, My Infertile Driver xiii Introduct ion: Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood Part I : Emergent Masculini t ies Chapter 1. Hegemonic Masculinity 39 Chapter 2. Infertile Subjectivities 63 Chapter 3. Love Stories 91 Chapter 4. Consanguineous Connectivity 123 Part II : Islamic Masculini t ies Chapter 5. Masturbation and Semen Collection 161 Chapter 6. Islam and Assisted Reproduction 193 Chapter 7. Sperm Donation and Adoption 228 Chapter 8. Egg Donation and Emergence 262 Conclus ion: Emergent Masculinities in the Middle East 299 Acknowledgments 319 Appendix: The Assisted Reproduction Fatwas 325 Glossary of Arabic Terms 333 Glossary of Medical Terms 337 Notes 345 References Cited 363 Index 389
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Princeton University Press Trans
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was outed by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify as black? TaTrade Review"Pacy and stimulating... The nub of Trans's argument is that we are culturally primed to be more receptive to transgender journeys, whether male to female or vice versa, because these are framed as identity or even civil rights issues, whereas racial identities are still categorical."--Marina Benjamin, New Statesman "The value in Brubaker's book is not in readjudicating old internet battles, but in laying out current conflicts of identity in a public, accessible way; academics have been thinking and talking about the fluidity and fixedness of gender and race for a long time, but their thinking hasn't always been part of mainstream conversations. Especially with the growing number of legislative, judicial, and cultural challenges to the role of gender in American society, sometimes, it can just be useful to lay out the terms of debate."--Emma Green, The Atlantic "Lucid, sophisticated, and judicious, Trans is an important and timely exploration of the increasingly uncertain and unsettled boundaries of identity."--Glenn Altschuler, Florida Courier "While the ?rst part of Trans compares Dolezal and Jenner, the second leverages the concept of transgender to examine transracial differences. Ultimately, Brubaker would like us to recognize transracial identities in the same way we accept transgender ones. In his analysis, transracial identities generate uneasy resonances with not only the dark histories of racial passing, but also the contemporary realities of racial oppression. Still, he prods us to reflect on the new kinds of racial identities being created through interracial relations, multiracial movements and generational change. While the mainstream recognizes transgender, it remains wary of transracial. The controversy over trans identities is far from settled."--Macleans "Brubaker maintains that we are living in 'an age of unsettled identities.' Of that, he convinces me. This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in the categories of identity and how they are being invoked or subverted."--Leonard Curry, Christian Century "This short book packs a wallop. In our era of academic hyper-specialization, where there is an ever-present temptation to bore deeper into a subject, and where identity politics can amplify that tendency by discouraging people from writing about groups they cannot claim to be members of, this comparative analysis of race and gender by a white cisgender man offers up a much-needed, fresh perspective."--Arlene Stein, Public Books "[A] clear-eyed, eye-opening book to see ways in which transracialism may and may not be considered as legitimate as transgenderism in the modern push for fluidity of identity categories."--A. Loudermilk, PopMatters "Brubaker ... one of our finest analysts of the politics of difference, provides a clear and concise guide for the perplexed. He carefully lays out a taxonomy of both older and emerging classifications of 'trans,' ordering both the many meanings of transgender and the less well known and more contested ideas about transracial... What is clear from this excellent book is that the cultural logic of autonomy/choice that is working itself out in our age of unsettled identities is not of itself self-limiting. Wherever it takes us as a society, it seems, we will be forced to go."--Joseph E. Davis, SocietyTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part One: The Trans Moment 1 Transgender, Transracial? 15 "Transgender" and "Transracial" before the Dolezal Affair 17 The Field of Argument 21 "If Jenner, Then Dolezal": The Argument from Similarity 22 Boundary Work: The Argument from Difference 31 2 Categories in Flux 40 Unsettled Identities 41 The Empire of Choice 50 The Policing of Identity Claims 56 The New Objectivism 64 Part Two: Thinking with Trans 3 The Trans of Migration 71 Unidirectional Transgender Trajectories 74 Reconsidering "Transracial" 80 Transracial Trajectories, Past and Present 82 4 The Trans of Between 92 Transgender Betweenness: Oscillation, Recombination, Gradation 94 Racial and Gender Betweenness 101 Recombinatory Racial Betweenness: Classification and Identification 104 Performing Betweenness 108 5 The Trans of Beyond 113 Beyond Gender? 114 Beyond Race? 122 Conclusion 131 Notes 153 Bibliography 183 Index 229
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Princeton University Press Period
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year""Period by the biological anthropologist Kate Clancy, hope[s] to draw our attention to menstruation and the often overlooked organ central to it. . . . Clancy hope[s] to encourage us to better appreciate this remarkable muscle. . . . Rather than greeting our periods with disgust, perhaps we should trade our revulsion for awe."---Yasmine AlSayyad, The New Yorker"Give this book to everyone."---Aimee Cunningham, Science News"A bracing look at periods and how society lets down those who have them. . . . Clancy excels at outlining how sexism influences the production and process of science, as well as public understandings of research findings. The result is an urgent call to reconsider how periods are researched and discussed." * Publishers Weekly *""Revelatory. . . . Clancy’s book will hopefully encourage more scientists to conduct more rigorous research on periods."---Rose George, The Atlantic"In energetic and funny prose, Clancy castigates Western societies, especially scientists and physicians, for menstrual stigmas both ancient and modern. . . . [Period] conveys a consistently positive view of menstrual blood, the menstrual cycle, and the bodies of people who menstruate. Looking for agency, optimism, power, and healing in menstruating bodies, Clancy demonstrates that, indeed, these qualities are there for those whose eyes are open to them. . . . A main theme throughout the book is that there is a diversity of menstrual experiences, and that is a good way for bodies (and people) to be. In the end, Clancy simply wants periods to be understood and respected for the remarkable biological process they are."---Lara Freidenfelds, Science"[Period] is an important and provocative look at an incredibly common yet stigmatized bodily process and at the fatal flaws underlying both our science and our society. It might make readers uncomfortable. But as Clancy proclaims, that means she’s doing her job."---Emily Cataneo, Undark"Period . . . is an energising read that models and opens critical conversations about ethically and politically reflective practices in the life sciences. . . .Clancy engages the reader in a dialogue that ignites curiosity and invites further inquiry, offering dollop after rich dollop of fascinating science. . . . Period is not only an exquisite work of science writing, it is a life-altering read."---Sarah S. Richardson, The Lancet"Religion is uniquely capable of taking painful, isolating experiences and using them as catalysts for forming community. Yet, so far, resources on the theology of menstruation are scant. As far as I know, there is no handbook for the pastoral care of people experiencing menstruation. And although Clancy demonstrates that menstrual blood is the source of life, I have yet to hear a sermon relating the life-giving blood of Christ to periods. Perhaps Period is the invitation pastors and theologians need to reimagine what it means to sing our old hymns about the 'wonder-working power in the blood.'"---David Black, Christian Century"Worth reading...for the demolition of the idea of a ‘normal’ 28-day cycle! [Clanch is] also great at considering the social implications of science."---Meghan Bartels, Scientific American"Kate Clancy, an anthropologist by training and a serious researcher into the science underlying menstruation, takes her readers on an adventurous romp through every physiological, political, and social aspect of this monthly bloodletting and tissue-shedding that virtually all women (and other people with uteruses) experience hundreds of times during their reproductive years – myth-busting as she goes. . . .The book is a must-read for anyone who menstruates, has menstruated, or will do so, and all those close to them – and, one hopes, a map for the future."---Caroline de Costa, Australian Book Review"Clancy’s perspective is expertly blended with insights from evolutionary biology, clinical investigations, public health, and social science to broaden our understanding of menstruation. Period is a relevant and timely contribution to biological anthropology and popular science that has the potential to influence research, health policy, and cultural perspectives of women’s reproductive health and menstruation." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"a well-written, interdisciplinary exposition of menstruation.... Highly recommended" * Choice *
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Princeton University Press One Soul We Divided
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Princeton University Press MidCentury Modernism and the American Body Race
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] insightful new book . . . [Mid-Century Modernism and the America Body] points out how many midcentury furnishings and magazine advertisements used demeaning images of women and people of color. The book highlights undeservedly obscure Black designers as well."---Eve M. Kahn, New York Times"Midcentury modernism isn’t merely a style characterized by clean lines, open floor plans, graphic use of color, and overt minimalism. Overtones of the movement are both radical and racial, argues author Kristina Wilson, making heretofore largely unexplored connections between race, gender, and modernist decor. Wilson [is] uniquely qualified to chart the journey."---Katherine Burns Olson, ArchitecturalDigest.com"Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body gives the ubiquitous decorating style the historical context it deserves."---Rebecca Onion, Slate"Wilson’s deep knowledge of and scholarship in modern design are evident in this book’s precisely articulated argument. . . . Wilson’s archival research and careful interrogation of relevant texts and images compels readers to see the powerful messages embedded in marketing materials in a fresh way. . . . Essential reading for students of sociology as well as design." * Library Journal *"A provocative analysis of race and gender during the Modernist movement in postwar America. Written in accessible language, yet supported by notable scholarly sources, Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body is a compelling read for the design student, mid-century enthusiast, and those interested in historical revisionism…A fascinating and important read for a popular audience."---Erika Balcombe, Spacing Vancouver"Tantalizingly illustrated with over 150 images taken from diverse design sources, Wilson’s book offers a beautiful and destabilizing “counter-history” of modernism that forces us to reconsider the sources and motivations behind the decorative revivalisms we hold dear."---Kate Burnett Budzyn, Decorative Arts Trust Bulletin"Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body serves as a timely corrective. . . . [The book] emphatically succeeds in the difficult task of unearthing hitherto concealed biases that undergirded the design of the period. . . . [It] can serve as a fruitful model for much of the urgent work that remains to be carried out in the field of design history."---Shane Morrissy, caa.reviews"[A] timely and meticulously researched foray into the politics of postwar modernist design. . . . Wilson’s provocative study makes resolutely evident the invaluable insights that the objects, processes, and social relations of design offer critical historians of even the most recent past."---Alison J. Clarke, Winterthur Portfolio"[Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body] stands apart from many recent books and exhibitions. . . . The book presents readers who are likely familiar with the basics of ‘mid-century Modern’ with new points of analysis. Wilson shows how much design historians have missed in focusing primarily, if not exclusively, on white designers and white consumers in histories of Modernism."---Bess Williamson, Journal of Design History"Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body by Kristina Wilson critiques the Fifties through: books/magazines, home/furniture designs, manufactured Kitsch, which consumers purchased or at least lusted after…[The book] is a worthwhile read"---Jean Bundy, Anchorage Press"[A] nuanced and exciting book. . . . Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body contributes a vital counternarrative to the canon and should be essential reading for historians, educators, designers, and students of design. . . . [I]t will encourage readers to look more closely within and around the frames to see where race, gender, and power inform design, both in history and in our contemporary world."---Jennifer Rittner, Panorama: Journal of the Association of the Historians of American Art
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Princeton University Press Unconditional Equals
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Unsettlingly brilliant. . . . Her work is proof positive of the richness of political theory in its authentically Aristotelian sense: as the abstract contemplation of politics for the sake of doing it better—if not always well."---Teresa M. Bejan, Boston Review"Conceptually rich and compulsively readable.—David Livingstone Smith, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"
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Princeton University Press Gender and Power in Rural Greece
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Princeton University Press Policing Prostitution in NineteenthCentury Paris
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