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Trade ReviewIn her comprehensive analysis of gender roles throughout a critical period in Osage history, Tai S. Edwards demonstrates how attention to a Native American nation’s deeply held beliefs in complementarity, autonomy, and balance allows us to understand indigenous resilience to colonization. Edwards does not simply add women to the story of the Osage empire. Rather, she proves that we cannot understand their creative and often successful adaptation without paying attention to the persistence of gendered values and behaviors. This book will change the way we understand the history of the southern plains."" - Rose Stremlau, author of Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation""An important new work that refutes the long-standing false stereotype of the male domination and abuse of women in Plains warrior societies. Edwards restores Osage women to their rightful place in an egalitarian, non-hierarchical indigenous system in which they were respected and essential participants in every aspect of Osage life while providing new insights regarding Osage resistance to, and selective adaption of, white norms under US colonialism. Important reading for students of indigenous history, women’s studies, and settler colonialism."" - Donna L. Akers, author of Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860

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Book Synopsisaeo The first in depth study of American sexuality at the time of the conquest of the Americas. aeo Sheds new light on conventional ways of examining the sexual relations, mainly between males, encountered by the Spaniards and Portugese entering the Americas during the Conquests.Trade Review"An absolutely fascinating book on male sexual culture in Europe and the Americas during the Conquest which will shock and take one's breath away." Ramon Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego "Sex and Conquest is a persuasive tour de force of deserted histories." Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley "In its exposure of the links between sexual abuse of boys and the sexualized subordination of women, Sex and Conquest offers a rare insight into gender inequality. Richard Trexler's analysis of male dominance in sacred and secular hierarchies offers evidence and depth, as well as sweep and vision." Catherine A. MacKinnon "His brutally unromantic conclusions are sure to provoke much-needed debate." Eugene Rice, Columbia University "Readable and informative, Trexler's book undeniably brings new complexity to conventional understandings of conquest." HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Introduction. 1. Backgrounds. 2. Iberian Experiences. 3. The Military and Diplomatic Berdache. 4. The Domestic Berdache: Becoming. 5. The Religious Berdache. 6. On the Ground. 7. Attitudes and Assessments. 8. Yesterday and Today. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates.Trade Review"Gill's thorough contemplation of theoretical works along with empirical research projects provides an excellent and up-to-date account of the relationship of gender to and with the media." Sociology "This book is extremely well written, which adds to its excellence as a text that combines an expert synthesis of the literature and Gill's own insightful analysis. Gill's book is suitable as a core text for any media studies, cultural studies and gender studies course as an update of Van Zoonen's 1994 text, since it contains an analysis of a diverse body of work made suitable for undergraduate level thanks to Gill's accessible writing style." Gender and Education "Brilliant - a must-read for all media educators." Newsletter of the Media Education Association "Gender and the Media is excellent throughout and confronts the reader with an embarras de richesse of insights." Feminism and Psychology "Gender and the Media is a lively and stimulating read and works as an excellent introduction for students in the field of media and gender studies. It is also a grown-up book that moves beyond the current feminist preoccupation with 'girls', to a renewed focus on 'women' in their infinite variety. I strongly recommend it." European Journal of Women?s Studies "A new masterpiece in the field of feminist media studies. Gender and the Media sheds new light on where we have been, and where we are going. It will be a staple of all media studies and women's studies classes for at least the next decade." Andrea Press, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "This is a thorough, lucid study which includes a good deal of new and original material, presenting it with admirable theoretical fluency yet in a clear and student-friendly way." Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths College "Rosalind Gill's book is an invaluable contribution to the field of gender and media research. Well written and engaging, it offers an overview of contemporary representations of gender, a sense of the main theoretical and methodological approaches at issue and a grounding in the cultural politics of the field." Cynthia Carter, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Gender and the Media 2. Analysing Gender in Media Texts 3. Advertising and Postfeminism 4. News, Gender and Journalism 5. Talk Shows 6. Gender in Magazines 7. Postfeminist Romance

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Book SynopsisThis volume reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies.Trade Review'This is a fine piece of theoretical work that deftly negotiates some complex debates. It is rigorous, scholarly and has something significant to say.' Feminist Theory 'Complex and elegantly written ... Anyone frustrated by the simple assertion that identity is like a trap which necessarily forecloses the prospect of true female agency will find this book to be a useful contribution to the ways we think about what it means to become a female subject in culture.' Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "McNay's book would benefit very greatly from the use of examples, to demonstrate the power of the approach she endorses in relation to contemporary feminist dilemmas and contentions." European Journal of Social TheoryTable of Contents1. Gender, Subjectification and Agency: Introductory Remarks. 2. Body, Position, Power: Bourdieu and Butler on Agency. 3. Gender and Narrative: Ricoeur on the Coherence of Self. 4. Psyche and Society: Castoriadis and the Creativity of Action. 5. Gender and Change: Concluding Remarks. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe notion of citizenship, with its balancing of rights and responsibilities, has become a dominant way of articulating sexual politics. This title explores the notion of sexual citizenship as a way to think through the ever-changing political, legal, social and cultural landscapes of sexuality.Trade Review'The Sexual Citizen is a provocative and highly readable volume that brings together the literatures on citizenship and sexuality. Bell and Binnie explore the meaning of the sexual citizen in relation to the city, debates around same-sex marriage, the military and globalization. The Sexual Citizen is a reliable guide to current debates on citizenship and sexuality.' Professor Steven Seidman, University at Albany, State University of New York 'This book is tantalizing, evocative, and approachable ... anyone keen to begin thinking carefully about our current struggle for sexual rights would do well to engage with Bell and Binnie's critique.' Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "This is a thoughtful and stimulating book that I highly recommend." Gavin Brown, Sexualities "This short, sharp, and succinct account by Bell and Binnie covers its topic very well and can be highly recommended for anyone who wants to get a quick grasp of the field and the issues. It is also a polemic: the authors have a clear, radical stand to take, which makes for a lively series of points to debate, too. And because it is relatively short, I can see many virtues to its use as a student text." American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Sexing Citizenship. 2. Sexual Politics And Sexual Citizenship. 3. Marriage, The Military And The Sexual Citizen. 4. The Sexual And The Social. 5. Sexual Democracy And Urban Life. 6. The Love That Dares Not Forget Its Brand Name. 7. Transnational Sexual Citizenship. 8. Turn It Into Love. 9. Hard Choices. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis.Trade Review"This extraordinary book gives us a sharp and illuminating examination of a condition that it is easy to think we understand … until we read this book. We may all be touched by it but Walby shows us all that is actually mobilized in producing the outcomes."Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions"Sylvia Walby’s new complexity theory analysis of the current crises adds an essential dimension, addressing the financial, economic, welfare state and political ramifications of the crisis as strongly connected dynamics. She convincingly argues why the conflict between democracy and capitalism can only be resolved through a deepening of democracy. As such, her book is an indispensable academic intervention in the politics of knowledge and empowers academics, politicians and citizens alike to address crisis."Mieke Verloo, Radboud University "A lucid text that ranges across disciplines yet maintains accessibility for a wide readership including sociologists, policy communities, students, and activists. [Walby] has produced a book that comfortably straddles the alleged divides among professional, policy, public, and critical sociology…Crisis makes signal contributions to sociological analysis and presents a pragmatic alternative to neoliberalism, which could be fairly readily implemented." American Journal of Sociology"[Walby] gives us conceptual tools adequate for a global theory of inequalities […and] also enables an integration of micro-social transactions into societal theory: the concept of a tipping point in crises where agency of a few may produce massive results."SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1 Introduction2 Theorizing Crisis3 Financial Crisis4 Economic Crisis: Recession5 Fiscal Crisis: Austerity6 Democratic Crisis7 Crisis in the Gender Regime8 Conclusions: Implications for Social Theory and Public PolicyReferences

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Book SynopsisThis engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist. Making visible the social relationships that drive the global economy, the book explores how economic transformations not only change the way we work, but how we live our lives. The full extent of changing patterns of employment and the current financial crisis cannot be fully understood in the confines of narrow conceptions of work and economy. Feminists address this shortcoming by developing both a theory and a political movement aimed at unveiling the power relations inherent in old and new forms of work. By providing an analysis of gender, work, and the economy, Heidi Gottfried brings to light the many faces of power from the bedroom to the boardroom. A discussion of globalization is threaded throughout the book to uncover the impact of increasing global intercoTrade Review"“Heidi Gottfried’s synthesis and original analysis is a welcome addition to research trying to grasp the complexities of globalization from a feminist perspective. As review, critique and analysis, Gender, Work, and Economy makes an important contribution to our understanding of gendered social process, structure and relations.”Work Employment and Society“With its nuanced and systematic review of all the important issues, this will become a classic work on the field of gender and work.”Sylvia Walby, Lancaster University“Gottfried gives a thorough gendered analysis of work and economy in our globalizing world, showing theoretically and empirically how gender is central in these processes. This book provides essential grounding for future work in this area.”Joan Acker, University of Oregon“Gottfried has written a thoughtful, comprehensive, theoretically insightful review of the field of gender and work, locating the discussion within the evolving context of globalization. The book would make a terrific backbone for an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate seminar in gender and work or gender and globalization.”Leslie Salzinger, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. An Introduction to Gender, Work, and Economy: Unpacking the Global EconomyPART I Studying Gender, Work and Economy2. Theories of Work and Economy3. An Integrative Framework for the Study of Gender, Work and EconomyPART II Political Economy of Gender, Work and Economy4. The Puzzle of Gender Segregation: From Historical Roots to Contemporary Divisions5. Serving People: Gender and Services in the New Economy6. Caring for People: Gender and Social Reproduction in Service Economies7. State and Economy: Gender, Policy and Work8. Terrains of Struggle: Gender, Work and Labor OrganizingPART III Gender, Work and Economy in a Global Context9. Thinking Globally, Global Thinking: Theories of Internationalization and Globalization10. Global Labor Markets, Commodity Chains and Gender Mobilities: Globalizing Production and Reproduction11. On the Global Economic Grid: Tokyo Tales, London Chronicles, Shanghai Stories12. New Political Landscapes: Gender Equality Projects in Global Arenas and Nation States

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Book SynopsisFrom Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men.Trade Review''Laura Sjoberg has written a valuable, teachable and up-to-the-minute gender-smart book about war. With its mix of gritty case studies and Big Questions, Gender, War and Conflict offers lucky readers the tools to reassess mainstream International Relations' theories and to start fashioning explanations of their own.'' Cynthia Enloe, Clark University "Laura Sjoberg's book is a feminist international relations primer for the real world. She shows that we can’t understand - let alone end - wars and conflicts if we don’t understand the masculinities and femininities that fuel them. This is the book that everyone - students, academics, and policy-makers - needs to read." Jacqui True, Monash University"Gender, War, and Conflict provides a solid analysis about women and gender in conflict and war by highlighting gendered assumptions, experiences and values. An extremely useful study that examines conflict from a feminist perspective, Sjoberg makes an important contribution to the fields of international relations and political science to think in new ways about war."Terrorism and Political Violence Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introducing Gender, War, and Conflict Chapter 2. Where are the Women? Chapter 3. Where are the Men? Chapter 4. Why Men and Women Are Not Enough Chapter 5. Redefining War, Understanding Gender Chapter 6. War(s) as if Gender Mattered References

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Jill Steans popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to gender in international relations today.Trade Review"An excellent and accessible survey of an increasingly complex field, outlining and contextualizing the debates in a way that is sure to provide students and lecturers with the tools needed for deeper exploration of the issues."Feminist Women's Studies Association blog"Encourages political scientists with more mainstream leanings to think about these concepts in a non-traditional way - there is much to learn and enjoy in this text."LSE Review of Books"Fully revised and refocused on 'theory, practice and policy,' this edition of Steans' already popular text is the best yet. She expertly synthesizes recent scholarship, bringing us up to date on 'gender and IR' while expanding discussion of emerging issues. In addition to the accessibility, coherence and comprehensive coverage we have come to expect, Steans provides new pedagogical features that will be welcomed by students and teachers alike."V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona "Accessible and comprehensive as it is innovative, this new revised text is well crafted, simultaneously raising nuanced issues about gender and IR, and in an accessible manner for the student of the 21st century. Its clarity and its illustrative materials bring gender and IR to life. Combining major theories of international relations with multidisciplinary approaches to the study and practice of gender, this text provides students with critical tools necessary to understand and creatively assess the gendered effects of the complex forces shaping our world today."Anna M. Agathangelou, York University "This book synthesizes the ever growing debate on how immensely gender matters in international relations. It covers the depth and breadth of gender-aware IR scholarship, feminist and non-feminist alike, and brings to light its important contributions to understanding political practice and to theory building. Jill Steans provides all this information in a delightfully accessible way. Students who are curious about how the world works will find a lot of first class answers in her book."Susanne Zwingel, State University of New York at PotsdamTable of ContentsAcknowledgements page vi Introduction 1 1. Gender in International Relations 7 2. Feminist International Relations 25 3. States, Nations and Citizenship 47 4. Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights 70 5. Confl ict, Peace and Violence 95 6. Security and Peacekeeping 116 7. Telling Stories 140 8. Global Political Economy 159 9. Global Governance 182 10. Transnational Feminist Politics 209 Conclusion 230 Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts 238 Notes 247 Extended Reading 271 Index 289

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Jill Steans popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to gender in international relations today.Trade Review"An excellent and accessible survey of an increasingly complex field, outlining and contextualizing the debates in a way that is sure to provide students and lecturers with the tools needed for deeper exploration of the issues."Feminist Women's Studies Association blog"Encourages political scientists with more mainstream leanings to think about these concepts in a non-traditional way - there is much to learn and enjoy in this text."LSE Review of Books"Fully revised and refocused on 'theory, practice and policy,' this edition of Steans' already popular text is the best yet. She expertly synthesizes recent scholarship, bringing us up to date on 'gender and IR' while expanding discussion of emerging issues. In addition to the accessibility, coherence and comprehensive coverage we have come to expect, Steans provides new pedagogical features that will be welcomed by students and teachers alike."V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona "Accessible and comprehensive as it is innovative, this new revised text is well crafted, simultaneously raising nuanced issues about gender and IR, and in an accessible manner for the student of the 21st century. Its clarity and its illustrative materials bring gender and IR to life. Combining major theories of international relations with multidisciplinary approaches to the study and practice of gender, this text provides students with critical tools necessary to understand and creatively assess the gendered effects of the complex forces shaping our world today."Anna M. Agathangelou, York University "This book synthesizes the ever growing debate on how immensely gender matters in international relations. It covers the depth and breadth of gender-aware IR scholarship, feminist and non-feminist alike, and brings to light its important contributions to understanding political practice and to theory building. Jill Steans provides all this information in a delightfully accessible way. Students who are curious about how the world works will find a lot of first class answers in her book."Susanne Zwingel, State University of New York at PotsdamTable of ContentsAcknowledgements page vi Introduction 1 1. Gender in International Relations 7 2. Feminist International Relations 25 3. States, Nations and Citizenship 47 4. Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights 70 5. Conflict, Peace and Violence 95 6. Security and Peacekeeping 116 7. Telling Stories 140 8. Global Political Economy 159 9. Global Governance 182 10. Transnational Feminist Politics 209 Conclusion 230 Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts 238 Notes 247 Extended Reading 271 Index 289

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Book SynopsisIssues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are often overlooked or treated as peripheral. This groundbreaking collection by Alison Jaggar brings gender to the centre of philosophical debates about global justice.Trade Review"The last decade has seen an explosion of work on global justice. But most of it has neglected the gendered aspects of many pressing transnational moral problems. This volume is a welcome correction and should be taken seriously by anyone concerned to understand and to help correct the severe injustices that continue to oppress so many people around the world."Thomas Pogge, Yale University"This outstanding collection of new philosophical essays conceives the gendered dimensions of global justice to include not only domestic work and sexual violence but also such issues as migrant workers, mental health, and taxation. I highly recommend it for any upper-level course or seminar on global justice and human rights."Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin"This book marks an important contribution both to feminism and to the philosophy of global justice. There has been a tendency to neglect, in theory and in practice, gendered dimensions of serious transnational wrongs and challenges. These authors reckon with global dynamics of gender on issues including poverty, labor migration, war and violence, the experience of violation, and mental health. A compelling and corrective volume."Erin Kelly, Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Gender and Global Justice: Rethinking Some Basic Assumptions of Western Political Philosophy 1 Alison M. Jaggar 1 Transnational Cycles of Gendered Vulnerability: A Prologue to a Theory of Global Gender Justice 18 Alison M. Jaggar 2 Transnational Women’s Collectivities and Global Justice 40 Hye-Ryoung Kang 3 The Moral Harm of Migrant Carework: Realizing a Global Right to Care 62 Eva Feder Kittay 4 Transnational Rights and Wrongs: Moral Geographies of Gender and Migration 85 Rachel Silvey 5 Global Gender Injustice and Mental Disorders 100 Abigail Gosselin 6 Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Context 119 Linda Martín Alcoff 7 Reforming Our Taxation Arrangements to Promote Global Gender Justice 147 Gillian Brock 8 Gender Injustice and the Resource Curse: Feminist Assessment and Reform 168 Scott Wisor Bibliography 193 Index 215

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Book SynopsisIssues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are often overlooked or treated as peripheral. This groundbreaking collection by Alison Jaggar brings gender to the centre of philosophical debates about global justice.Trade Review"The last decade has seen an explosion of work on global justice. But most of it has neglected the gendered aspects of many pressing transnational moral problems. This volume is a welcome correction and should be taken seriously by anyone concerned to understand and to help correct the severe injustices that continue to oppress so many people around the world."Thomas Pogge, Yale University"This outstanding collection of new philosophical essays conceives the gendered dimensions of global justice to include not only domestic work and sexual violence but also such issues as migrant workers, mental health, and taxation. I highly recommend it for any upper-level course or seminar on global justice and human rights."Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin"This book marks an important contribution both to feminism and to the philosophy of global justice. There has been a tendency to neglect, in theory and in practice, gendered dimensions of serious transnational wrongs and challenges. These authors reckon with global dynamics of gender on issues including poverty, labor migration, war and violence, the experience of violation, and mental health. A compelling and corrective volume."Erin Kelly, Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Gender and Global Justice: Rethinking Some Basic Assumptions of Western Political Philosophy 1 Alison M. Jaggar 1 Transnational Cycles of Gendered Vulnerability: A Prologue to a Theory of Global Gender Justice 18 Alison M. Jaggar 2 Transnational Women’s Collectivities and Global Justice 40 Hye-Ryoung Kang 3 The Moral Harm of Migrant Carework: Realizing a Global Right to Care 62 Eva Feder Kittay 4 Transnational Rights and Wrongs: Moral Geographies of Gender and Migration 85 Rachel Silvey 5 Global Gender Injustice and Mental Disorders 100 Abigail Gosselin 6 Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Context 119 Linda Martín Alcoff 7 Reforming Our Taxation Arrangements to Promote Global Gender Justice 147 Gillian Brock 8 Gender Injustice and the Resource Curse: Feminist Assessment and Reform 168 Scott Wisor Bibliography 193 Index 215

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Book SynopsisClimate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the earth, but they also negatively impact human lives, especially those of women.Trade Review"Inequality and discrimination are central to why the global environmental crisis is escalating. Nicole Detraz’s trailblazing book reveals how gender analysis offers essential insights into why the problems of consumption, environmental insecurity, and unsustainable development persist, as well as why government and corporate policies so often cause even greater injustice." Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia "Detraz's book shows how our understanding of environmental issues is enhanced by considering the particular experiences of women and men in the face of environmental degradation. The analysis is both straightforward - accessible to a beginner - and sophisticated, tracing how different feminisms build on the core concepts of sustainability and justice to transform familiar debates in global environmental politics." Kathryn Hochstetler, University of Waterloo"A thorough, accessible and succinct overview of the debates to date. This book is extremely helpful in laying out the field of GEP…as well as in achieving its specific aim to develop analytical connections between gender and environment. The clarity and comprehensiveness of the overviews are very useful for educators and learners alike."Environmental Education ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix 1 Introduction: How are Gender and the Environment Connected? 1 2 Sustainability and Sustainable Development as Gendered Concepts 20 3 Revealing Gender in Environmental Justice 45 4 Too Many People? Gender and Population Debates 69 5 Too Much Stuff? Gender and Debates about Consumption 94 6 Too Little Security? Gender and the Securitization of the Environment 120 7 Conclusion: Gendered Sustainability and Justice in Climate Change Debates 146 Notes 166 References 174 Index 203

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Book SynopsisClimate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the earth, but they also negatively impact human lives, especially those of women.Trade Review"Inequality and discrimination are central to why the global environmental crisis is escalating. Nicole Detraz’s trailblazing book reveals how gender analysis offers essential insights into why the problems of consumption, environmental insecurity, and unsustainable development persist, as well as why government and corporate policies so often cause even greater injustice." Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia "Detraz's book shows how our understanding of environmental issues is enhanced by considering the particular experiences of women and men in the face of environmental degradation. The analysis is both straightforward - accessible to a beginner - and sophisticated, tracing how different feminisms build on the core concepts of sustainability and justice to transform familiar debates in global environmental politics." Kathryn Hochstetler, University of Waterloo"A thorough, accessible and succinct overview of the debates to date. This book is extremely helpful in laying out the field of GEP…as well as in achieving its specific aim to develop analytical connections between gender and environment. The clarity and comprehensiveness of the overviews are very useful for educators and learners alike."Environmental Education ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix 1 Introduction: How Are Gender and the Environment Connected? 1 2 Sustainability and Sustainable Development as Gendered Concepts 20 3 Revealing Gender in Environmental Justice 45 4 Too Many People? Gender and Population Debates 69 5 Too Much Stuff? Gender and Debates about Consumption 94 6 Too Little Security? Gender and the Securitization of the Environment 120 7 Conclusion: Gendered Sustainability and Justice in Climate Change Debates 146 Notes 166 References 174 Index 203

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Book SynopsisHow are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences. In this compelling and original study, Ken Plummer argues the need for a practical utopian project of hope that he calls cosmopolitan sexualities'. He asks: how can we connect our differences with collective values, our uniqueness with multiple group belonging, our sexual and gendered individualities with a broader common humanity? Showing how a foundation for this new ethics, politics and imagination are evolving across the world, he discusses the many possible pitfalls being encountered. He highlights the complexity of sexual and gender cultures, the ubiquity of human conflict, the difficulties of dialogue and the problems with finding any common gTrade Review"Plummer has given us a new sexology for our age… Warning us not to take our stereotypes for granted, he takes us through sexualities in China, in Africa and in Middle Eastern societies, and organises sexualities into global zones, regional discrepancies and local eruptions."Times Higher Education "Ken Plummer's new work on sexualities is a carefully constructed book designed to captivate students and scholars with an interest in sexuality studies...a thoroughly enjoyable read which leaves the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of sexualities and a hopeful perspective for a humanistic world." James Pickles, Network Review "This is a book of deep knowledge and passionate commitment. It is the culmination of a lifetime’s work on the sociology, culture and politics of sexuality, and is suffused with a critical humanism that offers a guide for the perplexed troubled by our contemporary sexual labyrinth. It is a landmark of sexual scholarship." Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University "Ken Plummer helped define the field of sexuality studies, and now he pushes well beyond its boundaries, taking on big questions of social theory. Cosmopolitan Sexualities uses the lens of sexuality studies to grapple with debates about belonging and difference in our rapidly globalizing world. Plummer has read absolutely everything, and in this book he offers a comprehensive, often dazzling road map of the myriad changes which are simultaneously remaking intimate life and macro worlds, and what they tell us about what it means to be human." Arlene Stein, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsBoxes x Website xi Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 A troubled world 3 A tale to tell 5 An infinity of lists 8 Part One: Humanism and the Making of Cosmopolitan Sexualities 11 1 Plural Sexualities: Making Valued Human Lives 13 Plural lives 14 Contingency and the varieties of sexual experience 16 Critical humanism 20 Humanist troubles 22 Vulnerability and the dignity of the self 26 Plural values, valued lives 29 Search for common humanities 30 A world ethics for critical humanism? 32 Valued sexual lives 36 2 Transformational Sexualities: Making Twenty-First-Century Sexual Lives 39 Transformational sexualities 40 Reproductive sexualities, techno sexualities 44 Mediated sexualities 45 Electronic sexualities 47 Familial sexualities 50 Gendered sexualities 52 Violent sexualities 53 Post-honour sexualities 54 Secular, sacred and fundamentalist sexualities 56 Commodified sexualities 58 Urban sexualities and their assemblages 61 AIDS and sexualities 63 Divided sexualities, pauperized sexualities 64 Individualized, reflective sexualities 65 Migrating, diasporic and hybrid sexualities 67 Global sexualities/mobile sexualities 68 Conclusion: Making sexual politics 69 3 Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Living With Different Lives 71 On cosmopolitanism 72 Constructing cosmopolitan sexualities in a global arena 74 Troubles ahead: the contradictions and limits of cosmopolitanism 88 The (very) long walk to cosmopolitan sexualities 101 Part Two: Inclusive Sexualities: Nudging Towards a Better World 103 4 Cultural Sexualities: Cultivating Awareness of Complexity 105 Global sexualities and research 107 World cultures and macro sexualities 110 Impure cultures and subterranean sexualities 116 Local cultures and micro sexualities 123 Conclusion: complex cultures 130 5 Contested Sexualities: Inventing Enemies, Making Boundaries 131 Scaling the battlegrounds 133 Divisive sexualities, agonistic politics 135 The fault line of contested sexualities 141 On boundaries, belonging and the vulnerabilities of normativity 143 Normative sexualities 145 Vulnerable sexualities 150 Looking ahead 153 6 Communicative Sexualities: On the Hope and Empathy for a Common Global Humanity 155 Empathic sexualities 156 Narrative sexualities 161 Dialogic sexualities 164 Ethical sexualities 167 Democratic sexualities 175 Bleak sexualities 179 Hopeful sexualities 182 The little grounded everyday ‘utopian’ processes of global hope 183 In the end 187 Epilogue: Contingent Sexualities – Dancing into the Sexual Labyrinth 190 Personal tales 193 Textual tales 194 Research tales 196 Troubled tales 198 Mobile tales 200 Notes 202 References 232 Index: 100 Samples of Multiple Sexualities 268 Index: General 270

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Book SynopsisHow are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ punitive responses to such differences.Trade Review"Plummer has given us a new sexology for our age… Warning us not to take our stereotypes for granted, he takes us through sexualities in China, in Africa and in Middle Eastern societies, and organises sexualities into global zones, regional discrepancies and local eruptions."Times Higher Education "Ken Plummer's new work on sexualities is a carefully constructed book designed to captivate students and scholars with an interest in sexuality studies...a thoroughly enjoyable read which leaves the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of sexualities and a hopeful perspective for a humanistic world." James Pickles, Network Review "This is a book of deep knowledge and passionate commitment. It is the culmination of a lifetime’s work on the sociology, culture and politics of sexuality, and is suffused with a critical humanism that offers a guide for the perplexed troubled by our contemporary sexual labyrinth. It is a landmark of sexual scholarship."Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University"Ken Plummer helped define the field of sexuality studies, and now he pushes well beyond its boundaries, taking on big questions of social theory. Cosmopolitan Sexualities uses the lens of sexuality studies to grapple with debates about belonging and difference in our rapidly globalizing world. Plummer has read absolutely everything, and in this book he offers a comprehensive, often dazzling road map of the myriad changes which are simultaneously remaking intimate life and macro worlds, and what they tell us about what it means to be human."Arlene Stein, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsBoxes x Website xi Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 A troubled world 3 A tale to tell 5 An infinity of lists 8 Part One: Humanism and the Making of Cosmopolitan Sexualities 11 1 Plural Sexualities: Making Valued Human Lives 13 Plural lives 14 Contingency and the varieties of sexual experience 16 Critical humanism 20 Humanist troubles 22 Vulnerability and the dignity of the self 26 Plural values, valued lives 29 Search for common humanities 30 A world ethics for critical humanism? 32 Valued sexual lives 36 2 Transformational Sexualities: Making Twenty-First-Century Sexual Lives 39 Transformational sexualities 40 Reproductive sexualities, techno sexualities 44 Mediated sexualities 45 Electronic sexualities 47 Familial sexualities 50 Gendered sexualities 52 Violent sexualities 53 Post-honour sexualities 54 Secular, sacred and fundamentalist sexualities 56 Commodified sexualities 58 Urban sexualities and their assemblages 61 AIDS and sexualities 63 Divided sexualities, pauperized sexualities 64 Individualized, reflective sexualities 65 Migrating, diasporic and hybrid sexualities 67 Global sexualities/mobile sexualities 68 Conclusion: Making sexual politics 69 3 Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Living With Different Lives 71 On cosmopolitanism 72 Constructing cosmopolitan sexualities in a global arena 74 Troubles ahead: the contradictions and limits of cosmopolitanism 88 The (very) long walk to cosmopolitan sexualities 101 Part Two: Inclusive Sexualities: Nudging Towards a Better World 103 4 Cultural Sexualities: Cultivating Awareness of Complexity 105 Global sexualities and research 107 World cultures and macro sexualities 110 Impure cultures and subterranean sexualities 116 Local cultures and micro sexualities 123 Conclusion: complex cultures 130 5 Contested Sexualities: Inventing Enemies, Making Boundaries 131 Scaling the battlegrounds 133 Divisive sexualities, agonistic politics 135 The fault line of contested sexualities 141 On boundaries, belonging and the vulnerabilities of normativity 143 Normative sexualities 145 Vulnerable sexualities 150 Looking ahead 153 6 Communicative Sexualities: On the Hope and Empathy for a Common Global Humanity 155 Empathic sexualities 156 Narrative sexualities 161 Dialogic sexualities 164 Ethical sexualities 167 Democratic sexualities 175 Bleak sexualities 179 Hopeful sexualities 182 The little grounded everyday ‘utopian’ processes of global hope 183 In the end 187 Epilogue: Contingent Sexualities – Dancing into the Sexual Labyrinth 190 Personal tales 193 Textual tales 194 Research tales 196 Troubled tales 198 Mobile tales 200 Notes 202 References 232 Index: 100 Samples of Multiple Sexualities 268 Index: General 270

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Book SynopsisGender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations.Trade Review"Gender and Peacebuilding is a well-written and well-argued work which contributes to a better understanding of contemporary gender dilemmas in the field of gender, peace and security. One of its main virtues is Duncanson's capacity to iron out arguments and dilemmas to the point where they become comprehensible to anyone, from undergraduate students to professors."—Journal of Intervention and StatebuildingTable of Contents Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: From gender blind to gender dilemmas Chapter 2: Feminist visions of peace Chapter 3: Feminist Critiques of Neoliberal Peacebuilding Chapter 4: Protection, Participation and Prevention in Practice Chapter 5: Gendering Alternatives to Neoliberal Peacebuilding Notes References

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Book SynopsisGender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations.Trade Review"Gender and Peacebuilding is a well-written and well-argued work which contributes to a better understanding of contemporary gender dilemmas in the field of gender, peace and security. One of its main virtues is Duncanson's capacity to iron out arguments and dilemmas to the point where they become comprehensible to anyone, from undergraduate students to professors."—Journal of Intervention and StatebuildingTable of Contents Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: From gender blind to gender dilemmas Chapter 2: Feminist visions of peace Chapter 3: Feminist Critiques of Neoliberal Peacebuilding Chapter 4: Protection, Participation and Prevention in Practice Chapter 5: Gendering Alternatives to Neoliberal Peacebuilding Notes References

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Book SynopsisGender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present.Trade Review'Covering a range of topics, from the composition of migration flows to the impact of immigration policies and relations in immigrant families, this illuminating book makes clear the need to bring gender fully into the study of migration. A well-written, clear, and thoughtful overview that will be a valuable resource for students and scholars alike.' Nancy Foner, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York 'In thoughtful, careful, and rigorous manner, Brettell has assembled a significant and illuminating account that expands our understanding of the centrality of gender to the migratory process over time and space. It is encyclopedic in nature and an essential resource for anyone interested in immigration, gender, or both.' Cecilia Menjívar, University of KansasTable of ContentsIntroduction: Engendering the Study of ImmigrationChapter One: The Gendered Demography of U.S. Immigration HistoryChapter Two: The Gendering of Law, Policy, Citizenship, and Political PracticeChapter Three: Gendered Labor MarketsChapter Four: Gender and the Immigrant FamilyConcluding Thoughts: A Gendered Theory of Migration

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Book SynopsisGender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Engendering the Study of ImmigrationChapter One: The Gendered Demography of U.S. Immigration HistoryChapter Two: The Gendering of Law, Policy, Citizenship, and Political PracticeChapter Three: Gendered Labor MarketsChapter Four: Gender and the Immigrant FamilyConcluding Thoughts: A Gendered Theory of Migration

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Book SynopsisIn an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction 1. Who Wins, Who Loses: The Real Story of the Transfer of Training to the Provinces and Its Impact on Women / Ursule Critoph 2. Snakes and Ladders: Coherence in Training for Office Workers / Alice de Wolff and Maureen Hynes 3. The Road to Equity: Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway / Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid 4. Women’s Training and Equity on the Hibernia Construction Project / Sue Hart and Mark Shrimpton 5. The Culture of Construction: Or, Etiquette for the Nontraditional / Kate Braid 6. Hammering Their Way through the Barriers: Low-Income Women Retrain to Be Carpenters / Margaret Little 7. Training and Retraining Health Workers amid Health Care Restructuring, Downsizing, and Rationalization: The Case of Health Care Aides / Larry Haiven and Liz Quinlan 8. Community Skills Training by and for Immigrant Women / Margaret Manery and Marjorie Griffin Cohen 9. Life Skills Training: "Open for Discussion" / Shauna Butterwick 10. Pathways to Employment for Women: Apprenticeship or College Training? / Robert Sweet 11. Public Policy and Women’s Access to Training in New Brunswick / Joan McFarland 12. Still Shopping for Training: Women, Training, and Livelihoods / Karen Lior and Susan Wismer 13. Youth Employment Programs in British Columbia: Taking the High Road or the Low Road? / Linda Wong and Stephen McBride 14. Training Youth at Risk: A Model Program in Quebec / Sylvain Bourdon and Frédéric Deschenaux Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction 1. Who Wins, Who Loses: The Real Story of the Transfer of Training to the Provinces and Its Impact on Women / Ursule Critoph 2. Snakes and Ladders: Coherence in Training for Office Workers / Alice de Wolff and Maureen Hynes 3. The Road to Equity: Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway / Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid 4. Women’s Training and Equity on the Hibernia Construction Project / Sue Hart and Mark Shrimpton 5. The Culture of Construction: Or, Etiquette for the Nontraditional / Kate Braid 6. Hammering Their Way through the Barriers: Low-Income Women Retrain to Be Carpenters / Margaret Little 7. Training and Retraining Health Workers amid Health Care Restructuring, Downsizing, and Rationalization: The Case of Health Care Aides / Larry Haiven and Liz Quinlan 8. Community Skills Training by and for Immigrant Women / Margaret Manery and Marjorie Griffin Cohen 9. Life Skills Training: "Open for Discussion" / Shauna Butterwick 10. Pathways to Employment for Women: Apprenticeship or College Training? / Robert Sweet 11. Public Policy and Women’s Access to Training in New Brunswick / Joan McFarland 12. Still Shopping for Training: Women, Training, and Livelihoods / Karen Lior and Susan Wismer 13. Youth Employment Programs in British Columbia: Taking the High Road or the Low Road? / Linda Wong and Stephen McBride 14. Training Youth at Risk: A Model Program in Quebec / Sylvain Bourdon and Frédéric Deschenaux Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how youth identities have been constructed through dominant and often competing discourses about youth, sexuality, and gender, and how queer youth in Alberta negotiated the contradictions of these discourses.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Gendering: Troubled Theories, Troubling Identities2 Production and Consumption of Youth Identity3 Social/Legal Production of Sexual Minorities in Canada4 Queer Identities and Strange Representations in the Province of the Severely NormalNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this thought-provoking book, Sylvia Bashevkin examines the consequences of divergent restructuring experiences in London and Toronto.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Restructuring Contexts 2. Seeking Public Office 3. Working from the Inside 4. Planning Ahead 5. Assessing Restructuring 6. Future Prospects Appendix: Interview Schedules Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this thought-provoking book, Sylvia Bashevkin examines the consequences of divergent restructuring experiences in London and Toronto.Trade Review"Lucid, succinct, and highly accessible. Readers with an interest in urban affairs will find this book of great value, while its women-centred approach to urban citizenship will appeal to urban analysts and their students in a range of disciplines. The author's comparative analysis of the social, political, and cultural characteristics of two cities that have recently experienced governmental reform is particularly compelling." - Nirmala Rao, co-author of Governing London"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Restructuring Contexts 2. Seeking Public Office 3. Working from the Inside 4. Planning Ahead 5. Assessing Restructuring 6. Future Prospects Appendix: Interview Schedules Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Zina Ordinance is part of the Hadood Ordinances that were promulgated in 1979 by the military dictator, General Zia-ul-Haq. This work argues that the Zina laws help situate morality within the individual, thus de-emphasizing the prevalence of societal immorality.Trade Review"Khan's emphasis on reading zina laws within a larger politicized context, her problematization of the role of the native informant, and her argument to transcend binary thinking gives a cutting edge to this important work. An excellent book for those in the fields of gender studies, Muslim women, Orientalism, and global politics." - Parin Dossa, author of Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women in the Diaspora"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Locating the Issue 1 Native Informing on the Zina Ordinance 2 Contextualizing the Zina Ordinance 3 Speaking to the Women 4 Disobedient Daughters, Errant Wives, and Others 5 Current Challenges to the Zina Ordinance 6 A Politics of Transnationality and Reconfigured NativeInforming Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisGendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science – the nation-state.Trade ReviewThe 14 essayists in this book have brilliantly analyzed gender and nation, gender and state processes and gender and citizenship. This is a scholarly book showing the way to justice, equality and understanding for the role of women in the state. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * Lower Island News, Vol. 25, 2008 *…political scientists and other social scientists will benefit from reading Gendering the Nation-State. It contributes to the breaking down of boundaries in political science and clearly connects theories to both empirical knowledge and the political outcomes that affect women directly. -- Sara Mitchell, University of Ottawa * Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques, vol xxxvii, no 3 *This is an excellent collection. While its main focus is clearly on gender and the state, the book makes important contributions to our understanding of nationalism, comparative politics, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, risk society and the role of transnational actors and NGOs. The collection clearly establishes that analyzing gender is not just a matter of “adding” insights to existing analyses but that gendered perspectives often fundamentally challenge the way in which traditional categories and analyses are constructed. As Yasmeen Abu-Laban makes clear in her introduction, the collection “is a response to a disciplinary incompleteness in political science. -- Carol Johnson * Canadian Journal of Political Science (2011), 44: 458-459 *Table of ContentsContributorsAcknowledgmentsGendering the Nation State: An Introduction / Yasmeen Abu-LabanPart 1: Gender and Nation1 Gendering the Hyphen: Gender Dimensions of Modern Nation-State Formation in Euro-American and Anti- and Post-Colonial Contexts / Jill Vickers2 Gender and Nation in the Soviet/Russian Transformation / Maya Eichler3 Projecting Gender and Nation: Literature for Immigrants in Canada and Sweden / Shauna WiltonPart 2: Gender and State Processes4 Assembling Women, Gendering Assemblies / Linda Trimble5 Feminist Ideals versus Bureaucratic Norms: The Case of Feminist Researchers and the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies / Francesca Scala6 Framing Feminists: Market Populism and Its Impact on Public Policy in Australia and Canada / Marian Sawer7 Women’s Rights and Religious Opposition: the Politics of Gender at the International Criminal Court / Louise ChappellPart 3: Gender and Citizenship8 Putting Gender Back In: Women and Social Policy Reform in Canada / Janine Brodie9 Citizenship in the Era of New Social Risks. What Happened to Gender Inequalities? / Jane Jenson10 Carefair: Gendering Citizenship “Neoliberal” Style / Paul Kershaw11 Republican Liberty, Naming Laws, and the Role of Patronymy in Constituting Women’s Citizenship in Canada and Quebec / Jackie F. Steele12 Gendering Nation States and/or Gendering City-States: Debates about the Nature of Citizenship / Caroline AndrewAfterword: The Future of Feminism / Judy RebickNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUndercurrents engages the critical rubric of “queer” to examine Hong Kong’s screen, uncovering a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West, and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.Trade ReviewThis lucid and original book is the first dealing with queer cinema and queer culture in Hong Kong. By eschewing the conventional – and foreign – ideas of gay and lesbian identity for a more protean range of possibilities under the rubric of “queer,” Helen Hok-Sze Leung shows that Hong Kong’s screen culture includes a much richer and deeper queer vein than many observers have supposed. -- Chris Berry, co-author of China on Screen: Cinema and NationThere is nothing quite like Undercurrents currently available in the English language. Its archive – Hong Kong cultural productions including contemporary cinema, architecture, urban space, modern literature, icons from popular culture, and community-driven radio programming – is impressively wide-ranging and diverse. Its theoretical apparatus – bringing together queer theory and postcolonial studies – is equally remarkable. This is a beautifully conceived, crafted, and compelling book. -- David Eng, author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian AmericaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 Sex and the Postcolonial City2 Between Girls3 Trans Formations4 In Queer Memory5 Do It YourselfNotesBibliographyFilmographyDiscographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians.Trade ReviewKinsman and Gentile have taken on an ambitious project both with respect to their topic as well as the scope of more than four decades worth of material. This is an incredibly important piece of work and will be appreciated by those who have a historical interest in national security campaigns and queer history, as well as those who want a history on which to base contemporary resistance to the security campaigns that are still being mounted against many marginalized people today. * TOPIA, Spring 2011 *This account of the surveillance of Canadian lesbians and gays in the name of national security is impressive, at once bone-chilling and inspiring. -- David Rayside * Left History, 14.2 *An important intervention into mainstream studies of Canadian historiography. -- Jack Hixson-Vulpe * Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 *Table of ContentsPreface: National Security Wars Then and Now1 Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History2 Queer History and Sociology from Below: Resisting National Security as an Ideological Practice3 The Cold War against Queers: Social and Historical Contexts4 The Social Relations of National Security: Spying and Interrogation5 The “Fruit Machine”: Attempting to Detect Queers6 Queer Resistance and the Security Response7 The Campaign Continues in the 1970s: Security Risks and Lesbian Purges in the Military8 “Gay Political Activists” and “Radical Lesbians”: Organizing against the National Security State9 From Exclusion to Assimilation10 Resisting the Expanding National Security State: From the Canadian War on Queers to the War on “Terror”AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past.Trade ReviewThrough the concept of haunting, Francis provides a new and sophisticated way of thinking about the circulation of images of nationhood, showing how ideas about whiteness, aboriginality, race, and sexuality that were formative in the development of Anglo-Canadian nationhood continue to haunt its contemporary representations. -- Anne Whitelaw, Department of Art History, Concordia UniversityEngaging and insightful...Francis's analysis of the history of national parks in Canada and their meaning for national identity will ring particularly true to anyone familiar with the substantial literature in the United States on its national parks system. -- Chris Herbert, Grand Valley State University * BC Studies, No. 176, Winter 2012-13 *In addition to its scholarly rigour and theoretical sophistication, Creative Subversions is highly readable and engaging...This book is a major contribution to the study of Canada across the disciplines of history, art history, media and film studies, and cultural studies, and it will also be of value to scholars and students of colonialism and culture more generally. -- Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol 14, No 1, 2013 *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction: "Ghosts Trying to Find Their Clothes"2 The Strange Career of the Beaver: Anthropomorphic Discourse and Imperial History3 Things Not Named: Bachelors, Dirty Laundry, and the Canadian Pacific Railway4 Exploring Banff National Park: Rangers on the Mountain Frontier5 Playing Indian: Indigenous Responses to Indianness6 Conclusion: Living in “Haunted Places”NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past.Trade ReviewThrough the concept of haunting, Francis provides a new and sophisticated way of thinking about the circulation of images of nationhood, showing how ideas about whiteness, aboriginality, race, and sexuality that were formative in the development of Anglo-Canadian nationhood continue to haunt its contemporary representations. -- Anne Whitelaw, Department of Art History, Concordia UniversityEngaging and insightful...Francis's analysis of the history of national parks in Canada and their meaning for national identity will ring particularly true to anyone familiar with the substantial literature in the United States on its national parks system. -- Chris Herbert, Grand Valley State University * BC Studies, No. 176, Winter 2012-13 *In addition to its scholarly rigour and theoretical sophistication, Creative Subversions is highly readable and engaging...This book is a major contribution to the study of Canada across the disciplines of history, art history, media and film studies, and cultural studies, and it will also be of value to scholars and students of colonialism and culture more generally. -- Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol 14, No 1, 2013 *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction: "Ghosts Trying to Find Their Clothes"2 The Strange Career of the Beaver: Anthropomorphic Discourse and Imperial History3 Things Not Named: Bachelors, Dirty Laundry, and the Canadian Pacific Railway4 Exploring Banff National Park: Rangers on the Mountain Frontier5 Playing Indian: Indigenous Responses to Indianness6 Conclusion: Living in “Haunted Places”NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Canada grew from a handful of members to more than a quarter-million and from political insignificance to a position of influence in the emergence of the welfare state. What was it about the good war that brought about this phenomenal growth?Labour Goes to War analyzes the organizing strategies of the CIO during the war to show that both cultural and economic forces were at work. Labour shortages gave workers greater power in the workplace and increased their militancy. But workers' patriotism, their ties to those on active service, and allegiance to the people's war also contributed to the CIO's growth and to what it claimed for workers. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Wendy Cuthbertson illuminates this complex wartime context. She also shows how the complex, often contradictory, motives of workers during this period left the Canadian labour movement with an ambivalent progressive/coTrade ReviewAlthough the CIO began the Second World War on precarious ground, by 1945 it had become a powerhouse. Labour Goes to War explains how this transformation took place, offering original insight into the making of the Canadian labour movement during the war years. Drawing on the reconstruction rhetoric of the peoples’ war for democracy, the CIO expanded its own commitment to equality rights for women and minorities and promoted a new language of social entitlement for working people. -- Joan Sangster, author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction1 “A Trifle Depressing”: The CIO on the Eve of War2 Organizing the Unorganized in Wartime3 Wartime Organizing: Getting to a Majority4 “Becoming Unionized as Well as Organized”: Union Sociability, the Transmission of Ideas, and the Creed of Equality5 “The War for the Common Man”: The CIO’s Narrative of a Fulfilled Democracy6 “Equal Partners in This World Crusade”: Women, Equal Pay, and the CIOConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDespite the Supreme Court of Canada's crucial role in the country's legal system, many Canadians are in the dark about the inner workings of this institution. In Governing from the Bench, Emmett Macfarlane draws on interviews with current and former justices, former law clerks, and other staff members of the court to shed light on the institution's internal environment and decision-making processes. Challenging dominant theoretical and methodological approaches that fail to examine individual or structural forces that affect the court's decisions, he explores the complex role of the Supreme Court as an institution; exposes the rules, conventions, and norms that shape and constrain its justices' behaviour; and situates the court in its wider governmental and societal context. At once enlightening and engaging, Governing from the Bench is a much-needed and comprehensive exploration of an institution that touches the lives of all Canadians.Trade ReviewMacfarlane describes the aim of his book as being to “open the black box”; suffice it to say that he has done so masterfully by synthesizing earlier research and supplementing it with his own extensive work. He has produced not a meditation on how Supreme Court judging should work, but an empirical examination of how it does work, with important contributions from the point of view of the participants themselves ... Governing from the Bench is a gem of a book for anyone seeking to understand how power is exercised by the judiciary — an audience that should include everyone. -- Bob Tarantino * Literary Review of Canada, January-February 2014 *Macfarlane has made an original foray into the intricacies of Supreme Court decision making. Governing from the Bench has gone to considerable lengths towards opening the Supreme Court’s “black box,” and in doing so has brought historical institutionalism into the mainstream of the study of Canadian law and politics. I highly recommend it. -- Dave Snow, University of Calgary * Canadian Journal of Political Science *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Studying Judicial Behaviour2 The Evolution of the Court and Its Justices3 Setting the Stage: Exploring Court Processes Leading to Decisions4 The Decision: Collegiality, Conflict, and Consensus5 A Question of Competence: Examining Judicial Policy Making6 The Court in Government and Society: Dialogue, Public Opinion, and the MediaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the institutional, academic, family, and personal contributors to the academic gender gap in liberal-state universities.Trade ReviewAcademic Careers and the Gender Gap is an original study that offers valuable new insights on the gendering of academic work, especially with respect to the changing nature of the university context and the academic profession. A particular strength lies in the rich qualitative data that sheds valuable light on ongoing debates in the sociology of gender, work, and family. -- Karen D. Hughes, Professor of Sociology and Business (Strategic Management and Organization), University of AlbertaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1 Setting the Scene2 Gendered Patterns of Education, Work, and Family Life3 University Restructuring and Global Markets4 Social Capital and Gendered Responses to University Practices5 Gendered Families and the Motherhood Penalty6 Subjectivities and the Gender Gap7 Explaining the Academic Gender GapMethodological AppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn 1955, the controversial and innovative sexologist John Money first used the term gender in a way that we all now take for granted: to describe a human characteristic. Money's work broke new ground and gave currency to medical ideas about human sexuality. As an ardent advocate for sexual liberation, he became something of a fixture in the popular imagination.This book cuts through Money's talent for polemic and self-promotion by digging into the substance of Money's theories and achievements. It offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of this pioneering scholar's writing to assess Money's profound impact on the debates and research on sexuality and gender that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Through his analysis, Goldie recovers Money's brilliance and insight from simplistic dismissals of his work due to his involvement in the tragic David Reimer case, while never losing sight of his flaws.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sexual Behaviour in the Human1 Once a Brethren Boy: The Early Years2 Fixing Sex: Intersex3 Lovemaps: The Relationship World4 Man/Woman, Boy/Girl: Transsexuality5 Gay, Straight, and In-Between: Homosexuality6 The Edge of the Alphabet: Neologisms7 What Wild Ecstasy: Sexual Liberation, Pedophilia, and Pornography8 As Nature Made Him: The Reimer CaseConclusion: Venuses PenusesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisA volume of cutting-edge scholarship that argues against the traditional assumption that religion and sexuality will always collide, instead exploring sites of intersection where various forms of both co-exist.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Heather ShipleyPart 1: Religion and the Construction of Sexual Minority Rights1 Beyond Tolerance: Sexual Diversity and Economic Justice / Janet R. Jakobsen2 “Severely Normal”: Sexuality and Religion in Alberta’s Bill 44 / Pamela Dickey Young3 “I’m not Homophobic, I’m Chinese”: Hong Kong Canadian Christians and the Campaign against Same-Sex Marriage / Lee Wing HinPart 2: Sexuality and the Construction of Religious Identities4 Challenging Identity Constructs: The Debate over the Sex Education Curriculum in Ontario / Heather Shipley5 When Religion Meets Sexuality: Two Tales of Intersection / Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip6 Women, Sex, and the Catholic Church: The Implications of Domestic Violence for Reproductive Choice / Catherine HoltmannPart 3: Sexual Bodies/Religious Bodies7 The Construction of a Sexual Pedagogy: Childhood and Saints in Roman Catholic Discourse / Donald L. Boisvert8 Corporeal Diversity in the Religion of Sport: The Debate over Enhanced Bodies / Tracy J. Trothen9 Strong Spirits, Abused Bodies: Social, Political, and Theological Reflections / Nancy Nason-ClarkConclusion / Pamela Dickey YoungIndex

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Book SynopsisA volume of cutting-edge scholarship that argues against the traditional assumption that religion and sexuality will always collide, instead exploring sites of intersection where various forms of both co-exist.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Heather ShipleyPart 1: Religion and the Construction of Sexual Minority Rights1 Beyond Tolerance: Sexual Diversity and Economic Justice / Janet R. Jakobsen2 “Severely Normal”: Sexuality and Religion in Alberta’s Bill 44 / Pamela Dickey Young3 “I’m not Homophobic, I’m Chinese”: Hong Kong Canadian Christians and the Campaign against Same-Sex Marriage / Lee Wing HinPart 2: Sexuality and the Construction of Religious Identities4 Challenging Identity Constructs: The Debate over the Sex Education Curriculum in Ontario / Heather Shipley5 When Religion Meets Sexuality: Two Tales of Intersection / Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip6 Women, Sex, and the Catholic Church: The Implications of Domestic Violence for Reproductive Choice / Catherine HoltmannPart 3: Sexual Bodies/Religious Bodies7 The Construction of a Sexual Pedagogy: Childhood and Saints in Roman Catholic Discourse / Donald L. Boisvert8 Corporeal Diversity in the Religion of Sport: The Debate over Enhanced Bodies / Tracy J. Trothen9 Strong Spirits, Abused Bodies: Social, Political, and Theological Reflections / Nancy Nason-ClarkConclusion / Pamela Dickey YoungIndex

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Book SynopsisThis perceptive intellectual history of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec explores how the concept of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and an emerging Quebec nationalism.Trade ReviewJeffery Vacante livre dans sa monographie une étude brillante sur l’articulation entre masculinité, nationalisme et modernité au Québec. -- Camille Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal * Histoire Sociale *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Roots of National Manhood2 Reinforcing Heterosexual Manhood3 The Decline of the French Canadian Race4 War and Manhood5 The Revitalization of National History 6 The Critique of National ManhoodConclusionNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisThis perceptive intellectual history of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec explores how the concept of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and an emerging Quebec nationalism.Trade ReviewJeffery Vacante livre dans sa monographie une étude brillante sur l’articulation entre masculinité, nationalisme et modernité au Québec. -- Camille Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal * Histoire Sociale *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Roots of National Manhood2 Reinforcing Heterosexual Manhood3 The Decline of the French Canadian Race4 War and Manhood5 The Revitalization of National History 6 The Critique of National ManhoodConclusionNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisCanada's Indian Act is infamously sexist. Through many iterations of the legislation a woman's status rights flowed from her husband, and even once it was amended to reinstate rights lost through marriage or widowhood, First Nations women could not necessarily pass status on to their descendants. That injustice has rightly been subject to much scrutiny, but what has it meant for First Nations men? Martin J. Cannon challenges the decades-long assumption of case law and politics that the act has affected Indigenous people as either women or Indians but not both. He argues that sexism and racialization within the law must instead be understood as interlocking forms of discrimination that have also undercut the identities of Indigenous men through their female forebears. By restorying historically patriarchal legislation and Indigenous masculinity, Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act makes a significant contribution to a transformative discussion of Indigenous nTable of ContentsIntroduction1 The Indian Act, a Legacy of Racist Patriarchy 2 Sexism, Racialized Injustice, and Lavell v Canada, 1969–733 Individual versus Collective Rights Dispute in Status Indian Politics, 1985–994 Sexism, Indigenous Sovereignty, and McIvor v The Registrar, 2007–09ConclusionNotes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisIntersex and/as/is/with disability. The connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex human rights claims and understand the experiences of intersex people living with the disabling consequences of medical intervention.Cripping Intersex examines three key themes: the medical management of people with intersex characteristics; the mainstream fascination with sport sex-testing policies and procedures; and the eugenic implications of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Celeste E. Orr investigates how intersex and interphobia intersect with disability and ableism to propose a new approach to intersex studies and activism. The integration of feminist disability studies with intersex studies provides tools to break down the traditional sex dyad and the entrenched cultural mandate against intersex traits.This necessary work offers a radical new understanding of intersex-with-disability, pushing analyses of inter

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Book SynopsisWhat Nudism Exposes offers a convincing new perspective on postwar Canada by revealing how nudist clubs navigated the social and cultural changes of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.Trade Review... [a] richly researched and insightful book... -- Bob Hummelt, BC StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Nudism Comes to Canada1 Building a Movement2 Constructing Community at the Club3 Regulating Sexuality4 Navigating Gender Norms5 Raising Young NudistsPart 2: Nudism on Display6 Photographs in Sunbathing for Health Magazine, 1947–597 The Pageant Tradition and Miss Nude WorldPart 3: Nudism, the Natural Environment, and the Regulation of Space8 Cultivating Nature and Protecting Privacy at the Club9 Defending Nature and Public Nudity at Wreck Beach, 1969–79ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisSuing for Silence exposes the phenomenon of lawsuits whose purpose is to silence those who disclose sexual violence, revealing the gendered underpinnings of Canadian defamation law and its chilling effect on public discourse including formal reports of sexual violence.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 A Civil Law Primer2 The Gender of Reputation3 Sick and Silenced4 Campus Sexual Violence5 Is Anti-SLAPP Legislation the Answer?ConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

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