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Book SynopsisA rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East.Trade Review"Despite the profusion of works on gender in the Middle East, few studies are devoted to masculinity. This pathbreaking volume is the first to examine Egyptian manhood through an ethnographic lens, following the stories of 'boys-to-men' on the brink of a revolution. A must-read for those interested in Middle East gender studies, anthropology, and contemporary Egypt." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Yale University, author of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East *"With Live and Die Like a Man, Farha Ghannam is far ahead of the academic curve, setting an imposing standard for future scholarship on the Arab Spring and gender across the Middle East and North Africa. This engrossing book breaks ground by using the study of men's experiences as a method for understanding contemporary societies." -- Mark LeVine, University of California * Irvine *"In a book that lives up to its name, anthropologist Ghannam explores what in means to be a man in the working-class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra . . . Her thick descriptions, amassed over 20 years of research, will make readers laugh, cry, and gasp at the lives of these individuals . . . By examining the construct of manhood, Ghannam is charting new territory in Middle Eastern studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- M. L. Russell * CHOICE *"In this groundbreaking working, anthropologist Farha Ghannam utilizes 20 years of field research in the working class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra to deconstruct the notion of masculinity . . . [T]his work is a huge step forward in the field of Middle East Studies. Little work has been done on masculinity in general, and even less on what it means for the ordinary man." -- Mona L. Russell * Middle East Journal *"Farha Ghannam skillfully weaves the life stories of Egyptian men with an important accounting of the precarious balance between genders. This is a masterful treatise on masculinity in the Middle East and a timely contribution to understanding the Arab Spring and the socio-political changes facing the region. A book not to be missed." -- Sherine Hafez, University of California * Riverside *"Informed by nineteen years of field research in the same Cairo neighborhood, anthropologist Farha Ghannam's Live and Die Like a Man offers readers an incredibly well-rounded and dynamic portrait of the making (and remaking) of Egyptian working-class men that is at once intimate in its approach and capacious in its analytic reach . . . [The] explicitness of her critique in Live and Die Like a Man highlights the maturation of Ghannam's own scholarly voice . . . Its careful use of 'stories' to illustrate central theoretical claims makes it highly accessible for students, and its link to the 2011 uprising and (some of) its aftermath offers a way of understanding mass mobilization that is largely absent from most analysis and deeply convincing. Ghannam's insights, carefully wrought through the particular, have broad analytic reach and theoretical significance. Equally valuable for scholars and for teachers, Live and Die Like a Man is essential reading." -- Stacey Philbrick Yadav * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"In Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt, anthropologist Farha Ghannam offers a compelling longitudinal study of masculinity in a lower- and middle-income neighborhood in Cairo known as al-Zawiya . . . Ghannam does a wonderful job showing the nuances of masculinity, as well as the complexities and contingencies of the masculine trajectory over time. Well written and accessible, Live and Die Like a Man would be an excellent texts for undergraduate classes, particularly those that aim to dispel stereotypes characterizing Middle Eastern men as macho and violent. This ethnography makes a welcome addition to a growing body of masculinity studies in the contemporary Middle East." -- Rachel Newcomb * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Written in lucid prose and rife with Egyptian Arabic words and phrases that are translated and explained not in endnotes but in body paragraphs, Ghannam draws chiefly on participant observations rather than interviews . . . The result is a rich ethnography that shows rather than merely tells, and makes productive use of the author's long-standing involvement with the community in al-Zäwiya al-Hamra. Overall, this is a captivating study of working-class masculinities in Egypt and makes a significant contribution to the anthropology of the region as well as to masculinity and gender studies." -- Kristin V. Monroe * Review of Middle East Studies *"With its focus on masculinity, Farha Ghannam's thoughtful ethnography, Live and Die Like a Man, makes important interventions into the anthropological scholarship on gender, childhood, and family in the Middle East . . . Her ethnographic sensibility perfectly grasps the dynamic and complex intertwining of male and female ways of being and self-presentation and how that interrelationship forms men's lives." -- Nefissa Naguib * International Journal of Middle East Studies *

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Book SynopsisAnxious Wealth analyzes practices of network building and deal-making among wealthy businessmen and government officials in urban China, documenting the changing values, lifestyles, gender relations, and consumption habits of China's new rich and new middle classes.Trade Review"In Anxious Wealth John Osburg provides important insights into the rise of the new rich in post-Mao China through an ethnographic case study on young and middle-aged, male private entrepreneurs . . . Osburg has done an excellent job deciphering hidden cultural rules and moral codes in this gendered and sexualised space of elite masculinity . . . [T]his carefully written ethnography provides an important and accessible guide for understanding relationship cultivation, gender relations, inequality, class, and consumption in China's ongoing market transition. The book will appeal not only to anthropologists of contemporary China, but to anyone interested in the dynamic relationship between culture and economy." -- Nanlai Cao * Renmin University of China, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"Anxious Wealth provides a close up view of the elite networks that criss-cross China's state/society divide, generate new forms of masculinity, and compel members to enact particular moral codes. Osburg's depiction is simultaneously critical and sympathetic, theoretically deft and ethnographically rich—a compelling anthropological portrait." -- Andrew Kipnis * The Australian National University *"Anxious Wealth is a compelling narrative of China's new rich, revealing the blurred boundaries of legality/illegality in the guanxi networks of private entrepreneurs, government officials, and state corporate managers. Osburg provides a valuable explanation of how masculinity, elite status, and wealth are stitched together in the leisure-cum-business activities of KTVs, saunas, and sex, thereby reframing notions of Chinese masculinity. This book offers a rare story of the interior, in Chengdu, Sichuan, giving readers another angle on the specificities by which capitalism is unfolding in China." -- Lisa Rofel, Professor of Anthropology, University of California * Santa Cruz *"In an engaging and compelling example of an anthropologist 'studying up', John Osburg opens an insightful window onto what happens behind closed doors among the new rich of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, in China's interior . . . Osburg makes a convincing case that gendered hierarchies and networking practices intimately intertwine state and society in the Chinese Market Era . . . Osburg's timely ethnography captures the Zeitgeist of the new rich in China . . . Osburg provides compelling evidence that elite networks, and the accumulation of wealth and privileges these entail, result from structures of state power and economic opportunities in contemporary China . . . [T]his ethnography makes important contributions to debates about morality, privilege, and sentiment, especially under conditions of capitalist marketization." -- Charlotte Bruckermann * Critique of Anthropology *"[Osburg's] ethnographic study of the emergence of China's new rich in the last three decades depicts and analyzes networks among elite entrepreneurs and between themselves and government officials, through which they establish alliances or even social institutions to generate, increase, and protect their wealth and social status . . . A must have book for China studies . . . Highly recommended." -- A. Y. Lee * Choice *"John Osburg's arguments about the constitution of elite networks, the relational morality that structures those networks, and the profound importance of gender to male power in China are thought-provoking, compelling and provocative. Osburg takes us into a world of deal-making and networking that is often, literally, hidden behind curtains and closed doors. This book is a must-read for people seeking to better understand how power operates in China today." -- Amy Hanser * University of British Columbia *

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Book SynopsisAnxious Wealth analyzes practices of network building and deal-making among wealthy businessmen and government officials in urban China, documenting the changing values, lifestyles, gender relations, and consumption habits of China's new rich and new middle classes.Trade Review"In Anxious Wealth John Osburg provides important insights into the rise of the new rich in post-Mao China through an ethnographic case study on young and middle-aged, male private entrepreneurs . . . Osburg has done an excellent job deciphering hidden cultural rules and moral codes in this gendered and sexualised space of elite masculinity . . . [T]his carefully written ethnography provides an important and accessible guide for understanding relationship cultivation, gender relations, inequality, class, and consumption in China's ongoing market transition. The book will appeal not only to anthropologists of contemporary China, but to anyone interested in the dynamic relationship between culture and economy." -- Nanlai Cao * Renmin University of China, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"Anxious Wealth provides a close up view of the elite networks that criss-cross China's state/society divide, generate new forms of masculinity, and compel members to enact particular moral codes. Osburg's depiction is simultaneously critical and sympathetic, theoretically deft and ethnographically rich—a compelling anthropological portrait." -- Andrew Kipnis * The Australian National University *"Anxious Wealth is a compelling narrative of China's new rich, revealing the blurred boundaries of legality/illegality in the guanxi networks of private entrepreneurs, government officials, and state corporate managers. Osburg provides a valuable explanation of how masculinity, elite status, and wealth are stitched together in the leisure-cum-business activities of KTVs, saunas, and sex, thereby reframing notions of Chinese masculinity. This book offers a rare story of the interior, in Chengdu, Sichuan, giving readers another angle on the specificities by which capitalism is unfolding in China." -- Lisa Rofel, Professor of Anthropology, University of California * Santa Cruz *"In an engaging and compelling example of an anthropologist 'studying up', John Osburg opens an insightful window onto what happens behind closed doors among the new rich of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, in China's interior . . . Osburg makes a convincing case that gendered hierarchies and networking practices intimately intertwine state and society in the Chinese Market Era . . . Osburg's timely ethnography captures the Zeitgeist of the new rich in China . . . Osburg provides compelling evidence that elite networks, and the accumulation of wealth and privileges these entail, result from structures of state power and economic opportunities in contemporary China . . . [T]his ethnography makes important contributions to debates about morality, privilege, and sentiment, especially under conditions of capitalist marketization." -- Charlotte Bruckermann * Critique of Anthropology *"[Osburg's] ethnographic study of the emergence of China's new rich in the last three decades depicts and analyzes networks among elite entrepreneurs and between themselves and government officials, through which they establish alliances or even social institutions to generate, increase, and protect their wealth and social status . . . A must have book for China studies . . . Highly recommended." -- A. Y. Lee * Choice *"John Osburg's arguments about the constitution of elite networks, the relational morality that structures those networks, and the profound importance of gender to male power in China are thought-provoking, compelling and provocative. Osburg takes us into a world of deal-making and networking that is often, literally, hidden behind curtains and closed doors. This book is a must-read for people seeking to better understand how power operates in China today." -- Amy Hanser * University of British Columbia *

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Book SynopsisFocuses on women and households as significant productive units of global production systems and brings gender and social reproduction into the theoretical center of global commodity and value chain analysis.Trade Review"A collective project between Virginia Tech and SUNY Binghamton, original essays from both novice researchers and senior scholars use ethnographic, archival, and some social survey data to provide alternatives to neoclassical and neoliberal economic analysis . . . Recommended." -- G. M. Massey * CHOICE *"[B]oth the analysis and case studies brought together in this book are based on strong scholarly research. Combined, they provide important insights into key aspects of the gendered dimensions of commodity chains, and rightly establish gender as central to the analysis. For those in accord with a World Systems perspective, the book is a must read that will provide a foundation for future investigation. For those with differing perspectives on gender, development, and global value chains, this is a thought-provoking book that will help to stimulate much needed future debate and research." -- Stephanie Ware Barrientos"Work on gender, while very difficult because of the resistance, is also very urgent. We have, as the saying goes, not a minute to lose, which is why this book constitutes an important contribution not merely to the social sciences but to the larger world political scene." * From the foreword by Immanuel Wallerstein *"This is a genuinely exciting collection that fills a critical need. Gendered Commodity Chains contains interesting empirical case studies, as well as probing conceptual pieces that synopsize larger bodies of recent research—and then push the envelope much further! It will be an invaluable addition to course readings in fields including development studies, comparative sociology, international studies, political economy, and feminist studies, and a must for academic libraries." -- David A. Smith, University of California * Irvine *"Wilma Dunaways's Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing women's Work and Households in Global Production is a stunning collaboration that will inspire further conceptual work and research in fields as diverse as anthropology, economics, development studios, sociology, and geography. The prose is crystal clear, accessible, and compelling." -- Altha J. Cravey * American Journal of Sociology *"Wilma A. Dunaway's edited volume contributes to the fields of economics, development, and gender studies by drawing attention to fundamental features of the capitalist system that have long exploited women . . . Dunaway superbly describes how women's unpaid labor and home-based production lowers the value of labor power, cheapens wage rates, externalized costs to households, and creates levels of exploitation to the direct benefit of capitalists . . . Dunaway's volume provides a pivotal contribution to the study of commodity chains by exposing how capitalists externalize hidden costs to women's uncompensated and inequitable reproductive and productive labor with direct ramifications on the sustainability of households. Communities, local economies, and ecosystems worldwide." -- Nicole Coffey Kellett"This volume enters uncharted territory. As well as a range of sectors and geographical case studies, it provides a far-reaching theoretical reappraisal of the significance of women's work—both paid and unpaid, hidden and visible—to the accumulation of capital and the social reproduction systems that underlie the accumulation of capital. Unmissable." -- Professor Ruth Pearson * University of Leeds *"From theoretical and methodological analysis to empirical work, this volume fills a vacuum in commodity chain studies to show how 'gender is everywhere.' Gendered Commodity Chains will be of great use for teaching and research, with many policy implications and suggestions for future research." -- Lourdes Benería * Cornell University *

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Book SynopsisThis book is about how U.S. immigration policies and immigrants' gendered experiences stratify the well-being of Salvadoran mothers and fathers in the United States and their children who remain in El Salvador.Trade Review"Leisy Abrego renders in heart-wrenching detail what it means to live as a family separated by thousands of miles. Sacrificing Families is a must read on why families choose to become transnational, how they struggle to overcome distance and time, and the United States immigration policies that force this cultural and emotional divide." -- Leo R. Chavez * University of California, Irvine, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *"Sacrificing Families is an important new book analyzing what can be described as the psychosocial interior of transnational Salvadoran families and how that familial social life is structured and traumatized by America's current immigration regime . . . The book is an important step in what is developing into a very promising scholarly career." -- Robert C. Smith * American Journal of Sociology *"Sacrificing Families approaches the issue of transnational migration from El Salvador to the United States from a unique perspective. Instead of the public debate in the United States, it's the debate in El Salvador that frames Leisy Abrego's argument. And while the experiences of migrants play a role, her focus is more on the children left behind when parents leave to work in the United States . . . In a debate dominated by rhetoric and statistics, the voices of these children raise extremely important issues . . . [T]his is a book that will stay with me and that I intend to assign to both undergraduate and graduate students." -- Aviva Chomsky * Hispanic American Historical Review *"In this insightful and compassionate book, Leisy Abrego sheds light on the devastating and far-reaching effects of the contemporary immigration regime on immigrant families and their relatives back home. The voices of these immigrant families vividly combine with Abrego's sophisticated analysis to make us rethink what it means to live in transnational spaces today. A must read for anyone interested in families and immigration policy." -- Cecilia Menjívar * Arizona State University *"Leisy Abrego provides an eloquent, empathic view of the agonizing choices made by transnational parents and the consequences for their children. The poignant quotes—from parents and children alike—along Abrego's thoughtful analysis make this an essential read." -- Carola Suárez-Orozco, University of California * Los Angeles *"Abrego examines the causes and consequences of migration of parents from El Salvador to the U.S. She focuses on the structure of trauma of long-term family separation, different experiences based on gender, and the impact on the socioeconomic and emotional lives of children . . . Using in-depth interviews of parents in the U.S. and children in El Salvador, the author reveals the tragedies and triumphs of these families' living arrangements; patterns of inequalities; migrant parents' sacrifices, including monetary remittances to their children; the profound emotional suffering; and children's school performances and aspirations. Furthermore, this research demonstrates how U.S. immigration policy determines the life chances and well-being of children and how gender ideologies influence women's and men's opportunities and behavior. Abrego presents a detailed, careful analysis of the micro-social realities of family separation across nations. She outlines the policy implications of this research and emphasizes the need for comprehensive U.S. immigration reform as a human rights issue. An outstanding contribution to immigration, family, Chicana/o, and policy studies . . . Highly recommended." -- D. A. Chekki * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Decentering Citizenship offers a fascinating comparative portrait of three Filipina migrant groups in South Korea. The book is equally a study of domestic advocates of migrants, and of the important effect they have on migrants' well-being. Choo's groundbreaking work will enjoy a wide readership and deserves to be widely taught in undergraduate classes."—Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"With verve and sophistication, Choo captures the plurality of experiences of migrant women in South Korea—their multiple voices, triumphs and trials, and the numerous contradictions they face. Decentering Citizenship is at once a fast-paced and engrossing ethnography and an insightful, often brilliant rumination on citizenship, kinship, and human rights."—Namhee Lee, University of California, Los Angeles"This brilliant book examines the timely topic of international migration with an innovative design of comparative research. Choo vividly demonstrates that the political membership of nationhood and the moral community of humanity are reimagined whenever we confront the question of what kinds of foreigners are 'worthy' of being included."—Pei-Chia Lan, National Taiwan University"As South Koreans wrestle with how to incorporate the growing numbers of foreign workers, marriage migrants, and biracial children, they have had to rethink automatic assumptions about citizenship, national belonging, and Korean identity. In Decentering Citizenship, Hae Yeon Choo tackles these important issues through the lens of Filipina migrants residing in South Korea. This rich ethnography is the first to provide such comparative analysis of a fast-growing immigrant population that is reshaping who South Koreans are and what South Korea is. As such, this book should be on the reading list for anyone who wants to better understand the social revolution that is sweeping South Korea today."—Paul Y. Chang, Pacific Affairs"Decentering Citizenship could be an ideal textbook for courses on international migration and gender at the graduate and undergraduate level"—Pyong Gap Min, Gender & Society"Decentering Citizenship is an ethnographically rich and analytically cogent book that calls for the recognition of migrants' rights through a reimagination of citizenship...This book will be of interest to those interested in migration, human rights, citizenship, and gendered nationalism. Its engaging stories and clear writing make it suitable for both undergraduate and graduate-level teaching."—Sealing Cheng, Anthropological Research"Decentering Citizenship sparks numerous directions for new research, paving the way for other researchers to expand migration studies beyond the "imperial centers" and critically examine how global hierarchies are mediated through daily interactions in ways that shape the citizenship-making process. In short, Decentering Citizenship is a groundbreaking and beautifully written book that will attract a wide audience of scholars and students who are interested in international migration, gender inequality, social movements, and labor studies."—Hyeyoung Kwon, Contemporary Sociology"Decentering Citizenship contributes to the field of critical migration studies by moving beyond the realm of law and policy to examine the spaces of daily life—what Choo calls the 'margins of citizenship'—where questions of migrant rights, entitlements, and belonging are negotiated and reimagined....As the short-term rotation migrant workforce becomes normalized across the world, Hae Yeon Choo's Decentering Citizenship offers us an insightful and well-researched study on the complexities, possibilities, and potential pitfalls of collective efforts to build a polity that enables equal rights and full political membership for migrants."—Yen Le Espiritu, American Journal of Sociology"Decentering Citizenship will be an invaluable resource in years to come for those wishing to explore the experience of ethnic minorities in traditionally homogenous countries, particularly in East Asia....Owing to Korea's rapidly aging population, a reliance on migrant labor appears unlikely to diminish. As the effects of Korea's demographic changes are felt more broadly across Korean society, Decentering Citizenship should be regarded as a cornerstone in the studies of their evolving labor market and the changing nature of Korean citizenship."—Robert York, Korean Studies"Decentering Citizenship offers insights into the formation of potential new ethno-racial-national hierarchies in South Korea, as Filipino women push the boundaries of citizenship. Overall, this book offers strong empirical insights on gender, migration, and citizenship."—Helene K. Lee, International Migration Review"Decentering Citizenship demonstrates the importance of the everyday life and moral community of the migrants as the sites of their rights-claims....Choo's analysis is a rare in-depth and comparative study of migrant activism."—Hyun Ok Park, The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of Contents1. Decentering Citizenship: Perils, Promises, Possibilities 2. The Journey of Global Women: From the Philippines to South Korea 3. Duties, Desires, and Dignity: South Koreans on Migrant Encounters 4. Everyday Politics of Immigration Raids in the Shadow of Citizenship 5. The Making of Migrant Workers and Migrant Women 6. Workers and Working Girls: Gendering the Worker-Citizen 7. Between Women Victims and Mother-Citizens 8 (coda): Migrant Rights and Politics of Solidarity

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Book SynopsisDecades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated. In Nicaragua, Afrodescendants have mobilized to confront this state of siege through the politics of black autonomy. For women and men grappling with postwar violence, black autonomy has its own cultural meanings as a political aspiration and a way of crafting selfhood and solidarity. Jennifer Goett's ethnography examines the race and gender politics of activism for autonomous rights in an Afrodescendant. Creole community in Nicaragua. Weaving together fifteen years of research, Black Autonomy follows this community-based movement from its inception in the late 1990s to its realization as an autonomous territory in 2009 and beyond. Goett argues that despite significant gains in multicultural recognition, Afro-Nicaraguan Creoles continue to grapple with the day-to-day violence of capitalTrade Review"Jennifer Goett's fine book shows, with vivid ethnography, how Afro-Nicaraguan political mobilization is inspired by the vernacular cultural practices of women and men. Her book provides penetrating insight into the way multiculturalist reforms that give rights to racialized minorities coexist with rapacious and punitive forms of 'development,' by state and private sector interests, operating in transnational and gendered circuits of geopolitics and capital." -- Peter Wade * University of Manchester *"Black Autonomy powerfully interrogates the regionally and racially disparate effects of neoliberalism, drug war capitalism, state securitization, and state-sanctioned sexual violence in post-Cold War Nicaragua. Jennifer Goett presents a compelling analysis of the gendered struggle of Afrodescendants, particularly Creoles, for full rights of multicultural citizenship, including territorial autonomy. Goett's feminist activist ethnography is an important contribution to studies of post-conflict Central America and the African diaspora." -- Faye V. Harrison * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *"Black Autonomy is a powerfully argued and beautifully written entrée to the intimate social worlds of people struggling for livelihood and autonomy on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast. Taking readers into the inner lives of local residents, Jennifer Goett explores how gender-based solidarity is produced and mobilized to challenge military occupation, counternarcotics policing, and sexual violence. Through feminist activist ethnography, Goett effectively conveys the voices and experiences of local actors while significantly advancing our understanding of what it takes to commit anthropology's resources to local projects of liberation." -- Daniel M. Goldstein * Rutgers University *"In a valuable contribution to scholarship on Nicaragua's east coast and the "official multiculturalism" now prevalent throughout Latin America, Jennifer Goett interrogates the meaning of autonomy for the Afro-descendant Creole residents of the community of Monkey Point....Her work demonstrates how critical feminist scholarship on racial violence can root itself in community understandings." -- David Johnson Lee * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Goett's knowledge of local history and politics from the perspectives of Creole actors is fabulously rich and denotes the seriousness of her activist-ethnographic dedication. Her reflexive discussion of her relation to the field and of her ethnographic strategies and experiences provide an excellent entry point into the complex sociocultural, economic, and political situations she elucidates. This is certainly one of the best ethnographies I have had the opportunity to read in a long time." -- Jean Muteba Rahier * Latin American Research Review *"Black Autonomy, written by feminist anthropologist Jennifer Goett, makes an important contribution to the field of Afro-Latin American studies....Very well written, her narrative at various points thrilled me with the vitality and political commitment expressed both in the description of the experiences of the Monkey Point people and in their analyses of inequalities in the global economy." -- Amilcar Araujo Pereira * Latin American Politics and Society *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis chapter provides an introduction to Monkey Point, including a discussion of the feminist activist research methodologies used. It contextualizes community activism within debates about ethnic autonomy regimes in Latin America and develops new theoretical insights on the relationship between security and capitalist intensification in postwar Nicaragua. Specifically, the chapter locates the emergence of a politics of black autonomy within wider processes of postwar governance. It analyzes the transition from the neoliberal right to the socialist left in 2007, arguing that there has been a shift in political discourse, but clear continuities in capitalist development and security policy. The chapter ends with an overview of the book, which is broadly chronological, beginning with women's mobilization in the late 1990s and ending with resistance to military occupation in the early 2010s. 1Women's Origin Stories chapter abstractThis chapter examines the community's past via the oral histories of three women elders who led the first wave of land rights activism in the late 1990s. It shows how diasporic subjectivities rooted in social memories of slavery, migration, and race, class, and gender oppression drive community activism for autonomous rights.Accounts of racialized domestic servitude and labor run throughout the stories, providing a narrative thread that links six generations of community women. Each woman tells these histories in ways that are both politically strategic and pedagogic in the present. For instance, they represent female ancestors as forceful political agents and, in doing so, shore up their own leadership positions, which are often contested by community men.They make race, class, and gender subordination visible as past sites of struggle, and thus urge younger generations to embrace these expressions of diasporic historical consciousness as grounds for contemporary autonomous rights. 2"Bad Boys" and Direct Resistance chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on young men's cultural practices and their armed resistance to the speculation of community lands by outside venture capitalists in the early 2000s. Many of the men involved in these acts of direct resistance are known as "bad boys," a countercultural identity that the men embrace and reproduce in their oppositional politics, personal style, and diasporic investments in popular culture. For these men, Monkey Point is an autonomous rural space where they can go to recover from drug abuse and escape the degradation of being poor and heavily policed in Bluefields. They are perhaps unlikely protagonists in the making of a social movement, but their direct resistance to land speculation signaled a deepening radicalism in community politics and an emergent political strategy for dealing with some of the worst abuses of the postwar state. 3Life on the Edge of the Global Economy chapter abstractThis chapter examines women's sociality as an autonomous sphere of self-valorization that is resistant to capitalist and patriarchal social relations and values. For women, livelihood politics are enmeshed in dense networks of gendered sociality and intimacy, where reciprocity and shared affective labor between women are central to survival under conditions of capitalist intensification. Women's sociality makes it possible to live independently of men and undermines a racial and gender division of labor that promotes wageless Creole women's subordination to male wage earners. The chapter argues that women's sociality is not a mere adaption to oppressive systems because it produces pleasure, self-respect, and solidarity and thus has autonomous social logics. As an affirmative practice rooted in working class Creole culture, it drives women's activism and their demands for collective rights. 4From Cold Wars to Drug Wars chapter abstractThis chapter tracks shifting security paradigms by drawing on narratives from community men who fought as contra during the 1980s and are now the targets of counternarcotics policing. Their accounts give intimate insight into how drug war violence and policing are historical outgrowths of cold war conflict and US intervention in Central America. Wartime stories show that coercion and physical violence were unavoidable for most Monkey Point men, as their age, gender, race, and class overdetermined their roles as Sandinista soldiers, contra fighters, draft evaders, deserters, and refugees. But rather than bringing peace and security, refuge in Costa Rica and repatriation to Nicaragua in the late 1980s and early 1990s signaled the demise of one securitized masculine subject (enemy combatant) and the rise of another (drug trafficker), producing new forms of securitized social control. 5Sexual Violence and Autonomous Politics chapter abstractThis chapter shows how ordinary life in Monkey Point was saturated and interrupted by military occupation and state sexual violence in the late 2000s. Drawing on racialized and sexualized fantasy, the occupation targeted local women and girls as objects of sexual domination, cast local men as masculine subordinates and racialized security threats, and promoted heteropatriarchal forms of mestizo territorial sovereignty. The soldier's abuse of girls initially followed preexisting patterns of gendered and sexual violence in the community before erupting into exceptional violence that provoked a public politics of opposition to the state. Diverse advocates for the girls struggled to fully decipher and politicize the racial, gendered, and sexual articulation of violence under military occupation, and state institutional power promoted impunity for mestizo state actors. Epilogue chapter abstractThe epilogue reflects on the impact of more than a decade of community mobilization. It assesses the political opportunities and potential entrapments that recognition offers as community people continue to confront violence and systemic inequality in their territory. It further points to a reservoir of political knowledge and agency embedded in vernacular practice, gendered subjectivity, and black diasporic identification that challenges oppressive systems and suggests that territorial recognition can serve as a strategic asset that emboldens and radicalizes black autonomy and as a governance strategy that may facilitate the expansion of state and capitalist power. The tension between these two outcomes is likely to shape the contours of future struggle in the region.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Decentering Citizenship offers a fascinating comparative portrait of three Filipina migrant groups in South Korea. The book is equally a study of domestic advocates of migrants, and of the important effect they have on migrants' well-being. Choo's groundbreaking work will enjoy a wide readership and deserves to be widely taught in undergraduate classes."—Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"With verve and sophistication, Choo captures the plurality of experiences of migrant women in South Korea—their multiple voices, triumphs and trials, and the numerous contradictions they face. Decentering Citizenship is at once a fast-paced and engrossing ethnography and an insightful, often brilliant rumination on citizenship, kinship, and human rights."—Namhee Lee, University of California, Los Angeles"This brilliant book examines the timely topic of international migration with an innovative design of comparative research. Choo vividly demonstrates that the political membership of nationhood and the moral community of humanity are reimagined whenever we confront the question of what kinds of foreigners are 'worthy' of being included."—Pei-Chia Lan, National Taiwan University"As South Koreans wrestle with how to incorporate the growing numbers of foreign workers, marriage migrants, and biracial children, they have had to rethink automatic assumptions about citizenship, national belonging, and Korean identity. In Decentering Citizenship, Hae Yeon Choo tackles these important issues through the lens of Filipina migrants residing in South Korea. This rich ethnography is the first to provide such comparative analysis of a fast-growing immigrant population that is reshaping who South Koreans are and what South Korea is. As such, this book should be on the reading list for anyone who wants to better understand the social revolution that is sweeping South Korea today."—Paul Y. Chang, Pacific Affairs"Decentering Citizenship could be an ideal textbook for courses on international migration and gender at the graduate and undergraduate level"—Pyong Gap Min, Gender & Society"Decentering Citizenship is an ethnographically rich and analytically cogent book that calls for the recognition of migrants' rights through a reimagination of citizenship...This book will be of interest to those interested in migration, human rights, citizenship, and gendered nationalism. Its engaging stories and clear writing make it suitable for both undergraduate and graduate-level teaching."—Sealing Cheng, Anthropological Research"Decentering Citizenship sparks numerous directions for new research, paving the way for other researchers to expand migration studies beyond the "imperial centers" and critically examine how global hierarchies are mediated through daily interactions in ways that shape the citizenship-making process. In short, Decentering Citizenship is a groundbreaking and beautifully written book that will attract a wide audience of scholars and students who are interested in international migration, gender inequality, social movements, and labor studies."—Hyeyoung Kwon, Contemporary Sociology"Decentering Citizenship contributes to the field of critical migration studies by moving beyond the realm of law and policy to examine the spaces of daily life—what Choo calls the 'margins of citizenship'—where questions of migrant rights, entitlements, and belonging are negotiated and reimagined....As the short-term rotation migrant workforce becomes normalized across the world, Hae Yeon Choo's Decentering Citizenship offers us an insightful and well-researched study on the complexities, possibilities, and potential pitfalls of collective efforts to build a polity that enables equal rights and full political membership for migrants."—Yen Le Espiritu, American Journal of Sociology"Decentering Citizenship will be an invaluable resource in years to come for those wishing to explore the experience of ethnic minorities in traditionally homogenous countries, particularly in East Asia....Owing to Korea's rapidly aging population, a reliance on migrant labor appears unlikely to diminish. As the effects of Korea's demographic changes are felt more broadly across Korean society, Decentering Citizenship should be regarded as a cornerstone in the studies of their evolving labor market and the changing nature of Korean citizenship."—Robert York, Korean Studies"Decentering Citizenship offers insights into the formation of potential new ethno-racial-national hierarchies in South Korea, as Filipino women push the boundaries of citizenship. Overall, this book offers strong empirical insights on gender, migration, and citizenship."—Helene K. Lee, International Migration Review"Decentering Citizenship demonstrates the importance of the everyday life and moral community of the migrants as the sites of their rights-claims....Choo's analysis is a rare in-depth and comparative study of migrant activism."—Hyun Ok Park, The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of Contents1. Decentering Citizenship: Perils, Promises, Possibilities 2. The Journey of Global Women: From the Philippines to South Korea 3. Duties, Desires, and Dignity: South Koreans on Migrant Encounters 4. Everyday Politics of Immigration Raids in the Shadow of Citizenship 5. The Making of Migrant Workers and Migrant Women 6. Workers and Working Girls: Gendering the Worker-Citizen 7. Between Women Victims and Mother-Citizens 8 (coda): Migrant Rights and Politics of Solidarity

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Book SynopsisAdds a previously unexplored dimension to our understanding of the connections between gender and imperialism in the nineteenth century. Verity McInnis examines the intersections of class, race, and gender to reveal social spaces where female identity and power were both contested and constructed.Trade ReviewComparing army officers' wives' experiences in two different parts of the world, Women of Empire tracks the ways that women in 'frontier' settings carved out roles that increased their social and cultural power while reifying their nation's imperial goals. Verity McInnis matches command of the U.S. West's and India's history with theoretical sophistication and clear, crisp story-telling. This is comparative history at its best.""- Sherry L. Smith, author of Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880 - 1940 and The View from Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western IndiansWomen of Empire does provide an interesting study on how military wives lived their lives in both India and the American West, an existence that one American spouse described as ""glittering misery."" The book offers much to enjoy for those readers interested in the distaff side of military history during the Victorian Age. - The Journal of America's Military Past

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Book SynopsisProstitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918.Trade ReviewIn Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude regales the reader with the colorful world of frontier life, rife with gamblers, prostitutes, and other denizens of the underworld. She advances our understanding of reform efforts in a community where law and order were as elusive as the gold that drew so many." - John C. Putman, author of Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle

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Book SynopsisReconsiders cultural representations of Assia Wevill (1927-1969). Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick's innovative study combines feminist recovery work with discussions of the power and gendered dynamics that shape literary history. She focuses on how Wevill figures into poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

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Book SynopsisDuring six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War.

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Book SynopsisAn innovative study that tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture, Liz Skilton blends gender studies with environmental history to analyse this often controversial tradition.

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Book SynopsisAs the first academic study that provides a literary analysis of Kurt Cobain's creative writings, Arthur Flannigan Saint-Aubin's The Pleasures of Death approaches the journals and songs crafted by Nirvana's iconic front man from the perspective of cultural theory and psychoanalytic aesthetics.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the overlapping cultures of fandom and American literature from the late 1800s to the mid-1940s, exploding the oft-repeated myth that fandom has its origins in the male-dominated letter columns of science fiction pulp magazines in the 1930s.Trade ReviewBefore Fanfiction significantly expands, extends, revises, and reanimates our understanding of the multiple histories of fandom and, in particular, fan writing, through a consideration of other transformative literary practices. Edwards's boldly revisionist approach makes this book essential reading, decentering the white male science fiction fan conventions from fandom's origin stories, in favor of women's clubs, circles, and magazines of the early twentieth century." - Henry Jenkins, author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture"A vivid investigation of the historical bonds that link fandom, criticism, and creative practice. Edwards shows how the fan cultures of today are rooted in a matriarchal and thoroughly literary lineage that extends well beyond our contemporary mediaverse." - Sheila Liming, author of What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books"Before Fanfiction reenergizes fan studies in exciting new directions that promise to revolutionize the field. Revising the 'fandom creation myth,' Edwards establishes a lineage of fan audiences through varied genealogies, including early literary fan communities, letter columns in literary magazines, and fan mail. Exploring an intersectional history of fan culture, Edwards changes our understanding of fandom today and, relevantly, what fandom can be in the future. A must-read for fan scholars and audiences alike." - Paul Booth, professor of media and popular culture at DePaul University and author of Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age

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Book SynopsisUses the lens of the Wild Woman display to explore the growing cultural divisions between the North and the South in 1856, especially the differing gender ideologies of the northern Republican Party and the more southern focused Democrats.

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Book SynopsisJenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record, serves as both evidence and testimony against a legal system that often fails victims of physical trauma and domestic abuse.

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Book SynopsisThough long neglected, the history and experiences of Indigenous women offer a deeper, more complex understanding of southern history and culture. Daniel Usner explores the role of Native American women in the South as they confronted waves of colonization, European imperial invasion, plantation encroachment, and post-Civil War racialization.

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Book SynopsisAn innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. Liz Skilton blends gender studies with environmental history to analyse this often controversial tradition.

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how the dramatist and poet Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) responded to a change in the conception of sex and gender that occurred between 1790 and 1810. Specifically, Katrin Pahl shows that Kleist resisted the shift from a one-sex to the two-sex and complementary gender system that is still prevalent today.

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Book SynopsisAddresses the conflict, contradictions and ambiguities that are often encountered in field research.Trade Review"It realizes with distinction the promise of its subtitle to provide 'new directions in the anthropology of gender.'" * Times Higher Education Supplement *

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Book SynopsisAn extraordinary book, and a 'first' on the topic. . . . Bacchilega has a remarkable capacity to reveal the intersections of folklore, literature, and film. Her interpretations of classical folk-tale types and their postmodern revisions . . . are stunning.Jack Zipes, University of MinnesotaTrade Review"Examining the workings of the powerful desire machines built into postmodern versions of 'Snow White,' 'Little Red Riding Hood,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' and 'Bluebeard,' Cristina Bacchilega's astute rereadings uncover intriguing mirrorings and revisions." * Ruth B. Bottigheimer, State University of New York at Stony Brook *

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Book SynopsisRichard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and they loved each other so much that the King of England was absolutely astonished at the vehement love between them and marveled at what it could mean.Public avowals of love between men were common from antiquity through the Middle Ages. What do these expressions leave to interpretation? An extraordinary amount, as Stephen Jaeger demonstrates.Unlike current efforts to read medieval culture through modern mores, Stephen Jaeger contends that love and sex in the Middle Ages relate to each other very differently than in the postmedieval period. Love was not only a mode of feeling and desiring, or an exclusively private sentiment, but a way of behaving and a social ideal. It was a forTrade Review"Scholars of the Middle Ages can hardly afford not to pay serious attention to Jaeger's clear, cogent arguments that cut across genders, genres, and all orders of the aristocracy. . . . An excellent choice as a required 'practical theory' text for advanced undergraduates and graduate courses." * Speculum *"A cogent and engrossing social history of the evolving Medieval attitudes toward civic and erotic love, virtue, and spiritual friendship. . . . The Author . . . has shrewdly plotted a story in which we can almost hear our own age about to be born, where noble love loses its innocent identity. . . . Ennobling Love is both a reader's pleasure and a scholar's treasure." * Foreword magazine *"This is a book of vast scope, challenging comparison with Auerbach's Mimesis and Curtius's European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. . . . All medievalists and students of European (love) literature in general will want to profit from this tour de force." * John O. Ward, Arthuriana *

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Book SynopsisContains essays which analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume includes essays that also analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the 1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of political Islamist movements.Trade Review"Challenges many current theories about women's political participation in the Middle East and North Africa, and how the countries of the MENA region have dealt with women striving to make their voices heard." * Middle East Journal *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION —Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics OVERVIEWS Women's Activism in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective —Sarah Graham-Brown Women and Politics in the Middle East —Suad Joseph Women and Work in the Arab World —Nadia Hijab The Politics of Gender and the Conundrums of Citizenship —Deniz Kandiyoti COUNTRY CASE STUDIES: WEST TO EAST State and Gender in the Maghrib —M. M. Charrad Sex, Lies, and Television: Algerian and Moroccan Caricatures of the Gulf War —Susan Slyomovics An Interview with Heb Ra'Uf Ezzat —Karem El-Gawhary Women on Women: Television Feminism and Village Lives —Lila Abu-Lughod Sudanese Women and the Islamist State —Ellen Gruenbaum For the Common Good? Gender and Social Citizenship in Palestine —Rita Giacaman, Islah Jad, and Penny Johnson Women and the Palestinian Movement: No Going Back? —Julie Peteet Searching for Strategies: The Palestine Women's Movement in the New Era —Rita Giacaman and Penny Johnson Gender and Citizenship: Considerations on the Turkish Experience —Yesim Arat Women in Saudi Arabia: Between Breadwinner and Domestic Icon? —Eleanor Doumato Women's Organizations in Kuwait —Haya Al-Mughni The Dialectics of Gender and Politicism: Yemen —Sheila Carapico The Political Economy of Female Employment in Postrevolutionary Iran —Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam

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Book SynopsisThe 1970s tend to be allocated a slender role in American cultural and social history. The essays in Disco Divas reveal that the 1970s, far from being an era of cultural stasis, were a time of great social change, particularly for women.

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Book Synopsis"An engaging look at how food advertisements from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have both helped define and played up to the stereotypical gender roles prevalent in American culture."-Library JournalTrade Review"Parkin delivers an engaging look at how food advertisements from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have both helped define and played up to the stereotypical gender roles prevalent in American culture. . . . An enlightening study of gender roles in advertising." * Library Journal *"A singularly revealing insight into this consumptive and surprisingly constant dimension of the American female and cultural psyche." * -Midwest Book Review *"Food Is Love is well-written, comprehensive, and compelling, and makes a significant contribution to the literature on advertising history and women's studies." * Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College *"The engagingly titled Food Is Love is also an engaging read. Its comprehensiveness, its clear organization, and the authority it commands through its evidence make this book a valuable resource for scholars, and it should be widely adopted in classes in advertising history, women's history, and American cultural history." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Advertisers and Their Paradigm: Women as Consumers 2. Love, Fear, and Freedom: Selling Traditional Gender Roles 3. Women's Power to Make Us: Cooking Up a Family's Identity 4. Authority and Entitlement: Men in Food Advertising 5. Health, Beauty, and Sexuality: A Woman's Responsibility 6. A Mother's Love: Children and Food Advertising Epilogue Periodical and Archival Sources and Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jen Manion's Liberty's Prisoners powerfully recaptures the moment of transition between an older penal system based on public pain and shame and an emergent one centered on confinement, surveillance, and hidden humiliation. Focused on Philadelphia's famous Walnut Street Prison, Liberty's Prisoners demonstrates the human costs of the birth of the penitentiary." * William and Mary Quarterly *"Jen Manion's absorbing and important book adds many new layers to our understanding of the penitentiary system as it emerged in the early American republic. Manion shows the central roles played by gender and sexuality in the project of containing liberty through incarceration, as well as the close association between African Americans and criminality in this early phase of the prison system's history. Liberty's Prisoners reminds us how impossible it is to understand the history of freedom and its negation without placing gender, sex, and race at the center of that story." * Richard Godbeer, Virginia Commonwealth University *"By studying the lives of incarcerated African American, immigrant, and poor white women, Liberty's Prisoners describes the expansion of punishment and penal authority as a conscious effort to reassert social control in the Revolution's wake." * Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania *"Liberty's Prisoners is a very smart book, packed full of original insights and new perspectives. It makes significant contributions to a wide array of cutting-edge scholarly concerns in the history of the early American republic, crime and punishment in America, and the history of gender and sexuality." * Bruce Dorsey, Swarthmore College *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Rebellious Workers Chapter 2. Sentimental Families Chapter 3. Dangerous Publics Chapter 4. Freedom's Limits Chapter 5. Sexual Orderings Conclusion Appendix Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book Synopsis4-H, the iconic rural youth program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has enrolled more than 70 million Americans over the last century. As the first comprehensive history of the organization, The 4-H Harvest tracks 4-H from its origins in turn-of-the-century agricultural modernization efforts, through its role in the administration of federal programs during the New Deal and World War II, to its status as an instrument of international development in Cold War battlegrounds like Vietnam and Latin America.In domestic and global settings, 4-H''s advocates dreamed of transforming rural economies, communities, and families. Organizers believed the clubs would bypass backward patriarchs reluctant to embrace modern farming techniques. In their place, 4-H would cultivate efficient, capital-intensive farms and convince rural people to trust federal expertise. The modern 4-H farm also featured gender-appropriate divisions of labor and produced healthy, robust children. Trade Review"Eureka! Who would have thought that a history of the 4-H club could brilliantly illuminate so many far corners of knowledge: state projects of masculinity and reproduction, patriotism, modernity, imperialism, race, eugenics and more. Gabriel N. Rosenberg's bio-political view is original, surprising, deeply-sourced, convincing, and a delightful read." * James C. Scott, Yale University *"This beautifully crafted study offers a braided history of the state, the body, and the countryside. At its center is the 4-H club, which Rosenberg brilliantly reveals not as a nostalgic relic of an agrarian past but as an active engine of modern bio-politics. Whether or not you have ever set foot at the county fair, The 4-H Harvest is an absorbing and utterly original read." * Margot Canaday, Princeton University *"Gabriel N. Rosenberg's masterful history of 4-H is the first in-depth study of an institution that every historian of agriculture, not to mention every rural American, recognizes as an essential component of the modern rural landscape. The project delivers a sophisticated mix of cultural, political, and economic history that exposes the hidden hands and visible bodies at work in constructing twentieth-century U.S. governance in the American heartland." * Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction. Signs of the State Chapter 1. Agrarian Futurism, Rural Degeneracy, and the Origins of 4-H Chapter 2. Financial Intimacy and Rural Manhood Chapter 3. 4-H Body Politics in the 1920s Chapter 4. Conserving Farm and Family in New Deal 4-H Chapter 5. Citizenship and Difference in Wartime 4-H Chapter 6. International 4-H in the Cold War Epilogue. Future Farmers of Afghanistan: Agrarian Futurism at the Twilight of Empire Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisLiberty''s Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution''s wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants—increasingly claimed their own right to life, liberty, and happiness. A diverse cast of women and men, including immigrants, African Americans, and the Irish and Anglo-American poor, struggled to make a living. Vagrancy laws were used to crack down on those who visibly challenged longstanding social hierarchies while criminal convictions carried severe sentences for even the most trivial property crimes.The penitentiary was designed to reestablish order, both behind its walls and in society at large, but the promise of reformative incarceration failed from its earliesTrade Review"Jen Manion's Liberty's Prisoners powerfully recaptures the moment of transition between an older penal system based on public pain and shame and an emergent one centered on confinement, surveillance, and hidden humiliation. Focused on Philadelphia's famous Walnut Street Prison, Liberty's Prisoners demonstrates the human costs of the birth of the penitentiary." * William and Mary Quarterly *"Jen Manion's absorbing and important book adds many new layers to our understanding of the penitentiary system as it emerged in the early American republic. Manion shows the central roles played by gender and sexuality in the project of containing liberty through incarceration, as well as the close association between African Americans and criminality in this early phase of the prison system's history. Liberty's Prisoners reminds us how impossible it is to understand the history of freedom and its negation without placing gender, sex, and race at the center of that story." * Richard Godbeer, Virginia Commonwealth University *"By studying the lives of incarcerated African American, immigrant, and poor white women, Liberty's Prisoners describes the expansion of punishment and penal authority as a conscious effort to reassert social control in the Revolution's wake." * Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania *"Liberty's Prisoners is a very smart book, packed full of original insights and new perspectives. It makes significant contributions to a wide array of cutting-edge scholarly concerns in the history of the early American republic, crime and punishment in America, and the history of gender and sexuality." * Bruce Dorsey, Swarthmore College *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Rebellious Workers Chapter 2. Sentimental Families Chapter 3. Dangerous Publics Chapter 4. Freedom's Limits Chapter 5. Sexual Orderings Conclusion Appendix Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisMen and women struggling for control of marriage and sexuality; narratives that focus on trickery, theft, and adultery; descriptions of sexual activities and body parts, the mention of which is prohibited in polite society: such are the elements that constitute what Nicole Nolan Sidhu calls a medieval discourse of obscene comedy, in which a particular way of thinking about men, women, and household organization crosses genres, forms, and languages. Inviting its audiences to laugh at violations of what is good, decent, and seemly, obscene comedy manifests a semiotic instability that at once supports established hierarchies and delights in overturning them.In Indecent Exposure, Sidhu explores the varied functions of obscene comedy in the literary and visual culture of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. In chapters that examine Chaucer''s Reeve''s Tale and Legend of Good Women; Langland''s Piers Plowman; Lydgate''s Mumming at Hertford, <Trade Review"Indecent Exposure offers a field-changing and astute discussion of literary engagements with obscenity in Middle English literature. Although Nicole Sidhu's monograph focuses on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century obscene comedy in Middle English, it also provides a contextualization of this discourse in other European vernaculars and in a variety of literary and visual contexts, such as manuscript illuminations and devotional texts, sermons in particular." * Studies in the Age of Chaucer *"[A] thoroughly fascinating study..Sidhu's book is an insightful and well-grounded look into how obscene comedy does more than provoke laughter in the works of fourteenth-and fifteenth-century authors." * Comitatus *"Nicole Nolan Sidhu has written a compelling book that delivers what its title promises: an engaging and ground-breaking investigation which intersects the rhetoric of obscenity, gender, and political theory in Middle English literature… In its entirety, the book is captivating and provides important insights and considerable analysis. Containing essential understandings of the political valence of medieval obscenity, the study’s innovative approach is certain to delineate new research directions and will appeal to an engaged and cross-disciplinary audience with an interest in gender and media issues." * Parergon *"In the current moment, characterized by prominence of obscenity in American political discourse and the use of satirical comedy as the most widespread form of political critique, Sidhu's analysis of the workings of obscene comedy is timely indeed . . . Indecent Exposure belongs on the bookshelf of not only medievalists interested in vernacular literary studies, humor, political resistance, and gender and sexuality studies, but also readers interested in the long history of media studies and social change." * Digital Philology *"Fresh and provocative, Indecent Exposure is a substantive and original work that promises to change the way we think about obscene comedy in medieval texts." * Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan University *"Nicole Nolan Sidhu reorients how we think about the category of 'obscene comedy' by focusing on how it provides late medieval English authors with a new political language. This allows them to work within the purview of dominant ideologies while at the same time pursuing alternative questions or insurgent critiques of these same ideologies." * Glenn Burger, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY *Table of ContentsNote on the Fabliaux Introduction. Obscenity in Medieval Culture and Literature PART I. FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PIONEERS Chapter 1. Comedy and Critique: Obscenity and Langland's Reproof of Established Powers in Piers Plowman Chapter 2. Chaucer's Poetics of the Obscene: Classical Narrative and Fabliau Politics in Fragment One of the Canterbury Tales and The Legend of Good Women PART II. FIFTEENTH-CENTURY HEIRS Chapter 3. The Henpecked Subject: Misogyny, Poetry, and Masculine Community in the Writing of John Lydgate Chapter 4. "Ryth Wikked": Christian Ethics and the Unruly Holy Woman in the Book of Margery Kempe Chapter 5. Women's Work, Companionate Marriage, and Mass Death in the Biblical Drama Conclusion. Lessons of the Medieval Obscene Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisWhile much theological thinking assumes a normative male perspective, this study demonstrates how ideas of religious beliefs and practices change in the light of gender awareness. Exploring Orisha traditions Clark suggests that they exist within a female-normative system in which all practitioners are expected to take up female gender roles.

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Book SynopsisPresenting examples from the fields of critical race studies, cultural resource management, digital archaeology, environmental studies, and heritage studies, Trowels in the Trenches demonstrates the many different ways archaeology can be used to contest social injustice.

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Book SynopsisWhat attracts girls to male-dominated youth subcultures like the punk movement? How do girls reconcile a subcultural identity that is deliberately coded masculine with the demands of femininity? This work is an insider's view of the ways punk girls resist gender roles and create strong identities.Trade ReviewIn this original work, LeBlanc explores how punk girls negotiate and resist hegemonic notions of femininity in the predominantly masculine punk subculture. She asks: What influences some teenage girls to become involved in the punk subculture? How do punk girls negotiate female gender norms within a masculine subculture? . . . LeBlanc's work is engaging. By combining a critical feminist perspective, sound qualitative methodology, and delightfully non-academic prose, she has written a book that is both informative and a pleasure to read. Her work should be appreciated by those who study genders, subcultures, identities, and deviance. * Ideology and Cultural Production *[LeBlanc] draws on her insider experiences and insights and on the field research and interviews she carried out with 40 self-identified punk girls in her travels to New Orleans, Atlanta, MontrTal and San Francisco. . . . As an æethnography of gender resistanceÆ and inside look at punk subculture, this very impressive study is of theoretical interest to sociologists, cultural researchers and feminist theorists while also sufficiently fascinating and accessible to appeal to a more general audience. * Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association *The author's first-person accounts of her life as a punk girl are particularly effective at bringing her analysis of punk girls to life. . . . Original and very insightful. -- Kathleen Blee * professor of sociology and director of women's studies University of Pittsburgh *Pretty in Punk is cutting-edge feminist and cultural studies research. . . . .The stories [Leblanc] relates offer inspirational evidence of rebellion against stereotypical gender arrangementsùof girls empowering themselves in unique ways. -- Wendy Simonds * author of Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic and Women *The girls and women that Leblanc portrays in Pretty in Punk are very nearly as original, spirited, and delightful as Leblanc's prose itself. . . . A happy conjunction of author, topic, and methodology. -- Carol Brooks Gardner * professor of sociology and women's studies, Indiana University, Indianapolis *In this original work, LeBlanc explores how punk girls negotiate and resist hegemonic notions of femininity in the predominantly masculine punk subculture. She asks: What influences some teenage girls to become involved in the punk subculture? How do punk girls negotiate female gender norms within a masculine subculture? . . . LeBlanc's work is engaging. By combining a critical feminist perspective, sound qualitative methodology, and delightfully non-academic prose, she has written a book that is both informative and a pleasure to read. Her work should be appreciated by those who study genders, subcultures, identities, and deviance. * Ideology and Cultural Production *[LeBlanc] draws on her insider experiences and insights and on the field research and interviews she carried out with 40 self-identified punk girls in her travels to New Orleans, Atlanta, MontrTal and San Francisco. . . . As an æethnography of gender resistanceÆ and inside look at punk subculture, this very impressive study is of theoretical interest to sociologists, cultural researchers and feminist theorists while also sufficiently fascinating and accessible to appeal to a more general audience. * Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association *The author's first-person accounts of her life as a punk girl are particularly effective at bringing her analysis of punk girls to life. . . . Original and very insightful. -- Kathleen Blee * professor of sociology and director of women's studies University of Pittsburgh *Pretty in Punk is cutting-edge feminist and cultural studies research. . . . .The stories [Leblanc] relates offer inspirational evidence of rebellion against stereotypical gender arrangementsùof girls empowering themselves in unique ways. -- Wendy Simonds * author of Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic and Women *The girls and women that Leblanc portrays in Pretty in Punk are very nearly as original, spirited, and delightful as Leblanc's prose itself. . . . A happy conjunction of author, topic, and methodology. -- Carol Brooks Gardner * professor of sociology and women's studies, Indiana University, Indianapolis *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Table Acknowledgments "Not My Alma Mater": A Vitriolic Prologue 1. "The Punk Girl Thing": Introductions 2. "Punk's Not Dead--It Just Smells That Way": Punk to Hardcore, with Girls on the Side 3. "I Grew Up and I Was a Punk": Subcultural Stories 4. "The Punk Guys Will Really Overpower What the Punk Girls Have to Say": The Boys' Turf 5. "I'll Slap on My Lipstick and Then Kick Their Ass": Constructing Femininity 6. "Oh, I Hope I Don't Catch Anything": Punk Deviance and Public Harassment 7. "I Bet a Steel-Capped Boot Could Shut You Up": Resistance to Public Sexual Harassment 8. "Girls Kick Ass": Nonacademic Conclusions Appendix A: Punk Glossary Appendix B: Punk Girl Biographies Appendix C: Interview Guide and Statement of Purpose Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA discussion of community-based conservation. Although the contributors advocate community action, they cover its dangers as well as its promises. They explore the political contexts in which communities emerge and operate, focusing on issues related to ethnicity, gender and the state.Table of ContentsThe role of community in natural resource conservation / Arun Agrawal and Clark C. Gibson Invoking community: indigenous people and ancestral domain in Palawan, the Philippines / Melanie Hughes McDermott Gender dimensions of community resource management: the case of water users' associations in South Asia / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margreet Zwarteveen The ethnopolitics of irrigation in management in the Ziz oasis, Morocco / Hsain Ilahiane Reidentifying ground rules: community inheritance disputes among the Digo of Kenya / Bettina Ng'weno Communitites, states, and the governance of Pacific Northwest salmon fisheries / Sara Singleton Boundary work: community, market, and state reconsidered / Tania Murray Li Community and the commons: romantic and other views / Bonnie J. McCay

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era. The issues explored include: the burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in Northeast China, and a girl's struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain.Trade ReviewThis collection makes a fascinating read. Each of the nine memoirs is crafted with skill and honesty. - Dorothy Ko, professor of history, Bernard College

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1869, this was one of the 19th centuries most important handbooks of domestic advice - a collaboration by two of the era's most important women writers. It represents their attempt to direct women's acquisition and use of a variety of new household consumer goods.Trade ReviewStudents of nineteenth-century domestic life, and libraries that cater to them, will want to have a copy of this volume in their collection. * Documentary Editing (December 2002) *A valuable book made conveniently available. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Selected Bibliography A Note on the Text THE AMERICAN WOMAN'S HOME Explanatory Notes

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Book SynopsisGender has affected urban planning and the design of the spaces where we live and work. Urban and suburban spaces support stereotypically male activities and planning methodologies reflect a male-dominated society.This work documents and analyzes the connection between gender and planning.Table of ContentsIntroduction : the intersection of gender and planning / Susan S. Fainstein and Lisa J. Servon pt. 1. Public and private space What happened to gender relations on the way from Chicago to Los Angeles? / Daphne Spain Fear and lusting in Las Vegas and New York: sex, political economy, and public space / Alexander J. Reichl What would a nonsexist city be like?: speculations on housing, urban design, and human work / Dolores Hayden pt. 2. Planning theory A gender agenda: new directions for planning theory / Leonie Sandercock and Ann Forsyth Justice and the politics of difference / Iris Marion Young Women and human development: in defense of universal values / Martha C. Nussbaum Feminism and planning: theoretical issues / Susan S. Fainstein pt. 3. Housing Women's aspirations and the home: episodes in American feminist reform / Gwendolyn Wright Mirror images: technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II / Joan Ockman pt. 4. Economic development City spatial structure, women's household work, and national urban policy / Ann R. Markusen Microenterprise programs and women: entrepreneurship as individual empowerment / Lisa J. Servon Space, place, and gender / Doreen Massey with Linda McDowell pt. 5. Transportation Women's travel issues: the research and policy environment / Sandra Rosenbloom The northern drive: black women in transit / Sikivu Hutchinson Gender planning in public transit: institutionalizing feminist policies, changing discourse, and practices / Gerda R. Wekerle

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Book SynopsisOffers introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be ""in between."" This book begins with an introduction that traces the movement of gender theory from the margins of film studies to its center. It then addresses a range of topics, including screen stars and depictions of gay subjects.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction The Subject of Gender Gendering Stars Gay, Straight, Queer, and Beyond Gendering Genre Works Cited Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLatina/os are one of the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Gathering empirical work in the social and behavioral sciences, this reader offers us a critical lens through which to understand these images and the social context framing Latina/os and their sexualities.Trade Review"Latina/o Sexualities is a brilliant collection that provides groundbreaking analyses of the myriad connections between sexuality and race." -- Maxine Baca Zinn * Michigan State University *"Filled with provocative arguments and illuminating insights, Latina/o Sexualities marks a new and exciting epoch in the study of human sexuality and its interactions with race and class; a must-read for scholars and students of ethnic studies and human sexuality." -- Rafael Díaz * Cesar E. Chavez Institute, San Francisco State University *"A pathbreaking contribution and the definite resource for interdisciplinary scholars in the growing field of Latino sexualities. A highly sophisticated intervention that fills the existing void of empirical research in this area, while drawing from and critically engaging with the social and behavioral science literature. This volume will forever challenge us to rethink the categories, methods and approaches scholars use in this rapidly developing field of study." -- Arlene Dávila * author of Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race *"Two groundbreaking, indispensable guides for serious scholars of sexualities who wish to understand both the heterogeneous sexualities of African Americans and Latinos as well as how greater attention to race, ethnicity, class and culture provides important new directions for the field." -- Patricia Hill Collins * author of Black Sexual Politics *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Marysol Asencio and Katie Acosta A History of Latina/o Sexualities, by Ramón A. Gutiérrez Making Sex Matter, by Pablo Mitchell Latina/o Childhood Sexuality, by Sonya Grant Arreola Latina/o Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sexuality, by Laura F. Romo, Erum Nadeem, and Claudia Kouyoumdjian Sexual Health of Latina/o Populations in the United States, by Sandra Arévalo, Mariana Gerena, and Hortensia Amaro Latina/o Sex Policy, by Elena R. Gutiérrez Heterosexuality Exposed, by Gloria González-López Representations of Latina/o Sexuality in Popular Culture, by Deborah R. Vargas Cultural Production of Knowledge on Latina/o Sexualities, by José Quiroga and Melanie López Frank Where There's Querer, by George Ayala, Jaime Cortez,and Patrick "Pato" Hebert Religion/Spirituality, U.S. Latina/o Communities, and Sexuality Scholarship, by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz Latina/o Sexualities in Motion, by Susana Peña Latinas, Sex Work, and Trafficking in the United States, by Amalia L. Cabezas, Dolores Ortiz, and Sonia Valencia Latina Lesbians, BiMujeres, and Trans Identities, by Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel Latina/o Transpopulations, by Marcia Ochoa Boundaries and Bisexuality, by Miguel Munoz-Laboy and Carmen Yon Revisiting Activos and Pasivos, by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Carlos Decena, Héctor Carrillo, and Tomás Almaguer Retiring Behavioral Risk, Disease, and Deficit Models in Favor of SexualHealth Frameworks for Latino Gay Men and Other Men Who Enjoy Sex with Men, by George Ayala Epilogue, by Carlos Decena

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Book SynopsisAt the Heart of Work and Family presents original research on work and family by scholars who engage and build on the conceptual framework developed by well-known sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. Trade Review"This collection of articles by many of [Hochschild's] former students and collaborators is a fitting and loving tribute to the life work of one of the most original, influential, and passionate contributors to the discipline of sociology, and much more broadly to the study of emotions, work, family, and human relationships in the global economy." * Contemporary Sociology *"In selecting essays for the book, Garey and Hansen illustrate the diversity of research weaving together the contours of gender, work and intimate life, which highlight the complexity of experiences in the 21st century. In doing so, this book becomes a road map for examining the rich terrain of the most vexed policy and social issues of contemporary life." * Work, Employment, and Society *"Garey and Hansen have assembled a stunning collection of studies on the emotional and logistical dynamics of coordinating paid and unpaid work. A must read." -- Stephanie Coontz * author of A Strange Stirring *"At the Heart of Work and Family deftly illustrates Hochschild's path-breaking perspectives, advancing understandings of job/career designs, gendered expectations, and family lives as they intertwine in the new economy." -- Stephen Sweet * author of Changing Contours of Work *"At the Heart of Work and Family brings together scholarship from a wide variety of respected scholars to apply Hochschild’s concepts to explore work and family dynamics. It is engaging, dynamic, conceptually rich, and moves the field of work and family scholarship forward." * Teachers College Record *"Garey and Hansen's selection of essays touch upon a rich range of work-family topics. At the Heart of Work and Family is an important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of work and family, and it makes an invaluable contribution to the field of sociology." * Social Service Review *"This collection of articles by many of [Hochschild's] former students and collaborators is a fitting and loving tribute to the life work of one of the most original, influential, and passionate contributors to the discipline of sociology, and much more broadly to the study of emotions, work, family, and human relationships in the global economy." * Contemporary Sociology *"In selecting essays for the book, Garey and Hansen illustrate the diversity of research weaving together the contours of gender, work and intimate life, which highlight the complexity of experiences in the 21st century. In doing so, this book becomes a road map for examining the rich terrain of the most vexed policy and social issues of contemporary life." * Work, Employment, and Society *"Garey and Hansen have assembled a stunning collection of studies on the emotional and logistical dynamics of coordinating paid and unpaid work. A must read." -- Stephanie Coontz * author of A Strange Stirring *"At the Heart of Work and Family deftly illustrates Hochschild's path-breaking perspectives, advancing understandings of job/career designs, gendered expectations, and family lives as they intertwine in the new economy." -- Stephen Sweet * author of Changing Contours of Work *"At the Heart of Work and Family brings together scholarship from a wide variety of respected scholars to apply Hochschild’s concepts to explore work and family dynamics. It is engaging, dynamic, conceptually rich, and moves the field of work and family scholarship forward." * Teachers College Record *"Garey and Hansen's selection of essays touch upon a rich range of work-family topics. At the Heart of Work and Family is an important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of work and family, and it makes an invaluable contribution to the field of sociology." * Social Service Review *Table of ContentsInside the clockwork of male careers / Arlie Russell Hochschild Shift work in multiple time zones : some implications of contingent and nonstandard employment for family life / Vicki Smith Where families and children's activities meet : gender, meshing work, and family myths / Patricia Berhau, Annette Lareau, and Julie E. Press Emotional carework, gender, and the division of household labor / Rebecca J. Erickson Why can't I have what I want? Timing employment, marriage, and motherhood / Rosanna Hertz Framing couple time and togetherness among American and Norwegian professional couples / Jeremy Schulz Love and gratitude : single mothers talk about men's contributions to the second shift / Margaret K. Nelson The asking rules of reciprocity / Karen V. Hansen Wives who play by the rules : working on emotions in the sport marriage / Steven M. Ortiz Emotion work in the age of insecurity / Marianne Cooper The crisis of care / Barrie Thorne The family work of parenting in public / Marjorie L. DeVault Maternally yours : the emotion work of maternal visibility / Anita Ilta Garey Invisible care and the illusion of independence / Lynn May Rivas Remaking family through subcontracting care : elder care in Taiwanese and Hong Kong immigrant families / Pei-Chia Lan The Viacom generation : the consumer child and the corporate parent / Juliet B. Schor Consumption as care and belonging : economies of dignity in children's daily lives / Allison J. Pugh Interracial intimacy on the commodity frontier / Kimberly McClain DaCosta The globalization-family nexus : families as mediating structures of globalization / Nazli Kibria Homeland visits : transnational magnified moments among low-wage immigrant men / Hung Cam Thai Childbirth at the global crossroads / Arlie Russell Hochschild

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Duramy details a culture of impunity that makes violence against women unlikely to be reported, let alone prosecuted. The book succeeds in its nuanced look at Haitian women's relationships to violence, and its main strength is the use of women's lived experiences to blur the categories of 'victim' and 'perpetrator'. Duramy's case study...will be useful to policymakers and international aid workers working on post-conflict reintegration programs and criminal justice reforms that see women as more than just 'dependants'." * Times Higher Education *"One of the greatest strengths of the book is Duramy's ability to contextualize and historicize the pandemic levels of violence against Haitian girls and women while not justifying it … In sum, Gender and Violence in Haiti is a very powerful and, due to the content, disturbing read ... I thank Professor Duramy for researching and writing about a topic as urgent and yet overlooked as this one." * Gender & Society *"In short, Prof. Duramy’s book is detailed, even-handed, and thoughtful. It upends assumptions that impede deeper understanding of the complicated issues that Haitian women living in poverty face. The book offers readers a nuanced view of an extraordinarily complex situation and presents a range of carefully crafted solutions that one can only hope will inform policy makers in Haiti and beyond. " * Human Rights Quarterly *"Uses rich qualitative data to raise awareness of the extent to which gender-based violence has entrenched itself deeply into the fabric of Haitian society." * Human Rights Review *"A concise, alarming, and much-needed contribution that will benefit academics working on Haiti and women’s rights, specialists of human rights, and practitioners of humanitarianism." * E-Misférica *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms and OrganizationsIntroduction1. Gender-Bsed Violence and Women's Violence in Context2. Gender-Based Violence in Haiti3. Understanding Women's Violence in Haiti4. Legal Frameworks5. Victims' Help-Seeking and the Criminal-Justice Response6. Strategies for Action7. Women in the Aftermath of the EarthquakeNotesReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"Duramy details a culture of impunity that makes violence against women unlikely to be reported, let alone prosecuted. The book succeeds in its nuanced look at Haitian women's relationships to violence, and its main strength is the use of women's lived experiences to blur the categories of 'victim' and 'perpetrator'. Duramy's case study...will be useful to policymakers and international aid workers working on post-conflict reintegration programs and criminal justice reforms that see women as more than just 'dependants'." * Times Higher Education *"One of the greatest strengths of the book is Duramy's ability to contextualize and historicize the pandemic levels of violence against Haitian girls and women while not justifying it … In sum, Gender and Violence in Haiti is a very powerful and, due to the content, disturbing read ... I thank Professor Duramy for researching and writing about a topic as urgent and yet overlooked as this one." * Gender & Society *"A concise, alarming, and much-needed contribution that will benefit academics working on Haiti and women’s rights, specialists of human rights, and practitioners of humanitarianism." * E-Misférica *"In short, Prof. Duramy’s book is detailed, even-handed, and thoughtful. It upends assumptions that impede deeper understanding of the complicated issues that Haitian women living in poverty face. The book offers readers a nuanced view of an extraordinarily complex situation and presents a range of carefully crafted solutions that one can only hope will inform policy makers in Haiti and beyond. " * Human Rights Quarterly *"Uses rich qualitative data to raise awareness of the extent to which gender-based violence has entrenched itself deeply into the fabric of Haitian society." * Human Rights Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms and OrganizationsIntroduction1. Gender-Bsed Violence and Women's Violence in Context2. Gender-Based Violence in Haiti3. Understanding Women's Violence in Haiti4. Legal Frameworks5. Victims' Help-Seeking and the Criminal-Justice Response6. Strategies for Action7. Women in the Aftermath of the EarthquakeNotesReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"This elegantly written, theoretically sophisticated, and ethnographically rich book makes an important contribution to cultural understanding of labor, gender and kinship in the complex context of twenty-first century capitalism." -- Janet L. Finn * author of Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960 *"A profound contribution to new kinship studies and temporality studies in anthropology, women and gender studies, labor studies, and political economic literature." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: Orientation1. Putting Kinship to Work2. Labor Relations and Corporate Social ResponsibilityPart II: Putting in Time3. Shiftwork as Kinwork4. Interweaving Love and LaborPart III: Undoing Gender at Work5. Tomboys and Softies6. Hard Work, Humor, and Harassment7. ConclusionNotesGlossary of Mining TermsReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"This elegantly written, theoretically sophisticated, and ethnographically rich book makes an important contribution to cultural understanding of labor, gender and kinship in the complex context of twenty-first century capitalism." -- Janet L. Finn * author of Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960 *"A profound contribution to new kinship studies and temporality studies in anthropology, women and gender studies, labor studies, and political economic literature." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: Orientation1. Putting Kinship to Work2. Labor Relations and Corporate Social ResponsibilityPart II: Putting in Time3. Shiftwork as Kinwork4. Interweaving Love and LaborPart III: Undoing Gender at Work5. Tomboys and Softies6. Hard Work, Humor, and Harassment7. ConclusionNotesGlossary of Mining TermsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow did mothers transform from parents of secondary importance in the colonies to having their multiple and complex roles connected to the well-being of the nation? In the first comprehensive history of motherhood in the US, Jodi Vandenberg-Daves explores how tensions over the maternal role have been part and parcel of the development of American society.Trade Review"Vandenberg-Daves skillfully illustrates the activity and activism of mothers as well as the power of the rhetoric and the role of motherhood…an impressive synthesis of some of the most important recent scholarship on the topic." -- Rima D. Apple * author of Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America *"A stimulating book that places mothers at the center of American history, Modern Motherhood highlights the dramatic changes to maternal ideologies, politics, and experiences over 250 years. An impressive achievement." -- Molly Ladd-Taylor * York University *"This book is a comprehensive...history of motherhood in the US. Recommended." * Choice *"Jodi Vandenberg-Daves helpfully synthesizes the scholarship on twentieth-century motherhood and its earlier roots. What, she asks, is the history of motherhood as institution and mothering as experience in modern motherhood? Existing scholarship tells most about the former ... Vandenberg-Daves also points to the patterns of social history and the departure of mothering from the institution of motherhood. What happened on the ground is compelling and diverse, if highly elusive in the archives." * Journal of American History *"Whatever kind of mother you may be, or whatever kind of mother you had, you will find her, with her problems and her grief, her determination and her pride, somewhere in these pages." * Women's Review of Books *"Weaving together various threads in the story of the emergence of modern motherhood in America, [Vandenberg-Daves] offers a compelling new look at the socio-cultural, historical, political, religious, and economic factors that coalesced to create our current conception of motherhood." * American Studies *"Vandenberg-Daves skillfully illustrates the activity and activism of mothers as well as the power of the rhetoric and the role of motherhood…an impressive synthesis of some of the most important recent scholarship on the topic." -- Rima D. Apple * author of Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America *"A stimulating book that places mothers at the center of American history, Modern Motherhood highlights the dramatic changes to maternal ideologies, politics, and experiences over 250 years. An impressive achievement." -- Molly Ladd-Taylor * York University *"This book is a comprehensive...history of motherhood in the US. Recommended." * Choice *"Jodi Vandenberg-Daves helpfully synthesizes the scholarship on twentieth-century motherhood and its earlier roots. What, she asks, is the history of motherhood as institution and mothering as experience in modern motherhood? Existing scholarship tells most about the former ... Vandenberg-Daves also points to the patterns of social history and the departure of mothering from the institution of motherhood. What happened on the ground is compelling and diverse, if highly elusive in the archives." * Journal of American History *"Whatever kind of mother you may be, or whatever kind of mother you had, you will find her, with her problems and her grief, her determination and her pride, somewhere in these pages." * Women's Review of Books *"Weaving together various threads in the story of the emergence of modern motherhood in America, [Vandenberg-Daves] offers a compelling new look at the socio-cultural, historical, political, religious, and economic factors that coalesced to create our current conception of motherhood." * American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One Roots of Modern Motherhood: Early America and the Nineteenth Century 1 Inventing a New Role for Mothers 2 Contradictions of Moral Motherhood: Slavery, Race, and Reform 3 Medicalizing the Maternal Body Part Two Modern Mothers: 1890–1940 4 Science, Expertise and Advice to Mothers 5 Grand Designs: Uplifting and Controlling the Mothers 6 Modern Reproduction: The Fit and Unfit Mother 7 Mothers’ Resilience and Adaptation Part Three Mothers of Invention: World War II to Present 8 The Middle-Class Wife and Mother Box 9 Mother Power and Mother Angst 10 Mothers’ Changing Lives and Continuous Caregiving Conclusion Notes Index

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