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University of Arizona Press Ready Player Juan
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University of Minnesota Press Deep Gossip
Book SynopsisMaps the intricate relationship between culture, politics, and sexuality over three centuries - now in paperback!Trade Review"Provocative. . . Deep Gossip is crafted so well that it is almost certain to become a classic." -Lambda Book ReportTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Deep Gossip Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans Some Speculations on the History of Sexual Intercourse during the Long Eighteenth Century in England From Thoreau to Queer Politics The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History American Studies, Queer Studies New York City Gay Liberation and the Gay Commuters Notes Permissions
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University of Minnesota Press Sex before Sex Figuring the Act in Early Modern
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Figuring Early Modern SexWill Stockton and James M. Bromley1. “Invisible Sex!”: What Looks Like the Act in Early Modern Drama?Christine Varnado2. Death and Theory: Or, the Problem of Counterfactual SexKathryn Schwarz3. Spectacular Impotence: Or, Things that Hardly Ever Happen in the Critical History of PornographyMelissa J. Jones4. “Unmanly Passion”: Sodomitical Self-Fashioning in John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy and Perkin WarbeckNicholas F. Radel5. The Erotics of Chin-chucking in Seventeenth-Century EnglandWill Fisher6. Rimming the RenaissanceJames M. Bromley7. Animal, Vegetable, Sexual: Metaphor in John Donne’s “Sappho to Philaenis” and Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden”Stephen Guy-Bray8. Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern EnglandHolly Dugan9. The Seduction of Milton’s Lady: Rape, Psychoanalysis, and the Erotics of Consumption in “Comus”Will Stockton10 “How human life began”: Sexual Reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise LostThomas H. LuxonAfterwordValerie TraubContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Death beyond Disavowal
Book SynopsisGrace Kyungwon Hong utilizes "difference" as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism. Death beyond Disavowal finds the memories of death and precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt to erase.Trade Review"This book is a significant intervention in scholarship on the politics of life and death, explaining why this dyad is so central to neoliberal forms of governance and building on women of color feminism’s analysis of the impossibility of separating out life and death and the danger of forgetting that life for some means death for others."—Shelley Streeby, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Neoliberal Disavowal and the Politics of the Impossible1. Fun with Death and Dismemberment: Irony, Farce, and Nationalist Memorialization2. On Being Wrong and Feeling Right: Cherríe Moraga and Audre Lorde3. Blues Futurity and Queer Improvisation4. Bringing Out the Dead: Black Feminism’s Prophetic VisionEpilogue: Life, Death, and Everything in BetweenAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press What Gender Is What Gender Does
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What Gender Is, What Gender Does is a major intervention in today’s stagnant theoretical debates on gender in its twenty-first-century permutations. With characteristic assertiveness, Judith Roof takes us beyond identity politics to forge a model of polymorphous sexuation that exposes gender regimes—including those based in queer, transgender, and performative thought—to cover up and perpetuate the asymmetries of sexual difference as immutable truth."—Renée C. Hoogland, Wayne State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making Over: Metamorphosis, Taxonomy, Vantage2. Prosopopeias: Exceeding Kind3. Temporality Still4. Social Algebras5. Scopic Folding, Layered Economies6. The Fixer7. Gender Is as Gender Does: On the Rebound8. Spurious DisplaysConclusionNotesFilmographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press What Gender Is What Gender Does
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What Gender Is, What Gender Does is a major intervention in today’s stagnant theoretical debates on gender in its twenty-first-century permutations. With characteristic assertiveness, Judith Roof takes us beyond identity politics to forge a model of polymorphous sexuation that exposes gender regimes—including those based in queer, transgender, and performative thought—to cover up and perpetuate the asymmetries of sexual difference as immutable truth."—Renée C. Hoogland, Wayne State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making Over: Metamorphosis, Taxonomy, Vantage2. Prosopopeias: Exceeding Kind3. Temporality Still4. Social Algebras5. Scopic Folding, Layered Economies6. The Fixer7. Gender Is as Gender Does: On the Rebound8. Spurious DisplaysConclusionNotesFilmographyIndex
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The University of Alabama Press The Failure of Our Fathers
Book SynopsisExamines the evolving position of non-elite whites in 19th Alabama society - from the state's creation to the end of the Civil War - through the lens of gender and family.
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The University of Alabama Press Strange Bodies Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers
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The University of Alabama Press Separate Spheres No More Gender Convergence in
Book SynopsisAlthough they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been ghettoised by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favour of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching.
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The University of Alabama Press The Domesticated Penis How Womanhood Has Shaped
Book SynopsisChallenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection made to the attributes of the modern male form.Trade ReviewRecommended."" - Choice“The Domesticated Penis is a study of the anatomical distinctiveness of the genitals of the human male and diverse cultural attitudes toward them and their symbolism. This is scholarship at its liveliest: a colorful, knowledgeable romp through history and across cultures and species, to explore how the penis we know and (mostly) love today developed its characteristic shape, size, physiology, and behavior. The core argument is evolutionary: ancient women knew what they wanted, and what they wanted was smooth, substantial, long-lasting penetration. Male anatomy evolved to match female desire.” - Beth A. Conklin, author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society“Assiduously avoiding tired gender stereotypes and naive evolutionary reasoning, and written in clear and sparkling prose, Cormier’s and Jones’s book advances the debate on the evolution of human sexuality.” - Sarah S. Richardson, author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome“Professor Cormier and Professor Jones remind us that “there is perhaps no topic where cultural bias comes so glaringly into play as human sexuality.”-Times Higher Education
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University of Georgia Press An OutKast Reader Essays on Race Gender and the
Book SynopsisTakes OutKast’s aesthetic as a lens through which readers can understand and explore contemporary issues of Blackness, gender, urbanism, southern aesthetics, and southern studies more generally. These essays collectively offer a vision of OutKast as a key shaper of conceptions of the twenty-first-century South.
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Ohio University Press Americas Collectible Cookbooks The History the
Book SynopsisAmerica’s Collectible Cookbooks is a wonderful concoction of gossipy morsels and serious reflection about cookbooks and cookbook authors. Although the names Fannie Merritt Farmer, Eliza Leslie, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Irma Rombauer are familiar to generations of American books, few know how really extraordinary these women were.Trade Review“America’s Collectible Cookbooks…is a remarkable olio of gossipy tidbits, history, and an up-front look at the cooks who so greatly influenced our lives. Reading the recipes from early-day cookbooks makes one marvel at the women who became such expert cooks using such limited instructions…A fascinating read.” * Las Vegas Sun *“Scrupulously researched but eminently readable.” * Contemporary Collectibles *“This book provides a valuable reference for tracking historical food preparation and home care information and learning about cultural contributors to our food heritage and kitchen management. It encourages local cookbook projects and collectors, libraries, and historical museums to preserve local treasures and collectibles…Encourages the enjoyment and study of food habits, customs, social and economic history, and scientific and technological progress.” * Journal of the American Dietetic Association *“This is an important contribution to our understanding of a key element of American popular culture that both academic and public libraries, whatever their policy on collecting actual cookbooks may be, should acquire for the light it sheds on several aspects of our cultural and social history.” * Popular Culture in Libraries *“America’s Collectible Cookbooks should be required reading for all cookbook collectors and for every woman or man who’s ever imagined the story behind that butter-smeared copy of ‘Joy of Cooking.’ Cooks will enjoy the dozens of period menus and recipes included in each section (side effect of this book: It makes you hungry).” * Syndicated Columnist, “Collectibles” *
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Ohio University Press Nomadic Voices of Exile
Book SynopsisContemporary French writing on the Maghreb—that part of Africa above the Sahara—is truly postmodern in scope, the rich product of multifaceted histories promoting the blending of two worlds, two identities, two cultures, and two languages.Nomadic
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Ohio University Press Virginia Woolf Reading the Renaissance
Book SynopsisThe story of “Shakespeare’s sister” that Virginia Woolf tells in A Room of One’s Own has sparked interest in the question of the place of the woman writer in the Renaissance. By now, the process of recovering lost voices of early modern women is well under way.Trade Review“Greene’s anthology is a treasury of contemporary scholarship and insight about ‘the period Woolf loved best’ (208 n. 12). One might go so far as to say that it is a revenant of Judith Shakespeare who has now been given a scholarly dimension if not voice.” * Doane College *“…Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance is worth dissection and study, if only to apreciate fully what is perhaps the collection’s most notable achievement: the contrast and comparison of one visionary age and its artists with another.” * Virginia Woolf Bulletin *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Dangerous Dames
Book SynopsisBoth film noir and the Weimar street film hold a continuing fascination for film spectators and film theorists alike. The female characters, especially the alluring femmes fatales, remain a focus for critical and popular attention.
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Ohio University Press Ohio Is My Dwelling Place
Book SynopsisOne of the most intriguing cultural artifacts of our nation’s past was made by young girls—the embroidery sampler. In Ohio Is My Dwelling Place, American decorative arts expert Sue Studebaker documents the samplers created in Ohio prior to 1850, the girls who made them, their families, and the teachers who taught them to stitch.InTrade Review“Sue Studebaker's comprehensive book covering the development of female education and the role of needlework in a young lady’s life in Ohio significantly contributes to the study of regional styles in American needlework and samplers.”
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Ohio University Press Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson Travel
Book SynopsisCruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body is the first booklengthstudy about the influence of travel on RobertLouis Stevenson’s writings, both fiction and nonfiction.WithinTrade Review“Buckton’s scholarly synthesis pushes us to reconsider the relationship between travel writing and fiction in Stevenson’s body of work and to examine the intersections between issues such as colonialism and same-sex desire across genres.” * Victorian Studies *“Buckton convincingly argues for continued consideration of Stevenson as a writer who productively engaged with the social concerns of the contemporaneous moment.” * Rocky Mountain Review *“Buckton’s book offers a series of original, and at times, provocative reappraisals of some of Stevenson’s most undervalued writings.” * English Literature in Transition *“Overall this sophisticated approach to Stevenson’s writings offers an admirable heuristic for bringing into conjunction his literal and literary journeys.” * Romanticism & Victorianism on the Net *”Oliver Buckton’s informed and sophisticated book skillfully combines...theoretical preoccupations with a meticulous exploration of Stevenson’s writing, probing the influence of travel on his fictional and nonfictional prose works.... A valuable addition to the study of nineteenth-century travel writing and fiction.” * Journal of British Studies *“Highly recommended.”“The first book centered on the influence of travel on Stevenson’s writing from the beginning to the end of his career.... By largely exempting the most often examined of Stevenson’s texts, it focuses necessary attention on the others, particularly the juvenile fiction and the travel writing.... Thoroughly researched both historically and critically.”“Oliver Buckton’s lucid study moves with grace and discernment from close analyses of literary texts to informed and consistently informative investigations of culture and colonial politics in the Victorian fin de siècle. Buckton shows how a commitment to ‘cruising’—as a mode of travel, a cast of mind, and a method of composition—enabled Stevenson to produce a body of literature that is at once historically aware and aesthetically sophisticated. Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson will be indispensable not just to scholars of Stevenson but to all readers interested in the literature of modern empire.” * University of Virginia *“Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson makes a vital contribution to the resurgent critical interest in Stevenson’s increasingly fraught career. By tracing Stevenson’s enduring interest in ‘cruising’—the mobility that characterizes his travel narratives, historical romances, and writings on Samoa—Buckton unravels this great writer’s sharpened awareness of imperial oppression. Among its many achievements, this fine book makes it strikingly clear why the wandering protagonist of the historical romance David Balfour has profound political links with Stevenson’s own troubled excursions in the South Pacific.” * UCLA *
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Ohio University Press Heterosexual Africa
Book SynopsisHeterosexual Africa?Trade Review“Epprecht’s own interview material and his close reading of a wide range of AIDS literature from across the continent reveals one terrifying fact: researchers have studied HIV/AIDS as a heterosexual disease in Africa because they have been told and have read that there is no homosexuality in Africa…. the assumption that Africa is a continent of heterosexual sex has been deadly for too many people for too long.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Epprecht’s argument—that imperialism ultimately brought homophobia to Africa, not an introduction of homosexual acts—has become an important tool for African LGBTI and human rights activists.” * International Socialist Journal *“Heterosexual Africa? interrogates the silences of anthropologists who have failed to dispel the myths denying that alternative forms of sexual expression among Africans, particularly men’s same-sex relationships, formerly were tolerated in various societies.” * African Studies Review *“Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of boundaries and blind spots in the history of African scholarship. This book should make for valuable controversy—both intellectually and politically—in contemporary Africa.”“This is a ground-breaking survey by an award-winning historian, a work of great significance for anyone interested in the study of sexuality in Africa…. Such work is essential for our understanding not only of African culture but, perhaps more immediately important, for our understanding of how violence, gender discrimination, and anxiety and ignorance about sexuality have impeded treatment of a health crisis of catastrophic and continental magnitude.” * Anthropos *“(Heterosexual Africa?) is a Kafkaesque labyrinth of the stories of researchers who either ignored evidence of African homosexuality or were blind to it or chose to suppress what they found due to homophobia (their own or that of their peers.” * The Gay & Lesbian Review *“This outstanding study will attract a significant readership among undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of African history, queer theory, anthropology, and postcolonial literature. Scholars and activists working in the field of HIV/AIDS will also be challenged and engaged by this book. I am convinced that Heterosexual Africa? will stimulate debate and inspire a rethinking of methods and models in African social history. It represents a significant, provocative, and at times controversial contribution to the field.”
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Ohio University Press Heterosexual Africa The History of an Idea from
Book SynopsisHeterosexual Africa?Trade Review“Epprecht’s own interview material and his close reading of a wide range of AIDS literature from across the continent reveals one terrifying fact: researchers have studied HIV/AIDS as a heterosexual disease in Africa because they have been told and have read that there is no homosexuality in Africa…. the assumption that Africa is a continent of heterosexual sex has been deadly for too many people for too long.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Epprecht’s argument—that imperialism ultimately brought homophobia to Africa, not an introduction of homosexual acts—has become an important tool for African LGBTI and human rights activists.” * International Socialist Journal *“Heterosexual Africa? interrogates the silences of anthropologists who have failed to dispel the myths denying that alternative forms of sexual expression among Africans, particularly men’s same-sex relationships, formerly were tolerated in various societies.” * African Studies Review *“Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of boundaries and blind spots in the history of African scholarship. This book should make for valuable controversy—both intellectually and politically—in contemporary Africa.”“This is a ground-breaking survey by an award-winning historian, a work of great significance for anyone interested in the study of sexuality in Africa…. Such work is essential for our understanding not only of African culture but, perhaps more immediately important, for our understanding of how violence, gender discrimination, and anxiety and ignorance about sexuality have impeded treatment of a health crisis of catastrophic and continental magnitude.” * Anthropos *“(Heterosexual Africa?) is a Kafkaesque labyrinth of the stories of researchers who either ignored evidence of African homosexuality or were blind to it or chose to suppress what they found due to homophobia (their own or that of their peers.” * The Gay & Lesbian Review *“This outstanding study will attract a significant readership among undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of African history, queer theory, anthropology, and postcolonial literature. Scholars and activists working in the field of HIV/AIDS will also be challenged and engaged by this book. I am convinced that Heterosexual Africa? will stimulate debate and inspire a rethinking of methods and models in African social history. It represents a significant, provocative, and at times controversial contribution to the field.”
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Ohio University Press Amy Levy
Book SynopsisAmy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation.Trade Review“This is a collection that will vastly enhance our understanding of Victorian culture, the nuances of Anglo-Jewish identity, the struggles of Victorian feminism, and the singular achievement of a writer whose complexity is finally coming into focus.”“This splendid collection of essays will contribute to the ongoing reassessment of Amy Levy as a complex and challenging writer…. (A) rich and complex portrait of a writer who … might just be representative rather than marginal, and who certainly complicated her own meditation on what it means to be a minor writer.” * Victorian Studies *“Thoughtful in selection and rigorous in scholarship, this volume introduces new readers to Levy’s life and works, refines and expands on the major themes of extant criticism, and considers entirely new ways of analyzing Levy’s work…. Amy Levy: Critical Essays is a powerful argument for the value of Amy Levy to our understanding of late Victorian literature.” * Nineteenth Century Gender Studies *“Collectively, these essays demonstrate that Levy was fully engaged in dominant discourses around politics, feminism, aesthetics and Jewish identity of her day. For undergraduates and advanced scholars of Levy's work and historical moment, therefore, this volume will prove an invaluable resource.” * New Books on Literature 19 *“Eschewing tragic readings of Levy’s life—she committed suicide at 28—these uniformly strong essays locate Levy in such contexts as late-Victorian feminism, discourses of female professionalism, and evengelicalism. The essays cover the full range of Levy’s work…. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“A great strength of this volume, and the reason why it deserves to find an audience beyond scholars who specialize in Levy’s work, is the care the contributors take to bring the broader historical context into their discussion.” * Shofar Book Reviews *
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Ohio University Press Amy Levy
Book SynopsisAmy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation.Trade Review“This is a collection that will vastly enhance our understanding of Victorian culture, the nuances of Anglo-Jewish identity, the struggles of Victorian feminism, and the singular achievement of a writer whose complexity is finally coming into focus.”“This splendid collection of essays will contribute to the ongoing reassessment of Amy Levy as a complex and challenging writer…. (A) rich and complex portrait of a writer who … might just be representative rather than marginal, and who certainly complicated her own meditation on what it means to be a minor writer.” * Victorian Studies *“Thoughtful in selection and rigorous in scholarship, this volume introduces new readers to Levy’s life and works, refines and expands on the major themes of extant criticism, and considers entirely new ways of analyzing Levy’s work…. Amy Levy: Critical Essays is a powerful argument for the value of Amy Levy to our understanding of late Victorian literature.” * Nineteenth Century Gender Studies *“Collectively, these essays demonstrate that Levy was fully engaged in dominant discourses around politics, feminism, aesthetics and Jewish identity of her day. For undergraduates and advanced scholars of Levy's work and historical moment, therefore, this volume will prove an invaluable resource.” * New Books on Literature 19 *“Eschewing tragic readings of Levy’s life—she committed suicide at 28—these uniformly strong essays locate Levy in such contexts as late-Victorian feminism, discourses of female professionalism, and evengelicalism. The essays cover the full range of Levy’s work…. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“A great strength of this volume, and the reason why it deserves to find an audience beyond scholars who specialize in Levy’s work, is the care the contributors take to bring the broader historical context into their discussion.” * Shofar Book Reviews *
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Ohio University Press Taking Liberties Gender Transgressive Patriotism
Book SynopsisMoving beyond a traditional study of Polish dramatic literature, Taking Liberties is a masterful intellectual history of what may be called patriotism without borders: a nonnational form of loyalty compatible with the universal principles and practices of democracy and human rights.Trade Review“Current debates [over nationalism and patriotism] make Halina Filipowicz's new monograph all the more timely. This deeply engrossing work … demonstrates Filipowicz’s broad knowledge of Polish culture and her outstanding ability to tell a good story. The book provides a history of political theater in Poland, a history of political discourse at key moments in Polish history, and insight into the world of Polish thought for the last two hundred and thirty years … [It will be] a great resource for scholars and students of Polish thought from the Enlightenment forward.” * Slavic and East European Journal *“[In this] compelling, extremely well-researched work, Filipowicz offers a fresh perspective on Polish drama, shedding light on some lesser known works and encouraging a reevaluation of Poland’s canonical literature and how its various national, historical myths have been structured to shape a collective identity. Her readings point to the ‘counteractive patterns of culture,’ the complicated, paradoxical, and discursively rich alternative stories that are smoothed over, manipulated, if not outright silenced, in the creation of a single paradigm of patriotism.” * Cosmopolitan Review *“Filipowicz combines historical breadth, detailed research, and complex critical and theoretical lenses with startling results. … [Her] use of feminist and gender theory to interpret both the historical subjects and their translation into dramatic form provides an essential and insightful filter to the sheer volume of archival material she has uncovered. It also proves highly generative to her high-risk project of moving beyond the canon of Polish drama and established categories of Polish theater history.” * The Slavic Review *“Filipowicz’s focus on the theme of patriotism and its ‘transgressive’ expression in drama allows her to examine an issue that is still current today—and not only in Poland—that is, who gets to be included in the groups we might call ‘us’ and those we regard as ‘others.’” * The Polish Review *Table of Contents* Series Editor's Preface* Acknowledgments* Compass Points A Prologue* Introduction*1. Controversies over "True" and "False" Patriotism, 1786-91*2. Poland Unmanned? Zofia Chrzanowska*3. Is There Transgression in This Text? Wanda, Queen of Poland*4. No More Separate Spheres? Emilia Plater*5. Apocalypse Now? Tadeusz Kosciuszko*6. Controversies over "True" and "False" Patriotism, 1941-89* Transformations An Epilogue* Notes* Plays Cited* Index
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Ohio University Press Conjugal Rights
Book SynopsisConjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid–nineteenth century through 1960.Trade Review“Through a judicious use of archival material from all levels of the empire…and oral interviews with approximately one hundred Gabonese, the author demonstrates that the growth of the city and the French empire cannot be convincingly written without a full account of the women and men who lived there, their struggles to form intimate relationships, and the strains that resulted from those relationships. …Conjugal Rights has much to offer readers, more than can be discussed here. Those interested in sexuality, gender, marriage, law, colonialism, and urban history— and not just in an African context—will be richly rewarded by the book.” * American Historical Review *“[Jean-Baptiste] eloquently describes how the ‘sexual economy’ of emotional, social, legal and physical relationships between women and men shaped urban life… Her book is an important addition to many debates in African studies.” * Journal of African History *“As a study of Francophone Africa written in English, Conjugal Rights is doubly valuable. Bringing together cutting-edge urban studies, gender history and the history of emotions, Jean-Baptiste’s work insists that the shape of Libreville owed as much to the shifting fortunes of marriage and sexual relationships as to any set of commodity imports and exports. It points us toward a new and much fuller understanding of the lives of African women and men in cities where personal and political constructions regularly flowed over the boundaries planned for them by colonialism.”“Richly documented and highly readable, Conjugal Rights illuminates the complex interplay between marriage, sexuality, economy and authority in a colonial African city. Moving beyond conventional narratives of colonial power and African agency, Jean-Baptiste argues persuasively that limits on both left spaces of manoeuver and debate in which women and men sometimes managed and sometimes failed to realize their emotional and material aspirations, and apparently rigid rules of church and state proved to be unstable and inconclusive in practice.”“This remarkable study draws upon an impressive array of sources to recast the historiography of African urbanization in ways that belie conventional narratives.”
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Ohio University Press Conjugal Rights Marriage Sexuality and Urban
Book SynopsisConjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid–nineteenth century through 1960.Trade Review“Through a judicious use of archival material from all levels of the empire…and oral interviews with approximately one hundred Gabonese, the author demonstrates that the growth of the city and the French empire cannot be convincingly written without a full account of the women and men who lived there, their struggles to form intimate relationships, and the strains that resulted from those relationships. …Conjugal Rights has much to offer readers, more than can be discussed here. Those interested in sexuality, gender, marriage, law, colonialism, and urban history— and not just in an African context—will be richly rewarded by the book.” * American Historical Review *“[Jean-Baptiste] eloquently describes how the ‘sexual economy’ of emotional, social, legal and physical relationships between women and men shaped urban life… Her book is an important addition to many debates in African studies.” * Journal of African History *“As a study of Francophone Africa written in English, Conjugal Rights is doubly valuable. Bringing together cutting-edge urban studies, gender history and the history of emotions, Jean-Baptiste’s work insists that the shape of Libreville owed as much to the shifting fortunes of marriage and sexual relationships as to any set of commodity imports and exports. It points us toward a new and much fuller understanding of the lives of African women and men in cities where personal and political constructions regularly flowed over the boundaries planned for them by colonialism.”“Richly documented and highly readable, Conjugal Rights illuminates the complex interplay between marriage, sexuality, economy and authority in a colonial African city. Moving beyond conventional narratives of colonial power and African agency, Jean-Baptiste argues persuasively that limits on both left spaces of manoeuver and debate in which women and men sometimes managed and sometimes failed to realize their emotional and material aspirations, and apparently rigid rules of church and state proved to be unstable and inconclusive in practice.”“This remarkable study draws upon an impressive array of sources to recast the historiography of African urbanization in ways that belie conventional narratives.”
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Ohio University Press States of Marriage Gender Justice and Rights in
Book SynopsisStates of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges.Trade Review“Burrill sets out an ambitious agenda for ‘doing’ the history of marriage in her introductory chapter, one that will serve as an inspiration and guide for those who embark on similar studies. She does not provide—nor could anyone—a history of the institution of marriage, but rather a steady gaze into the actors and their struggles around marriage, divorce, and gender relationships over six decades. … Burrill has written a work of considerable and pioneering importance.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“States of Marriage is a deftly written, sophisticated book that demonstrates the centrality of marriage to colonial gender-making projects in French Sudan. Burrill draws on an extraordinary range of evidence and theories to analyze the shifting ideas and practices of marriage as a prism into the conjuncture of gendered and generational struggles, legal reforms, and colonial interventions. A must read for scholars of African history and gender studies.”“A theoretically sound, gender-specific legal history through the reading of civil and criminal court records on marriage disputes in Sikasso, Mali.… The book echoes the original contribution of Nkiru Nzegwu (in Family Matters, 2006) that the oppression and exploitation of women were at the center of colonial policy. Burrill analyzes this history of legalized oppression at the local, national, and transnational levels. …Summing up: Recommended.” * CHOICE *“Emily Burrill’s insightful analysis of marriage, gender justice, and rights in colonial Mali deftly analyzes the ways in which colonial laws on marriage … both contributed in essential ways to the colonial state-building project and undermined existing social dynamics, thereby ‘unmaking the world.’ … Burrill’s book is a welcome addition to our understanding of gender, justice, human rights, and the colonial state. It is persuasive and well written and is essential reading for scholars interested not only in colonialism and gender but also in law and society.” * African Studies Review *
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Ohio University Press Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean
Book SynopsisA breakthrough study of the underexamined lived experience of Islam, sexuality, and gender on the Swahili coast.Table of Contents* Glossary* Introduction Katrina Daly Thompson and Erin Stiles*Part One: Historical Transformations of Gender, Sexuality and Marriage*1: Schoolgirls and Women Teachers: Colonial Education and the Shifting Boundaries between Girls and Women in Zanzibar Corrie Decker*2: The Value of a Marriage: Missionaries, Ex-slaves, and the Legal Debates over Marriage in Colonial Pemba Island Elisabeth McMahon*3: Two Weddings in northern Mafia: Changes in Women's Lives in the 1960s Pat Caplan*Part Two: Contemporary Expressions of Coastal Femininity and Womanhood*4: Pleasure and Danger: Muslim Views on Sex and Gender in Zanzibar Nadine Beckmann*5: Sex and School on the Southern Swahili Coast: Adolescent Sexuality in the Context of Expanding Education in Rural Mtwara, Tanzania Meghan Halley*6: Learning to use Swahili Profanity and Sacred Speech: The Embodied Socialization of a Muslim Bride in Zanzibar Town Katrina Daly Thompson*7: Pleasure and Prohibitions: Reflections on Gender, Knowledge and Sexuality in Zanzibar Town Kjersti Larsen*Part Three: Defining Masculinity in Ritual and Marriage*8: Unsuitable Husbands: Allegations of Impotence in Zanzibari Divorce Suits Erin Stiles*9: Forming and Performing Swahili Manhood: Wedding Rituals of a Lamu Town Groom Rebecca Gearhart*10: Spirit Possession and Masculinity in Swahili Society Linda Giles*11: Being "A Good Muslim Man": Modern Aspirations and Polygynous Intentions in a Swahili Muslim Village Susi Keefe* Afterword Susan Hirsch* Notes* Bibliography* Index
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Ohio University Press Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean
Book SynopsisA breakthrough study of the underexamined lived experience of Islam, sexuality, and gender on the Swahili coast.Table of Contents* Glossary* Introduction Katrina Daly Thompson and Erin Stiles*Part One: Historical Transformations of Gender, Sexuality and Marriage*1: Schoolgirls and Women Teachers: Colonial Education and the Shifting Boundaries between Girls and Women in Zanzibar Corrie Decker*2: The Value of a Marriage: Missionaries, Ex-slaves, and the Legal Debates over Marriage in Colonial Pemba Island Elisabeth McMahon*3: Two Weddings in northern Mafia: Changes in Women's Lives in the 1960s Pat Caplan*Part Two: Contemporary Expressions of Coastal Femininity and Womanhood*4: Pleasure and Danger: Muslim Views on Sex and Gender in Zanzibar Nadine Beckmann*5: Sex and School on the Southern Swahili Coast: Adolescent Sexuality in the Context of Expanding Education in Rural Mtwara, Tanzania Meghan Halley*6: Learning to use Swahili Profanity and Sacred Speech: The Embodied Socialization of a Muslim Bride in Zanzibar Town Katrina Daly Thompson*7: Pleasure and Prohibitions: Reflections on Gender, Knowledge and Sexuality in Zanzibar Town Kjersti Larsen*Part Three: Defining Masculinity in Ritual and Marriage*8: Unsuitable Husbands: Allegations of Impotence in Zanzibari Divorce Suits Erin Stiles*9: Forming and Performing Swahili Manhood: Wedding Rituals of a Lamu Town Groom Rebecca Gearhart*10: Spirit Possession and Masculinity in Swahili Society Linda Giles*11: Being "A Good Muslim Man": Modern Aspirations and Polygynous Intentions in a Swahili Muslim Village Susi Keefe* Afterword Susan Hirsch* Notes* Bibliography* Index
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Ohio University Press Emergent Masculinities
Book SynopsisIn Emergent Masculinities, Ndubueze L. Mbah argues that the Bight of Biafra region's Atlanticizationor the interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade, colonialism, and Christianizationbetween 1750 and 1920 transformed gender into the primary mode of social differentiation in the region. He incorporates over 250 oral narratives of men and women across a range of social roles and professions with material culture practices, performance traditions, slave ship data, colonial records, and more to reveal how Africans channeled the socioeconomic forces of the Atlantic world through their local ideologies and practices. The gendered struggles over the means of social reproduction conditioned the Bight of Biafra region's participation in Atlantic systems of production and exchange, and defined the demography of the region's forced diaspora. By looking at male and female constructions of masculinity and sexuality as major indexes of social change, EmergentTrade Review“Emergent Masculinities transforms our understanding of the role of gender in a particular region of precolonial Africa and deepens our knowledge of the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and European colonialization on Igbo and neighboring societies. Its ramifications extend beyond the Bight of Biafra to vast areas on both sides of the Atlantic. The book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the political, economic and social dynamics that shaped the Atlantic world during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is a must-read—and a must-have—for scholars of Africa and the Atlantic world and for college and university libraries.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines *“In a timely and necessary contribution to our understanding of the gendered threads of connection between West African communities and trans-Atlantic processes, Mbah delivers a fine-grained reading of transformations in social practice and cultural meaning among the Ohafia-Igbo people over two centuries. He thus complicates how we use gender to understand power and social meaning in broader African history and challenges presumptions about the general contours of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.”“[Offers] offers theoretical sophistication, rich textual analysis, and extensive empirical research…. Emergent Masculinities is both interdisciplinary and transnational. It illustrates the author’s facility with anthropological debates, gender theory, and literary theory, along with Atlantic and Caribbean history. Given its breath, this book should be read by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic as one model for integrating Africa into Atlantic history.” * Journal of African History *“A fascinating book … [a] major work of historical scholarship." * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Clearly written and rigorously researched, Emergent Masculinities should stand the test of time, not just because of the timelessness of the ideas espoused but because of the brilliant way it is presented. It should shape how new studies can examine masculinities both from local and Atlantic perspectives, and from the significant agency of indigenous institutions of power.” * Journal of Modern African Studies *
£56.10
Ohio University Press Emergent Masculinities
Book SynopsisAtlanticization—or interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade and Christianization—from 1750 to 1920 transformed gender into a primary mode of social differentiation in the Bight of Biafra. Mbah examines this process to fill a major gap in our understanding of gender’s role in precolonial Africa.Trade Review“Emergent Masculinities transforms our understanding of the role of gender in a particular region of precolonial Africa and deepens our knowledge of the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and European colonialization on Igbo and neighboring societies. Its ramifications extend beyond the Bight of Biafra to vast areas on both sides of the Atlantic. The book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the political, economic and social dynamics that shaped the Atlantic world during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is a must-read—and a must-have—for scholars of Africa and the Atlantic world and for college and university libraries.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines *“In a timely and necessary contribution to our understanding of the gendered threads of connection between West African communities and trans-Atlantic processes, Mbah delivers a fine-grained reading of transformations in social practice and cultural meaning among the Ohafia-Igbo people over two centuries. He thus complicates how we use gender to understand power and social meaning in broader African history and challenges presumptions about the general contours of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.”“[Offers] offers theoretical sophistication, rich textual analysis, and extensive empirical research…. Emergent Masculinities is both interdisciplinary and transnational. It illustrates the author’s facility with anthropological debates, gender theory, and literary theory, along with Atlantic and Caribbean history. Given its breath, this book should be read by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic as one model for integrating Africa into Atlantic history.” * Journal of African History *“A fascinating book … [a] major work of historical scholarship." * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Clearly written and rigorously researched, Emergent Masculinities should stand the test of time, not just because of the timelessness of the ideas espoused but because of the brilliant way it is presented. It should shape how new studies can examine masculinities both from local and Atlantic perspectives, and from the significant agency of indigenous institutions of power.” * Journal of Modern African Studies *
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Ohio University Press Research as More Than Extraction
Book SynopsisThis book contributes to an increasingly significant interdisciplinary field that focuses on ethics, methods, and the politics of gender-based violence. Its contributors, the majority of whom are based in Africa, offer concrete examples of how to undertake responsible research in African contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Research as More Than Extraction? Sexual Violence, Fieldwork, and Knowledge Production, by Joel Quirk, Annie Bunting, and Allen Kiconco PART ONE: ETHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DILEMMAS Chapter 1: The Ethical Dilemmas and Realities of Doing Research in Conflict and Postconflict Settings, by Teddy Atim Chapter 2: Reflections on a Collaboration between a European Doctoral Student and a Congolese Assistant Interpreter, by Sylvie Bodineau and Appolinaire Lipandasi Chapter 3: Research with Children Born of War: A Sensitive and Ethical Methodology, by Beth W. Stewart Chapter 4: Sheltering Survivors and Localizing Research Ethics in Northeast Nigeria, by Lawan Balami and Umar Ahmad Umar Chapter 5: Research with Formerly Abducted Mothers and Fathers in Postconflict Northern Uganda: A Plea for Transparency, by Leen De Nutte Chapter 6: Slavery and Its Meanings in the British World: Historiography, Knowledge Production, and Research Ethics, by Ana Stevenson and Rebecca Swartz PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION Chapter 7: Conducting Participatory Research with Male Survivors of Wartime Rape in Northern Uganda, by Philipp Schulz Chapter 8: Research Ethics Governance and Epistemic Violence: The Case for a Decolonized Approach, by Samuel Okyere Chapter 9: Research Ethics in Complex Humanitarian Settings: The Case of USAID/Nigeria’s Evaluation of Its Northeast Nigeria Portfolio, by Judith-Ann Walker Chapter 10: Video Documentation and Video Advocacy: The Story of the Documentary Bringing Up Our Enemies’ Child, by Otim Patrick Ongwech Chapter 11: Resolving Justice: Frictions between Community-Based Organizations and the United Nations Women, Peace and Security Agenda, by Heather Tasker Afterword: From Extraction to Equity? Pathways to Better Practice, by Annie Bunting, Allen Kiconco, and Joel Quirk
£49.30
Ohio University Press Research as More Than Extraction
Book SynopsisThis book contributes to an increasingly significant interdisciplinary field that focuses on ethics, methods, and the politics of gender-based violence. Its contributors, the majority of whom are based in Africa, offer concrete examples of how to undertake responsible research in African contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Research as More Than Extraction? Sexual Violence, Fieldwork, and Knowledge Production, by Joel Quirk, Annie Bunting, and Allen Kiconco PART ONE: ETHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DILEMMAS Chapter 1: The Ethical Dilemmas and Realities of Doing Research in Conflict and Postconflict Settings, by Teddy Atim Chapter 2: Reflections on a Collaboration between a European Doctoral Student and a Congolese Assistant Interpreter, by Sylvie Bodineau and Appolinaire Lipandasi Chapter 3: Research with Children Born of War: A Sensitive and Ethical Methodology, by Beth W. Stewart Chapter 4: Sheltering Survivors and Localizing Research Ethics in Northeast Nigeria, by Lawan Balami and Umar Ahmad Umar Chapter 5: Research with Formerly Abducted Mothers and Fathers in Postconflict Northern Uganda: A Plea for Transparency, by Leen De Nutte Chapter 6: Slavery and Its Meanings in the British World: Historiography, Knowledge Production, and Research Ethics, by Ana Stevenson and Rebecca Swartz PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION Chapter 7: Conducting Participatory Research with Male Survivors of Wartime Rape in Northern Uganda, by Philipp Schulz Chapter 8: Research Ethics Governance and Epistemic Violence: The Case for a Decolonized Approach, by Samuel Okyere Chapter 9: Research Ethics in Complex Humanitarian Settings: The Case of USAID/Nigeria’s Evaluation of Its Northeast Nigeria Portfolio, by Judith-Ann Walker Chapter 10: Video Documentation and Video Advocacy: The Story of the Documentary Bringing Up Our Enemies’ Child, by Otim Patrick Ongwech Chapter 11: Resolving Justice: Frictions between Community-Based Organizations and the United Nations Women, Peace and Security Agenda, by Heather Tasker Afterword: From Extraction to Equity? Pathways to Better Practice, by Annie Bunting, Allen Kiconco, and Joel Quirk
£26.09
Duke University Press American Anatomies
Book SynopsisChallenges cliches about race and gender while looking at current debates about multiculturalism and difference while simultaneously exposing the ways in which white racial supremacy has been reconfigured since the institutional demise of segregationTrade Review"Ignore this book at your peril! Robyn Wiegman challenges us to re-examine our most cherished platitudes about race-and-gender, including the kind of identity politics that not only leave out African American women but also reinscribe a pernicious politics of "separate but equal" through the celebration of difference. This as a stunning account of racial/gender infusions and confusions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U. S. culture. Controversial, brilliant, provocative."—Cathy Davidson, Duke University"Wiegman goes well beyond current discussions in working out the theoretical challenges and cultural logics of rethinking difference within the postmodern condition, and she correctly pinpoints the overlap of race and gender within feminist theory as a decisive zone of critical articulation between postmodernism and oppositional politics."—Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
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Duke University Press High Contrast
Book SynopsisExamines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film, from the 1980s and 1990s. Informed by contemporary debates in film and cultural studies, as well as feminist and critical race theory, this book throws light on the intersection of popular film and cultural politics.Trade Review"High Contrast is one of the most illuminating and convincing discussions yet written on the intersection of race and gender in contemporary American popular culture. This is film criticism at its best."—Corey K. Creekmur, University of Iowa"Willis carefully captures the political complexity of popular film and shows that there are no easy answers to the meanings of popular culture in everyday American life. This book will be a central force in the dialogue about the ways film is inscribed into our everyday lives."—Dana Polan, University of Southern California
£25.19
Duke University Press Paper Tangos
Book SynopsisTango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation's sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerises dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. This title examines the poetics of the tango while describing author's own quest to dance this most dramatic of paired dances.Trade Review“Julie Taylor has written a wonderful, brilliant book about the poetics of the tango in Argentina. . . . While its theoretical perspective is very sophisticated, it is also very clearly (though poetically), directly, and succinctly presented in a sparse, elegant, suggestive prose.”—Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas at Austin“This is a highly unusual work, an allegory of violence and civil war through reflections on the tango by an unusually honest writer with an intimate knowledge, as insider and outsider, of Argentinian history and culture.”—Michael Taussig, Columbia University
£71.10
Duke University Press Paper Tangos
Book SynopsisTango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation's sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerises dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. This title examines the poetics of the tango while describing author's own quest to dance this most dramatic of paired dances.Trade Review“Julie Taylor has written a wonderful, brilliant book about the poetics of the tango in Argentina. . . . While its theoretical perspective is very sophisticated, it is also very clearly (though poetically), directly, and succinctly presented in a sparse, elegant, suggestive prose.”—Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas at Austin“This is a highly unusual work, an allegory of violence and civil war through reflections on the tango by an unusually honest writer with an intimate knowledge, as insider and outsider, of Argentinian history and culture.”—Michael Taussig, Columbia University
£21.59
Duke University Press Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin
Book SynopsisExamines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. This book argues against the view that the nineteenth century was marked by a gradual emancipation of women.Trade Review“This collection promises to be a thought-provoking and well-used source for the continuing debates in this field. A great asset for researchers and students alike.”—Sarah Radcliffe, University of Cambridge“This splendid volume is unique for its analytical savvy regarding the gendered history of power, authority, and cooptation in Latin America. Each chapter provides a provocative and detailed rendering of patriarchal societies and women’s agency from spaces as varied as households and legislatures. This book will be of wide interest to specialists on the region and, far more broadly, it will spur reinvigorated theoretical debate on the tortuous relationship historically between gender and the state.”—Matthew C. Gutmann, author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico CityTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv I. State and Gender in Latin America One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Gender and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century / Elizabeth Dore 3 Twentieth-Century State Formations in Latin America / Maxine Molyneux 33 II. Case Studies Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, 1750–1850 / Eugenia Rodríguez S. 85 Slave Women's Strategies for Freedom and the Late Spanish Colonial State / María Eugenia Chaves 108 Rape and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Colombia, 1810–1830 / Rebecca Earle 127 Property, Households, and the Public Regulation of Domestic Life: Diriomo, Nicaragua, 1840–1900 / Elizabeth Dore 147 Parents Before the Tribunals: The Legal Construction of Patriarchy in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 172 Modernizing Patriarchy: State Policies, Rural Households, and Women in Mexico, 1930–1940 / Mary Kay Vaughan 194 Commemorating the Heroínas: Gender and Civic Ritual in Early-Twentieth-Century Bolivia / Laura Gotkowitz 215 Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law / Ann Varley 238 Domesticating Men: State Building and Class Compromise in Popular-Front Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt 262 State, Gender, and Institutional Change: The Federación de Mujeres Cubanas / Maxine Molyneux 291 Gender and the State in Argentina: The Case of the Sindicato de Amas de Casa / Jo Fisher 322 Getting Gender on the Policy Agenda: A Study of a Brazilian Feminist Lobby Group / Fiona Macaulay 346 Contributors 369 Index 371
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MD - Duke University Press Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin
Book SynopsisExamines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. This book locates watershed moments in the processes of gender construction by the organised power of the ruling classes and in the processes by which gender has conditioned state-making.Trade Review“This collection promises to be a thought-provoking and well-used source for the continuing debates in this field. A great asset for researchers and students alike.”—Sarah Radcliffe, University of Cambridge“This splendid volume is unique for its analytical savvy regarding the gendered history of power, authority, and cooptation in Latin America. Each chapter provides a provocative and detailed rendering of patriarchal societies and women’s agency from spaces as varied as households and legislatures. This book will be of wide interest to specialists on the region and, far more broadly, it will spur reinvigorated theoretical debate on the tortuous relationship historically between gender and the state.”—Matthew C. Gutmann, author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico CityTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv I. State and Gender in Latin America One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Gender and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century / Elizabeth Dore 3 Twentieth-Century State Formations in Latin America / Maxine Molyneux 33 II. Case Studies Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, 1750–1850 / Eugenia Rodríguez S. 85 Slave Women's Strategies for Freedom and the Late Spanish Colonial State / María Eugenia Chaves 108 Rape and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Colombia, 1810–1830 / Rebecca Earle 127 Property, Households, and the Public Regulation of Domestic Life: Diriomo, Nicaragua, 1840–1900 / Elizabeth Dore 147 Parents Before the Tribunals: The Legal Construction of Patriarchy in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 172 Modernizing Patriarchy: State Policies, Rural Households, and Women in Mexico, 1930–1940 / Mary Kay Vaughan 194 Commemorating the Heroínas: Gender and Civic Ritual in Early-Twentieth-Century Bolivia / Laura Gotkowitz 215 Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law / Ann Varley 238 Domesticating Men: State Building and Class Compromise in Popular-Front Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt 262 State, Gender, and Institutional Change: The Federación de Mujeres Cubanas / Maxine Molyneux 291 Gender and the State in Argentina: The Case of the Sindicato de Amas de Casa / Jo Fisher 322 Getting Gender on the Policy Agenda: A Study of a Brazilian Feminist Lobby Group / Fiona Macaulay 346 Contributors 369 Index 371
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MD - Duke University Press Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic
Book SynopsisA comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic worldTrade Review“This anthology links Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States in its analysis of the role of gender in creating new social orders after the end of slavery. Taken together, the essays are clear, compelling, complex, and ultimately unsettling in their evocation of a past filled with hope for great change and largely effective struggles for its containment.”—Eileen Findlay, author of Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920“This innovative volume highlights the quite different ways in which men and women achieved freedom and faced the possibility of citizenship in postemancipation societies. By examining ideologies of gender as well as differences in experiences, the contributing authors broaden our understanding of emancipation as a transformative process. By placing women of color at the center of the analysis, moreover, many of these authors develop a new picture of the dynamics of emancipation.”—Rebecca Scott, author of Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery“[A] must-read for scholars of the Atlantic world, gender history, colonial studies, and comparative slavery and emancipation. The clearly written introduction and tightly edited chapters are suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, while the bibilographic essay is a good starting point to the historiography of some of the major debates.” -- Kerry Ward * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“[A] thought-provoking collection of essays . . . valuable for its discussions of divergent gender ideals among men and women slaves, elites and non-elites, planters, abolitionists, and missionaries. It is most important for its descriptions of the efforts of former slaves to contest and define what it meant to be free and male, versus free and female, in the aftermath of emancipation.” -- Kathleen Higgins * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Maps vii Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully 1 Part I. Men, Women, Citizens 35 Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834–1844 / Pamela Scully 37 Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848 / Sue Peabody 56 Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller 79 Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson 99 A Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople / Carol Faulkner 121 Part II. Families, Land, and Labor 141 Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton 143 Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts 162 Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World / Michael Zeuske 181 Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodriguez-Silva 199 Part III. The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation 223 Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790–ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton 225 Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838–1888 / Sheena Boa 247 Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890—1920 / Martha Abreu (translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan) 267 The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen 289 Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1878 / Marek Steedman 310 Bibliographic Essay / Diana Paton 328 Contributors 357 Index 361
£85.50
MD - Duke University Press Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic
Book SynopsisA comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic worldTrade Review“This anthology links Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States in its analysis of the role of gender in creating new social orders after the end of slavery. Taken together, the essays are clear, compelling, complex, and ultimately unsettling in their evocation of a past filled with hope for great change and largely effective struggles for its containment.”—Eileen Findlay, author of Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920“This innovative volume highlights the quite different ways in which men and women achieved freedom and faced the possibility of citizenship in postemancipation societies. By examining ideologies of gender as well as differences in experiences, the contributing authors broaden our understanding of emancipation as a transformative process. By placing women of color at the center of the analysis, moreover, many of these authors develop a new picture of the dynamics of emancipation.”—Rebecca Scott, author of Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery“[A] must-read for scholars of the Atlantic world, gender history, colonial studies, and comparative slavery and emancipation. The clearly written introduction and tightly edited chapters are suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, while the bibilographic essay is a good starting point to the historiography of some of the major debates.” -- Kerry Ward * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“[A] thought-provoking collection of essays . . . valuable for its discussions of divergent gender ideals among men and women slaves, elites and non-elites, planters, abolitionists, and missionaries. It is most important for its descriptions of the efforts of former slaves to contest and define what it meant to be free and male, versus free and female, in the aftermath of emancipation.” -- Kathleen Higgins * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Maps vii Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully 1 Part I. Men, Women, Citizens 35 Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834–1844 / Pamela Scully 37 Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848 / Sue Peabody 56 Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller 79 Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson 99 A Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople / Carol Faulkner 121 Part II. Families, Land, and Labor 141 Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton 143 Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts 162 Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World / Michael Zeuske 181 Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodriguez-Silva 199 Part III. The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation 223 Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790–ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton 225 Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838–1888 / Sheena Boa 247 Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890—1920 / Martha Abreu (translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan) 267 The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen 289 Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1878 / Marek Steedman 310 Bibliographic Essay / Diana Paton 328 Contributors 357 Index 361
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MD - Duke University Press Cupboards of Curiosity
Book SynopsisAmelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks, memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera.Trade Review“[A] very interesting new book. . . . Vacillating between memoir and history, Hastie shows that these women's personal scrapbooks—often seen as tangential to film history—provide vital links between ‘women and the margins of history into which they are often placed.’ A look back you can look forward to.” - Chris Watson, Santa Cruz Sentinel“This book transports easily and reads entertainingly. It examines important ideas from a conventional setting, reinventing them through a fresh perspective in a light, anecdotal tone.” - Maree Boyce, M/C Reviews“There is much to commend in Amelie Hastie's imaginative, innovative, and feminist study of the intersections between memory, film history, and critical theory. Above all, Cupboards of Curiosity reveals new possibilities for recovering the oeuvre of women engaged in the creation of American film.” - Nancy J. Rosenbloom, Journal of American History“Amelie Hastie’s Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History is agile and meticulous. Hastie ranges across materials and objects which have remained on the edge of most accounts of film history. In this way, Cupboards of Curiosity is engaging and revealing. . . . Hastie’s curiosity about her topic is instilled in her reader who is asked to look inside the neglected cupboards of film history and, in doing so, herself become a collaborator.” - Jane Simon, Media International Australia“Feminist scholars have long been engaged in a project to recover lost female voices, and, obviously, this is especially challenging when looking at film actresses whose images were carefully manufactured by the Hollywood star system. Fortunately, these women left behind their own documents, as seemingly mundane as notes in the margin of a book, or as fantastical as a giant dollhouse. Their history resides in these records, and Hastie beautifully and respectfully lets them speak for themselves.” - Julie Anne Taddeo, Journal of Popular Culture“[A]n enjoyable read and important scholarly work. Where Hastie excels is in the interstices of chapters—the ways in which women by historical and cultural necessity have had to negotiate the slippage between collector-historian-critic to ultimately, through collaboration, emerge as expert.” - Cara L. Cardinale, Women’s Studies“Cupboards of Curiosity is an enormously significant and important study. Amelie Hastie’s reevaluations of female authorship are brilliant, and her approach to the ‘archive’ encourages just the kind of rethinking of established ideas that one associates with the very best kind of academic work.”—Judith Mayne, author of Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture“In Amelie Hastie’s meditative and original book, the era of silent film speaks through the writings and collections of the women who made the movies—stars, directors, writers—some forgotten, most remembered for their images, not their words. Hastie models her approach to writing and theorizing film history on the novel ways her subjects themselves made history: loving attention to the fleeting and the fragmentary illuminates theories of female agency within mass-mediated modernity.”—Patricia White, author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability “[A] very interesting new book. . . . Vacillating between memoir and history, Hastie shows that these women's personal scrapbooks—often seen as tangential to film history—provide vital links between ‘women and the margins of history into which they are often placed.’ A look back you can look forward to.” -- Chris Watson * Santa Cruz Sentinel *“[A]n enjoyable read and important scholarly work. Where Hastie excels is in the interstices of chapters—the ways in which women by historical and cultural necessity have had to negotiate the slippage between collector-historian-critic to ultimately, through collaboration, emerge as expert.” -- Cara L. Cardinale * Women's Studies *“Amelie Hastie’s Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History is agile and meticulous. Hastie ranges across materials and objects which have remained on the edge of most accounts of film history. In this way, Cupboards of Curiosity is engaging and revealing. . . . Hastie’s curiosity about her topic is instilled in her reader who is asked to look inside the neglected cupboards of film history and, in doing so, herself become a collaborator.” -- Jane Simon * Media International Australia *“Feminist scholars have long been engaged in a project to recover lost female voices, and, obviously, this is especially challenging when looking at film actresses whose images were carefully manufactured by the Hollywood star system. Fortunately, these women left behind their own documents, as seemingly mundane as notes in the margin of a book, or as fantastical as a giant dollhouse. Their history resides in these records, and Hastie beautifully and respectfully lets them speak for themselves.” -- Julie Anne Taddeo * Journal of Popular Culture *“There is much to commend in Amelie Hastie's imaginative, innovative, and feminist study of the intersections between memory, film history, and critical theory. Above all, Cupboards of Curiosity reveals new possibilities for recovering the oeuvre of women engaged in the creation of American film.” -- Nancy J. Rosenbloom * Journal of American History *“This book transports easily and reads entertainingly. It examines important ideas from a conventional setting, reinventing them through a fresh perspective in a light, anecdotal tone.” -- Maree Boyce * M/C Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Collaborator: At the Cupboards of Film History 1 1. The Collector:Material Histories, Colleen Moore’s Dollhouse, and Ephemeral Recollection 19 2. The Historian: Autobiography, Memory, and Film Form 72 3. The Critic: Louise Brooks, Star Witness 104 4. The Expert: Celebrity Knowledge and the How-tos of Film Studies 155 Notes 195 Bibliography 225 Index 239
£25.19
Duke University Press Screening Sex
Book SynopsisFor many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. This title investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have watched and experienced those representations.Trade Review“Screening Sex is a truly remarkable follow-up to Linda Williams’s groundbreaking book Hard Core. It reaffirms her place as the leading feminist scholar of the history and theory of on-screen sex. Not that it was ever in doubt.”— Jane Gaines, author of Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era“Linda Williams is a terrific storyteller about sex, and, as she tracks the growth of her own cinematically mediated sexual consciousness, we go to the movies with her, imagining as though for the first time new encounters with explicitness, new sexual knowledge, and new spectatorial sensations.”—Lauren Berlant, author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture“With Screening Sex, Linda Williams establishes herself as not only the preeminent scholar of cinematic eroticism, but also the most significant voice in cinema studies of her generation.”— Eric Schaefer, author of “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!” A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1958Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Of Kissing and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies (1896–1963) 25 2. Going All the Way: Carnal Knowledge on American Screens (1961–1971) 68 3. Going Further: Last Tango in Paris, Deep Throat, and Boys in the Sand (1971–1972) 112 4. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968–1978) 155 5. Hard-Core Eroticism: In the Realm of the Senses (1976) 181 6. Primal Scenes on American Screens (1986–2005) 216 7. Philosophy in the Bedroom: Hard-Core Art since the 1990s 258 Conclusion: Now Playing on a Small Screen near You! 299 Notes 327 Bibliography 379 Index 397
£22.49
Duke University Press Makeover TV
Book SynopsisArgues that whether depicting transformations of bodies, trucks, finances, relationships, kids, or homes, makeovers depict a self achievable only in the transition from the 'Before-body' to the 'After-body' filled with confidence, coded with celebrity, and imbued with a renewed faith in the powers of meritocracy.Trade Review“Whether or not you’re a fan of What Not to Wear and its ilk, Makeover TV is a great read which raises some serious questions about our society’s obsessions with appearance and conspicuous consumption. Next time I’m staring at my reflection in a department store three-way mirror, I’ll not only be wondering ‘What would Tim Gunn do?’, but also ‘What would Brenda Weber say?’” - Librarian Hot“The book is an engaging work that is as humorous as it is horrifying. While Weber’s very personal conclusion still questions the processes of humiliation and painful surgical procedures endured in the name of reality TV, she remains quietly optimistic about the role of the makeover genre because, after all, we all want to feel better about ourselves.” - Peter C. Pugsley, Media International Australia“[Weber’s] book blends the enthusiasm of a fan who has thought through her own connection to the genre with a high degree of scholarship that will be of considerable value to students and scholars alike. . . . It is the combination of redemption and coercion that make lifestyle such a fascinating genre and Weber’s book such an engaging read.” - Gareth Palmer, Celebrity Studies“Weber sees in these makeover programs a strange new world—or, more accurately, a strange new nation, one where citizenship is available only to those who have made the transition ‘from Before to After.’ . . . Weber’s makeover nation is an eerie place, because no one fully belongs there, and, deep down, everyone knows it.” - Kelefeh Sanneh, The New YorkerMakeovers are everywhere in today’s society, though I had never really given much thought to them until I read Brenda R. Weber’s Makeover TV. Weber points out that we are making over everything: bodies, houses, cars, hair, lifestyles, wardrobes, and even pets. . . . It was a bit scary to realize how right Weber is, and that so much ‘entertainment’ on TV is focused on making people conform to the norm. Makeover TV is a good, eye-opening read.” - Kristin Conard, Feminist Review blog“Makeover TV is a great book and a true pleasure to read. Brenda R. Weber’s treatment of makeover television as a crafting of the self within the broad scope of neoliberalism, postfeminism, and a kind of savvy consumerism is convincing and provocative. Her book is an important contribution to television studies, media studies, feminist theory, and cultural theory.”—Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of Kids Rule!: Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship“Makeover TV is a project of striking originality and timeliness, written by a skillful, sure critic. Brenda R. Weber’s analyses are consistently subtle and penetrating.”—Diane Negra, co-editor of Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture“[Weber’s] book blends the enthusiasm of a fan who has thought through her own connection to the genre with a high degree of scholarship that will be of considerable value to students and scholars alike. . . . It is the combination of redemption and coercion that make lifestyle such a fascinating genre and Weber’s book such an engaging read.” -- Gareth Palmer * Celebrity Studies *“The book is an engaging work that is as humorous as it is horrifying. While Weber’s very personal conclusion still questions the processes of humiliation and painful surgical procedures endured in the name of reality TV, she remains quietly optimistic about the role of the makeover genre because, after all, we all want to feel better about ourselves.” -- Peter C. Pugsley * Media International Australia *“Weber sees in these makeover programs a strange new world—or, more accurately, a strange new nation, one where citizenship is available only to those who have made the transition ‘from Before to After.’ . . . Weber’s makeover nation is an eerie place, because no one fully belongs there, and, deep down, everyone knows it.” -- Kelefeh Sanneh * The New Yorker *Makeovers are everywhere in today’s society, though I had never really given much thought to them until I read Brenda R. Weber’s Makeover TV. Weber points out that we are making over everything: bodies, houses, cars, hair, lifestyles, wardrobes, and even pets. . . . It was a bit scary to realize how right Weber is, and that so much ‘entertainment’ on TV is focused on making people conform to the norm. Makeover TV is a good, eye-opening read.” -- Kristin Conard * Feminist Review blog *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Into the Makeover Maze: A Method in the Madness 1 1. Makeover Nation: Americanness, Neoliberalism, and the Citizen-Subject 37 2. Visible Subjects: Economies of Looking, Pedagogies of Shame, Sights of Resistance 81 3. "I'm a Woman Now!" Race, Class, and Femme-ing the Normative 127 4. What Makes the Man? Masculinity and the Self-Made (Over) Man 171 5. Celebrated Selfhood: Reworking Commodification through Reality Celebrity 215 Conclusion. Can This Makeover Be Saved? 253 Notes 267 Bibliography 285 Videography 301 Index 315
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Duke University Press The Tyranny of Opinion
Book SynopsisA historical account of concepts of honor in Mexico during the mid-to-late nineteenth century and the role of those concepts in the development of the public sphere.Trade Review“Piccato has produced a first-rate monograph of the period he previously studied, and his analysis of the press at the end of the nineteenth century, the muzzling of the press by Diaz after 1885, and the legal shift in the definition of honor and defamation is first class. The book is engaging, well researched, and well written, and is an interesting read.” - Robert Jackson, H-Net Reviews“Piccato’s work is an important contribution to our understanding of honor in nineteenth-century Mexico and how shifting conceptions of honor were tied to class, gender, and modernity. In particular, his discussion of honor as a commodity—as something that could be produced, accumulated, and exchanged—elucidates an understanding of how honor did not serve a merely ideological function; it also served as a way to re-create and reinforce class and gender behaviors during a period when Mexico was rapidly changing.” - Nicole Sanders, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos“The Tyranny of Opinion will likely become the definitive historical work on republican honor in Mexico and one of the most important works on republican honor and the public sphere in Latin America. With chapters on everyone from elite public men to lower-class women, the book provides exceptionally broad coverage.”—Robert M. Buffington, author of Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico“This masterful exploration of the constitution of the public sphere joins questions of gender, representational practices, class, and politics in a fascinating mosaic. It is a delightful read and an illuminating work of historical ethnography, which reveals much about the difficult century between 1810 and 1910. It will help set new research agendas for modern Mexican history.”—Eric Van Young, author of The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810–1821“Piccato has produced a first-rate monograph of the period he previously studied, and his analysis of the press at the end of the nineteenth century, the muzzling of the press by Diaz after 1885, and the legal shift in the definition of honor and defamation is first class. The book is engaging, well researched, and well written, and is an interesting read.” -- Robert Jackson * H-Net Reviews *“Piccato’s work is an important contribution to our understanding of honor in nineteenth-century Mexico and how shifting conceptions of honor were tied to class, gender, and modernity. In particular, his discussion of honor as a commodity—as something that could be produced, accumulated, and exchanged—elucidates an understanding of how honor did not serve a merely ideological function; it also served as a way to re-create and reinforce class and gender behaviors during a period when Mexico was rapidly changing.” -- Nicole Sanders * Mexican Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Honor and the Public Sphere in the Republican Era 1 Part I. Travails of Opinion 1. Setting the Rules of Freedom: The Trajectory of the Press Jury 27 2. Representing Public Opinion: Combat Journalists and the Business of Honor 63 Part II. Tumultuous Opinion 3. "The Word of My Conscience": Eloquence and the Foreign Debt 100 4. Breaking Lamps and Expanding the Public Sphere: Students and Populacho against the Deuda Inglesa 129 Part III. Taming Opinion 5. Honor and the State: Reputation as a Juridical Good 159 6. "A Horrible Web of Insults": The Everyday Defense of Honor 188 7. "One Does Not Talk to the Dead": The Romero-Verástegui Affair and the Apogee of Dueling in Mexico 220 Conclusions 254 Notes 263 Sources Cited 337 Index 371
£27.90
Duke University Press The Tyranny of Opinion
Book SynopsisA historical account of concepts of honor in Mexico during the mid-to-late nineteenth century and the role of those concepts in the development of the public sphere.Trade Review“Piccato has produced a first-rate monograph of the period he previously studied, and his analysis of the press at the end of the nineteenth century, the muzzling of the press by Diaz after 1885, and the legal shift in the definition of honor and defamation is first class. The book is engaging, well researched, and well written, and is an interesting read.” - Robert Jackson, H-Net Reviews“Piccato’s work is an important contribution to our understanding of honor in nineteenth-century Mexico and how shifting conceptions of honor were tied to class, gender, and modernity. In particular, his discussion of honor as a commodity—as something that could be produced, accumulated, and exchanged—elucidates an understanding of how honor did not serve a merely ideological function; it also served as a way to re-create and reinforce class and gender behaviors during a period when Mexico was rapidly changing.” - Nicole Sanders, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos“The Tyranny of Opinion will likely become the definitive historical work on republican honor in Mexico and one of the most important works on republican honor and the public sphere in Latin America. With chapters on everyone from elite public men to lower-class women, the book provides exceptionally broad coverage.”—Robert M. Buffington, author of Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico“This masterful exploration of the constitution of the public sphere joins questions of gender, representational practices, class, and politics in a fascinating mosaic. It is a delightful read and an illuminating work of historical ethnography, which reveals much about the difficult century between 1810 and 1910. It will help set new research agendas for modern Mexican history.”—Eric Van Young, author of The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810–1821“Piccato has produced a first-rate monograph of the period he previously studied, and his analysis of the press at the end of the nineteenth century, the muzzling of the press by Diaz after 1885, and the legal shift in the definition of honor and defamation is first class. The book is engaging, well researched, and well written, and is an interesting read.” -- Robert Jackson * H-Net Reviews *“Piccato’s work is an important contribution to our understanding of honor in nineteenth-century Mexico and how shifting conceptions of honor were tied to class, gender, and modernity. In particular, his discussion of honor as a commodity—as something that could be produced, accumulated, and exchanged—elucidates an understanding of how honor did not serve a merely ideological function; it also served as a way to re-create and reinforce class and gender behaviors during a period when Mexico was rapidly changing.” -- Nicole Sanders * Mexican Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Honor and the Public Sphere in the Republican Era 1 Part I. Travails of Opinion 1. Setting the Rules of Freedom: The Trajectory of the Press Jury 27 2. Representing Public Opinion: Combat Journalists and the Business of Honor 63 Part II. Tumultuous Opinion 3. "The Word of My Conscience": Eloquence and the Foreign Debt 100 4. Breaking Lamps and Expanding the Public Sphere: Students and Populacho against the Deuda Inglesa 129 Part III. Taming Opinion 5. Honor and the State: Reputation as a Juridical Good 159 6. "A Horrible Web of Insults": The Everyday Defense of Honor 188 7. "One Does Not Talk to the Dead": The Romero-Verástegui Affair and the Apogee of Dueling in Mexico 220 Conclusions 254 Notes 263 Sources Cited 337 Index 371
£85.50
Duke University Press Working Out Egypt
Book SynopsisDescribes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period.Trade Review“Working Out Egypt is an extraordinarily accomplished book. Wilson Chacko Jacob offers a highly original history of effendi masculinity based on a sophisticated interpretation of a vast, multisited archive. His analysis speaks directly to a number of concerns animating not only history but also feminist, cultural, and postcolonial studies. It encompasses colonial modernity and Egyptian specificity, masculinity and the quest for a normative social/sexual order, print culture and its collision with imperial globality, and the performative processes through which nations and their national imaginaries unfold.”—Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism“This is a pioneering book that probes the relationship between colonialism, nationalism, and masculinity in fresh and exciting ways. Through a careful examination of Egyptian and British popular and political culture of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Wilson Chacko Jacob tells a complex story of how Egyptian national subjectivity was crafted with and against colonial tropes. Working Out Egypt is essential reading for scholars and students of history, postcoloniality, sexuality, gender, subject formation, and Middle East studies.”—Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject “Working Out Egypt blends class-conscious social history with cutting edge reconceptualizations of biopolitical sovereignty and gender performativity – and it does so while avoiding the persistent Eurocentrism of many of the scholars influenced by Foucault and Agamben and shattering the frames of cultural relativism that have limited some recent queer and postcolonial scholarship. . . . Jacob’s monograph stands both as a remarkably original study of the gendering of colonial modernity and as an innovative contribution to theories of subjectivity.” -- Paul Amar * Social History *“Working Out Egypt is based on extensive archival research and a wide array of materials including British and Egyptian official documents, Olympic archives, biographies, magazine and newspaper articles, letters from readers and advice columns, novels, films, postcards, cartoons, and photographs. The book is framed by an equally impressive range of scholarly debates on empire, postcoloniality, nationalism, modernity, orientalism, liberalism, subject-formation, gender and sexuality, historiography, and representation…. This is a rich and multilayered book whose queries into the aporias of modern subjectivity have implications and relevance that extend beyond the case of modern Egypt. It will be an extremely valuable text to students as well as teachers of colonialism, postcoloniality, modernity, gender, and sexuality.” -- Nadia Guessous * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“Wilson Chacko Jacob’s insightful and analytically rich book... draws from Foucault’s later work to explore how caring for the self played a transformative role in constituting a new political subject in modern Egypt…. The novelty and sophistication of Working Out Egypt, however, lies not only in its bringing together of subject formation, the body, and masculinity. The book’s virtues also lie in its willingness to explore an understudied and underappreciated subject matter: modern sports and physical culture. Jacob illustrates that taking sports and physical culture seriously can provide a novel approach to the discourse of masculinity and its institutionalization.” -- Murat Cihan Yildiz * Arab Studies Journal *“Through his impeccable research, meticulous footnotes, and complex theoretical interventions…, Jacob has animated and enriched studies of Middle East masculinity in an unprecedented manner.” -- Hibba Abugideiri * American Historical Review *“Working Out Egypt stands as an innovative book on a central theme (masculinity) in postcolonial gender/sexuality studies…[A] highly successful effort that goes a long way toward diversifying scholarship on the colonial period in the Middle East and North Africa.” -- Mehmet Karabela * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Imagination: Projecting British Masculinity 27 2. Genealogy: Mustafa Kamil and Effendi Masculinity 44 3. Institution: Physical Culture and Self-Government 65 4. Association: Scouting, Freedom, Violence 92 5. Games: International Culture and Desiring Bodies 125 6. Communication: Sex, Gender, and Norms of Physical Culture 156 7. Fashion: Global Affects of Colonial Modernity 186 8. Knowledge: Death, Life, and the Sovereign Other 225 Notes 263 Bibliography 359 Index 409
£89.10
Duke University Press Working Out Egypt
Book SynopsisDescribes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period.Trade Review“Working Out Egypt is an extraordinarily accomplished book. Wilson Chacko Jacob offers a highly original history of effendi masculinity based on a sophisticated interpretation of a vast, multisited archive. His analysis speaks directly to a number of concerns animating not only history but also feminist, cultural, and postcolonial studies. It encompasses colonial modernity and Egyptian specificity, masculinity and the quest for a normative social/sexual order, print culture and its collision with imperial globality, and the performative processes through which nations and their national imaginaries unfold.”—Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism“This is a pioneering book that probes the relationship between colonialism, nationalism, and masculinity in fresh and exciting ways. Through a careful examination of Egyptian and British popular and political culture of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Wilson Chacko Jacob tells a complex story of how Egyptian national subjectivity was crafted with and against colonial tropes. Working Out Egypt is essential reading for scholars and students of history, postcoloniality, sexuality, gender, subject formation, and Middle East studies.”—Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject “Working Out Egypt blends class-conscious social history with cutting edge reconceptualizations of biopolitical sovereignty and gender performativity – and it does so while avoiding the persistent Eurocentrism of many of the scholars influenced by Foucault and Agamben and shattering the frames of cultural relativism that have limited some recent queer and postcolonial scholarship. . . . Jacob’s monograph stands both as a remarkably original study of the gendering of colonial modernity and as an innovative contribution to theories of subjectivity.” -- Paul Amar * Social History *“Working Out Egypt is based on extensive archival research and a wide array of materials including British and Egyptian official documents, Olympic archives, biographies, magazine and newspaper articles, letters from readers and advice columns, novels, films, postcards, cartoons, and photographs. The book is framed by an equally impressive range of scholarly debates on empire, postcoloniality, nationalism, modernity, orientalism, liberalism, subject-formation, gender and sexuality, historiography, and representation…. This is a rich and multilayered book whose queries into the aporias of modern subjectivity have implications and relevance that extend beyond the case of modern Egypt. It will be an extremely valuable text to students as well as teachers of colonialism, postcoloniality, modernity, gender, and sexuality.” -- Nadia Guessous * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“Wilson Chacko Jacob’s insightful and analytically rich book... draws from Foucault’s later work to explore how caring for the self played a transformative role in constituting a new political subject in modern Egypt…. The novelty and sophistication of Working Out Egypt, however, lies not only in its bringing together of subject formation, the body, and masculinity. The book’s virtues also lie in its willingness to explore an understudied and underappreciated subject matter: modern sports and physical culture. Jacob illustrates that taking sports and physical culture seriously can provide a novel approach to the discourse of masculinity and its institutionalization.” -- Murat Cihan Yildiz * Arab Studies Journal *“Through his impeccable research, meticulous footnotes, and complex theoretical interventions…, Jacob has animated and enriched studies of Middle East masculinity in an unprecedented manner.” -- Hibba Abugideiri * American Historical Review *“Working Out Egypt stands as an innovative book on a central theme (masculinity) in postcolonial gender/sexuality studies…[A] highly successful effort that goes a long way toward diversifying scholarship on the colonial period in the Middle East and North Africa.” -- Mehmet Karabela * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Imagination: Projecting British Masculinity 27 2. Genealogy: Mustafa Kamil and Effendi Masculinity 44 3. Institution: Physical Culture and Self-Government 65 4. Association: Scouting, Freedom, Violence 92 5. Games: International Culture and Desiring Bodies 125 6. Communication: Sex, Gender, and Norms of Physical Culture 156 7. Fashion: Global Affects of Colonial Modernity 186 8. Knowledge: Death, Life, and the Sovereign Other 225 Notes 263 Bibliography 359 Index 409
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MD - Duke University Press Strange Affinities
Book SynopsisA collection of essays analyzing the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or strange affinities, afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.Trade Review“The contributors’ . . . many pieces convey both an astonishing range of insights and a tone that takes differences within difference as salutary, if not always comfortable.” - David Roediger, American Quarterly“[T]hese essays help to define the contours of new ways of doing ethnic studies, recognizing yet resistant to minority nationalisms and normative forms of comparative analysis.” - Anna Pegler-Gordon, Journal of American Studies“In a world reorganized by neoliberal globalization, the stark inequalities of new class and racial formations require newly sharpened analytic and political tools. The essays collected in Grace Kyungwon Hong’s and Roderick A. Ferguson’s Strange Affinities address these realities, stretching our too static concepts and methods, and challenging our political visions. Drawing on women of color feminism and queer of color critique, this indispensable volume suggests new modes of analysis for ethnic studies and feminist and queer theory, and it provides new ways of thinking the intertwined histories of race, class, nation, gender, and sexuality for the twenty-first century.”—Lisa Duggan, author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity“This ambitious and theoretically compelling volume lays the groundwork for a ‘new ethnic studies’ by centering gender and sexuality within comparative race projects. In a globally integrated economy, with older forms of colonialism and the nation-state giving way to new modes of neocolonial exploitation and domination under the shadow of global capitalism, the need for a new ethnic studies that can unpack the political and cultural implications of these evolving social relations in various contexts and locations is ever more urgent.”—David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy“[T]hese essays help to define the contours of new ways of doing ethnic studies, recognizing yet resistant to minority nationalisms and normative forms of comparative analysis.” -- Anna Pegler-Gordon * Journal of American Studies *“The contributors’ . . . many pieces convey both an astonishing range of insights and a tone that takes differences within difference as salutary, if not always comfortable.” -- David Roediger * American Quarterly *"By deploying alternative comparisons across minoritized differences, the essays in Strange Affinities provide original analyses of racialization that unravel or unsettle existing categories of race and ethnicity (such as Black, Latina/o, and Asian)—or cut across them—to better articulate how racialized subjects and their relations are always already constituted by gender and sexual differences." -- Yu-Fang Cho * National Political Science Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson 1 I. Alternative Identifications 1. Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead / Lisa Marie Cacho 25 2. I = Another: Digital Identity Politics / Kara Keeling 53 3. Reading Tehran in Lolita: Making Racialized and Gendered Difference Work for Neoliberal Multiculturalism / Jodi Melamed 76 2. Undisciplined Knowledges 4. The Lateral Moves of African American Studies in a Period of Migration / Roderick A. Ferguson 113 5. Volumes of Transnational Vengeance: Fixing Race and Feminism on the Way to Kill Bill / Ruby Tapia 131 6. Time for Rights? Loving, Gay Marriage, and the Limits of Comparative Legal Justice / Chandan Reddy 148 7. Romance with a Message: W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess and the Problem of the Color Line / Sanda Mayzaw Lwin 175 3. Unincorporated Territories, Interrupted Times 8. "In the Middle": The Miseducation of a Refugee / Victor Bascara 195 9. Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Mestizaje through the Chinese Presence in Mexico / Martha Chew Sánchez 215 10. Fun with Death and Dismemberment: Irony, Farce, and the Limits of Nationalism in Oscar Zeta Acosta's The Revolt of the Cockroach People and Ana Castillo's So Far from God / Grace Kyungwon Hong 241 11. Becoming Chingón/a: A Gendered and Racialized Critique of the Global Economy / M. Bianet Castellanos 270 12. Black Orientalism: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Race and U.S. Citizenship / Helen H. Jun 293 13. "A Deep Sense of No Longer Belonging": Ambiguous Sties of Empire in Ana Lydia Vega's Miss Florence's Trunk / Cynthia Tolentino 316 References 337 Contributors 359 Index 363
£999.99
Duke University Press Freedom with Violence
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.Trade Review“Freedom with Violence is a one of a kind, once in a generation book. Chandan Reddy argues that ‘American political modernity’ depends absolutely on a notion of freedom crafted out of a constitutive violence which takes the form of race. In chapters on Du Bois and the logics of nationality and territoriality; Nella Larson and the history of black alienation; immigration and sexuality; and gay marriage and the perils of legal recognition, he pulls his argument into tighter and tighter spirals, connecting his thesis about race to brilliantly original accounts of sexuality and making stunning connections between North American racial politics and European colonialism. This is a classic, landmark study.”—Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure“Freedom with Violence is one of the most important books of our time. Chandan Reddy formulates a new understanding of the relationship between the state and nonnormative social identities, explains the epistemological foundations for prevailing political practices, and argues for the urgent need to deploy queer of color critique and build a critical ethnic studies from it. Moving deftly across disciplines and decades, analyzing literature and law, social identities and state formation, expressive culture and critical theory, he reveals unexpected links between the race-gender-sex-citizenship nexus that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century and the one that prevails at the turn of the twenty-first.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“Deft, capacious, and provocative, Freedom with Violence promises a major shift in how we think race, sexuality, and US imperialism in relation to the compromised project of modernity. Our political and intellectual formations will never be the same again.”—M. Jacqui Alexander, author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred“[A] significant contribution in both critical ethnic studies and queer studies. Reddy’s willingness to look beyond his examples could even be the reason it offers so much.” -- Stine H. Bang Svendsen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“In this ambitious book, Reddy examines the coupling of freedom and violence under the modern state. He untangles literary texts, legal structures and social practices to argue that the state legitimizes further racial violence through granting freedom.” -- Chandra Russo and Howard Winant * Sexualities *“Reddy has produced a substantial work that rethinks the interconnections between race and sexuality as constitutive to the vision of freedom and identity, and he exposes the violence that attends those ideals in the 20th century. . . . This book forced this reviewer to rethink his own engagement with these issues in his teaching. It will challenge many boundaries in the university and in US culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Sophisticated upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty.” -- D. E. Magill * Choice *“Reddy’s previous work brilliantly spilled over disciplinary boundaries in ways that have made Freedom with Violence one of the most widely awaited first books in my memory. George Lipsitz’s back cover assessment of it as ‘one of the most important books of our times’ captures both the import and the timeliness of Reddy’s contribution.” -- David Roediger * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Freedom's Amendments: Race, Sexuality, and Disposability under the State Form 1 Part I 1. Freedom and Violence in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk: The Land of Racial Equality 55 2. Legal Freedom as Violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Black Literary Publics during the Interwar Years 90 Interlude 134 Part II 3. Rights-Based Freedom with Violence: Immigration, Sexuality, and the Subject of Human Rights 143 4. Moving beyond a Freedom with Violence: The Politics of Gay Marriage in the Era of Racial Transformation 182 Conclusion. Don't Ask, Don't Tell 219 Notes 247 Bibliography 283 Index 297
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