Gender studies, gender groups Books
Duke University Press The Flower and the Scorpion
Book SynopsisSigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.Trade Review“The Flower and the Scorpion is a fascinating history of understandings of Nahua sexuality from the precontact era through the early colonial period. Drawing on a stunning array of Nahuatl- and Spanish-language primary sources, Pete Sigal considers what the Nahua wrote about their beliefs, deities, rituals, and activities relating to sexuality. But The Flower and the Scorpion is not only about the Nahua; it is also about the Spaniards and what they thought about sexuality, their own and that of the Nahua. Sigal shows us how different the perceptions of the Nahua and the Spaniards were, especially as they related to sex, and how different their ideas remained well into the seventeenth century, even as they lived in close proximity to one another.”—Susan Schroeder, editor of The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism“This book emerges from a scholarly utilization of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century primary sources to illuminate not only very complex Nahua thought and practices but also the colonial context that shaped the discourse around themes that defy our modern labels, such as ‘sex’ itself. Pete Sigal employs his training in Nahuatl to analyze terms and texts in their original language, producing his own translations and interpreting meanings, always with an effort to delineate Western frames and biases that might color our understanding.”—Stephanie Wood, author of Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico“The scholarship offered by this study is sound, enlightening, and interesting. This work contributes to our understanding of Nahua perceptions of gender and sexuality according to autochthonous frames, and how they adjusted to the demands of Christianity. The Flower and the Scorpion is clearly written and very enjoyable to read.” -- Rocío Cortés * Hispanic American Historical Review *“This is an important and provocative book, which deserves to be widely read by both Nahua specialists and gender historians. This is challenging territory, but those brave enough to venture there will find ideas which encourage us not only to rethink Nahua ideas of sexuality, but also to challenge the fixed nature of individual and collective identity.” -- Caroline Dodds Pennock * Gender & History *“By exceeding any previous analysis of Nahua rituals’ sexual aspects, Sigal has made a valuable contribution to the history of religion and the history of sexuality.” -- Louise M. Burkhart * American Historical Review *“[A] masterful job…. This is a fascinating and challenging work. Sigal has taken the reader back to pre-Columbian times and attempted to strip away the colonial layers of Spanish discourse and worldview in order to reach the Nahua of before the conquest. His is a compelling argument and will certainly serve as a point of departure for further research.” -- John F. Schwaller * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Preface. The People, the Place, and the Time xv 1. The Bath 1 2. Trash 29 3. Sin 61 4. The Warrior Goddess 103 5. The Phallus and the Broom 139 6. The Homosexual 177 7. Sex 207 8. Mirrors 241 Appendix. The Chalca Woman's Song 255 Abbreviations 263 Notes 265 Bibliography 327 Index 353
£27.90
Duke University Press Maturing Masculinities
Book SynopsisBased on interviews with male patients in a urology clinic in Cuernavaca, Maturing Masculinities offers an exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men.Trade Review“Finding the theoretical tools to understand the messiness of life and the ways in which people understand themselves, sometimes in contradiction, is complex but Wentzell incorporates gender studies, science and technology studies, as well as the medical anthropological literature convincingly.” - Maria Berghs, Somatosphere"Maturing Masculinities is scholarly, informative, very readable, and affective. It is an excellent resource not just for Mexicanists or Latin Americanists more generally but also for a wider range of scholars and students of masculinities, health, aging, and other related issues. It is a work of cutting-edge anthropology."—Laura Lewis, author of Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of "Black" Mexico"This incisive, surprising, and poignant ethnography from the hospital wards of Cuernavaca draws on the best studies in Mexico and elsewhere regarding masculinity, sexuality, and related health issues and takes us to a whole new level of scholarship. Being a woman studying erections proves no obstacle for an anthropologist as thoughtful as Emily A. Wentzell—on the contrary, she deftly uses it to her advantage, exploring how women so often help to create and define men's sexuality."—Matthew C. Gutmann, editor of Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America"Rich and engaging . . . Maturing Masculinities is a must read for gender and sexuality scholars, as well as professionals and clinicians working with Mexican populations in fields related (but not limited to) sexual and mental health with heterosexual women and men." -- Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Wentzell has produced an intriguing and moving ethnography that deserves a wide readership within anthropology and beyond.” -- Anthony Simpson * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Changing Bodies and Masculinities in Post-Viagra Mexico 1 1. Mexicanness, Machismo, and Maturity in Composite Masculinities 35 2. Sex, Relationships, and Masculinities 60 3. Chronic Illnesses as Composite Problems 86 4. Rejecting Erectile Dysfunction Drugs 110 5. Medical Erectile Dysfunction Treatment in Context 136 Conclusion. Cultural Change Over Time in Responses to Erectile Difficulty 162 Bibliography 187 Index 197
£22.49
Duke University Press Imperial Blues
Book SynopsisFocusing on the representations of distant lands and exotic bodies that filled the nightclubs of Jazz Age New York, Fiona I. B. Ngô shows how U.S. ambitions abroad shaped racial, gendered, and sexual formations at home.Trade Review"Imperial Blues is a spectacular elaboration of queer of color critique. Fiona I. B. Ngô creatively reveals how orientalist discourses shaped Jazz Age subjectivities and social life. Theorizing racialized sexuality, she blurs the boundaries between domestic and international migrations, political and aesthetic discourses, and global and national racial formations. This is a beautifully conceived book."—Roderick Ferguson, coeditor of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization"I love this book. It is smart, fresh, and new, a game-changer. Imperial Blues is a theoretically astute and historically grounded cultural studies analysis of empire as central to the circuits of, and discourses about, jazz in Jazz Age New York."—Sherrie Tucker, coeditor of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies“[Ngô] deftly employs social history; ethnography; 'queer' studies; and analysis of literary, visual, and musical texts, making her book of potential interest to a diverse audience. … [I]t is a rewarding and insightful book, tying together multiple threads that were at some point disentangled by scholars with narrower foci on specific components of the Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance.” -- E. Taylor Atkins * Journal of American Studies *“Imperial Blues is an original and valuable study that contributes to histories of imperialism, sexuality, gender, and urban spaces. The study will be of use to students and scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.” -- Imaobong D. Umoren * Gender & History *“With its attention to such cartographies for mapping pleasure and importance, Imperial Blues is a welcome contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on a relatively neglected period for the intersections of postcolonial studies, critical ethnic studies, postnational American studies, and queer studies." -- Victor Bascara * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Desire and Danger in Jazz's Contact Zones 33 2. Queer Modernities 71 3. Orienting Subjectivities 121 4. Dreaming of Araby 155 Conclusion. Academic Indiscretions 187 Notes 193 Bibliography 231 Index 251
£76.50
Duke University Press Imperial Blues
Book SynopsisFocusing on the representations of distant lands and exotic bodies that filled the nightclubs of Jazz Age New York, Fiona I. B. Ngô shows how U.S. ambitions abroad shaped racial, gendered, and sexual formations at home.Trade Review"Imperial Blues is a spectacular elaboration of queer of color critique. Fiona I. B. Ngô creatively reveals how orientalist discourses shaped Jazz Age subjectivities and social life. Theorizing racialized sexuality, she blurs the boundaries between domestic and international migrations, political and aesthetic discourses, and global and national racial formations. This is a beautifully conceived book."—Roderick Ferguson, coeditor of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization"I love this book. It is smart, fresh, and new, a game-changer. Imperial Blues is a theoretically astute and historically grounded cultural studies analysis of empire as central to the circuits of, and discourses about, jazz in Jazz Age New York."—Sherrie Tucker, coeditor of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies“[Ngô] deftly employs social history; ethnography; 'queer' studies; and analysis of literary, visual, and musical texts, making her book of potential interest to a diverse audience. … [I]t is a rewarding and insightful book, tying together multiple threads that were at some point disentangled by scholars with narrower foci on specific components of the Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance.” -- E. Taylor Atkins * Journal of American Studies *“Imperial Blues is an original and valuable study that contributes to histories of imperialism, sexuality, gender, and urban spaces. The study will be of use to students and scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.” -- Imaobong D. Umoren * Gender & History *“With its attention to such cartographies for mapping pleasure and importance, Imperial Blues is a welcome contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on a relatively neglected period for the intersections of postcolonial studies, critical ethnic studies, postnational American studies, and queer studies." -- Victor Bascara * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Desire and Danger in Jazz's Contact Zones 33 2. Queer Modernities 71 3. Orienting Subjectivities 121 4. Dreaming of Araby 155 Conclusion. Academic Indiscretions 187 Notes 193 Bibliography 231 Index 251
£19.79
Duke University Press Celibacies
Book SynopsisArguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Benjamin Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality.Trade Review"This original and long-needed book on modern celibacy as a distinctive kind of sexuality—as opposed to the lack or negation of sexuality, or symptom of the repression of sexuality—holds true to its promise to show us just how richly varied celibacy can be, and how vital it in fact was to U.S. and British modernism. As Benjamin Kahan shows through insightful readings of texts by Henry James, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Father Divine, and Andy Warhol, among others, modernist celibacies were secular as well as religious, collectivizing as well as individualizing, sensuous as well as ascetic; celibacies were also capable of being feminist, erotic, strategic, and episodic. Attentive to celibacy as both practice and identity, Celibacies will be indispensable reading for queer theory and modernist studies."—Sianne Ngai, author of Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting"When did celibacy become unfashionable? Why has queer studies colluded with its denigration? And what do the histories of celibacy, homosexuality, queerness, friendship, and the contemporary Asexuality Movement share? Benjamin Kahan's compassionate genealogy of an alternative modernism provides judicious answers to these questions, while theorizing celibacy's tenacious existence along the edge of the intelligible. Countering queer studies' infatuation with sex-as-visible-transgression and its willingness to cede abstinence's reformist energies to the political Right, Celibacies offers savvy inspiration for thinking sexuality without sex."—Valerie Traub, author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern EnglandKahan has written a book that is both interesting, well articulated, progressive, and perhaps for some, rather provoking. . . . The book is not only for those interested in the history of celibacy and sexuality, but also for those who work in the field of human sexuality. In Celibacies, Kahan has managed to offer a new perspective on celibacy without focusing on the politics of conservatism and religion, which is refreshing." -- Hennie Weis * Metapsychology Online Reviews *“…Celibacies in a truly innovating way expands the concept rendering it positively connoted and giving it a new lease on life…. the author has managed to aggrandize the concept giving it breadth and depth, a past and a future.” -- Aristi Trendel * American Studies *“This scholarly but accessible study turns our notions of celibacy on their heads…. The book’s power derives from Kahan’s skill in making us reconceive sexual categories, particularly celibacy, which he argues convincingly is a positive way of choosing how to be in the world." -- Daniel A. Burr * Gay & Lesbian Review *“Although abstinence does not exactly come off as sexy in Celibacies, Kahan succeeds in making it legible, visible and historically significant for a period that is more typically understood as one of sexual expression and revolution. Kahan does for abstinence what Rachel Whiteread’s reverse castings do for negative space: both reveal the thrum of what is typically thought of as emptiness or lack.” -- Laura Frost * Times Higher Education *"Kahan’s analysis intrigues as well as provokes, forcing us to ask new questions about how we define sexuality and understand its history." -- Carolyn Herbst Lewis * Journal of American History *"Kahan’s long-overdue consideration of celibacy as sexuality provides significant insights into nineteenth- and twentieth-century American formations of gender, politics, race, aging, citizenship, marriage, and popular culture. . . . Kahan’s achievement lies not only in what it so effectively accomplishes—the resituation of celibacy within sexuality—but also in the many avenues of future inquiry it brings to view." -- Melissa Sanchez * GLQ *“More than simple erotophobia, celibacy in Kahan’s hands yields nuanced literary readings of a range of queer writers and artists. . . . There is something wonderfully counterintuitive about Kahan’s characterization of celibacy as a form of sexuality rather than the absence of one. … Celibacies is an impressive first book, thoroughly researched and elegantly written. . . .” -- Tim Dean * American Literary History *"Kahan offers a tour de force set of readings that reveal that it is time to pay closer attention to sexuality without sex. . . . We should never take for granted that celibacy is a way of withdrawing from life; it can, on the contrary, be a productive, generative, and even erotic way of engaging with it. Throughout his masterful study, Kahan’s brilliant readings demonstrate that modernism’s silences and sidelong glances are often attractive and meaningful ways of experiencing desire rather than hiding it." -- Brian Glavey * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. The Expressive Hypothesis 1. The Longue Durée of Celibacy: Boston Marriage, Female Friendship, and the Invention of Homosexuality 2. Celibate Time 3. The Other Harlem Renaissance: Father Divine, Celibate Economics, and the Making of Black Sexuality 4. The Celibate American: Closetedness, Emigration, and Queer Citizenship before Stonewall 5. Philosophical Bachelorhood, Philosophical Spinsterhood, and Celibate Modernity Conclusion. Asexuality/Neutrality/Relationality Notes Bibliography Index
£22.49
MD - Duke University Press The Black Body in Ecstasy
Book SynopsisRewrites black feminism's theory of representation. This title offers an analysis and that moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects.Trade Review“The Black Body in Ecstasy is an excellent example of a ‘loving critique’ of a tense field...Nash’s intentional, clear structuring and synthesis, and her fascinating interventions provide a solid basis for future scholars in this field.” -- Laura Abbasi-Lemmon * Journal of Gender Studies *"[E]ssential reading for anyone seeking to understand new work on feminism, critical race studies, pornography, and film history." -- Svati P. Shah * Women's Review of Books *"...[Nash's] alternative readings do give readers insight into the tropes within pornography, and into how certain films upset racist and sexist industry practices, as well as upsetting the Black feminist theoretical archive’s theories of representation and resistance in favor of a Black feminist theory of sexual subjectivities of pleasure and ecstasy. Nash has earned her place among a new generation of Black feminist scholars" -- Sherri L. Barnes * Feminist Collections *"The Black Body in Ecstasy poses a fresh set of questions as it forwards a groundbreaking black feminist approach to contending with representations of black women’s ecstatic corporeality." -- Jennifer DeClue * GLQ *"The Black Body in Ecstasy makes an important contribution, and is essential reading for anyone interested in how black women are depicted within hard-core visual pornography." -- Fiona Proudfoot * Media International Australia *"[T]his work is a significant contribution to feminist porn studies and to the analysis of representations and images of black bodies and black female desire and sexuality. The Black Body in Ecstasy starts a new conversation within feminist porn studies, an original, provocative discussion of the multiple identities and ecstasies that can be located in instances of rupture in pornographic films." -- Siobahn Stiles * Hypatia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Reading Race, Reading Pornography 1 1. Archives of Pain: Reading the Black Feminist Theoretical Archive 27 2. Speaking Sex / Speaking Race: Lialeh and the Blax-porn-tation Aesthetic 59 3. Race-Pleasures: Sexworld and the Ecstatic Black Female Body 83 4. Laughing Matters: Race-Humor on the Pornographic Screen 107 5. On Refusal: Racial Promises and the Silver Age Screen 128 Conclusion. Reading Ecstasy 146 Notes 153 Bibliography 181 Index 213
£72.25
Duke University Press Queen for a Day
Book SynopsisConsiders how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of transformistas and beauty pageant contestants.Trade Review“In this book Ochoa gathers several different and distinctive scales of analysis, from international fashion circuits and the role of mass media to the body, the smallest unit of analysis. At the same time, public discourses about beauty and femininity are examined in an interrelated way, along with problems of race, modernity, and discourses about the nation. One of the most attractive aspects of this book is its inscription of all these problems in the long process of modernity’s production, with the purpose of searching beyond interpersonal relationships. As an anthropologist, Ochoa constructs a clearheaded ethnography of mass media, beauty, and femininity that includes a careful description of the physical space of the streets and city of Caracas overall.” -- Mirta Zaida Lobato * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[A] complex ethnological study of the phenomenon of la belleza venezolana (Venezuelan beauty). . . . This work does an admirable job in its efforts to provide both the context of the performance of femininity and beauty in Venezuela and more specifics on the experience of male-bodied, feminine people in the nation.” -- Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"This ethnographically and theoretically rich book is relevant to gender studies, queer studies, performance studies, urban studies, and Latin American studies and is a model of applied, committed, and interested research." -- Colleen Ballerino Cohen * American Anthropologist *"Queen for a Day is groundbreaking in its consideration of transgender and hegemonic bodies within the same analytic framework, and it offers new ways of understanding performativity, spectacle, gender and power. It has clear implications on many fields due to Ochoa’s thorough engagement with scholarship on coloniality, modernity, race, beauty, performativity, spectacle, gender, corporeality, materiality, transgender studies, and queer diasporic studies." -- Carson Morris * The Latin Americanist *“Queen for a Day dazzlingly sashays from the tulle and satin dresses of the Miss Venezuela beauty contest to the very specific sites in Caracas where sex and desire transform, reimagine, and reorder the city. . . . All the different strands that Ochoa offers for a study of femininity and gender in Venezuela that is not simply a study of 'gendered behavior' can be seen as unrelated to each other, but one of the most important underpinnings of Ochoa’s book is that it is rightly founded upon a faith in connection, in communication, across social classes spread throughout the country of Venezuela.” -- José Quiroga * TSQ *"Queen for a Day makes important contributions to our understanding of how colonial legacies at the local, national, and international levels—along with contemporary mass media and other technologies—shape cultural politics and the possibilities for change in our post-modern, global world." -- Susan Besse * EIAL *"Announcing her work as a queer diasporic ethnography, Ochoa situates herself as field worker and scholar within a well-fleshed-out theoretical frame that still manages to be intensely introspective and intimate. In one breath she lets us into her history and family; with the next she invites the reader to consider the perverse modernity that requires and makes possible malleable bodies, and that requires the violence we do to our bodies that also makes possible their survival." -- Adriana Estill * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsIndex 279 Acknowledgments vii Introducing ... the Queen 1 Part I. On the (Trans)National 19 1. Belleza Venezolana: Media, Race, Modernity, and Nation in the Twentieth-Century Venezuelan Beauty Contest 21 2. La Moda Nace en Paris y Muere en Caracas: Fashion, Beauty, and Consumption on the (Trans)National 59 Part II. On the Runway, on the Street 95 3. La Reina de la Noche: Performance, Sexual Subjectivity, and the Form of the Beauty Pageant in Venezuela 97 4. Pasarelas y Perolones: Transformista Mediations on Avenida Libertador in Caracas 127 Part III. On the Body 153 5. Sacar el Cuerpo: Transformista and Miss Embodiment 155 6. Spectacular Femininities 201 Epilogue. Democracy and Melodrama: Frivolity, Fracaso, and Political Violence in Venezuela 233 Notes 247 References 269
£98.60
Duke University Press Reality Gendervision
Book SynopsisFocuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Whether assessing the Kardashian family brand, portrayals of hoarders, or big-family programs such as 19 Kids and Counting, this book takes reality television seriously as a site for the production and performance of gender.Trade Review“This book is a must-read for all who are interested in gender studies as well as for economists, sociologists, and people from social sciences who are interested in the social and political effects of the ongoing recession and the rising economic inequality in the United States and Europe. It provides an important missing link between feminist economist and sociological analyses of the gendered causes as well as the gendered impact of the financial crisis and the recession….” -- Margunn Bjørnholt * Women's Studies *“This collection of essays is an informative, interesting, and entertaining read, even for someone who has never watched a reality program because the essays are so well-written, and synopses so well-intertwined, that one can easily understand the arguments.” -- Sarah Gawronski * Journal of Popular Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Trash Talk: The Gender Politics of Reality Television / Brenda R. Weber Part I. The Pleasures and Perils in Being Seen 1. The "Pig," the "Older Woman," and the "Catfight": Gender, Celebrity, and Controversy in a Decade of British Reality TV / Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn 2. Reality TV and the Gendered Politics of Flaunting / Misha Kavka 3. Keeping Up with the Aspirations: Commercial Family Values and the Kardashian Brand / Maria Pramaggiore and Diane Negra 4. When America's Queen of Talk Saved Britain's Duchess of Pork: Finding Sarah, Oprah Winfrey, and the Transatlantic Politics of Self-Making / Brenda R. Weber 5. Wrecked: Programming Celesbian Reality / Dana Heller Part II. Citizenship, Ethnicity, and (Trans)National Identity 6. Abject Femininity and Compulsory Masculinity on Jersey Shore / Amanda Ann Klein 7. Supersizing the Family: Nation, Gender, and Recession on Reality TV / Rebecca Stephens 8. "Get More Action" on Gladiatorial Television: Simulation and Masculinity on Deadliest Warrior / Lindsay Steenberg 9. Jade Goody's Preemptive Hagiography: Neoliberal Citizenship and Reality TV Celebrity / Kimberly Springer Part III. Mediated Freak Shows and Cautionary Tales 10. "It's Not TV, It's Birth Control": Reality TV and the "Problem" of Teenage Pregnancy / Laurie Ouellette 11. Intimating Disaster: Choices, Women, and Hoarding Shows / Susan Lepselter 12. Freaky Five-Year-Olds and Mental Mommies: Narratives of Gender, Race, and Class in TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras / Kirsten Pike 13. Legitimate Targets: Reality Television and Large People / Gareth Palmer 14. Spectral Men: Femininity, Race, and Traumatic Manhood in the RTV Ghost-Hunter Genre / David Greven Bibliography Videography Contributors Index
£27.90
Duke University Press Gendering the Recession
Book SynopsisOffers a collection of essays that provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the re-emergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal.Trade Review“The new anthology Gendering the Recession offers a look at the marked resurgence of gender roles, assumptions, and imperatives that characterized this time, with smart analyses of how gender impacted branding and marketing…. The essays are united in their well-stated indictment of journalistic rhetoric that infantilizes the underemployed, particularly those who are male. While the timespan and subject matter covered by Gendering the Recession is severe and bleak, the writing here is far from it.” -- Joshunda Sanders * Bitch *" . . . the book, with its feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture, will be particularly useful to students and faculty interested in the sociology of media, gender studies, women's studies, and communication . . . Highly recommended." -- S. Chaudhuri * Choice *"On the whole, Gendering the Recession is a well-researched, well-edited and well-timed book that invites the reader to consider why women are still struggling economically compared to men....Diverse topic areas, focusing not only on different classes, but on different nations and ethnicities, give the study depth and relevance. This is particularly welcome as too often, questions of gender concern the socio-economic elite. The book is surprisingly readable and contains entertaining analyses of television shows." -- Jessica Palmarozza * Quadrapheme.com *“If it is not yet clear what a more economically minded, ‘anti-capitalist’ approach to the feminist analysis of popular media culture might look like, Gendering the Recession is of value both for the quality of the readings it collects and for the extent to which it crystallises the challenges that persist.” -- Rebecca Bramall * Feminist Review *“The significant contribution of this volume is that the authors are able to connect the various themes of gender and the recession across a variety of media sites. . . . It is a challenge in any edited volume to ensure that the chapters connect with each other to build and support a coherent argument, and this challenge was successfully met in this book. This volume will appeal to scholars and students alike—particularly advanced undergraduate and graduate classes across the social sciences and humanities.” -- Mary Gatta * Gender & Society *"This book is a must-read for all who are interested in gender studies as well as for economists, sociologists, and people from social sciences who are interested in the social and political effects of the ongoing recession and the rising economic inequality in the United States and Europe. It provides an important missing link between feminist economist and sociological analyses of the gendered causes as well as the gendered impact of the financial crisis and the recession…" -- Margunn Bjornholt * Women's Studies *“Gendering the Recession makes a clear, timely, and profound intervention into the field of feminist media studies. This collection remains useful to scholars critiquing the economic dimensions of media culture and those who utilize post-feminism and neoliberalism as frames of analysis. Negra and Tasker, with this publication, initiate an important conversation and establish a trajectory for scholarship that will continue to expand as the outcomes of 'Great Recession' continue to effect media culture.” -- Lauren Weinzimmer * Feminist Media Studies *“Gendering the Recession fills an important niche within feminist media studies by offering a gender critique of the recession-themed media that has sprouted up in recent years. This book will be invaluable to teachers and students studying contemporary representations of gender in a post-feminist neoliberal era.” -- Natasha Patterson * Canadian Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Gender and Recessionary Culture / Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker 1 1. Escaping the Recession? The New Vitality of the Woman Worker / Suzanne Leonard 31 2. "Latina Wisdom" in "Postrace" Recession Media / Isabel Molina-Guzmán 59 3. "We Are All Workers": Economic Crisis, Masculinity, and the American Working Class / Sarah Banet-Weiser 81 4. What Julia Knew: Domestic Labor in the Recession-Era Chick Flick / Pamela Thoma 107 5. Dressed for Economic Distress: Blogging and the "New" Pleasure of Fashion / Elizabeth Nathanson 136 6. The (Re)possession of the American Home: Negative Equity, Gender Inequality, and the Housing Crisis Horror Story / Tim Snelson 161 7. House and Home: Structuring Absences in Post-Celtic Tiger Documentary / Sinéad Molony 181 8. "Stuck between Meanings": Recession-Era Print Fictions of Crisis Masculinity / Hamilton Carroll 203 9. Fairy Jobmother to the Rescue: Postfeminism and the Recessionary Cultures of Reality TV / Hannah Hamad 223 10. How Long Can the Party Last? Gendering the European Crisis on Reality TV / Anikó Imre 246 Bibliography 273 Contributors 299 Index 303
£25.19
Duke University Press Given to the Goddess
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This excellent book makes a significant contribution to religion and kinship, gender, sexuality, and South Asian studies…. Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *“This is a beautifully written and theoretically engaged ethnography about a community whose past has been fraught and whose future lies in the balance. It would be appropriate reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses and makes an important contribution to the anthropology of gender, sexuality, kinship, religion, and modernity in India.” -- Cecilia Van Hollen * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"We must dwell with, as Given to the Goddess gracefully does, the everyday experiences of devotion, exchange, and one’s social relationship to another—human, nonhuman, or even goddess—that make us, quite simply, kin." -- Durba Mitra * GLQ *"Ramberg’s work exemplifies an extraordinary synthesis of animated empiricism and theoretical rigor. It is heartening to mark the arrival of this very important work that signals a critical departure in several ways." -- Priyadarshini Vijaisri * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Gods, Gifts, Trouble 1 Part I. Gods 1. Yellamma and Her Sisters: Kinship among Goddesses and Others 39 2. Yellamma, Her Wives, and the Question of Religion 71 Part II. Gifts 3. Tantra, Shakta, Yellamma 113 4. The Giving of Daughters: Sexual Economy, Sexual Agency, and the "Traffic" in Women 142 Part III. Trouble 5. Kinship Trouble 181 6. Troubling Kinship 213 Notes 223 Glossary 247 Bibliography 251 Index 270
£72.25
Duke University Press Fighting for Recognition
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Immensely readable and as vibrant in its energy as the subjects it seeks to present and understand, Fighting for Recognition focuses on young men who make their living in professional wrestling. . . . Highly recommended. All readers.” -- E. J. Staurowsky * Choice *“[A]n entertaining read that can be used in a sport or masculinities course, or any other context that explores the paradoxical aspects of identity construction.” -- Brian Fair * Gender & Society *"Smith demonstrates the value of taking this subculture seriously; for a place where white, working-class men must always battle the fear of being seen as fake or soft offers us a truly powerful starting point for unpacking the tensions and internal contradictions of masculinity." -- Kyle Green * Men and Masculinities *"Smith has produced a highly readable and useful ethnography on the performance of independent professional wrestling. The book is invaluable to those working on performance and wrestling and develops theories of masculinity, physicality, and the labor of performance, which should find an audience even among those who might be less familiar with professional wrestling and its performance." -- Eero Laine * Theatre Journal *"This theoretically sophisticated, fine-grained study of the quotidian practices of the Indy wrestling circuit will be of interest to scholars of gender, sports, and U.S. culture. It is also accessibly written and an ideal length for use in undergraduate courses." -- Heather Levi * American Journal of Sociology *"By examining the bizarre and paradoxical world of this marginalised, quasi-sporting subculture, Smith produces an insightful account of contemporary, working class masculinity as a complex construct.... Fighting for Recognition is therefore sure to rank highly on the reading lists of scholars interested in men, combat sports and masculinity, and also fans of wrestling with an interest in what takes place behind the spectacular veneer of on-stage ‘sports entertainment’." -- Alex Channon * Gender & History *"In Fighting for Recognition, R. Tyson Smith crafts a sophisticated and readable ethnographic analysis of the experiences of the young men involved in independent ('indie') professional wrestling. . . . Researchers and instructors in sport studies, cultural studies, and performance studies will find significant value in Smith's analysis." -- Stacy L. Lorenz * Canadian Journal of Sociology *"Fighting for Recognition will be of particular interest for gender scholars and cultural sociologists. Intellectually challenging yet extremely accessible, this book would be a great option for both undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Bryan Snyder * Contemporary Sociology *"Smith does an excellent job articulating the draw of pro wrestling to young men and why, through all the pain and sacrifice, they continue. Smith is superb at describing and setting up a scene. The book transports a reader into the ring, eliciting the sights, sounds and smells of the world of wrestling. . . . Fighting for Recognition is accessible, offering palatable and engaging discussion of wrestling. As pro wrestling and other combat sports lack critical study, this book represents a needed contribution to the literature of sport sociology." -- Bruce Lee Hazelwood * International Review for the Sociology of Sport *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. The Indies 9 2. Fighting for a Pop: Wrestler Recognition 37 3. Passion Work: The Coordinated Production of Emotional Labor 62 4. "In Real Life I'm a Total Homophobe": Wrestlers Managing the Male Gaze 89 5. Pain in the Act 115 Conclusion 147 Appendix A. How It Began 155 Appendix B. Rage Wrestlers/Participants 167 Notes 171 References 197 Index 211
£22.49
Duke University Press Given to the Goddess
Book SynopsisWho and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relationsbetween andTrade Review“This excellent book makes a significant contribution to religion and kinship, gender, sexuality, and South Asian studies…. Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *“This is a beautifully written and theoretically engaged ethnography about a community whose past has been fraught and whose future lies in the balance. It would be appropriate reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses and makes an important contribution to the anthropology of gender, sexuality, kinship, religion, and modernity in India.” -- Cecilia Van Hollen * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"We must dwell with, as Given to the Goddess gracefully does, the everyday experiences of devotion, exchange, and one’s social relationship to another—human, nonhuman, or even goddess—that make us, quite simply, kin." -- Durba Mitra * GLQ *"Ramberg’s work exemplifies an extraordinary synthesis of animated empiricism and theoretical rigor. It is heartening to mark the arrival of this very important work that signals a critical departure in several ways." -- Priyadarshini Vijaisri * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Gods, Gifts, Trouble 1 Part I. Gods 1. Yellamma and Her Sisters: Kinship among Goddesses and Others 39 2. Yellamma, Her Wives, and the Question of Religion 71 Part II. Gifts 3. Tantra, Shakta, Yellamma 113 4. The Giving of Daughters: Sexual Economy, Sexual Agency, and the "Traffic" in Women 142 Part III. Trouble 5. Kinship Trouble 181 6. Troubling Kinship 213 Notes 223 Glossary 247 Bibliography 251 Index 270
£19.79
Duke University Press Prostitution and the Ends of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important book, one that refuses to accept the sexual contours of prostitution in the context of empire and insists instead on the legislative, spatial, judicial, disciplinary, and narrative aspects of colonial preoccupation with Indian morality.... The scalar reading the book employs is an elegant formulation of the need to consider the multiple trajectories of nation, city, gender, agency, and governance not only through the dualities of the colonial relationship between England and India but also within the expanded scope of the interwar period in Europe and Asia." -- Harleen Singh * American Historical Review *"This book is crisp and compelling and will be read with interest by those studying colonial South Asia, the regulation of sexuality, governmentality, scale, and empire, among others....Legg convincingly and provocatively argues for a study of empire that reveals its ‘nodes of violence, fragility, contradiction, and complexity’ (p.38), and that in this case this included a scale-inflected shaming of sex workers and deployment of scandal to defend empire and intervention, even as these interventions deepened the suffering of many women." -- Sara Smith * Journal of Historical Geography *"[A] smart and original contribution to the expansive literature on colonialism and prostitution.... Legg’s efforts to interweave archival and theoretical insights—to write across scales—makes Prostitution and the Ends of Empire a bold, exciting and ambitious project." -- Renisa Mawani * Pacific Affairs *"[T]his book sheds new light onto still occluded areas and evokes productive questions that reach beyond the specific areas and topics under discussion." -- Lesley A. Hall * Canadian Journal of History *"Legg has produced a detailed and well-researched account of colonial governmentality offering novel insights into the relationship between the state and civil society which speaks to scholars across many disciplines." -- Amil Mohanan * Social & Cultural Geography *"The fabric Legg weaves is indeed rich, and accessible to many different readerships, all of which will benefit from the important work undertaken here." -- Jessica Namakkal * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Legg opens up the constitution of state/civil society, province/nation, international/national, and metropole/periphery.....Nimbly moving through a range of literatures, archives, and materials in a way that is itself multiply scaled, Prostitution and the Ends of Empire offers insights for scholars across disciplines." -- Tara Suri * H-Law, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction. Spatial Genealogies from Segregation to Suppression 1 1. Civil Abandonment: The Inclusive Exclusion of Delhi's Prostitutes 41 2. Assembling India: The Birth of SITA 95 3. Imperial Moral and Social Hygiene 169 Conclusion. Within and beyond the City 239 Notes 247 References 259 Index 277
£72.25
Duke University Press We Are Left without a Father Here
Book SynopsisA transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work in the state's sugar beet fields.Trade Review “A most excellent gendered history of Puerto Rican political and labor history, this book will be required reading for Latin Americanists and labor historians. Essential. All levels/libraries.” -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"Suárez Findlay has managed to weave a transnational history in which the diaspora and the island are equally important for understanding the Puerto Rican experience.... While remaining accessible to undergraduate students, this work is aimed at labor and gender specialists." -- Harry Franqui-Rivera * Hispanic American Historical Review *"We Are Left without a Father Here offers an important contribution to the scholarship on gender, populism, colonial economic development and politics, and migration in the post–World War II era.... This story is a significant one that encapsulates far-reaching and multifaceted implications in an accessible and engaging prose. This book deserves a broad readership." -- Carmen Teresa Whalen * American Historical Review *"For scholars of Latina/o history – Puerto Rican history and Puerto Rican diasporas in particular – this study produces a set of powerful arguments with which to investigate the histories of migrants and migration policy from the perspective of the countries of origin and destination.... Above all, the strength of the study lies in its use of gender criticism to interrogate grand narratives such as modernism and colonialism and to produce new connections between the micro and the macro." -- Timo Schrader * Gender & History *"This book can be used as a reference or complementary text for a college and graduate level course. It is a valuable source for any course on American, Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American studies, and any other related fields." -- Milagros Denis-Rosario * Canadian Journal of History *"What [Findlay] has unearthed is rich, painful to read, but highly recommended to anyone wishing to understand the present moment of colonial crisis." -- Maura I. Toro-Morn * Agricultural History *"Adding a gender dimension is an important contribution to the scholarship of Puerto Rico, which has largely understood populism and migration within the frames of colonialism, development, and transnationalism. . . . Scholars of labor and state formation will find this book an excellent analysis of the significance of patriarchy in the politics of migration and populism." -- Ismael García Colón * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bregando the Sugar Beet Fields 1 1. Family and Fatherhood in "a New Era for All": Populist Politics and Reformed Colonialism 25 2. Building Homes, Domesticity Dreams, and the Drive to Modernity 59 3. Removing "Excess Population": Redirecting the Great Migration 90 4. Arriving in Michigan: The Collapse of the Dream 118 5. The Brega Expands 148 Conclusion. Persistent Bregas 173 Notes 191 Bibliography 257 Index 295
£98.60
Duke University Press Prostitution and the Ends of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important book, one that refuses to accept the sexual contours of prostitution in the context of empire and insists instead on the legislative, spatial, judicial, disciplinary, and narrative aspects of colonial preoccupation with Indian morality.... The scalar reading the book employs is an elegant formulation of the need to consider the multiple trajectories of nation, city, gender, agency, and governance not only through the dualities of the colonial relationship between England and India but also within the expanded scope of the interwar period in Europe and Asia." -- Harleen Singh * American Historical Review *"This book is crisp and compelling and will be read with interest by those studying colonial South Asia, the regulation of sexuality, governmentality, scale, and empire, among others....Legg convincingly and provocatively argues for a study of empire that reveals its ‘nodes of violence, fragility, contradiction, and complexity’ (p.38), and that in this case this included a scale-inflected shaming of sex workers and deployment of scandal to defend empire and intervention, even as these interventions deepened the suffering of many women." -- Sara Smith * Journal of Historical Geography *"[A] smart and original contribution to the expansive literature on colonialism and prostitution.... Legg’s efforts to interweave archival and theoretical insights—to write across scales—makes Prostitution and the Ends of Empire a bold, exciting and ambitious project." -- Renisa Mawani * Pacific Affairs *"[T]his book sheds new light onto still occluded areas and evokes productive questions that reach beyond the specific areas and topics under discussion." -- Lesley A. Hall * Canadian Journal of History *"Legg has produced a detailed and well-researched account of colonial governmentality offering novel insights into the relationship between the state and civil society which speaks to scholars across many disciplines." -- Amil Mohanan * Social & Cultural Geography *"The fabric Legg weaves is indeed rich, and accessible to many different readerships, all of which will benefit from the important work undertaken here." -- Jessica Namakkal * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Legg opens up the constitution of state/civil society, province/nation, international/national, and metropole/periphery.....Nimbly moving through a range of literatures, archives, and materials in a way that is itself multiply scaled, Prostitution and the Ends of Empire offers insights for scholars across disciplines." -- Tara Suri * H-Law, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction. Spatial Genealogies from Segregation to Suppression 1 1. Civil Abandonment: The Inclusive Exclusion of Delhi's Prostitutes 41 2. Assembling India: The Birth of SITA 95 3. Imperial Moral and Social Hygiene 169 Conclusion. Within and beyond the City 239 Notes 247 References 259 Index 277
£19.79
Duke University Press We Are Left without a Father Here
Book SynopsisA transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work in the state's sugar beet fields.Trade Review “A most excellent gendered history of Puerto Rican political and labor history, this book will be required reading for Latin Americanists and labor historians. Essential. All levels/libraries.” -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"Suárez Findlay has managed to weave a transnational history in which the diaspora and the island are equally important for understanding the Puerto Rican experience.... While remaining accessible to undergraduate students, this work is aimed at labor and gender specialists." -- Harry Franqui-Rivera * Hispanic American Historical Review *"We Are Left without a Father Here offers an important contribution to the scholarship on gender, populism, colonial economic development and politics, and migration in the post–World War II era.... This story is a significant one that encapsulates far-reaching and multifaceted implications in an accessible and engaging prose. This book deserves a broad readership." -- Carmen Teresa Whalen * American Historical Review *"For scholars of Latina/o history – Puerto Rican history and Puerto Rican diasporas in particular – this study produces a set of powerful arguments with which to investigate the histories of migrants and migration policy from the perspective of the countries of origin and destination.... Above all, the strength of the study lies in its use of gender criticism to interrogate grand narratives such as modernism and colonialism and to produce new connections between the micro and the macro." -- Timo Schrader * Gender & History *"This book can be used as a reference or complementary text for a college and graduate level course. It is a valuable source for any course on American, Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American studies, and any other related fields." -- Milagros Denis-Rosario * Canadian Journal of History *"What [Findlay] has unearthed is rich, painful to read, but highly recommended to anyone wishing to understand the present moment of colonial crisis." -- Maura I. Toro-Morn * Agricultural History *"Adding a gender dimension is an important contribution to the scholarship of Puerto Rico, which has largely understood populism and migration within the frames of colonialism, development, and transnationalism. . . . Scholars of labor and state formation will find this book an excellent analysis of the significance of patriarchy in the politics of migration and populism." -- Ismael García Colón * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bregando the Sugar Beet Fields 1 1. Family and Fatherhood in "a New Era for All": Populist Politics and Reformed Colonialism 25 2. Building Homes, Domesticity Dreams, and the Drive to Modernity 59 3. Removing "Excess Population": Redirecting the Great Migration 90 4. Arriving in Michigan: The Collapse of the Dream 118 5. The Brega Expands 148 Conclusion. Persistent Bregas 173 Notes 191 Bibliography 257 Index 295
£25.19
Duke University Press Real Men Dont Sing
Book SynopsisAllison McCracken charts the rise and fall of crooners between 1925 and 1934, showing how the backlash against crooners' perceived sexual and gender deviance created stylistically masculine norms for white male pop singers that continue to exist today.Trade Review"[A] rich, intriguing account of how microphone-assisted heartthrobs won over American ears in the early 20th century." -- Ann Powers * NPR Book Concierge *"A painstakingly researched book, sure in its thesis and apt in its presentation, this versatile study is of immediate appeal to those interested in music but will also be a valuable resource for those in gender studies, African American studies, American studies, and all concentrations of history. Highly recommended. All readers." -- J. Neal * Choice *"... marvelous... The author’s evidently deep research increases the pleasure of reading the book—and creates a nagging desire to stop reading it to seek out clips from the movies and songs she discusses." -- Art Blake * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“As befits an academic author, McCracken is primarily concerned with the social aspects of the phenomenon, especially the sexual implications as the style developed in the late 1920s. … Recommended for readers interested in American social history, popular culture, popular music, and gender studies.” -- Bruce R. Schueneman * Library Journal *"Real Men Don’t Sing: Crooning in American Culture is an excellent book. Those looking for ways to blend modern theory, historical context, and popular culture (in this case music and film) would do well to use McCracken’s work as a model. She tackles many complex issues, from queer theory to technology and its impact, in a way that’s readable and succinct." -- Kenneth J. Bindas * American Historical Review *"[A] stunning account of crooning and the development of American pop." -- Charles L. Hughes * American Quarterly *"Real Men Don’t Sing is a forcefully argued and thoroughly engaging book that would be an ideal text in courses on popular culture or gender and the body." -- Maxine Leeds Craig * Men and Masculinities *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Putting Over a Song: Crooning, Performance, and Audience in the Acoustic Era, 1880–1920 37 2. Crooning Goes Electric: Microphone Crooning and the Invention of the Intimate Singing Aesthetic, 1921–1928 74 3. Falling in Love with a Voice: Rudy Vallée and His First Radio Fans, 1928 126 4. "The Mouth of the Machine": The Creation of the Crooning Idol, 1929 160 5. "A Supine Sinking into the Primeval Ooze": Crooning and Its Discontents, 1929–1933 208 6. "The Kind of Natural That Worked": The Crooner Redefined, 1932–1934 (and Beyond) 264 Conclusion 311 Notes 333 Bibliography 375 Index 411
£112.20
Duke University Press Real Men Dont Sing
Book SynopsisAllison McCracken charts the rise and fall of crooners between 1925 and 1934, showing how the backlash against crooners' perceived sexual and gender deviance created stylistically masculine norms for white male pop singers that continue to exist today.Trade Review"[A] rich, intriguing account of how microphone-assisted heartthrobs won over American ears in the early 20th century." -- Ann Powers * NPR Book Concierge *"A painstakingly researched book, sure in its thesis and apt in its presentation, this versatile study is of immediate appeal to those interested in music but will also be a valuable resource for those in gender studies, African American studies, American studies, and all concentrations of history. Highly recommended. All readers." -- J. Neal * Choice *"... marvelous... The author’s evidently deep research increases the pleasure of reading the book—and creates a nagging desire to stop reading it to seek out clips from the movies and songs she discusses." -- Art Blake * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“As befits an academic author, McCracken is primarily concerned with the social aspects of the phenomenon, especially the sexual implications as the style developed in the late 1920s. … Recommended for readers interested in American social history, popular culture, popular music, and gender studies.” -- Bruce R. Schueneman * Library Journal *"Real Men Don’t Sing: Crooning in American Culture is an excellent book. Those looking for ways to blend modern theory, historical context, and popular culture (in this case music and film) would do well to use McCracken’s work as a model. She tackles many complex issues, from queer theory to technology and its impact, in a way that’s readable and succinct." -- Kenneth J. Bindas * American Historical Review *"[A] stunning account of crooning and the development of American pop." -- Charles L. Hughes * American Quarterly *"Real Men Don’t Sing is a forcefully argued and thoroughly engaging book that would be an ideal text in courses on popular culture or gender and the body." -- Maxine Leeds Craig * Men and Masculinities *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Putting Over a Song: Crooning, Performance, and Audience in the Acoustic Era, 1880–1920 37 2. Crooning Goes Electric: Microphone Crooning and the Invention of the Intimate Singing Aesthetic, 1921–1928 74 3. Falling in Love with a Voice: Rudy Vallée and His First Radio Fans, 1928 126 4. "The Mouth of the Machine": The Creation of the Crooning Idol, 1929 160 5. "A Supine Sinking into the Primeval Ooze": Crooning and Its Discontents, 1929–1933 208 6. "The Kind of Natural That Worked": The Crooner Redefined, 1932–1934 (and Beyond) 264 Conclusion 311 Notes 333 Bibliography 375 Index 411
£27.90
Duke University Press Animate Planet
Book SynopsisKath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them.Trade Review"The complexity of these readings promotes compassion but also a richer understanding of how humanity inhabits our world. We cannot predict the new directions in which our affects may take us. Through such precarity, and the intimacies, animacies, and enchantments accompanying it, Weston reframes the debates on which the health of our animate planet depends." -- Patricia Wald * Critical Inquiry *"This sophisticated political ecology reveals how the reciprocal impacts between humans and the environment through industrial technology have become intimate and animate in unprecedented ways. The insightful analysis of cases from India, Japan, and the US are thought-provoking perspectives on the environmental resource categories of climate, energy, food, and water. Recommended." -- L.E. Sponsel * Choice *"The question that pervades the book – how can humanity deal with the paradox of being the cause of its own destruction and yet not know how to stop doing so? – is fundamentally important to the way we live in the world today, and one we struggle to look at. For this reason alone, Animate Planet is important, and to some degree a must-read." -- Stephanie Bunn * Times Higher Education *"The merit of Weston’s argumentative thrust lies in consistently highlighting the affective attachments people develop towards the things that harm them.... Positioning questions of affect and desire in this way at the heart of life in a technologically damaged world, Weston opens up a field of inquiry that is as conceptually exciting as it is politically urgent." -- Marlene Schäfers * Cambridge Journal of Anthropology *“[Animate Planet] nudge[s] the field of political ecology toward a greater exploration of the embodied and affective ties that bind humans and other living entities with the technologies of late capitalism.” -- Teresa Lloro-Bidart * American Ethnologist *“Contributing to fields such as science and technology studies, philosophy, political economy, anthropology, environmental studies, and ecology, Animate Planet is a fascinating read and well suited for a graduate seminar in any of these fields. . . .” -- Garrett Bunyak * Quarterly Review of Biology *"Animate Planet succeeds in making an argument for bridging categories to think about the consequences of modernity and the intimacies it produces. Animate Planet could be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars." -- Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But viii Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World 1 Food 1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain 37 Energy 2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan 71 Climate Change 3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin 105 Water 4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth 135 Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck? 5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious 177 Notes 199 References 217 Index 243
£98.60
Duke University Press Animate Planet
Book SynopsisKath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them.Trade Review"The complexity of these readings promotes compassion but also a richer understanding of how humanity inhabits our world. We cannot predict the new directions in which our affects may take us. Through such precarity, and the intimacies, animacies, and enchantments accompanying it, Weston reframes the debates on which the health of our animate planet depends." -- Patricia Wald * Critical Inquiry *"This sophisticated political ecology reveals how the reciprocal impacts between humans and the environment through industrial technology have become intimate and animate in unprecedented ways. The insightful analysis of cases from India, Japan, and the US are thought-provoking perspectives on the environmental resource categories of climate, energy, food, and water. Recommended." -- L.E. Sponsel * Choice *"The question that pervades the book – how can humanity deal with the paradox of being the cause of its own destruction and yet not know how to stop doing so? – is fundamentally important to the way we live in the world today, and one we struggle to look at. For this reason alone, Animate Planet is important, and to some degree a must-read." -- Stephanie Bunn * Times Higher Education *"The merit of Weston’s argumentative thrust lies in consistently highlighting the affective attachments people develop towards the things that harm them.... Positioning questions of affect and desire in this way at the heart of life in a technologically damaged world, Weston opens up a field of inquiry that is as conceptually exciting as it is politically urgent." -- Marlene Schäfers * Cambridge Journal of Anthropology *“[Animate Planet] nudge[s] the field of political ecology toward a greater exploration of the embodied and affective ties that bind humans and other living entities with the technologies of late capitalism.” -- Teresa Lloro-Bidart * American Ethnologist *“Contributing to fields such as science and technology studies, philosophy, political economy, anthropology, environmental studies, and ecology, Animate Planet is a fascinating read and well suited for a graduate seminar in any of these fields. . . .” -- Garrett Bunyak * Quarterly Review of Biology *"Animate Planet succeeds in making an argument for bridging categories to think about the consequences of modernity and the intimacies it produces. Animate Planet could be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars." -- Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But viii Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World 1 Food 1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain 37 Energy 2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan 71 Climate Change 3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin 105 Water 4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth 135 Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck? 5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious 177 Notes 199 References 217 Index 243
£25.19
Duke University Press Queer Cinema in the World
Book SynopsisOffering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential to disturb dominant modes of world making and to forge spaces of queer belonging.Trade Review"Absolutely productive and provocative. . . . An important intervention that has stakes for the field of media studies [and] for social justice." -- Regina Longo * Film Quarterly *"Queer Cinema in the World is both brilliant and maddening. It is a daring attempt by Schoonover and Galt to explode the relationship between queer theory and film studies that is bound by Western intellectual conventions. Highly recommended." -- G. R. Butters Jr. * Choice *"A wildly ambitious configuring of contemporary queer cinema that has no less than a holistic revision of cinematic representation on its mind. . . . Queer Cinema in the World belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who consistently grapples with understanding human difference as a positive quality of social and political life." -- Clayton Dillard * Slant Magazine *"[A] willingness to attend to the surprising ways and spaces where queer cinema can appear is part of what makes the book so dizzyingly comprehensive and enjoyable. . . . This commitment to searching out queer world cinema’s as yet unthought possibilities of pleasure and intimacy shines through." -- Brandon Kemp * Hong Kong Review of Books *"Queer Cinema in the World is a work of remarkable capaciousness and intellectual adventure, written in welcome defiance of the scholarly demand for tight focus and narrow specialization. Maximalist rather than minimalist, it offers a wide view that, among its other pleasures, will provide many readers with introductions to neglected films and filmmakers as well as with compelling treatments of works that are now part of the canon of queer cinema." -- Corey K. Creekmur * Cineaste *"By providing such an array of critical analysis and scholarly resources and by showcasing diverse filmic expressions of queer identity, the authors successfully open countless channels for future research, crucial to creating a larger space for and attention to queer representations in cinema and society at large." -- Joanna Randall * Journal of Film and Video *"Wonderfully ambitious and carefully argued." -- Lindsey Green-Simms * College Literature *"Theoretically daring. . . . it is not difficult to see [Queer Cinema in the World] serving as a cornerstone of future scholarship on queer cinema, and the authors should be commended." -- James Hodgson * Screen *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Queer, World, Cinema 1 1. Figures in the World: The Geopolitics of theTranscutlural Queer 35 2. A Worldly Affair: Queer Film Festivals and Global Space 79 3. Speaking Otherwise: Allegory, Narrative, and Queer Public Space 119 4. The Queer Popular: Genre and Perverse Economies of Scale 167 5. Registers of Belonging: Queer Worldly Affects 211 6. The Emergence of Queer Cinematic Time 259 Notes 305 Bibliography 339 Index 357
£80.75
Duke University Press The Revolution Has Come
Book SynopsisIn The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, examining how its internal politics along with external forces such as COINTELPRO shaped the Party's efforts at fostering self-determination in Oakland's black communities.Trade Review"In The Revolution Has Come, her detailed organizational history of the party, the historian Robyn C. Spencer reminds us that for the party’s leaders, it was critical that their platform be accessible, as [Huey P.] Newton put it, to 'the brothers on the block.'" -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *"Unlike other scholarship that has foregrounded a handful of primarily male leaders, Spencer’s account is a well-rounded organizational history. . . . The author deftly weaves together an impressive source base to present a cohesive and accessible narrative of the evolution of the Black Panther Party. Highly recommended." -- A. Ribeiro * Choice *"This book is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on the history of the struggle of African Americans to liberate themselves. Spencer’s attention to historical details, with respect to the critical stages and features that marked the short lifespan . . . of the BPP, is breathtaking." -- Kwesi Tsri * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"The author’s crisp, clean, incisive prose proved an eye-opening reading experience that at times left me dumbfounded as to how many myths and assumptions have come to dominate latter-day perceptions of the Panthers." -- Michael Ezra * Black Perspectives *"Spencer’s attention to women and gender provides a much-needed intervention in the historiography of the [Black Panther] Party and of Black Power more broadly. ... Ultimately, her book reveals how the Party and its dynamic women members and gender frameworks offer a roadmap for a new generation of historians, activists, and revolution." -- Ashley Farmer * Black Perspectives *"Robyn C. Spencer’s politically timely and eminently engaging history of the Black Panther Party (BPP) is a must read for anyone interested in Black Power and the history of the African American freedom struggle more broadly. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the BPP’s founding, The Revolution Has Come breaks new ground by presenting a wealth of original source material that sheds new light on the organizational development and the ideological outlook of the Panthers in Oakland." -- Nicholas Grant * Radical Americas *“[Spencer’s] crisp, clean, incisive prose proved an eye-opening reading experience that at times left me dumbfounded as to how many myths and assumptions have come to dominate latter-day perceptions of the Panthers. . . . The Revolution Has Come is a very strong book that I would recommend for high school, undergraduate, and graduate school students as well as general readers. Even seasoned experts on the BPP will likely learn much from this wonderful, new account.” -- Michael Ezra * Journal of Civil and Human Rights *"One of the strengths of Spencer’s book, and what allows it to stand out from the explosion of books on the BPP in the past 10 years, is that she documents with clarity the ideological changes within the party that shaped it in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . Perhaps Spencer’s greatest contribution to Black Panther historiography is her thorough examination of the BPP’s political and ideological changes after 1972." -- Robert Greene II * Public Books *"A much-needed organizational history. . . . Provides greater depth to scholarship on the Black Panther Party." -- Marcia Walker-McWilliams * American Historical Review *"Spencer’s book provides an excellent overview of the birth of the movement, its impact, and importantly the role of women, who comprised more than 60% of the party membership." -- Kehinde Andrews * The Guardian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seize the Time: The Roots of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California 7 2. In Defense of Self-Defense 35 3. Moving on Many Fronts: The Black Panther Party's Transformation from Local Organization to Mass Movement 61 4. Inside Political Repression, 1969–1971 88 5. "Revolution Is a Process Rather Than a Conclusion": Rebuilding the Party, 1971–1974 114 6. The Politics of Survival: Electoral Politics and Organizational Transformation 143 7. "I Am We": The Demise of the Black Panther Party, 1977–1982 177 Conclusion 202 Notes 205 Bibliography 241 Index 253
£72.25
Duke University Press Curative Violence Rehabilitating Disability
Book SynopsisTaking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea.Trade Review"In this brilliant and necessary book, Eunjung Kim analyzes the deployment of illness and disability in modern Korea, carefully tracing how cure and rehabilitation are used in the service of the nation. Kim's concepts of "curative violence" and "cure by proxy" describe the violent effects of cure and rehabilitation broadly defined, revealing the integral and mutually constitutive role of gender, disability, and sexuality norms in cure ideology and practices. From start to finish, Curative Violence is an exceptional work of transnational feminist disability studies scholarship, and is essential reading not only for those interested in disability studies, but also for anyone studying transnational feminist theory, postcolonial studies, gender and sexual violence, and women's and gender studies more broadly." * 2017 Alison Piepmeier Award Committee *"Kim interrogates the intersections of disability, illness, gender, sexuality, and cure by analyzing Korean cultural representations of disability from the past century. She makes a compelling case for understanding cure as 'based on complicated social and familial negotiations that occur beyond an individual’s desire or volition.' . . . The cultural representations Kim analyzes are sweeping in their scope, and she narrates them with sensitivity and a theoretical rigour that lays bare societal divisions and power hierarchies." -- Celeste L. Arrington * Pacific Affairs *"[Kim's] approach proves powerful and convincing, drawing upon additional source materials through film and documentary in the post-colonial era. . . . She calls not just for a re-envisioning of the medical community, but an entirely different South Korean society, one distinct from the hyper-capitalist form emerging out of the Korean War." -- John P. DiMoia * Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences *"A brilliant piece of intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship that situates the harms that accompany cure-based ideologies and practices within historical and contemporary Korean political contexts. . . . Curative Violence, both its structure and content, is written in an approachable manner, which makes it a must-read for undergraduate students and established scholars alike." -- Viki Peer * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Beautifully written and critically engaging, Curative Violence is well organized and supported, drawing from approaches in gender, sexuality, disability, and postcolonial studies in its analysis of visual media, legal codes, and print texts. . . . It is also deeply unsettling, as it is intended, so that we remain neither complacent nor complicit." -- Sonja M. Kim * Korean Studies *"A brilliant piece of intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship that situates the harms that accompany cure-based ideologies and practices within historical and contemporary Korean political contexts. . . . Groundbreaking." -- Viki Peer * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Kim’s contribution is unique in English-language Korean studies not just because she attends to issues of disability and ableism, but also because she deftly interweaves feminist and queer concerns into her inquiry into the political and cultural effects of disability in Korea." -- Laura C. Nelson * Cross-Currents *“Eunjung Kim’s work shines in the brilliance of its analysis. Highly recommended for scholars working at the intersections of disability studies, modern Korean cultural history, and gender studies.” -- Wei Yu Wayne Tan * Acta Koreana *“Curative Violence is an exceptional accomplishment in Korean studies, disability studies, and the history of East Asian medicine. It also stands out as a product of sincere dedication by those who have struggled to achieve sustainable and nonviolent living conditions for everyone in Korean society.” -- Soyoung Suh * Journal of Asian Studies *"Kim’s groundbreaking study of disability and rehabilitation in Korean society expands our horizon of disability in Korean culture and will stimulate future debate and exploration." -- Shu Wan * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"A remarkable book that combines critical thinking with transnational and postcolonial feminist views and in-depth archival and narrative analysis. . . . Brilliantly rearticulates what might have been plainly regarded or already established by deploying imaginative thinking tools and visual images. . . . A crucial addition to Korean studies." -- Jesook Song * Journal of Korean Studies *"Through her wide-ranging analysis that includes novels, folktales, films, media accounts, historical narratives, social policies, and disability activism, Kim has argued for ways to rethink 'cure.' . . . Phenomenal in provoking us to reflect." -- Nirmala Erevelles * Feminist Formations *"In the breadth of legal, literary, filmic, social, and cultural events it analyzes, Curative Violence demonstrates a remarkable commitment to offering grounds for shared political action and knowledge production. The book honors the US- and South Korea–based activist and academic productions that came before it and will be an inspiring guide for more scholarship to come on the interstices of disability studies, medical humanities, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonialism and imperialism studies, East Asian and American studies, and literary and cultural studies." -- Jeong Eun Annabel We * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Folded Time and the Presence of Disability 1 1. Unmothering Disability 42 2. Cure by Proxy 81 3. Violence as a Way of Loving 122 4. Uninhabiting Family 166 5. Curing Virginity 197 Conclusion. How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability 323 Notes 235 Bibliography 269 Index 285
£80.10
Duke University Press Curative Violence Rehabilitating Disability
Book SynopsisTaking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea.Trade Review"In this brilliant and necessary book, Eunjung Kim analyzes the deployment of illness and disability in modern Korea, carefully tracing how cure and rehabilitation are used in the service of the nation. Kim's concepts of "curative violence" and "cure by proxy" describe the violent effects of cure and rehabilitation broadly defined, revealing the integral and mutually constitutive role of gender, disability, and sexuality norms in cure ideology and practices. From start to finish, Curative Violence is an exceptional work of transnational feminist disability studies scholarship, and is essential reading not only for those interested in disability studies, but also for anyone studying transnational feminist theory, postcolonial studies, gender and sexual violence, and women's and gender studies more broadly." * 2017 Alison Piepmeier Award Committee *"Kim interrogates the intersections of disability, illness, gender, sexuality, and cure by analyzing Korean cultural representations of disability from the past century. She makes a compelling case for understanding cure as 'based on complicated social and familial negotiations that occur beyond an individual’s desire or volition.' . . . The cultural representations Kim analyzes are sweeping in their scope, and she narrates them with sensitivity and a theoretical rigour that lays bare societal divisions and power hierarchies." -- Celeste L. Arrington * Pacific Affairs *"[Kim's] approach proves powerful and convincing, drawing upon additional source materials through film and documentary in the post-colonial era. . . . She calls not just for a re-envisioning of the medical community, but an entirely different South Korean society, one distinct from the hyper-capitalist form emerging out of the Korean War." -- John P. DiMoia * Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences *"A brilliant piece of intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship that situates the harms that accompany cure-based ideologies and practices within historical and contemporary Korean political contexts. . . . Curative Violence, both its structure and content, is written in an approachable manner, which makes it a must-read for undergraduate students and established scholars alike." -- Viki Peer * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Beautifully written and critically engaging, Curative Violence is well organized and supported, drawing from approaches in gender, sexuality, disability, and postcolonial studies in its analysis of visual media, legal codes, and print texts. . . . It is also deeply unsettling, as it is intended, so that we remain neither complacent nor complicit." -- Sonja M. Kim * Korean Studies *"A brilliant piece of intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship that situates the harms that accompany cure-based ideologies and practices within historical and contemporary Korean political contexts. . . . Groundbreaking." -- Viki Peer * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Kim’s contribution is unique in English-language Korean studies not just because she attends to issues of disability and ableism, but also because she deftly interweaves feminist and queer concerns into her inquiry into the political and cultural effects of disability in Korea." -- Laura C. Nelson * Cross-Currents *“Eunjung Kim’s work shines in the brilliance of its analysis. Highly recommended for scholars working at the intersections of disability studies, modern Korean cultural history, and gender studies.” -- Wei Yu Wayne Tan * Acta Koreana *“Curative Violence is an exceptional accomplishment in Korean studies, disability studies, and the history of East Asian medicine. It also stands out as a product of sincere dedication by those who have struggled to achieve sustainable and nonviolent living conditions for everyone in Korean society.” -- Soyoung Suh * Journal of Asian Studies *"Kim’s groundbreaking study of disability and rehabilitation in Korean society expands our horizon of disability in Korean culture and will stimulate future debate and exploration." -- Shu Wan * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"A remarkable book that combines critical thinking with transnational and postcolonial feminist views and in-depth archival and narrative analysis. . . . Brilliantly rearticulates what might have been plainly regarded or already established by deploying imaginative thinking tools and visual images. . . . A crucial addition to Korean studies." -- Jesook Song * Journal of Korean Studies *"Through her wide-ranging analysis that includes novels, folktales, films, media accounts, historical narratives, social policies, and disability activism, Kim has argued for ways to rethink 'cure.' . . . Phenomenal in provoking us to reflect." -- Nirmala Erevelles * Feminist Formations *"In the breadth of legal, literary, filmic, social, and cultural events it analyzes, Curative Violence demonstrates a remarkable commitment to offering grounds for shared political action and knowledge production. The book honors the US- and South Korea–based activist and academic productions that came before it and will be an inspiring guide for more scholarship to come on the interstices of disability studies, medical humanities, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonialism and imperialism studies, East Asian and American studies, and literary and cultural studies." -- Jeong Eun Annabel We * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Folded Time and the Presence of Disability 1 1. Unmothering Disability 42 2. Cure by Proxy 81 3. Violence as a Way of Loving 122 4. Uninhabiting Family 166 5. Curing Virginity 197 Conclusion. How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability 323 Notes 235 Bibliography 269 Index 285
£25.19
Duke University Press Everyday Conversions
Book SynopsisAttiya Ahmad examines the practice of conversion to Islam by South Asian migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region and how these women's conversions stem from an ongoing process rooted in their everyday experiences as migrant workers rather than a clean break from their preexisting lives.Trade Review"[T]his study offers new insights into the inner-workings of migration and breaks from static readings of religious conversions. . . . Bridging the gap between religion and migration is an important direction in scholarship on transnationalism, and Ahmad’s work markedly joins other projects on this urgent venture." -- Sasha Sabherwal * Anthropological Quarterly *"Everyday Conversions is a poignant and patient engagement with the gendered spaces and relations that are easy to overlook but are vital to state formation, social reproduction and religious life in multiple countries." -- Leya Mathew * Contemporary South Asia *“An enormous contribution. Everyday Conversions will be of interest to a variety of people—those interested in Islam, migrant experiences, the Indian Ocean world, and gender studies, especially.” -- Keely Sutton * Reading Religion *“Everyday Conversions is not only a valuable addition to the growing literature on Gulf identities, but also to the wider literature on religion, belonging and identity.” -- Idil Akinci * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Beautifully written . . . Attiya Ahmad’s groundbreaking research sheds light on the complex process of conversion and the ways that South Asian migrant women domestic workers in Kuwait rework their lives and reshape their sense of self and belonging." -- Claire Beaugrand * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"This beautifully written book . . . skillfully weaves together women’s stories, which are contextualized within the history of the Indian Ocean trade, the feminization of Kuwait’s labour market, and the Islamic revival movement. A significant addition to scholarship on foreign workers in the Gulf, Attiya Ahmad’s volume adds ethnographic material that is missing from other studies: details of private religious lives." -- Mara A. Leichtman * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Everyday Conversions was very enjoyable to read; it was very thoughtful and thought-provoking in making sure that these women spoke their own truth. . . . The book expresses the intricacies of navigating one’s conditions between doing what one must do with meeting one’s basic human needs." -- Mirna Lattouf * Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Everyday Conversions 1 1. Temporariness 37 2. Suspension 67 3. Naram 101 4. Housetalk 124 5. Fitra 157 Epilogue. Ongoing Conversions 191 Appendix 1. Notes on Fieldwork 201 Appendix 2. Interlocutors' Names and Connections to One Another 207 Glossary 211 Notes 219 References 245 Index 265
£98.60
Duke University Press Everyday Conversions
Book SynopsisAttiya Ahmad examines the practice of conversion to Islam by South Asian migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region and how these women's conversions stem from an ongoing process rooted in their everyday experiences as migrant workers rather than a clean break from their preexisting lives.Trade Review"[T]his study offers new insights into the inner-workings of migration and breaks from static readings of religious conversions. . . . Bridging the gap between religion and migration is an important direction in scholarship on transnationalism, and Ahmad’s work markedly joins other projects on this urgent venture." -- Sasha Sabherwal * Anthropological Quarterly *"Everyday Conversions is a poignant and patient engagement with the gendered spaces and relations that are easy to overlook but are vital to state formation, social reproduction and religious life in multiple countries." -- Leya Mathew * Contemporary South Asia *“An enormous contribution. Everyday Conversions will be of interest to a variety of people—those interested in Islam, migrant experiences, the Indian Ocean world, and gender studies, especially.” -- Keely Sutton * Reading Religion *“Everyday Conversions is not only a valuable addition to the growing literature on Gulf identities, but also to the wider literature on religion, belonging and identity.” -- Idil Akinci * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Beautifully written . . . Attiya Ahmad’s groundbreaking research sheds light on the complex process of conversion and the ways that South Asian migrant women domestic workers in Kuwait rework their lives and reshape their sense of self and belonging." -- Claire Beaugrand * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"This beautifully written book . . . skillfully weaves together women’s stories, which are contextualized within the history of the Indian Ocean trade, the feminization of Kuwait’s labour market, and the Islamic revival movement. A significant addition to scholarship on foreign workers in the Gulf, Attiya Ahmad’s volume adds ethnographic material that is missing from other studies: details of private religious lives." -- Mara A. Leichtman * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Everyday Conversions was very enjoyable to read; it was very thoughtful and thought-provoking in making sure that these women spoke their own truth. . . . The book expresses the intricacies of navigating one’s conditions between doing what one must do with meeting one’s basic human needs." -- Mirna Lattouf * Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Everyday Conversions 1 1. Temporariness 37 2. Suspension 67 3. Naram 101 4. Housetalk 124 5. Fitra 157 Epilogue. Ongoing Conversions 191 Appendix 1. Notes on Fieldwork 201 Appendix 2. Interlocutors' Names and Connections to One Another 207 Glossary 211 Notes 219 References 245 Index 265
£25.19
Duke University Press The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Book SynopsisThe Revolution Will Not Be Funded gathers essays by radical activists, educators, and non-profit staff from around the globe who critically rethink the long-term consequences of what they call the "non-profit industrial complex," which works against the efforts of social justice organizations.Trade Review"A stinging indictment of what the authors call the 'non-profit industrial complex.'" -- Elisabeth Prügl * Signs *"Fiery" * Utne Reader *"A crucial intervention into mainstream ways of thinking about political organization and social change." -- Ryne Clos * Spectrum Culture *"Powerfully demonstrate[s] what we too often forget: our attempts at securing safety for ourselves and our communities are subject to much more powerful attempts by the state and society to make itself safe—including to make itself safe from us and our most radical, challenging, revolutionary, feminist ideas." -- Ruthann Robson * Women's Studies Quarterly *"Although The Revolution Will Not Be Funded presents no easy answers for those of us struggling both to make a living and to create social change, it exhorts us to put the consideration of our movements' missions, and the way we fulfill them, before considerations of organizational and job security—and to regularly revisit within our organizations the question of whether the form and the content of our work are essentially compatible." -- Christy Thornton * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsPreface / Andrea Smith ix Foreword / Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse xiii Introduction: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded 1 Part I: The Rise of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Dylan Rodríguez 21 In the Shadow of the State / Ruth Wilson Gilmore 41 From Black Awakening in Capitalist America / Robert L. Allen 53 Democratizing American Philanthropy / Christine E. Ahn 63 Part II: Non-Profits and Global Organizing The Filth on Philanthropy: Progressive Philanthropy's Agenda to Misdirect Social Justice Movements / Tiffany Lethabo King and Ewuare Osayande 79 Between Radical Theory and Community Praxis: Reflections on Organizing and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Amara H. Pérez, Sisters in Action for Power 91 Native Organizing Before the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Madonna Thunder Hawk 101 Fundraising is Not a Dirty Word: Community-based Economic Strategies for the Long Haul / Stephanie Guilloud and William Cordery, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide "we were never meant to survive": Fighting Violence Against Women and the Fourth World War / Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo 113 Social Service or Social Change? / Paul Kivel 129 Pursuing a Radical Anti-Violence Agenda Inside/Outside a Non-Profit Structure / Alisa Bierria, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) 151 The NGOization of the Palestine Liberation Movement: Interviews with Hatem Bazian, Noura Erekat, Atef Said, and Zeina Zaatari / Andrea Smith 165 Part III: Rethinking Non-Profits, Reimagining Resistance Radical Social Change: Searching for a New Foundation / Adjoa Florência Joes de Almeida 185 Are the Cops in Our Heads and Hearts? / Paula X. Rojas 197 Non-Profits and the Autonomous Grassroots / Eric Tang 215 On Our Own Terms: Ten Years of Radical Community Building with Sista II Sista / Nicole Burrowes, Morgan Cousins, Paula X. Rojas, and Ije Ude 227 About the Contributors 235 Index 242
£72.25
Duke University Press The Child Now
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Duke University Press TransFeminisms
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Duke University Press The Extractive Zone
Book SynopsisIn The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural resource extraction—resist and refuse the terms of racial capital and the continued legacies of colonialism. Extending decolonial theory with race, sexuality, and critical Indigenous studies, Gómez-Barris develops new vocabularies for alternative forms of social and political life. She shows how from Colombia to southern Chile artists like filmmaker Huichaqueo Perez and visual artist Carolina Caycedo formulate decolonial aesthetics. She also examines the decolonizing politics of a Bolivian anarcho-feminist collective and a coalition in eastern EcuadTrade Review"The Extractive Zone offers a glimpse into what kind of world may be possible through the everyday practices and knowledges of submerged perspectives." -- Megan Spencer * The New Inquiry *"A timely study. . . . The result of substantive situated fieldwork. . . . There may be no greater testament to the value and urgency of decolonial approaches to embodied vernacular knowledge today." -- Kimberly Richards * TDR: The Drama Review *"Gómez-Barris’s compelling text grapples with the destruction and death dealt by extractive industries. . . . This is all provocative and engaging material, particularly when set against political economic critiques of extractivism." -- Joe Bryan * The Americas *"Gómez-Barris’s writing provides an anecdote to technocratic visions of 'green capitalism' by foregrounding questions of justice, identity, and the contingency of politics. Scholars interested in the debates animating anti-extractive social movements in Latin America and beyond should begin here." -- Matthew Shutzer * Enterprise & Society *"The Extractive Zone contributes an important feminist and indigenous hemispheric genealogy and cultural studies lens on current political economic debates circulating in Latin America and beyond regarding alternatives to growth-oriented, capitalist and extractive-based models of development. The book also complicates heroic and romantic readings of the conceptual and legal mechanisms surrounding the state-based rhetoric of buen vivir in Latin American constitutionalism that too often appear uncritically examined in scholarship produced in the global North." -- Kristina Lyons * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface. Below the Surface xiii Introduction. Submerged Perspectives 1 1. The Intangibility of the Yasuní 17 2. Andean Phenomenology and New Age Settler Colonialism 39 3. An Archive for the Future: Seeing through Occupation 66 4. A Fish-Eye Episteme: Seeing Below the River's Colonization 91 5. Decolonial Gestures: Anarcho-Feminist Indigenous Critique 110 Conclusion. The View from Below 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 165 Index 179
£70.55
Duke University Press Unthinking Mastery
Book SynopsisJulietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.Trade Review"A deft intervention in several different fields, Unthinking Mastery powerfully examines the insidious ways that the legacies of colonialism have infiltrated critical conversations in affect, queer, and ecocritical studies." -- Melinda Backer * ASAP/Journal *"Singh’s work stands out in its truly transdisciplinary approach and simultaneous mobilization of feminist, posthuman, and decolonial thought." -- Justyna Poary-Wybranowska * Contemporary Women's Writing *"While the approach of Unthinking Mastery is clearly interdisciplinary, the author turns foremost to the field of comparative literature to unravel forms of systemic dehumanizing violence that become obvious in forms of embodiment and language/narration. ... Her engagement not only touches on feminist and queer theories but also provides a powerful interconnection between environmental and postcolonial studies." -- Monika Jaeckel * Anthropocenes *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Reading against Mastery 1 1. Decolonizing Mastery 29 2. The Language of Mastery 65 3. Posthumanitarian Fictions 95 4. Humanimal Dispossessions 121 5. Cultivating Discomfort 149 Coda. Surviving Mastery 171 Notes 177 References 187 Index 197
£70.55
Fordham University Press Genealogies of Fiction Women Warriors and the
Book SynopsisA study of intertextuality, gender, and dynastic politics in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and in medieval and Renaissance chivalric epic.Trade ReviewThis impressive study of the 'Furioso' as illuminated by its little-known medieval sources is thorough and well argued. It forms an important contribution to scholarship on early modern narrative, and will doubtless interest scholars of gender studies as well. * —Renaissance Quarterly *“A groundbreaking study of Ariosto’s medieval sources that benefits from a vision that brings together gender criticism and source criticism in heretofore unseen ways.” ---—Dennis Looney, University of PittsburghExamines the figure of Bradamante in the chivalric tradition and in Ariosto's Renaissance-era epic. * —The Chronicle Review *“Establishing contrasts and parallels with little-known works of the vernacular narrative romance tradition, Stoppino displays impressive erudition and performs a service for the critical discussion on Ariosto’s poem and on early modern narrative.” ---—Ronald Martinez, Brown University
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Fordham University Press Hollow Men Writing Objects and Public Image in
Book SynopsisAnalyzes texts and art objects from the 15th to the late 16th centuries to show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about representation, as these theories forced men to construct a public image that seemed fixed but could adapt to changing circumstances.Trade Review"This smart and engaging book argues that from the mid-fifteenth century onward, Italian courtiers, authors, and artists understood exemplarily as the negotiation between the hidden inside of a person and the words, actions, or images that reveal that person to the world." -- Maarten Delbeke -Renaissance Quarterly " In Gaylard's persuasive reading, the faltering transmission of ancient virtues find increasing compensation in the pre formative posture, that monumental pose in which timeless values and pellucid examples rematerialize as self-conscious representation." -- Eileen Reeves -Modern Language Quarterly "Susan Gaylard has produced a powerfully suggestive study of the relation between writing and the desire for a kind of secular personal permanence that was the closest thing to immortality in the estimation of Italians during the century and a half before 1600." -- -Walter Stephens The John Hopkins University "Gaylard undertakes a richly detailed, fascinating inquiry into the ways in which early modern theories of imitation (rhetorical and corporeal) intersect with practices of representation used by contemporaries to convey verbal and visual images of exemplary individuals, especially notable figures from the classical past, to quattrocento and cinquecento audiences." -Choice
£66.60
Fordham University Press The Queer Turn in Feminism
Book SynopsisLooks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, "American" and "French".Trade Review"Berger's work spans two academic idioms and cultures-that of the United States on the one hand, and of France on the other-to examine the conceptual, performative, indeed theatrical work produced by the examination of gender. From a consideration of how gender produces all sorts of translational conundra, to how the theoretical apparatus for gender analysis is borrowed from one continent, developed in another, and then shuttles back and forth, she discusses how the forms of resignification that take place constitute the ground of queer critique and its relation to gender, identity, and non-binary, and non-identitarian thinking. Thinking through "gender" and "sexual difference" and understanding the possibilities ascribed to these traveling terms allows Berger also to consider the production and reproduction of difference in relation to the history of feminist and queer link to the advance of capital. Through a brilliant final chapter on prostitution or sex work, she questions the manner in which feminist and queer critiques embody a contradictory relationship to capitalist development even as they espouse a Marxist critique. She does not dwell on contradiction for the sake of it, but rather considers it as a lesson about the frames that break apart potentially under the pressure of current thinking around gender, sexual difference, and queer theory. The book is both intellectually stimulating and thoroughly teachable." -- -Ranjana Khanna Duke University "Even the most practiced readers of queer theory and feminist theory-perhaps especially those readers-will find that The Queer Turn in Feminism takes them into unexpected and exhilarating critical terrain. By staging the numerous critical encounters between "French theory" and "American theory" that continue into the present, by offering readings that are as theoretically nuanced as they are rhetorically engaging, Anne Berger reinvigorates old debates in order to open up crucial questions still to be addressed." -- -Elizabeth Weed Brown University "The scholarship of the book is a treat, as is the care with which Berger attends to distinctions or crafts a sentence." -- -E.S. Burt University of California, Irvine "Brilliantly exploring the paradoxes of an American feminism inspired and invigorated by French theory and a French etudes du genre stimulated by American queer theory, Anne Berger offers a fascinating romp through the vicissitudes of feminist and post-feminist ideas, performance studies, and identity politics on both sides of the Atlantic, shrewdly articulating the differences as she explores the translatability of progressive ideas." -- -Jonathan Culler Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Parabasis (Before the Act) 2. Queens and Queers: The Theater of Gender in "America" 3. Paradoxes of Visibility in / and Contemporary Identity Politics 4. The Ends of an Idiom, or Sexual Difference in Translation 5. Roxana's Legacy: Feminism and Capitalism in the West Notes Works Cited Index
£85.50
Fordham University Press More than a Monologue Sexual Diversity and the
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together the reflections of Catholic and former Catholic LGBTQ persons, their friends, family members, and others, concerning experiences of sexual diversity and the church. It provides an opportunity for a wide audience, inside and outside the Catholic community, to experience the richness of contemporary Catholic faith and practice.Trade Review"The texts in both volumes are of high quality in their sophisticated reflection and rigorous scholarship. Gathering together experience-based essays, papers that summarize and critique the arguments put forth in official Catholic teaching, and articles that present original ideas on issues relating to sexual diversity, the two volumes are a valuable resource for teaching sexuality, LGBTQ issues, theology, and Catholicism in the USA in the academic context, as well as being accessible to an interested lay audience." -- -Stefanie Knauss American Catholic Studies "The More Than in the title of these volumes indicates a commitment to move beyond the Monologue of ecclesiastical teaching on sexual diversity, and those who defend that teaching, and engage the voices and lived experiences of people." -Theological Studies "More than a Monologue is a powerful, long overdue, scandalous account of the fact that many GLBTQ persons are persons of faith, even intense Christian faith, who have been and continue to be rejected by officials of the Catholic church, causing great suffering to themselves and all those who love and respect them. We may hope that ending the silence on this issue will help priests, bishops and cardinals find the courage to end this persecution and acknowledge what many know from personal experience: that sexual identity and orientation were not among the instructions that Jesus the Christ left his followers, and do not predict personal righteousness." -- -Christine E. Gudorf Florida International University This book succeeds in making ecclesial space for LGBT Catholics...All of the contributors to this volume do more than simply speak back to church officials; they also, and perhaps more importantly, speak to and with other Catholics" -- -Katie Grimes Theology and Sexuality "A refreshing dialogue occurring within Catholicism regarding the lives of LBGTQ persons. Firer Hinze and Hornbeck, both professors at Fordham University, have collected a wide spectrum of essays regarding how LGBTQ individuals live out their sexual lives with dignity and authenticity. Included here are the testimonies of theologians, parents, pastors, and a physician, alongside Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and Dan Savage, the nationally syndicated sex columnist who shares an emotionally gripping story about growing up gay and Catholic. The personal nature of several of these essays makes the collection especially riveting." -Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Christine Firer Hinze and J. Patrick Hornbeck II Part One: Practicing Love: Listening to Singles, Families, Couples, Parents, Children 1 This Catholic Mom: Our Family Outreach Deb Word 2 O Tell Me the Truth About Love Eve Tushnet 3 Our Thirty-Three-Year-Long Dream to Marry Janet F. Peck and Carol A. Conklin 4 Mother, Father, Brother, Sister, Husband, and Wife Hilary Howes Part Two: Practicing Church: Listening to Voices in Pastoral Ministry 5 A Call to Listen: The Church's Pastoral and Theological Response to Gays and Lesbians Thomas Gumbleton 6 From Closet to Lampstand: A Pastoral Call for Visibility M. Sheila Nelson 7 Gay Ministry at the Crossroads: The Plight of Gay Clergy in the Catholic Church Donald J. Cozzens 8 The Experience of a Pastoral Advocate and Implications for the Church Bryan N. Massingale 9 Lord, I Am (Not) Worthy to Receive You Winnie S. Varghese Part Three: Practicing Education: Listening to Voices of Students and Teachers 10 A Delicate Dance: Utilizing and Challenging the Sexual Doctrine of the Catholic Church in Support of LGBTIQ Persons Teresa Delgado 11 Do Not Quench the Spirit: Rainbow Ministry and Queer Ritual Practice in Catholic Education and Life John P. Falcone 12 Calling Out in the Wilderness: Queer Youth and American Catholicism Jeanine E. Viau Part Four: Practicing Belonging: Voices Within, Beyond, and Contesting Ecclesial Borders 13 The Stories We Tell Kate Henley Averett 14 Tainted Love: The LGBT Experience of Church Jamie L. Manson 15 A Voice from the Pews: Same-Sex Marriage and Connecticut's Kerrigan Decision Michael A. Norko 16 At a Loss Dan Savage 17 "Church, Heal Thyself": Reflections of a Catholic Physician Mark Andrew Clark Afterword: Reflections from Ecclesiology and Practical Theology Tom Beaudoin and Bradford E. Hinze Notes List of Contributors
£20.69
Fordham University Press More than a Monologue Sexual Diversity and the
Book SynopsisThis volume aims to promote informed, compassionate dialogue about issues of sexual diversity within the Catholic community of faith, as well as in the broader civic worlds that the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic people inhabit; it contains a series of essays from perspectives of ministry, ethics, theology and law.Trade Review"The More Than in the title of these volumes indicates a commitment to move beyond the Monologue of ecclesiastical teaching on sexual diversity, and those who defend that teaching, and engage the voices and lived experiences of people." -Theological Studies "Wonderful companions to the personal reflections of Volume 1, this book's diverse, insightful essays stand on their own as truly catholic methodological contributions to a queer Catholic ethic. Volume II: Inquiry, Thought, and Expression is required reading for all scholars of Catholic sexual ethics and for anyone who wishes to engage Catholic moral theology seriously with the philosophical ethics of the last half-century." -- -Cristina L.H. Traina Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael A. Norko 1 Learning to Speak Kelby Harrison 2 Talking About Homosexuality by the (Church) Rules Mark D. Jordan Response to Mark D. Jordan Elizabeth A. Dreyer 3 Lesbian Nuns: A Gift to the Church Jeannine Gramick The Prophetic Life of Lesbian Nuns: A Response to Jeannine Gramick Jamie L. Manson 4 Seminary, Priesthood, and the Vatican's Homosexual Dilemma Gerard Jacobitz 5 Same-Sex Marriage, the Right to Religious and Moral Freedom, and the Catholic Church Michael John Perry 6 God Sets the Lonely in Families Patricia Beattie Jung Response to Patricia Beattie Jung Joan M. Martin 7 Same-Sex Marriage and Catholicism: Dialogue, Learning, and Change Lisa Sowle Cahill 8 Embracing the Stranger: Reflections on the Ambivalent Hospitality of LGBTIQ Catholics Michael Sepidoza Campos 9 Domine, Non Sum Dignus: Theological Bullying and the Roman Catholic Church Patrick S. Cheng 10 Wild(e) Theology: On Choosing Love Frederick S. Roden Afterword Paul Lakeland Notes List of Contributors Index
£22.79
Fordham University Press Flirtations Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of
Book SynopsisFlirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction, opens by asking a fundamental first question: What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? The essays thereby address the under-theorized terrain of flirtation not as a subgenre of seduction but rather as a phenomenon in its own right.Trade Review"Moving in a conceptual field characterized by levity, hint, diversion, intentional ambiguity, formal undecidability, and non-directed pleasure, flirtation serves as an alternative to strategies of seduction. As a model of engagement with people, objects, texts, or thoughts, it re-orients not only discourse on the erotic (in the broadest sense) and erotic practices (also in the broadest sense), but epistemological strategies. This beautifully executed volume brings the idea of flirtation to bear on wide-ranging, often delightfully unexpected materials, some well-known, some from the margins. Its authors are scholars dedicated to rigorous theoretical thought in conjunction with close literary reading, representing, to my mind, one of the most valuable traditions in the US humanities." -- -Silke-Maria Weineck University of Michigan "Flirtations makes an everyday practice and pleasure newly available to critical thought. Usually avoided as frivolous, lacking the disruptive grandeur of seduction or the power of the truly erotic, flirtation gets left aside as a minor social form. This volume, by turns deeply erudite and playful, effectively corrects this neglect. Many readers, no doubt, will share the temptation to show the authors the new etchings in their collections." -- -Martin Harries University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments "Almost Nothing; Almost Everything": An Introduction to the Discourse of Flirtation Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone Meta-Flirtations Interlude. Barely Covered Banter: Flirtation in Double Indemnity Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz The Art of Flirtation: Simmel's Coquetry without End Paul Fleming "The Double-Sense of 'the With'HS": Rethinking Relation after Simmel Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz Rhetoric's Flirtation with Literature, from Gorgias to Aristotle: The Epideictic Genre Rudiger Campe "A Plaything for Myself": Notes on the Self-Reference of Flirtation Arne Hocker Flirtation with the World Interlude: Staging Appeal, Performing Ambivalence Lauren Shizuko Stone Life Is a Flirtation: Thomas Mann's Felix Krull Elisabeth Strowick The "Irreducible Double-Stroke": Flirtation, Felicity, and Sincerity Lauren Shizuko Stone Frill and Flirtation: Femininity in the Public Space Barbara Vinken Learning to Flirt with Don Juan Christophe Kone Flirtation and Transgression Interlude: Three Terrors of Flirtation Barbara Natalie Nagel The Luxury of Self-Destruction: Flirting with Mimesis with Roger Caillois John Hamilton Wartime Love Affairs and Flirtation: Freud and Caillois on Identifying with Loss Sage Anderson Bestiality: Mediation More Ferarum Jacques Lezra Doing It as the Beasts Did: Intertextuality as Flirtation in Gradiva Barbara Natalie Nagel Notes List of Contributors Index
£18.89
Fordham University Press A Scarlet Pansy
Book SynopsisA scholarly reprint edition of the “lost” queer modernist novel A Scarlet Pansy by Robert Scully based on the original 1932 Faro edition.Trade Review"A Scarlet Pansy makes an important queer intervention in the historical record of how to be gay. It is a great pleasure to be brought out into pre-Stonewall gay culture along with the protagonist, and to see this combination of camp and sex." -- -Nicholas de Villiers University of North Florida "A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately-through the lens of our queer world today-very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay Etrange." -- -Michael Bronski Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsRecovering A Scarlet Pansy: An Introduction, by Robert J. Corber A Note on the Text Acknowledgments A Scarlet Pansy, by Robert Scully
£62.90
Fordham University Press A Scarlet Pansy
Book SynopsisA scholarly reprint edition of the “lost” queer modernist novel A Scarlet Pansy by Robert Scully based on the original 1932 Faro edition.Trade Review"A Scarlet Pansy makes an important queer intervention in the historical record of how to be gay. It is a great pleasure to be brought out into pre-Stonewall gay culture along with the protagonist, and to see this combination of camp and sex." -- -Nicholas de Villiers University of North Florida "A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately-through the lens of our queer world today-very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay Etrange." -- -Michael Bronski Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsRecovering A Scarlet Pansy: An Introduction, by Robert J. Corber A Note on the Text Acknowledgments A Scarlet Pansy, by Robert Scully
£16.14
Fordham University Press Futile Pleasures Early Modern Literature and the
Book SynopsisExamines the ambivalent role that pleasure plays in early modern English writers’ attempts to defend the utility of literature. Traces how that ambivalence gets replayed in modern critical frameworks as well as debates about the value of the humanities and liberal arts.Trade Review"If the humanist defense of literature calls attention to the work of art, identifying aesthetic practice with the production of social value, then Corey McEleney's bold new book asks an indispensable question: Can art escape such coercive labor without making it escape the value it then labors to affirm? Identifying futility as the queer component in literary production, Futile Pleasures reimagines queer theory in relation to early modern thought. The result is a major work of criticism that contributes not only pleasurably, but also-we must admit it-valuably to debates in both of those fields." -- -Lee Edelman Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsFutilitarianism: An Introduction 1. Pleasure without Profit 2. Bonfire of the Vanities 3. Art for Nothing's Sake 4. Spenser's Unhappy Ends 5. Beyond Sublimation Coda: Less Matter, More Art Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Fordham University Press PostMandarin
Book SynopsisPost-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam’s modern anticolonial literature.Trade Review"Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking study of a key moment in the development of modern Vietnamese literature." -- -Christopher GoGwilt Fordham University "A lucid, well-conceived, and elegantly written monograph that presents a literary history and analysis of the "post-mandarin" aesthetic modernism in colonial Vietnam, rethinking modernity alongside, yet beyond, the customary European model." -- -Lisa Lowe Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Post-Mandarin 1. Autoethnography and Post-Mandarin Masculinity 2. Pornography as Realism, Realism as Aesthetic Modernity 3. The Sociological Novel and Anticolonialism 4. I Speak in the Third Person: Women and Language in Colonial Vietnam 5. Queer Internationalism and Post-mandarin Literature Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£66.60
Fordham University Press PostMandarin
Book SynopsisPost-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam’s modern anticolonial literature.Trade Review"Post-Mandarin is a rich, rewarding, and ground-breaking study of a key moment in the development of modern Vietnamese literature." -- -Christopher GoGwilt Fordham University "A lucid, well-conceived, and elegantly written monograph that presents a literary history and analysis of the "post-mandarin" aesthetic modernism in colonial Vietnam, rethinking modernity alongside, yet beyond, the customary European model." -- -Lisa Lowe Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Post-Mandarin 1. Autoethnography and Post-Mandarin Masculinity 2. Pornography as Realism, Realism as Aesthetic Modernity 3. The Sociological Novel and Anticolonialism 4. I Speak in the Third Person: Women and Language in Colonial Vietnam 5. Queer Internationalism and Post-mandarin Literature Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£19.79
Fordham University Press Coming
Book SynopsisComing by Jean-Luc Nancy is a lyrical examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of ownership to the pleasure of orgasm? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, the Marquis de Sade, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to mysticism.Trade Review"A stimulating analysis, Nancy's Coming shows sex and sexuality to be crucial understanding central aspects of his work. Moving from the prurient to the profound, Coming is a scintillating read for anyone interested in the limits of desire, the loneliness that pervades much of contemporary culture, or what love means today." -- -Peter Gratton Memorial University of NewfoundlandTable of ContentsPreface to the English Language Edition Why Speak of Coming [Jouissance]? Coming Preliminaries Are We Alone in Jouissance? From Animal Instinct to Desire of the Other: How to Go from Plaisir to Jouir? Toward Infinity and Beyond: Is There an Art to Jouir? The Condemnation of Jouissance From Profit to Consumption/Consummation: Can We Enjoy Everything? Some Bibliographical Reference Points Body of Pleasure Ruhren, Beruhren, Aufruhr (Moving, Touching, Uprising) Neither Seeing Nor Having [Ni le voir ni l'avoir] Nude Enumerated Bibliography
£999.99
Fordham University Press Coming
Book SynopsisComing by Jean-Luc Nancy is a lyrical examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of ownership to the pleasure of orgasm? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, the Marquis de Sade, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to mysticism.Trade Review"A stimulating analysis, Nancy's Coming shows sex and sexuality to be crucial understanding central aspects of his work. Moving from the prurient to the profound, Coming is a scintillating read for anyone interested in the limits of desire, the loneliness that pervades much of contemporary culture, or what love means today." -- -Peter Gratton Memorial University of NewfoundlandTable of ContentsPreface to the English Language Edition Why Speak of Coming [Jouissance]? Coming Preliminaries Are We Alone in Jouissance? From Animal Instinct to Desire of the Other: How to Go from Plaisir to Jouir? Toward Infinity and Beyond: Is There an Art to Jouir? The Condemnation of Jouissance From Profit to Consumption/Consummation: Can We Enjoy Everything? Some Bibliographical Reference Points Body of Pleasure Ruhren, Beruhren, Aufruhr (Moving, Touching, Uprising) Neither Seeing Nor Having [Ni le voir ni l'avoir] Nude Enumerated Bibliography
£18.04
Fordham University Press Reading Sideways The Queer Politics of Art in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations | vii Introduction | 1 1. Strange Beauty | 15 2. Small Collectivity and the Low Arts | 43 3. The Impossible Art Object of Desire | 75 4. Willa Cather and W. E. B. Du Bois Go to the Opera | 112 Part One: A Continuous Repetition of Sound | 116 Part Two: Endless Melody | 138 Conclusion | 159 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Index | 187
£27.90
Fordham University Press Reading Sideways The Queer Politics of Art in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations | vii Introduction | 1 1. Strange Beauty | 15 2. Small Collectivity and the Low Arts | 43 3. The Impossible Art Object of Desire | 75 4. Willa Cather and W. E. B. Du Bois Go to the Opera | 112 Part One: A Continuous Repetition of Sound | 116 Part Two: Endless Melody | 138 Conclusion | 159 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Index | 187
£89.10
Fordham University Press Allied Encounters The Gendered Redemption of
Book SynopsisAnalyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Introduction | 1 1 Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory | 17 2 “Liberated” Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà and Alfred Hayes’s All Thy Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flaminia | 42 3 Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli’s “True” Romance Novels of Occupied Rome | 66 4 A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns’s The Gallery | 91 5 Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of Curzio Malaparte’s La pelle | 111 6 The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis’s Naples ’44 | 132 Epilogue | 153 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Works Cited | 213 Index | 231
£27.90
Fordham University Press Allied Encounters The Gendered Redemption of
Book SynopsisAnalyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Introduction | 1 1 Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory | 17 2 “Liberated” Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà and Alfred Hayes’s All Thy Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flaminia | 42 3 Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli’s “True” Romance Novels of Occupied Rome | 66 4 A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns’s The Gallery | 91 5 Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of Curzio Malaparte’s La pelle | 111 6 The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis’s Naples ’44 | 132 Epilogue | 153 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Works Cited | 213 Index | 231
£92.70
