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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Land of Ionia
Book SynopsisIncorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within its larger Mediterranean context and provides a thematic overview of its cities and people. Seeks to balance the Greek and Anatolian cultural influences at work in Ionia in this important period of its history (700BC to the Battle of Lade in 494BC) Organised thematically, covering landscape, economy, cities, colonisation, warfare, cult, and art Accesses German and Turkish scholarship, presenting a useful point of entry to the published literature for academics and students Trade Review“Students of biblical history and archaeology will find this volume of particular interest.” (Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin, 11 December 2013) “The book is well produced, with an excellent binding and a minimum of typographical errors. A glossary of terms used in the text, an impressive bibliography, and a sufficient index add to the usefulness and user-friendliness of the book.” (The American Journal of Archaeology, 1 January 2013) "The book is well structured and is divided thematically into 10 chap¬ters . . . The book can be therefore recommended as a useful introduction to the study of Archaic Ionia for students and scholars alike." (Archaeological Review, 1 April 2011) "This was a missed opportunity, but not significant enough to diminish the book's success and usefulness." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 17 April 2011) "The study, and especially the maps, could prove a most useful preparation or ready reference when reading Herodotus." (Book News Inc, November 2010) "Its accessibility and organization provides a much needed bridge between Classical and ‘mainstream' archaeology, and brings both the ideas and this intriguing region to a wider readership." (Minerva, November/December 2010)Table of ContentsList of illustrations viii List of tables x Preface xi Acknowledgments xiv Prologue xvi 1 FINDING IONIA 1 Introduction 1 The Source Materials 2 Excavation and Publication 22 Conclusions 26 2 CONSTRUCTING CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGIES OF IONIA 27 Introduction 27 Traditional Approaches to Classical Archaeology in Ionia 28 The German and Turkish "Schools" of Archaeology 32 Annaliste Perspectives on Archaeology 36 A New Approach to the Land of Ionia 39 Conclusions 43 3 A DYNAMIC LANDSCAPE 45 Introduction 45 Ionia's Geographical Zones 46 Landscape Dynamism 57 The Ionian Landscape and Ionian Identity 65 Conclusions 67 4 THE WEALTH OF IONIA 69 Introduction 69 Modes of Primary Production 71 Modes of Processing 79 Modes of Exchange 84 Ionia and World Systems 89 Conclusions 91 5 THE CITIES OF IONIA 95 Introduction 95 A Brief Survey of the Ionian Cities 96 Other Settlements in Ionia 107 The Size and Distribution of Poleis within Ionia 110 François de Polignac in Ionia 112 The City and Ionian Identity 115 Conclusions 118 6 THE IONIANS OVERSEAS 120 Introduction 120 Source Materials 121 Interpreting the Evidence 129 Colonial Interactions 131 Models of Ionian Colonization 137 Conclusions 143 7 THE IONIANS AT WAR 145 Introduction 145 Geographical Settings 147 Archaeological Contexts and Materials 148 Literary Sources 154 Discussion: Issues in Source Materials 156 The Fortification of Ionia 156 Naval Warfare 164 Mercenaries 166 Conclusions 168 8 CULTS OF IONIA 171 Introduction 171 Geographical Evidence 172 Archaeological Evidence 174 Contents vii Literary and Epigraphic Evidence 179 Discussion of Source Materials 180 The Sacred Ways of Ionia 180 "Foreign" Influences on Ionian Cult 193 Burial Practices in Ionia 197 Conclusions 199 9 THE ORNAMENTS OF IONIA 201 Introduction 201 "Art" and Landscape 203 Ionia's Lost "Art" Treasures 203 "Art" and Literature 207 "Connoisseurship" of Ionian Pottery 207 "Reading" Ionian "Art" 214 Conclusions 218 10 WHO WERE THE IONIANS? 219 Introduction 219 Herodotos' Ionia 219 The Myth of the Ionian Migration 222 Ionian Identity and Archaeology 225 Conclusions 227 Epilogue 231 Glossary of ancient Greek [and modern Turkish] terms used in the text 233 Bibliography 235 Index 255
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France
Book SynopsisAcademics and students alike will enjoy this fascinating study of the invention of the professional chef, of how ordinary workers influenced emerging trends of scientific knowledge, culture-creation, and taste in eighteenth-century France.Trade ReviewScrupulously researched and witty history... Academics and students alike will enjoy this fascinating study of the invention of the professional chef, of how ordinary workers influenced emerging trends of scientific knowledge, culture-creation, and taste in eighteenth-century France. Goodreads.com The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France will interest scholars and lay people alike, those with a passion for the history of cuisine, especially the labor and other tasks that went into the preparation of food and the creation of a profession. -- Cynthia Bertelsen New York Journal of Books The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France by Sean Takats fills a much needed gap in 18th century France...A concise and informative overview on cooks, their work, their precarious role in a society and how they hoped to strengthen that role through cooking during the Enlightenment... I definitely recommend it for 18th century libraries, French studies libraries, and anyone particularly interested in the role of cooks during the 18th century. -- Anna Amber vivelaqueen Fascinating and unique historical portrayal, thoroughly accessible to lay gourmands and scholars alike. -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review The Expert Cook vividly demonstrates how and why servant cooks, in propelling the gustatory desires of their masters toward perfection, became active participants in the Enlightenment and brought French cooking into the modern age. -- Sydney Watts American Historical Review The Enlightenment is a period in European history characterized by the use of reason to impose order on human knowledge with the objective of advancing humankind's progress and material happiness. Generally, the intelligentsia, most notably the French philosophes, led this endeavor. In this well-researched study of the period, however, Takats highlights the role of the domestic servant, the cook, in systematizing knowledge and advancing French culture. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Defining the Cook2. Corrupting Spaces3. Pots and Pens4. Theorizing the Kitchen5. The Servant of MedicineConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Brutes in Suits
Book SynopsisThis timely assessment of the evolution of masculine culture will be welcomed and debated by social and intellectual historians for years to come.Trade ReviewPettegrew... casts a challenge against conventionally accepted Darwinian notions of brutishness as an essential and natural male trait. He argues that male dominance and aggression are not predestined by instinct, but culturally and ideologically constructed, desired, and performed through time... This book contributes to intellectual and cultural history on gender and manhood. Choice Pettegrew's book remains rigorous and passionate in its narration of the historic appeal as well as the immediate dangers of de-evolutionary masculinity. -- Jennifer Travis American Historical Review Ambitious study... valuable in exploring the vast cultural production of masculine instinct as a fact of life. -- Woody Register Labor History To Pettegrew's great credit, his study looks both forward and back: at the way masculinity was naturalized as aggressive in turn-of-the-century society; and, perhaps more importantly, at the extent to which modern-day historians, scientists, and ordinary citizens deploy discourses of evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and psychology in a misplaced effort to read gender as the offspring of biology and society. -- Martin A. Berger Journal of American History Will be of interest to scholars of cultures of violence and middle-American masculinity. He offers a solid history of the naturalizing revelry of men in the violence they do. -- Neal King American Journal of Sociology It will spark debate within the field for its bold explanation of why modern men feel as though violence is both their burden and right. -- Ryan Anderson H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews [A] vivid, massively researched history of 'hyper-masculine' sensibility at the turn of the twentieth century... An instructive and provocative view of men's dark side. -- Peter Filene Men and Masculinities This fascinating and ambitious study explores how an aggressive 'de-evolutionary' model of masculinity was woven into a broad range of American institutions... Pettegrew brings together feminist theory, 'an anthropological ironist perspective' and a wealth of gender studies scholarship to investigate the development of a pervasive mindset of brutish masculinity within a rich selection of archival and popular cultural materials... This well-researched and engaging volume will certainly enrich the ever-growing field of men's studies. -- Christina Jarvis Gender and HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The De-Evolutionary Turn in U.S. MasculinityDarwin and Evolutionary Psychology, Then and NowJohn Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and Masculinity as a Habit of Mind"The Caveman within Us" and the Masculinist Culture of Mimicry1. Rugged IndividualismFrederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis: Origins, Composition, and MeaningsTurner's Influence on the Social Psychology of the CityRadical Individualism: Masculinist Art, Angst, and Alienation in the CityDudism, Cowgirl Feminism, and the Search for Authenticity in the "Old West"2. Brute FictionsThe American Literary Genre of Hunting and KillingReading for Plot: Call of the Wild, The Virginian, and the New Male ReadershipIrony, Atavism, and Other Variations on the De-Evolutionary Theme3. College FootballThorstein Veblen and the Rise of "Exotic Ferocity" in American College FootballVictor Turner, Stanford Football, and Hypermasculine Liminal SubjectsClifford Geertz at the Big Game: "Thick Description" of Football as the Cultural Equivalent of War4. War in the HeadCivil War Memory, Blood Sacrifice, and Modern American Fighting SpiritOf Rough Riders, Blood Brothers, and Roosevelt the BerserkerWar as Sport for Doughboys, Golden Boys, and SlackersPostscript: Marine Corps Spirit and the U.S. Warrior Class, 1941–20035. Laws of Sexual SelectionRace, Lynch Law, and the Manly ProvocationMarriage, Cultural Defense in The People v. Chen, and the Heat-of-Passion Defense in TexasCompulsory Heterosexuality, the Charles Atlas Muscle-Beach Fable, and Sexual Dimorphism UnboundEpilogue: Irony, Instinct, and WarIrony, Sam Fussell's Muscle, and Masculinity as a "Parodic Tableau Vivant"Instinct, Deep Masculinity, and the Decline of MalesThe Iraq War, Hypermasculinity, and the Metaphor of DiseaseNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Playboys and Mayfair Men
Book SynopsisAn original and exciting cultural history of 1930s Britain, this innovative book and the exploits of its dissolute playboys will appeal to true-crime readers and historians alike.Trade Reviewa detailed contextual analysis of the period and its obsessions.—Times Higher EducationI found Playboys & Mayfair Men riveting.—Literary Review[McLaren] succeeds in extracting from a seedy tale some novel insights into the culture of pre-war Britain.—New StatesmanMcLaren uses an impressive range of sources, both primary and secondary, to plunge deeply into the world of Mayfair men not only in the 1930s but also in the postwar world. In a sense, they were the successors of the flappers and the Bright Young Things of the 1920s.—Peter Stansky, Stanford University, Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryThe book is a delight to read, due largely to its effective organization, clear analysis of the playboy identity, and the timeliness of its portrayal of class and gendered entitlement . . . McLaren's style is compact and clear throughout, and the book would be an excellent addition to readers' lists for students interested in gender, class, and interwar Britain. On a more general level, the subject matter will appeal to anyone aware of the class privilege and playboy mentalities increasingly on display in our contemporary world.—Brett Bebber, Old Dominion University, H-Net ReviewsClearly written and well-organized . . . Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London makes a very useful addition to the growing literature on the history of masculinity . . . To read McLaren's book is to enter a world of outrageous snobbery that is not quite as remote from our own as many of us would like to believe.—Dominic Janes, Keele University, American Historical Review[Playboys and Mayfair Men] makes for an enjoyable read, demonstrating effectively the fascination that such high society cases could have for a wide readership, as much today as at the time they were reported . . . McLaren makes a number of interesting points about the socio-cultural significance of the case, principally around the importance of economic production and conspicuous consumption to definitions of masculinity in this period, which enables him to date the emergence of the playboy to two decades earlier than has generally been argued.—Jessica Meyer, University of Leeds, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. The Robbery2. The Investigation3. The Suspects4. The Trial5. The AftermathPart II6. Pain7. Masculinity8. Crime9. Class10. FascismEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Campus Sexual Assault
Book SynopsisSurvivors of campus sexual assault share the stories of how they confronted and overcame the trauma of being attacked. A 2014 report issued by the White House Council on Women and Girls included the alarming statistic that one in five female college students in the United States experiences some form of campus sexual assault. Despite more than fifty years of anti-rape activism and over two decades of federal legislation regarding campus sexual violence, sexual assault on American college and university campuses remains prevalent, underreported, and poorly understood. A principal reason for this lack of understanding is that the voices of women who have experienced campus sexual assault have been largely absent from academic discourse about the issue. In Campus Sexual Assault, Lauren J. Germain focuses attention on the postsexual assault experiences of twenty-six college women. She reframes conversations about sexual violence and student agency on American college campuses by drawinTrade ReviewCampus Sexual Assault provides in-depth insight into the post-assault experiences of college women. It frames women as agentic beings who conceptualize their experiences and cope with their assault in a multitude of ways. By highlighting the individual pathways for recovery, readers are offered a deeper understanding of how women adapt and move forward following sexual assault.—PsycCRITIQUESLauren Germain has written a powerful, important, and timely book that helps the reader understand the devastation caused by campus sexual assault. A must read for educators!—ChoiceStigma, sexism, and additional forms of oppression frequently result in survivors' voices being absent from the dialogue about how to respond to sexual violence on campus. Lauren J. Germain sought to address this void by centering the lived experiences of student women survivors. Her book . . . provides insight into the ways that college women respond in the aftermath of sexual assault, highlighting an understanding of empowerment and agency among survivors of sexual assault.—NASPA Journal about Women in Higher EducationA concise and coherent book on identity and identity management, following [college women's] reported sexual assaults at their places of study. Intelligently written and planned.—MetapsychologyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. What We Don't Know about Campus Sexual Assault2. The Paradox of Embodied Agency3. Managing Identity4. Telling Friends and Family5. Seeking Justice6. The Beautiful Process of Empowerment7. Agency and Campus Sexual AssaultAppendixesA. Participant Demographics and Case DetailsB. Methodological NotesC. Supplementary IdeasNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Lean Semesters
Book SynopsisAddressing in depth the reality that women of color, particularly Black women, face compounded exploitation and economic inequality within the neoliberal university. More Black women are graduating with advanced degrees than ever before. Despite the fact that their educational and professional opportunities should be expanding, highly educated Black women face strained and worsening economic, material, and labor conditions in graduate school and along their academic career trajectory. Black women are less likely to be funded as graduate students, are disproportionately hired as contingent faculty, are trained and hired within undervalued disciplines, and incur the highest levels of educational debt. In Lean Semesters, Sekile M. Nzinga argues that the corporatized universitylong celebrated as a purveyor of progress and opportunityactually systematically indebts and disposes of Black women's bodies, their intellectual contributions, and their potential en masse. Insisting that shifts iTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The University as Hyper-Producer of InequityChapter 1. Mortgaging Our Brains: Black Women, Privatization, and Subprime PhDsChapter 2. Ain't I Precarious? Black Academic Women as ContingentChapter 3. Families Devalued: Black Academic Women and the Neoliberal Era's Family TariffChapter 4. Jumping Mountains: Resisting the Marketized UniversityConclusion. Statement of SolidarityAppendix A. Our Truths Interview GuideAppendix B. Resources and OrganizationsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Bodies in Doubt
Book SynopsisThis renowned history of intersex in America has been comprehensively updated to reflect recent shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and legal practices. In Bodies in Doubt, Elizabeth Reis traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present. Arguing that medical practice must be understood within its broader cultural context, Reis demonstrates how deeply physicians have been influenced by social anxieties about marriage, heterosexuality, and same-sex desire throughout American history In this second edition, Reis adds two new chapters, a new preface, and a revised introduction to assess recent dramatic shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and legal practices. Human rights organizations have declared early genital surgeries a form of torture and abuse, but doctors continue to offer surgical repair, and parents continue to seek it for their children. While many are hTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note About Terminology and IllustrationsChapter 1. Hermaphrodites, Monstrous Births, and Same-Sex Intimacy in Early AmericaChapter 2. From Monsters to Deceivers in the Early Nineteenth CenturyChapter 3. The Conflation of Hermaphrodites and Sexual Perverts at the Turn of the CenturyChapter 4. Cutting the Gordian Knot: Gonads, Marriage, and Surgery in the 1920s and 1930sChapter 5. Psychology, John Money, and the Gender of Rearing in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960sChapter 6. Bioethics, Informed Consent, and Children's RightsChapter 7. Who Stands Under the Umbrella? The Politics of Naming and Categorizing IntersexNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Abstractions and Embodiments
Book SynopsisCutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations. Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of humanness. They can serve both liberation and control because some people's freedom has historically been predicated on controlling others. Historians of computing return again and again to these contradictions, as they often reveal deeper structures. Using twin frameworks of abstraction and embodiment, a reformulation of the old mind-body dichotomy, this anthology examines how social relations are enacted in and through computing. The authors examining Abstraction revisit central concepts in computing, including algorithm, program, clone, and risk. In doing so, they demonstrate how the meanings of these terms reflect power relations and social identities. The section Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Thinking with ComputersPart I. AbstractionsChapter 1. Waiting for Midnight: Risk Perception and the Millennium BugChapter 2. Centrists against the Center: The Jeffersonian Politics of a Decentralized InternetChapter 3. Beyond the Pale: The Blackbird Web Browser's Critical ReceptionChapter 4. Scientology Online: Copyright Infringement and the Legal Construction of the InternetChapter 5. Patenting Automation of Race and Ethnicity Classifications: Protecting Neutral Technology or Disparate Treatment by Proxy?Chapter 6. "Difficult Things Are Difficult to Describe": The Role of Formal Semantics in European Computer Science, 1960–1980Chapter 7. What's in a Name? Origins, Transpositions, and Transformations of the Triptych Algorithm–Code–ProgramChapter 8. The Lurking ProblemChapter 9. The Help Desk: Changing Images of Product Support in Personal Computing, 1975–1990Chapter 10. Power to the Clones: Hardware and Software Bricolage on the PeripheryPart II: EmbodimentsChapter 11. Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic ManufactureChapter 12. Inventing the Black Computer ProfessionalChapter 13. The Baby and the Black Box: A History of Software, Sexism, and the Sound BarrierChapter 14. Computing Nanyang: Information Technology in a Developing Singapore, 1965–1985Chapter 15. Engineering the Lay Mind: Lev Landa's Algo-Heuristic Theory and Artificial IntelligenceChapter 16. The Measure of Meaning: Automatic Speech Recognition and the Human-Computer ImaginationChapter 17. Broken Mirrors: Surveillance in Oakland as Both Reflection and Refraction of California's Carceral StateChapter 18. Punk Culture and the Rise of the Hacker EthicChapter 19. The Computer as Prosthesis? Embodiment, Augmentation, and DisabilityChapter 20. "Have Any Remedies for Tired Eyes?": Computer Pain as Computer HistoryAfterword. Beyond Abstractions and EmbodimentsContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press First Among Men
Book SynopsisDispelling common myths about the first US president and revealing the real George Washington. Winner of the George Washington PrizeGeorge Washingtonhero of the French and Indian War, commander in chief of the Continental Army, and first president of the United Statesdied on December 14, 1799. The myth-making began immediately thereafter, and the Washington mythos crafted after his death remains largely intact. But what do we really know about Washington as an upper-class man?Washington is frequently portrayed by his biographers as America at its unflinching best: tall, shrewd, determined, resilient, stalwart, and tremendously effective in action. But this aggressive and muscular version of Washington is largely a creation of the nineteenth century. Eighteenth-century ideals of upper-class masculinity would have preferred a man with refined aesthetic tastes, graceful and elegant movements, and the ability and willingness to clearly articulate his emotions. At the same time, these eigTrade ReviewThe book masterfully deconstructs popular myths, revealing that ostensibly immutable ideas about masculinity—and about the U.S. itself—can easily fall apart under a historian's examination.Will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in how popular conceptions of Washington and American masculinity.—Library Journal (starred review)Maurizio Valsania, a professor of US History, attempts to draw the line between American mythology and reality....Valsania deconstructs the exaggerated figure of Washington and reduces him to a mortal man.—BookstrTable of ContentsChapter 1. The American GiantPart I: PhysicalChapter 2. Testing HimselfChapter 3. A Taste for Cruelty and WarChapter 4. A Body in PainChapter 5. Checking the BodyPart II: EmotionalChapter 6. The Love LettersChapter 7. The Meaning of Love (and Marriage)Chapter 8. A Sentimental MaleChapter 9. A Maternal FatherPart III: SocialChapter 10. A Person of Fine MannersChapter 11. The Message of His ClothingChapter 12. Astride the Great StageChapter 13. ConsummationChapter 14. Giants Die as Well
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Johns Hopkins University Press Man Kind
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking guide that provides men with tools to improve their mental health and well-being. Masculinity requires a redesign. Men exhibit higher rates of suicide, lower rates of help-seeking, higher rates of substance use and abuse, and higher rates of anger and violence. How can this change? In Man Kind, counseling psychologist Zachary Gerdes, PhD, provides a framework for improving men's mental health and well-being while redefining what it means to be masculine. Rather than following a traditional view of masculinity focused on stoicism, patriarchy, and self-reliance, Gerdes provides his LIFT modela road map to help men foster collaboration, understand when and how to utilize resources, and build mental resilience and flexibility. In this empowering book, Gerdes: helps men understand their thoughts and behaviors from a psychological perspective provides steps to help men change behaviors that are detrimental to their health and relationships outlines a model for healthy Table of ContentsForeword by Ronald Levant, PhDIntroductionPart I: LeverageChapter 1. The Lay of the LandChapter 2. Working Harder and SmarterChapter 3. Expanding the Wolfpack Part II: Intelligence and InsightChapter 4. EmotionalityChapter 5. Fight-or-Flight ClubPart III: FreedomChapter 6. Freedom from AddictionChapter 7. Sex, Relationships, and FreedomChapter 8. #MeToo and Manning UpChapter 9. Freedom from Implicit Bias and Identity DissonancePart IV: TruthChapter 10. Mental Health is Real HealthChapter 11. Biology and BeyondAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Nine Guiding Principles for Women in Higher
Book SynopsisHighlighting the nine guiding principles to help women succeed in their academic careers. Although there are more women in higher education than ever beforeand increasingly in leadership positionstheir paths to success are more difficult than those paved for men. Nine Guiding Principles for Women in Higher Education is a concise and accessible resource aimed at helping women faculty succeed in their academic careers. Karyn Z. Sproles offers guidance, humor, and courage to women in higher education, paying particular attention to those with children and women of color. Based on a wide range of scholarship, stories from dozens of women, and Sproles's personal experience from 34 years as a professor, department chair, and dean, Nine Principles offers advice on facing down impostor syndrome, avoiding social isolation, building networks of mentors, preparing for tenure, balancing teaching, scholarship, and home life,and more. Practical and visionary, the nine principles guide readers frTable of ContentsPreface. How to Thrive in Higher EducationPrinciple 1. Face Down Impostor SyndromePrinciple 2. Connect with Colleagues Principle 3. Build a Team of MentorsPrinciple 4. Manage Your Time Principle 5. Connect with Your Students Principle 6. Reflect on Teaching and Student EvaluationsPrinciple 7. Make Scholarship a HabitPrinciple 8. Prepare for Promotion and Tenure EarlyPrinciple 9. Revolutionize the Culture of Higher Education through Generosity and CompassionConclusion. CelebrateWorkshopsReferencesNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Sacred Engagements
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Johns Hopkins University Press Sacred Engagements
Book SynopsisA revelatory reading of the British novel that considers interfaith marriage, religious toleration, and the ethics of sociability. Bringing together feminist theory, novel criticism, and religious studies, Alison Conway's Sacred Engagements advances a postsecular reading of the novel that links religious tolerance and the eighteenth-century marriage plot. Conway explores the historical roots of the vexed questions that interfaith marriage continues to raise today. She argues that narrative wields the power to imagine conjugal and religious relations that support the embodied politics crucial to a communal, rather than state-sponsored, ethics of toleration. Conway studies the communal and gendered aspects of religious experience embedded in Samuel Richardson's account of interfaith marriage and liberalism's understandings of toleration in Sir Charles Grandison. In her readings of Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Maria Edgeworth, Conway considers how women authors reframe the Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Novel Intimacies Chapter 1. Religious Toleration and Interfaith Marriage, 1640-1720Chapter 2. Sir Charles Grandison's Religious DisturbancesChapter 3. Frances Brooke's Civil Disputes Chapter 4. Elizabeth Inchbald among the CisalpinesChapter 5. Maria Edgeworth's Jewish EnlightenmentConclusion: Mansfield Park Closes Its GatesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Diversitys Promise for Higher Education
Book SynopsisBuilding sustainable diversity in higher education isn''t just the right thing to doit is an imperative for institutional excellence and for a pluralistic society that works.In Diversity''s Promise for Higher Education, author Daryl G. Smith proposes clear and realistic practices to help institutions identify diversity as a strategic imperative for excellence and pursue diversity efforts that are inclusive of the varied issues on campuseswithout losing focus on the critical unfinished business of the past.To become more relevant while remaining true to their core missions, colleges and universities must continue to frame diversity as central to institutional excellence. Smith suggests that seeing diversity as an imperative for an institution''s mission, and not just as a value, is the necessary lever for real institutional change. Furthermore, achieving excellence in a diverse society requires increasing institutional capacity for diversityworking to unde
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Johns Hopkins University Press Just Code
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American Psychological Association LGBTQ Mental Health
Book SynopsisLGBTQ Mental Health: International Perspectives and Experiences expands our understanding of mental health by considering the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ communities in the Majority World. Increased globalization and migration has highlighted the need for mental health clinicians to better understand these communities'' experiences and needs. This book provides an overview of LGBTQ mental health in non-Western countries or regions that have heretofore received little attention in the psychology literature. Chapters focus on the cultural, social, legal, political, and psychological experiences of various LGBTQ subpopulations inPeru, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Russia, Mongolia, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors summarize existing research on mental health outcomes for LGBTQ individuals in these countries or regions; offer key insights that challenge culturally-specific conceptions of normative, LGBTQ mental healthTrade ReviewThe text provides an excellent glimpse into the diversity of and challenges faced by LGBTQ individuals across 10 geographic areas… This volume works as an international conversation that will serve to magnify readers' understanding of the incredible diversity and resilience of the LGBTQ community worldwide. * Choice *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction, by Nadine Nakamura and Carmen H. Logie Chapter 2. In search of “my true self”: Transmasculine Gender Identity Processes, Stigma, and Mental Health in Peru, by Amaya Perez-Brumer, Alfonso Silva-Santisteban, Ximena Salazar, Jesse Vilela, and Sari L. Reisner Chapter 3. Mental Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in Colombia, by Karen Nieves-Lugo, Andrew Barnett, Miguel Rueda, Veronica Pinho and Maria Cecilia Zea Chapter 4. Living a Double Life and Experiencing Modern Sexual Prejudice: The Effect on Ecuadorean Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Workers’ Well-Being, by Donatella Di Marco, Alicia Arenas, Helge Hoel, and Lourdes Munduate Chapter 5. “It’s Because of our Culture”: Navigating Gender Norms and Coping with Sexual Stigma Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women in Jamaica, by Natania L. Marcus, Carmen H. Logie, Nicolette Jones, Nicolette Bryan, and Kandasi Levermore Chapter 6. LGBT Mental Health in Russia, by Sharon G. Horne and Lindsey White Chapter 7. LGBT Mental Health in Mongolia: A Brief History, Current Issues, and Future Directions, by Julie M. Koch, Douglas Knutson, and Anaraa Nyamdorj Chapter 8. Stigma Toward and Mental Health of Hijras/Trans Women and Self-Identified Men Who Have Sex With Men in India, by Venkatesan Chakrapani, Peter A. Newman, and Murali Shunmugam Chapter 9. Being Gay and Lesbian in Malaysia, by Hemla Singaravelu and Wai Hsien Cheah Chapter 10. Whose Paradise? An Intersectional Perspective on Mental Health and Gender/Sexual Diversity in Thailand, by Timo T. Ojanen, Peter A. Newman, Rattanakorn Ratanashevorn, Jan W. de Lind van Wijngaarden, and Suchon Tepjan Chapter 11. Mental Health Needs of Transgender Women and Gay Men and Other Men Who have Sex with Men Across Sub-Saharan Africa, by Carolyn Brown, Keletso Makofane, Kevin Rebe, L. Leigh Ann van der Merwe, Bhekie Sithole, Daouda Diouf, Kevin Kapila, Carrie Lyons, Tonia Poteat, Shauna Stahlman, and Stefan Baral Chapter 12. Conclusion, by Nadine Nakamura and Carmen H. Logie Author Biographies About the Editors
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Temple University Press,U.S. Troubling Gender
Book SynopsisHow cumbia villera and Argentine popular culture reshape and reflect the changes in gender relations among the country's underclass youthTrade Review"After the Mexicanization of Colombian cumbia, now the Argentines are dancing to cumbia and making it their own! Troubling Gender combines a dynamic discursive and social analysis of the explicit sexual content of the lyrics of cumbia villera with a rich, ethnographic discussion of how the young men and women dancers (dis)identify with the lyrics while enjoying the danceable rhythms. The authors' examination of the gender and sexual dynamics that this music triggers among its fans reminds us that the gender wars in Latin America are not over, despite the increasing presence of sex in media and the public space." -Frances Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures "Troubling Genderis a groundbreaking book on the relationship between gender struggle in the context of changing opportunities for men and women and the representation of violence in the cumbia villera genre. This focus enables Vila and Seman to track quite expertly the transformation of social conflicts relating to work, urban life, and gender relations into the cultural field. The authors offer not only a rich sociological reflection on the negotiation of female autonomy in the context of popular music but also an interesting analysis of the lyrics of the genre. Troubling Gender also pays attention to the context within which the songs are played and emitted, something usually left aside in the sociology and anthropology of music." -George Yudice, author of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era "Troubling Gender offers a nuanced interpretation of the envelope-pushing sexuality associated with cumbia villera, demonstrating how its young musicians and fans are imagining and performing their identities within an unstable socioeconomic context. This is an important book with a great deal to contribute to the literature on both gender relations and Latin American popular music and dance cultures, as well as to discussions of the impact of media and economic inequalities on young people's lives." -Deborah Pacini Hernandez, author of Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music (Temple)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The History. Trajectory and Consolidation of the Cumbia in the Field of Argentine Music * Eloisa Martin (Translated by Pablo Vila) 2. The Lyrics 3. What Boys Have to Say 4. What Girls Have to Say Conclusion Postscript: Moving away from Name-Calling * Maria Julia Carozzi Notes References Index
£68.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Troubling Gender
Book SynopsisHow cumbia villera and Argentine popular culture reshape and reflect the changes in gender relations among the country's underclass youthTrade Review"After the Mexicanization of Colombian cumbia, now the Argentines are dancing to cumbia and making it their own! Troubling Gender combines a dynamic discursive and social analysis of the explicit sexual content of the lyrics of cumbia villera with a rich, ethnographic discussion of how the young men and women dancers (dis)identify with the lyrics while enjoying the danceable rhythms. The authors' examination of the gender and sexual dynamics that this music triggers among its fans reminds us that the gender wars in Latin America are not over, despite the increasing presence of sex in media and the public space." -Frances Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures "Troubling Genderis a groundbreaking book on the relationship between gender struggle in the context of changing opportunities for men and women and the representation of violence in the cumbia villera genre. This focus enables Vila and Seman to track quite expertly the transformation of social conflicts relating to work, urban life, and gender relations into the cultural field. The authors offer not only a rich sociological reflection on the negotiation of female autonomy in the context of popular music but also an interesting analysis of the lyrics of the genre. Troubling Gender also pays attention to the context within which the songs are played and emitted, something usually left aside in the sociology and anthropology of music." -George Yudice, author of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era "Troubling Gender offers a nuanced interpretation of the envelope-pushing sexuality associated with cumbia villera, demonstrating how its young musicians and fans are imagining and performing their identities within an unstable socioeconomic context. This is an important book with a great deal to contribute to the literature on both gender relations and Latin American popular music and dance cultures, as well as to discussions of the impact of media and economic inequalities on young people's lives." -Deborah Pacini Hernandez, author of Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music (Temple)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The History. Trajectory and Consolidation of the Cumbia in the Field of Argentine Music * Eloisa Martin (Translated by Pablo Vila) 2. The Lyrics 3. What Boys Have to Say 4. What Girls Have to Say Conclusion Postscript: Moving away from Name-Calling * Maria Julia Carozzi Notes References Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Red War on the Family
Book SynopsisIn the 1920s, cultural and political reactions to the Red Scare in America contributed to a marked shift in the way Americans thought about sexuality, womanhood, manhood, and family life. The Russian Revolution prompted anxious Americans sensing a threat to social order to position heterosexuality, monogamy, and the family as a bulwark against radicalism. In her probing and engaging book, Red War on the Family, Erica Ryan traces the roots of sexual modernism and the history of antiradicalism and antifeminism. She illuminates how Americans responded to foreign and domestic threats and expressed nationalism by strengthening traditional gender and family roles-especially by imposing them on immigrant groups, workers, women, and young people. Ryan argues that the environment of political conformity in the 1920s was maintained in part through the quest for cultural and social conformity, exemplified by white, middle-class family life. Red War on the Family charts the ways AmericanisTrade Review“Red War on the Family is a compelling book. It argues that an ‘Americanism’ movement of the post–World War I era fused anti-Bolshevik rhetoric with anxieties about gender and sexuality to call for a return to a traditional notion of a patriarchal family that could regulate sexuality—especially female sexuality—and restore social order. With its focus on fears about the family, women, youth, and sexuality, Red War on the Family offers fresh insights into what we might call the ‘long’ Red Scare and contributes to the growing literature that traces the contemporary right-wing conservative movement to the 1920s.”—Lynn Dumenil, Robert Glass Cleland Professor of History Emerita at Occidental CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Americanism versus Bolshevism: The Red Scare and the Framing of Postwar American Culture 2 “The Age of Woman in Revolt”: Talking about Bolshevism by Talking about Women in Red Scare America, 1919–1923 3 “Every Homeowner Is a Bulwark of Americanism and a Safeguard against Bolshevism”: Constructions of Social Order and Working-Class Masculinity in the Postwar Own-Your-Own-Home Movement 4 Getting “Personal and Intimate”: The Americanization of Immigrant Family and Sexual Values 5 “The Perils Ahead Are Moral, not Economic”: Modern Culture, Modern Marriage, and Americanism after 1924 Conclusion Notes Index
£51.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Conceiving Masculinity
Book SynopsisPuts the world of male infertility under the microscope to examine how culturally pervasive notions of gender shape our understanding of disease, and how disease impacts our personal ideas about gender. This book details how and why men embrace medical technologies and treatment for infertility.Trade Review"[A] compassionate and substantive analysis of male infertility. Her ethnographic work is two-pronged: first, it reveals the history of male infertility and the responses of modern medicine; second, it studies the ways in which this oft-hidden precinct of medicine works overtime to bolster the masculinity of its patients [...] Barnes weaves a bounty of analytic threads into a compelling ethnography whose interviews with infertile men and their (mostly male) doctors make the story come richly alive in this overdue study." - Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Mobilizing Gay Rights under Authoritarianism 2 Legal Restrictions, Political Norms, and Being Gay in Singapore 3 Timorous Beginnings 4 Cyber Organizing 5 Transition 6 Coming Out 7 Mobilizing in the Open 8 Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements Appendix A: Research Design and Methods Appendix B: Study Respondents: Singapore’s Gay Activists Appendix C: Singapore’s Gay Movement Organizations and Major Events Notes References Index
£63.75
Temple University Press,U.S. Conceiving Masculinity
Book SynopsisPuts the world of male infertility under the microscope to examine how culturally pervasive notions of gender shape our understanding of disease, and how disease impacts our personal ideas about gender. This book details how and why men embrace medical technologies and treatment for infertility.Trade Review"[A] compassionate and substantive analysis of male infertility. Her ethnographic work is two-pronged: first, it reveals the history of male infertility and the responses of modern medicine; second, it studies the ways in which this oft-hidden precinct of medicine works overtime to bolster the masculinity of its patients [...] Barnes weaves a bounty of analytic threads into a compelling ethnography whose interviews with infertile men and their (mostly male) doctors make the story come richly alive in this overdue study." - Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Mobilizing Gay Rights under Authoritarianism 2 Legal Restrictions, Political Norms, and Being Gay in Singapore 3 Timorous Beginnings 4 Cyber Organizing 5 Transition 6 Coming Out 7 Mobilizing in the Open 8 Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements Appendix A: Research Design and Methods Appendix B: Study Respondents: Singapore’s Gay Activists Appendix C: Singapore’s Gay Movement Organizations and Major Events Notes References Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Sex and the Founding Fathers
Book SynopsisExamines the remarkable and varied assessments of the intimate lives of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouverneur Morris from their own time to ours.Trade Review"In this concise, engaging book, Foster (Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man) explores the intimate lives of six Founding Fathers, and, more importantly, the way their sex lives have been presented and analyzed over the years. Focusing on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and the oft-forgotten Gouverneur Morris, Foster deftly demonstrates the ways these men’s private lives have been essentially rewritten to present the normative, virtuous, and manly Founders Americans choose to believe in. Drawing primarily from popular biographies, from the colonial era through present day, the book explores the ways biographers present their subjects in response to the times: strict Victorian morals, Freudian psychoanalysis, and contemporary attempts to embrace, rather than hide, all aspects of their lives. Foster addresses the glossing over of Washington’s lack of children (perhaps he was sterile, but god forbid he was impotent), the refashioning of Franklin’s Parisian affairs as the “harmless” pleasures of a “foxy grandpa,” and the romanticized marriage of John and Abigail Adams—the “Romeo and Juliet of the American Revolution”. Proving that you can’t trust biographers, Foster ably reveals that sex has always factored into national identity and that the Founders were flesh-and-blood men, unable to support idealistic American standards of morality."--Publishers Weekly"Sex and the Founding Fathers is a must read for all who are interested in the founding era and the historiography of the period." —Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family"Foster tells us that each new generation has inquired into the intimate lives of great men and found reflections of its own habits and desires and anxieties....Using the methods of intellectual and cultural history, Foster examines contemporary and scholarly interpretations of the sex lives of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouvernor Morris. Foster holds that we read and write about our Founding Fathers’ intimate habits because we want these icons of masculinity to be relatable. Foster is right; we do seek ourselves in our histories."—Journal of American History "[Foster's] book is not directly about sex and the founding fathers but is instead a meta-commentary on the long history of popular and scholarly fascination with the founders’ sexual lives.... This is a book about our desired erotic relations to the erotic lives of the founders. But it seems to be forever impossible for us to have a stable relation to the sex of the founding fathers: our relation to their sex always and inevitably fails because it’s really about us and what kind of objects we want them to be for us... Wisely, Foster does not try to say what a true or authentic relation to the sex of the founders would be."—Christopher Looby, American Literary History "Sex and the Founding Fathers has value as a source of data.... [which] raises important questions about gender, sexuality, and masculinity as normative and actual behaviors shift that over time as they structure personal and national identities." —American Studies"Foster reveals how each generation has sought to understand the founders as human beings.... it is through exploring these men as people that we understand and relate to them. As times and social mores about masculinity and sexuality have changed, so have interpretations of these men and their personal lives. VERDICT: Foster is looking at the how and why of his subjects. Readers looking for...a better understanding of how and why biographers explore these topics, and why we care, should look to this fascinating and well-written work."—Library Journal"What fascinates [Foster], and what’s the subject of his book, is how the public has always hungered for stories about the Founders’ sex lives. At root, Foster argues, sex has always been a critical, though underappreciated way that Americans have tried to make the Founders relatable. It’s how we make them seem human, if no less heroic.... Foster’s subject should lure more readers than a typical academic book. But they should expect a serious message. We crave stories about the Founders’ sex lives, but cannot handle the unseemly truths, he writes—'so we rewrite and respin and reremember them in various ways to present them in a positive light.' Our 'romanticized view,' gets us no closer to knowing who [the] Founders actually were, and ultimately 'serves only the present.'”—Daily Beast"Here is a scrupulous scholarly book that edifies and entertains — and has as much to say about the genre of biography as it does about the sex lives of the founding fathers." —StarTribuneTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Remembering the Founders: Sex and the American Quest for a Relatable Past 1 George Washington 2 Thomas Jefferson 3 John Adams 4 Benjamin Franklin 5 Alexander Hamilton 6 Gouverneur Morris Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£20.89
Temple University Press,U.S. Navigating Gendered Terrain
Book SynopsisFrom the presidential level down, men and women who run for political office confront different electoral realities. In her probing study, Navigating Gendered Terrain, Kelly Dittmar investigates how gender influences the campaign strategy and behavior of candidates today. Concurrently, she shows how candidates' strategic and tactical decisions can influence the gendered nature of campaign institutions. Navigating Gendered Terrain addresses how gender is used to shape how campaigns are waged by influencing insider perceptions of and decisions about effective campaign messages, images, and tactics within party and political contexts. Dittmar uses survey information and interviews with candidates, political consultants, and other campaign professionals to reveal how gender-informed advertising, websites, and overall presentation to voters respond to stereotypes and perceptions of female and male candidates. She closes her book by offering a feminist interpretation of women as candiTrade ReviewDr. Dittmar's manuscript is distinctive in its research focus regarding questions of the gendered nature of contemporary campaigns for elective office. Her focus on the perspectives of campaign practitioners and their implementation of strategies to affect gender issues is singular in its contribution to our knowledge of this domain. --Barbara BurrellTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments1 Campaigns as Gendered Institutions2 Consultant Perceptions of Voters’ Gender Stereotypes3 Consultant Perceptions of Effective Strategies4 Gender in Context5 Gender Dynamics in Image and Message Creation6 Targeting Women Voters and Contrasting Opponents7 On Her Own Terms: Shifting Gender Dynamics in Campaign InstitutionsAppendix A: Interview ListAppendix B: Gubernatorial and U.S. Senate Contests Included in Interview Analysis of 2008 and 2010 ElectionsNotesReferencesIndex
£67.15
Temple University Press,U.S. Fashioning Diaspora
Book SynopsisIn her insightful study, Fashioning Diaspora, Vanita Reddy carefully maps how transnational itineraries of Indian beauty and fashion shaped South Asian American cultural identities and racialized belonging from the 1990s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. She observes how diasporic subjects engage with and respond to various encounters with Indian beauty and fashion. One of the first books to consider beauty and fashion as a point of entry into an examination of South Asian diasporic public cultures, Fashioning Diaspora examines a range of literature, visual art, and live performance. Through careful analyses of novels by Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, young adult literature, performance art by Shailja Patel, beauty and adornment practices, as well as objects of popular culture including an Indian American fashion doll, Reddy challenges fashion and beauty as a set of dematerialized, overly commodified cultural practices. She argues instead that beauty and fasTrade Review“Fashioning Diaspora is essential reading for scholarship on beauty. Reddy introduces a shift the field has long needed, as she reads beauty as embodied practice alongside cultural signifier; as produced within networks of social power and yet complicating them with its own disruptive logic. This is an analysis both critical and appreciative of its topic, and in its nuance a fine example of ‘why the humanities matter’ for making sense of neoliberal, transnational, material realities.”—erin Khuê Ninh, Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature“Fashioning Diaspora is an extraordinary intervention into the joint fields of Asian American studies and feminist and queer theory. Reddy makes important contributions, and her book is distinguished by fresh, original readings of a diverse archive of South Asian American public culture. This innovative constellation of texts not only enables us to see how the archive constitutes a historical source for narratives of South Asian migration but also produces a state of feeling: what she argues is the feeling of beauty.”—Bakirathi Mani, Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, Swarthmore College, and author of Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America“Vanita Reddy has now made it very difficult to think about the South Asian diaspora without paying attention to the subjects, objects, discourses, and practices of beauty that animate it. Moving seamlessly from discussions of the ‘exceptional beauty’ of literary heroines like Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine to the transformation of Delhi and Mumbai into new fashion capitals, Reddy’s compelling readings and vast archive of ‘beautiful forms’ leave us much wiser about how aesthetic desires and demands have shaped South Asians’ everyday practices of belonging.”—Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of FashionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beauty Matters 1 Excepting Beauty and Negotiating Nationhood in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine 2 Prosthetic Femininity, Flexible Citizenship and Feminist Cosmopolitics in the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri3 Fashioning Diasporic Citizens in Literary Youth Cultures of Fashion and Beauty4 Oppositional Economies of Fashion in Experimental Feminist Media5 Histories of the Cloth and Sartorial Sentiment in Shailja Patel’s Migritude Epilogue: Fashioning Diasporic Futures
£60.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Fashioning Diaspora
Book SynopsisIn her insightful study, Fashioning Diaspora, Vanita Reddy carefully maps how transnational itineraries of Indian beauty and fashion shaped South Asian American cultural identities and racialized belonging from the 1990s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. She observes how diasporic subjects engage with and respond to various encounters with Indian beauty and fashion. One of the first books to consider beauty and fashion as a point of entry into an examination of South Asian diasporic public cultures, Fashioning Diaspora examines a range of literature, visual art, and live performance. Through careful analyses of novels by Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, young adult literature, performance art by Shailja Patel, beauty and adornment practices, as well as objects of popular culture including an Indian American fashion doll, Reddy challenges fashion and beauty as a set of dematerialized, overly commodified cultural practices. She argues instead that beauty and fasTrade Review“Fashioning Diaspora is essential reading for scholarship on beauty. Reddy introduces a shift the field has long needed, as she reads beauty as embodied practice alongside cultural signifier; as produced within networks of social power and yet complicating them with its own disruptive logic. This is an analysis both critical and appreciative of its topic, and in its nuance a fine example of ‘why the humanities matter’ for making sense of neoliberal, transnational, material realities.”—erin Khuê Ninh, Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature“Fashioning Diaspora is an extraordinary intervention into the joint fields of Asian American studies and feminist and queer theory. Reddy makes important contributions, and her book is distinguished by fresh, original readings of a diverse archive of South Asian American public culture. This innovative constellation of texts not only enables us to see how the archive constitutes a historical source for narratives of South Asian migration but also produces a state of feeling: what she argues is the feeling of beauty.”—Bakirathi Mani, Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, Swarthmore College, and author of Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America“Vanita Reddy has now made it very difficult to think about the South Asian diaspora without paying attention to the subjects, objects, discourses, and practices of beauty that animate it. Moving seamlessly from discussions of the ‘exceptional beauty’ of literary heroines like Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine to the transformation of Delhi and Mumbai into new fashion capitals, Reddy’s compelling readings and vast archive of ‘beautiful forms’ leave us much wiser about how aesthetic desires and demands have shaped South Asians’ everyday practices of belonging.”—Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of FashionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beauty Matters 1 Excepting Beauty and Negotiating Nationhood in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine 2 Prosthetic Femininity, Flexible Citizenship and Feminist Cosmopolitics in the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri3 Fashioning Diasporic Citizens in Literary Youth Cultures of Fashion and Beauty4 Oppositional Economies of Fashion in Experimental Feminist Media5 Histories of the Cloth and Sartorial Sentiment in Shailja Patel’s Migritude Epilogue: Fashioning Diasporic Futures
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. Terrorizing Latinao Immigrants
Book SynopsisImmigration politics has been significantly altered by the advent of America's war on terror and the proliferation of security measures. In her cogent study, Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants, Anna Sampaio examines how these processes are racialized and gendered and how they impose inequitable burdens on Latina/o immigrants. She interrogates the rise of securitization, restrictive legislation, and the return of large-scale immigration raids and describes how these re-articulate and re-inscribe forms of racial and gender hierarchy. Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants demonstrates how the ascendance of America as a security state serves as a template to scrutinize, harass, and encumber immigrants while also reconfiguring citizenship. Sampaio uses intersectional analysis coupled with theoretical and empirical approaches to develop a critical framework for analyzing current immigration politics. Sampaio provides a sustained and systematic examination of policy and enforcement shifts impacting LTrade Review"Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants makes a compelling case that government policies are thoroughly implicated in processes of racialization and gendering that mark some citizens as worthy of protection and others as dangerous threats to national security. In showing how recent immigration and securitization policies blur the boundaries between citizens and immigrants, and between immigrants and terrorist threats, Sampaio provides powerful lessons about the fragility of constitutional rights when Congress, the executive branch, and the courts concur that the nation's highest priority is security. This comprehensive empirical study sheds new light on the complex integration of immigration and securitization policies in the aftermath of September 11." -Mary Hawkesworth, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University "Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants is a wonderful addition to the literature on the social constructions of policy target populations. The sophisticated command of both case law and national and state policy is particularly helpful in understanding the complex trends in U.S. immigration policy in recent decades. Sampaio clearly and convincingly articulates her argument on the impact of federal-level anti-terror policies on the everyday experiences of Latinas/os, and her identification of a racialized/gendered set of discursive moves in the years surrounding 9/11 is especially strong." -Ange-Marie Hancock, Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 1. Reconfiguring Race and Gender in the War on Terrorism 2. Masculinist Protectionism, Racialized Demonization and the Formation of the Contemporary Security Regime in the War on Terrorism 3. Racialization of Latinas/os within American Immigration Policy 4. Securitizing Immigration Legislation 5. Terrorizing Immigrants: The Return of Large Scale Raids and Roundups and their Impact on Latina/o Communities 6. Race-Gendering Citizenship and the New Security State 7. The End of Terror? A New Administration and a New Chapter in Immigration Politics Index
£53.55
Temple University Press,U.S. Terrorizing Latinao Immigrants
Book SynopsisImmigration politics has been significantly altered by the advent of America's war on terror and the proliferation of security measures. In her cogent study, Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants, Anna Sampaio examines how these processes are racialized and gendered and how they impose inequitable burdens on Latina/o immigrants. She interrogates the rise of securitization, restrictive legislation, and the return of large-scale immigration raids and describes how these re-articulate and re-inscribe forms of racial and gender hierarchy. Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants demonstrates how the ascendance of America as a security state serves as a template to scrutinize, harass, and encumber immigrants while also reconfiguring citizenship. Sampaio uses intersectional analysis coupled with theoretical and empirical approaches to develop a critical framework for analyzing current immigration politics. Sampaio provides a sustained and systematic examination of policy and enforcement shifts impacting LTrade Review"Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants makes a compelling case that government policies are thoroughly implicated in processes of racialization and gendering that mark some citizens as worthy of protection and others as dangerous threats to national security. In showing how recent immigration and securitization policies blur the boundaries between citizens and immigrants, and between immigrants and terrorist threats, Sampaio provides powerful lessons about the fragility of constitutional rights when Congress, the executive branch, and the courts concur that the nation's highest priority is security. This comprehensive empirical study sheds new light on the complex integration of immigration and securitization policies in the aftermath of September 11." -Mary Hawkesworth, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University "Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants is a wonderful addition to the literature on the social constructions of policy target populations. The sophisticated command of both case law and national and state policy is particularly helpful in understanding the complex trends in U.S. immigration policy in recent decades. Sampaio clearly and convincingly articulates her argument on the impact of federal-level anti-terror policies on the everyday experiences of Latinas/os, and her identification of a racialized/gendered set of discursive moves in the years surrounding 9/11 is especially strong." -Ange-Marie Hancock, Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 1. Reconfiguring Race and Gender in the War on Terrorism 2. Masculinist Protectionism, Racialized Demonization and the Formation of the Contemporary Security Regime in the War on Terrorism 3. Racialization of Latinas/os within American Immigration Policy 4. Securitizing Immigration Legislation 5. Terrorizing Immigrants: The Return of Large Scale Raids and Roundups and their Impact on Latina/o Communities 6. Race-Gendering Citizenship and the New Security State 7. The End of Terror? A New Administration and a New Chapter in Immigration Politics Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. The Gendered Executive
Book SynopsisExcluded from the ranks of elite executive decision-makers for generations, women are now exercising power as chiefs of government and chiefs of state. As of April 2016, 112 women in 73 countries have served as presidents or prime ministers. The Gendered Executive is a critical examination of national executives, focusing on matters of identity, representation, and power. The editors and contributors to this volume address the impact of female executives through political mobilization and participation, policy- and decision-making, and institutional change. Other topics include party nomination processes, the intersectionality of race and gender, and women-centered U.S. foreign policy in southern Africa. In addition, case studies from Chile, India, Portugal, and the United States are presented, as are cross-national comparisons of women leaders in Latin America.The Gendered Executive will enhance our understanding of the complexity of gender in and comparative analyses of executive pol
£70.20
Temple University Press,U.S. Constructing the Patriarchal City
Book Synopsis In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industrialization and to create the modern city. New professional men wanted an orderly city that functioned for economic development. Women’s vision challenged the men’s right to reconstruct the city and resisted the prevailing male idea that women in public caused the city’s disorder. Constructing the Patriarchal City compares the ideas and activities of men and women in four English-speaking cities that shared similar ideological, professional, and political contexts. Historian Maureen Flanagan investigates how ideas about gender shaped the patriarchal city as men used their expertise in architecture, engineering, and planning to fashion a built environment for male economic enterprise and to confine women in the private home. Women consistently challenged men to produce a more equitable social infrastructur
£77.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Constructing the Patriarchal City
Book Synopsis In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industrialization and to create the modern city. New professional men wanted an orderly city that functioned for economic development. Women’s vision challenged the men’s right to reconstruct the city and resisted the prevailing male idea that women in public caused the city’s disorder. Constructing the Patriarchal City compares the ideas and activities of men and women in four English-speaking cities that shared similar ideological, professional, and political contexts. Historian Maureen Flanagan investigates how ideas about gender shaped the patriarchal city as men used their expertise in architecture, engineering, and planning to fashion a built environment for male economic enterprise and to confine women in the private home. Women consistently challenged men to produce a more equitable social infrastructur
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Gender Differences in Public Opinion
Book SynopsisInvestigates gender differences in public opinion and how value differences account for policy positions and political attitudesTrade Review“In Gender Differences in Public Opinion, Mary-Kate Lizotte has produced a clear, thorough, and original examination of the roots of the gender gap in American public opinion. Her consideration of the role of values—egalitarianism, universalism, and benevolence—in the policy positions of women and men offers a fresh take on the conventional wisdom around the gender gap. She considers a wide range of important domestic and international issues, identifying when and why women and men take distinctive positions, and, just as importantly, when they don’t. Scholars of public opinion, policy, and gender will learn a lot from this interesting work.”—Kathleen Dolan, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and author of When Does Gender Matter?: Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections“Mary-Kate Lizotte is reinvigorating a conversation that has been muted for too long. The first 'gender gap,' brought to light by Kathy Frankovic after the 1980 elections, is approaching its 40th birthday, but it, and its consequences, are still not easily understood. Lizotte’s thoughtful examination of pro-social values as a possible driver of the gender gap in voting behavior and policy preferences could not be a more timely contribution to our understanding of sex, gender, and politics in these challenging times.”—Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Gender Consciousness and Politics
£20.89
Temple University Press,U.S. Disabled Futures
Book SynopsisDisabled Futures makes an important intervention in disability studies by taking an intersectional approach to race, gender, and disability. Milo Obourn reads disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race studies to develop a framework for addressing inequity. They theorize the concept of racialized disgenderto describe the ways in which racialization and gendering are social processes with disabling effectsthereby offering a new avenue for understanding race, gender, and disability as mutually constitutive. Obourn uses readings of literature and popular culture from Lost and Avatar to Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy to explore and unpack specific ways that race and gender constructand are constructed byhistorical notions of ability and disability, sickness and health, and successful recovery versus damaged lives. What emerges is not only a more complex and deeper understanding of the intersections between ableism, racism, and (cis)sexism, but also possibilit
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Disabled Futures
Book SynopsisDisabled Futures makes an important intervention in disability studies by taking an intersectional approach to race, gender, and disability. Milo Obourn reads disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race studies to develop a framework for addressing inequity. They theorize the concept of racialized disgenderto describe the ways in which racialization and gendering are social processes with disabling effectsthereby offering a new avenue for understanding race, gender, and disability as mutually constitutive. Obourn uses readings of literature and popular culture from Lost and Avatar to Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy to explore and unpack specific ways that race and gender constructand are constructed byhistorical notions of ability and disability, sickness and health, and successful recovery versus damaged lives. What emerges is not only a more complex and deeper understanding of the intersections between ableism, racism, and (cis)sexism, but also possibilit
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Disruptive Situations
Book SynopsisDisruptive Situations challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm. Ghassan Moussawi, a Beirut native, seeks to uncover the underlying processes of what he calls fractal orientalism, a relational understanding of modernity and cosmopolitanism that illustrates how transnational discourses of national and sexual exceptionalism operate on multiple scales in the Arab world. Moussawi's intrepid ethnography features the voices of women, gay men and genderqueers in Beirut to examine how queer individuals negotiate life in this uncertain region. He examines al-wad', or the situation, to understand the practices that form these strategies and to raise questions about queer-friendly spaces in and beyond Beirut.Disruptive Situations alsoshows how LGBTQ Beirutis resist reconciliation narratives and position their identities and visibility at different times as ways of simultaneously mTrade Review“Disruptive Situations is an eye-opening exploration of LGBT lives in times of war, conflict, and instability! It innovates a roadmap for how to document and conceptualize queerness and geopolitics in contemporary Beirut. Moussawi’s distinctive, timely contribution will surely leave its mark on transnational sexuality, gender, and queer studies.”—Jyoti Puri, Hazel Dick Leonard Chair and Professor of Sociology, Simmons University, and author of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India“Disruptive Situations is a lucid and elegant inquiry into how LGBT and genderqueer Beirutis make sense of lives and identities forged through the multiple, unstable, and overlapping modernities of the city. Moussawi eschews Orientalist constructions of Beirut as the ‘Paris of the Middle East’ to explain these lives and their presence in the region. Instead, he turns our attention to the importance of the everyday—where city life is unstable, felt, and temporally marked—for 'queer' Beiruti flourishing. By teaching us how to think without the presumption of normal lives or stable times as anchors, Disruptive Situations is a work that arrives just in time.” —Chandan Reddy, Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, and author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State“Ghassan Moussawi’s conceptualization of queer tactics in the context of local, regional, and global politics provides an urgently needed alternative to modern liberal concepts of queer life in Beirut and the Arab region more broadly. This brilliant and pioneering ethnography is uniquely and importantly interdisciplinary, bringing together critiques of space, global politics, race, class, and sexuality. Disruptive Situations will change the way people think about the global politics of gender and sexuality.”—Nadine Naber, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism"[A] provocative book that unsettles disciplinary boundaries, centers the lived experiences of LGBT individuals, and de-exceptionalizes queer strategies of survival used to navigate everyday life disruptions in the context of post–civil war Beirut.... The book is written in an engaging and accessible style that blends theorical insights with rich illustrative material that centers lived and embodied experiences as sources of knowledge."—International Journal of Middle East Studies
£66.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Disruptive Situations
Book SynopsisDisruptive Situations challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm. Ghassan Moussawi, a Beirut native, seeks to uncover the underlying processes of what he calls fractal orientalism, a relational understanding of modernity and cosmopolitanism that illustrates how transnational discourses of national and sexual exceptionalism operate on multiple scales in the Arab world. Moussawi's intrepid ethnography features the voices of women, gay men and genderqueers in Beirut to examine how queer individuals negotiate life in this uncertain region. He examines al-wad', or the situation, to understand the practices that form these strategies and to raise questions about queer-friendly spaces in and beyond Beirut.Disruptive Situations alsoshows how LGBTQ Beirutis resist reconciliation narratives and position their identities and visibility at different times as ways of simultaneously mTrade Review“Disruptive Situations is an eye-opening exploration of LGBT lives in times of war, conflict, and instability! It innovates a roadmap for how to document and conceptualize queerness and geopolitics in contemporary Beirut. Moussawi’s distinctive, timely contribution will surely leave its mark on transnational sexuality, gender, and queer studies.”—Jyoti Puri, Hazel Dick Leonard Chair and Professor of Sociology, Simmons University, and author of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India“Disruptive Situations is a lucid and elegant inquiry into how LGBT and genderqueer Beirutis make sense of lives and identities forged through the multiple, unstable, and overlapping modernities of the city. Moussawi eschews Orientalist constructions of Beirut as the ‘Paris of the Middle East’ to explain these lives and their presence in the region. Instead, he turns our attention to the importance of the everyday—where city life is unstable, felt, and temporally marked—for 'queer' Beiruti flourishing. By teaching us how to think without the presumption of normal lives or stable times as anchors, Disruptive Situations is a work that arrives just in time.” —Chandan Reddy, Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, and author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State“Ghassan Moussawi’s conceptualization of queer tactics in the context of local, regional, and global politics provides an urgently needed alternative to modern liberal concepts of queer life in Beirut and the Arab region more broadly. This brilliant and pioneering ethnography is uniquely and importantly interdisciplinary, bringing together critiques of space, global politics, race, class, and sexuality. Disruptive Situations will change the way people think about the global politics of gender and sexuality.”—Nadine Naber, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism"[A] provocative book that unsettles disciplinary boundaries, centers the lived experiences of LGBT individuals, and de-exceptionalizes queer strategies of survival used to navigate everyday life disruptions in the context of post–civil war Beirut.... The book is written in an engaging and accessible style that blends theorical insights with rich illustrative material that centers lived and embodied experiences as sources of knowledge."—International Journal of Middle East Studies
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Whose Game
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how fantasy sport offers a space in which its participants experience gendered power while they engage in an active, competitive fandomTrade Review“Whose Game? is well written and compelling, and the research important and timely. The authors’ sociological examinations of fantasy sports make a convincing argument that this is a unique realm of fandom. In its gender analysis, Whose Game? is a strong, valuable contribution to the literature. The breadth and depth of the data make for a rich analysis that allows us to examine and understand patterns of meaning and experience. This book will have significant appeal to those in the fantasy sport world, including participants and organizers, as well as general sports fans.”—Rachel Allison, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mississippi State University and author of Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer“In this fascinating new study, Kissane and Winslow show us how often aging, non-athletic men can engage in fantasy sports leagues as to both secure a claim on legitimate masculinity and, importantly, to forge much needed emotional bonds with other men. Through careful research, Whose Game? documents the possibilities and perils involved in playing fantasy sports and issues an important call for thinking seriously about the way leisure and fun can reinforce existing gendered, raced, and classed inequalities.”—C.J. Pascoe, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon, and author of Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
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Temple University Press,U.S. Graphic Migrations
Book SynopsisIn Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to the question “What is created?” after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition migrations shape and influence the political and cultural imagination of secularism and contribute to gendered citizenship for South Asians in India and its diasporas.Daiya analyzes modern literature, Bollywood films, Margaret Bourke-White’s photography, advertising, and print culture to show how they memorialize or erase refugee experiences. She also uses oral testimonies of Partition refugees from Hong Kong, South Asia, and North America to draw out the tensions of the nation-state, ethnic discrimination, and religious difference. Employing both Critical Refugee Studies and Feminist Postcolonial Studies frameworks, Daiya traces the cultural, affective, and political legacies of Partition migrations.<
£81.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Graphic Migrations
Book SynopsisIn Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to the question “What is created?” after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition migrations shape and influence the political and cultural imagination of secularism and contribute to gendered citizenship for South Asians in India and its diasporas.Daiya analyzes modern literature, Bollywood films, Margaret Bourke-White’s photography, advertising, and print culture to show how they memorialize or erase refugee experiences. She also uses oral testimonies of Partition refugees from Hong Kong, South Asia, and North America to draw out the tensions of the nation-state, ethnic discrimination, and religious difference. Employing both Critical Refugee Studies and Feminist Postcolonial Studies frameworks, Daiya traces the cultural, affective, and political legacies of Partition migrations.<
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Temple University Press,U.S. QA
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1998,Q & A: Queer in Asian America,edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, became a canonical work in Asian American studies and queer studies. This new edition ofQ & Ais neither a sequel nor an update, but an entirely new work borne out of the progressive political and cultural advances of the queer experiences of Asian North American communities.The artists, activists, community organizers, creative writers, poets, scholars, and visual artists that contribute to this exciting new volume make visible the complicated intertwining of sexuality with race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Sections address activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism anddiaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilien
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Temple University Press,U.S. Undoing Suicidism
Book SynopsisInUndoing Suicidism,Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each year, suicidism and its preventionist script and strategies reproduce violence and cause additional harm and death among suicidal people through forms of criminalization, incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization, and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups experiencing multiple oppressions, including queer, trans, disabled, or Mad people. Undoing Suicidismquestions the belief that the best way to help suicidal people is through the logic of prevention. Alexandre Baril presents the thought-provoking argument that supporting assisted suicide for suicidal people could better prevent unnecessary deaths. Offering a new queercrip model of (assisted) suicide, he invites us to imagine what could happen if we started thinking about (assisted) suicide from an anti-suicidTrade Review“Undoing Suicidism is a tremendous contribution to theorizations of living and dying. It is unsettling in the most productive manner and driven by a profound abolitionist philosophy of desires for death as the grounds for a richer, more responsive politics of life. Baril offers a compelling vision of justice for suicidal people that demands rethinking some of the most cherished ideals of liberal personhood.”—Jasbir K Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability“In this important book Alexandre Baril offers a queercrip reframing of (assisted) suicide that explains and critically intervenes in suicidism (the oppression of suicidal people) and ableist, sanist, and ageist arguments about assisted suicide. Justice, care, and support for suicidal people requires questioning what Baril calls ‘compulsory aliveness’ and listening to, rather than criminalizing and pathologizing, suicidal people. This is an extraordinary and well-researched book. Baril’s care-full approach to this difficult topic makes a crucial contribution to queer, trans, feminist, and crip theories and challenges readers to rethink dominant responses to suicide.”—Kim Q. Hall, Professor of Philosophy, Appalachian State University, and author of Queering Philosophy“Undoing Suicidism is a daring, original, and paradigm-shifting book that directly challenges the taken-for-granted idea that suicidal thoughts and actions are unnatural, undesirable states that should always be prevented. Grounded in queer, trans, Mad, and crip theoretical frameworks, and deeply informed by the author’s first-hand experience as a suicidal person, Baril imagines a radically different world where the well-documented harms caused by suicidism and preventionist logic are replaced with practices of compassion and solidarity, which grant all people the freedom to explore, express, live with, and sometimes die by, suicide.”—Jennifer White, Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, and lead editor of Critical Suicidology: Transforming Research and Prevention for the 21st Century"[A] provocative critique of 'suicidism,' a form of 'structural oppression' that stigmatizes people who want to die.... Baril argues that the desire to die is valid and that assisted suicide should be available in some form to all 'suicidal people, regardless of their dis/abilities, health or age.'... Readers may agree with some of the author’s carefully argued points about the structural obstacles suicidal people face, and yet struggle to accept both his contention that 'there are no good or bad reasons for wanting to die' and his jarring critiques of 'compulsory aliveness.' This is sure to spark debate."—Publishers Weekly
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Undoing Suicidism
Book SynopsisInUndoing Suicidism,Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each year, suicidism and its preventionist script and strategies reproduce violence and cause additional harm and death among suicidal people through forms of criminalization, incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization, and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups experiencing multiple oppressions, including queer, trans, disabled, or Mad people. Undoing Suicidismquestions the belief that the best way to help suicidal people is through the logic of prevention. Alexandre Baril presents the thought-provoking argument that supporting assisted suicide for suicidal people could better prevent unnecessary deaths. Offering a new queercrip model of (assisted) suicide, he invites us to imagine what could happen if we started thinking about (assisted) sTrade Review“Undoing Suicidism is a tremendous contribution to theorizations of living and dying. It is unsettling in the most productive manner and driven by a profound abolitionist philosophy of desires for death as the grounds for a richer, more responsive politics of life. Baril offers a compelling vision of justice for suicidal people that demands rethinking some of the most cherished ideals of liberal personhood.”—Jasbir K Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability“In this important book Alexandre Baril offers a queercrip reframing of (assisted) suicide that explains and critically intervenes in suicidism (the oppression of suicidal people) and ableist, sanist, and ageist arguments about assisted suicide. Justice, care, and support for suicidal people requires questioning what Baril calls ‘compulsory aliveness’ and listening to, rather than criminalizing and pathologizing, suicidal people. This is an extraordinary and well-researched book. Baril’s care-full approach to this difficult topic makes a crucial contribution to queer, trans, feminist, and crip theories and challenges readers to rethink dominant responses to suicide.”—Kim Q. Hall, Professor of Philosophy, Appalachian State University, and author of Queering Philosophy“Undoing Suicidism is a daring, original, and paradigm-shifting book that directly challenges the taken-for-granted idea that suicidal thoughts and actions are unnatural, undesirable states that should always be prevented. Grounded in queer, trans, Mad, and crip theoretical frameworks, and deeply informed by the author’s first-hand experience as a suicidal person, Baril imagines a radically different world where the well-documented harms caused by suicidism and preventionist logic are replaced with practices of compassion and solidarity, which grant all people the freedom to explore, express, live with, and sometimes die by, suicide.”—Jennifer White, Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, and lead editor of Critical Suicidology: Transforming Research and Prevention for the 21st Century"[A] provocative critique of 'suicidism,' a form of 'structural oppression' that stigmatizes people who want to die.... Baril argues that the desire to die is valid and that assisted suicide should be available in some form to all 'suicidal people, regardless of their dis/abilities, health or age.'... Readers may agree with some of the author’s carefully argued points about the structural obstacles suicidal people face, and yet struggle to accept both his contention that 'there are no good or bad reasons for wanting to die' and his jarring critiques of 'compulsory aliveness.' This is sure to spark debate."—Publishers Weekly
£23.39
University of Toronto Press Contours of the Nation
Book SynopsisContouring the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a problem was affixed to particular populations in order to separate true Canadians from others.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: "This is the Face of Obesity": Race, Class, Gender, and the Feminization of Fat Chapter 2: The "Kitchen Demon" and the "Tubby Hubby": Reproductive labour and the nuclear family in obesity discourse Chapter 3: "Of Missiles and Muscles": Fitness, Masculinity, and Obesity during the Cold War Chapter 4: "The White Man's Burden"? Obesity and Colonialism in the Developing North Conclusion: Asking Different Questions Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press The Sopranos
Book SynopsisOften hailed as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is a product of its time, firmly embedded in the problems of post-industrial, post-ethnic America. In The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign, Franco Ricci examines the groundbreaking HBO series and its impact as a cultural phenomenon.Ricci demonstrates an encyclopedic knowledge of the series, the genre, and their social context in his analysis of the show’s complex themes and characters. He explores The Sopranos’ deep engagement with problems of race, class, gender, and identity, specifically in its portrayal of the Italian-American experience, consumer and media-driven society, and contemporary psychosocial issues. The series’ protagonist, Mafia boss and patriarch Tony Soprano, in many ways embodies the anxieties of our age. Focusing on Tony’s internal struggles and interactions with his therapist, family, and associates, Ricci traces this archetypaTrade Review'The Sopranos is a unique, extended meditation on Chase as auteur... This book should be of interest to students and scholars in film/television studies, media studies, Italian American studies and related fields. Ricci's analysis also stands as a useful and usefully extended, case study for those interested in semiotics, mass media, and aesthetics.' -- Michael R. Frontani Italian American Review winter 2015 'Ricci's study is compelling, innovative, and even surprisingly moving.' -- Liz Roberts Media Education Journal vol 57:2015 'Franco Ricci's The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign provides an interesting take on a controversial, but much-heralded, television series... It is an important read for those interested in psychoanalysis, social commentary, history, and American popular culture.' -- Nick Giorgio H-Italy December 2014 'Ricci's book is a carefully considered and detailed study with an exhaustive and nuanced understanding of the show.' -- James McNamara Australian Book Review, January-February 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "Coming Heavy": Revisiting, Rereading, Rethinking The Sopranos 1. Inner Sanctums 2. When I Grow Up I Want to Be an American 3. God Help the Beast in Me 4. Two Tonys: Drawing Conclusions from Mediated Mob Images 5. An Appendix of Verbal Bits and Visual Bytes 6. Conclusion Notes Suggested Readings Index
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University of Toronto Press The Fragrance of SweetGrass
Book SynopsisWhen it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery’s books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery’s fiction, Epperly argues that Montgomery was much more than a master of the romance genre and that, through her use of literary allusions, repetitions, irony, and comic inversions, she deftly manipulated the normal conventions of romance novels. Focusing on Montgomery’s memorable heroines, from Anne Shirley to Emily Byrd Starr, Valancy Stirling, and Pat Gardiner, Epperly demonstrates that Montgomery deserves a place in the literary canon not just as the creator of Anne of Green Gables but as an artist in her chosen profession.Since its publication more than twenty years ago, The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass has become a favourite of scholars, writers, and Montgomery fans. This new edition adds a preface in which ETrade Review'Epperly's discerning treatment of the heroines should prove of interest not only to Montgomery devotees but to any reader interested in social history and particularly in attitudes toward women reflected in popular fiction.' -- Genevieve Wiggins American Review of Canadian Studies 'Now you don't have to hide that Montgomery novel when an intellectual friend drops by. Flaunt it and enjoy.' -- Patricia Morley Ottawa Citizen '[The] first book-length critical study of L.M. Montgomery's works ... There is no doubt that Epperly's work will be valued as a reference for Montgomery scholars and teachers of Canadian literature and children's literature.' -- Lalage Grauer University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface to the 2014 Edition Permissions Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Anne Romancing the Voice: Anne of Green Gables Romance Awry: Anne of Avonlea Recognition: Anne of the Island 'This Enchanted Shore': Anne's House of Dreams Heroism's Childhood: Rainbow Valley Womanhood and War: Rilla of Ingleside Recapturing the Anne World: Anne of Windy Poplars and Anne of Ingleside Part II: Emily The Struggle for Voice: Emily of New Moon Testing the Voice: Emily Climbs Love and Career: Emily's Quest Part III: The Other Heroines Romancing the Home: Pat of Silver Bush, Mistress Pat, Jane of Lantern Hll A Changing Heroism: An Overview of the Other Novels Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Expanding the Gaze
Book SynopsisExpanding the Gaze is a collection of important new empirical and theoretical works that demonstrate the significance of the gendered dynamics of surveillance.Table of ContentsForeword (Shoshana Magnet) Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Gendered Visions: Reimagining Surveillance Studies (Robert Heynen & Emily van der Meulen) Gender, Media, and Surveillance 2. Data Doubles and Pure Virtu(e)ality: Headless Selfies, Scopophilia, and Surveillance Porn (Lara Karaian) 3. Living in the Mirror: Understanding Young Women's Experiences with Online Social Networking (Valerie Steeves & Jane Bailey) 4. Watch me Speak: Muslim Girls' Narratives and Postfeminist Pleasures of Surveillance (Shenila Khoja-Moolji & Alyssa D. Niccolini) 5. Profiling the City: Urban Space and the Serial Killer Film (Jenny Reburn) Surveillance and Gendered Embodiment 6. Race, Media, and Surveillance: Sex-Selective Abortions in Canada (Corinne L. Mason) 7. Gendering the HIV 'Treatment as Prevention' Paradigm: Surveillance, Viral Loads, and Risky Bodies (Adrian Guta, Marilou Gagnon, Jenevieve Mannell, & Martin French) 8. Under the Ban-Optic Gaze: Chelsea Manning and the State's Surveillance of Transgender Bodies (Mia Fischer) Surveillance and the Gendering of Urban Space 9. The Spectacle of Public Sex(uality): Media and State Surveillance of Gay Men in Toronto, 1977 (Zoe Newman) 10. The Surveillance Web: Surveillance, Risk, and Resistance in Ontario Strip Clubs (Tuulia Law & Chris Bruckert) 11. Gendering Security: Violence and Risk in Australia's Night-Time Economies (Ian Warren, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, & Emma McFarlane)
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University of Toronto Press Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Book SynopsisRoland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon's Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada.Trade Review"Despite several systemic and political barriers that the editors rightly identify as obstacles to the field’s institutionalization, a rigorous body of scholarship on Asians in Canada has flourished in the past two decades, as evidenced by the rich collection of essays assembled here." -- Malissa Phung * Canadian Literature No. 235 *"The great number of topics covered by the contributors and the disciplinary heterogeneity of the articles make this carefully edited volume an excellent textbook for a university course on the subject and, at the very least, a useful guide providing supplementary reading for researchers and teachers who wish to focus on one discipline only or on a more specified topic." -- Brigitte Johanna Glaser * Association of Canadian Studies in German Speaking Countries - ZKS 2020 ed. *Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Acknowledgements Ch 1 Gordon Pon, Roland Sintos Coloma, Laura Kwak, and Kenneth Huynh - Asian Canadian Studies Now: Directions and Challenges PART I: Encountering Asian Canada Ch 2 Sunera Thobani - Nationals, Citizens, and Others Ch 3 Peter S. Li - The Racial Subtext in Canada's Immigration Discourse Ch 4 Sherene Razack - The Muslims are Coming: The 'Sharia Debate' in Canada Ch 5 Richard Fung - Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn PART II: Ethnic Encounters Ch 6 Mona Oikawa - Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the Nation Ch 7 Alice Ming Wai Jim - Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art Ch 8 Geraldine Pratt - Between Homes: Displacement and Belonging for Second-Generation Filipino-Canadian Youths PART III: Intersectional Encounters Ch 9 Himani Bannerji - The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and 'Women of Color' Ch 10 Roxana Ng - 'A Woman Out of Control': Deconstructing Sexism and Racism in the University Ch 11 Yasmin Jiwani - Orientalizing War Talk: Representations of the Gendered Muslim Body Post 9-11 in The Montreal Gazette PART IV: Comparative Encounters Ch 12 Rita Wong - Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature Ch 13 Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan - Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers Ch 14 Eric Fong - Residential Segregation of Visible Minority Groups in Toronto PART V: Transnational Encounters Ch 15 Lily Cho - Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency Ch 16 Roy Miki - Altered States: Global Currents, the Spectral Nation, and the Production of 'Asian Canadian' Ch 17 Sedef Arat-Koc - Whose Transnationalism?: Canada, 'Clash of Civilizations' Discourse, and Arab and Muslim Canadians Part VI: After Encounters Ch 18 Henry Yu - Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada Ch 19 Laura J. Kwak - Asian Canada: Undone Ch 20 Roland Sintos Coloma - 'Too Asian?': On Racism, Paradox, and Ethno-nationalism Contributors' Biographies
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University of Toronto Press Women and Gendered Violence in Canada
Book SynopsisBy drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada significantly expands the conversation on violence against women.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part A: Contextualizing Gendered Violence in Canada Introduction: Expanding the Lens on Gendered Violence 1. An Intersectional Lens on Gendered Violence 2. Situating Canadian Women: Socio-Economic Locations 3. Regulatory Discourses and Representation: How Women Are “Known” Part B: Interpersonal Violence 4. Everyday Intrusions on the Street, on Campus, and Online 5. Sexual Assault: Laws, Scripts, and Victim Blaming 6. Intimate Partner Violence: Brutish Husbands and Passive Wives Part C: Workplace Violence 7. Not “Just a Joke”: Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and Microagressions in the Workplace 8. Just Part of the Job? Predatory, Situational, and Slow Violence at Work 9. Invisibilized Migrant Women: Over-Regulated and Under-Protected Workers from the Global South Part D: Structural Violence 10. Moral Regulation, Discipline, and the Beauty Industrial Complex 11. State Violence: Women and the Criminal Justice System 12. Colonial Violence against Indigenous Women Conclusion: “No Free Lunch”: Costs and Consequences of Gendered Violence in Canada and Globally Appendix 1: Works Cited Appendix 2: Glossary
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University of Toronto Press Marriage in Europe 14001800
Book SynopsisMarriage in Europe, 14001800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.Trade Review'Excellent collection... Highly recommended.' -- M.E. Wiesner-Hanks Choice Magazine vol 54:07:2017Table of ContentsPreface Silvana Seidel Menchi Introduction Silvana Seidel Menchi Section I: Continuity and Change 1. The Legal Background: European Marriage Law from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century Charles Donahue Jr. (Harvard Law School) 2. Marriage in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Moral, Legal and Political Order Heide Wunder (University of Kassel) 3. Marriage in Italy Daniela Lombardi (University of Pisa) 4. The Legal Regulation of Marriage in England: From the Fifteenth Century to the 1640s Richard H. Helmholz (University of Chicago Law School) Section II: Licit and Illicit 5. Marriage Formation: Law and Custom in the Low Countries 1500-1700 Manon van der Heijden (University of Leiden) 6. Competing Logics of Public Order: Matrimony and the Fight against Illicit Sexuality in Germany and Switzerland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Susanna Burghartz (University of Basel) 7. Marriage and Love in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spain Jesus M. Usunariz (University of Navarra) 8. Marriage in Sweden 1400-1700: Formalism, Collectivism and Control Mia Korpiola (University of Helsinski) Section III: Uniformity and Singularity 9. Marriage in France from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: Political and Juridical Aspects Anne Lefebvre-Teillard (University of Paris Law School) 10. Mixed Marriages in Early Modern Europe Cecilia Cristellon (University of Frankfurt) 11. Conjugal Experiments in Europe 1400-1800 Silvana Seidel Menchi (University of Pisa) Conclusion Silvana Seidel Menchi Bibliography and Abbreviations Subject Index Index of Historical Names
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