Gender studies, gender groups Books

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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Book SynopsisIn Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines how violence is remembered by Afghan women through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora.Trade Review“Dossa’s approach is to look at the memory of violence among women in Afghanistan and in Canada, which demonstrates how the act of remembering and sharing history can empower women and reshape and re-appropriate global narratives about conflict. Less a study of civic groups and more a reflection on the women who inhabit them, her text demonstrates some of the ways disenfranchised individuals can use everyday practices around things like food to resist the relentless oppression of the memory of violence.” -- Noah Coburn, Bennington College * PoLAR Online *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One. Epistemology and Methodology Chapter Two. Testimonial Narratives Chapter Three. Bearing Witness Chapter Four. The Fire of the Hearth will not be Extinguished Chapter Five. Foodscapes Conclusion. Towards an Engaged Anthropology Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Valerii Pereleshin: The Life of a Silkworm, Bakich delves deep into Pereleshin's poems and letters to tell the rich life story of this underappreciated writer.Trade Review'This book offers its reader a mind-blowing adventure: it is the story of the life and writing of a twentieth century Russian poet at once too strange, too radical, and too good to be true.' -- Polina Barskova The Russian review vol 75:02:2016Table of ContentsBrief Outline of Valerii Pereleshin's Life Preface PART ONE: CHINA, 1920-1952 1. Russian Childhood 2. Harbin: On the Way of Becoming a Poet 3. Harbin: The Poet as a Monk 4. Beijing: "Wonderful, Beloved City" 5. Shanghai: Fogs and Chimeras 6. The Long Farewell PART TWO: BRAZIL, 1953-1992 7. Cidada marvelhosa 8. Resurrection of a Poet 9. From Mount Nebo 10. The Lefthander 11. New Roads and Great Loss 12. Growing Recognition 13. Last Love, Last Books, Last Years

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Book SynopsisIn Homes and Homecomings an international group of scholars provide inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings. Using innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, the book examines case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings Takes an historical approach to a subject area that is surprisingly little historicised Features original research from a group of international scholars The book has an international approach that focuses on Africa, Asia, the Americas and East and West Europe Contains original illustrations of homes in a variety of historical contexts Trade Review“This book is of value to students and scholars in social sciences and the humanities interested in gendered perspectives on home and domestic life.” (International Journal of Housing Policy, 21 June 2013)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gendering Histories of Homes and Homecomings (K. H. Adler). 1. Communist Comfort: Socialist Modernism and the Making of Cosy Homes in the Khrushchev Era (Susan E. Reid). 2. Corporate Domesticity and Idealised Masculinity: Royal Naval Officers and their Shipboard Homes, 1918–39 (Quintin Colville). 3. Men Making Home: Masculinity and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Karen Harvey). 4. 'Who Should Be the Author of a Dwelling?' Architects versus Housewives in 1950s France (Nicole Rudolph). 5. Ideal Homes and the Gender Politics of Consumerism in Postcolonial Ghana, 1960–70 (Bianca Murillo). 6. 'The Dining Room Should Be the Man's Paradise, as the Drawing Room Is the Woman's': Gender and Middle-Class Domestic Space in England, 1850–1910 (Jane Hamlett). 7. 'There Is Graite Odds between A Mans being At Home And A Broad': Deborah Read Franklin and the Eighteenth-Century Home (Vivian Bruce Conger). 8. Sexual Politics and Socialist Housing: Building Homes in Revolutionary Cuba (Carrie Hamilton). 9. 'The White Wife Problem': Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa (Carina E. Ray). 10. From Husbands and Housewives to Suckers and Whores: Marital-Political Anxieties in the 'House of Egypt', 1919–48 (Lisa Pollard). 11. Double Displacement: Western Women's Return Home from Japanese Internment in the Second World War (Christina Twomey). Notes on Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media offers original insights into the complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media, and in doing so, showcases new research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory. Brings together a collection of new, cutting-edge research exploring a number of different facets of the broad relationship between gender and media Moves beyond associating gender with man/woman and instead considers the relationship between the construction of gender norms, biological sex and the mediation of sex and sexuality Offers genuinely new insights into the complicated and complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media Essay topics range from the continuing sexism of TV advertising to ways in which the internet is facilitating the (re)invention of our sexual selves. Trade Review"For instructors looking to expand their students’ knowledge of sexuality and gender beyond simple categorical and inflexible definitions, The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and the Media, edited by Karen Ross, is a gift made even more attractive in that the concepts are explored within the context of many students’ favorite topic: media. Additionally, this volume is a treasure for researchers and theorists looking for a current and diverse collection of original research within this body of knowledge. Key strengths of the text include the clarity of the overall organization, the appealing and thoughtful overview chapters at the beginning of each section, and the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches utilized by the authors." (Sex Roles, 1 February 2013)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xix Editor’s Introduction xx Part I Mediated Women 1 1 The Geography of Women and Media Scholarship 3 Carolyn M. Byerly 2 Chilean Women in Changing Times: Media Images and Social Understandings 20 Claudia Bucciferro 3 The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria 35 Elza Ibroscheva and Maria Stover 4 Gossip Blogs and ‘Baby Bumps’: The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Media 53 Erin Meyers 5 Fanfiction and Webnovelas: The Digital Reading and Writing of Brazilian Adolescent Girls 71 Ilana Eleá 6 Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and Postfeminist Discourse 88 Limor Shifman and Dafna Lemish Part II Rugged Masculinity and Other Fables 105 7 Men, Masculinities, and the Cave Man 107 Jeffery P. Dennis 8 Rhetorical Masculinity: Authoritative Utterance and the Male Protagonist 118 Stuart Price 9 Conan the Blueprint: The Construction of Masculine Prototypes in Genre Films 135 Guido Ipsen 10 Save the Cheerleader, Save the Males: Resurgent Protective Paternalism in Popular Film and Television after 9/11 157 Sarah Godfrey and Hannah Hamad 11 Fucking Vito: Masculinity and Sexuality in The Sopranos 174 Lynne Hibberd 12 Studio5ive.com: Selling Cosmetics to Men and Reconstructing Masculine Identity 189 Claire Harrison Part III Queering the Pitch 205 13 No Hard Feelings: Reflexivity and Queer Affect in the New Media Landscape 207 Katherine Sender 14 The L Word: Producing Identities through Irony 226 Julie Scanlon 15 Andro- phobia?: When Gender Queer is too Queer for L Word Audiences 241 Rebecca Kern 16 Questioning Queer Audiences: Exploring Diversity in Lesbian and Gay Men’s Media Uses and Readings 260 Alexander Dhoest and Nele Simons 17 ‘In Touch’ with the Female Body: Cinema, Sport, and Lesbian Representability 277 Katharina Lindner 18 Why Doesn’t your Compass Work?: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantasy Blockbusters, and Contemporary Queer Theory 294 Martin Fradley 19 Raised Voices: Homophobic Abuse as a Catalyst for Coming Out in US Teen Television Drama Series 313 Susan Berridge 20 Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses 326 Matthew Heinz 21 Transgendered Saints and Harlots: Reproduction of Popular Brazilian Transgender Stereotypes through Performance on Stage, on Screen, and in Everyday Life 344 Johannes Sjöberg Part IV Women, Men, and Gender 363 22 Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond 365 Cynthia Carter 23 Colin Won’t Drink out of a Pink Cup 383 Barbara Mitra and Jenny Lewin- Jones 24 Postfeminism Meets Hegemonic Masculinities: Young People Read the ‘Knowing Wink’ in Advertising 401 Sue Abel 25 Communication as Commodification: Video Technology and the Gendered Gaze 419 Corinna Chong, Heather Molyneaux, and Hélène Fournier 26 Dutch Moroccan Girls Performing their Selves in Instant Messaging Spaces 436 Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi Part V All about Sex 455 27 Sex and the Media 457 Feona Attwood 28 Deliciously Consumable: The Uses and Abuses of Irony in ‘Sex-Trafficking’ Campaign Films 470 Jane Arthurs 29 The Sex Inspectors: Self-help, Makeover, and Mediated Sex 487 Laura Harvey and Rosalind Gill 30 Enacting Bodies: Online Dating and New Media Practices 502 Begonya Enguix and Elisenda Ardévol 31 Gender and Sexuality in the Internet Era 516 Panayiota Tsatsou 32 Gay for Pay: The Internet and the Economics of Homosexual Desire 535 John Mercer Index 552

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Book SynopsisAn insight into some of the central debates and questions about gender and the family, examined through the lens of moral panic.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Viviene E. Cree; 1. Women and children first. Contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the state - Morena Tartari; 2. Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale - Dawn Mannay; 3. Making a moral panic - ‘Feral families’, family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand: Doing the work of the state? - Liz Beddoe; 4. The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting - Sally Brown; 5. Amoral panic: The fall of the autonomous family and the rise of ‘early intervention’ - Stuart Waiton; Afterword Maggie Mellon

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, offering both a new perspective for an international audience, and suggesting how equality might be re-thought more generally.Trade Review"Is gender equality a mantra disguising other inequalities? Is it a Swedish myth which creates Sweden as the most modern nation in the world? Find out in this inspiring book!" Harriet Silius, Åbo Akademi University, Finland"A thought-provoking book providing a penetrating analysis of the tensions and contradictions in the notion of gender equality in Sweden, this publication is a very welcomed contribution to the literature in the field" Sara Clavero, Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics, Queen's University BelfastTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Lena Martinsson, Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Giritli-Nygren; When feminism became gender equality and antiracism turned into diversity management ~ Paulina de los Reyes; Normalization meets governmentality: Gender equality reassembled ~ Siv Fahlgren, Katarina Giritli-Nygren and Anders Johansson; Emotionally charged: Visualizations of gender equality ~ Kajsa Widegren; Gender equality under threat? Exploring the dilemmas of an ethno-nationalist political party ~ Diana Mulinari; Re-thinking gender equality and the Swedish welfare state: A view from outside ~ Gabriele Griffin; How is the myth of Swedish gender equality upheld outside of Sweden? A case study ~ Nina Lykke; What should we do instead? Gender equality projects and feminist critique ~ Angelika Sjöstedt Landén and Gunilla Olofsdotter; Frictions and new figurations: What is happening to the gender equality norm? ~ Lena Martinsson.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, offering both a new perspective for an international audience, and suggesting how equality might be re-thought more generally.Trade Review"Is gender equality a mantra disguising other inequalities? Is it a Swedish myth which creates Sweden as the most modern nation in the world? Find out in this inspiring book!" Harriet Silius, Åbo Akademi University, Finland"A thought-provoking book providing a penetrating analysis of the tensions and contradictions in the notion of gender equality in Sweden, this publication is a very welcomed contribution to the literature in the field" Sara Clavero, Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics, Queen's University BelfastTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Lena Martinsson, Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Giritli-Nygren; When feminism became gender equality and antiracism turned into diversity management ~ Paulina de los Reyes; Normalization meets governmentality: Gender equality reassembled ~ Siv Fahlgren, Katarina Giritli-Nygren and Anders Johansson; Emotionally charged: Visualizations of gender equality ~ Kajsa Widegren; Gender equality under threat? Exploring the dilemmas of an ethno-nationalist political party ~ Diana Mulinari; Re-thinking gender equality and the Swedish welfare state: A view from outside ~ Gabriele Griffin; How is the myth of Swedish gender equality upheld outside of Sweden? A case study ~ Nina Lykke; What should we do instead? Gender equality projects and feminist critique ~ Angelika Sjöstedt Landén and Gunilla Olofsdotter; Frictions and new figurations: What is happening to the gender equality norm? ~ Lena Martinsson.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to analyse the use of rape as a tactic of war and international progress away from tacit acceptance to active rejection of this violation of international law. Including powerful testimonies of victims, it is a much-needed volume for academic and professional communities.Trade Review"Meticulously details the strengths and limitations of international responses to rape in war. Fitzpatrick’s analysis is clear: rape in conflict is not inevitable, but a deliberate strategy to control and dehumanize." Victoria Canning, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Tactical rape and sexual violence in conflict; The context; Critical commentary; Tactical rape in the former Yugoslavia; Tactical rape and genocide in Rwanda; UNSCR 1325; After UNSCR 1325 at the UNSC; Women and security; Significant progress and ongoing challenges; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to analyse the use of rape as a tactic of war and international progress away from tacit acceptance to active rejection of this violation of international law. Including powerful testimonies of victims, it is a much-needed volume for academic and professional communities.Trade Review"Meticulously details the strengths and limitations of international responses to rape in war. Fitzpatrick’s analysis is clear: rape in conflict is not inevitable, but a deliberate strategy to control and dehumanize." Victoria Canning, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Tactical rape and sexual violence in conflict; The context; Critical commentary; Tactical rape in the former Yugoslavia; Tactical rape and genocide in Rwanda; UNSCR 1325; After UNSCR 1325 at the UNSC; Women and security; Significant progress and ongoing challenges; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisMiriam David celebrates the achievements of international feminists as activists and scholars and provides a critique of the expansion of global higher education masking their pioneering zeal and zest for knowledge.Trade Review"The final result is a book shining with personal memories and tributes to individual women, as well as intelligent ― but not heavy-going ― discussion of the development of the women’s movement and of the contributions of feminist scholars over the years." Older Feminist Network Newsletter"David writes accessibly, punctuating her political and sociological commentary with personal reflections that are elegantly informed, and underpinned by her long career as feminist academic and activist." Emma Rees, Times Higher Education“Immensely readable and informative, this book brings together the history and sociology of feminism in Britain and beyond for new students, delighting older feminists with its remarkable wisdom about the past.” Professor Sharon Lamb, University of Massachusetts Boston"This inspiring and important memoir shows David at her best - as rigorous and seasoned scholar, academic and activist, as well as consummate reporter of the achievements and thoughts of feminists of different generations." Professor Helen Taylor, University of Exeter"This is a treasure for feminism and where it is going! A comprehensive, up-to-the-minute history, challenging HE to re-commit, in solidarity with ALL women, to face down the rampant misogyny that neo-liberalism has produced" Berny McMahon, Maynooth University"This book powerfully sets out how reclaiming and reinventing feminist futures continues to matter. It's a must read for new generations of academic feminists struggling to challenge and change neo-patriarchal structures and practices in education and beyond." Professor Emma Renold, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsA note about the waves of feminism; 1. Feminist reflections on a lifetime in academe; 2. Changing feminism; 3. Feminist pioneers; 4. Gender and generations; 5. Cultivating feminists; 6. A feminist resurgence; 7. Feminists on campus; 8. Feminist fortunes;

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing.Trade Review“This is a comprehensive and detailed book, and it makes a distinctive contribution to the field… an essential and key text for all those interested in ageing and social justice issues.” International Journal of Ageing and Later LifeTable of ContentsForeword ~ Sara Arber; Introduction: intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities ~ Andrew King, Kathryn Almack and Rebecca L. Jones; PART 1: Theoretical interpolations; Part Introduction; On the intersection of age, gender and sexualities in research on ageing ~ Toni Calasanti; The queer subject of ‘getting on’ ~ Yvette Taylor; Transgender ageing: community resistance and well-being in the life course ~ Vanessa Fabbre and Anna Siverskog; PART 2: Representations; Part Introduction; Endogenous misery: menopause in medicine, literature and culture ~ Elizabeth Barry Representations of female ageing and sexuality: Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Angela Carter’s Wise Children and Doris Lessing’s ‘The grandmothers’ ~ Maricel Oró Piqueras; ‘Last-minute mothers’: the construction of age and midlife motherhood in Denmark and Israel ~ Kinneret Lahad and Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen; PART 3: Dis/empowerments; Part Introduction; All change please: education, mobility and habitus dislocation ~ Jill Wilkens; Insider or outsider? Issues of power and habitus during life history interviews with menopausal Iranian women ~ Elham Amini; Sexual expression and sexual practices in long-term residential facilities for older people ~ Feliciano Villar; Sexual and gender diversity, ageing and elder care in South Africa: voices and realities ~ Finn Reygan and Jamil Khan; PART 4: Health and well-being; Part Introduction ; Health and well-being of lesbians, gay men and bisexual people in later life: examining the commonalities and differences from quantitative research ~ Mark Hughes; Questioning the sexy oldie: masculinity, age and sexuality in the Viagra era ~ Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto; Intersecting identities of age, gender and sexual orientation in gay and bisexual men’s narratives of prostate cancer ~ Julie Fish.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the first in-depth overview of research and practice in GBV in universities. It sets out the international context of ideologies, politics and institutional structures that underlie responses to GBV in elsewhere in Europe, in the US, and in Australia, and consider the implications of implementing related policy and practice.Trade Review“This book certainly fills a gap, is very topical and brings together thinking and practice in an under researched yet increasingly debated area.” Jane Ellis, Anglia Ruskin UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: some reflections in these promising and challenging times ~ Sundari Anitha and Ruth Lewis; SECTION I – The problem; A continuum of acceptability: understanding young people’s views on gender based violence ~ Vanita Sundaram; ‘Lad culture’ and sexual violence against students ~ Alison Phipps; SECTION 2 - Histories and politics of educational interventions against gender based violence in international contexts; Sexual violence on US college campuses: history and challenges ~ Renate Klein; Grounds for concern: an Australian perspective on responses to sexual assault and harassment in university settings ~ Andrea Durbach and Rosemary Grey; Preventing gender based violence in UK universities: the policy context ~ Anni Donaldson, Melanie McCarry, Aimee McCullough; SECTION 3 - Challenges and interventions in the UK; Student feminist activism to challenge gender based violence ~ Ruth Lewis and Susan Marine; Using the law to challenge gender based violence in university communities ~ Louise Whitfield; The Intervention Initiative: theoretical underpinnings, development and implementation ~ Rachel A. Fenton and Helen L. Mott; Understanding student responses to gender based violence on campus: negotiation, reinscription and resistance~ Ana Jordan, Sundari Anitha, Jill Jameson and Zowie Davy; Tackling gender based violence in university communities: a practitioner perspective ~ Ellie Hutchinson; Conclusion: setting the agenda for challenging gender based violence in universities ~ Ruth Lewis and Sundari Anitha.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Sara Arber; Introduction: intersections of ageing, gender and sexualities ~ Andrew King, Kathryn Almack and Rebecca L. Jones; PART 1: Theoretical interpolations; Part Introduction; On the intersection of age, gender and sexualities in research on ageing ~ Toni Calasanti; The queer subject of ‘getting on’ ~ Yvette Taylor; Transgender ageing: community resistance and well-being in the life course ~ Vanessa Fabbre and Anna Siverskog; PART 2: Representations; Part Introduction; Endogenous misery: menopause in medicine, literature and culture ~ Elizabeth Barry Representations of female ageing and sexuality: Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Angela Carter’s Wise Children and Doris Lessing’s ‘The grandmothers’ ~ Maricel Oró Piqueras; ‘Last-minute mothers’: the construction of age and midlife motherhood in Denmark and Israel ~ Kinneret Lahad and Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen; PART 3: Dis/empowerments; Part Introduction; All change please: education, mobility and habitus dislocation ~ Jill Wilkens; Insider or outsider? Issues of power and habitus during life history interviews with menopausal Iranian women ~ Elham Amini; Sexual expression and sexual practices in long-term residential facilities for older people ~ Feliciano Villar; Sexual and gender diversity, ageing and elder care in South Africa: voices and realities ~ Finn Reygan and Jamil Khan; PART 4: Health and well-being; Part Introduction ; Health and well-being of lesbians, gay men and bisexual people in later life: examining the commonalities and differences from quantitative research ~ Mark Hughes; Questioning the sexy oldie: masculinity, age and sexuality in the Viagra era ~ Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto; Intersecting identities of age, gender and sexual orientation in gay and bisexual men’s narratives of prostate cancer ~ Julie Fish.

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Book SynopsisOffering important nuances and crucial insights into diverse gender identities and trans-related healthcare inequalities, this ground-breaking research marks an important contribution to the wider fields of gender studies, LGBTQ scholarship and medical policy.Table of ContentsIntroduction Transgender and Medicine Moving Beyond the Binary in Transgender Studies 'Not Trans Enough': The Relationship between Non-Binary Gender Identities, Uncertainty, and Legitimacy Non-Binary Times, Non-Binary Places: Communities and their Intersections Views of the Clinic: Non-Binary Perceptions of Primary (and Non-Transition Related Secondary) Care Services Ticking the Legitimising Boxes? Non-Binary Perceptions of Gender Identity Clinics Conclusion

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Book SynopsisOffering important nuances and crucial insights into diverse gender identities and trans-related healthcare inequalities, this ground-breaking research marks an important contribution to the wider fields of gender studies, LGBTQ scholarship and medical policy.Table of ContentsIntroduction Transgender and Medicine Moving Beyond the Binary in Transgender Studies 'Not Trans Enough': The Relationship between Non-Binary Gender Identities, Uncertainty, and Legitimacy Non-Binary Times, Non-Binary Places: Communities and their Intersections Views of the Clinic: Non-Binary Perceptions of Primary (and Non-Transition Related Secondary) Care Services Ticking the Legitimising Boxes? Non-Binary Perceptions of Gender Identity Clinics Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDrawing on research from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice research network, this collection sheds new light on the experiences of women and families who encounter the UK criminal justice system. Contributions demonstrate how these groups are often ignored, oppressed and victimised, and offer insights and practical recommendations for change.Table of ContentsForeword: critical reflections from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network - Jenny Earle 1. Starting the conversation: an introduction to the WFCJ network - Isla Masson and Natalie Booth 2. Playing the game: women and community punishment - Nicola Harding 3. Harmful social and cultural practices that exist within South Asian communities in the UK and their impact on women - Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan and Isla Masson 4. Exploring shame, love and healing within women’s recovery: an analysis of a trauma-specific intervention - Alexandria Bradley, Kirsty Day and Rose Mahon 5. Reducing the enduring harm of short terms of imprisonment - Isla Masson 6. ‘Without it you’re lost’: examining the role and challenges of family engagement services in prisons - Erin Power 7. What are the challenges and opportunities for schools in supporting children of people in prison? - Anna Jones 8. Impact and engagement work in the context of families of people in prison - Anna Kotova 9. Presence, voice and reflexivity in feminist and creative research: a personal and professional reflection - Lucy Baldwin 10. Service users being used: thoughts to the research community - Michaela Booth and Paula Harriott 11. Continuing the conversation: reflections from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network - Lucy Baldwin, Isla Masson and Natalie Booth

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Book SynopsisDrawing on research from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice research network, this collection sheds new light on the experiences of women and families who encounter the UK criminal justice system. Contributions demonstrate how these groups are often ignored, oppressed and victimised, and offer insights and practical recommendations for change.Table of ContentsForeword: critical reflections from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network - Jenny Earle 1. Starting the conversation: an introduction to the WFCJ network - Isla Masson and Natalie Booth 2. Playing the game: women and community punishment - Nicola Harding 3. Harmful social and cultural practices that exist within South Asian communities in the UK and their impact on women - Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan and Isla Masson 4. Exploring shame, love and healing within women’s recovery: an analysis of a trauma-specific intervention - Alexandria Bradley, Kirsty Day and Rose Mahon 5. Reducing the enduring harm of short terms of imprisonment - Isla Masson 6. ‘Without it you’re lost’: examining the role and challenges of family engagement services in prisons - Erin Power 7. What are the challenges and opportunities for schools in supporting children of people in prison? - Anna Jones 8. Impact and engagement work in the context of families of people in prison - Anna Kotova 9. Presence, voice and reflexivity in feminist and creative research: a personal and professional reflection - Lucy Baldwin 10. Service users being used: thoughts to the research community - Michaela Booth and Paula Harriott 11. Continuing the conversation: reflections from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network - Lucy Baldwin, Isla Masson and Natalie Booth

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Book SynopsisWomen and Sport: Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration is a comprehensive textbook for interdisciplinary courses that focus on women and gender studies in sport. It provides readers with thought-provoking discussions about the history, evolution, and current role of women in sport.Table of ContentsPart I Women’s Sport in Context: Connecting Past and PresentChapter 1. Women’s Sport Through the Lens of History Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD Women’s Education in the Late 1800s Female Complaints and the Suspect Science of Female Weakness Women’s Physical Education and the Fair but Weaker Sex Learning Aids Chapter 2. Title IX and Beyond: The Impact of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements on Women’s Sport Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD The Story Behind Title IX A Brief Overview of Title IX’s Legislative History Growth in Athletic Programs Since Title IX What Every Citizen Should Know About Title IX The Future of Title IX Learning Aids Chapter 3. Women’s Sport in the 21st Century Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD Sport Involvement for Women and Girls: Changes in Baseline Data The Concept of the Female Athlete Paradox Paradox of the Female Athlete Warrior Paradox of the Strong Female Athlete Who Feels the Need to Apologize for Being Strong Paradox of Femininity and Muscularity Transcending the Paradox: The Female Athlete Who Is Unapologetic Separate But Equal: Does It Remove or Reinforce the Paradoxes That Affect Female Athletes? Learning Aids Part II Strong Girls, Strong WomenChapter 4. Benefits and Risks of Sport Participation by Women and Girls Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD Educational Attainment and Sport Participation Physical Health Benefits of Female Sport Participation Female Athletes, Mental Toughness, and Depression Female Athletes and Substance Use and Abuse Sexual Risk Prevention and the Female Athlete Female Athlete Triad: Disordered Eating, Amenorrhea, and Bone Health Female Athletes and Injuries Learning Aids Chapter 5. Physiology and the Female Athlete: Is Biology Destiny? Katie Sell, PhD, and Sharon Phillips, PhD Prepubescent Training Differences in Boys and Girls Differences in Pubescent Fitness Development for Boys and Girls Impact of Early Maturation on Athletic Performance Menstruation and Athletic Performance Post-Pubertal Physiological Differences and Performance Variability Training Implications for Female Athletes Physiological Differences and Injury Risk Women, the Media, and Perception Learning Aids Part III Women, Sport, and Social LocationChapter 6. Experiences of Female Athletes of Color Jacqueline McDowell, PhD, and Akilah Carter-Francique, PhD Living on the Margins: Women of Color Sporting Experiences of Women of Color in the United States Creating Positive Sporting Experiences for Women of Color Learning Aids Chapter 7. Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: Inclusion and Prejudice in Sport Vikki Krane, PhD Transgender Youth Sport Participants Post-Pubescent and Adult Transgender Athletes Sexual Orientation and Women’s Sport Consequences of Heteronormativity, Homonegativism, and Transnegativism Accepting and Affirming Sport Climates Learning Aids Chapter 8. Women’s Sport and Aging Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD Women, Aging, and U.S. Sport Participation Trends Culture, Aging, and the Older Woman Competitive Sport Opportunities for Older Women Benefits of Sports Participation for Older Women Successful Aging Through Continued Sport Participation Barriers to Older Women’s Sport Participation Learning Aids Chapter 9. Women With Disabilities in Sport Mary A. Hums, PhD History of Sport for People With Disabilities Participation of Female Athletes With Disabilities Legal System as an Access Tool Women as Leaders in Sport for People with Disabilities The Future for Girls and Women With Disabilities in Sport Learning Aids Chapter 10. Women, Sport, and Sexual Violence Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD Prevalence of the Sexual Victimization of Girls and Women in Sport The Blurring of Boundaries in Coach–Athlete Relationships Legal Avenues Education and Prevention Programs Learning Aids Part IV Women in the Sport IndustryChapter 11. Women, Media, and Sport Marie Hardin, PhD, and Dunja Antunovic, PhD History of Women in Sports Media Challenges for Women in Sports Media Parallels: Women Covering, Women Competing Female Athletes and the Media Learning Aids Chapter 12. Female Leaders in Corporate Sport Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD, and Maureen Smith, PhD Mapping Gender and the Sport Workplace Explanations for the Scarcity of Women Working in Corporate Sport Importance of Stories About Female Executives in Sport Learning Aids Chapter 13. Female Leaders in High School and College Sport Workplaces Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD Gendered Nature of High School and College Sport Workplace Settings Jobs for Women in School-Based Sport Settings Women’s Representation in High School and College Sport Workplaces Hiring, Retention, and Advancement of Women in School Sport Workplaces The Future For Women in High School and College Sport Workplaces Learning Aids Chapter 14. Merchandising and Marketing Women’s Sports Corinne Farneti, PhD Women as Consumers and Fans Merchandising and Sporting Goods Targeted to Female Consumers Approaches to Women’s Sport Marketing Efforts to Market Women’s Sport Sport Marketing Tactics Missed Opportunities to Market Women’s Sport Learning Aids Chapter 15. Influence of Religion and Politics on Women’s Sport Carole Oglesby, PhD Religion, Tradition, and Power Positions for Women in Sport Governance Transformation of Gender Politics in Sport Know the System Principles and Mission of the Olympic Movement Women’s Progressing Influence Outside and Inside Sport Learning Aids Epilogue: Glimpsing the Future for Girls and Women in Sport Ellen J. Staurowsky, EdD

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery. Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth century through the 1930s, when violent labor protests swept the region, Juanita De Barros takes a comparative approach in analyzing the struggles among former slaves and masters attempting to determine the course of their societies after emancipation. Invested in the success of the great experiment of slave emancipation, colonial officials developed new social welfare and health policies. Concerns about the health and size of ex-slave populations were expressed throughout the colonial world during this period. In the Caribbean, an emergent black middle class, rapidly increasing immigration, and new attitudes toward medicine and society were crucial factors. While hemispheric and diasporic trends influenced the new policies, De Barros sh

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Book SynopsisIn Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral history interviews as well as press accounts, literary works, and other published sources, Hamilton pushes beyond official government rhetoric and explores how the wider changes initiated by the Revolution have affected the sexual lives of Cuban citizens. She foregrounds the memories and emotions of ordinary Cubans and compares these experiences with changing policies and wider social, political, and economic developments to reveal the complex dynamic between sexual desire and repression in revolutionary Cuba. Showing how revolutionary and prerevolutionary values coexist in a potent and sometimes contradictory mix, Hamilton addresses changing patterns in heterosexual relations, competing views

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Book SynopsisAt a moment when “freedom of religion” rhetoric fuels public debate, it is easy to assume that sex and religion have faced each other in pitched battle throughout modern US history. Yet, by tracking the nation's changing religious and sexual landscapes over the twentieth century, this book challenges that zero-sum account of sexuality locked in a struggle with religion.

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Book SynopsisPresents insights from feminist activists from around the US, ranging in age from twenty to fifty. Allowing their voices to take centre stage through the use of in-depth oral history interviews, Rachel Seidman places their narratives in historical context and argues that they help explain how new forms of activism developed and flourished.

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Book SynopsisTaylor Petrey's trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender, sexual difference, and marriage. Drawing on deep archival research, Petrey situates LDS doctrines in gender theory and American religious history since World War II.Trade Review[A] landmark work on gender and sexuality in Mormon thought...Information-packed, with a forceful thesis and jargon-free prose, this is an important contribution to Mormon studies as well as a convincing consideration of the ways religions construct and maintain frameworks. Any academic studying the intersection of religious practice and progressive social change will want to pick this up." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Book SynopsisIn a work brimming with fresh insights about contemporary American food media and culture, Emily Contois shows how the gendered world of food production and consumption has influenced the way we eat and how food itself is central to the contest over our identities.

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Book SynopsisIn a work brimming with fresh insights about contemporary American food media and culture, Emily Contois shows how the gendered world of food production and consumption has influenced the way we eat and how food itself is central to the contest over our identities.Trade ReviewA fascinating work of cultural studies that makes evident the continued power and threat of explicitly gendered food production and consumption in the 21st century. Recommended broadly for students and scholars of fields related to gender, culture, and consumption." - Library Journal

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Book SynopsisMapping out a trajectory that links the sexist buffoonery of Bobby Riggs in the 1970s, the popularity of Rush Limbaugh's screeds against Feminazis in the 1990s, and the present day misogyny underpinning Trumpism, Julie Willett shows what can happen when we neglect or trivialize the political power of humour.

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Book SynopsisMapping out a trajectory that links the sexist buffoonery of Bobby Riggs in the 1970s, the popularity of Rush Limbaugh's screeds against ""Feminazis"" in the 1990s, and the present day misogyny underpinning Trumpism, Julie Willett shows what can happen when we neglect or trivialize the political power of humour.

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Book SynopsisExamining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women - Black and white, enslaved and free - gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

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Book SynopsisExamining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women - Black and white, enslaved and free - gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

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Book SynopsisA fresh examination of antebellum politics that comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861.

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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash.

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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash.

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Book SynopsisIn this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s.

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Book SynopsisIn this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s.

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Book SynopsisIn the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a southern textile worker, and transformed it into the 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labour history that formed the foundation of the film's story.Trade ReviewA deft analysis of the ways in which race, gender, and immigration status determine how media has portrayed the labor movement. Recommended for readers interested in labor history and popular media."—Library Journal

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Book SynopsisIn the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a southern textile worker, and transformed it into the 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labour history that formed the foundation of the film's story.Trade ReviewA deft analysis of the ways in which race, gender, and immigration status determine how media has portrayed the labor movement. Recommended for readers interested in labor history and popular media."—Library Journal

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Book SynopsisIn this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher Kit Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian, and Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, and CIA employee.Trade ReviewFor readers who wish to know more about how history is written, its influencers, their writings, and how figures such as Carson fall from grace. An excellent addition for women's studies collections."—Library Journal"In this sometimes ruminative, sometimes gripping volume, Johnson shows how women's history does not simply add to, but transforms our broader understanding of history. . . . [Writing Kit Carson is] a novel work of scholarship and lyrical narrative, enriched and enlivened with memoir, loaded with impressive research, careful citation, historiography, and bibliography."—Reviews in American History"A capacious and unruly book. It sweeps across more than a century. As it spins its yarn across lives and decades, it moves backward and forward in time. In glorious prose it defies the borders between author and subject, between past and present, and lures the reader into caring about the tangled lives of two women . . . staking their own claim to significance, in part, by their work on Kit Carson. . . . Richly complex."—Missouri Historical Review

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Book SynopsisThis study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America's most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights. Winner, Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, 2015Given Guatemala's record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their grievances and an important tool for advancing their agendas. As both a mirror and an instrument of the state, the judicial system simultaneously illuminates the limits of state rule and the state's ability to co-opt Guatemalans by hearing their voices in court. Against the backdrop of two of Latin America's most oppressive regimes-the dictatorships of Manuel Estrada Cabrera (18981920) and General Jorge Ubico (19311944)-David Carey Jr. explores the ways in which indigenous people, women, and the poor used Guatemala's legal system to manipulate the boundaries between legality and criminality. Using court records that are surprisingly rich in Maya women's voices, he analyzes how bootleggers, cross-dressers, and other litigants crafted their narratives to defend their human rights. Revealing how nuances of power, gender, ethnicity, class, and morality were constructed and contested, this history of crime and criminality demonstrates how Maya men and women attempted to improve their socioeconomic positions and to press for their rights with strategies that ranged from the pursuit of illicit activities to the deployment of the legal system.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Maps, and TablesForeword by Pablo PiccatoAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Justice, Ethnicity, and Gender in Twentieth-Century GuatemalaChapter 1. Dictators, Indígenas, and the Legal System: Intersections of Race and CrimeChapter 2. "Rough and Thorny Terrain": Moonshine, Gender, and EthnicityChapter 3. "Productive Activity": Female Vendors and Ladino Authorities in the MarketChapter 4. Unnatural Mothers and Reproductive Crimes: Infanticide, Abortion, and Cross-DressingChapter 5. Wives in Danger and Dangerous Women: Domestic and Female ViolenceChapter 6. Honorable Subjects: Public Insults, Family Feuds, and State PowerConclusion: Emboldened and ConstrainedAppendicesNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis examination of Tunisia's ruling family between 1700 and 1900 reveals the significance of the palace and the crucial political and economic roles women played in the family's relationship with the imperial government.Trade Review[Kallander] deftly demonstrates that females of the household fit closely and naturally into practices that cemented Husaynid legitimacy. In a word, women, their public work and family relationships were integral to the longevity of Husaynid government. * International Journal of Islamic Architecture *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration Chronology Acknowledgments Part I. Family Foundations of Ottoman Rule Introduction. Families, Households, and Palace Women in Early Modern Court Culture Chapter 1. Family and the Politics of Marriage: The Early Ottoman Era in Tunis (1574–1756) Part II. Family and Provincial Government, 1756–1840 Chapter 2. The Prosperous Palace Chapter 3. Women's Worlds Chapter 4. Beyond Bardo Part III. Nineteenth century Transformations Chapter 5. The Constitution, Financial Reform, and the Modern Family Chapter 6. Inventing Dynastic Traditions: Family Politics of French Colonialism Conclusion Appendix 1. Genealogies Appendix 2. Annual Expense Registers of the Palace Treasury Appendix 3. Income and Expenditures of the Bey Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHere is a detailed investigation of the concept of beauty in Colombia—its cultural and political origins, its expression through fashion and pageants, and its effect on the people of a country plagued by violence, inequality, and corruption.Trade ReviewThe book is successful as an overview of the nation's history, society, and the development of beauty pageants within its borders, and it provides a rich, well-written narrative that is enjoyable to read and full of interesting insights into Colombian culture….Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *Stanfield draws primarily from nineteenth-century travelers’ accounts and newspaper and magazine coverage, particularly publications aimed at a feminine audience. Stanfield provides a helpful resource for researchers looking to familiarize themselves with this aspect of Colombian print culture of the last 150 years. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Setting Chapter 2: “La mujer reina pero no gobierna,” 1845–1885 Chapter 3: Bicycle Race, 1885–1914 Chapter 4: Apparent Modernity, 1914–1929 Chapter 5: Liberal Beauty, 1930–1948 Chapter 6: Exclusive Beasts, 1948–1958 Chapter 7: From Miss Universe to the Anti-Reina, 1958–1968 Chapter 8: Static Government, Social Evolution, 1968–1979 Chapter 9: Pulchritude, the Palacio, and Power, 1979–1985 Conclusion and Epilogue to 2011 Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisViewing the work of twelve prominent photographers, including Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Meyer, and Marcos López, this first far-ranging analysis of gendered perspectives in Latin American photography demonstrates the importance of this art form within Latin American cultural production.Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Dreaming in Feminine: Grete Stern's Photomontages and the Parody of PsychoanalysisChapter 2. Annemarie Heinrich: Photography, Women's Bodies, and Semiotic ExcessChapter 3. Woman, Prostitution, and Modernity in Fin-de-siècle MexicoChapter 4. Buenos Aires and Women in Crisis: The Photography of Silvina FrydlewskyChapter 5. Girls Will Be Girls: Daniela Rossell's Ricas y famosasChapter 6. Pedro Meyer: Constructing Masculinities, Constructing PhotographyChapter 7. Discovering the Male Body: Marcos Zimmermann's Desnudos sudamericanos Chapter 8. Queering Gender in Graciela Iturbide's Juchitán de las mujeres Chapter 9. Guille and Belinda: A Protolesbian Arcadian RomanceChapter 10. Homosocialism \D Homoeroticism in the Photography of Marcos LópezChapter 11. Performing Masculine Heterosexuality in Stefan Ruiz's Photography of Mexican Soap OperasChapter 12. Helen Zout's Desapariciones: Shooting DeathChapter 13. Documentary Photography as Gender Testimony: Daniel Hernández-Salazar's So That All Shall KnowNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisDomestic Disturbances examines the treatment of the traditional immigrant narrative in popular culture, illuminating the possibilities of alternative stories by reading Chicana/Latina-produced texts through a new interpretation of the immigrant paradigm.Trade Review"While Latina/o studies scholars will welcome the opportunity to learn about the important work being down by Latina "genealogists" (Mata's term), the book also has the potential to be a valuable pedagogical tool...Mata is an engaged and engaging writer. Her writing is perceptive, sophisticated, and rigorous." * MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. Dream a Little American Dream: A Traditional Story-Book RomanceChapter Two. Cleaning Up After the National Family, and What a Mess They MakeChapter Three. Laboring Bodies, Laboring Spaces in theHospitality IndustryChapter Four. Calling All Superheroes: Recasting the Immigrant SubjectConclusion. Resistance: A Growing MovementNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWith fascinating glimpses into the lives of working-class men and women, this study of the urbanization of a provincial Egyptian factory town reveals how industrialization transformed masculine and feminine identities, sexualities, and public morality.Trade ReviewIndustrial Sexuality is an important contribution to the fields of both Middle Eastern and gender studies...the meticulous nature of Hammad's work yields a worthy read. * Review of Middle East Studies *Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments A Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations Introduction. Townspeople, Company People, and Textiles: A Woven History Part One. Gendered Experiences Chapter 1. Competing Masculinities: Docile Workers, Aggressive Afandiyya, and the Mechanization of the Modern Subject Chapter 2. Urbanizing Masculinity: Workers, Weavers, and Futuwwat in Violent Alliances and Fluid Identities Chapter 3. Mechanizing Women: Industrial Workers or Women Adrift? Chapter 4. Ladies in Urban Times: Work, Property, and Gender in the Modernity of the Poor Part Two. Industrial Sexuality Chapter 5. Sexually Speaking: Unveiling the Harassment of Women, Child Molestation, Homosexuality, and Hetero-intimacy in Industrial-Urban Space Chapter 6. Striking and Sex-Working: Living with Tuberculosis, Syphilis, and Other Monsters Conclusion. The Anxiety of Transition Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMedia platforms continually evolve, but the issues surrounding media representations of gender and sexuality have persisted across decades. Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism has published groundbreaking articles on gender and sexuality, including some that have become canonical in film studies, since the journal’s founding in 1982. This anthology collects seventeen key articles that will enable readers to revisit foundational concerns about gender in media and discover models of analysis that can be applied to the changing media world today.Spectatorship begins with articles that consider issues of spectatorship in film and television content and audience reception, noting how media studies has expanded as a field and demonstrating how theories of gender and sexuality have adapted to new media platforms. Subsequent articles show how new theories emerged from that initial scholarship, helping to develoTrade ReviewThe essays [in Spectatorship] are interesting and are chock full of the vitality of new academic engagement that remains the strength of the USC journal. * Film International *The ability of Spectatorship’s contributors to touch on such a vast range of alternate subjectivities in its examination of representations of gender and sexuality across a broad media landscape is, undoubtably, its key strength...the volume does a stellar job showcasing a diverse range of perspectives on various related issues. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Gender, Sexuality, and Media: Audience and Spectatorship (Roxanne Samer and William Whittington) Part 1. Revisiting Film Subjects and the Pleasures of Cinema Chapter 1. Feminine Discourse in Blackmail (Amy Lawrence) Chapter 2. Venus in Furs: Masoch, Deleuze, and the Films of von Sternberg (Gaylyn Studlar) Chapter 3. “You Don’t Know What It Is to Look White and Be Black”: The Black Press Mediates Race in the Classic Hollywood Studio System, 1930–1940 (Anna Everett) Chapter 4. Joe Dallesandro—A “Him” to the Gaze: Flesh, Heat, and Trash (Stephen Tropiano) Part 2. Speaking Up and Sounding Out Chapter 5. Unheard Sexualities?: Queer Theory and the Soundtrack (Scott D. Paulin) Chapter 6. The Articulation of Body and Space in Speak Body (Christie Milliken) Chapter 7. “I Kinda Prefer to Be a Human Being”: Roseanne Barr and Defining Working-Class Feminism and Authorship (Melissa Williams) Chapter 8. Riot Grrrl: It’s Not Just Music, It’s Not Just Punk (Mary Celeste Kearney) Part 3. Queering Media Chapter 9. Soap Slash: Gay Men Rewrite the World of Daytime Television Drama (Hollis Griffin) Chapter 10. From Excess to Access: Televising the Subculture (Eric Freedman) Chapter 11. Pronoun Trouble: The “Queerness” of Animation (Sean Griffin) Part 4. Containment and Its Critiques Chapter 12. Of Fleiss and Men: The Transgressions and Containment of a Hollywood Madam (Mary Celeste Kearney) Chapter 13. Out on Stage: LGBT Politics of Entertainment Award Shows (Raffi Sarkissian) Chapter 14. Lesbian Cop, Queer Killer: Leveraging Black Queer Women’s Sexuality on HBO’s The Wire (Jennifer DeClue) Part 5. Fandom and Transmedia Chapter 15. Resurrection of the Vampire and the Creation of Alternative Life: An Introduction to Dark Shadows Fan Culture (Harry M. Benshoff) Chapter 16. The Rumors Are True!: Gossip Girl and the Cooptation of the Cult Fan (Elena Bonomo) Chapter 17. The Trouble with Transmediation: Fandom’s Negotiation of Transmedia Storytelling Systems (Suzanne Scott) Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes spent the Trump years doing what they so often do best: creating politically engaged art, entertainment, and ideas. In the first full-length study of Black queer, cis-, and trans-femininity, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley argues that this creative work offers a distinctive challenge to power structures that limit how we color, gender, and explore freedom. Tinsley engages 2017-2020 Black femme cultural production that colorfully and provocatively imagines freedom in the stark white face of its impossibility. Looking to the music of Janelle Monae and Kelsey Lu, Janet Mock's writing for the television show Pose, the fashion of Indya Moore and (F)empower, and the films of Tourmaline and Juliana Huxtable, as well as poetry and novels, The Color Pynk conceptualizes Black femme as a set of consciously, continually rescripteTrade ReviewThis is not just a book. This is a function. So the question is, what are you going to wear to this gathering? Omise'eke Tinsley gathers us once again, turning her brilliance to creative femmifestations of black femme fierceness in the so-called Trump Era. (Or what I prefer to think of as the Tourmaline Ascendency.) Theorists, fashionistas, sweethearts, and innovators: we are all here in loving revelation. I wear a quilted robe the color of a rose from my grandmother’s garden. I wear a hot-pynk, ribbed tank top screenprinted by a black lesbian yogi. I suggest you wear your curiousity, your vulnerability, and your desire to look like love. -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine MammalsIn The Color Pynk Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley pays homage to the foremothers of Black feminism by developing a Black femme reading practice. Tinsley’s analyses of Black femme cultural production are rendered poetically and with the deft critical eye we have come to expect of her. Indeed, Tinsley’s is one of the most important voices of her generation. -- E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love WomenA beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming. Conjuring a Black femme future with each sentence, Tinsley writes in collaborative solidarity and with love for Black femmes of all shades and genders. With her lyrical prose — in her words a 'joy-tinted freedom song for the twenty-first century'—The Color Pynk manifests Black femme freedom, now and forever. * Autostraddle *Table of Contents Prologue: For Alice Walker Introduction: Femme-inist Is to Feminist as Pynk Is to Pink Part One: Pussy Power and Nonbinary Vaginas Janelle Monáe: Fem Futures, Pynk Pants, and Pussy Power Indya Moore: Nonbinary Wild Vagina Dresses and Biologically Femme Penises Part Two: Hymns for Crazy Black Femmes Kelsey Lu: Braids, Twists, and the Shapes of Black Femme Depression Tourmaline: Head Scarves and Freedom Dreams Part Three: Black Femme Environmentalism for the Futa (F)empower: Swimwear, Wade-Ins, and Trashy Ecofeminism Juliana Huxtable: Black Witch-Cunt Lipstick and Kinky Vegan Femme-inism Conclusion: Where Is the Black in Black Femme Freedom? Epilogue: For My Child Afterword by Candice Lyons: Pynk Parlance, a Glossary Acknowledgments Notes Index

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