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Book SynopsisJean-Thomas Tremblay examines the prominence of breathing in responses to contemporary crises within literature, film, and performance cultures, showing how breathing has emerged as a medium through which biopolitical and necropolitical forces are increasingly exercised and experienced.Trade Review“'Breathing is inevitably morbid,' reads the opening line of Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s exquisite new first monograph, Breathing Aesthetics. . . . By closely studying the writings and performances of Dodie Bellamy, CAConrad, and Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose, Tremblay is attentive to breathing’s knotty role in the space of queer life in how it ‘organizes desire amid crises ranging from the personal to the planetary.’ Similarly, by surveying the Black and Indigenous feminist respiratory rituals outlined in the works of Toni Cade Bambara and Linda Hogan, Tremblay asks us to consider ‘minoritarian models of collective life inspired by respiration,’ those that exist outside of and beyond mainstream feminist spaces of organizing.” -- Ricky Varghese * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Tremblay’s text is an exercise in exchange, in permeability. It begins with an acknowledgement that ‘breathing for’ is in the action of ‘I breathe,’ a ritual Tremblay learns from the poet M. NourbeSe Philip. This acknowledgement of human autopoetic respiration discloses the multiplicity and vulnerability of breathing. . . . Exchange, I have said, includes an etymological link to bartering. And [Breathing Aesthetics is] a bartering with the unknown amidst all too knowable crises." -- Laurel V. McLaughlin * ASAP/Journal *"Tremblay’s book does for breath what scholars like Zoe Todd have done for broad concepts like climate change, which is to push back against the Platonic understanding of said concepts that cannot be confined to a single, material form. Breathing Aesthetics pushes back on the idea of a disembodied breath, of air as a vacuum-like space that surrounds us. . . . Not only are we breathing together, our individual forms part of an amorphous and often chaotic whole, but breath is also being negotiated in a variety of different ways, the morbid and the meditative existing side by side." -- Margaryta Golovchenko * Visual Studies *"What is perhaps most revelatory about Tremblay’s intervention is that there is no call for a full restoration of breath. Notwithstanding its impossibility for minoritarian communities, a return to optimal breathing could only work through a guise of self-determined liberation that masks persisting violence against and estrangement among those whose lives cannot be extricated from conditions of 'breathlessness.' Readers of Breathing Aesthetics will quickly find that Tremblay’s assertion that respiratory crises are contagious between survivor and spectator in that the latter is made to suffer shortages of breath also apply here." -- Jennifer Cho * ISLE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Ecologies of the Particular 1 1. Breathing against Nature 33 2. Aesthetic Self-Medication (Three Regimens) 65 3. Feminist Breathing 94 4. Smog Sensing 113 5. Death in the Form of Life 139 Coda: A Queer Theory of Benign Respiratory Variations 158 Notes 163 Bibliography 197 Index 221

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Book SynopsisExploring her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it, Barbara Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule.Trade Review"An appealing collection of fresh, free-wheeling essays." * Kirkus *Table of ContentsFoibles of Insects and Men 1 The Mother of Forensic Science 39 Dilation and Contraction 57 Suite for Toy Piano 81 Gulliver Phantasies 107 The Handwriting on the Wall 135 Lead Paint and Other Poisons 159 That Which Is More Proportionable to the Smallness of My Abilities 185 Works Cited or Obliquely Referenced 211

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Book SynopsisEd Cohen draws on his experience living with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him—to explore how modern Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” impacts all whose lives are touched by illness.Trade Review"An optimistic, ruminative appreciation for the art, the power, and the cultivation of human healing." * Kirkus Reviews *"On Learning to Heal is affirming, informative, inviting, and accessible. It is revelatory in asking us —chronically ill people in particular—to view our ailing, aching bodies as miraculous in their capacity for healing. Equally fantastic is how it reveals to us the elitist, exclusionary, capital-led history behind belief systems that the medical industry has manufactured as blatant truths." -- Andrea Marks-Joseph * Independent Book Review *"[A] probing critique . . . [I]ncisive and will win over those wary of the outré considerations of the role 'energy' plays in alternative healing. The searching questions raised are well worth considering." * Publishers Weekly *"[Cohen's] story reminds us that words matter, and carefully phrased explanations can facilitate understanding and healing. His journey demonstrates the incredible power of a compassionate and open-minded clinician." -- Franklin Berkley, DO * Family Medicine *"Ed Cohen poses deeper challenges to biomedical thinking, urging his readers to critically consider what happens when the medical encounter becomes a scientific one, and what is thereby lost in terms of other possibilities for embodiment and healing." -- Elizabeth Bernstein * Public Books *"Cohen recalls his harrowing, lifelong, and potentially soul-killing struggle with the vicious and capricious manifestations of a treatable, but incurable, intestinal affliction. In doing so, he casts a historical and philosophical perspective, both scholarly and intensely personal, on the meaning of healing beyond and within centuries of medical science, practice, and theory. He finds new ways to live and cultivate the vis medicatrix naturae (or healing power of nature) as distinct from and parallel to the treat-and-cure efforts of the physicians and hospitals that have ameliorated his symptoms and saved his life. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers." * Choice *Table of ContentsPrologue: Invoking Healing xi Acknowledgments xv A Note on Shit xvii Overture. Healing as Desire and Value 1 1. Healing Tendencies 17 2. We Are More Complicated Than We Know 49 3. We Are More Imaginative Than We Think 81 4. When We Learn to Heal, It Matters 121 Coda: Healing with COVID, or Why Medicine is Not Enough 161 Notes 163 Bibliography 195 Index 211

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Book SynopsisIn Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized by long-standing secularist laws and disdained by contemporary Islamist government, fortunetelling cafés proliferate in part because they offer shelter from the conservative secularist, Islamist, neoliberal, and gender pressures of the public sphere. Korkman shows how fortunetelling is a form of affective labor through which its participants build intimate feminized publics in which they share and address their hopes and fears. Korkman uses feeling—which is how her interlocutors describe the divination process—as an analytic to view the shifting landscape of gendered vulnerability in Turkey. In so doing, Korkman foregrounds “feeling” as a feminist lens to explore how those who are pushed to the margins feel their way through oppresTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Gendered Fortunes 1 Part I. The Religious, the Superstitious, and the Postsecular 1. Crimes of Divination 37 2. The Gendered Politics of Secularism 59 3. Feeling Postsecular 87 Part II. Femininity, Intimacy, and Publics 4. Feeling Publics of Femininity 111 5. The Joys and Perils of Intimacy 139 Part III. Feeling Labor, Precarity, and Entrepreneurialism 6. Feeling Labors of Divination 161 7. Entrepreneurial Fortunes 193 Coda. Feminist Divinations 221 Notes 225 References 241 Index 263

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Book SynopsisTravis S. K. Kong analyzes the changing conditions and meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.Trade Review“Challenging the teleological trajectory of the sexual emancipation model through sociological analysis and compelling storytelling, Sexuality and the Rise of China argues that assessments of social openness cannot reveal the full complexities of inter-Asian constructions of queer lives. Travis S. K. Kong is particularly insightful in demonstrating how the intertwining of the state, politics, and sexuality leads to some unexpected findings about the acceptance or repression of gay rights.” -- Lisa Rofel, author of * Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture *"The combination of ethnographic detail and nuanced analysis make Sexuality and the Rise of China a fascinating, compelling and highly readable account of the social shaping of tongzhi lives." -- Stevi Jackson * Asian Anthropology *"The transnational queer sociology approach used in this study has resulted in a detailed and revealing account of how the post-90s gay generation in Greater China are negotiating their lives, relationships, and identities under the sway of rapid socio-economic and political change. In addition, the study offers a set of innovative and instructive theoretical and methodological ways forward, ones that are locally or regionally sensitive, to research the sociopolitical dimensions of sexuality beyond dominant Western paradigms and sensibilities. Thus, for anyone with research interests in sexuality issues in Greater China and other Asian regions, Kong’s book will become foundational reading. Finally, and in the spirit of transdisciplinarity, the book will provide those of us who are working on queer issues from other backgrounds (for example, in language/discourse studies, anthropology, education studies, or social work) much inspiration." -- Benedict J.L. Rowlett * Journal of Homosexuality *"For anyone working on sexual cultures in East Asia and beyond, this book is essential reading. Its readability and clarity, and profoundly personal style of writing, without compromising on theoretical depth, also make it highly recommended for teaching purposes." -- Jeroen de Kloet * China Information *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Note on Romanization xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Queering Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China 26 2. Coming Out as Relational Politics 62 3. Tongzhi Commons, Community, and Collectivity 86 4. Love and Sex as Cruel Optimism 108 5. Homosexuality, Homonationalism, and Homonormativity 130 Conclusion 155 Glossary 173 Notes 175 Works Cited 193 Index 223

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Book SynopsisThis volume reassesses the film and television work of award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes in light of his longstanding feminist commitments and his exceptional position as a director of women’s films.Trade Review“I love Reframing Todd Haynes. It was an extraordinary experience to fall down the rabbit hole with this book and revisit the films I thought I knew so well! Each chapter brought something fresh and provocative to Todd’s work. I highly recommend it.” -- Christine Vachon“Todd Haynes is one of the most brilliant and innovative filmmakers working today, stretching the limits of genre, film form, and understandings of sexuality. Theresa L. Geller and Julia Leyda have provided us with a collection of incisive and probing essays by exceptional and influential scholars. The chapters trace the intersection of Haynes’s cinematic ‘thinking’ with constantly evolving feminist discourses and reveal the complex interweaving of politics, aesthetic form, affect, and critique that subtends his work.” -- Mary Ann Doane, author of * Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema *“Reframing Todd Haynes sets out to assess the influence of feminism, primarily, on Haynes’s oeuvre. Wide-ranging in its themes, methods, and insights, Geller and Leyda’s collection dispels all doubts that a single-director focus might restrict scholarly ambition. . . . The contributors’ patient interpretations make clear that the most meticulous methods for deriving meaning from art often are the most pleasurable to encounter.” -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * Los Angeles Review of Books *“The essays collected here open a variety of new avenues through which to understand Haynes as a feminist filmmaker as much as he is a queer one. . . . Reframing Todd Haynes shows the benefits of re-engaging with what lies in plain sight. The result is a consistently insightful volume that . . . should leave an indelible mark on future studies of Haynes’s work.” -- Edward Jackson * US Studies Online *"An impressive array of scholars in women’s, gender, cinema, and media studies explore Haynes’s influences, interlocutors, and intersections. . . . This is a solid addition to the literature. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- J. I. Deutsch * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Feminism's Indelible Mark / Theresa L. Geller 1 Part I. Influences and Interlocutors 1. Lesbian Reverie: Carol in History and Fantasy / Patricia White 31 2. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine / Julia Leyda 51 3. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body / Rebecca M. Gordon 72 4. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Chrsitine Vachon's Filmic Signature / David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller 91 5. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”: Safe as Feminist Film Praxis / Theresa L. Geller 111 Part II. Intersections and Interventions 6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist Poison / Jess Issacharoff 137 7. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce / Patrick Flanery 158 8. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk / Sharon Willis 173 9. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in Safe, Carol, and Wonderstruck / Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai 200 Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality 10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven / Lynne Joyrich 221 11. It's Not TV, It's Mildred Pierce / Bridget Kies 243 12. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter / Mary R. Desjardins 256 13. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes / Noah A. Tsika 281 14. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan / Nick Davis 299 Filmography 317 References 321 Contributors 341 Index 345

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Book SynopsisExploring her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it, Barbara Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule.Trade Review"An appealing collection of fresh, free-wheeling essays." * Kirkus *Table of ContentsFoibles of Insects and Men 1 The Mother of Forensic Science 39 Dilation and Contraction 57 Suite for Toy Piano 81 Gulliver Phantasies 107 The Handwriting on the Wall 135 Lead Paint and Other Poisons 159 That Which Is More Proportionable to the Smallness of My Abilities 185 Works Cited or Obliquely Referenced 211

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Book SynopsisEd Cohen draws on his experience living with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him—to explore how modern Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” impacts all whose lives are touched by illness.Trade Review"An optimistic, ruminative appreciation for the art, the power, and the cultivation of human healing." * Kirkus Reviews *"On Learning to Heal is affirming, informative, inviting, and accessible. It is revelatory in asking us —chronically ill people in particular—to view our ailing, aching bodies as miraculous in their capacity for healing. Equally fantastic is how it reveals to us the elitist, exclusionary, capital-led history behind belief systems that the medical industry has manufactured as blatant truths." -- Andrea Marks-Joseph * Independent Book Review *"[A] probing critique . . . [I]ncisive and will win over those wary of the outré considerations of the role 'energy' plays in alternative healing. The searching questions raised are well worth considering." * Publishers Weekly *"[Cohen's] story reminds us that words matter, and carefully phrased explanations can facilitate understanding and healing. His journey demonstrates the incredible power of a compassionate and open-minded clinician." -- Franklin Berkley, DO * Family Medicine *"Ed Cohen poses deeper challenges to biomedical thinking, urging his readers to critically consider what happens when the medical encounter becomes a scientific one, and what is thereby lost in terms of other possibilities for embodiment and healing." -- Elizabeth Bernstein * Public Books *"Cohen recalls his harrowing, lifelong, and potentially soul-killing struggle with the vicious and capricious manifestations of a treatable, but incurable, intestinal affliction. In doing so, he casts a historical and philosophical perspective, both scholarly and intensely personal, on the meaning of healing beyond and within centuries of medical science, practice, and theory. He finds new ways to live and cultivate the vis medicatrix naturae (or healing power of nature) as distinct from and parallel to the treat-and-cure efforts of the physicians and hospitals that have ameliorated his symptoms and saved his life. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers." * Choice *Table of ContentsPrologue: Invoking Healing xi Acknowledgments xv A Note on Shit xvii Overture. Healing as Desire and Value 1 1. Healing Tendencies 17 2. We Are More Complicated Than We Know 49 3. We Are More Imaginative Than We Think 81 4. When We Learn to Heal, It Matters 121 Coda: Healing with COVID, or Why Medicine is Not Enough 161 Notes 163 Bibliography 195 Index 211

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Book SynopsisContributors to this special issue explore feminist articulations of mourning that are anchored in slavery, settler occupation, colonialism, migration, and the violence of modern national states. The authors perceive mourning not as a process of individualized grief to be worked through or overcome but as a collective condition that encompasses historical consciousness and contemporary collective action. Essays in the issue cover mourning the mother tongue in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, the aesthetics and politics of brown and queer sorrow, Palestinian reflections on death, poems from a lesbian diasporic body, mother loss in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig, Black maternal necropolitics, and more. By acknowledging the spaces and temporalities in which various manifestations of death abound and by examining mourning as both lineages and possibilities of loss and grief, the authors theorize mourning as an orientation to the world where the past, present, and imminent fu

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Book SynopsisThe Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project to combat gender-based violence and violence against women has folded itself into contemporary world affairs in ways that that harm the very people it seeks to protect.Trade Review“The Cunning of Gender Violence is a riveting and much-needed interdisciplinary collection that aims both to understand and radically shift the securitized, racialized, and imperial approaches to gender violence that dominate law, policy, and the media. Compellingly calling on feminists to recognize the Faustian bargain they have struck by perpetuating these dominant approaches, the book brings to the fore lives and experiences that have often been relegated to the margins of global feminist attention, even as they are at the center of multiple forms of quotidian global and state violence.” -- Karen Engle, author of * author of The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law *“Those committed to an anti-Muslim agenda appoint themselves as modern, humanitarian, democratic, and feminist, a status achieved against a Third World constituted as premodern, illiberal, Muslim, and uniquely given to gender-based violence. It is a major contribution of this book to show how global racial governance is achieved through the idea of gender-based violence as a defining feature of Third World cultures and communities.” -- Sherene H. Razack, author of * Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism *"A remarkable piece of work within the realm of geopolitical feminism. ... It stands out for its sharp acumen and the detailed analysis of scholars who have dedicated themselves to researching and confronting gender-based violence against women in various global contexts." -- Yanyan Zhu * Affilia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Circuits of Power in GBVAW Governance / Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 1 I. Securitization 1. Lawfare, CVE, and International Conflict Feminism / Vasuki Nesiah 55 2. Securofeminism: Embracing a Phantom / Lila Abu-Lughod 88 3. The Role of “Honor Killings” in the Muslim Ban / Leti Volpp 122 4. Because Religion: Does Something Called “Religion” Cause Gender-Based Violence? / Janet R. Jakobsen 151 II. States of Violence, Unruly Subjects 5. GBV and Postcolonial India: Transnational Media, Hindutva, and Muslim Racializations / Inderpal Grewal 177 6. The Politics of Legislating “Honor Crime” in Contemporary Pakistan / Shenila Khoja-Moolji 209 7. State Criminality and Gender-Based Violence: Palestinian Schoolgirls between Books and Rifles / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 233 8. Power, Subjectivity, and Sexuality in Iranian Political Prisons / Shahla Talebi 259 III. Civilizing Interventions: Development and Humanitarianism 9. Child Marriage in the Feminist Imagination / Dina M. Siddiqi 293 10. Catastrophic Aid: GBV Humanitarianism in Gaza / Rema Hammami 324 11. What Counts as Violence? Transgender Refugees, Torture, and Sanctions / Sima Shakhsari 361 IV. Media Frames 12. Weaponized Bodies: Female Genital Mutilation and Immigrant Exclusion / Rafia Zakaria 391 13. Breaking the Frame: The Power of Media Narratives and the Question of Agency / Samira Shackle 405 14. Dressed Up, Stripped Down: Media Depictions of Conflict Rape / Nina Berman 422 Contributors 439 Index 445

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Book SynopsisCeline Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.Trade Review“The relative absence of Asian Americans on the silver screen makes their representation something we cannot not want. In this profound and personal meditation, Celine Parreñas Shimizu cautions us not to assume that representation and belonging go hand in hand. Instead, she analyzes depictions of childhood in Asian American cinema as occasions for working through the psychic traumas that overdetermine our social attachments from the very moment we are born into a world of racial loss and grief.” -- David L. Eng, coauthor of * Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans *“The Movies of Racial Childhoods is like nothing I have ever read. It is a document of a mother grieving, a film scholar theorizing the healing work of narrative cinema, and a filmmaker who understands that ‘trauma demands representation so as to create new realities.’ Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s writing about the death of her child and her devotion to film is both tender and revelatory. Interweaving psychoanalysis, Asian American studies, trauma theory, cinema studies, and personal narrative, Shimizu cultivates space for us to collectively grieve and to reawaken the possibilities of childhood dreaming.” -- Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of * Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration *Table of ContentsPreface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories 1 1. A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace 41 2. The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in Spa Night and Driveways 81 3. Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 117 4. The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissim and Self-Sovereignty in Yellow Rose 151 5. The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It 186 In Closing: The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death 208 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 233

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Book SynopsisCeline Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.Trade Review“The relative absence of Asian Americans on the silver screen makes their representation something we cannot not want. In this profound and personal meditation, Celine Parreñas Shimizu cautions us not to assume that representation and belonging go hand in hand. Instead, she analyzes depictions of childhood in Asian American cinema as occasions for working through the psychic traumas that overdetermine our social attachments from the very moment we are born into a world of racial loss and grief.” -- David L. Eng, coauthor of * Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans *“The Movies of Racial Childhoods is like nothing I have ever read. It is a document of a mother grieving, a film scholar theorizing the healing work of narrative cinema, and a filmmaker who understands that ‘trauma demands representation so as to create new realities.’ Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s writing about the death of her child and her devotion to film is both tender and revelatory. Interweaving psychoanalysis, Asian American studies, trauma theory, cinema studies, and personal narrative, Shimizu cultivates space for us to collectively grieve and to reawaken the possibilities of childhood dreaming.” -- Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of * Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration *Table of ContentsPreface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories 1 1. A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace 41 2. The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in Spa Night and Driveways 81 3. Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 117 4. The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissim and Self-Sovereignty in Yellow Rose 151 5. The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It 186 In Closing: The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death 208 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 233

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Book SynopsisThis field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology.

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Book SynopsisEngaging with a variety of shows, including The League, Dexter, and Nip/Tuck, among many others, this title identifies the gradual incorporation of second-wave feminism into prevailing gender norms as the catalyst for the contested masculinities on display in contemporary cable dramas.Trade Review"Amanda Lotz impressively maps out important features of television's representations of men and shifting masculinities in the 21st century. Her careful analyses of these series makes this book an essential resource for anyone interested in television, gender, and culture." -- Ron Becker,author of Gay TV & Straight America"Cable Guys is an incredible work that should further cement Lotz's place as a considerate yet comprehensive expert on media and gender studies. Her writing . . . oozes confidence, knowledge, and reflection for her themes and televised tales." * PopMatters *"Lotz (communication studies, Univ. of Michigan;Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era) here explores how cable television is dramatizing contemporary American male masculinity. The author identifies and focuses on three narrative types: serials that emphasize the development of of a central male protagonist (e.g.,Breaking Bad; Dexter), shows set in male enclaves (e.g.,Rescue Me; Entourage), and stories featuring intimate male friendships (e.g.,Boston Legal; Nip/Tuck). Lotz argues that these dramas depict straight, largely white men wrestling with what it means to be manly in today's post-second-wave feminism and in the context of rising queer visibility. She concludes that the shows' characters all struggle to combine old and new modes of manhood . . . . Lotz offers a concise and insightful analysis of the productions she does examine. Verdict:Scholars will value Lotz's contribution to media and masculinity studies, as will more casual viewers who enjoy watching cable television with a critical eye." * Library Journal,Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook, Massachusetts Historical Soc. Lib., Boston *"Cable Guysis essential reading for students and scholars working in television studies and in the gendered politics of representation. The book is clear enough to be accessible to anundergraduate audience, while it is also sufficiently subtle and illuminating to be satisfying to more advanced students and scholars.​" * International Journal of Communication,Katherine Sender *"Lotz explores modern visions of masculinity following third wave feminism and epitomized in the rhetoric of male protagonists in cable programming. Mostly eschewing networks depictions of problematized males, Lotz zeroes in on straight male one-on-one friendships, what she calls the & homosocial enclave of the male group, and a genre that particularly challenges male characters, the emerging & male centered-serials." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Understanding Men on Television2. Trying to Man Up: Struggling with Contemporary Masculinities in Cable's Male-Centered Serials3. Any Men and Outlaws: The Unbearable Burden of Straight White Man4. Where Men Can Be Men: The Homosocial Enclave and Jocular Policing of Masculinity5. Dynamic Duos: Hetero Intimacy and the New Male Friendship Conclusion: Is It the End of Men as We Know Them? NotesBibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriageHow did gay marriagesomething unimaginable two decades agocome to feel inevitable to even its staunchest opponents? Drawing on over 95 interviews with two generations of Americans, as well as historical analysis and public opinion data, Peter Hart-Brinson argues that a fundamental shift in our understanding of homosexuality sparked the generational change that fueled gay marriage's unprecedented rise. Hart-Brinson shows that the LGBTQ movement's evolution and tactical responses to oppression caused Americans to reimagine what it means to be gay and what gay marriage would mean to society at large. While older generations grew up imagining gays and lesbians in terms of their behavior, younger generations came to understand them in terms of their identity. Over time, as the older generation and their ideas slowly passed away, they were replaced by a new generational culture thatTrade ReviewThe book provides an interesting glimpse into [Hart-Brinson’s] 95 interview subjects’ lives, attitudes, and milieu. He also offers tables, charts, and graphs to reveal changes in public opinion over the decades. * The Gay & Lesbian Quarterly *At the very moment attitudes toward gay marriage began to change rapidly, Peter Hart-Brinson interviewed people from multiple generations to assess the shifting meanings surrounding gay marriage. While quantitative studies allow us to track these changing attitudes in a simplistic way, most barely scratch the surface of what remains a complex issue for many. With his insightful analysis of his qualitative data, Hart-Brinson breaks through this surface and does a deep dive into the metaphors people use to think about gay marriage. In doing so, he helps us to understand why resistance to gay marriage remains steadfast, even in the face of growing consensus. -- Thomas J. Linneman,Author of Weathering Change: Gays and Lesbians, Christian Conservatives, and Everyday HostilitiesPublic opinion typically changes slowly. The transformation in Americans views regarding same-sex marriage is a notable exceptionwith public opinion dramatically shifting from strong opposition to strong support in a very short period of time. How do we explain this remarkable exception? Marshalling insights from historical data, national surveys, and in-depth interviews, Peter Hart-Brinson skillfully and convincingly documents the powerful role of generations in effecting change. The Gay Marriage Generation is an important and provocative book that will encourage us to reassess our assumptions of how social change occurs. -- Brian Powell,Author of Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and American's Definitions of FamilyThere is much to learn from this book and Hart-Brinson is meticulous in laying out and supporting his arguments. * Social Forces *Will be an interesting and enlightening read for those both new and old to the topic. * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisEngaging with a variety of shows, including The League, Dexter, and Nip/Tuck, among many others, this title identifies the gradual incorporation of second-wave feminism into prevailing gender norms as the catalyst for the contested masculinities on display in contemporary cable dramas.Trade Review"Amanda Lotz impressively maps out important features of television's representations of men and shifting masculinities in the 21st century. Her careful analyses of these series makes this book an essential resource for anyone interested in television, gender, and culture." -- Ron Becker,author of Gay TV & Straight America"Cable Guys is an incredible work that should further cement Lotz's place as a considerate yet comprehensive expert on media and gender studies. Her writing . . . oozes confidence, knowledge, and reflection for her themes and televised tales." * PopMatters *"Lotz (communication studies, Univ. of Michigan;Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era) here explores how cable television is dramatizing contemporary American male masculinity. The author identifies and focuses on three narrative types: serials that emphasize the development of of a central male protagonist (e.g.,Breaking Bad; Dexter), shows set in male enclaves (e.g.,Rescue Me; Entourage), and stories featuring intimate male friendships (e.g.,Boston Legal; Nip/Tuck). Lotz argues that these dramas depict straight, largely white men wrestling with what it means to be manly in today's post-second-wave feminism and in the context of rising queer visibility. She concludes that the shows' characters all struggle to combine old and new modes of manhood . . . . Lotz offers a concise and insightful analysis of the productions she does examine. Verdict:Scholars will value Lotz's contribution to media and masculinity studies, as will more casual viewers who enjoy watching cable television with a critical eye." * Library Journal,Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook, Massachusetts Historical Soc. Lib., Boston *"Cable Guysis essential reading for students and scholars working in television studies and in the gendered politics of representation. The book is clear enough to be accessible to anundergraduate audience, while it is also sufficiently subtle and illuminating to be satisfying to more advanced students and scholars.​" * International Journal of Communication,Katherine Sender *"Lotz explores modern visions of masculinity following third wave feminism and epitomized in the rhetoric of male protagonists in cable programming. Mostly eschewing networks depictions of problematized males, Lotz zeroes in on straight male one-on-one friendships, what she calls the & homosocial enclave of the male group, and a genre that particularly challenges male characters, the emerging & male centered-serials." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Understanding Men on Television2. Trying to Man Up: Struggling with Contemporary Masculinities in Cable's Male-Centered Serials3. Any Men and Outlaws: The Unbearable Burden of Straight White Man4. Where Men Can Be Men: The Homosocial Enclave and Jocular Policing of Masculinity5. Dynamic Duos: Hetero Intimacy and the New Male Friendship Conclusion: Is It the End of Men as We Know Them? NotesBibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWhy some straight men have sex with other menWhy do some straight men in rural America have sex with other men? In Still Straight, Tony Silva convincingly argues that these menmany of whom enjoy hunting, fishing, and shooting gunsare not gay, bisexual, or just experimenting. As he shows, these men can enjoy a range of relationships with other men, from hookups to sexual friendships to secretive loving partnerships, all while strongly identifying with straight culture. Drawing on riveting interviews with straight white men who live in rural America, Silva explores the fascinating, and unexpected, disconnect between sexual behavior and identity. Some use sex with men to bond with other men in an acceptably masculine way; some are not particularly attracted to men, but are wary of emotional attachment with women; and others view sex with menas opposed to womenas a more acceptable form of extramarital sexual behavior. Taking us inside the lives of straight white men who have sex with oTrade Review"Could it be that straightness is more than a sexual orientation? Through illuminating interviews with straight identified men who have sex with other men, Silva’s answer is a resounding yes. This groundbreaking research documents ways that we might understand sexual identity as deeply tied to culture, place and age. A must read for scholars of sexuality." -- C.J. Pascoe, co-author of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change"Tony Silva’s revealing study of men who have sex with men (MSM) in rural America shows us how white racial identity statuses, heterosexual identity claims, and geography intersect in the secretive practices of men who seek out same-sex sexual encounters in America. Based on 60 in-depth interviews with a hard to study population, Silva argues that MSM and claim to be straight are a patterned phenomenon in a post-closeted American culture. Filled with important insights about sexual identity, race, and rural America, Still Straight is an important addition to the fields of masculinities and queer studies." -- James Joseph Dean, co-editor of Routledge International Handbook of Heterosexualities Studies"In Silva’s extensive interviews with adult men living in conservative, rural communities, we observe the messy paradox of their lives as they attempt to reconcile their same-sex behavior with a straight identity. You will be amazed by their justifications." -- Ritch C. Savin-Williams, author of Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity among Men

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Book SynopsisThe history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuriesHeterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently naturalbut what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories constructs a new framework for the history of heterosexuality, examining unexplored assumptions and insisting that not only sex but race, class, gender, age, and geography matter to its past. Each of the fourteen essays in this volume examines the history of heterosexuality from a different angle, seeking to study this topic in a way that recognizes plurality, divergence, and inequity.Editors Rebecca L. Davis and Michele Mitchell have formed a collection that spans four centuries, addressing the many different racial groups, geographies, and subcultures of heterosexuality in North America. The essays range across disciplines with experts from various fTrade Review"The publication of Heterosexual Histories is a landmark event, and one that promises—I hope!—to invigorate the study of heterosexuality, expanding the terrain and questions that scholars have already explored as well as urgently pressing the histories of heterosexuality in new directions." * American Literary History *

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Book SynopsisIntroduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexualityKeywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements. Many of the keywords featured in this publication call attention to the fundamental assumptions of humanism's political and intellectual debatesfrom the racialized contours of property and ownership to eugenicist discourses of improvement and development. Interventions to these frTrade ReviewAn exhilarating read that sacrifices neither accessibility, depth, nor acuity in its assemblage of keywords. This book is a scholarly and curatorial feat that will be referenced (and enjoyed) widely. * Audra Simpson, Columbia University *Keyword essays examine such concepts as justice, performativity, and biology, among many others, through a meaningful exploration of each concept's role in the existing scholarship and the debates and conversations surrounding it…a must-read for a wide audience. -- C. Pinto * Choice *

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Book SynopsisIntroduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexualityKeywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements. Many of the keywords featured in this publication call attention to the fundamental assumptions of humanism's political and intellectual debatesfrom the racialized contours of property and ownership to eugenicist discourses of improvement and development. Interventions to these frameworks arise out of queer, feminist and anti-racist engagements with matter and ecology as well as efforts to imagine forms of relationality beyond settler colonial and imperialist epistemologiesReflecting the interdisciplinary breadth of the field, this collection of eighty essays by scholars across the social sciences and the humanities weaves together methodologies from science and technology studies, affect theory, and queer historiographies, as well as Black Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American, and Indigenous Studies. Taken together, these essays move alongside the distinct histories and myriad solidarities of the fields to construct the much awaited Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.Trade ReviewAn exhilarating read that sacrifices neither accessibility, depth, nor acuity in its assemblage of keywords. This book is a scholarly and curatorial feat that will be referenced (and enjoyed) widely. * Audra Simpson, Columbia University *Keyword essays examine such concepts as justice, performativity, and biology, among many others, through a meaningful exploration of each concept's role in the existing scholarship and the debates and conversations surrounding it…a must-read for a wide audience. -- C. Pinto * Choice *

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Book SynopsisMany believe that religion plays a positive role in men's identity development, with religion promoting good behavior, and morality. In contrast, we often assume that the media is a negative influence for men, teaching them to be rough and violent, and to ignore their emotions. In Does God Make the Man?, Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats draw on extensive interviews and participant observation with both Evangelical and non-Evangelical men, including Catholics as well as Protestants, to argue that neither of these assumptions is correct. Dismissing the easy notion that media encourages toxic masculinity and religion is always a positive influence, Hoover and Coats argue that not only are the linkages between religion, media, and masculinity not as strong and substantive as has been assumed, but the ways in which these relations actually play out may contradict received views. Over the course of this fascinating book they examine crises, contradictions, and contestations: crises abTrade Review"Focuses the lenses of feminist analysis on critical cultural audience studies. Hoover and Coatss research is deeply invested in the work accomplished at the nexus of media, religion, and gender, most specifically examining the shape of twenty-first-century white, middle-class, heterosexual American masculinities. In this illuminating book, media and religion coexist as alternative and intersecting symbolic worlds. They contribute to the construction of a contemporary 'elemental' masculinity that elicits and deploys commitments to vocations of 'provision, protection, and purpose.' This is a model volume with important and surprising conclusions!" -- Sally M. Promey, Yale University"Over the past two centuries men in the United States have bemoaned the decline of virility, singling out as the root cause such deep shifts as the expansion of urban life, the loss of agrarian values, the closing of the frontier, the rise of womens rights, and the decline of the traditional family. Hoover and Coats show us that the tradition of the manly jeremiad continues today, taking shape in the broadly influential media that touch the hopes, dreams, memories, and fears of fathers and sons holed up in the sanctum of what the authors calls 'the domestic ideal.' The interviews they undertake demonstrate that religion is not merely a source of traditional values, ballast against the storm on conventional gender roles. It can also generate ambivalence about traditional constructions of gender. And media, for their part, are variously regarded as cause of moral decay and beloved source of gender ideals. There is much to learn from this clear, well-informed account of white male, mediated religious sentiment." -- David Morgan, Duke University"In this important contribution to scholarship on communication/media and religion, Hoover and Coats report their ongoing research on the intersection of gender, media, and religion against the backdrop of a perceived ongoing crisis of masculinity in contemporary US culture." * Choice *"This work succeeds in the continued problematization of the apparently & traditionalist notion that religious identities can provide an element of stability to masculine identities." * The Journal of Religion and Culture *"Does God Make the Man? is primarily written for those studying the intersection of media and religion. There is an assumption that the reader will be somewhat familiar with feminist theory, including a basic understanding of gender constructivism. Overall, this book is approachable for the interested reader wanting to understand more about the influences of media on communication and meaning-making in society ... This book shows how complicated the influences are at the crossroads of media and religion." * Priscilla Papers *

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length critical reception of Barrie Thorne's classic book, Gender PlayBarrie Thorne's Gender Play was a landmark study of the social worlds of primary school children that sparked a paradigm shift in our understanding of how kids and the adults around them contest and reinforce gender boundaries. Thirty years later, Gender Replay celebrates and reflects on this classic, extending Thorne's scholarship into a new and different generation.Freeden Blume Oeur and C. J. Pascoe's new volume brings together many of the foremost scholars on youth from an array of disciplines, including sociology, childhood studies, education, gender studies, and communication studies. Together, these scholars reflect on many contemporary issues that were not covered in Thorne's original text, exploring new dimensions of schooling, the sociology of gender, social media, and feminist theory. Over fourteen essays, the authors touch on topics such as youth rTrade ReviewPrior to Barrie Thorne, sociologists viewed children as little more than future adults, not worthy of serious attention. She taught us how to treat children as full human beings. Gender Replay honors the creativity of children and the scholar who started it all. * Christine L. Williams, author of Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists *Through both her pioneering work in childhood studies and her decades of thoughtful mentorship, Barrie Thorne defined the genre of feminist sociology. She taught us that adulthood and expertise are ideological constructs, that learning is living, that play is an engagement with possibility, and that social change is made possible, not by oppositionality, but by mutuality in opposition. This book is a cogent, illuminating, and loving tribute to Barrie’s work, intellectual legacy, and the generations of feminist sociology she inspired. After decades of reflection on Gender Play and its afterlives, I still found novel lessons here, new ideas, and exciting new insights on old ones. * Tey Meadow, author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century *For those of us who have had the privilege of knowing the feminist sociologist Barrie Thorne, Gender Replay reads like a love letter to her legacy of mentoring, her marvelous ethnographic eye, her moral compass, her transformational work on the sociology of childhoods, and her ability to build community. And for those who do not know Barrie Thorne, the chapters of Gender Replay model for all how to do responsible ethnography, how to mentor with love and creativity, and how to persist with the questions that enable transformational scholarship. In both cases, the book is an absolute delight. * Raka Ray, co-author of The Social Life of Gender *

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Book SynopsisFirst-hand accounts of how parents support their transgender childrenThere is a new generation of parents and families who are identifying, supporting, and raising transgender children. In Trans-Affirmative Parenting, Elizabeth Rahilly presents their fascinating stories, interviewing parents of children who identify across the gender spectrum, as well as the doctors, mental health practitioners, educators, and advocates who support their journeys. Rahilly provides a window into parents' experiences, exploring how they come to terms with new ideas about gender, sexuality, identity, and the body, as well as examining their complex deliberations about nonbinary possibilities and medical interventions. Ultimately, Rahilly compassionately shows how parents can best advocate for transgender awareness and move beyond traditional gendered expectations. She also shows that child-centered, child-driven parenting is as central to this new trans-affirmative paradigm as growing LGBTQ awareness. In Trade ReviewThis insightful book explores the contours of an emerging style of child-centered parenting and the corresponding conceptual work performed by parents as they confront new possibilities relating to gender and identity ... This book engages with an impressive range of questions of theoretical value to sociologists and it will likely find an eager audience among those who study gender, childhood, family, and parenting. * Gender & Society *Elizabeth Rahilly provides a unique and timely analysis of how parents of transgender and gender nonconforming children understand their children’s gender...This book is easy to read and informative. This book could be of interest to scholars working on issues about gender, sexuality, and the family. For scholars of the family, this study is an excellent example of child-drive, child-centered parenting that fits into a growing body of literature on intensive mothering * Social Forces *

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Book SynopsisInside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early songcatchers were white women of comfortable class standing, similar to the female consumers targeted by the music industry as the gramophone became increasingly present in bourgeois homes. Through these simultaneous movements, listening became constructed as a feminized practice, one that craved exotic sounds and mythologized the other' that made them.In Modernity's Ear, Roshanak Kheshti examines the ways in which racialized and gendered sounds became fetishized and, in turn, capitalized on by an emergent American world music industry through the promotion of an economy of desire. Taking a mixed-methods approach that draws on anthropology and sound studies, KheshtTrade ReviewEngaging an impressive range of methodologies,Modernitys Earoffers an astute look into the world music culture industry through the lens of ethnographic entrapment and phonographic subjectivity. With sharp insight, Kheshti explores the nexus between bodies and sounds at the intersection of racial and gender identities to make a crucial point about phonographic listening as an important venue for performative and philosophical reflection. -- Alexander Weheliye,author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-ModernityRich in ethnographic fieldwork,Modernitys Earis a thunderous unsettling of the gendered and racialized assumptions we make about sound and listening. Innovatively pushing the limits of queer studies and critical race studies, Kheshti stretches the listening ear and retunes theoretical approaches to consider not only the way race sounds but how it is configured as sensually & other. A field-changing book for queer studies and sound studies alike. -- Deborah R. Vargas,author of Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La OndaIn this tightly structured book, Kheshti offers not only an aesthetic and stylistic history of world music but also an analysis of race and gender in the & world music culture industry. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface: Playing by Ear xv Introduction 1 1. The Female Sound Collector and Her Talking Machine 15 2. Listen, Inc.: Aural Modernity and Incorporation 39 3. Losing the Listening Self in the Aural Other 65 4. Racial Noise, Hybridity, and Miscegenation in World Music 82 5. The World Music Culture of Incorporation 108 Epilogue: Modernity's Radical Ear and the Sonic Infidelity of Zora Neale Hurston's Recordings 125 Notes 143 References 165 Index 173 About the Author

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Book SynopsisWhen sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: If athletes can endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they can endorse the Lord, too, reasoned Fellowship of Christian Athletes founder Don McClanen. But combining evangelicalism and sport did much more than serve as an advertisement for religion: it gave athletes the opportunity to think about the embodied experiences of sport as a way to experience intimate connection with the divine. As sports ministry developed, it focused on individual religious experiences and downplayed celebrity sales power, opening the door for female Christian athletes to join and eventually dominate sports ministry. Today, women are the majority of participants in sports ministry in the United States. In Playing for God, Annie Blazer offers an exploration of the history and religious livesTrade ReviewPlaying for Godis a unique and interdisciplinary contribution that combines insights from a diversity of academic fields, notably religious studies, gender and 6 studies, cultural studies and American studies. * Religion and Gender *Playing for Godis a finely crafted sociology of evangelical sports ministry and Christian female athletes who participate in and help promote a particular strand of Christianity. * Sociology of Religion *[A]n excellent book which raises important issues about how contemporary sportswomen perceive themselves. * Verite Sport: International Sports Ministry *[T]he research illustrates that religion can be and is blended with and into any and all aspects of culture, with & unintended consequences for religion based on the undeniable agency of individual members. * Anthropology Review Database *[] [T]he book will generate much discussion around various issues: e.g., are fundamentalists even & evangelical, given that the heart of the gospel is kindness, love, and forgiveness? People and groups are not necessarily & evangelical, even though they may claim to be. The media need to be aware of this fact. Good notes and bibliography. * Choice *What an intimate and perceptive work of ethnographic scholarship! Playing for God takes you into the profound epistemology of athleticism. Blazer uses her conversations with Christian sportswomen to delve into the ways that all people, religious and not, understand themselves through their bodies. A first-rate exploration of the intersection between spiritual knowledge and the disciplining effects of sporting life. -- Kathryn Lofton,Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Practicing Faith: Sports Ministry and Evangelicalism in America 1 Part I: Knowledge 1. Making the Save: Conversion and Witnessing 27 2. Transcendent Intimacy: The Embodied Pleasures of Sport 54 3. Spiritual Warfare and Christlikeness: Narratives of Bodies and Battlefields 78 Part II: Effects 4. Wearing Our Shorts a Little Longer: Testing the Boundaries of Evangelical Femininity 103 5. Challenging the Call: Sexual Desire and Sexual Deviance 129 6. Faith Off the Field: Negotiating Gender at Home 157 Conclusion: A Tale of Unintended Consequences 183 Notes 195 Index 223 About the Author 233

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Book SynopsisThe story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gamingGeek culture has never been more mainstream than it is now, with the ever-increasing popularity of events like Comic Con, transmedia franchising of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, market dominance of video and computer games, and the resurgence of board games such as Settlers of Catan and role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Yet even while the comic book and hobby shops where the above are consumed today are seeing an influx of BIPOC gamers, they remain overwhelmingly white, male, and heterosexual. The Privilege of Play contends that in order to understand geek identity's exclusionary tendencies, we need to know the history of the overwhelmingly white communities of tabletop gaming hobbyists that preceded it. It begins by looking at how the privileged networks of model railroad hobbyists in the early twentieth century laid a cultural foundation for the scenes that woTrade Review"In this timely and important book, Aaron Trammell explores not just today's growing board game community, but its longer, more complex, and problematic genealogies and historiographies. The hobbyists from which the modern board game community developed—the train enthusiasts, the sci-fi authors, the war gamers, the role players—have strong ties through to today. And while the communities have offered safe spaces for some marginalized groups, they also participated in racist and class-based segregation. With his practiced analytical skills and detailed eye for nuance, Trammell never lets one narrative dominate, telling a refined, three- dimensional story about the development of hobby board games. Play is serious business, but Trammell's engaging tone makes it fun again too. Highly recommended." * Paul Booth, author of Board Games as Media *"I have been waiting for years for a book like The Privilege of Play. Using contemporary and historical examples, Aaron Trammell weaves together insightful theoretical analysis, archival deep dives, and sharp, poignant anecdotes to construct a compelling picture of game culture hobbyists, and the history out of which they emerged." * Shira Chess, author of Play Like a Feminist *"I read The Privilege of Play straight through. It hit pretty close to home, reading a bit like my own travelogue through the hobby, beginning with the model train sets I had as a kid, my obsession with war games as a teenager, and taking us right through my RPG days and current career in games. The Privilege of Play is a must read for anyone seriously committed to a socially just and open hobby industry. Trammel argues, and I would agree, that any hobby gaming professional looking to break down the patterns of exclusion that pervade our industry would do well to study how we arrived here." -- Christopher O’Neal, CEO of Brotherwise Games and President of Game Pathways"For nearly a decade, Aaron Trammell has been a leading voice calling for the field of game studies to attend to analog games’ (board games, card games, and tabletop roleplaying games) deep history and thriving present... Overall, The Privilege of Play expands a nascent but growing movement to study race within game cultures and provides a powerful demonstration of what archival work about play communities can reveal." -- Peter McDonald * Critical Inquiry *

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Book SynopsisFirst-hand accounts of how parents support their transgender childrenThere is a new generation of parents and families who are identifying, supporting, and raising transgender children. In Trans-Affirmative Parenting, Elizabeth Rahilly presents their fascinating stories, interviewing parents of children who identify across the gender spectrum, as well as the doctors, mental health practitioners, educators, and advocates who support their journeys. Rahilly provides a window into parents' experiences, exploring how they come to terms with new ideas about gender, sexuality, identity, and the body, as well as examining their complex deliberations about nonbinary possibilities and medical interventions. Ultimately, Rahilly compassionately shows how parents can best advocate for transgender awareness and move beyond traditional gendered expectations. She also shows that child-centered, child-driven parenting is as central to this new trans-affirmative paradigm as growing LGBTQ awareness. In Trade Review"This insightful book explores the contours of an emerging style of child-centered parenting and the corresponding conceptual work performed by parents as they confront new possibilities relating to gender and identity ... This book engages with an impressive range of questions of theoretical value to sociologists and it will likely find an eager audience among those who study gender, childhood, family, and parenting." * Gender & Society *"Elizabeth Rahilly provides a unique and timely analysis of how parents of transgender and gender nonconforming children understand their children’s gender...This book is easy to read and informative. This book could be of interest to scholars working on issues about gender, sexuality, and the family. For scholars of the family, this study is an excellent example of child-drive, child-centered parenting that fits into a growing body of literature on intensive mothering" * Social Forces *

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Book SynopsisHow the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracyIn the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were feared, censured, or welcomed exclusively as laborers. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media, sTrade ReviewImpressive in scope, The Cultural Politics of US Immigration explores popular culture, political rhetoric, and legal discourses from the 1980s and early 1990s as staging grounds for the transformation of multiculturalism and the erosion of welfare policies in ways that anticipated contemporary neoliberal debates. Well-researched and clearly argued, Perrys comparative emphasis on several migratory groups will make a significant contribution to immigration studies. An ambitious book. -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith,author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the U.S.Provocative and well-researched,The Cultural Politics of US Immigrationanalyzes the public sentiment, congressional discourse, and cultural politics surrounding immigration reform.Methodologically innovative, Leah Perry pulls multiple disciplinary threads in order to produce a unique paradigm for studying the relationship between popular culture and public policy. -- Isabel Molina-Guzmán,author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media

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Book SynopsisExposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women's lives in the overlooked nation of GuyanaPreviously ranked among the hemisphere's poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation. This sea change presents a unique opportunity to dissect both the environmental impacts of modern-world resource extraction and the obscured yet damaging ways in which intersectional race and gender formations circumscribe Caribbean women's lives.Drawing from archival research and oral history, and examining mass-mediated flashpoints across the African and Indian diasporasincluding Rihanna's sonic routes, ethnic conflict reportage, HBO's Lovecraft Country, and Netflix's Indian MatchmakingGlobal Guyana repositions this marginalized nation as a nexus of social and economic activity which drives popular culture and

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Book SynopsisExposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women's lives in the overlooked nation of GuyanaPreviously ranked among the hemisphere's poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation. This sea change presents a unique opportunity to dissect both the environmental impacts of modern-world resource extraction and the obscured yet damaging ways in which intersectional race and gender formations circumscribe Caribbean women's lives.Drawing from archival research and oral history, and examining mass-mediated flashpoints across the African and Indian diasporasincluding Rihanna's sonic routes, ethnic conflict reportage, HBO's Lovecraft Country, and Netflix's Indian MatchmakingGlobal Guyana repositions this marginalized nation as a nexus of social and economic activity which drives popular culture and

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Book SynopsisHow the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracyIn the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were feared, censured, or welcomed exclusively as laborers. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media, sTrade ReviewImpressive in scope, The Cultural Politics of US Immigration explores popular culture, political rhetoric, and legal discourses from the 1980s and early 1990s as staging grounds for the transformation of multiculturalism and the erosion of welfare policies in ways that anticipated contemporary neoliberal debates. Well-researched and clearly argued, Perrys comparative emphasis on several migratory groups will make a significant contribution to immigration studies. An ambitious book. -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith,author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the U.S.Provocative and well-researched,The Cultural Politics of US Immigrationanalyzes the public sentiment, congressional discourse, and cultural politics surrounding immigration reform.Methodologically innovative, Leah Perry pulls multiple disciplinary threads in order to produce a unique paradigm for studying the relationship between popular culture and public policy. -- Isabel Molina-Guzmán,author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA collection of essays focusing on the history, definition, social context, treatment, and legal aspects of transgender life. The chapters are well organized and form a consistent and comprehensive body of work addressing the full scope of the phenomenon of transgender intimate partner violence. Most of the authors are recognized as qualified or leading experts in their fields. * Choice *This volume is essential reading for everyone committed to violence prevention and transgender equality. Far beyond solely presenting empirical findings to improve future scholarship, it also provides best practices for professionals working with survivors and suggestions for policy reform, all while bringing visibility to a critically important social problem. -- Vanessa Panfil, author of The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang MembersRecognizing the alarming reality that transgender individuals experience some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence, Messinger and Guadalupe-Diaz have assembled a pioneering, transformative, cerebral, interdisciplinary, and praxis-oriented compilation that merges the knowledge of scholars, survivors, advocates, and activists. The authors of Transgender Intimate Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Introduction raise awareness and provide critical analyses of the experiences of transgender survivors and victims of intimate partner violence. The authors also intricately and humanistically address the complexities of transgender perpetrators of intimate partner violence. -- Hillary Potter, author of Battle Cries: Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse

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Book SynopsisIn everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensationpleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts. Drawing on rich and varied sourcesfrom 19th century sexology, psychoanalysis, and critical theory to literary texts and performance artAmber Jamilla Musser employs masochism as a powerful diagnostic tool for probing relationships between power and subjectivity. Engaging with a range of debates about lesbian S&M, racialization, femininity, and disability, as well as key texts such as Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, Pauline Réage's The Story of O, and Michel Foucault''s History of Sexuality, Musser renders legible the complex ways that masochism has been taken up by queer, feminist, and critical race theorieTrade ReviewSensational Flesh explores the material aspects of powerhow, in a Foucauldian sense, it is & felt in the bodyunpacking the bodily, sensational dimensions of subjectivity. Comprehensive and exhaustive in scope, Musser leaves no stone unturned in her consideration of & masochism in all its different formulations, and in the often-contradictory ways it has been deployed. -- Jean Walton,author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race Psychoanalysis, Sexual DifferenceA lively and enlightening contribution to queer studies, investigating affect and embodiment as avenues for the radical reinvigoration of how we experience and think about raced, gendered, and sexualized subjectivities. Masterful in her engagement with queer, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory and their historical contexts, Musser provides incisive analyses that make for exhilarating and highly informative reading. -- Darieck Scott,author of Extravagant AbjectionMusser has written a book well worth reading. * Sexuality and Culture *InSensational Flesh, Amber Jamilla Musser explores the appeal of masochism via empathetic readings of historical texts, extracting meaning from writing that might otherwise appear outdated or limited in its perspective. . . . Musser does a fine job of weaving together various texts to present the reader with a nuanced view of the practice. . . . [F]or those with a basic understanding of the philosophical complexities of arguments concerning subjects, objects, and notions of the 'other,' Musser presents a compelling and deeply satisfying read. * Bitch Magazine *In a sex-positive era, Musser admirably defends black womens rights to experiment boundlessly with sensations and the erotics of power, free from the restraints of the collective memory of slavery. * Gender & Society *What does it feel like to be enmeshed in regimes of power? And how does masochism challenge and extend notions of agency, subjectivity, difference, freedom, and representation? InSensational Flesh, Musser probes such questions in an effort to distill how it feels to exist in the liminal space between agency and subjectlessness and, importantly, how to account for difference within these performances of submission. * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi1 Introduction: Theory, Flesh, Practice 12 Specters of Domination: Patriarchy, Colonialism, and Masochism 313 Objectification, Complicity, and Coldness: The Story of O's Narratives of Femininity and Precarity 584 Time, Race, and Biology: Fanon, Freud, and the Labors of Race 885 Lacerated Breasts: Medicine, Autonomy, Pain 118Conclusion: Making Flesh Matter 151Notes 185Bibliography 211Index 231About the Author 255

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Book SynopsisFeminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary feminist perspectives on the materialist or naturalizing' turn in feminist theory, and also represents the newest wave of feminist engagement with science. The volume addresses the relationship between human corporeality and subjectivity, questions and redefines the boundaries of human/non-human and nature/culture, elaborates on the entanglements of matter, knowledge, and practice, and addresses biological materialization as a complex and open process. This volume insists that feminist theory can take matter and biology seriously while also accounting for power, taking materialism as a point of departure to rethink key feminist issues. The contributors, an international group of feminist Trade ReviewThe passionate commitment of feminist scholars to rethinking the material world, and to questioning the assumptions behind this grand project, is evident in this skillfully curated collection. -- Sari van Anders,Associate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of MichiganThis is a wonderful cross-selection of the most recent work on one of the central concept in feminist theory, that of mattering. Matter and its processes of self-generation, whether physical, biological, or social, are explored here from a variety of feminist scientific, technological, political and philosophical perspectives with great originality and insight. A powerful addition to the growing conversation on bodies, matter, and new materialisms. -- Elizabeth Grosz,author of Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal FeminismFor those committed to new feminist materialism, for those who are ambivalent about the appellation, and for those encountering this scholarship for the first time, Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism helps us to imagine different strategies to account for power and matter strategies that we can take up and transfigure in our own attempts to express the complexities of technoscientific worlds we study and inhabit. * New Genetics and Society *

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the role of media in the struggle for transgender inclusionFrom television shows like Orange is the New Black and Transparent, to the real-life struggles of Caitlyn Jenner splashed across the headlines, transgender visibility is on the rise. But what was it like to live as a transgender person in a media environment before this transgender boom in television? While pop culture imaginations of transgender identity flourish and shape audience's perceptions of trans identities, what does this new media visibility mean for transgender individuals themselves? Struggling for Ordinary engagingly answers these questions, offering a snapshot of how transgender individuals made their way toward a sense of ordinary life by integrating available media into their everyday experiences. Drawing on in-depth interviews with transgender communities, Andre Cavalcante offers a richly detailed account of how the media impacts the lives and experiences of tranTrade ReviewAcross the seven chapters of his book, Cavalcante traces a clean arc from the history of transgender media portrayals, to how those portrayals shaped what trans people thought possible in their own lives, to the strategies trans audiences developed to manage the affective toll of negative portrayals, and finally to how media became (limited) tools to managing the accomplishment of quotidian tasks. -- International Journal of CommunicationStruggling for Ordinarymakes important contributions to media studies and LGBTQ scholarship. As part of media studies, reception studies strives to see audiences as individuals rather than nameless monoliths, and Cavalcante's research takes care to present specific, contextualized perspectives. * Popmatters.com *Ultimately, Andre Cavalcante’s book is an empathic and historically significant exploration of trans visibility in American society. Though a reader’s familiarity with queer theory would be beneficial, it is not a requirement... each in-depth interview successfully amplifies intimate lives and exposes insights into the struggles and reflections of each participant’s pursuit of the ordinary. Those who have an interest in trans studies; oral history/life history narratives of trans, gender-variant, and queer identified individuals; queer theory; and/or media studies will find Cavalcante’s work particularly relevant -- Oral History ReviewStruggling for Ordinarychronicles the complexities of transgender media experiences and challenges commonplace assumptions about how audiences are influenced by media. Dedicated to giving trans voices and experiences a generous space, Cavalcante compassionately details how trans folk participate in queer worldmaking. This book serves as a model for other scholars working with underrepresented populations. -- Isaac West,author of Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the LawStruggling for Ordinaryis a richly detailed account of transgender encounters with the media in a rapidly changing environment. Providingan engaging snapshot of how transgender people have negotiated with trans images, Cavalcante finds these images to be tools for trying on andimagining new selves, and for making a life in which transgender becomes integrated into everyday, ordinary life. An innovative and unique study. -- Joshua Gamson,author of Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship

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Book SynopsisAn irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of cry-along sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are?Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Karen Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observerTrade ReviewThe analysis presents bracing assessments of network TV touchstones, and Tongson’s wit is a treat. Thought-provoking and full of fresh insights, this entertains and enlightens. * Publishers Weekly *What begins as a searing cultural critique of the prevalence of sentimental, whitewashed television shows—This is Us, Parenthood, etc.—unfurls brilliantly into a soul-stirring reflection on personal and cultural grief and the palliative effects of plainness. Tongson exquisitely captures what it means for queer people in particular to find solace in the quotidian. * Electric Literature *Emotionally cathartic. The critic’s wrestling with the compromises that the pleasures of mass culture inevitably demand is heartfelt. In a word, it’s normal. * Arts Fuse *A personal and heartfelt ode to the problematic pleasures of normalcy. Insightful, relatable, and funny, Tongson is a master at twirling the personal around the political, giving us a layered, brainy investigation into this sneaky cultural manipulation. * Michelle Tea, author of Valencia *Normporn is a funny, bracing and unrelentingly smart journey through the pop culture of the last twenty years to explain the confused, damaged state of American identity. Karen Tongson takes a look at everything from WandaVision to True Blood to parse out the conflicting ideas of what America is and should be. It’s that rarest of books, a searingly intellectual cultural analysis that’s fun and dishy enough for the beach. * Guy Branum, author of My Life As A Goddess *

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Book SynopsisEnlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully addressor even fully recognizethe deep-seated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanist ideal of a transcendent Manhood. Calling for a specifically anti-white supremacist reexamination of the archives of black subjectivity and resistance, Reid-Pharr enlists the principles of post-humanist critiTrade ReviewArchives of Fleshis a daring and beautifully written book, offering reflections on the current state of Black studies and the sociopolitical and geographical locations of Blackness that inform our dominant discourses. With this volume, Reid-Pharr expands his reputation as a rigorous and iconoclastic scholar who pushes the field to examine its sacred cows and consider how their rigid mythologies cost us the development of more truthful, insightful, and liberating analytical practices. A bold indictment of the intellectual inflexibility that informs mainstream discourses on Blackness and the politics of difference,Archives of Fleshholds its own as a polemic by one of our most famous and respected contemporary scholars. -- Michelle Wright,author of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology

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Book Synopsis**Finalist, PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine**A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to treat gender identity today. Drawing on interviews with medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research, shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who seek gender-affirming care. From genital reconstructions to hormone injections, the practice of trans medicine charts new medical ground, compelling medical professionals to plan treatments without widescale clinical trials to back them up. Relying on cultural norms and gut instincts to inform their treatment plans, shuster shows how medical providers' lack of clinical experience and scientific research underminesTrade Review"Trans Medicine is a brilliant study of how the context of scientific uncertainty shapes the ways medical professionals work with trans people. While appreciating the dilemmas facing doctors, shuster holds them accountable for upholding normative understandings of gender essentialism. This beautifully rendered story of medical improvisation and the search for professional credibility will be of great interest to readers of transgender studies, medical sociology, and the sociology of knowledge." -- Arlene Stein, author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity"Trans Medicine is original, empirically rich, and beautifully written. shuster masterfully integrates a wide range of data with a nuanced theoretical story of power, control, and medical regulation. This is truly an urgently needed study that is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of gender, sexuality, bodies and embodiment, and healthcare." -- Georgiann Davis, author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis"A powerful examination of the history and present of medical providers seeking to 'treat gender.' Demonstrating how uncertainty unsettles the relationship between expertise, evidence, and clinical decision-making, Trans Medicine illuminates the path to a more inclusive, gender-affirming health care system." -- Rene Almeling, author of GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health"shuster...expertly documents how the medical field as often failed trans patients...[Trans Medicine] successfully makes the case that trans medicine should be part of the medical training of all physicians…This well-researched book is eminently readable and, in fact, quite a page-turner. It is an essential story, one that is not yet complete, as shuster acknowledges. A must-read." * Library Journal *"Trans Medicine is remarkable for the way in which shuster captures health care providers speaking and acting with exceptional candor about what they think and feel about working with trans populations." -- Danya Lagos - University of California, Berkeley * American Journal of Sociology *"Overall, shuster’s book is an engaging exploration of the histories of trans medicine with an emphasis on health care administration and politics…Trans Medicine holds immense value for medical school and continuing education programs and would promote fruitful dialog about inclusive, accountable, and just health care practices." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Sociologist Stef M. Shuster’s Trans Medicine is a unique monograph that combines historical analysis with ethnography." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *

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Book SynopsisFeminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary feminist perspectives on the materialist or naturalizing' turn in feminist theory, and also represents the newest wave of feminist engagement with science. The volume addresses the relationship between human corporeality and subjectivity, questions and redefines the boundaries of human/non-human and nature/culture, elaborates on the entanglements of matter, knowledge, and practice, and addresses biological materialization as a complex and open process. This volume insists that feminist theory can take matter and biology seriously while also accounting for power, taking materialism as a point of departure to rethink key feminist issues. The contributors, an international group of feminist Trade ReviewThe passionate commitment of feminist scholars to rethinking the material world, and to questioning the assumptions behind this grand project, is evident in this skillfully curated collection. -- Sari van Anders,Associate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of MichiganThis is a wonderful cross-selection of the most recent work on one of the central concept in feminist theory, that of mattering. Matter and its processes of self-generation, whether physical, biological, or social, are explored here from a variety of feminist scientific, technological, political and philosophical perspectives with great originality and insight. A powerful addition to the growing conversation on bodies, matter, and new materialisms. -- Elizabeth Grosz,author of Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal FeminismFor those committed to new feminist materialism, for those who are ambivalent about the appellation, and for those encountering this scholarship for the first time, Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism helps us to imagine different strategies to account for power and matter strategies that we can take up and transfigure in our own attempts to express the complexities of technoscientific worlds we study and inhabit. * New Genetics and Society *

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