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Book SynopsisProvides a critical analysis of benevolence as it was inflected by regional ideals of race and gender, showing how a southern Jewish benevolent empire emerged in response to the combined pressures of post-Civil War devastation and the simultaneous influx of eastern European immigration.Trade ReviewThis book sings. It is that rare beautiful volume that cuts to the heart of the mattera groundbreaking, eloquent and meticulously researched book about Southern Jewish culture. Light takes us inside the heart of this regional Jewish community. Through careful and creative archival inquiry she illuminates the subtle labors of benevolencethe care of 'our own' widows and orphansas the site where Southern Jews performed Southern gentility and whiteness as a means to achieve their own cultural citizenship. This book transforms our understanding of how American Jews do race. It changes the ways we think about Jewish life in the South. It is an astonishing accomplishment. -- Laura Levitt,Temple UniversityA deeply researched and beautifully written account of a neglected chapter of American Jewish historyand of national belonging. By telling the story of Jews in the Jim Crow South, Caroline E. Light vitally illuminates the ongoing production and negotiation of racial and religious difference not just in the South, but in the U.S. more broadly. -- Ann Pellegrini,author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging RaceLights study strikes out in new and interesting directions, including the use of previously untapped sources for the study of southern Jews, such as case files from orphan homes and immigrant relief associations. Coupled with oral history interviews, these sources give rare insight into family and gender relations, the economic struggles of Jewish immigrants, and the social anxieties driving Jewish elites to impose a strict cultural discipline on aid recipients. * The Journal of American History *Through its well-organized chapters and thorough research,That Pride of Race and Characteryields an important and thought-provoking examination of the exceptional ways in which two southern Jewish communities & took care of their own. * The North Carolina Historical Review *Light has identified a significant topic that touches upon important matters such as the intersection of race and gender in the Jim Crow South, the changing nature of child welfare work in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America, and the influence of regionalism in American Jewish history.That Pride of Race and Characterconstitutes a very interesting and useful investigation of this topic * The American Jewish Archives Journal *Using historical records and social-worker case files of charitable organizations and 'social uplift' societies, Light compellingly details the nuanced and varied ways that southern Jewsin all their cultural and regional diversitynavigated local strictures and mores in order both to maintain their Jewishness and to create a home in the South. * American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Loving Kindness and Cultural Citizenship in the Jewish South 1 "To the Hebrews the World Is Indebted": The Southern Roots of American Jewish Benevolence 2 "For the Honor of the Jewish People": Gender, Race, and Immigration 3 "Virtue, Rectitude and Loyalty to Our Faith": Jewish Orphans and the Politics of Southern Cultural Capital 4 "A Very Delicate Problem": The Plight of the Southern Agunah 5 "None of My Own People": Subsidizing Jewish Motherhood in the Depression-Era South 6 Sex, Race, and Consumption: Southern Sephardim and the Politics of Benevolence Conclusion: Loving Kindness and Its Legacies Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFinalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesOffers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and powerAmerican politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found Kennedy a younger, more vivacious, and more attractive choice than Nixon. Sexier. The political significance of Kennedy's telegenic sex appeal is now widely accepted but taking sexual politics seriously is not. Janet R. Jakobsen examines how, for the last several decades, gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life, marked by a series of widely recognized issues and movements women's liberation and gay liberation in the 1960s and '70s, the AIDS crisis and ACT UP in the 80s and '90s, welfare and immigration reform in the 90s, wars claiming to save women in the 2000s, and battles overTrade ReviewIt has become common sense that U.S. politics around issues of sex, race, and gender are an intransigent political struggle between Christian conservatives and secular libertines. Yet how true is this narrative—and whom does it serve? Jakobsen argues this simplistic dichotomy of religious traditionalists vs. secular progressives shores up, rather than dismantles, persistent inequalities ... Highly recommended for those seeking greater clarity about how sex, race, and gender are mobilized in American political life. * STARRED Library Journal *Janet Jakobsen’s The Sex Obsession is a tremendous book; it makes a major contribution to our understanding of US culture. In four crisp chapters, Jakobsen convincingly demonstrates that many of our most strongly held assumptions about politics and sex are false—and also dangerous. She skillfully highlights the ways in which narratives of ‘progress’ produce skewed understandings of US culture and politics. Jakobsen’s analysis of the complicated relationships between secular ideologies and religious ones is especially compelling. The Sex Obsession is both timely and brilliant.” -- David Harrington Watt, author of Antifundamentalism in Modern AmericaJakobsen presents an interesting, loosely structured series of cases to support the thesis that American politics is characterized by a tension between a white, Protestant, and evangelical conception of the family animating conservatives and a secular mimicry of that ideal animating Liberals. * Choice *An essential companion to this moment and all that troubles it, The Sex Obsession begins with the beguiling question, why is sex everywhere in US policy debates? It then refutes the commonsensical answer: because of religion. By showing how the secular/religious binary clouds an understanding of the dense intersections between myriad social forces, Janet Jakobsen offers a brilliant, riveting, and incisive study full of transformative conceptions of the possible and previously hidden passages to social change. Read this book to imagine life differently.” -- Mary Pat Brady, author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of SpaceShreds our common-sense narratives about sexual politics in the United States. The author dismantles the misleading opposition between religious regulation and secular freedom and leads us through a dynamic intersectional analysis to a provocatively thrilling call for theoretical promiscuity and relational perversity in the service of an expansive practice of social justice. This meticulously argued, groundbreaking book is a must-read for all of us engaged in building another world from the ground up. -- Lisa Duggan, author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of GreedThis original and deeply learned book provides a compelling examination of sexual politics over the past five decades in relation to religious intolerance as well as the possibilities for an expansive ethics of care. Jakobsen brings together queer, feminist, critical race, postcolonial, disability, and religious studies to analyze how and why sex has come to overshadow other progressive values for evaluating moral wellbeing, such as economic equality, racial justice, opposition to war, and environmental health. Jakobsen’s argument is irrefutable: until we recognize the complex relations among the sexual, the economic, and the political, we undermine the prospects for alliance building and social justice. -- David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Radicalization of IntimacyIn The Sex Obsession, Janet R. Jakobsen offers a masterful analysis of a question that has drawn the attention of many commentators on US religions: “Why sex?” ... Should become required reading for scholars. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Feminist and queer scholarship in religious studies will undoubtedly benefit immensely from Jakobsen’s kaleidoscopic approach to what sex and religion have to contribute to the project of imagining and materializing alternative worlds. * Reading Religion *

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Book SynopsisIn Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the long nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field.Written by scholars primarily working in the minor fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled Trade ReviewInnovative and thought-provoking, this collection will be of broad interest, opening up discussions on an array of texts, critical approaches, and developing conversations in the study of of nineteenth-century literature. With essays that are accessible, lucid, and utterly fascinating,Unsettled Statesoffers arresting analyses andmakes a real contributionto the field. -- Dana Nelson,author of Bad for DemocracyUnsettled Statessheds light on the papers long swept under the rug ranging from early Hispanic literature to polar periodicals. More importantly, the authors of the articles conscientiously build up their discussions in relation to contemporary literature and critical theory, which makes the collection even more distinguishing and valuable for the twenty-first century reader. * American Studies Journal *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: On Moving Ground 1 Dana Luciano Part I: Archives Unbound 1. Confederates in the Hispanic Attic: The Archive against Itself 31 Rodrigo Lazo 2. Historical Totality and the African American Archive 55 Lloyd Pratt 3. Race, Reenactment, and the "Natural-Born Citizen" 76 Tavia Nyong'o 4. Doing Justice to the Archive: Beyond Literature 103 Shelley Streeby Part II: States of Exception 5. Unsettled Life: Early Liberia's Epistolary Equivocations 119 David Kazanjian 6. The News at the Ends of the Earth: Polar Periodicals 158 Hester Blum 7. Feeling Like a State: Writing the 1863 New York City Draft Riots 189 Glenn Hendler 8. Impersonating the State of Exception 232 Jonathan Elmer Part III: Speculative Sexualities 9. Eat, Sex, Race 245 Kyla Wazana Tompkins 10. Connecticut Yankings: Mark Twain and the Masturbating Dude 275 Elizabeth Freeman 11. What Came Before 298 Peter Coviello P.S.: A Coda 307 Ivy G. Wilson About the Contributors 315 Index 317

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Book SynopsisIn As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways in which the modern wedding epitomizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ongoing debate about the power of peer culture, media, and the marketplace in America.Trade ReviewIn this well-researched and often entertaining examination of the symbolic meaning of the wedding ceremony in the post-WWII US, historian Dunak (Muskingum Univ.) argues that the evolution of marriage ceremony mirrors national cultural changes over the past several decades. -- K.B. Nutter * Choice *It's easy to poke fun at the frou-frou, the Bridezillas, and the chocolate fountains. Karen Dunak prefers a more sophisticated undertaking, reading the desire for a lavish wedding as a personal and political statement of the American Dream. She traces the rise of coupledom and the decline in maternal authority and approval of neighbors and relatives to postwar affluence. . . . Dunak's innovative research ranges from plumbing the personal recollections of the happy couples to the emergence of the public belief that even when a president's daughter married, it was all about them. -- Elizabeth Pleck,Professor Emerita, University of Illinois, Urbana/ChampaignPersuasively argues that widespread acceptance of the idea that each white wedding canand perhaps shouldhave at least one element of unique self-expression has insured the continuing popularity of formal weddings. Without the option of some measure of variation, the 'cookie-cutter' white wedding would have become a stale and outmoded ritual. Instead, it remains a popular rite whose familiar general contours make it a comfortable and welcoming ceremony for Americans of diverse backgrounds but whose individualized details allow it to express the unique characteristics, interests, and perhaps politics of the couple at its center. -- Katherine Jellison,Ohio UniversityDunaks diverse, interconnected narratives show how the American wedding offers a universal promise of love and happiness while also providing participants with an opportunity to publically perform their values and aspirations. [] Dunaks book is historically illuminating and highly readable. Through the authors account, we see how the weddings malleability has allowed it to endure as a meaningful rite of passage and beloved site of expression and individuality, one that is deeply tied to an ever-changing American culture. * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsCONTENTSAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 11. "Linking the Past with the Future" 13Origins of the Postwar White Wedding2. "The Same Thing That Happens to All Brides" 44Luci Johnson, the American Public, and the White Wedding3. "Getting Married Should Be Fun" 75Hippie Weddings and Alternative Celebrations4. "Lots of Young People Today Are Doing This" 102The White Wedding Revived5. "It Matters Not Who We Love, Only That We Love" 134Same-Sex WeddingsConclusion 169Notes 183Bibliography 223Index 239About the Author 244

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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 SynopsisIn January 2014, President Barack Obama made headlines when he confided to New Yorker reporter Davis Remnick that, if he had a son, he would discourage him from playing in the NFL. This book draws upon the experiences of hundreds of former players as they describe their lives after their football days are over.Trade Review"Is There Life After Football? offers fresh and insightful answers to a long-standing, difficult question, namely why some former NFL players languish while others thrive. The authors eschew oft-made assumptions and convenient explanations in favor of original, probing analysis based on thorough research and scores of interviews. Any examination of football, its joys, its ills, and the fate of its retired players would be incomplete without reading Is There Life After Football?" -- N. Jeremi Duru,author of Advancing the Ball"The poignant fate of the former athlete, revered then forgotten, is a theme in Western literature that goes back to the ancient Greeks. The NFL today has created its own up-to-date version of that mythic figurethe millionaire football hero and celebrity at 25, a lost and bankrupt cripple ten years laterbut also a more complicated reality, and that story has never been told more fully than in this deeply researched and insightful book." -- Michael Oriard,author of Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport"We are used to thinking of NFL players as larger-than-life figures who do great deeds, earn huge salaries, andwere coming to realizerun terrible risks. But Is There Life After Football? reveals these men as life-sized, as people who face tough choices throughout their lives. The various ways they cope make fascinating reading." -- Joel Best,author, Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype over Teen Sex"Finally someone tells it like it is! This book does an incredible job detailing the real life of an NFL player. This is a must read for every athlete, no matter the sport" -- Tim Brown,Heisman Trophy Winner, NFL 1990s All-Decade Team, and AFC Champion"I'm not quite ready to leave the game I love yet, but this is exactly the kind of information I need as that time approaches." -- Charles Woodson,Oakland Raiders, Heisman Trophy Winner, and Super Bowl Champion"Is There Life After Football? provides a sobering and insightful view of this transition through the personal anecdotes of Koonce and the research of Holstein and Jones. Most jarring is Koonce's admission of a reckless act at the end of his career...the authors do a great job of distilling difficult material into a digestible form. It's also a treat to read for anyone who enjoyed watching those plucky Packers of the 1990s." * Ensuring Chapters *"In their new book, James Holstein, Richard Jones, and George E. Koonce, Jr., discuss the discovery of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy as well as other physical problems that afflict former NFL players. Yet the most stunning finding of their research is not how life in football affects players' health, but rather how it affects their ability to find and hold a job, to maintain relationships, even to engage in basic social interactions...[A] candid look inside the 'bubble of NFL life and then the difficulties experienced by former players--men in only their late 20s and early 30s--when they leave that isolated, abnormal world." * Newbooksinsports.com *"The authors provide a unique perspective that is only possible through the combination of scholarly knowledge and the real-life experiences of George E. Koonce, Jr. and other athletes whose testimonials were used to illustrate their points." * PsycCRITQUES *"Is There Life After Football? brings us inside the lives of NFL players to show why so many wind up in dire straits after their time on the field, from depression to debilitating lifelong injuries to catastrophic financial mismanagement. [] The book seeks, among other things, to dispel the myth that everyone who plays in the NFL is financially set for life." * New York Post *"The book is well written, with clarity and insights not available in similar popular accounts. It would be useful and of interest to students in sport studies classes, providing much material for discussion." * Journal of Sport History *"Three academics from Marquette University, one of whom (Koonce) is a former NFL player, apply some sociological techniques to analyzing the situations of ex-NFL players...[T]he information and insights engage in a rousing race for the end zone." * Kirkus *"It is timely considering the financial settlement the NFL reached in August 2013 with retired players for head injuries sustained at work, and the ongoing discussion over the physical dangers that football at all levels presents.Both sports enthusiasts and concerned readers can profit from the insights and lessons offered in this informative and prescriptive work." * Choice *"Entering the so-called real world after years in the bubble of special treatment and privilege is the focus of the authors study, which draws on the experiences of many ex-NFLers, including co-author George Koonce, who spent nearly a decade with the Green Bay Packers" * Christian Science Monitor *"A timely exploration that will be of interest to football fans looking to better understand the complex culture of the NFL." * Booklist *"This is a book fans should read before the next gameor before they let their own son suit up. If youve ever wondered 'What ever happened to.?'then Is There Life after Football? is a book you shouldnt pass." * Real Times Media *"The trio of authors gives readers a detailed explanationcomplemented by personal accounts from Koonce and other former players, coaches, and wivesabout how lonely life outside the locker room and off the football field can be for NFL exes." * Pulse Magazine *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: "It's All Over!" 1 1 Pursuing "the Dream" 11 2 Inside "the Bubble" 45 3 The End 83 4 A Lifetime of Hurt 105 5 "All That Dough: Where Did It Go?" 139 6 What's Next? 169 7 Playing without a Playbook 199 8 Trials of Transition 217 Appendix 1: Methodology 251 Appendix 2: Retirement Benefits 255 Notes 261 Index 303 About the Authors 321

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Book SynopsisOver the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and desirable. They are a fixture in tabloids, magazines, fashion blogs, and television. Why exactly are models so appealing? And how do these women succeed in so soundly holding our attention?In This Year's Model, Elizabeth Wissinger weaves together in-depth interviews and research at model castings, photo shoots, and runway shows to offer a glimpse into the life of the model throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Once an ad hoc occupation, the model life now involves a great deal of physical and virtual management of the body, or what Wissinger terms glamour labor. Wissinger argues that glamour laborthe specialized modeling work of self-styling, crafting a look,' and building an imagehas been amplified by the rise of digital meTrade ReviewIn a thoroughly fresh analysis, Wissinger uses the fashion model as a lens to theorize changing intersections of technology and the body. With an eye for rich ethnographic detail, she takes us inside the world of modeling and skillfully back out again into the macro historical changes in embodiment and technology that modeling exemplifies.This Years Model delivers a rich and troubling history of how we have all come to manage ourselves as brands.Its the kind of book that will change how you think about your own bodys place in our high-tech world. -- Ashley Mears,author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion ModelIn a sympathetic yet critical view of the labor of glamour, Wissinger presents rich ethnographic work augmented with interviews and the close integration of media and press materials on the historical trajectory of the modeling and fashion industry from the mid-1980s through the present. * Choice *Table of Contentsvii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Glamour Labor 1 1. Supermodels of the World: Living the Life 35 2. The Runway: Step into the Room Like It's a Catwalk 59 3. The Photo Shoot: Strike a Pose - There's Nothing to It 80 4. Cover Girl: Managing the Model Body 108 5. The Fashionable Ideal: Looking Like a Model 141 6. The Job: Nice Work If You Can Get It 162 7. Scouting: The Hunger for New Faces 185 8. Black-Black-Black: How Race Is Read 216 9. Touch-Ups: Making the Model Better 243 Conclusion: The Affective Turn 267 Appendix: A Chronology of Modeling in the Media, 1980 - 2010 279 Notes 283 Index 339 About the Author 353

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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 Synopsis2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of SportA human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenges players face after leaving the NFL to the factors that can enable them to continue to find successIs There Life After Football? draws upon the experiences of hundreds of former players as they describe their lives playing the sport and after their football days are over. The bubble-like conditions of privilege that NFL players experience while playing, often leave players unprepared for the real world once they retire and must manage their own lives. The book also reveals the difficulties affecting former NFL players in retirement: social isolation, financial concerns, inadequate career planning, psychological challenges, and physical injuries. From players who make reckless and unsustainable financial investments during their very few high-earning years, to players who struggle to form personal and professional relationships outside of footTrade Review"Is There Life After Football? offers fresh and insightful answers to a long-standing, difficult question, namely why some former NFL players languish while others thrive. The authors eschew oft-made assumptions and convenient explanations in favor of original, probing analysis based on thorough research and scores of interviews. Any examination of football, its joys, its ills, and the fate of its retired players would be incomplete without reading Is There Life After Football?" -- N. Jeremi Duru,author of Advancing the Ball"The poignant fate of the former athlete, revered then forgotten, is a theme in Western literature that goes back to the ancient Greeks. The NFL today has created its own up-to-date version of that mythic figurethe millionaire football hero and celebrity at 25, a lost and bankrupt cripple ten years laterbut also a more complicated reality, and that story has never been told more fully than in this deeply researched and insightful book." -- Michael Oriard,author of Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport"We are used to thinking of NFL players as larger-than-life figures who do great deeds, earn huge salaries, andwere coming to realizerun terrible risks. But Is There Life After Football? reveals these men as life-sized, as people who face tough choices throughout their lives. The various ways they cope make fascinating reading." -- Joel Best,author, Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype over Teen Sex"Finally someone tells it like it is! This book does an incredible job detailing the real life of an NFL player. This is a must read for every athlete, no matter the sport" -- Tim Brown,Heisman Trophy Winner, NFL 1990s All-Decade Team, and AFC Champion"I'm not quite ready to leave the game I love yet, but this is exactly the kind of information I need as that time approaches." -- Charles Woodson,Oakland Raiders, Heisman Trophy Winner, and Super Bowl Champion"Is There Life After Football? provides a sobering and insightful view of this transition through the personal anecdotes of Koonce and the research of Holstein and Jones. Most jarring is Koonce's admission of a reckless act at the end of his career...the authors do a great job of distilling difficult material into a digestible form. It's also a treat to read for anyone who enjoyed watching those plucky Packers of the 1990s." * Ensuring Chapters *"In their new book, James Holstein, Richard Jones, and George E. Koonce, Jr., discuss the discovery of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy as well as other physical problems that afflict former NFL players. Yet the most stunning finding of their research is not how life in football affects players' health, but rather how it affects their ability to find and hold a job, to maintain relationships, even to engage in basic social interactions...[A] candid look inside the 'bubble of NFL life and then the difficulties experienced by former players--men in only their late 20s and early 30s--when they leave that isolated, abnormal world." * Newbooksinsports.com *"The authors provide a unique perspective that is only possible through the combination of scholarly knowledge and the real-life experiences of George E. Koonce, Jr. and other athletes whose testimonials were used to illustrate their points." * PsycCRITQUES *"Is There Life After Football? brings us inside the lives of NFL players to show why so many wind up in dire straits after their time on the field, from depression to debilitating lifelong injuries to catastrophic financial mismanagement. [] The book seeks, among other things, to dispel the myth that everyone who plays in the NFL is financially set for life." * New York Post *"The book is well written, with clarity and insights not available in similar popular accounts. It would be useful and of interest to students in sport studies classes, providing much material for discussion." * Journal of Sport History *"Three academics from Marquette University, one of whom (Koonce) is a former NFL player, apply some sociological techniques to analyzing the situations of ex-NFL players...[T]he information and insights engage in a rousing race for the end zone." * Kirkus *"It is timely considering the financial settlement the NFL reached in August 2013 with retired players for head injuries sustained at work, and the ongoing discussion over the physical dangers that football at all levels presents.Both sports enthusiasts and concerned readers can profit from the insights and lessons offered in this informative and prescriptive work." * Choice *"Entering the so-called real world after years in the bubble of special treatment and privilege is the focus of the authors study, which draws on the experiences of many ex-NFLers, including co-author George Koonce, who spent nearly a decade with the Green Bay Packers" * Christian Science Monitor *"A timely exploration that will be of interest to football fans looking to better understand the complex culture of the NFL." * Booklist *"This is a book fans should read before the next gameor before they let their own son suit up. If youve ever wondered 'What ever happened to.?'then Is There Life after Football? is a book you shouldnt pass." * Real Times Media *"The trio of authors gives readers a detailed explanationcomplemented by personal accounts from Koonce and other former players, coaches, and wivesabout how lonely life outside the locker room and off the football field can be for NFL exes." * Pulse Magazine *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: "It's All Over!" 1 1 Pursuing "the Dream" 11 2 Inside "the Bubble" 45 3 The End 83 4 A Lifetime of Hurt 105 5 "All That Dough: Where Did It Go?" 139 6 What's Next? 169 7 Playing without a Playbook 199 8 Trials of Transition 217 Appendix 1: Methodology 251 Appendix 2: Retirement Benefits 255 Notes 261 Index 303 About the Authors 321

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Book SynopsisThe surprising true story of Mexico's hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killerFor three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse. When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known as la Dama del Silencio (the Lady of Silence), was arrestedand eventually sentenced to 759 years in prisonfor her crimes as the Mataviejitas (the little old lady killer), her case disrupted traditional narratives about gender, criminality, and victimhood in the popular and criminological imagination.Marshaling ten years of research, and one of the only interviews that Juana Barraza Samperio has given while in prison, Susana Vargas Cervantes deconstructs this uniquely provocative story. She focuses, in particular, on the cTrade ReviewSerial murderers, lucha libre wrestlers, gender-transgressing vestidas, prejudiced scientists and disoriented policemen populate the pages of this insightful study of the cultural construction of crime and criminals in Mexico. Focusing on a case that challenged what Mexicans thought they knew about crime, Vargas examines performance, images, media languages and expert discourses, and uncovers their racist and machista premises. Her criticism is original but also urgently needed, as we see how the neglect of certain victims and the criminalization of those who do not conform to gender norms contribute to the dehumanizing levels of violence that Mexico is witnessing today. -- Pablo Piccato,author of A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in MexicoThis brilliant mixed-genre meditation on the life and crimes of Juana Barraza combines the pulse of true crime, a picaresque cast of historical characters, the contextual nuance of cultural history, the sophistication of queer theory, and disturbing new insights into Mexican identity and its complicated relationship with human mortalitya (trans)historical achievement of the highest order. -- Robert Marshall Buffington,author of A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910In addition to Samperio's story, Cervantes thoroughly analyzes subjects including Mexican history, lucha libre, anthropology, serial killing and gender roles and expectations. Fascinating … not your typical true crime book. * SLAM! Wrestling *

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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 fields examining heterosexuality fTrade ReviewThe 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 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 SynopsisA courtside view of how women athletes' identities are policed, on and off the courtWomen's college basketball is big businesstop teams bring in millions of dollars in revenue for their schools. Women's NCAA games are broadcast regularly on sports networks, and many of the top players and coaches are household names. Yet these athletes face immense pressure to be more than successful at their sport. They must also conform to expectations about gender, sexuality, and raceexpectations that are often in direct contrast to success in the game. They are not supposed to have muscles that are too big, they are not supposed to be too tough, they are not supposed to be too masculine or look like men, and they are not supposed to be queer.A former college athlete herself, Michelle J. Manno spent a full season with a highly competitive NCAA Division I women's basketball program as one of the team's managers. In vivid detail, she takes us on the court, on the team bus, into tTrade ReviewA powerful cautionary tale. Michelle J. Manno shows how women athletes—especially those who are Black, queer, and/or masculine-presenting—are constrained by strict policing of gender and sexuality. Manno paints a rich picture of women’s sports as a microcosm of intersectional struggles for dignity, equality, and social justice. * Michael A. Messner, co-author of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change *Manno’s work sets a powerful standard for the ways in which the complex identities of women athletes outshine the false boundaries of race, gender, and sexuality. Her thoughtful analysis and compassionate storytelling point the reader to what all of us seeking our place in sport strive for: to bring one’s full self to the world of competition, to find our own authentic belonging there, and ultimately to create a sense of ‘home’ for ourselves and others among teammates and competitors alike. * Lauren Holtkamp-Sterling, NBA Referee *Denied blends vivid story-telling with incisive theoretical analysis to highlight the persistent racism and sexism that limit women athletes of all races, sexualities, and gender identities. * Pat Griffin, author of Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport *Manno takes readers inside a Division I collegiate basketball program. Denied convincingly argues women athletes, specifically Black, queer, and gender non-conforming athletes, are subject to racialized and gendered strategies of containment and control which ultimately impose constraints on who they can be and what they can achieve. * Cheryl Cooky, co-author of Serving Equality: Feminism, Media, and Women’s Sports *As a former college athlete, Manno evocatively lays bare the challenges women athletes face both on and off the court as they balance the many competing demands placed on them. Her personal approach and deep empathy for this topic offer a necessary lens through which we can understand how women athletes’ identities are policed along the lines of race, gender, and sexuality. * Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA All-star and Olympic Gold Medalist *For nine months, Manno was embedded within the Midwest State University women’s basketball team, an elite and competitive DI program. Immersed in that insular yet high-stakes world, she observes firsthand how unyieldingly female athletes—particularly queer, Black, and/or masculine-presenting—are policed both within and without. * Electric Literature *

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Book SynopsisIn Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the long nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field.Written by scholars primarily working in the minor fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled Trade ReviewInnovative and thought-provoking, this collection will be of broad interest, opening up discussions on an array of texts, critical approaches, and developing conversations in the study of of nineteenth-century literature. With essays that are accessible, lucid, and utterly fascinating,Unsettled Statesoffers arresting analyses andmakes a real contributionto the field. -- Dana Nelson,author of Bad for DemocracyUnsettled Statessheds light on the papers long swept under the rug ranging from early Hispanic literature to polar periodicals. More importantly, the authors of the articles conscientiously build up their discussions in relation to contemporary literature and critical theory, which makes the collection even more distinguishing and valuable for the twenty-first century reader. * American Studies Journal *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: On Moving Ground 1 Dana Luciano Part I: Archives Unbound 1. Confederates in the Hispanic Attic: The Archive against Itself 31 Rodrigo Lazo 2. Historical Totality and the African American Archive 55 Lloyd Pratt 3. Race, Reenactment, and the "Natural-Born Citizen" 76 Tavia Nyong'o 4. Doing Justice to the Archive: Beyond Literature 103 Shelley Streeby Part II: States of Exception 5. Unsettled Life: Early Liberia's Epistolary Equivocations 119 David Kazanjian 6. The News at the Ends of the Earth: Polar Periodicals 158 Hester Blum 7. Feeling Like a State: Writing the 1863 New York City Draft Riots 189 Glenn Hendler 8. Impersonating the State of Exception 232 Jonathan Elmer Part III: Speculative Sexualities 9. Eat, Sex, Race 245 Kyla Wazana Tompkins 10. Connecticut Yankings: Mark Twain and the Masturbating Dude 275 Elizabeth Freeman 11. What Came Before 298 Peter Coviello P.S.: A Coda 307 Ivy G. Wilson About the Contributors 315 Index 317

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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 sensation - pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. This book uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts.Trade 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 SynopsisFinalist, 2021 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies AssociationSeeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of playVideo games vastly outpace all other mediums of entertainment in revenue and in global reach. On the surface, games do not appear ideological, nor are they categorized as national products. Instead, they seem to reflect the open and uncontaminated reputation of information technology. Video games are undeniably imperial products. Their very existence has been conditioned upon the spread of militarized technology, the exploitation of already-existing labor and racial hierarchies in their manufacture, and the utopian promises of digital technology. Like literature and film before it, video games have become the main artistic expression of empire today: the open world empire, formed through the routes of informatTrade ReviewOpen World Empire is an exciting and insightful text that offers a unique, critical analysis of video games, and should be of interest to anyone working in the areas of critical game studies, popular culture, American studies, Asian American studies, science and technology studies, queer theory, and erotics. * Lateral *Patterson deftly combines theory (erotics as a form of play) with accounts of user-created content (online encyclopedias and forum posts) and personal experience to convey the multiplicity of meanings that different contexts and audiences can attribute to games, including Overwatch, Street Fighter II, League of Legends, Mass Effect, Guild Wars 2, Alien: Isolation, and Far Cry. * CHOICE *By centering race and sexuality, Christopher Patterson argues that critiques about stereotypes and representation are inadequate for understanding the erotic, emotional, and corporeal effect of video games on their players. Engaging the Asiatic alongside eros and the Other, Open World Empire offers first-rate scholarship that doesn't sacrifice the complexity and depth of the idea of play. Readers will be guided forward by Patterson's skillful tutorial. -- LeiLani Nishime, author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual CultureIn considering the resistant, playful, and unexpected things that can happen through our engagements with video games, Christopher Patterson provocatively details productive fissures between affect theory and games studies. In placing the Asiatic and the erotic in harmony, Open World Empire challenges an often-thorny politics of representation, and in so doing, he reminds us why gaming is still so fun. -- TreaAndrea Russwurm, co-editor of Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video GamesOpen World Empire follows the conventions of intersectional feminist writings, queer of color critique, Asian American studies, and postmodern theory…Invigorating the field with a language that fully recenters the politics of pleasure in games and play offers a promising new direction for game studies.” * American Journal of Play *

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Book SynopsisVivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand today Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding gender and sexuality within a more pragmatic, dynamic, and socially relevant framework. It shows how gender relations must be understood on a large scale as well as in intimate detail. The contributors return to the basics, questioning how gender patterns change, how we can realize gender equality, and how the structures of gender impact daily life. Gender Reckonings covers not only foundational concepts of gender relations and gender justice, but also explores postcolonial patterns of gender, intersectionality, gender fluidity, transgender practices, neoliberalism, and queer theory. Gender Reckonings combines the insights of gender and sexuality scholars from different generations, fiTrade ReviewThe publication of Raewyn Connell's Gender and Power in 1987 proclaimed a new sociology of gender, from sex roles to situating gender relations in multiple fields of power. These exciting new essays refer back over three decades of theory and research, and suggest just how germinal that work was in generating new avenues of thinking about gender. -- Michael Kimmel,Author of Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an EraA refreshingly up-to-date collection of essays that covers a wide range of theories and debates, Gender Reckonings brings much needed clarity and breadth to the challenges of undoing or re-imagining gender away from its hegemonic moorings. These new essays by seasoned experts in gender and sexuality studies will be of enormous use to scholars and students alike, and are sure to become catalysts for future feminist analyses. -- Suzanna Danuta Walters,Author of The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay EqualityThis collection by eminent scholars with a spectrum of styles and conceptual frameworks contributes immensely to our sociological understanding of gender theory and research. In looking back and moving forward, these authors celebrate, critique, and consider the changes and challenges of the social analysis of gender. This compelling volume demonstrates the diverse ways that contexts matter and the importance of engaging in social research for gender equality and social justice. -- Margaret Abraham,Co-editor of Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity, and Practices of Citizenship

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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 SynopsisIn Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it.Trade Review"Hinther’s work successfully recounts the history of the Ukrainian left in Canada, which used a combination of cultural and political practices to demonstrate their individuality within the Canadian left more broadly." -- Katelyn Arac, Queen's University * The Canadian Historical Review, vol 99 4, December 2018 *"Rhonda Hinther’s book is a warm testimonial to how the heirs of the pro-communist minority now feel about themselves and their historical place within left-wing Canadian politics." -- Thomas M. Prymak, University of Toronto * Slavic Review, vol 78 no 2 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note On Transliteration Introduction: Perogies and Politics: The Men, Women, and Children of the Ukrainian Labour Temple Movement, 1891-1991 Chapter I: 'Sincerest Revolutionary Greetings:' Men and the Interwar Ukrainian Left Chapter II: Raising Funds and Class Consciousness: Women and the Interwar Ukrainian Left Chapter III: Junior Participants in the Class Struggle: Children, Youth, and the Interwar Ukrainian Left Chapter IV: 'Dear Kate! I Don't Know How You Manage!:' The Ukrainian Left and WWII Chapter V: 'If There Had Been A Siberia:' Adults and the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians Chapter VI: 'We're Ukrainian-Canadians, Not Ukrainian:' Children, Youth and the Postwar Ukrainian Left Conclusion: "If I Can't Dance, It's Not My Revolution" Appendix A: Key Ukrainian Leftist Organizations Works Consulted

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Andrea Doucet's Do Men Mother? builds upon the award winning first edition to further illuminate fathers' candid reflections on caring and the intricate social worlds that men and women inhabit as they love and let go' of their children.Table of ContentsSection I: Knowing and Crafting Fathers' Stories Chapter 1: Mapping and Remapping Fathering Fields Chapter 2: Knowing and Crafting Fathers' Stories Through Gossamer Walls Chapter 3: Understanding Fathers as Primary Caregivers Section II: Do Men Mother? Fathering, Care and Parental Responsibilities Chapter 4: Fathers and Emotional Responsibilities Chapter 5: Fathers and Community Responsibilities Chapter 6: Fathering, Mothering, and 'Moral' Responsibilities Section III: Changing Fathering: Care, Responsibilities, Embodiment Chapter 7: Men Reconstructing Fathering, Care, and Gender Postscript

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Book SynopsisCourtney Thomas offers an intriguing investigation of honour's social meanings amongst early modern elites in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.Trade Review‘Highly Recommended. All levels/Libraries.’ -- M. Reardon * Choice Magazine vol 55:07:2018 *"[If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself] illuminates not just the flexibility and inconsistency of early modern notions of honor and the ways in which these ideals were constantly being deployed and redefined in daily practice, but equally the ubiquity and character of interpersonal strife among the dynastic families of the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English elite." -- Fara Dabhoiwala, Princeton University * American Historical Review, June 2019 *"In studying honour not just as a representational strategy but also as a point of entry into a range of other subjects, the book offers much of interest to a wide variety of scholars, not just those who focus expressly on honour and the self-presentations of the elite." -- K. J. Kesselring, Dalhousie University * The English Historical Review, vol 134 no 568 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Brief Notes Introduction - Approaching Honor Chapter One - Men and Honor Chapter Two - Women and Honor Chapter Three - Honor, Local Reputation, and the Household Chapter Four - Honor and the Family Conclusion - The Importance of Honor Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and have many children. Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS by Amy Carney is the first work to significantly assess the role of SS men as husbands and fathers during the Third Reich. The family community, and the place of men in this community, started with one simple order issued by SS leader Heinrich Himmler. He and other SS leaders continued to develop the family community throughout the 1930s, and not even the Second World War deterred them from pursuing their racial ambitions. Carney’s insight into the eugenic-based measures used to encourage SS men to marry and to establish families sheds new light on their responsibilities not only as soldiers, buTrade Review"This is an important work, in which Carney has added to the existing scholarship in the field of family life in the Third Reich by looking beyond mothers and motherhood, to examine fathers and fatherhood." -- Lisa Pine, London South Bank University * European History Quarterly, vol 49 no 3 *"Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS is well documented and a significant contribution to understanding one of the darkest periods in European history. It is especially important today when historical ignorance abounds." -- John A. Dick * Marriage, Families & Spirituality, Vol. 26, No. 1 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Engagement and Marriage Command Establishing SS Families Marriage during the Second World War Sustaining the Family Community during the War Belonging to the Family Community Assessing SS Population Politics and the Family Community Appendices Appendix A: The Engagement and Marriage Command Appendix B: Development of the SS Appendix C: Rank Comparisons Appendix D: Organization of the Allgemeine SS Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 19001970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture.Trade Review"This work is a demonstration of how original historical research, carefully and imaginatively deployed, can be usefully combined with contemporary culture theory of exhibitionary logics, embodiment, and difference. It is a story well told by a skillful historian." -- Kenneth Little, York University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Pookie’s Story Chapter 1: Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things Chapter 2: The Carnival State: Protest, Moral Regulation, and Profits Chapter 3: The Carnival Business in Canada: Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour Chapter 4: The Twentieth Century Freak Show: Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race Chapter 5: Not Just Child’s Play: Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers Chapter 6: The Spectacularization of Small and Cute: Midget Shows and the Dionne Quintuplets Epilogue: ‘I guess it really is all over’: The End Which is Not One Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMen Out of Focus examines how and why the Soviet public came to worry openly about the state of masculinity during the 1950s and 1960s and how a perceived crisis really stood in for broader fears.Trade Review"Men Out of Focus presents a diverse range of films and other cultural materials to provide a snapshot of Soviet cultural history with global implications. Written in a lively style, it is accessible to the general reader, just as the inclusion of numerous translated political cartoons prove quite enjoyable. The specialist, too, will appreciate Dumančić’s heterogeneous selection of films." -- Jess Jensen Mitchell * H-Soz-Kult *"A fascinating piece of work, meticulously researched and detailed, yet thoroughly accessible. While Dumančić’s main source is Soviet cinema, it would be doing this book a great disservice to see it only as a book about men on film. The wide variety of sources taken from different cultural genres and political discourses, the consideration of multiple facets of contemporary Soviet life, and the effort, especially in the final chapter, to situate the Soviet case among developments elsewhere in Europe, means that this is a seminal book which offers a richly textured analysis of Soviet society that goes far beyond the silver screen." -- Claire McCallum, University of Exeter * The Russian Review *“Dumančić combines close textual analysis with corroborating material, including cartoons in the satirical journal, Krokodil, and debates within the Union of Cinematographers. The result is a nuanced and perceptive monograph which offers readers an insight into the gender norms that allowed sexual inequality to thrive." -- Simon Huxtable * Contemporary European History *"Marko Dumančicì’s first book has been much anticipated in Soviet gender history, and it does not disappoint… Men Out of Focus is an excellent contribution to Soviet cultural history and film studies that enriches each of the many fields it touches." -- Erica L. Fraser, Carleton University * Journal of Family History *“Marko Dumančić’s first book has been much anticipated in Soviet gender history, and it does not disappoint. Showing an admirable facility with film studies, gender analysis, cultural methodology, and the dynamic terrain of Soviet history in the two decades after the 1953 death of Joseph Stalin, Dumančić offers a deeply researched and persuasively argued portrait of the Soviet gender order from about 1953 to 1968.” -- Erica L. Fraser, Carleton University * Journal of Family History *“Dumančić is fluent in the social history of the ‘long sixties’ and is to be praised for his focus on popular films, which are quite illuminating in presenting a view of Soviet masculinity different from either Stalinist heroes or the tortured heroes in art films.” -- Denise J. Youngblood, University of Vermont * Women East-West *“Marko Dumančić’s monograph arrives at a most timely moment … The author is to be congratulated also for the sheer range of his sources, from literary texts to the cultural media, from discussions of films to their reception by the Party ideologues and the public, and from academic studies to archival and documentary materials.” -- David Gillespie * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Soviet Men in Need of Saving? 1. What Was Stalinist Masculinity and Why Did It Change? 2. Being a Dad Is Not for Sissies 3. Fathers versus Sons, or, the Great Soviet Family in Trouble 4. The Trouble with Women: Consumerism and the Death of Rugged Masculinity 5. Our Friend the Atom? Science as a Threat to Masculinity 6. De-Heroization and the Pan-European Masculinity Crisis Epilogue: The End of the Long Sixties and the Fate of the Superfluous Man Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on why access to political power remains outside the grasp of most women in Canada and around the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction Roosmarijn de Geus, Erin Tolley, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Peter John Loewen Part One: Canadian Perspectives on Women in Politics 1. Women’s representation in Canadian federal cabinets 1980-2019 Roosmarijn de Geus and Peter John Loewen 2. Do Women Get Fewer Votes in Ontario Provincial Elections? Semra Sevi, André Blais and Vincent Arel-Bundock 3. News and Political Legitimacy: Gendered Mediation of Canadian Political Leaders Linda Trimble 4. Adversarial politics: Understanding the colonial context of Indigenous women’s political participation in Canada Robyn Bourgeois Part Two: Comparative Perspectives on Women in Politics 5. Missing the Wave? Women Congressional Candidates Who Lost in the 2018 Election Julie Dolan, Paru Shah and Semilla Stripp 6. Black Women’s Hair Matters: The Uneasy Marriage of Electoral Politics (Dis)Respectability Politics Nadia E. Brown 7. Women in the Plenary: Verbal Participation in the Argentine Congress Tiffany D. Barnes and Victoria Beall 8. Women as Party Leaders Diana Z. O’Brien 9. A Question of Ethics? Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Legislatures of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada Tracey Raney and Cheryl Collier Part Three: Responses to Women’s Electoral Underrepresentation 10. Gender Quotas and Beyond: Policy Solutions to Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics Magda Hinojosa, Miki Kittilson and Alexandra M. Williams 11. Quotas, Reserved Seats and Electoral Rules on Women Parliamentarians in Asia Netina Tan 12. Changing Minds. Canadian Perspectives on Gender Quotas and Diversity. Chantal Maillé 13. Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation: Lessons for Canada Susan Franceschet Part Four: New Research Directions 14. Making the Case for Women’s Representation: What, Who, and Why Kelly Dittmar 15. Women in Parliament: From Presence to Impact Critical Actors in the Policy Making Process Malliga Och 16. Too feminine to be a leader? Systematic implicit biases against women politicians Shan-Jan Sarah Liu 17. Women in Politics: Beyond the heterosexual fantasy Manon Tremblay, PhD 18. New Backlash? New Barriers? Assessing Women’s Contemporary Public Engagement Sylvia Bashevkin

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the many forces that shaped postwar French femininity as a desirable commodity, both within France and around the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Creating the Model Hostess 2. Hostessing off the Airplane 3. Hostessing Global Events 4. The Gendering and Selling of France 5. Selling Postwar French Femininity Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of Do Men Mother? (2006) was awarded the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociological Association and remains one of the most widely cited books on primary caregiving fathers and stay-at-home fathers. This second edition of Do Men Mother? builds on interviews conducted between 2000 and 2004 with 101 fathers and 14 mother/father couples, and follow-up interviews with six of the mother/father couples about a decade later. It charts how fathers and mothers navigate and negotiate parental and breadwinning responsibilities and calls attention to the generative changes that occur for men when they share responsibilities for their children’s care. Working closely with Sara Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking (1989), Doucet advocates for a wider maternal lens that focuses on entanglements between dependence/independence/inter-dependence and argues that fathers’ stories expand how we think about mothering anTable of ContentsSection I: Knowing and Crafting Fathers' Stories Chapter 1: Mapping and Remapping Fathering Fields Chapter 2: Knowing and Crafting Fathers' Stories Through Gossamer Walls Chapter 3: Understanding Fathers as Primary Caregivers Section II: Do Men Mother? Fathering, Care and Parental Responsibilities Chapter 4: Fathers and Emotional Responsibilities Chapter 5: Fathers and Community Responsibilities Chapter 6: Fathering, Mothering, and 'Moral' Responsibilities Section III: Changing Fathering: Care, Responsibilities, Embodiment Chapter 7: Men Reconstructing Fathering, Care, and Gender Postscript

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Book SynopsisFrom 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and have many children. Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS by Amy Carney is the first work to significantly assess the role of SS men as husbands and fathers during the Third Reich. The family community, and the place of men in this community, started with one simple order issued by SS leader Heinrich Himmler. He and other SS leaders continued to develop the family community throughout the 1930s, and not even the Second World War deterred them from pursuing their racial ambitions. Carney’s insight into the eugenic-based measures used to encourage SS men to marry and to establish families sheds new light on their responsibilities not only as soldiers, buTrade Review"This is an important work, in which Carney has added to the existing scholarship in the field of family life in the Third Reich by looking beyond mothers and motherhood, to examine fathers and fatherhood." -- Lisa Pine, London South Bank University * European History Quarterly, vol 49 no 3 *"Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS is well documented and a significant contribution to understanding one of the darkest periods in European history. It is especially important today when historical ignorance abounds." -- John A. Dick * Marriage, Families & Spirituality, Vol. 26, No. 1 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Engagement and Marriage Command Establishing SS Families Marriage during the Second World War Sustaining the Family Community during the War Belonging to the Family Community Assessing SS Population Politics and the Family Community Appendices Appendix A: The Engagement and Marriage Command Appendix B: Development of the SS Appendix C: Rank Comparisons Appendix D: Organization of the Allgemeine SS Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as The Monkey Girl at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as ''freaks'' in twentieth-century Canada. Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s. In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 19001970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture. Freak shows survived and thrived because of their flexible business model, government support, and by mobilizing cultural and medical ideas of the body and normalcy. This book is the first full length study of the freak show in Canada and is a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of Canadian popular culture, attitudes toward children, and the social construction of able-bodiness. Based on an impressive research foundation, the book will be of particular interest to Trade Review"This work is a demonstration of how original historical research, carefully and imaginatively deployed, can be usefully combined with contemporary culture theory of exhibitionary logics, embodiment, and difference. It is a story well told by a skillful historian." -- Kenneth Little, York University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Pookie's Story Chapter 1: Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things Chapter 2: The Carnival State: Protest, Moral Regulation, and Profits Chapter 3: The Carnival Business in Canada: Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour Chapter 4: The Twentieth Century Freak Show: Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race Chapter 5: Not Just Child's Play: Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers Chapter 6: The Spectacularization of Small and Cute: Midget Shows and the Dionne Quintuplets Epilogue: 'I guess it really is all over': The End Which is Not One Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSection 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ensures equality regarding sexual orientation and gender identity in Canada. Despite this, gay, lesbian, and gender-nonconforming teachers in publicly-funded Catholic schools in Ontario and Alberta are being fired for living lives that Church leaders claim run contrary to Catholic doctrine about non-heterosexuality. Meanwhile, requests from students to establish Gay/Straight Alliances are often denied. In Homophobia in the Hallways, Tonya D. Callaghan interrogates institutionalized homophobia and transphobia in the publicly-funded Catholic school systems of Ontario and Alberta. Featuring twenty interviews with students and teachers who have faced overt discrimination in Catholic schools, the book blends theoretical inquiry and real-world case study, making Callaghan’s study a unique insight into religiously-inspired heterosexism and genderism. She uncovers the causes anTable of ContentsHomophobia in the Hallways: Heterosexism and Transphobia in Canadian Catholic Schools Critical Theory For Emancipation Participants: Domination and Resistance Media and the Law: Allies in Resisting Homophobia Catholic Documents: Doctrinal Disciplining Theorizing the Data: The Many Modes of Power Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a great nation. They promoted the beauty, sexual appeal, and general allure of French women, all while shrinking the boundaries of what was considered beautiful. Charm Offensive explores how this elevation of French femininity created problems on both sides of the equation: the pressure on French women to conform to an exacting physical standard was immense, while the inability of anyone else to access that standard resulted in a sense of failure. Drawing on cultural figures like Air France hostesses, tourism workers, and celebrities such as Brigitte Bardot, Charm Offensive offers an innovative understanding of a tumultuous time of decolonization.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Creating the Model Hostess 2. Hostessing off the Airplane 3. Hostessing Global Events 4. The Gendering and Selling of France 5. Selling Postwar French Femininity Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man focuses on the gendered experiences and discrimination that German-Jewish men faced between 1933 and 1941. Sebastian Huebel argues that Jewish men’s gender identities, intersecting with categories of ethnicity, race, class, and age, underwent a profound process of marginalization that destabilized accustomed ways of performing masculinity. At the same time, in their attempts to sustain their conceptions of masculinity these men maintained agency and developed coping strategies that prevented their full-scale emasculation. Huebel draws on a rich archive of diaries, letters, and autobiographies to interpret the experiences of these men, focusing on their roles as soldiers and protectors, professionals and breadwinners, and parents and husbands. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man sheds light on how the Trade Review"Huebel shares the hope that a study of the erosion of Jewish male masculinity under Nazism can ‘sharpen our understanding of contemporary issues related to gender.’" -- Graham Forst * Jewish Independent *"This is a story of the gradual adaptations German Jewish men and their families made in the face of increasing legal restrictions, defamation, and violence. Huebel tells it very well. This is crucial reading." -- M. A. Mengerink, Lamar University * CHOICE *"Huebel’s book invites us to further investigate the history of masculinities in the Third Reich. It will not only enrich historiographical debates about this period, but also enliven discussion in the classroom." -- Javier Samper Vendrell, University of Pennsylvania * Monatshefte *“Huebel, without losing sight of Nazi power, invites us to change our perspective and see how many men, despite the hardships they had to face, were still able to retain their humanity and express their own agency. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man is a book about resistance, revealing how many German-Jewish men were able to find ways to fight against a system that wanted to humiliate, dehumanize, and ultimately kill them.” -- Alessia Ponzio, University of Saskatchewan * Central European History *Table of ContentsList of Figures Image and Photo Credits List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Un-soldierly Men? German Jews and Military Masculinity 2. The Question of Race and Sex: Jewish Men and Racial Defilement 3. Jewish Masculinity and the Importance of Work 4. Jewish Husbands and Fathers in the Third Reich 5. Outside the KZ: Jewish Masculinities and the Arrival of Violence 6. Inside the KZ: Jewish Masculinities in Prewar Nazi Concentration Camps Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book reveals the fascinating history of how and why people gathered in the streets of Victorian Toronto both in jubilation and in anger.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Tory Rebels and a Viceregal Visit 2. The Press and Election Culture 3. A Prince in Town 4. Religious Processions and Disorder 5. Colonialism Triumphant: Celebrating the Suppression of the North-West Resistance of 1885 6. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder 7. Strikers and their Supporters Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special occasions, such as the 1860 visit of the Prince of Wales and the return in 1885 of the local Volunteers who helped to suppress the Riel resistance in the North-West. In a contrasting mood, people also took to the streets in anger to object to government measures, such as the Rebellion Losses bill, to heckle rival candidates in provincial election campaigns, to assert their ethno-religious differences, and to support striking workers. Expressive Acts examines instances of both celebration and protest when Torontonians publicly displayed their allegiances, politics, and values. The book illustrates not just the Victorian city’s vibrant public life but also the intense social tensions and cultural differences within the city. Drawing from journalists’ accounts in newspapers, Expressive Acts illuminates what drove Torontonians to claim public space, where tTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Tory Rebels and a Viceregal Visit 2. The Press and Election Culture 3. A Prince in Town 4. Religious Processions and Disorder 5. Colonialism Triumphant: Celebrating the Suppression of the North-West Resistance of 1885 6. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder 7. Strikers and their Supporters Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought—including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performance—Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic.Gothic Queer Culture examines the material effects of marginalization, exclusion, and violence and explains why discourse around the complexities of genders and sexualities repeatedly returns to the gothic. Westengard places this queer knowledge production within a larger framework of gothic queer culture, which inherently includes theoretical texts, art, literature, performTrade Review"The real reason why Gothic Queer Culture is impossible to put down is that in addition to being meticulously argued, it is celebratory. In the spirit of Lady Gaga’s gleefully bloody and irreverent meat dress, with which Westengard opens the book, Gothic Queer Culture gracefully sidesteps moralizing judgements of the artists and writers whose challenging work it examines, choosing instead to emphasize the affirmative power of reveling in the lurid grey areas that queer artists and their work so often occupy."—Elizabeth Simins, Art Discourse“This tour-de-force of literary and cultural analysis connects eighteenth-century Gothic obsessions with traumatic realities of the twenty-first century. Queer theory, lesbian pulp fiction, the melancholy of AIDS, and sadomasochism—Laura Westengard helps us to understand these phenomena as never before.”—George E. Haggerty, distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California, Riverside “Westengard takes a common idea—that gothic is queer—and inverts it to show the effects of unacknowledged trauma on marginalized communities. Gothic Queer Culture establishes Westengard as an exciting new voice in critical trauma studies, gothic studies, and queer theory.”—Nowell Marshall, author of Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Queer Cultures and Insidious Trauma 1. Haunted Epistemologies: Gothic Queer Theory 2. Live Burial: Lesbian Pulp and the “Containment Crypt” 3. Monstrosity: Melancholia, Cannibalism, and HIV/AIDS 4. Sadomasochism: Strategic Discomfort in Trans* and Queer of Color Performance Art Conclusion: The Challenges of Neoliberalism Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia examines the practice and experience of interethnic marriage in a range of countries and eras, from imperial Germany to present-day Tajikistan. In this interdisciplinary volume Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer have drawn contributions from anthropologists and historians. The contributors explore the phenomenon of intermarriage both from the top down, in the form of state policies and official categories, and from the bottom up, through an intimate look at the experience and agency of mixed families in modern states determined to control the lives and identities of their citizens to an unprecedented degree. Contributors address the tensions between state ethnic categories and the subjective identities of individuals, the status of mixed individuals and families in a region characterized by continual changes in national borders and regimes, and the role of intermarried couples and their descendants in imagining supraTrade Review“A real eye-opener. Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia addresses a crucially important topic that demonstrates what is lost when we neglect the subject of intimacy, gender, and intermarriage from studies of European nation-states. This book enlivens and deepens our understanding of how ethnic and civic nationalisms operate to join, divide, and differentiate people. . . . It provides a rich comparative context for scholars of intermarriage in colonial and settler-colonizer contexts.”—Ann McGrath, author of Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and AustraliaTable of ContentsList of FiguresIntroduction by Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin FrommerI. Central and Southeastern Europe 1. Eric Garcia McKinley, “Boundary Crossings and the Evolution of German Identity: Protestant-Catholic and Jewish-non-Jewish Intermarriage, 1875-1935” 2. Benjamin Frommer, “Privileged Victims: Intermarriage between Jews, Czechs and Germans in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” 3. Fedja Burić, “Sporadically Mixed: Lowering Socialist Expectations and Politicizing Mixed Marriage in 1960s Yugoslavia” 4. Keziah Conrad, “Being Mixed and Showing It: Ethical Dilemmas of Self-Presentation in Bosnia”II. The Soviet Union and Its Successors 5. Uku Lember, “Memory and Asymmetry in Russian-Estonian Intermarriages in Estonia during Late Socialism” 6. Sophie Roche, “Maintaining, Dissolving and Remaking Group Boundaries through Marriage: The case of Khujand in the Ferghana Valley” 7. Aksana Ismailbekova, “The Dynamics of Interethnic Marriage in the Aftermath of the Osh Conflict, Fergana Valley” 8. Milena Oganesyan, “Of Intermarriage, ‘Hats,’ and Identity in Georgia”III. Transnational Marriages 9. Lena Radauer, “Wedding the ‘Enemy’: Unions between Russian Women and ‘German’ Prisoners of the First World War” 10. Maren Röger, “Choices Made in Times of Rising Nationalism and National Socialism: Intermarriage between Germans and Eastern Europeans, 1871-1945” 11. Rósa Magnúsdóttir, “Divided Spouses: Soviet-American Intermarriage and Human Rights Activism during the Cold War” Contributors

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Book SynopsisEvents ranging from sexual abuse at Abu Ghraib to the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” hint that important issues surrounding gender and sexuality remain at the core of political and cultural problems.Nonetheless, intersectional analyses of militarism that account for questions of race, class, and gender remain exceedingly rare. Abuses of the Eroticfills this gap by offering a comprehensive picture of how military values have permeatedthe civilian cultural sphere and by investigatingconnections between sexuality and militarism in the United States since the late 1980s. Josh Cerretti takes up the urgent task of applyingan interdisciplinary, transnational framework to the role of sexuality in promoting, expanding, and sustaining the war on terror to understand the links between what Cerretti calls “domestic militarism” and later projects of state-backed violence and intervention. This work brings together scholarship on domestic aTrade Review"Informed by transnational, queer, and indigenous feminisms, this book uses news media, government documents, and popular culture to examine military uses and abuses of the erotic. Cerretti sets in motion the examination of unique connections in an underdeveloped historiography on contemporary America, and he provides an interesting point of thematic analysis."—E. K. Jackson, Choice“Backed by rigorous historical documentation, Abuses of the Erotic demonstrates that sexualized violence is neither incidental nor external to militarization but endemic to it. This book is an eye-opener for anyone interested in the intersectional workings of state violence.”—Carine Mardorossian, author of Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered“Abuses of the Erotic allows us to trace over a decade of militarized sexuality and to appreciate how these instances have foundationally changed how we think of sexual and gender politics in the United States today. Two strengths of the book are the fact that Cerretti discusses militarism in relation to both homosexuality and heterosexuality and that he takes an expansive, transnational view of militarism. The accessibility of the language and the fact that it focuses on events in recent history that were heavily covered in the popular press mean that this work will have broad appeal.”—Ariana E. Vigil, author of War Echoes: Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural ProductionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Abuses of the Erotic 1. No Politician Can Afford to Let Women Come Home in Body Bags: The Militarization of Sexual Violence 2. Confronting an Enemy Abroad, Transforming a Nation at Home: Heterosexuality and Domestic Militarism 3. The Propensity or Intent to Engage in Homosexual Acts: Militant Queerness and Militarized Homosexuality 4. A Close and Mutually Beneficial Relationship: The United States, Marshall Islands, and Militarization of Reproduction Conclusion: The Long War Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man's literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and lettersas both symbols and material objectsof northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s. William E. French's innovative study of courtship practice and family formation examines love letters of everyday folk within the framework of literacy studies and explores how love letters functioned culturally and legally. French begins by situating love letters in the context of the legal system, which protected the moral order of families and communities and also perpetuated the gender orderthe foundation of power structures in Mexican society. He then examines reading and writing practices in the communities that the letters came from: mining camps, villages, small towns, and the passionate public sphere that served as the wider social context for the love leTrade Review“Gracefully written, convincingly argued, and accessible to nonspecialists, this book is equally well suited to graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in Mexican history as well as specialized history and/or theory courses on love, courtship, gender relations, and the written word.”—Robert M. Buffington, The Historian“Surprising, intriguing, and sophisticated. . . . This is masterful scholarship with an undercurrent of playfulness.”—William H. Beezley, coeditor of The Oxford History of Mexico “This is a deeply learned book, the mature work of a widely read, accomplished, and innovative historian.”—Ann S. Blum, author of Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884–1943 Table of ContentsHeading (Acknowledgments)Introduction: The Heart in the Glass Jar Section 1: The Letter of the LawSection 2: The Lettered Countryside Section 3: The Body of the Letter PostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisInvestigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons - Hercules and King Sebastian - are structured to express enduring nationhood. Dian Fox's analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theatre and other media.Trade Review"This is an eloquently written and persuasively argued groundbreaking study. Fox’s writing is erudite, yet easily approachable, engaging, and superbly readable. Those interested in early modern Spanish theater generally and in Calderón de la Barca particularly will find the work of this established scholar extremely valuable. Fox’s book accomplishes a great deal, going beyond a literary study to document the sociohistorical circumstances and contexts in which both Hercules and King Sebastian were made and unmade into early modern cultural icons of masculinity and nation. Her book will have a wide appeal among scholars and students who are interested in questions of masculinity from a historical, social, and cultural perspective."—José R. Cartagena-Calderón, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies“Erudite and thought-provoking, Hercules and the King of Portugal casts new light on the performance of masculinity in two of Iberia’s foundational icons. This is a pivotal study not only on the cultural renderings of the hombre esquivo but also on early modern conceptions of family, lineage, and nationhood.”—Enrique García Santo-Tomás, Frank P. Casa Collegiate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan“A compelling study of the crisis of masculinity shaping seventeenth-century Spanish and Portuguese nationhood. Fox brilliantly analyzes theatrical representations of Hercules and King Sebastian that dramatize damage done by an excess or lack of sexual desire to marriage alliances that secure the pure blood fundamental to honor.”—Barbara F. Weissberger, author of Isabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding Power“Dian Fox’s perceptive analysis of the complex cultural appropriation of both flawed masculine figures for political, nationalist, and imperial ends astutely uncovers anxieties in ideological conceptions of manhood and nationhood in Habsburg Spain. Fox’s writing is erudite yet easily approachable, engaging, and superbly readable. Her book will have a wide appeal among scholars and students who are interested in questions of masculinity from a historical, social, and cultural perspective.”—José R. Cartagena-Calderón, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at Pomona College and author of Masculinidades en obrasTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Honor, Gender, and (Spanish) Nation Part 1. Hercules 2. Hercules Hispanicus 3. The Deaths of Hercules 4. Hercules Redux: Transvestism and the Hombre Esquivo Part 2. King Sebastian 5. En Route to King Sebastian 6. The Once and Future King: Sebastian and Sebastianisms 7. Staging Sebastian: The Body that Mattered 8. Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land??, Valerie Padilla Carroll examines a variety of media from the last century that proselytized self-sufficiency as a solution to the economic instability, environmental destruction, and perceived disintegration of modern America. In the early twentieth century, books already advocated an escape for the urban, white-collar male. The suggestion became more practical during the Great Depression, and magazines pushed self-sufficiency lifestyles. By the 1970s, the idea was reborn in newsletters and other media as a radical response to a damaged world, allowing activists to promote the simple life as environmental, gender, and queer justice. At the century’s end, a great variety of media promoted self-sufficiency as the solution to a different set of problems, from survival at the millennium to wanderlust of millennials. ? Nevertheless, these utopian narratives are written overwhelmingly for a particular audience—one thatTrade Review"In her careful and rigorous study, which spans nearly a century, Padilla Carroll balances the central location of whiteness and patriarchy in representations of back-to-the-land communities as they travel through print culture with the stories of women, people of color, and Indigenous peoples who, despite their omission, nonetheless formed critical relationships with land within and outside of self-sufficiency literature."—Katelyn Campbell, H-Environment"Padilla Carroll reveals a multiplicity of back-to-the-land narratives that illuminate how diverse Americans have imagined their place in response to urbanization, environmental degradation, and social exclusion."—Andrew J. Milson, Journal of Popular Culture“Padilla Carroll makes the past directly relevant to today’s context and global issues. Unlike previous scholars she includes people who have been excluded from the narratives, especially Americans of color but also queer Americans, who have created resistant narratives. Padilla Carroll presents a seamless exposition with well-chosen sources for analysis.”—Clark A. Pomerleau, author of Califia Women: Feminist Education against Sexism, Classism, and Racism“Padilla Carroll recovers key historical texts and authors from the back-to-the-land movement and shapes the current, contemporary canon by looking at the established print and new publication outlets. Rather than emphasize the emergence of a critical mass within popular culture, the author turns to the margins to recover the nondominant voices of the movement. Padilla Carroll offers sharp, compelling close reading analysis, deftly unpacking the quotations used as examples.”—Kristin J. Jacobson, author of The American Adrenaline NarrativeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beginnings 2. Masculinities 3. Femininities 4. Heteronorms 5. Femininities, Again 6. BIPOC and Back-to-the-Land Coda Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis“Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn,” Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. Turning from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal processes involved in a complete identity change. Hilda Raz, a well-known feminist writer and teacher, observes the process as both an “astonished” parent and as a professor who has studied gender issues. All these perspectives come into play in this collaborative memoir, which travels between women’s experience and men’s lives, explores the art and science of changing sex, maps uncharted family values, and journeys through a world transformed by surgery, hormones, love, and . . . clown school. Combining personal experience and critical anTrade Review“The deepest pleasure of memoir is that it can teach us to see truths through eyes other than our own, and What Becomes You accomplishes exactly that.”—Gayle Salamon, Great Plains Quarterly“Aaron Raz Link’s story is a vital contribution to the oeuvre of transgender literature. . . . It is careful and tender while simultaneously confrontational and challenging.”—Julie R. Enszer, Lambda Book Report“This deeply personal collaborative memoir details the multiple layers of the journey Child and Mom take on the road to Sarah becoming Aaron. This book can’t help but challenge readers to rethink what they know about gender, sex, family relationships, and themselves. A compelling narrative, this is the best book I’ve read this year.”—OutSmart“What Becomes You is the best memoir I’ve read in a decade. It is close to the bone, poetic without an ounce of sentimentality, full of humor and humanity, and excruciating in its self-examination. . . . This book is what happens when two extraordinary writers share intimate tales of self-discovery in prose that’s both exquisite and accessible.”—Glenn Scofield Williams, JustOut“Scientist Link begins his fascinating account of gender reassignment by explaining scientific classification. . . . Raz writes of her child with rare and moving candor. . . . Mother and son’s poignant account becomes one of steadfast maternal love in the midst of changes only partly physical. Both knowingly return, always, to the terrain of the heart.”—Booklist“A blend of essay, memoir and intergenerational dialogue, this title is stranger—and smarter—than the average transsexual memoir. . . . [An] oddly moving, more illuminating and memorable than a straightforward memoir could have been.”—Publishers Weekly Web-Exclusive“[Link and Raz] continue to surprise and challenge us as they pull from their knowledge of biology and feminism, and fairy tales and psychiatry, to wrestle with understanding Link’s transsexuality. The memoir welcomes readers into a study of the struggles and complexity of relationships in any family.”—Bloomsbury Review"What Becomes You is the best kind of book. And not just because it’s funny and poetic, honest, personal, carefully researched and detailed, and hugely informative on the subjects of gender and transsexualism. It’s the best kind of book because it challenges readers to grow in the most critical ways. . . . [It] opens the reader to the present moment, to considering and investigating what 'is' instead of what the reader thinks should be. It makes us think before responding in habitual ways to those who are different from us. And in this world, I can’t think of anything that’s much more important than that right now."—Ellen Santasiero, The Source (Bend, OR)“Throughout, [Link and Raz] place their story in a larger context; the prose, graceful and intelligent, mirrors the breadth of their thought and the depth of their emotion.”—Jesse Hicks, Mid-American Review“What Becomes You is a tranny memoir/rant/documentary that reads like a whirlwind of James Joyce, William S. Burroughs, and Sarah Schulman, delivering a dizzying tour of gender worlds and netherworlds from a multiplicity of viewpoints.”—Kate Bornstein, author of Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other OutlawsTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments AARON RAZ LINK The Sea ABC Love Gets Strange Rebel without a Cause Burying Ophelia Not Coming Out Psychological Considerations Surgery I Still Life with Hormones A Wonderful Life The Sex Change Surgery II Freaks Testosterone Men Service Flaunting The Myth of Fingerprints Token My Mother's Ring HILDA RAZ The Book and Its Cover Fact/Fiction The Letter Scars Surgery Stock Bias Pity and Laughter Girls Just Want to Have Fun Reading Garber Looking at Aaron Watching Aaron Teach Three-Minute Autobiography Discussion Questions

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Book SynopsisAt first glance a reader might mistake It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know for a juicy Hollywood tell-all, given Chachi D. Hauser’s background as the great-granddaughter of Roy Disney, a cofounder with his brother Walt of the Walt Disney Company. And to her credit, Hauser doesn’t shy away from confronting painful family memories when considering how the stories, myths, and rumors surrounding this entertainment empire have influenced her own imagination. But family history is only one strand in this intricate and variegated weave that also interlaces the social and environmental history of Hauser’s adopted hometown of New Orleans, intimate reflections on love and navigating open relationships, and a searing self-examination that reveals a gender fluidity chafing against social barriers. Hauser’s innovative and multifaceted narrative navigates a variety of terrains, seeking truth as its final destination. While the family company exTrade Review“What if you could record, not just the story of your life, but your thoughts about your life? This is the echo, the double vision, that Chachi Hauser gives us as a rare gift.”—Gloria Steinem“Hauser’s book is and isn’t about being a member of the Disney family. What it is about is gender identity, privilege, cultural appropriation, and how these do and don’t meld together. This is a wild, stunning, unfiltered, and stylistically groundbreaking memoir—a fascinating juxtaposition between what is and isn’t real. It will blow your Mickey Mouse ears off.”—Sue William Silverman, author of How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences“Chachi Hauser explores how, like the Mississippi River, when we allow ourselves to overflow and change course, we stretch up, down, around, and through, as our sense of who we are was always meant to do. Page after page beats like the tide. No levee will hold this writer back.”—Tomás Q. Morín, author of Let Me Count the Ways: A Memoir“Chachi Hauser’s book has an exploratory and kaleidoscopic style I found delightful. Hauser is more concerned with exploring the questions than having the answers. Thoughtful, sensitive, and lyrical, the book feels like a fever dream in the best possible way.”—Chloé Caldwell, author of The Red Zone: A Love Story“The essays in this collection understand—or even better, they work from page to page in order to understand major pillars of identity: place, heritage, art, and gender—and how they spill into one another in a levee-breaking flood that then makes a consciousness. Along the way, Chachi Hauser guides us through New Orleans underground parties, eerie Disney re-constructions, and painful breakups, all with a steely inquiry and a deeply-feeling narrative. It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know is a wonderful collection that introduces a noteworthy voice to the American essay form.”—Elena Passarello, author of Animals Strike Curious Poses“What separates us from others and how intrinsically connected are we, for better or worse? Chachi Hauser’s collection It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know goes head-to-head with these large and ancient philosophical considerations, with bravado, intimacy, and unwavering curiosity. Simultaneously sensitive and fearless, Hauser’s work explores expectations, assumptions, and discoveries about what family history is, and what it can look like if one asserts autonomy by testing independence and interdependence as inextricable, empowering forces. . . . Living in Hauser’s essay universe is comfortable and encouraging for anyone who relishes the untamed, wild places.”—Trinie Dalton, author of Wide Eyed and Baby GeishaTable of Contents author’s note this summer, high river the boys who wouldn’t grow up steamboat ashes grand isle part I disneyfication grand isle part II imagineering delta dawn road trip we should kiss between our sigh acknowledgments notes

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Book SynopsisIn a self-reflexive way, Julie Doucet's and Gabrielle Bell's comics, though often autobiographical, defy easy categorization. This volume regards their art as actively feminist, not only because they offer women's perspectives, but because they do so by provocatively bringing up the complicated, multivalent frameworks of such engagements.

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Book SynopsisThe superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. Toxic Masculinityasks what kind of men these heroes are and if they are worthy of the unbalanced amount of attention.

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Book SynopsisContributions by Daniel J. Connell, Esther De Dauw, Craig Haslop, Drew Murphy, Richard Reynolds, Janne Salminen, Karen Sugrue, and James C. TaylorThe superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes asks what kind of men these heroes are and if they are worthy of the unbalanced amount of attention. Contributors to the volume investigate how the (super)hero in popular culture conveys messages about heroism and masculinity, considering the social implications of this narrative within a cultural (re)production of dominant, hegemonic values and the possibility of subaltern ideas, norms, and values to be imagined within that (re)production.Divided into three sections, the volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, positioning the impact of hypermasculinity on toxic masculinity and the vilification of 'other' identities through such mediums as fi

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Book SynopsisExamines the phenomenon the ""fanboy auteur"". The volume discusses both popular fanboys, such as J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon, and fangirls like J.K. Rowling and E.L. James, and dissects how the fanboy-fangirl auteur dichotomy is constructed and defended, and how this discourse has played in maintaining the exclusionary status quo of geek culture.

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Book SynopsisBreaks new ground by comparing the politics of resistance alongside moments of improvisation by examining recurring literary motifs - cry-and-response, the Wild Woman, and the jazz moment - in jazz novels, short stories, and poetry.

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