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University of Minnesota Press Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and
Book SynopsisExamining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film Within Native American and Indigenous studies, the rise of Indigenous masculinities has engendered both productive conversations and critiques. Lisa Tatonetti intervenes in this conversation with Written by the Body by centering how female, queer, and/or Two-Spirit Indigenous people take up or refute masculinity, and, in the process, offer more expansive understandings of gender. Written by the Body moves from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archive to turn-of-the-century and late-twentieth-century fiction to documentaries, HIV/AIDS activism, and, finally, recent experimental film and literature. Across it all, Tatonetti shows how Indigenous gender expansiveness, and particularly queer and non-cis gender articulations, moves between and among Native peoples to forge kinship, offer protection, and make change. She charts how the body functions as a somatic archive of Indigenous knowledge in Native histories, literatures, and activisms—exploring representations of Idle No More in the documentary Trick or Treaty, the all-female wildland firefighting crew depicted in Apache 8, Chief Theresa Spence, activist Carole laFavor, S. Alice Callahan, Thirza Cuthand, Joshua Whitehead, Carrie House, and more.In response to criticisms of Indigenous masculinity studies, Written by the Body de-sutures masculinity from the cis-gendered body and investigates the ways in which female, trans, and otherwise nonconforming masculinities carry the traces of Two-Spirit histories and exceed the limitations of settler colonial imaginings of gender.Trade Review"‘Masculinity’ is a loaded word; it has become linked with violence, cruelty, and the hetero-normative male body. Lisa Tatonetti’s Written by the Body, however, unpacks the ways Indigenous peoples negotiate and refuse settler-colonial definitions of masculinity in texts, films, and lived experience—and in doing so, engage in the creation of life-affirming strategies for survival and thrivance. Tatonetti’s specific focus on the expression of Indigenous masculinities, in particular, is a breath of hope for those of us working to heal from damage inflicted by histories of colonial policing of gender alternatives. As she notes, ‘Indigenous gender articulations are expansive; held in variously gendered bodies rather than tethered to settler binaries, they shift in mode and meaning and hold real creative potential.’ It is this transformational creativity which Tatonetti’s work notices and celebrates, bringing into focus the ways that Indigenous concepts of masculinity manifest their own sovereignty and serve to nurture Indigenous identities."—Deborah A. Miranda, author of Altar for Broken Things and Bad Indians: A Tribal MemoirTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Text, Archive, and Action: The Body in Motion1. Warrior Women in History and Early Indigenous Literatures2. Warriors, Indigenous Futures, and the Erotic: Anna Lee Walters and DanielHeath Justice 3. Big Moms, or The Body as Archive4. Body as Shield and Shelter: Indigenous Documentary Film5. HIV/AIDS Activism and the Indigenous Erotic: Carole laFavor6. An Erotics of Responsibility: Non-Cis Identities and Community AccountabilityCoda: “The Body as Conversation, The Body as Transformation”NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in
Book SynopsisExploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is “queer,” as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of Fancy offers a powerful new method of accounting for ineffable and diffuse forms of desire, mining early modern drama and prose literature to describe new patterns of affective resonance.Starting with the question of how and why readers seek traces of desire in texts from bygone times and places, The Shapes of Fancy demonstrates a practice of critical attunement to the psychic and historical circulations of affect across time within texts, from texts to readers, and among readers. Closely reading for uncharted desires as they recur in early modern drama, witchcraft pamphlets, and early Atlantic voyage narratives and demonstrating how each is structured by qualities of secrecy, impossibility, and excess, Christine Varnado follows four “shapes of fancy”: the desire to be used to others’ ends; indiscriminate, bottomless appetite; paranoid self-fulfilling suspicion; and melancholic longings for impossible transformations and affinities. These affective dynamics go awry in atypical and perverse ways. In other words, argues Varnado, these modes of feeling are recognizable on the page or stage as “queer” because of how, and not by whom, they are expressed.This new theorization of desire expands the notion of queerness in literature, decoupling the literary trace of queerness from the binary logics of same-sex versus opposite-sex and normative versus deviant that have governed early modern sexuality studies. Providing a set of methods for analyzing affect and desire in texts from any period, The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading, making a case for readerly investment and identification as vital engines of meaning making and political insight.Trade Review"The Shapes of Fancy pursues an innovative expansion of the lexicon of queer desire. Christine Varnado forges links between early modern and contemporary thinkers, and she engages a constellation of affective modes, from mediation and consumption to paranoia and melancholia. Her supple analyses illuminate the intricate, often unexpected vectors, artifacts, and afterlives of erotic connection."—Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University"Christine Varnado’s book makes a surprising and incisive intervention into early modern studies. In its queerest moments, The Shapes of Fancy argues for a capacious theory of desire, expanding scholarly understanding of sexuality in the past to include forgotten, ambivalent, and challenging forms of pleasure."—Holly Dugan, The George Washington University"An incredibly useful touchstone for queer studies."—Modern Philology "This powerful book brings important and fresh insight to the literature." —CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Reading for Desire1. Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go-Between2. Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing3. It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt4. Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial MelancholiaConclusion: The Persistence of FancyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in
Book SynopsisExploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is “queer,” as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of Fancy offers a powerful new method of accounting for ineffable and diffuse forms of desire, mining early modern drama and prose literature to describe new patterns of affective resonance.Starting with the question of how and why readers seek traces of desire in texts from bygone times and places, The Shapes of Fancy demonstrates a practice of critical attunement to the psychic and historical circulations of affect across time within texts, from texts to readers, and among readers. Closely reading for uncharted desires as they recur in early modern drama, witchcraft pamphlets, and early Atlantic voyage narratives and demonstrating how each is structured by qualities of secrecy, impossibility, and excess, Christine Varnado follows four “shapes of fancy”: the desire to be used to others’ ends; indiscriminate, bottomless appetite; paranoid self-fulfilling suspicion; and melancholic longings for impossible transformations and affinities. These affective dynamics go awry in atypical and perverse ways. In other words, argues Varnado, these modes of feeling are recognizable on the page or stage as “queer” because of how, and not by whom, they are expressed.This new theorization of desire expands the notion of queerness in literature, decoupling the literary trace of queerness from the binary logics of same-sex versus opposite-sex and normative versus deviant that have governed early modern sexuality studies. Providing a set of methods for analyzing affect and desire in texts from any period, The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading, making a case for readerly investment and identification as vital engines of meaning making and political insight.Trade Review"The Shapes of Fancy pursues an innovative expansion of the lexicon of queer desire. Christine Varnado forges links between early modern and contemporary thinkers, and she engages a constellation of affective modes, from mediation and consumption to paranoia and melancholia. Her supple analyses illuminate the intricate, often unexpected vectors, artifacts, and afterlives of erotic connection."—Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University"Christine Varnado’s book makes a surprising and incisive intervention into early modern studies. In its queerest moments, The Shapes of Fancy argues for a capacious theory of desire, expanding scholarly understanding of sexuality in the past to include forgotten, ambivalent, and challenging forms of pleasure."—Holly Dugan, The George Washington University"An incredibly useful touchstone for queer studies."—Modern Philology "This powerful book brings important and fresh insight to the literature." —CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Reading for Desire1. Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go-Between2. Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing3. It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt4. Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial MelancholiaConclusion: The Persistence of FancyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri
Book SynopsisA deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment.Faber begins by considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that underlie space-age progress. She then moves on to an intrepid decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the ’70s and ’80s to the feminine ones of the ’90s and ’00s. Faber ends her account in the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself.Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. It makes important contributions to conversations around the gender gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people. Trade Review"In this elegant book, Liz W. Faber plays intellectual alchemist, swirling methodologies to unearth the roots of our sociological interactions with digital technologies via the auditory, and not merely the visual domain. The Computer’s Voice furthers our belated attention to the soundtrack, both of our media texts but also our lived experience, by deftly deploying feminist theories of (dis)embodiment."—Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University"Liz W. Faber has written a highly accessible and fascinating history of talking computers, from evil sci-fi mainframes to the smartphones we keep in our pockets. This deep dive into computing, vocalization, and gender explains how the digitized voices we often take for granted have a hidden history and politics all their own."—Mar Hicks, author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing"The Computer’s Voice is an ambitious theoretical project, but also a well-argued and informative interdisciplinary study of the intersections between popular culture, gender, and computer history."—Ancillary Review "Faber's grasp of computer vocalizing as an instrument not only of humanizing technology but also of ‘genderizing’ discourse allows her to consider myriad aspects of sentient ‘computer life.’"—CHOICE
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University of Minnesota Press Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist
Book SynopsisEngaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In Lesbian Death, Mairead Sullivan probes the perception that lesbian status is in retreat, exploring the political promises—and especially the failures—of lesbian feminism and its usefulness today. Lesbian Death reads how lesbian is conceptualized in relation to death from the 1970s onward to argue that lesbian offers disruptive potential. Lesbian Death examines the rise of lesbian breast cancer activism in San Francisco in conversation with ACT UP, the lesbian separatist manifestos “The C.L.I.T. Papers,” the enduring specter of lesbian bed death, and the weaponization of lesbian identity against trans lives. By situating the lesbian as a border figure between feminist and queer, Lesbian Death offers a fresh perspective on the value of lesbian for both feminist and queer projects, even if her value is her death. Trade Review "Mairead Sullivan’s refreshing book delves deeply into the decades-long dynamic in which the lesbian—as figure, identity, and political project—is somehow always already dying even as younger and older generations infuse the lesbian with new and vital promise. Analyzing fears of lesbian death registered in narratives of loss, aggression, murderousness, bed death, and so many wars (sex wars, theory wars, butch-fem border wars, intersectionality wars, and TERF wars), this engaging work trenchantly illuminates the disruptive potential and undeniable persistence of the lesbian at the heart of the often-tense relations among feminist, queer, and trans articulations of community."—Finn Enke, author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism "Lesbian Death is a thoroughgoing analysis of the work of ‘the lesbian’—especially tales of her imminent demise—in discourse and culture. Neither romanticized nor maligned, here, the figure of the lesbian is vital to queer/trans/feminist world-making. A generous and generative contribution to queer and lesbian studies, Mairead Sullivan’s treatment is timely and inspired."—Angela Willey, author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology "A compelling and timely book to think with, especially for those of us invested in building more just feminist, queer, trans, and lesbian worlds, whatever language we use to do so."—Autostraddle
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University of Minnesota Press Raising Ollie: How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid
Book SynopsisThe account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child Seven-year-old Ollie was researching local advanced school programs—because every second grader does that, right? Ollie, who used to hate weekends because they meant no school, was crying on the way to school almost every day. Sure, there were the slings and arrows of bullies and bad teachers, but, maybe worse, Ollie, a funny, anxious, smart kid with a thing for choir and an eye for graphic art, was gravely underchallenged and also struggling with identity and how to live totally as themselves. Ollie begged to switch to a new school with “kids like me,” where they wouldn’t feel so alone, or so bored, and so they made the change. Raising Ollie is dad Tom Rademacher’s story (really, many stories) of that eventful and sometimes painful school year, parenting Ollie and relearning every day what it means to be a father and teacher. As Ollie—who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, and prefers art to athletics, vegetables to cake, and animals to most humans—flourishes in their new school, Rademacher is making an eye-opening adjustment to a new school of his own, one that’s whiter and more suburban than anywhere he has previously taught, with a history of racial tension that he tries to address and navigate. While Ollie is learning to code, 3D model, animate, speak Japanese, and finally feel comfortable at school, Rademacher increasingly sees how his own educational struggles, anxieties, and childhood upbringing are reflected in his teaching, writing, and parenting, as well as in Ollie’s experience. And with this story of one anything-but-academic year of inquiry and wonder, doubt and revelation, he shows us how raising a kid changes everything—and how much raising a kid like Ollie can teach us about who we are and what we’re doing in the world.Trade Review"As vulnerable and honest a piece I’ve ever read from an educator, Tom Rademacher’s beautiful and conversational story ought to encourage more of us to dig deeper and reflect harder."—José Luis Vilson, educator, father, executive director of EduColor, and author of This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education"A fine introduction to nonbinary gender identity, courtesy of a child and their supportive parents."—Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Many Stories of OliveApril: School TroubleMay: The Music TeacherJune: Looking for a New SchoolJuly: In DenverAugust: Open Houses and Kids Like MeSeptember: The Year StartsOctober: The Infamous C Word ConferenceNovember: Art and WeirdosDecember: Anxiety TimeJanuary: What Do We Do With Smart KidsFebruary: So WhiteMarch: Lemonade, Mountain Dew, MethApril: Sex EdMay: Student ActivismJune: The Most Right Thing
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University of Minnesota Press Spent behind the Wheel: Drivers' Labor in the
Book SynopsisExploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor Are taxi drivers in today’s era of the ride-hail app performing care work akin to domestic and household labor? So argue the authors of Spent behind the Wheel. Bringing together sociological and legal perspectives with feminist theoretical insights, Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray examine the case study of contemporary professional passenger driving in the United States. On the one hand, they show, the rise of the gig economy has brought new attention to the industry of professional passenger driving. On the other hand, the vulnerabilities that professional drivers experience remain hidden. Drawing on interviews with drivers, labor organizers, and members of licensing commissions, as well as case law and other published resources, Hua and Ray argue that working for ride-hail companies like Uber and Lyft shares similarities with driving for taxi companies in the impact on driver lives. Lyft and Uber sell the idea of industry disruption, but in fact they entrench long-standing modes of extracting the reproductive labor of their drivers for the benefit of consumer lives. Reproductive labor—conventionally understood as feminized labor—is extracted, but masked, behind the masculinized, racialized bodies of drivers. Professional driving is thus best understood alongside domestic and other gendered service work as reproductive labors devalued and often demonetized to benefit the national economy. Spent behind the Wheel is a must for readers interested in critical studies of technological change and the gig economy, showing how drivers’ capacities are drained for the benefit of riders, corporations, and the maintenance of the racial state. Trade Review "Spent Behind the Wheel exposes the harms of professional driving, illuminating the ways that capital accumulation sucks the vitality of reproductive laborers—those who make the world work for others but at the expense of their own health and well-being, men as well as women. With the increasing dominance of Uber and Lyft, Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray’s intersectional feminist critique of the gig economy is both timely and potent."—Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 "Spent Behind the Wheel is an outstanding work that bridges the studies of flexible and algorithm-dominated labor organizations with studies of feminist and racial theories and topics."—H-Net Reviews "Spent Behind the Wheel is an outstanding work that bridges the studies of flexible and algorithm-dominated labor organizations with studies of feminist and racial theories and topics."—H-Net Reviews "Spent Behind the Wheel’s application of feminist theory to ride-hailing is forward-thinking and valuable."—Journal of American Planning Association "Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray’s critical analysis of drivers’ reproductive labour is certainly timely and highly valuable."—Le Travail Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Uber Drivers as Service Workers1. It’s Not the App: The Labor of Driving2. Financializing Driver Lives: Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Insurance3. Driver Criminalization: Systemic Racism in the Passenger Ride Industry4. Who Gets Disability Justice? Rethinking AccommodationConclusion: Drivers in the Time of COVID-19NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Spent behind the Wheel: Drivers' Labor in the
Book SynopsisExploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor Are taxi drivers in today’s era of the ride-hail app performing care work akin to domestic and household labor? So argue the authors of Spent behind the Wheel. Bringing together sociological and legal perspectives with feminist theoretical insights, Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray examine the case study of contemporary professional passenger driving in the United States. On the one hand, they show, the rise of the gig economy has brought new attention to the industry of professional passenger driving. On the other hand, the vulnerabilities that professional drivers experience remain hidden. Drawing on interviews with drivers, labor organizers, and members of licensing commissions, as well as case law and other published resources, Hua and Ray argue that working for ride-hail companies like Uber and Lyft shares similarities with driving for taxi companies in the impact on driver lives. Lyft and Uber sell the idea of industry disruption, but in fact they entrench long-standing modes of extracting the reproductive labor of their drivers for the benefit of consumer lives. Reproductive labor—conventionally understood as feminized labor—is extracted, but masked, behind the masculinized, racialized bodies of drivers. Professional driving is thus best understood alongside domestic and other gendered service work as reproductive labors devalued and often demonetized to benefit the national economy. Spent behind the Wheel is a must for readers interested in critical studies of technological change and the gig economy, showing how drivers’ capacities are drained for the benefit of riders, corporations, and the maintenance of the racial state. Trade Review "Spent Behind the Wheel exposes the harms of professional driving, illuminating the ways that capital accumulation sucks the vitality of reproductive laborers—those who make the world work for others but at the expense of their own health and well-being, men as well as women. With the increasing dominance of Uber and Lyft, Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray’s intersectional feminist critique of the gig economy is both timely and potent."—Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 "Spent Behind the Wheel is an outstanding work that bridges the studies of flexible and algorithm-dominated labor organizations with studies of feminist and racial theories and topics."—H-Net Reviews "Spent Behind the Wheel is an outstanding work that bridges the studies of flexible and algorithm-dominated labor organizations with studies of feminist and racial theories and topics."—H-Net Reviews "Spent Behind the Wheel’s application of feminist theory to ride-hailing is forward-thinking and valuable."—Journal of American Planning Association "Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray’s critical analysis of drivers’ reproductive labour is certainly timely and highly valuable."—Le Travail Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Uber Drivers as Service Workers1. It’s Not the App: The Labor of Driving2. Financializing Driver Lives: Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Insurance3. Driver Criminalization: Systemic Racism in the Passenger Ride Industry4. Who Gets Disability Justice? Rethinking AccommodationConclusion: Drivers in the Time of COVID-19NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical
Book SynopsisChampioning the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queernessIn queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a generative and empowering mode of survival. Triangulating insights from queer studies, disability studies, and rhetorical studies, J. Logan Smilges explores what silence can mean for people whose bodyminds signify more powerfully than their words.Queer Silence begins by historicizing silence’s negative reputation, beginning with the ways homophile activists rejected medical models pathologizing homosexuality as a disability, resulting in the silencing of disability itself. This silencing was redoubled by HIV/AIDS activism’s demand for “out, loud, and proud” rhetorical activities that saw silence as capitulation.Reading a range of cultural artifacts whose relative silence has failed to attract queer attachment, from anonymous profiles on Grindr to ex-gays to belated gender transitions to disability performance art, Smilges argues for silence’s critical role in serving the needs of queers who are never named as such. Queer Silence urges queer activists and queer studies scholars to reconcile with their own ableism by acknowledging the liberatory potential of silence, a mode of engagement that disattached queers use every day for resistance, sociality, and survival.Cover alt text: Background detail of a painting on canvas shows a partial view of the upper body and face of a figure, bearded and naked; title in painted script.Trade Review "J. Logan Smilges’s Queer Silence attends to that which remains unspoken or silenced in queer history. Through a series of brilliant rhetorical readings, Smilges critiques the silencing of disability that has been structural to queer theory. Simultaneously, this indispensable book points toward new ways of conceptualizing those who cannot or will not speak."—Robert McRuer, author of Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance "Queer Silence is a groundbreaking book that makes concerted interventions in the fields of queer studies, trans studies, disability studies, and contemporary rhetoric. Profound in its insights, incisive in its analysis, and gorgeous in its style, this book takes up cases of queer silences for analysis, attentively engaging the ruptures and omissions through which queerness, race, and disability co-emerge."—M. Remi Yergeau, author of Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness "This important study probes the nature and the ramifications of silence on differing aspects of queer culture."—Bay Area Reporter "Smilges takes the topic of Queer Silence and applies it broadly, describing not just the ways that queers are silenced, but what we do in that space, and how silencing does or doesn’t work, what it produces and what other ways we speak—and it ranges widely."—Xtra Magazine "Smilges first explores the history of many negative attitudes towards silence, then invites one to explore what people “whose bodyminds signify more than their words” convey through silence."—Lavender Magazine Table of ContentsIntroduction: Unspeakably Queer1. To Speak of Silence2. White Squares to Black Boxes3. Queer(crip) Masquerading4. Disidentifying Silence5. Neuroqueer IntimaciesEpilogue: Shameful Disattachments and Queer IllegibilityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Masculinity in Transition
Book SynopsisLocating the roots of toxic masculinity and finding its displacement in unruly culture Masculinity in Transition analyzes shifting relationships to masculinity in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and film, as well as in twenty-first-century media, performance, and transgender poetics. Focusing on “toxic masculinity,” which has assumed new valence since 2016, K. Allison Hammer traces its roots to a complex set of ideologies embedded in the histories of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and political fraternity, and finds that while toxic strains of masculinity are mainly associated with straight, white men, trans and queer masculinities can be implicated in these systems of power. Hammer argues, however, that these malignant forms of masculinity are not fixed and can be displaced by “unruly alliances”—texts and relationships that reject the nationalisms and gender politics of white male hegemony and perform an urgently needed reimagining of what it means to be masculine. Locating these unruly alliances in the writings, performances, and films of butch lesbians, gay men, cisgender femmes, and trans and nonbinary individuals, Masculinity in Transition works through an archive of works of performance art, trans poetics, Western films and streaming media, global creative responses to HIV/AIDS, and working-class and “white trash” fictions about labor and unionization. Masculinity in Transition moves the study of masculinity away from an overriding preoccupation with cisnormativity, whiteness, and heteronormativity, and toward a wider and more generative range of embodiments, identifications, and ideologies. Hammer’s bold rethinking of masculinity and its potentially toxic effects lays bare the underlying fragility of normative masculinity. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "A major intervention into masculinities studies, Masculinity in Transition brilliantly and consistently pushes the field toward a critical understanding of masculinity as a complex gender formation. K. Allison Hammer undertakes nuanced readings of a wide array of texts to offer a new understanding of masculinity and the ways in which it both serves and subverts hegemonic social, sexual, and racial hierarchies."—Christopher Breu, author of Hard-Boiled Masculinities "How might we understand masculinity if we turn toward culture rather than biology? In compelling case studies, Masculinity in Transition insightfully examines normative masculinity's associations with the phallus, domination, and impenetrability. However, K. Allison Hammer also brilliantly uses these sites to uncover remakings of masculinity that center care, porosity, and unruly alliances—uplifting models for the precarious now."—Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Rejecting “American” Manhood Part I: Challenging Phallic Supremacy 1. “She’s a Pistol”: Female Phallicism 2. “When I Was a Boy”: Boi/Boyhood and the Unworking of Masculinity Part II: Challenging Conceptions of the Nation 3. The “Not (Quite) Yet” of a New Collectivity: Feminist Masculinity and the American Western 4. Virtue Is Divided: Unruly Alliances in Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein Part III: Challenging Masculine Impenetrability 5. “Skin of His Hand against the Skin of My Back”: HIV/AIDS Self-Writing and Film of the 1980s and ’90s 6. “A Man Is a Worker”: Economic Penetrability, Labor Abuses, and Landlessness Conclusion: Toward the Future of Masculinity and Relationality Acknowledgments Notes Index
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Masculinity in Transition
Book SynopsisLocating the roots of toxic masculinity and finding its displacement in unruly culture Masculinity in Transition analyzes shifting relationships to masculinity in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and film, as well as in twenty-first-century media, performance, and transgender poetics. Focusing on “toxic masculinity,” which has assumed new valence since 2016, K. Allison Hammer traces its roots to a complex set of ideologies embedded in the histories of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and political fraternity, and finds that while toxic strains of masculinity are mainly associated with straight, white men, trans and queer masculinities can be implicated in these systems of power. Hammer argues, however, that these malignant forms of masculinity are not fixed and can be displaced by “unruly alliances”—texts and relationships that reject the nationalisms and gender politics of white male hegemony and perform an urgently needed reimagining of what it means to be masculine. Locating these unruly alliances in the writings, performances, and films of butch lesbians, gay men, cisgender femmes, and trans and nonbinary individuals, Masculinity in Transition works through an archive of works of performance art, trans poetics, Western films and streaming media, global creative responses to HIV/AIDS, and working-class and “white trash” fictions about labor and unionization. Masculinity in Transition moves the study of masculinity away from an overriding preoccupation with cisnormativity, whiteness, and heteronormativity, and toward a wider and more generative range of embodiments, identifications, and ideologies. Hammer’s bold rethinking of masculinity and its potentially toxic effects lays bare the underlying fragility of normative masculinity. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "A major intervention into masculinities studies, Masculinity in Transition brilliantly and consistently pushes the field toward a critical understanding of masculinity as a complex gender formation. K. Allison Hammer undertakes nuanced readings of a wide array of texts to offer a new understanding of masculinity and the ways in which it both serves and subverts hegemonic social, sexual, and racial hierarchies."—Christopher Breu, author of Hard-Boiled Masculinities "How might we understand masculinity if we turn toward culture rather than biology? In compelling case studies, Masculinity in Transition insightfully examines normative masculinity's associations with the phallus, domination, and impenetrability. However, K. Allison Hammer also brilliantly uses these sites to uncover remakings of masculinity that center care, porosity, and unruly alliances—uplifting models for the precarious now."—Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Rejecting “American” Manhood Part I: Challenging Phallic Supremacy 1. “She’s a Pistol”: Female Phallicism 2. “When I Was a Boy”: Boi/Boyhood and the Unworking of Masculinity Part II: Challenging Conceptions of the Nation 3. The “Not (Quite) Yet” of a New Collectivity: Feminist Masculinity and the American Western 4. Virtue Is Divided: Unruly Alliances in Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein Part III: Challenging Masculine Impenetrability 5. “Skin of His Hand against the Skin of My Back”: HIV/AIDS Self-Writing and Film of the 1980s and ’90s 6. “A Man Is a Worker”: Economic Penetrability, Labor Abuses, and Landlessness Conclusion: Toward the Future of Masculinity and Relationality Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Bristol University Press Masculinities, Gender and International Relations
Book SynopsisGender is widely recognized as an important and useful lens for the study of International Relations. However, there are few books that specifically investigate masculinity/ies in relation to world politics. Taking a feminist-inspired understanding of gender as its starting point, the book: • explains that gender is both an asymmetrical binary and a hierarchy; • shows how masculinization works via ‘nested hierarchies’ of domination and subordination; • explores the imbrication of masculinities with the nation-state and great-power politics; • develops an understanding of the arms trade with commercial processes of militarization. Written in an accessible style, with suggestions for further reading, this book is an invaluable resource for students and teachers applying ‘the gender lens’ to global politics.Table of Contents1. Wasn’t It Always Just About Men Anyway? 2. Sovereign States, Warring States, Queer States 3. Arms and the Men 4. Gender at Work! ‘Get Pissed and Buy Guns’ 5. Looking Back/Pushing Ahead
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Bristol University Press Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An
Book SynopsisThis is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the politically turbulent 2010s. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, the author illustrates how a new generation of activists chose feminism as their main political beacon, and how they negotiated the challenges of authoritarian and conservative trends. As we witness a backlash against feminism on a global scale with the rise of neoconservative governments, this highly relevant book decentres Western theory and concepts of feminism and social movements, offering significant insights into how resistance can mobilize and invent creative tactics to cope with an increasingly repressed space for independent political action.Table of ContentsIntroduction Fifteen Cases of Disability Hate Crime From Hate Crime to Disability Hate Crime Agenda Triggering Agenda Development Towards Agenda Institutionalization? The Problem with the Current Agenda: Focus on Vulnerability An Agenda Item Yet to Fully Speak Its Name: Ableism and Disability Hate Crime Conclusion
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Bristol University Press Wronged and Dangerous: Viral Masculinity and the
Book SynopsisRecent years have seen the rapid spread of far-right movements across the globe. Far beyond Donald Trump, these movements are reshaping the physical world in ways that pose danger to everyone, regardless of their politics. But how is this happening, and why with such speed? The shocking answer turns out to be aggrieved manhood gone viral, disguised as right-wing populism. Taking a fresh approach to global politics, Wronged and Dangerous refocuses divisions towards shared human interests. If you care about our common future, discover new ways to engage with the challenges of our time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Gender as an Acquired Taste 1. Reality in Hard and Soft 2. Strongmen versus Sober Women 3. From Binary to Biodiversity 4. Of Masks and Men 5. Gender as a Matter of Life and Death Part 2: The Feel of New Populisms 6. This Is Populism 7. Crash Course 8. New Populism 9. Anger, Downrising 10. The Problem with Anger Management Part 3: Probable Cause 11. Class and Culture, of Course 12. Aggrieved Masculinity as Animation 13. Perish the Thought of Gender 14. Identity Politics for the Universal Human 15. Not Another Masculinity Crisis Part 4: Virality and Virility 16. Culture Wars Can Kill 17. Dear Manosphere 18. Metaphor Matters: Poison or Pandemic? 19. Identity Politics 2.0 20. We the Sleepwalkers
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Bristol University Press The Gentrification of Queer Activism: Diversity
Book SynopsisIn the 2010s, London’s LGBTQ+ scene was hit by extensive venue closures. For some, this represented the increased inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in society. For others, it threatened the city’s status as a ‘global beacon of diversity’ or merely reaffirmed the hostility of London’s neoliberal landscapes. Navigating these competing realities, Olimpia Burchiellaro explores the queer politics of LGBTQ+ inclusion in London. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with activists, professionals and LGBTQ-friendly businesses, the author reveals how gender and sexuality come to be reconfigured in the production and consumption of LGBTQ+ inclusion and its promises. Giving voice to queer perspectives on inclusion, this is an important contribution to our understanding of urban policy, nightlife, neoliberalism and LGBTQ+ politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Between Corporate Inclusivity and the Closure of Queer Spaces: The Neoliberal Politics of Inclusion in East London 2. Coming Out for Business: Lesbian Tech CEOs and the CEO-ization of Queer Politics 3. Diversity Work and Queer Value: Putting Queer Differences to Work in the LGBTQ-friendly Corporation 4. The Straightening Tendencies of Inclusion: The Friends of the Joiners Arms and the Normativities of Gentrification 5. As Soon as this Pub Closes: The Temporalities of Gentrification and Other Queer Utopias 6. Conclusion
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Fordham University Press Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy: Beyond Male
Book SynopsisWithin contemporary orthodoxy, debates over sex and gender have become increasingly polemical over the past generation. Beginning with questions around women’s ordination, arguments have expanded to include feminism, sexual orientation, the sacrament of marriage, definitions of family, adoption of children, and care of transgender individuals. Preliminary responses to each of these topics are shaped by gender essentialism, the idea that male and female are ontologically fixed and incommensurate categories with different sets of characteristics and gifts for each sex. These categories, in turn, delineate gender roles in the family, the church, and society. Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy offers an immanent critique of gender essentialism in the stream of the contemporary Orthodox Church influenced by the “Paris School” of Russian émigré theologians and their heirs. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to bring into conversation patristic reflections on sex and gender, personalist theological anthropology, insights from gender and queer theory, and modern biological understandings of human sexual differentiation. Though these are seemingly unrelated discourses, Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy reveals unexpected points of convergence, as each line of thought eschews a strict gender binary in favor of more open-ended possibilities. The study concludes by drawing out some theological implications of the preceding findings as they relate to the ordination of women to the priesthood, same-sex unions and sacramental understandings of marriage, definitions of family, and pastoral care for intersex, transgender, and nonbinary parishioners.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | vii PART I 1 Setting the Stage | 3 2 (No) Male and Female: Recapitulating Patristic Reflections on Gender | 18 3 Gender Essentialism in Contemporary Orthodox Thought | 56 4 Person, Gender, Sex, Sexuality | 92 PART II 5 Women and the Priesthood | 123 6 Homosexuality | 135 7 Marriage: The Sacrament of Love | 145 8 Some Final Thoughts on Pastoral Care | 164 Conclusion | 177 Notes | 181 Bibliography | 233 Index | 255
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Fordham University Press Queer God de Amor
Book SynopsisQueer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical union with God and the metaphor of sexual relationship that he uses to describe this union. Juan’s mystical theology, which highlights the notion of God as lover and God’s erotic-like relationship with human persons, provides a fitting source for rethinking the Christian doctrine of God, in John’s own words, as “un no sé qué,” “an I know not what.” In critical conversations with contemporary queer theologies, it retrieves from John a preferential option for human sexuality as an experience in daily life that is rich with possibilities for re-sourcing and imagining the Christian doctrine of God. Consistent with other liberating perspectives, it outs God from heteronormative closets and restores human sexuality as a resource for theology. This outing of divine queerness—that is, the ineffability of divine life—helps to align reflections on the mystery of God with the faith experiences of queer Catholics. By engaging Juan de la Cruz through queer Latinx eyes, Miguel Díaz continues the objective of this series to disrupt the cartography of theology latinamente.Table of ContentsPreface to the Series | ix Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Gary Riebe-Estrella, Miguel H. Díaz Acknowledgments | xiii A Note on References and Translations | xvii Introduction: Inflamed by God’s Queer Love | xix 1. Doing Theology Sanjuanistamente | 1 Juan de la Cruz, a Disruptive Theological Voice | 3 A Starting Point in Ordinary and Daily Experience | 6 Mysticism and Sexuality | 7 Mysticism and Popular Catholicism | 9 Mysticism and Poetry | 11 A Queer “y qué” | 15 2. Disrupting God-Talk | 21 Option for the Bedroom and Human Sexuality | 23 On Knowing God | 30 The Apophatic Way: On the Dark Night of Knowing | 34 The Cataphatic Way of Knowing God | 38 On Naming God as un no sé qué | 44 The un no sé qué God Is Self-Communicating Love | 50 3. God’s Self-Communication | 52 God’s Self-Communication Conceived Sanjuanistamente | 55 The Recipient of God’s Self-Communication | 61 The Effects of God’s Self-Communication | 65 On Divine and Human Self-Communicating Love | 67 4. Ecstasis Divine and Human | 69 Making Room for Another | 71 The Fluidity of Divine and Human Persons: Personal and Dynamic | 78 Mystically Performative Fluidity | 82 On Divine and Human Desire | 85 5. Queering the God de Amor | 93 Queering Juan’s Mysticism, a Precedent | 97 Queering God-Talk Sanjuanistamente | 101 Queering God’s Self-Communication | 106 Queering the Ecstasis Divine and Human | 111 A Journey toward the Queer God de Amor | 114 Conclusion | 117 Index | 125
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Fordham University Press Queer God de Amor
Book SynopsisQueer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical union with God and the metaphor of sexual relationship that he uses to describe this union. Juan’s mystical theology, which highlights the notion of God as lover and God’s erotic-like relationship with human persons, provides a fitting source for rethinking the Christian doctrine of God, in John’s own words, as “un no sé qué,” “an I know not what.” In critical conversations with contemporary queer theologies, it retrieves from John a preferential option for human sexuality as an experience in daily life that is rich with possibilities for re-sourcing and imagining the Christian doctrine of God. Consistent with other liberating perspectives, it outs God from heteronormative closets and restores human sexuality as a resource for theology. This outing of divine queerness—that is, the ineffability of divine life—helps to align reflections on the mystery of God with the faith experiences of queer Catholics. By engaging Juan de la Cruz through queer Latinx eyes, Miguel Díaz continues the objective of this series to disrupt the cartography of theology latinamente.Table of ContentsPreface to the Series | ix Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Gary Riebe-Estrella, Miguel H. Díaz Acknowledgments | xiii A Note on References and Translations | xvii Introduction: Inflamed by God’s Queer Love | xix 1. Doing Theology Sanjuanistamente | 1 Juan de la Cruz, a Disruptive Theological Voice | 3 A Starting Point in Ordinary and Daily Experience | 6 Mysticism and Sexuality | 7 Mysticism and Popular Catholicism | 9 Mysticism and Poetry | 11 A Queer “y qué” | 15 2. Disrupting God-Talk | 21 Option for the Bedroom and Human Sexuality | 23 On Knowing God | 30 The Apophatic Way: On the Dark Night of Knowing | 34 The Cataphatic Way of Knowing God | 38 On Naming God as un no sé qué | 44 The un no sé qué God Is Self-Communicating Love | 50 3. God’s Self-Communication | 52 God’s Self-Communication Conceived Sanjuanistamente | 55 The Recipient of God’s Self-Communication | 61 The Effects of God’s Self-Communication | 65 On Divine and Human Self-Communicating Love | 67 4. Ecstasis Divine and Human | 69 Making Room for Another | 71 The Fluidity of Divine and Human Persons: Personal and Dynamic | 78 Mystically Performative Fluidity | 82 On Divine and Human Desire | 85 5. Queering the God de Amor | 93 Queering Juan’s Mysticism, a Precedent | 97 Queering God-Talk Sanjuanistamente | 101 Queering God’s Self-Communication | 106 Queering the Ecstasis Divine and Human | 111 A Journey toward the Queer God de Amor | 114 Conclusion | 117 Index | 125
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Broadview Press Ltd Configuring Gender: Explorations in Theory and
Book Synopsis"Gender", as an idea or concept "defines the feminist critical project." It is in the spirit of this project that Barbara Marshall undertakes a critical examination of gender as a constitutive category, not only in feminist social theory but also in recent political debates. This brief book focuses on how the idea of gender has developed both in scholarship and in the public mind, for the notion of gender has, as the author notes, "taken up residence in the public consciousness, and become one of the lenses through which we seek to understand ourselves and our everyday lives, as well as to comprehend the public issues of the day." Gender has become a critical social fact but a fact (like all such facts) constantly reconstituted as those who fight the social issues through which it travels, adopt it for their own purpose. Feminists have defined critiques of patriarchal society according to their understanding of gender divisions. In so doing, they have also critiqued more traditional liberal and Marxist theories for their blind spots with respect to gender. In turn, Western feminists have been challenged by a new and diverse range of voices that have entered the conversation more recently. Others have deployed the idea of gender to undermine feminist politics, rendering gender a pejorative term for those in dissident feminist, anti-feminist, or conservative circles. Marshall also sets the politicization of gender in a larger context, examining the ways in which gender is continually reconstructed in global processes of economic and political change. She concludes with an attempt to reassess the status of gender as a key concept for both feminist and sociological analysis and suggests strategies for reconfiguring our understanding of gender in a more contextualized and pragmatic way.Table of ContentsIntroduction One: Mainstreaming Gender Gender and Sociology: A Romance Gender Outside the Academy Gender Mainstreaming: A Mixed Legacy Two: Destabilizing Gender The Trouble with Gender: Feminist Debates Gender and Sexuality Gender and Race Gender and Class Feminism and Postmodernism Revisited Three: Politicizing Gender Challenging the Grammar of Liberalism Gender Politics: Feminism and the State in English Canada The Problem of Identity Politics Four: De-Legitimating Gender Gender in Brackets: The Fundamentalist Critique The 'Gender-Feminist' Takeover: - The Libertarian Critique Much Ado about Gender The New Politics of Gender - The Universalism/Particularism Dilemma Revisited Conclusion Five: Restructuring Gender Globalization, Restructuring, and Gendered Citizenship in Canada Gender and Citizenship in Post-Soviet Europe Gender Travels - Lessons from International Feminisms Putting Gender in its Place Conclusions--Reconfiguring Gender? References Index
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives
Book SynopsisHealth is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to achieve them. Today, genuine or self-styled experts--from physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers--offer advice on achieving optimal health. Topics in this collection are wide ranging and include childbirth advice in Victorian Australia and Cold War America, menstruation films, Canadian abortion tourism, the Pap smear, the Body Worlds exhibition, and fat liberation. Masculinity is explored among drunkards in antebellum Philadelphia and family memoirs during the 1980s AIDS epidemic. Seemingly objective public health advisories are shown to be as influenced by commercial interests, class, gender, and other social differentiations as marketing approaches are, and the message presented is mediated to varying degrees by those receiving it. This book will be of interest to scholars in women's studies, health studies, marketing, media studies, social history and anthropology, and popular culture.Trade Review``Krasnick Warsh's edited collection succeeds in providing a wide variety of interesting analyses that examine the historical intersections of gender, health, and popular culture.'' -- Rebecca Godderis, Wilfrid Laurier University -- Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Volume 29, number 2, 2012``The articles convincingly show how gender has influenced various aspect of health experiences, including the flow of information, the availability of services, and displays of healthfulness.... [In the first section] the authors are careful to tease apart the public health discourse from the patterns of behaviou and advice set by women themselves as they encounter different sets of experts claiming to know what is best for women's bodies.... The remaining articles on bodily representations highlight some of the innovative work being done in this field by exploring more recent manifestations of gendered identities and creatively challenging the idea of women as a collective.... Taken together, these essays provide sophisticated models for exploring the interplay between health and gender as represented in popular culture.... Although the majority of articles focus on Canadian developments, the North American breadth creates space for comparative studies, such as the one explored in the side-by-side articles on cervial cancer screening programs in the US and Canada. The book will likely appeal to a wide variety of readers with interests in health, feminism, reproduction, and body politics and offers a provocative collection of historically engaging and historiographically rich articles.'' -- Erika Dyck, University of Saskatchewan -- Labour / Le Travail, 70, 201302``This important work will be a welcome addition to the literature, especially in the North American context, where most of the essays are situated. No other work attempts to draw together these disparate fields of study, and the volume's inclusion of popular culture is what makes it so truly innovative.'' -- Jane Nicholas, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON -- 201101Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Gender, Health, and Popular Culture, edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh Introduction | Cheryl Krasnick Warsh Part I: The Transmission of Health Information Confined: Constructions of Childbirth in Popular and Elite Medical Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia | Lisa Featherstone Eating for Two: Shaping Mothers' Figures and Babies' Futures in Modern American Culture | Lisa Forman Cody Advice to Adolescents: Menstrual Health and Menstrual Education Films, 1946-1982 | Sharra L. Vostral Controlling Conception: Images of Women, Safety, Sexuality and the Pill in the Sixties | Heather Molyneaux All Aboard? Canadian Women's Abortion Tourism, 1960-1980 | Christabelle Sethna Controlling Cervical Cancer from Screening to Vaccinations: An American Perspective | Kirsten E. Gardner The Challenge of Developing and Publicizing Cervical Cancer Screening Programs: A Canadian Perspective | Mandy Hadenko II: Popular Representations of the Body in Sickness and Health Hideous Monsters before the Eye: Delirium tremens and Manhood in Antebellum Philadelphia | Ric N. Caric From La Bambola to a Toronto Striptease: Drawing Out Public Consent to Gender Differentiation with Anatomical Materials | Annette Burfoot Let Me Hear Your Body Talk: Aerobics for Fat Women Only, 1981-1985 | Jenny Ellison "The Closest Thing to Perfect": Celebrity and the Body Politics of Jamie Lee Curtis | Christina Burr "Every Generation Has Its War": Representations of Gay Men with AIDS and Their Parents in the United States, 1983-1993 | Heather Murray Bibliography Contributors Index Contributors' Bios Annette Burfoot is an associate professor of sociology at Queen's University, teaching feminist science studies and visual culture. She edited The Encyclopedia of Reproductive Technologies and co-edited (with Susan Lord). Ric N. Caric is a professor of international and interdisciplinary studies at Morehead State University in Kentucky. His social theory and American history articles have appeared in Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Pennsylvania History, and other journals. Caric is finishing a book on popular culture in antebellum Philadelphia, and his political commentary can be found at his "Red State Impressions" blog. Lisa Forman Cody is an associate professor of history and associate dean of the Faculty of History at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles. She is the author of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons (2005), which won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best First Book of the Year Prize, the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Prize, and the Western Association of Women Historians Frances Keller Richardson-Sierra Prize. She is working on two books tentatively entitled Divided We Stand: Divorce and Sexual Scandal in the Age of the American Revolution and Imaginary Values: Health, Wealth, and Human Labor in the British Imperial imagination, 1660-1840. Jenny Ellison recently received her doctorate in history from York University in Toronto. Her research on the fat-acceptance movement has appeared in the Fat Studies Reader (2009) as well as the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Her current research examines self-esteem as a women's health issue. Lisa Featherstone is a lecturer in Australian history at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published in gender history, medical history, and the history of sexuality, and is currently writing a book entitled Let's Talk about Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the Pill, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2011. Kirsten E. Gardner is an associate professor of history and women's studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of Early Detection: Women, Cancer, and Awareness Campaigns in Twentieth-Century United States. Mandy Hadenko is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, York University, Toronto. Her dissertation is entitled "Cervical Cancer and the Canadian Woman: Provincial Roles in Cancer Prevention." Heather Molyneaux recently received her doctorate in history from the University of New Brunswick. Her dissertation examines the representation of women in the Canadian Medical Association Journal pharmaceutical advertisements. She has published in Acadiensis and has an article co-written with Linda Kealey in the Journal of Canadian Studies. Heather Murray is an assistant professor in the Department of History, University of Ottawa. Her monograph, Not in This Family: Gays and Their Parents in North America, 1945-1990s, was published in 2010 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Christabelle Sethna is an associate professor at the Institute of Women's Studies and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. She has published numerous articles on sex education, contraception, and abortion history. She has completed a SSHRC-funded study on the impact of the birth control pill on single Canadian women between 1960 and 1980. She is currently working on another SSHRC-funded research project on the travel that Canadian women undertake to access abortion services, past and present. Sharra L. Vostral is an associate professor, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her book, Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology (2008), examines the social and technological history of sanitary napkins and tampons, and the efforts to hide menstruation and menstrual artifacts, as well as the effects of technology upon women's experiences of menstruation. She co-edited Feminist Technology (2010), which explores feminist methods, theories, politics, and interventions in the design of artifacts. Her current research is a history of toxic shock syndrome and its relationship to tampon use during the early 1980s. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh is a professor of history at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Her publications include Prescribed Norms: Women and Health in Canada and the U.S. since 1800; Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923; and Consuming Modernity: Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom.
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Purdue University Press Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the
Book SynopsisThis volume chronicles the media's role in reshaping American life during the tumultuous nineteenth century by focusing specifically on the presentation of race and gender in the newspapers and magazines of the time. The work is divided into four parts: Part I, 'Race Reporting', details the various ways in which America's racial minorities were portrayed; Part II, 'Fires of Discontent', looks at the moral and religious opposition to slavery by the abolitionist movement and demonstrates how that opposition was echoed by African Americans themselves; Part III, 'The Cult of True Womanhood', examines the often disparate ways in which American women were portrayed in the national media as they assumed a greater role in public and private life; and Part IV, 'Transcending the Boundaries', traces the lives of pioneering women journalists who sought to alter and expand their gender's participation in American life, showing how the changing role of women led to various journalistic attempts to depict and define women through sensationalistic news coverage of female crime stories.
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University of Massachusetts Press Diversity, Gender, Color and Culture
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines problems of race, gender and cultural identity, from a European perspective. Looking at government policies and schemes designed to ensure diversity, from multiculturalism to ""positive action"", it encourages a rethink on issues of gender, colour and culture.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Sexual Strangers: Gays, Lesbians, and Dilemmas of Citizenship
Book SynopsisIs the United States a heterosexual regime? If it is, how may we understand the political position of those who cannot or will not align themselves with heterosexuality? With these provocative questions, Shane Phelan raises the issue of whether lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people can be seen as citizens at all. Can citizenship be made queer? Or does citizenship require the exclusion of those who are regarded as queer to preserve the i??equalityi??' that it promises? In i??Sexual Strangersi??, Shane Phelan argues that, in the United States, queers are strangers - not exactly the enemy, since they are not excluded from all rights of citizenship, but not quite members. Rather, they are ambiguous figures who trouble the border between i??usi??' and i??themi??', a border just as central to liberal regimes as to other states. Life on this border structures both the exclusion of sexual minorities and their ambivalence about becoming part of the i??mainstreami??'. i??Sexual Strangersi?? addresses questions of long-standing importance to minority group politics: the meaning and terms of inclusion, respect, and resistance. Phelan looks at citizenship as including not only equal protection and equal rights to such institutions as marriage and military service, but also political and cultural visibility, as inclusion in the national imaginary. She discusses the continuing stigmatization of bisexuals and transgendered people within lesbian and gay communities as a result of the attempt to flee from strangeness, a flight that inevitably produces new strangers. Her goal is to convince students of politics, both academic and activist, to embrace the rewards of strangeness as a means of achieving inclusive citizenship, rather than a citizenship that defines itself by what it will not accept. Author note: Shane Phelan is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She is the author or editor of several books on lesbian and gay politics, most recently i??Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theoriesi??. She is the chair of the American Political Science Association's Committee on the Status of Lesbians and Gays in the Profession.Trade Review"In Sexual Strangers, Shane Phelan addresses long-standing tensions between inclusion and exclusion both in queer politics and in the theory and practice of democratic citizenship. In the process, she offers a compelling case both for 'queering' citizenship and for broadening and deepening our understandings of the possibilities of a truly queer politics." --Martha Ackelsberg, Professor of Government and Women's Studies, Smith College "Shane Phelan's ambitious and highly original new book explores the tensions between citizenship and sexuality. Feminist theory has contributed significantly to the critique of the patriarchal underpinnings of conceptualizations of citizenship. Yet, Phelan rightly observes, 'the connection between heterosexism as a regime and modern citizenship is a new terrain [only] beginning to be explored.' Sexual Strangers is a landmark contribution to this emergent literature." --Kathleen B. Jones, Professor of Women's Studies, San Diego State University "Sexual Strangers is a powerful book that probes contradictory tendencies within the movement of queer citizens for full equality. Shane Phelan brings the work of activists and journalists into productive conjunction with democratic theory, addressing major concerns in political science, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered studies, feminsim, and cultural studies." --Morris B. Kaplan, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purchase College, State University of New York, and author of Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire "Sexual Strangers explores what membership in the American polity might really mean for queers. Informed by recent work in feminist theory and democratic politics, Phelan offers a clear, original, and compassionate argument that addresses issues of longstanding import to minority group politics: the meaning and terms of inclusion, respect, and resistance." --Jodi Dean, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges "Phelan's treatise is a lucid and thoughtful contribution to the literature of gay civil rights." --Q SYNDICATETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Citizens and Strangers 2. Structures of Strangeness: Bodies, Passions, and Citizenship 3. Structures of Strangeness: Citizenship and Kinship 4. Negotiating Strangeness: Assimilation and Visibility 5. Strangers among "Us": Secondary Marginalization and "LGBT" Politics 6. Queering Citizenship Notes Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual
Book SynopsisTold with humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood. Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent transitional surgery in Los Angeles in 1962, one of the first such operations in the United States. (The famous sexual surgery pioneer Harry Benjamin himself broke the news to Brevard's parents.)Under the stage name Lee Shaw, Brevard worked as a drag queen at Finocchio's, a San Francisco club, doing Marilyn Monroe impersonations. (Like Marilyn, she sought romance all the time and had a string of entanglements with men.) Later, she worked as a stripper in Reno and as a Playboy Bunny at the Sunset Strip hutch.After playing opposite Don Knotts in the movie The Love God, Brevard appeared in other films and broke into TV as a regular on the Red Skelton Show. She created the role of Tex on the daytime soap opera One Life To Live. As a woman, Brevard returned to teach theater at East Tennessee State, the same university she had attended as a boy.This memoir is a rare pre-Women's Movement account of coming to terms with gender identity. Brevard writes frankly about the degree to which she organized her life around pleasing men, and how absurd it all seems to her now.Trade Review"...an entertaining and heartfelt journey from male to female, ostracism to acceptance, and obscurity to fame. ... Aleshia Brevard's journey is a brilliant, gutsy, and insightful look at a life simultaneously marginalized and in the spotlight."—Lambda Book Report"The Woman I Was not Born to Be is not the kind of book one really expects from an academic press: no statistics, no elaborate theoretical structure. Nor is it the story of people whom history has utterly ignored. Mocked, crucified, tortured, and jailed, yes; ignored, no. But I'm glad Temple University Press chose to publish it: in academia as in real life, a reasonably well-adjusted, kind-hearted woman who was born male is not so common."—Amy Bloom, Wilson Quarterly"Brevard's story adds an entertaining curve to the growing body of literature—academic scientific, theoretical and literary—on transgendered experience, without the self-pity or sentimentality found in many such memoirs....Written in a gossipy style reminiscent of 1950's movie-star autobiographies (which at heart, it is)."—Publishers WeeklyTable of Contents1. Just for a Change 2. Farm Boy 3. Drag Queen 4. A Man in the House 5. Alfred, Adieu 6. The Coed 7. Burlesque Queen 8. Miss Congeniality 9. Call Me Mrs. 10. Teacher! Teacher! 11. A Playboy Bunny 12. That Female Bunch 13. Fashion's Guru 14. Off-Broadway Baby 15. A Faceless Intruder 16. Mother's Final gift 17. The Finished Produce Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Transgender Care: Recom Guidelines, Practical
Book SynopsisBy empowering clients to be well informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vexed relationship between professionals and clients. They propose a new professional role, that of the \u0022Gender Specialist.\u0022 The authors have also provided useful listings of organizations, centers, and World Wide Web sites. Transgender Care has been reviewed by a national committee of professionals and consumers, some of whose members contributed essays in the second part of the book.Trade Review"The title tells pretty much what this groundbreaking anthology offers: a comprehensive distillation of personal experiences and professional wisdom." -Feminist Bookstore News "Professionals who work with individuals with gender identity issues and those with gender issues themselves have long needed a comprehensive guide to treatment. Finally, it is here. Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver have done a wonderful job of putting resource material from many fields into one easy to use reference book. Transgender Care is without a doubt a breakthrough work, as it addresses issues of cultural diversity, sexual orientation, and lifestyle that have been previously overlooked or ignored in the clinical literature. The supporting essays provide practical information about employment and insurance and confront the ethical difficulties of professionals who serve as gatekeepers to those who desire treatment. The authors have done a service to caregivers and transfolk alike with this monumental work." -Dallas Denney, M.A., Licensed Psychological Examiner, Executive Director, American Education Gender Information Service, Inc. "This wonderful book...is a comprehensive resource." -Archives of Sexual Behavior "Overall the first section of the book is probably of most use to clinicians in the field of transgender care and to individuals seeking guidance in their own care. ...the second section cover a wide variety of topics: ethics, legal rights, support systems, health insurance, facial surgery, commentaries on the recommended guidelines, transgender studies, and hormones." -NWSA JournalTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreward by Joy Diane Shaffer, M.D. Review Committee Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: Recommended Guidelines 1. Introduction 2. Mental Health 3. Transgender Hormone Administration 4. Transgender Aesthetic Surgury 5. Genital Reassignment Surgury and Gonad Removal (Castration) 6. HIV and AIDS 7. Cultural Diversity 8. Transgender Youth 9. Support Tools 10. Support Scenarios Part II: Essays 11. Ethical Implications for Psychotherapy with Individuals Seeking Gender Reassignment - Barbara F. Anderson, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. 12. Understanding Your Rights Under San Francisco Ordinance - Larry Brinkin, Acting Coordinator, San Francisco Human Rights Commission 13. From the Perspective of a Young Transsexual - Alexis Belinda Dinno 14. You are Not Alone: A Personal Quest for a Support System - Ayme Michelle Kantz 15. A Midlife Transition - Heather Lamborn 16. Insurance and Reinbursement of Transgender Health Care - Lisa Middleton, M.P.A. 17. Facial Surgury for the Transsexual - Douglas K. Ousterhout, D.D.S., M.D. 18. What Is to Be Done? A Commentary on the Recommended Guidelines - Rachel Pollack, M.A. 19. Genital Reassignment Surgery:A Source of Happiness for my Patients - Eugene A. Schrang, M.D. 20. Over and Out in Academe: Transgender Studies Come of Age - Susan Stryker, Ph.D. 21. Transsexuality, Science, and Prophecy - Max Wolf Valerio 22. Hormones - Delia van Maris, M.D. 23. The Therapist Versus the Client: How the Conflict Started and Some Thoughts on How to Resolve It - Anne Vitale, Ph.D. Appendix: Resources for Transgender Individuals, Families, and Professionals About the Authors About the Reviewers and Contributors Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Package Deal: Marriage, Work And Fatherhood In Men'S Lives
Book SynopsisA book about understanding men's lives in the modern worldTrade Review"Nicholas Townsend has produced an elegant, insightful, occasionally heartwrenching portrait of what it means to be a man in late twentieth-century America. His interviews reveal, as no mere statistics could, the tensions and contradictions that fathers face as they try to conform to a predominant cultural script. Neither villains nor victims, these men earn our sympathy as we witness their struggle to conform to The Package Deal."-Stanley Brandes, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley "What do men want? In this provocative and thoughtful book about a group of men who graduated from high school in the early l970s, the gifted anthropologist Nicholas Townsend gives us an answer. Despite powerful pressures on them to spend more time with their children, to share more chores with their working wives, to cut their commutes, to give up their part in suburban sprawl, the men Townsend came to know were keeping their eye on another ball-the package deal. Stubborn? Retrograde? Yes. But with a deep appreciation for the contradictions they face, the system of pride and dignity with which they live, Townsend explains why. This is a highly important book for men, and for those who are trying to change them."-Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of The Second Shift and The Time Bind "By listening so carefully to men and women, by so carefully assessing the complex inter-connection of their lives and our cultural ideals, Townsend adds welcome nuance to the ongoing social and political discussion about fatherhood in America."-James A. Levine, Ed.D., Director, The Fatherhood Project, Families and Work Institute "Townsend definitively delivers an excellent contribution."-INTAMS Review "It is a real pleasure to see an anthropological approach being applied to research on family and fatherhood issues... Townsend's book is a unique and critical contribution to a discourse that links an anthropological approach to the sociological/psychological study of families and fatherhood."-Fathering "The Package Deal makes a powerful contribution to ongoing debates about the roles, values, and meanings of fatherhood in contemporary American society... Townsend does a magnificent job of bringing forth the voices of his respondents and providing emic views of contemporary fatherhood. His ethnography is masterful-deep, systematic, and insightful... Townsend's study breaks new ground."-Anthropology of Work Review "In addition to being an exceptional analytic ethnography, The Package Deal is a clear and learned introduction to the current state of knowledge about work, families, and gender. All those interested in contemporary fatherhood should read it without delay."-Social Forces "This is an interesting book requiring careful reading but it is well worth the effort."-Journal of Comparative Family StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Contradictions and Complications2. Package Deals and Scripts3. The Four Facets of Fatherhood4. Marriage: The Women in the Middle5. Employment as Fatherhood6. Home Ownership: Housing the Family7. Fathers of Fathers: Kinship and Gender8. ImplicationsAppendix A: The Men from Meadowview High SchoolAppendix B: Bibliographic EssayNotesReferencesIndex
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Sophie Discovers Amerika: German-Speaking Women
Book SynopsisCultural and literary historians investigate the unique literary bridge between German-speaking women and the "New World," examining novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and photography. In a 1798 novel by Sophie von La Roche, a European woman swims across a cold North American lake seeking help from the local indigenous tribe to deliver a baby. In a 2008 San Francisco travel guide, Milena Moser, the self-proclaimed "Patron Saint of Desperate Swiss Housewives," ponders the guilty pleasures of a media-saturated world. Wildly disparate, these two texts reveal the historical arc of a much larger literary constellation: the literature of German-speaking women who interact with the New World. In this volume, cultural historians from around the world investigate this unique literary bridge between two hemispheres, focusing on New-World texts written by female authors from Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. Encompassing a broad range of genres including novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and even photography, the essays include women's experiences across both American continents. Many of the primary literary texts discussed in this volume are available in the online collections of Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women (http://sophie.byu.edu/). Contributors: Christiane Arndt, Karin Baumgartner, Ute Bettray, Ulrike Brisson, Carola Daffner, Denise M. Della Rossa, Linda Dietrick, Silke R. Falkner, Maureen O. Gallagher, Nicole Grewling, Monika Hohbein-Deegen, Gabi Kathöfer, Thomas W. Kniesche,Julie Koser, Judith E. Martin, Sarah C. Reed, Christine Rinne, Tom Spencer, Florentine Strzelczyk, David Tingey, Petra Watzke, Chantal Wright. Rob McFarland and Michelle Stott James are both Associate Professors of German at Brigham Young University.Trade Review[D]raws writers from a period of 200 years, from a wide range of genres, and includes a broad range of techniques to analyze them. . . . [Does] a remarkable job of bringing twenty-three women writers of German to the forefront and providing a context from which to further conversations about women and their importance in shaping Germany as a Kulturnation. * COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES *The essays are . . . informative and constitute a welcome addition to the scholarship on transatlantic literary history. . . . [The volume] will be, . . . a worthwhile companion to the Sophie website. * MONATSHEFTE *This volume contains 22 essays, a thoughtful introduction, and a valuable bibliography. It offers original reflections on ways in which German-speaking authors from the 18th to the 21st centuries encountered the New World. . . . The book offers provocative material suggesting new avenues of study. * CHOICE *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Inscription and Rebellion: Illness and the
Book SynopsisEmploys research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of "symptomatic female bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms. The healthcare system of the German Democratic Republic, based on Soviet models, reflected the importance the socialist state assigned the health both of its citizens and of the metaphorical national body meant to represent and promulgate the nation's political vitality. Yet many East German literary writers depicted characters ailing and under medical care, and even after the country's dissolution in 1990, writers who had lived there continued to portraysickness and the GDR healthcare system prominently in their fiction. This book offers an innovative reading of such texts - both by the GDR's most prominent writer, Christa Wolf, and by younger writers raised in the GDR but active mainly after 1989 - employing historical research on the healthcare system and feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy. It develops a new approach to East German literature that underscores the impact of fortyyears of Marxist-Leninist thought on post-GDR poetics. Intertwining aesthetics with politics, the book employs the Foucauldian concept of the "symptomatic body," in this case a female character's body on which historical and political events inscribe physical or psychological illness, in so doing revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of such "symptomatic bodies" to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms. SONJA E. KLOCKE is Associate Professor of German Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Trade Review[E]xemplary . . . . [A]n outstanding contribution to the field of German studies, particularly the study of GDR history and culture . . . . Klocke's interdisciplinary study perfectly exemplifies the benefits of bringing historical research and literary analysis into fruitful dialogue with each other. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *[A] valuable contribution for anyone who wants to learn more about the health-care system of the GDR, its underlying ideology, and the dominance it exerted over the individual patient through the lens of its socially engaged literature. The study as a whole succeeds in demonstrating the value of literature in complicating and expanding the collective memory archive, and shows the fruitfulness of a medical humanities approach to this corpus of texts. -- Nina Schmidt * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Synthesizing historiographic research and literary analysis, [this book] offers a powerful interdisciplinary reading of the relationship between (East) German literature, social discourse, and the politics of health. -- Caroline Summers * GERMANIC REVIEW *Sonia E. Klocke's book . . ., carefully researched and written in an easily readable English, makes a worthy contribution to Christa Wolf scholarship, to Body Studies, and not least to the discourse on the GDR in the collective imagination. * JAHRBUCH LITERATUR UND MEDIZIN *Klocke's combination of nuanced literary analysis and historical context demonstrates a particularly East German treatment of illness and the 'symptomatic' body . . . . She presents excellent insights not only into the earlier and later works of [Christa] Wolf, whom she regards as a 'historiographer' of the GDR, but also into the politicization of health under socialism and how literature interacted and interacts with medical discourse. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *[A] lucidly written and convincingly argued study of selected literary works that critically portray aspects of GDR society and/or challenge representations in post-unification Germany that reduce the GDR to a 'Unrechtsstaat' (a state without rule of law). . . . [S]uccessfully claims a space for the continued critical study of East German literature and culture in the field of German studies. -- Friederike Eigler * WOMEN IN GERMAN NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsIntroduction Disease, Death, and Desire Pre-1989: Christa Wolf's Symptomatic GDR Bodies Christa Wolf's Goodbye to Socialism?: Illness, Healing, and Faith since 1990 Retrospective Imagination in Post-GDR Literature: Gender, Violence, and Politics in Medical Discourses Haunted in Post-Wall Germany: Sickness, Symptomatic Bodies, and the Specters of the GDR Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index
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Hampton Press Japanese Preschool Children and Gender
Book SynopsisThis text presents the authors observations of Japanese preschool children in classrooms and playgrounds. Questions addressed are: what does it mean in Japan to be a boy or girl?, what impact does traditional Japanese culture have on children?, are Japanese girls seen as powerful and more.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Violence and Exploitation Against Women and
Book SynopsisDrawing upon the expertise of a cadre of scholars and practitioners, this book has four parts: (1) conceptualizing violence and exploitation against females, (2) violence against girls and female adolescents, (3) violence against women, and (4) cultural and international perspectives on violence against women. Contributors place violence against women and girls within a variety of cultural and religious perspectives and also present theories of violence, the role of stereotyping, and the effect of violence in the larger community. The recent emergence of cyber violence, particularly against adolescents, is addressed, and several violence prevention programs are described. Violence against elderly women, disabled women, and pregnant women are addressed, as are the public health issues related to violence against women. The final section of the book expands the cultural perspective through chapters on domestic violence in Latin America, South Asia, Israel, and among ethnic enclaves within the United States. A report on female genital mutilation is included. The role of the United Nations and non-governmental organizations in preventing violence against women globally concludes the volume. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a memberTrade Review"A showcase ... .Consider[s] the full breadth of violence against women, and to use perspectives and experience gained in one area ... to others." (Sex Roles, June 2008)Table of ContentsPreface: Joy K. Rice. Part I: Conceptualizing Violence and Exploitation Against Females:. 1. The History of Violence: Barbara Welter. 2. Theories of Violence: Herbert Krauss. Part II: Violence Against Girls, Adolescents, and Young Women:. 3. Sexual Aggression Towards Women: Reducing the Prevalence: Gwendolyn L. Gerber, Lindsay Cherniski. 4. Adolescent Girls Speak About Violence in their Community: Roseanne Flores. 5. Who Wins in the Status Games? Violence, Sexual Violence, and an Emerging Single Standard Among Adolescent Women: Beatrice Krauss. 6. Cyber Violence Against Adolescent Girls: June Chisholm. 7. Early Violence Prevention Programs: Implications for Violence Prevention Against Girls and Women: Barbara Mowder, Michelle Guttman, Anastasia Yasik. 8. International Perspectives on Sexual Harassment of College Students: The Sounds of Silence Michele Paludi, Eros DeSouza, Liesl Nydegger, Rudy Nydegger, Sarah Bennett. Part III: Violence Against Women:. 9. Intimate Partner Violence: New Directions: Irene Frieze, Maureen McHugh. 10. Battered Women Syndrome: Empirical Findings: Lenore Walker. 11. Aging Women and Violence: Margot Nadien. 12. Violence and Exploitation against Girls and Women with Disabilities: Daniel Rosen. 13. Violence Against Pregnant Women in Northwestern Ontario: Josephine Tan, Kate Gregor. 14. Intimate Violence against Women and Unwanted Pregnancy: Nancy Russo, Angela Pirlott. 15. Re-Victimization of Rape Victims by the Criminal Justice System: Mary P. Koss. 16. Violence against Women as a Public Health Issue: Joan Chrisler, Sheila Ferguson. Part IV: Cultural and International Perspectives on Violence Against Women:. 17. Cultural Beliefs and Domestic Violence: Madeline Fernandez. 18. Violence Against Adolescents and Women in Mexico: Conceptualization and Program Application: Susan Pick. 19. Domestic Violence in the Chinese and South Asian Immigrant Communities: Elizabeth Midlarsky, Anitha A. Kothari, Maura Plante. 20. Domestic Violence in Israel: Changing Attitudes: Varda Muhlbauer. 21. An Exploration of Female Genital Mutilation Erika Baron, Florence L. Denmark. 22. International Sexual Harassment: Janet Sigal. 23. United Nations Measures to Stop Violence Against Women: Eva Sandis. Epilogue: Vita Rabinowitz. Index of Contributors
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in
Book SynopsisA look at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US presidential election Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for thepresidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist struggles--represented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Day--while Trump harnessed nostalgia through his promise to Make America Great Again. This collection of essays looks at the often vitriolic rhetoric that characterized the election: "nasty women" vs. "deplorables"; "bad hombres" and "Crooked Hillary"; analyzing the struggle and its result through the lenses of gender, race, and their intersections, and with particular attention to the roles of memory, performance, narrative, and social media. Contributors examine the ways that gender and racial hierarchies intersected and reinforced one another throughout the campaign season. Trump's association of Mexican immigrants with crime, and specifically with rape, for example, drew upon a long history of fearmongering that stereotypes Mexican men--and men of other immigrant and minority groups--as sexual aggressors against white women. At the same time, in response to both Trump'smisogynistic rhetoric and the iconic power of Clinton's candidacy, feminist consciousness grew steadily across the nation. Analyzing these phenomena, the volume's authors--both journalists and academics--engage with prominent debates in their diverse fields, while an epilogue by the editors considers recent ongoing developments like the #metoo movement. CHRISTINE A. KRAY is Associate Professor of Anthropology, TAMAR W. CARROLL is Associate Professor of History, and HINDA MANDELL is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, all at Rochester Institute of Technology.Trade ReviewMight take on the mantle of opening salvo in what is likely to be a fruitful and troubling subfield of presidential history: Trump Studies. * HISTORY *Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell have assembled a superb interdisciplinary group of authors to analyze a recent political history in which the politics of identity played a large, as yet barely analyzed role. A must-read for organizers, scholars, politicians, and students of politics who are trying to reverse the effects of Trumpism on our national political culture. -- -- Claire Potter, The New SchoolNasty Women and Bad Hombres does it right. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars and writers comes together to think through how Donald Trump, a reality-TV star with no political experience, could pull off an electoral upset against Hillary Clinton, an intelligent, highly qualified candidate with years of experience in public service. Among other things, contributors illuminate the functionings of widespread internalized antifeminism among women, hashtag feminism, and slut-shaming; recognize African American women as torchbearers; and consider the use of misogynist and feminist popular cultural artifacts then and now. Simultaneously broad-based and focused, Nasty Women and Bad Hombres does an excellent job of laying out how we got here and pondering what to do next. -- -- Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern UniversityAccessible and timely, this collection demonstrates the strength of interdisciplinary collaboration, with strong contributions from historians to political scientists, philosophers to communications scholars, with the added perspective of contemporary feminist activists. The focus on the gendered and racialized rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, and how it mobilized voters, both women and men, makes the collection a valuable contribution to intersectional scholarship of the American presidency. --Aidan Smith, Tulane University -- Aidan Smith, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Historical Imagination and Fault Lines of the Electorate - Christine A. Kray and Tamar W. Carroll and Hinda Mandell PART 1. AGGRESSIVE AND SUBORDINATE MASCULINITIES From (Castrating) Bitch to (Big) Nuts: Genital Politics in 2016 Election Campaign Paraphernalia - Jane Caputi Trump in the Land of Oz: Pathologizing Hillary Clinton and the Feminine Body - Roy Schwartzman and Jenni M. Simon The Border, Bad Hombres, and the Billionaire: Hyper-Masculinity and Anti-Mexican Stereotypes in Trump's 2016 Presidential Campaign - Joshua D. Martin The Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Early Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory and Trump's Campaign - O. Nicholas Robertson America, Meet Your New Dad: Tim Kaine and Subordinate Masculinity - Beth L. Boser and R. Brandon Anderson PART 2. FEMINIST PREDECESSORS Please Put Stickers on Shirley Chisholm's Grave: Assessing the Legacy of a Black Feminist Pioneer - Barbara Winslow Commemoration and Contestation: Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama - Michael J. Brown Dressing Up for a Campaign: Hillary Clinton, Suffragists, and the Politics of Fashion - Einav Rabinovitch-Fox 100 Years of Campaign Imagery: From Woman Suffrage Postcards to Hillary Clinton - Ana Stevenson The Impossibilities of Hillary Clinton as a Self-Made Woman - Joanna Weiss PART 3. BAKING COOKIES AND GRABBING PUSSIES: MISOGYNY AND SEXUAL POLITICS The Woman They Love to Hate: Hillary Clinton and the Evangelicals - Mark Ward Sr. "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Jiyoung Lee "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Carol M. Liebler "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Neal J. Powless "I'm Not Voting for Her": Internalized Misogyny, Feminism, and Gender Consciousness in the 2016 Election - Pamela Aronson Confronting "Bimbo Eruptions" and the Legacy of Bill Clinton's Scandal: Slut-Shaming and the 2016 Presidential Campaigns - Leora Tanenbaum How to Turn a Bernie Bro into a Russian Bot - Steve Almond PART 4. ELECTION DAY: REWRITING PAST AND FUTURE #WomenCanStopTrump: Intimate Publics in the Twitterverse - Gina Masullo Chen and Kelsey N. Whipple A Renaissance of Feminist Ritual: Susan B. Anthony's Gravesite on Election Day - Christine A. Kray Birthing Family Narrative and Baby on Election Day - Hinda Mandell Left Behind - Rachel Parsons This is Vienna: Parents of Transgender Children from Pride to Survival in the Aftermath of the 2016 Election - Sally Campbell Galman Triumph of the Constitution: American Muslims and Religious Liberty - Asma Uddin PART5. THE FUTURE IS FEMALE(?): CRITICAL REFLECTIONS AND FEMINIST FUTURES "When they go low, we go high": African American Women Torchbearers for Democracy and the 2016 Democratic National Convention - De Anna J. Reese "When they go low, we go high": African American Women Torchbearers for Democracy and the 2016 Democratic National Convention - Delia C. Gillis Amnesia and Politics in the Mount Hope Cemetery: Toward a Critical History of Race and Gender - Katie Terezakis Beware! Benevolent Patriarchy: Election 2016 and Why No One Can Save Us but Ourselves - Jamia Wilson Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Tamar W. Carroll Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Hinda Mandell Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Christine A. Kray Chronology
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Brandeis University Press Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the
Book SynopsisThe first book in English to specifically address the sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust
£36.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, And The Promise
Book Synopsis"Reclaiming Class" offers essays written by women who changed their lives through the pathway of higher education. Collected, they offer a powerful testimony of the importance of higher learning, as well as a critique of the programs designed to alleviate poverty and educational disparity. The contributors explore the ideologies of welfare and American meritocracy that promise hope and autonomy on the one hand, while also perpetuating economic obstacles and indebtedness on the other.Divided into the three sections, "Reclaiming Class" assesses the psychological, familial, and economic intersections of poverty and the educational process. In the first section, women who left poverty through higher education recall their negotiating the paths of college life to show how their experiences reveal the hidden paradoxes of education. Section two presents first person narratives of students whose lives are shaped by their roles as poor mothers, guardian siblings, and daughters, as well as the ways that race interacts with their poverty.Chapters exploring financial aid and welfare policy, battery and abuse, and the social constructions of the poor woman finish the book. Offering a comprehensive picture of how poor women access all levels of private and public institutions to achieve against great odds, "Reclaiming Class" shows the workings of higher learning from the vantage point of those most subject to the vicissitudes of policy and reform agendas. Vivyan C. Adair is Assistant Professor in the Women's Studies Department at Hamilton College, and Director of The ACCESS Project, which supports low-income parents in their efforts to exit inter-generational poverty through higher education and pre-career employment. Sandra L. Dahlberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown.Trade Review"The authors offer a solid and updated policy analysis, identifying reforms that support poor and working-class women and uncovering the policies that drive them away from the academy." Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work "Reclaiming Class is an important book that will inform readers about the short and long term effects of welfare reform on the capacity of women to use higher education as a means of social advancement. Offering a rare and accessible discussion of both welfare policy and welfare stigma and their impact upon people's capacity to learn within American institutions of higher education, it brings much of the current literature on welfare and welfare stereotypes into a concrete realm that students will understand in connection with their own lives. For that reason especially, it is a very valuable book." Radical Teacher Review "Reclaiming Class is truly first-rate. An extremely thoughtful, illuminating analysis of the role class plays in American society, particularly the perception of poverty, the stigma of poverty on those who are or who have ever been poor and the role of higher education in the survival of poor women. What is perhaps most valuable about the book is the combination of the personal with the theoretical and the analytic. The writing is vivid, immediate and compelling; the volume has an intensity that I believe will capture readers' attention and involve them in the debates and dilemmas poor women face." --Ruth Sidel, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and author of Keeping Women and Children Last "Adair and Dahlberg have compiled a daring collection that challenges both the core values of punitive welfare reform policies and the myth of meritocracy in American higher education. It is a moving demonstration of the best kind of social justice scholarship." --Carolyn Law, Dissertation Adviser in the Graduate School at Northern Illinois University and co-editor of This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class and Out in the South (both Temple) "Every college professor no matter what discipline should read this gripping and compelling collection of narratives and analysis about poor women and higher education. This sometimes brilliant book deconstructs and subverts the conventional wisdom about poor women and women on welfare offering instead a sociological imagining of their lives that sloughs off stereotypes to open up voices within. It portrays higher education as both problematic and opportunity, and offers compelling policy analysis." --Sari Knopp Biklen, Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University "This book is uniformly well written and conceived, with a coherency that is difficult to achieve in edited volumes...Reclaiming Class adds substantially to literature on the classed and gendered experiences of poverty class women in higher education. Hopefully, it will also inform policymakers at all levels who have the ability to clear the path to higher education for this group of people." NWSA Journal "This book seems likely to be very useful in a number of educational settings, inside and outside the academy, because of its diverse approaches to the issues. Further, nearly all the professional educators and policy analysts have had firsthand acquaintance with poverty and/or welfare, and this enriches their narratives and their analyses both. One can scarcely read this text without affirming and reiterating the final words of Vivyan Adair: 'We stand at a critical juncture.' Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies ResourcesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg Speech Pathology: The Deflowering of an Accent Laura Sullivan-Hackley Part I: Educators Remember 1. Disciplined and Punished Poor Women, Bodily Inscription, and Resistance through Education Vivyan C. Adair 2. Academic Constructions of "White Trash," or How to Insult Poor People without Really Trying Nell Sullivan 3. Survival in a Not So Brave New World Sandra L. Dahlberg 4. To Be Young, Pregnant, and Black: My Life as a Welfare Coed Joycelyn K. Moody 5. If You Want Me to Pull Myself Up, Give Me Bootstraps Lisa K. Waldner Part II: On The Front Lines 6. If I Survive, It Will Be Despite Welfare Reform: Reflections of a Former Welfare Student Tonya Mitchell 7. Not By Myself Alone: Upward Bound with Family and Friends Deborah Megivern 8. Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Violence of the Welfare Stereotype Andrea S. Harris 9. From Welfare to Academe: Welfare Reform as College-Educated Welfare Mothers Know It Sandy Smith Madsen 10. Seven Years in Exile Leticia Almanza Part III: Policy, Research, And Poor Women 11. Families First-but Not in Higher Education: Poor, Independent Students and the Impact of Financial Aid Sandra L. Dahlberg 12. The Leper Keepers: Front-Line Workers and the Key to Education for Poor Women Judith Owens-Manley 13. "That's Why I'm on Prozac": Battered Women, Traumatic Stress, and Education in the Context of Welfare Reform Lisa D. Brush 14. Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education Vivyan C. Adair About the Contributors
£61.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Disorders Of Desire Rev: Sexuality And Gender In
Book SynopsisDisorders of Desire is the only book to tell the story of the development and impact of sexology-the scientific study of sex-in the United States. In this era of sex scandals, culture wars, \u0022Sex in the City,\u0022 and new sexual enhancement technologies (like erectile dysfunction drugs), its critique of sexology is even more relevant than it was when the book was first published in 1990. This revised and expanded edition features new chapters addressing: &&LI&&The diagnosis of \u0022sex addiction\u0022in the 1970s and its social and political implications.&&/LI&& &&/UL&& &&LI&&New developments within the field of sexology, including the \u0022Viagra Revolution\u0022 that began in the 1990s. &&/LI&& &&/UL&& &&LI&&The pharmaceutical industry's role in the development of sexual enhancements and the search for the female equivalent of Viagra.&&/LI&& &&/UL&&Trade Review"Disorders of Desire...has important lessons for historians generally. In its meticulous documentation of the in-fighting between different schools of thought within the overall (and much beleaguered by external opponents) field of sexology within a fairly narrow time frame, it reminds us that we may similarly be lumping together very diverse interests and agendas under such headings as 'social purity,' 'sex reform,' 'eugenics,'or 'the birth control movement.' ...This is an excellent, readable, thought-provoking study."-Lesley A. Hall, The Society for the Social History of Medicine "A comprehensive, nuanced investigation... She shares Michel Foucault's interest in tracing the genealogy of our cultural discourses on sex and gender and the assumptions of power hidden within them, but while Foucault paints in broad brush strokes, traversing centuries and cultures, Irvine's study is much more manageable, and, as a result, more convincing."-Arlene J. Stein, American Journal of Sociology "This deeply perceptive history and critique of American sexology illustrates graphically social historians' conviction that the subject of sexuality can be an important avenue to decoding culture. Irvine's historical focus on the efforts of sexologists to professionalize in the course of the last century is a treasure trove of information that will inform scholars with a wide range of interests. There are some excellent insights... [Irvine's] contribution is most fresh and significant."-Regina Morantz-Sanchez, American StudiesTable of ContentsPreface to the Revised and Expanded EditionIntroductionPart I. The Emergence of Scientific Sexology1. Toward a "Value-Free" Science of Sex: The Kinsey Reports2. Science, Medicine, and a MarketPart II. Sexology at a Crossroad: Consolidation and Confusion3. The Humanistic Theme in Sexology4. Sexual Science and Sexual Politics5. Conflict and Accommodation: Who Defines Sexuality?Part III. The Practice of Scientific Sexology: Sex Therapy and Gender Research6. Repairing the Conjugal Bed: The Clinical Practice of Modern Sex Therapy7. Regulated Passions: The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sex Addiction8. Boys Will Be Girls: Contemporary Research on GenderConclusionAfterwordNotesIndex
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender
Book SynopsisAn examination of how racial and gender hierarchies are intertwined in BrazilTrade Review"This book presents the reader with new and original scholarship both in comparative racial studies and comparative feminist thought. Nascimento also presents an incalculable historical analysis of the growth and dynamic nature of the Afro-Brazilian protest movement during the twentieth-century." —J. Michael Turner, Hunter College"This is an extremely thoughtful and challenging study of the overlapping and often confusing histories of identity, race, and gender in Brazil....This book has considerable appeal as history and theory...Highly Recommended." —Choice"The book is explicitly devoted to making a huge theoretical and historical review of the position of black people in Brazil, as well as of their fights for justice and recognition, and in this it has been particularly successful. Placing herself on these crossroads, blessed by Esu, the author produces an intellectual position complimented by her political engagement, and makes a political statement by means of her intellectual criticism. This intellectual enterprise is of great importance at this moment when Brazil is undergoing unprecedented progressive polarization regarding the implementation of affirmative action policies. " —The European Review of Latin American and Caribbean StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction to the English Edition Preface – Kabengele Munanga Introduction 1. Identity, Race, and Gender 2. Brazil and the Making of "Virtual Whiteness" 3. Constructing and Desconstructing the "Crazy Creole" 4. Another History: Afro-Brazilian Agency (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1914-1960) 5. The Black Experimental Theater: Plots, Texts, and Actors Glossary of Brazilian Words Bibliographical References
£46.75
Temple University Press,U.S. The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil
Book SynopsisAn examination of how racial and gender hierarchies are intertwined in BrazilTrade Review"This book presents the reader with new and original scholarship both in comparative racial studies and comparative feminist thought. Nascimento also presents an incalculable historical analysis of the growth and dynamic nature of the Afro-Brazilian protest movement during the twentieth-century." —J. Michael Turner, Hunter College"This is an extremely thoughtful and challenging study of the overlapping and often confusing histories of identity, race, and gender in Brazil....This book has considerable appeal as history and theory...Highly Recommended." —Choice"The book is explicitly devoted to making a huge theoretical and historical review of the position of black people in Brazil, as well as of their fights for justice and recognition, and in this it has been particularly successful. Placing herself on these crossroads, blessed by Esu, the author produces an intellectual position complimented by her political engagement, and makes a political statement by means of her intellectual criticism. This intellectual enterprise is of great importance at this moment when Brazil is undergoing unprecedented progressive polarization regarding the implementation of affirmative action policies. " —The European Review of Latin American and Caribbean StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction to the English Edition Preface – Kabengele Munanga Introduction 1. Identity, Race, and Gender 2. Brazil and the Making of "Virtual Whiteness" 3. Constructing and Desconstructing the "Crazy Creole" 4. Another History: Afro-Brazilian Agency (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1914-1960) 5. The Black Experimental Theater: Plots, Texts, and Actors Glossary of Brazilian Words Bibliographical References
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Democratic Theorizing from the Margins
Book SynopsisA clear account of the lessons and theories of democratic cultureTrade Review"Democratic Theorizing from the Margins is a very well-written lucidly argued, important and timely book that deserves a wide audience…Her work is an excellent platform from which to examine what effectively is the current crisis of democracy, though politicians and the media compel us not to notice." —Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. When: History 3. Who: Identity 4. What: Recognition 5. Why: Rethinking Universals and Particulars 6. Where: Multiple Publics 7. How: Minoritizing and Majoritizing Notes References Index
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Damaged Goods?: Women Living With Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Book SynopsisHow do women living with genital herpes and/or HPV (human papilloma virus) infections see themselves as sexual beings, and what choices do they make about sexual health issues? Adina Nack, a medical sociologist who specializes in sexual health and social psychology, conducted in-depth interviews with 43 women about their identities and sexuality in regards to chronic illness. The result is a fascinating book about an issue that affects over 15 million Americans, but is all too little discussed. Damaged Goods adds to our knowledge of how women are affected by living with chronic STDs and reveals the stages of their sexual- self transformation. From the anxiety of being diagnosed with an STD to issues of blame and shame, Nack-herself diagnosed with a cervical HPV infection-shows why these women feeling that they are \u0022damaged goods,\u0022 question future relationships, marriage, and their ability to have healthy children.Trade Review"Damaged Goods extends major ideas about stigma and links them to women's sexual selves. It makes the most explicit links that I have seen between sexually transmitted disease and how women construct and reconstruct their sexual selves and does so in an engaging, accessible way. Nack's emphasis on how these women see themselves as sexual beings is particularly strong. She advances the literature in this area." -Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii 1 Mixing Morality with Medicine 1 2 Sexual Invincibility 25 3 STD Anxiety 53 4 The Immoral Patient 70 5 Damaged Goods 94 6 Sexual Healing 111 7 Reintegrating the Sexual Self 136 8 From Personal Tragedies to Social Change 165 Appendix A: Gaining Entree - an Auto-Ethnographic Foundation 205 Appendix B: Research Methodology 216 Appendix C: Demographic Characteristics of Participants 226 Notes 228 Glossary 230 References 238 Index 250
£51.20
Temple University Press,U.S. Damaged Goods?: Women Living With Incurable
Book SynopsisHow do women living with genital herpes and/or HPV (human papilloma virus) infections see themselves as sexual beings, and what choices do they make about sexual health issues? Adina Nack, a medical sociologist who specializes in sexual health and social psychology, conducted in-depth interviews with 43 women about their identities and sexuality in regards to chronic illness. The result is a fascinating book about an issue that affects over 15 million Americans, but is all too little discussed. Damaged Goods adds to our knowledge of how women are affected by living with chronic STDs and reveals the stages of their sexual- self transformation. From the anxiety of being diagnosed with an STD to issues of blame and shame, Nack-herself diagnosed with a cervical HPV infection-shows why these women feeling that they are \u0022damaged goods,\u0022 question future relationships, marriage, and their ability to have healthy children.Trade Review"Damaged Goods extends major ideas about stigma and links them to women's sexual selves. It makes the most explicit links that I have seen between sexually transmitted disease and how women construct and reconstruct their sexual selves and does so in an engaging, accessible way. Nack's emphasis on how these women see themselves as sexual beings is particularly strong. She advances the literature in this area." -Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii 1 Mixing Morality with Medicine 1 2 Sexual Invincibility 25 3 STD Anxiety 53 4 The Immoral Patient 70 5 Damaged Goods 94 6 Sexual Healing 111 7 Reintegrating the Sexual Self 136 8 From Personal Tragedies to Social Change 165 Appendix A: Gaining Entree - an Auto-Ethnographic Foundation 205 Appendix B: Research Methodology 216 Appendix C: Demographic Characteristics of Participants 226 Notes 228 Glossary 230 References 238 Index 250
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History
Book SynopsisThe history of the shifting image of the tomboy in popular cultureTrade Review“An ambitious and exciting book that examines representations of what could be considered tomboys, in U.S. fiction and film, since 1859. The scope is impressive: Abate has done a great deal of archival research to unearth the titles she examines and cites many relevant theoretical and critical texts.”—Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: From Antebellum Hoyden to Millennial Girl Power; The Unwritten History (and Hidden History) of Tomboyism in the United States 1. The White Tomboy Launches a Gender Backlash: E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand 2. The Tomboy Becomes a Cultural Phenomenon: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women 3. The Tomboy Matures Into the New Woman: Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor 4. The Tomboy is Reinvented an the Exercise Enthusiast: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland 5. The Tomboy Becomes the All-Americanizing Girl: Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia 6. The Tomboy Shifts From Feminist to Flapper: Clara Bow in Victor Fleming's Hula 7. The Tomboy Turns Freakishly Queer and Queerly Freakish: Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding 8. The Tomboy Becomes the "Odd Girl Out": Ann Bannon's Women in the Shadows 9. The Tomboy Returns to Hollywood: Tatum O'Neal in Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon Selected Bibliography Works Cited Index Photographs follow page 144
£26.09
Temple University Press,U.S. Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and
Book SynopsisFocusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature (eg., Rushdie, Mistry, Sidwa and Lahiri), Bollywood film, personal testimonies and journalism represent the violence, migration and questions of national belonging unleashed by that pivotal event during which two million people died and sixteen million were displaced. In addition to challenging the official narratives of independence and Partition, these narratives challenge our contemporary understanding of gender and ethnicity in history and politics. Violent Belongings argues that both male and female bodies, and heterosexual coupledom, became symbols of the nation in public life. In the newly independent Indian nation both men and women were transformed into ideal citizens or troubling bodies, immigrants or refugees, depending on whether they were ethnically Hindu, Muslim, Jewish or Sikh. The divisions set in motion during Partition continue into our own time and account for ethnic violence in South Asia.Trade Review"Daiya has argued persuasively and perceptively for the combination of literary and cinematic texts, deftly combining these with social history and journalism to produce informed, contextualized readings of the cultural moment. Engagingly written, covering a longish (fifty-year) history of literary and film texts with surprising contextual detail, Violent Belongings embraces a dauntingly sophisticated theoretical repertoire which Daiya handles with confidence, tact, and common sense." -Henry Schwarz, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER ONE: Train to Pakistan 2007: Decolonization, Partition and Identity in the Transnational Public Sphere CHAPTER TWO: Re-Gendering the Nation: Masculinity, Romance and Secular Citizenship CHAPTER THREE "A Crisis Made Flesh:" Women, Honor and National Coupledom CHAPTER FOUR "We Were Never Refugees:" Migrants and Citizens in the Postcolonial State CHAPTER FIVE War and Peace: Pakistan and Ethnic Citizenship in Bollywood Cinema CHAPTER SIX Provincializing the Nation: State Violence and Transnational Belongings in the Diaspora CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender
Book SynopsisTalking about toilets--in all their material, social, symbolic and discursive complexityTrade Review"Thoughtful analysis of the place of toilets in modern culture and psyche has often been as hard to find as a decent public convenience in any major Western city. Ladies and Gents is a timely and educational addition to the unheralded and hitherto sorely neglected field of toilet studies."—Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It MattersTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction: The Private Life of Public ConveniencesPotty Politics: Toilets, Gender, and Identity 1. The Role of the Public Toilet in Civic Life 2. Potty Privileging in Perspective: Gender and Family Issues in Toilet Design 3. Geographies of Danger: School Toilets in Sub-Saharan Africa 4. Gender, Respectability, and Public Convenience in Melbourne, Australia, 1859–1902 5. Bodily Privacy, Toilets, and Sex Discrimination: The Problem of “Manhood” in a Women’s Prison 6. Colonial Visions of “Third World” Toilets: A Nineteenth-Century Discourse That Haunts Contemporary Tourism 7. Avoidance: On Some Euphemisms for the “Smallest Room”Toilet Art: Design and Cultural Representations 8. Were Our Customs Really Beautiful? Designing Refugee Camp Toilets 9. (Re)Designing the “Unmentionable”: Female Toilets in the Twentieth Century 10. Marcel Duchamp’s Legacy: Aesthetics, Gender, and National Identity in the Toilet 11. Toilet Training: Sarah Lucas’s Toilets and the Transmogrification of the Body 12. Stalls between Walls: Segregated Sexed Spaces 13. “Our Little Secrets”: A Pakistani Artist Explores the Shame and Pride of Her Community’s Bathroom Practices 14. In the Men’s Room: Death and Derision in Cinematic Toilets 15. “White Tiles. Trickling Water. A Man!” Literary Representations of Cottaging in London 16. The Jew on the Loo: The Toilet in Jewish Popular Culture, Memory, and Imagination Afterword Contributors Index
£65.45
Temple University Press,U.S. Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender
Book SynopsisTalking about toilets--in all their material, social, symbolic and discursive complexityTrade Review"Thoughtful analysis of the place of toilets in modern culture and psyche has often been as hard to find as a decent public convenience in any major Western city. Ladies and Gents is a timely and educational addition to the unheralded and hitherto sorely neglected field of toilet studies."—Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It MattersTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction: The Private Life of Public ConveniencesPotty Politics: Toilets, Gender, and Identity 1. The Role of the Public Toilet in Civic Life 2. Potty Privileging in Perspective: Gender and Family Issues in Toilet Design 3. Geographies of Danger: School Toilets in Sub-Saharan Africa 4. Gender, Respectability, and Public Convenience in Melbourne, Australia, 1859–1902 5. Bodily Privacy, Toilets, and Sex Discrimination: The Problem of “Manhood” in a Women’s Prison 6. Colonial Visions of “Third World” Toilets: A Nineteenth-Century Discourse That Haunts Contemporary Tourism 7. Avoidance: On Some Euphemisms for the “Smallest Room”Toilet Art: Design and Cultural Representations 8. Were Our Customs Really Beautiful? Designing Refugee Camp Toilets 9. (Re)Designing the “Unmentionable”: Female Toilets in the Twentieth Century 10. Marcel Duchamp’s Legacy: Aesthetics, Gender, and National Identity in the Toilet 11. Toilet Training: Sarah Lucas’s Toilets and the Transmogrification of the Body 12. Stalls between Walls: Segregated Sexed Spaces 13. “Our Little Secrets”: A Pakistani Artist Explores the Shame and Pride of Her Community’s Bathroom Practices 14. In the Men’s Room: Death and Derision in Cinematic Toilets 15. “White Tiles. Trickling Water. A Man!” Literary Representations of Cottaging in London 16. The Jew on the Loo: The Toilet in Jewish Popular Culture, Memory, and Imagination Afterword Contributors Index
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. The Wars We Inherit: Military Life, Gender
Book SynopsisHow and why war and military culture have a traumatic impact on families and memoryTrade Review“By making the figure of the child central to the story of this book, the author charts out a dazzling path showing us how to draw lines of connection between the routine violence of a militarization and the routine if bewildering violence of the home. There is no easy way to describe how the voice of the child left me wounded even as I say how grateful I am for the author’s courage and restraint.” —Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Frank and Sally 3.The Hole Things Fall Into 4. Forgetting and Re-membering Interlude I: On the Event without a Witness 5. Re-membering II Interlude II : On Bearing Witness 6. If I Should Die before I Wake Interlude III : On Bearing Witness to the Process of Witnessing 7. The Pasts We Repeat I: Margaret Interlude IV : The Uncanny Return 8. The Pasts We Repeat II : Jenny 9. If Our First Language Is the Silence of Complicity, How Do We Learn to Speak? 10. The Work of War Interlude V: On the Violence of Nations in the Violence of Homes 11. Toward Re-membering a Future 12. The Work of Love 13. Conclusion References Web Sites Index
£58.40
Temple University Press,U.S. The Wars We Inherit: Military Life, Gender
Book SynopsisHow and why war and military culture have a traumatic impact on families and memoryTrade Review“By making the figure of the child central to the story of this book, the author charts out a dazzling path showing us how to draw lines of connection between the routine violence of a militarization and the routine if bewildering violence of the home. There is no easy way to describe how the voice of the child left me wounded even as I say how grateful I am for the author’s courage and restraint.” —Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Frank and Sally 3.The Hole Things Fall Into 4. Forgetting and Re-membering Interlude I: On the Event without a Witness 5. Re-membering II Interlude II : On Bearing Witness 6. If I Should Die before I Wake Interlude III : On Bearing Witness to the Process of Witnessing 7. The Pasts We Repeat I: Margaret Interlude IV : The Uncanny Return 8. The Pasts We Repeat II : Jenny 9. If Our First Language Is the Silence of Complicity, How Do We Learn to Speak? 10. The Work of War Interlude V: On the Violence of Nations in the Violence of Homes 11. Toward Re-membering a Future 12. The Work of Love 13. Conclusion References Web Sites Index
£23.39
University Press of Mississippi Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema
Book SynopsisKnockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America's ideas of manhood. Leger Grindon relates the Hollywood boxing film to the literature of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Clifford Odets; the influence of ring champions, particularly Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; and controversies surrounding masculinity, race, and sports.Knockout breaks new ground in film genre study by focusing on the fundamental dramatic conflicts uniting both documentary and fictional films with compelling social concerns. The boxing film portrays more than the rise and fall of a champion; it exposes the body in order to reveal the spirit. Not simply a brute, the screen boxer dramatizes conflicts and aspirations central to an American audience's experience. This book features chapters on the conventions of the boxing film, the history of the genre and its relationship to famous ring champions, and self-contained treatments of thirty-two individual films including a chapter devoted to Raging Bull.
£67.91
University of Iowa Press The Song Is You: Musical Theatre and the Politics
Book SynopsisMusicals, it is often said, burst into song and dance when mere words can no longer convey the emotion. This book argues that musicals burst into song and dance when one body can no longer convey the emotion. Rogers shows how the musical's episodes of burlesque and minstrelsy model the kinds of radical relationships that the genre works to create across the different bodies of its performers, spectators, and creators every time the musical bursts into song. These radical relationships - borne of the musical's obsessions with 'bad' performances of gender and race - are the root of the genre's progressive play with identity, and thus the source of its subcultural power. However, this leads to an ethical dilemma: Are the musical's progressive politics thus rooted in its embrace of regressive entertainments like burlesque and minstrelsy?The Song Is You shows how musicals return again and again to this question, and grapple with a guilt that its joyous pleasures are based on exploiting the laboring bodies of its performers. Rogers argues that the discourse of 'integration' - which claims that songs should advance the plot - has functioned to deny the radical work that the musical undertakes every time it transitions into song and dance. Looking at musicals from The Black Crook to Hamilton, Rogers confronts the gendered and racial dynamics that have always under-girded the genre, and asks how we move forward.Trade Review“Bradley Rogers takes us on an adventure through American musical theatre to prove that the much-touted concept of integration is a fraud. Discovering new rhythms, new pleasures, and new choreographies in canonical and noncanonical musicals alike, The Song Is You represents revisionist history at its most invigorating.”—David Savran, author, Highbrow/ Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class “Rogers charts a fascinating and important new road through musical theatre theory, connecting the genre’s roots in minstrelsy, burlesque, and vaudeville with performative impersonations, psychic displacements, and most of all, a repudiation of integration. His argument, both elegant and persuasive, attends to the dynamics of performance and reception within the realms of history, politics, power, gender, race, and the body.”—Stacy Wolf, author, Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
£44.60
Brandeis University Press Gender Religion and Family Law
Book SynopsisGroundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices
£30.40
