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Book SynopsisWomen's increased role in the labour market has combined with concerns about the damaging effects of long working hours to push time-related issues up the policy agenda in many Western nations. This wide-ranging and accessible book assesses policy alternatives in the light of feminist theory and factual evidence. The book introduces mainstream ideas on the nature and political significance of time and re-frames them from a feminist perspective to provide a critical overview of policies in Western welfare states. Themes covered include gender differences in time use and the impact of 'time poverty' on women's citizenship; the need to value time spent giving and receiving care; the social meanings of time and whether we can talk about 'women's time' and 'men's time'; and the role of the past in framing policy options today. The book is essential reading for all those interested in gender inequality, time-use or work/rest-of-life balance. It will be an invaluable resource for students and academics throughout the social sciences.Trade Review"In this engaging book, Valerie Bryson expertly develops a feminist politics of time based on principles of justice rather than profitability. This is a book that should be read by anyone concerned with the damage that is being done to women, men and children as a consequence of our current practices of work and consumption." Professor Rosemary Crompton, Department of Sociology, City UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Part one: Time, politics and society: mainstream perspectives: Time, temporality and political thought; Time culture(s) and the social nature of time; Time use in capitalist society; Part two: Feminist perspectives: reframing the issues: Women and men in feminist political thought; Pubic and private in feminist political thought; Feminist politics and welfare states; Part three: Towards a feminist politics of time: Time and temporality in recent feminist thought; 'Women's time'; Women and time use in contemporary capitalist societies; The time(s) we want and the time(s) we've got: political implications and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisWomen's increased role in the labour market has combined with concerns about the damaging effects of long working hours to push time-related issues up the policy agenda in many Western nations. This wide-ranging and accessible book assesses policy alternatives in the light of feminist theory and factual evidence. The book introduces mainstream ideas on the nature and political significance of time and re-frames them from a feminist perspective to provide a critical overview of policies in Western welfare states. Themes covered include gender differences in time use and the impact of 'time poverty' on women's citizenship; the need to value time spent giving and receiving care; the social meanings of time and whether we can talk about 'women's time' and 'men's time'; and the role of the past in framing policy options today. The book is essential reading for all those interested in gender inequality, time-use or work/rest-of-life balance. It will be an invaluable resource for students and academics throughout the social sciences.Trade Review"In this engaging book, Valerie Bryson expertly develops a feminist politics of time based on principles of justice rather than profitability. This is a book that should be read by anyone concerned with the damage that is being done to women, men and children as a consequence of our current practices of work and consumption." Professor Rosemary Crompton, Department of Sociology, City UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Part one: Time, politics and society: mainstream perspectives: Time, temporality and political thought; Time culture(s) and the social nature of time; Time use in capitalist society; Part two: Feminist perspectives: reframing the issues: Women and men in feminist political thought; Pubic and private in feminist political thought; Feminist politics and welfare states; Part three: Towards a feminist politics of time: Time and temporality in recent feminist thought; 'Women's time'; Women and time use in contemporary capitalist societies; The time(s) we want and the time(s) we've got: political implications and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisAlthough there is a growing body of international literature on the feminisation of politics and the policy process and, as New Labour's term of office progresses, a rapidly growing series of texts around New Labour's politics and policies, until now no one text has conducted an analysis of New Labour's politics and policies from a gendered perspective, despite the fact that New Labour have set themselves up to specifically address women's issues and attract women voters. This book fills that gap in an interesting and timely way. Women and New Labour will be a valuable addition to both feminist and mainstream scholarship in the social sciences, particularly in political science, social policy and economics. Instead of focusing on traditionally feminist areas of politics and policy (such as violent crime against women) the authors opt to focus on three case study areas of mainstream policy (economic policy, foreign policy and welfare policy) from a gendered perspective. The analytical framework provided by the editors yields generalisable insights that will outlast New Labour's third term.Trade Review"This book is an excellent account of the impact of women and gender on Labour Party policy, and is an important contribution to both the new literature on women and policy-making and to the relatively neglected area of how parties make policy. It will become a reading list requirement for courses on party politics, public policy and gender and politics." Joni Lovenduski, School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck CollegeTable of ContentsContents: Part A: Setting the context: New Labour and women: constraints and opportunities in feminising politics ~ Claire Annesley and Francesca Gains; Developments in feminist theory ~ Ursula Vogel and Angelia R Wilson; Women and Nordic Labour parties ~ Guro Bjoergum and Claire Annesley; Feminising policy and politics: from old to New Labour ~ Jill Lovecy; Engendering the machinery of governance ~ Francesca Gains and Catherine Durose; Part B: Case studies: Economy: The gender implications of New Labour's macro-economic policy ~ David Coates and Sarah Oettinger; New Labour policy and the gender pay gap ~ Damian Grimshaw; Foreign policy: Women and international development policy ~ Juanita Elias and Lucy Ferguson; New Labour's foreign and security policy: securitisation and gender ~ Natalie Bormann; Welfare: Parental responsibilities and gender roles ~ Karen Clarke; Labour pains: lesbian and gay citizens ~ Angie Wilson; Caring, citizenship and New Labour: dilemmas and contradictions for disabled and older women ~ Kirstein Rummery; Part C: Theory and policy analysis: Towards an engendered politics and policy? ~ Kirstein Rummery, Francesca Gains and Claire Annesley.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a major contribution to contemporary gender and sexuality studies. At a time when transgender practices are the subject of increasing social and cultural visibility, it marks the first UK study of transgender identity formation. It is also the first examination - anywhere in the world - of transgender practices of intimacy and care. The author addresses changing government legislation concerning the citizenship rights of transgender people. She examines the impact of legislative shifts upon transgender people's identities, intimate relationships and practices of care and considers the implications for future social policy. The book encompasses key approaches from the fields of psychoanalysis, anthropology, lesbian and gay studies, sociology and gender theory. Drawing on extensive interviews with transgender people, "TransForming gender" offers engaging, moving, and, at times, humorous accounts of the experiences of gender transition. Written in an accessible style, it provides a vivid insight into the diversity of living gender in today's world. The book will be essential reading for students and professionals in cultural studies, gender studies and sexuality studies as well as those in sociology, social policy, law, politics and philosophy. It will also be of interest to health and educational students, trainers and practitioners. Sally Hines is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at the University of Leeds. Her teaching and research interests fall within the areas of identity, gender, sexuality, the body and citizenship.Trade Review"Sally Hines' book both reflects and heralds the growing visibility and awareness of transgender issues across Western countries. ....necessary reading for anyone interested in changing gender roles" Gender and Education, Vol 20: 4, 2008. "Well balanced and refreshingly sensible, TransForming Gender is a critical and insightful book". Women's Studies Quarterly 36:3Table of ContentsIntroduction; Theorising transgender; Analysing care, intimacy and citizenship; Transgender identities and experiences; Gender identities and feminism; Sexual identities; Partnering and parenting relationships; Kinship and friendship; Transgender care networks, social movements and citizenship; Conclusions: (re)theorising gender

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Book SynopsisHow To Be a Real Gay takes its title from a series of workshops organised by gay activists in the small town of Ermelo, South Africa. Focusing on everyday practices of gayness in hair salons, churches, taverns, and meeting halls, the book explores the ambivalent space that homosexuality occupies in the newly democratic South Africa: on the one hand, protection of gay rights is a litmus test for the country's constitutional democracy, yet on the other, homosexuality is seen to threaten traditional values, customs, and beliefs.The book is the first to emerge that recounts how gays in small-town South Africa negotiate this difficult symbolic terrain. How do discourses on international gay and lesbian social movements and gay equality hang together with local views on identity, gender, and relationships? Why do small-town gays harness fashion, style, and glamour in the making and sustaining of identity? How do economically vulnerable gays organise, access resources, and create networks linking small towns to cities? How To Be a Real Gay delves to the core of what it means to be 'the other' in contexts of risk, exclusion, and inclusion. In its richly textured way, the book also speaks to the tremendous capacity of gays to imagine and create life-worlds in a harsh environment.Trade ReviewIt is beautifully written up in a style which makes for entertaining reading and this book is, to my mind, a hybrid genre of oral history, life-stories and participating observations. - Ena Jansen Reid has woven together theory, method, research results and personal observations in an attractive way ... Throughout the book he discusses and tests theories. He does not put down the great story of the history of sexuality in South Africa in a dry way in broad terms, but embeds the most important events in a story. - Gert Hekma

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Book SynopsisIn Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in pursuit of a distinctive conception of a Canadian masculinity.In close discussions of novels by Rudy Wiebe (A Discovery of Strangers) and Robert Kroetsch (The Man from the Creeks), Nonnekes ranges from Hegel to Lacan, and Butler and Kristeva to Zizek, eliciting an evolving conception of love characteristic of the Canadian cultural imaginary.Northern Love is the first book in the Cultural Dialectics series, edited by Raphael Foshay of Athabasca University.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONSection One: STRANGE LOVE1 Naming and Seeing2 Master and Slave3 The Imaginary4 Strange Gender5 Love and TraumaSection Two: INTERSUBJECTIVE LOVE6 Recognition7 Intersubjectivity8 The ContractCONCLUSIONREFERENCESINDEX

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Book SynopsisLa mujer colonial ha sido el material primario de mitos ancestrales, un personaje secundario en las gestas heroicas de la resistencia americana, un oscuro objeto de deseo y de las proyecciones imaginarias de los conquistadores que sigue ocupando un espacio en gran parte impenetrado por el discurso crítico e historiogràfico latinoamericano. El espacio vital y discursivo de la mujer colonial fue siempre un ámbito acotado y controlado por estrategias y retóricas que le asignaron valores y funciones precisas e inapelables destinadas a confirmar y fortalecer el lugar del Poder. El presente volumen intenta presentar una imágen de esta mujer distinta a la que ofrecen las versiones tradicionales del período que comienza el América con el descubrimiento de Europa (sus adelantados, misioneros y burócratas, de sus libros, sus pestes y sus mitos) y se extiende hasta la fundación de los estados nacionales. Los trabajos reunidos en este libro recorren un periplo que va desde las primeras imágenes rescatadas en crónicas, relaciones e iconografías coloniales hasta las que se acercan a las etapas que preparan la Independencia. Estos estudios, en su variedad, coinciden en el objetivo de recuperar, a través de la investigación de documentos y la interpretación textual, los rasgos que definen un sujeto social siempre en huida, multifacético y reticente, que casi nunca se revela en una primera lectura y que habita primordialmente en los márgenes y en las entrelíneas de los discursos masculinos. ~ The colonial woman has been the primary source of ancestral myths, a secondary character in the heroic deeds of the American resistance, an obscure object of desire and of the imaginary projections of the conquistadors that continues to occupy a space largely impenetrable by the Latin American critical and historiographic discourse. The vital and discursive space of the colonial woman was always an area limited and controlled by strategies and a rhetoric that imposed on her specific and unquestionable values and functions destined to confirm and strengthen the established powers. This volume tries to present an image of this woman different from the one offered by the traditional versions of the period that America begins with the discovery of Europe (its advances, missionaries and bureaucrats, its books, its plagues and its myths) and extends to the founding of the national states. The works gathered in this book cover a journey that goes from the first images of women rescued in chronicles, colonial relations and iconographies to those that approach the stages that prepare for Independence. These studies, varied as they are, have the common goal of recovering, through the investigation of documents and textual interpretation, the features that define a social subject always on the run, multifaceted and reticent, which is almost never revealed in a first reading and that lives primarily in the margins and between the lines of masculine discourses.

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Book SynopsisHaving been marginalized from the literature-proper sphere of Confucian elite culture, the novel began to transform significantly at turn of the twentieth century in Korea. Selected novels in transformation that Jooyeon Rhee investigates in this book include both translated and creative historical novels, domestic novels, and crime novels, all of which were produced under the spell of civilization and enlightenment. Rhee places the transformation of the novel in the complex nexus of civilization discourses, transnational literary forces, and modern print media to show how they became a driving force behind the development of modern Korean literature. Gender is an analytical category central to this book since it became an important epistemological ground on which to define the Korean nation and modernity in literature at the time, and because the novel was one of the most effective technologies that mediated and populated knowledge about gender roles and relations. The masculine norms and principles articulated in novels, Rhee argues, are indicative of writers' and translators' negotiation with political and cultural forces of the time; their observations of the ambiguity of modernity manifest in the figure of mobile, motivated, and forward-looking woman and immobile, emotional, and suppressed men.

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Book SynopsisThis is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and challenges in the realm of public health. The volume covers trans sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies.Trade ReviewThis book explores the role of sex work in the lives of transgender women and the hazards that come with this type of work, revealing a complex interplay between sex and gender, survival and validation, desire and love, social justice and health. A must-read for any researcher, health provider, advocate, or policy maker concerned with the health and well-being of sex workers of all genders. -- Walter Bockting, codirector, Program for the Study of LGBT Health, Columbia University Medical Center This is a wonderful collection that helps to fill a huge gap in the research literature. Transgender individuals are the least studied of all sex workers. Wide-ranging in scope, the book covers key social, health, victimization, criminal justice, and policy issues in different nations. The findings document diversity within the transgender population but also indicate that transgender individuals face some unique challenges and are doubly stigmatized by virtue of their gender and involvement in sex work. -- Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business and Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex IndustryTable of ContentsForeword, by Walter BocktingIntroduction, by Toward a Better Understanding of Transgender Sex Work, by Larry A. NuttbrockSection I. Empirical Descriptions and a Conceptual Formulation for Sex Work Among Transwomen in the United States1. Qualitative Description of Sex Work among Transwomen in New York City, by Sel J. Hwahng2. Quantitative Description of Sex Work among Transwomen in New York City, by Larry A. Nuttbrock3. Why Are So Many Transwomen in the Sex Trade, and Why Are So Many of Them Ethnic Minorities?, by Larry A. Nuttbrock and Sel J. HwahngSection II. Survival Sex Among Young Transgender Persons in the United States and the United Kingdom4. Compound Harms: What the Literature Says about Survival Sex among Young Trans People in the United Kingdom and the United States, by Lorna C. BartonSection III. Personal Relationships and Health Risk Behavior5. Relationship Dynamics and Health Risk Behavior among Transwomen and Their Cisgender Male Partners, by Tiffany R. Glynn and Don OperarioSection IV. Mental Health and Substance Use Issues Among Transwomen in the Sex Trade6. Mental Health and Transphobia among Transwomen Sex Workers: Application and Extension of Minority Stress Models, by Don Operario, Tiffany R. Glynn, and Tooru Nemoto7. Sex Work and Major Depression among Transwomen in New York City: Mediating Effects of Gender Abuse and Substance Use, by Larry A. Nuttbrock8. Substance Use among Transgender Sex Workers, by Beth R. HoffmanSection V. HIV Among Transwomen in the Sex Trade9. the Prevalence of HIV among Transwomen Sex Workers: A Review of Current Literature, by Ayden I. Scheim, Laura Winters, Zack Marshall, Daze Jefferies, and Stefan D. Baral10. HIV and Substance Use among Transwomen Sex Workers: A Vicious Cycle of Socioeconomic Hardship, Unmet Service Needs, and Health Risk, by Tiffany R. Glynn, Don Operario, and Tooru Nemoto11. Sex Work, High-Risk Sexual Behavior, and Incident HIV/STI among Transwomen in New York City: A Study of Mediating Factors, by Larry A. Nuttbrock12. Sex Work and Antiretroviral Therapy among Transwomen of Color Living with HIV in New York City, by Larry A. NuttbrockSection VI. Transgender Sex Work in Different Cultural Settings13. Sex Work in Turkey: Experiences of Transwomen, by Ceylan Engin14. Hijras/Transwomen and Sex Work in India: From Marginalization to Social Protection, by Venkatesan Chakrapani, Peter A. Newman, and Ernest Noronha15. Transgender Sex Work in Brazil: Historico-Cultural Perspectives, by Don Kulick16. the Changing Landscape of Transgender Sex Work, Pimping, and Trafficking in Brazil, by Barry M. Wolfe17. Sociocultural Context of Sex Work among Mak Nyah (Transgender Women) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by Tooru Nemoto, Rebecca de Guzman, Yik Koon Teh, Mariko Iwamoto, and Karen Trocki18. Sociocultural Context of Health among Kathoey (Transwomen) and Female Sex Workers in Bangkok, Thailand, by Tooru Nemoto, Usaneya Perngparn, Chitlada Areesantichai, Mariko Iwamato, Charlene Bumanglag, and Julia Moore19. Transgender Sex Work in the Andean Region: Between Vulnerability and Resilience, by Ximena Salazar, Aron Núnez-Curto, Angélica Motta, and Carlos F. Cáceres20. Transgender Sex Work in Spain: Psychosocial Profile and Mental Health, by Rafael Ballester-Arnal, Maria Dolores Gil-Llario, Jesús Castro-Calvo, Trinidad Bergero-Miguel, and José Guzmán-Parra21. Prevalence and Associated Factors of Condomless Receptive Anal Intercourse with Male Clients among Transwomen Sex Workers in Shenyang, China, by Zixin Wang, Joseph T. F. Lau, Yong Cai, Jinghua Li, Tiecheng Ma, and Yan LiuSection VII. Care and Treatment of Transgender Sex Workers22. Issues in the Care and Treatment of Transwomen Sex Workers, by Asa Radix and Zil GoldsteinSection VIII. Criminal Justice Versus Public Health Perspectives on Transgender Sex Work23. Police Abuse, Depressive Symptoms, and High-Risk Sexual Behavior for HIV among Transwomen, by Larry A. Nuttbrock24. Criminal Justice versus Health and Human Rights Perspectives on Transgender Sex Work, by Tara Lyons, Leslie Pierre, Andrea Krüsi, and Kate ShannonSection IX. Analytic Summary and Directions for Further Study25. Analytic Summary and Directions for Further Study, by Walter Bockting and Larry A. NuttbrockContributorsGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisFamilies in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a compilation of clinically oriented articles, research, and case material authored by mental health and medical experts, both nationally and internationally known, as well as first-person narratives written by parents and families, exploring the complexities faced by parents and caretakers attending to the needs of their children in a largely hostile world. The professional articles are positioned side by side with the voices of the parents themselves—each complementing the other—together adding up to a richly complex, original tapestry.While most books on this subject highlight the experiences of the gender diverse child and adolescent, parents’ perspectives are placed front and center. Those raising these children and adolescents have unique struggles and personal processes as caregivers and advocates. Making complex social and medical decisions in a society that is hostile and polarized only complicates the picture. This book highlights their rarely heard voices and gives insight to therapists and physicians on how to support all members of the family, helping them grow and heal during what is often a challenging time.Families in Transition:-Challenges the ways we think about cultural norms and how those impact our clinical work;-Explores a parent’s desire for their child to live authentically alongside a desire to protect them;-Highlights how the attitudes and behaviors of extended relatives impact the gender nonconforming child and their caretakers;-Presents a historical overview contrasting the reparative and the affirmative models of treatment;-Illustrates how difficult treatment can be when a patient is reticent to disclose their gender identity to their parents or when parents either have little information or are in denial;-Offers strategies on how best to advocate for a child in a school setting;-Outlines best practices for the care of transgender youth.This text is designed for mental health professionals—clinicians, educators, and researchers; medical providers; parents and caretakers of gender diverse children, adolescents, and young adults; and is suitable for graduate and doctoral level coursework in a range of subject areas, including gender, sexuality, and family studies.Trade ReviewThis is an urgent, timely book that elucidates the complexities and revelations families face as they go through transition. Full of indispensable advice and wisdom, all beautifully organized and compassionately expressed, it is a vital guide. -- Andrew Solomon, professor of clinical psychology, Columbia University Medical Center and author of Far From the TreeWithin these pages, a dream team of professionals cover a giant plethora of topics. This book is the new go-to bible for all loved ones of transgender youth. -- Jeanette Jennings, mom of trans youth activist Jazz Jennings and president of the TransKids Purple Rainbow FoundationIncorporating the work of leading researchers and therapists, Lev and Gottlieb provide a comprehensive understanding of gender diverse kids and their families. Their balanced presentation pairs the most up-to-date research with real-life experiences of families in transition. The result is a compelling volume that bridges understandings, offers practical guidance, and inspires all of us to do better in supporting our gender expansive kids. -- M. Paz Galupo, Ph.D., Towson University, and editor of the Journal of GLBT Family StudiesA compelling, comprehensive, and sensitive compendium of solutions for families of trans and gender creative youth! Offering gem after gem, Families in Transition is a gift, helping parents move toward acceptance for the sake of protection. -- Lee-Anne Gray, PsyD, author of LGBTQ+ Youth, Self-Compassion for Teens, and The Happy FamilyLev and Gottlieb pull together a comprehensive exploration of the power of family support, discuss the profound impact of raising a transgender and gender nonconforming child, and address the importance of affirmative approaches to help navigate their journey. The personal and professional focus on the often misunderstood and silenced voices of parents and family members, whose love, wisdom, concerns, struggles, and joys are candidly explored, makes this a must read. -- Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD, Quest Family Therapy & Alliant International University (Rockway Institute)Table of ContentsA Note on the Evolution of LanguageForeword, by Jean Malpas, LMHC, LMFT Ackerman Institute for the Family New York CityIntroduction, by Andrew R. Gottlieb, PhD, LCSWIntroduction, by Arlene I. Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CSTPart 1: Gender Nonconforming Children and Trans Youth: What You Didn’t Expect When Expecting1. It Takes a Gender Creative Parent, by Diane Ehrensaft, PhD2. Helping Parents Face Their Fears, by Irwin Krieger, LCSW3. On the (L)edge of Transition: The Reyes Family, by Lisette Lahana, LCSWPart 2: Theory and Research: What Should Parents Be Aware Of?4. The “80% Desistance” Dictum: Is It Science?, by Kelley Winters, PhD5. All in the Family: How Extended Family Relationships Are Influenced by Children’s Gender Diverse and Transgender Identities, by Katherine A. Kuvalanka, PhD, Molly Gardner, MA, and Cat Munroe, PhD6. More Than the Sum of Your Parts: A Theoretical Perspective, by Andreas Neumann Mascis, PhDPart 3: Clinical Issues: What Are the Parents’ Concerns and Challenges Regarding Cultural Diversity, Clinical Models, and Psychiatric Treatment?7. Walking a Tightrope: A Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Perspective on the Spectrum of Affirmation and Pathologization with Gender Diverse Youth, by Scott Leibowitz, MD8. Chinese Canadian Families with Transgender Youth, by Nena Wang, MA, and Wallace Wong, PsyD, R Psych9. Approaches to the Treatment of Gender Diverse Children and Transgender Youth, by Arlene I. Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CST10. Micah and His Protectors, by Lisette Lahana, LCSWPart 4: Identity Transformation: How Do Children’s Gender Identity/Gender Nonconforming Behaviors Shift Parents’ Perceptions of Their Child and of Themselves as Parents?11. Transforming the Identity of Parents of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Children, by Margaret Nichols, PhD, and Stephanie Sasso, PsyD12. My Own Transition, by Elena Moser, LCSWPart 5: Medical Concerns: How Do Puberty Suppression and/or Hormonal Considerations Affect Parents?13. But Doc, Is It Safe? Effects of Pubertal Suppression and Trans Hormone Therapy for Youth, by Irene N. Sills, MD14. Discussing Aspects of Medical Transition with Parents of Young Transgender People: A Psychotherapist’s Perspective, by Damien W. Riggs, PhD, FAPS15. Family-Oriented Medical Care for Gender Nonconforming Children, Adolescents, and Their Families, by Carolyn Wolf-Gould, MD16. When My Son Became My Daughter, by C.V.R., PhDPart 6: Family Functioning: What Is the Effect of Gender Atypical Behavior on Parental Relationships, Extended Family, and Siblings?17. Supporting Siblings through Transition: A Child-Centered, Transfeminist Therapeutic Approach, by Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, and Davis Chandler, LICSW18. “I Was Hoping It Would Be a Phase”: The Challenges Parents Face Raising a Gender Nonconforming Child, by Elizabeth Anne Riley, PhD19. The Experiences of Parents of Transgender Individuals Who Transition in Adulthood, by Katherine Rachlin, PhD20. Transition in Four Voices, by Barbara Rio-Glick, MSW, Shelley Rio-Glick, MSW, Sonya Rio-Glick,and AJ Rio-GlickPart 7: Educational Concerns: How Do Parents Manage and Advocate for Gender Nonconforming Children and Transition-Related Issues in a School Setting?21. Social Transitioning for Gender Dysphoric Children: A Practical Guide for Parents, by Wallace Wong, PsyD, R Psych, and Sabrina C. H. Chang, MA22. Please Stop Calling My Daughter “He”: Advocating for Teens and Preteens in the School Setting, by Deborah Coolhart, PhD, LMFTPart 8: Support Groups: What Is the Parent’s Experience of Available Support Groups and Advocacy Organizations?23. The Experience of Parent Facilitators in a PFLAG Support Group for Parents of Transgender Youth and Young Adults, by Melissa MacNish, MA, LMHC24. Peer Support for Parents of Gender Nonconforming Children: Benefits and Risks, by Rex Butt, PhD25. Camp Aranu’tiq: Notes from the First Camp for Transgender and Gender Variant Youth, by Nick M. Teich, LCSW, PhD26. Tom-Girl, Trans Girl, Pink Boy: Finding a Support Group for All, by Lauren P., PsyDAppendix: Best Practices for the Care of Transgender YouthAbout the Editors and Contributors Acknowledgments, by Andrew R. GottliebAcknowledgments, by Arlene I. LevIndex

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Book SynopsisFamilies in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a compilation of clinically oriented articles, research, and case material authored by mental health and medical experts, both nationally and internationally known, as well as first-person narratives written by parents and families, exploring the complexities faced by parents and caretakers attending to the needs of their children in a largely hostile world. The professional articles are positioned side by side with the voices of the parents themselves—each complementing the other—together adding up to a richly complex, original tapestry.While most books on this subject highlight the experiences of the gender diverse child and adolescent, parents’ perspectives are placed front and center. Those raising these children and adolescents have unique struggles and personal processes as caregivers and advocates. Making complex social and medical decisions in a society that is hostile and polarized only complicates the picture. This book highlights their rarely heard voices and gives insight to therapists and physicians on how to support all members of the family, helping them grow and heal during what is often a challenging time.Families in Transition:-Challenges the ways we think about cultural norms and how those impact our clinical work;-Explores a parent’s desire for their child to live authentically alongside a desire to protect them;-Highlights how the attitudes and behaviors of extended relatives impact the gender nonconforming child and their caretakers;-Presents a historical overview contrasting the reparative and the affirmative models of treatment;-Illustrates how difficult treatment can be when a patient is reticent to disclose their gender identity to their parents or when parents either have little information or are in denial;-Offers strategies on how best to advocate for a child in a school setting;-Outlines best practices for the care of transgender youth.This text is designed for mental health professionals—clinicians, educators, and researchers; medical providers; parents and caretakers of gender diverse children, adolescents, and young adults; and is suitable for graduate and doctoral level coursework in a range of subject areas, including gender, sexuality, and family studies.Trade ReviewThis is an urgent, timely book that elucidates the complexities and revelations families face as they go through transition. Full of indispensable advice and wisdom, all beautifully organized and compassionately expressed, it is a vital guide. -- Andrew Solomon, professor of clinical psychology, Columbia University Medical Center and author of Far From the TreeWithin these pages, a dream team of professionals cover a giant plethora of topics. This book is the new go-to bible for all loved ones of transgender youth. -- Jeanette Jennings, mom of trans youth activist Jazz Jennings and president of the TransKids Purple Rainbow FoundationIncorporating the work of leading researchers and therapists, Lev and Gottlieb provide a comprehensive understanding of gender diverse kids and their families. Their balanced presentation pairs the most up-to-date research with real-life experiences of families in transition. The result is a compelling volume that bridges understandings, offers practical guidance, and inspires all of us to do better in supporting our gender expansive kids. -- M. Paz Galupo, Ph.D., Towson University, and editor of the Journal of GLBT Family StudiesA compelling, comprehensive, and sensitive compendium of solutions for families of trans and gender creative youth! Offering gem after gem, Families in Transition is a gift, helping parents move toward acceptance for the sake of protection. -- Lee-Anne Gray, PsyD, author of LGBTQ+ Youth, Self-Compassion for Teens, and The Happy FamilyLev and Gottlieb pull together a comprehensive exploration of the power of family support, discuss the profound impact of raising a transgender and gender nonconforming child, and address the importance of affirmative approaches to help navigate their journey. The personal and professional focus on the often misunderstood and silenced voices of parents and family members, whose love, wisdom, concerns, struggles, and joys are candidly explored, makes this a must read. -- Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD, Quest Family Therapy & Alliant International University (Rockway Institute)Table of ContentsA Note on the Evolution of LanguageForeword, by Jean Malpas, LMHC, LMFT Ackerman Institute for the Family New York CityIntroduction, by Andrew R. Gottlieb, PhD, LCSWIntroduction, by Arlene I. Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CSTPart 1: Gender Nonconforming Children and Trans Youth: What You Didn’t Expect When Expecting1. It Takes a Gender Creative Parent, by Diane Ehrensaft, PhD2. Helping Parents Face Their Fears, by Irwin Krieger, LCSW3. On the (L)edge of Transition: The Reyes Family, by Lisette Lahana, LCSWPart 2: Theory and Research: What Should Parents Be Aware Of?4. The “80% Desistance” Dictum: Is It Science?, by Kelley Winters, PhD5. All in the Family: How Extended Family Relationships Are Influenced by Children’s Gender Diverse and Transgender Identities, by Katherine A. Kuvalanka, PhD, Molly Gardner, MA, and Cat Munroe, PhD6. More Than the Sum of Your Parts: A Theoretical Perspective, by Andreas Neumann Mascis, PhDPart 3: Clinical Issues: What Are the Parents’ Concerns and Challenges Regarding Cultural Diversity, Clinical Models, and Psychiatric Treatment?7. Walking a Tightrope: A Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Perspective on the Spectrum of Affirmation and Pathologization with Gender Diverse Youth, by Scott Leibowitz, MD8. Chinese Canadian Families with Transgender Youth, by Nena Wang, MA, and Wallace Wong, PsyD, R Psych9. Approaches to the Treatment of Gender Diverse Children and Transgender Youth, by Arlene I. Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CST10. Micah and His Protectors, by Lisette Lahana, LCSWPart 4: Identity Transformation: How Do Children’s Gender Identity/Gender Nonconforming Behaviors Shift Parents’ Perceptions of Their Child and of Themselves as Parents?11. Transforming the Identity of Parents of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Children, by Margaret Nichols, PhD, and Stephanie Sasso, PsyD12. My Own Transition, by Elena Moser, LCSWPart 5: Medical Concerns: How Do Puberty Suppression and/or Hormonal Considerations Affect Parents?13. But Doc, Is It Safe? Effects of Pubertal Suppression and Trans Hormone Therapy for Youth, by Irene N. Sills, MD14. Discussing Aspects of Medical Transition with Parents of Young Transgender People: A Psychotherapist’s Perspective, by Damien W. Riggs, PhD, FAPS15. Family-Oriented Medical Care for Gender Nonconforming Children, Adolescents, and Their Families, by Carolyn Wolf-Gould, MD16. When My Son Became My Daughter, by C.V.R., PhDPart 6: Family Functioning: What Is the Effect of Gender Atypical Behavior on Parental Relationships, Extended Family, and Siblings?17. Supporting Siblings through Transition: A Child-Centered, Transfeminist Therapeutic Approach, by Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, and Davis Chandler, LICSW18. “I Was Hoping It Would Be a Phase”: The Challenges Parents Face Raising a Gender Nonconforming Child, by Elizabeth Anne Riley, PhD19. The Experiences of Parents of Transgender Individuals Who Transition in Adulthood, by Katherine Rachlin, PhD20. Transition in Four Voices, by Barbara Rio-Glick, MSW, Shelley Rio-Glick, MSW, Sonya Rio-Glick,and AJ Rio-GlickPart 7: Educational Concerns: How Do Parents Manage and Advocate for Gender Nonconforming Children and Transition-Related Issues in a School Setting?21. Social Transitioning for Gender Dysphoric Children: A Practical Guide for Parents, by Wallace Wong, PsyD, R Psych, and Sabrina C. H. Chang, MA22. Please Stop Calling My Daughter “He”: Advocating for Teens and Preteens in the School Setting, by Deborah Coolhart, PhD, LMFTPart 8: Support Groups: What Is the Parent’s Experience of Available Support Groups and Advocacy Organizations?23. The Experience of Parent Facilitators in a PFLAG Support Group for Parents of Transgender Youth and Young Adults, by Melissa MacNish, MA, LMHC24. Peer Support for Parents of Gender Nonconforming Children: Benefits and Risks, by Rex Butt, PhD25. Camp Aranu’tiq: Notes from the First Camp for Transgender and Gender Variant Youth, by Nick M. Teich, LCSW, PhD26. Tom-Girl, Trans Girl, Pink Boy: Finding a Support Group for All, by Lauren P., PsyDAppendix: Best Practices for the Care of Transgender YouthAbout the Editors and Contributors Acknowledgments, by Andrew R. GottliebAcknowledgments, by Arlene I. LevIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten for entry-level survey courses in queer or LGBTQ+ Studies for students from all majors, this engaging text covers a wide range of topics. Early chapters consider the meaning of “queer” and examine identities such as trans, bi, and intersex. Intersections between sexuality/gender expression and other identities such as race, ethnicity, and class are also examined. The book then reviews life experiences such as families, friendship, religion and spirituality, health, and politics through the lens of queerness.Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries:-Engages undergraduates with a narrative that applies key ideas to their own lives and experiences-Questions various binaries (“either/or” pairings) to help students examine their own sexual identity and gender expression-Reviews foundational concepts from queer theory and queer history to create a deeper understanding of the concepts-Emphasizes an intersectionality approach that demonstrates how one’s identity is the product of multiple characteristics such as sexuality, gender, race, class, and dis/ability-Uses a multidisciplinary approach drawing from the social and natural sciences, humanities, and arts to provide a broad overview of perspectives-Details an individual or an event in Spotlight on sections to highlight the experiences of queer people. -Provides questions for class discussion or field activities in Issues for Investigation sections that apply the ideas covered in the chapter-Allows instructors to shape the class with different foci using the stand-alone chapters in Part III-Features an Instructor’s resource manual available to adopters with 20+ PowerPoint slides for each chapter, sample syllabi for a variety of courses, teaching tips for using the Spotlight On and Issues for Investigation sections and the suggested readings, a test bank with objective and essay questions, and student aids such as keywords, chapter outlines and summaries, and learning objectivesDesigned for undergraduate courses in queer or LGBT+ Studies requiring no prerequisites, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries also serves as an excellent supplement in courses on queer theory or history, or on sexuality, gender, and women’s studies.Trade ReviewWith this book, a leading expert in queer studies has effectively synthesized and explained relevant information about this area. This book is timely, original, and distinctly understandable. It could easily be adopted in advanced college courses focused on queer studies, especially given the volume’s accessibility. I appreciate the conversational tone, the coherent structure, and the relevant and practical examples. -- Tony Adams, Bradley UniversityBruce Henderson is a master storyteller. In Queer Studies, he effortlessly guides us through a plethora of complex subjects, including education, politics, religion, and the arts. His eloquent, accessible language allows us to see these myriad subjects queerly anew. I’ll be teaching my ‘Gender and Communication’ students this brilliant, immensely readable book for years to come. -- Donna Marie Nudd, Florida State UniversityThis text is a much needed and invaluable resource offering a solid and thorough overview of queer studies, with an attention to the most up-to-date research, as well as foundational scholarship. Its intersectional approach makes it an important contribution and intervention in the teaching of queer studies. Material is presented in a variety of ways that are accessible to a wide variety of readers and various types of learners in queer studies, critical sexualities, and gender studies courses. -- Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga UniversityHenderson takes an engaging approach in this impressively comprehensive exploration into the quickly expanding universe of queer studies. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses focused on understanding queer theory and its application to the daily lives of queer folx, Henderson deftly weaves together challenging theorists, historical moments, and popular culture in ways that push the reader to new ways of considering complex issues. Henderson has created a text that should become a staple in foundational queer studies texts. -- Noam Ostrander, DePaul UniversityFeaturing a comprehensive but accessible coverage of queer studies, this book reviews a number of topics, ranging from language to schooling to citizenship. It presents a thorough discussion about key issues and important scholarly figures pertaining to queer studies. The author incorporates a number of diverse queer scholars and pays close attention to their differing theoretical and identity standpoints with care. The discussions in each chapter are rich and the examples are culturally relevant and thought-provoking. -- Ahmet Atay, College of WoosterGeared to introductory college level teaching, this eminently readable textbook explains sophisticated ideas in a way geared to students as yet unfamiliar with the field and its often dense language. Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries delivers on its eponymous promise, taking students by the hand into complex deconstructive territory with gentle guidance while offering balanced coverage of the key terms, historiographies, debates, and political issues in the field. -- Jonathan D. Katz, University of PennsylvaniaHistorical in its rigorous genealogy of terms and ideas, playful in its uptake of popular culture, and accessible in its easy narration of complex critical theory, Queer Studies is a genuinely interdisciplinary teaching text. Especially productive for class discussions are the various “spotlights” that offer unique case studies to illustrate difficult concepts and scholarly debates. -- Kareem Khubchandani, Tufts UniversityQueer Studies reviews academic theories and research and translates them in a way that is accessible to undergraduates with no prior background in queer theory. Another strength is the attention to race, ethnicity, and class throughout the book. Henderson’s use of many different texts including academic work, examples from popular media, literature, the lived experiences of queer communities and people, and current events will engage undergraduates. The book covers an impressive range of contexts including school, family, health, religion, and citizenship in a thorough way. -- Emily Kazyak, University of Nebraska-LincolnQueer Studies is an invaluable tool to teach queer studies in the current academic context. Addressing the challenges of a constantly changing field, Henderson introduces an amazing variety of resources, which he presents and explains in a direct, warm, and accessible style. -- Mat Fournier, Ithaca CollegeFluidly written in an accessible style...highly recommended. * Choice *This textbook is highly recommended for introductory undergraduate queer studies courses. * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Queering “Queering”: A Way of Seeing/Experiencing/KnowingPart I. Queering Language1. Queering Language: Words and WorldsPart II. Queering Identity2. Queering Desire: Knowing “Feeling”3. Queering Identifties: From “I” to “We”4. Queering Bodies: Transgender and Intersex Lives5. Queering Privilege: Whiteness and Class6. Queering Intersectionality: Race and EthnicityPart III. Queering Contexts7. Queering School8. Queering Sociality: Friends, Family, and Kinship9. Queering Health: Well-Being, Medicalization, and Recreation10. Queering Spirituality: Religion, Belief, and Beyond11. Queering Citizenship: Politics, Power, and JusticePart IV. Queering Imagination12. Queering Imagination: Arts, Aesthetics, and ExpressionConclusion: Imagining Utopias in Queer StudiesAppendix: Primary Texts for StudyGlossaryWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten for entry-level survey courses in queer or LGBTQ+ Studies for students from all majors, this engaging text covers a wide range of topics. Early chapters consider the meaning of “queer” and examine identities such as trans, bi, and intersex. Intersections between sexuality/gender expression and other identities such as race, ethnicity, and class are also examined. The book then reviews life experiences such as families, friendship, religion and spirituality, health, and politics through the lens of queerness.Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries:-Engages undergraduates with a narrative that applies key ideas to their own lives and experiences-Questions various binaries (“either/or” pairings) to help students examine their own sexual identity and gender expression-Reviews foundational concepts from queer theory and queer history to create a deeper understanding of the concepts-Emphasizes an intersectionality approach that demonstrates how one’s identity is the product of multiple characteristics such as sexuality, gender, race, class, and dis/ability-Uses a multidisciplinary approach drawing from the social and natural sciences, humanities, and arts to provide a broad overview of perspectives-Details an individual or an event in Spotlight on sections to highlight the experiences of queer people. -Provides questions for class discussion or field activities in Issues for Investigation sections that apply the ideas covered in the chapter-Allows instructors to shape the class with different foci using the stand-alone chapters in Part III-Features an Instructor’s resource manual available to adopters with 20+ PowerPoint slides for each chapter, sample syllabi for a variety of courses, teaching tips for using the Spotlight On and Issues for Investigation sections and the suggested readings, a test bank with objective and essay questions, and student aids such as keywords, chapter outlines and summaries, and learning objectivesDesigned for undergraduate courses in queer or LGBT+ Studies requiring no prerequisites, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries also serves as an excellent supplement in courses on queer theory or history, or on sexuality, gender, and women’s studies.Trade ReviewWith this book, a leading expert in queer studies has effectively synthesized and explained relevant information about this area. This book is timely, original, and distinctly understandable. It could easily be adopted in advanced college courses focused on queer studies, especially given the volume’s accessibility. I appreciate the conversational tone, the coherent structure, and the relevant and practical examples. -- Tony Adams, Bradley UniversityBruce Henderson is a master storyteller. In Queer Studies, he effortlessly guides us through a plethora of complex subjects, including education, politics, religion, and the arts. His eloquent, accessible language allows us to see these myriad subjects queerly anew. I’ll be teaching my ‘Gender and Communication’ students this brilliant, immensely readable book for years to come. -- Donna Marie Nudd, Florida State UniversityThis text is a much needed and invaluable resource offering a solid and thorough overview of queer studies, with an attention to the most up-to-date research, as well as foundational scholarship. Its intersectional approach makes it an important contribution and intervention in the teaching of queer studies. Material is presented in a variety of ways that are accessible to a wide variety of readers and various types of learners in queer studies, critical sexualities, and gender studies courses. -- Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga UniversityHenderson takes an engaging approach in this impressively comprehensive exploration into the quickly expanding universe of queer studies. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses focused on understanding queer theory and its application to the daily lives of queer folx, Henderson deftly weaves together challenging theorists, historical moments, and popular culture in ways that push the reader to new ways of considering complex issues. Henderson has created a text that should become a staple in foundational queer studies texts. -- Noam Ostrander, DePaul UniversityFeaturing a comprehensive but accessible coverage of queer studies, this book reviews a number of topics, ranging from language to schooling to citizenship. It presents a thorough discussion about key issues and important scholarly figures pertaining to queer studies. The author incorporates a number of diverse queer scholars and pays close attention to their differing theoretical and identity standpoints with care. The discussions in each chapter are rich and the examples are culturally relevant and thought-provoking. -- Ahmet Atay, College of WoosterGeared to introductory college level teaching, this eminently readable textbook explains sophisticated ideas in a way geared to students as yet unfamiliar with the field and its often dense language. Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries delivers on its eponymous promise, taking students by the hand into complex deconstructive territory with gentle guidance while offering balanced coverage of the key terms, historiographies, debates, and political issues in the field. -- Jonathan D. Katz, University of PennsylvaniaHistorical in its rigorous genealogy of terms and ideas, playful in its uptake of popular culture, and accessible in its easy narration of complex critical theory, Queer Studies is a genuinely interdisciplinary teaching text. Especially productive for class discussions are the various “spotlights” that offer unique case studies to illustrate difficult concepts and scholarly debates. -- Kareem Khubchandani, Tufts UniversityQueer Studies reviews academic theories and research and translates them in a way that is accessible to undergraduates with no prior background in queer theory. Another strength is the attention to race, ethnicity, and class throughout the book. Henderson’s use of many different texts including academic work, examples from popular media, literature, the lived experiences of queer communities and people, and current events will engage undergraduates. The book covers an impressive range of contexts including school, family, health, religion, and citizenship in a thorough way. -- Emily Kazyak, University of Nebraska-LincolnQueer Studies is an invaluable tool to teach queer studies in the current academic context. Addressing the challenges of a constantly changing field, Henderson introduces an amazing variety of resources, which he presents and explains in a direct, warm, and accessible style. -- Mat Fournier, Ithaca CollegeFluidly written in an accessible style...highly recommended. * Choice *This textbook is highly recommended for introductory undergraduate queer studies courses. * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Queering “Queering”: A Way of Seeing/Experiencing/KnowingPart I. Queering Language1. Queering Language: Words and WorldsPart II. Queering Identity2. Queering Desire: Knowing “Feeling”3. Queering Identifties: From “I” to “We”4. Queering Bodies: Transgender and Intersex Lives5. Queering Privilege: Whiteness and Class6. Queering Intersectionality: Race and EthnicityPart III. Queering Contexts7. Queering School8. Queering Sociality: Friends, Family, and Kinship9. Queering Health: Well-Being, Medicalization, and Recreation10. Queering Spirituality: Religion, Belief, and Beyond11. Queering Citizenship: Politics, Power, and JusticePart IV. Queering Imagination12. Queering Imagination: Arts, Aesthetics, and ExpressionConclusion: Imagining Utopias in Queer StudiesAppendix: Primary Texts for StudyGlossaryWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and challenges in the realm of public health.The volume covers trans sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies.Trade ReviewThis book explores the role of sex work in the lives of transgender women and the hazards that come with this type of work, revealing a complex interplay between sex and gender, survival and validation, desire and love, social justice and health. A must-read for any researcher, health provider, advocate, or policy maker concerned with the health and well-being of sex workers of all genders. -- Walter Bockting, codirector, Program for the Study of LGBT Health, Columbia University Medical CenterThis is a wonderful collection that helps to fill a huge gap in the research literature. Transgender individuals are the least studied of all sex workers. Wide-ranging in scope, the book covers key social, health, victimization, criminal justice, and policy issues in different nations. The findings document diversity within the transgender population but also indicate that transgender individuals face some unique challenges and are doubly stigmatized by virtue of their gender and involvement in sex work. -- Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business and Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex IndustryStrongly recommended for everyone working with transgender women and/or sex workers. Overall, Transgender Sex Work and Society simply does what it promises: offering a comprehensive overview of all aspects related to transgender sex work and society. . . . [It provides] numerous implications for policy and care and treatment for transgender sex workers. -- Judith Van Schuylenbergh * International Journal of Transgenderism *

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Book SynopsisOutdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to modern, public to private, collective to individual. Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the complex, nuanced, and multidirectional nature of these cultural transformations. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that, while the second demographic transition is unfolding in many advanced Western societies, it is not necessarily a normative form of societal transition. Working instead from a framework of "new familism," Shu and Chen show that Chinese new familism consists of both old and new values, including the persistence of some traditional beliefs and practices, accompanied by a transition to modern perceptions of gender, and adaption to some modern forms of family formation. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)— a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.Download the open access book here.Trade Review"Shu and Chen identify a distinctive pattern of 'flexible traditionalism' that reinforces the notion of separate spheres and heightens gender differences in marriage and family life. An important and original book that will further the debate on how and why Chinese women and men are charting a different course than their peers in Europe and North America." -- Deborah S. Davis * coeditor of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban Chin *"The radical transformations in the Chinese system of gender, family, and marriage do not neatly fit the prevailing theories of modern social change, nor are they outside the global transitions of the last century. Shu and Chen masterfully integrate China's uniquely "flexible traditionalist" system into that broader story of social change, providing a powerful introduction to Chinese social change for all gender and family scholars." -- Philip Cohen * author of Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families G *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword BY PÉTER BERTA 1 Introduction: The Second Demographic Transition and the Chinese Gender and Family System 2 From Patriarchy to New Familism: The Chinese Gender and Family System 3 Flexible Traditionalism Ideology: Global Comparison and Historical Transformation 4 Changing Patterns of Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, and Fertility 5 New Familism: Changing Gender, Family, Marriage, and Sexual Values 6 Fertility and Divorce: Are Number and Gender of Children Associated with Divorce 7 Marital Dynamics: Housework, Breadwinning, Decision-Making, and Marital Satisfaction 8 Conclusion: Convergence, Contradictions, and Changes in the Future AcknowledgmentsNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisOutdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to modern, public to private, collective to individual. Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the complex, nuanced, and multidirectional nature of these cultural transformations. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that, while the second demographic transition is unfolding in many advanced Western societies, it is not necessarily a normative form of societal transition. Working instead from a framework of "new familism," Shu and Chen show that Chinese new familism consists of both old and new values, including the persistence of some traditional beliefs and practices, accompanied by a transition to modern perceptions of gender, and adaption to some modern forms of family formation. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)— a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.Download the open access book here.Trade Review"Shu and Chen identify a distinctive pattern of 'flexible traditionalism' that reinforces the notion of separate spheres and heightens gender differences in marriage and family life. An important and original book that will further the debate on how and why Chinese women and men are charting a different course than their peers in Europe and North America." -- Deborah S. Davis * coeditor of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban Chin *"The radical transformations in the Chinese system of gender, family, and marriage do not neatly fit the prevailing theories of modern social change, nor are they outside the global transitions of the last century. Shu and Chen masterfully integrate China's uniquely "flexible traditionalist" system into that broader story of social change, providing a powerful introduction to Chinese social change for all gender and family scholars." -- Philip Cohen * author of Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families G *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword BY PÉTER BERTA 1 Introduction: The Second Demographic Transition and the Chinese Gender and Family System 2 From Patriarchy to New Familism: The Chinese Gender and Family System 3 Flexible Traditionalism Ideology: Global Comparison and Historical Transformation 4 Changing Patterns of Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, and Fertility 5 New Familism: Changing Gender, Family, Marriage, and Sexual Values 6 Fertility and Divorce: Are Number and Gender of Children Associated with Divorce 7 Marital Dynamics: Housework, Breadwinning, Decision-Making, and Marital Satisfaction 8 Conclusion: Convergence, Contradictions, and Changes in the Future AcknowledgmentsNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn modern pediatric practice, gender matters. From the pink-and-blue striped receiving blankets used to swaddle newborns, to the development of sex-specific nutrition plans based on societal expectations of the stature of children, a gendered culture permeates pediatrics and children’s health throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book provides a look at how gender has served as one of the frameworks for pediatric care in the U.S. since the specialty’s inception. Pink and Blue deploys gender—often in concert with class and race—as the central critical lens for understanding the function of pediatrics as a cultural and social project in modern U.S. history.Trade Review"This thoughtful and engaging anthology fits together powerfully, each article building from the previous one and complementing each other chronologically and thematically." -- Elizabeth Reis * author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex *"Pink and Blue represents a splendid contribution to sociological literature as well as a useful edited volume for feminist educators and researchers." * Gender & Society *"Eder and Medeiros argue that contemporary understandings of gender would not exist in their current arrangement without the medical institution, and the taken-for-granted aspects of medicine we see today are null without the social construction of the gender binary. This book is an in-depth, judiciously executed dissection of the gendered history of pediatrics." -- Alicia Smith-Tran * Contemporary Sociology *"Exner is a subtle and convincing commentator. Better still, he is capable of sifting through a complex visual record with an eye towards salient detail. The result is a watershed contribution to comics studies that is mandatory reading for scholars interested in manga and its history." -- Sam Cowing * International Journal of Comic Art *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Coming of Age Together: Gender and Pediatrics Aimee Medeiros and Elena Conis Part 1: Clinical Practice Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Charts: The History of Gendering Sex-Specific Growth Assessment in Pediatrics Aimee Medeiros Chapter 2: “A Habit That Worries Me Very Much”: Raising Good Boys and Girls in the Postwar Era Jessica Martucci Chapter 3: Gender and Doctor-Parent Communication about Down Syndrome in the Mid-Twentieth Century Hughes Evans Chapter 4: Making Children into Boys and Girls: Gender Role in 1950s Pediatric Endocrinology Sandra Eder Chapter 5: Depathologizing Trans Childhood: The Role of History in the Clinic Jules Gill-Peterson Chapter 6: Race and Gender in the NICU: Wimpy White Boys and Strong Black Girls Christine H. Morton, Krista Sigurdson, and Jochen Profit Part 2: Body Politic Chapter 7: Masculinity and the Case for a Childhood Vaccine Elena Conis Chapter 8: Weight, Height, and the Gendering of Nutritional Assessment A.R. Ruis Chapter 9: Competitive Youth Sports, Pediatricians, and Gender in the 1950s Kathleen E. Bachynski Chapter 10: Gender and the “New” Puberty Heather Prescott Chapter 11: Gender and HPV Vaccination: Responsible Boyhood or Responsible Girls and Women? Laura Mamo and Ashley Pérez Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn modern pediatric practice, gender matters. From the pink-and-blue striped receiving blankets used to swaddle newborns, to the development of sex-specific nutrition plans based on societal expectations of the stature of children, a gendered culture permeates pediatrics and children’s health throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book provides a look at how gender has served as one of the frameworks for pediatric care in the U.S. since the specialty’s inception. Pink and Blue deploys gender—often in concert with class and race—as the central critical lens for understanding the function of pediatrics as a cultural and social project in modern U.S. history.Trade Review"This thoughtful and engaging anthology fits together powerfully, each article building from the previous one and complementing each other chronologically and thematically." -- Elizabeth Reis * author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex *"Pink and Blue represents a splendid contribution to sociological literature as well as a useful edited volume for feminist educators and researchers." * Gender & Society *"Eder and Medeiros argue that contemporary understandings of gender would not exist in their current arrangement without the medical institution, and the taken-for-granted aspects of medicine we see today are null without the social construction of the gender binary. This book is an in-depth, judiciously executed dissection of the gendered history of pediatrics." -- Alicia Smith-Tran * Contemporary Sociology *"Exner is a subtle and convincing commentator. Better still, he is capable of sifting through a complex visual record with an eye towards salient detail. The result is a watershed contribution to comics studies that is mandatory reading for scholars interested in manga and its history." -- Sam Cowing * International Journal of Comic Art *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Coming of Age Together: Gender and Pediatrics Aimee Medeiros and Elena Conis Part 1: Clinical Practice Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Charts: The History of Gendering Sex-Specific Growth Assessment in Pediatrics Aimee Medeiros Chapter 2: “A Habit That Worries Me Very Much”: Raising Good Boys and Girls in the Postwar Era Jessica Martucci Chapter 3: Gender and Doctor-Parent Communication about Down Syndrome in the Mid-Twentieth Century Hughes Evans Chapter 4: Making Children into Boys and Girls: Gender Role in 1950s Pediatric Endocrinology Sandra Eder Chapter 5: Depathologizing Trans Childhood: The Role of History in the Clinic Jules Gill-Peterson Chapter 6: Race and Gender in the NICU: Wimpy White Boys and Strong Black Girls Christine H. Morton, Krista Sigurdson, and Jochen Profit Part 2: Body Politic Chapter 7: Masculinity and the Case for a Childhood Vaccine Elena Conis Chapter 8: Weight, Height, and the Gendering of Nutritional Assessment A.R. Ruis Chapter 9: Competitive Youth Sports, Pediatricians, and Gender in the 1950s Kathleen E. Bachynski Chapter 10: Gender and the “New” Puberty Heather Prescott Chapter 11: Gender and HPV Vaccination: Responsible Boyhood or Responsible Girls and Women? Laura Mamo and Ashley Pérez Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMaking the Right Choice unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency. The book uncovers how "becoming modern" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and independent women capable of making "right" choices. The consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum: agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make the "right" choice; hence agency is experienced not as a sense of "freedom," but rather as a burden of responsibility.Trade Review"In Making the Right Choice, Abeyasekera navigates the micro-politics of class and gender in contemporary Sri Lanka with skill and grace, providing the reader with a compelling picture of the fraught territory of marriage in twenty-first century Sri Lanka. Throughout, the argument is highly original and incisive, yet written with a novelist’s eye for the telling detail."— Jonathan Spencer, co-editor of The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives "With delicate prose and thoughtfulness, Abeyasekera draws us into the heart of middle-class Colombo, where personal choices on who to love reflect back on family narratives of progress and social mobility. Offering fresh perspectives on agency and responsibility, she moves between life stories across generations to unravel how, in South Asia, marriage is inexorably tied to crafting a self that is both modern and moral."— Ammara Maqsood, author of The New Pakistani Middle Class "Asha Abeyasekera gives us exquisitely wrought portraits of three generations of women in modernizing Sri Lanka as they navigate decisions of who, when, how, and why to marry. Attending to their stories about their marriages, Abeyasekera reveals the repertoires of meaning that enable the women to produce selves that honor traditional kin obligations while embodying modern values of personal choice and self-determination."— Jeanne Marecek, co-author of Gender and Culture in Psychology: Theories and PracticesTable of ContentsContents Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction 1 – Sinhala Marriage Practices: Then and Now 2 – Making the ‘Right’ Choice 3 – Structuring the ‘Right’ Choice 4 – The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages 5 – The Valued Self: Singleness 6 – The Vindicated Self: Divorce Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss’d America drag pageant. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now that Rupaul’s Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss’d America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss’d America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.Trade Review"An unprecedented look at drag culture and its history in Atlantic City. A must-read for queens and their fans!"— Sapphira Cristal, Miss'd American 2020 "The subject matter is fascinating."— Gay & Lesbian Review "I have long wondered how the Miss America pageant maintains a conservative appeal while ignoring the known influence and involvement by the gay community. If you've ever known or loved Miss America, you need this history lesson."— Erin O'Flaherty, Miss Missouri 2016, first openly lesbian Miss America contestant "Through a highly entertaining, insightful, and informative combination of history, ethnography, and gender studies, Greene uncovers the long-standing influence that Atlantic City's LGBTQ+ community has had on the Miss America Pageant."— Rusty Barrett, author of From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures "After 30 years in the drag business, I was surprised and elated to learn so much about drag/LGBTQ+ history in Atlantic City. The in-depth exploration of how Miss America and Miss’d America were connected and disconnected is fascinating."— Sherry Vine, Drag Legend "Greene’s prose is delightful and imaginative, the work standing out as both an illustration of the horrors of hegemonic oppression and the beauty of an adaptable subculture. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens adds to the growing body of work that provides insight into the development and practice of gender norms and their influence on the tapestry of national identity formation, maintenance, and adaptation." — Gender & Society "All of this is told by Greene through attentive ethnographic fieldwork, with transcript excerpts often conveying not just the words but the animated community conversations from which she draws. She makes productive use of sources like Facebook pages dedicated to Atlantic City memories, which can sometimes offer richer LGBTQ archives than more recognized repositories. Ultimately, Drag Queens and Beauty Queens is not as expansively or densely theorized as, say, Marlon Bailey’s landmark ethnography of the Detroit ballroom scene, Butch Queens Up in Pumps, but its trade-off is greater accessibility. This would make a productive text in undergraduate courses, where the Miss/Miss’d America comparative analysis would surely spark discussion. Greene’s ethical commitment to producing a readable text for the drag community itself is also to be commended. With this book, Laurie Greene has expanded the canon of New Jersey LGBTQ history and offered a valuable model of community-based scholarship."— NJ StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Doing AC Chapter 1: Pageants and Pageantry Chapter 2: Atlantic City, Drag Culture, and a Community of Practice Chapter 3: New York Avenue: Where the Party Began Chapter 4: Camp and The Queering of Miss America Chapter 5: Show Us your Shoes, Not your Midriffs Conclusion: Drag Queens and Beauty Queens Appendix I: Winners of the Miss’d America Pageant Appendix II: Drag Queens Interviewed in Fieldnotes With Dates Appendix III: Original Miss’d America Theme Song Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBodies Unbound is a comparative study showing how ideologies of gendered bodies shape medical care and the ways in which patients respond to these ideologies through decisions about their bodies using three cases: transgender men seeking preventative gynecological care, cisgender men diagnosed with breast cancer, and cisgender women with breast cancer who elect to undergo prophylactic mastectomies. Bodies Unbound is a story about how the relationship between bodies and gender becomes socially intelligible as well as how medical professionals use their position of relative authority over bodies to dictate which combinations of bodies and genders are legitimate or not. Drawing on the experiences of individuals whose bodies and gender identities don't match medical and social expectations for gynecological and breast cancer care, Sledge unravels the taken-for-granted alignment of bodies and gender that provide the foundation of medical care in the United States. Trade Review"Sledge’s fieldwork has led to a rich and vibrant analysis of how gender is enacted, resisted, performed, and policed in medical settings. Her accessible writing style and complex sociological analysis make this a powerful and unique contribution to the field."— Lisa Jean Moore, author of Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee "Bodies Unbound has many strengths and is written for scholars, students, and health practitioners who are interested in learning about how medicine normalizes and legitimizes gender and body and how patients and providers alike can resist and change the gendered health care system. Bodies Unbound makes important contributions to the scholarships of medical sociology, gender, and embodiment through addressing critical questions with careful analysis and compelling evidence."— Gender & Society "In a system that renders some relationships between bodies and gender identities legitimate and others illegitimate, Sledge employs an innovative research design that compares the experiences of patients with the ‘wrong body’ for gynecological and breast cancers. Each of these groups of patients disrupts normative expectations about gendered bodies. Conceptually integrating well-known but limiting 'doing gender' perspectives with more recent work on bio-citizenship, Sledge vividly illustrates how gendered biolegitimacy offers a powerful new theoretical framework for the study of gender and health."— Asia Friedman, associate professor of sociology, University of DelawareTable of ContentsContents List of Tables List of Images Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Entering Enemy Territory 2. Choosing Mastectomy 3. Returning to Normal 4. Ideologies of Gender in Surgical Cancer Care Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the secrets to Bruce Springsteen’s enduring popularity over the past fifty years is the way fans feel a deep personal connection to his work. Yet even as the connection often stays grounded in details from his New Jersey upbringing, Springsteen’s music references a rich array of personalities from John Steinbeck to Amadou Diallo and beyond, inspiring fans to seek out and connect with a whole world’s worth of art, literature, and life stories. In this unique blend of memoir and musical analysis, John Massaro reflects on his experiences as a lifelong fan of The Boss and one of the first professors to design a college course on Springsteen’s work. Focusing on five of the Jersey rocker’s main themes—love, masculinity, sports, politics, and the power of music—he shows how they are represented in Springsteen’s lyrics and shares stories from his own life that powerfully resonate with those lyrics. Meanwhile, paying tribute to Springsteen’s inclusive vision, he draws connections among figures as seemingly disparate as James Joyce, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Aquinas, Bobby Darin, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Shades of Springsteen offers a deeply personal take on the musical and cultural legacies of an American icon.Trade Review"Massaro’s work is academically sound — he’s done his research, quoting everyone from Jung to Albert Camus to Ta-Nehisi Coates, not to mention a who’s-who of Springsteen experts like Peter Ames Carlin, Eric Alterman, Marc Dolan and Andy Greene. But the book is also part memoir, with stories of Massaro’s own father and family experiences that resonate within Springsteen’s words, and vice versa. It’s a fine analysis even without them, but don’t skip those sections: If you’ve read this far, I have a feeling you’ll relate."— Blogness on the Edge of Town "Book on The Boss published by Potsdam Professor," by Craig Thorton— WWNY7 "Massaro’s thesis of connective tissue in the themes of the book’s subtitle Politics, Love, Sports and Masculinity that he artfully argues drive Springsteen’s canon and best explains the songwriter’s ability to overcome his own issues of depression, is solid. He digs deep, but with an entertaining flair, explaining how all of these themes comes through in nearly every stanza of Springsteen’s songs."— James Campion, The Aquarian "Shades of Springsteen fits squarely into what is now a sizeable literature of Springsteen studies. The tenor of that discourse, like that of fandom generally, has a deeply personal dimension, but Massaro is part of what might be termed a strongly ethnographic cast in recent Springsteen writing....Rutgers University Press, which published Shades of Springsteen, has been at the vanguard of this trend in honoring its local son....Shades of Springsteen is a useful contribution to a vibrant, ongoing conversation."— Jim Cullen, New Jersey Studies "John Massaro writes about classic Springsteen themes––politics, love, sports, and masculinity––with insight, care, and thoughtfulness. Massaro finds meaning in the singer’s lyrics that should resonate with Springsteen fans, whether long-time admirers or those just learning about him."— June Skinner Sawyers, co-editor, Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen "A gifted speaker and writer, John Massaro speaks very astutely to contemporary issues involving love, masculinity, and sports, connecting with both the reader and Springsteen."— Kenneth Womack, author of Solid State: The Story of “Abbey Road” and the End of the Beatles First Person: Springsteen and politics, Adirondack murder mystery, ins and outs of dog training - interview with John Massaro— "First Person," North Country Public Radio (Canton, NY)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Springsteen’s Biography 2 Springsteen and Politics Teaching with Springsteen Essay 1. Teaching Politics (and More) with Bruce Springsteen Springsteen and Patriotism Essay 2. “Born in the U.S.A.” and Patriotism Essay 3. “But Was It Right?” Studying Springsteen Essay 4. Image and Reality: A Review of Springsteen’s Autobiography Born to Run Essay 5. A Note on the State of Springsteen Scholarship Springsteen, Class, and Depression Essay 6. Springsteen and Depression Essay 7. Straddling Class and Demons Essay 8. “Used Cars” and the Hidden Injuries of Class Essay 9. Wrecking Ball and Class Warfare? Essay 10. Why I Am a Democratic Socialist and Springsteen Isn’t—Yet Springsteen and Race Essay 11. Racism and “American Skin (41 Shots)” Conclusion: Springsteen and Politics 3 Springsteen, Love, and Relationships Essay 12. A Fitzgerald/Springsteen Pastiche: “Gatsby” Down the Jersey Shore Springsteen, Fathers, and Sons Essay 13. Springsteen to Springsteen: Speaking of Love Essay 14. Flying Essay 15. Pakistani Son, Pakistani Father: An Updated Review of Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion, and Rock ’n’ Roll Compassion and Understanding in Love (and Even in Politics) Essay 16. “Scumbag Bobby” and Springsteen’s “Spare Parts” Essay 17. The Nixon in All of Us Springsteen and Tunnel of Love Essay 18. Springsteen on Relationships in Tunnel of Love Essay 19. Bravery and Honesty in Patti Scialfa’s Rumble Doll Album The Sacred and the Profane Essay 20. The Sacred and the Profane: Springsteen, Caravaggio, “Earth Angel,” and “Reno” Essay 21. The Sacred and the Profane? The Love of a Daughter and George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words” Essay 22. The Good News according to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Essay 23. Springsteen and Apocalypse Sex Conclusion: Springsteen and Love 4 Springsteen, Synchronization, Sports, and Masculinity “Glory Days” Essay 24. Springsteen’s “Glory Days” and Synchronization Essay 25. Synchronizing with Springsteen Essay 26. “Glory Days” and Uncle Phil Two More “Boring Stories” of “Glory Days” Essay 27. Replay Essay 28. The Stuff of Life Springsteen and Fatherhood Essay 29. Fatherhood: From a Different Perspective The Traditional Model of Masculinity Essay 30. The Traditional Model of Masculinity and Me Essay 31. Bruce Springsteen and the Traditional Model of Masculinity Grandpa Bruce? Essay 32. Man to Man in Maine Conclusion: Springsteen, Sports, and Masculinity 5 Loose Ends Essay 33. Why Write? Some Answers Provided by Bruce Springsteen, Roger Rosenblatt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Alexander Hamilton Essay 34. Concluding Statement References Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the secrets to Bruce Springsteen’s enduring popularity over the past fifty years is the way fans feel a deep personal connection to his work. Yet even as the connection often stays grounded in details from his New Jersey upbringing, Springsteen’s music references a rich array of personalities from John Steinbeck to Amadou Diallo and beyond, inspiring fans to seek out and connect with a whole world’s worth of art, literature, and life stories. In this unique blend of memoir and musical analysis, John Massaro reflects on his experiences as a lifelong fan of The Boss and one of the first professors to design a college course on Springsteen’s work. Focusing on five of the Jersey rocker’s main themes—love, masculinity, sports, politics, and the power of music—he shows how they are represented in Springsteen’s lyrics and shares stories from his own life that powerfully resonate with those lyrics. Meanwhile, paying tribute to Springsteen’s inclusive vision, he draws connections among figures as seemingly disparate as James Joyce, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Aquinas, Bobby Darin, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Shades of Springsteen offers a deeply personal take on the musical and cultural legacies of an American icon.Trade Review"Massaro’s work is academically sound — he’s done his research, quoting everyone from Jung to Albert Camus to Ta-Nehisi Coates, not to mention a who’s-who of Springsteen experts like Peter Ames Carlin, Eric Alterman, Marc Dolan and Andy Greene. But the book is also part memoir, with stories of Massaro’s own father and family experiences that resonate within Springsteen’s words, and vice versa. It’s a fine analysis even without them, but don’t skip those sections: If you’ve read this far, I have a feeling you’ll relate."— Blogness on the Edge of Town "Book on The Boss published by Potsdam Professor," by Craig Thorton— WWNY7 "Massaro’s thesis of connective tissue in the themes of the book’s subtitle Politics, Love, Sports and Masculinity that he artfully argues drive Springsteen’s canon and best explains the songwriter’s ability to overcome his own issues of depression, is solid. He digs deep, but with an entertaining flair, explaining how all of these themes comes through in nearly every stanza of Springsteen’s songs."— James Campion, The Aquarian "Shades of Springsteen fits squarely into what is now a sizeable literature of Springsteen studies. The tenor of that discourse, like that of fandom generally, has a deeply personal dimension, but Massaro is part of what might be termed a strongly ethnographic cast in recent Springsteen writing....Rutgers University Press, which published Shades of Springsteen, has been at the vanguard of this trend in honoring its local son....Shades of Springsteen is a useful contribution to a vibrant, ongoing conversation."— Jim Cullen, New Jersey Studies "John Massaro writes about classic Springsteen themes––politics, love, sports, and masculinity––with insight, care, and thoughtfulness. Massaro finds meaning in the singer’s lyrics that should resonate with Springsteen fans, whether long-time admirers or those just learning about him."— June Skinner Sawyers, co-editor, Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen "A gifted speaker and writer, John Massaro speaks very astutely to contemporary issues involving love, masculinity, and sports, connecting with both the reader and Springsteen."— Kenneth Womack, author of Solid State: The Story of “Abbey Road” and the End of the Beatles First Person: Springsteen and politics, Adirondack murder mystery, ins and outs of dog training - interview with John Massaro— "First Person," North Country Public Radio (Canton, NY)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Springsteen’s Biography 2 Springsteen and Politics Teaching with Springsteen Essay 1. Teaching Politics (and More) with Bruce Springsteen Springsteen and Patriotism Essay 2. “Born in the U.S.A.” and Patriotism Essay 3. “But Was It Right?” Studying Springsteen Essay 4. Image and Reality: A Review of Springsteen’s Autobiography Born to Run Essay 5. A Note on the State of Springsteen Scholarship Springsteen, Class, and Depression Essay 6. Springsteen and Depression Essay 7. Straddling Class and Demons Essay 8. “Used Cars” and the Hidden Injuries of Class Essay 9. Wrecking Ball and Class Warfare? Essay 10. Why I Am a Democratic Socialist and Springsteen Isn’t—Yet Springsteen and Race Essay 11. Racism and “American Skin (41 Shots)” Conclusion: Springsteen and Politics 3 Springsteen, Love, and Relationships Essay 12. A Fitzgerald/Springsteen Pastiche: “Gatsby” Down the Jersey Shore Springsteen, Fathers, and Sons Essay 13. Springsteen to Springsteen: Speaking of Love Essay 14. Flying Essay 15. Pakistani Son, Pakistani Father: An Updated Review of Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion, and Rock ’n’ Roll Compassion and Understanding in Love (and Even in Politics) Essay 16. “Scumbag Bobby” and Springsteen’s “Spare Parts” Essay 17. The Nixon in All of Us Springsteen and Tunnel of Love Essay 18. Springsteen on Relationships in Tunnel of Love Essay 19. Bravery and Honesty in Patti Scialfa’s Rumble Doll Album The Sacred and the Profane Essay 20. The Sacred and the Profane: Springsteen, Caravaggio, “Earth Angel,” and “Reno” Essay 21. The Sacred and the Profane? The Love of a Daughter and George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words” Essay 22. The Good News according to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Essay 23. Springsteen and Apocalypse Sex Conclusion: Springsteen and Love 4 Springsteen, Synchronization, Sports, and Masculinity “Glory Days” Essay 24. Springsteen’s “Glory Days” and Synchronization Essay 25. Synchronizing with Springsteen Essay 26. “Glory Days” and Uncle Phil Two More “Boring Stories” of “Glory Days” Essay 27. Replay Essay 28. The Stuff of Life Springsteen and Fatherhood Essay 29. Fatherhood: From a Different Perspective The Traditional Model of Masculinity Essay 30. The Traditional Model of Masculinity and Me Essay 31. Bruce Springsteen and the Traditional Model of Masculinity Grandpa Bruce? Essay 32. Man to Man in Maine Conclusion: Springsteen, Sports, and Masculinity 5 Loose Ends Essay 33. Why Write? Some Answers Provided by Bruce Springsteen, Roger Rosenblatt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Alexander Hamilton Essay 34. Concluding Statement References Index

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association) Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film and video, and interviews, LGBTQ community leaders teach readers about streetwalking, confrontación, flipping the script, cuentos, and the use of strategic universalisms in the exercise of power and agency. Rooted in Maria Lugones's theorization of streetwalker strategies and Audre Lorde's theorization of silence and action, this text re-imagines the exercise and locus of power in examples provided by the living, thriving LGBTQ community of the Dominican Republic.Trade Review"New Books Network: New Books in Anthropology" interview with Ana-Maurine Lara— New Books Network: New Books in Anthropology Pride Month June 2021 round-up— Bookshop.org "Ana-Maurine Lara offers us a meaningful invitation to consider the multifaceted potentials of streetwalking, and to witness how Dominican LGBTQ activists make resistencia that reorders our understanding of the queer politics of the everyday. Beautifully written and cogently argued, Streetwalking is an important contribution to queer of color critique."— C. Riley Snorton, author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity "Streetwalking is the first book to document and analyze LGBTQ activism, theorizing, and life-making in the Dominican Republic. As such, it is inherently groundbreaking and innovative. But more than being the first, it is also a finely argued, nuanced understanding of the context—national, regional, and historical—in which this community asserts its contestatory vision of rights, citizenship, morality, humanity and collectivism."— Ginetta Candelario, author of Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty ShopsTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Where the Locas Are Section I: Street Smarts Chapter 1: Christian Coloniality Chapter 2: Sexual Terror Section II: Streetwalking Chapter 3: Confrontación Chapter 4: Flipping the Script Chapter 5: Cuentos Conclusion: On Silence Transformed Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.Trade Review"Intimate Connections is an elegant and nuanced ethnographic account of gendered intimacy as experienced by women in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Eschewing simplistic formulations such as 'love vs. arranged marriages' and 'agency vs. gendered subordination,' Anna-Maria Walter instead pushes us to consider emotions anew, in particular 'love,' as sites of embodied, ethical formation of the self, and as significant to gendered norms that shape marriage and emergent forms of conjugality." -- Attiya Ahmad * author of Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait *"Intimate Connections is a richly ethnographic account of women’s and men’s experiences of kinship and sexuality in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, showing how young women’s changing expectations of marriage and love are reforming the institution from within." -- Katherine Lemons * author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism *"Intimate Connections is an elegant and nuanced ethnographic account of gendered intimacy as experienced by women in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Eschewing simplistic formulations such as 'love vs. arranged marriages' and 'agency vs. gendered subordination,' Anna-Maria Walter instead pushes us to consider emotions anew, in particular 'love,' as sites of embodied, ethical formation of the self, and as significant to gendered norms that shape marriage and emergent forms of conjugality." -- Attiya Ahmad * author of Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait *"Intimate Connections is a richly ethnographic account of women’s and men’s experiences of kinship and sexuality in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, showing how young women’s changing expectations of marriage and love are reforming the institution from within." -- Katherine Lemons * author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Foreword by Péter Berta Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Transcription 1 Politics of the Sensible 2 Embodying Modest Reserve 3 Arranging Affection 4 Fearing Passion 5 Romancing Marriage Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhen Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. One particularly important strand of thought, which influenced later anxieties over “other-direction” and “conformity,” argued that masculinity was not defined by traits like bravery, stoicism, and competitiveness but instead by authenticity, shared camaraderie, and emotional honesty. To elucidate this challenge to traditional “frontiersman” masculinity, Aaron George presents three intellectual biographies of important veterans who became writers after the war: James Jones, the writer of the monumentally important war novel From Here to Eternity; Stewart Stern, one of the most important screenwriters of the fifties and sixties, including for Rebel without a Cause; and Edward Field, a bohemian poet who used poetry to explore his love for other men. Through their lives, George shows how wartime disabused men of the notion that war was inherently a brave or heroic enterprise and how the alienation they felt upon their return led them to value the authentic connections they made with other men during the war. Trade Review"A fascinating story of three writers—veterans of World War II in search of authenticity." -- James B. Gilbert * author of Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s *"Beautifully written and sensitively wrought, When Cowboys Come Home rejects the images of WWII veterans as pugilists or Organization Men. Through neglected figures, including James Jones and Edward Fields, Aaron George audaciously insists that vets took from their war experience a thirst for male bonding, camaraderie, and intense relationships." -- David Steigerwald * author of The Sixties and the End of Modern America *Table of ContentsPreface: What We Bring Home Introduction: Hemingway's Shadow Part I Cowboys on the Wartime Frontier 1 Never a Secondhand Man: James Jones and the Perils of Homecoming 2 The Big Noise: Stewart Stern's Long March to Gar Naruah 3 The "Age of Heroes": Edward Field and Gay Authenticity in the Midst of War Part II Coming Home 4 The Hipster, the Prophet, and the Angel: Writers on the Edge of Eternity 5 The Men Who Came Running: James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony 6 Waiting for Peter Pan: Adulthood and How to Attain It 7 The Continuing Adventures of Icarus: Edward Field's Life in the Postwar Closet Conclusion: A Nation of Gray Flannel Men Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe internet is where trans people have come to become. Creating an identity in digital space can be important for how trans people learn about themselves, their communities, and the possibilities available to them. While the internet and digital space is not the only way of coming to understand oneself in a community, it is a space of liberatory possibility and creativity. There is room to invent what may not yet exist for gender on the edges of what many consider to be “real.” For many, digital life can be the site of play, joy, and connection –even while the internet is not a harm-free space nor universally available. This book seeks to understand the complexities at play in the digital realm and the implications that have for gender, digital life, and higher education.Trade Review"A smart, useful and frankly overdue study of gender-marginalized people finding self and building community in the chaotic spaces of social media, online cultures, and digital platforms that permeate our lives." -- Susan Stryker * Author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution *"Digital Me is an exciting, timely contribution to ongoing academic and public conversations about the role of the internet in trans and queer lives. With a fresh set of data to work with, the authors richly theorize the online worlds of trans self-making and community-building. I trust this will soon become a dependable resource for trans college students and those who care about them." -- V Varun Chaudhry * Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University *“Although institutions of higher education have been important producers of queer and trans theories of gender, those theories have not led to radical changes in how institutions organize themselves as spaces of white, cis gendered, heteronormativity. In response the authors ask what might the future of higher education look like if we take seriously the world and self-making creativity of trans students? A deeply moving book, Digital Me bears witness to the cultivation of online trans lives, and provides sustenance, for students and teachers alike, for those who want to expand the world building possibilities of trans life and knowledge.” -- Victoria Hesford * Author of Feeling Women's Liberation *Table of ContentsPart I Logging On Introduction 1 Searching for Ourselves Online Part II Trans(form)ing Online 2 The Internet as Spatial 3 The Internet as Temporal 4 The Internet as Affective 5 The Internet as Sartorial 6 The Internet as Communal 7 The Internet as Visual Part III Prismatic Possibilities 8 The Multiplicity of Trans Life Online Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe internet is where trans people have come to become. Creating an identity in digital space can be important for how trans people learn about themselves, their communities, and the possibilities available to them. While the internet and digital space is not the only way of coming to understand oneself in a community, it is a space of liberatory possibility and creativity. There is room to invent what may not yet exist for gender on the edges of what many consider to be “real.” For many, digital life can be the site of play, joy, and connection –even while the internet is not a harm-free space nor universally available. This book seeks to understand the complexities at play in the digital realm and the implications that have for gender, digital life, and higher education.Trade Review"A smart, useful and frankly overdue study of gender-marginalized people finding self and building community in the chaotic spaces of social media, online cultures, and digital platforms that permeate our lives." -- Susan Stryker * Author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution *"Digital Me is an exciting, timely contribution to ongoing academic and public conversations about the role of the internet in trans and queer lives. With a fresh set of data to work with, the authors richly theorize the online worlds of trans self-making and community-building. I trust this will soon become a dependable resource for trans college students and those who care about them." -- V Varun Chaudhry * Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University *“Although institutions of higher education have been important producers of queer and trans theories of gender, those theories have not led to radical changes in how institutions organize themselves as spaces of white, cis gendered, heteronormativity. In response the authors ask what might the future of higher education look like if we take seriously the world and self-making creativity of trans students? A deeply moving book, Digital Me bears witness to the cultivation of online trans lives, and provides sustenance, for students and teachers alike, for those who want to expand the world building possibilities of trans life and knowledge.” -- Victoria Hesford * Author of Feeling Women's Liberation *Table of ContentsPart I Logging On Introduction 1 Searching for Ourselves Online Part II Trans(form)ing Online 2 The Internet as Spatial 3 The Internet as Temporal 4 The Internet as Affective 5 The Internet as Sartorial 6 The Internet as Communal 7 The Internet as Visual Part III Prismatic Possibilities 8 The Multiplicity of Trans Life Online Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do men experience gender in city spaces? What are the interactional dynamics between different groups of men on city streets? How do men adjudicate between good and bad conduct in urban spaces? Through ethnographic descriptions of copresence on public transport in Kolkata, India, this book brings into sight the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities. It follows the labor geographies of auto-rickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters to argue that the gendered fabric of urban life needs to be understood as a product of situational forms of cooperation between different social groups. Such an orientation sheds light on the part played by everyday morality and provisional support in upholding male privilege in the city.Trade Review"Romit Chowdhury's City of Men examines the ways men occupy public space in Kolkata in this important new study. Chowdhury analyzes the relationship between masculinity, heterosexuality, and mobility in Kolkata with rich accounts, painting a picture of the gendered nature of trust and mobility in public space in visceral detail."— Tristan Bridges, coauthor of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change “City Of Men offers a dazzling view of the social life of public transport in Kolkata. Combining conceptual flair with ethnographic luminosity, Chowdhury plunges us headlong into the city’s streets to explain how masculine subjectivities are made and unmade through the warp and weft of everyday encounters.” — David Bissell, author of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities "Given the extent to which it is men that steer circulations through dense urban fabrics, how little we understand about what is on their minds, nor how their practices gender the city. Chowdhury brilliantly explores how male transport workers curate specific atmospheres of movement, responding to changing urban conditions and creating an often confounding politics of navigation."— AbdouMaliq Simone, author of The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond CaptureTable of ContentsIntroduction: City of Men 1. The Urban Landscape of Public Transport 2. Sociable Infrastructures: Autorickshaws 3. Unaccustomed Streets: Taxis 4. Homosocial Trust: Traffic Police 5. City Characters: Morality Conclusion: Urbanizing Masculinity Studies Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisIn South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do men experience gender in city spaces? What are the interactional dynamics between different groups of men on city streets? How do men adjudicate between good and bad conduct in urban spaces? Through ethnographic descriptions of copresence on public transport in Kolkata, India, this book brings into sight the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities. It follows the labor geographies of auto-rickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters to argue that the gendered fabric of urban life needs to be understood as a product of situational forms of cooperation between different social groups. Such an orientation sheds light on the part played by everyday morality and provisional support in upholding male privilege in the city.Trade Review“City Of Men offers a dazzling view of the social life of public transport in Kolkata. Combining conceptual flair with ethnographic luminosity, Chowdhury plunges us headlong into the city’s streets to explain how masculine subjectivities are made and unmade through the warp and weft of everyday encounters.” -- David Bissell * author of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities *"Romit Chowdhury's City of Men examines the ways men occupy public space in Kolkata in this important new study. Chowdhury analyzes the relationship between masculinity, heterosexuality, and mobility in Kolkata with rich accounts, painting a picture of the gendered nature of trust and mobility in public space in visceral detail." -- Tristan Bridges * coauthor of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change *"Given the extent to which it is men that steer circulations through dense urban fabrics, how little we understand about what is on their minds, nor how their practices gender the city. Chowdhury brilliantly explores how male transport workers curate specific atmospheres of movement, responding to changing urban conditions and creating an often confounding politics of navigation." -- AbdouMaliq Simone * author of The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture *Table of ContentsIntroduction: City of Men 1. The Urban Landscape of Public Transport 2. Sociable Infrastructures: Autorickshaws 3. Unaccustomed Streets: Taxis 4. Homosocial Trust: Traffic Police 5. City Characters: Morality Conclusion: Urbanizing Masculinity Studies Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisBarbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in Black women's literary traditions; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of women of color; in representing the lives of Black lesbians and gay men; and in making connections between race, class, sexuality and gender is gathered in The Truth That Never Hurts. This collection contains some of her major essays on Black women's literature, Black lesbian writing, racism in the women's movement, Black-Jewish relations, and homophobia in the Black community. Her forays into these areas ignited dialogue about topics that few other writers were addressing at the time, and which, sadly, remain pertinent to this day. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition, in a beautiful new package, also contains the essays from the original about the 1968 Chicago convention demonstrations; attacks on the NEA; the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Senate hearings; and police brutality against Rodney King and Abner Louima, which, after twenty-five years, still have the urgency they did when they were first written. Trade Review"Barbara Smith's uncompromising intelligence helped invent the politics of intersection which grounds progressive thinking today. These essays deliver trenchant analysis from one of the most original, astute, and practical thinkers in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender movement." -- Urvashi Vaid * director of The Policy Institute, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force *"At every moment of serious political crisis—and no thinking person can argue that ours is not such a moment—certain writers step forward with words that seem to ring from the very heart of history. Barbara Smith is certainly one of these writers, and her new book, electrifying, thought-provoking, illuminating, eloquent, harsh, and funny, is essential reading. Whether you agree with everything she says is not important; the essays in this book will revivify your heart and mind and reawaken a passion for activism and for justice." * Tony Kushner *"Barbara Smith is visionary, courageous, and insightful. Her work provides a crucial challenge to all of us." -- Dr. Cornel West"In these essays, Smith, an independent scholar and editor, explores several explosive issues, among them sexual politics, racism and women's studies, and homophobia." * Library Journal *"A feminist writer and theorist of some repute, Smith founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press with the late "black lesbian mother warrior feminist poet" Audre Lorde, and was the first woman of color appointed to the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. Her seminal 1977 essay Toward a Black Feminist Criticism, which puts forth the notion that a "Black women's literary tradition" not only exists, but thrives, fittingly opens this collection of newer and older, still vibrant works, most previously published in often hard-to-find journals or anthologies. Noting that "it is unnerving to imagine" what kind of writing she might have produced had she not come out, Smith registers obstacles to her current work on a wide-ranging history of black lesbians and gays in America, citing a recent two-volume encyclopedia (Darlene Clark Hine's Black Women in America) in which there are only six entries under 'Lesbian.' In the final essay of the collection, 'A Rose,' Smith recalls her friend, the late Lucretia 'Lu' Medina Diggs, and mourns the loss of her and Lorde, stressing that she will not be deterred from her fight for political awareness and compassion. Smith's writing frequently reaches strident polemicist peaks, but, just as frequently, stretches of sublime prose translate her crystalline intellect to the page, exciting both mind and senses." * Publishers Weekly *"A provocative collection of impassioned essays written from a radical, gay, African-American, feminist perspective. Smith, co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, has been publishing literary and social criticism for over 20 years. As a literary critic, she chastises the academic establishment for often misinterpreting and largely disregarding the voices of black women--gay black women in particular. In one of her most influential essays, 'Toward a Black Feminist Criticism,' written in 1977, Smith, contending that 'black women writers constitute an identifiable literary tradition,' pleads for a black feminist approach toward examining literature. Only the black feminist critic, she argues, is fully able to comprehend the nuances of work by black women, such as the depth of Sula and Nells relationship in Toni Morrisons novel Sula. Smith is also critical of nonlesbians addressing the black lesbian experience. In The Truth that Never Hurts, published in the late '80s, she argues that positive depictions of black lesbians are sorely lacking and that 'far too many non-lesbian black women who are actively involved in defining the African-American women's literary renaissance . . . completely ignore black lesbian existence or are actively hostile to it.' Smith's equally fervent social and political writings are informed by a Marxist viewpoint. She argues, sometimes unpersuasively, that heterosexism and sexism can wither only when capitalism is destroyed. She's especially concerned about the lack of role models for gay black youth; and she takes to task her gay brothers and sisters who have chosen to stay closeted because they are 'more concerned with their individual security and careers than they are with building community and working for radical political change.' This manifesto is always challenging and often convincing. * Kirkus Reviews *"Smith's book is an excellent example of powerful, introspective writing that challenges readers to reexamine their stance on complex issues concerning race and gender." * Bloomsbury Review *"Smith has provided us with a collection of erudite and profoundly moving writings [which are] smart, incisive, and instructive. There is no stone that Smith has left unturned. From homophobia in the black community to police brutality and including racism in the womenÆs movement, black women and anti-Semitism . . . Barbara Smith has explained the linkages between the multiplicity of oppressions facing blacks in general and black lesbians in particular." * Journal of Lesbian Studies *"The ancestors are surely ecstatic about the diligence, courage, passion, and good humor exhibited in The Truth That Never Hurts. This is a landmark work from a pioneering activist who has always kept the faith." -- Evelyn C. White * editor of The Black Women's Health Book *"Sobering in what it has to tell us, The Truth That Never Hurts forces us to face those truths that disrupt the placid surfaces of our lives. A personal/political odyssey that documents some of the most critical moments in the last three decades of our national life, Smith's book forces us to new levels of awareness. Her piercing eye and uncompromising search for human justice for all make this volume must-reading for everyone who cares about the future." -- Nellie Y. McKay * co-editor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature *“Want to know how today's body of Black feminist writing and literature came into being? The Truth That Never Hurts tells a good part of the story…. When she tells the stories of the women who are her colleagues–Lucretia Diggs in ‘A Rose’ or of her aunt LaRue, who brought the young Barbara and her twin sister Beverly library books–Smith inscribes in history the chance networks that keep marginalized people, especially Black women writers and lesbians, alive and alert. That's the healing part of the world she brings alive here.” * The Women’s Review of Books *“Although the book is particularly valuable for young people who might not know the history and dynamics of Black women's involvement in second wave feminism, it is a work likely also to be of great interest to those in women's studies, to those interested in Black feminist theory and literary criticism, and to those committed to understanding the interlocking nature of multiple forms of oppression in American culture.” * Radical Teacher *"The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom provides a universal message about struggle, resistance, and freedom, grounded within a black Lesbian feminist critique of America's culture and politics. The cogently written essays represent a cross-section of Smith's work over the past twenty years and the first book dedicated exclusively to her own writing. Focusing on race, feminism, and the politics of sexuality, Smith provides an alternative lens to view the world by making connections between systems of oppression and offering suggestions for social change." * Washington Blade *"As a black lesbian feminist activist and scholar, Smith is a highly respected voice of conscience who speaks discomforting but necessary truths about the interlocking nature of oppressions within American culture and institutions. These landmark essays . . . show Smith challenging academic, political, and community organizations to expand their missions in order to include persons who have been perennially at the margins of our society. . . Recommended." * MultiCultural Review *

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Book SynopsisBarbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in Black women's literary traditions; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of women of color; in representing the lives of Black lesbians and gay men; and in making connections between race, class, sexuality and gender is gathered in The Truth That Never Hurts. This collection contains some of her major essays on Black women's literature, Black lesbian writing, racism in the women's movement, Black-Jewish relations, and homophobia in the Black community. Her forays into these areas ignited dialogue about topics that few other writers were addressing at the time, and which, sadly, remain pertinent to this day. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition, in a beautiful new package, also contains the essays from the original about the 1968 Chicago convention demonstrations; attacks on the NEA; the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Senate hearings; and police brutality against Rodney King and Abner Louima, which, after twenty-five years, still have the urgency they did when they were first written. Trade Review"Barbara Smith's uncompromising intelligence helped invent the politics of intersection which grounds progressive thinking today. These essays deliver trenchant analysis from one of the most original, astute, and practical thinkers in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender movement." -- Urvashi Vaid * director of The Policy Institute, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force *"At every moment of serious political crisis—and no thinking person can argue that ours is not such a moment—certain writers step forward with words that seem to ring from the very heart of history. Barbara Smith is certainly one of these writers, and her new book, electrifying, thought-provoking, illuminating, eloquent, harsh, and funny, is essential reading. Whether you agree with everything she says is not important; the essays in this book will revivify your heart and mind and reawaken a passion for activism and for justice." * Tony Kushner *"Barbara Smith is visionary, courageous, and insightful. Her work provides a crucial challenge to all of us." -- Dr. Cornel West"In these essays, Smith, an independent scholar and editor, explores several explosive issues, among them sexual politics, racism and women's studies, and homophobia." * Library Journal *"A feminist writer and theorist of some repute, Smith founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press with the late "black lesbian mother warrior feminist poet" Audre Lorde, and was the first woman of color appointed to the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. Her seminal 1977 essay Toward a Black Feminist Criticism, which puts forth the notion that a "Black women's literary tradition" not only exists, but thrives, fittingly opens this collection of newer and older, still vibrant works, most previously published in often hard-to-find journals or anthologies. Noting that "it is unnerving to imagine" what kind of writing she might have produced had she not come out, Smith registers obstacles to her current work on a wide-ranging history of black lesbians and gays in America, citing a recent two-volume encyclopedia (Darlene Clark Hine's Black Women in America) in which there are only six entries under 'Lesbian.' In the final essay of the collection, 'A Rose,' Smith recalls her friend, the late Lucretia 'Lu' Medina Diggs, and mourns the loss of her and Lorde, stressing that she will not be deterred from her fight for political awareness and compassion. Smith's writing frequently reaches strident polemicist peaks, but, just as frequently, stretches of sublime prose translate her crystalline intellect to the page, exciting both mind and senses." * Publishers Weekly *"A provocative collection of impassioned essays written from a radical, gay, African-American, feminist perspective. Smith, co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, has been publishing literary and social criticism for over 20 years. As a literary critic, she chastises the academic establishment for often misinterpreting and largely disregarding the voices of black women--gay black women in particular. In one of her most influential essays, 'Toward a Black Feminist Criticism,' written in 1977, Smith, contending that 'black women writers constitute an identifiable literary tradition,' pleads for a black feminist approach toward examining literature. Only the black feminist critic, she argues, is fully able to comprehend the nuances of work by black women, such as the depth of Sula and Nells relationship in Toni Morrisons novel Sula. Smith is also critical of nonlesbians addressing the black lesbian experience. In The Truth that Never Hurts, published in the late '80s, she argues that positive depictions of black lesbians are sorely lacking and that 'far too many non-lesbian black women who are actively involved in defining the African-American women's literary renaissance . . . completely ignore black lesbian existence or are actively hostile to it.' Smith's equally fervent social and political writings are informed by a Marxist viewpoint. She argues, sometimes unpersuasively, that heterosexism and sexism can wither only when capitalism is destroyed. She's especially concerned about the lack of role models for gay black youth; and she takes to task her gay brothers and sisters who have chosen to stay closeted because they are 'more concerned with their individual security and careers than they are with building community and working for radical political change.' This manifesto is always challenging and often convincing. * Kirkus Reviews *"Smith's book is an excellent example of powerful, introspective writing that challenges readers to reexamine their stance on complex issues concerning race and gender." * Bloomsbury Review *"Smith has provided us with a collection of erudite and profoundly moving writings [which are] smart, incisive, and instructive. There is no stone that Smith has left unturned. From homophobia in the black community to police brutality and including racism in the womenÆs movement, black women and anti-Semitism . . . Barbara Smith has explained the linkages between the multiplicity of oppressions facing blacks in general and black lesbians in particular." * Journal of Lesbian Studies *"The ancestors are surely ecstatic about the diligence, courage, passion, and good humor exhibited in The Truth That Never Hurts. This is a landmark work from a pioneering activist who has always kept the faith." -- Evelyn C. White * editor of The Black Women's Health Book *"Sobering in what it has to tell us, The Truth That Never Hurts forces us to face those truths that disrupt the placid surfaces of our lives. A personal/political odyssey that documents some of the most critical moments in the last three decades of our national life, Smith's book forces us to new levels of awareness. Her piercing eye and uncompromising search for human justice for all make this volume must-reading for everyone who cares about the future." -- Nellie Y. McKay * co-editor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature *“Want to know how today's body of Black feminist writing and literature came into being? The Truth That Never Hurts tells a good part of the story…. When she tells the stories of the women who are her colleagues–Lucretia Diggs in ‘A Rose’ or of her aunt LaRue, who brought the young Barbara and her twin sister Beverly library books–Smith inscribes in history the chance networks that keep marginalized people, especially Black women writers and lesbians, alive and alert. That's the healing part of the world she brings alive here.” * The Women’s Review of Books *“Although the book is particularly valuable for young people who might not know the history and dynamics of Black women's involvement in second wave feminism, it is a work likely also to be of great interest to those in women's studies, to those interested in Black feminist theory and literary criticism, and to those committed to understanding the interlocking nature of multiple forms of oppression in American culture.” * Radical Teacher *"The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom provides a universal message about struggle, resistance, and freedom, grounded within a black Lesbian feminist critique of America's culture and politics. The cogently written essays represent a cross-section of Smith's work over the past twenty years and the first book dedicated exclusively to her own writing. Focusing on race, feminism, and the politics of sexuality, Smith provides an alternative lens to view the world by making connections between systems of oppression and offering suggestions for social change." * Washington Blade *"As a black lesbian feminist activist and scholar, Smith is a highly respected voice of conscience who speaks discomforting but necessary truths about the interlocking nature of oppressions within American culture and institutions. These landmark essays . . . show Smith challenging academic, political, and community organizations to expand their missions in order to include persons who have been perennially at the margins of our society. . . Recommended." * MultiCultural Review *

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Book SynopsisThis book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "proximity violence".The first type of violence is exercised in multiple situations and in the generality of relationships experienced by people involving others who are both strangers to and intimate with each other. Proximity violence provides and includes a fiduciary kind of "proximity", of "dependent intimacy", where the trust that the victim places in the other (her tormentor) favours the exercise of violence itself, allowing it to take place, thus making it practically imperceptible when not actually normal, in extreme cases.In turn, this confidence is comparable to "a veil of Maja" which, in conditions of vulnerability typical of victims, attenuates the consequences of the violence undergone or the omens of what becomes violent action.The conceptual triad: proximity violence, vulnerability, resistance-resilience is explored here, in the three main chapters and in the details aimed at identifying, in the final chapter, the mutual interconnections. This book will be of particular interest and use to undergraduate and graduate students of sociology and gender studiesTable of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book defies long standing assumptions about indigenous societies in the Americas and shows that non-heteronormative sexualities were already present among native peoples in different regions of what is now Latin America before the arrival of European colonizers. Presenting data collected from both literature and field research, the authors give examples of native queer traditions in different cultural regions, such as Mesoamerica, the Amazon and the Andes, and analyze how colonization gradually imposed the models of sexuality and family organization considered as normal by the European settlers using methods such as forced labor, physical punishments and forced marriages.Building upon post-colonial and queer theories, Queer Natives in Latin America: Forbidden Chapters of Colonial History reveals a little known aspect of the colonization of the Americas: how a bureaucratic-administrative, political and psychological apparatus was created and developed to normalize indigenous sexuality, shaping them to the colonial order. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Taking a closer look at “Queer Natives”.- Chapter 2. Mesoamerica.- Chapter 3. The Andes.- Chapter 4. The Amazon.- Chapter 5. Conclusion: What does it mean to be native and queer in Latin America today?.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how to help teachers become better advocates for sexual orientation equality in secondary schools. Examining this issue through the lens of qualitative emancipatory action research, a group of Australian teachers embarked on a journey of teacher advocacy. Critical theory has long highlighted teachers as key players in either challenging dominant social narratives, or else perpetuating oppressive systems of power through traditional forms of education. Despite this important role, the life stories of teachers, which contributed to the development of their beliefs and behaviours about sexual orientation are rarely considered in the development of anti-discriminatory policy, designing the curriculum and most importantly, in teacher training. This book suggests and frames a model for advocacy, whereby teachers engage with their personal beliefs about sexual orientation, with their role as a teacher, and commit to advocacy through action by promoting student safety, challenging heteronormative narratives and role modelling compassionate behaviours in their school environments. Table of Contents1 Introduction to Sexual Orientation Inequality in Australia2 Sexual Orientation Inequality in Schools3 Sexual Orientation Equality in Schools4 Critical Theory5 Social Transformation6 Research with Teachers7 Engaging with Inequality8 Engaging as a Teacher9 Promoting Safety10 Modelling11 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to focus on sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) in public health, addressing the dearth of thinking, practice, and publication on SGBA and public health. The Canadian government is a global leader in seeking gender equity and mandating SGBA in federal initiatives, programs, and policies, continuing to advocate for the uptake of SGBA. However, there is differential uptake of SGBA in many fields, and public health is lagging behind. This book analyses the movement toward SGBA in Canada and internationally, highlighting some key examples of public health concern such as HIV/AIDS and tobacco use.An international group of experts in the fields of SGBA, public health, program evaluation, policy development, and research comprise the authorship of the book. Collectively, the team of authors and editors have deep expertise in SGBA and public health nationally and internationally and have published widely in the SGBA literature.Topics explored among the chapters – organized under three thematic content areas: the SGBA terrain in public health, illustrative examples from the field, and the implications of SGBA in public health – include: Sex- and Gender-Based Analyses and Advancing Population Health Beyond “Women’s Cancers”: Sex and Gender in Cancer Health and Care Women, Alcohol and the Public Health Response – Moving Forward from Avoidance, Inattention and Inaction to Gender-Based Design Understanding Pandemics Through a Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) Lens Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis and the Social Determinants of Health: Public Health, Human Rights and Incarcerated Youth Gender-Transformative Public Health Approaches Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health is an important text for graduate-level students and trainees as well as public health practitioners in a variety of disciplines such as health promotion, nursing, health administration, public administration, sociology, political science, gender and women’s studies. The book also is an essential resource for specialists in public health policy, programming, research, and evaluation.Table of ContentsForeword: Veronica MagarChapter 1: Introduction: Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis (SGBA) and Public HealthPart I: The SGBA TerrainChapter 2: Missing in Action: Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health Chapter 3: Sex- and Gender-Based Analyses and Advancing Population HealthPart II: SGBA MattersChapter 4: HIV Prevention and the Need for Gender-Transformative ApproachesChapter 5: Tobacco Blinders: How Tobacco Control Remained Generic for Far Too LongChapter 6: Beyond “Women’s Cancers”: Sex and Gender in Cancer Health and CareChapter 7: Tuberculosis and the Relevance of Sex- and Gender-Based AnalysisChapter 8: Women, Alcohol and the Public Health Response – Moving Forward from Avoidance, Inattention and Inaction to Gender-Based DesignChapter 9: Sexual Health PromotionChapter 10: Understanding Pandemics Through a Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) Lens Part III: The Responsibilities of Public HealthChapter 11: Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis and the Social Determinants of Health: Public Health, Human Rights and Incarcerated Youth Chapter 12: Gender-Transformative Public Health ApproachesChapter 13: Translation, Implementation, and Engagement

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Book Synopsis This book explores the religious teachings of best-selling Victorian author and former Member of Parliament, Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888). While several biographies have been written on his captivating life, the stage of his life when Oliphant first established ‘The Household' commune has, until now, been largely unexplored. This book focuses on this later stage of his life, exploring Oliphant’s religious teachings. Additionally, this study incorporates a newly discovered archive, which reveals many behind-the-scenes details of The Household's teachings. Jeffrey D. Lavoie shows that Oliphant provided a unique interpretation of sexuality from a mystical Christian perspective, which opposed the restrictive contemporaneous “Victorian morality." Table of Contents Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Biography and Background Chapter 3: The SympneumataChapter 4: Charles Carleton Massey (1838 – 1905)Chapter 5: Rosamond Dale Owen (1846 – 1937)Chapter 6: James Murray Templeton (1860 – 1892)Chapter 7: Jennie TuttleChapter 8: Hannah Whitall Smith (1832 – 1911)Chapter 9: Laurence Carrington GrubbeChapter 10: A Scandal from Within Chapter 11: Conclusion Addendum A: Laurence Carrington Grubbe and the Sympneumata Addendum B: Maria Julia Grubbe and the Sympneumata Addendum C: William Stainton Moses and the Sympneumata Addendum D: 1886-1892 L.C. Grubbe’s Journal and His Interaction with Laurence Oliphant

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Book SynopsisThis book is about Madeleine Slade (1892-1982) and Catherine Mary Heilemann (1901-1982), two English associates of Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869-1948), known in India as Mira Behn and Sarala Behn. The odysseys of these women present a counternarrative to the forces of imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and globalized development. The book examines their extraordinary journey to India to work with Gandhi and their roles in India’s independence movement, their spiritual strivings, their independent work in the Himalayas, and most importantly, their contribution to the evolution of Gandhian philosophy of socio-economic reconstruction and environmental conservation in the present Indian state of Uttarakhand. The author shows that these women developed ideas and practices that drew from an extensive intellectual terrain that cannot be limited to Gandhi’s work. She delineates directions in which Gandhian thought and experiments in rural development work and visions of a new society evolved through the lives, activism, and written contributions of these two women. Their thought and practice generated a new cultural consciousness on sustainability that had a key influence in environmental debates in India and beyond and were responsible for two of the most important environmental movements of India and the world: the Chipko Movement or the movement against commercial green felling of trees by hugging them, and the protest against the Tehri high dam on the Bhagirathi River. To this day, their teachings and philosophies constitute a useful and significant contribution to the search for and implementation of global ideas of ecological conservation and human development. Table of ContentsBridging Divides: Mira Behn and Sarala Behn in Gandhian Social Activism 1) General Introduction PART I: The Road Taken: Early Life and Work in India with Gandhi 2) Mira Behn: When the Spirit Becomes the Guide 3) Sarala Behn: She Who Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways ) PART II: Gandhian Sarvodaya and the Challenge to Development 4) Gandhi and Science?: Rethinking Science, Technology, and Development the Gandhian Way 5) Off the Beaten Path: Mira Behn and Himalayan Environment and Development 6) From Reform to Revolution: Sarala Behn, Nai Talim, and the Rise of Local Women’s Power Part III: The Battle for the Hill Environment: The Behns in Gandhian Activism 7) Saving the Forests: Ecology in Sarvodaya 8) Protesting the Dam: Vision of a Permanent Economy Part IV: The Bridge Builders: The Integrative Worldviews of Mira Behn and Sarala Behn 9) Beauty Wonder, and Sustainability: Reconnecting Humans to Nature for “Durable Harmony” 10) Holistic Education and Practical Spirituality for Human-Nature Harmony 11) Bridging Divides: The Living Legacies of the Behns new outline structure Bridging Divides: Mira Behn and Sarala Behn in Gandhian Social Activism 1) General Introduction PART I: The Road Taken: Early Life and Work in India with Gandhi (with introduction text – former Chapter 2) 2) Mira Behn: When the Spirit Becomes the Guide (former Chapter 3) 3) Sarala Behn: She Who Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (former Chapter 4) PART II: Gandhian Sarvodaya and the Challenge to Development (with Introduction text - former Chapter 5) 4) Gandhi and Science?: Rethinking Science, Technology, and Development the Gandhian Way (former Chapter 6) 5) Off the Beaten Path: Mira Behn and Himalayan Environment and Development (former Chapter 7) 6) From Reform to Revolution: Sarala Behn, Nai Talim, and the Rise of Local Women’s Power (former Chapter 8) Part III: The Battle for the Hill Environment: The Behns in Gandhian Activism (with Introduction text - former Chapter 9) 7) Saving the Forests: Ecology in Sarvodaya (former Chapter 10) 8) Protesting the Dam: Vision of a Permanent Economy (former Chapter 11) Part IV: The Bridge Builders: The Integrative Worldviews of Mira Behn and Sarala Behn (with Introduction text - former Chapter 12) 9) Beauty Wonder, and Sustainability: Reconnecting Humans to Nature for “Durable Harmony” (former Chapter 13) 10) Holistic Education and Practical Spirituality for Human-Nature Harmony (former Chapter 14) 11) Bridging Divides: The Living Legacies of the Behns (former Chapter 15)

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection provides an intersectional and transnational exploration of representations of sexual violence and rape within films, television shows, and digital media in the contemporary context of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Drawing upon sociology, gender studies, cultural studies, media studies, and Black feminist studies, chapters focus on women and texts at the margins of mainstream culture’s depictions of sexual violence. The editors and contributors examine the dominant narrative of the thin, cisgender, heterosexual white female victim, and the ways in which social and cultural conversations around race and gender impact and are impacted by depictions of sexual violence in media. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology, gender studies, and media studies, particularly those interested in the intersectionality of race and gender.Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Table of Contents1. Working class warnings and erotic thrillers: the ‘other’ woman as sexualized hate object in films of the 80s & 90s.- 2. Where the Violence Lies: Re-reading rape and revenge in Freeze Me.- 3. No Country for Women: The Narratives of Rape and Sexual Violence in Bollywood.- 4. Forging a new Warpath: Indigenous Reimaginings of the Rape-Revenge Film and the Preventative Potentialities of Imagined Violence.- 5. ‘I was never the hero that you wanted me to be’: White feminism, sexual violence and the black woman as cipher on Jessica Jones.- 6. Turned on: how television continues to fill sex ed gaps for marginalized youth, and its implications.- 7. Investigating Representations of Rape within U.S ‘Quality’ Television Programming.- 8. Sexual Violence and Smallfolk: The Exploitation of the Sex Worker in Game of Thrones.- 9. You too: The strategic use of a fictional #MeToo story in Netflix’s You— 10. Ambivalent pleasures: unsustainable representations of sex and violence.- 11. Abundantly Invisible: Fat Oppression as a Framework for Gender-Based Violence.- 12. Real or Reel Consent: investigating sexual violence and tokenism in reality dating TV shows.- 13. Recentering Black Women’s Experiences of Sexualized Violence: Response-ability and Responsibility.- 14. Victims, Perpetrators, and the ‘Real’ of Reality Television.- 15. Queering sexual violence: Unpopular issues on daytime television.- 16. Rape Jokes as Resistance: A Case Study of ‘Rape is Real and Everywhere’.- 17. Fandom Power? Audience reactions in the age of #MeToo.- 18. Valuing the Victim: How rape showed its true colours.- 19. Sexual Violence and the Gendered Hospitality of the Digital Domestic.- 20. Feminist paratextual negotiations of sexual violence in popular culture after #MeToo.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection showcases innovative, up and coming researchers’ work in the field of sex work studies across labour/work and relationships. This research is pushing the boundaries of the subject, asking new questions, carving new methodological terrain, and contributing new ideas and empirical findings to the existing literature. Drawing on sociology, criminology, media studies, social and health policy, law and socio-legal studies, the chapters reflect a range of new topics in the sex work studies literature such as religious readings, porn workers and their interactions with fans; romantic relationships, and humour at work. Studies are drawn from Europe, South America, Turkey, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA. This book speaks to academics across the social sciences and humanities who are interested in sex work studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the book – Sanders, McGarry and RyanPart One: Work, Labour and RelationsChapter 1: Celebrity, Trophy Hunting and the ‘Porn Star’. Dr Caroline West, Dublin City UniversityChapter 2: Sex workers rights are human rights. Or not? The art of stealing back human rights. Marjan Wijers, University of EssexChapter 3: The interconnectivity of the sex industry: The relationship of lap dancers with the wider sex working community in the UK. Tess Herrmann, University of York Chapter 4: "It's Not Easy": Sex Worker Subjectivity and Formation of Feminist Standpoints. Jessica Van MeirChapter 5: Timely Telling Tweets: Amsterdam window sex worker tweets on the future legislation proposals of window prostitution. Dr Donna Finer, UCLANPart Two: Relationships, Identity and HarmChapter 6: An epistemic approach to the ethics and health of sex workers’ romantic relationships. Bella MatosChapter 7: The Family Business – Intergenerational Sexual Exploitation. Rachel Searcey, University of LoughboroughChapter 8: An exploration of the dimensions of healthcare access for sex workers: A review of the literature in Ireland and New Zealand. Zoe McCormack, Maynooth University, Ireland.Chapter 9: Correlates of Client-perpetrated violence against female sex workers in Bogata. Carlos Iglesias. University of ManchesterChapter 10: Humor in a Serious Business: Trans Sex Workers in Turkey. Ezgi Guler. European University InstituteChapter 11: Reading in and writing out: sex work, biblical interpretation and the politics of in/decency. Bea Fones.

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Book SynopsisNow more than ever there is a need to focus on Black men's health in higher education and ensure that future practitioners are trained to ethically and culturally serve this historically oppressed community. This textbook provides practical insight and knowledge that prepare students to work with Black men and their families from a strengths-based and social justice lens. There is a dearth in the literature that discusses the prioritization of Black men’s health within the context of how they are viewed by societal approaches to engage them in research, and health programming aimed at increasing their participation in health services to decrease their morbidity and mortality rates. Much of the extant literature is over 10 years old and doesn't account for social determinants of health, perceptions of health status, as well as social justice implications that can affect the health outcomes of this historically oppressed population including structural and systemic racism as well as police brutality and gun violence.The book's 13 chapters represent a diversity of thought and perspectives of experts reflective of various disciplines and are organized in four sections: Part I - Racial Disparities and Black Men Part II - Black Masculinity Part III - Black Men in Research Part IV - Social Justice Implications for Black Men's Health Black Men’s Health serves as a core text across multiple disciplines and can be utilized in undergraduate- and graduate-level curriculums. It equips students and educators in social work, nursing, public health, and other helping professions with the knowledge and insight that can be helpful in their future experiences of working with Black men or men from other marginalized racial/ethnic groups and their families/social support systems. Scholars, practitioners, and academics in these disciplines, as well as community-based organizations who provide services to Black men and their families, state agencies, and evaluation firms with shared interests also would find this a useful resource.Table of ContentsPart I - Racial Disparities and Black Men Chapter 1 Modern Epidemiological Impacts on Black Men’s Health: Using a Social Justice-Oriented Analysis Raymond Adams Chapter 2 Black Men and Healthy Together: Self-Management of Chronic Disease and Behavioral Health Everlina Sterling, Vanessa Robinson-Dooley, Carol Collard, , and Tyler Collette Chapter 3 Positionality and Unpacking Current Perspectives on Black Male Health Towards Transformative Action Brian Culp Part II - Black Masculinity Chapter 4 Beyond Moving the Ball in Youth Sports: Making the Case for Mental Health for Black Youth Vanessa Robinson-Dooley Chapter 5 The Psychological Colonization of Black Masculinity: Decolonizing Mainstream Psychology for White Allies Working in Mental Health with Black Men Hans Skott-Myhre and Kathleen Skott-Myhre Chapter 6 Black Masculinity Remixed Troy Harden and John Zeigler Chapter 7 Building a Movement with Black Men: Culture Is the Key Jerry Watson and Gregory Washington Part III - Black Men in Research Chapter 8 Asserting Voice: Navigating Service Delivery and Community Resources Jennifer A. Wade-Berg Chapter 9 “The Talk” Revisited: Expanding the Conversation with Black Males in Trauma Kara Beckett Chapter 10 Innovative Strategies to Engage Black Men in Research Quienton L. Nichols Part IV - Social Justice Implications for Black Men's Health Chapter 11 Social Justice and Black Men’s Health Shonda K. Lawrence, Jerry Watson, Kristie Lipford, Nathaniel Currie, and Malik Cooper Chapter 12 Advocacy, Politics, and the Sporting World’s Response to Racial Unrest Dewey M. Clayton, Sharon D. Jones-Eversley and Sharon E. Moore Chapter 13 Social Justice Implications for Black Men’s Health: Policing Black Bodies Michael A. Robinson

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from a diverse array of international scholars, this edited volume offers a renewed understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) by examining its social and political dimensions in migration contexts. This book engages micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis by foregrounding a conceptualization of GBV that addresses both its interpersonal and structural causes. Chapters explore how GBV frameworks and migration management intersect, bringing to the forefront the specific inequalities these intersections produce for migrant women. Drawing upon several disciplines, the authors engage in co-writing a critical engagement which proposes an original understanding of how the concepts of intersectionality, vulnerability and precarity speak to each other from a feminist perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars/researchers and policymakers in Gender Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Trauma Studies, Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies.Table of ContentsPart I Against Essentialism and Beyond Abstract Universalism: Theorising Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts 1 Thinking about Gender and Violence in Migration: An Introduction 2 Vulnerability, Precarity and Intersectionality: A Critical Review of Three Key Concepts for Understanding Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts Part II Policy Intersections: Combating Gender-Based Violence and Managing Migration3 Countering ‘Their’ Violence: Framing Gendered Violence Against Women Migrants in Austria4 The Gender of Canadian Legal and Policy Gender-Based Violence and Immigration Frameworks 5 Gender-based Violence as a ‘Consequence of Migration’: How Culturalist Framings of GBV Ignore Structural Violence Against Migrant Women in France 6 Crimmigration and Gender-Based Violence Against Women Asylum Seekers in Israel Part III Understanding Policy Implications, Foregrounding Women’s Voices 7 Vulnerability and Resiliency: Immigrant Women, Social Networks and Family Violence 8 Between the Law and a Hard Place—A Victim of Trafficking Meets the Norwegian Migration Regime 9 Gender-Based Violence as a Continuum in the Lives of Women Seeking Asylum: From Resistance to Patriarchy to Patterns of Institutional Violence in France10 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women’s friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary interpretation that do not prioritize heterosexual romance. Instead, this book represents friendships as mature and meaningful relationships that contribute to identity formation and political coalition. Both the supportive and competitive aspects of friendships are shown to be crucial to women’s identities as individuals, political citizens, and artists. Addressing the complexities of how 20th- and 21st-century cultural texts construe women’s friendships as they navigate patriarchal institutions, this collection advances scholarship on friendship beyond men and masculine models.Trade Review“This is an enormously rewarding anthology in which the reader can find witty, humorous, and tragic stories and gain insights into the plurality and diversity of women’s relationships.” (Xiuchun Zhang, Women's Studies, September 11, 2023)Table of Contents1. Introduction - Kristi Branham and Kelly L. ReamesI. Adolescent Friendships and Identity Formation2. Fleur’s Kinship, Pauline’s Whiteness: How Colonization Shapes Friendship in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks - Rachel Griffis3. ‘What obligation do I have toward her?’: College Girl Friendships and Self-Actualization in Hangsaman and The Bell Jar - Julie Ooms4. Entangled Roots: ‘Old Friends’ Reconnected in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation - Marie Drews5. The Gothic’s Creation of Women’s Friendship in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House - Megan Peabody and Mikkaila Poulin6. Lovers and Friends of the Spirit: Celie and Shug’s Quare Friendship in The Color Purple - Tangela SerlsII. Alliances and the Promise of Women’s Friendships7. ‘Dorothy and I had quite a little quarrel’: Clever Banter and the ‘Language’ of Female Friendship in Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Krista Aldrich and Emily Wiktor8. ‘We Will Work Together’: Interclass Women’s Collabships in Progressive Era Novels - Alicia Beeson9. Political Progress and Social Stall: Failed Friendships, Feminist Fissures, and Mary McCarthy’s Modern Reform Novel - Cassandra Fetters10. ‘The Tenderness of One Woman for Another’: Female Friendship and Revolt in the 20th-century Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Susan StoneIII The Transformative Power of Authors’ Friendships11. ‘These Sweet Trees’: June Jordan, Alice Walker, and Womanist Friendship - Cheryl Hopson12. Chicana Visions: Ana Castillo and Cherríe Moraga’s Friendship, Falling Out, and Forgiveness - Leigh Johnson13. Beat-Associated Women and Female Relationships in Carolyn Cassady’s Off the Road - Josette Lorig14. Reframing Black Women’s Relationships: Exploring the Bond between Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Edwina Kruse through an Unpublished Manuscript - Monet Lewis-Timmons

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