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University of British Columbia Press Cripping Intersex
Book SynopsisCripping Intersex explores the political, discursive, and embodied connections between intersex and disability to develop a radically innovative approach to intersex studies and activism.
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Domestic Revolution Enlightenment Feminisms
Book SynopsisBannet demonstrates which issues joined and separated different camps of eighteenth-century women, tracing the origins of debates that continue to shape contemporary feminist thought.Trade ReviewAn important and provocative treatment of the politics of domesticity, and the domesticity of politics, or the reciprocal relationship between two allegedly estranged spheres that formed the very foundation for early feminism. -- Julie Park Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 2002Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Domestic Novel Chapter 1. The Question of Domestic GovernmentChapter 2. Domestic Fictions and the Pedagogy Example Chapter 3. Sexual Revolution and the Hardwicke Marriage ActChapter 4. "The Public Uses of Private Families"Chapter 5. Governing Utopias and the Feminist Rousseau Conclusion: The Domestic RevolutionNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press A Vision for Girls Gender Education and the Bryn
Book SynopsisA Vision for Girls offers an original and engaging history of an institution that helped shape educational goals in America, shedding light on the course of American education and attitudes toward women's intellectual and professional capabilities.Trade ReviewA Vision for Girls is a skillfully written book that places Bryn Mawr in the context of girls' education in America across the 20th century... excellent work of scholarship. -- Mike Bowler Baltimore Sun Hamilton's treatment of what some might regard as controversial material cannot be faulted. -- William W. Cutler, III American Historical Review 2005 Valuable as a testimony to the import of academic freedom. -- Chara Haeussler Bohan History of Education Quarterly 2005 A Vision for Girls adds a new chapter to the history of American education and women. -- Amy Thompson McCandless Journal of American History 2005 A compelling account of how the history of the Bryn Mawr School parallels the history of female education in the United States, as well as the broader history of the changing roles and expectations of women in American culture. -- Alice Ginsberg Feminist Teacher 2005 Valuable... suitable reading for undergraduate and graduate women's studies or education courses. -- Rebekah Buchanan Feminist Collections 2007Table of ContentsForeword, by Helen Lefkowitz HorowitzPrefaceIntroduction1. The Bryn Mawr Vision: Imaging a Model School2. Implementing the Vision: From Ideal to Institutional Realities3. Transforming the Vision: The Bryn Mawr School in the Mid-Twentieth Century5. Challenging the Vision: Broadening the Independent School Philosophy and Constituency6. Reinventing the Vision: A School for GirlsConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Reading Benedict Reading Mead Feminism Race and
Book SynopsisNewman, University of Florida; Dolores E. Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington; Christopher Shannon, University of Notre Dame; Gerald Sullivan, University of Notre Dame; Sharon Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Jean Walton, University of Rhode Island; Virginia Yans, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyTrade Review"A handy compendium of current writing on Benedict and Mead - enormously informative, stimulating, and intellectually sound." - Howard Brick, Washington University, St. Louis"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being and Becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret MeadPart I: Becoming Benedict, Becoming MeadChapter 1. Woven Lives, Raveled Texts: Benedict,Mead, and Representational DoublenessChapter 2. "The Bo-Cu Plant": Ruth Benedict and GenderChapter 3. Margaret Mead, the Samoan Girl and the Flapper: Geographies of Selfhood in Coming of Age in SamoaPart II: Erasures and InclusionsChapter 4. Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa: Reflections on Margaret Mead's Legacy for Western Liberal FeminismChapter 5. "A World Made Safe for Differences": Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 6. White Maternity, Rape Dreams, and the Sexual Exile in A Rap on RacePart III: Imperial VisionsChapter 7. Of Feys and Culture Planners:Margaret Mead and Purposive Activity as ValueChapter 8. The Lady of the Chrysanthemum: Ruth Benedict and the Origins of The Chrysanthemum and the SwordChapter 9. Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese CultureChapter 10. The Parable of Manus: Utopian Change, American Influence, and the Worth of WomenPart IV: Echoes and ReverberationsChapter 11. Imagining the South Seas:Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa and the Sexual Politics of ParadiseChapter 12. Symbolic Subordination and the Representation of Power in "Margaret Mead and Samoa"Chapter 13. Misconceived Configurations of Ruth BenedictPart V: Re-Thinking Benedict and MeadChapter 14. Margaret Mead: Anthropology's Liminal FigureChapter 15. "It is besides a pleasant English word"—Ruth Benedict's Concept of Patterns RevisitedChapter 16. On the Political Anatomy of Mead-bashing, or Re-thinking Margaret MeadNotesContributorsIndexIllustrations
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Johns Hopkins University Press Unfinished Agendas New and Continuing Gender
Book SynopsisShaw, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia; Frances K. Stage, New York University; Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Teachers College, Columbia University; Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Arizona State University; Kelly Ward, Washington State University; Lisa Wolf-Wendel, University of KansasTrade ReviewThis excellent volume offers a sobering assessment of women's situation in higher education. Choice 2009 Unfinished Agendas is an impressive follow-up to Glazer- Raymo's 1999 book Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe... This book achieves satisfying breadth without watering down what is a vitally important-and complex-topic for those concerned about the future of the academic workforce. -- Melissa McDaniels Academe 2009 Masterfully handled... This book, published in the midst of a period of extreme financial turbulence, is a fine portrait of a set of institutions whose contribution to the students it serves may need reviewing. -- S.L. Sutherland Times Higher Education 2008 Unfinished Agendas is a book that any scholar, leader, student, and staff member in higher education should read. Not only does the book provide valuable insight into the position of women... it also provides practical recommendations of ways to alter policies, discourses, practices, and cultures to move higher education in a more pluralistic direction. -- Linda Serra Hagedorn Journal of College Student Retention 2009 Unfinished Agendas is a worthwhile book. -- Judy Haiven CAUT Bulletin 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Feminist Agenda: A Work in ProgressChapter 2. Women Faculty and the Dance of Identities: Constructing Self and Privilege within CommunityChapter 3. Shattering Plexiglas: Continuing Challenges for Women Professors in Research UniversitiesChapter 4. The Differential Effects of Academic Capitalism on Women in the AcademyChapter 5. Developing Women Scientists: Baccalaureate Origins of Recent Mathematics and Science DoctoratesChapter 6. Faculty Productivity and the Gender QuestionChapter 7. Women and the College PresidencyChapter 8. Women on Governing Boards: Why Gender MattersChapter 9. Female Faculty in the Community College: Approaching Equity in a Low-Status SectorChapter 10. Women of Color in Academe: Experiences of the Often InvisibleChapter 11. Choice and Discourse in Faculty Careers: Feminist Perspectives on Work and FamilyEpilogueContributors Index
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Stanford University Press Making Tea Making Japan
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Surak's Making Tea, Making Japan is one of the most astute studies of the ceremony to appear in decades. Beyond tea aficionados, Surak's book should be read by scholars and students of culture and nationalism because Surak's main contribution is showing how these two fields of embodied culture and nationalism are so deeply intermeshed in the practice of tea."—Eric C. Rath, Journal of Japanese Studies"The author gives a wealth of detail on the tea ceremony itself . . . Tea captures the essence of Japanese-ness as well as the virtue of the East Asian mentality. Surak writes in a compelling way about how Japanese intellectuals used tea to emblemize Japan's role as the last repository of East Asian culture, which was at risk of falling prey to the 'White Disaster' . . . [Making Tea, Making the State] offers a useful account of how tea culture permeates Japanese history and contemporary society."—Danielle Kane, American Journal of Sociology"Kristin Surak's elegantly written analysis of the tea ceremony is an excellent addition to the literature on cultural nationalism . . . [T]his book is a meticulous study of tea. Surak resists the temptation of falling into clichés and offers a vibrant analysis of the practice through historical reconstruction, institutional analysis, ethnographic inquiry, and phenomenological description . . . Surak's study is theoretically innovative and essential for sociologists and anthropologists."—Stephanie Assmann, Social History"A regrettable schizophrenia characterizes the study of nationalism, with macro and micro analysts rarely engaging rival views. Hence, Kristin Surak's book is a theoretical breakthrough, showing the changing functions and social bearers of a single ritual over a long and troubled historical record. Elegantly written and extraordinarily argued."—John A. Hall, James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology, McGill University"Kristin Surak's fine study unpacks the social and historical context of tea and its ceremonial preparation as a highly illustrative case in point of nationalized cultural production and representation. Deftly crossing disciplinary boundaries between anthropology, sociology, and history, Making Tea, Making Japan is a well-crafted and interpretively provocative book that anyone with an interest in Japanese society and the theoretical dynamics of nationalism will find fascinating . . . [B]eautifully written and lucidly argued, the book offers much of value for scholars and students of modern Japan and the cultural manifestations of national identity there and in other parts of the world."—Erik Esselstrom, Histoire sociale / Social History"If you were ever curious about just what makes the tea ceremony such a Japanese thing, then Kristin Surak's book, Making Tea, Making Japan, should answer your questions from all possible angles. . . Surak's passion and love for the topic emanate from the pages. . . This is not a simple guidebook to enchant novices and teach them the basic steps to get started in the Japanese ritual of 'tea'. Surak's comprehensive research will take those interested deep into the practice's background and allow them to see the tea ceremony as a window into the soul of Japanese national identity. "—Metropolis"The book uses historical analysis to show how tea became an important measure of national competence, and ethnographic analysis to show how the processes of differentiation occur. All this is achieved in elegant prose that is a joy to read."—Chris Perkins, H-Net"Surak's greatest strength is her awareness of the factors that inform the tea ceremony's central place in Japanese society, from commercial structures allowing the seamless delivery of the objects and architecture of tea anywhere on the globe, to the casual use of history—not always accurate—deployed in a Sunday lesson. . . Surak's book offers a scholarly story of choreography and commercialization and will find its way into future dissertations and onto the shelves of school libraries."—Dana Buntrock, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Cultural Review"Making tea for a guest in Japan is a highly encultured act, demanding much more than a pour of hot water over powdered tea. Kristin Surak has plumbed the depths of the practice and demonstrated the enduring meanings of tea for Japanese performers of the craft."—Merry White, Boston University"Kristin Surak's richly contextualized study shows in vivid detail how and why tea came to be, and remains, such a strong carrier of nation in Japan, at once performance and product. Sociologists in particular will not want to miss the fine ethnographic investigation of the tea ceremony in contemporary Japan."—Priscilla Ferguson, Columbia University"Surak's careful ethnography and clear theoretical analysis demonstrate the historical role of the tea ceremony in constructing and defining the nation, but she also shows how it is an important part of the slightly different work of maintaining and explicating Japanese-ness. Through careful ethnographic details she shows how the tea ceremony is embodied in ways both gendered and historically contingent; how it is used to distinguish Japanese from other Asians, Asia from the West, 'good' Japanese from others who are less good; and how it is carried not only in performative bodies but in places/spaces. This often fascinating and lively study of chanoyu draws the reader through these various, and intertwined, processes over Japan's recent historical past, unpacking a rich trove of material artefacts, rituals, and texts."—Sarah Corse, University of Virginia"Kristin Surak's excellent work, Making Tea, Making Japan, provides an eye-opening survey of the history and practice of chanoyu that reveals the tea world's institutional frameworks and patterns of authority, physical and material aspects of its training and practice, and its representation to general audiences."— Nancy Stalker, Monumenta Nipponica
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University of Arizona Press Gender Law and Resistance in India
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University of Arizona Press Soldados Razos at War
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Duke University Press The Revolution Has Come
Book SynopsisIn The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, examining how its internal politics along with external forces such as COINTELPRO shaped the Party's efforts at fostering self-determination in Oakland's black communities.Trade Review"In The Revolution Has Come, her detailed organizational history of the party, the historian Robyn C. Spencer reminds us that for the party’s leaders, it was critical that their platform be accessible, as [Huey P.] Newton put it, to 'the brothers on the block.'" -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *"Unlike other scholarship that has foregrounded a handful of primarily male leaders, Spencer’s account is a well-rounded organizational history. . . . The author deftly weaves together an impressive source base to present a cohesive and accessible narrative of the evolution of the Black Panther Party. Highly recommended." -- A. Ribeiro * Choice *"This book is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on the history of the struggle of African Americans to liberate themselves. Spencer’s attention to historical details, with respect to the critical stages and features that marked the short lifespan . . . of the BPP, is breathtaking." -- Kwesi Tsri * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"The author’s crisp, clean, incisive prose proved an eye-opening reading experience that at times left me dumbfounded as to how many myths and assumptions have come to dominate latter-day perceptions of the Panthers." -- Michael Ezra * Black Perspectives *"Spencer’s attention to women and gender provides a much-needed intervention in the historiography of the [Black Panther] Party and of Black Power more broadly. ... Ultimately, her book reveals how the Party and its dynamic women members and gender frameworks offer a roadmap for a new generation of historians, activists, and revolution." -- Ashley Farmer * Black Perspectives *"Robyn C. Spencer’s politically timely and eminently engaging history of the Black Panther Party (BPP) is a must read for anyone interested in Black Power and the history of the African American freedom struggle more broadly. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the BPP’s founding, The Revolution Has Come breaks new ground by presenting a wealth of original source material that sheds new light on the organizational development and the ideological outlook of the Panthers in Oakland." -- Nicholas Grant * Radical Americas *“[Spencer’s] crisp, clean, incisive prose proved an eye-opening reading experience that at times left me dumbfounded as to how many myths and assumptions have come to dominate latter-day perceptions of the Panthers. . . . The Revolution Has Come is a very strong book that I would recommend for high school, undergraduate, and graduate school students as well as general readers. Even seasoned experts on the BPP will likely learn much from this wonderful, new account.” -- Michael Ezra * Journal of Civil and Human Rights *"One of the strengths of Spencer’s book, and what allows it to stand out from the explosion of books on the BPP in the past 10 years, is that she documents with clarity the ideological changes within the party that shaped it in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . Perhaps Spencer’s greatest contribution to Black Panther historiography is her thorough examination of the BPP’s political and ideological changes after 1972." -- Robert Greene II * Public Books *"A much-needed organizational history. . . . Provides greater depth to scholarship on the Black Panther Party." -- Marcia Walker-McWilliams * American Historical Review *"Spencer’s book provides an excellent overview of the birth of the movement, its impact, and importantly the role of women, who comprised more than 60% of the party membership." -- Kehinde Andrews * The Guardian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seize the Time: The Roots of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California 7 2. In Defense of Self-Defense 35 3. Moving on Many Fronts: The Black Panther Party's Transformation from Local Organization to Mass Movement 61 4. Inside Political Repression, 1969–1971 88 5. "Revolution Is a Process Rather Than a Conclusion": Rebuilding the Party, 1971–1974 114 6. The Politics of Survival: Electoral Politics and Organizational Transformation 143 7. "I Am We": The Demise of the Black Panther Party, 1977–1982 177 Conclusion 202 Notes 205 Bibliography 241 Index 253
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University of Hawai'i Press The Traffic in Hierarchy Masculinity and Its
Book SynopsisUntil its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. In The Traffic in Hierarchy, one of the few such works to appear in recent years, author Ward Keeler combines close ethnographic attention to life in a Buddhist monastery with a broad analysis of Burman gender ideology.
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Johns Hopkins University Press LGBTQ Health Research
Book SynopsisThe first book focused entirely on the growing field of LGBTQ health research, this volume provides the necessary public health tools to teach about and study LGBTQ populations effectively. Over the last 30 years, the health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans have become increasingly recognized, in particular for the ways in which they are distinct from those typically assessed and addressed in society. Universities and researchers are paying greater attention to LGBTQ public health issues and how they might adapt existing methods to research marginalized communities, butuntil nowthere has been no authoritative resource to guide their education or practice. Developed for graduate students in public health and health sciencesbut perfect for anyone interested in this topicthis book will fill that gap and provide the necessary public health tools to teach about and study LGBTQ populations effectively. Divided into three sections and edited by top scholars,Trade ReviewThis rich volume marks a critical moment in the field of LGBTQ health research. It provides a vital tool for the training of future generations of researchers.—World Medical & Health PolicyAs the first textbook of its kind focused on research methods in LGBTQ health, LGBTQ Health Research: Theory, Methods, Practice represents a milestone in the field's development . . . This volume will be a particularly valuable resource for students and postdoctoral trainees in LGBTQ health training programs as well as trainees and professionals in other health programs who wish to employ their training and expertise to address LGBTQ health disparities.—LGBT HealthAll props for this ground-breaking accomplishment in public health for all LGBTQ people and those who care for us and with us.—Journal of BisexualityTable of ContentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Introduction to LGBTQ Health Research Introduction. Queering ResearchRon Stall, Ronald O. Valdiserri, and Richard J. WolitskiChapter 1. Human Rights and LGBTQ Health: Inseparable ChallengesChris BeyrerChapter 2. Global Health / LGBTQ HealthTonia Poteat and Shauna StahlmanChapter 3. A Love Note to Future Generations of LGBTQ Health ResearchersRon Stall, Chris Beyrer, Tonia Poteat, Brian Dodge, and José Bauermeister Part 2. Descriptive Research MethodsIntroduction. Why Are Methods and Approaches So Important for LGBTQ Health Research?Brian Dodge and Mark L. HatzenbuehlerChapter 4. Definitions: "Straight, that is not gay"—Moving beyond Binary Notions of Sexual and Gender Identities Randall Sell and Kerith ConronChapter 5. Sampling Considerations for LGBTQ Health ResearchChristopher Owens, Ron Stall, and Brian DodgeChapter 6. Theory as a Practical Tool in Research and InterventionIlan H. Meyer, with the Generations Study InvestigatorsChapter 7. Creating and Adapting LGBTQ-Specific Measures to Explain Disparities Joshua G. RosenbergerChapter 8. Multilevel Approaches to Understanding LGBTQ Health DisparitiesMark L. HatzenbuehlerChapter 9. Social-Network Approaches to HIV Prevention and CareCarl Latkin and Karin E. TobinChapter 10. Why Focus on Gay Couples in HIV Prevention Research?Colleen HoffPart 3. Intervention Design and ResearchIntroduction. How Does LGBTQ Health Research Inform Interventions?José BauermeisterChapter 11. Engaging Populations in LGBTQ Health InterventionsRob Stephenson and Erin RileyChapter 12. Finding the Right Approach for Interventions with LGBTQ PopulationsStephen L. Forssell, Peter Gamache, and Rita DwanChapter 13. Program Development Considerations for LGBTQ Health InterventionsJosé Bauermeister, Ryan C. Tingler, and Gary W. HarperChapter 14. From Discovery to Application: Challenges in Effectiveness and Implementation Research for the Promotion of LGBTQ Health and WellnessRobin Lin Miller and Angulique Y. OutlawIndex
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University of Texas Press Glitter Up the Dark
Book SynopsisWhy has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query 'is he musical?' become code, in the twentieth century, for 'is he gay?' Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music’s intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener. Glitter Up the Dark traces the history of this gender fluidity in pop music from the early twentieth century to the present day.Starting with early blues and the Beatles and continuing with performers such as David Bowie, Prince, Missy Elliot, and Frank Ocean, Geffen explores how artists have used music, fashion, language, and technology to break out of the confines mandated by gender essentialism and establish the voice as the primary expression of gender transgression. From glam rock and punk to disco, techno, Trade ReviewGeffen’s 2020 book is a gem...Their arguments about the music of the last 60 years—from the Beatles to Prince and David Bowie to Frank Ocean and Perfume Genius—are revelatory. The gender binary, they argue, is not simply worth breaking; it has always been broken...Geffen creates one of the most helpful and useful things a writer can give: hope for a more inclusive future. Anyone interested in gender would benefit from reading Glitter Up the Dark, and music obsessives can find a plethora of new interpretations of music history as well. Ultimately, that is what the best music books can do. * PopMatters, "12 Contemporary Books That Will Have You Rethinking Music History" *A must-read for all those interested in the politics of sound. * The Guardian *This is how Glitter Up the Dark, and all of Geffen’s writing, works: Once you start reading it, you’ll hear the world through new ears. You’ll devour Glitter Up the Dark with eyes wide and mind racing, drawing connections to whatever music you listen to. It’s exciting. And if you’re a queer or trans listener, it’s validating reading about how generations of us have found a haven in music. * Vulture *An ecstatic celebration of freedom through sound and movement, Glitter Up the Dark makes pop history feel thrillingly new. * Kirkus/Rolling Stone, "Best Music Books of 2020" *[Glitter Up the Dark] speaks to pop music’s effect on future generations of norm-breaking artists, but also on public perceptions of gender and its engagement with race and class politics. It’s an essential contribution to the modern music-book canon, made all the more intimate in Geffen’s hands. * Pitchfork, "Our 15 Favorite Music Books of 2020" *[Glitter Up the Dark] is a unique examination of gender fluidity and queerness across genres of popular music; a must-read for music lovers. * Ms. Magazine *[Glitter Up the Dark] doesn't just discuss various subversions of typical masculine and feminine gender roles—it discusses how we came to accept the full gender spectrum with non-binary and third gender identities. Geffen chronicles gender fluidity in music from the 20th century to the present, discussing everyone from early blues artists and David Bowie to Missy Elliot and riot grrrl bands. * Paste Magazine *From Little Richard and Elvis to David Bowie and Prince, Glitter Up The Dark shows how artists have used music and its accompanying fashion and technology to subvert traditionally accepted forms of sexual identity—including what Geffen calls “audio drag,” wherein musicians inhabit shifting personas through vocal manipulation. While Geffen is more than comfortable digging into headier gender theory, the book remains accessible and well-crafted. * The A.V. Club *Through deft yet largely accessible analysis, Glitter Up the Dark feels like a revelatory unearthing, as Geffen carefully exposes threads of queerness that typical histories may choose to ignore or erase. * them *Glitter Up the Dark is not just a chronicle of the transgressive possibilities of pop music but also a history of Geffen’s listening and a demand that we regard pop culture in explicitly political terms. * The Nation *Without attempting a comprehensive overview of queerness in music, Glitter Up the Dark nevertheless traces a clear path from the Beatles onwards...Whether it's the time-shifting energy of '70s New York clubs like the Loft, the 'sapphic androgyny' of Prince, or the gay masculine identification channeled through Grace Jones's 'I Need A Man,' Geffen makes clear that performers and their listeners have always been engaged in a lively, flirtatious exchange, constructing vibrant, expressive, and more fluid worlds in the space between each reverberating sound wave. * Nylon *An essential contribution to the modern music-book canon, made all the more intimate in Sasha Geffen’s hands. * Pitchfork *This slim yet sprawling volume...overturns traditional approaches to pop-music history by revisiting popular stars, songs and genres through a gender-expansive, queer lens * Westword *[Glitter Up the Dark] tells the story of queer artists and fans carving out space for their self-expression in an industry that capitalizes on pieces of the queer aesthetic, while simultaneously writing off those artists who are deemed too subversive or political. * Jezebel *[An] ambitious first book...with Geffen’s boundless love for music, deep listening skills, and expansive knowledge, they have queered the map of pop in language as accessible as a yellow brick road. * Lambda Literary *Geffen’s clear love and deep knowledge of the subject, along with insightful historical and critical arguments about the intertwining of gender and music, make this a deliciously necessary read for anyone interested in either pop culture or gender studies. * Library Journal, Starred Review *Glitter Up the Dark is Geffen's definitive love letter to the power of music to inspire acceptance and transformation—both within ourselves, and in the world around us. * Foreword Reviews *In an expansive and exuberant history Sasha Geffen celebrates music's liberatory potential to break down binary gender roles. * The Wire *Geffen drags a shimmering thread that connects transgressive music histories that have defined not just queer culture but all of pop culture for decades...Geffen’s book feels like the most fabulous tasting menu that will inspire readers to fall down the rabbit holes of so many of these stories. * Autostraddle *Geffen provides detailed insight into the ways queer and gender non-conforming artists shaped pop music—including punk and its antecedent, glam rock. * Chicago Reader *[Glitter Up the Dark] details, era by era, just how much popular music has done to break down the gender binary...one of the things I loved about the book is how Geffen celebrates the way that challenging the binary is inherent to the appeal of pop music for all people who approach it with open ears and hearts: it clears a space for all of us to more truly understand the human experience. * The Current *Geffen invokes canonical artists with wan mischief…and keeps finding curious historical details…Glitter Up the Dark lovingly describes the affinities drawn together by the act of listening. * Hazlitt *[An] incisive first book…[Geffen's] lucid prose is frequently enlivened by small, passing insights into music I’ve encountered a million times but will now forever hear refracted through their imagery and words…What I found most valuable about Glitter Up the Dark was the lens through which it looks back and invites us to notice how such seeming 'subversions' have always been present beneath the surface of even the most popular music...Reading this book often gave me the sensation that I was looking at a familiar scene through a kaleidoscope, suddenly seeing smeared borders and tiny, winking rainbows everywhere. * Bookforum *Glitter Up the Dark is less a straightforward narrative of pop music gender play and nonconformity than a spiraling, exhilarating dance through its more and less famous manifestations...This prism of a book reflects a rainbow on all it touches. * Boston Globe *Glitter Up the Dark helps readers understand and contextualize gender performance in popular music. It might change the way you listen to and engage with your favorite records. * The Arts Fuse *From disco to techno, punk rock to hip-hop, Geffen digs deep to explore the way popular music can facilitate exchange between listeners and performers, loosening the grip of gender roles and providing fertile ground for asking questions, seeking liberation and creating change. * NPR, "NPR's Best Books of 2020" *A brilliant, highly accessible, and timely testament to the power of music to shatter the status quo. * Library Journal, "Best Arts Books of 2020" *This exploration of queerness and pop is ridiculously comprehensive...Geffen’s examination of gender ambiguity’s relationship to artistic reinvention is a fascinating read. You’ll never listen to classic genre-staples in the same way again. * NME, "The 20 best music books of 2020" *Geffen's genuine enthusiasm for transgressive pop music is clear and infectious, and the chapters on punk and glam rock...are true standouts. [Glitter Up the Dark] is full of insightful observations, such as the pivotal role that Wendy Carlos and Pauline Oliveros played in the development of electronic music...A helpful guided tour that shows how music is the perfect art form in which to 'dance between genders.' * Kirkus *Glitter Up the Dark...asks a fascinating question, one the author turns over and over for 264 fascinating pages. What is it about popular music that makes it such a uniquely freeing space for artists to explore the gender spectrum? Geffen takes a fascinating walk through music history from the queer pioneers of rock and blues; to the Beatles and their matching mop tops; to 21st century artists like Perfume Genius and Fever Ray. * The Current, "Best music books of 2020" *From the castrati of mid-sixteenth century Italy to 'Ma' Rainey’s lesbian blues to SoundCloud’s shape-shifting stars, Geffen takes readers on an illuminating journey in lyrical, punkish prose. * Elle, "The 63 Best Books of 2020" *Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Alternate Ribbon of Time 1. Screaming the Beatles: The First Boy Band Breaks the Gender Mold 2. Oh! You Pretty Things: The Glitter Revolution 3. Whining Is Gender Neutral: Punk’s Adolescent Escapism 4. Wreckers of Civilization: Post-punk, Goth, and Industrial 5. Soft Machines: Women, Cyborgs, and Electronic Music 6. Not a Woman, Not a Man: Prince’s Sapphic Androgyny 7. The Fake Makes It Real: Synthpop and MTV 8. Infinite Utopia: Queer Time in Disco and House 9. Funky Cyborgs: Time, Technology, and Gender in Hip-Hop 10. Butch Throats: Women’s Music and Riot Grrrl 11. God Is Gay: The Grunge Eruption 12. No Shape: The Formless Internet Coda: Whole New World Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Duke University Press Bigger Than Life
Book SynopsisIn Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator''s sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close-up, particularly of the face, as grotesque and often horrifying, even as it sought to expose a character''s interiority through its magnification of detail and expression. Today, large-scale technologies such as IMAX and surround sound strive to dissolve the cinematic frame and invade the spectator''s space, “immersing” them in image and sound. The notion of immersion, Doane contends, is symptomatic of a crisis of location in technologically mediated space and a reconceptualization of position, scale, and distance. In this way, cinematic scale and its modes of spatialization and despatializatTrade Review“Matching her earlier, masterful treatment of cinematic time, Mary Ann Doane here offers a brilliant probing of cinematic space. She explores cinema’s dynamic use of scale, from the magnification of the face in close-up to new screen technologies ranging from the iPhone to IMAX. Drawing on a range of film styles and practices, including early cinema, avant-garde experiments, and Shanghai cinema of the 1930s, Doane reveals how cinema has shaped a modern abstract and even dematerialized world.” -- Tom Gunning, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago“Mary Ann Doane’s highly innovative, theoretically brilliant, and eloquently incisive consideration of the history of the filmic close-up and its relation to scale will undoubtedly make Bigger Than Life a field-changing work.” -- Maggie Hennefeld, author of * Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes *"Bigger Than Life opens with a unique and crucial examination of the history and historiography of the close-up, its conclusion offers a look at cinema in its biggest and most impactful forms, even cinema beyond cinema itself – this is where Doane’s work becomes truly colossal." -- Harrison Whitaker * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"Bigger Than Life’s wide-ranging interrogation of its subject makes for a thrilling and rewarding read. [It] is altogether awe-inspiring and overwhelming in ways appropriate to its subject, constituting an important meditation on the dialogue between new and old media." -- Alicia Byrnes * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Scale, the Cinematic Image, and the Negotiation of Space 1 Part I. Close-Up/Face 1. The Delirium of a Minimal Unit 29 2. The Cinematic Manufacture of Scale, or Historical Vicissitudes of the Close-Up 53 3. At Face Value 89 Part II. Scale/Screen 4. Screens, Female Faces, and Modernities 135 5. The Location of the Image: Projection, Perspective, and Scale 189 6. The Concept of Immersion: Mediated Space, Media Space, and the Location of the Subject 239 Notes 283 Bibliography 325 Index 343
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Duke University Press Breathing Aesthetics
Book SynopsisIn Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism, imperialism, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration. They identify responses to the crisis in breathing in aesthetic practices ranging from the film work of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta to the disability diaries of Bob Flanagan, to the Black queer speculative fiction of Renee Gladman. In readings of these and other minoritarian works of experimental film, endurance performance, ecopoetics, and cinema-vérité, Tremblay contends that articulations of survival now depend on the management and dispersal of respiratory hazards. In so doing, they reveal how an aesthetic attention to breathing generates historicalTrade Review“'Breathing is inevitably morbid,' reads the opening line of Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s exquisite new first monograph, Breathing Aesthetics. . . . By closely studying the writings and performances of Dodie Bellamy, CAConrad, and Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose, Tremblay is attentive to breathing’s knotty role in the space of queer life in how it ‘organizes desire amid crises ranging from the personal to the planetary.’ Similarly, by surveying the Black and Indigenous feminist respiratory rituals outlined in the works of Toni Cade Bambara and Linda Hogan, Tremblay asks us to consider ‘minoritarian models of collective life inspired by respiration,’ those that exist outside of and beyond mainstream feminist spaces of organizing.” -- Ricky Varghese * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Tremblay’s text is an exercise in exchange, in permeability. It begins with an acknowledgement that ‘breathing for’ is in the action of ‘I breathe,’ a ritual Tremblay learns from the poet M. NourbeSe Philip. This acknowledgement of human autopoetic respiration discloses the multiplicity and vulnerability of breathing. . . . Exchange, I have said, includes an etymological link to bartering. And [Breathing Aesthetics is] a bartering with the unknown amidst all too knowable crises." -- Laurel V. McLaughlin * ASAP/Journal *"Tremblay’s book does for breath what scholars like Zoe Todd have done for broad concepts like climate change, which is to push back against the Platonic understanding of said concepts that cannot be confined to a single, material form. Breathing Aesthetics pushes back on the idea of a disembodied breath, of air as a vacuum-like space that surrounds us. . . . Not only are we breathing together, our individual forms part of an amorphous and often chaotic whole, but breath is also being negotiated in a variety of different ways, the morbid and the meditative existing side by side." -- Margaryta Golovchenko * Visual Studies *"What is perhaps most revelatory about Tremblay’s intervention is that there is no call for a full restoration of breath. Notwithstanding its impossibility for minoritarian communities, a return to optimal breathing could only work through a guise of self-determined liberation that masks persisting violence against and estrangement among those whose lives cannot be extricated from conditions of 'breathlessness.' Readers of Breathing Aesthetics will quickly find that Tremblay’s assertion that respiratory crises are contagious between survivor and spectator in that the latter is made to suffer shortages of breath also apply here." -- Jennifer Cho * ISLE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Ecologies of the Particular 1 1. Breathing against Nature 33 2. Aesthetic Self-Medication (Three Regimens) 65 3. Feminist Breathing 94 4. Smog Sensing 113 5. Death in the Form of Life 139 Coda: A Queer Theory of Benign Respiratory Variations 158 Notes 163 Bibliography 197 Index 221
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions
Book SynopsisSex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparently quite a few of us fall outside the categories ‘male’ and ‘female’. But gender identity is said to be universal – we all have one. Humanity used to be cleaved into two sexes, whereas now the crucial division depends on whether our gender identity aligns with our body. If it does, we are cisgender; if it does not, we are transgender. The dethroning of sex has meant the threat of execution for formerly noble words such as ‘woman’ and ‘man’. In this provocative, bold, and humane book, the philosopher Alex Byrne pushes back against the new gender revolution. Drawing on evidence from biology, psychology, anthropology and sexology, Byrne exposes the flaws in the revolutionary manifesto. The book applies the tools of philosophy, accessibly and with flair, to gender, sex, transsexuality, patriarchy, our many identities, and our true or authentic selves. The topics of Trouble with Gender are relevant to us all. This is a book for anyone who has wondered ‘Is sex binary?’, ‘Why are men and women different?’, ‘What is a woman?’ or, simply, ‘Where can I go to know more about these controversies?’ Revolutions devour their own children, and the gender revolution is no exception. Trouble with Gender joins the forefront of the counter-revolution, restoring sex to its rightful place, at the centre of what it means to be human.Trade Review"Alex Byrne masterfully does what philosophers are supposed to do: clarify words and concepts, identify which ideas follows from which other ones, and distinguish what is from what ought to be. And despite the now incendiary subject matter, he accomplishes all this with a light touch and an appealing voice."Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Rationality"A refreshingly clarifying and forthright take on the philosophy of gender activism, cutting through the noise with incisiveness and wit. Anyone interested in the gender wars needs to read it."Kathleen Stock, author of Material Girls"Alex Byrne's Trouble with Gender is an admirably clear and rigorous book that outlines the major parameters of what is often an off-kilter discussion. Combining philosophy and science with an eye for how issues of sex and gender are discussed in the media, Byrne gives the reader a lesson not only in how to think about these specific issues, but also in how to think at all."Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman and What Do Men Want? "Current academic discussions of sex and gender are dominated by advocates, dogmatists, poseurs, and obscurantists. Trouble with Gender offers a lucid, rigorous and judicious guide to the perplexed. It’s an antidote to irrationality and also a pleasure to read."Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism?"Everyone with opinions, or questions, about matters of sex and gender should read this book. It carefully and incisively unravels the tangled mass of ideas that cluster under the umbrella of gender. It does not engage in politics, or question the extent of human variability, or deny the reality of anyone’s experience, but it does claim that there is no escape from the concept of sex as binary, and that the prevailing orthodoxy, which treats sex as socially constructed and an infinitely malleable continuum, is ‘tragically wrong’. I challenge anyone who accepts that orthodoxy to explain in detail where the arguments presented here go wrong."Janet Radcliffe Richards, author of The Sceptical Feminist“excellent… Byrne succeeds wildly.”Jesse Singal, SubstackTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: Gender, Double Toil and Trouble Chapter 2: ‘Gender’ TroubleChapter 3: Clownfish and Chromosomes Chapter 4: I am WomanChapter 5: The Rise of Gender Identity Chapter 6: Born in the Wrong Body Chapter 7: Is Biology Destiny? Chapter 8: True Selves and Identity Crises CodaAcknowledgementsBibliography NotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist
Book SynopsisEngaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In Lesbian Death, Mairead Sullivan probes the perception that lesbian status is in retreat, exploring the political promises—and especially the failures—of lesbian feminism and its usefulness today. Lesbian Death reads how lesbian is conceptualized in relation to death from the 1970s onward to argue that lesbian offers disruptive potential. Lesbian Death examines the rise of lesbian breast cancer activism in San Francisco in conversation with ACT UP, the lesbian separatist manifestos “The C.L.I.T. Papers,” the enduring specter of lesbian bed death, and the weaponization of lesbian identity against trans lives. By situating the lesbian as a border figure between feminist and queer, Lesbian Death offers a fresh perspective on the value of lesbian for both feminist and queer projects, even if her value is her death. Trade Review "Mairead Sullivan’s refreshing book delves deeply into the decades-long dynamic in which the lesbian—as figure, identity, and political project—is somehow always already dying even as younger and older generations infuse the lesbian with new and vital promise. Analyzing fears of lesbian death registered in narratives of loss, aggression, murderousness, bed death, and so many wars (sex wars, theory wars, butch-fem border wars, intersectionality wars, and TERF wars), this engaging work trenchantly illuminates the disruptive potential and undeniable persistence of the lesbian at the heart of the often-tense relations among feminist, queer, and trans articulations of community."—Finn Enke, author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism "Lesbian Death is a thoroughgoing analysis of the work of ‘the lesbian’—especially tales of her imminent demise—in discourse and culture. Neither romanticized nor maligned, here, the figure of the lesbian is vital to queer/trans/feminist world-making. A generous and generative contribution to queer and lesbian studies, Mairead Sullivan’s treatment is timely and inspired."—Angela Willey, author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology "A compelling and timely book to think with, especially for those of us invested in building more just feminist, queer, trans, and lesbian worlds, whatever language we use to do so."—Autostraddle
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Sasquatch Books How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary
Book Synopsis“This tender, smart, personal book is a gift. Stuart Getty generously shows us, with witty illustrations and kind humor, the hows and whys of they/them pronouns. A wonderful and necessary resource that is a delight to read.”—Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot and ValenciaWhat does nonbinary really mean? What is gender nonconforming? And isn't they a plural pronoun? In this charming and disarming guide, a real-life they-using genderqueer writer unpacks all your burning questions in a fun, visual way. No soapboxes or divisive comment-section wars here!Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, always human, this gender-friendly primer will get you up to speed. It's about more than just bathrooms and pronouns--this is about gender expression and the freedom to choose how to identify. While they might only be for some, that freedom is for everyone!“[A] clear, kind guide to gender nonconformity. Getty's cheeky tone and the punchy black-and-white illustrations by Brooke Thyng make this book a useful reference for anyone with questions about gender, whether their own or those they witness in the larger world.”—Booklist“Straightforward, practical, relevant navigation through the radiant world of gender fluidity.”—Kirkus ReviewsTrade Review“This is totally cool. It’s an accessibly rigorous introduction to the singular they pronoun and likewise this, I think, workbook paws around connecting they-ness to the bordering and genuinely simultaneous realm of sexuality in its multiplicity of ways of feeling not ‘like’ but genuinely truly being oneself. Also the drawings are good, it just all feels direct (phew)—which is what we need—and it would be a boon to hand this book to so many people, so please do that. Plus it’s a useful read to remind yourself that you aren’t alone and do exist. I’m glad to have read it.”—Eileen Myles, poet and author of Chelsea Girls “Straightforward, practical, relevant navigation through the radiant world of gender fluidity.”—Kirkus Reviews“How to They/Them is an easy visual learning guide to accompany us on the journey to accepting others as they truly are. The more tools the better!”—Jinkx Monsoon, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race “Utterly cute and tremendously useful. A remarkably valuable, versatile, and accessible source of education on gender identity.”—Alok Vaid-Menon, author of Beyond the Gender Binary “How to They/Them is a friendly, gentle, entertaining introduction to gender, taking they/them pronouns as a starting point but covering so much more. With sweet illustrations, helpful timelines, and generous personal examples, Stuart Getty takes the reader by the hand and tells them everything they need to know about how to navigate the confusing, ever-shifting landscape of sex and gender. This book will give nonbinary readers a sense of being profoundly seen and everyone else the confidence to make the world that little bit safer for their nonbinary friends, family, and colleagues. Thank you, Stuart.”—Meg-John Barker, author of Gender: A Graphic Guide and How to Understand Your Gender “This tender, smart, personal book is a gift. Stuart Getty generously shows us, with witty illustrations and kind humor, the hows and whys of they/them pronouns. A wonderful and necessary resource that is a delight to read.”—Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot and Valencia“[A] clear, kind guide to gender nonconformity. Getty's cheeky tone and the punchy black-and-white illustrations by Brooke Thyng make this book a useful reference for anyone with questions about gender, whether their own or those they witness in the larger world.”—Booklist“Half Mx. Manners and half manifesto, How to They/Them is a useful guide to a gender fluid world.”—Shelf Awareness“In this sometimes-serious, often-humorous guide, Getty breaks down the do’s and don’ts of using these pronouns, how to be an ally in any situation (including the workplace), and just what gender fluidity means.”—425 Business
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University of Utah Press,U.S. I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer
Book SynopsisNobody knows what to do about queer Mormons. The institutional Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prefers to pretend they don’t exist, that they can choose their way out of who they are, leave, or at least stay quiet in a community that has no place for them. Even queer Mormons don’t know what to do about queer Mormons. Their lived experience is shrouded by a doctrine in which heteronormative marriage is non-negotiable and gender is unchangeable. For women, trans Mormons, and Mormons of other marginalized genders, this invisibility is compounded by social norms which elevate (implicitly white) cisgender male voices above those of everyone else. This collection of essays gives voice to queer Mormons. The authors who share their stories—many speaking for the first time from the closet—do so here in simple narrative prose. They talk about their identities, their experiences, their relationships, their heartbreaks, their beliefs, and the challenges they face. Some stay in the church, some do not, some are in constant battles with themselves and the people around them as they make agonizing decisions about love and faith and community. Their stories bravely convey what it means to be queer, Mormon, and marginalized—what it means to have no voice and yet to speak anyway.
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Policy Press Connecting with children: Developing working
Book Synopsis"Connecting with children: developing working relationships" focuses on how adults connect with children and develop supportive relationships. It illustrates how good communication and positive and participative relationships can be developed with children across the range of universal and specialist children's services. The contributors draw on theory, research and practice to enable understanding of why good communication and good relationships are crucial for many important contemporary issues involving children including children's rights, bullying, resilience, participation and transitions. This book will be essential reading for students, practitioners and academics who wish to further their knowledge of childhood and children's lives and to further develop good practice with children.Trade Review"I found the presentation to be simple and free of jargon, and much thought has been given to the layout in order to make the information accessible. While the book has been designed for students of the Open University, I recommend it as having relevance for all practitioners working in this field" Madeleine Henley, Professional Social Work"The book provides a robust understanding of the theories and research underpinning communication with children and shows how this knowledge can inform practice." Madeleine Henley, Professional Social Work, July 2008"Working with children and their families is a serious and often complex undertaking for professionals. This book encourages students and practitioners to reflect, within both practical and theoretical perspectives, on the key issues of developing effective communication and participation with children in processes that may significantly affect their lives." Maurice Crozier, educational psychologistTable of ContentsCommunicating with children ~ Gill Crow, Pam Foley and Stephen Leverett; Developing positive relationships ~ Janet Collins; Positive practice relationships ~ Andy Rixon; Listening across generations ~ Pam Foley; Children's participation ~ Stephen Leverett; Understanding transitions ~ Stephen Leverett; Working with children and transitions ~ Stephen Leverett.
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Rutgers University Press Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black
Book SynopsisHome Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides Barbara Smith the opportunity to look back on forty years of the struggle, as well as the influence the work in this book has had on generations of feminists. The preface from the previous Rutgers edition remains, as well as all of the original pieces, set in a fresh new package. Contributors: Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie) M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita J. Weems.Trade Review"The survival of these women and their joy makes Home Girls very satisfying." * Essence *“A provocative and important collection.” * Ms. *"Pungent and varied, full of questions, convictions, and insights." * The Nation *"It is fitting that Home Girls also reflects and celebrates the difference, among the [thirty-three] Black feminist writers, critics, and theorists assembled from the United States and the Caribbean, among Black women of all colors, classes, and cultures. More importantly, it reflects and celebrates our connections." * Women's Review of Books *"Home Girls is a book that has been saving lives and freeing communities for my entire lifetime. The Black Feminist revolutionary ethic and aesthetic that this book founds, documents and forwards is the best hope for survival and well-being that our species has. Read or re-read this book as if everything depends upon it. It does." -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs * author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals *“Groundbreaking…Though written years ago, Smith’s words are as valid today as they were then.” * Shondaland *“There is a profound need for those in communities that are taken for granted (or taken advantage of) to give voice to their joy, pain, and ambitions. Home Girls is a must-read for those who wish to understand, to grow, and to learn.” * Black Lesbian Literary Collective *“Considered by many to be the essential book on feminism, Home Girls is a selection of profound essays penned by intriguing feminists as well as lesbian activists.” * VIBE *"Home Girls is a repository of Black lesbian and feminist life, an animate archive that holds the breadth and depth of Black women’s intellectual and political acuity. Home Girls expands the episteme of Black Studies, offering a method to examine the simultaneity of oppression, a vision of freedom that eclipses captivity. Forty years later, this autopoietic text renews the life of Black Feminism, supplying us with incisive language for living." -- Briona Simone Jones * editor of Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought *"With its warm, inviting and endearing title, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, this still classic work became foundational as it helped to develop a whole field in which generations of scholars learned the politics of coalition building, organizing, writing responsively and creatively about the Black woman’s experience in global contexts. The 'simultaneity of oppressions' logic which is its theoretical framework still provides an analytical model for assessing how these structures of power are even more clarified today but also how Black women have constantly challenged enforced locations." -- Carole Boyce Davies * author of Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power *Table of Contents Preface to the 40th Anniversary Edition Preface to the first Rutgers University Press Edition Introduction Poem, Akasha (Gloria) Hull I. The Blood--Yes, the Blood For a Godchild, Regina, On the Occasion of Her First Love, Toi Derricotte The Damned, Toi Derricotte Hester's Song, Toi Derricotte The Sisters, Alexis De Veaux Debra, Michelle T. Clinton If I Could Write This in Fire, I would Write This In Fire, Michelle Cliff The Blood--Yes, The Blood: A Conversation, Cenen and Barbara Smith Something Latino Was Up With Us, Spring Redd "I Used to Think", Chirlane McCray The Black Back-Ups, Kate Rushin Home, Barbara Smith II. Artists Without Art Form "Under The Days": The buried Life and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké, Akasha (Gloria) Hull The Black Lesbian in American Literature: An Overview, Ann Allen Shockley Artists Without Art Form, Renita Weems I've Been Thinking of Diana Sands, Patricia Jones A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women, Jewelle L. Gomez What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow: A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Akasha (Gloria) Hull III. Black Lesbians--Who Will Fight For Our Lives But Us? Tar Beach, Audre Lorde Before I Dress and Soar Again, Donna Allegra LeRoy's Birthday, Raymina Y. Mays The Wedding, Barbara Smith Maria de las Rosas, Becky Birtha Miss Esther's Land, Barbara A. Banks The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community, Cheryl Clarke Where Will You Be? Pat Parker IV. A Home Girls' Album V. A Hell of a Place to Ferment a Revolution Among the Things That Used to Be, Willie M. Coleman From Sea to Shining Sea, June Jordan Women of Summer, Cheryl Clarke The TIred Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman, Kate Rushin Shoes Are Made for Walking, Shirley O. Steele Billy de Lye, Deirdre McCalla The Combahee River Collective Statement, Combahee River Collective Black Macho and Black Feminism, Linda C. Powell Black Lesbian/Feminist Organizing: A Conversation, Tania Abdulahad, Gwendolyn Rogers, Barbara Smith, Jameelah Waheed For Strong Women, Michelle T. Clinton The Black Goddess, Kate Rushin Women's Spirituality: A Household Act, Luisah Teish Only Justice Can Stop a Curse, Alice Walker Coalition Politics: Turning the Century, Bernice Johnson Reagon Acknowledgments Information on Contributors
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Redoing Gender: How Nonbinary Gender Contributes
Book SynopsisRedoing Gender demonstrates how difficult it is to be anything other than a man or a woman in a society that selectively acknowledges those two genders. Gender nonbinary people—who identify as other genders besides simply “man” or “woman”—have begun to disrupt this binary system, but the limited progress they have made has required significant everyday labor. Through interviews with 47 nonbinary people, this book offers rich description of these forms of labor, including “rethinking sex and gender,” “resignifying gender,” “redoing relationships,” and “resisting erasure.” The final chapter interrogates the lasting impact of this labor through follow-up interviews with participants four years later. Although nonbinary people are finally managing to achieve some recognition, it is clear that this change has not happened without a fight that continues to this day. The diverse experiences of nonbinary people in this book will help cisgender people relate to gender minorities with more compassion, and may also appeal to those questioning their own gender. This text will also be of keen interest to academics across Sociology and Gender Studies. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsForewordPreface1. Reconsidering the “Gender Revolution”2. Rethinking Sex and Gender3. Resignifying Gender4. Redoing Relationships5. Resisting Erasure6. Regression and Progress7. ConclusionDemographics TableWorks Cited
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Lying with the Heavenly Woman
Book SynopsisThe bestselling author of He, She, and We analyzes two mythic stories that illuminate the malaise of our time--the wounded feeling function.
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Duke University Press Homosexual Desire
Book SynopsisIntegrating psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, this book describes the social and psychic dynamics of what has come to be called homophobia and on how the 'homosexual' as social being has come to be constituted in capitalist society.Trade Review"Homosexual Desire represents the best of left social theory of sexual politics, a tradition that has never had an adequate reception in the United States. Reprinting this book now is a step toward recovering that tradition, and could therefore open debates about the significance of sexuality."—Michael Warner"Written over two decades ago, in the aftermath of May '68 and Stonewall, Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire may well be the first example of what we now call queer theory. But its significance is more than historical: it remains an indispensable analysis of, and polemic against, institutionalized homophobia.”—Douglas CrimpTable of ContentsNew Introduction / Michael Moon 9 Preface to the 1978 Edition / Jeffrey Weeks 23 1. Introduction 49 2. Anti-Homosexual Paranoia 55 "Unnatural acts": nature and the law 61 A myth: the progress of public morals 62 The strengthening of anti-homosexual paranoia 66 Homosexuality and crime 67 Homosexuality and disease 69 "Latent" and "patent" homosexuality 72 3. "Disgusting perverts" 73 The polymorphously perverse, bisexuality, and non-human sex 74 Hatred of woman 77 The Oedipalisation of homosexuality 79 Castration and narcissism 79 Oedipus or the chromosomes? 82 The homosexual judge 83 Cure: the infernal cycle 86 Homosexuality and shame 88 4. Capitalism, the Family, and the Anus 93 The phallic signifier and the sublimated anus 95 Homosexuality and the anus 97 Homosexuality and the loss of identity 100 The competitive society and the rule of the phallus 103 Oedipal reproduction and homosexuality 106 Homosexual grouping 110 5. Homosexual "object-choice" and Homosexual "Behaviour" 113 The "object-choice" 114 The "third sex" and "masculine-feminine" 121 Masochism and homosexuality 127 The pick-up machine 130 6. The Homosexual Struggle 133 The revolution of desire 133 Why homosexuality? 138 The perverse trap 142 Against the pyramid 145 7. Conclusion 148 Notes 151 Index 155
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St Martin's Press Fair Play
Book Synopsis[An] electrifying debutThrough in-depth and compassionate reporting, Barnes breaks down the misunderstood science surrounding sex and gender that has been used to keep cisgender women out of sports and has fueled debate over trans athletes participation in women's sports.Shannon Carlin, TIMEmagazine, 100 Must-Read Books of 2023For decades women have been playing competitive sports, thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since the passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school and college and professionally, has risen dramatically. In Fair Play, award-winning journalist Katie Barnes traces the evolution of women's sports as a pastime and a political arena where equality and fairness have been fought over for generations. As attitudes toward gender have shifted to embrace more fluidity in recent decades, sex continues to be viewed as a static binary that is easily
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University of Toronto Press Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
Book SynopsisIn 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld’s assistant on a lecture tour around the world.Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas.Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and British empires, from Manila to Tel Aviv to having tea with Langston Hughes in New York City, and then into exile in Hitler’s Europe, Laurie Marhoefer provides a vivid portrait of queer lives in the 1930s and of the turbulent, often-forgotten first chapter of gay rights.Trade Review“Marhoefer's achievement in Racism and the Making of Gay Rights is not just to place Li back into the lecture halls and the steamships of their shared journey, but also to brilliantly reframe Hirschfeld as a man of his era, a man who developed and popularized the concept of ‘homosexuality’ in a world that was shaped by the fact of empire … This book should be required reading for anybody with a professional, political, or personal interest in the ‘homosexual.’” -- Lauren Stokes, Northwestern University * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Maps Introduction: Manila Bay, Philippines, July 1931 1. “Einstein of Sex”: Magnus Hirschfeld at the End of the First Century of Gay Rights, North Atlantic Ocean, November 1930 2. The Empire of Queer Love: Berlin, Sometime between 1910 and 1914 3. Hirschfeld and Li Shiu Tong Meet: Feminism and Queer Attraction at the China United Apartments, International Settlement, Shanghai, May 1931 4. The Fight against Sexual Oppression is a Fight against Empire: Jawaharlal Nehru’s house, Allahabad, India, 1931 5. Are Homosexuals Like a Race? Analogy and the Making of the Sexual Minority 6. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Theory of the Races 7. Tea with Langston Hughes: Hirschfeld’s Anti-Blackness and Queer Black New York: Winter of 1930 8. Making Jews White: Tel Aviv, Palestine, Winter of 1932 9. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Queer Eugenics: Berlin, Germany, Manila, Philippines, Pasadena, California, United States, and Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia 10. “And What about Women?” 11. The Exile: Athens to Nice, 1932 to 1935 12. Li Shiu Tong’s Queer Masculinities: The Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Late 1930s 13. Li Shiu Tong’s Defiant Sexology: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1974 to 1993 Conclusion: Li Shiu Tong’s Berlin and Magnus Hirschfeld’s America Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Terrorizing Gender
Book Synopsis2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by Time magazine’s declaration that 2014 marked a “transgender tipping point,” was widely believed to signal a civil rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States. In Terrorizing Gender Mia Fischer challenges this narrative of progress, bringing together transgender, queer, critical race, legal, surveillance, and media studies to analyze the cases of Chelsea Manning, CeCe McDonald, and Monica Jones. Tracing how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of these trans women, Fischer exposes the traps of visibility by illustrating that dominant representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening are integral to justifying, normalizing, and reinforcing the state-sanctioned violence enacted against them. The heightenedTrade Review“Fischer’s novel approach . . . yields utterly compelling analytical results and promises to make a lasting contribution to work on the racialized surveillance practices of the state by accenting its gendered aspects.”—Rachel Hall, Women’s Studies in Communication“Terrorizing Gender is an incendiary contribution to media studies and transgender studies. With brilliant rigor, Fischer shows how recent U.S. transgender visibility has occasioned a revival of narratives presenting trans people as deviant and threatening. . . . The result, as Fischer masterfully illustrates, is an extremely limited public trans visibility, premised on replicating white supremacy and violent policing of those trans people who do not or will not comply with state regulation. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in transgender politics and media.”—Aren Z. Aizura, assistant professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota, and author of Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment“Mia Fischer’s Terrorizing Gender valuably unsettles normative assumptions and reveals precarious implications of the vaunted transgender ‘tipping point.’. . . Terrorizing Gender’s compelling necropolitical critique floodlights the conditions and obfuscations of trans precarity, and its closing call to embody Tourmaline’s politics of ‘nobodiness’ offers a promising glimpse of visibility’s queer future.”—Charles E. Morris III, professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and coeditor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking“Methodologically innovative and theoretically sophisticated, this brave book exposes how transgender people in the United States are increasingly subject to state-sanctioned violence and surveillance practices. . . . This book will occupy a central place on my shelf as it bridges the fields of surveillance, trans, and media studies, and critical race and feminist theory. I can’t wait to teach it.”—Shoshana Magnet, associate professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa“An essential resource for students of queer and trans media, and more broadly media studies students seeking to understand the relationship between representation and lived experiences. . . . The substantiation in Terrorizing Gender of the many ways in which (hyper)visibility in the media reproduces and reinforces the state’s regulation of trans lives is a timely and valuable addition to the existing trans, queer, and feminist media scholarship on visibility and will assuredly inform the future of these fields.”—Ash Kinney d’Harcourt, Feminist Media Studies"Terrorizing Gender ultimately asks media scholars to move beyond reductive debates over “good” and “bad” representation, instead pointing to the more insidious ways in which visibility as a directive both obscures more entrenched struggles in marginalized communities as well as contributes directly to increased political violence toward those who are most at risk."—Erique Zhang, International Journal of Communication“Reveal[s] a set of interlocking and coordinated harms, psychic and physical, that course through individual and group actors, mass media representations, and the state.”—Jeanie Austin, RGWS: A Feminist ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Transgender Tipping Point? 1. Pathologizing and Prosecuting a (Gender) Traitor 2. Transpatriotism and Iterations of Empire 3. Blind(ing) (In)justice and the Disposability of Black Life 4. Materializing Hashtag Activism and the #FreeCeCe Campaign 5. Sex Work, Securitainment, and the Transgender Terrorist Coda: The Perils of Transgender Visibility Notes Bibliography Index
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Greystone Books,Canada All In Her Head
Book SynopsisThis provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than menand lays out how the system must change for women to flourish. Why are so many women feeling anxious, stressed out, and depressed, and why are they not getting the help they need? Over the past decade, mood disorders have skyrocketed among women, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. Yet in a healthcare system steeped in gender bias, women's complaints are often dismissed, their normal emotions are pathologized, and treatments routinely fail to address the root causes of their distress. Women living at the crossroads of racial, economic, and other identities face additional barriers. How can we pinpoint what's wrong with women's mental health, and what needs to change?In All in Her Head, science writer Misty Pratt embarks on a crucial investigation, painting a picture of a system that is failing women on multiple levels. Pratt, who shares her own history of mental illness, explores the stereotypes that have shaped how we understand and treat women's distress, from the Ancient Greek concept of hysteria to today's self-help solutions. Weaving together science and women's personal stories, All in Her Head debunks mental health myths and challenges misconceptions, addressing the following questions:When did normal emotions become symptoms of a disorder?What are specific risk factors for common mental disorders that disproportionately affect women?How did burnout become a women's disease?What can we do to make peace with our moods and embrace the gifts of our emotions?Pratt also tackles the thorny topic of medication, taking a nuanced and evidence-based approach. Women who present at their doctor's office with depression, anxiety, or stress are often prescribed antidepressants as a first-line treatment: at least one in four American women are now taking these medications. Antidepressants have a real effect that can be helpful for some individuals; however, Pratt persuasively argues that our current approach ignores the underlying causes of most women's depressive symptoms. Today, a rising movement of women is demanding better when it comes to mental health treatment. Armed with the latest science, insight from those who have been through the therapeutic system, and enough humor to lighten the load, All in Her Head provides women with hope and courage to reframe and reclaim their mental health.
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Taylor & Francis An Analytical Exploration of Love and Narcissism
Book SynopsisThis book reflects the psychic wounds of narcissism from the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology. Oriented towards the richness and plurality of the psyche, it sheds light on clinical practice as well as the common and intricate issues of this personality type.
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Oxford University Press Inc Gender
Book SynopsisThe term gender was first distinguished from sex in the 1950s when psychologists began to discuss the idea of gender roles, behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Since then, leaders across disciplines have sought to better understand the roles of biology, psychology, and culture on gender. New language has emerged alongside rich scientific inquiry and research. Increased visibility of transgender and nonbinary communities has brought awareness to a range of gender diverse experiences, while legal battles, wage disparities, and health inequities continue to prove gender''s relevancy in today''s world. In this book, Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis guide readers through the knowns and unknowns of gender, asking questions such as: What is the difference between sex, gender identity, and gender expression? Were ancient societies matriarchal? How different are male and female brains, really? What role does language play in the ways we think about gender? What do we know about sex and gender in non-human species? What are the current frontiers in gender equality?Gender: What Everyone Needs to Know is an easy-to-read guide that takes readers on a much-needed tour of perspectives on gender and identity in the 21st century. The book is written in a question-and-answer format, and Erickson-Schroth and Davis cover topics such as current definitions; the history of gender as concept; the role of biology, psychology, and culture on gender; and gender norms over time and across the globe.Trade ReviewA useful introductory text for anyone who wants to learn more about gender, providing a broad overview of a huge range of pertinent subtopics ... the book considers gender in society, evaluating everything from gendered language to gendered violence and gender-based laws. * S. K. Fields, CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Gender 101 Chapter 2. The History of Gender Chapter 3. Gender and Biology Chapter 4. Gender and Psychology Chapter 5. Gender, Society and Behavior Chapter 6. Contextualizing Gender Chapter 7. The Future of Gender
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Oxford University Press The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism Heretical Thought
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this accessible, fascinating book, Rottenberg brilliantly captures the contemporary discursive politics of feminism. This text should be widely read. * D. J. Mattingly, San Diego State University, CHOICE *[Rottenberg] imbue[s] the analysis with acuity and wit... For a relatively short book, there's a lot in The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. * Times Higher Education *Written with energetic sparkling prose and great erudition, Catherine Rottenberg displays a capacious knowledge of all the recent twists and turns in popular presentations of feminism. This is exactly the book we need now to grapple with a neoliberal rationality working to undermine feminist resistance to the worsening situation of the majority of women, while clearing pathways for a passionate return to dynamic feminist dialogue and creative, all-embracing feminist practices." - Lynne Segal, author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective JoyAn incisive critical intervention."-Rosalind Gill, author of Gender and the MediaCatherine Rottenberg has created an indispensable resource for those working in feminist theory, media studies, cultural studies and communication. Incisively critiquing a new, highly visible version of feminism, Rottenberg demonstrates through careful analysis and theoretical rigor that feminist messages of 'having it all' and 'leaning in' need to be carefully interrogated for who, and what, these messages and practices exclude. In a popular and media context where feminist messages abound and circulate with ease and alacrity, Rottenberg's voice is a crucial caution for all of us about the limitations of neoliberal feminism, as well as an urgent call to reclaim feminism as a social justice movement."-Sarah Banet-Weiser, Professor, author of Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular MisogynyThis is a remarkable and important book demonstrating with fine attention to detail the ways in which feminism has found itself appropriated and seemingly comfortably installed as part of the neoliberalization process to complement and indeed 'motivate' women in work and family life. In a wonderfully well-written account, Rottenberg unsettles the terms and conditions which underpin 'neoliberal feminism'."- Angela McRobbie, author of The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social ChangeWritten with energetic, sparkling prose and great erudition, Catherine Rottenberg displays a capacious knowledge of all the recent twists and turns in popular presentations of feminism. This is exactly the book we need now to grapple with a neoliberal rationality working to undermine feminist resistance to the worsening situation of the majority of women, while clearing pathways for a passionate return to dynamic feminist dialogue and creative, all-embracing feminist practices."- Lynne Segal, author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective JoyFor a relatively short book, there is a lot in The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. Rottenberg turns her analytical eye to a range of cultural products, from the "have it all" privileged musings of Ivanka Trump to "mommy blogs" and popular TV shows such as CBS' The Good Wife and the Danish series Borgen, in which it becomes painfully apparent that in order to maintain the moral high ground in the future, "Brigitte will have to do a better job balancing family and work." It is an all too familiar pattern." - Emma Rees Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction: Feminism in Neoliberal Times Chapter One: How Superwoman Became Balanced Chapter Two: The Neoliberal Feminist Chapter Three: Neoliberal Futurity and Generic Human Capital Chapter Four: Back from the Future: Turning to the "Here and Now" Chapter Five: Feminist Convergences Chapter Six: Reclaiming Feminism Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Gendering the GOP Intraparty Politics and Republican Womens Representation in Congress
Book SynopsisIn Gendering the GOP, Catherine N. Wineinger argues that to truly understand the evolution of women''s congressional representation, it is necessary to move beyond an analysis of legislative behavior and toward an analysis of intraparty gender dynamics. Unlike previous research on women in Congress, Wineinger focuses exclusively on the experiences of Republican congresswomen to uncover some of the gendered implications of congressional polarization. Developing a novel theory of partisan-gender identity, defined as a categorical identity that sits at the intersection of one''s partisan affiliation and gender identity, Gendering the GOP argues that Republican women in Congress are not merely gender-blind partisans. In fact, polarization and party competition have incentivized Republican women to organize around their partisan-gender identity and distinguish themselves from both Democratic women and Republican men. In so doing, Republican congresswomen have increased their visibility as pTrade ReviewThe book is comprehensive and advances our field-yet somehow it also manages to be accessible and well written. This would be an excellent choice, in whole or in part, in an undergraduate or graduate seminar, and it will also, I have no doubt, become a staple on the shelves of women and politics professors both in the United States and beyond. Wineinger's insight into the deep and relatively swift changes under the feet of Republican women at the congressional level, and how they navigate such tremors, is desperately needed now. * Shauna Lani Shames, Rutgers University-Camden, USA, Politics and Gender *As the number of women serving in the House Republican caucus grows, Wineinger's highly readable research expands the understanding of gender and party politics and offers valuable questions for future research. * M. A. Mueller, CHOICE *Wineinger's in-depth examination of how Republican women's role in Congress has changed over time has arrived at precisely the right moment—providing context to understand the implications of 2020's historic increase in Republican women's representation. In this multi-method study, Wineinger draws on analyses of floor speeches, case studies, and in-person interviews to evaluate Republican women's place in Congress in the 1990s and 2010s. * Melody Crowder-Meyer, Davidson College *In an age of extreme partisan polarization in Congress, some may wonder if gender continues to matter in the legislative process, particularly among the GOP, a party that eschews the identity politics label. Catherine Wineinger's work, Gendering the GOP, shows brilliantly that gender does matter to the governing style and messaging of Republican women in Congress. Through analyses of floor speeches, elite interviews, and case studies, Wineinger demonstrates a partisan-gender identity at work among GOP congresswomen. She also reveals the challenges that GOP women continue to face in terms of being elected and becoming leaders. A terrific book! * Melissa Deckman, Washington College *Gendering the GOP provides a highly valuable look at the distinctive experiences of Republican women in elective office. By allowing Republican women to define for themselves what they view as women's issues, this book offers a fresh and compelling examination of the ways that gender and partisanship intersect to shape the language and actions of Republican women in the House of Representatives over time. * Laurel Elder, Hartwick College *Gendering the GOP showcases the importance of partisanship for women's political representation. Wineinger masterfully illustrates how GOP women utilize a partisan gender identity to gain greater visibility and power within the Republican Party and how Republican women engage in a partisan women-invoked rhetoric when representing women's interests that is distinct and unique to Republican women. By highlighting the effects of partisanship, this book moves our understanding of women's representation and claim-making forward, making it a must-read for gender and politics scholars and students. * Malliga Och, Idaho State University *Wineinger offers a deep analysis of the role Republican women play in shaping the message of the GOP and the barriers they still face in reaching the highest echelons of power within the party. Developing a concept of partisan-gender identity, Wineinger shows how Republican women utilize their identity as women to elevate conservative policies and advance their own standing in the caucus, while avoiding characterizations of identity politics that are rejected by the GOP. The book makes an important contribution to the study of gender, political parties, and partisan polarization in Congress. * Michele L. Swers, Georgetown University *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Party Politics Through a Gender Lens Chapter 2: Speaking for Women as Republicans: Partisan Woman-Invoked Rhetoric Chapter 3: Culturally Speaking: Motherhood Rhetoric and Identity Claims Chapter 4: Institutionalizing a Partisan-Gender Identity Chapter 5: Amplifying a Collective Voice: Women Conference Leaders as Critical Actors Chapter 6: Conclusion: Gendering the GOP Appendix A: List of Republican Congresswomen Interviewees Appendix B: Complete List of Issues in Woman-Invoked Speeches Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Meeting the Challenge Top Women in Science
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is accompanied by a comprehensive index and is a fascinating collection of portraits and vignettes of female scientists...Reading about their lives and achievements and contributions to humanity is both a humbling and educational experience. * Arpan K. Banerjee, Hektoen International *Table of ContentsForeword (by Eszter Hargittai) Preface Acknowledgments 1 Astronomers Sophia Brahe Maria Cunitz Elisabetha Hevelius Maria Kirch Caroline Herschel Mary Somerville Maria Mitchell Williamina Fleming and the Women of the Harvard Observatory Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin Nancy Grace Roman Vera C. Rubin Jocelyn Bell Burnell France A. Cordova Andrea M. Ghez 2 Mathematicians Elena Cornaro Piscopia Laura Bassi Maria Gaetana Agnesi Ada Lovelace Sonia Kovalevsky Mileva Mari'c-Einstein Emmy Noether Rózsa Péter Kathleen Ollerenshaw Mary Winston Jackson Karen K. Uhlenbeck Maryam Mirzakhani 3 Physicists The Loneliness of the Woman Physicist The Radium Institute Elisabeth Rona Marietta Blau Elisaveta Karamichailova Berta Karlik Marie Curie Isabella Stone Harriet Brooks Lise Meitner Leona Marshall Libby Maria Goeppert Mayer Antonia F. Prikhotko Chien-Shiung Wu Ruby Payne-Scott and other Australian Female Physicists Rosalyn Yalow Mildred Dresselhaus Donna T. Strickland 4 Crystallographers Kathleen Lonsdale Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Rosalind Franklin Isabella Karle Pioneers of Data Banks - Barbara Mez-Starck - Olga Kennard Ada Yonath Carolina H. MacGillavry and M.C. Escher Agnes Csanady and Quasicrystals 5 Chemists and Biochemists Gerty Cori Alice Ball Ida Noddack Irène Joliot-Curie Klavdia V. Topchieva Mildred Cohn Gertrude B. Elion Maxine F. Singer Elena G. Galpern Paula Hammond Jennifer A. Doudna and Emanuelle M. Charpentier Lynne E. Maquat Joan A. Steitz Katalin Karikó 6 Biologists and Biomedical Scientists Zinaida V. Ermoleva Barbara McClintock Aleksandra A. Prokofieva-Belgovskaya Rita Levi-Montalcini Frances O. Kelsey Anne McLaren Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Linda B. Buck Françoise Barré-Sinoussi Barbara M.F. Pearse Elizabeth H. Blackburn Carol W. Greider May-Britt Moser 7 Physicians, Surgeons, and Nurses Elizabeth Blackwell Rebecca Lee Crumpler Rebecca Cole Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson Louisa Brandbeth Aldrich-Blake Florence R. Sabin The Moscow Higher Courses for Women Lina S. Stern Medicine Women in London - Annie McCall - Jane Harriet Walker - Elsie Inglis - Lilian Lindsay - Ida Mann - Sheila Sherlock - Margaret Turner-Warwick - Cicely Saunders - Melanie Klein - Anna Freund - Enid Balint - Nancy Rothwell Nurses - Florence Nightingale - Mary Seacole - Theodora Turner 8 Inventors and Technologists Hertha Ayrton Kathrine Blodgett Pioneers in Aviation and Space Travel - Amelia M. Earhart - Amy Johnson - Valentina V. Tereshkova - Svetlana E. Savitskaya - Sally K. Ride - Judith A. Resnik - Kathryn D. Sullivan Frances H. Arnold 9 Ecologists Rachel Carson Miriam Rothschild Ayhan Ulubelen Chulabhorn Mahidol Jane Morris Goodall and Other Primatologists YouYou Tu Notes Name Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict OXFORD
Book SynopsisIn The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji focus on the multidimensionality of gender in conflict, yet they also prioritize the experience of women given both the changing nature of war and the historical de-emphasis on women's experiences.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editors and Contributors Biographies Forewords Introduction I. Background and Context 1. Theories of War Laura Sjoberg 2. From Women and War to Gender and Conflict? Feminist Trajectories Dubravka Zarkov 3. The Silences in the Rules that Regulate Women during Times of Armed Conflict Judith Gardam 4. How Should we Explain the Recurrence of Violent Conflict, and What Might Gender Have to do with it? Judy El-Bushra 5. The Gendered Nexus Between Conflict and Citizenship in Historical Perspective Jo Butterfield and Elizabeth Heineman 6. Violent Conflict and Changes in Gender Economic Roles: Implications for Post-Conflict Economic Recovery Patricia Justino 7. Men As Victims Chris Dolan II. The Security Council's WPS Agenda/Contemporary Survey 8. Women, Peace and Security: A Critical Analysis of the Security Council's Vision Dianne Otto 9. Participation and Protection: Security Council Dynamics, Bureaucratic Politics and the Evolution of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins 10. A Critical Genealogy of the Centrality of Sexual Violence to Gender and Conflict Karen Engle 11. 1325 +15 = Reflections on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Kimberly Theidon 12. Complemenentarity and Convergence? Women, Peace and Security and the Counterterrorism Agenda Naureen Chowdhury Fink and Alison Davidian 13. Convergence Between CEDAW and Security Council Resolution 1325: Unlocking the Potential of CEDAW as an Important Accountability Tool for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Pramilla Patten 14. Indicators and Benchmarks Pablo Castillo-Diaz and Hanny Cueva-Beteta III. Legal and Political Elements 15. Humanitarian Intervention and Gender Dynamics Gina Heathcote 16. (Re)Considering the Gender Jurisprudence of Conflict Patricia Viseur Sellers 17. Complementarity as a Catalyst for Gender Justice in National Prosecutions Amrita Kapur 18. Forced Marriage During Conflict and Mass Atrocity Valerie Oosterveld 19. Advancing Justice and Making Amends through Reparations - Legal and Operational Considerations Kristin Kalla 20. Colonialism Amina Mama 21. Conflict, Displacement and Refugees Lucy Hovil 22. Gender and Forms of Conflict; The Moral Hazards of Dating the Security Council Vasuki Nesiah IV. Conflict and Post-Conflict Space 23. The Martial Rape of Girls and Women in Antiquity and Modernity Kathy L. Gaca 24. "Mind the Gap:" Measuring and Understanding Gendered Conflict Experiences Amelia Hoover Green 25. Intersectionality: Working in Conflict Eilish Rooney 26. Agency and Gender Norms in War Economies Patti Petesch 27. Risk and Resilience: The Physical and Mental Health of Female Civilians During War Lauren C. Ng and Theresa S. Betancourt 28. The Gender Implications of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Conflict Situations Barbara Frey 29. Unmanned Weapons: Looking for the Gender Dimension Christof Heyns and Tess Borden 30. Gender and Peacekeeping Sabrina Karim and Marsha Henry 31. Peacekeeping, Human Trafficking, and Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Martina Vandenberg 32. Women, Peace Negotiations and Peace Agreements: Opportunities and Challenges Christine Bell 33. Women's Organizations and Peace Initiatives Aili Mari Tripp 34. Gender and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: Reviewing and Advancing the Field Dyan Mazurana, Roxanne Krystalli and Anton Baaré 35. Decolonial feminism, gender and transitional justice Pascha Bueno-Hansen 36. Gender and Governance in post-conflict and democratizing settings Lisa Kindervater and Sheila Meintjes V. Case Studies 37. Who Defines the Red Lines? The Prospects for Safeguarding Women's Rights and Securing their Future in Post-Transition Afghanistan Sari Kouvo and Corey Levine 38. "That's Not my Daughter": The Paradoxes of Documenting Jihadist Mass Rape in 1990's Algeria and Beyond Karima Bennoune 39. Consequences of Conflict Related Sexual Violence on Post-Conflict Society: Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina Lejla Hadzimesic 40. Colombia: Gender and Land Restitution Donny Meertens 41. Knowing Gender and/in Armed Conflict?: Reflections from Research in the DRC Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern 42. Northern Ireland: The Significance of A Bottom Up Women's Movement in a Politically Contested Society Monica McWilliams and Avila Kilmurray 43. Gendered Suffering and the Eviction of the Native: The Politics of Birth in Occupied East Jerusalem Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 44. Rwanda: Women's Political Participation in Post-Conflict State-Building Doris Buss and Jerusa Ali 45. Sri Lanka: The Impact of Militarization on Women Ambika Satkunanathan
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Oxford University Press Inc The Suffragist Peace How Women Shape the Politics
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Hope for Democracy 2. The Hope for Suffrage and Peace in the New Century 3. Gender and Aggression: Nature or Nurture? 4. Suffrage, Democracy and War 5. Women's Votes and the World Wars 6. Do Women Leaders Spell the End of War? 7. Women's Continuing Influence on War 8. The Future A. Appendices Data on Women's Suffrage B. Other Explanations References
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Oxford University Press Inc Teaching Inpatient Medicine Connecting Coaching
Book SynopsisTeaching Inpatient Medicine, Second Edition provides teachers of inpatient medicine with updated strategies to improve their teaching approach and their ability to connect with patients and learners, including new chapters on navigating gender- and race-based challenges and leading in times of crisis.Table of ContentsPreface About the Authors Chapter 1: Teaching Medicine Chapter 2: Unique Individuals, Shared Qualities Chapter 3: Underrepresented Voices Chapter 4: Building the Team Chapter 5: A Safe, Supportive Environment Chapter 6: Bedside and Beyond Chapter 7: How to Think About Thinking Chapter 8: Role Models Chapter 9: Mentors and Sponsors Chapter 10: The Stories We Share Chapter 11: The Sacred Act of Healing Chapter 12: Caring During Crisis Chapter 13: Putting It All Together References Appendix: The 18 Attendings
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Oxford University Press Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders
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Oxford University Press Gender Inequality and Wages Iza Prize in Labor Economics
Book SynopsisIn all Western societies women earn lower wages on average than men. The gender wage gap has existed for many years, although there have been some important changes over time. This volume of collected papers contains extensive research on progress made by women in the labor market, and the characteristics and causes of remaining gender inequalities. It also covers other dimensions of inequality and their interplay with gender, such as family formation, wellbeing, race, and immigrant status. The author was awarded the 2010 IZA Prize in Labor Economics for this research. Part I comprises an Introduction by the Editors. Part II probes and quantifies the explanations for the gender wage gap, including differential choices made in the labor market by men and women as well as labor market discrimination and employment segregation. It also delineates how the gender wage gap has decreased over time in the United States and suggests explanations for this narrowing of the gap and the more recentTrade ReviewA constant throughout [Blau's] work is a strong emphasis on theory-motivated empirical research and the generation of policy-relevant prescriptions, The result is a detailed and multifaceted explanation of the gender wage gap ... a great read * Karen A. Mumford, Times Higher Education *This compilation is an invaluable addition to any labor economistâs library. Not only a handy compendium of the many important studies that Francine Blau has conducted over her long and illustrious career, the book is a useful guide to overall research on gender, inequality, and wages. * Jane Waldfogel, Cornell University ILRReview *Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITORS: EQUALITY AND FAIRNESS IN THE LABOR MARKET; PART II: THE GENDER WAGE GAP: DETERMINANTS AND TRENDS OVER TIME FOR THE UNITED STATES; PART III: INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE GENDER WAGE GAP AND WAGE INEQUALITY: THE ROLE OF WAGE SETTING INSTITUTIONS; PART IV: OTHER DIMENSIONS OF GENDER INEQUALITY AND POLICY RESPONSES; PART V: INEQUALITY BY RACE AND IMMIGRANT STATUS; PART VI: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
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Oxford University Press Agriculture Diversification and Gender in Rural Africa
Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa uses a longitudinal cross-country comparative approach to contribute to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on unique household level data collected in six African countries since 2002, it addresses the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men.Despite a growing interest in smallholder agriculture in Africa, this interest has not been matched by the research on the subject. While recent policies focus on reducing poverty through encouraging smallholder agriculture, there are few studies showing how livelihoods have changed since this time, and especially how such changes may have affected male and female headed households differently. Moreover, agriculture is often viewed in isolation from other types of income generating opportunities, like small scale trading. Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa looks at how livelihoods have changed over time and how this has affected the relationship between agricultural and non-agricultural sources of livelihoods. In general, women have much poorer access to agricultural sources of income, and for this reason the interplay between farm and non-farm sources of income is especially important to analyse.Providing suggestions for more inclusive policies related to rural development, this edited volume outlines current weaknesses and illustrates potential opportunities for change. It offers a nuanced alternative to the current dominance of structural transformation narratives of agricultural change through adding insights from gender studies as well as village-level studies of agrarian development. It positions change in relation to broader livelihood dynamics outside the farm sector and contextualises them nationally and regionally to provide a necessary analytical adaption to the unfolding empirical realities of rural Africa.Table of Contents1: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Isinika: Introduction- theoretical and methodological framing of the book 2: Magnus Jirström, Maria Archila Bustos, and Sarah Alobo Loison: African smallholder farmers on the move: farm and non-farm trends for six sub-Saharan African countries, 2002-2015 3: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt: Assets, gender, and rural livelihoods 4: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt: Gender and rural livelihoods: agricultural commercialization and farm non-farm diversification 5: Göran Djurfeldt, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Ola Hall, and Maria Archila Bustos: Agrarian change and structural transformation: drivers and distributional outcomes 6: Elibariki Msuya, Aida Isinika, and Fred Mawunyo Dzanku: Agricultural intensification response to agricultural input subsidies in Tanzania: a spatial-temporal and gender perspective 2002-2015 7: Peter Mvula and Wapulumuka Mulwafu: Intensification, crop diversification and gender relations in Malawi 8: Ellen Hillbom and Martin Prowse: Policies or prices? A gendered analysis of drivers of maize production in Malawi and Zambia, 2002-2013 9: Fred Mawunyo Dzanku and Daniel Bruce Sarpong: Spatial and gendered linkages between non-farm diversification and farm productivity in Ghana 10: Stephen K. Wambugu, Joseph T. Karugia , and Willis O. Kosura: Technology use, gender, and impact of non-farm income on agricultural investment: an empirical analysis of maize production in two regions of Kenya 11: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Isinika: Gender, Agriculture, and Diversification in Rural Africa: What Lessons Can We Learn?
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Oxford University Press Can precision medicine be personal Can
Book SynopsisThe book provides a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discussion of the ethos and ethics of precision/personal medicine, involving scientists who have shaped the field, in dialogue with ethicists, social scientists and philosophers of science.
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Oxford University Press Resisting Reality
Book SynopsisContemporary theorists use the term social construction with the aim of exposing how what''s purportedly natural is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant. In these previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory to explore and develop the idea that gender and race are positions within a structure of social relations. On this interpretation, the point of saying that gender and race are socially constructed is not to make a causal claim about the origins of our concepts of gender and race, or to take a stand in the nature/nurture debate, but to locate these categories within a realist social ontology. This is politically important, for by theorizing how gender and race fit within different structures of social relations we are better able to identify and combat forms of systematic injustice.Although the central essays of the book focus on a critical social realisTrade ReviewHaslanger's book contains thoughtful and innovative essays in the field of social construction. * Akos Sivado, Philosophy in Review *There is real insight to be gained from the clarity and carefulness that Haslanger brings to her analyses of these issues. * Alessandra Tanesini, Radical Philosophy *this is an excellent collection that advances philosophical work on social construction, gender and race, and language and knowledge. ... Haslangers collection is well worth a careful exploration, particularly for those philosophers with a broad range of research interests and a commitment to combining philosophical thought with action directed toward social justice. * Sally Haslanger, Social Theory and Practice *extremely insightful analysis of social reality ... is engaged philosophy at its best. * Asta Kristjana Sveinsdottir, TPM *Haslangers transparent philosophical prose provokes the reader to critically engage with the unfolding arguments. * Federica Gregoratto, Journal of Social Ontology *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. Social Construction ; 1. "Social Construction: Myths and Reality" ; 2. "On Being Objective and Being Objectified." ; 3. "Ontology and Social Construction." ; 4. "Social Construction: The "Debunking" Project." ; 5. "Feminism and Metaphysics: Negotiating the Natural." ; 6. "Family, Ancestry and Self: What is the Moral Significance of Biological Ties?" ; 7. "Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?" ; 8. "Future Genders? Future Races?" ; 9. "You Mixed? Racial Identity without Racial Biology." ; 10. "A Social Constructionist Analysis of Race" ; 11. "Oppressions: Racial and Other" ; III. Language and Knowledge ; 12. "What Knowledge Is and What It Ought To Be: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology" ; 13. "What Are We Talking About? The Semantics and Politics of Social Kinds" ; 14. "What Good Are Our Intuitions? Philosophical Analysis and Social Kinds" ; 15. "But Mom, Crop-Tops Are Cute!" ; 16. "Language, Politics and 'The Folk': Looking for the 'Meaning' of Race " ; 17. "Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground"
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The University of Chicago Press Catos Tears the Making of AngloAmerican Emotion
Book SynopsisHow did the public expression of feeling become central to political culture in England and the United States? This revisionist account of a much expanded Age of Sensibility traces the evolution of the politics of emotion on both sides of the Atlantic, from the late-17th to early-19th century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Someday Bridges May Have Feelings Too Chapter 1: Conspiracy, Sensibility, and the Stoic Chapter 2: Cato's Tears Chapter 3: The Deathbed of the Just Chapter 4: Female Authorship, Public Fancy Chapter 5: Vagrant Races Chapter 6: Walkers, Stalkers, Captives, Slaves Conclusion: Liberal Guilt and Libertarian Revival Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sex Itself
Book SynopsisHuman genomes are 99.9 percent identical--with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about sex represented by the unalterable, simple, and visually compelling binary of the X and Y chromosomes, Sex Itself examines the interaction between cultural gender norms and genetic theories of sex from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, postgenomic age. Using methods from history, philosophy, and gender studies of science, Sarah S. Richardson uncovers how gender has helped to shape the research practices, questions asked, theories and models, and descriptive language used in sex chromosome research. From the earliest theories of chromosomal sex determination, to the mid-century hypothesis of the aggressive XYY supermale, to the debate about Y chromosome degeneration, to the recent claim that male and female genomes aTrade ReviewAn understanding of the biology of sex and its relation to the complexities of human gender adequate to the postgenomic era is an urgently needed but dauntingly difficult task. It requires tracing the history from which scientific ideas of sex and gender have developed, and the echoes of which shape our contemporary concepts; a grasp of the decisive feminist critique of the science of sex and gender over the last half century, but one that goes beyond the disclosure of bias to survey comprehensively the influence of ideas about gender on science; and a proper understanding of the revolutionary developments in genomic science that have occurred in the last twenty years. This book provides all of these things with skill, sensitivity, and elegance. It will provide a definitive starting point for future discussions of this vital set of issues. --John Dupre, author of Processes of Life"
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The University of Chicago Press Pronouncing Persevering Gender the Discourses
Book SynopsisSusan Hirsch's observations of Islamic courts uncover how Muslim women actively use legal processes to transform their domestic lives. This achieves victories on some fronts, but also reinforces their image as subordinate to men through the speech they produce in court.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: Legal Processes and the Discursive Construction of Gender 2: Representations of Swahili Society 3: Analyzing Talk about Trouble 4: The Discourses of Marital Disputing 5: Marital Disputing in Kadhi's Courts 6: Indexing Gender: Initial Courtroom Narratives 7: Constructing Audience: Interaction in Cases and Mediations 8: Portraying Gendered Speakers: Reported Conversations 9: Pronouncing and Persevering: Ideology and Metalinguistics in Disputes Conclusion App. A: Glossary App. B: Features of Transcription App. C: Case Summaries App. D: Kiswahili Texts Notes References Index
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University of Chicago Press The Burdens of Intimacy Psychoanalysis and
Book SynopsisShowing why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy, this text examines works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that undermined the utilitarian ethos of the age.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: Victorian Asymmetry: The Study of Repression and Desire 1: The Specter of Effeminacy in Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham 2: Love's Vicissitudes in Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon 3: "Gregory's Womanhood" in Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm 4: Hardy and the Claims of Friendship 5: The Impossibility of Seduction in James's Roderick Hudson and The Tragic Muse 6: Santayana and the Problem of Beauty 7: Betrayal and Its Consolations in Forster's Writing Afterword: The Homosexual in the Text Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press Fortune Is a Woman Gender and Politics in the
Book SynopsisThis study of Machiavelli systematically places gender at the centre of its exploration of his political thought. This edition includes an afterword which discusses the book's critical reception and situates the book's arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought.
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The University of Chicago Press Memas House Mexico City
Book SynopsisMema lives in a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her house is a sanctuary for young homosexual men and transvestites. Mema is an AIDS educator and leader of the group. This study follows the transvestites in their daily activities, and analyzes their complicated relations.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The First Night 1. The Setting and the Approach 2. Everyday Life of a Jota 3. Little Boys in Mother's Wardrobe: On the Origins of Homosexuality and Effeminacy 4. Stealing Femininity: On Bodily and Symbolic Constructions 5. Machos and Mayates: Masculinity and Bisexuality 6. On Love, Domination, and Penetration Concluding Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Peculiar Places
Book SynopsisThe queer recluse, the shambling farmer, the clannish hill folkwhite rural populations have long disturbed the American imagination, alternately revered as moral, healthy, and hardworking, and feared as antisocial or socially uncouth. InPeculiarPlaces, Ryan Lee Cartwright examines the deep archive of these contrary formations, mapping racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural twentieth-century United States. Sensationalized accounts of white rural communities' aberrant sexualities, racial intermingling, gender transgressions, and anomalous bodies and minds, which proliferated from the turn of the century, created a national view of the perversity of white rural poverty for the American public.Cartwright contendsthat these accounts, extracted and estranged from their own ambivalent forum of community gossip, must be read in kind: through a racialized, materialist queercrip optic of the deeply familiar and mundane. Taking in popular scienTrade Review“Peculiar Places represents applied queercrip theory at its best. Cartwright’s writing is lucid, even page-turning, and his scholarship sound and persuasive, arguing that sensationalized accounts of the disabled, dispossessed, and marginalized in twentieth-century rural America can be repurposed to unpack countless norms and deviancies. In its bold theoretical interventions, innovative historical analysis, and stunning argumentation, Peculiar Places is outstanding, a model of intellectual courage. This pathbreaking work will inspire and steer scholarship for decades to come.” * John Howard, King’s College London *“By offering detailed analyses of quotidian encounters, Cartwright reveals the complex ways ‘poor rural white folks living on the margins’ were defined, pathologized, surveilled, and violated. But rather than present binary narratives of ableist victimization and heroic transgression, Cartwright underscores the way these same people often relied on racial hierarchies and settler claims to indigenous land. Peculiar Places offers a way of doing disability studies that can simultaneously recognize queercrip practices of interdependence and violence.” * Alison Kafer, University of Texas at Austin *"Offers generative contributions, more broadly, to the field of queer studies through a nuanced and complicated view of the rural, and. . . a necessary intersectional queer lens to rural studies. Ultimately, [Peculiar Places] asks the reader to interrogate not just ways of looking but also the implications of being seen. " * Cleveland Review of Books *"Peculiar Places challenges the reader to consider the complex interconnections and interdependencies of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability in rural spaces in an effective and accessible manner. As such, this book contributes to a better understanding of the anti-idyllic lens through which individuals are taught to read rural America." * Gender Forum *"Ryan Lee Cartwright’s Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity is a clear and well-researched book, one that deploys insights from queer and disability studies to explore the contradictory place of white rural nonconformity." * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: QueerCrip Historical Analysis and the Rural White Anti-Idyll One: Harlots from the Hollow: Eugenic Detectives on the Lookout for the Rural White Hovel Family Two: Curious Scenes: The Fringes of Rural Rehabilitation in 1930s Documentary Photography Three: Madness in the Dead Heart: Ed Gein and the Fabrication of the Transgender Heartland “Psycho” Killer Myth Four: “Maimed in Body and Spirit”: The Spectacle of White Appalachian Poverty Tours during the 1960s Five: Banjos, Chainsaws, and Sodomy: Making 1970s Rural Horror Films and the Apex of the Anti-Idyll Six: Estranged but Not Strangers: Nonconformity Encounters Identity in 1990s Hate-Crime Documentaries Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press With Respect to Sex
Book SynopsisWith Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the third sex of India, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. By focusing on the hijra community, Reddy sheds new light on Indian society and the intricate negotiations of identity across various domains of everyday life. Further, by reframing hijra identity through the local economy of respect, this ethnography highlights the complex relationships between local and global, sexual and moral, economies. This book will be regarded as the definitive work on hijras, one that will be of enormous interest to anthropologists, students o
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