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Obelisco Enciclopedia de Los Mitos Y Secretos de la Mujer
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Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U Humor de género: del texto a la identidad en
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£18.04
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial #Ellos hablan: Testimonios de hombres, la
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£27.02
Aarhus University Press Slave Stories: Law, representation, and gender in
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£22.50
NIAS Press Gendered Entanglements: Re-visiting Gender in
Book SynopsisThe overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity in today's Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to examine multiple, intersecting, and complex dimensions of identity and difference, and formerly unacknowledged sources of social power from institutions and their emerging discourses.Individual chapters, written by gender scholars from Europe and Asia, critically examine the concept of gender in the context of emerging development issues relating to four broad thematic areas: 'Gender over Time', 'Power, Policy and Practices', 'Environment and Resources', and 'Justice and Human Rights'.In so doing, they also address how gender has been changed, both as a normative process influencing social roles and relations and as an object and/or a concept of research.
£23.76
NIAS Press Cultivating Gender: Means of Place and Work in
Book Synopsis'The husband ploughs, the wife transplants, the buffalo harrows'. In rural Vietnam, this ancient saying has survived communist revolution, land reforms and the recent rise of market-oriented household farming. And yet, even if this trinity still pictures the ideal essence of farming life, the reality is that urbanization, labour migration and economic change in the Vietnamese countryside are leading to a feminization of farming. This transformation has profound implications not just for the agricultural sector and the individual women themselves but also for fundamental social structures and relations.By exploring in detail the lived reality of rural life in a northern wet-rice village, the author offers important insights into place, work and (not least) what constitutes femininity and masculinity in Vietnam today.
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NIAS Press The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and
Book SynopsisGender and sexuality in Japan has long been a field of academic study, with gender mainly being examined either as masculinities, femininities or as deviating sexualities. In recent years, however, widespread interest in manga, anime and cosplay among the world’s youth has aroused popular interest in the Japanese approach to gender and sexuality. In a sense, this engaging volume brings these two worlds together. It builds on earlier scholarly work and discusses normative and non-normative gender and sexualities in one volume. The chapters deftly bring together and engage with theories of gender presentation, performance and performativity. However, they are also solid ethnographic studies, extensively researched and clearly argued. Through careful attention to lived realities, they allow readers to understand not only how gender is constructed and commodified in contemporary Japan but also how it is presented and performed in different contexts. At the same time, youth culture resonates through the volume, which is mainly written by early-career scholars with a largely undergraduate and postgraduate readership in mind. With compelling studies, evocatively presented, this volume may well go on to become an important resource on gender and sexuality in Japan. Moreover, with its many insights into how ethnographic methodologies might best be employed, the book has much to offer students and scholars working outside of Japanese studies as well.
£58.65
NIAS Press The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan: 2022
Book SynopsisGender and sexuality in Japan has long been a field of academic study, with gender mainly being examined either as masculinities, femininities or as deviating sexualities. In recent years, however, widespread interest in manga, anime and cosplay among the world’s youth has aroused popular interest in the Japanese approach to gender and sexuality. In a sense, this engaging volume brings these two worlds together. It builds on earlier scholarly work and discusses normative and non-normative gender and sexualities in one volume. The chapters deftly bring together and engage with theories of gender presentation, performance and performativity. However, they are also solid ethnographic studies, extensively researched and clearly argued. Through careful attention to lived realities, they allow readers to understand not only how gender is constructed and commodified in contemporary Japan but also how it is presented and performed in different contexts. At the same time, youth culture resonates through the volume, which is mainly written by early-career scholars with a largely undergraduate and postgraduate readership in mind. With compelling studies, evocatively presented, this volume may well go on to become an important resource on gender and sexuality in Japan. Moreover, with its many insights into how ethnographic methodologies might best be employed, the book has much to offer students and scholars working outside of Japanese studies as well.
£22.46
NIAS Press Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive account of the multifaceted processes of gendered transformation that took place in Myanmar between 2011 and 2021, and which continues to shape events today. The period began with the end of direct military rule and the transition to a hybrid, semi-democratic regime, precipitating far-reaching political, economic and social changes across Myanmar. To date, the gendered dynamics and effects of this transition have not yet received sustained scholarly attention. Remedying this gap, this book provides a much-needed historical corrective through a careful, nuanced analysis of the gendered dynamics of transitional politics, institutions and policymaking; feminist resistance, mobilization, and movement building; and their effects on labor, land, and everyday lives. Although the February 2021 military coup brought an end to this decade of experimentation and transition, in the richness of its analysis and detail, the book offers a deeper understanding of the current political situation in Myanmar. The gendered changes that the transition brought about have shaped both the current configuration of masculinized, military dictatorship, as well as the unprecedented role played by women in resistance to military rule after the 2021 coup. This analysis of the gendered dynamics and effects of the recent decade of political transition in Myanmar is therefore critical for understanding current events, as well as the ways in which Myanmar’s political landscape might continue to be reshaped.
£77.00
NIAS Press Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive account of the multifaceted processes of gendered transformation that took place in Myanmar between 2011 and 2021, and which continues to shape events today. The period began with the end of direct military rule and the transition to a hybrid, semi-democratic regime, precipitating far-reaching political, economic and social changes across Myanmar. To date, the gendered dynamics and effects of this transition have not yet received sustained scholarly attention. Remedying this gap, this book provides a much-needed historical corrective through a careful, nuanced analysis of the gendered dynamics of transitional politics, institutions and policymaking; feminist resistance, mobilization, and movement building; and their effects on labor, land, and everyday lives. Although the February 2021 military coup brought an end to this decade of experimentation and transition, in the richness of its analysis and detail, the book offers a deeper understanding of the current political situation in Myanmar. The gendered changes that the transition brought about have shaped both the current configuration of masculinized, military dictatorship, as well as the unprecedented role played by women in resistance to military rule after the 2021 coup. This analysis of the gendered dynamics and effects of the recent decade of political transition in Myanmar is therefore critical for understanding current events, as well as the ways in which Myanmar’s political landscape might continue to be reshaped.
£22.46
Viella Editrice Mediterranean Crossings: Sexual Transgressions in
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£33.25
Viella Genesis. XX/2, 2021. Angela Groppi E La Storia
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£51.00
Viella Le Trasgressioni Della Carne: Il Desiderio
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£28.50
Viella Editrice Donne Dell'anima: Le Pioniere Della Psicoanalisi
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£30.40
Viella Editrice Generare, Partorire, Nascere: Una Storia
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£33.25
Viella La Violenza Contro Le Donne Nella Storia:
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£30.40
Viella Donne E Cinema: Immagini del Femminile Dal
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£29.45
Viella Editrice Infami Macchie: Sessualita Maschili E
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£26.00
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Dall'iconologia Al Gender: Giornata Di Studi in
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£109.25
Brill Youth Identities and Social Transformations in
Book SynopsisYouth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia’s youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; religion - described through the lens of the young people themselves.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface: Being Young in Indonesia, Kathryn Robinson Section 1: Studying Indonesia’s Youth: The Big Picture Chapter 1: Generation and Social Change: Indonesian Youth in Comparative Perspective, Ben White Chapter 2: Contemporary Indonesian Youth Transitions: Trends and Inequalities, Pam Nilan, Lyn Parker, Kathryn Robinson and Linda Bennett Section 2: Education—Securing Youth Futures? Chapter 3: Teenage Experiences of School, Work, and Life in a Javanese Village, Ben White and C. Ugik Margiyatin Chapter 4: Educational Aspirations and Inter-generational Relations in Sorowako, Kathryn Robinson Section 3: Friendship, Growing up, and Peer Surveillance Chapter 5: Pouring out One’s Heart: Close Friendships among Minangkabau Young People, Lyn Parker Chapter 6: Pramuka: Scouting Days of Fun, Pujo Semedi Section 4: Performing Youth in Space and Time Chapter 7: Dwindling Space and Expanding Worlds for Youth in Rural and Urban Yogyakarta, Patrick Guinness Chapter 8: Local Modernities: Young Women Socializing Together, Pam Nilan Section 5: Performing Masculinity, Claiming the Street Chapter 9: Streetwise Masculinity and Other Urban Performances of Postwar Ambon: A Photo-Essay, Patricia Spyer Chapter 10: Violent Activism, Islamist Ideology, and the Conquest of Public Space among Youth in Indonesia, Noorhaidi Hasan Section 6: “Moral Panics” and the Health of the Nation Chapter 11: The Ongoing Culture Debate: Female Youth and Pergaulan (Bebas) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tracy Wright Webster Chapter 12: Young Sasak Mothers—“Tidak Manja Lagi”: Transitioning from Single Daughter to Young Married Mother in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia, Linda Rae Bennett Index
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Brill STEM of Desire: Queer Theories and Science
Book SynopsisSTEM of Desire: Queer Theories and Science Education locates, creates, and investigates intersections of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and queer theorizing. Manifold desires—personal, political, cultural—produce and animate STEM education. Queer theories instigate and explore (im)possibilities for knowing and being through desires normal and strange. The provocative original manuscripts in this collection draw on queer theories and allied perspectives to trace entanglements of STEM education, sex, sexuality, gender, and desire and to advance constructive critique, creative world-making, and (com)passionate advocacy. Not just another call for inclusion, this volume turns to what and how STEM education and diverse, desiring subjects might be(come) in relation to each other and the world. STEM of Desire is the first book-length project on queering STEM education. Eighteen chapters and two poems by 27 contributors consider STEM education in schools and universities, museums and other informal learning environments, and everyday life. Subject areas include physical and life sciences, engineering, mathematics, nursing and medicine, environmental education, early childhood education, teacher education, and education standards. These queering orientations to theory, research, and practice will interest STEM teacher educators, teachers and professors, undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, policy makers, and academic libraries. Contributors are: Jesse Bazzul, Charlotte Boulay, Francis S. Broadway, Erin A. Cech, Steve Fifield, blake m. r. flessas, Andrew Gilbert, Helene Götschel, Emily M. Gray, Kristin L. Gunckel, Joe E. Heimlich, Tommye Hutson, Kathryn L. Kirchgasler, Michelle L. Knaier, Sheri Leafgren, Will Letts, Anna MacDermut, Michael J. Reiss, Donna M. Riley, Cecilia Rodéhn, Scott Sander, Nicholas Santavicca, James Sheldon, Amy E. Slaton, Stephen Witzig, Timothy D. Zimmerman, and Adrian Zongrone.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illyria Charlotte Boulay Prolegomenon: Queer Theories and STEM Education Steve Fifield and Will Letts 1. I : Snow Queen :: “Nigger” : (School) Science Francis S. Broadway 2. Queering Science Education without Making Too Much Sense Steve Fifield and Will Letts 3. Beyond Nature Talk: Transforming Environmental Education with Critical and Queer Theories Blake M. R. Flessas and Timothy D. Zimmerman 4. Wonder in the Science Classroom Andrew Gilbert and Emily M. Gray 5. Teaching Queering Physics: An Agenda for Research and Practice Helene Götschel 6. What Does Queer Theory Have to Do with Teaching Science in Elementary Schools? Kristin L. Gunckel 7. Queering STEM Learningscapes Joe E. Heimlich 8. What’s in a Name? Reflections on Learning and Teaching in Central Texas Tommye Hutson 9. Strange Precipitate: How Interest in Science Produces Different Kinds of Students Kathryn L. Kirchgasler 10. What Makes Girls and Boys So Desirable? STEM Education beyond Gender Binaries Michelle L. Knaier 11. Children, Nomads, and Queering: Desire and Surprise in a Wiggly World Sheri Leafgren and Scott Sander 12. Inviting the Mess: A Children’s Museum’s Transgressive Tactics for Unleashing Play Anna MacDermut and Adrian Zongrone 13. Thinking Like a Fox: Queering the Science Classroom When Teaching about Sex and Sexuality Michael J. Reiss 14. Exhibiting Doctors and Nurses: Queering Professional Education in a Medical Museum Cecilia Rodéhn 15. Camping Science Education: A Trip to Camp Wilde and the Queer Nature of Nature Nicholas Santavicca, Jesse Bazzul and Stephen Witzig 16. Towards a Queer Curriculum of Infinity James Sheldon 17. Yearning, Learning, and Earning: The Gritty Ontologies of American Engineering Education Amy E. Slaton, Erin A. Cech and Donna M. Riley 18. The Bargain Charlotte Boulay
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Brill The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires,
Book SynopsisDorothy Fujita-Rony’s The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate cartographies of memory and belonging within the diaspora. It thus explores how women’s memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. Thirty-five years in the making, The Memorykeepers is the first book on Indonesian Americans written within the fields of US history, American Studies, and Asian American Studies.Trade Review“This book makes significant contributions to Asian American studies, studies of empire and colonialism, US Cold War history, women’s history, and gender studies. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony marshals a wealth of evidence from personal narratives and material culture to reveal how women’s “memorykeeping” constitutes a practice of resistance and critique. Her study illuminates the workings of multiple empires in the everyday life of two Toba Batak women, H.L. Tobing and Minar T. Rony, making visible the intertwined forces of gender and empire." - Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles "Dr. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony’s book, The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History, is an original and pioneering manuscript in the field of Indonesian American Studies. Particularly valuable is how the scholarship highlights women’s memorykeeping across time and space. A work of this importance is long overdue." - Shirley Lim, State University of New York at Stony BrookTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Note on Orthography and Names Introduction: Daughter of a Daughter: the Labor of Memorykeeping 1 Questions 2 The ‘Indonesian American’ Context 3 ‘Return’ and ‘Belonging’ Part 1: Empire and Gender 1 Empires:Interimperialism, Migration, and the United States 1 Introduction 2 When Empires Came to You: the Toba Batak 3 Multilingualism and Interimperial Temporality 4 The United States Cold War 5 Conclusion 2 Gendered Knowledges:Patriarchies and the Politics of Belonging 1 Introduction 2 The Toba Batak Culture as Political Location 3 Colonial Domesticity 4 Converging Gender Hierarchies 5 Negotiation and Challenge 6 Conclusion Part 2: Curating Time 3 Stories and Silences: Telling the Past 1 Introduction 2 Searching for Archives 3 What Is Said 4 What Is Not Said 5 Two Pictures 6 Conclusion 4 Artifacts and Memories: Representing Meaning 1 Introduction 2 Knowledge as Legacy 3 Memorykeeping as Response to Precarity 4 The Labor of Artifacts 5 Conclusion Part 3: Memorykeeping Prologue to Part 3: A Journey and a Path 5 Across Empires: The Narrative of H.L. Tobing 1 Raja Pontas 2 The Old Times 3 Family 4 The Adat 5 Christianity 6 Tarutung 7 Living in the Village 8 Dutch Rule 9 Elementary School 10 Salatiga 11 Early Marriage 12 Semarang 13 Magetan 14 Pearaja 15 Bengkalis 16 Japanese Occupation and World War II 17 Kisaran 18 Medan 19 Progress 20 Opportunities 21 United States 22 Homecoming 6 For Those Who Follow: The Autobiography of Minar T. Rony 1 Beginnings 2 Bengkalis 3 Siantar 4 Return to Bengkalis 5 Bukit Batu 6 Pearaja 7 Jakarta 8 Return to Siantar 9 Medan 10 Teacher and Guide 11 The United States Conclusion: The Urgency of Time Timeline Glossary Bibliography Index
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Brill Balzac, pater familias
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsFranc SCHUEREWEGEN: Introduction. Claudie BERNARD: Familles de chair, familles d’esprit, familles de papier. Nicole MOZET: La question biographique. Balzac, ou le Génie qui n’a pas expiré dans sa mansarde. Richard PYRCZAK: L’Impossible symétrie de L’Enfant maudit: enfance, croissance et ordre social selon Balzac. Polly RIMER DUKE: La Muse maternelle dans Le Lys dans la vallée et Albert Savarus. Lucienne FRAPPIER-MAZUR: Max et les chevaliers. Famille, filiation, et confrérie dans La Rabouilleuse. David F. BELL: Effets collatéraux. Lawrence R. SCHEHR: Rapports écrits: les lettres de la famille Rastigna. Stéphane VACHON: Le désir de l’homme est le désir de l’autre: Adieu d’Honoré de Balzac. Franc SCHUEREWEGEN: Honoré de Bouillon, un air de famille. L’Envers de l’histoire contemporaine et la fin de Balzac.
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Peeters Publishers Theological Women's Studies in Southern Europe:
Book SynopsisThis volume with its emphasis on "Southern Europe" is devoted now for the second time to theological research by women in a particular region of Europe. Women doing research in France, Italy, Spain and Greece provide evidence of and reflection on the history of women's theological studies in their countries and present the results of their studies. These reveal an impressive spectrum of theological research which sometimes has been and must be conducted in difficult structural contexts and under very different economic conditions. This makes the vitality of the research presented all the more convincing; in the different contexts of the individual countries it demonstrates specific and very varied emphases in academic theory and method. Precisely because of their complex and diverse points of departure, the articles evidence a fundamental, interdisciplinary approach and a creative way of seeing things which is concerned to ensure a fundamental openness for debate and dialogue. This volume thus provides an insight into the fascinating diversity and complexity of theological research in Europe.
£27.55
Peeters Publishers Mysticism and Gender - Mística y género - Mystik
Book Synopsis2015 marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Avila. This volume of the Journal of ESWTR is therefore dedicated to the issue of mysticism and gender. The mystical experience is a radical confrontation with oneself, where one recognizes one’s boundaries and is at the same time called to transgress them; it is a mystical transformation of the self that then will be able to transform unjust structures. Can mysticism today still unfold these capacities of transformation of self and societies, given the problems we are faced with? Using gender as a category of analysis, and adopting a gender-sensitive stand, the articles in this volume explore questions such as: How do issues of gender shape the relationship between mysticism and power? How have women mystics contributed to the field of mysticism? How can mysticism unfold a transformative power, both for individuals and societies? In short, what do we mean by mysticism today?
£59.85
Amsterdam University Press Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval
Book SynopsisTrans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history.Trade Review"The first thing one observes about Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography is that it is a beautiful object. The cover image, by medievalist and artist Jonah Coman, is a sumptuous study in gold, like a Book of Hours, with vignettes of both holy images and protest marches in a band that encircles an image of a medieval saint holding a trans pride flag. We do not often talk about the physical form of scholarly books, but this one is a joy to hold. It is also a useful object, containing an appendix on trans and genderqueer terminology, language, and usage that serves as an important snapshot of how to talk about gender in the early twenty-first century and should prove enormously useful to those just coming to explore trans studies. [...] With this kind of work in the offering, the future of the profession has a chance to be as wonderful as this collection."- Masha Raskolnikov, The Medieval Review22.03.10 (2022) "The inspiring volume is a must-read for all scholars working with religion and history. Most importantly, it is an admirable effort to dismantle cis-heteronormative conceptions of the Middle Ages (propagated alarmingly by white supremacist groups). [...] The volume is of the utmost importance for the trans and genderqueer people of today, as it is in essence a serious academic endeavour to imagine a transgender past and, thus, offer a sense of historical belonging."- Rose-Marie Peake, Mirator 1/21 (2021) "By establishing transness as holy, the authors are not only working to put trans and genderqueer subjects back into the narrative of history, but at its center. Transness is being rewritten as something beautiful and divine."- - Milo, What Lives Here Now blog (2021) "In this important volume, Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt bring together scholarship that rethinks, in creatively productive ways, how gender figures in medieval representations of sainthood and sanctity. [...] All the varied scholarship collected here is excellent, and the volume as a whole mounts a persuasive and invigorating argument about the importance of attending to trans and genderqueer texts and experiences in the Middle Ages."- Steven F. Kruger, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures "Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography is an excellent collection that, by offering a platform for both new and established scholars to revisit their earlier assessments of medieval texts, offers an understanding of the past predicated upon the need for a more just future." - Alexander Flores, Comitatus, Vol. 53, 2022Table of ContentsIList of Figures Acknowledgements 'Introduction', Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt Following the Traces: Reassessing the Status Quo, Reinscribing Trans and Genderqueer Realities 1.'Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau and the Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries', Martha G. Newman 2.'Inherited Futures: Capgrave's Life of St Katherine', Caitlyn McLoughlin 3.'Juana de la Cruz: Gender-Transcendent Prophetess', Kevin C.A. Elphick 4.'Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David's Life of Patriarch Ignatios', Felix Szabo Peripheral Vision(s): Objects, Images, and Identities 5.'Gender-Querying Christ's Wounds: A Non-Binary Interpretation of Christ's Body in Late Medieval Imagery', Sophie Sexon 6.'Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine', Vanessa Wright 7.'The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia', Lee Colwill Genre, Gender, and Trans Textualities 8.'St Eufrosine's Invitation to Gender Transgression', Amy V. Ogden 9.'Holy Queer and Holy Cure: Sanctity, Disability, and Transgender Embodiment in Tristan de Nanteuil', Blake Gutt 10.'The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints: imago Dei and imitatio Christi in the Life of Saint Marinos the Monk', M.W. Bychowski Epilogue: 'Beyond Binaries: The (Trans) Gender(s) of Saints', Mathilde van Dijk Appendix: 'Trans and Genderqueer Studies Terminology, Language, and Usage Guide' Index
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Thela Thesis Labour Market Inequality Between Men and Women:
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£12.30
Schilt Publishing b.v. You Refuse to Believe that You Ever Liked Pink
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£33.75
International Books Invisible Barriers: Gender, Caste and Kinship in
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£26.99
Sidestone Press Engendering Objects
Book SynopsisEngendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it explores the relationships between these cloths and Maisin people. The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people’s identities, such as gender, personhood, clan and tribe, through its manufacturing and use.This book describes in detail how barkcloth (tapa) not only visualizes and expresses, but also materializes and defines, people’s multiple identities. By ‘following the object’ and how it is made and used in the performance of life-cycle rituals, in exchanges and in church festivities, this interaction between people and things, and how they are mutually constituted, becomes visible. How are women’s bodies and minds linked with the production of barkcloth? How do cloths produced by women both establish and contest clan identity? In what ways is the commodification of barkcloth related to gender dynamics? Barkcloth and its associated designs show how gender ideologies and the socio-material constructions of identity are performed and, as such, developed, established and contested.The narratives of both men and women reveal the ways in which barkcloth provides a link with the past and dreams for the future. The author argues that the cloths and their designs embody dynamics of Maisin culture and in particular of Maisin gender relations. In contributing to the current debates on the anthropology of ‘art’, this study offers an alternative way of understanding the significance of an object, like decorated barkcloth, in shaping and defining people’s identities within a local colonial and postcolonial setting of Papua New Guinea.“Engendering Objects is among the most comprehensive and innovative new works emerging from Melanesia examining the intimate connections between material culture, cultural identity and gendered personhood. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and examination of museum collections, Anna-Karina Hermkens traces the enduring yet innovative place of tapa (barkcloth) among the Maisin people. Written with warm compassion and immediacy, the book is a theoretically provocative, accessible and compelling portrait of changing life in a Papua New Guinean village society.” – John Barker, University of British Columbia“This book makes a most welcome contribution to the study of the materiality by showing how gender is performed in the sensuous terms of clothing, food, and the exchange of objects. Anna-Karina Hermkens accomplishes this with enviable care and intellectual resources, and a prose and ethnography that make the book a pleasure to read.” – David Morgan, Duke University“Anna-Karina Hermkens takes us to look at designs on bark cloth from Papua New Guinea through a magnifying glass. A fascinating perspective on material culture evolves. Beyond the art work we discover individuals – mainly women – painting their stories about who they and their beloved are as women and men, as traditional members of a clan, and also what they head for as strugglers in a new economy driven world.” – Christian Kaufmann, Honorary Research Associate, Sainsbury Reseach Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, former curator for Oceania at the Museum der Kulturen BaselAbout the author:Anna-Karina Hermkens obtained her PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 2005 from Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the ‘College of Asia and the Pacific’ of the Australian National University in Canberra Australia.
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Amsterdam University Press Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in
Book SynopsisAs LGBTQ movements in Western Europe, North America, and other regions of the world are becoming increasingly successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights, especially institutional recognition for same-sex couples and their families, what becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initially aimed to achieve? The United States is in many ways a paradigmatic model for LGBTQ movements in other countries. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States focuses on the transformations of the US LGBTQ movement since the 1980s, highlighting the relationship between its institutionalization and the disappearance of sexuality from its most visible claims, so that its growing visibility and legitimation since the 1990s have paradoxically led to a decrease in grassroots militancy. The book examines the issue from the bottom up, identifying the links between the varying importance of sexuality as a movement theme and actors’ mobilization, and enhances the import of subjectivity in militancy. It draws attention to cultural, sometimes infrapolitical, forms of militancy that perpetuate the role of sexuality in LGBTQ militancy.Trade Review"Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States advances a provocative perspective on the LGBTQ movement that could generate debate on potential directions for the post-Obergefell LGBTQ movement in the United States." - Jonathan S. Coley Oklahoma State University, Mobilization Winter 2019Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction Subjectivity, militancy, and political opportunities A micro-sociological approach "from below" Why the united states? Terminology Chapter 2 Of homosexualities and movements The homophile movement The gay liberation movement and the eruption of sexuality Gay communitarianism and the privatization of sexuality The advent of aids and the resurgence of activism Sexualization and strategic essentialism Legitimation, integrationism, and desexualization Recognition of marriage and desexualization Chapter 3 From fragmentation to coalescence The moral conservatism of the 1980s Act up: provocative lesbian and gay activism Aids, lesbianism, and male homosexuality Depolarization, appeasement, and assimilationism Institutionalization, status, and conduct Substantive rights and collective mobilization Chapter 4 Sexual fulfillment and political disenchantment Militant disengagement Privatization and commodification LGBTQ pride controversies An idealized identity Authenticity Gratification, engagement, and disappointment Idealized identity, homogeneity, and aids Reasons for engagement, reasons for withdrawal Chapter 5 Sexuality and empowerment Subjectivity, erotics, and mobilization Young people's sexuality LGBTQ youth as social actors Daring to talk about lgbtq young people's sexuality Homosociality, desire, and ethnicity/race Sexuality and public spaces: sex panic! Sexuality, intimacy, and empowerment Sexualizing lesbianism The "doldrums" and abeyance structures Refocusing action on pleasure Chapter 6 Mobilization on the threshold of the political Guerrilla theater Maintaining grassroots activism Subaltern action Infrapolitics An extreme case: the sisters of perpetual indulgence Three sisters The significance of insignificance Chapter 7 Conclusion: toward new identity forms A winning movement Polymorphic mobilization What can we learn from this? The interviewees References Index Acknowledgments
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United Nations Counted & visible toolkit to better utilize
Book SynopsisDisaggregated gender statistics are critical for putting the spotlight on inequality and underscoring the need to realise the rights of poor and marginalised women and girls and prioritize them in policy-making processes. The 2030 Agenda pledges to leave no one behind and to ensure progress for all nations and peoples and for all segments of society. To identify those who are left behind, high-quality, timely, and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location, and other characteristics are necessary. The Counted and Visible Toolkit provides a compilation of tools and mechanisms drawing on country case studies to produce disaggregated gender statistics using an intersectional lens, creating credible evidence to inform gender-responsive policies. This publication was developed by UN Women's global gender data programme, Women Count, in collaboration with the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys
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Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Género y pérdida de alimentos en cadenas de valor
Book SynopsisBy linking key concepts from gender-sensitive value chain development and food loss, it emerges that gender inequalities affect the overall efficiency of the food value chain. This publication aims to help policy-makers, project designers and field practitioners to conceptualize the nexus between gender equality and food loss while offering practical guidance on and tools for integrating gender concerns into the planning and implementation of food loss studies and reduction strategies and interventions.
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Asian Development Bank Gender-Inclusive Legislative Framework and Laws
Book SynopsisThis report provides guidance on how to integrate gender equality in laws and policies on climate change and disaster management in Asian Development Bank's developing member countries.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. The report provides a conceptual framework and good practice guide to improve gender equality in this space based on international norms and examples of national laws. It also demonstrates how gender-responsive laws and policies can contribute to women's resilience to climate change and disasters. The report was developed for the use of governments, policy-makers, organizations, and individuals engaged in gender-responsive legislative reforms.
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SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Rights of the Girl Child in India: Struggle for
Book SynopsisChildren were practically considered the private property of parents, and their status never seen fit for public discussion, till the middle of the twentieth century. As children are defenseless and easy to target, they suffer the most in any crisis, be it war, natural disaster or any other type of crime or calamity. Among children, however, the girl child suffers even more, as she faces double discrimination because of her tender age and her gender. In the mid-1990s, instances of reported abuse of girls in the form of foeticide, infanticide, prostitution and sexual exploitation, especially in zones of war and ethnic cleansing such as the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, became rampant. This led to the girl child receiving separate identification as a group for the first time in the Beijing Declaration of the 4th UN World Conference on Women in 1995. In India, the status and treatment of girls in society ranges between inadequate and deplorable, with the girl child being victimized in several ways. This book focuses on both the development (through enhancement of the nutritional, educational and health status) and welfare (through freedom from physical and psychosocial stress due to deprivation, exploitation and the resultant feelings of inferiority and low self-esteem) aspects of the girl child’s existence. It covers in detail all facets of the well-being of the girl child that are of concern to governments as well as international organizations. It explains in detail the challenges faced by government and non-governmental organizations in implementing any welfare and development initiatives for girls, including the discriminatory social norms impacting programme and policy implementation. It closely explores the differences between the theory and practice aspects of prevalent governmental programmes and policies. In the concluding parts, the book makes several policy recommendations and also seeks to lay out a future roadmap for the well-being of girls in India. Table of ContentsIntroduction Defining Childhood: Debate over Age and Rights The Status of the Girl Child as an International Concern The Girl Child as a Vulnerable Segment in India: Causes and Consequences Law and Legal Discourses: Welfare and Protection of the Girl Child Cultural Relativism and Violation of Human Rights of Girls and Women Conclusion References Index
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Bloomsbury India Mother Teresa: The Saint and Her Nation
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Double 9 Books A Womans LifeWork Labors and Experiences of Laura
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Zubaan Landscapes of Fear: Understanding Impunity in
Book SynopsisLandscapes of Fear tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors of sexual violence end up being denied justice, the contributors seek to understand what those on the margins - those of the wrong sex, wrong identity markers, or wrong political leanings - can tell us about violence by state and non-state actors. Bringing together senior academics, civil society leaders, and fresh voices from across the subcontinent, Landscapes of Fear offers analysis - contextual, structural, and gendered - to break new conceptual ground on the underbelly of "India Shining." A vital book for understanding the complexity of a fast-changing, often corrupt, and highly unequal rising superpower, the collection contextualizes hard-hitting cases of human rights violations in contemporary India.
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Zubaan The Fear That Stalks: Gender-Based Violence in
Book SynopsisWhat are the underlying causes and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces? Who defines what comprises the "public space" - and why are those spaces so often barred not only to women, but also the poor, transgender people, and others outside the narrow definition of "normal"? The Fear That Stalks brings together scholars from a range of disciplines and activists from the women's movement to explore the causes, nature, and consequences of gender-based violence. These powerful and articulate essays draw connections between diverse forms of violence, such as sexual harassment, sexual assault, honor killing, tonsuring, rape, and homicide. The book also offers suggestions for policy changes that can help address the pervasive problem of gender-based violence, and make our societies safe for men and women alike.
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Zubaan Genderscapes: Revisioning Natural Resource
Book SynopsisEven in a realm that would seem to be as far removed from issues of gender as natural resource management, gender bias is pernicious and persistent, especially in India. Genderscapes looks at the reasons for this bias from a number of angles, including the socialization of attitudes, the shaping of community ideologies, and the construction of disciplines and research methodologies. Sumi Krishna puts forward the novel concept of "genderscapes" to reflect the totality of women's life worlds, and she builds her use of the concept on a group of rich case studies, including the caring practices of forest-dwellers, women's knowledge of biodiversity, and their widespread responsibility for farming and food production. Women's economic needs cannot be separated from their sociopolitical interests, Krishna shows-and only by looking at them as a whole can we solve the problem of discrimination.Trade Review"Krishna's volume weaving men and women into the environment... will be a valuable resource to... researchers, students, and activists." (Vasanth Kannabiran, Book Review) "Through rich case studies, [Krishna] unravels the caring practices of forest-dwellers, women's knowledge of biodiversity, and their responsibilities in farming and food production." (Soma Basu, Hindu)"
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Zubaan No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy
Book SynopsisHow is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy answers these questions by analyzing the lives of queer persons who were assigned the female gender at birth. The lived realities of these individuals-both observed by and reported to the authors-help to interrogate the concept of gender and provide clues as to how gender can be re-envisioned as egalitarian. Looking closely at these personal stories, authors Chayanika Shah, Raj Merchant, Shals Mahajan, and Smriti Nevatia explore how gender plays out in both public and private institutions, including family units, schools, offices, and public spaces. Looking at each arena independently, the book examines how binary gender norms are engrained and analyzes how the interlocking systems of heteronormativity create exclusion, marginalization, and violence.
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Zubaan Mannequin – Working Women in India`s Glamour
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Zubaan Gender and Governance – Studies From South Asia
Book SynopsisGender and Governance examines how different governance structures affect gender in five specific locations in South Asia: Swat in Pakistan, the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, the Northern Province in Sri Lanka, and Kashmir and Manipur in India. These comparative studies examine the historical context of each region, look at existing structures of governance, trace how these have changed over time, conclude whether or not parallel systems have come up in their place, and reflect on what this means for gender issues in the region. Although each location is quite different, some common patterns emerge. This book sheds new light on how formal and informal structures affect the lives of women, particularly in conflict zones. When formal governance fails, women often turn to the informal structures in their community—and these can be both conservative and patriarchal. Gender and Governance shows why gendering structures of governance, therefore, is essential in ongoing efforts to improve gender equality in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
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Leuven University Press Performing Hysteria: Images and Imaginations of
Book SynopsisWe seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of "hysterical" discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender liberation, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and climate change, to name only a few. Against the backdrop of such recent deployments of hysteria in popular discourse--particularly as they emerge in times of material and hermeneutic crisis--Performing Hysteria re-engages the notion of "hysteria." Performing Hysteria rigorously mines late 20th and earlytwenty-first century (primarily visual) culture for signs of hysteria. The various essays in this volume contribute to the multilayered and complex discussions that surround and foster this resurgent interest in hysteria--covering such areas as art, literature, theatre, film, television, dance; crossing such disciplines as cultural studies, political science, philosophy, history, media, disability, race and ethnicity, and gender studies; and analysing stereotypical images and representations of the hysteric in relation to cultural sciences and media studies. Of particular importance is the volume's insistence on taking the intersection of hysteria and performance seriously. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project Muse Contributors: Johanna Braun (University of Vienna), Vivian Delchamps (University of California), Cecily Devereux (University of Alberta), Sander L. Gilman (Emory University), Elke Krasny (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Jonathan W. Marshall (Edith Cowan University, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts), Sean Metzger (University of California), Tim Posada (Saddleback College), Elaine Showalter (Princeton University), Dominik Zechner (Brown University / Rutgers University)Table of ContentsIntroduction Johanna BraunHYSTORIES REVISITED. Hysterical Epidemics and Social Media Elaine ShowalterWANDERING IMAGINATIONS OF RACE AND HYSTERIA. The Origins of the Hysterical Body in Psychoanalysis Sander L. GilmanTRAUMATIC DANCES OF “THE NON-SELF”. Bodily Incoherence and the Hysterical Archive Jonathan W. MarshallTHE PHANTOM ERECTION. Freud’s Dora and Hysteria’s Unreadabilities Dominik Zechner“A SLIGHT HYSTERICAL TENDENCY”. Performing Diagnosis in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper Vivian DelchampsHYSTERIA ACTIVISM. Feminist Collectives for the Twenty-First Century Elke KrasnyDELILLO AND MASS HYSTERIA Sean MetzgerHYSTERIA IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION. Back to the “Image Factory” in WestWorld Cecily Devereux#METOO’S FIRST HORROR FILM. Male Hysteria and the New Final Girl in 2018’s Revenge Tim PosadaHYSTERICAL CURE. Performing Disability in the Possession Film Johanna Braun
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Amsterdam University Press Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance
Book SynopsisGender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time. The Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court.Trade Review"The Palazzo del Te, the extraordinary villa ex-urbana built in Mantua by Duke Federico II Gonzaga in the 1520s and 1530s, is a confounding architectural and artistic tour de force. [...] In this book, Maria Maurer offers new possibilities by combining spatial theory with reception theory to discover the ways the villa became a locus for, and an influence on, the performance of gender by its inhabitants and visitors. [...] In fact, the book itself is a kind of performance, demonstrating the fecundity of Maurer’s approach, which is woven around a solid chronological core, tracing a trajectory from the novelty of Giulio’s invention at the Palazzo del Te to its dismissal as a bizarre and generally ignored aberration by the eighteenth century."- Sally Hickson, University of Guelph, Early Modern Women Vol. 16 No. 2 (Spring 2022)Table of ContentsThe Palace in Cyberspace: a note on the virtual tour List of figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Performative Palace Chapter 2: Spaces of Ceremony Chapter 3: The Palace in Time Chapter 4: The Unbounded Palace Chapter 5: Troubling Space Epilogue: Ruin and Rebirth Bibliography
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Amsterdam University Press Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the
Book SynopsisA generation of historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender found in the mid-sixth century Secret History by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea. Yet the notable but subtler ways in which gender coloured Procopius' most significant work, the Wars, have received far less attention. This monograph examines how gender shaped the presentation of not only key personalities such as the seminal power-couples Theodora/ Justinian and Antonina/ Belisarius, but also the Persians, Vandals, Goths, Eastern Romans, and Italo-Romans, in both the Wars and the Secret History. By analysing the purpose and rationale behind Procopius' gendered depictions and ethnicizing worldview, this investigation unpicks his knotty agenda. Despite Procopius's reliance on classical antecedents, the gendered discourse that undergirds both texts under investigation must be understood within the broader context of contemporary political debates at a time when control of Italy and North Africa from Constantinople was contested.Trade Review"Michael Stewart’s book is a meticulous study of the works of Prokopios of Caesarea (Wars, Buildings, Secret History) and their historical context: the Roman world of the sixth century. [...] Stewart’s book is a welcome addition to the existing literature. It will benefit those who study Prokopios and the sixth century, as well as being of particular interest to students of gender studies."- Panagiotis Theodoropoulos, Speculum 97/1 (January 2022) “Stewart’s book offers a rich, learned, and remarkably accessible account of the role played by sixth-century gender norms in [Procopius’s] De bellis…[T]his book will undoubtedly be a must-read for students of one of Late Antiquity’s most closely scrutinized authors.” - Studies in Late Antiquity, Spring 2023 "The book of M. E. Stewart is an essential contribution for the study of Procopius' work, as he gives a different perspective to the analysis of Byzantine historiography, and, by extension, for the research field of "Gender Studies"" - George Kadaras, Byzantina Symmeikta 31 (2021) [author's translation] "This volume by Michael Edward Stewart is not just another monograph on Procopius, the renowned Byzantine historian. [...] Stewart uses gendered and literary approaches to understanding Procopius’ persona, his writings, and his world, in successful ways, and this monograph will open new and interesting avenues for the analysis of Byzantine historiography."- Ecaterina Lung, University of Bucharest, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 02/49 (2021)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Translations, Sources, and Names Preface I Finding Procopius 1. Introduction 2. Will the Real Procopius Please Stand Up Procopius' Oeuvre Historiographical Debates A Christian Procopius Dates Cistern or Safety Net? II The Contest 3. The Danger of the Soft Life Rhetoric and Reality A Soft Empire Vita Militaris Romans and Goths Aeneas' Ship 4. Courage, Fear, and Generalship in the Vandal War Fifth-century Roman Failures The Launch Tricamarum 5. Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Eunuchs in a Changing World The Blame Game Solomon Narses: The Manly Eunuch Martial Manliness Draining Belisarius' andreia Brave New World III Chaos Encroaching 6. Killing Justinian Artabanes: Slayer of Tyrants Theodora Steps In The Plot 7. Totila: Hero or Trope? Order out of Chaos Standing up to Totila Last Dance Conclusion: All Quiet on the Italian Front Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index Chronology
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Amsterdam University Press The Asian Migrant's Body: Emotion, Gender and
Book SynopsisThe Asian Migrant’s Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are physically and symbolically marked by migration experiences, this edited volume seeks to move beyond the immediate effects of hard labour and (potentially) exploitative or abusive situations. It shows that migrants are not only on the receiving end where it concerns their bodies, nor are their bodies only utilized for their work as migrants: they also seek control over their bodies and to make them part of strategies to express themselves. The collective papers in The Asian Migrant’s Body argue that the body itself is a primary site for understanding how migrants reflect on and experience their migration trajectories.Table of Contents0. Introduction: Conceptualizing the Asian Migrant's Body, by Michiel Baas & Peidong YANG 1. 'Not a lesbian in Dubai, not gay in Tehran': sexualities, migrations, and social movements across the Gulf, by Pardis Mahdavi 2. Bodies at Work: Gendered Performance and Migrant Beer Sellers in Southeast Asia, by Denise L. Spitzer, PhD 3. Body, Space and Migrant Ties: Migrant Domestic workers and Embodied resistances in Lebanon, by Amrita Pande 4. The Day Off Policy. 'Reverse Domestication' and Emotional Labour among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore, by Maria PLATT, Brenda S.A. YEOH, KHOO Choon Yen, Grace BAEY and Theodora LAM 5. Embodying the good migrant in ageing: Negotiating positive subjectivities through paid work, by Michelle G. Ong 6. Proper Conjunctions of Bodies: Chastity, Age, and Care Work in Sri Lankan Migrants' Families, by Michele Ruth Gamburd 7. Border-crossing as sexual subjects: Interracial dating experience of young Chinese in New Zealand, by Alex Yang Li 8. Managing Touch: The Racialized Dynamics of Intimacy in the Los Angeles Beauty Industry, by Hareem Khan 9. Index
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Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij What Women Want: versus The gender, transgender
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