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Hong Kong University Press As Normal as Possible – Negotiating Sexuality and
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£28.53
Central European University Press Screening Trafficking: Prudent or Perilous
Book SynopsisThis book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today’s globalized world. Hashamova productively combines fieldwork in NGOs in southeastern Europe, social science data, and the analysis of Western and East European anti-trafficking films and media and their reception in the United States and the Balkans. Her book identifies a disconnect between the global flow of trafficking images and their local comprehension. The critical analysis of documentaries, feature films, video clips, and NGOs’ media materials and the responses they elicit from spectators reveals the flaws of these products and the ideological structures present both in them and in their audiences. Acknowledging the uneven quality and impact of all films and media products, the book, guided by trauma theory, concludes with an examination of their relative ineffectiveness and inability to shock the viewer and create a citizen ready to take action against trafficking. The author seeks to explain why, despite substantial attention to the problem, communities continue to react with indifference and denial, and turn a blind eye to the problem. Screening Trafficking: Prudent or Perilous offers fresh insights to readers interested in human trafficking and its representations as well as to policymakers who need to make in well-informed decisions.Table of ContentsList of tables List of figures List of plates Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: The Viewer Chapter 1: Social, Political, and Cultural Conditions Affecting Trafficking and Its Perception Chapter 2: NGO Prevention Campaigns and Their Audiences Chapter 3: Cross-cultural Discussion of Attitudes toward Trafficking Part Two: The Representation Chapter 4: Western Feature Films and Media Chapter 5: East European Feature Films and NGO Media Chapter 6: Trauma: Screening Violence and the “Viewer-Witness” Afterword Bibliography Appendix: List of Films
£103.81
Gal Einei Publication The Mystery of Marriage: How to Find True Love and Happiness in Married Life
£29.24
University of the Philippines Press Women Who Stay: Seafaring and Subjectification in
Book SynopsisWomen Who Stay addresses the question of how women married to seafarers are shaped by migration and how they in turn shape migration. Looking at subjectivity as social becoming, it examines how Ilokano, Philippine, and global historical and economic processes have shaped the women’s lives and experiences. While offering a culturally nuanced account of how women in an Ilocos town have navigated the spaces and times of their lives, the book also engages with broader social issues and concepts making it of interest to scholars and students of gender, migration, family, subjectivity, and the global maritime industry.
£34.46
University of the West Indies Press Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the
Book SynopsisGender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean: Perspectives, Histories, Experiences is a collection of critical perspectives on fundamental questions of how sexual orientation and gender in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean are conceived, studied, discoursed and experienced. Bringing together and updating existing and in-progress scholarly work on minority genders and sexualities in the region, this collection seeks to provide a fresh set of lenses through which to examine the issues affecting people in the Caribbean who fall outside the traditional binary categories of heterosexual males or heterosexual females.Opening with a variety of perspectives – from the biological to the religious and historiographical – the volume explores definitions of sex and gender as well as constructions of sexuality among Commonwealth Caribbean scholars, and the ways in which the Judaeo-Christian tradition popular in the region has responded to these. Other chapters examine the socializing forces that reinforce or challenge conventional conceptions of gender and sexuality, and how these result in the constraining forces of social exclusion and discrimination that many members of the LGBTQ community in the region experience. The book ends with chapters that interrogate the normative standards of gender and sexuality that have traditionally underlain Caribbean popular culture. Additionally, there is an exploration of how anti-gay discourse in Jamaican dancehall, embedded in a language linked to the country's vernacular nationalism, has been neutralized by a coalition of local and international LGBTQ activists.Table of Contents Introduction 1. "Gender" in Caribbean Discourse: Ruptures, Revisions, Reconstructions 2. Conceptualizing Sex/Gender Diversity: Considerations for the Caribbean 3. The Variability of the Sexes from a Sociobiological Perspective 4. "Male and Female Created He Them": Calling for a New Discourse on Gender and Sexual Diversity in the Jamaican Church 5. Taboo and Obligation: Normative Pressures on Sexuality and Gender in the Caribbean and the Rise of Hard Masculinity 6. "Bring It Cross?": Sexuality and "Passing" in Jamaica 7. The Myth of the "Free Pass" in Jamaica: An Assessment of the Representation of Women Who Love Women in the Media 8. The Impact of Jamaican Popular Culture in Shaping Normative Conceptions of Gender and Sexuality 9. Dem Bow: Translation, Globalization and Dancehall's Recalibrated Anti-Gay Discourse Contributors
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The American University in Cairo Press Femininity and Dance in Egypt: Embodiment and
Book SynopsisConsidering the paradoxical position of al-raqs al-baladi or “belly dance” in Egyptian social life, as both a vibrant and a contested cultural form, this issue of Cairo Papers in Social Science considers the impact of wider socio-cultural and political forces on the marginalization of professional performers, on the one hand, and in defining the parameters for non-professional performances on the other hand. Through interviews with professional and non-professional female dancers in Egypt, it explores the relationship between al-raqs al-baladi and the dynamic cultural repertoire that produces notions of femininity and normative personhood in Egypt. As a dance that Egyptians learn in childhood, it exposes the cardinal relationship between culture and body movement. The study received the Magda al-Nowaihi Award for best graduate work on gender studies in 2010. Cairo Papers in Social Science 32/3
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Springer Verlag, Singapore African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies: Kenyan
Book SynopsisThis book reveals the structures of poverty, power, patriarchy and imperialistic health policies that underpin what the World Health Organization calls the “hidden disease” of vaginal fistulas in Africa. By employing critical feminist and post-colonial perspectives, it shows how “leaking black female bodies” are constructed, ranked, stratified and marginalised in global maternal health care, and explains why women in Africa are at risk of developing vaginal fistulas and then having adequate treatment delayed or denied. Drawing on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 30 Kenyan women, it paints a rare social portrait of the heartbreaking challenges for Kenyan women living with this most profound gender-related health issue – an experience of shame, taboo and abjection with severe implications for women’s wellbeing, health and sexuality. In absolutely groundbreaking depth, this book shows why research on vaginal fistulas must incorporate feminist understandings of bodily experience to inform future practices and knowledge.Table of ContentsExploring African Feminisms: Context, Positioning, and Making the Personal Political.- Two: The Problem of Vaginal Fistulas: Dimensions and Trends.- African Women, Gender, Health, and Sexuality: Theoretical Considerations.- Vaginal Fistulas and Structural Disadvantage.- Rationalising Fistulas: A Cultural Influence and Response.- Flawed Bodies, Blackness, and Incontinence.- Recreating African Womanhood and Rewriting Our Stories: Bringing the Narratives to a Close.- References.- Index.
£40.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Sexualised Citizenship: A Cultural History of Philippines-Australian Migration
Book SynopsisThis book considers the intersections of race, gender and class in multicultural Australia through the lens of migration to the country. Focusing on Philippines-born migration, it presents the profile and history of this minority group through an examination of their print material culture over the last 40 years. Particularly, it examines the growth of the production of Filipino cultural identity and the politics of community building in relation to the sexualisation of their acquired citizenship. Given the promotion of Australia as a modern, multicultural, Western nation in the Asia-Pacific region, the book questions the bases on which this claim stands using the example of Filipino settlement in Australia. Considering the social contradictions that continue to shape multicultural politics in Australia, it examines how the community makes sense of its migration through print material culture. The book analyses the community’s responses to their minoritisation to understand how Filipino-Australian migration— the affective and economic appropriation of women’s labour—is instructive of the social reality of millions in the global diaspora today. Based on archival and ethnographic research, this text straddles the interdisciplinary fields of gender and cultural studies, and is a key read for all scholars of Asian and Australian area studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Philippine migration in multicultural Australia.- Writing a cultural history.- Representations of a sexualised citizen.- Fil-Oz in Blacktown : a cultural geography.- Questionable solidarity: “Romances, after all, start in various ways”.- Class and Filipino Australians.- Male-ordered bodies.- The Filipino elderly: to love is to labour.- Filipino Australian activism: decolonising solidarity and the search for identity.- Conclusions: The culturalisation of sexualised citizenship.
£67.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in
Book SynopsisThis open access book addresses self-care on sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention and treatment in the most marginalized and vulnerable communities. Case studies and personal narratives are used to share their perspectives and experiences, sources of information for self-care products, motivations for self-care, and challenges and outcomes. Self-care provides the way to reach the last mile in achieving universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. Issues related to stigma, discrimination and violence among these communities are highlighted. Changes in policies and programs to improve their sexual and reproductive health, education and employment are discussed. The last chapter in the book examines how the agenda on self-care can be advanced in the years ahead. The audience for this publication includes health professionals, researchers, those managing health institutions and service providers.Table of ContentsSelf-care: Concept, Rationale and FrameworkMen Who have Sex with MenUnderstanding Health needs of TransgenderThe Gender Trap: Issues and EvidenceFemale Sex Work Dynamics: Empowerment, Mobilization, MobilitySexual Behaviors of Long Distance Truck DriversThe Way Forward
£33.20
Springer Verlag, Singapore Women and the Media in Jordan: Gender, Power,
Book SynopsisThis book provides a feminist, critical study of how gender power relations are played out through and across multiple mediated arenas in contemporary Jordan. It departs from an understanding of women’s status in Jordan as a highly charged subject, and a view of the media as not just a locale where tensions play out, but also an important arena for contestation and resistance. The book examines the dynamic relationship between women and the media in Jordan as it manifests at three key levels: labour, representation, and activism. To do so, it engages with wider issues: the political economy of the media, regulatory and legal frameworks, Jordanian women’s economic participation, the history of Jordanian feminist activism, gender-based violence, and the political context of the Arab Spring in Jordan. Through choice case studies, the book unpacks the complex role of legal, political, and social factors in shaping women’s relationship to the media. It centres women’s experiences and highlights their agency, disobedience, and efforts to negotiate and resist the limitations imposed by Jordanian patriarchy and, in doing so, it illustrates how gender, power, and resistance interplay through and within Jordanian media.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Understanding the Jordanian Mediascape: Pressure and Release.- Chapter 2: Understanding the Jordanian Mediascape: Pressure and Release.- Chapter 3: Female Media Professionals: Potential and Limitations.- Chapter 4: Feminist Media Activism: Disobedience, Femininity, and Jordanianness.- Chapter 5: Representations of Honour-Related Femicide: Changing Discourses.- Chapter 6: Female Political Dissidence: Mediating and Gendering the Arab Spring in Jordan.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Affective Intensities of Masculinity in
Book SynopsisThis book tells a story of masculinity through the experiences of one boy, ‘Adam’. From four different studies and time periods, it tracks moments of significance in his life over a period of 20 years. These moments highlight the ways in which Adam is both drawn towards and away from a hegemonic masculinity of physical toughness, domination, competition and an opposition to ‘the feminine’. The book is set against the backdrop of a long history of contentious gender politics in Australia and globally but particularly responds to the renewed attention to the social construction of masculinities in the current #MeToo climate. Against this backdrop, nuanced and longitudinal accounts of boys’ and men’s experiences of masculinity are significant because they can offer insight into the complex bodily, social, economic, and historical forces that configure masculinities. Such understandings are important in our endeavours as those who educate, support and work with boys and men to transform gender inequalities. Table of ContentsChapter 1. From little boys, big boys grow.- Chapter 2. Masculinities and physical power.- Chapter 3. Masculinities and peer culture.- Chapter 4. Masculinities and the othering of females and ‘the feminine’.- Chapter 5. The affective intensities of masculinity in shaping gendered experience
£37.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Global Zero
Book SynopsisThis open access book shows how the adoption of global justice, such as eradication of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), has given rise to controversy, resistance, and transformation at the national, regional, and grass-roots levels in African and Asian countries where FGM/C has been practiced. It provides readers with up-to-date information about the effects of the campaign to eradicate FGM/C and the present situation of those countries, to which preceding books on FGM/C have scarcely referred. Adopting “zero tolerance” as a policy of eradication, WHO and other UN agencies have opposed any type of FGM/C, and many African countries have criminalized the practice. Although the campaign is based on the human rights discourse which is shared globally, the controversies concerning eradication of FGM/C on the national level and the responses of communities on the local level in those countries are diverse and complicated. Various actors such as NGOs, government officials, religious leaders, medical workers, and local inhabitants are embroiled and negotiate with each other concerning its eradication.With this book, readers are provided with an in-depth analysis of the complicated controversies and responses of local communities, referring to their particular historical and social backgrounds. The book provides two chapters on FGM/C in Asian countries, where not many studies have done yet. It also presents readers with a study of the arguments and responses to FGM/C of African immigrants by Australian health-care professionals as well as a study of male circumcision eradication campaigns, which have been carried on in tandem with FGM/C eradication campaigns but still not have been successful. With its many elaborate case studies, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the FGM/C studies as well as studies on the applicability of global justice to local communities.This book won the 13th (2023) Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) Award for Social CollaborationTable of ContentsPreface (Nakamura, Kyoko) Acknowledgement Introduction (Nakamura, Kyoko) Ch.1 Global Discourse and the Patriarchal Norms of FGM: Beyond the Zero Tolerance Policy (Toda, Makiko) Ch.2 Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology (Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa) Ch.3 How Did the Discourses of Globalized Eradication Campaign Reach Grassroots Communities? Female Genital Cutting and Its Eradication Activities among the Yellow Bull in Ethiopia (Miyawaki, Yukio) Ch.4 Cursed or blessed? Female Genital Cutting in the Gamo Cultural Landscape, South Western Ethiopia (Getaneh Mehari) Ch.5 Female Circumcision in Transformation: Medicalization and Ritual Changes among Gusii People in Western Kenya (Miyachi, Kaori) Ch.6 A Grassroots Movement to Eradicate Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and the Local’s Reaction: A Case Study of the Maasai, Kenya (Hayashi, Manami) Ch.7 An Ethnography of Diversity and Flexibility around Female Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Case of a Local Community Response to the Abolition Movement of Kenya (Nakamura, Kyoko) Ch.8 Genealogy of the Movement to Abolish FGC in Sudan: Focusing on the Role of Religion (Abdin, Mohamed) Ch.9 Female Genital Cutting in Asia: A case of Malaysia (Rashid, Abdul) Ch.10 Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia from the Viewpoint of the Female Body and Sexuality (Iguchi, Yufu) Ch.11 The Role of Men in the Abandonment of FGM/C (Varol, Nesrin) Ch.12 Autonomy and Bodily Integrity and Male Circumcision (Higashi, Yuko) Index
£40.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Global Zero Tolerance Policy and Diverse Responses from African and Asian Local Communities
Book SynopsisThis open access book shows how the adoption of global justice, such as eradication of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), has given rise to controversy, resistance, and transformation at the national, regional, and grass-roots levels in African and Asian countries where FGM/C has been practiced. It provides readers with up-to-date information about the effects of the campaign to eradicate FGM/C and the present situation of those countries, to which preceding books on FGM/C have scarcely referred. Adopting “zero tolerance” as a policy of eradication, WHO and other UN agencies have opposed any type of FGM/C, and many African countries have criminalized the practice. Although the campaign is based on the human rights discourse which is shared globally, the controversies concerning eradication of FGM/C on the national level and the responses of communities on the local level in those countries are diverse and complicated. Various actors such as NGOs, government officials, religious leaders, medical workers, and local inhabitants are embroiled and negotiate with each other concerning its eradication.With this book, readers are provided with an in-depth analysis of the complicated controversies and responses of local communities, referring to their particular historical and social backgrounds. The book provides two chapters on FGM/C in Asian countries, where not many studies have done yet. It also presents readers with a study of the arguments and responses to FGM/C of African immigrants by Australian health-care professionals as well as a study of male circumcision eradication campaigns, which have been carried on in tandem with FGM/C eradication campaigns but still not have been successful. With its many elaborate case studies, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the FGM/C studies as well as studies on the applicability of global justice to local communities.This book won the 13th (2023) Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) Award for Social CollaborationTable of ContentsPreface (Nakamura, Kyoko) Acknowledgement Introduction (Nakamura, Kyoko) Ch.1 Global Discourse and the Patriarchal Norms of FGM: Beyond the Zero Tolerance Policy (Toda, Makiko) Ch.2 Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology (Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa) Ch.3 How Did the Discourses of Globalized Eradication Campaign Reach Grassroots Communities? Female Genital Cutting and Its Eradication Activities among the Yellow Bull in Ethiopia (Miyawaki, Yukio) Ch.4 Cursed or blessed? Female Genital Cutting in the Gamo Cultural Landscape, South Western Ethiopia (Getaneh Mehari) Ch.5 Female Circumcision in Transformation: Medicalization and Ritual Changes among Gusii People in Western Kenya (Miyachi, Kaori) Ch.6 A Grassroots Movement to Eradicate Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and the Local’s Reaction: A Case Study of the Maasai, Kenya (Hayashi, Manami) Ch.7 An Ethnography of Diversity and Flexibility around Female Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Case of a Local Community Response to the Abolition Movement of Kenya (Nakamura, Kyoko) Ch.8 Genealogy of the Movement to Abolish FGC in Sudan: Focusing on the Role of Religion (Abdin, Mohamed) Ch.9 Female Genital Cutting in Asia: A case of Malaysia (Rashid, Abdul) Ch.10 Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia from the Viewpoint of the Female Body and Sexuality (Iguchi, Yufu) Ch.11 The Role of Men in the Abandonment of FGM/C (Varol, Nesrin) Ch.12 Autonomy and Bodily Integrity and Male Circumcision (Higashi, Yuko) Index
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Uyat und die Kultur der Scham in Zentralasien
Book SynopsisDieses Buch wirft einen interdisziplinären Blick auf die Kultur der Scham in Zentralasien und bewertet ihre Rolle bei der Regulierung der sozialen und politischen Interaktionen in der Region. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie "uyat" auf patriarchalen und hierarchischen Geschlechternormen beruht, die sich negativ auf Frauen und queere Körper auswirken. Die Beiträge befassen sich insbesondere mit dem Tabu der Sexualerziehung in kasachischen Schulen, der bevorzugten Heteronormativität und ihren Folgen für queere Körper sowie mit der Verpflichtung der Eltern, ihr Erstgeborenes zur Adoption an die Eltern des Ehemanns in Kirgisistan zu geben. Das Buch geht auch darauf ein, wie diese Normen von der jungen Generation in Frage gestellt werden. Schließlich bietet das Buch auch eine neue Sichtweise auf die lokale politische Dynamik, indem es die Rolle der Scham in der kasachischen Politik als eine Form der Rechenschaftspflicht in Abwesenheit von echtem politischen Wettbewerb untersucht. Dieses Buch ist für Zentralasienwissenschaftler, Gender-Theoretiker und Wissenschaftler post-sozialistischer Gesellschaften von Interesse.Table of ContentsKapitel 1: Einleitung.- Kapitel 2: Konzeptualisierung von Scham.- Kapitel 3: Reinheit vs. Sicherheit: Wie Uyat die sexuelle Kompetenz von Jugendlichen in Kasachstan untergräbt.- Kapitel 4: 'Uyat emes' oder der Prozess der Entschamung in Kasachstan.- Kapitel 5: Scham vor der Mutter: Die Praxis von "nebere aluu" in Kirgisistan.- Kapitel 6: Die Rolle von "uyat" oder der Kultur der Scham bei der Regulierung von queeren Subjektivitäten in Kasachstan und Formen des Widerstands dagegen.- Kapitel 7: Öffentliche Scham als Form der Rechenschaftspflicht in der kasachischen Politik.
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ISEAS Gender Equality and Diversity in Indonesia:
Book SynopsisOver the past 20 years, gender relations and the expression of power and authority between men and women in Indonesia have been shaped by the forces of reformasi, decentralisation, a reassertion of central power, and economic transitions. These changes have given rise to policy reform, an increase in women's political representation, and new expressions of diverse gender identities. But to what extent has the 'gender order' of the New Order, where women's role as a mother was the basis of citizenship, been challenged or just found new articulations? What shape do contemporary contestations to gendered power take? The chapters in this volume bring gender to the centre stage and provide reflections on the political, economic, social, and cultural progress and barriers in achieving gender equality and diversity in Indonesia.
£38.21
Springer Hundred Years of Sociology in India Evolving Issues Emerging Trends
Book SynopsisDigital Sociology Dawn and Development.- Sociology in North East India Beginning to Present.- Intricacies and Exigencies of Gerontological Care in India.- Environment Management through Youth Volunteerism A Study on Green Army Trivandrum.- Agency Regained Low End Job Gulf Migrants Middle Class and the Kerala Model.- Decoding the Contemporary Dynamics of Communalism A Critical Examination of Emerging Trends and Perspectives.
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Springer Queer Provincialism
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Centering the Country Queer Paradox: An Introduction to the Rural Indian Queer (Kaustav Chakraborty).- Part I. The Personal and/as the Provincial.- Chapter 2. Demystifying Queer Taboo: Autoethnography of a Prince from Provincial Gujarat (Manavendra Singh Gohil).- Chapter 3. The Other Story: A Journey of a Queer Boy from a Village in Kosi - Seemanchal (Bihar) (Smit Kumar).- Chapter 4. 4. Queer and the Category of the Rural: My Personal Experiences in Goa (Kshitij Bisen).- Chapter 5. Rural Punjab amidst Turmoil and Evolution (1980-2023): A Queer Memoir (Yashwinder Singh).- Chapter 6. The Asexuals and the Rurban India (Raj Saxena).- Part II. Cultural/ Cinematic/Literary Representations.- Chapter 7. Representation of Rural Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Lives in Indian English Novels (Kaustav Chakraborty).- Chapter 8. Rural Queer Polymorphism and Postmodern Performative Spectacle: Contextualizing Heterotopia and ‘Other’ Liminal Spaces in Indian Filmic Representations (Saher Bano).- Chapter 9. Wo(men) Un(like) Me! Female Impersonators and Folk Performances in Rural Areas of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab (Nikhilesh Yadav).- Chapter 10. Is there a Joke for the Rural Indian Queer? (Wahida Tasnim).- Chapter 11. Exploring Same-Sex Relationships and Queer Marriages: Insights from Rural Areas of Mizoram and Meghalaya in Northeast India (Anup Shekhar Chakraborty).- Part III. Cartographical Explorations.- Chapter 12. Death, Friendship and Migration of Queer People: Revisiting the Countryside of Keralam (Reshma Bharadwaj).- Chapter 13. Queering the Rural Verdure Scapes of North Bengal: Mapping the Everyday Performative Geography of Gays and Bisexual Men (Victor Banerjee).- Chapter 14. Queer Romance in the Indian Countryside: Rethinking Life and Death in Assam (Anupom Kumar Hazarika).- Chapter 15. In Search of a ‘Place’: Exploring the Untold Narratives of Rural Queer Lives in Odisha (Pranta Pratik Patnaik).- Chapter 16. Emotional Perils and Survivality: Gay and Bisexual Men of Rural Uttarakhand (Himadri Roy).
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Legalising Prostitution in Thailand: A
Book SynopsisThis book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry. The author considers Thailand’s tolerance of prostitution and sex trafficking, despite criminalising prostitution since 1960. In doing so, they explain how criminalising prostitution does not lower the odds of women and girls engaging in commercial sex, but rather, legally marginalises them from receiving the necessary social and healthcare support. The book highlights that neither can Thailand pragmatically practice a zero-tolerance stance against prostitution - primarily due to severe police corruption and its heavy reliance on the sex tourism economy to support the national economic growth - nor is Thailand willing to fully crack down on the domestic sex industry. Engaging in an evaluation of how legalising and decriminalising prostitution, along with continuing to implement policies and interventions that alleviate the root causes of prostitution, can help Thailand build a more inclusive society and less-prostitution-reliant economy in the long term, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the relationships between society, inequality, governance, criminality, and policy in Southeast Asian contexts. It is relevant to students and researchers in sociology, socio-criminology, public policy, government and Southeast Asian studies.Table of ContentsAn Overview of Legalising Prostitution in Thailand.- Socioeconomic Construction of Prostitution in Thailand.- Institutional Construction of Prostitution in Thailand.- Revisiting Thailand’s Contemporary Policies on Tolerating “Illegal” Sex Work.- Comprehensive Social, Healthcare and Human Interventions in Curbing Prostitution.- Conclusions: How to Curtail the Legalised Prostitution Rates and Protect Sex Workers’ Rights.
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Hong Kong University Press Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship,
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Hong Kong University Press Eros of International Relations: Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness
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Hong Kong University Press Rebel Men: Masculinity and Attitude in Postsocialist Chinese Literature
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Hong Kong University Press Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave
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Hong Kong University Press Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema
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Austin MacAuley Publishers Fze Creativity and Conservatism
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Aleh Nahorny Can a Christian not be homophobic
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State University of New York Press Gaslighting
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Thorndike Press Large Print Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Gender Identity: Inclusion, Rights and
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Gender Diversity: Past, Present and Future
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Information Age Publishing No Country for Black Men
Book SynopsisNo Country For Black Men captures the plight and possibilities of what it means to be Black and male in the United States past and present. Through storytelling and sociological data analysis, the author weaves a powerful story about challenges and opportunities faced by Black males of all ages today. From mental health parity to disproportionality and myths about Black male sexuality, this body of work is bent on naming the persistent and historical challenges Black men are confronted with throughout their development. Each chapter is anchored in and punctuated by the author's personal experiences as an immigrant, a father, a husband and a scholar-practitioner. The mission of No Country For Black Men is to add to the scholarship and conversation among educators, mental health providers, religious leaders, and other service providers about ways to improve the academic, economic and health outcome for Black males in the United States.
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Information Age Publishing No Country for Black Men
Book SynopsisNo Country For Black Men captures the plight and possibilities of what it means to be Black and male in the United States past and present. Through storytelling and sociological data analysis, the author weaves a powerful story about challenges and opportunities faced by Black males of all ages today. From mental health parity to disproportionality and myths about Black male sexuality, this body of work is bent on naming the persistent and historical challenges Black men are confronted with throughout their development. Each chapter is anchored in and punctuated by the author's personal experiences as an immigrant, a father, a husband and a scholar-practitioner. The mission of No Country For Black Men is to add to the scholarship and conversation among educators, mental health providers, religious leaders, and other service providers about ways to improve the academic, economic and health outcome for Black males in the United States.
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Torrey House Press Without Exception
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Gender Equity and Students Technological
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Amplify Publishing The Sixth Level Capitalize on the Power of Womens
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Strategies for the Prevention of GenderBased Violence
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