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Book SynopsisCholas and Pishtacos are two provocative characters from South American popular culture. In this book, these two figures become vehicles for an exploration of race, sex, and violence beginning with three forms of social and economic interaction: estrangement, exchange and accumulation.

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Book SynopsisForeword; I.Whelehan Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Gillis, G.Howie & R.Munford PART I: GENERATIONS AND GENEALOGIES 'Feminists Love a Utopia': Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism; L.S.Sanders On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism; A.Stone Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues; M.Orr Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism; G.Howie & A.Tauchert Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question; S.Stryker Theorizing the Intermezzo: The Contributions of Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism; A.D.Lotz 'You're not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?': The Question of Male-Embodied Feminist Criticism; A. Shail PART II: LOCALES AND LOCATIONS Wa(i)ving it all Away: Subject Formation and Knowledge Formation in Feminisms of Colour; M.N.Chakraborty 'It's all About the Benjamins': Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States; L.Heywood & J.Drake ImagininTrade Review'This expanded second edition of 'Third Wave Feminism' is an unexpected pleasure. While much work on 'the third wave' is ahistorical, nationally-bounded and analytically bankrupt, here the editors bring together an impressive range of articles living up to the volume's subtitle of 'critical exploration'. The anthology provides a historically and conceptually grounded background to the area, highlights the limits as well as possibilities of generational approaches, and constitutes a politically diverse, international set of reflections on the terrain. Essential reading.' - Clare Hemmings, Gender Institute, London School of Economics 'This is an excellent and important book that left me, as Imelda Whelehan puts it at the end of her foreword, "once again caring that I am a feminist, whatever the era.'' - Alice Ridout, Contemporary Women's WritingTable of ContentsForeword; I.Whelehan Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Gillis, G.Howie & R.Munford PART I: GENERATIONS AND GENEALOGIES 'Feminists Love a Utopia': Collaboration, Conflict and the Futures of Feminism; L.S.Sanders On the Genealogy of Women: A Defence of Anti-Essentialism; A.Stone Kristeva and the Trans-missions of the Intertext: Signs, Mothers and Speaking in Tongues; M.Orr Feminist Dissonance: The Logic of Late Feminism; G.Howie & A.Tauchert Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question; S.Stryker Theorizing the Intermezzo: The Contributions of Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism; A.D.Lotz 'You're not One of Those Boring Masculinists, Are You?': The Question of Male-Embodied Feminist Criticism; A. Shail PART II: LOCALES AND LOCATIONS Wa(i)ving it all Away: Subject Formation and Knowledge Formation in Feminisms of Colour; M.N.Chakraborty 'It's all About the Benjamins': Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism in the United States; L.Heywood & J.Drake Imagining Feminist Futures: The Third Wave, Postfeminism and Eco/feminism; N.Moore A Different Chronology: Reflections on Feminism in Contemporary Poland; A.Graff Global Feminism, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production; W.Woodhull Neither Cyborg nor Goddess: The (Im)possibilities of Cyberfeminism; S.Gillis PART III: POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE Contests for the Meaning of Third Wave Feminism: Feminism and Popular Consciousness; E.K.Garrison 'Also I Wanted so Much to Leave for the West': Postcolonial Feminism Rides the Third Wave; A.Valassopoulos (Un)fashionable Feminists: The Media and Ally McBeal; K.Gorton 'Kicking Ass is Comfort Food': Buffy as Third Wave Feminist Icon; P.Pender 'My Guns are in the Fendi!': The Postfeminist Female Action Hero; C.L.Stasia Sexing it Up? Women, Pornography and the Third Wave Feminism; M.Waters 'Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss': Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power; R.Munford IN DIALOGUE Interview with Luce Irigaray; G.Howie Interview with Elaine Showalter; S.Gillis & R.Munford Afterword; J.Spencer Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 "Sex Testing is the first comprehensive account of the various sex and gender tests that sports authorities have devised from the 1930s on for female athletes. It offers great documentation of significant developments, well-written throughout, accompanied by incisive, penetrating insights as to what is going on below the surface in the world of women's sports. It is a stellar, informative read that public libraries should acquire. It is certainly, above all, a scholarly resource that colleges and universities should purchase."--ARETE, publication of the Sport Literature Association."Sociology of gender scholars will find the book of interest given its historical evidence of the ways in which sex testing reflected 'larger cultural perceptions of womanhood' in the twentieth century."--Gender and Society"Pieper's well-written and carefully crafted narrative and analysis provides enormous insight into a topic previously unexplored at such depth."--Sport History Review"Pieper does an exceptional job of detailing the history and methods of sex/gender testing and of connecting the phenomenon to larger sociological issues about appropriate physical activity for women. . . . Essential."--Choice"Chock full of terrific research from primary sources. . . . Pieper's message comes through loud and clear: sex testing is a political act. It is about enforcing gender norms, not ensuring fair play."--Women's Review of Books"Pieper takes on the complex and infinitely important topic of sex testing in women's sport with fresh insight and a measured hand. In the process, she deftly unpacks how attempts to 'control' sex are continually fraught with elements of sexism, gender anxieties, and geopolitical tensions. This is an enlightening and necessarily disturbing analysis."--Jaime Schultz, author of Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women's Sport"For the first time, someone is pulling together the complete history of sex testing in sport. A very important book that makes a significant and unique contribution."--Alison M. Wrynn, former editor, Journal of Sports History"A timely and important book, the first in-depth history of its kind. Rich in detail and thorough in research, it is a must read for understanding the multiple layers of politics and ideology that inform gender policing in sport."--Kathryn Henne, author of Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport

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Book SynopsisGender in the Political Science Classroom looks at the roles gender plays in teaching and learning in the traditionally male-dominated field of political science. The contributors to this collection bring a new perspective to investigations of gender issues in the political behavior literature and feminist pedagogy by uniting them with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The volume offers a balance between the theoretical and the practical, and includes discussions of issues such as curriculum, class participation, service learning, doctoral dissertations, and professional placements. The contributors reveal the discipline of political science as a source of continuing gender-based inequities, but also as a potential site for transformative pedagogy and partnerships that are mindful of gender. While the contributors focus on the discipline of political science, their findings about gender in higher education are relevant to SoTL practitioners, other social-science discipliTrade Review"". . . a bold and compelling collection that asks important questions about the ways in which the teaching of Political Science reproduces gender inequities.""—Aeron Haynie , co-editor of Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind and Exploring More Signature PedagogiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Teach It Forward: Gender in the Political Science Classroom and Beyond / Ekaterina Levintova and Alison StaudingerPart One: National and Institutional Trends1. Gendering the Political Science Classroom while Mainstreaming Gender in the Discipline: Understanding the Barriers and Exploring Solutions / Ingrid Bego2. Divergent? Gender and Methodological Diversity in Recent Political Science Dissertations, 2012–2014 / Rina Verma Williams and Laura Dudley Jenkins3. Gendered Representation in Political Science Textbooks / Daniel Mueller4. Gender Mainstreaming and Political Science Teaching in New Zealand: Still a Work in Progress / Jennifer Curtin5. Student Perceptions of Gender in Political Science Teaching and Advising / Ekaterina LevintovaPart Two: Classroom Evidence and Solutions6. Getting to No: The Need for Gender-Conscious Pedagogy in Service-Learning Courses / Daisy Rooks7. Class Format, Gender, and Student Attitudes Toward Political Participation / Sara Rinfret and Michelle Pautz8. Beyond Gender Neutrality in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Classroom / Alison Staudinger9. Thinking Through Movement: Embodied Learning as Feminist Pedagogy for the Social Sciences / Valerie BarskeConclusion: Gender Forward: Momentum for the Future / Ekaterina Levintova and Alison StaudingerIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on contemporary accounts of those involved in the trade - printers, booksellers, publishers, and distributors, this work describes the labours through which literature was produced: both the physical labour of making books and the underlying cultural work performed by a set of ideologies about who counted as a maker of texts.Trade Review"Ms. Maruca's knowledge of the systems, methods, and personnel of the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century London publishing world is admirably broad and detailed." -- James E. Tierney * The Scriblerian, Spring 2011 *"… whether one hails from an English Department or a History Department, Professor Maruca's research and conclusions offer much to anyone interested in the history of texts and their production.… with the right sources in her capable hands, Maruca makes The Work of Print an eye-opening and excellent study." * Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Printing Production Values 2. Printers' Manuals and the Bodies of Type 3. Citizen, Hero, or Midwife? Re-presenting the Bookseller 4. From Authorized Print to Authoritative Author: The Regulated Trade 5. The Printer as Author: Samuel Richardson, Intellectual Property, and the Feminine Text 6. The Ghost in the Machine: Invisible Print in a Digital Age Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative work, Joanna Allan demonstrates why we should foreground gender as key for understanding both authoritarian power projection and resistance. She brings an ethnographic component to examine how concerns for equality and women's rights can be co-opted for authoritarian projects.Trade ReviewA meticulously researched and thoughtful analysis. Through interviews and archival research, Allan offers a compelling argument for the foundationally gendered dynamics that structure Equatoguinean and Sahrawi political resistance."" - Mahan Ellison, Bridgewater College""Silenced Resistance is a ground-breaking study of the gendered dynamics of resistance to colonial and post-colonial authoritarian regimes in North and West Africa. Drawing on extensive archival and field-based research in Western Sahara and Equitorial Guinea, Allan forcefully analyses the complex relationship between women, feminist resistance to patriarchy, and political resistance to authoritarianism."" - Alice Wilson, University of Sussex

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Table of ContentsWomen"s Power: Making Good Use of Your Economic Clout La Creme de la FEMME: Our Scoring Guide The Kitchen CEO Beyond the Grocery Store: Product Ratings for Household Goods, Stores, Clothes, and Children"s Products Household-Based Consumption: Ratings of Other Products and Services Often Purchased by Women Making Female-Friendly Consumerism Work from Work: Rating Products and Services Related to the Office The States of Women"s Status Globe-Trotting Women Endnotes Buying Guide: Product Names and Companies by Category App. Methodology, Scoring, and References App. Category Ratings of Companies App. Organizations that Help Women App. Governors" Names, Addresses, and Phone Numbers About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking study of the complex relationship between war, gender, and citizenship in Great Britain during World War I, Nicoletta Gullace shows how the assault on civilian masculinity led directly to women's suffrage.Trade Review'Well-written, lively and convincing' - Bertrand Taithe, War in HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: PROPAGANDA AND THE PUBLIC MIND The Rape of Belgium and Wartime Imagination The Making of Tommy Atkins: Masculinity, Propaganda and the Triumph of Family Values Redrawing the Boundaries of the Private Sphere: Patriotic Motherhood and the Raising of Kitchener's Armies PART II: SHAMING RITUALS AND SEXUAL IDENTITY The Order of the White Feather Conscription, Conscience, and the Travails of Male Citizenship 'Reinventing Womanhood: Sufragettes and the Great War for Citizenship PART III: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF LAW The Power of Sacrifice: 'Physical Force' and Women's Work Votes for Whom?: The Ideological Origins of the Representation of the People Bill

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Book SynopsisMake Love, Not War is the first full-scale history of how the Sexual Revolution changed life in America forever. A fascinating and frank portrait of private lives and public discourse, it traces changes from the deceptively repressive Fifties, to the first tremors of rebellion in the early Sixties and the sexual rights movement of the mid Sixties, to the heady heyday of the Revolution (1969-73), and the counterrevolution in the early Seventies.

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Book SynopsisThe New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle .Trade Review'Ann Heilmann's New Woman Fiction: Women Writing Feminism synthesies recent debates on the New Woman fiction, and makes its own distinctive contribution to the growing body of work on this fin de siecle phenomenon. It discusses a wider range of writers and texts than earlier studies of this body of writing, and locates both the writers and texts more clearly and more firmly in the context of late nineteenth 'feminism' than have earlier studies. It also seeks to draw parallels between this 'first wave' of feminism and the 'second wave' feminism of the latter part of the twentieth century. This has the effect of simultaneously broadening and narrowing the corpus of New Woman writing: more texts are put on display, but New Woman writers are more specifically (and perhaps more narrowly) defined as 'committed feminists with a vision of social regeneration through didactic literature [through which] they sought to reach and politicize a mass readership.' This lucid study offers an historically grounded and theoretically informed introduction to an important aspect of the history of women's writing.' - Lyn Pykett, Professor of English, University of Wales, AberystwythTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Regen(d)eration Contesting/Consuming Femininities Keynotes and Discords Marriage and Its Discontents The Crisis of Gender and Sexuality The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Departures

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Book SynopsisIntroduction Mary Robinson's Attitudes Picturing Sappho Fragments of an Elegy The Woman Poet Sings Sappho's Last Song Poisonous Honey Sappho's Fatal Book Speaking Spaces Epilogue: Virginia's Sapphists Bibliography IndexTrade Review'The Sappho History is a compelling and original account of Sappho's cultural transformations over the past few centuries. At once lucid, learned, and creative, Margaret Reynolds's study powerfully demonstrates why this iconic figure has held such a strong pull on the imagination and emotions of such a wide range of writers, readers, and artists.' - Professor Kate Flint, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA 'Sappho as symbol, as poet and muse, as poetic and personal possibility, is wonderfully worked in this subtly allusive, academically exciting and poetically powerfuly study.' The Times '...an extremely interesting book.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Her new book is an enjoyable introduction to what has to become an essential topic for classicists interested in reception, for scholars interested in Hellenism or classicism in European vernacular literature, and especially for feminists historians and queer theorists.' - Emily Wilson, London Review of Books 'This is a beautifully written, passionate and poetic book. It has important things to say about women's writing, about love, about lyric poetry, about myth and celebrity, and about elegy and loss. And it joins a growing number of books that demonstrate that Victorian Hellenism was no dusty, dry affair but complex and fascinating' - Jennifer Wallace, The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction Mary Robinson's Attitudes Picturing Sappho Fragments of an Elegy The Woman Poet Sings Sappho's Last Song Poisonous Honey Sappho's Fatal Book Speaking Spaces Epilogue: Virginia's Sapphists Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents feminist commentary on both feminist and traditional methods. It illustrates feminist methods, including oral history, linguistic analysis, feminist anthropology informed by feminist literary criticism, and reinterpretation of empirical data from a feminist perspective.Table of Contents0. Introduction Part One: Feminist Research Methods 1. Gender and Science 2. Feminist Criticism of the Social Sciences 3. Knowledge and Women's Interests: Issues of Epistemology and Methodology in Feminist Sociological Research 4. Beginning Where We Are: Feminist Methodology in Oral History Part Two: Exemplary Readings 5. Laura Ellsworth Seiler: In the Streets 6. The Vision of a Woman Shaman 7. Between Two Worlds: German Feminist Approaches to Working-Class Women and Work 8. Women and Suicide in Historical Perspective 9. How Large Are Cognitive Gender Differences? A Meta-Analysis Using ω2 and d 10. Interaction: The Work Women Do 11. A New Approach to Understanding the Impact of Gender on the Legislative Process

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Book SynopsisBased on original research from nearly 1,600 women from the kink community, this book takes you on a journey into the motivations, meanings, and benefits of kink, in these women's own words.Women and Kink presents a diverse range of personal and intimate stories about life, love, relationships, kink, sex, self-discovery, growth, resilience, community, and more. The book offers insight into the breadth of the kink community, with chapters discussing different aspects of kink and forms of engagement, both individually and within relationships. Filled throughout with personal vignettes and examples, the authors provide commentary, reflection questions, and thought-provoking considerations to readers who are looking to explore a new area of their life.By exploring personal stories of love, alternative sexualities, and reasons for participating in the unconventional, the book supports and empowers each reader to build a relationship and life that best suits their neeTrade Review"For how easy this book is to read, the density of information is surprising. Reading this book is like eating something completely delicious and later realizing that it was half cauliflower. Rehor and Schiffman use such delightful candor and direct language to explain their research that readers might not even notice they are reading a methods section until they are deep into it. With this auspicious beginning, Women and Kink delivers the authors’ original data supported with others’ research in a writing style so smooth that it is lovely to read. Women and Kink covers various aspects of kink from sex, pain, the mind, spirituality, and safety to consent, exhibitionism, role, play, fetishes, and money. Together, Rehor and Schiffman explore the ways in which women engage in kink, and a wide range of respondents’ relationship statuses and reasons for participating in kink. Fascinating for academic and popular interest readers, Women and Kink makes a significant contribution to our understandings about what women think about kink, and how they feel about and practice kink over time – all in a refreshingly straightforward read." —Dr. Elisabeth Sheff, author of The Polyamorists Next Door, Stories from the Polycule, When Someone you Love is Polyamorous, and Children in Polyamorous Families. "This book contributes to the literature by discussing interesting and groundbreaking research on kink in WOMEN, an understudied population. It provides a window into a world that is often misunderstood and mischaracterized. This is a great read for any therapist by illuminating the experiences and giving voice to the women who engage in kink behaviors." —Rose Hartzell-Cushanick, PhD, EdS, LMFT, AASECT-certified sex therapist supervisor at San Diego Sexual Medicine and adjunct professor at San Diego State University."Jennifer! Julia! A heartfelt thanks for making these courageous retellings available for learning, growth and enjoyment. May this groundbreaking work lead the way for people everywhere to speak to their concerns, desires, turn-ons, and ways of life in ways that affirm them and help them make sense of their relationships, their communities and their world. Thank you both for this precious gift of a book." — Mike Giancola, LMFT, licensed marriage and family therapist focusing on sexual health, San Diego, California. "For how easy this book is to read, the density of information is surprising. Reading this book is like eating something completely delicious and later realizing that it was half cauliflower. Rehor and Schiffman use such delightful candor and direct language to explain their research that readers might not even notice they are reading a methods section until they are deep into it. With this auspicious beginning, Women and Kink delivers the authors’ original data supported with others’ research in a writing style so smooth that it is lovely to read. Women and Kink covers various aspects of kink from sex, pain, the mind, spirituality, and safety to consent, exhibitionism, role play, fetishes, and money. Together, Rehor and Schiffman explore the ways in which women engage in kink, and a wide range of respondents’ relationship statuses and reasons for participating in kink. Fascinating for academic and popular interest readers, Women and Kink makes a significant contribution to our understandings about what women think about kink, and how they feel about and practice kink over time—all in a refreshingly straightforward read." — Dr. Elisabeth Sheff, author of The Polyamorists Next Door, Stories from the Polycule, When Someone You Love is Polyamorous, and Children in Polyamorous Families "This book contributes to the literature by discussing interesting and groundbreaking research on kink in WOMEN, an understudied population. It provides a window into a world that is often misunderstood and mischaracterized. This is a great read for any therapist by illuminating the experiences and giving voice to the women who engage in kink behaviors." —Rose Hartzell-Cushanick, PhD, EdS, LMFT, AASECT-certified Sex Therapist Supervisor at San Diego Sexual Medicine and Adjunct Professor at San Diego State University, CA, USA"Jennifer! Julia! A heartfelt thanks for making these courageous retellings available for learning, growth and enjoyment. May this groundbreaking work lead the way for people everywhere to speak to their concerns, desires, turn-ons, and ways of life in ways that affirm them and help them make sense of their relationships, their communities and their world. Thank you both for this precious gift of a book." — Mike Giancola, LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist focusing on sexual health, San Diego, CA, USATable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Aspects of Kink 3. Engagement with Kink 4. Relationship Status 5. Reasons for Participating in Kink 6. Stories 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge History of Queer America presents the first comprehensive synthesis of the rapidly developing field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer US history. Featuring nearly thirty chapters on essential subjects and themes from colonial times through the present, this collection covers topics including: Rural vs. urban queer histories Gender and sexual diversity in early American history Intersectionality, exploring queerness in association with issues of race and class Queerness and American capitalism The rise of queer histories, archives, and collective memory Transnationalism and queer history Gathering authorities in the field to define the ways in which sexual and gender diversity have contributed to the dynamics of American society, culture and nation, The Routledge History of Queer America is the finest available overview of thTrade ReviewThis extraordinary chronological and thematic volume is sure to benefit students, scholars, and the wider public interested in the current state of LGBTQ history for years to come. The nearly thirty authors who penned the chapters in Romesburg’s volume are authorities in their subject matters, yet the texts are written in a widely accessible style. This is a gift to all of us, especially to the many readers who will be introduced to new concepts for the first time reading these pages. Romesburg’s edited collection will surely excite a new generation to explore this incredibly awesome field of LGBTQ history.Eric Gonzaba, California State University, Fullerton, in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, University of Texas PressTable of ContentsIntroduction: Having a Moment Four Decades in the MakingDon RomesburgPART ONETimes1 Colonial North America (1600s–1700s)Richard Godbeer2 Revolutionary Sexualities and Early National Genders (1770s–1840s)Rachel Hope Cleves3 Centering Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Queer History (1800s–1890s)Clare Sears4 Modern Sexuality in Modern Times (1880s–1930s)Elizabeth Clement and Beans Velocci5 Sexual Minorities at the Apex of Heteronormativity (1940s–1965)Amanda H. Littauer6 Gay Liberation (1963–1980)Whitney Strub7 AIDS and Action (1980–1990s)Jennifer Brier8 Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times (1970–2010s)Margot WeissPART TWOSpaces and Places9 Queer Archives: From Collections to Conceptual FrameworkKate Eichhorn10 BodiesDavid Serlin11 OrganizationsMarcia M. Gallo12 The End of Urban Queer History?Kwame Holmes13 RuralPippa Holloway and Elizabeth Catte14 Queer and NationEithne Luibhéid15 Thinking Transnationally, Thinking QueerEmily K. HobsonPART THREEThemes16 Language, Acts, and Identity in LGBT HistoryJen Manion17 Transgender History (and Otherwise Approaches to Queer Embodiment)Finn Enke18 Lesbian History: Spirals of Imagination, Marginalization, and CreationJulie R. Enszer19 Bisexual History: Let’s Not Bijack Another CenturyLoraine Hutchins20 Queer of Color Estrangement and BelongingNayan Shah21 FamiliesDaniel Rivers22 Sickness and WellnessKatie Batza23 Criminalization and LegalizationAndrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock24 Law and Politics: “Crooked and Perverse” Narratives of LGBT ProgressMarc Stein25 LaborSara R. Smith-Silverman26 ConsumerismStephen Vider27 Queer Performance and Popular CultureSharon Ullman28 Public History and Queer MemoryLara Kelland

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Book SynopsisAt the end of the twentieth century a step-change in thinking about the offending behaviour of women began to impact on policy-makers concerned with the treatment of female offenders. A growing number of nations, states and organisations both national and supra-national in nature began to acknowledge that existing criminal justice and especially penal practices had not been sufficiently attentive to women's needs and had discriminated against women as a result.The concept of gender-responsive justice' an orientation to working with women and girls based around a consideration of the special needs of women as prisoners and their particular pathways to offending has been developed as a result. This book explores the development of this concept, the theories which have informed it, policy arenas in which gender-responsive justice has been attempted and the practices of gender-responsive justice which have subsequently emerged. This book takes a global perspective as it Trade Review"Gender responsive justice has evolved in response to the historical neglect of women in criminological theory and practice. However, as this important and timely book indicates, this development has also been associated with an expansion of social control over women. In charting the historical and theoretical origins of gender responsive justice and its associated critiques, the author argues for a transformative approach to criminalised women that is informed by feminist scholarship and by the experiences of women themselves and that acknowledges their continued structural disadvantage and oppression."- Gill McIvor, Professor of Criminology at the University of Stirling, SCCJR Co-Director, and visiting Professor at the Glasgow School of Social Work, University of StrathclydeTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Man made punishment2. From sex-specific to gender-responsive justice: opening up punishment to a feminist lens3. Gender-responsive justice in action4. Gender-responsivity and the male gaze5. Gender-responsive justice: critical appraisals6. Gender-responsive justice: feminism and resistance

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Book SynopsisWhile efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender athletes face in competitive sport; and the challenges they pose for this sex-segregated institution. Beginning with a discussion of the historical role that sport has played in preserving sex as a binary, the book examines how gender has been policed by policymakers within competitive athletics. It also considers how transgender athletes are treated by a system predicated on separating males from females, consequently forcing transgender athletes to negotiate the system in coercive ways. The book not only exposes our cultureâs binary thinking in terms of both sex and gender, but also offers a series of thought-provoking and sometimes contradictory recommendations for how to make sport more hospitable, inclusive and equitable.Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport is important reading for all students and scholars of the sociology of sport with an interest in the relationship between sport and gender, politics, identity and ethics. Table of ContentsIntroduction[Eric Anderson and Ann Travers]Section I: Individual Stories of Transgender Sporting Experiences1. Advantage Renée?: Renée Richards and Women’s Tennis[Lindsay Parks Pieper] 2. My name is Jay, I Transitioned and I’m a Disabled Young Athlete[Jay Anonymous]3. Becoming Me: Transitioning, Training and Surgery[Riley McCormack and Maylon Hanold]Section II: Research into Transgender Sporting Experiences4. An Introduction to Five Exceptional Trans Athletes from Around the World[Kinnon MacKinnon]5. Between Stigmatization and Empowerment: Meanings of Physical Activity and Sport in the Lives of Transgender People[Agnes Elling and Kiki Collot d’Escury]6. Athletes’ Perceptions of Transgender Eligibility Policies Applied in High-Performance Sport in Canada[Sarah Teetzel]7. Sport and Physical Exercise among Spanish Trans Persons[Victor Manuel Perez Samaniego, Sofía Pereira-García, Elena Lopez-Cañada andJosé Devís-Devís] 8. Honesty and Discipline: Identity Management of Transgender Netballers[Brendon Tagg] 9. The Experiences of Female-to-Male Transgender Athletes[Mark Ogville]10. Media Accounts of the First Transgender Person to Work in the English Premier League[Rory Magrath] Section III: When Policy and Identity Clash11. Subjective Sex: Science, Medicine and Sex Tests in Sports[Vanessa Heggie] 12. Including Transgender Students in United States School-Based Athletics[Helen Carroll] 13. Transgender Athletes in Elite Sport Competitions: Equity and Inclusivity[Eric Vilain, Jonathan Ospina Betancurt, Nereida Bueno-Guerra and Maria Jose Martinez-Patiño] Section IV: Challenging the System 14. From Transsexuals to Transhumans in Elite Athletics: The Implications of Osteology (and Other Issues) in Levelling the Playing Field[Michelle Sutherland, Richard Wassersug and Karen Rosenberg]15. The Tenuous Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Sport[Adam Love] 16. Queer Genes? The Bio-Amazons Project: A Response to Critics[Claudio Tamburrini]

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Book SynopsisWomen worldwide are making their presence felt as sport fans in rapidly increasing numbers. This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of sport fandom by exploring the growing visibility and interest in women who follow sport. It presents the latest data on womenâs sport spectatorship in different regions of the world, posing new theoretical paradigms to study the globalised nature of female sport fandom.This book goes beyond conventional approaches to analysing the practices of women sport fans. By using a critical feminist perspective to investigate cultural conditions and social contexts (including globalisation, digital networked technologies, consumerism, neoliberalism and postfeminism), it brings into view a diversity of womenâs voices and experiences as sport fans. It sheds new light on the power dynamics of gender, ethnicity and sexuality influencing womenâs participation in sport spectatorship and interrogates the ways female sport fandom Trade Review"Toffoletti has presented a timely account of current research on women sport fans. The book goes beyond the common reconstruction of the practices of female supporters but asks important questions of why and how women’s fandom is encouraged. As becomes evident throughout the book, the way sporting institutions address gender diversity in fandom often serves to preserve or reinforce gender hierarchies in sports." - Henk Erik Meier, University of Münster, European Journal for Sport and Society"Women Sport Fans succeeds most notably as a rich survey of existing literature relevant to the study of female sports fans and as a provocation for further research … Toffoletti offers a dynamic roadmap for future sports feminist scholarship and makes a compelling case for the importance of a transnational feminist perspective to the field." – Kathy Cacace, University of Texas at Austin, Feminist Media Studies"The book gives a testimony of how unequal relations between men and women function in different countries and in different sports, which may enable, for example, sports and women’s organisations to strengthen emancipatory practices in this area. In the scientific world, the book should open a discussion of great importance, as women are becoming more and more significant actors in the world of sport, actors who can no longer be underestimated." - Honorata Jakubowska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, & Radoslaw Kossakowski, Gdansk University, Poland, International Review for the Sociology of SportTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Facts, Figures and Frameworks: Approaching the Study of Women Sport Fans 2. Identities, Performances and Pleasures 3. Consumption 4. Representation 5. Digital Networks 6. The Postfeminist Sport Fan Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and âœOthernessâ. Analysing the career profiles of three crossover performers â Ali Zafar, Fawad Khan, and Mahira Khan â as a relevant case study, it unites critical globalization studies with soft power theory in exploring the potential of popular culture in conflict resolution.The book studies the representation and reception of these celebrities, while discussing themes such as the meaning of being a Pakistani star in India, and the consequent identity politics that come into play. As the first comprehensive study of Pakistani crossover stardom, it captures intersections between political economy, cultural representation, and nationalist discourse, at the same time reflecting on larger questions of identity and belonging in an age of globalization.Crossover Stars in the Hindi Film Industry will be indispensable to researchers of film studies, media and cultural studies, popular culture and performance, peace and area studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. A historical legacy 3. Globalization, new political economies, and cultural change 4. Aspirational affects and boundary crossing: Ali Zafar, the Pakistani ‘Prince of Pop’ 5. A crossover romance: Female fandom and Fawad Khan, Pakistan’s ‘reel’ gentleman 6. I am not your feminist: Mahira Khan and the re-scripting of Pakistani womanhood, Islam and globalization 7. A fragile union: moving forward, facing backward

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Book SynopsisOur understanding of the law and its potential for reforming social and political norms was dramatically reshaped in the 1980s by the intellectual movement known as feminist legal theory. What makes this new theory so important is the far-reaching challenge it poses to the assumptions embedded in traditional legal doctrine and method as well as theTable of Contents1 Introduction, PART ONE SEXUAL DIFFERENCE AND EQUALITY THEORY, 2 The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism, 3 Reconstructing Sexual Equality, 4 Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics, 5 Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination, 6 Deconstructing Gender, 7 Telling Stories About Women and Work: Judicial Interpretations of Sex Segregation in the Workplace in Title VII Cases Raising the Lack of Interest Argument, Further Reading for Part One, PART TWO QUESTIONING THE LEGAL SUBJECT, 8 On Being the Object of Property, 9 Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence, 10 Jurisprudence and Gender, 11 Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory, 12 Feminist Jurisprudence: Grounding the Theories, Further Reading for Part Two, PART THREE FEMINISM AND CRITICAL THEORY, 13 Deconstructing Contract Doctrine, 14 Statutory Rape: A Feminist Critique of Rights Analysis, 15 The Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Women’s Movement, 16 Feminist Critical Theories, Further Reading for Part Three, PART FOUR TURNING FEMINIST METHOD INWARD, 17 Feminist Reason: Getting It and Losing It, 18 Feminist Legal Methods, 19 Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes: Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G., Further Reading for Part Four

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the major forms of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in childrenâs sport, including sexual, physical, and psychological violence and neglect. It reviews the historical, sociocultural, and political influences on violence towards children, and sets out future agendas for research and practice to eliminate GBV in sport.The book argues that for GBV to occur and be sustained over time, it must be facilitated by a system that enables this violence, protects the perpetrator, disables bystanders, silences the victims, and/or fails to provide a structure by which to address victimsâ or bystandersâ concerns. Drawing on empirical research from across a range of disciplines, including sport sociology, sport psychology, developmental psychology, and coaching, and examining real life case studies of GBV in sport at all levels, the book makes a powerful case for radical change in our current systems of sport governance, safeguarding, and athlete welfare.This is importa

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Book SynopsisAnalysing the strategies people use to resist, accept and respond to laws that attempt to shape not just their behaviour, but also their identity, this book pursues a critical engagement with legal gender transition. The Gender Recognition Act (GRA) has often been described as a groundbreaking and progressive legal framework for allowing people to legally change their gender. This book seeks to challenge this representation by drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with trans people about the GRA. Theoretically this book uses the concepts of legal consciousness, agency and emotion to highlight the normative underpinnings of the GRA. Overall, the book contends, the GRA does not accurately reflect many trans people's own understanding of their gender identity or their sexuality. It is designed to create subjects that govern their behaviour and self-expression in a way that aligns with a purely binary model of sex/gender and sexuality. Although a deviation from these norms does not incur any direct punishment, it indirectly leads to a denial of rights and legal protections. By reviewing relevant legislation and case law, and through qualitative research, the book establishes how, instead of uncritically accepting or completely rejecting the GRA, trans people enact their singular identities by engaging strategically with law. This book will be of interest across a range of disciplines, including socio-legal studies, family law, gender, sexuality and law as well as sociology courses on gender, identity and social policy.

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Book SynopsisFully revised and updated, Body Image 4th Edition provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology, sociology, and gender studies.The new edition presents all the latest research on body image including work on technology and body image, interventions to reduce body dissatisfaction, and links between body image, BMI, and clothing availability. Including data from interviews and focus groups with men, women, and children who have spoken about body image and its impact on the rest of their lives, the book explores a range of important contemporary issues, including the effects of social media and selfie-taking on body image, the work of activists and academics who are trying to change how the fashion industry presents women's bodies, and new work investigating impacts of whole-body scanning technology and game-play avatars on appearance concern. ReflecTrade Review"Professor Grogan’s skillfully updated book is an excellent, science-grounded source of information and insights on body image. The work considers body image and its consequences within multiple determinative contexts, such as culture, gender, ethnicity, social class, media, and sexuality. I strongly recommend this reader-friendly work to scholars and students alike."Thomas F. Cash, Old Dominion University, USA"In this eagerly-awaited fourth edition, author Sarah Grogan offers a comprehensive, insightful and up-to-the-minute distillation of knowledge about body image in the 2020s. She skilfully summarises the broad and ever-expanding body of research into one thought-provoking but very readable and accessible volume. The accompanying illustrations and quotations serve to make the material come alive for the reader and demonstrate the very real human significance of this contemporary concern."Marika Tiggemann, Flinders University, Australia"What we know about body image is continuously expanding in exciting ways due to the evolving interest and research in this area. In her fourth edition, Professor Sarah Grogan expertly captures and distills this knowledge to create an up-to-date, thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible text which aptly recognizes that the experience of body image differs based on identities such as gender, age, and culture. This text is certain to be the go-to resource for anyone who would like a deeper and nuanced understanding of the current status of the body image field."Tracy L Tylka, The Ohio State University, USA"Professor Grogan’s skillfully updated book is an excellent, science-grounded source of information and insights on body image. The work considers body image and its consequences within multiple determinative contexts, such as culture, gender, ethnicity, social class, media, and sexuality. I strongly recommend this reader-friendly work to scholars and students alike."Thomas F. Cash, Old Dominion University, USA"In this eagerly-awaited fourth edition, author Sarah Grogan offers a comprehensive, insightful and up-to-the-minute distillation of knowledge about body image in the 2020s. She skillfully summarises the broad and ever-expanding body of research into one thought-provoking but very readable and accessible volume. The accompanying illustrations and quotations serve to make the material come alive for the reader and demonstrate the very real human significance of this contemporary concern."Marika Tiggemann, Flinders University, Australia"What we know about body image is continuously expanding in exciting ways due to the evolving interest and research in this area. In her fourth edition, Professor Sarah Grogan expertly captures and distills this knowledge to create an up-to-date, thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible text which aptly recognizes that the experience of body image differs based on identities such as gender, age, and culture. This text is certain to be the go-to resource for anyone who would like a deeper and nuanced understanding of the current status of the body image field."Tracy L. Tylka, The Ohio State University, USATable of ContentsList of FiguresPreface to the fourth editionAcknowledgments Introduction History Definitions Theoretical Perspectives Aims and Content of this Text Bibliography Culture and Body Image The Idealization of Slenderness The Basis of Body Shape Ideals The Dieting Industry Summary Bibliography Women and Body Image Assessment of Body Image Behavioral Indicators of Body Dissatisfaction Social Construction of the Feminine Body Summary Bibliography Men and Body Image Assessment of Body Image Behavioral Indicators of Body Dissatisfaction Social Construction of the Masculine Body Summary Bibliography Media Effects Media Portrayal of Women’s Bodies Media Portrayal of Men’s Bodies Surveys Relating Media Exposure to Body Image Studies Investigating Direct Effects of Media Images on Body Image Interview Studies Theories of Media Influence Body Shape Role Models Recent Developments Summary 10. Bibliography Age, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Sexuality Body Image Across the Life Span Ethnicity and Body Image Socioeconomic Status and Body Image Body Shape, Sexual Attractiveness, and Sexuality Summary Bibliography Reducing Body Dissatisfaction and Promoting Positive Body Image Psychological Factors Predicting Body Dissatisfaction General Conclusions and Future Directions Summary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBisexuality in Europe offers an accessible and diverse overview of research on bisexuality and bi+ people in Europe, providing a foundation for theorising and empirical work on plurisexual orientations and identities, and the experiences and realities of people who desire more than one sex or genderCounteracting the predominance of work on bisexuality based in Ango-American contexts, this collection of fifteen contributions from both early-career and more senior academics reflects the current state of research in Europe on bisexuality and people who desire more than one sex or gender. The book is structured around three interlinked themes that resonate well with the international research frontiers of bisexual theorising: bisexual citizenship, intimate relationships, and bisexual+ identities. This book is the first of its kind in bringing together research from various European countries including Austria, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Scandinavian countries, as well aTrade Review"A much needed anthology of bi+ research and theory, beyond the standard anglo-american focus. This book brings together a wealth of exciting and important chapters from a diverse range of locations and perspectives, with a particularly rich exploration of bi+ relationships of all kinds. A must-read for sexuality and relationship scholars." — Meg-John Barker, author of The Bisexuality Report, The Psychology of Sex, and Sexuality: A Graphic Guide."Framed geographically as European, this collection is far-reaching in its relevance, challenges and insights. It takes us into the depth and breadth of excellent scholarship coming from both renowned established and ground-breaking emerging European scholars about bisexualities in Europe and bisexualities globally. Another strength of this collection is its embrace of the need to connect academia, advocacy, allyship and activism when addressing important issues such as asylum-seeking, religious repression, transphobia, bisexual health, sexual intimacies, misogyny and family diversity.." — Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, editor of Bisexuality in Education: Erasure, Exclusion by Inclusion, and the Absence of Intersectionality, author of Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women Table of Contents1 Introduction , Section 1 Sexual Citizenship, 2 Bisexuality in Finland as an Identity and as a Conceptual tool in Sexual Minority Politics, 3 Unfinished Intimate Citizenship: Experiences of Bisexual People in Portugal, 4 Understanding the Dutch organised bisexual community: experiences of former community leaders, 5 Monosexual Church Policies and Non-Heteronormative Youth Cultures, 6 The Invisible Bisexual Asylum Seekers, Section 2 Intimate Relationships, 7 Becoming of the circle of friends after a bisexual break-up, 8 Bisexual women and Monogomy, 9 Narratives of consensual affective non-monogamies in bisexual and pansexual people. 10 Discourses of Erotic Autonomy in Bisexual Feminist Critiques of Compulsory Monogamy, 11 Forms of Bisexual Injustice: Bi, Being, and Becoming, Section 3, 12 Bisexuality as surplus of sexual order: A biographical case study, 13 Challenges of bisexual identity construction – between identity politics and postmodern refusal, 14 Bisexual bodies, 15 Outlook

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book argues that the fundamental issues around how victim-survivors of digital gender-sexual violations (DGSVs) are abused can be understood in terms of gender and sexual dynamics, constructions, positioning and logics. The book builds upon Hall and Hearn''s previous work, Revenge Pornography, but has been substantially reworked to examine other forms of DGSV such as upskirting and sexual deepfakes, as well as the latest research and debates in the field. Facilitated by developments in internet and mobile technologies, the non-consensual posting of real or fake sexually explicit images of others for revenge, entertainment, homosocial status or political leverage has become a global phenomenon. Using discourse and thematic analytical approaches, this text examines digital, survey and interview data on gendered sexual violences, abuses, and violations. The words of both the perpetrators and victim-survivors are presented, showing the impact on Trade Review'The book is a key resource for understanding digital spaces as a growing conducive context for sexual violence, the old and new forms of abuse it enables and the challenges in addressing it.'Liz Kelly, Professor of Sexualised Violence, London Metropolitan University, UK'The centrality of gender and sexuality in understanding everyday forms of digital violations are richly described in this book as well as its lucid analysis of the online textual abuse of feminists, upskirting and revenge pornography. It clearly makes the case for addressing digital gender-sexual violations in public spaces, organisations and workplaces while suggesting changes to the legislative frameworks to end such violations. The book is essential reading for understanding how gender, sexuality and violence manifests on the Internet and through digital and mobile technologies.'Professor Deevia Bhana, DSI/NRF South African Research Chair, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 'Providing readers with an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of how online technologies are used to perpetrate digital gender-sexual violations, this book offers valuable empirical insights and suggestions for change. This valuable new book provides a comprehensive analysis of how online tech is being used to perpetrate digital gender-sexual violations. It is a must-read for everyone seeking to understand and challenge these abuses.'Professor Clare McGlynn QC (Hon), Durham Law School, Durham University, UK 'Bringing together the myriad of existing and emerging forms of sexual violations in the digital world is no easy task - the authors of this book expertly bring together the multiple levels of interaction and media to provide a holistic understanding to this important field. Upskirting, revenge pornography, the online abuse of feminists, deepfakes, cyberflashing, spycamming - all forms of sexual violations that have sadly emerged during the first part of the 21st century. This book brings together what we know so far, providing an expert analysis of victim and survivor experiences as well as perpetrator motivations. Difficult but essential reading for those involved in preventing or responding to men’s violences against women in the digital world.'Nicole Westmarland, Professor of Criminology, Durham University, UK 'This volume is an indispensable reading for anyone who would like to understand contemporary forms of Digital Gender-Sexual Violations. As much as social media technologies have been formatting and reconfiguring our lives in so many different respects, they have also been widening the spectrum of how sexual violations can be and how they are performed. The authors take a long history of feminist research on sexual violence up to date as well as show how porn is a driver in online violence and how this is conflated with IRL actions. Based upon a wide range of empirical examples, they are giving us robust evidence why feminist interventions are truly needed.'Ulf Mellström, Editor-in-chief, Norma: International Journal for Masculinity StudiesTable of ContentsPart 1: Framing and theorising DGSV 1. Words and concepts 2. Situating DGSV 3. Online interactions 4. Data and methods of analysis Part 2: Empirical analyses of DGSV 5. Online textual abuse of feminists, with Michael Rowe and Clare Wiper 6. Upskirting, homosociality, and craftmanship 7. Revenge pornography 8. Some further forms of DGSV Part 3: Wider implications and responses 9. Wider implications for workplaces, organisations, and public spaces, with Charlotta Niemistö 10. Socio-legal-technical considerations 11. Afterword: Key issues now and for the future

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook maps the expanding field of gender and EU politics, giving an overview of the fundamentals and new directions of the sub- discipline, and serving as a reference book for (gender) scholars and students at different levels interested in the EU.In investigating the gendered nature of European integration and gender relations in the EU as a political system, it summarizes and assesses the research on gender and the EU to this point in time, identifies existing research gaps in gender and EU studies and addresses directions for future research. Distinguished contributors from the US, the UK and continental Europe, and from across disciplines from political science, sociology, economics and law, expertly inform about gender approaches and summarize the state of the art in gender and EU studies.The Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics provides an essential and authoritative source of information for students, scholars and researchers in EU studiTrade Review"This superb handbook provides us with cutting-edge chapters on European institutions and European integration by today’s leading gender politics scholars. Their feminist critical analysis of gender and European politics marks a high point in European studies. It will become a classic text, providing foundational contributions to teaching and research for many years to come."Yvonne Galligan, Technological University Dublin, Ireland"This handbook is a fantastic intervention into contemporary European studies delving into both the theory and practices of European integration using a gender lens. A one stop shop for all things gender and Europe, the editors have curated an extraordinary collection of contributions. At a time when there is a backlash against insights that centre gender perspectives within Europe and globally, this Handbook demonstrate the need for resistance."Toni Haastrup, University of Stirling, UK"The Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics offers a significant, creative corrective to the his-torically biased nature of most grand narratives addressing the European Union’s development. Concentrating on core constructs and institutions, its contributors engage with "mainstream" literature as well as with gender scholarship, pinpointing topics for future research. One can only hope that "malestream" researchers will begin to follow their lead, to ensure a more complete, his- and her-storical picture of what makes the EU "tick" and where it needs to go from here."Joyce Marie Mushaben, Georgetown University, USA"At a time when gender equality policies are under attack and the European Union is self-destructing, this book is a crucial reminder of the historical importance of European integration to women’s rights in the region. This handbook is a must-read for students, researchers, journalists and practitioners. It examines politics in a broad sense, covering most fields of political science with openings towards history, law, political economy and sociology. It offers an up-to-date overview of gender politics and the EU, including timely issues such as austerity, Brexit and populism."David Paternotte, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium"...By bringing different ontological perspectives on gender and the EU together, this handbook will help to ‘gender mainstream’ future EU scholarship..."Isabelle Hertner, (2021) "Gendering European politics: A story of Progress and Backlash", Journal of European Integration, 43:4, 511-517Table of Contents1. Whose Story is it Anyway? Studying European Integration with a Gender Lens PART 1: Gendering the EU: Theoretical Perspectives Thematic introduction 2. The EU as a Gender Equality Regime: A Core Research Concept 3. Europeanization 4. Social Constructivism 5. Feminist Institutionalism 6. Feminist Political Economy and its Explanatory Promise 7. EU, Men and Masculinities 8. The EU Approach to Intersectional Discrimination in Law PART 2: Gendering the EU Polity and Structures of Governance Thematic introduction 9. European Parliament 10. Gendering the Council System 11. Gender Equality and the European Commission 12. The European External Action Service 13. The Politics of Gender in the Field of European Agencies 14. The Court of Justice of the EU and Judicial Politics PART 3: Gendered Politics in the EU Thematic introduction 15. Enlargement 16. Gender and EU Citizenship 17. The Privilege of (Defining) Knowledge: Gender Differences in Political Knowledge across Europe 18. Civil Society 19. Party Politics PART 4: Gender Equality and EU Policies Thematic introduction 20. Social and Employment Policy 21. Economic and Monetary Union 22. Trade Policies 23. Development Policy 24. Gender and EU Climate Policy 25. Research Policy 26. Security and Defense Policy 27. Migration and Asylum Policy 28. Violence against Women and Gender-based Violence PART 5: A Gender Lens on Key Issues and Debates Thematic introduction 29. The Populist Challenge to Gender Equality 30. Economic Crisis and the Politics of Austerity 31. The Gender Story of Brexit: From Under-representation of Women to Marginalisation of Equality

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Book SynopsisIdentity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology documents how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism affect the demographics of archaeology and discusses how knowledge that archaeologists produce is shaped by the disciplineâs demographic homogeneity.Previous research has shown that, like many academic fields, archaeology is numerically dominated by straight white cisgender people, and those in positions of authority are predominantly men. This book examines how and why those demographic trends persist. It also elucidates how individual archaeologistsâ social identities shape the research they conduct, and therefore, how our demographics affect and limit our knowledge production on a disciplinary scale. It explains how, through unflinching reflection, proactive policymaking, and sincere community-building, we can build a diverse and inclusive discipline.This book will appeal to archaeologists who have an interest in diversity and inclusion withi

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Book SynopsisThis book offers cutting-edge, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research in the blossoming field of fat studies. The aim is to generate discussion about the complexity of fat oppression as a phenomenon and social force that permeates interactions both at an institutional and interpersonal level, impacting the lived experiences of fat people. Each chapter has been carefully selected to create a space to showcase the engaging intersectional and interdisciplinary fat studies scholarship that is taking place globally. This engaging book will take the reader around the world by examining: weight-loss classes in Ireland, Jamaican womenâs views of health and fatness, the difficulties of immigrating while fat to New Zealand, fat activism in Finnish media, being fat and pregnant in Australia, a girls' camp in the United States, and the experiences of fat hatred felt by queer fat women in Canada. This book will inspire fat-studies scholars globally to incorporate intersectional apTable of ContentsIntroduction - Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovationsAriane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey1. Crafting weight stigma in slimming classes: A case study in IrelandJacqueline O’Toole2. Understanding fatness: Jamaican women’s constructions of healthClaudia Barned and Kieran O’Doherty3. Frozen: A fat tale of immigrationCat Pausé4. Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny’s Life ChangeAnna Puhakka5. "You will face discrimination": Fatness, motherhood, and the medical professionJennifer Lee6. Rock and rolls: Exploring body positivity at Girls Rock CampTrisha L. Crawshaw7. Mapping the circulation of fat hatredJen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, Crystal Kotow and Emma Lind

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Book SynopsisDramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre explores the dramaturgy of sex in contemporary works for the stage in the social, cultural and historical context of the time and place during which they were written and performed.Comprising chapters by writers from across North America and Europe, the book covers an expansive range of plays, musicals and dance performances, from Broadway to the Fringe, from post-AIDS epidemic to post-COVID-19 pandemic. Analysing these intimate momentsboth textually and as stagedthrough an intersectional and critical lens illuminates the way power structures are maintained and codified, and how they can be queered and dismantled onstage and off. This examination of depictions of sex on stage attempts to understand from a dramaturgical and sociological perspective how these depictions have developed over time, and how the rise of intimacy directors has responded to the changes within the contemporary theatrical landscape and in the worTable of ContentsIntroductionKate MulleyPart I: Depicting Sexual Discovery and Identity1. (Still) Shopping and (Still) Fucking: The Stylistics of Queer Desire on StageGeorge Sampatakakis2. Respectable Queer Sex: Criteria for Permissible Representations in Contemporary Mainstream TheatreJoey Baseil Massa3. Depicting Queer Sexual Discovery in Contemporary British Fringe TheatreAlexander Millington4. All Tomorrow’s Parties: Structures of Feeling in Verbatim TheatreShane KinghornPart II: Depicting Stylized Sex5. Disability and Desire: Multimodal Exploration in Deaf West’s Spring AwakeningLindsey R. Barr6. Dancing on a Knife’s Edge: Performing Violent Co-Dependency in Bryony Lavery and Frantic Assembly’s StockholmKaren Morash7. A Dramaturgy of Precariousness: The Real, Realness, and Spectatorship of Sex in Dead Centre’s Good SexHuayu Yang8. Mette Ingvartsen’s “The Red Pieces” Series: Sex, Dance, Erasing Power Structures and Ungendered BodiesAnne LempickiPart III: Depicting Transactional Sex9. Commodification of Women’s Bodies: Staging the ConsequencesSophie Bastien10. Masculinity and Commercial Sex from the Perspective of Giuliana Musso’s SexmachineStefania Lodi RizziniPart IV: Depicting Female Desire11. Context, Cliche, and Other Considerations for Staging Female DesireCristina (Cha) Ramos and Claire Warden12. Monstrous Desires: Writings of Sexuality in Contemporary Feminist Dramatic Writings in FranceLeïla CassarPart V: Depicting Sexual Violence13. Patriarchy Structures and Depictions of Patriarchal Sex in Contemporary TheatreKate Mulley14. Interrogating Racialized Sexual Violence in Slave PlayJessica Ellison15. Sexual Assault and the Criminal Justice System: The Naked Female Body in Breach Theatre’s It’s True, It’s True, It’s TrueHannah Simpson16. Sex Between Macabre Lust and Clinical Dissection in Dea Loher’s DramaturgyYoun Le Guern-Herry17. Applications of Dramaturgy in the Physical Creation of Sexual Violence on StageMeron Langsner and Cristina (Cha) Ramos

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume explores the girlâs voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers through topics that range from female vocal development during adolescence to girlsâ online media culture. While girlsâ voices are more prominent than ever in popular music culture, the specific sonic character of the young female voice is routinely denied authority. Decades old clichÃs of girls as frivolous, silly, and deserving of contempt prevail in mainstream popular image and sound. Nevertheless, girls find ways to raise their voices and make themselves heard. This volume explores the contemporary girlâs voice to illuminate the way ideals of girlhood are historically specific, and the way adults frame and construct girlhood to both valorize and vilify girls and women. Interrogating popular music, childhood, and gender, it analyzes the history of the all-girl band from the Runaways to the present; the changing anatomy of a girlâs voice throughout adolescence; girlâs participatory culture via youtube and rock camps, and representations of the girlâs voice in other media like audiobooks, film, and television. Essays consider girl performers like Jackie Evancho and Lorde, and all-girl bands like Sleater Kinney, The Slits and Warpaint, as well as performative 'girlishness' in the voices of female vocalists like Joni Mitchell, BeyoncÃ, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Kathleen Hanna, and Rebecca Black. Participating in girl studies within and beyond the field of music, this book unites scholarly perspectives from disciplines such as musicology, ethnomusicology, comparative literature, womenâs and gender studies, media studies, and education to investigate the importance of girlsâ voices in popular music, and to help unravel the complexities bound up in music and girlhood in the contemporary contexts of North America and the United Kingdom. Table of ContentsPART IVoice and Agency 1 I’m with the Band: Redefining Young Feminism 15 LUCY O’BRIEN 2 Girls at Work: Gendered Identities, Sex Segregation,and Employment Experiences in the Music Industry 37 MARION LEONARD 3 "I Love Beyoncé, but I Struggle with Beyoncé": Girl ActivistsTalk Music and Feminism 56 LYN MIKEL BROWN AND DANA EDELL WITH MONTGOMERY JONES, GEORGIA LUCKHURST, AND JONEKA PERCENTIE PART IIVoice and Vocality 4 "These Stupid Little Sounds in Her Voice": Valuing andVilifying the New Girl Voice 77 DIANE PECKNOLD 5 Girls and Puberty: The Voice, It Is a-Changin’;A Discussion of Pedagogical Methods for theTraining of the Voice through Puberty 99 BARBARA FOX DEMAIO 6 The Curse of the "O mio bambino caro": Jackie Evancho as Prodigy, Diva, and Ideal Girl 113 DANA GORZELANY-MOSTAK 7 Authority, Ability, and the Aging Ingénue’s Voice 143 ALEXANDRA APOLLONIPART IIIVoice and Authenticity 8 Performing Pop Girlhood on Disney Channel 171 MORGAN BLUE 9 When Loud Means Real: Tween Girls and the Voices of Rock Authenticity 191 SARAH DOUGHER 10 YouTube, Twerking and You: Context Collapse andthe Handheld Copresence of Black Girls and Miley Cyrus 208 KYRA D. GAUNT PART IVVoice and Narrative 11 The Counterpoint of Aging and Coming of Age in the Mother–Daughter Duets of Tori Amos and Natashya Hawley 235 LORI BURNS 12 Listen to the Mockingjay: Voice, Identity, and Agency in

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on the stories of female educators and young Muslim women to explore issues of identity, justice and education. Situated against a backdrop of unprecedented Islamophobia and new articulations of âWhite-lashâ, this book draws on case study research conducted over a ten-year period and provides insight into the diverse worlds of young Muslim women from education and community contexts in Australia and England. Keddie discusses the ways in which these young women find spaces of agency and empowerment within these contexts and how their passionate and committed educators support them in this endeavour. Useful for researchers and educators who are concerned about Islamophobia and its devastating impacts on Muslim women and girls, this book positions responsibility for changing the oppressions of Islamophobia and gendered Islamophobia with all of us. Such change begins with education. The stories in this book hope to contribute to the change process.Table of Contents1. Islamophobia, gender and education 2. Young Muslim women: matters of diversity and agency 3. Supporting Muslim girls at the Clementine Academy: the contentious space of Religious Studies 4. Supporting Muslim girls at Peppermint Grove: religious discourses, gender identity and issues of empowerment 5. Challenging gendered Islamophobia: young Muslim women’s faith-based agency 6. Muslim women supporting Muslim girls: issues of racial and ethnic positioning 7. Supporting and educating young Muslim women

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Book SynopsisTheories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes: a historical account of sexuality from the Victorians to the present discussions of the most influential theorists including Freud, Lacan, Bataille, Baudrillard, Cixous, Deleuze, Irigaray and Kristeva a new and extended discussion of queer and transgender theory, race, ethnicity and desire a new preface summarising changes in the field since the first edition a new glossary, annotated further reading section and bibliography. Considering all of the major movements in the field, this new edition is the ideal guide for students of literary and cultural studies.Table of ContentsPreface to Second Edition Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition Introduction 1. Sexological Types Sexual Classifications Feminist Contentions Consuming Passions 2. Psychoanalytical Drives Freud’s Complexes Lacan’s Orders Feminist Interventions 3. Libidinal Economies (De)generating Pleasures Pornographic Materials 4. Discursive Desires Foucault’s Bodies Foucault’s Exclusions Foucault’s Followers 5. Diverse Eroticisms Queer (Non)Identities Global Sexualities Glossary Further Reading Bibliography Index Further Reading Works Cited

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Book SynopsisImages and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of menâregardless of sexual orientationâto shape themselves in relation to the unstable notion of masculinity.Part 1 looks at the lifelong labor faced by boys and men of assessing themselves in relation to an always shifting, always receding, ideal of masculinity. In Part 2, Moss considers a series of nested issues regarding homosexuality, homophobia and psychoanalysis. Part 3 focuses on the interface between the body experienced as a private entity and the body experienced as a public entityâthe body experienced as oneâs own and the body subject to the judgments, regulations and punishments of the external world. The final part looks at men and violence. Men must contend with the entwined problems of regulating aggression and figuring out its proper level, aiming to avoid both excess and insufficiency. This section focuses on excessive aggression and Trade ReviewDonald Moss’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man is undoubtedly one of the most important books of the past decade on the complexities of the development of male gender identity. The book, as reflected in its title, offers no "solutions" to the questions it raises; rather, it examines the problem of gender identity from a number of vantage points, each of which complements, but also complicates, the others. What for me is a particular pleasure in reading this book is the writing itself—writing that is often used to describe some of the author’s own experiences as a boy faced with the daunting task faced by all boys in their efforts to grow up to be a man in one’s own terms. - Thomas Ogden, Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California Donald Moss has written a brilliant, emotionally unsettling and brave book. The ostensive topic of Moss’ book is a close look at masculinity, but actually this book is an examination of "masculinities" that turn the standard normative forms of gender inside out. In Moss’ project, the canonical has become symptomatic. Through the psychoanalytic lens he deploys so deeply, Moss illuminates how much all our struggles with desire and loss inevitably overwhelm us in the project of forming and becoming selves, with dangerous and destructive consequences. We are all inevitably displacing and expelling those aspects of body and mind that frighten and shame us into the bodies and lives and minds of weaker and more vulnerable people. This is Moss’ original and potent way of thinking through misogyny, homophobia, and the often murderous attitudes toward difference and otherness, including "trans" experience. Moss asks us to see that these refusals and disavowals of our complex humanity have enormous and dangerous consequences individually, collectively, and politically - Adrienne Harris, PhD, New York UniversityFascinating, thought-provoking exploration of the notion of masculinity, written in an intelligent, accessible style - Michael Feldman, Supervising and Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society"The title of this important book echoes both Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Henry Louis Gates Jr's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. Like Stevens and Gates, Donald Moss offers multiple perspectives: being a man is not simply a choice to be more or less like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Liberace. Each man has internalised an ideal based on disavowals and refusals of other male bodies and behaviours. The author combines his childhood reminiscences of illness and classroom embarrassment, deep personal reflection, his father's war stories, theoretical overviews and case studies from his psychoanalytic practice. This way of writing is common to a range of books on masculinity, but the stylistic mix reflects the volatility he seeks to address." – David Kennedy, Times Higher Education"This scholarly yet incisive and accessible book addresses the unstable notion of masculinity and the ways in which both hetero- and homosexual man seek to shape themselves in relation to the precarious nature of being a man. ... The writing is enriched by the author's willingness to share several of his own formative experiences in facing the daunting task of searching for the ways to grow up as a man with a mind of his own." - Michael J. Diamond, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies"It is not only Moss’s scholarship and the depth of his theoretical and clinical insights that make the book bold; it is also that, in looking at a man in different ways, Moss at times works like a memoirist whouses his own experience to deepen consideration of masculinity." Sidney H. Phillips for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2014"This unusual, vital, and in places demanding book is about the contemporary shifting scene of psychoanalytic assessment of "masculinity."...Moss has offered many more than "13 ways" of looking, of profoundly and richly perceiving his own topic, men. The book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, scholars of gender, and cultural critics.Summing Up: Highly recommended."- R. H. Balsam, Yale University, for CHOICE, January 2013Donald Moss’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man is undoubtedly one of the most important books of the past decade on the complexities of the development of male gender identity. The book, as reflected in its title, offers no "solutions" to the questions it raises; rather, it examines the problem of gender identity from a number of vantage points, each of which complements, but also complicates, the others. What for me is a particular pleasure in reading this book is the writing itself—writing that is often used to describe some of the author’s own experiences as a boy faced with the daunting task faced by all boys in their efforts to grow up to be a man in one’s own terms. - Thomas Ogden, Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern CaliforniaDonald Moss has written a brilliant, emotionally unsettling and brave book. The ostensive topic of Moss’ book is a close look at masculinity, but actually this book is an examination of "masculinities" that turn the standard normative forms of gender inside out. In Moss’ project, the canonical has become symptomatic. Through the psychoanalytic lens he deploys so deeply, Moss illuminates how much all our struggles with desire and loss inevitably overwhelm us in the project of forming and becoming selves, with dangerous and destructive consequences. We are all inevitably displacing and expelling those aspects of body and mind that frighten and shame us into the bodies and lives and minds of weaker and more vulnerable people. This is Moss’ original and potent way of thinking through misogyny, homophobia, and the often murderous attitudes toward difference and otherness, including "trans" experience. Moss asks us to see that these refusals and disavowals of our complex humanity have enormous and dangerous consequences individually, collectively, and politically - Adrienne Harris, PhD, New York UniversityFascinating, thought-provoking exploration of the notion of masculinity, written in an intelligent, accessible style - Michael Feldman, Supervising and Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society"The title of this important book echoes both Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Henry Louis Gates Jr's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. Like Stevens and Gates, Donald Moss offers multiple perspectives: being a man is not simply a choice to be more or less like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Liberace. Each man has internalised an ideal based on disavowals and refusals of other male bodies and behaviours. The author combines his childhood reminiscences of illness and classroom embarrassment, deep personal reflection, his father's war stories, theoretical overviews and case studies from his psychoanalytic practice. This way of writing is common to a range of books on masculinity, but the stylistic mix reflects the volatility he seeks to address." – David Kennedy, Times Higher Education"This unusual, vital, and in places demanding book is about the contemporary shifting scene of psychoanalytic assessment of "masculinity." Moss is an innovative and politically aware psychoanalyst who has contributed many interesting papers on hetero- and homosexuality, homophobia, gender, violence, and racism to psychoanalytic journals over the years. The present work is both postmodern and highly personal, and is written in a lyrical, poetic style. Parts of the text read like mini-essays in The New Yorker. Moss confronts and undermines the cultural biases involved in thinking about what makes a "man," in his in-depth self-reflections and in the reflections of his patients. Moss has offered many more than "13 ways" of looking, of profoundly and richly perceiving his own topic, men. The book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, scholars of gender, and cultural critics. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Rosemary H. Balsam, CHOICE"With his latest publication,…Donald Moss, a refreshing psychoanalytic scholar and ambassador, continues the theoretical and clinical conversation on masculinities in a daring, personal, rigorous manner. At times autobiographical, poetic, historical, scholastic, moving and crystalline, these are less traditional chapters. They are more embodied essays, stories told with an invitation to consider Moss' associations, his very human poignant curves and sideswipes…They hang together brilliantly as a book, yet stand alone as contemporary meditations." - Fort/Da, The Journal of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology"This scholarly yet incisive and accessible book addresses the unstable notion of masculinity and the ways in which both hetero- and homosexual man seek to shape themselves in relation to the precarious nature of being a man. ... The writing is enriched by the author's willingness to share several of his own formative experiences in facing the daunting task of searching for the ways to grow up as a man with a mind of his own." - Michael J. Diamond, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic StudiesTable of ContentsBass, Foreword. Prologue. Masculinity as Masquerade. Immaculate Attachment vs. Passive Yearning: On Being and Becoming a Man. First Aside: Ted. On Neither Being Nor Becoming a Man. Two Ways of Looking Back. Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality/ The Ideal of Neutrality. Internalized Homophobia: Wanting in the First-Person Singular, Hating in the First-Person Plural. On Situating Homophobia. Freud’s "Female Homosexual": One Way of Looking at a Woman. Second Aside: Little Richard. Looking at a Transsexual. War Stories. Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Phyllis Diller: The Clown as Standup Comedian 3. Lily Tomlin: Breaking with Tradition 4. Roseanne: Fighting for Women's Comic Voice 5. New Directions for Women's Comedy: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner 6. Conclusion: Feminist Humor and Change

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Book SynopsisDislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which culture poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural understanding.Questioning the problematic roles assigned to Third World subjects within multiculturalism, Narayan examines ways in which the flow of information across national contexts affects our understanding of issues. Dislocating Cultures contributes a philosophical perspective on areas of ongoing interest such as nationalism, post-colonial studies, and the cultural politics of debates over tradition and westernization in Third World contexts.Trade Review"A thoughtful analysis and candid appraisal of the obstacles to transnational feminist understanding, Narayan's discussion of the problems is a step in the right direction." -- Hypatia"Helpful addition for teaching non-Western and comparative women's studies courses." -- National Women's StudiesJournalTable of ContentsChapter 1 Contesting Cultures; Chapter 2 Restoring History and Politics to “Third-World Traditions”; Chapter 3 Cross-Cultural Connections, Border-Crossings, and “Death by Culture”; Chapter 4 Through the Looking-Glass Darkly; Chapter 5 Eating Cultures;

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Book SynopsisFrom the first serious sex study ever undertaken (in France in 1830 with a group of prostitutes) to the latterday work of Masters and Johnson, this book traces the history of more than a century of sex research. Bullough addresses the difficulties and controversies in an area of research that has never been allowed to fully control its own agenda. Using examples, he describes the forces that have impinged serious research, from free love hippies and religious zealots to governments trying to support stands on public morality.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA powerful and original work of scholarship . . . Wallach brings a fresh theoretical perspective to the study of early twentieth-century German-Jewish history and culture, drawing her concept of passing from African-American and LGBT Studies and paying systematic attention to the category of gender throughout."" - Jonathan Hess, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill""Wallach's superbly researched study convincingly shows that German Jews of this era not only had the ability to pass or not-pass as Jewish, but also had ample reasons for taking advantage of this powerful assimilation strategy. One of its great strengths is the author's careful attention to detail about how the need for Jews to pass or not-pass varied according to time, place, and gender."" - Lisa Silverman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Book SynopsisThe oil and gas industry is one of the richest and most powerful industries in the world. In recent years, company avowals in support of diversity, much-touted programs for women in STEM, and, most importantly, a tight labor market with near parity in women pursuing geoscience credentials might lead us to expect progress for women in this industry's corporate ranks. Yet, for all the talk of the great crew change, the industry remains overwhelmingly white and male. Sociologist Christine L. Williams asks, where are the women? To answer this question, Williams embarked on a decade-long investigationone involving one hundred in-depth interviews, a longitudinal survey, and ethnographic researchthat allowed her to observe the industry in times of boom and bust. She found that when the industry expands, women may be able to walk through the door,but whenthe industry contracts,the door becomes a revolving one, whirling ever faster,as companies retreat to their white male core. These gendered oTrade Review"A quick and engaging read, Gaslighted is of particular interest to researchers studying gender, work, and organizations, and is accessible for undergraduate students and those working in industry." * Social Forces *"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." * CHOICE *"Gaslighted makes an important contribution to understanding the reinforcement of inequality in gendered and racialized organizations. . . . An excellent book that exposes the mechanisms that reinforce the many forms of inequality in organizational settings." * Gender and Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Gender, Geology, and the Oil and Gas Industry 2. The Oil and Gas Pipeline 3. The Stayers 4. Voluntary Separations 5. Corporate Downsizing 6. Organizational Gaslighting Methodological Appendix Notes References Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisAncient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West comparison. This book examines gender relations in the two ancient societies as reflected in convivial contexts such as family banquets, public festivals, and religious feasts. Two distinct patterns of interpersonal affinity and conflict emerge from the Chinese and Greek sources that show men and women organising themselves and interacting with each other in social occasions intended for collective pursuit of pleasure. Through an analysis of the two different patterns, Yiqun Zhou illuminates the different socio-political mechanisms, value systems, and fabrics of human bonds in the two classical traditions. Her book will be important for readers who are interested in the comparative study of societies, gender studies, women's history, and the legacy of civilisations.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Among Men: 1. Greece: comrades, citizens, and boys; 2. China: ancestors, brothers, and sons; Part II. Between Men and Women, among Women: 3. Public festivals and domestic rites; 4. At the table and behind the scenes; Part III. Female Experience and Male Imagination: 5. What women sang of; Conclusion.

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