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The University of Chicago Press Underdogs Social Deviance and Queer Theory
Book SynopsisA pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal communities in the era before Stonewall.Trade Review“What might we learn about queer studies by exploring its intellectual debts to midcentury social scientists’ interest in underdogs, underworlds, and the dynamics of stigma? Heather Love’s provocative and defamiliarizing analysis asks us to see queer studies—its limitations and its transformational possibilities—anew. A critical intellectual history, teeming with ideas and unlikely engagements.” * Regina Kunzel, Yale University *“Underdogs is a well-crafted, subtle, and beautifully written foray into the worlds of mid-twentieth century social science by a humanities scholar who uncovers, in the fine details of descriptive empirical research, the largely unrecognized precursors of today’s queer studies. With keen focus, Love reveals new possibilities for scholarly, ethical, and political commitments to the defense of outcasts and outsiders. Love makes an impassioned claim that humanists and social scientists need one another—and need to set aside the tenacious methodological dogmas that keep them apart.” * Steven Epstein, Northwestern University *“Underdogs clarifies how the social science of deviance, like the queer theory that superseded it, depended on the figure of the outsider. Love asks queer theory to take social science methodologies, especially ‘underdog methods,’ seriously. At their best, these methods promise to keep queer theory open to surprise and alert to the potentialities of everyday life.” * Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis *"Heather Love’s Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory (University of Chicago Press) is an intervention into the field of queer studies. But it is also an important work of intellectual history, tracing a surprising new genealogy that locates the origins of 1990s ‘queer theory’ not in literary studies, but in mid-20th-century empirical social research. It will appeal to readers invested in the nascent effort to historicise queer studies, but also to those interested in the history of the social sciences." * History Today *"Underdogs seeks to rethink Queer Theory's ideological contributions through an excavation of the field's unacknowledged predecessors in the postwar social sciences. . . . [Love's] lucid prose and well-grounded interpretations make Underdogs a book that should interest readers who are immersed in Queer Theory and those who are not at all." * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Underdogs presents a thorough argument for queer theorists to understand the way their problematic forebearers have left indelible marks on the field. . . . Underdogs presents a careful, close reading of deviance studies, and invites theorists and scholars to reconsider their intellectual heritage." * LSE Review of Books *"This book concisely addresses the modern queer movement as Love challenges readers to critically consider that holding on to what is most valuable in queer critique may mean letting go of what is not... Highly recommended." * Choice *"This book has important implications for social work and social work education." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"Underdogs is a meticulously researched study of postwar social scientific writing and its founding influence on queer studies. Its focus on method provides a potentially productive way to bring questions of politics and ethics back into a field that has lost much of its social and theoretical momentum since the late 1990s. Moreover, the sustained critique of the liberal humanist claim to integral subjectivity forms a timely intervention at the current moment, when younger generations increasingly appear invested in the type of sexual and gender identitarianism that both postwar social science and queer theory, in however diverging ways, have so persistently been trying to overhaul. For this reason alone, Underdogs is a powerful and important achievement." * American Literary History Online *"Underdogs offers a thoughtful and clear analysis. . . a first step in recognizing and untangling queer ideals for a more complete intellectual history on queer thought." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Beginning with Stigma 1 The Stigma Archive 2 Just Watching 3 A Sociological Periplum 4 Doing Being Deviant Afterword: The Politics of Stigma Acknowledgments Notes Index
£78.85
The University of Chicago Press With Respect to Sex
Book SynopsisWith Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the third sex of Indiaindividuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. By focusing on the hijra community, Gayatri Reddy sheds new light on Indian society and the intricate negotiations of identity across various domains of everyday life. Further, by reframing hijra identity through the local economy of respect, this ethnography highlights the complex relationships among local and global, sexual and moral, economies. This book will be regarded as the definitive work on hijras, one that will be of enormous interest to anthropologists, students of South Asian culture, and specialists in the study of gender and sexuality.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press An Open Secret The Family Story of Robert and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The first lines of Nicholas Syrett’s third book, An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton, had me hooked. . . [Syrett] takes us into the world of an Illinois couple—one born into a rich family with ties to the founding of the Union Stock Yards and the First National Bank of Chicago; the other an orphan in his early twenties, attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for architecture with a part-time job and inheritance money." * Chicago Tribune *“The book brings a critical view to the gay intergenerational relationship. It reveals how same-sex love was transformed into familial ties but also into an open secret where the boundary between knowingness and unknowingness was always in suspension.” * DNA Magazine *"An intriguing, complicated, and critical account of a queer affair and one that demonstrates the difficulty of applying contemporary terminologies, practices, and values to past relationships, especially those with limited and latent evidence of queerness. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *“Syrett’s expert portrait shakes up modern assumptions about queer coupledom. His richly nuanced interpretation reveals that the kinship claim of these men was not merely a front to hide their sexuality, but a deeply meaningful structure for their emotional and physical intimacy. Not quite the story of a same-sex marriage, An Open Secret shows that the history of male same-sex companionship is much queerer indeed.” * Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality *“Syrett escorts us into a world of wealth and privilege and creatively examines the decades-long intimacy of Allerton and Gregg. Filled with surprising revelations, Syrett’s account offers a new angle on the forms that queer life and love has taken in the past.” * John D’Emilio, author of Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives *“Syrett has crafted an eye-opening and engaging narrative, making a provocative contribution to queer history in his assertion that Allerton and Gregg may have had a relationship akin to bothmarriage and father to son—and that the two are not mutually exclusive. The story of this moneyed conservative couple disturbingly reveals how the privileged found community and refuge in open and secretive ways during a time of heightened homophobia.” * Amy Sueyoshi, author of Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi *“An Open Secret is a beautifully written, powerful account of queer domesticity, sympathetically humane but never simplistically celebratory of its subjects. Syrett deftly situates his biography in a broader history of twentieth-century LGBTQ communities and culture, offering a hot new take on the expansive queerness that defined some same-sex relationships before the emergence of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.” * Jen Manion, author of Female Husbands: A Trans History *"With previous books on the history of white college fraternities and the history of child marriage in the United States, Nicholas Syrett has a reputation for selecting fresh topics and conducting sound research and analysis. Adept with context, he has an impressive way of seeing topics, situations, and individuals in their singularity and as a means of exploring broad cultural themes. An Open Secret continues Syrett’s tradition of originality, attention to context, and rigorous analysis. The book is rich in ideas gracefully expressed." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"Syrett’s portrait of Allerton and Gregg is a masterful intervention into both family history and the history of queerness." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 Allerton Roots 2 Robert Allerton’s Queer Aesthetic 3 Travel and Itinerant Homosexuality 4 Becoming Father and Son 5 Lord of a Hawaiian Island 6 Queer Domesticity in Illinois and Hawai‘i 7 Legally Father and Son Conclusion: John Wyatt Gregg Allerton Acknowledgments Notes Index
£18.58
The University of Chicago Press The Queerness of Home Gender Sexuality and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stephen Vider’s crisply written, gorgeously illustrated book on queer domesticity traces the transformation of the private sphere over the second half of the twentieth century in the United States. Home-life for LGBTQ people, he argues, evolved from a haven from state-sanctioned homophobia, to a revolutionary alternative to the heteronormative household, before ultimately becoming a homonormative domain entitled to legal protection. Each chapter is fascinating and fresh in its own way, and add up to something more than the sum of its parts: this is an important corrective to a queer historiography that has focused almost entirely on the public sphere." * Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution *“The Queerness of Home is a consequential achievement. Like any historian worth their salt, Vider knows how to tell a tale: this book’s prose is witty and clear as a mountain stream. More than that, it makes an irrefutable case that twentieth-century domestic environments have been momentous for LGBTQ individuals in the modern United States.” * Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture *“This strikingly original book recovers the unexpected significance of queer forms of home life to LGBTQ people and politics since the mid-twentieth century. Ranging from the gay marriages and camp cookbooks of the 1950s and 1960s to the communes, queer homeless youth shelters, and lesbian feminist experiments in domestic redesign of the post-Stonewall years, Vider provides new insights into the intimate lives and broadest political claims of queer folk—and the meaning of domesticity itself. Creatively researched, beautifully written, and unfailingly smart, this is a first-rate work of revisionist history.” * George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 *“An important history of how LGBTQ peoples make and sustain the homes of their choice and fight back against norms that oppress them. Vider reveals the lives, labors, and imaginations of LGBTQ home-makers, whose experiments with queer domesticities unfurl in vivid storytelling and amazing archival photographs.” * Nayan Shah, author of Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West *"Vider’s examination of the recent history of activist domesticity in the United States draws upon an extensive breadth of personal, public, and material sources. In its decade-by-decade chronicle the book discusses efforts to fit into the conformist households of the early Cold War, and examines later struggles to build alternative forms of domesticity, through communal living and rethinking architecture. . . . As well, despite its setting in a time of repression and epidemic, this is not a dark book. LGBTQ agency is at its core, and the narrative is a chronicle of contestation, adaptation, imagination, and, above all, creating community. In the face of hegemonic exclusion and repression, the activists in Vider’s study responded with art and humor and radical caregiving." * Journal of History *"Stephen Vider’s innovative new book, The Queerness of Home, offers a sweeping account of the centrality of the home and homemaking in challenging and renegotiating concepts of gender, sexuality, belonging, citizenship, and family, among many others, in the United States since the mid-twentieth century . . . Vider’s book is a most welcome contribution to many fields." * The Public Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics and Performance of Home Part One. Integrations Chapter One. “Something of a Merit Badge”: Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment Chapter Two. “Oh Hell, May, Why Don’t You People Have a Cookbook?”: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity Part Two. Revolutions Chapter Three. “The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community”: Communal Living, Gay Liberation, and the Reinvention of the Household Chapter Four. “Fantasy Is the Beginning of Creation”: Imagining Lesbian Feminist Architecture Part Three. Reforms Chapter Five. “Some Hearts Go Hungering”: Homelessness and the First Wave of LGBTQ Shelter Activism Chapter Six. “Picture a Coalition”: Community Caregiving and the Politics of HIV/AIDS at Home Epilogue: The Futures of the Queer Home Acknowledgments Notes Index
£78.85
McGill-Queen's University Press Whos Coming Out to Play
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For a book like this to come forth at this particular juncture, with its focus on community sport and the experiences of primarily queer and trans women, is not only necessary but imperative." William Bridel, University of Calgary
£26.99
John Wiley & Sons Untimely Bodies Untimely Aesthetics
Book SynopsisUntimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics examines the fluidity of time in eight contemporary films by focusing on characters who struggle for connection in an environment shaped by heteronormative temporality and intimacies. The book proposes a model for viewing non-normative relationality through the concepts of “untimeliness” and queer time.Trade Review“The Berlin School has left a permanent mark on film history that deserves continued interest in the scholarly space. Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics meaningfully contributes to this ongoing and ever-expanding scholarly conversation by deriving its methodological approach from theoretical traditions, including queer studies, that have been underused in the discourse thus far. The book reframes how we think about what the Berlin School films do – this is not a small feat.” Marco Abel, University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
£71.10
Columbia University Press The Lives of Transgender People
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book's greatest strengths are twofold: it outlines a wide diversity of gender identities that step outside of previous identity markers, including the experiences of young genderqueer people, and it contributes to research on trans people, which has been very out of date. -- Arlene Istar Lev, University of Albany, School of Social Welfare, and Choices Counseling and Consulting The authors have done an excellent job of using up-to-date references and the text is reflective of current trends. -- Gerald P. Mallon, Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of New York, and author of Social Work Practice with Transgender and Gender Variant Youth With their substantial empirical study, Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin have accomplished what no other research has managed to do: through numerical analysis and narrative, they have represented the diversity of transgender people, explored in depth the range of experiences of these communities, and described the challenges many of us face. The Lives of Transgender People is an invaluable reference for researchers, activists, and policymakers. -- Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College, City University of New York The Lives of Transgender People breaks new ground. The Empty Closet ...this book serves as an excellent resource for those wishing to know more about transgender experiences, as well as those endeavoring to highlight the challenges these communities continue to face in everyday life. GLAAD Blog Lives will be a rich source of data for activists, theorists, and policymakers, as well as one possible model for doing research on sex and gender that allows us to collect meaningful data without depending on the binary male/female, man/woman dichotomies that continue to unhelpfully reduce the variety of human experience to the inflexible straightjackets of innate gender difference. Feminist Librarian Blog
£25.20
Columbia University Press Attraction Love Sex
Book SynopsisSimon LeVay introduces readers to a memorable cast of researchers trying to unravel the many mysteries that surround sex and sexuality. He distills vast expertise on the biology and psychology of sex into an engaging and easy-to-understand survey with scientific acumen, a critical eye, and a sense of humor.Trade ReviewSex: who doesn’t want to know more about this primordial human drive? Simon LeVay tells all—its biology and the real science behind fantasies, porn, rape, and much more. It’s a fascinating read. -- Helen Fisher, senior research fellow, the Kinsey Institute, author of Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We StraySimon LeVay highlights how science can help us understand our sexual psychology, from attraction and love to the darker sides of sexual behavior. -- Catherine A. Salmon, Redlands University, coauthor of Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution, and Female SexualityAttraction, Love, Sex takes readers on an entertaining journey through the world of sex research. LeVay is a very open intellect, keen to introduce people to these top-notch investigations. -- Rob Brooks, Scientia Professor of Evolution, University of New South Wales, author of Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers[A] stimulating survey of the science of sexual desire… sheds light on a fundamental part of human life. * Publishers Weekly *An up-to-date, scientifically informed, original, and witty review of (almost) everything you always wanted to know about sex but might have been afraid to ask. Highly recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface1. Why Have Sex?2. Attraction3. Arousal4. Orientation5. Having Sex6. Relationships7. Paraphilias8. Pedophilia9. Porn10. Rape11. LoveNotesGlossaryIndex
£58.77
University of Illinois Press Ugly Differences Queer Female Sexuality in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A unique and rare opportunity to engage with a plethora of postpunk subcultural texts in academic writing and a refreshing radical reading of them through the concept of ugliness . . . would highly recommend . . . a joy to read." --Hypatia"Divest yourself of Dante's dreamscape and head for Howard's underground ugly. It's a tour you won't forget: smart, sexy, surprising, subversive. Howard's queer females will shake every last investment in beauty out of your soul, leaving you to contemplate a set of fertile negatives. No one should miss this delicious underworld."--Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Ugly Differences
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A unique and rare opportunity to engage with a plethora of postpunk subcultural texts in academic writing and a refreshing radical reading of them through the concept of ugliness . . . would highly recommend . . . a joy to read." --Hypatia"Divest yourself of Dante's dreamscape and head for Howard's underground ugly. It's a tour you won't forget: smart, sexy, surprising, subversive. Howard's queer females will shake every last investment in beauty out of your soul, leaving you to contemplate a set of fertile negatives. No one should miss this delicious underworld."--Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
£19.79
Indiana University Press Czech Feminisms Perspectives on Gender in East
Book SynopsisIveta Jusová is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Literature at Carleton College.Jirina Šiklová, CSc., is an acclaimed Czech sociologist, writer, former dissident, and one of the most influential Czech feminists. She is founder of the Gender Studies Center in Prague.Trade ReviewEssential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity Issues in the Czech Culture: Past and Present / Iveta Jusová Part 1: Gender Issues in Czech Society Prior to 19891. Situating Czech Identity: Postcolonial Theory and "the European Dividend" / Iveta Jusová 2. The Importance of Being Nationalist / Jitka Malečková 3. The Czech 1930s through Toyen / Karla Huebner 4. Women as the Object and Subject of the Socialist Form of Women's Emancipation / Alena Wagnerová 5. Women's Memory: Searching for Identity under Socialism / Pavla Frýdlová Part 2: Gender Issues in Czech Society Post-19896. Contested Feminism: The East/West Feminist Encounters in the 1990s / Simona Fojtová 7. Czech Women's NGOs: Women's Voices and Claims in the Public Sphere / Hana Hašková and Zuzana Uhde 8. Czech Anarchofeminism: Against Hierarchy and Privileges / Linda Sokačová 9. Aspects of Sex and Gender in Romany Communities in the Czech Republic / Karolína Ryvolová 10. The Lives of Vietnamese Women in the Czech Republic / Mária Strašáková11. Sex Work, Migration, and Law: La Strada and Human Trafficking in the Czech Republic / Simona Fojtová12. Idle Ally: LGBT Community in the Czech Republic / Kateřina Nedbálková 13. Condemned to Rule: Masculine Domination and Hegemonic Masculinities of Doctors in Czech Maternity Wards / Iva Šmídová 14. Some Issues and Challenges Faced by Elderly and Retired Women in the Czech Republic / Jiřina Šiklová 15. The East Side Story of (Gendered) Art: Framing Gender in Czech and Slovak Contemporary Art / Zuzana Štefková16. Typological Differences Between Languages as an Argument Against Gender-Fair Language Use? / Jana ValdrováBibliography List of ContributorsIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Czech Feminisms
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEssential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity Issues in the Czech Culture: Past and Present / Iveta Jusová Part 1: Gender Issues in Czech Society Prior to 19891. Situating Czech Identity: Postcolonial Theory and "the European Dividend" / Iveta Jusová 2. The Importance of Being Nationalist / Jitka Malečková 3. The Czech 1930s through Toyen / Karla Huebner 4. Women as the Object and Subject of the Socialist Form of Women's Emancipation / Alena Wagnerová 5. Women's Memory: Searching for Identity under Socialism / Pavla Frýdlová Part 2: Gender Issues in Czech Society Post-19896. Contested Feminism: The East/West Feminist Encounters in the 1990s / Simona Fojtová 7. Czech Women's NGOs: Women's Voices and Claims in the Public Sphere / Hana Hašková and Zuzana Uhde 8. Czech Anarchofeminism: Against Hierarchy and Privileges / Linda Sokačová 9. Aspects of Sex and Gender in Romany Communities in the Czech Republic / Karolína Ryvolová 10. The Lives of Vietnamese Women in the Czech Republic / Mária Strašáková11. Sex Work, Migration, and Law: La Strada and Human Trafficking in the Czech Republic / Simona Fojtová12. Idle Ally: LGBT Community in the Czech Republic / Kateřina Nedbálková 13. Condemned to Rule: Masculine Domination and Hegemonic Masculinities of Doctors in Czech Maternity Wards / Iva Šmídová 14. Some Issues and Challenges Faced by Elderly and Retired Women in the Czech Republic / Jiřina Šiklová 15. The East Side Story of (Gendered) Art: Framing Gender in Czech and Slovak Contemporary Art / Zuzana Štefková16. Typological Differences Between Languages as an Argument Against Gender-Fair Language Use? / Jana ValdrováBibliography List of ContributorsIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Work Social Status and Gender in PostSlavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWork, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania is a brilliantly written book employing elegant and accessible language. While it focuses primarily on Harāīn women's experiences in Kankossa, Mauritania, it provides important insights into the question of non-elites' accessibility to elite forms of Islam and related status. It thus makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on gender, social hierarchy, economics, Islam, slavery, and dress. Policymakers, scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students who are interested in global studies of slavery, gender, social hierarchy, and Islam will surely find the book worth reading.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and LanguageIntroduction: I Will Make You My Servant: Social Status, Gender, and Work1. From Black to Green: Changing Political Economy and Social Status in Kankossa2. "We Work for Our Lives": Revaluing Femininity and Work in a Post-slavery Market3. Joking Market Women: Critiquing and Negotiating Gender Roles and Social Hierarchy4. Women's Market Strategies: Building Social Networks, Protecting Resources, and Managing Credit 5. Making People Bigger: Wedding Exchange and the Creation of Social Value6. Embodying and Performing Gender and Social Status through the Malafa (Mauritanian veil)Conclusion: Social Rank in the Neoliberal EraGlossaryBibliographyIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Seasoned Socialism Gender and Food in Late
Book SynopsisThe works in Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life examine late Soviet everyday culture focused around the relationship between gender and food.Trade ReviewSeasoned Socialism manages to pull off the difficult trick of being at once a serious academic exploration of food's role in history as well as a highly readable social history. . . . This book, celebrating the indomitable spirit of Russian hospitality and its essential ingredients, is a must-read for all serious students of Late Soviet history, culinary historians, and anyone interested in a compelling examination of the relationship between food and history. * The Moscow Times *Overall, Indiana University Press has published an attractive, well-edited volume. . . . Recommended. * Choice *The volume makes a significant and long-awaited interdisciplinary contribution to the areas of consumption, material culture, gender, film,and poetry studies. It is a well-written and well-organized collection of approaches to understandingthe nuances of Soviet food and gender relations, as well as food cultures under socialism; it is, therefore, highly recommended to anyone interested in these areas of study. Each scholar contributes to the general topic suggested by the editors by adding to the overall picture their own research focus and lens, which makes the volume a rich collection of thoughts about the diversity of food cultures and modes of gender relations in late Soviet society. * H-Socialisms *As an important synthesis of oral history, literature, and film studies, Seasoned Socialism will undoubtfully be very useful for teaching courses focusing on Soviet culture and society in late socialist years and beyond. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Darra GoldsteinIntroduction: Food, Gender, and the Everyday through the Looking Glass of Socialist Experience / Anastasia Lakhtikova and Angela Brintlinger I. Women in the Soviet Kitchen: Cooking Paradoxes in Family and Society 1. Love, Marry, Cook: Gendering the Home Kitchen in Late Soviet Russia / Adrianne K. Jacobs2. "I hate cooking!": Emancipation and Patriarchy in Late Soviet Film / Irina Glushchenko, Translated by Angela Brintlinger and Anastasia Lakhtikova3. Professional Women Cooking: Personal Soviet Cookbooks, Social Networks and Identity Building / Anastasia LakhtikovaII. Producers, Providers and Consumers: Resistance and Compliance, Soviet-Style4. Cake, Cabbage, and the Morality of Consumption in Iurii Trifonov's House on the Embankment / Benjamin Sutcliffe5. Sated People: Gendered Modes of Acquiring and Consuming Prestigious Soviet Foods / Olena Stiazhkina 6. Dacha Labors: Preserving Everyday Soviet Life / Melissa L. Caldwell7. Vodka en plein air: Authoritative Discourse, Alcohol, and Gendered Spaces in "Gray Mouse" by Vil' Lipatov / Lidiia LevkovitchIII. Soviet Signifiers: The Semiotics of Everyday Scarcity and Ritual Uses of Food 8. Cold Veal and a Stale Bread Roll: Zofia Wędrowska's Taste for Scarcity / Ksenia Gusarova9. "Our only hope was in these plants": Irina Ratushinskaya and the Manipulation of Foodways in a Late Soviet Labor Camp / Ona Renner-Fahey 10: Shchi da kasha, but Mostly Shchi: Cabbage as Gendered and Genre'd in Late Soviet Prose / Angela Brintlinger 11. Still Life with Leftover Cutlet: Nonna Slepakova's Poetics of Time / Amelia GlaserAfterword: Cultures of Food in the Era of Developed Socialism / Diane P. KoenkerIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press Seasoned Socialism Gender and Food in Late
Book SynopsisThe works in Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life examine late Soviet everyday culture focused around the relationship between gender and food.Trade ReviewSeasoned Socialism manages to pull off the difficult trick of being at once a serious academic exploration of food's role in history as well as a highly readable social history. . . . This book, celebrating the indomitable spirit of Russian hospitality and its essential ingredients, is a must-read for all serious students of Late Soviet history, culinary historians, and anyone interested in a compelling examination of the relationship between food and history. * The Moscow Times *Overall, Indiana University Press has published an attractive, well-edited volume. . . . Recommended. * Choice *The volume makes a significant and long-awaited interdisciplinary contribution to the areas of consumption, material culture, gender, film,and poetry studies. It is a well-written and well-organized collection of approaches to understandingthe nuances of Soviet food and gender relations, as well as food cultures under socialism; it is, therefore, highly recommended to anyone interested in these areas of study. Each scholar contributes to the general topic suggested by the editors by adding to the overall picture their own research focus and lens, which makes the volume a rich collection of thoughts about the diversity of food cultures and modes of gender relations in late Soviet society. * H-Socialisms *As an important synthesis of oral history, literature, and film studies, Seasoned Socialism will undoubtfully be very useful for teaching courses focusing on Soviet culture and society in late socialist years and beyond. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Darra GoldsteinIntroduction: Food, Gender, and the Everyday through the Looking Glass of Socialist Experience / Anastasia Lakhtikova and Angela Brintlinger I. Women in the Soviet Kitchen: Cooking Paradoxes in Family and Society 1. Love, Marry, Cook: Gendering the Home Kitchen in Late Soviet Russia / Adrianne K. Jacobs2. "I hate cooking!": Emancipation and Patriarchy in Late Soviet Film / Irina Glushchenko, Translated by Angela Brintlinger and Anastasia Lakhtikova3. Professional Women Cooking: Personal Soviet Cookbooks, Social Networks and Identity Building / Anastasia LakhtikovaII. Producers, Providers and Consumers: Resistance and Compliance, Soviet-Style4. Cake, Cabbage, and the Morality of Consumption in Iurii Trifonov's House on the Embankment / Benjamin Sutcliffe5. Sated People: Gendered Modes of Acquiring and Consuming Prestigious Soviet Foods / Olena Stiazhkina 6. Dacha Labors: Preserving Everyday Soviet Life / Melissa L. Caldwell7. Vodka en plein air: Authoritative Discourse, Alcohol, and Gendered Spaces in "Gray Mouse" by Vil' Lipatov / Lidiia LevkovitchIII. Soviet Signifiers: The Semiotics of Everyday Scarcity and Ritual Uses of Food 8. Cold Veal and a Stale Bread Roll: Zofia Wędrowska's Taste for Scarcity / Ksenia Gusarova9. "Our only hope was in these plants": Irina Ratushinskaya and the Manipulation of Foodways in a Late Soviet Labor Camp / Ona Renner-Fahey 10: Shchi da kasha, but Mostly Shchi: Cabbage as Gendered and Genre'd in Late Soviet Prose / Angela Brintlinger 11. Still Life with Leftover Cutlet: Nonna Slepakova's Poetics of Time / Amelia GlaserAfterword: Cultures of Food in the Era of Developed Socialism / Diane P. KoenkerIndex
£27.90
University of Washington Press Sexuality in China
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure explores the history of sex in China from imperial times onwards. Loosely chronological, the collection presents varied viewpoints on themes including homosexuality, polygamy, sex work, pornography, and–even more juicily–crimes of passion." -- David Wilson * South China Morning Post *
£110.48
University of Washington Press HighTech Housewives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bhatt’s ethnographic study illustrates in detail the lived reality of the men, women and children who make up this population of transmigrants – moving from India to the US, back to India and oftentimes back again to the States. Whilst focusing on the gendered dimension of these movements, the book presents a broader context of how personal and professional expectations and aspirations are affected by legal frameworks, family demands and considerations about future migrations. . . . [a] rich empiracal work." * Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) *"An intimate look into the world of IT sector workers from India who live and work in places like Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle . . . highlights the calculated decisions many of these young families make to ensure their own financial stability and maintain connections with both U.S. and India." * International Examiner *"intimate look into the world of IT sector workers from India who live and work in places like Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle in Washington state." * International Examiner *
£33.98
University of Washington Press Racial Ecologies
Book SynopsisFrom the Flint water crisis to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, environmental threats and degradation disproportionately affect communities of color, with often dire consequences for people's lives and health. Racial Ecologies explores activist strategies and creative responses, such as those of Mexican migrant women, New Zealand Maori, and African American farmers in urban Detroit, demonstrating that people of color have always been and continue to be leaders in the fight for a more equitable and ecologically just world.Grounded in an ethnic-studies perspective, this interdisciplinary collection illustrates how race intersects with Indigeneity, colonialism, gender, nationality, and class to shape our understanding of both nature and environmental harm, showing how and why environmental issues are also racial issues. Indeed, Indigenous, critical race, and postcolonial frameworks are crucial for comprehending and addressing accelerating anthropogenic change, from theTrade Review"This text provides an invaluable contribution to scholarship on race and the environment, featuring a wide-ranging set of essays which variously deal with both the symbolic and material means through which race intersects with the politics of the more-than-human world. . . . this volume is an indispensable contribution to environmental history and allied disciplines, and is positioned to stimulate work which can better understand the roots and effects of contemporary ecological crises, and envision more just futures." * Environment and History *"Racial Ecologies is a needed intervention into environmental studies. . . . Essays in this volume highlight the legacies of colonialism and everyday consequences of capitalism on racialized bodies. . . . This collection is not just about framings and ontologies; it is also about politics and collective action. Social change comes from critical understandings. Essays incorporate environmental studies, environmental justice scholarship, and ethnic and Indigenous studies to understand the important problems facing us in our multiple experiences with the environment." * Environmental History *
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University of Washington Press Racial Ecologies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This text provides an invaluable contribution to scholarship on race and the environment, featuring a wide-ranging set of essays which variously deal with both the symbolic and material means through which race intersects with the politics of the more-than-human world. . . . this volume is an indispensable contribution to environmental history and allied disciplines, and is positioned to stimulate work which can better understand the roots and effects of contemporary ecological crises, and envision more just futures." * Environment and History *"Racial Ecologies is a needed intervention into environmental studies. . . . Essays in this volume highlight the legacies of colonialism and everyday consequences of capitalism on racialized bodies. . . . This collection is not just about framings and ontologies; it is also about politics and collective action. Social change comes from critical understandings. Essays incorporate environmental studies, environmental justice scholarship, and ethnic and Indigenous studies to understand the important problems facing us in our multiple experiences with the environment." * Environmental History *
£29.66
University of California Press The Mating Game
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Noting that 'the more things change, the more they stay the same,' Lamont finds that traditional gender-role expectations have not changed much; men still ask women out more often and hope for sex sooner than women, and women generally still wait to be asked out and are reticent to have sex 'too soon.' This book provides an interesting take on some presupposed assumptions." * CHOICE *"The Mating Game is an ambitious project that strategically investigates views held by three distinct groups, each navigating complex social structures and cultural narratives around romantic courtship. Lamont offers a refreshing and strong framework to analyze courtship on an individual, group, and societal level. It is a strong addition to growing scholarship on young adults as well as the possible application of queerness in mainstream cultural reform." * Men and Masculinities *"Lamont’s well-designed empirical project and insightful theoretical analysis advance our conversations about the state of the gender revolution in the 21st century." * American Journal of Sociology *"Lamont’s analysis of these stories reminds us that there are possibilities beyond what society currently offers us. I ultimately came away from this book feeling inspired and empowered to turn such possibilities into reality." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Puzzling Persistence of Gendered Dating 2. The Quest for Egalitarian Love 3. New Goals, Old Scripts: Heterosexual Women Caught between Tradition and Equality 4. A Few Good (Heterosexual) Men: Inequality Disguised as Romance 5. Queering Courtship: LGBQ People Reimagine Relationships 6. The More Things Change . . . 7. Dated Dating and the Stalled Gender Revolution Appendix 1: Summary of Interview Respondents Appendix 2: Interview Guide Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Has the Gay Movement Failed
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Duberman is a national treasure. He is an American historian and a pioneer of L.G.B.T.Q. studies. At eighty-seven, he is writing faster than ever;...this book, which, at two hundred and seven pages, packs enough information and ideas for four or five more. It brings together Duberman’s passions and the research he has conducted over many years. [Duberman] has been writing about these things for so long that some of his own ideas have become his source material."—Masha Gessen * New Yorker *"Readers concerned with contemporary social issues will devour this call to action. Highly recommended." STARRED REVIEW * Library Journal *"Always lucid and insightful, this is a major work that enriches LGBTQ literature and belongs in every library." STARRED REVIEW * Booklist *“A fascinating read.” * Gay City News *"Right now is the time to give Duberman's book a close read, and listen to this 87-year-old, gay-married guy." * Bay Area Reporter *“Makes the provocative but compelling case that the fight for same-sex marriage marked a costly detour away from the radical politics at the root of the LGBT rights movement.” * Daily Beast *"A relevant, fiery, and dizzying treatise certain to provoke debate and discussion." * Kirkus Reviews *"Duberman's book is an urgent and much-needed clarion call for the 'gay movement' to reinvent itself for the 21st century. He covers enormous ground for a relatively short and broadly accessible book. " * PopMatters *"A useful reference point that maps the history of the movement before building an argument for broadening the focus of LGBTQ politics." * Times Higher Education *"Has the Gay Movement Failed? is a historic reckoning of the last half century of the gay movement and a critique of a politic of normativity that has sidelined more radical and transformative goals. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom." * Teaching Sociology *“Thought-provoking read about questions that have occupied gay movements since Stonewall. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom.” * Teaching Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue PART I. STORMING THE CITADEL PART II. LOVE, WORK, SEX PART III. EQUALITY OR LIBERATION? PART IV. WHOSE LEFT? Notes Index
£21.60
University of California Press A Dirty South Manifesto Sexual Resistance and
Book SynopsisFrom the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of southern reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality. In A Dirty South Manifesto, L.H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resistance in the New Southa movement that is antiracist, decolonial, and transnational. For people within economically disenfranchised segments of society, those in sexually marginalized communities, and the racially oppressed, the South has been a sexual dystopia. Throughout this book, Stallings delivers hard-hitting manifestos for the new sex wars. With her focus on contemporary Black southern life, Stallings offers an invitation to anyone who has ever imagined a way of living beyond white supremacist heteropatriarchy.Trade Review"An excellent addition to the existing literature on reproductive rights and sexual freedom." * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *"A Dirty South Manifesto is thoughtful and thought-provoking, and it is funny and heart-breaking at the same time." * Resources for Gender & Women's Studies: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Slow Tongue Manifesto Chapter 1 Dirt Manifesto Chapter 2 Geophukit Manifesto Chapter 3 T.R.A.P. (The Ratchet Alliance for Prosperity) Manifesto Chapter 4 WeUsIOurU Future Pronouns Manifesto Chapter 5 Honeysuckle, Not Honey Sucka! Manifesto Coda Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
£64.00
University of California Press A Dirty South Manifesto Sexual Resistance and
Book SynopsisFrom the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of southern reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality. In A Dirty South Manifesto, L.H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resistance in the New Southa movement that is antiracist, decolonial, and transnational. For people within economically disenfranchised segments of society, those in sexually marginalized communities, and the racially oppressed, the South has been a sexual dystopia. Throughout this book, Stallings delivers hard-hitting manifestos for the new sex wars. With her focus on contemporary Black southern life, Stallings offers an invitation to anyone who has ever imagined a way of living beyond white supremacist heteropatriarchy.Trade Review"An excellent addition to the existing literature on reproductive rights and sexual freedom." * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *"A Dirty South Manifesto is thoughtful and thought-provoking, and it is funny and heart-breaking at the same time." * Resources for Gender & Women's Studies: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Slow Tongue Manifesto Chapter 1 Dirt Manifesto Chapter 2 Geophukit Manifesto Chapter 3 T.R.A.P. (The Ratchet Alliance for Prosperity) Manifesto Chapter 4 WeUsIOurU Future Pronouns Manifesto Chapter 5 Honeysuckle, Not Honey Sucka! Manifesto Coda Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
£15.19
University of California Press Bathroom Battlegrounds How Public Restrooms Shape
Book SynopsisToday's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United Statesone that concerns more than mere potty politics. Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years' worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importance of the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status. Chronicling the debut of nineteenth-century comfort stations, twentieth-century mandates requiring equal-but-separate men's and women's rooms, and twenty-first-century uproar over laws like North Carolina's bathroom bill, Davis reveals how public restrooms are far from marginal or unimportant social spaces. Instead, they areand always have beenconsequential sites in which ideology, institutions, and inequality collide.Trade Review“Essential. All readership levels.” * CHOICE *"Davis finds that bathrooms have consistently been entangled with larger cultural matters such as the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status." * Law & Social Inquiry *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Politicizing the Potty 2. Professionalizing Plumbing 3. Regulating Restrooms 4. Working against the Washroom 5. Leveraging the Loo 6. Transforming the Toilet Conclusion Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Bathroom Battlegrounds How Public Restrooms Shape
Book SynopsisToday's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United Statesone that concerns more than mere potty politics. Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years' worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importance of the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status. Chronicling the debut of nineteenth-century comfort stations, twentieth-century mandates requiring equal-but-separate men's and women's rooms, and twenty-first-century uproar over laws like North Carolina's bathroom bill, Davis reveals how public restrooms are far from marginal or unimportant social spaces. Instead, they areand always have beenconsequential sites in which ideology, institutions, and inequality collide.Trade Review“Essential. All readership levels.” * CHOICE *"Davis finds that bathrooms have consistently been entangled with larger cultural matters such as the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status." * Law & Social Inquiry *"This work is an important contribution to scholarship on gender, boundary work, organizations, and citizenship. Davis’s work is simultaneously empirically and theoretically driven and easy to read." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Politicizing the Potty 2. Professionalizing Plumbing 3. Regulating Restrooms 4. Working against the Washroom 5. Leveraging the Loo 6. Transforming the Toilet Conclusion Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Queer Public History
Book SynopsisOver the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher education, which in turn helped queer historians become more influential in politics, law, and society. Through a collection of essays written over three decades by award-winning historian Marc Stein, Queer Public History charts the evolution of queer historical interventions in the academic sphere and explores the development of publicly oriented queer historical scholarship. From the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the rise of queer activism in the 1990s to debates about queer immigration, same-sex marriage, and the politics of gay pride in the early twenty-first century, Stein introduces readers to key themes Trade Review"Queer Public History is a uniquely personal look into how public history has been formed in the LGBTQ+ community. The linkages between public and academic, between personal and political, and their ties to activism are laid out for the reader to explore in detail. Stein’s contribution is both to public history and to LGBTQ+ history and highlights how, in his case, they cannot be understood separately and are the better for it." * Public Historian *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction Part One. Queer Memories of the 1980s 1. Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide 2. Memories of the 1987 March on Washington Part Two. Discipline, Punish, and Protest 3. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers 4. Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market 5. Post-Tenure Lavender Blues 6. Political History and the History of Sexuality Part Three. Histories of Queer Activism 7. Coming Out and Going Public: A History of Lesbians and Gay Men Taking to Queer Street, Philadelphia, USA 8. Approaching Stonewall from the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves 9. Recalling Dewey’s Sit-In 10. Fifty Years of LGBT Movement Activism in Philadelphia 11. Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting Part Four. Queer Historical Interventions 12. Monica, Bill, History, and Sex 13. In My Wildest Dreams: Advice for George Bush 14. In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name 15. From the Glorious Strike to Obama’s New Executive Order 16. “In My Mind I’m (Not) Going to Carolina” Part Five. Queer Immigration 17. Alienated Affections: Remembering Clive Michael Boutilier (1933–2003) 18. The Supreme Court’s Sexual Counter-Revolution 19. Immigration Is a Queer Issue: From Fleuti to Trump 20. Defectives of the World, Unite! Part Six. Sex, Law, and the Supreme Court 21. Queer Eye for the FBI 22. Gay Rights and the Supreme Court: The Early Years 23. Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage 24. Five Myths about Roe v. Wade 25. Refreshing Abominations: An Open Letter to Anthony Kennedy Part Seven. Exhibiting Queer History 26. Introduction to the Philadelphia LGBT History Project 27. U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit 28. “Black Lesbian in White America”: Interviewing Anita Cornwell Part Eight. Stonewall, Popularity, and Publicity 29. Toward a Theory of the Stonewall Revolution 30. Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969 31. A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein 32. Stonewall and Queens 33. Recalling Purple Hands Protests of 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of California Press Unlivable Lives
Book SynopsisAnti-violence movements rooted in identity politics are commonplace, including those to stop violence against people of color, women, and LGBT people. Unlivable Lives reveals the unintended consequences of this approach within the transgender rights movement in the United States. It illustrates how this form of activism obscures the causes of and lasting solutions to violence and exacerbates fear among members of the identity group, running counter to the goal of making lives more livable. Analyzing over a thousand documents produced by thirteen national organizations, Westbrook charts both a history of the movement and a path forward that relies less on identity-based tactics and more on intersectionality and coalition building. Provocative and galvanizing, this book envisions new strategies for anti-violence and social justice movements and will revolutionize the way we think about this form of activism.Trade Review"This book will appeal to all people interested in trans politics. Versatile and accessible, it will be helpful to activists and useful for graduate and undergraduate courses in social movements, sociology of gender, public policy, law, criminology, and women/gender/sexuality studies." * Mobilization *"Unlivable Lives represents a splendid contribution to sociological literature as well as a useful volume for teachers and researchers working in a variety of subfields and disciplines." * Contemporary Sociology *"Laurel Westbrook has written an invaluable analysis of the trans anti-violence movement in the United States. . . . a courageous book." * New Mexico Historical Review *"Unlivable Lives makes an invaluable intervention in how academics and activists discuss trans people and organize against violence." * TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly *"Westbrook’s writing is simultaneously accessible and theoretically sophisticated. . . . This work is an important contribution to the study of anti-transgender crime, particularly with the paucity of reliable data on fatal violence against transgender persons." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Unlivable Lives: The Origins and Outcomes of Identity-Based Anti-Violence Activism 2. Violence Matters: Producing Identity through Accounts of Murder 3. Atypical Archetypes: The Causes and Consequences of Famous Victims of Violence 4. Homogeneous Subjecthood: How Activists' Focus on Identity Obscures Patterns of Violence 5. Valuable and Vulnerable: How Activists' Tactical Repertoires Shape Subjecthood and Generate Fear 6. Shaping Solutions: How Identity Politics Influences Violence-Prevention Efforts 7. Facilitating Livable Lives: Alternative Approaches to Anti-Violence Activism Appendix A: Transgender Anti-Violence Organizations Appendix B: Collecting Data on Murders of Transgender People Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Has the Gay Movement Failed
Book SynopsisMartin Duberman is a national treasure.Masha Gessen,The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, as well as a pioneering social-justice activist, Duberman reviews the half century since Stonewall with an immediacy and rigor that informs and energizes. He revisits the early gay movement and its progressive vision for society and puts the left on notice as failing time and again to embrace the queer potential for social transformation. Acknowledging the elimination of some of the most discriminatory policies that plagued earlier generations, he takes note of the costthe sidelining of radical goals on the way to achieving more normative inclusion. Illuminating the fault liTrade Review"Duberman is a national treasure. He is an American historian and a pioneer of L.G.B.T.Q. studies. At eighty-seven, he is writing faster than ever;...this book, which, at two hundred and seven pages, packs enough information and ideas for four or five more. It brings together Duberman’s passions and the research he has conducted over many years. [Duberman] has been writing about these things for so long that some of his own ideas have become his source material."—Masha Gessen * New Yorker *"Readers concerned with contemporary social issues will devour this call to action. Highly recommended." STARRED REVIEW * Library Journal *"Always lucid and insightful, this is a major work that enriches LGBTQ literature and belongs in every library." STARRED REVIEW * Booklist *“A fascinating read.” * Gay City News *"Right now is the time to give Duberman's book a close read, and listen to this 87-year-old, gay-married guy." * Bay Area Reporter *“Makes the provocative but compelling case that the fight for same-sex marriage marked a costly detour away from the radical politics at the root of the LGBT rights movement.” * Daily Beast *"A relevant, fiery, and dizzying treatise certain to provoke debate and discussion." * Kirkus Reviews *"Duberman's book is an urgent and much-needed clarion call for the 'gay movement' to reinvent itself for the 21st century. He covers enormous ground for a relatively short and broadly accessible book. " * PopMatters *"A useful reference point that maps the history of the movement before building an argument for broadening the focus of LGBTQ politics." * Times Higher Education *"Has the Gay Movement Failed? is a historic reckoning of the last half century of the gay movement and a critique of a politic of normativity that has sidelined more radical and transformative goals. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom." * Teaching Sociology *“Thought-provoking read about questions that have occupied gay movements since Stonewall. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom.” * Teaching Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue PART I. STORMING THE CITADEL PART II. LOVE, WORK, SEX PART III. EQUALITY OR LIBERATION? PART IV. WHOSE LEFT? Notes Index
£18.90
University of California Press Amphibious Subjects
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate menknown in local parlance as sassoresiding in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of amphibious personhood, Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World's Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the heart of homophobic darkness in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries.
£27.00
University of California Press A Few Good Gays
Book SynopsisThe US military has done an about-face on gender and sexuality policy over the last decade, ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell, restrictions on women in combat, and transgender exclusion. Contrary to expectations, servicemembers have largely welcomed cisgender LGB individualsyet they continue to vociferously resist trans inclusion and the presence of women on the front lines. In the minds of many, the embodied deficiencies of cisgender women and trans people of all genders puts othersand indeed, the nationat risk. In this book, Cati Connell identifies the homonormative bargain that underwrites these uneven patterns of receptiona bargain that comes with significant concessions, upholding and even exacerbating race, class, and gender inequality in the pursuit of sexual equality. In this handshake deal, even the widespread support for open LGB service is highly conditional, revocable upon violation of the bargain. Despite the promise of inclusivity, in practice, the military has made room only Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Dawning of a Kinder, Gentler US Military Part 1 Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1. “The Hard Work to Get Me in the Door”: A History of the Gay Ban 2. “What They Do in Their Private Life, I Couldn’t Care Less”: Striking the Homonormative Bargain 3. “He Acts Straight but He Has This One Thing . . .”: Open LGB Service and Queer Social Control Part 2 Ending Combat Exclusion 4. “When You Want to Create a Group of Male Killers, You Kill the Woman in Them”: Feminine Abjection and the Impossibility of Women Warriors 5. “My Problem’s Not That I’m Gay; My Problem Is That I’m a Woman”: The Patriotic Paternalism of Combat Exclusion Part 3 Removing Medical Restrictions on Transgender Service 6. “Once He Saw Them as Soldiers, I Knew We Had It”: The Trans Ban Tug of War 7. “You Can’t Have Three Bathrooms at a Forward Operating Position”: Gender Panic in the Transgendering Organization Part 4 Conclusion 8 . We Will Be Greeted as Gay Liberators? Methodological Appendix A Methodological Appendix B Methodological Appendix C Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press More Than Marriage
Book SynopsisIntroduces an expansive vision of the family and a brilliant legal arrangement that will protect the lives of millions of adults. Today, about half of all adults are unmarried. Many of those are in significant relationshipssome intimate, others based in friendship, finances, or family tiesbut the law offers them few protections. Amid the growing recognition that modern families take all shapes, More Than Marriage presents a refreshing vision for the future. With this book, noted family-law expert John G. Culhane takes us on a guided tour of how the march toward marriage equality spun off a number of other legal statuses, and explores how the law has expanded and where it falls short. This lively living history is grounded in relatable, in-depth interviews that give voice to the millions of Americans building family structures outside the protections of marriagewhether by choice, necessity, or exclusion. Culhane proposes an updated legal status that offers flexible and portable Trade Review"An inspired introduction to legal understandings of marriage equality that issues an urgent argument for continued reforms." * Foreword Reviews *"This book about marriage alternatives should appeal to a general audience. Ideal for those interested in domestic law policies." * Library Journal *"Recommended [for] advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." * CHOICE *"Culhane offers a refreshing take on how we might legally enshrine a variety of forms of relationships and intimacies. . . . More Than Marriage will be immersive reading for those interested in the legal recognition of relationships and for imagining new possibilities beyond marriage." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction: Marriage Equality—an Important but Limited Victory 1. The Dawn of the Domestic Partnership, or "We Bored Them to Death" 2. Civil Unions: Not Marriage, but an Incredible Simulation! 3. The Designated Beneficiary Agreement Act: Colorado's Successful Experiment 4. What Is Marriage, Anyway? (And What Isn't Marriage?) 5. Matching Relationship Law to Reality Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press More Than Marriage
Book SynopsisIntroduces an expansive vision of the family and a brilliant legal arrangement that will protect the lives of millions of adults. Today, about half of all adults are unmarried. Many of those are in significant relationshipssome intimate, others based in friendship, finances, or family tiesbut the law offers them few protections. Amid the growing recognition that modern families take all shapes, More Than Marriage presents a refreshing vision for the future. With this book, noted family-law expert John G. Culhane takes us on a guided tour of how the march toward marriage equality spun off a number of other legal statuses, and explores how the law has expanded and where it falls short. This lively living history is grounded in relatable, in-depth interviews that give voice to the millions of Americans building family structures outside the protections of marriagewhether by choice, necessity, or exclusion. Culhane proposes an updated legal status that offers flexible and portable Trade Review"An inspired introduction to legal understandings of marriage equality that issues an urgent argument for continued reforms." * Foreword Reviews *"This book about marriage alternatives should appeal to a general audience. Ideal for those interested in domestic law policies." * Library Journal *"Recommended [for] advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." * CHOICE *"Culhane offers a refreshing take on how we might legally enshrine a variety of forms of relationships and intimacies. . . . More Than Marriage will be immersive reading for those interested in the legal recognition of relationships and for imagining new possibilities beyond marriage." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction: Marriage Equality—an Important but Limited Victory 1. The Dawn of the Domestic Partnership, or "We Bored Them to Death" 2. Civil Unions: Not Marriage, but an Incredible Simulation! 3. The Designated Beneficiary Agreement Act: Colorado's Successful Experiment 4. What Is Marriage, Anyway? (And What Isn't Marriage?) 5. Matching Relationship Law to Reality Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Possible Histories
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage practices while they were traveling, while Syrian women accessed more economic autonomy though their participation in peddling networks. In Possible Histories, Charlotte Karem Albrecht explores this peddling economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a site for revealing how dominant ideas about sexuality are imbricated in Arab American racial histories. Karem Albrecht marshals a queer affective approach to community and family history to show how Syrian immigrant peddlers and their interdependent networks of labor and care appeared in interconnected discourses of modernity, sexuality, gender, class, and race. Possible HistorTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Terms and Translations Introduction 1. Traveler, Peddler, Stranger, Syrian: Queer Provocations and Sexual Threats 2. “A Woman without Limits”: Syrian Women in the Peddling Economy 3. Wandering in Diaspora: The Syrian American Elite and Sexual Normativity 4. The Possibilities of Peddling: Imagining Homosocial and Homoerotic Pleasure in Arab America Conclusion: Alixa Naff and the Parenthetical Syrian American Lesbian Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd LGBTQ Social Movements
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the U.S.Trade Review"Adeptly synthesizing decades of research and writing, charting both major events and central dynamics, Lisa Stulberg offers a foundation for understanding LGBTQ movements that is at once accessible and complex, informative and lively." Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco "This is the book we have been waiting for - a comprehensive, concise, and engaging overview of the LGBT movement that is accessible not only to students and general readers, but scholars. Stulberg has managed to condense a vast amount of literature to provide the clearest, best organized, and most up-to-date review of the LGBT movement available." Verta Taylor, University of California Santa Barbara “Lisa Stulberg provides a concise, accessible, and engaging introduction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activism… [T]he material that Stulberg presents will appeal to many audiences, including undergraduate and graduate students, emerging scholars, and established scholars.”Amin Ghaziani, Contemporary Sociology "Stulberg provides an accessible, well-researched overview of LGBTQ activism, suitable for a wide-ranging audience."SexualitiesTable of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Before and After Stonewall Chapter 3. Activism in the Early Days of AIDS Chapter 4. Marriage Politics Chapter 5. LGBTQ Youth and Social Change Chapter 6. The “B” and the “T” Chapter 7. Conclusion
£46.80
University of British Columbia Press We Still Demand
Book SynopsisBy challenging the erasure of radical histories, this book makes an invaluable contribution to remembering and rethinking Canadian sex and gender activism from the 1970s to the present.Trade ReviewThis collection is a must-read for queer and sexuality theorists and historians alike. -- Natalie Adamyk, University of Toronto * Labour/Le travail, Vol. 82 *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline RankinPart 1: Histories of Resistance and Activism1 Liberating Marriage: Gay Liberation and Same-Sex Marriage in Early 1970s Canada / Elise Chenier2 “Seducing the Unions”: Organized Labour and Strategies for Gay Liberation in Toronto in the 1970s / Mathieu Brûlé3 “À bas la répression contre les homosexuels!” Resistance and Surveillance of Queers in Montreal, 1971-76 / Patrizia Gentile4 Fire, Passion, and Politics: The Creation of Blockorama as Black Queer Diasporic Space in the Toronto Pride Festivities / Beverly Bain5 The Emergence of the Toronto Dyke March / Allison Burgess6 Rupert Raj, Transmen, and Sexuality: The Politics of Transnormativity in Metamorphosis Magazine during the 1980s / Nicholas Matte7 Queer Resistance and Regulation in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights / Gary KinsmanPart 2: The Politics and Power of Resistance8 “A History of That Which Was Never Supposed to Be Possible”: Rethinking Gender Passing in History / Fabien Rose9 “Your Cuntry Needs You”: The Politics of Early 1990s Canadian S/M Dyke Porn / Andrea Zanin10 Safe Sex Work and the City: Canadian Sex Work Activists Re-Imagine Real/Virtual Cityscapes / Shawna Ferris11 “Collateral Damage”: Anti-Trafficking Campaigns, Border Security, and Sex Workers’ Rights Struggles in Canada / Annalee Lepp12 Nationalism, Sexuality, and the Politics of Anti-Citizenship / Cynthia Wright13 Trans-ing the Canadian Passport: On the Biopolitical Storying of Race, Gender, and Borders / Bobby NobleSelected BibliographyIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press We Still Demand
Book SynopsisBy challenging the erasure of radical histories, this book makes an invaluable contribution to remembering and rethinking Canadian sex and gender activism from the 1970s to the present.Trade ReviewThis collection is a must-read for queer and sexuality theorists and historians alike. -- Natalie Adamyk, University of Toronto * Labour/Le travail, Vol. 82 *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline RankinPart 1: Histories of Resistance and Activism1 Liberating Marriage: Gay Liberation and Same-Sex Marriage in Early 1970s Canada / Elise Chenier2 “Seducing the Unions”: Organized Labour and Strategies for Gay Liberation in Toronto in the 1970s / Mathieu Brûlé3 “À bas la répression contre les homosexuels!” Resistance and Surveillance of Queers in Montreal, 1971-76 / Patrizia Gentile4 Fire, Passion, and Politics: The Creation of Blockorama as Black Queer Diasporic Space in the Toronto Pride Festivities / Beverly Bain5 The Emergence of the Toronto Dyke March / Allison Burgess6 Rupert Raj, Transmen, and Sexuality: The Politics of Transnormativity in Metamorphosis Magazine during the 1980s / Nicholas Matte7 Queer Resistance and Regulation in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights / Gary KinsmanPart 2: The Politics and Power of Resistance8 “A History of That Which Was Never Supposed to Be Possible”: Rethinking Gender Passing in History / Fabien Rose9 “Your Cuntry Needs You”: The Politics of Early 1990s Canadian S/M Dyke Porn / Andrea Zanin10 Safe Sex Work and the City: Canadian Sex Work Activists Re-Imagine Real/Virtual Cityscapes / Shawna Ferris11 “Collateral Damage”: Anti-Trafficking Campaigns, Border Security, and Sex Workers’ Rights Struggles in Canada / Annalee Lepp12 Nationalism, Sexuality, and the Politics of Anti-Citizenship / Cynthia Wright13 Trans-ing the Canadian Passport: On the Biopolitical Storying of Race, Gender, and Borders / Bobby NobleSelected BibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Banning Transgender Conversion Practices A Legal
Book SynopsisBanning Transgender Conversion Practices is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of how conversion practices targeting transgender people are regulated around the world.Trade ReviewFlorence Ashley does a magnificent job putting theory into practice. -- Rebecca Sanaeikia, University of Rochester * Medical Law International *Authored by an award-winning legal scholar, this book has an obvious home beyond academic law library collections. -- Alexandra Kwan, University of Toronto * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsForewordIntroduction1 What Are Trans Conversion Practices?2 Interpreting the Scope of Bans3 Legal Variants Across the Globe4 Opposition and Constitutional Challenges to Bans5 Policy Analysis 6 Developing an Affirmative Professional Culture7 Annotated Model Law for Prohibiting Conversion PracticesConclusionAppendix: Professional Organizations Opposing Trans Conversion PracticesNotes; Glossary; Index
£62.90
Rutgers University Press Transitive Cultures Anglophone Literature of the
Book SynopsisTransitive Cultures offers a new perspective on transpacific Anglophone literature, revealing how these chameleonic writers enact a variety of hybrid, transnational identities and intimacies. Examining texts from Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Canada, and the United States, this book challenges conventional expectations regarding diaspora and minority writers.Trade Review"Transitive Cultures is well-researched, eloquently written, and admirably ambitious in geographic and literary scope. Christopher B. Patterson's reframing of Anglophone literature stands to substantially enrich existing conversations among scholars in English studies, comparative literature, and Asian studies." -- Belinda Kong * author of Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square *“An original introduction to twenty-first century literary criticism, Transitive Cultures illuminates for the first time the diachronic nodes of globalization, re-orienting its history in Southeast Asia, to link Asian decolonizing discourses with American disaporic, queer, and critical cultural studies.” -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim * author of Among the White Moon Faces, recipient of the American Book Award *"Transitive Cultures deals with Anglophone Southeast Asian literature as complex cultural practices critical of multicultural governance handed down by Western colonialism. A deftly drawn map for approaching the most trenchant literary works of the region, Patterson's book is a much-needed guide for navigating the endless crisis of our ever-globalizing world." -- Vicente L. Rafael * author of Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation *New Books in Asian American Studies podcast interview with Christopher Patterson * New Books in Asian American Studies podcast *"Transitive Cultures is especially and unreservedly recommended for college and academic library Contemporary Sociology collections, as well as the supplemental studies reading lists in Asian American Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies." * Midwest Book Review *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Especially welcome is how Patterson’s transpacific frame helps to intensify rather than dilute the stakes of race, gender, and sexuality in texts that have most often been approached as national minority literatures....Patterson’s book offers new ways of reading and providing new modes of racial, gender, and sexual belonging that attend to the complexities and contradictions brought to light through a transpacific reframing of nation and transnation." * American Literary History *"Patterson’s critical perspectives on the institutionalization of diversity and multiculturalism make Transitive Cultures a necessary read for all given how these concepts permeate U.S. culture and are often used to uphold the Western, white hegemony they claim to fight against." * Popular Culture Review *"Transitive Cultures joins a growing number of scholarly essays and monographs arguing for greater attention to Southeast Asian literary and cultural production on many fronts. It makes a timely intervention into the field of contemporary literary studies by offering both a critical and an oceanic paradigm with which to illuminate the existing and emerging connections between Southeast Asian authors and texts and the promises and pitfalls of a globalizing world." * Contemporary Literature *"A rigorous comparative study of literature and a theoretically astute analysis....Transitive Cultures is a well-grounded, systematically organized investigation that offers a perceptive reconceptualization of minority literature and is particularly helpful for scholars of Asian American studies, Southeast Asian studies, theories of diaspora, postcolonialism, critical cultural studies, and beyond." * Journal of Asian American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Pluralism, Transition, and the Anglophone Part 1: Histories 1 Multiracial Clans in Colorful Malaya: Pluralism, Intimacy, and Transition 2 So that the Sparks that Fly Will Fly in All Directions: Pluralism and Revolution in the Philippines Part 2: Mobilities 3 Liberal Tolerance and Asian Migrancy: Migrancy, Satire, and Reciprocity 4 Just an American Darker than the Rest: On Queer Brown Exile Part 3: Genres 5 Mutant Hybrids Seek the Global Unconscious: Cynicism, Chick-Lit, Ecstasy 6 Speculative Fiction and Authorial Transition Conclusion: Identity, Authenticity, Collectivity Works Cited Notes Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Transgender Cinema
Book SynopsisGives readers the big picture of how trans people have been depicted on screen. The book examines a plethora of trans portrayals that emerged from varied media outlets, including documentary films, television serials, and world cinema. Along the way, it analyzes milestones in trans representation.Trade Review"Highly recommended."— Choice "Rebecca Bell-Metereau has already written the definitive work on androgyny in cinema, and now she completes the circle with what is unquestionably the paradigmatic work on transgender cinema. In Transgender Cinema, Bell-Metereau not only provides a series of incisive interpretations of important transgender films but also recognizes how these films present new possibilities for organizing our enjoyment."— Todd McGowan, author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy "Rebecca Bell-Metereau’s Transgender Cinema is a superb advance on her early, ground-breaking book, Hollywood Androgyny—it's a scrupulously researched, lucid, major contribution to the study of cinema and gender studies more generally. Timely and both politically and artistically important, it deserves the widest possible readership." — James Naremore, author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic KnowledgeTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction 1 Trans Tropes 2 Breaking Boundaries in the New Millennium 3 New Platforms and New Voices Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Selected Filmography
£17.99
Rutgers University Press Transgender Cinema
Book SynopsisTransgender Cinema reveals the scope of how trans people have been depicted on screen, starting with Charlie Chaplin’s comic drag scenes and culminating in current hits like Transparent and A Fantastic Woman. It analyzes classic Hollywood movies, indie films, documentaries, world cinema, television, and trans filmmakers and actors.Trade Review"Rebecca Bell-Metereau has already written the definitive work on androgyny in cinema, and now she completes the circle with what is unquestionably the paradigmatic work on transgender cinema. In Transgender Cinema, Bell-Metereau not only provides a series of incisive interpretations of important transgender films but also recognizes how these films present new possibilities for organizing our enjoyment." -- Todd McGowan * author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy *"Rebecca Bell-Metereau’s Transgender Cinema is a superb advance on her early, ground-breaking book, Hollywood Androgyny—it's a scrupulously researched, lucid, major contribution to the study of cinema and gender studies more generally. Timely and both politically and artistically important, it deserves the widest possible readership." -- James Naremore * author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge *"Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction 1 Trans Tropes 2 Breaking Boundaries in the New Millennium 3 New Platforms and New Voices Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Selected Filmography
£53.10
New York University Press Queer Mobilizations LGBT Activists Confront the
Book SynopsisExamines how the LGBT movement's engagement with the law shapes the very meanings of sexuality, sex, gender, privacy, discrimination, and family in law and society. This book contains essays that highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT community.Trade ReviewThis book offers a brilliant introduction to the complexity of the relationship between the law and LGBT issues. * Social Movement Studies *Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law is an edited volume that reflects the burgeoning voice and growing favorability of the LGBT movement within the world's court systems . . .This collection of essays offers a welcome interdisciplinary supplement to those areas of LGBT scholarship most closely connected to the LGBT movement - namely, queer theory, queer history, and gender studies. -- Matthew Dean Hindman * Law and Politics Book Review *This volume is a precious contribution to the study of the relationships between the law and contemporary social movements. It should not only interest specialists on LGBT activism, but shouldalso attract a wider audience, including scholars working on legal mobilisation and interactions between thelaw and social movements. -- David Paternotte * Social Movement Studies *Queer Mobilizations is one of precious few volumes that manages to bridge divisions between legal and cultural analysis and between scholarship and partisanship. Brilliantly interdisciplinary, moving fluidly between & theory and empirical-legal analysis, these essays force us to approach law as central to the current struggles over the American erotic landscape. A truly must read! -- Steven Seidman,author of Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian LifeThis innovative collection of essays delves into the complex relationships between social movements and legal institutions. The essays creatively address the contradictory goals in the battles for social change by LGBT movements and the normalization that can often result from legal decisions. An essential and unique contribution. -- Peter M. Nardi,author of Gay Mens Friendships: Invincible CommunitiesWhat is the complicated relationship between the LGBT movement and the law? The contributors to this fascinating volume offer a rich and thoughtful analysis of this important question by exploring an array of important policy issues. Timely and well written, this book should be of keen interest to teachers, scholars, movement activists, and citizens. -- Craig A. Rimmerman,author of The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilationist or Liberationist?“The editors do an excellent job in bringing together a wide variety of work in this field. It is a particularly important addition to the scholarly discourse on activism and social change, where research on the benefits and limitations of legal strategies for social movements is sorely needed. * American Journal of Sociology *“This volume will be useful to scholars who want to examine the relationship between legal institutions and social movements generally and to those who want to examine the how [sic] this relationship relates to the LGBT movement specifically... it presents a survey of the range of tactics social movements use to achieve change in legal institutions and the ways legal institutions provide barriers and opportunities for broader social change. * Mobilization *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Challenge of Law Mary Bernstein, Anna-Maria Marshall, and Scott Barclay Part I Social Movement Strategies and the Law 2 Deferral of Legal Tactics Ashley Currier 3 Queer Legal Victories Darren Rosenblum 4 Intimate Equality Nicholas Pedriana 5 Deciding Under the Influence? Courtenay W. Daum 6 Parents and Paperwork Susan M. Sterett Part II Activism, Discourse, and Legal Change 7 The Reform of Sodomy Laws From a World Society Perspective David John Frank, Steven A. Boutcher, and Bayliss Camp 8 Like Sexual Orientation? Like Gender? Amy L. Stone 9 Pushing the Envelope Charles W. Gossett 10 Explaining the Differences Marybeth Herald Part III Legal Symbols 11 It Takes (at Least) Two to Tango Shauna Fisher 12 Do Civil Rights Have a Face? Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller 13 A Jury of One's Queers Casey Charles 14 The Gay Divorcee Ellen Ann Andersen Notes References Contributors Index
£62.90
University of Minnesota Press Fascist Virilities
Book SynopsisExploring different conceptions of virility - as well as the reproductive fantasies they produce - in a selection of Italian political manifestos and political writings, this study exposes the relation between fascist rhetoric and ideology.Table of ContentsRhetorics of virility: D'Annunzio, Marinetti, Mussolini, Benjamin; fascist women and the rhetoric of virility; Mafarka and son: Marinetti's homophobic economics; D'Annunzio and the anti-democratic fantasy; fascism as discursive regime.
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent is a strongly original, frequently brilliant, cross-disciplinary study of the limitations of consent for measuring sexual freedom and sexual harm."—Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign "Joseph J. Fischel’s Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent offers a breathtakingly queer account of sex, perversion, innocence, and consent. His careful and complex reading of the social and legal meaning of the ‘sexual predator’ boldly challenges the common wisdom about the justifications for and consequences of regulating outlaw sexuality."—Katherine Franke, director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School"A very well-researched book . . . I applaud the author for the depth and breadth of his scholarship."—PsycCRITIQUES "A carefully written, intellectually challenging argument... A must read for queer and feminist scholars."—CHOICE "Through his proposal of autonomy, peremption, and an adolescence not isolated from social and historical contexts of inequality yet distinguishable from childhood, Fischel effectively moves the debate on what constitutes sexual harm well beyond the dichotomy of consent and predation." —PoLAR "The book is deeply compelling in its capacity to weave a legal archive and a popular culture archive, and in its compelling close-readings of both case law (and policy) and visual culture."—Political Theory"Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent should be considered required reading for anyone committed to thinking age as a central determinant of sexuality in consensual times."—GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay StudiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Sex and the Ends of Consent1. “Especially Heinous”: Politics, Predation, Sex Panics2. Transcendent Homosexuals, Dangerous Sex Offenders3. Numbers, Sex, Power: Age and Sexual Consent4. Growing Somewhere? Journeys of Gendered AdolescenceConclusion: Other Sex ScandalsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
Duke University Press Critically Sovereign
Book SynopsisUsing a range of historical, literary, and legal texts, the contributors to Critically Sovereign trace the ways in which gender is inextricably linked to Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian colonialism, showing how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology.Trade Review“Critically Sovereign is not only a necessary reading for those studying Indigenous politics, it should also be considered a required reading for scholars and activists who study race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and colonialism.” -- Brionca Taylor * Gender & Society *"Through a collective of brilliant voices, the essays in this book grapple with the significance of gender, sexuality, and politics with searing wisdom. Critically Sovereign gives readers a reason to hope for a decolonized tomorrow." -- Dianca Potts * Signature *"A powerful and urgently needed anthology. . . . Critically Sovereign is an essential text for anyone engaged in feminist and queer theory or projects of decolonization." -- Stephanie Lumsden * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Critically Sovereign offers a strong addition to scholarship or graduate-level coursework engaged with global feminisms. . . . Critically Sovereign provides a timely entry point into the seismic stakes and shifts within Native American and Indigenous studies." -- Kirisitina Sailiata * Feminist Review *"This collection rejects the elimination of the Indigenous through the erasure of gender and sexuality. For the queer, femme, and two-spirit people at the center of Indigenous movements for autonomy and freedom, this is a deeply important project. Critically Sovereign is an opening salvo in what I hope is a burgeoning intellectual and intersectional field." -- Anne Spice * Women's Studies Quarterly *"For those of us seeking to grow our equity work in educational settings, reading essays like those in this collection allow us to privilege-check our own approaches. The denseness of the material aside, each piece acts as a motivator for equity work and as a reminder that this work cannot be done in a vacuum, and can never be complete without an understanding of intersectionality." -- Tracey Germa * Education Forum *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Critically Sovereign / Joanne Barker 1 1. Indigenous Hawaiian Sexuality and the Politics of Nationalist Decolonization / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 45 2. Return to "The Uprising at Beautiful Mountain in 1913": Marriage and Sexuality in the Making of the Modern Navajo Nation / Jennifer Nez Denetdale 69 3. Ongoing Storms and Struggles: Gendered Violence and Resource Exploitation / Mishuana R. Goeman 99 4. Audiovisualizing Inupiaq Men and Masculinities On the Ice / Jessica Bissett Perrea 127 5. Around 1978: Family, Culture, and Race in the Federal Production of Indianness / Mark Rifkin 169 6. Loving Unbecoming: The Queer Politics of the Transitive Native / Jodi A. Byrd 207 7. Getting Dirty: The Eco-Eroticism of Women in Indigenous Oral Literatures / Melissa K. Nelson 229 Contributor Biographies 261 Index 263
£72.25
Duke University Press The Look of a Woman
Book SynopsisEric Plemons explores the ways in which facial feminization surgery is changing the ways in which trans- women are not only perceived of as women, but in the ways it is altering the project of surgical sex reassignment and the understandings of what sex means.Trade Review"This is a well-written and thought-provoking contribution not only to transgender studies but also to our debate about how we necessarily and constantly refashion ourselves." -- Sander L. Gilman * Critical Inquiry *“An exceptionally well-written book, based on highly engaged fieldwork . . . and filled with elegant and innovative theoretical insights about the material (in)stability and social urgency of sex/gender.” -- Christine Labuski * American Anthropologist *“A wonderfully terse and insightful first book. Eric Plemons’s work counts as the best of trans studies.” -- Cressida J. Heyes * American Journal of Bioethics *“In The Look of a Woman, Eric Plemons gives us a very thoughtful, well-researched, and important statement about the role of facial feminization surgery in trans-medicine.” -- Juliana Hansen * Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery *“The Look of a Woman is a new and important examination of the world of trans medicine, particularly the question of gendered identity, facial physiognomy, and most importantly the face-to-face determination of sex. An excellent and enriching engagement.” -- Bernadette Wegenstein * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In both style and content this book is eminently teachable: a great demonstration of how to build and hone an argument. It is an admirably slim volume, afforded its modest size by Plemons’ writerly technique. The prose is lucid and not unnecessarily adjectival. The more complex ideas benefit from a clarifying portrayal that will bring non-academic readers on side. . . . The book’s clarity lends it an effortless feel, which I suspect is actually an effect of labour at every scale: word, sentence, chapter, argument. This labour has certainly paid off: The Look of a Woman is a lovely addition to anthropology’s bookshelves." -- Courtney Addison * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"This book brilliantly raises some fundamental and very broad questions about the link between medicine and social norms, sex and gender, the body and the self." -- Andrae Thomazo * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. On Origins 21 Interlude. The Procedures 39 2. Femininity in the Clinic 43 Interlude. Celebrate! 67 3. Cutting as Caring 71 4. Recognition and Refusal 89 Interlude. My Adam's Apple 109 5. The Operating Room 113 6. And After 135 Conclusion 151 Notes 157 References 169 Index 185
£70.55
Duke University Press Abject Performances Aesthetic Strategies in
Book SynopsisLeticia Alvarado explores how Latino artists and cultural producers have developed and deployed an irreverent aesthetics of abjection to resist assimilation and disrupt respectability politics.Trade Review"In writing this, I am thinking of contemporary figures of abjection—the asylum seeker, the victim of domestic abuse and gang violence, the parent and child violently separated at the US border. Abject Performances does not make such figures more legible, but rather encourages readers towards being with illegibility so as to create a condition for thinking through alternatives to citizenship, to accept the unknown and unknowable as a viable, yet confounding aesthetic, and a necessary, though unsustainable politic." -- Eddie Gamboa * Women & Performance *"Abject Performances presents a dynamic, fascinating, and novel approach to understanding the role of abjection in contestatory articulations of Latino identity. From the esoteric to the popular, the sacred to the profane, Leticia Alvarado weaves together a narrative that convincingly positions the abject as an entirely distinct way of producing latinidad through diverse cultural products." -- Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins * Journal of American Studies *"Alvarado’s book usefully brings aesthetics and affect theory to bear upon not only what Latinidad means, but also how its possibilities can shift. . . . Alvarado rigorously theorizes a strand of Latinx affective and aesthetic engagement that names a feeling we already have and a perspective we need to embrace." -- Renee Hudson * ASAP/Journal *"Abject Performances is an ambitious text. The breadth of theoretical frameworks is especially impressive given the depth of critical analysis that complements them. . . . Viewing the ways in which aesthetic theory meets performance and media studies, Latino studies, and queer theory as an emerging flux continues necessary conversations in these fields." -- Lacie Rae B. Cunningham * Aztlán *"Alvarado brings together artistic, academic, and activist ways of being and doing in this world, opening spaces to imagine brighter futures. . . . Against the myth of wholeness and completion, Alvarado offers a final Muñozian gesture: circling back to the urgency of imagining futurity, Abject Performances rehearses a path towards a more sensual world not-yet-here." -- Leticia Robles-Moreno * TDR: The Drama Review *“Abject Performances lingers on moments of discord, rupture, and disunity among Latinx cultural producers and picks at the wounds to find what political possibilities might emerge in them.... I am fortified and inspired that such work is now possible....” -- Jillian Hernandez * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sublime Abjection 1 1. Other Desires: Ana Mendieta's Abject Imaginings 25 2. Phantom Assholes: Asco's Affective Vortex 57 3. Of Betties Decorous and Abject: Ugly Betty's America la fea and Nao Bustamante's America la bella 89 4. Arriving at Apostasy: Performative Testimonies of Ambivalent Belonging 131 Conclusion. Abject Embodiment 161 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209
£103.70
Duke University Press Abject Performances
Book SynopsisLeticia Alvarado explores how Latino artists and cultural producers have developed and deployed an irreverent aesthetics of abjection to resist assimilation and disrupt respectability politics.Trade Review"In writing this, I am thinking of contemporary figures of abjection—the asylum seeker, the victim of domestic abuse and gang violence, the parent and child violently separated at the US border. Abject Performances does not make such figures more legible, but rather encourages readers towards being with illegibility so as to create a condition for thinking through alternatives to citizenship, to accept the unknown and unknowable as a viable, yet confounding aesthetic, and a necessary, though unsustainable politic." -- Eddie Gamboa * Women & Performance *"Abject Performances presents a dynamic, fascinating, and novel approach to understanding the role of abjection in contestatory articulations of Latino identity. From the esoteric to the popular, the sacred to the profane, Leticia Alvarado weaves together a narrative that convincingly positions the abject as an entirely distinct way of producing latinidad through diverse cultural products." -- Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins * Journal of American Studies *"Alvarado’s book usefully brings aesthetics and affect theory to bear upon not only what Latinidad means, but also how its possibilities can shift. . . . Alvarado rigorously theorizes a strand of Latinx affective and aesthetic engagement that names a feeling we already have and a perspective we need to embrace." -- Renee Hudson * ASAP/Journal *"Abject Performances is an ambitious text. The breadth of theoretical frameworks is especially impressive given the depth of critical analysis that complements them. . . . Viewing the ways in which aesthetic theory meets performance and media studies, Latino studies, and queer theory as an emerging flux continues necessary conversations in these fields." -- Lacie Rae B. Cunningham * Aztlán *"Alvarado brings together artistic, academic, and activist ways of being and doing in this world, opening spaces to imagine brighter futures. . . . Against the myth of wholeness and completion, Alvarado offers a final Muñozian gesture: circling back to the urgency of imagining futurity, Abject Performances rehearses a path towards a more sensual world not-yet-here." -- Leticia Robles-Moreno * TDR: The Drama Review *“Abject Performances lingers on moments of discord, rupture, and disunity among Latinx cultural producers and picks at the wounds to find what political possibilities might emerge in them.... I am fortified and inspired that such work is now possible....” -- Jillian Hernandez * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sublime Abjection 1 1. Other Desires: Ana Mendieta's Abject Imaginings 25 2. Phantom Assholes: Asco's Affective Vortex 57 3. Of Betties Decorous and Abject: Ugly Betty's America la fea and Nao Bustamante's America la bella 89 4. Arriving at Apostasy: Performative Testimonies of Ambivalent Belonging 131 Conclusion. Abject Embodiment 161 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209
£26.09
