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Duke University Press Sexuality Disability and Aging
Book SynopsisJane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one's sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing but an experience of loss.Trade Review"For Gallop, theory offers solace in the face of life’s difficulties, and the book is often quietly moving. . . . Her use of theory isn’t about blowing up previous thought; it’s about finding consolation, which literature or philosophy is often said to provide." -- Jeffrey J. Williams * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Overall, Sexuality, Disability, and Aging presents an insightful yet accessible analysis that combines wide-ranging theoretical work with rich interpretive material to carefully reveal the phallic temporalities that underpin contemporary stereotypes of aging and late-onset disability as sexual decline. The book’s cross-cutting relevance means that it will find productive readership across a wide range of scholars interested in queer, crip, gerontological, literary, feminist, or psychoanalytic theory.” -- Kazuki Yamada * Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities *"An inventive and captivating piece of scholarship. Bolstered by its original findings and the intricate theoretical maneuvers that Gallop makes throughout this text, the book is poised to be a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of queer theory, critical gerontology, and disability studies." -- Kyle Christensen * Women's Studies in Communication *"Sexuality, Disability and Aging is a vital read for those interested in disability and sexuality as it contributes to indispensable discussions whilst simultaneously offering an alternative framework with which to aid progression within the field. . . . Gallop has compiled an accomplished text which is forward-thinking, unorthodox and paves the way for further discourse within the realms of disability, and for this, she must be commended." -- Bev Pollitt * Disability & Society *“Gallop’s willingness to reflect critically on her own experiences and reactions . . . reinvigorates feminist psychoanalytic theory, but also productively bridges the silences around aging and late-onset disability endemic to both disability studies and queer theory.” -- Sarah Rainey-Smithback * Hypatia *"Gallop makes an important intervention in the study of late life sexuality by connecting it to radical, queer, and alternative temporalities. . . . It is my hope, and dare I assume Gallop’s hope as well, that this work serves as one of the foundational texts for an expanding collection of work that examines sexuality, disability, and aging through the lenses of crip, queer, aging, and feminist theory." -- Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons * Poetics Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1x Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings 1 Crip Theory 1 Aging and Queer Temporality 5 Aging and the Phallus 13 The Queer Phallus 20 Anecdotal Theory 25 1. High Heels and Wheelchairs 31 The Story 31 The Ending 36 City Sidewalks 40 Feminism and High Heels 46 Gender and Disability 52 The Phallus in the Wheelchair 58 The Ending (Reprise) 64 2. Post-prostate Sex 67 The Story 67 Strange Temporalities 74 Pre-cum and the Coital Imperative 81 Resisting the Coital Imperative 92 Longitudinal Sexuality 95 Conclusion 103 The Phallus and Its Temporalities 103 Longitudinal Identities 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 127 Index 133
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Duke University Press Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies
Book SynopsisBeginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema began to display forms of sexuality that were no longer strictly associated with domesticity nor limited to heterosexual relations between loving couples. Women’s bodies and queer sexualities became intensely charged figures of political contestation, aspiration, and allegory, central to new ways of imagining sexuality and to new liberal understandings of individual freedom and social responsibility. In Making Sex Public Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of two conflicting narratives: on the one hand, a new model of sex as harmoniously integrated into civic existence; on the other, an idea of women’s and queer sexuality as corrosive to the very fabric of social life. Taking a transatlantic perspective from the late ''50s through the present, from And God Created Woman and Barbarella to Cruising and Shortbus,Trade Review"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages." -- Guy Davidson * Continuum *"Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible." -- Ricky Varghese * Public *"Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed." -- Nick Davis * GLQ *"Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex." -- Sam Hunter * Film & History *"Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies." -- Haley Hvdson * Synoptique *"[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies." -- Nick Rees-Roberts * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Sex Public 1 Part I. Women 1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject 21 2. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex 54 Part II. Criminals 3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil 95 4. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract 122 Part III. Citizens 5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy 159 6. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus 187 Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality 215 Notes 239 Bibliography 279 Index 295
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Duke University Press Medicine Stories
Book SynopsisIn this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together the insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice, bringing clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.Trade Review"Morales’s book is an excellent tool for understanding some of the dynamics of social justice movements and should be part of activists’ survival kits against despair." -- Nylca J. Muñoz Sosa * Monthly Review *“Perhaps the most directly significant contribution of Medicine Stories...is Levins Morales’s framing of oppression as the most widespread and systematically reproduced source of trauma.... Medicine Stories maps the intimate and collective pathways of survival that communities and individuals find in the face of violence and injustice....” -- Corinne Lajoie * Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies *Table of ContentsLibation v The Ground on Which I Stand Ecology Is Everything 3 Bigger Is Better 10 My Feminism 18 Identity and Solidarity 34 The Power of Story 42 The Truths Our Bodies Tell 47 The Historian as Curandera False Memories: Trauma and Liberation 55 The Historian as Curandera 69 Night Flying: Power, Memory, and Magic 89 What Race Isn't: Teaching about Racism 95 Raícism: Rootedness as Spiritual and Political Practice 99 The Politics of Childhood 104 Speaking in Tongues On Not Writing English 111 Forked Tongues: On Not Speaking Spanish 115 Certified Organic Intellectual 121 Ban Me! 127 Tribes The Tribe of Guarayamín 133 Taíno Citizenship 140 Speaking of Antisemitism 145 BDS and Me 154 Puerto Ricans and Jews 157 Privilege and Loss Class, Privilege, and Loss 175 Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism 179 Torturers 192 Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn't Write This Essay 197 The Long Haul Building Radical Soil 207 Circle Unbroken: The Politics of Inclusion 211 Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon, 5778/2017 217 A Note From the Author 223 Index 225
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Duke University Press Feeling Like a State
Book SynopsisDavina Cooper explores the unexpected contribution a legal drama of withdrawalas exemplified by some conservative Christians who deny people inclusion, goods, and services to LGBTQ individualsmight make to conceptualizing a more socially just, participative state.Trade Review“This is a dream of a book. Feeling Like a State explores a daring possibility: Might legal dramas over Christian refusals (to bake cakes, provide contraception coverage with health care, issue marriage licenses, allow for gay Scout leaders, subscribe to secularist tolerance demands, and so on) offer progressives instructive lessons about withdrawal, attachment, desire, membership, commoning, care, and play? Drawing on law, sociology, and philosophy as well as political, feminist, affect, and queer theory, Davina Cooper's work is broad, brilliant, audacious, careful, and, importantly, prefigurative, marking the ways in which we already ‘inhabit, repurpose, resist the still and mobile parts of institutional life.’” -- Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, Brown University“With its checkered history of unmatched power, the state has been both a vehicle of oppression as well as justice. Feeling Like A State imagines transformative progressive ways the state can be, inspiring movement toward a more responsible, ecologically collaborative world. A beautifully written, brilliant contribution beyond utopian fictions that explores practical real-life experiments in governing as a way of rethinking government and states. This book must be read if we are to move past the current crises in any durable and just manner.” -- Susan S. Silbey, coauthor of * The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life *“Feeling Like a State makes a strong argument for why states don’t function the way that we imagine them to.... [It is] rich in details, not just about what is wrong with the world but also about what can be done." -- James Martel * Political Theory *“At a time when neoliberal states are relocating governmental responsibilities onto individuals or to their chums in private companies to make profits, [Feeling Like a State] asks us to look forwards, to a concept of the state, even if provisional, which is relational, caring, and feeling and has social justice at its heart.” -- Morag McDermont * Review of Politics *“In Feeling Like a State, Cooper forges a strong case for the continuing conceptual (and even material) value of the state.... Although Cooper stops short of offering an alternative vision of public governance, her optimistic account of state potentiality for a progressive politics is one of the most cogent of those available.” -- Rebecca Peach * Representation *“Feeling Like a State asks us to exercise our own capacity for imagination, challenging us to envision a state that not only acts but is otherwise.” -- Méadhbh McIvor * Journal of Contemporary Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Reimagining the State 1 1. Legal Dramas of Refusal 28 2. Retrieving Dissident State Parts 52 3. Pluralizing a Concept 75 4. State Play and Possessive Beliefs 105 5. The Erotic Life of States 130 6. Feeling Like a Different Kind of State 153 Notes 177 References 225 Index 253
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Duke University Press Feeling Like a State
Book SynopsisDavina Cooper explores the unexpected contribution a legal drama of withdrawalas exemplified by some conservative Christians who deny people inclusion, goods, and services to LGBTQ individualsmight make to conceptualizing a more socially just, participative state.Trade Review“This is a dream of a book. Feeling Like a State explores a daring possibility: Might legal dramas over Christian refusals (to bake cakes, provide contraception coverage with health care, issue marriage licenses, allow for gay Scout leaders, subscribe to secularist tolerance demands, and so on) offer progressives instructive lessons about withdrawal, attachment, desire, membership, commoning, care, and play? Drawing on law, sociology, and philosophy as well as political, feminist, affect, and queer theory, Davina Cooper's work is broad, brilliant, audacious, careful, and, importantly, prefigurative, marking the ways in which we already ‘inhabit, repurpose, resist the still and mobile parts of institutional life.’” -- Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, Brown University“With its checkered history of unmatched power, the state has been both a vehicle of oppression as well as justice. Feeling Like A State imagines transformative progressive ways the state can be, inspiring movement toward a more responsible, ecologically collaborative world. A beautifully written, brilliant contribution beyond utopian fictions that explores practical real-life experiments in governing as a way of rethinking government and states. This book must be read if we are to move past the current crises in any durable and just manner.” -- Susan S. Silbey, coauthor of * The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life *“Feeling Like a State makes a strong argument for why states don’t function the way that we imagine them to.... [It is] rich in details, not just about what is wrong with the world but also about what can be done." -- James Martel * Political Theory *“At a time when neoliberal states are relocating governmental responsibilities onto individuals or to their chums in private companies to make profits, [Feeling Like a State] asks us to look forwards, to a concept of the state, even if provisional, which is relational, caring, and feeling and has social justice at its heart.” -- Morag McDermont * Review of Politics *“In Feeling Like a State, Cooper forges a strong case for the continuing conceptual (and even material) value of the state.... Although Cooper stops short of offering an alternative vision of public governance, her optimistic account of state potentiality for a progressive politics is one of the most cogent of those available.” -- Rebecca Peach * Representation *“Feeling Like a State asks us to exercise our own capacity for imagination, challenging us to envision a state that not only acts but is otherwise.” -- Méadhbh McIvor * Journal of Contemporary Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Reimagining the State 1 1. Legal Dramas of Refusal 28 2. Retrieving Dissident State Parts 52 3. Pluralizing a Concept 75 4. State Play and Possessive Beliefs 105 5. The Erotic Life of States 130 6. Feeling Like a Different Kind of State 153 Notes 177 References 225 Index 253
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Duke University Press Trans Political Economy
Book SynopsisThis issue ofTSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Trans-Political Economy, edited by Dan Irving and Vek Lewis, addresses how capitalism differentially and unequally affects trans and sex/gender-diverse people across the globe. We all, from our different social and political locations, become implicated in those architectures through our everyday interactions with a variety of coordinated and contradictory institutions and rationalities that order our lives across different local and global geopolitical spaces and scales, write Lewis and Irving. The editors of and contributors to this issue reveal how the narrowly constructed objects of trans studies and political economy (such as gender, labor, class, and economy) have been complicit in the necropolitical devaluation of trans lives and existing strategies crafted for trans survival. Topics include trans visibility and commodity culture; trans credit reporting; the growing population of T-girls, trans women truckers; trans street-based s
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Duke University Press Atmospheres of Violence
Book SynopsisEric A. Stanley examines the forms of violence levied against trans/queer and gender nonconforming people in the United States and shows how, despite the advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past, forms of anti-trans/queer violence is central to liberal democracy and state power.Trade Review“Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence animates trans/queer, young queer, and racially dominated lives never quite stamped out by a brittle white supremacist egosystem. Written with tenderness and passionate thunder, the book's brilliant storytelling circulates grief and hope for the governed who remain alive and ungovernable. Throughout, Stanley offers vital pedagogies of truancy and wicked survival for potential collective life.” -- Lauren Berlant, author of * Cruel Optimism *“Atmospheres of Violence offers a generous and generative reminder that queer and trans lives have always been bigger and more brilliant than the deadly state that tries to frighten and cajole us. Out of a devastating archive, Eric A. Stanley's queer and trans stories rise beyond assimilation, honoring our gorgeous survival and refusals as resistance.” -- Tourmaline, artist, activist, and writer"A must read for those interested in dismantling systems of oppression and in trans/queer liberation. Essential. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- A. N. Weiss * Choice *"A remarkable contribution to queer theory, an imperative analytic for abolitionist praxis, and a poignanttestament to enduring the present world in service of destroying the present world, Atmospheres of Violence is a vital text for those who look, labor, and long for livable lives on the horizon." -- Kerry Keith * Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association *"Atmospheres of Violence exposes the violent ruse of settling for equality within nested systems bent on widespread immiseration, precarity, and violence, and intricately theorizes near life as a space of inventive resistance, a lab for existential experiments in ungovernability." -- Hil Malatino * GLQ *"Atmospheres demands we recognize that a way out of shitholes of the here, now and forever require attention to the breaks and clefts where collective possibility of being together, unconfined, rageful, might give us a kind of shape of impossibility-- one where we might better carve out a life-giving world in the cinders of a colonial humanity." -- Ren-yo Hwang * Society and Space *"I am humbled by—or rather, humble before (because knowing their previous work, I certainly didn’t enter it with selfproud expectation, rather an interest in learning with)—Stanley’s clear-eyed determination to not only reevaluate the queer/trans station within/for and without the immanently violent social." -- Mel Y. Chen * Society and Space *Table of ContentsReading with Care ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: River of Sorrow 1 1. Near Life: Overkill and Ontological Capture 21 2. Necrocapital: Blood's General Strike 41 3. Clocked: Surveillance, Opacity, and the Image of Force 67 4. Death Drop: Becoming the Universe at the End of the World 92 Coda: Becoming Ungovernable 114 Notes 125 Bibliography 161 Index 177
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New York University Press Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State
Book SynopsisA rich set of feminist perspectives on the varied and often contradictory nature of state practices, structures, and ideologies Growing socio-economic inequality and exclusion are defining features of the twenty-first century. While debates on globalization, free trade, and economic development have been linked to the paradigm of neo-liberalism, it does not explain all the forms of social change that have been unfolding in comparative contexts. Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State provides a timely intervention into discussions about the boundaries, practices, and nature of the post-liberalization state, suggesting that an understanding of economic policies, the corresponding rise of socio-economic inequality, and the possibilities for change requires an in-depth reconceptualization. Drawing on original field research both globally and within the United States, this volume brings together a rich set of perspectives on the varied and often contradictory nature of state practices, stTrade ReviewScholars of feminist theory and politics will find in this collection some very interesting ... detailed case studies of particular configurations of state power in specific contexts and countries. -- Hypatia
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New York University Press Beyond Monogamy
Book SynopsisA man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man's best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why is there such a strong cultural taboo against this kind of triangulation and what does it reveal about the social organization of gender and sexuality? In Beyond Monogamy, Mimi Schippers asks these and other questions to explore compulsory monogamy as a central feature of sexual normalcy. Schippers argues that compulsory monogamy promotes the monogamous couple as the only legitimate, natural, or desirable relationship form in ways that support and legitimize gender, race, and sexual inequalities. Through an investigation of sexual interactions and relationship forms that include more than two people, from polyamory, to threesomes, to the complexity of the down-low,' Schippers explores the queer,Trade ReviewBeyond Monogamyis a book that should be read cover to cover if at all possible. * American Journal of Sociology *In this book, Mimi Schippers takes feminist scholars of sexuality to task for failing to theorize compulsory monogamy as a regime of normalcy that enforces gendered, raced, and classed inequalities. Exploring polyqueer sexual practices in film, writing, and her own life, Schippers provides a vivid illustration of the importance of expanding our understandings of sexual and romantic relationships. -- C. J. Pascoe,author of Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High SchoolThis book is a must read for anyone interested in sexuality and intersectionality. Schippers examines the racialized and gendered backdrop against which heterosexuality and monogamy play out in contemporary US culture. Going beyond the individual focus common in much discussion of polyamory, Beyond Monogamy examines the potential collective impacts of non-monogamies and exposes how hetero-masculinity and mono-normativity are socially constructed and far from inevitable. -- Elisabeth Sheff,author of The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families
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New York University Press Men at Risk
Book SynopsisPresents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health researchAlthough the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV infections worldwide are now estimated to occur through sex between women and men. In Men at Risk, Shari L. Dworkin argues that the centrality of heterosexual relationship dynamics to the transmission of HIV means that both women and men need to be taken into account in gender-specific HIV/AIDS prevention interventions. She looks at the costs of masculinity that shape men's HIV risks, such as their initiation of sex and their increased status from sex with multiple partners.Engaging with the common paradigm in HIV research that portrays only womenand not heterosexually active menas being vulnerable to HIV, Dworkin examines the gaps in public health knowledge that result in substandard treatment for HIV transmission and infection among heterosexual men both domestically aTrade ReviewMen at Risk offers an incisive critique of several decades of HIV prevention programming that has largely rendered heterosexually-active men invisible to public health knowledge and practice.It wrestles candidly with the many conceptual, methodological, and political dilemmas of feminist work on masculinities.But, it also points to important successes and opportunities in gender-transformative and intersectional work with men and boys. Dworkins account of this terrain is thoroughgoing and expert, but also forceful and politically clear-eyed. -- Christopher J. Colvin,Senior Researcher in HIV/AIDS at the University of Cape Town, South AfricaA timely and evocative contribution to the growing literature globally on masculinity and HIV prevention. With a focus firmly on heterosexual mens practices and experiences, Men at Risk fills a major gap.A & must read for scholars of gender and sexuality in relation to HIV, and a valuable resource to inspire policy makers and program developers. -- Peter Aggleton,author of Education, Vulnerability, and HIV/AIDS
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New York University Press Old Futures
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital mediaOld Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian shows how queer possibilities emerge when we practice the art of speculation: of imagining things otherwise than they are and creating stories from that impulse. Queer theory offers creative ways to think about time, breaking with straight and narrow paths toward the future laid out for the reproductive family, the law-abiding citizen, and the believer in markets. Yet so far it has rarely considered the possibility that, instead of a queer present reshaping the ways we rTrade ReviewAmassing an impressive and eclectic archive of utopian and dystopian writings under the fantastic heading of Old Futures, Alexis Lothian offers the most detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of Queer, Black, and feminist speculative fictions to date. Offering an array of futures, non-futures, un-futures, and no futures, this book shows us the precarious foundations upon which our own sense of the present sits. Lothians book is a marvel and will, I promise, never get old. -- Jack Halberstam,author of In A Queer Time and PlaceLothian's central concept of old futuresthe cast-off remains of speculations pastis both entertaining fodder and theoretically rich terrain for making queer theory new again. Theres something wonderfully bold about the books willingness to let & the future become concrete by turning to its many past versions, bringing them to light as commentary on where we are, and are not, now. -- Elizabeth Freeman,author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer HistoriesLothian does something else entirely and opens up a new vantage point on the future by looking at it sideways, from outside its own timeline. That vantage point allows her (and us) to see the continuities, to see the way the leftover stuff of the past’s futures persists in and enlivens our present. * Science Fiction Studies *Lothian's insistence that many speculative texts contain both liberating queer images and unsettling normative messages is one of the strongest aspects of Old Futures . . .a book that is filled with unexpected yet crucial connections. -- Melanie E.S. Kohnen, * Transformative Works and Cultures *Through thoughtful analysis of a number of speculative stories from the last hundred years or so, Old Futures offers a solid contribution to both geek and queer studies. Lothian asks what we can learn from women, people of color, and queer-identifying people when they imagine futures for themselves free of oppression. * The Geek Anthropologist *It would be easy for Old Futures to feel scattered, covering as it does a century’s worth of source material, three different forms of media, and theory ranging from traditional SF criticism to fan studies. Yet somehow Lothian not only pulls it off, but makes it seem effortless. * SFRA Review *Overall, Lothian has constructed an admirable volume that I have already begun recommending to colleagues. This is her first book, and it bodes well; I look forward to seeing what Lothian does next. * SFRA Review *
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New York University Press Cruising Utopia 10th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisA 10th anniversary edition of this field defining workan intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.On the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of Cruising Utopia, as well as a new foreword by the current editors of Sexual Cultures, the book series he co-founded with Ann Pellegrini 20 years ago. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting impact that Cruising Utopia has had on the decade of queer of color critique that followed and introducesTrade ReviewBrilliant, extraordinary, and necessary, Muñoz’s critical refusal of queer pragmatism, his commitment to the utopian force of the radical attempt—the radical aesthetic, erotic, and philosophical experiment—is indispensable in an historical moment characterized by political surrender and intellectual timidity passing itself off as boldness. -- Fred Moten, author of In the BreakGay liberation's activist past and pragmatic present are merely prologue to a queer cultural future, Muñoz suggests in this critical condemnation of the political status quo. Casting his vision of a radical gay aesthetic through the prisms of literature, photography and performance, the author dismisses commonplace concerns like same-sex marriage as desires for "mere inclusion" in a "corrupt" mainstream. More defiantly, he exalts the persistence of commercial sex spaces in the face of ‘antisex and homphobic policings,’ and celebrates the overlay of punk and queer in performance spaces. * Publishers Weekly *
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New York University Press Contesting Intersex
Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological AssociationA personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communitiesWhen sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to protect the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth. Davis' experience is not unusual. Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the male/female sex binary which have historically led to secrecy anTrade ReviewDavis presents a compelling and beautifully-crafted text about the complex issues of gender and sexual identity. How medicine and diagnosis can either come in aid of, or brutally disrupt the experience of intersexuality is an important paradox, worthy of reflection and debate. With this book, Davis gets the ball rolling and demands our attention. It is well-worth the read. -- Annemarie Jutel,author of Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary SocietyThrough piercing interviews and astute analysis, and in a readable style, Contesting Intersex gets at the heart of recent controversies about the medical management of intersex and perceptively tracks the political engagement of intersex activists. -- Elizabeth Reis,author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of IntersexWith refreshingly honest prose and an insider's insight, Georgiann Davis illuminates the ongoing, heated, and often painful debate about how best to respond to the naturally occurring diversity of sex development in human beings. This is groundbreaking work that is sure to become required reading for scholars of gender and the social history of medicine. -- Sharon Preves,author of Intersex and Identity: The Contested SelfThe histories of medicine, social movements, and gender productivity collide in sociologist Daviss compelling account of how activists, parents, assorted medical specialists and institutions, and people with intersex traits respond to the diversity of human reproductive development...[T]his book will inspire and inform the wide readership it deserves. * Choice *Davis provides her readers with a concise overview of her research as well as lists calls to action. Daviss strengths lie in the seamless blending of research, ethnography, interviews, and personal activism. * American Book Review *Contesting Intersexis an essential update to studies of the intersex and a must-read for those interested in social movements, gender, medicalization, diagnosis, and the relationship between science and culture. * American Journal of Sociology *Contesting Intersex is an unapologetic coalescence of Davis first-hand experiences of an intersex diagnosis and her academic inquiry into the topic. Whilst this, as she acknowledges, & may make the book read like an autoethnography at certain points, theory, politics and practice have never been discrete in intersex studies. Daviss own history and current participation in the intersex community help her to provide a circumspect consideration of the tensions at play. * Sociology of Health & Illness *Table of Contentsvii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: "You're in the Monkey Cage with Me" 1 2. The Transformation of Intersex Advocacy 26 3. Medical Jurisdiction and the Intersex Body 55 4. The Power in a Name 87 5. A Different Kind of Information 116 6. Conclusion: The Dubious Diagnosis 145 Appendix A: Table of Research Participants 171 Appendix B: Conference Agenda 173 Notes 179 References 191 Index 209 About the Author 221
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New York University Press Transforming Citizenships
Book SynopsisTransforming Citizenships engages the performativity of citizenship as it relates to transgender individuals and advocacy groups. Instead of reading the law as a set of self-executing discourses, Isaac West takes up transgender rights claims as performative productions of complex legal subjectivities capable of queering accepted understandings of genders, sexualities, and the normative forces of the law.Drawing on an expansive archive, from the correspondence of a transwoman arrested for using a public bathroom in Los Angeles in 1954 to contemporary lobbying efforts of national transgender advocacy organizations, West advances a rethinking of law as capacious rhetorics of citizenship, justice, equality, and freedom. When approached from this perspective, citizenship can be recuperated from its status as the bad object of queer politics to better understand how legal discourses open up sites for identification across identity categories and enable political activities that escaTrade ReviewChallenging critiques of the LGBTQ rights movement that portray it as an assimilationist, uncritical adoption of heterosexual norms,Transforming Citizenshipsoffers a robust account of transgender citizenship claims and their world-making potentials. In conceptualizing the law not as an abstraction but as enacted in everyday articulations beyond the courtroom, West compellingly shows how transformative different sorts of legal engagements might be. -- Paisley Currah,co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies QuarterlyInTransforming Citizenships, IsaacWestoffers a bold 'impure politics,' a new vision for queer understandings of the law, the way law operates in culture, and perhaps most importantly, the ways critics can make the discourse around it more effective. In his performance of each of these detailed case studies,Westoffers examples of how a rich community of criticism focused on the law can help reshape the conditions of the present and future. -- John M. Sloop,Vanderbilt UniversityWest uses the lens of transgender to show how citizenship can be performatively produced. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Transgender Citizenships 1. Performative Repertoires of Citizenship 2. PISSAR's Critically Queer and Disabled Politics 3. INTRAAventions in the Heartland 4. GENDA Trouble 5. In Defense of an Impure Transgender Politics Notes Index About the Author
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New York University Press Critical Trauma Studies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe articles provide us with thought-provoking insights into social and cultural aspects of personal experiences of trauma. * Qualitative Sociology *
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New York University Press Women Doing Life
Book SynopsisThe carceral experiences of women serving life sentences. 2017 Michigan Notable Book Selection presented by The Detroit Free PressHow do women mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces and grandmothers make sense of judgment to a lifetime behind bars? In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert presents a typology of the ways that life-sentenced women grow and self-actualize, resist prison definitions, reflect on and own their criminal acts, and ultimately create meaningful lives behind prison walls. Looking beyond the explosive headlines that often characterize these women as monsters, Lempert offers rare insight into this vulnerable, little studied population. Her gendered analysis considers the ways that women do crime differently than men and how they have qualitatively different experiences of imprisonment than their male counterparts. Through in-depth interviews with 72 women serving life sentences in Michigan, Lempert brings these women back into the public arena, drawing analytical attentiTrade Review"Women Doing Lifeis an outstanding piece of work that unapologetically showcases an understudiedgroup within our criminal justice system by mixing together the voice of feminist criminology, crime statistics, and powerful stories of self-reform, despair, injustice, courage, and hope." * Journal of Family Strengths *"Lempert shines a spotlight on the experiences of 72 women serving life sentences in Michigan. Through in-depth interviews, she brings these marginalized women back into the center of the public arena, drawing attention to their complicated, contradictory and compelling lives." * Detroit Free Press *"Showing readers the order and meaning that women wring from the chaosdaily and over a lifetime of incarcerationis a tremendous and moving accomplishment." * American Journal of Sociology *"Lora Lempert has written about the tragic failure of our penal system, but at the same time about the heroic way women who are incarcerated survive it. If you are looking for stories of courage and pride among people who society would like to forget, this book is a compelling archive." -- Todd R. Clear,co-author of The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration"You will not be able to put this book down. Lempert intersperses the active voices of women serving life with the personal and social forces that lead them to prison. She challenges the many stereotypes of women serving life without possibility of parole. And she clarifies the different ways the women create new, positive definitions of self within the corrosive environment of life in prison. Your students will be well served by considering the experiences of the women and will be challenged by Lempert's interpretation of the ethnographic data." -- Natalie J. Sokoloff,co-editor of The Criminal Justice System and Women"Lemperts aim was to expose the invisible lives of women incarcerated for life. She tells their stories with empathy and an awareness of needs for reform. She masterfully accomplished her aim." * Sex Roles *"Lemperts work is a singular and important intervention in in incarceration studies." * Women’s Review of Books *
£23.74
New York University Press Transgressed
Book SynopsisTransgender survivors of violence tell their stories Transgender people face some of the highest rates of violence in the US and around the world, particularly within romantic relationships. In Transgressed, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz offers a ground-breaking examination of intimate partner violence in the lives of transgender people. Drawing on interviews and written accounts from transgender survivors of intimate partner violence, he sheds much-needed light on the dynamics of abuse that entrap trans partners in violent relationships. Transgressed shows how rigidly gendered discussions of violence have served to marginalize and silence stories of abuse. Ultimately, these stories of survival follow their unique journeys as they navigateand break freefrom the cycle of abuse, providing us with a better understanding of their experiences. An emotionally compelling read, Transgressed offers new ways of understanding the complexities of intimate partner violence through the eyes of transgendeTrade Review"Transgressed fills a major gap in the extant literature on intimate partner violence. Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz's offering is a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, and it is destined to become a classic piece of scholarship that does much to advance queer criminology." -- Walter DeKeseredy, author of Abusive Endings: Separation and Divorce Violence Against Women"Transgressed is a brave book. Guadalupe-Diaz takes the necessary, critically important first step in bringing intimate partner violence against transgender people into the research spotlight. But braver still are the transmen and transwomen who dared to share their stories and whose voices will resonate with readers long after they have finished this book." -- Claire M. Renzetti, author of Feminist Criminology"Guadalupe-Diaz fills an important gap in the literature on intimate partner violence in the trans community. This study is the only book on the market that specifically focuses on the ways in which IPV is experienced when trans individuals are the victims/survivors… a must read for students and scholars of IPV or LGBTQ studies as well as anyone interested in these subjects." * Choice *
£19.79
New York University Press Surviving State Terror
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Through the connecting thread of the body and embodiment, Sutton delivers a complex, creative, and powerful analysis of gender-based violence in Argentinas clandestine detention centers. The author masterfully reveals intersections of state terror and gender ideologies with clear relevance across space and time. A must read" -- Cecilia Menjívar,Author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala"Torture survivors are witnesses. Many people do not want to hear their voices. Barbara Sutton has listened to scores of Argentinian women who survived to detail the misogynist lengths to which a military junta will go to stay in power. Sutton reveals how our listening to these women is crucial for sustainable democracy." -- Cynthia Enloe,Author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy"How history is told is political. Who tells it is political. How the voices of those telling it are portrayed is political. Barbara Sutton makes clear choices in this powerful book to bring forward the voices of powerful women. Yes, women who have been tortured in ways that are unfathomable, and still their stories reveal their power." * Marina Sitrin, NACLA Report on the Americas *"Sutton’s work is both timely and pressing, illuminating how state violence is not simply a matter of perpetrators and victims but is connected to persistent discourses and practices of violence aimed at turning captive people into humiliated, objectified, and sexualized bodies, stripped of identity and rights. What is at stake are lessons ... that move between the past and the present and across geographical boundaries to connect gender discourse to materiality, survival to resistance, and embodied memories from survivors to memories about the body that are culturally produced." * Jennifer Earles, Gender & Society *"By amplifying the voices of women who endured state violence in Argentina, Sutton demonstrates the social dimensions of collective memory, the archive, and the capacities of societies to attend closely to a range of voices who have been targeted for state violence. The significance of excavating such narratives is underscored by both the parallels of state violence to the many forms of gendered violence women face daily and the impunity many torturers and state officials continue to enjoy in the aftermath of state violence. … Sutton powerfully demonstrates that state violence is at once the exception and, at the same time, is the rule." * Amina Zarrugh, Sociological Inquiry *"[B]y accessing these voices the archive in question plays an important role through which testimonies are not only stored, but are performed. In opening the potentially ‘inert’ archive, Sutton’s work is relevant for those beyond Argentina, and indeed Latin America, who are interested in violence, testimony and women’s resistance, and in the connection between sexual and political violence and resistance." * Cara Levey, Oral History *"The last military regime in Argentina (1976–1983) ended over 35 years ago. Yet, like many countries that have gone through periods of gross human rights violations under authoritarian regimes, the country still struggles with how to remember what happened and ensure that it never happens again. Barbara Sutton’s book Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina makes an important contribution to these scholarly and practical efforts toward transitional justice and collective memory." * Michelle D. Bonner, Contemporary Sociology *"Surviving State Terror nos conecta con unas utopías que son quizás más frágiles y precarias que las que conformaban el horizonte político de futuro de los setentas. Pero son utopías que se toman en serio la derrota, el dolor y la pérdida. En un momento político que invita constantemente al optimismo banal o al pesimismo rotundo, resulta profundamente esperanzador leer un libro que no le teme a la palabra utopía y que establece una relación crítica con el pasado para ayudarnos a imaginar que, a pesar de todo, el presente no está clausurado." * Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Corpus *"Las historias que Bárbara Sutton despliega con detalle y sutileza en su libro no cuentan circunstancias individuales, 'aunque individuos remarcables emergen de la historia de las luchas por los derechos humanos', sino que en su ejemplaridad establecen legados activistas que nos permiten 'imaginar de otro modo' formas de solidaridad para continuar el trabajo de fortalecer la memoria y buscar la verdad y la justicia para las futuras generaciones." * Claudia Bacci, Revista Transas *"En efecto, la potencia interpretativa (y, fundamentalmente, política) de este libro no se anuda solo en la audaz y cuidadosa recuperación de esas voces, otrora vulneradas y silenciadas, sino también, y fundamentalmente, a su advertencia precisa y contundente sobre los modos aún vigentes de sometimiento de este y otros grupos que han sido y continúan siendo social, cultural y políticamente vulnerados." * Julieta Lampasona, Clepsidra *
£27.54
New York University Press Transgressed
Book SynopsisTransgender survivors of violence tell their stories Transgender people face some of the highest rates of violence in the US and around the world, particularly within romantic relationships. In Transgressed, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz offers a ground-breaking examination of intimate partner violence in the lives of transgender people. Drawing on interviews and written accounts from transgender survivors of intimate partner violence, he sheds much-needed light on the dynamics of abuse that entrap trans partners in violent relationships. Transgressed shows how rigidly gendered discussions of violence have served to marginalize and silence stories of abuse. Ultimately, these stories of survival follow their unique journeys as they navigateand break freefrom the cycle of abuse, providing us with a better understanding of their experiences. An emotionally compelling read, Transgressed offers new ways of understanding the complexities of intimate partner violence through the eyes of transgendeTrade Review"Transgressed fills a major gap in the extant literature on intimate partner violence. Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz's offering is a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, and it is destined to become a classic piece of scholarship that does much to advance queer criminology." -- Walter DeKeseredy, author of Abusive Endings: Separation and Divorce Violence Against Women"Transgressed is a brave book. Guadalupe-Diaz takes the necessary, critically important first step in bringing intimate partner violence against transgender people into the research spotlight. But braver still are the transmen and transwomen who dared to share their stories and whose voices will resonate with readers long after they have finished this book." -- Claire M. Renzetti, author of Feminist Criminology"Guadalupe-Diaz fills an important gap in the literature on intimate partner violence in the trans community. This study is the only book on the market that specifically focuses on the ways in which IPV is experienced when trans individuals are the victims/survivors… a must read for students and scholars of IPV or LGBTQ studies as well as anyone interested in these subjects." * Choice *
£66.60
New York University Press Trans Medicine
Book Synopsis**Finalist, PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine**A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to treat gender identity today. Drawing on interviews with medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research, shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who seek gender-affirming care. From genital reconstructions to hormone injections, the practice of trans medicine charts new medical ground, compelling medical professionals to plan treatments without widescale clinical trials to back them up. Relying on cultural norms and gut instincts to inform their treatment plans, shuster shows how medical providers' lack of clinical experience and scientific research underminesTrade Review"Trans Medicine is a brilliant study of how the context of scientific uncertainty shapes the ways medical professionals work with trans people. While appreciating the dilemmas facing doctors, shuster holds them accountable for upholding normative understandings of gender essentialism. This beautifully rendered story of medical improvisation and the search for professional credibility will be of great interest to readers of transgender studies, medical sociology, and the sociology of knowledge." -- Arlene Stein, author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity"Trans Medicine is original, empirically rich, and beautifully written. shuster masterfully integrates a wide range of data with a nuanced theoretical story of power, control, and medical regulation. This is truly an urgently needed study that is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of gender, sexuality, bodies and embodiment, and healthcare." -- Georgiann Davis, author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis"A powerful examination of the history and present of medical providers seeking to 'treat gender.' Demonstrating how uncertainty unsettles the relationship between expertise, evidence, and clinical decision-making, Trans Medicine illuminates the path to a more inclusive, gender-affirming health care system." -- Rene Almeling, author of GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health"shuster...expertly documents how the medical field as often failed trans patients...[Trans Medicine] successfully makes the case that trans medicine should be part of the medical training of all physicians…This well-researched book is eminently readable and, in fact, quite a page-turner. It is an essential story, one that is not yet complete, as shuster acknowledges. A must-read." * Library Journal *"Trans Medicine is remarkable for the way in which shuster captures health care providers speaking and acting with exceptional candor about what they think and feel about working with trans populations." -- Danya Lagos - University of California, Berkeley * American Journal of Sociology *"Overall, shuster’s book is an engaging exploration of the histories of trans medicine with an emphasis on health care administration and politics…Trans Medicine holds immense value for medical school and continuing education programs and would promote fruitful dialog about inclusive, accountable, and just health care practices." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Sociologist Stef M. Shuster’s Trans Medicine is a unique monograph that combines historical analysis with ethnography." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
£999.99
New York University Press New Desires New Selves
Book SynopsisAs Turkey pushes for its place in the global pecking order and embraces neoliberal capitalism, the nation has seen a period of unprecedented shifts in political, religious, and gender and sexual identities for its citizens. In New Desires, New Selves, Gul Ozyegin shows how this social transformation in Turkey is felt most strongly among its young people, eager to surrender to the seduction of sexual modernity, but also longing to remain attached to traditional social relations, identities and histories. Engaging a wide array of upwardly-mobile young adults at a major Turkish university, Ozyegin links the biographies of individuals with the biography of a nation, revealing their creation of conflicted identities in a country which has existed uneasily between West and East, modern and traditional, and secular and Islamic. For these young people, sexuality, gender expression, and intimate relationships in particular serve as key sites for reproducing and challenging patriarchy and paternTrade ReviewNew Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youthprovides us with an in-depth look into the new selves crafted by upwardly mobile contemporary Turkish youth. * American Journal of Sociology *Ozyegin is most insightful when she brings her subjects to the forefront through numerous quotes and extended vignettes. These are stunning because her subjects voices resonate with honesty and courage. * Gender, Place & Culture *Ozyegins rich analysis is based on theoretical perspectives of gender, sexuality, love, social class, and identity development, which collectively branch out from her feminist framework. * Gender & Society *Ozyegins analysis of identity is intersectional in its approach, as she adeptly shows how kinship relations, notions or tradition, and especially class overlap with and come to shape and be shaped by gender and sexual subjectivities. Her examination of romance and sex as important sites for exercising class privilege and disadvantages is particularly astute. * Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies *InNew Desires, New Selves, Gul Ozyegin[explores] the change in Turkish attitudes toward sex in the early twentieth century [Only] by rooting out effeminacy and degeneration could Turks become masculine, independent, and Western. * New York Review of Books *New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youthby the sociologist Gul Ozyegin is a powerful and timely contribution to the field of gender and sexuality studies. * Women’s Studies International Forum *An original and fascinating account of the ways young adults construct their sexual and gender identities during times of rapid social change, New Desires, New Selves will change the way you think about selfhood and neoliberalism. Focusing on the unique context of contemporary Turkey, Ozyegin expertly shows how highly educated youth strive to become adults who are both autonomous and connected. This rich and nuanced analysis situates the biographies of individual women and men within distinctive family histories as well as the life course of a nation, illuminating pathways of feminine and masculine self-creation that are altogether new but distinctively Turkish. -- Laura Carpenter,author of Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual ExperiencesIn New Desires, New Selves, Gul Ozyegin[explores] the change in Turkish attitudes toward sex in the early twentieth century [Only] by rooting out effeminacy and degeneration could Turks become masculine, independent, and Western. -- Kaya Genç * New York Review of Books *Through sensitive interviews and rich storytelling, Gul Ozyegin shows that we cannot understand young peoples intimate lives in universal wayseither as conforming to traditionally religious sex/gender scripts, or as morphing into modern global neoliberal selves. Instead, Ozyegin paints a picture of young Turkish people today grappling with 'fractured desire' in a rapidly changing and contradictory social context. In this deeply theorized yet lively and accessible text, we see young people re-casting conceptions of masculinity, femininity and romance, while creatively forging selves premised on both sexual autonomy and connection with others. -- Michael A. Messner,co-author of Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against WomenGul Ozyegin has deftly taken up some of the most key issues in contemporary sociology and grounded them in a beautifully written and empirically rich study of an interesting case: Turkish youth talking about their lives and aspirations in the midst of the enormous social, cultural, economic and political changes in modern Turkey. New Desires, New Selves not only compels us to re-think everyday life in Muslim contexts; it forces us to rethink how we conceptualize identity and sexuality in general. -- Kathy Davis,author of Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing WorldTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Virginal Facades 47 Passive Resistance and Class in Lesbian Self-Making: Alev's Story 93 2 Making a New Man: Recognition, Romance, Sex, and Neoliberal Masculinity 107 Vulnerable Masculinity and Self-Transformation: Ali's Story 153 3 New Pious Female Selves: The Feminist "Vein" Within and the Troubling Gender Divide 167 Becoming a Sade Pious Woman in a Secular Society: Aknur's Story 228 4 Desire between "Doing" and "Being": Ibne (Faggot) and Gey (Gay) 243 The Classless Penis 270
£26.59
New York University Press Beyond Trans
Book SynopsisGoes beyond the category of transgender to question the need for gender classificationBeyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion? Heath Fogg Davis offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the world into not just Male and Female categories but even additional categories of Transgender and gender fluid. Davis, himself a transgender man, explores the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters. <Trade ReviewWe will soon be reading books that are truly new, indeed revolutionary, in arguing that the future of gender will be the end of gender binaries altogether.How can future writers debate & essential sex differences when there are more than two sexes, or when some women and men who choose to become the other, and when some people want to be both or neither?Heath Fogg Daviss Beyond Trans: Does gender matter?, one of the first among many that I am sure are in the pipeline, invites readers to question why we care so much about labels and categories on drivers licences, passports and bathroom doors, and in sports and schools. * Times Literary Supplement *Both clear-eyed and eye-opening, Beyond Transchallenges all of usgender-nonconforming and cisgender, trans and gender-conforming, individuals and organizationsto ask ourselves why and how we are using sex classifications, what harm they might be doing, and just how theyre even defining & sex. A provocative and compelling book. -- Joshua Gamson,author of Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to KinshipIn a lively and accessible style, Davis questions the administrative and social practices of labeling individuals sex or gender solely in correspondence with the binary categories of female or male. He challenges the validity of sex-identifying documents and sex-segregated facilities or institutionseven competitive sportsas solutions to privacy, safety, or equality. This is a thought-provoking and highly relevant subject, perfect for todays political and cultural debates. -- Jamison Green,author of Becoming a Visible ManWhyand whenis it important to say whether somebody is a man or a woman? Those are the provocative questions Heath Fogg Davis poses in this informative exploration of gender markers . . . But even more provocative are the questions of how we determine what counts as & man and & woman in the first place, and why we imagine there can be only two genders. This is a great book for students and specialists alike who are interested in the profound transformation of gender we are all experiencing in the early twenty-first century. -- Susan Stryker,co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and author of Transgender HistoryIn another major book about our current gender moment,Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?Heath Fogg Davis, a professor of political science at Temple University and a transgender man, makes the argument that the modern trans rights movement shouldnt be so heavily invested in integrating trans and gender-nonconforming people into our existing gendered institutions. Instead, Davis suggests, we should use the so-called & transgender tipping point to explode our bureaucratic definitions of gender altogether. * BuzzFeed News *In this important and original book, Davis argues that most bureaucracies should get out of the business of administering sex by classifying people as Female or Male. Drawing on a number of case studies, including identity documents, bathroom bills, college admissions, and sex-testing for athletes, Davis shows most policies for sex classification are not rationally related to legitimate government interests. Drawing on a range of literatures and methods, including critical race scholarship, feminist theory, auto-ethnography, and doctrinal legal analysis, Beyond Trans is applied political theory at its best. -- Paisley Currah,co-editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies QuarterlyThis highly recommended work offers clear, real-world discussions of issues facing transgender people, along with practical applications and solutions. * Starred Library Journal *Davis challenges readers to consider why binary sex identity categories are used so pervasively in our everyday lives, and whether such routine categorization is needed . . . The author, a transgender man of color, approaches this topic as both an expert scholar and an individual whose own identity has been subject to hostile scrutiny * Starred Publishers Weekly *Davis argues that current precedent that restricts discriminating against people on the basis of gender could be used to challenge laws or practices that discriminate against people perceived as falling outside the gender binary. More broadly, we can all work toward a change in perspective. Demanding that people conform to stereotypes of masculinity or femininity does everybody harm. So instead of trying to fit more people into societys preexisting categories, we might try rethinking whether we need those categories at all. * Quartz.com *[R]efreshing.Davis situates the struggle for transgender dignity and rights squarely within the larger framework of personal freedom and privacy concerns, and shows how removing institutional barriers to living beyond the gender binary can help everyone live fuller, freer lives. * Reason Magazine *Daviss solution-orientedBeyond Transis a necessary voice in current debates about the administration of sex and transgender identity. From the infamous bathroom bills to cis citizens objection to financing the medical expenses of trans military personnel (the specter of which Donald Trump backhandedly invoked during his transgender ban tweets), to womens colleges determining that sex-segregation and defining the boundaries of womanhood were necessary to a feminist project of education, Daviss book offers applicable solutions and applies the knowledge gained from the positionality of trans, intersex, and non-binary viewpoints. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Reading Beyond Transis like having ones window shades thrown open after arising from a long night of sleep: the sunlight burns the eyes, but it awakens them . . .Beyond Transfeatures accessible, clear prose and direct argumentation. Anyone with an interest in trans rights and the public application of gender theory would benefit from Davis book.Beyond Transis as much a call to remediate the harm done to trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming individuals as it is a plea for good reasoning. * Popmatters.com *Davis's book is the quintessential transgender issue primer. * Plentitude Magazine *Arefreshingly intersectional perspective on sex identity. . .takes a perhaps seemingly singular topic and makes it approachable through passionate and relevant analysis of modern issues. Davis time and again shows the importance of understanding transgender rights as a matter of all rights, and does so in a challenging, memorable, and accessible way. * Foreword Reviews *Davis constantly challenges the value of forcing people to adhere to a binary, successfully arguing that the problems far outweigh the benefits. * BUST.com *Readers may not agree with all of Davis's conclusions, but his method of discerning rational relationships provides a helpful way to create conversations about whether a particular instance of sex segregation is legitimate or problematic. It encourages us to become far more reflective about when and why we believe sex needs to be marked and managed. * Christian Century *
£66.60
New York University Press Surviving State Terror
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThrough the connecting thread of the body and embodiment, Sutton delivers a complex, creative, and powerful analysis of gender-based violence in Argentinas clandestine detention centers. The author masterfully reveals intersections of state terror and gender ideologies with clear relevance across space and time. A must read -- Cecilia Menjívar,Author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in GuatemalaTorture survivors are witnesses. Many people do not want to hear their voices. Barbara Sutton has listened to scores of Argentinian women who survived to detail the misogynist lengths to which a military junta will go to stay in power. Sutton reveals how our listening to these women is crucial for sustainable democracy. -- Cynthia Enloe,Author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of PatriarchyHow history is told is political. Who tells it is political. How the voices of those telling it are portrayed is political. Barbara Sutton makes clear choices in this powerful book to bring forward the voices of powerful women. Yes, women who have been tortured in ways that are unfathomable, and still their stories reveal their power. * Marina Sitrin, NACLA Report on the Americas *Sutton’s work is both timely and pressing, illuminating how state violence is not simply a matter of perpetrators and victims but is connected to persistent discourses and practices of violence aimed at turning captive people into humiliated, objectified, and sexualized bodies, stripped of identity and rights. What is at stake are lessons ... that move between the past and the present and across geographical boundaries to connect gender discourse to materiality, survival to resistance, and embodied memories from survivors to memories about the body that are culturally produced. * Jennifer Earles, Gender & Society *By amplifying the voices of women who endured state violence in Argentina, Sutton demonstrates the social dimensions of collective memory, the archive, and the capacities of societies to attend closely to a range of voices who have been targeted for state violence. The significance of excavating such narratives is underscored by both the parallels of state violence to the many forms of gendered violence women face daily and the impunity many torturers and state officials continue to enjoy in the aftermath of state violence. … Sutton powerfully demonstrates that state violence is at once the exception and, at the same time, is the rule. * Amina Zarrugh, Sociological Inquiry *[B]y accessing these voices the archive in question plays an important role through which testimonies are not only stored, but are performed. In opening the potentially ‘inert’ archive, Sutton’s work is relevant for those beyond Argentina, and indeed Latin America, who are interested in violence, testimony and women’s resistance, and in the connection between sexual and political violence and resistance. * Cara Levey, Oral History *The last military regime in Argentina (1976–1983) ended over 35 years ago. Yet, like many countries that have gone through periods of gross human rights violations under authoritarian regimes, the country still struggles with how to remember what happened and ensure that it never happens again. Barbara Sutton’s book Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina makes an important contribution to these scholarly and practical efforts toward transitional justice and collective memory. * Michelle D. Bonner, Contemporary Sociology *Surviving State Terror nos conecta con unas utopías que son quizás más frágiles y precarias que las que conformaban el horizonte político de futuro de los setentas. Pero son utopías que se toman en serio la derrota, el dolor y la pérdida. En un momento político que invita constantemente al optimismo banal o al pesimismo rotundo, resulta profundamente esperanzador leer un libro que no le teme a la palabra utopía y que establece una relación crítica con el pasado para ayudarnos a imaginar que, a pesar de todo, el presente no está clausurado. * Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Corpus *Las historias que Bárbara Sutton despliega con detalle y sutileza en su libro no cuentan circunstancias individuales, 'aunque individuos remarcables emergen de la historia de las luchas por los derechos humanos', sino que en su ejemplaridad establecen legados activistas que nos permiten 'imaginar de otro modo' formas de solidaridad para continuar el trabajo de fortalecer la memoria y buscar la verdad y la justicia para las futuras generaciones. * Claudia Bacci, Revista Transas *En efecto, la potencia interpretativa (y, fundamentalmente, política) de este libro no se anuda solo en la audaz y cuidadosa recuperación de esas voces, otrora vulneradas y silenciadas, sino también, y fundamentalmente, a su advertencia precisa y contundente sobre los modos aún vigentes de sometimiento de este y otros grupos que han sido y continúan siendo social, cultural y políticamente vulnerados. * Julieta Lampasona, Clepsidra *
£73.80
New York University Press Finding Feminism
Book SynopsisThe contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social changeIn 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled by the wide circulation of the killer's hateful manifesto and his desire to exact revenge upon young women, feminists online and offline around the world clamored for a halt to such acts of misogyny. Despite the widespread belief that feminism is out-of-style or dead, this mobilization of young women fighting against gender oppression was overwhelming. In Finding Feminism, Alison Dahl Crossley analyzes feminist activists at three different U.S. colleges, revealing that feminism is alive on campuses, but is complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. Young feminists are carrying the torch of the movement, despite a climate that is not always receptive to their claims. These feminists are engaged in sociaTrade Review"Crossleys waveless conception of college students feminism stands out as an important analytical achievement. It makes space for imagining colleges as institutional abeyance structures with dynamic developmental properties where college students find and (re)form their notions of feminist thought and action by participating in their collegiate environments." * American Journal of Sociology *"The voices of her interview subjects add much lively description about life as a young feminist at these schools." * Publishers Weekly *"Finding Feminism embraces queer women and argues that feminism does not occur in waves . . . Crossleys concept of waveless feminism very well may help us move beyond the stalled gender revolution." * Curve Magazine *"Dire pronouncements declaring the 'death of feminism' or the 'stalled gender revolution' are popular fare these days. But what these pronouncements almost always lack is systematic data in support of the claim.That's what makes Finding Feminism such a welcome, and unique, contribution to the literature.Based on extensive survey and interview data, Crossley has given us an invaluable and nuanced portrait of the varieties of feminism to be found on today's college campuses." -- Doug McAdam,author of Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America"Finally, we have a book that takes an inside look at the importance of feminism to todays college women. Drawing on the stories of college womens participation in feminist activism in three different regions of the U.S., Finding Feminism shatters the popular myth that feminism is no longer a significant force in the lives of younger women. Impeccably researched, analytically astute, and provocatively written, Crossleys book paints a rich portrait of the myriad forms of feminist activism that college women are using to transform identities, communities, and the gender codes of society. Its findings provide insight into current state of feminism and the social movement processes that explain its persistence." -- Verta Taylor,coauthor of Survival in the Doldrums and the Oxford Handbook of Women’s Activism"Starting with a brief look at some of the facets that make up modern feminism, the book delves into what feminism is to millenials...[A]n enjoyable read." * Foreword Reviews *"Welcome to waveless feminism! As Crossleys study of campus feminism suggests, the river is a better metaphor for how womens movement activism shifts course and encounters turbulence as it moves through historically changing contexts. This book provides examples of innovation and organization that in a rapidly changed political scene will remain timely and helpful." -- Myra Marx Ferree,author of Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
£23.74
New York University Press The Trans Generation
Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 PROSE Award for Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology, presented by the Association of American Publishers A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families Some boys will only wear dresses; some girls refuse to wear dresses; in both cases, as Travers shows in this fascinating account of the lives of transgender kids, these are often more than just wardrobe choices. Travers shows that from very early ages, some at two and three years old, these kids find themselves to be different from the sex category that was assigned to them at birth. How they make their voices heardto their parents and friends, in schools, in public spaces, and through the courtsis the focus of this remarkable and groundbreaking book. Based on interviews with transgender kids, ranging in age from 4 to 20, and their parents, and over five years of research in the US and Canada, The Trans Generation offers a rare look into what it is like to grow up as a trans child. From daTrade Review"Ann Traverss The Trans Generation is an astounding and essential qualitative study that collects heartfelt, honest anecdotes from a variety of transgender children and their parents." * Foreword Reviews *"Given that trans children are subjected to harassment, bullying, and systemic lack of support, theres no better time than now to have this book as a resource." * Bitch Magazine *"Walks readers through challenges that transgender children face in schools, in public spaces, with their parents, and navigating health care...A useful text." * Library Journal *"In this insightful evaluation of the lives of transgender kids, the author closely examines schools, spaces (especially bathrooms and locker rooms), parents, and healthcare. The book is...an important addition to the growing body of transgender literature." * Booklist *"Whether due to a general lack of understanding or consistent misinterpretations of definitions, gender and identity can be challenging topics for many individuals. Travers helps combat this confusion by exploring aspects of gender and identity research that are often perplexing for students. Travers presents an innovative exploration of the experiences of transgender children, offering concrete definitions of terminology and fresh approaches to discussing gender, sex, and identity. To some, these definitions and explanations might seem inconsequential, but they can be invaluable to those less informed about gender research. The text goes beyond simply discussing issues related to gender and children by listing resources for children, parents, lawmakers, and educators as well as providing policy recommendations for healthcare and education professionals … This illuminating text will be an appreciated addition to any library collection, especially those supporting sociology, psychology, gender studies, or criminology and criminal justice programs." * Choice *"Passionate, smart, sensitive, and on-target in its policy recommendations, The Trans Generation is indispensable reading for anybody who wants to understand the gender climate-change our culture is currently experiencing. If you care about a kid who does gender differentlyan estimated 1 in 137 of all people in the US between the ages of 13-17and want them to have the best future possible, then read this book, take it to heart, and start making that future a reality for them today." -- Susan Stryker, Author of Transgender History"By focusing on varying degrees of precariousness in childrens livesprimarily in school and in relation to pathologizing medical discourses and practicesAnn Travers makes a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on trans subjectivity generally, and trans youth in particular.a pleasure to read." -- Jane Ward, Author of Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men"Compassionate and pragmatic, this is the book about trans kids that everyparent, teacher, coach, caregiver, and policymaker needs to read!" -- Heath Fogg Davis, Author of Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?"The book is a far leap from a legacy of scholarship that treats transgender persons as the object of interest, and instead interrogates the social institutions, and agents, that react and respond to them—or that fail to." * Social Forces *
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New York University Press Beyond Monogamy
Book SynopsisA man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man's best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why is there such a strong cultural taboo against this kind of triangulation and what does it reveal about the social organization of gender and sexuality? In Beyond Monogamy, Mimi Schippers asks these and other questions to explore compulsory monogamy as a central feature of sexual normalcy. Schippers argues that compulsory monogamy promotes the monogamous couple as the only legitimate, natural, or desirable relationship form in ways that support and legitimize gender, race, and sexual inequalities. Through an investigation of sexual interactions and relationship forms that include more than two people, from polyamory, to threesomes, to the complexity of the down-low,' Schippers explores the queer,Trade ReviewBeyond Monogamyis a book that should be read cover to cover if at all possible. * American Journal of Sociology *In this book, Mimi Schippers takes feminist scholars of sexuality to task for failing to theorize compulsory monogamy as a regime of normalcy that enforces gendered, raced, and classed inequalities. Exploring polyqueer sexual practices in film, writing, and her own life, Schippers provides a vivid illustration of the importance of expanding our understandings of sexual and romantic relationships. -- C. J. Pascoe,author of Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High SchoolThis book is a must read for anyone interested in sexuality and intersectionality. Schippers examines the racialized and gendered backdrop against which heterosexuality and monogamy play out in contemporary US culture. Going beyond the individual focus common in much discussion of polyamory, Beyond Monogamy examines the potential collective impacts of non-monogamies and exposes how hetero-masculinity and mono-normativity are socially constructed and far from inevitable. -- Elisabeth Sheff,author of The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families
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New York University Press Contesting Intersex
Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological AssociationA personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communitiesWhen sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to protect the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth. Davis' experience is not unusual. Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the male/female sex binary which have historically led to secrecy anTrade ReviewDavis presents a compelling and beautifully-crafted text about the complex issues of gender and sexual identity. How medicine and diagnosis can either come in aid of, or brutally disrupt the experience of intersexuality is an important paradox, worthy of reflection and debate. With this book, Davis gets the ball rolling and demands our attention. It is well-worth the read. -- Annemarie Jutel,author of Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary SocietyThrough piercing interviews and astute analysis, and in a readable style, Contesting Intersex gets at the heart of recent controversies about the medical management of intersex and perceptively tracks the political engagement of intersex activists. -- Elizabeth Reis,author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of IntersexWith refreshingly honest prose and an insider's insight, Georgiann Davis illuminates the ongoing, heated, and often painful debate about how best to respond to the naturally occurring diversity of sex development in human beings. This is groundbreaking work that is sure to become required reading for scholars of gender and the social history of medicine. -- Sharon Preves,author of Intersex and Identity: The Contested SelfThe histories of medicine, social movements, and gender productivity collide in sociologist Daviss compelling account of how activists, parents, assorted medical specialists and institutions, and people with intersex traits respond to the diversity of human reproductive development...[T]his book will inspire and inform the wide readership it deserves. * Choice *Davis provides her readers with a concise overview of her research as well as lists calls to action. Daviss strengths lie in the seamless blending of research, ethnography, interviews, and personal activism. * American Book Review *Contesting Intersexis an essential update to studies of the intersex and a must-read for those interested in social movements, gender, medicalization, diagnosis, and the relationship between science and culture. * American Journal of Sociology *Contesting Intersex is an unapologetic coalescence of Davis first-hand experiences of an intersex diagnosis and her academic inquiry into the topic. Whilst this, as she acknowledges, & may make the book read like an autoethnography at certain points, theory, politics and practice have never been discrete in intersex studies. Daviss own history and current participation in the intersex community help her to provide a circumspect consideration of the tensions at play. * Sociology of Health & Illness *Table of Contentsvii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: "You're in the Monkey Cage with Me" 1 2. The Transformation of Intersex Advocacy 26 3. Medical Jurisdiction and the Intersex Body 55 4. The Power in a Name 87 5. A Different Kind of Information 116 6. Conclusion: The Dubious Diagnosis 145 Appendix A: Table of Research Participants 171 Appendix B: Conference Agenda 173 Notes 179 References 191 Index 209 About the Author 221
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New York University Press Critical Trauma Studies
Book SynopsisTrauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding to this burgeoning field of inquiry. The original essays within this collection cover topics such as female suicide bombers from the Chechen Republic, singing prisoners in Iranian prison camps, sexual assault and survivor advocacy, and families facing the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. As it proceeds, Critical Trauma Studies never loses sight of the way those who study trauma as an academic field, and those who experience, narrate, and remediate trauma as a personal and embodied event, inform one another. Theoretically adventurous and deeplTrade ReviewThe articles provide us with thought-provoking insights into social and cultural aspects of personal experiences of trauma. * Qualitative Sociology *
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University of Toronto Press Sex and the Married Girl
Book SynopsisThis book examines how embodied, heterosexual, married sexual experiences were constructed for, and by, Canadian women in the postwar era.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Breaking Free from the “Nostalgia Trap”: History and the Paradox of Female Sexuality in the Postwar World 2. Embodying Family Values: The Canadian Medical Association Journal and the Creation of the “Mother Body” 3. Sex, Marriage, and the “One Flesh” Body: Married Sexuality in the Anglican, United, and Roman Catholic Denominations 4. Bringing Down Goliath: Oral Histories and the Engagement of Individual Bodies with the Ideal 5. Conclusion: Making Good (Sex) Appendix: Interview Data Bibliography Index
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MY - University of Toronto Press The Italian Novella and Shakespeares Comic
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.Trade Review"Walter’s book is an impressive achievement." -- Rhodri Lewis, Princeton University * Times Literary Supplement *"This thoroughly researched book is both a critical assessment of the connection between the Italian novella and Shakespeare’s comedy and an analysis of Shakespeare’s creation of the female comic character." -- Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University * Renaissance and Reformation *"Melissa Walter’s The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines is useful reading for scholars and students interested in the relationship between Shakespeare’s comedies and the Italian novella tradition. The book is well structured and informed." -- Flavia Palma, University of Verona * Journal of British Studies *"Theoretically engaged and full of insightful readings, this book makes a vital contribution to scholarship […] in the study of Shakespeare and early modern drama in general." -- Pamela Allen Brown, University of Connecticut * Early Modern Women *"Walter deftly analyzes the divestment of women’s power that curtails women’s speech and agency, and foregrounds key moments of resistance wherein women’s voices are heard." -- Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown University * Annali d’italianistica *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Enclosure, Conversation, and Spaces of Authorship 1. Filomena’s Voice and Female Character in Shakespeare’s Early Italianate Comedies 2. Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: The Casket Test and Audience Response in The Merchant of Venice 3. The Trunk in Twelfth Night as Mobility Machine 4. Novellesque Domesticity and Impossible Places in The Merry Wives of Windsor 5. Reforming Civility in Measure for Measure 6. Rewriting the “ladies text”: All’s Well that Ends Well 7. Seeing as Reading and Retelling in Cymbeline Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Canoe and Canvas
Book SynopsisCanoe and Canvas is a close reading of the annual meetings and encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910.Trade Review"An important invitation for paddlers – and other outdoor recreationists – to dig beneath the stories we tell ourselves about where, why, and how we play. We might not like what we find. But it just might be time to start creating new and more equitable narratives." -- Marc Fawcett-Atkinson * Literary Review of Canada *"Canoe and Canvas will provide a useful new tool for nineteenth century historians and teachers looking for a book that demonstrates in one tightly-written package how Victorian culture operated." -- Dale Barbour * Borealia *"Canoes and Canvas is a valuable book and good companion reading for Victorian literature. It rethinks the social history of canoeing in the early ACA and its place in sport, leisure, and tourism." -- Pearl Ann Reichwein, University of Alberta * Network in Canadian History and Environment *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Organizing 3. (Dis)Placing 4. Navigating 5. Governing 6. Domesticating 7. Inhabiting 8. Competing 9. Working 10. Conclusion Appendix: Dates and Locations of the Annual Meetings Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Men Out of Focus
Book SynopsisMen Out of Focus examines how and why the Soviet public came to worry openly about the state of masculinity during the 1950s and 1960s and how a perceived crisis really stood in for broader fears.Trade Review"Men Out of Focus presents a diverse range of films and other cultural materials to provide a snapshot of Soviet cultural history with global implications. Written in a lively style, it is accessible to the general reader, just as the inclusion of numerous translated political cartoons prove quite enjoyable. The specialist, too, will appreciate Dumančić’s heterogeneous selection of films." -- Jess Jensen Mitchell * H-Soz-Kult *"A fascinating piece of work, meticulously researched and detailed, yet thoroughly accessible. While Dumančić’s main source is Soviet cinema, it would be doing this book a great disservice to see it only as a book about men on film. The wide variety of sources taken from different cultural genres and political discourses, the consideration of multiple facets of contemporary Soviet life, and the effort, especially in the final chapter, to situate the Soviet case among developments elsewhere in Europe, means that this is a seminal book which offers a richly textured analysis of Soviet society that goes far beyond the silver screen." -- Claire McCallum, University of Exeter * The Russian Review *“Dumančić combines close textual analysis with corroborating material, including cartoons in the satirical journal, Krokodil, and debates within the Union of Cinematographers. The result is a nuanced and perceptive monograph which offers readers an insight into the gender norms that allowed sexual inequality to thrive." -- Simon Huxtable * Contemporary European History *"Marko Dumančicì’s first book has been much anticipated in Soviet gender history, and it does not disappoint… Men Out of Focus is an excellent contribution to Soviet cultural history and film studies that enriches each of the many fields it touches." -- Erica L. Fraser, Carleton University * Journal of Family History *“Marko Dumančić’s first book has been much anticipated in Soviet gender history, and it does not disappoint. Showing an admirable facility with film studies, gender analysis, cultural methodology, and the dynamic terrain of Soviet history in the two decades after the 1953 death of Joseph Stalin, Dumančić offers a deeply researched and persuasively argued portrait of the Soviet gender order from about 1953 to 1968.” -- Erica L. Fraser, Carleton University * Journal of Family History *“Dumančić is fluent in the social history of the ‘long sixties’ and is to be praised for his focus on popular films, which are quite illuminating in presenting a view of Soviet masculinity different from either Stalinist heroes or the tortured heroes in art films.” -- Denise J. Youngblood, University of Vermont * Women East-West *“Marko Dumančić’s monograph arrives at a most timely moment … The author is to be congratulated also for the sheer range of his sources, from literary texts to the cultural media, from discussions of films to their reception by the Party ideologues and the public, and from academic studies to archival and documentary materials.” -- David Gillespie * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Soviet Men in Need of Saving? 1. What Was Stalinist Masculinity and Why Did It Change? 2. Being a Dad Is Not for Sissies 3. Fathers versus Sons, or, the Great Soviet Family in Trouble 4. The Trouble with Women: Consumerism and the Death of Rugged Masculinity 5. Our Friend the Atom? Science as a Threat to Masculinity 6. De-Heroization and the Pan-European Masculinity Crisis Epilogue: The End of the Long Sixties and the Fate of the Superfluous Man Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Women Power and Political Representation
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on why access to political power remains outside the grasp of most women in Canada and around the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction Roosmarijn de Geus, Erin Tolley, Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Peter John Loewen Part One: Canadian Perspectives on Women in Politics 1. Women’s representation in Canadian federal cabinets 1980-2019 Roosmarijn de Geus and Peter John Loewen 2. Do Women Get Fewer Votes in Ontario Provincial Elections? Semra Sevi, André Blais and Vincent Arel-Bundock 3. News and Political Legitimacy: Gendered Mediation of Canadian Political Leaders Linda Trimble 4. Adversarial politics: Understanding the colonial context of Indigenous women’s political participation in Canada Robyn Bourgeois Part Two: Comparative Perspectives on Women in Politics 5. Missing the Wave? Women Congressional Candidates Who Lost in the 2018 Election Julie Dolan, Paru Shah and Semilla Stripp 6. Black Women’s Hair Matters: The Uneasy Marriage of Electoral Politics (Dis)Respectability Politics Nadia E. Brown 7. Women in the Plenary: Verbal Participation in the Argentine Congress Tiffany D. Barnes and Victoria Beall 8. Women as Party Leaders Diana Z. O’Brien 9. A Question of Ethics? Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Legislatures of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada Tracey Raney and Cheryl Collier Part Three: Responses to Women’s Electoral Underrepresentation 10. Gender Quotas and Beyond: Policy Solutions to Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics Magda Hinojosa, Miki Kittilson and Alexandra M. Williams 11. Quotas, Reserved Seats and Electoral Rules on Women Parliamentarians in Asia Netina Tan 12. Changing Minds. Canadian Perspectives on Gender Quotas and Diversity. Chantal Maillé 13. Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation: Lessons for Canada Susan Franceschet Part Four: New Research Directions 14. Making the Case for Women’s Representation: What, Who, and Why Kelly Dittmar 15. Women in Parliament: From Presence to Impact Critical Actors in the Policy Making Process Malliga Och 16. Too feminine to be a leader? Systematic implicit biases against women politicians Shan-Jan Sarah Liu 17. Women in Politics: Beyond the heterosexual fantasy Manon Tremblay, PhD 18. New Backlash? New Barriers? Assessing Women’s Contemporary Public Engagement Sylvia Bashevkin
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University of Toronto Press Charm Offensive
Book SynopsisThis book examines the many forces that shaped postwar French femininity as a desirable commodity, both within France and around the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Creating the Model Hostess 2. Hostessing off the Airplane 3. Hostessing Global Events 4. The Gendering and Selling of France 5. Selling Postwar French Femininity Conclusion Bibliography
£52.70
University of Toronto Press Anthropological Theory for the TwentyFirst
Book SynopsisThis new collection of anthropological theory updates and diversifies the canon with contributions by important yet underrepresented scholars and theoretical discussions that reflect the state of the discipline today.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: A Contested Canon SECTION ONE: On Roots of Social Difference Editors’ Introduction 1. William Apess. 1833. An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man. 2. Frederick Douglass. 1854. The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered. 3. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 1872. Bourgeois and Proletarians. 4. Lewis Henry Morgan. 1877. Ethnical Periods. 5. Lucy Parsons. 1905. Afternoon Session, June 29th, Speeches at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World. 6. Max Weber. 1905. Excerpt from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism SECTION TWO: On Methods of Fieldwork Editors’ Introduction 1. Edward Sapir. 1912. Language and Environment 1. 2. Arthur Caswell Parker. 1916. The Origin of the Iroquois As Suggested by their Archaeology. 3. Franz Boas. 1920. Methods of Ethnology. 4. Margaret Mead. 1926. The Methodology of Racial Testing: Its Significance for Sociology. 5. Zora Neale Hurston. 1935. Excerpt from Mules and Men. SECTION THREE: On Hidden Logics of Culture Editors’ Introduction 1. Bronisław Malinowski. 1922. The Essentials of the Kula. 2. Marcel Mauss. 1925. Excerpt from The Gift. 3. Ruth Benedict. 1935. The Science of Custom. 4. Jomo Kenyatta. 1938. Excerpt from Facing Mt. Kenya. 5. Claude Lévi-Strauss. 1951. Language and the Analysis of Social Laws. SECTION FOUR: On Power, History, and Inequality Editors’ Introduction 1. W.E.B DuBois. 1935. The White Worker. 2. Fernando Ortiz. 1940. On the Social Phenomenon of “Transculturation” and Its Importance in Cuba. 3. Eric Wolf. 1982. The World in 1400. 4. Ann L. Stoler. 1989. Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in 20th-Century Colonial Cultures. 5. Paul Farmer. 2004. An Anthropology of Structural Violence. SECTION FIVE: On Writing Cultures Editors’ Introduction 1. Katherine Dunham. 1946. Twenty-Seventh Day. 2. Clifford Geertz. 1973. Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. 3. Renato Rosaldo. 1989. Grief and the Headhunters Rage. 4. Lila Abu-Lughod. 1991. Writing Against Culture. 5. Rosabelle Boswell. 2017. Sensuous Stories in the Indian Ocean Islands. SECTION SIX: On Colonialism and Anthropological “Others” Editors’ Introduction 1. Beatrice Medicine. 1978. Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining “Native.” 2. Edward W. Said. 1979. Knowing the Oriental. 3. Esteban Krotz. 1997. Anthropologies of the South: Their Rise, Their Silencing, Their Characteristics. 4. Rolph-Michel Trouillot. 2003. Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness. 5. Epeli Hau’ofa. 2008. Our Sea of Islands. SECTION SEVEN: On Anthropology and Gender Editors’ Introduction 1. Eleanor Burke Leacock. 1972. Introduction to The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan, by Frederick Engels. 2. Sylvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier. 1987. Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship. 3. Ifi Amadiume. 1987. Excerpt from Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. 4. Gloria Anzaldúa. 1987. La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a new consciousness. 5. Philippe Bourgois. 1996. In Search of Masculinity: Violence, Respect and Sexuality among Puerto Rican Crack Dealers in East Harlem. SECTION EIGHT: On Queering Anthropological Knowledge Production Editors’ Introduction 1. Michel Foucault. 1976. Excerpt from The History of Sexuality, Vol. I 2. Evan B. Towle and Lynn M. Morgan. 2002. Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the "Third Gender" Concept. 3. Susan Stryker. 2008. Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity. 4. Jafari Allen. 2012. One Way or Another: Erotic Subjectivity in Cuba. 5. Savannah Shange. 2019. Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation, and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship. SECTION NINE: On Social Position and Ethnographic Authority Editors’ Introduction 1. Donna Haraway. 1988. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. 2. Delmos Jones. 1995. Anthropology and the Oppressed: A Reflection on "Native" Anthropology. 3. Dana-Ain Davis. 2003. What Did You Do Today? Notes From a Politically Engaged Anthropologist. 4. Heike Becker, Emile Boonzaier, and Joy Owen. 2005. Fieldwork in Shared Spaces: Positionality, Power and Ethics of Citizen Anthropologists in Southern Africa. 5. Bernard Perley. 2013. “Gone Anthropologist”: Epistemic Slippage, Native Anthropology, and the Dilemmas of Representation. SECTION TEN: On Theorizing Globalization Editors’ Introduction 1. Arjun Appadurai. 1986. Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery. 2. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson. 1992. Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference. 3. Aihwa Ong. 2006. Mutations in Citizenship. 4. Faye Harrison. 2008. Global Apartheid at Home and Abroad. 5. Gustavo Lins Ribeiro. 2009. Non-Hegemonic Globalizations: Alter-Native Transnational Processes and Agents. SECTION ELEVEN: On Environment, Pluriverse, and Power Editors’ Introduction 1. Julian Steward. 1955. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology. 2. Paige West. 2005. Translation, Value, and Space: Theorizing an Ethnographic and Engaged Environmental Anthropology. 3. Zöe Todd. 2015. Indigenizing the Anthropocene. 4. Arturo Escobar. 2018. Excerpt from Designs for a Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy and the Making of Worlds. 5. Alaka Wali. 2020. Complicity and Resistance in the Indigenous Amazon: Economía Indígena Under Siege. SECTION TWELVE: On State Power Editors’ Introduction 1. Pierre Bourdieu. 1977. Symbolic Power 2. Begoña Aretxaga. 1998. What the Border Hides: Partition and Gender Politics of Irish Nationalism 3. Katherine Verdery. 2002. Seeing like a mayor. Or, how local officials obstructed Romanian land restitution 4. Achille Mbembé. 2003. Necropolitics. 5. Christen Smith. 2013. Strange Fruit: Brazil, Necropolitics, and the Transnational Resonance of Torture and Death. SECTION THIRTEEN: On Agency and Social Struggle Editors’ Introduction 1. Saba Mahmood. 2005. The Subject of Freedom. 2. Shalini Shankar. 2008. Speaking like a Model Minority: “FOB” Styles, Gender, and Racial Meanings among Desi Teens in Silicon Valley. 3. Victoria Redclift. 2013. Abjects or Agents? Camps, Contests, and the Creation of “Political Space.” 4. Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa. 2015. #Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States. 5. Audra Simpson. 2016. Consent’s Revenge. SECTION FOURTEEN: On Critical Theory for the 21st Century Editors’ Introduction 1. Lynn Bolles. 2001. Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology. 2. Leith Mullings. 2005. Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology. 3. Ghassan Hage. 2016. Towards an Ethics of the Theoretical Encounter. 4. Jeff Maskovsky. At Home in the End Times. 5. Kim TallBear. 2019. Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming. PROVOCATION: Going Native: A Satirical “End” to Anthropology Theory
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University of Toronto Press Sex and the Married Girl
Book SynopsisSex who was having it, who shouldn’t have it, and who was supposed to be having it but wasn’t was a major concern to social authorities in the immediate postwar era. Though they are often remembered with nostalgia as a sexually simpler time, the 1950s and early 1960s were incredibly sexually productive years. Sex and the Married Girl examines how two interrelated and dominant groups in Canada medical professionals and church leaders used married heterosexual female sexuality as a lever to rebuild the Canadian family and the state itself. Using embodied historical methodologies, the book examines not only discourses around sex but also how those discourses could influence the actual experience of sex for married women. Heather Stanley draws upon extensive oral life histories of women who lived, married, and had sex during this liminal social period to demonstrate that this was a time of simultaneous sexual and gender quiescence and change.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Breaking Free from the “Nostalgia Trap”: History and the Paradox of Female Sexuality in the Postwar World 2. Embodying Family Values: The Canadian Medical Association Journal and the Creation of the “Mother Body” 3. Sex, Marriage, and the “One Flesh” Body: Married Sexuality in the Anglican, United, and Roman Catholic Denominations 4. Bringing Down Goliath: Oral Histories and the Engagement of Individual Bodies with the Ideal 5. Conclusion: Making Good (Sex) Appendix: Interview Data Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Toronto Press Charm Offensive
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a great nation. They promoted the beauty, sexual appeal, and general allure of French women, all while shrinking the boundaries of what was considered beautiful. Charm Offensive explores how this elevation of French femininity created problems on both sides of the equation: the pressure on French women to conform to an exacting physical standard was immense, while the inability of anyone else to access that standard resulted in a sense of failure. Drawing on cultural figures like Air France hostesses, tourism workers, and celebrities such as Brigitte Bardot, Charm Offensive offers an innovative understanding of a tumultuous time of decolonization.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Creating the Model Hostess 2. Hostessing off the Airplane 3. Hostessing Global Events 4. The Gendering and Selling of France 5. Selling Postwar French Femininity Conclusion Bibliography
£23.39
University of Toronto Press Expressive Acts
Book SynopsisThis book reveals the fascinating history of how and why people gathered in the streets of Victorian Toronto both in jubilation and in anger.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Tory Rebels and a Viceregal Visit 2. The Press and Election Culture 3. A Prince in Town 4. Religious Processions and Disorder 5. Colonialism Triumphant: Celebrating the Suppression of the North-West Resistance of 1885 6. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder 7. Strikers and their Supporters Conclusion Notes Index
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University of Toronto Press Expressive Acts
Book SynopsisIn nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special occasions, such as the 1860 visit of the Prince of Wales and the return in 1885 of the local Volunteers who helped to suppress the Riel resistance in the North-West. In a contrasting mood, people also took to the streets in anger to object to government measures, such as the Rebellion Losses bill, to heckle rival candidates in provincial election campaigns, to assert their ethno-religious differences, and to support striking workers. Expressive Acts examines instances of both celebration and protest when Torontonians publicly displayed their allegiances, politics, and values. The book illustrates not just the Victorian city’s vibrant public life but also the intense social tensions and cultural differences within the city. Drawing from journalists’ accounts in newspapers, Expressive Acts illuminates what drove Torontonians to claim public space, where tTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Tory Rebels and a Viceregal Visit 2. The Press and Election Culture 3. A Prince in Town 4. Religious Processions and Disorder 5. Colonialism Triumphant: Celebrating the Suppression of the North-West Resistance of 1885 6. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder 7. Strikers and their Supporters Conclusion Notes Index
£23.39
MY - University of Toronto Press Bloom Spaces Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica
Book SynopsisThis creative ethnography explores the surprising entanglements between tourism and reproduction on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One: Prelude / Getting in a Tropical Yoga Mood Chapter One: Yoga and Atmospheric Openings Chapter One: Postlude / Pulled by a White Undercurrent? Chapter Two: Prelude / A “Jungle Mood” Sets In Chapter Two: The Visceral Energy of the Jungle: Senses, Sounds, Rhythms, Life Chapter Two: Postlude / As Though “Natural” Chapter Three: Prelude / The Magical Something of a Caribbean Beach Chapter Three: The Caribbean Beach: Reverberating with Possibilities Chapter Three: Postlude / Beaches that Resonate with Life (and Death) Chapter Four: Prelude / Promising Difference Chapter Four: Shimmers-and-Promises and (Cultural) Bloom Spaces Chapter Four: Postlude / A Bitter Aftertaste Conclusion Notes References
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University of Toronto Press Bloom Spaces
Book SynopsisTourism generates intense atmospheric relations between people and places. Exploring the complex nature of these relations, Bloom Spaces considers the experiences of women who travel to Costa Rica in search of health and wellness, and find that it leads to unexpected pregnancy. The book probes the ways that the reproductive experience resonates with powerful tourist imaginaries of the Caribbean and multisensory environments of culture and place. Inviting readers into a world of yoga studios, beaches, and rainforests, Susan Frohlick investigates how atmosphere can create bloom spaces that lead tourists down reproductive paths. Through an experimental approach that combines creative nonfiction, poetry, photography, and narrative ethnographic writing, this book seeks to capture the feelings and sensations that influence reproduction in tourist destinations. Ultimately, the book urges a rethinking of tourism that takes reproduction into consideration, highlighting the multiple actTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One: Prelude / Getting in a Tropical Yoga Mood Chapter One: Yoga and Atmospheric Openings Chapter One: Postlude / Pulled by a White Undercurrent? Chapter Two: Prelude / A “Jungle Mood” Sets In Chapter Two: The Visceral Energy of the Jungle: Senses, Sounds, Rhythms, Life Chapter Two: Postlude / As Though “Natural” Chapter Three: Prelude / The Magical Something of a Caribbean Beach Chapter Three: The Caribbean Beach: Reverberating with Possibilities Chapter Three: Postlude / Beaches that Resonate with Life (and Death) Chapter Four: Prelude / Promising Difference Chapter Four: Shimmers-and-Promises and (Cultural) Bloom Spaces Chapter Four: Postlude / A Bitter Aftertaste Conclusion Notes References
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University of Toronto Press Collective Care
Book SynopsisCollective Care provides an ethnographic account of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices in the face of Saskatchewan’s HIV epidemic. Based on a five-year study conducted in partnership with AIDS Saskatoon, the book focuses on the contrast between Indigenous values of collective kin-care and non-Indigenous models of intensive maternal care. It explores how women and men negotiate the forces of HIV to render motherhood a site of cultural meaning, personal and collective well-being, and, sometimes, individual and community despair. It also introduces readers to how HIV is Indigenized in western Canada and how all HIV-affected and -infected mothers must negotiate this cultural and racialized terrain. Featuring in-depth narrative interviews, notes from participant observation in AIDS Saskatoon’s drop-in centre, and a photovoice component, this book offers an accessible account of an engaged anthropologist’s work with a community that is bothTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Beginning Chapter 2: Family Chapter 3: Motherhood Chapter 4: Fatherhood Chapter 5: Loss Chapter 6: Love Chapter 7: Closing References
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University of Nebraska Press Public Privates
Book Synopsis Public Privates focuses on public and private acts and spaces in media to explore the formation of geographies. Situated at the intersections of cultural geography, feminist geography, and media studies, Marcia R. England’s study argues that media both reinforce and subvert traditional notions of public and private spaces through depiction of behaviors and actions within those spheres. Though popular media contribute to the erosion of indistinct edges between spaces, they also frequently reinforce the traditional dualism through particular codings that designate the normed and gendered socio-spatial actions appropriate in each sphere—producing geographical imaginations and behaviors. England applies her immensely readable construction to a diverse and wide-ranging array of media including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Fast and the Furious, J-Horror, sitcoms, Degrassi, and reality TV. By examining the gendered representations of pTrade Review"I strongly encourage cultural and feminist geographers to read this book and use it as representative of the work in our discipline. . . . This book is a remarkable achievement, and it made me even more excited about the future of feminist geography and the study of popular culture."—Julian Barr, Journal of Cultural Geography“With a wealth of examples drawn from comedy, horror, drama, erotica, and reality TV, Public Privates offers a wonderfully comprehensive look at the dichotomy between public and private space and how it is subtly and complexly gendered.”—Paul C. Adams, professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Geographies of Media and Communication “Public Privates presents new insights into the intersection of media, space, and geography. It will further expand the discourse and provide additional avenues of exploration for other geographers wishing to address this topic. The style is quite readable and is easily understandable, making the key themes easy to grasp. It would make a good textbook for upper-division human geography courses, graduate-level courses, and even courses outside geography such as communications and humanities.”—James Craine, professor of geography at California State University, Northridge, and the editor of Aether: The Journal of Media GeographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Welcome to the Hellmouth: Paradoxical Spaces in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2. Home Is Where the Heart Is: Fast and Furious Geographies 3. Scared to Death: Spaces of J-Horror 4. Visions of Gender: Codings of Televisual Space 5. Navigating Degrassi Community School: Socio-Spatial Identities in Degrassi 6. Big Brother Is Watching You: Why You Should Be Watching Reality TV 7. Kinky Geographies: Sexuality in Mediated Spaces 8. Public Privates Exposed: Media, Gender, and Space Appendix: Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Public Privates
Book SynopsisFocuses on public and private acts and spaces in media to explore the formation of geographies. Situated at the intersections of cultural geography, feminist geography, and media studies, Marcia R. England's study argues that media both reinforce and subvert traditional notions of public and private spaces through depiction of behaviours and actions within those spheres.Trade Review"I strongly encourage cultural and feminist geographers to read this book and use it as representative of the work in our discipline. . . . This book is a remarkable achievement, and it made me even more excited about the future of feminist geography and the study of popular culture."—Julian Barr, Journal of Cultural Geography“With a wealth of examples drawn from comedy, horror, drama, erotica, and reality TV, Public Privates offers a wonderfully comprehensive look at the dichotomy between public and private space and how it is subtly and complexly gendered.”—Paul C. Adams, professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Geographies of Media and Communication “Public Privates presents new insights into the intersection of media, space, and geography. It will further expand the discourse and provide additional avenues of exploration for other geographers wishing to address this topic. The style is quite readable and is easily understandable, making the key themes easy to grasp. It would make a good textbook for upper-division human geography courses, graduate-level courses, and even courses outside geography such as communications and humanities.”—James Craine, professor of geography at California State University, Northridge, and the editor of Aether: The Journal of Media GeographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Welcome to the Hellmouth: Paradoxical Spaces in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2. Home Is Where the Heart Is: Fast and Furious Geographies 3. Scared to Death: Spaces of J-Horror 4. Visions of Gender: Codings of Televisual Space 5. Navigating Degrassi Community School: Socio-Spatial Identities in Degrassi 6. Big Brother Is Watching You: Why You Should Be Watching Reality TV 7. Kinky Geographies: Sexuality in Mediated Spaces 8. Public Privates Exposed: Media, Gender, and Space Appendix: Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Transmovimientos
Book Synopsis2022 International Latino Book Award Finalist for Best LGBTQ Studies Book Within a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies transmovimientos as the creative force or social mechanism through which queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. This anthology unveils a critical perspective with the emphasis on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces across gendered and racialized contexts, all crucial elements of the trans-movements taking place in the United States. This collection forms a nuanced conversation between scholarship and social activism that speaks in concrete ways about diasporic and migratory LGBTQ communities who suffer from immoral immigration policies and political discourses that produce untenable lTrade Review“A critical and timely set of subjects, especially given the rampant and castigating racism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia against the Latinx LGBTQI communities in the United States and throughout other countries at this time. The coeditors have brought together important, established, and emerging voices in an exciting manner.”—Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, author of Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular CultureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Trans vida in Extraordinary Times Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Magda García, and Ellie D. HernándezTwenty-First-Century Student Movements 1. Triunfando con o sin papeles: Muxerista y jotx-historias of DACA-mentation and Activism in Las Vegas Joanna Núñez, Jasmine Rubalcava-Cuara, and Anita Tijerina Revilla 2. Somos jotería: UCLA Chicanx Latinx Student Activists Fighting for Social Justice José Manuel SantillanaReading Performance and Performativity from Cuba to Los Angeles 3. Working Trans in Jaime Cortez’s Sexile/Sexilio Carlos Ulises Decena 4. Wonder Woman, Pancho Villa, and the Shifting Rio Grande: Transnational jotx Identity, Desire, Pleasure, and Death on the El Paso / Juárez Border Omar González 5. Vaqueeros: Muy machos, Wearing the Pants, and Living la vida loca Carlos-Manuel 6. Home(bodies): Transitory Belonging at LA’s Oldest Latinx Drag Bar Katherine SteelmanMemory and Memoir: Between sueños y pesadillas 7. Pesadilla convertida en sueño: El sueño nunca soñado / A Nightmare Turned Into a Dream: A Dream Never Dreamed Bamby Salcedo 8. “¿Qué harás si algo me pasa?”: An ofrenda Nicholas DuronFrom the Urban Landscape to Sites of Incarceration 9. Queering el barrio: Latina Immigrant Street Vendors in Los Angeles Lorena Muñoz 10. The Privatized Deportation Center Complex y la trans mujer Verónica Mandujano In Our Own Words: An Afterword Ellie D. Hernández, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García List of Contributors Index
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Stanford University Press Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-siècle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" existed, there were those who experienced their gender in complex ways. Before Trans examines the lives and writings of Jane Dieulafoy (1850–1916), Rachilde (1860–1953), and Marc de Montifaud (1845–1912), three French writers whose gender expression did not conform to nineteenth-century notions of femininity. Dieulafoy fought alongside her husband in the Franco-Prussian War and traveled with him to the Middle East; later she wrote novels about girls becoming boys and enjoyed being photographed in her signature men's suits. Rachilde became famous in the 1880s for her controversial gender-bending novel Monsieur Vénus, published around the same time that she started using a calling card that read "Rachilde, Man of Letters." Montifaud began her career as an art critic before turning to erotic writings, for which she was repeatedly charged with "offense to public decency"; she wore tailored men's suits and a short haircut for much of her life and went by masculine pronouns among certain friends. Dieulafoy, Rachilde, and Montifaud established themselves as fixtures in the literary world of fin-de-siècle Paris at the same time as French writers, scientists, and doctors were becoming increasingly fascinated with sexuality and sexual difference. Even so, the concept of gender identity as separate from sexual identity did not yet exist. Before Trans explores these three figures' lifelong efforts to articulate a sense of selfhood that did not precisely align with the conventional gender roles of their day. Their intricate, personal stories provide vital historical context for our own efforts to understand the nature of gender identity and the ways in which it might be expressed.Trade Review"Before Trans is an exceedingly well-written, layered, and compelling account of three overlapping gender-variant biographies. These individuals' stories have never been told together, and Rachel Mesch's beautiful braiding of their lives and loves, their desires and disappointments, offers a fresh and original take on trans history."—Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure"This fascinating exploration of three remarkable lives explores a wide range of gender outlaw behavior long before the term was invented. Consistently provocative, deeply researched, and amply illustrated, this book will challenge us to think more clearly about what gender nonconformity meant and did 'before trans.'"—Margaret Waller, author of The Male Malady"Original, impeccably researched, and well written, Before Trans represents a vital contribution to humanities scholarship, French studies, and gender and sexuality studies. This thoughtful and informed work deftly demonstrates how much the past has to teach us about what we think of as ultra-contemporary issues."—Rhonda Garelick, author of Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History"Through deeply personal stories of complex individuals, Rachel Mesch gives us a much-needed history of transgender 'before' our modern definitions and categories of gender identity. Joining an exciting new wave of scholarship on gender non-conforming historical figures, Before Trans pushes feminist history beyond the binary, showing how we can better locate and understand past trans practices."—Leah DeVun, author of The Shape of Sex"Before Trans is lucid, compelling, and a must-read for specialists in trans history as well as gender history more broadly. Using modern trans frameworks to understand the past, Rachel Mesch gives us much to contemplate in her analysis of gender identity's complex history."—Emily Skidmore, author of True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"Mesch is careful not to make her subjects too representative of modern ideas about gender roles, and delivers multifaceted portraits of complex individuals, rather than caricatures in service of buzzwords and slogans. This sensitive triple biography will appeal to scholarly readers interested in the origins of trans, queer, and feminist perspectives."—Publishers Weekly"Using queer theory in practice, [this] immensely readable book provides excellently researched biographies strung together to show complex worlds where gender norms mattered, but could be transgressed."—Louie Dean Valencia-García, EuropeNow"A fascinating analysis of identity, women's rights, and literature as a transformative tool....Mesch does such a masterful job of relating to her readers, as well as her subjects, that we feel safe in her hands." —Mariko Hewer, Washington Independent Review of Books"Rachel Mesch adroitly walks the methodological tightrope of examining historical characters through the lens of transgender analysis, yet accepting their gender originality. Her writing is theoretically savvy without being academically ponderous. Mesch's detailed and textured survey of these women and their writings does full justice to their unique talent and complex psyches."—Vernon Rosario, The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide"Mesch asks a question that has often vexed historians of this era: how are we supposed to categorise the seemingly endless number of people who took divergent paths from those expected of the period? Rather than place this within the familiar rhetoric of ambiguity, deviance and performativity, Mesch turns to the lessons of trans scholarship... In many ways, the greatest contribution ofBefore Transis its promise of more; a taste of things to come."—Frankie Dytor, Review 31"As Mesch shows us, there is a prehistory of transgender, but there is also a history of trans* narrative making through history. Pushing against binarized gender categories through previous French narratives is itself a historical narrative—another story to be told through the evidence of queer and trans* ephemera."—Todd W. Reeser, Canadian Journal of History"Mesch's pathbreaking book, Before Trans, is a must-read for experts and students of gender studies for years to come, opening the door to more scholarship on gender non-conforming historical figures."—Anne E. Linton, Nineteenth-Century French Studies"Contrasting and complementary, Mesch's three literary biographies form a remarkable and lasting contribution to the fields of nineteenth-century French, trans, gender, and feminist studies. The book frees its three protagonists from their previous feminist avant la letter category to show how, each in their own way, these three authors embodied, researched, archived, and narrated gender creative lives."—Anna Kłosowska, H-France Forum"Before Trans is a hugely significant book for a number of reasons. It provides one of the first explorations of French history from a trans perspective and shows how queer perspectives can be brought to bear on the field. Its willingness to resist simply placing its subjects into new boxes highlights the success of Mesch's project to analyze and understand the possibilities for telling new gender stories in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France."—Andrew Israel Ross, H-France Forum "Mesch's far-reaching biographical and historical study complements previous work on Rachilde and fleshes out enlightening and interesting information about the lives of the three women writers Jane Dieulafoy, Rachilde, and Marc de Montifaud, while emphasizing their exploration of their own gender identities, and most important for those of us in literary studies, the relation of their writing to that exploration."—Dorothy Kelly, H-France ForumTable of Contents1. A Soldier Is Born 2. Unearthing Jane 3. Excavating the Self 4. Fictional Truths 5. Loving Marcel 6. "May He or She Rest in Peace!" 7. Becoming Rachilde 8. Born of Scandal 9. A Symbol of Her Mind 10. Freedom through Imagination 11. Death by Marriage 12. Why She Was Not a Feminist 13. Becoming Marc 14. Montifaud on Trial 15. Clothing Stories 16. Love Stories 17. The Right to Difference 18. Conclusion
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University of Minnesota Press Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans
Book SynopsisWinner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Marion Sims, the “father of American gynecology,” to the negation of blackness that makes transnormativity possible.Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of “cross dressing” and canonical black literary works that express black men’s access to the “female within,” Black on Both Sides concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Don’t Cry out of narrative convenience. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds.Trade Review"Black on Both Sides challenges the historical account of trans studies invention by excavating a black trans presence and persona long before modern articulations of such. C. Riley Snorton offers us a way to read the historical record in a fashion that requires the unthought to be the basis of the foundation for our claims of newness, demonstrating that there is no revision of what it means to be human without coming through blackness, past and present."—Rinaldo Walcott, author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies"C. Riley Snorton's Black on Both Sides is a welcome contribution to black studies with the potential to influence future directions in the burgeoning field of transgender studies. It is rigorous scholarship that manages to be imaginative and timely."—Kara Keeling, author of The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense"In a beautifully written and brilliant intervention and extension—the first full length book ‘to examine the historical and contemporary importance of race to the constitution of “trans gender”’—C. Riley Snorton identifies and performs a black trans reading practice, from Anarcha to Transgender Days of Remembrance."—Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being"The research done here is stellar."—Washington Blade"This book is an outstanding contribution to conversations about black and trans studies; it will transform scholarly understandings of both fields and the intersections between them."—CHOICE"Black on Both Sides reminds us that when we are careful about how we tell stories, we get new, nuanced stories that expose systems for what they are and that honor historically ignored populations."—Autostraddle"Black on Both Sides offers a new imagining of both black and trans history beginning in the early 19th century through the present."—Into News"Black on Both Sides is both important and timely. In an era where transgender acceptance and violence are both at an all-time high, the book reiterates the need for a historical analysis of all disenfranchised and overlooked people. Snorton offers a unique perspective into the burgeoning field of transgender history."—H-Net Reviews"Explores how such important scientific advances as the development of modern gynaecology, for example, took place through and with repeated experimentation on enslaved Black women."—Wear Your Voice Magazine"C. Riley Snorton’s book Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity is a field-changing, paradigm-shifting, once-in-a-generation book that will be read and reckoned with for years to come."—American Historical Review"Carried by an extensive archive of materials such as fugitive slave narratives, sensationalist journalism, and Afro-modernist literature, Snorton gives insight into the importance of black history in relation to of transgender topics. Snorton illuminates how the foundations for "understanding gender as mutable" derive from the horrifics of slavery. Snorton's research proves to be an outstanding and well-needed addition to the conversation of black and trans communities."—PopSugar"It is unquestionable that Black On Both Sides will quickly become necessary reading for anyone thinking about blackness, transness, gender, or historiography. Implicit in its argument is how integral questions of blackness and transness are to numerous other “unrelated” fields: emblematic of such is the sheer number of citations in each chapter (in multiple chapters citation count is in excess of 125), which is less a citational overload and instead an indication of black/trans’s relevance to scholars in fields from black studies to transgender studies, continental philosophy to history to journalism. Snorton’s articulation of such an original historiographical theorization, and serious advancement of the analytic properties (rather than strictly identificatory) of blackness and transness, makes this book a groundbreaking text with which anyone in the aforementioned fields, among numerous others, would be remiss not to grapple rigorously."—Journal of African American History"Black on Both Sides holds a needed critique of the real, lived dangers of liberal inclusion and an identity politics that stubbornly refuses to address ongoing systemic forces that feed into dangerous and deadly circumstances for Black and trans people, including interpersonal violence as well as systemic forces of policing and incarceration, job discrimination, and social isolation. Beyond this, it offers and prioritizes the beauty of those lives that move through the interstices and oversights of categorization, holding a resonant claim to life and meaning."—Gender and Women’s Studies"Black on Both Sides is a rigorous historical and theoretical project that seeks to complicate how we understand blackness at an onto- logical level. What Snorton does exceptionally well is to offer readers the opportunity to consider the ways in which the narrowness of disciplinary boundaries within the academy have rendered queerness and transness as periphery subjects in black history. In this way the book functions as a call to think more expansively about trans studies and black studies."—Journal of the History of Sexuality"C. Riley Snorton ambitiously develops a capacious trans genealogy, which culminates in transgender but arrives there through the motion across categories contained in such derivatives as transitivity and transversality. Not a conventional history, the book is more a set of associative assemblages, a racial poetics of transness, a densely theoretical challenge to historical method."—Journal of American History"C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity is an outstanding theorization and history of the interdependence and co- construction of race and gender in the United States."—Oxford University Press Journals"Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity provides an intricate and well-developed weaving of the past to the present."—QED: A Journal in LGBTQ "An incredible insight to how Black people pioneered being out as transgender... A great source and reference for historical events that took place that could help readers with awareness and understanding of the trans community."—Outvoices Nashville Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction Part I. Blacken1. Anatomically Speaking: Ungendered Flesh and the Science of Sex2. Trans Capable: Fungibility, Fugitivity, and the Matter of Being Part II. Transit3. Reading the Trans- in Transatlantic Literature: On the “Female” Within the Three Negro ClassicsPart III. Blackout4. A Nightmarish Silhouette: Racialization and the Long Exposure of Transition5. DeVine's Cut: Public Memory and the Politics of MartydomAcknowledgementsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and
Book SynopsisDaring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men American masculinity is being critiqued, questioned, and reinterpreted for a new era. In Men in Place Miriam J. Abelson makes an original contribution to this conversation through in-depth interviews with trans men in the U.S. West, Southeast, and Midwest, showing how the places and spaces men inhabit are fundamental to their experiences of race, sexuality, and gender.Men in Place explores the shifting meanings of being a man across cities and in rural areas. Here Abelson develops the insight that individual men do not have one way to be masculine—rather, their ways of being men shift between different spaces and places. She reveals a widespread version of masculinity that might be summed up as “strong when I need to be, soft when I need to be,” using the experiences of trans men to highlight the fundamental construction of manhood for all men.With an eye to how societal institutions promote homophobia, transphobia, and racism, Men in Place argues that race and sexuality fundamentally shape safety for men, particularly in rural spaces, and helps us to better understand the ways that gender is created and enforced.Trade Review"In Men in Place, Miriam J. Abelson foregrounds the lives of an intentionally diverse sample of trans men in the U.S. to address shifts in the look and feel of powerful intersecting systems of inequality. In this brilliantly written, theoretically sophisticated, interdisciplinary, and compassionate study, Abelson poses new challenges to research on masculinities and gender and sexual inequality that illuminate dynamics of power and inequality that reach far beyond the lives of the trans men she studied." —Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara "What does it mean to be a man in the 21st century? Through moving interviews with trans men from across the United States, Miriam J. Abelson documents that there is no easy answer to this question. Men in Place shows us that we cannot begin to understand what it means to be a man without understanding race and space. Abelson weaves a story of manhood that is almost always just out of reach for all men, a Goldilocks masculinity that must be managed, tailored, and altered depending on the environment. Men in Place is a must read for scholars interested in masculinity and its meanings across space." —C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon"Men in Place boldly investigates the intersections of white supremacy, economic strain, and rurality as they shape disparities in the experiences of rural trans men of color and their white counterparts. With powerful detail, Miriam J. Abelson demonstrates how the willingness of cis people to embrace trans men as men is shaped by their perception of local and external threats to their community—threats that are not just related to gender and sexuality, but also demographic and economic transformations. This book's substantial and diverse sample of trans men and its critical race and feminist theoretical orientation make Men in Place a unique and necessary contribution to trans studies." —Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men"The most impressive innovation for analysis is her sample, consisting entirely of trans men whose voices can matchlessly capture the experience of doing masculinity. Abelson explores the process of discerning how to become men across all contexts—but with particular attention to the challenges of bathroom behaviors and medical settings—through interviews that span rural, suburban, and urban gender norms."—CHOICE"Miriam Abelson’s book, Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America (2019, University of Minnesota Press), is a masterpiece. It is an outstanding example of qualitative in-depth interviewing as well as feminist and grounded theory methodological approaches and analyses. Abelson’s work to travel the United States interviewing 66 diverse transgender men across the Midwest, South, and West resulted in her amassing one of the largest in-depth interview samples with this population conducted to date. In a technologically-mediated era, Abelson could have conducted these interviews using internet technologies. Instead, she painstakingly traveled thousands of miles, across four years, to ensure that she could develop rapport and potentially longer-lasting research partnerships and connections with participants. Her refusal to take research shortcuts reveals her careful attention to feminist research ethics and a desire to obtain the richest data possible for her important study."—Social Forces"Miriam Abelson’s book, Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race and Sexuality in America, is a masterpiece. It is an outstanding example of qualitative in-depth interviewing as well as feminist and grounded theory methodological approaches and analyses."—Social Forms"A complex and politically urgent text. Trans rights are under exceptional attack, and, as Men in Place makes clear, we will only be able to effectively advocate trans recognition and trans flourishing if we keep an intersectional analysis front and center. This lucid and meticulous book is thus not just a significant contribution to the scholarship on masculinity, sexuality, and race, it is also an imperative read for all of us fighting for trans livelihoods of all kinds. "—Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities"Men in Place is an exemplar of the sophisticated studies of transgender experience currently emerging in the maturing field of trans studies."—American Journal of Sociology Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: “I Don’t Have One Way to Be”1. Masculinities in Space: Thugs, Rednecks, and Faggy Men2. One Is Not Born a Man: Social Recognition and Situated Gendered Knowledges3. “Strong When I Need to Be, Soft When I Need to Be”: Situated Emotional Control and Masculinities4. Geography of Violence: Spatial Fears and the Reproduction of Inequality5. Institutional Contexts of Violence: Heterosexism and Cissexism in Everyday SpacesConclusion: Contemporary Masculinities and Transgender PoliticsAcknowledgmentsAppendix A: Interviewee DemographicsAppendix B: A Note on MethodologyNotes
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