Gender studies: transgender people Books
Indiana University Press Seasoned Socialism Gender and Food in Late
Book SynopsisThe works in Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life examine late Soviet everyday culture focused around the relationship between gender and food.Trade ReviewSeasoned Socialism manages to pull off the difficult trick of being at once a serious academic exploration of food's role in history as well as a highly readable social history. . . . This book, celebrating the indomitable spirit of Russian hospitality and its essential ingredients, is a must-read for all serious students of Late Soviet history, culinary historians, and anyone interested in a compelling examination of the relationship between food and history. * The Moscow Times *Overall, Indiana University Press has published an attractive, well-edited volume. . . . Recommended. * Choice *The volume makes a significant and long-awaited interdisciplinary contribution to the areas of consumption, material culture, gender, film,and poetry studies. It is a well-written and well-organized collection of approaches to understandingthe nuances of Soviet food and gender relations, as well as food cultures under socialism; it is, therefore, highly recommended to anyone interested in these areas of study. Each scholar contributes to the general topic suggested by the editors by adding to the overall picture their own research focus and lens, which makes the volume a rich collection of thoughts about the diversity of food cultures and modes of gender relations in late Soviet society. * H-Socialisms *As an important synthesis of oral history, literature, and film studies, Seasoned Socialism will undoubtfully be very useful for teaching courses focusing on Soviet culture and society in late socialist years and beyond. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Darra GoldsteinIntroduction: Food, Gender, and the Everyday through the Looking Glass of Socialist Experience / Anastasia Lakhtikova and Angela Brintlinger I. Women in the Soviet Kitchen: Cooking Paradoxes in Family and Society 1. Love, Marry, Cook: Gendering the Home Kitchen in Late Soviet Russia / Adrianne K. Jacobs2. "I hate cooking!": Emancipation and Patriarchy in Late Soviet Film / Irina Glushchenko, Translated by Angela Brintlinger and Anastasia Lakhtikova3. Professional Women Cooking: Personal Soviet Cookbooks, Social Networks and Identity Building / Anastasia LakhtikovaII. Producers, Providers and Consumers: Resistance and Compliance, Soviet-Style4. Cake, Cabbage, and the Morality of Consumption in Iurii Trifonov's House on the Embankment / Benjamin Sutcliffe5. Sated People: Gendered Modes of Acquiring and Consuming Prestigious Soviet Foods / Olena Stiazhkina 6. Dacha Labors: Preserving Everyday Soviet Life / Melissa L. Caldwell7. Vodka en plein air: Authoritative Discourse, Alcohol, and Gendered Spaces in "Gray Mouse" by Vil' Lipatov / Lidiia LevkovitchIII. Soviet Signifiers: The Semiotics of Everyday Scarcity and Ritual Uses of Food 8. Cold Veal and a Stale Bread Roll: Zofia Wędrowska's Taste for Scarcity / Ksenia Gusarova9. "Our only hope was in these plants": Irina Ratushinskaya and the Manipulation of Foodways in a Late Soviet Labor Camp / Ona Renner-Fahey 10: Shchi da kasha, but Mostly Shchi: Cabbage as Gendered and Genre'd in Late Soviet Prose / Angela Brintlinger 11. Still Life with Leftover Cutlet: Nonna Slepakova's Poetics of Time / Amelia GlaserAfterword: Cultures of Food in the Era of Developed Socialism / Diane P. KoenkerIndex
£27.90
University of Washington Press Sexuality in China
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure explores the history of sex in China from imperial times onwards. Loosely chronological, the collection presents varied viewpoints on themes including homosexuality, polygamy, sex work, pornography, and–even more juicily–crimes of passion." -- David Wilson * South China Morning Post *
£110.48
University of Washington Press HighTech Housewives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bhatt’s ethnographic study illustrates in detail the lived reality of the men, women and children who make up this population of transmigrants – moving from India to the US, back to India and oftentimes back again to the States. Whilst focusing on the gendered dimension of these movements, the book presents a broader context of how personal and professional expectations and aspirations are affected by legal frameworks, family demands and considerations about future migrations. . . . [a] rich empiracal work." * Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) *"An intimate look into the world of IT sector workers from India who live and work in places like Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle . . . highlights the calculated decisions many of these young families make to ensure their own financial stability and maintain connections with both U.S. and India." * International Examiner *"intimate look into the world of IT sector workers from India who live and work in places like Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle in Washington state." * International Examiner *
£33.98
University of Washington Press Racial Ecologies
Book SynopsisFrom the Flint water crisis to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, environmental threats and degradation disproportionately affect communities of color, with often dire consequences for people's lives and health. Racial Ecologies explores activist strategies and creative responses, such as those of Mexican migrant women, New Zealand Maori, and African American farmers in urban Detroit, demonstrating that people of color have always been and continue to be leaders in the fight for a more equitable and ecologically just world.Grounded in an ethnic-studies perspective, this interdisciplinary collection illustrates how race intersects with Indigeneity, colonialism, gender, nationality, and class to shape our understanding of both nature and environmental harm, showing how and why environmental issues are also racial issues. Indeed, Indigenous, critical race, and postcolonial frameworks are crucial for comprehending and addressing accelerating anthropogenic change, from theTrade Review"This text provides an invaluable contribution to scholarship on race and the environment, featuring a wide-ranging set of essays which variously deal with both the symbolic and material means through which race intersects with the politics of the more-than-human world. . . . this volume is an indispensable contribution to environmental history and allied disciplines, and is positioned to stimulate work which can better understand the roots and effects of contemporary ecological crises, and envision more just futures." * Environment and History *"Racial Ecologies is a needed intervention into environmental studies. . . . Essays in this volume highlight the legacies of colonialism and everyday consequences of capitalism on racialized bodies. . . . This collection is not just about framings and ontologies; it is also about politics and collective action. Social change comes from critical understandings. Essays incorporate environmental studies, environmental justice scholarship, and ethnic and Indigenous studies to understand the important problems facing us in our multiple experiences with the environment." * Environmental History *
£110.48
University of Washington Press Racial Ecologies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This text provides an invaluable contribution to scholarship on race and the environment, featuring a wide-ranging set of essays which variously deal with both the symbolic and material means through which race intersects with the politics of the more-than-human world. . . . this volume is an indispensable contribution to environmental history and allied disciplines, and is positioned to stimulate work which can better understand the roots and effects of contemporary ecological crises, and envision more just futures." * Environment and History *"Racial Ecologies is a needed intervention into environmental studies. . . . Essays in this volume highlight the legacies of colonialism and everyday consequences of capitalism on racialized bodies. . . . This collection is not just about framings and ontologies; it is also about politics and collective action. Social change comes from critical understandings. Essays incorporate environmental studies, environmental justice scholarship, and ethnic and Indigenous studies to understand the important problems facing us in our multiple experiences with the environment." * Environmental History *
£29.66
University of California Press The Mating Game
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Noting that 'the more things change, the more they stay the same,' Lamont finds that traditional gender-role expectations have not changed much; men still ask women out more often and hope for sex sooner than women, and women generally still wait to be asked out and are reticent to have sex 'too soon.' This book provides an interesting take on some presupposed assumptions." * CHOICE *"The Mating Game is an ambitious project that strategically investigates views held by three distinct groups, each navigating complex social structures and cultural narratives around romantic courtship. Lamont offers a refreshing and strong framework to analyze courtship on an individual, group, and societal level. It is a strong addition to growing scholarship on young adults as well as the possible application of queerness in mainstream cultural reform." * Men and Masculinities *"Lamont’s well-designed empirical project and insightful theoretical analysis advance our conversations about the state of the gender revolution in the 21st century." * American Journal of Sociology *"Lamont’s analysis of these stories reminds us that there are possibilities beyond what society currently offers us. I ultimately came away from this book feeling inspired and empowered to turn such possibilities into reality." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Puzzling Persistence of Gendered Dating 2. The Quest for Egalitarian Love 3. New Goals, Old Scripts: Heterosexual Women Caught between Tradition and Equality 4. A Few Good (Heterosexual) Men: Inequality Disguised as Romance 5. Queering Courtship: LGBQ People Reimagine Relationships 6. The More Things Change . . . 7. Dated Dating and the Stalled Gender Revolution Appendix 1: Summary of Interview Respondents Appendix 2: Interview Guide Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Has the Gay Movement Failed
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Duberman is a national treasure. He is an American historian and a pioneer of L.G.B.T.Q. studies. At eighty-seven, he is writing faster than ever;...this book, which, at two hundred and seven pages, packs enough information and ideas for four or five more. It brings together Duberman’s passions and the research he has conducted over many years. [Duberman] has been writing about these things for so long that some of his own ideas have become his source material."—Masha Gessen * New Yorker *"Readers concerned with contemporary social issues will devour this call to action. Highly recommended." STARRED REVIEW * Library Journal *"Always lucid and insightful, this is a major work that enriches LGBTQ literature and belongs in every library." STARRED REVIEW * Booklist *“A fascinating read.” * Gay City News *"Right now is the time to give Duberman's book a close read, and listen to this 87-year-old, gay-married guy." * Bay Area Reporter *“Makes the provocative but compelling case that the fight for same-sex marriage marked a costly detour away from the radical politics at the root of the LGBT rights movement.” * Daily Beast *"A relevant, fiery, and dizzying treatise certain to provoke debate and discussion." * Kirkus Reviews *"Duberman's book is an urgent and much-needed clarion call for the 'gay movement' to reinvent itself for the 21st century. He covers enormous ground for a relatively short and broadly accessible book. " * PopMatters *"A useful reference point that maps the history of the movement before building an argument for broadening the focus of LGBTQ politics." * Times Higher Education *"Has the Gay Movement Failed? is a historic reckoning of the last half century of the gay movement and a critique of a politic of normativity that has sidelined more radical and transformative goals. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom." * Teaching Sociology *“Thought-provoking read about questions that have occupied gay movements since Stonewall. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom.” * Teaching Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue PART I. STORMING THE CITADEL PART II. LOVE, WORK, SEX PART III. EQUALITY OR LIBERATION? PART IV. WHOSE LEFT? Notes Index
£21.60
University of California Press A Dirty South Manifesto Sexual Resistance and
Book SynopsisFrom the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of southern reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality. In A Dirty South Manifesto, L.H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resistance in the New Southa movement that is antiracist, decolonial, and transnational. For people within economically disenfranchised segments of society, those in sexually marginalized communities, and the racially oppressed, the South has been a sexual dystopia. Throughout this book, Stallings delivers hard-hitting manifestos for the new sex wars. With her focus on contemporary Black southern life, Stallings offers an invitation to anyone who has ever imagined a way of living beyond white supremacist heteropatriarchy.Trade Review"An excellent addition to the existing literature on reproductive rights and sexual freedom." * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *"A Dirty South Manifesto is thoughtful and thought-provoking, and it is funny and heart-breaking at the same time." * Resources for Gender & Women's Studies: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Slow Tongue Manifesto Chapter 1 Dirt Manifesto Chapter 2 Geophukit Manifesto Chapter 3 T.R.A.P. (The Ratchet Alliance for Prosperity) Manifesto Chapter 4 WeUsIOurU Future Pronouns Manifesto Chapter 5 Honeysuckle, Not Honey Sucka! Manifesto Coda Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
£64.00
University of California Press A Dirty South Manifesto Sexual Resistance and
Book SynopsisFrom the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of southern reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality. In A Dirty South Manifesto, L.H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resistance in the New Southa movement that is antiracist, decolonial, and transnational. For people within economically disenfranchised segments of society, those in sexually marginalized communities, and the racially oppressed, the South has been a sexual dystopia. Throughout this book, Stallings delivers hard-hitting manifestos for the new sex wars. With her focus on contemporary Black southern life, Stallings offers an invitation to anyone who has ever imagined a way of living beyond white supremacist heteropatriarchy.Trade Review"An excellent addition to the existing literature on reproductive rights and sexual freedom." * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *"A Dirty South Manifesto is thoughtful and thought-provoking, and it is funny and heart-breaking at the same time." * Resources for Gender & Women's Studies: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Slow Tongue Manifesto Chapter 1 Dirt Manifesto Chapter 2 Geophukit Manifesto Chapter 3 T.R.A.P. (The Ratchet Alliance for Prosperity) Manifesto Chapter 4 WeUsIOurU Future Pronouns Manifesto Chapter 5 Honeysuckle, Not Honey Sucka! Manifesto Coda Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
£15.19
University of California Press Bathroom Battlegrounds How Public Restrooms Shape
Book SynopsisToday's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United Statesone that concerns more than mere potty politics. Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years' worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importance of the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status. Chronicling the debut of nineteenth-century comfort stations, twentieth-century mandates requiring equal-but-separate men's and women's rooms, and twenty-first-century uproar over laws like North Carolina's bathroom bill, Davis reveals how public restrooms are far from marginal or unimportant social spaces. Instead, they areand always have beenconsequential sites in which ideology, institutions, and inequality collide.Trade Review“Essential. All readership levels.” * CHOICE *"Davis finds that bathrooms have consistently been entangled with larger cultural matters such as the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status." * Law & Social Inquiry *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Politicizing the Potty 2. Professionalizing Plumbing 3. Regulating Restrooms 4. Working against the Washroom 5. Leveraging the Loo 6. Transforming the Toilet Conclusion Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Bathroom Battlegrounds How Public Restrooms Shape
Book SynopsisToday's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United Statesone that concerns more than mere potty politics. Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years' worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importance of the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status. Chronicling the debut of nineteenth-century comfort stations, twentieth-century mandates requiring equal-but-separate men's and women's rooms, and twenty-first-century uproar over laws like North Carolina's bathroom bill, Davis reveals how public restrooms are far from marginal or unimportant social spaces. Instead, they areand always have beenconsequential sites in which ideology, institutions, and inequality collide.Trade Review“Essential. All readership levels.” * CHOICE *"Davis finds that bathrooms have consistently been entangled with larger cultural matters such as the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status." * Law & Social Inquiry *"This work is an important contribution to scholarship on gender, boundary work, organizations, and citizenship. Davis’s work is simultaneously empirically and theoretically driven and easy to read." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Politicizing the Potty 2. Professionalizing Plumbing 3. Regulating Restrooms 4. Working against the Washroom 5. Leveraging the Loo 6. Transforming the Toilet Conclusion Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Queer Public History
Book SynopsisOver the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher education, which in turn helped queer historians become more influential in politics, law, and society. Through a collection of essays written over three decades by award-winning historian Marc Stein, Queer Public History charts the evolution of queer historical interventions in the academic sphere and explores the development of publicly oriented queer historical scholarship. From the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the rise of queer activism in the 1990s to debates about queer immigration, same-sex marriage, and the politics of gay pride in the early twenty-first century, Stein introduces readers to key themes Trade Review"Queer Public History is a uniquely personal look into how public history has been formed in the LGBTQ+ community. The linkages between public and academic, between personal and political, and their ties to activism are laid out for the reader to explore in detail. Stein’s contribution is both to public history and to LGBTQ+ history and highlights how, in his case, they cannot be understood separately and are the better for it." * Public Historian *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction Part One. Queer Memories of the 1980s 1. Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide 2. Memories of the 1987 March on Washington Part Two. Discipline, Punish, and Protest 3. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers 4. Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market 5. Post-Tenure Lavender Blues 6. Political History and the History of Sexuality Part Three. Histories of Queer Activism 7. Coming Out and Going Public: A History of Lesbians and Gay Men Taking to Queer Street, Philadelphia, USA 8. Approaching Stonewall from the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves 9. Recalling Dewey’s Sit-In 10. Fifty Years of LGBT Movement Activism in Philadelphia 11. Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting Part Four. Queer Historical Interventions 12. Monica, Bill, History, and Sex 13. In My Wildest Dreams: Advice for George Bush 14. In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name 15. From the Glorious Strike to Obama’s New Executive Order 16. “In My Mind I’m (Not) Going to Carolina” Part Five. Queer Immigration 17. Alienated Affections: Remembering Clive Michael Boutilier (1933–2003) 18. The Supreme Court’s Sexual Counter-Revolution 19. Immigration Is a Queer Issue: From Fleuti to Trump 20. Defectives of the World, Unite! Part Six. Sex, Law, and the Supreme Court 21. Queer Eye for the FBI 22. Gay Rights and the Supreme Court: The Early Years 23. Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage 24. Five Myths about Roe v. Wade 25. Refreshing Abominations: An Open Letter to Anthony Kennedy Part Seven. Exhibiting Queer History 26. Introduction to the Philadelphia LGBT History Project 27. U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit 28. “Black Lesbian in White America”: Interviewing Anita Cornwell Part Eight. Stonewall, Popularity, and Publicity 29. Toward a Theory of the Stonewall Revolution 30. Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969 31. A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein 32. Stonewall and Queens 33. Recalling Purple Hands Protests of 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
£64.00
University of California Press Unlivable Lives
Book SynopsisAnti-violence movements rooted in identity politics are commonplace, including those to stop violence against people of color, women, and LGBT people. Unlivable Lives reveals the unintended consequences of this approach within the transgender rights movement in the United States. It illustrates how this form of activism obscures the causes of and lasting solutions to violence and exacerbates fear among members of the identity group, running counter to the goal of making lives more livable. Analyzing over a thousand documents produced by thirteen national organizations, Westbrook charts both a history of the movement and a path forward that relies less on identity-based tactics and more on intersectionality and coalition building. Provocative and galvanizing, this book envisions new strategies for anti-violence and social justice movements and will revolutionize the way we think about this form of activism.Trade Review"This book will appeal to all people interested in trans politics. Versatile and accessible, it will be helpful to activists and useful for graduate and undergraduate courses in social movements, sociology of gender, public policy, law, criminology, and women/gender/sexuality studies." * Mobilization *"Unlivable Lives represents a splendid contribution to sociological literature as well as a useful volume for teachers and researchers working in a variety of subfields and disciplines." * Contemporary Sociology *"Laurel Westbrook has written an invaluable analysis of the trans anti-violence movement in the United States. . . . a courageous book." * New Mexico Historical Review *"Unlivable Lives makes an invaluable intervention in how academics and activists discuss trans people and organize against violence." * TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly *"Westbrook’s writing is simultaneously accessible and theoretically sophisticated. . . . This work is an important contribution to the study of anti-transgender crime, particularly with the paucity of reliable data on fatal violence against transgender persons." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Unlivable Lives: The Origins and Outcomes of Identity-Based Anti-Violence Activism 2. Violence Matters: Producing Identity through Accounts of Murder 3. Atypical Archetypes: The Causes and Consequences of Famous Victims of Violence 4. Homogeneous Subjecthood: How Activists' Focus on Identity Obscures Patterns of Violence 5. Valuable and Vulnerable: How Activists' Tactical Repertoires Shape Subjecthood and Generate Fear 6. Shaping Solutions: How Identity Politics Influences Violence-Prevention Efforts 7. Facilitating Livable Lives: Alternative Approaches to Anti-Violence Activism Appendix A: Transgender Anti-Violence Organizations Appendix B: Collecting Data on Murders of Transgender People Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Has the Gay Movement Failed
Book SynopsisMartin Duberman is a national treasure.Masha Gessen,The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, as well as a pioneering social-justice activist, Duberman reviews the half century since Stonewall with an immediacy and rigor that informs and energizes. He revisits the early gay movement and its progressive vision for society and puts the left on notice as failing time and again to embrace the queer potential for social transformation. Acknowledging the elimination of some of the most discriminatory policies that plagued earlier generations, he takes note of the costthe sidelining of radical goals on the way to achieving more normative inclusion. Illuminating the fault liTrade Review"Duberman is a national treasure. He is an American historian and a pioneer of L.G.B.T.Q. studies. At eighty-seven, he is writing faster than ever;...this book, which, at two hundred and seven pages, packs enough information and ideas for four or five more. It brings together Duberman’s passions and the research he has conducted over many years. [Duberman] has been writing about these things for so long that some of his own ideas have become his source material."—Masha Gessen * New Yorker *"Readers concerned with contemporary social issues will devour this call to action. Highly recommended." STARRED REVIEW * Library Journal *"Always lucid and insightful, this is a major work that enriches LGBTQ literature and belongs in every library." STARRED REVIEW * Booklist *“A fascinating read.” * Gay City News *"Right now is the time to give Duberman's book a close read, and listen to this 87-year-old, gay-married guy." * Bay Area Reporter *“Makes the provocative but compelling case that the fight for same-sex marriage marked a costly detour away from the radical politics at the root of the LGBT rights movement.” * Daily Beast *"A relevant, fiery, and dizzying treatise certain to provoke debate and discussion." * Kirkus Reviews *"Duberman's book is an urgent and much-needed clarion call for the 'gay movement' to reinvent itself for the 21st century. He covers enormous ground for a relatively short and broadly accessible book. " * PopMatters *"A useful reference point that maps the history of the movement before building an argument for broadening the focus of LGBTQ politics." * Times Higher Education *"Has the Gay Movement Failed? is a historic reckoning of the last half century of the gay movement and a critique of a politic of normativity that has sidelined more radical and transformative goals. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom." * Teaching Sociology *“Thought-provoking read about questions that have occupied gay movements since Stonewall. . . . An engaging account of the last half century of the gay movement that, because of its energizing discussion of tensions between focus on normalcy or emphasis on radical transformation, would be a timely and invaluable addition to the classroom.” * Teaching Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue PART I. STORMING THE CITADEL PART II. LOVE, WORK, SEX PART III. EQUALITY OR LIBERATION? PART IV. WHOSE LEFT? Notes Index
£18.90
University of California Press Amphibious Subjects
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate menknown in local parlance as sassoresiding in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of amphibious personhood, Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World's Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the heart of homophobic darkness in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries.
£27.00
University of California Press A Few Good Gays
Book SynopsisThe US military has done an about-face on gender and sexuality policy over the last decade, ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell, restrictions on women in combat, and transgender exclusion. Contrary to expectations, servicemembers have largely welcomed cisgender LGB individualsyet they continue to vociferously resist trans inclusion and the presence of women on the front lines. In the minds of many, the embodied deficiencies of cisgender women and trans people of all genders puts othersand indeed, the nationat risk. In this book, Cati Connell identifies the homonormative bargain that underwrites these uneven patterns of receptiona bargain that comes with significant concessions, upholding and even exacerbating race, class, and gender inequality in the pursuit of sexual equality. In this handshake deal, even the widespread support for open LGB service is highly conditional, revocable upon violation of the bargain. Despite the promise of inclusivity, in practice, the military has made room only Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Dawning of a Kinder, Gentler US Military Part 1 Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1. “The Hard Work to Get Me in the Door”: A History of the Gay Ban 2. “What They Do in Their Private Life, I Couldn’t Care Less”: Striking the Homonormative Bargain 3. “He Acts Straight but He Has This One Thing . . .”: Open LGB Service and Queer Social Control Part 2 Ending Combat Exclusion 4. “When You Want to Create a Group of Male Killers, You Kill the Woman in Them”: Feminine Abjection and the Impossibility of Women Warriors 5. “My Problem’s Not That I’m Gay; My Problem Is That I’m a Woman”: The Patriotic Paternalism of Combat Exclusion Part 3 Removing Medical Restrictions on Transgender Service 6. “Once He Saw Them as Soldiers, I Knew We Had It”: The Trans Ban Tug of War 7. “You Can’t Have Three Bathrooms at a Forward Operating Position”: Gender Panic in the Transgendering Organization Part 4 Conclusion 8 . We Will Be Greeted as Gay Liberators? Methodological Appendix A Methodological Appendix B Methodological Appendix C Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press More Than Marriage
Book SynopsisIntroduces an expansive vision of the family and a brilliant legal arrangement that will protect the lives of millions of adults. Today, about half of all adults are unmarried. Many of those are in significant relationshipssome intimate, others based in friendship, finances, or family tiesbut the law offers them few protections. Amid the growing recognition that modern families take all shapes, More Than Marriage presents a refreshing vision for the future. With this book, noted family-law expert John G. Culhane takes us on a guided tour of how the march toward marriage equality spun off a number of other legal statuses, and explores how the law has expanded and where it falls short. This lively living history is grounded in relatable, in-depth interviews that give voice to the millions of Americans building family structures outside the protections of marriagewhether by choice, necessity, or exclusion. Culhane proposes an updated legal status that offers flexible and portable Trade Review"An inspired introduction to legal understandings of marriage equality that issues an urgent argument for continued reforms." * Foreword Reviews *"This book about marriage alternatives should appeal to a general audience. Ideal for those interested in domestic law policies." * Library Journal *"Recommended [for] advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." * CHOICE *"Culhane offers a refreshing take on how we might legally enshrine a variety of forms of relationships and intimacies. . . . More Than Marriage will be immersive reading for those interested in the legal recognition of relationships and for imagining new possibilities beyond marriage." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction: Marriage Equality—an Important but Limited Victory 1. The Dawn of the Domestic Partnership, or "We Bored Them to Death" 2. Civil Unions: Not Marriage, but an Incredible Simulation! 3. The Designated Beneficiary Agreement Act: Colorado's Successful Experiment 4. What Is Marriage, Anyway? (And What Isn't Marriage?) 5. Matching Relationship Law to Reality Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press More Than Marriage
Book SynopsisIntroduces an expansive vision of the family and a brilliant legal arrangement that will protect the lives of millions of adults. Today, about half of all adults are unmarried. Many of those are in significant relationshipssome intimate, others based in friendship, finances, or family tiesbut the law offers them few protections. Amid the growing recognition that modern families take all shapes, More Than Marriage presents a refreshing vision for the future. With this book, noted family-law expert John G. Culhane takes us on a guided tour of how the march toward marriage equality spun off a number of other legal statuses, and explores how the law has expanded and where it falls short. This lively living history is grounded in relatable, in-depth interviews that give voice to the millions of Americans building family structures outside the protections of marriagewhether by choice, necessity, or exclusion. Culhane proposes an updated legal status that offers flexible and portable Trade Review"An inspired introduction to legal understandings of marriage equality that issues an urgent argument for continued reforms." * Foreword Reviews *"This book about marriage alternatives should appeal to a general audience. Ideal for those interested in domestic law policies." * Library Journal *"Recommended [for] advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." * CHOICE *"Culhane offers a refreshing take on how we might legally enshrine a variety of forms of relationships and intimacies. . . . More Than Marriage will be immersive reading for those interested in the legal recognition of relationships and for imagining new possibilities beyond marriage." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction: Marriage Equality—an Important but Limited Victory 1. The Dawn of the Domestic Partnership, or "We Bored Them to Death" 2. Civil Unions: Not Marriage, but an Incredible Simulation! 3. The Designated Beneficiary Agreement Act: Colorado's Successful Experiment 4. What Is Marriage, Anyway? (And What Isn't Marriage?) 5. Matching Relationship Law to Reality Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Possible Histories
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage practices while they were traveling, while Syrian women accessed more economic autonomy though their participation in peddling networks. In Possible Histories, Charlotte Karem Albrecht explores this peddling economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a site for revealing how dominant ideas about sexuality are imbricated in Arab American racial histories. Karem Albrecht marshals a queer affective approach to community and family history to show how Syrian immigrant peddlers and their interdependent networks of labor and care appeared in interconnected discourses of modernity, sexuality, gender, class, and race. Possible HistorTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Terms and Translations Introduction 1. Traveler, Peddler, Stranger, Syrian: Queer Provocations and Sexual Threats 2. “A Woman without Limits”: Syrian Women in the Peddling Economy 3. Wandering in Diaspora: The Syrian American Elite and Sexual Normativity 4. The Possibilities of Peddling: Imagining Homosocial and Homoerotic Pleasure in Arab America Conclusion: Alixa Naff and the Parenthetical Syrian American Lesbian Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd LGBTQ Social Movements
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the U.S.Trade Review"Adeptly synthesizing decades of research and writing, charting both major events and central dynamics, Lisa Stulberg offers a foundation for understanding LGBTQ movements that is at once accessible and complex, informative and lively." Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco "This is the book we have been waiting for - a comprehensive, concise, and engaging overview of the LGBT movement that is accessible not only to students and general readers, but scholars. Stulberg has managed to condense a vast amount of literature to provide the clearest, best organized, and most up-to-date review of the LGBT movement available." Verta Taylor, University of California Santa Barbara “Lisa Stulberg provides a concise, accessible, and engaging introduction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activism… [T]he material that Stulberg presents will appeal to many audiences, including undergraduate and graduate students, emerging scholars, and established scholars.”Amin Ghaziani, Contemporary Sociology "Stulberg provides an accessible, well-researched overview of LGBTQ activism, suitable for a wide-ranging audience."SexualitiesTable of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Before and After Stonewall Chapter 3. Activism in the Early Days of AIDS Chapter 4. Marriage Politics Chapter 5. LGBTQ Youth and Social Change Chapter 6. The “B” and the “T” Chapter 7. Conclusion
£46.80
University of British Columbia Press We Still Demand
Book SynopsisBy challenging the erasure of radical histories, this book makes an invaluable contribution to remembering and rethinking Canadian sex and gender activism from the 1970s to the present.Trade ReviewThis collection is a must-read for queer and sexuality theorists and historians alike. -- Natalie Adamyk, University of Toronto * Labour/Le travail, Vol. 82 *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline RankinPart 1: Histories of Resistance and Activism1 Liberating Marriage: Gay Liberation and Same-Sex Marriage in Early 1970s Canada / Elise Chenier2 “Seducing the Unions”: Organized Labour and Strategies for Gay Liberation in Toronto in the 1970s / Mathieu Brûlé3 “À bas la répression contre les homosexuels!” Resistance and Surveillance of Queers in Montreal, 1971-76 / Patrizia Gentile4 Fire, Passion, and Politics: The Creation of Blockorama as Black Queer Diasporic Space in the Toronto Pride Festivities / Beverly Bain5 The Emergence of the Toronto Dyke March / Allison Burgess6 Rupert Raj, Transmen, and Sexuality: The Politics of Transnormativity in Metamorphosis Magazine during the 1980s / Nicholas Matte7 Queer Resistance and Regulation in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights / Gary KinsmanPart 2: The Politics and Power of Resistance8 “A History of That Which Was Never Supposed to Be Possible”: Rethinking Gender Passing in History / Fabien Rose9 “Your Cuntry Needs You”: The Politics of Early 1990s Canadian S/M Dyke Porn / Andrea Zanin10 Safe Sex Work and the City: Canadian Sex Work Activists Re-Imagine Real/Virtual Cityscapes / Shawna Ferris11 “Collateral Damage”: Anti-Trafficking Campaigns, Border Security, and Sex Workers’ Rights Struggles in Canada / Annalee Lepp12 Nationalism, Sexuality, and the Politics of Anti-Citizenship / Cynthia Wright13 Trans-ing the Canadian Passport: On the Biopolitical Storying of Race, Gender, and Borders / Bobby NobleSelected BibliographyIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press We Still Demand
Book SynopsisBy challenging the erasure of radical histories, this book makes an invaluable contribution to remembering and rethinking Canadian sex and gender activism from the 1970s to the present.Trade ReviewThis collection is a must-read for queer and sexuality theorists and historians alike. -- Natalie Adamyk, University of Toronto * Labour/Le travail, Vol. 82 *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline RankinPart 1: Histories of Resistance and Activism1 Liberating Marriage: Gay Liberation and Same-Sex Marriage in Early 1970s Canada / Elise Chenier2 “Seducing the Unions”: Organized Labour and Strategies for Gay Liberation in Toronto in the 1970s / Mathieu Brûlé3 “À bas la répression contre les homosexuels!” Resistance and Surveillance of Queers in Montreal, 1971-76 / Patrizia Gentile4 Fire, Passion, and Politics: The Creation of Blockorama as Black Queer Diasporic Space in the Toronto Pride Festivities / Beverly Bain5 The Emergence of the Toronto Dyke March / Allison Burgess6 Rupert Raj, Transmen, and Sexuality: The Politics of Transnormativity in Metamorphosis Magazine during the 1980s / Nicholas Matte7 Queer Resistance and Regulation in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights / Gary KinsmanPart 2: The Politics and Power of Resistance8 “A History of That Which Was Never Supposed to Be Possible”: Rethinking Gender Passing in History / Fabien Rose9 “Your Cuntry Needs You”: The Politics of Early 1990s Canadian S/M Dyke Porn / Andrea Zanin10 Safe Sex Work and the City: Canadian Sex Work Activists Re-Imagine Real/Virtual Cityscapes / Shawna Ferris11 “Collateral Damage”: Anti-Trafficking Campaigns, Border Security, and Sex Workers’ Rights Struggles in Canada / Annalee Lepp12 Nationalism, Sexuality, and the Politics of Anti-Citizenship / Cynthia Wright13 Trans-ing the Canadian Passport: On the Biopolitical Storying of Race, Gender, and Borders / Bobby NobleSelected BibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Banning Transgender Conversion Practices A Legal
Book SynopsisBanning Transgender Conversion Practices is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of how conversion practices targeting transgender people are regulated around the world.Trade ReviewFlorence Ashley does a magnificent job putting theory into practice. -- Rebecca Sanaeikia, University of Rochester * Medical Law International *Authored by an award-winning legal scholar, this book has an obvious home beyond academic law library collections. -- Alexandra Kwan, University of Toronto * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsForewordIntroduction1 What Are Trans Conversion Practices?2 Interpreting the Scope of Bans3 Legal Variants Across the Globe4 Opposition and Constitutional Challenges to Bans5 Policy Analysis 6 Developing an Affirmative Professional Culture7 Annotated Model Law for Prohibiting Conversion PracticesConclusionAppendix: Professional Organizations Opposing Trans Conversion PracticesNotes; Glossary; Index
£62.90
Rutgers University Press Transitive Cultures Anglophone Literature of the
Book SynopsisTransitive Cultures offers a new perspective on transpacific Anglophone literature, revealing how these chameleonic writers enact a variety of hybrid, transnational identities and intimacies. Examining texts from Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Canada, and the United States, this book challenges conventional expectations regarding diaspora and minority writers.Trade Review"Transitive Cultures is well-researched, eloquently written, and admirably ambitious in geographic and literary scope. Christopher B. Patterson's reframing of Anglophone literature stands to substantially enrich existing conversations among scholars in English studies, comparative literature, and Asian studies." -- Belinda Kong * author of Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square *“An original introduction to twenty-first century literary criticism, Transitive Cultures illuminates for the first time the diachronic nodes of globalization, re-orienting its history in Southeast Asia, to link Asian decolonizing discourses with American disaporic, queer, and critical cultural studies.” -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim * author of Among the White Moon Faces, recipient of the American Book Award *"Transitive Cultures deals with Anglophone Southeast Asian literature as complex cultural practices critical of multicultural governance handed down by Western colonialism. A deftly drawn map for approaching the most trenchant literary works of the region, Patterson's book is a much-needed guide for navigating the endless crisis of our ever-globalizing world." -- Vicente L. Rafael * author of Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation *New Books in Asian American Studies podcast interview with Christopher Patterson * New Books in Asian American Studies podcast *"Transitive Cultures is especially and unreservedly recommended for college and academic library Contemporary Sociology collections, as well as the supplemental studies reading lists in Asian American Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies." * Midwest Book Review *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Especially welcome is how Patterson’s transpacific frame helps to intensify rather than dilute the stakes of race, gender, and sexuality in texts that have most often been approached as national minority literatures....Patterson’s book offers new ways of reading and providing new modes of racial, gender, and sexual belonging that attend to the complexities and contradictions brought to light through a transpacific reframing of nation and transnation." * American Literary History *"Patterson’s critical perspectives on the institutionalization of diversity and multiculturalism make Transitive Cultures a necessary read for all given how these concepts permeate U.S. culture and are often used to uphold the Western, white hegemony they claim to fight against." * Popular Culture Review *"Transitive Cultures joins a growing number of scholarly essays and monographs arguing for greater attention to Southeast Asian literary and cultural production on many fronts. It makes a timely intervention into the field of contemporary literary studies by offering both a critical and an oceanic paradigm with which to illuminate the existing and emerging connections between Southeast Asian authors and texts and the promises and pitfalls of a globalizing world." * Contemporary Literature *"A rigorous comparative study of literature and a theoretically astute analysis....Transitive Cultures is a well-grounded, systematically organized investigation that offers a perceptive reconceptualization of minority literature and is particularly helpful for scholars of Asian American studies, Southeast Asian studies, theories of diaspora, postcolonialism, critical cultural studies, and beyond." * Journal of Asian American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Pluralism, Transition, and the Anglophone Part 1: Histories 1 Multiracial Clans in Colorful Malaya: Pluralism, Intimacy, and Transition 2 So that the Sparks that Fly Will Fly in All Directions: Pluralism and Revolution in the Philippines Part 2: Mobilities 3 Liberal Tolerance and Asian Migrancy: Migrancy, Satire, and Reciprocity 4 Just an American Darker than the Rest: On Queer Brown Exile Part 3: Genres 5 Mutant Hybrids Seek the Global Unconscious: Cynicism, Chick-Lit, Ecstasy 6 Speculative Fiction and Authorial Transition Conclusion: Identity, Authenticity, Collectivity Works Cited Notes Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Transgender Cinema
Book SynopsisGives readers the big picture of how trans people have been depicted on screen. The book examines a plethora of trans portrayals that emerged from varied media outlets, including documentary films, television serials, and world cinema. Along the way, it analyzes milestones in trans representation.Trade Review"Highly recommended."— Choice "Rebecca Bell-Metereau has already written the definitive work on androgyny in cinema, and now she completes the circle with what is unquestionably the paradigmatic work on transgender cinema. In Transgender Cinema, Bell-Metereau not only provides a series of incisive interpretations of important transgender films but also recognizes how these films present new possibilities for organizing our enjoyment."— Todd McGowan, author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy "Rebecca Bell-Metereau’s Transgender Cinema is a superb advance on her early, ground-breaking book, Hollywood Androgyny—it's a scrupulously researched, lucid, major contribution to the study of cinema and gender studies more generally. Timely and both politically and artistically important, it deserves the widest possible readership." — James Naremore, author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic KnowledgeTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction 1 Trans Tropes 2 Breaking Boundaries in the New Millennium 3 New Platforms and New Voices Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Selected Filmography
£17.99
Rutgers University Press Transgender Cinema
Book SynopsisTransgender Cinema reveals the scope of how trans people have been depicted on screen, starting with Charlie Chaplin’s comic drag scenes and culminating in current hits like Transparent and A Fantastic Woman. It analyzes classic Hollywood movies, indie films, documentaries, world cinema, television, and trans filmmakers and actors.Trade Review"Rebecca Bell-Metereau has already written the definitive work on androgyny in cinema, and now she completes the circle with what is unquestionably the paradigmatic work on transgender cinema. In Transgender Cinema, Bell-Metereau not only provides a series of incisive interpretations of important transgender films but also recognizes how these films present new possibilities for organizing our enjoyment." -- Todd McGowan * author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy *"Rebecca Bell-Metereau’s Transgender Cinema is a superb advance on her early, ground-breaking book, Hollywood Androgyny—it's a scrupulously researched, lucid, major contribution to the study of cinema and gender studies more generally. Timely and both politically and artistically important, it deserves the widest possible readership." -- James Naremore * author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge *"Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction 1 Trans Tropes 2 Breaking Boundaries in the New Millennium 3 New Platforms and New Voices Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Selected Filmography
£53.10
New York University Press Queer Mobilizations LGBT Activists Confront the
Book SynopsisExamines how the LGBT movement's engagement with the law shapes the very meanings of sexuality, sex, gender, privacy, discrimination, and family in law and society. This book contains essays that highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT community.Trade ReviewThis book offers a brilliant introduction to the complexity of the relationship between the law and LGBT issues. * Social Movement Studies *Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law is an edited volume that reflects the burgeoning voice and growing favorability of the LGBT movement within the world's court systems . . .This collection of essays offers a welcome interdisciplinary supplement to those areas of LGBT scholarship most closely connected to the LGBT movement - namely, queer theory, queer history, and gender studies. -- Matthew Dean Hindman * Law and Politics Book Review *This volume is a precious contribution to the study of the relationships between the law and contemporary social movements. It should not only interest specialists on LGBT activism, but shouldalso attract a wider audience, including scholars working on legal mobilisation and interactions between thelaw and social movements. -- David Paternotte * Social Movement Studies *Queer Mobilizations is one of precious few volumes that manages to bridge divisions between legal and cultural analysis and between scholarship and partisanship. Brilliantly interdisciplinary, moving fluidly between & theory and empirical-legal analysis, these essays force us to approach law as central to the current struggles over the American erotic landscape. A truly must read! -- Steven Seidman,author of Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian LifeThis innovative collection of essays delves into the complex relationships between social movements and legal institutions. The essays creatively address the contradictory goals in the battles for social change by LGBT movements and the normalization that can often result from legal decisions. An essential and unique contribution. -- Peter M. Nardi,author of Gay Mens Friendships: Invincible CommunitiesWhat is the complicated relationship between the LGBT movement and the law? The contributors to this fascinating volume offer a rich and thoughtful analysis of this important question by exploring an array of important policy issues. Timely and well written, this book should be of keen interest to teachers, scholars, movement activists, and citizens. -- Craig A. Rimmerman,author of The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilationist or Liberationist?“The editors do an excellent job in bringing together a wide variety of work in this field. It is a particularly important addition to the scholarly discourse on activism and social change, where research on the benefits and limitations of legal strategies for social movements is sorely needed. * American Journal of Sociology *“This volume will be useful to scholars who want to examine the relationship between legal institutions and social movements generally and to those who want to examine the how [sic] this relationship relates to the LGBT movement specifically... it presents a survey of the range of tactics social movements use to achieve change in legal institutions and the ways legal institutions provide barriers and opportunities for broader social change. * Mobilization *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Challenge of Law Mary Bernstein, Anna-Maria Marshall, and Scott Barclay Part I Social Movement Strategies and the Law 2 Deferral of Legal Tactics Ashley Currier 3 Queer Legal Victories Darren Rosenblum 4 Intimate Equality Nicholas Pedriana 5 Deciding Under the Influence? Courtenay W. Daum 6 Parents and Paperwork Susan M. Sterett Part II Activism, Discourse, and Legal Change 7 The Reform of Sodomy Laws From a World Society Perspective David John Frank, Steven A. Boutcher, and Bayliss Camp 8 Like Sexual Orientation? Like Gender? Amy L. Stone 9 Pushing the Envelope Charles W. Gossett 10 Explaining the Differences Marybeth Herald Part III Legal Symbols 11 It Takes (at Least) Two to Tango Shauna Fisher 12 Do Civil Rights Have a Face? Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller 13 A Jury of One's Queers Casey Charles 14 The Gay Divorcee Ellen Ann Andersen Notes References Contributors Index
£62.90
University of Minnesota Press Fascist Virilities
Book SynopsisExploring different conceptions of virility - as well as the reproductive fantasies they produce - in a selection of Italian political manifestos and political writings, this study exposes the relation between fascist rhetoric and ideology.Table of ContentsRhetorics of virility: D'Annunzio, Marinetti, Mussolini, Benjamin; fascist women and the rhetoric of virility; Mafarka and son: Marinetti's homophobic economics; D'Annunzio and the anti-democratic fantasy; fascism as discursive regime.
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent is a strongly original, frequently brilliant, cross-disciplinary study of the limitations of consent for measuring sexual freedom and sexual harm."—Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign "Joseph J. Fischel’s Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent offers a breathtakingly queer account of sex, perversion, innocence, and consent. His careful and complex reading of the social and legal meaning of the ‘sexual predator’ boldly challenges the common wisdom about the justifications for and consequences of regulating outlaw sexuality."—Katherine Franke, director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School"A very well-researched book . . . I applaud the author for the depth and breadth of his scholarship."—PsycCRITIQUES "A carefully written, intellectually challenging argument... A must read for queer and feminist scholars."—CHOICE "Through his proposal of autonomy, peremption, and an adolescence not isolated from social and historical contexts of inequality yet distinguishable from childhood, Fischel effectively moves the debate on what constitutes sexual harm well beyond the dichotomy of consent and predation." —PoLAR "The book is deeply compelling in its capacity to weave a legal archive and a popular culture archive, and in its compelling close-readings of both case law (and policy) and visual culture."—Political Theory"Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent should be considered required reading for anyone committed to thinking age as a central determinant of sexuality in consensual times."—GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay StudiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Sex and the Ends of Consent1. “Especially Heinous”: Politics, Predation, Sex Panics2. Transcendent Homosexuals, Dangerous Sex Offenders3. Numbers, Sex, Power: Age and Sexual Consent4. Growing Somewhere? Journeys of Gendered AdolescenceConclusion: Other Sex ScandalsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
Duke University Press Critically Sovereign
Book SynopsisUsing a range of historical, literary, and legal texts, the contributors to Critically Sovereign trace the ways in which gender is inextricably linked to Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian colonialism, showing how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology.Trade Review“Critically Sovereign is not only a necessary reading for those studying Indigenous politics, it should also be considered a required reading for scholars and activists who study race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and colonialism.” -- Brionca Taylor * Gender & Society *"Through a collective of brilliant voices, the essays in this book grapple with the significance of gender, sexuality, and politics with searing wisdom. Critically Sovereign gives readers a reason to hope for a decolonized tomorrow." -- Dianca Potts * Signature *"A powerful and urgently needed anthology. . . . Critically Sovereign is an essential text for anyone engaged in feminist and queer theory or projects of decolonization." -- Stephanie Lumsden * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Critically Sovereign offers a strong addition to scholarship or graduate-level coursework engaged with global feminisms. . . . Critically Sovereign provides a timely entry point into the seismic stakes and shifts within Native American and Indigenous studies." -- Kirisitina Sailiata * Feminist Review *"This collection rejects the elimination of the Indigenous through the erasure of gender and sexuality. For the queer, femme, and two-spirit people at the center of Indigenous movements for autonomy and freedom, this is a deeply important project. Critically Sovereign is an opening salvo in what I hope is a burgeoning intellectual and intersectional field." -- Anne Spice * Women's Studies Quarterly *"For those of us seeking to grow our equity work in educational settings, reading essays like those in this collection allow us to privilege-check our own approaches. The denseness of the material aside, each piece acts as a motivator for equity work and as a reminder that this work cannot be done in a vacuum, and can never be complete without an understanding of intersectionality." -- Tracey Germa * Education Forum *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Critically Sovereign / Joanne Barker 1 1. Indigenous Hawaiian Sexuality and the Politics of Nationalist Decolonization / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 45 2. Return to "The Uprising at Beautiful Mountain in 1913": Marriage and Sexuality in the Making of the Modern Navajo Nation / Jennifer Nez Denetdale 69 3. Ongoing Storms and Struggles: Gendered Violence and Resource Exploitation / Mishuana R. Goeman 99 4. Audiovisualizing Inupiaq Men and Masculinities On the Ice / Jessica Bissett Perrea 127 5. Around 1978: Family, Culture, and Race in the Federal Production of Indianness / Mark Rifkin 169 6. Loving Unbecoming: The Queer Politics of the Transitive Native / Jodi A. Byrd 207 7. Getting Dirty: The Eco-Eroticism of Women in Indigenous Oral Literatures / Melissa K. Nelson 229 Contributor Biographies 261 Index 263
£72.25
Duke University Press The Look of a Woman
Book SynopsisEric Plemons explores the ways in which facial feminization surgery is changing the ways in which trans- women are not only perceived of as women, but in the ways it is altering the project of surgical sex reassignment and the understandings of what sex means.Trade Review"This is a well-written and thought-provoking contribution not only to transgender studies but also to our debate about how we necessarily and constantly refashion ourselves." -- Sander L. Gilman * Critical Inquiry *“An exceptionally well-written book, based on highly engaged fieldwork . . . and filled with elegant and innovative theoretical insights about the material (in)stability and social urgency of sex/gender.” -- Christine Labuski * American Anthropologist *“A wonderfully terse and insightful first book. Eric Plemons’s work counts as the best of trans studies.” -- Cressida J. Heyes * American Journal of Bioethics *“In The Look of a Woman, Eric Plemons gives us a very thoughtful, well-researched, and important statement about the role of facial feminization surgery in trans-medicine.” -- Juliana Hansen * Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery *“The Look of a Woman is a new and important examination of the world of trans medicine, particularly the question of gendered identity, facial physiognomy, and most importantly the face-to-face determination of sex. An excellent and enriching engagement.” -- Bernadette Wegenstein * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In both style and content this book is eminently teachable: a great demonstration of how to build and hone an argument. It is an admirably slim volume, afforded its modest size by Plemons’ writerly technique. The prose is lucid and not unnecessarily adjectival. The more complex ideas benefit from a clarifying portrayal that will bring non-academic readers on side. . . . The book’s clarity lends it an effortless feel, which I suspect is actually an effect of labour at every scale: word, sentence, chapter, argument. This labour has certainly paid off: The Look of a Woman is a lovely addition to anthropology’s bookshelves." -- Courtney Addison * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"This book brilliantly raises some fundamental and very broad questions about the link between medicine and social norms, sex and gender, the body and the self." -- Andrae Thomazo * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. On Origins 21 Interlude. The Procedures 39 2. Femininity in the Clinic 43 Interlude. Celebrate! 67 3. Cutting as Caring 71 4. Recognition and Refusal 89 Interlude. My Adam's Apple 109 5. The Operating Room 113 6. And After 135 Conclusion 151 Notes 157 References 169 Index 185
£70.55
Duke University Press Abject Performances Aesthetic Strategies in
Book SynopsisLeticia Alvarado explores how Latino artists and cultural producers have developed and deployed an irreverent aesthetics of abjection to resist assimilation and disrupt respectability politics.Trade Review"In writing this, I am thinking of contemporary figures of abjection—the asylum seeker, the victim of domestic abuse and gang violence, the parent and child violently separated at the US border. Abject Performances does not make such figures more legible, but rather encourages readers towards being with illegibility so as to create a condition for thinking through alternatives to citizenship, to accept the unknown and unknowable as a viable, yet confounding aesthetic, and a necessary, though unsustainable politic." -- Eddie Gamboa * Women & Performance *"Abject Performances presents a dynamic, fascinating, and novel approach to understanding the role of abjection in contestatory articulations of Latino identity. From the esoteric to the popular, the sacred to the profane, Leticia Alvarado weaves together a narrative that convincingly positions the abject as an entirely distinct way of producing latinidad through diverse cultural products." -- Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins * Journal of American Studies *"Alvarado’s book usefully brings aesthetics and affect theory to bear upon not only what Latinidad means, but also how its possibilities can shift. . . . Alvarado rigorously theorizes a strand of Latinx affective and aesthetic engagement that names a feeling we already have and a perspective we need to embrace." -- Renee Hudson * ASAP/Journal *"Abject Performances is an ambitious text. The breadth of theoretical frameworks is especially impressive given the depth of critical analysis that complements them. . . . Viewing the ways in which aesthetic theory meets performance and media studies, Latino studies, and queer theory as an emerging flux continues necessary conversations in these fields." -- Lacie Rae B. Cunningham * Aztlán *"Alvarado brings together artistic, academic, and activist ways of being and doing in this world, opening spaces to imagine brighter futures. . . . Against the myth of wholeness and completion, Alvarado offers a final Muñozian gesture: circling back to the urgency of imagining futurity, Abject Performances rehearses a path towards a more sensual world not-yet-here." -- Leticia Robles-Moreno * TDR: The Drama Review *“Abject Performances lingers on moments of discord, rupture, and disunity among Latinx cultural producers and picks at the wounds to find what political possibilities might emerge in them.... I am fortified and inspired that such work is now possible....” -- Jillian Hernandez * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sublime Abjection 1 1. Other Desires: Ana Mendieta's Abject Imaginings 25 2. Phantom Assholes: Asco's Affective Vortex 57 3. Of Betties Decorous and Abject: Ugly Betty's America la fea and Nao Bustamante's America la bella 89 4. Arriving at Apostasy: Performative Testimonies of Ambivalent Belonging 131 Conclusion. Abject Embodiment 161 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209
£103.70
Duke University Press Abject Performances
Book SynopsisLeticia Alvarado explores how Latino artists and cultural producers have developed and deployed an irreverent aesthetics of abjection to resist assimilation and disrupt respectability politics.Trade Review"In writing this, I am thinking of contemporary figures of abjection—the asylum seeker, the victim of domestic abuse and gang violence, the parent and child violently separated at the US border. Abject Performances does not make such figures more legible, but rather encourages readers towards being with illegibility so as to create a condition for thinking through alternatives to citizenship, to accept the unknown and unknowable as a viable, yet confounding aesthetic, and a necessary, though unsustainable politic." -- Eddie Gamboa * Women & Performance *"Abject Performances presents a dynamic, fascinating, and novel approach to understanding the role of abjection in contestatory articulations of Latino identity. From the esoteric to the popular, the sacred to the profane, Leticia Alvarado weaves together a narrative that convincingly positions the abject as an entirely distinct way of producing latinidad through diverse cultural products." -- Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins * Journal of American Studies *"Alvarado’s book usefully brings aesthetics and affect theory to bear upon not only what Latinidad means, but also how its possibilities can shift. . . . Alvarado rigorously theorizes a strand of Latinx affective and aesthetic engagement that names a feeling we already have and a perspective we need to embrace." -- Renee Hudson * ASAP/Journal *"Abject Performances is an ambitious text. The breadth of theoretical frameworks is especially impressive given the depth of critical analysis that complements them. . . . Viewing the ways in which aesthetic theory meets performance and media studies, Latino studies, and queer theory as an emerging flux continues necessary conversations in these fields." -- Lacie Rae B. Cunningham * Aztlán *"Alvarado brings together artistic, academic, and activist ways of being and doing in this world, opening spaces to imagine brighter futures. . . . Against the myth of wholeness and completion, Alvarado offers a final Muñozian gesture: circling back to the urgency of imagining futurity, Abject Performances rehearses a path towards a more sensual world not-yet-here." -- Leticia Robles-Moreno * TDR: The Drama Review *“Abject Performances lingers on moments of discord, rupture, and disunity among Latinx cultural producers and picks at the wounds to find what political possibilities might emerge in them.... I am fortified and inspired that such work is now possible....” -- Jillian Hernandez * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sublime Abjection 1 1. Other Desires: Ana Mendieta's Abject Imaginings 25 2. Phantom Assholes: Asco's Affective Vortex 57 3. Of Betties Decorous and Abject: Ugly Betty's America la fea and Nao Bustamante's America la bella 89 4. Arriving at Apostasy: Performative Testimonies of Ambivalent Belonging 131 Conclusion. Abject Embodiment 161 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209
£26.09
Duke University Press Biblical Porn Affect Labor and Pastor Mark
Book SynopsisJessica Johnson draws on a decade of fieldwork at Pastor Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church in Seattle to show how congregants became entangled in a process of religious conviction through which they embodied Driscoll's teaching on gender and sexuality in ways that supported the church's growth.Trade Review"The enthralling story of the rise and fall of Mark Driscoll, former pastor of the defunct evangelical megachurch Mars Hill in Seattle. . . . Johnson is a talented storyteller. . . ." * Publishers Weekly *"The saga of Mars Hill Church and its founder/pastor/charlatan Mark Driscoll . . . is treated to a thoughtful, scholarly dissection in this essential book by UW lecturer Jessica Johnson. It’s almost impossible to discuss Driscoll’s ignominious legacy without letting one’s language be infected by ideological zeal (guilty). That’s why Johnson’s ethnographic approach, which focuses on the shrewd process by which Mars Hill recruited, flattered, and manipulated its herd, with special attention paid to issues of class, race, gender, and socialization." -- Sean Nelson * The Stranger *"With deep insight and an absence of judgment, Johnson interprets the driving forces behind Driscoll’s rhetoric, and the toxic effect it had on the believers who followed him." -- Claire Foster * Foreword Reviews *"Johnson’s book reminds us that Driscoll was real, that Mars Hill did loom large over the Seattle skyline, and that Driscoll’s liturgy was just as creepy and harmful as we remember it to be, if not more." -- Paul Constant * Seattle Review of Books *"This fascinating ethnographic study of Mars Hill, a 13,000-member megachurch led by Mark Driscoll, provides a thorough explanation of how toxic masculinity and militarism were turned into tools for growing an evangelical empire." * WATER *"Biblical Porn is useful not only to scholars of congregations, but also to anyone who needs help understanding how shame, fear, and bullying, as well as hope, can co-exist and invest people into institutions that, to an outsider, look clearly harmful to them." -- Rebecca Barrett-Fox * Reading Religion *"Jessica Johnson’s Biblical Porn is a magnificent contribution to the field of anthropology, especially given anthropology’s affective turn in recent years. Moreover, it is a meaningful contribution to both religious studies and gender studies given its attention to evangelicalism in the America and masculinist studies. . . . Her attention to affect and affect theory, though, is what makes Biblical Porn stand out as an original contribution to all of these fields." -- Alejandro Stephano Escalante * Religion and Gender *“Johnson draws from fields such as continental philosophy, critical theory, affect theory, feminist theory, media studies, cinema studies, and pornography studies in her work, and does so frequently and adeptly. Indeed, thanks to the skill of the author and the breadth of her readings, this book could almost be used as a survey of these fields.” -- Jon Bialecki * Current Anthropology *“Based on a decade-long study..., Johnson offers a theoretically rich and emotionally moving account of how sex served as a lynchpin in the church’s militarized theology, establishment of spiritual authority, and affective sense of belonging in the community.” -- Courtney Ann Irby * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *“Johnson’s candid reflection on the personal impact of her research demonstrates the affective impact of Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll, which she has captured and communicated disturbingly well. Her personal reflection is a welcome strand of this complex work which gives the reader a unique viewpoint. . . . Johnson’s work provides valuable insights, particularly in relation to the use of media technologies in recruiting affective labor.” -- Amy White * Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Arousing Empire 44 2. Under Conviction 76 3. Porn Again Christian? 111 4. The Porn Path 136 5. Campaigning for Empire 163 Conclusion. Godly Sorrow, Worldly Sorrow 185 Notes 195 Bibliography 229 Index 235
£90.10
Duke University Press Biblical Porn
Book SynopsisJessica Johnson draws on a decade of fieldwork at Pastor Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church in Seattle to show how congregants became entangled in a process of religious conviction through which they embodied Driscoll's teaching on gender and sexuality in ways that supported the church's growth.Trade Review"The enthralling story of the rise and fall of Mark Driscoll, former pastor of the defunct evangelical megachurch Mars Hill in Seattle. . . . Johnson is a talented storyteller. . . ." * Publishers Weekly *"The saga of Mars Hill Church and its founder/pastor/charlatan Mark Driscoll . . . is treated to a thoughtful, scholarly dissection in this essential book by UW lecturer Jessica Johnson. It’s almost impossible to discuss Driscoll’s ignominious legacy without letting one’s language be infected by ideological zeal (guilty). That’s why Johnson’s ethnographic approach, which focuses on the shrewd process by which Mars Hill recruited, flattered, and manipulated its herd, with special attention paid to issues of class, race, gender, and socialization." -- Sean Nelson * The Stranger *"With deep insight and an absence of judgment, Johnson interprets the driving forces behind Driscoll’s rhetoric, and the toxic effect it had on the believers who followed him." -- Claire Foster * Foreword Reviews *"Johnson’s book reminds us that Driscoll was real, that Mars Hill did loom large over the Seattle skyline, and that Driscoll’s liturgy was just as creepy and harmful as we remember it to be, if not more." -- Paul Constant * Seattle Review of Books *"This fascinating ethnographic study of Mars Hill, a 13,000-member megachurch led by Mark Driscoll, provides a thorough explanation of how toxic masculinity and militarism were turned into tools for growing an evangelical empire." * WATER *"Biblical Porn is useful not only to scholars of congregations, but also to anyone who needs help understanding how shame, fear, and bullying, as well as hope, can co-exist and invest people into institutions that, to an outsider, look clearly harmful to them." -- Rebecca Barrett-Fox * Reading Religion *"Jessica Johnson’s Biblical Porn is a magnificent contribution to the field of anthropology, especially given anthropology’s affective turn in recent years. Moreover, it is a meaningful contribution to both religious studies and gender studies given its attention to evangelicalism in the America and masculinist studies. . . . Her attention to affect and affect theory, though, is what makes Biblical Porn stand out as an original contribution to all of these fields." -- Alejandro Stephano Escalante * Religion and Gender *“Johnson draws from fields such as continental philosophy, critical theory, affect theory, feminist theory, media studies, cinema studies, and pornography studies in her work, and does so frequently and adeptly. Indeed, thanks to the skill of the author and the breadth of her readings, this book could almost be used as a survey of these fields.” -- Jon Bialecki * Current Anthropology *“Based on a decade-long study..., Johnson offers a theoretically rich and emotionally moving account of how sex served as a lynchpin in the church’s militarized theology, establishment of spiritual authority, and affective sense of belonging in the community.” -- Courtney Ann Irby * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *“Johnson’s candid reflection on the personal impact of her research demonstrates the affective impact of Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll, which she has captured and communicated disturbingly well. Her personal reflection is a welcome strand of this complex work which gives the reader a unique viewpoint. . . . Johnson’s work provides valuable insights, particularly in relation to the use of media technologies in recruiting affective labor.” -- Amy White * Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Arousing Empire 44 2. Under Conviction 76 3. Porn Again Christian? 111 4. The Porn Path 136 5. Campaigning for Empire 163 Conclusion. Godly Sorrow, Worldly Sorrow 185 Notes 195 Bibliography 229 Index 235
£22.49
Seagull Books London Ltd Love and Reparation
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Danish Sheikh’s work shows that it is possible to think law, literature, and love together -- and to do so with vulnerability, compassion, and intelligence. These plays bring together incredibly disparate philosophical questions, political movements, and popular culture, anchored by a commitment to justice. In the world of Love and Reparation, the courtroom becomes a place of more than confession and prosecution – it becomes a site of storytelling and the imagination of alternative possibilities for justice.” -- Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong“Love and Reparation offers any law teacher a rare opportunity to discuss with students the elusive relations of law and life. Contempt, the first play in this volume, demonstrates the necessity of drawing methods of text and performance together to illuminate how a trial is both an event of law, and also a form of political story telling about how people’s lived experiences are exposed or transformed when they come to law. In my own experience, as an audience member, and as a teacher of the text, this is a work that stages informed, critical engagement with law, and important collective conversations about personal and public responsibility.” -- Ann Genovese, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School“The text nurtures the reader’s meandering by creating large, subtly interconnected spaces, opening multiple pathways for us to travel. I loved the journey it took me on, loved the writing, loved how it connected the very intimate with the political and legal. As wonderful as it would be to watch this play staged, it fully stands as a piece of writing in and of itself.” -- Klaus Mueller, Founder and Chair, Salzburg Global LGBT Forum“How does law, whether it is the law contained within legal statutes, the law of love, friendship, communitas and strife, or the symbolic in psychology, insinuate itself into our queer lives, loves and longings? Using the conceit of the dialogue and the dialogic in 'The Symposium', Plato’s Greek play on love, Danish Sheikh dramatizes something beautiful, tender and extraordinary in these two plays. The Platonic dialogue on love frames and orchestrates both plays—and through them the playwright makes us witness, participate in and feel the myriad stories through which queer lives shape themselves before and after the sodomy statute was read down. The plays stage interwoven genres through which people find or lose their voices, giving us the fully banal horror of homophobia in the witness statements when 377 was reinstated interspersed with affidavits from queer chronicles, and post 377 being struck down, the jostling montage of different voices, whether that of lovers, organizers and lawyers, friends or therapist and patient, stumbling through courses to lives after.” -- Geeta Patel, Professor, University of Virginia“Because ‘reason will only take us so far’, in these sharp, witty and heart breaking plays, Danish Sheikh immerses us in the affective lives of law—in particular, the law that criminalised homosexuality in India until 2018. Through glimpses of the many queer lives that are shaped in ways both direct and subtle by the violence of the law, Sheikh forces the law to confront the complex realities of these lives. Lurking beneath the frequently self-deprecating humour of his characters is a profound meditation on the weighty afterlives of a law that ostensibly no longer exists (or does it remain forever enshrined in some deepest recess of the psyche?). Brace yourself for a ride through contempt, pride, shame, love, repair and a range of other emotional states for which we do not yet have names.” -- Rahul Rao, Reader in Political Theory, SOAS, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I. ContemptPart II. Pride
£15.19
University of Texas Press Brown Trans Figurations
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention for the National Women’s Studies Association''s 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize2021 Finalist Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards2022 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQStudies, Popular Culture Association The Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, GL/Q Caucus, Modern Language Association (MLA) 2022 AAHHE Book of the Year Award, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theoreTrade Review[Brown Trans Figurations'] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture...scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. * Publishers Weekly *A needed contribution to trans Latinx studies. [Brown Trans Figurations] offers a series of compelling close readings of literature, photography, film, and other accounts of Chicanx trans people and representation in the United States. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Brown Trans Figurations is an extremely well-written and groundbreaking book, accessible yet simultaneously quite complex, in Latina/o/x studies. It will be required reading in queer, trans, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and in American studies and ethnic studies classrooms...Brown Trans Figurations is crucial reading for persons interested in the differences between queer and trans Latinx experience, the tensions between Chicana feminism and transgender and transsexual lives, and the racism that infects dominant representations of trans and queer Chicanxs and Latinxs...Galarte’s theorization of brown trans fgurations transforms Latina/o studies in profound ways. * Latino Studies *Everyone would benefit from reading this book, and learning about the brown trans community...The book is extremely relevant and important in this current political climate that has villainized both the trans and Latinx community for different reasons. Libraries that have LGBTQ and Latinx collections should consider purchasing this book. If Galarte has shown anything, it is that the issues within those communities intersect and must be addressed simultaneously. * International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together Chapter 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive Chapter 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other Chapter 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM Borderlands Chapter 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities Coda: Reading with the X Notes References Index
£78.30
Duke University Press The Surgery Issue
Book Synopsis
£8.99
Duke University Press Vexy Thing
Book SynopsisImani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifactsranging from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary artfrom the Enlightenment to the present.Trade Review"Vexy Thing recontextualizes feminism and patriarchy in an era when both terms have been systemically emptied by market forces; she reminds us that the patriarch is an institutional concept and reminds us of its insidiousness in our everyday life through a devastatingly sharp historical critique, necessarily centering black women as the locus of her conversation." -- Julianne Escobedo Shepherd * Jezebel *"Using historical examples, narrative vignettes, and meditative interludes, Perry pushes the conventions of academic writing in part to advocate for feminism as critical reading practice rather than doctrine. . . . [She] invite[s] the reader to consider patriarchy not as a parallel structure repeating itself across cultures but rather an iterative and changeable force constituted through its interactions with race, empire, geographic location, and other intersections. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- S. L. Vandermeade * Choice *"Perry presents a feminist reading praxis that examines history, theory and academic scholarship to provide the basis for understanding how patriarchy informs our individual and collective selves. This book should be on the shelf of any graduate student working in the fields of feminist scholarship and critical race theory." -- Katelan Dunn * LSE Review of Books *"What is patriarchy? This question is at the heart of Vexy Thing, but Perry does more than define patriarchy. She names it, identifies it, locates its global reach, examines its historical construction, and explores its present-day impact. Vexy Thing does a lot and in a good way. It is a capacious work of black feminist theory that works through patriarchy’s violence to imagine personhood, livability, and a more just world." -- Annette Joseph-Gabriel * Public Books *"Vexy Thing is a sophisticated mapping of patriarchy from the Enlightenment to the present." -- Natasha Behl * Politics & Gender *"Vexy Thing is an immense scholarly undertaking, reviewing theory and research spanning multiple disciplines. It is also a call for the reader—students, scholars, theorists, activists—to challenge the patriarchal doctrines built into our own lives and to bring the voices of those on the margins to the center." -- Wendy M. Christensen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“This is the sort of book that initially draws you in with its witty title and beautiful cover (despite attempts not to judge a book…). I soon found myself recommending it to everyone I met even before I had even reached the end. Its breadth and scope [are] breathtaking. It spirals out in all directions and the content encompasses film, literature, historical documents, philosophy and policy…. I would argue that reading this book is as good a start as any for developing a new feminist praxis.” -- Rosie Buckland * Women's Studies International Forum *"Vexy Thing is not just a timely history lesson. In this text we are shown how to read as liberation feminists who take seriously the task of tracing patriarchy as a foundational architecture of gender domination, while imagining and enacting the possibilities of engendered freedom. Through the stylistic strategies of vignette, story, description, theorization, and analysis, Perry forces us to shift our praxis and to ‘read through the layers of gender forms of domination’…. [W]hen reading Vexy Thing, one would do well to give herself ample time and room to delight in the experience." -- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant * Journal of American History *"Vexy Thing is a groundbreaking work of Black feminist scholarship. Both generously worldbuilding and rigorously deconstructive, it offers a challenging vision of liberation that will be of value to scholars, students, and activists alike, a vital text for anyone seeking creative, critical, and always personal tools for getting out from under the hold of patriarchy's racial logics." -- Matty Hemming * Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions of Modernity 14 2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject 42 Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody's Supposed to Be Here 86 3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman 98 4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject 129 5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of Manhood 151 Interlude 2. Returning to the Witches 171 6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape 177 7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire 199 8. The Vicar of Liberation 226 Notes 255 Bibliography 273 Index 283
£75.65
Duke University Press Vexy Thing
Book SynopsisImani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifactsranging from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary artfrom the Enlightenment to the present.Trade Review"Vexy Thing recontextualizes feminism and patriarchy in an era when both terms have been systemically emptied by market forces; she reminds us that the patriarch is an institutional concept and reminds us of its insidiousness in our everyday life through a devastatingly sharp historical critique, necessarily centering black women as the locus of her conversation." -- Julianne Escobedo Shepherd * Jezebel *"Using historical examples, narrative vignettes, and meditative interludes, Perry pushes the conventions of academic writing in part to advocate for feminism as critical reading practice rather than doctrine. . . . [She] invite[s] the reader to consider patriarchy not as a parallel structure repeating itself across cultures but rather an iterative and changeable force constituted through its interactions with race, empire, geographic location, and other intersections. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- S. L. Vandermeade * Choice *"Perry presents a feminist reading praxis that examines history, theory and academic scholarship to provide the basis for understanding how patriarchy informs our individual and collective selves. This book should be on the shelf of any graduate student working in the fields of feminist scholarship and critical race theory." -- Katelan Dunn * LSE Review of Books *"What is patriarchy? This question is at the heart of Vexy Thing, but Perry does more than define patriarchy. She names it, identifies it, locates its global reach, examines its historical construction, and explores its present-day impact. Vexy Thing does a lot and in a good way. It is a capacious work of black feminist theory that works through patriarchy’s violence to imagine personhood, livability, and a more just world." -- Annette Joseph-Gabriel * Public Books *"Vexy Thing is a sophisticated mapping of patriarchy from the Enlightenment to the present." -- Natasha Behl * Politics & Gender *"Vexy Thing is an immense scholarly undertaking, reviewing theory and research spanning multiple disciplines. It is also a call for the reader—students, scholars, theorists, activists—to challenge the patriarchal doctrines built into our own lives and to bring the voices of those on the margins to the center." -- Wendy M. Christensen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“This is the sort of book that initially draws you in with its witty title and beautiful cover (despite attempts not to judge a book…). I soon found myself recommending it to everyone I met even before I had even reached the end. Its breadth and scope [are] breathtaking. It spirals out in all directions and the content encompasses film, literature, historical documents, philosophy and policy…. I would argue that reading this book is as good a start as any for developing a new feminist praxis.” -- Rosie Buckland * Women's Studies International Forum *"Vexy Thing is not just a timely history lesson. In this text we are shown how to read as liberation feminists who take seriously the task of tracing patriarchy as a foundational architecture of gender domination, while imagining and enacting the possibilities of engendered freedom. Through the stylistic strategies of vignette, story, description, theorization, and analysis, Perry forces us to shift our praxis and to ‘read through the layers of gender forms of domination’…. [W]hen reading Vexy Thing, one would do well to give herself ample time and room to delight in the experience." -- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant * Journal of American History *"Vexy Thing is a groundbreaking work of Black feminist scholarship. Both generously worldbuilding and rigorously deconstructive, it offers a challenging vision of liberation that will be of value to scholars, students, and activists alike, a vital text for anyone seeking creative, critical, and always personal tools for getting out from under the hold of patriarchy's racial logics." -- Matty Hemming * Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions of Modernity 14 2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject 42 Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody's Supposed to Be Here 86 3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman 98 4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject 129 5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of Manhood 151 Interlude 2. Returning to the Witches 171 6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape 177 7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire 199 8. The Vicar of Liberation 226 Notes 255 Bibliography 273 Index 283
£20.69
Duke University Press Seeking Rights from the Left
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Seeking Rights from the Left evaluate the impact of the Latin American “Pink Tide” of left-leaning governments (2000-2015) on feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues.Trade Review"Seeking Rights from the Left provides a relevant and nuanced overview of the extremely complex and diverse political processes commonly known as the Pink Tide in Latin America, focusing on gender and sexuality issues. . . . The book raises old and new questions about relationships among the left—broadly speaking—and feminist, women’s, gay, lesbian, and transgender political demands." -- Nayla Luz Vacarezza * Mobilization *"The depth of analysis contained in this collection is remarkable. As the chapters reveal, the quest to secure political rights for women and the LGBT community during the Pink Tide era was full of contradictions and mixed results. However, as Sonia E. Alvarez suggests in her afterword, that is precisely what makes this a valuable contribution to the fields of Latin American Studies, Gender and Sexuality, and Politics: it provides a historical dimension to further understand the vibrant cultural developments of activists who remain committed to defend human rights today." -- Ángela Pérez-Villa * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"As an edited volume, the book is well organized and thematically coherent. . . . The introduction written by Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush should be carefully read and reread. Here the authors provide a wonderfully written exposition of the volume’s conceptual and methodological framework and the research questions animating not just its own empirical chapters but the broader field as well. As such, I recommend it (and the rest of the volume) to anyone teaching relevant graduate seminars." -- Matthew Ward * Gender & Society *“One of the strengths of this volume is that each chapter features many different voices–from the elite as well as the marginalized and from both political insiders and outsiders–in order to provide a full and complete picture of a critical period in Latin American history…. Seeking Rights from the Left is an intriguing and thought-provoking volume.” -- Evan C. Rothera * Social Movement Studies *"Seeking Rights from the Left is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on feminist and queer activism, and represents an important and timely contribution to scholarly understandings of the relationship between grassroots identity-based movements and state power." -- Baird Campbell * Journal of Latin American Research *"This is a superb comparative study of how the Pink Tide's leadership engaged with the existing demands of feminist, women's, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations.… Seeking Rights is a very helpful tool for teaching comparative politics and intersectionality because it studies complex coalitions that were created to change the traditional ideas about gender and sexuality." -- Adriana Novoa * Hypatia *“[Seeking Rights from the Left] is a must-read.... What this book illustrates is the need for any progressive movement to make its engagement with sexual and reproductive rights central rather than peripheral to its vision for a better Latin America.” -- Cora Fernández Anderson * Journal of Latin American Studies *“Seeking Rights from the Left takes up the important question of how far the grouping of post-dictatorship left-wing administrations known as the Pink Tide . . . managed to advance feminist goals for sexual, LGBTQ, and reproductive rights. . . . A richly researched volume.” -- Rachel Nolan * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Amy Lind ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Contesting the Pink Tide / Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush 1 1. Explaining Advances and Drawbacks in Women's and LGBTIQ Rights in Uruguay: Multisited Pressures, Political Resistance, and Structural Inertias / Niki Johnson, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, and Diego Sempol 48 2. LGBT Rights Yes, Abortion No: Explaining Uneven Trajectories in Argentina under Kirchnerism (2003-15) / Constanza Tabbush, María Constanza Díaz, Catalina Trebisacce, and Victoria Keller 82 3. Working within a Gendered Political Consensus: Uneven Progress on Gender and Sexuality Rights in Chile / Gwynn Thomas 115 4. Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Public Policy: Progress and Regression in Depatriarchalizing and Deheteronormalizing the State / Marlise Matos 144 5. De Jure Transformation, De Facto Stagnation: The Status of Women's and LGBT Rights in Bolivia / Shawnna Mullenax 173 6. Toward Feminist Socialism? Gender, Sexuality, Popular Power, and the State in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution / Rachel Elfenbein 200 7. Nicaragua and Ortega's "Second" Revolution: "Restituting the Rights" of Women and Sexual Diversity? / Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas 235 8. Ecuador's Citizen Revolution (2007-17): A Lost Decade for Women's Rights and Gender Equality / Annie Wilkinson 269 Afterword. Maneuvering the "U-Turn": Comparative Lessons from the Pink Tide and Forward-Looking Strategies for Feminist and Queer Activisms in the Americas / Sonia E. Alvarez 305 Contributors 313 Index 317
£98.60
Duke University Press Mobile Subjects
Book SynopsisThe first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the idTrade Review"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- N. B. Rosenthal * Choice *"Destabilizing formulaic transnational mobility stories that rely on an epic departure-and-return script, Aizura offers a powerful challenge to consider the wild movements of minor mobilities and the potentiality of staying in place." -- Emmanuel David * TSQ *"[This] book evokes a pondering of how Transgender Studies as a field will move itself forward. Aizura’s own urging to give a voice to transgender people who straddle the margins of privileged trans-normativity reiterates the field’s mission of breaking new paths for inclusivity, intersectionality, and independence from myopic visions of what being transgender means today." -- Muriel Vernon * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Mobile Subjects is intentional and thoughtful in its application of interdisciplinary research. . . . Through his multi-method and intersectional approach, Aizura brings forth a conversation that simultaneously accounts for the impact of gender, race, and class on seeking out and obtaining gender reassignment technologies, as well as the varying policies, practices, and vernacular inherent to transnational study." -- Jacob Barry * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *“Mobile Subjects provides new insights relevant and challenging for those interested in a range of topics and methodologies. This is a required read for our times...." -- Lars Olav Aaberg * newbooks.asia *“... [S]cholars in a wide range of fields will find this book useful.... Mobile Subjects exemplifies what can be done when trans studies is integrated with science, technology, and society studies, and more ‘traditional’ gender studies theories, such as queer theory, transnational feminisms, and Marxist theory.” -- K.S. Shindle * Catalyst *“Mobile Subjects is a complex, wide-ranging, and powerfully provocative exploration of how gender reassignment has been and continues to be shaped by physical and metaphorical tropes of movement....” -- Isaac Gagné * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Provincializing Trans 1 Part I 1. The Persistence of Trans Travel Narratives 29 2. On Location: Transsexual Autobiographies, Whiteness, and Travel 59 3. Documentary and the Metronormative Trans Migration Plot 03 Part II Interlude 135 4. Gender Reassignment and Transnational Entrepreneurialisms of the Self 137 5. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics 174 Epilogue: Visions of Trans Worlding 207 Notes 221 Bibliography 245 Index 269
£98.60
Duke University Press Going Stealth
Book SynopsisToby Beauchamp positions surveillance as central to the understanding of transgender politics to show how contemporary security practices extend into everyday gendered lives.Trade Review"[Going Stealth] accomplishes the best of what we imagine theory to be good for—making sense of our everyday experiences, grounding personal interactions with the state in histories of structural oppression, and illuminating the broader context of our banal negotiations between dignity, resilience, convenience, resistance, politics-inpractice, and privilege. . . . Going Stealth is a helpful contribution to multiple literatures, and it demonstrates the ways in which robust interdisciplinarity also requires solidarity in scholarship." -- Lyndsey P. Beutin * Society & Space *"For academics and those with the wherewithal to struggle through it there's a great deal of intellectual value to be found in a book such as this." -- Hans Rollmann * PopMatters *“Going Stealth is … topical and urgent, delving into contemporary hot-button issues of gendered bathrooms and TSA screening practices.” -- Elise Morrison * TDR: The Drama Review *"Going Stealth is written into scholarship that moves transgender studies beyond concentration on identity. Moreover, it is a significant contribution to research at the juncture between gender, sexuality, race, disability and surveillance studies. Going Stealth should appeal to any scholar in cultural studies, sociology and border studies." -- Iwo Nord * European Journal of Women's Studies *"Going Stealth is an enjoyable read, offering timely reflection on security, conformity, fear, citizenship, and difference in our turbulent times." -- Sara L. Crawley * Gender & Society *"Going Stealth will be useful for expanding on and bringing together the works of transgender studies and cultural studies, in particular appealing to sexuality scholars in general. This book will be of interest to those who are interested in the intersections between visibility, security, gender deviance, dis/ability, race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation/citizenship." -- Kerry Scroggie, Amanda Brown & Esther Rothblum * Journal of Homosexuality *“Beauchamp’s Going Stealth is a careful meshwork of historical and political analysis, attentive to the problems of existing critical frames.” -- Tony Wei Ling * Catalyst *“Toby Beauchamp’s Going Stealth is a much-needed analysis into practices of state surveillance and its impact on the regulation of gender in the United States.... Going Stealth asks the reader to question not only notions of visibility but also the very desire of recognition itself.” -- Sy Simms * TSQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Suspicious Visibility 1 1. Deceptive Documents 24 2. Flying under the Radar 50 3. Bathrooms, Borders, and Biometrics 79 4. Sensitive Information in the Manning Case 107 Conclusion. On Endurance 131 Notes 141 Bibliography 173 Index 185
£70.55
Duke University Press Sexuality Disability and Aging
Book SynopsisDrawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one''s sense of self. She challenges common conceptions that equate the decline of bodily potential and ability with a permanent and irretrievable loss, arguing that such a loss can be both temporary and positively transformative. With Sexuality, Disability, and Aging, Gallop explores and celebrates how sexuality transforms and becomes more queer in the lives of the no longer young and the no longer able while at the same time demonstrating how disability can generate new forms of sexual fantasy and erotic possibility.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 Female Masculinity
Book SynopsisIn this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinitywhich features a new preface by the authorJack Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities, cataloging the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.Trade Review“[Halberstam] steers herself admirably between the subtle and not so subtle interactions between the personal and theoretical.” -- Millissa Deitz * Screening the Past *“[R]efreshing . . . . Halberstam forces us to look at familiar texts and problems in fresh ways and leaves room for future scholarship to expand her critical insights. . . . [S]he has taken on a vast project and is clearly committed to sketching the contours of many possible approaches to female masculinity rather than dwelling on one or two . . . .[A]ccessible and enlightening . . . .” -- Rachel Adams * GLQ *“A significant contribution to a growing genre of feminist analyses of masculinity. . . . Female Masculinity's greatest strength lies in its scope. . . . [It] should rank among our most important, sophisticated feminist analyses of the way maleness is constructed in Western culture. Because of its focus on specifically lesbian contributions to masculinity, Halberstam's book surpasses its predecessors in its special relevance to lesbian readers. Finally (and perhaps most importantly for Halberstam's peers), because of her book's attention to both popular and high art subjects, Female Masculinity is an important contribution to the growing field of Cultural Studies.” -- Heather Findlay * Lesbian Review of Books *“Halberstam’s refusal to work within the ‘difference’ paradigm raises a series of exciting questions . . . . Female Masculinity takes on everything from eighteenth-century frictioners (tribades) to mustachioed drag kings like Mo B. Dick and Buster Hymen to transgender dykes. Halberstam argues convincingly that there has been persistent bias against masculine women in the lesbian community and in lesbian criticism. Moreover, she uses the example of the masculine woman to suggest that lesbians need a subtler vocabulary for sexuality and gender. . . .” -- Heather Love * Transition *“In this landmark study, Halberstam consolidates her position as a key theorist within Queer scholarship. Female Masculinity is an immensely persuasive, powerfully-written text that imparts exciting and important theoretical ideas. It constitutes a valuable initial challenge to those in feminism and cultural studies who conflate masculinity with maleness, and offers an inspiring start for ongoing study.” -- Maria Antoniou * Feminist Theory *"[A] unique offering in queer studies: a study of the masculine lesbian woman. Halberstam makes a compelling argument for a more flexible taxonomy of masculinity, including not only men, who have historically held the power in society, but also women who embody qualities that are usually associated with maleness, such as strength, authority, and independence." * Library Journal *"Halberstam’s book can be added to the list of important studies of masculinity and femininity. . . . Along with Judith Butler, Terry Castle, Sue-Ellen Case, and Eve K. Sedgwick, Halberstam—especially in her previous work on masculinity and lesbianism—is already established as one of the most thought-provoking voices in queer studies. This book will only enhance that reputation. Female Masculinity should find a wide readership. . . ." * Choice *"Judith Halberstam’s Female Masculinity is truly a pioneering document which disrupts eras of silence surrounding this topic. . . . [S]he crafts her language in a very inviting and accessible manner. She is clearly trying to be understood, which is a refreshing change from too many academic works. In addition, she infuses humor and little personal preferences or irritations (mostly through colorful adjective choices) into the middle of serious analysis, which makes the whole academic process more interesting and less elusive. . . . Whether you agree or disagree with her choices, the ideas are definitely stimulating. It is a book you’ll want to sit down with your friends and talk about. You find yourself overjoyed at one moment that someone has finally written down exactly what you’ve felt but haven’t been able to articulate, and in the next moment irritated because you think she’s mistaken. It is essentially an opening to the major taboo of masculinity in women . . . . [T]he genuine enthusiasm she brings to her research is catchy and this book could very well be the catalyst for expanding a whole field of thought. And, on a personal level, it simply affirms our lives and ideas." * Gay and Lesbian Times (San Diego) *"Judith Halberstam’s new book, Female Masculinity, is an extraordinary and studied work that carefully presents an analysis of gender, and more specifically, masculinity, without over-simplification or narrow definition. . . . This is the most thorough and broad-visioned work on female masculinity that I have yet seen. Halberstam’s work is an essential contribution to our increasing understanding of gender expression and its relationship to biology and sexual orientation, as well as to everything else." * Lambda Book Report *"There is a need for this book; Halberstam’s analysis offers the reader a fresh and positive spin on the much maligned stone butch figure, for example, and the book contains an interesting selection of photos of drag kings, transgender, and butch women. There are long sections detailing butch characters in film and modern drag performers, an area on which little has been written." * Siren *"Female Masculinity is a full-on attack on the idea that masculinity is exclusively—or even primarily—the property of men. . . . [It] aims to help restore a sense of butch pride, and to validate the entitlement of women to their own masculinity. . . . There’s an interesting defense of the stone butch, more often cast as a damaged and dysfunctional figure, and a walk along the debated borders between butch lesbians and female to male transsexuals. An accessible chapter on butch representation in film observes the emasculation of butches in mainstream productions—Fried Green Tomatoes, Desert Hearts—and there’s a useful analysis of what’s at stake in the drag king club acts in America and the UK. . . . [This is] the first full-length study in a crucial area and it’s a great starting point." * Diva *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xi Preface xxiii 1. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men 1 2. Perverse Presentation: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders 45 3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion 75 4. Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues 111 5. Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum 141 6. Looking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film 175 7. Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance 231 8. Raging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities 267 Notes 279 Bibliography 307 Filmography 319 Index 323
£75.65
Duke University Press Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies
Book SynopsisDamon R. Young tracks the emergence of new forms of sexuality in French and American cinema from the 1950s to the present, showing how cinema transformed narratives of sexuality and how women and queers were both agents and objects of that transformation.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
£80.10
Duke University Press Seeking Rights from the Left
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Seeking Rights from the Left evaluate the impact of the Latin American Pink Tide of left-leaning governments (2000-2015) on feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues.Trade Review"Seeking Rights from the Left provides a relevant and nuanced overview of the extremely complex and diverse political processes commonly known as the Pink Tide in Latin America, focusing on gender and sexuality issues. . . . The book raises old and new questions about relationships among the left—broadly speaking—and feminist, women’s, gay, lesbian, and transgender political demands." -- Nayla Luz Vacarezza * Mobilization *"The depth of analysis contained in this collection is remarkable. As the chapters reveal, the quest to secure political rights for women and the LGBT community during the Pink Tide era was full of contradictions and mixed results. However, as Sonia E. Alvarez suggests in her afterword, that is precisely what makes this a valuable contribution to the fields of Latin American Studies, Gender and Sexuality, and Politics: it provides a historical dimension to further understand the vibrant cultural developments of activists who remain committed to defend human rights today." -- Ángela Pérez-Villa * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"As an edited volume, the book is well organized and thematically coherent. . . . The introduction written by Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush should be carefully read and reread. Here the authors provide a wonderfully written exposition of the volume’s conceptual and methodological framework and the research questions animating not just its own empirical chapters but the broader field as well. As such, I recommend it (and the rest of the volume) to anyone teaching relevant graduate seminars." -- Matthew Ward * Gender & Society *“One of the strengths of this volume is that each chapter features many different voices–from the elite as well as the marginalized and from both political insiders and outsiders–in order to provide a full and complete picture of a critical period in Latin American history…. Seeking Rights from the Left is an intriguing and thought-provoking volume.” -- Evan C. Rothera * Social Movement Studies *"Seeking Rights from the Left is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on feminist and queer activism, and represents an important and timely contribution to scholarly understandings of the relationship between grassroots identity-based movements and state power." -- Baird Campbell * Journal of Latin American Research *"This is a superb comparative study of how the Pink Tide's leadership engaged with the existing demands of feminist, women's, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations.… Seeking Rights is a very helpful tool for teaching comparative politics and intersectionality because it studies complex coalitions that were created to change the traditional ideas about gender and sexuality." -- Adriana Novoa * Hypatia *“[Seeking Rights from the Left] is a must-read.... What this book illustrates is the need for any progressive movement to make its engagement with sexual and reproductive rights central rather than peripheral to its vision for a better Latin America.” -- Cora Fernández Anderson * Journal of Latin American Studies *“Seeking Rights from the Left takes up the important question of how far the grouping of post-dictatorship left-wing administrations known as the Pink Tide . . . managed to advance feminist goals for sexual, LGBTQ, and reproductive rights. . . . A richly researched volume.” -- Rachel Nolan * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Amy Lind ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Contesting the Pink Tide / Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush 1 1. Explaining Advances and Drawbacks in Women's and LGBTIQ Rights in Uruguay: Multisited Pressures, Political Resistance, and Structural Inertias / Niki Johnson, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, and Diego Sempol 48 2. LGBT Rights Yes, Abortion No: Explaining Uneven Trajectories in Argentina under Kirchnerism (2003-15) / Constanza Tabbush, María Constanza Díaz, Catalina Trebisacce, and Victoria Keller 82 3. Working within a Gendered Political Consensus: Uneven Progress on Gender and Sexuality Rights in Chile / Gwynn Thomas 115 4. Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Public Policy: Progress and Regression in Depatriarchalizing and Deheteronormalizing the State / Marlise Matos 144 5. De Jure Transformation, De Facto Stagnation: The Status of Women's and LGBT Rights in Bolivia / Shawnna Mullenax 173 6. Toward Feminist Socialism? Gender, Sexuality, Popular Power, and the State in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution / Rachel Elfenbein 200 7. Nicaragua and Ortega's "Second" Revolution: "Restituting the Rights" of Women and Sexual Diversity? / Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas 235 8. Ecuador's Citizen Revolution (2007-17): A Lost Decade for Women's Rights and Gender Equality / Annie Wilkinson 269 Afterword. Maneuvering the "U-Turn": Comparative Lessons from the Pink Tide and Forward-Looking Strategies for Feminist and Queer Activisms in the Americas / Sonia E. Alvarez 305 Contributors 313 Index 317
£25.19
Duke University Press Mobile Subjects
Book SynopsisThe first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the idTrade Review"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- N. B. Rosenthal * Choice *"Destabilizing formulaic transnational mobility stories that rely on an epic departure-and-return script, Aizura offers a powerful challenge to consider the wild movements of minor mobilities and the potentiality of staying in place." -- Emmanuel David * TSQ *"[This] book evokes a pondering of how Transgender Studies as a field will move itself forward. Aizura’s own urging to give a voice to transgender people who straddle the margins of privileged trans-normativity reiterates the field’s mission of breaking new paths for inclusivity, intersectionality, and independence from myopic visions of what being transgender means today." -- Muriel Vernon * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Mobile Subjects is intentional and thoughtful in its application of interdisciplinary research. . . . Through his multi-method and intersectional approach, Aizura brings forth a conversation that simultaneously accounts for the impact of gender, race, and class on seeking out and obtaining gender reassignment technologies, as well as the varying policies, practices, and vernacular inherent to transnational study." -- Jacob Barry * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *“Mobile Subjects provides new insights relevant and challenging for those interested in a range of topics and methodologies. This is a required read for our times...." -- Lars Olav Aaberg * newbooks.asia *“... [S]cholars in a wide range of fields will find this book useful.... Mobile Subjects exemplifies what can be done when trans studies is integrated with science, technology, and society studies, and more ‘traditional’ gender studies theories, such as queer theory, transnational feminisms, and Marxist theory.” -- K.S. Shindle * Catalyst *“Mobile Subjects is a complex, wide-ranging, and powerfully provocative exploration of how gender reassignment has been and continues to be shaped by physical and metaphorical tropes of movement....” -- Isaac Gagné * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Provincializing Trans 1 Part I 1. The Persistence of Trans Travel Narratives 29 2. On Location: Transsexual Autobiographies, Whiteness, and Travel 59 3. Documentary and the Metronormative Trans Migration Plot 03 Part II Interlude 135 4. Gender Reassignment and Transnational Entrepreneurialisms of the Self 137 5. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics 174 Epilogue: Visions of Trans Worlding 207 Notes 221 Bibliography 245 Index 269
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