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Book SynopsisThis provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression.Trade Review“Ahmed’s analyses are spot-on and provocative. . . . Ahmed’s analysis of this and other topics is unpredictable and engaging.” - Heather Seggel, The Gay & Lesbian Review“Ahmed's language is a joy, and her work on each case study is filled with insight and rigor as she doggedly traces the social networks of dominance concealed and congealed around happiness. . . . The Promise of Happiness is an important intervention in affect studies that crucially approaches one of the major assumptions guiding social life: the assumption that we need to be happy.” - Sean Grattan, Social Text“. . . [F]ascinating and important, both in showing us how to read some keytexts differently and in showing how to think more carefully about happinessand its politics. . . . [T]here is a perverse happiness to be taken from readingsuch an interesting book about the insufficiency of happiness.” - Richard Ashcroft, Textual Practice“The Promise of Happiness bridges philosophy and cultural studies, phenomenology and feminist thought—providing a fresh and incisive approach to some of the most urgent contemporary feminist issues. Ahmed navigates this bridge with a voice both clear and warm to convey ideas that are as complex as they are intimate and accessible. Her treatment of affect as a phenomenological project provides feminist theorists a way out of mind-body divides without reverting to essentialisms, enabling Ahmed to attend to intersectional and global power relations with acuity and originality.” - Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Signs“The Promise of Happiness is richly valuable not only for its discussion of utilitarianism but also for its broader deconstruction of the workings of happiness in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and social science. Whereas other feminist theorists also occasionally cast a critical eye toward happiness, or raise consciousness of female unhappiness, Ahmed has produced a volume that is unparalleled in its sustained and extensive expose´ of the entanglements between discourses of happiness and oppression.” - Andrea Veltman, Hypatia“Ahmed enhances feminism’s critical toolbox by guiding us to regard affect as a cipher for society as we track how it produces and is produced by politics. ... Ahmed draws on feminism to potentially enhance the quality of life for her readers, who are offered mindful practices of relinquishing attachment to various ideals in a text that is neither Pollyannaish nor depressing.” - Naomi Greyser, Feminist Studies“At a time when happiness studies are all the rage and feminism is accused of destroying women’s happiness, Sara Ahmed offers a bold critique of the consensus that happiness is an unconditional good. Her new book asks searching questions about the nature of the good life, making its case in a wonderfully pellucid prose. What a paradox that a defense of the kill-joy should be such a pleasure to read! This timely, original, and intellectually expansive book is sure to trigger a great deal of debate.”—Rita Felski, University of Virginia“What could be more naturalized and less subject to ideological critique than happiness? How are we to get critical perspective on it? Through her readings of texts and films, Sara Ahmed shows how this might work. By revealing the complexity and ambivalence of happiness, she intervenes in several fields—including queer and feminist theory, affect studies, and critical race theory—in a genuinely new and exciting way.”—Heather K. Love, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History “The Promise of Happiness is an extraordinary text that should become a mainstay of affect studies and that serves as a strikingly powerful model of astute cultural critique. Ahmed offers an insightful study of our preoccupation with and desire for happiness.” -- Jenna Supp-Montgomerie * Women's Studies Quarterly *“Expand[s] the political horizons of feeling and cultural politics with exciting complexity . . . brilliant.” -- Sarah Cefai * Cultural Studies Review *“By unpacking the attribution of happiness to specific choices and lives, Ahmed encourages us to consider how ‘the promise of happiness’ serves as a moral imperative. A stimulating and—dare I say—pleasurable read, the book may not have a happy ending, but it does propose what might happen instead.” -- Kestryl Cael Lowrey * Lambda Literary Review *“Fascinating and important, both in showing us how to read some key texts differently and in showing how to think more carefully about happiness and its politics. . . . [T]here is a perverse happiness to be taken from reading such an interesting book about the insufficiency of happiness.” -- Richard Ashcroft * Textual Practice *“The Promise of Happiness is richly valuable not only for its discussion of utilitarianism but also for its broader deconstruction of the workings of happiness in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and social science. Whereas other feminist theorists also occasionally cast a critical eye toward happiness, or raise consciousness of female unhappiness, Ahmed has produced a volume that is unparalleled in its sustained and extensive expose´ of the entanglements between discourses of happiness and oppression.” -- Andrea Veltman * Hypatia *“The Promise of Happiness bridges philosophy and cultural studies, phenomenology and feminist thought—providing a fresh and incisive approach to some of the most urgent contemporary feminist issues. Ahmed navigates this bridge with a voice both clear and warm to convey ideas that are as complex as they are intimate and accessible. Her treatment of affect as a phenomenological project provides feminist theorists a way out of mind-body divides without reverting to essentialisms, enabling Ahmed to attend to intersectional and global power relations with acuity and originality.” -- Aimee Carrillo Rowe * Signs *“Ahmed enhances feminism’s critical toolbox by guiding us to regard affect as a cipher for society as we track how it produces and is produced by politics. ... Ahmed draws on feminism to potentially enhance the quality of life for her readers, who are offered mindful practices of relinquishing attachment to various ideals in a text that is neither Pollyannaish nor depressing.” -- Naomi Greyser * Feminist Studies *“Ahmed's language is a joy, and her work on each case study is filled with insight and rigor as she doggedly traces the social networks of dominance concealed and congealed around happiness. . . . The Promise of Happiness is an important intervention in affect studies that crucially approaches one of the major assumptions guiding social life: the assumption that we need to be happy.” -- Sean Grattan * Social Text *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Happiness, Why Now? 1 1. Happy Objects 21 2. Feminist Killjoys 50 3. Unhappy Queers 88 4. Melancholic Migrants 121 5. Happy Futures 160 Conclusion: Happiness, Ethics, Possibility 199 Notes 225 References 283 Index 301

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Book SynopsisFeminist and human rights activists, attorneys, and scholars from Latin America and the U.S. respond to the escalation in violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades.Trade Review“Terrorizing Women is a timely and essential read for people concerned about gender violence in intersection with multiple forms of injustice. Scholars, activists, legal experts and relatives of women murdered or disappeared expose feminicide as a complexly-layered social problem that demands urgent action. Insightful conceptual introductions by editors Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, and by feminist activist/academic/politician Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos, are followed by useful analyses and concrete suggestions aimed at stopping feminicide and advancing justice.” - Barbara Sutton, International Feminist Journal of Politics“Fregoso and Bejarano seek to introduce a human rights framework to our understanding of misogynistic murders. . . . The book makes the point that feminicide must be analysed within local and global networks of complicity. . . . The great value I see in this book is that it extends the conversation about femicide/feminicide beyond Mexico and into the rest of the Americas.” - Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Times Higher Education Supplement“[T]he range of Latin American and trans-border authors and disciplinaryperspectives . . . combine to convey a sense of informed and urgent feminist debate. If one insight can be distilled from the case studies and scholarly analyses, it comes from Julia Huamanahui. As her brother-in-law rapes her he gloats: ‘Even if you scream, no one will hear you’. Years later, abandoning hope of legal recourse for her pregnant sister’s brutal murder, for which the husband is the only suspect, Julia concludes: ‘I think that for a person who is poor, there is no justice’. This book offers some possible alternatives to such lonely terror.” - Deborah Eade, Gender and Development“The writing here is . . . often urgent and disturbing. It always conveys the message that export-led economic development strategies and neoliberal restructuring plans, privatized police and justice systems, and the cultural and practical legacies from civil war and military dictatorship produce gendered perpetrators, victims, and cultures of impunity. Recommended.” - L. D. Brush, Choice“. . . Terrorizing Women is a vivid account of the complex interrelations between multiple factors that permit and encourage feminicide. By showing the enormity and deep roots of the problem of violence against women in Latin America, Terrorizing Women also allows readers to understand why feminicide has continued virtually unchecked for decades.” - Laura Jennings, Social Forces“Anyone who is interested in gaining a deeper understanding of gendered violence and the phenomenon of feminicide in Latin America must read Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano’s Terrorizing Women. The book’s powerful contribution is to bring together the diverse voices of scholars, human rights lawyers, and activists, whose analyses help us better understand the structural and legal norms which give rise to the escalating violence against, and murders of, women.”—Karen Musalo, founding director, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Hastings College of the Law“The concerted emergence of feminicidio finally traces the deep hollow of an absent international crime and a silent human rights violation. Now, fundamental inquiries must surface. Should the Genocide Convention be re-drafted to suppress, pursue, and punish feminicidio? Isn’t a peace that is only defined by the cessation of armed conflict one that can tolerate feminicidio? Isn’t securing transitional justice a perpetual ‘State’ for females? The authors’ piercingly astute observations disintegrate illusory historical, geographical, political, and sexual frontiers that confine us and assign us ‘partial human rights status.’ Yes, we rise to your siren.”—Patricia Sellers, former legal advisor for gender-related crimes, Office of the Prosecutor, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia“This one-of-a-kind book presents a collaborative hemispheric conversation among feminists responding to a crisis of overwhelming importance. It is a call to action from the field, a provocation for a new kind of knowledge and a new kind of activism. It is a book about history that will itself make history.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger“A well-written and thoughtfully organized edited volume. . . . Terrorizing Women is among the most illuminating collections on the study of contemporary violence as it intersects with gendered racism, the exploitation endemic to neoliberal capitalism, and the complicity of nation-states in rendering women’s bodies vulnerable to violence in the formal and informal markets of capital and misogyny.” -- Molly Talcott * Contemporary Sociology *“. . . Terrorizing Women is a vivid account of the complex interrelations between multiple factors that permit and encourage feminicide. By showing the enormity and deep roots of the problem of violence against women in Latin America, Terrorizing Women also allows readers to understand why feminicide has continued virtually unchecked for decades.” -- Laura Jennings * Social Forces *“Terrorizing Women is a timely and essential read for people concerned about gender violence in intersection with multiple forms of injustice. Scholars, activists, legal experts and relatives of women murdered or disappeared expose feminicide as a complexly-layered social problem that demands urgent action. Insightful conceptual introductions by editors Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, and by feminist activist/academic/politician Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos, are followed by useful analyses and concrete suggestions aimed at stopping feminicide and advancing justice.” -- Barbara Sutton * International Feminist Journal of Politics *“[T]he range of Latin American and trans-border authors and disciplinary perspectives . . . combine to convey a sense of informed and urgent feminist debate. If one insight can be distilled from the case studies and scholarly analyses, it comes from Julia Huamanahui. As her brother-in-law rapes her he gloats: ‘Even if you scream, no one will hear you’. Years later, abandoning hope of legal recourse for her pregnant sister’s brutal murder, for which the husband is the only suspect, Julia concludes: ‘I think that for a person who is poor, there is no justice’. This book offers some possible alternatives to such lonely terror.” -- Deborah Eade * Gender and Development *“Fregoso and Bejarano seek to introduce a human rights framework to our understanding of misogynistic murders. . . . The book makes the point that feminicide must be analysed within local and global networks of complicity. . . . The great value I see in this book is that it extends the conversation about femicide/feminicide beyond Mexico and into the rest of the Americas.” -- Alicia Gaspar de Alba * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsPreface. Feminist Keys for Understanding Feminicide: Theoretical, Political, and Legal Construction / Marcela Lagarede y de los Ríos xi Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction. A Cartography of Feminicide in the Américas / Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano 1 Part I: Localizing Feminicide Testimonio: Eva Arce 45 Violencia Feminicida: Violence against Women and Mexico's Structural Crisis / Mercedes Olivera 49 The Victims of Cuidad Juárez Feminicide: Sexually Fetishized Commodities / Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso 59 Territory, Sovereignty, and the Crimes of the Second State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women / Rita Laura Segato 70 Getting Away with Murder: Guatemala's Failure to Protect Women and Rodi Alvarado's Quest for Safety / Angélica Cházaro, Jennifer Casey, and Katherine Ruhl 93 Femicides in Mar de Plata / Marta Fontenla 116 Femicide and Sexual Violence in Guatemala / Hilda Morales Trujillo 127 When Violence against Women Kills: Femicide in Costa Rica, 1990–99 / Montserrat Sagot and Ana Carcedo Cabañas 138 Feminicide in Latin America in the Movement for Women's Human Rights / Adriana Carmona López, Alma Gómez Caballero, and Lucha Castro Rodríguez 157 Part II. Transnationalizing Justice Testimonio: Julia Huamañahui 179 Obedience without Compliance: The Role of the Government, Organized Crime, and NGOs in the System of Impunity That Murders the Women of Cuidad Juárez / Héctor Domíguez-Ruvalcaba and Patricia Ravelo Blancas 182 Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Cuidad Juárez / William Paul Simmons and Rebecca Coplan 197 Global Economics and Their Progenies: Theorizing Femicide in Context / Deborah M. Weissman 225 Searching for Accountability on the Border: Justice for the Women of Cuidad Juárez / Christina Iturralde 243 Photo Essay: Images from the Justice Movement in Chihuahua, Mexico 263 Part III. New Citizenship Practices Testimonio: Rosa Franco 273 Cuidadana X: Gender Violence and the Denationalization of Women's Rights in Cuidad Juárez, Mexico / Alicia Schmidt Camacho 275 Feminicidio: Making the Most of an "Empowered Term" / Pascha Bueno-Hansen 290 Paradoxes, Protests, and the Mujeres de Negro of Northern Mexico / Melissa W. Wright 312 Testimonio: Norma Ledezma Ortega 331 References 335 Contributors 367 Index 371

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Book SynopsisRethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device.Trade Review“Wojcik’s insightful analysis, supported by thorough research, contrasts privacy and community, sight and sound, urban and suburban, married and single life, white and African American neighborhoods, and upper- and lower-class milieus. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” - S. R. Kozloff, Choice“With her volume Wojcik deftly connects the apartment plot to social history.She also offers dozens of close readings of films—readings that oftencontradict (or at the very least complicate) conventional wisdom about thosefilms. . . . Wojcik offers an almost encyclopedic account of apartment-centered films, such that any postwar film and media scholar will find Wojcik’s careful analysis useful.” - Kathy M. Newman, American Quarterly“Pamela Robertson Wojcik's intriguing book takes an original approach to Hollywood cinema. Her subject is the apartment as setting, which, in films of the post-war decades, she claims, became a space where ‘a philosophy of urbanism’ could be dramatized ‘at a time when the meaning and status of urban living were undergoing a sea change.’ Wojcik argues persuasively that the ‘apartment plot’ imbues films with recurrent themes that transcend genre and director.” - Alexander Jacoby, Times Literary Supplement“Exhaustively researched and brimming with insightful observations, The Apartment Plot is a gift for those intent on studying the architecture that amps the plotline.” - Michael Dalton, M/C Reviews“Wojcik . . .succeeds in demonstrating the value of focusing on the apartment, and mise-en-scène more generally, as a heuristic device. Doing so enables her to explore continuities between an otherwise diverse body of films, revealing how cinema both represents and participates in the production of discourses about urban architectures and experiences. As such, the volume makes a valuable contribution to our understandings of the relations among cinematic representations, architecture, and everyday life.” - Hilary Radner, Journal of American History“Working with an admirably wide range of additional materials, including periodical and advice literature, advertising, fiction, television, music, building blueprints, and comics . . . Wojcik balances her many disciplines carefully. The book’s overall argument for the ‘apartment story’ as a distinct and important genre, and Wojcik’s embedding of her case studies in migration trends, cultural and social concerns, and shifting ideas about the city and its alternatives is a fresh and convincing addition to studies of postwar media.” - Miriam G. Reumann, The Sixties“The Apartment Plot is an imaginative, thoroughly researched, closely observed, accomplished interdisciplinary work on the mid-century ‘apartment plot’ in American film and, to a lesser but important degree, TV, design, print, and sociology. It is a lively and engaging book that both breaks new ground and renovates existing critical edifices.”—Patricia White, co-author of The Film Experience: An Introduction“Exhaustively researched and brimming with insightful observations, The Apartment Plot is a gift for those intent on studying the architecture that amps the plotline.” -- Michael Dalton * M/C Reviews *“Pamela Robertson Wojcik's intriguing book takes an original approach to Hollywood cinema. Her subject is the apartment as setting, which, in films of the post-war decades, she claims, became a space where ‘a philosophy of urbanism’ could be dramatized ‘at a time when the meaning and status of urban living were undergoing a sea change.’ Wojcik argues persuasively that the ‘apartment plot’ imbues films with recurrent themes that transcend genre and director.” -- Alexander Jacoby * TLS *“With her volume Wojcik deftly connects the apartment plot to social history. She also offers dozens of close readings of films—readings that often contradict (or at the very least complicate) conventional wisdom about those films. . . . Wojcik offers an almost encyclopedic account of apartment-centered films, such that any postwar film and media scholar will find Wojcik’s careful analysis useful.” -- Kathy M. Newman * American Quarterly *“Wojcik . . .succeeds in demonstrating the value of focusing on the apartment, and mise-en-scène more generally, as a heuristic device. Doing so enables her to explore continuities between an otherwise diverse body of films, revealing how cinema both represents and participates in the production of discourses about urban architectures and experiences. As such, the volume makes a valuable contribution to our understandings of the relations among cinematic representations, architecture, and everyday life.” -- Hilary Radner * Journal of American History *“Wojcik’s insightful analysis, supported by thorough research, contrasts privacy and community, sight and sound, urban and suburban, married and single life, white and African American neighborhoods, and upper- and lower-class milieus. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- S. R. Kozloff * Choice *“Working with an admirably wide range of additional materials, including periodical and advice literature, advertising, fiction, television, music, building blueprints, and comics . . . Wojcik balances her many disciplines carefully. The book’s overall argument for the ‘apartment story’ as a distinct and important genre, and Wojcik’s embedding of her case studies in migration trends, cultural and social concerns, and shifting ideas about the city and its alternatives is a fresh and convincing addition to studies of postwar media.” -- Miriam G. Reumann * Sixties *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction: A Philosophy of Urbanism 1 1. A Primer in Urbanism: Rear Window's Archetypal Apartment Plot 47 2. "We Like Our Apartment": The Playboy Indoors 88 3. The Great Reprieve: Modernity, Femininity, and the Apartment 139 4. The Suburbs in the City: The Housewife and the Apartment 180 5. Movin' On Up: The African American Apartment 220 Epilogue: A New Philosophy for a New Century 267 Notes 279 Bibliography 289 Index 303

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Book SynopsisExplores surfing as a local and global subculture, looking at how the culture of surfing has affected and been affected by girls, from baby boomers to members of Generation Y.Trade Review“Immersing herself in girl surf culture, Comer has constructed an accessible body of research that, while very readable, offers a fiercely intelligent commentary. . . . Surfer Girls in the New World Order is thorough and acute; Comer situates her argument in the lived experiences of surfer girls and women while also drawing important connections to surfing’s place in the broader context of social and economic ideologies.” - Alicia Sowisdral, Elevate Difference“This fabulous book on women and the sport of surfing is the result of more than a decade of field research in multiple locations around the globe. . . . She expertly navigates the waves of feminism. . . . Analysis of popular culture rounds out this lovely book. . . . Highly recommended.” - A. N. Valdivia, CHOICE“Surfer girls in the new world order is clearly a product of passion. The enthusiasm and energy Krista Comer displays for this research, for women’s surfing and for the potential she sees for the development of feminist ways of knowing and politics through both local and global surfing cultural experiences, are both obvious and infectious. In particular, it is the discussions and conversations that Comer has spent so much time in engaging in with women in and around the surfing culture that contribute the most to the effectiveness of this book, and which distinguish it in important ways from other work in this area.” - Rebecca Olive, Gender, Place & Culture“Krista Comer’s Surfer Girls in the New World Order exemplifies the most prominent theoretical trends that are transforming contemporary western studies. . . . Challenging Baywatch stereotypes, Comer reinterprets surf culture as resolutely, albeit imperfectly, political, transnational, environmentalist, multiculturalist, and feminist. With these bold reinterpretations, Comer encourages serious reconsideration of—if not outright debate about—surf culture’s larger cultural and political significance.” - Robert Bennett, Western American Literature“This is a book that you wish you wrote... and not just because it is winning awards (notably, the Western Literature Association's Thomas J. Lyon Book Award), but because its theoretical sophistication blends perfectly with attentive close readings in ways that all scholars strive for.” - Simon C. Estok, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment“Surfer Girls in the New World Order is fantastic. The only book that I know of to address girls’ and women’s surfing from an analytical perspective, it opens into provocative questions about globalization and its discontents, ‘ecotourism’ and the surf safari, and conflicting paradigms of gender, economics, race, and culture.”—Leslie Heywood, author of Pretty Good for a Girl: An Athlete’s Story“Surfer Girls in the New World Order is a timely, deftly organized, and compellingly readable study that is at once participatory, original, informed, intellectually sexy, and new.”—Rob Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond“Comer’s book is a must read for scholars interested in the complexities of gender, race, culture, and globalization in sports. This is certain to be a generative study of surfing, one attentive to the possibilities and limits of women’s surfing as a globalized, ecofeminist, girl-powered endeavor.” -- Brett Mizelle * Southern California Quarterly *“Immersing herself in girl surf culture, Comer has constructed an accessible body of research that, while very readable, offers a fiercely intelligent commentary. . . . Surfer Girls in the New World Order is thorough and acute; Comer situates her argument in the lived experiences of surfer girls and women while also drawing important connections to surfing’s place in the broader context of social and economic ideologies.” -- Alicia Sowisdral * Elevate Difference *“Krista Comer’s Surfer Girls in the New World Order exemplifies the most prominent theoretical trends that are transforming contemporary western studies. . . . Challenging Baywatch stereotypes, Comer reinterprets surf culture as resolutely, albeit imperfectly, political, transnational, environmentalist, multiculturalist, and feminist. With these bold reinterpretations, Comer encourages serious reconsideration of—if not outright debate about—surf culture’s larger cultural and political significance.” -- Robert Bennett * Western American Literature *“This fabulous book on women and the sport of surfing is the result of more than a decade of field research in multiple locations around the globe. . . . She expertly navigates the waves of feminism. . . . Analysis of popular culture rounds out this lovely book. . . . Highly recommended.” -- A. N. Valdivia * Choice *“This is a book that you wish you wrote... and not just because it is winning awards (notably, the Western Literature Association's Thomas J. Lyon Book Award), but because its theoretical sophistication blends perfectly with attentive close readings in ways that all scholars strive for.” -- Simon C. Estok, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and EnvironmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Critical Localisms in a Globalized World 1 Part I. California Goes Global 1. Californians in Diaspora: The Making of a Local/Global Subculture 35 2. Wanting to Be Lisa: The Surfer Girl Comes of Age 76 Part II. Globalization from Below 3. The Politics of Play: Tourism, Ecofeminism, and Surfari in Mexico 117 4. Surf Shops and the Transfer of Girl Localist Knowledge 162 5. Surfing the New World Order: What Is Next? 205 Notes 231 Bibliography 259 Index 273

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Book SynopsisEssays explore the social impact of Americas global network of military bases by examining interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in South Korea, Japan/Okinawa, and West Germany.Trade Review“[T]his is an important contribution to the study of empires, especially US imperialism. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.” - G. B. Osborne, Choice“Over There provides us with an important analytic framework and reminds us that commanding officers must respond to and manage the real human needs of all those who come in contact with American militaryinstitutions. How this is done tells us much about the nature of U.S. power.” - John Willoughby, Journal of Military History“. . . [T]his is a tremendously valuable book, brimming with new information and unique insights. All students of the global American military presence from World War II through the present will want to consult its essays. One hopes the authors will continue and expand upon their work in this burgeoning and interdisciplinaryfriendly field, and inspire others to follow their lead.” - Michael Cullen Green, Pacific Affairs“Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon’s edited volume, Over There, presents valuable new scholarship on the local politics and gendered relations that constitute and undergird this vast military empire. ...the collection contains valuable essays on gender, race, class, and the U.S. military. It successfully positions U.S. military bases as key sites of U.S. empire and challenges scholars to work comparatively and recognize variation as they document the history of U.S. military bases abroad.” - Jana K. Lipman, Journal of American History“This book gives a nuanced analysis of the power relations of the American empire and militarised masculinity within it... It is ... a most enlightening comparative overview of the impact of American military bases in the three most important host countries of the US military empire.” - Trond Ove Tøllefsen, European Review of History“Over There is a splendid book. Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon are themselves experienced investigators into the multi-layerings of U.S. military influence in Germany and South Korea. Here they have combined their gender-smart research with that of insightful contributors to offer us fresh understandings of how German, Korean, and Japanese women and men see the American bases in their midst and cope with U.S. policies designed to make them complicit. I have learned a lot from Over There.”—Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War“This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection makes critically visible the sprawling network of U.S. military bases in two inseparable ways. First, base societies are revealed to be diverse social landscapes in which global questions of sovereignty and the relations of unequal nation-states have been deeply imprinted on everyday life. Second, the book powerfully identifies gendered and sexual politics as central to the construction, and contestation, of the U.S. military presence. Richly attuned to local variation and perception, resistance and historical change, these essays offer an inspiring agenda for globalized histories of gender and U.S. militarization.”—Paul A. Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines“. . . [T]his is a tremendously valuable book, brimming with new information and unique insights. All students of the global American military presence from World War II through the present will want to consult its essays. One hopes the authors will continue and expand upon their work in this burgeoning and interdisciplinaryfriendly field, and inspire others to follow their lead.” -- Michael Cullen Green * Pacific Affairs *“Over There provides us with an important analytic framework and reminds us that commanding officers must respond to and manage the real human needs of all those who come in contact with American military institutions. How this is done tells us much about the nature of U.S. power.” -- John Willoughby * Journal of Military History *“[T]his is an important contribution to the study of empires, especially US imperialism. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.” -- G. B. Osborne * Choice *“Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon’s edited volume, Over There, presents valuable new scholarship on the local politics and gendered relations that constitute and undergird this vast military empire. ...the collection contains valuable essays on gender, race, class, and the U.S. military. It successfully positions U.S. military bases as key sites of U.S. empire and challenges scholars to work comparatively and recognize variation as they document the history of U.S. military bases abroad.” -- Jana K. Lipman * Journal of American History *“This book gives a nuanced analysis of the power relations of the American empire and militarised masculinity within it... It is ... a most enlightening comparative overview of the impact of American military bases in the three most important host countries of the US military empire.” -- Trond Ove Tøllefsen * European Review of History *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Tables xi A Note on Foreign Language Conventions xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the U. S. Military Empire / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 1 Part I. Monitored Liaisons: Local Women and GIs in the Making of Empire 1. Regulating Desire, Managing the Empire: U. S. Military Prostitution in South Korea, 1945–1970 / Seungsook Moon 39 2. "Pan-Pan Girls" Performing and Resisting Neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U. S. Military Prostitution in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 / Michiko Takeuchi 78 3. "You Can't Pin Sergeant's Stripes on an Archangel": Soldiering, Sexuality, and U. S. Politics in Germany / Maria Hohn 109 Part II. Civilian Entanglements with the Empire: American and Foreign Women Abroad and at Home 4. U. S. Military Families Abroad in the Post-Cold War Era and "New Global Posture" / Donna Alvah 149 5. Crossfire Couples: Marginality and Agency among Okinawan Women in Relationships with U. S. Military Men / Chris Ames 176 6. Hidden Soldiers: Working for the "National Defense" / Robin Riley 203 Part III. Talking Back to the Empire: Local Men and Women 7. In the U. S. Army but Not Quite of It: Contesting the Imperial Power in a Discourse of Katusas / Seungsook Moon 231 8. "The American Soldier Dances, the German Soldier Marches": The Transformation of Germans' Views on GIs, Masculinity, and Militarism / Maria Hohn 258 9. In the Middle of the Road I Stand Transfixed / Christopher Nelson 280 Part IV. The Empire Under Siege: Racial Crisis, Abuse, and Violence 10. The Racial Crisis of 1970–1971 in the U. S. Military: Finding Solutions in West Germany and South Korea / Maria Hohn 311 11. Camptown Prostitution and the Imperial SOFA: Abuse and Violence against Transnational Camptown Women in South Korea / Seungsook Moon 337 12. Abu Ghraib: A Predictable Tragedy? / Jeff Bennett 366 Conclusion. The Empire at the Crossroads? / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 397 References 409 Contributors 439 Index 441

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Book SynopsisEssays explore the social impact of Americas global network of military bases by examining interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in South Korea, Japan/Okinawa, and West Germany.Trade Review“[T]his is an important contribution to the study of empires, especially US imperialism. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.” - G. B. Osborne, Choice“Over There provides us with an important analytic framework and reminds us that commanding officers must respond to and manage the real human needs of all those who come in contact with American militaryinstitutions. How this is done tells us much about the nature of U.S. power.” - John Willoughby, Journal of Military History“. . . [T]his is a tremendously valuable book, brimming with new information and unique insights. All students of the global American military presence from World War II through the present will want to consult its essays. One hopes the authors will continue and expand upon their work in this burgeoning and interdisciplinaryfriendly field, and inspire others to follow their lead.” - Michael Cullen Green, Pacific Affairs“Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon’s edited volume, Over There, presents valuable new scholarship on the local politics and gendered relations that constitute and undergird this vast military empire. ...the collection contains valuable essays on gender, race, class, and the U.S. military. It successfully positions U.S. military bases as key sites of U.S. empire and challenges scholars to work comparatively and recognize variation as they document the history of U.S. military bases abroad.” - Jana K. Lipman, Journal of American History“This book gives a nuanced analysis of the power relations of the American empire and militarised masculinity within it... It is ... a most enlightening comparative overview of the impact of American military bases in the three most important host countries of the US military empire.” - Trond Ove Tøllefsen, European Review of History“Over There is a splendid book. Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon are themselves experienced investigators into the multi-layerings of U.S. military influence in Germany and South Korea. Here they have combined their gender-smart research with that of insightful contributors to offer us fresh understandings of how German, Korean, and Japanese women and men see the American bases in their midst and cope with U.S. policies designed to make them complicit. I have learned a lot from Over There.”—Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War“This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection makes critically visible the sprawling network of U.S. military bases in two inseparable ways. First, base societies are revealed to be diverse social landscapes in which global questions of sovereignty and the relations of unequal nation-states have been deeply imprinted on everyday life. Second, the book powerfully identifies gendered and sexual politics as central to the construction, and contestation, of the U.S. military presence. Richly attuned to local variation and perception, resistance and historical change, these essays offer an inspiring agenda for globalized histories of gender and U.S. militarization.”—Paul A. Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines“. . . [T]his is a tremendously valuable book, brimming with new information and unique insights. All students of the global American military presence from World War II through the present will want to consult its essays. One hopes the authors will continue and expand upon their work in this burgeoning and interdisciplinaryfriendly field, and inspire others to follow their lead.” -- Michael Cullen Green * Pacific Affairs *“Over There provides us with an important analytic framework and reminds us that commanding officers must respond to and manage the real human needs of all those who come in contact with American military institutions. How this is done tells us much about the nature of U.S. power.” -- John Willoughby * Journal of Military History *“[T]his is an important contribution to the study of empires, especially US imperialism. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.” -- G. B. Osborne * Choice *“Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon’s edited volume, Over There, presents valuable new scholarship on the local politics and gendered relations that constitute and undergird this vast military empire. ...the collection contains valuable essays on gender, race, class, and the U.S. military. It successfully positions U.S. military bases as key sites of U.S. empire and challenges scholars to work comparatively and recognize variation as they document the history of U.S. military bases abroad.” -- Jana K. Lipman * Journal of American History *“This book gives a nuanced analysis of the power relations of the American empire and militarised masculinity within it... It is ... a most enlightening comparative overview of the impact of American military bases in the three most important host countries of the US military empire.” -- Trond Ove Tøllefsen * European Review of History *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Tables xi A Note on Foreign Language Conventions xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the U. S. Military Empire / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 1 Part I. Monitored Liaisons: Local Women and GIs in the Making of Empire 1. Regulating Desire, Managing the Empire: U. S. Military Prostitution in South Korea, 1945–1970 / Seungsook Moon 39 2. "Pan-Pan Girls" Performing and Resisting Neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U. S. Military Prostitution in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 / Michiko Takeuchi 78 3. "You Can't Pin Sergeant's Stripes on an Archangel": Soldiering, Sexuality, and U. S. Politics in Germany / Maria Hohn 109 Part II. Civilian Entanglements with the Empire: American and Foreign Women Abroad and at Home 4. U. S. Military Families Abroad in the Post-Cold War Era and "New Global Posture" / Donna Alvah 149 5. Crossfire Couples: Marginality and Agency among Okinawan Women in Relationships with U. S. Military Men / Chris Ames 176 6. Hidden Soldiers: Working for the "National Defense" / Robin Riley 203 Part III. Talking Back to the Empire: Local Men and Women 7. In the U. S. Army but Not Quite of It: Contesting the Imperial Power in a Discourse of Katusas / Seungsook Moon 231 8. "The American Soldier Dances, the German Soldier Marches": The Transformation of Germans' Views on GIs, Masculinity, and Militarism / Maria Hohn 258 9. In the Middle of the Road I Stand Transfixed / Christopher Nelson 280 Part IV. The Empire Under Siege: Racial Crisis, Abuse, and Violence 10. The Racial Crisis of 1970–1971 in the U. S. Military: Finding Solutions in West Germany and South Korea / Maria Hohn 311 11. Camptown Prostitution and the Imperial SOFA: Abuse and Violence against Transnational Camptown Women in South Korea / Seungsook Moon 337 12. Abu Ghraib: A Predictable Tragedy? / Jeff Bennett 366 Conclusion. The Empire at the Crossroads? / Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon 397 References 409 Contributors 439 Index 441

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of the changing representations of military women in American and British movies and TV programs from the Second World War to the present.Trade Review“All the chapters are impeccably researched and meticulously detailed, but it’s Tasker’s attention to small particulars, the kind many casual observers might miss (such as an offhand reference to a beauty parlor or the importance of costumes in ‘transformation narratives’), and the complicated conclusions she draws, even when the films (or television shows) seem superficial on the surface, that really make the text. . . . Reading Tasker’s analyses of these texts could make many rethink what is considered ‘entertaining’ at the expense of women.” - Catherine Ramsdell, PopMatters“Richly illustrated, the book carefully explains the evolution f the icons, showing the provocation sof women soldiers not only to their collegial male warriors but also to the cultural values of both genders in both countries. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.” - R. A. Champagne, Choice“I don’t see how anyone can do serious scholarship that involves feminism and/or gender and/or film without having read Tasker.” - Carol Wical, Media International Australia“Attentive to issues of race and class as well as gender, and sensitive to the range of volatile topics associated with the figure of the military woman, including violence, sexuality, and nationality, Soldiers’ Stories conscientiously provides the military woman a well-deserved visibility in cinema and media studies.” - Elaine Roth, Journal of American History“... Soldiers’ Stories does more than fill a gap. It joins a wider discussion on how gendered assumptions persist amid women’s rising presence in the real-life military and other areas of American life. As Tasker aptly puts it, even in our own time “the military woman still requires explanation” (p. 236). Thus the ultimate implication of the work is that purveyors of culture, and presumably much of the public, continue to regard the female soldier as a paradox—not quite a soldier, Tasker tells us, but not quite a woman either.” - Andrew J. Huebener, American Historical Review“[A] provocative and important book…. [A] valuable study, clear in its purpose, and well supported by research…. [Tasker] has written a comprehensive social and cultural history of how we’ve been asked to view women in the military since World War II.” - Jeanine Basinger, Journal of American Studies“Soldiers’ Stories is an important, timely, and eminently readable—and teachable—cultural history. Yvonne Tasker takes the figure of the woman soldier in US and UK popular film and TV as a cultural flashpoint for examining the history of our collective thinking about war, violence, authority, sexuality, female embodiment, and gender trouble in the military.”—Sharon Willis, author of High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film“What is so valuable about Yvonne Tasker’s investigation of film and TV images of British and American military women is that she doesn’t stop at the end of World War II. She keeps us attentive right through the Korean and Vietnam wars. She makes sure we track the ambivalences and confusions that women in militaries have provoked—among officials, directors, scriptwriters, and audiences—over two generations. I have learned so much from Soldiers’ Stories.”—Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War“... Soldiers’ Stories does more than fill a gap. It joins a wider discussion on how gendered assumptions persist amid women’s rising presence in the real-life military and other areas of American life. As Tasker aptly puts it, even in our own time “the military woman still requires explanation” (p. 236). Thus the ultimate implication of the work is that purveyors of culture, and presumably much of the public, continue to regard the female soldier as a paradox—not quite a soldier, Tasker tells us, but not quite a woman either.” -- Andrew J. Huebener * American Historical Review *“[A] provocative and important book…. [A] valuable study, clear in its purpose, and well supported by research…. [Tasker] has written a comprehensive social and cultural history of how we’ve been asked to view women in the military since World War II.” -- Jeanine Basinger * Journal of American Studies *“All the chapters are impeccably researched and meticulously detailed, but it’s Tasker’s attention to small particulars, the kind many casual observers might miss (such as an offhand reference to a beauty parlor or the importance of costumes in ‘transformation narratives’), and the complicated conclusions she draws, even when the films (or television shows) seem superficial on the surface, that really make the text. . . . Reading Tasker’s analyses of these texts could make many rethink what is considered ‘entertaining’ at the expense of women.” -- Catherine Ramsdell * PopMatters *“Attentive to issues of race and class as well as gender, and sensitive to the range of volatile topics associated with the figure of the military woman, including violence, sexuality, and nationality, Soldiers’ Stories conscientiously provides the military woman a well-deserved visibility in cinema and media studies.” -- Elaine Roth * Journal of American History *“I don’t see how anyone can do serious scholarship that involves feminism and/or gender and/or film without having read Tasker.” -- Carol Wical * Media International Australia *“Richly illustrated, the book carefully explains the evolution f the icons, showing the provocation sof women soldiers not only to their collegial male warriors but also to the cultural values of both genders in both countries. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.” -- R. A. Champagne * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures ix Acknowledgments xiii A Provocative Presence: Military Women in Visual Culture 1 Part One 19 1. Auxiliary Military Women 23 2. Invisible Soldiers: Representing Military Nursing 71 Part Two 3. Musical Military Women 115 4. Women on Top: Comedy, Hierarchy, and the Military Woman 139 5. Military Women and Service Comedy: M*A*S*H and Private Benjamin 173 Part Three 201 6. Controversy, Celebration, and Scandal: Military Women in the News Media 205 7. Conflict over Combat: Training and Testing Military Women 235 8. Scandalous Stories: Military Women as Victims, Avengers, and Investigators 255 Afterword 277 Notes 281 Bibliography 301 Index 309

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.Trade Review“Rarely have I encountered an edited collection as coherent and focused as Harem Histories. . . . Harem Histories offers concrete historical examples of the ways that gendered space is constructed and imagined, public and private overlap and merge, and cultural interaction has complexdynamics and consequences. Although perhaps of most interest to historians and other scholars of the Middle East, these are issues of more general concern to sociologists as well.” - Leila J. Rupp, Contemporary Sociology“[A] useful lens for understanding current narratives about Muslim women as well as earlier histories, stories, and the people who wrote them.” - M. Lynx Qualey, Women’s Review of Books“[A] fascinating compilation. . . . Taken together, the articles demonstratemajor historiographical advances in the field—new approaches and new questions that enable us to better understand the role of gender played in imperial and household relations and how it changed over time and place.” - Nancy E. Gallagher, Digest of Middle East Studies“The thirteen contributions to this volume illuminate the complex dynamics of producing, consuming, and inhabiting harem spaces by examining a number of Western and non-Western primary sources, including novels andmemoirs, historical and legal documents, as well as architectural layouts and photographs. This vast range of sources not only creates a comprehensive mosaic of the material but also bolsters our understanding of it by virtue of the dialogue amongst the authors and chapters themselves, which adds a level of nuance, depth, and liveliness.” - Nadine Sinno, Clio“From the examination of the public acts of the female companions of Muhammad to the changing legal structure around sexuality in Ottoman imperial law, the volume extends conceptions of the relationship between women, the harem, and the public sphere in useful ways. The extraordinary ground covered by this volume means that any scholar, regardless of his or her area of specialization, can learn something, and perhaps many things, from it.” - Lisa Z. Sigel, History: Reviews of New Books“Harem Histories includes magisterial essays by a number of leading scholars at the top of their game, and it takes us through a series of insightful and inspiring examinations of the harem system. Delightful cultural analyses of literary and visual depictions of the harem link Western and Eastern cultural producers, drawing out the tensions and relationships between different socio-sexual orders.”—Reina Lewis, author of Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel, and the Ottoman Harem“A very important contribution to the literature on the harem, this collection will quickly become a standard text in cultural studies, Middle Eastern studies, gender studies, and the visual arts.”—Mary Roberts, author of Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature“[A] fascinating compilation. . . . Taken together, the articles demonstratemajor historiographical advances in the field—new approaches and new questions that enable us to better understand the role of gender played in imperial and household relations and how it changed over time and place.” -- Nancy E. Gallagher * Digest of Middle East Studies *“[A] useful lens for understanding current narratives about Muslim women as well as earlier histories, stories, and the people who wrote them.” -- M. Lynx Qualey * Women's Review of Books *“From the examination of the public acts of the female companions of Muhammad to the changing legal structure around sexuality in Ottoman imperial law, the volume extends conceptions of the relationship between women, the harem, and the public sphere in useful ways. The extraordinary ground covered by this volume means that any scholar, regardless of his or her area of specialization, can learn something, and perhaps many things, from it.” -- Lisa Z. Sigel * History: Reviews of New Books *“Rarely have I encountered an edited collection as coherent and focused as Harem Histories. . . . Harem Histories offers concrete historical examples of the ways that gendered space is constructed and imagined, public and private overlap and merge, and cultural interaction has complexdynamics and consequences. Although perhaps of most interest to historians and other scholars of the Middle East, these are issues of more general concern to sociologists as well.” -- Leila J. Rupp * Contemporary Sociology *“The thirteen contributions to this volume illuminate the complex dynamics of producing, consuming, and inhabiting harem spaces by examining a number of Western and non-Western primary sources, including novels andmemoirs, historical and legal documents, as well as architectural layouts and photographs. This vast range of sources not only creates a comprehensive mosaic of the material but also bolsters our understanding of it by virtue of the dialogue amongst the authors and chapters themselves, which adds a level of nuance, depth, and liveliness.” -- Nadine Sinno * Clio *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Marilyn Booth 1 I. Normative Images and Shifting Spaces 1. Early Women Exemplars and the Construction of Gendered Space: (Re-)Defining Feminine Moral Excellence / Asma Afsaruddin 23 2. Normative Notions of Public and Private in Early Islamic Culture / Yaseen Noorani 49 3. The Harem as Gendered Space and the Spatial Reproduction of Gender / Irvin Cemil Schick 69 II. Rooms and Thresholds: Harems as Spaces, Socialities, and Law 4. Caliphal Harems, Household Harems: Baghdad in the Fourth Century of the Islamic Era / Nadia Maria El Cheikh 87 5. Domesticating Sexuality: Harem Culture in Ottoman Imperial Law / Leslie Pierce 104 6. Panotopic Bodies: Black Eunuchs as Guardians of The Topkapi Harem / Jateen Lad 136 7. Where Elites Meet: Harem Visits, Sea Bathing, and Sociabilities in Precolonial Tunisia, c. 1800–1881 / Julia Clancy-Smith 177 8. The Harem as Biography: Domestic Architecture, Gender, and Nostalgia in Modern Syria / Heghmar Zeitlian Watenpaugh 211 III. Harems Envisioned 9. Harem/House/Set: Domestic Interiors in Photography from the Late Ottoman World / Nancy Micklewright 239 10. Dress and Undress: Clothing and Eroticism in Nineteenth-Century Visual Representations of the Harem / Joan DelPlato 261 11. Harems, Women, and Political Tyranny in the Works of Jurji Zaydan / Orit Bashkin 290 12. The Harem as the Seat of Middle-class Industry and Morality: The Fiction of Ahmet Midhat Efendi / A. Holly Shissler 319 13. Between Harem and Houseboat: "Fallenness," Gendered Spaces, and the Female National Subject in 1920s Egypt / Marilyn Booth 342 Bibliography 375 Contributors 401 Index 405

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography analyzing Indias class of transnational information technology professionals and their influential ideas about what it means to be Indian.Trade Review“Appropriately Indian is a wonderful book, which provides crucial background about India’s rising image in the world and at home. Smitha Radhakrishnan covers notions of caste, class, and prestige, as well as the transnational character of the privileged knowledge workers she discusses. At the same time, does not portray these professionals only in terms of privilege. Her intimate descriptions of people’s lives are full of dilemmas and heartaches. The passages on traditional marriage expectations and modern individualistic drives are particularly illuminating.”—A. Aneesh, author of Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization“With her soberly critical ethnographic eye, Smitha Radhakrishnan proves a delightfully judicious guide to what happens when class and culture get transnationally stretched. Refusing both the hype that surrounds the world of India’s global IT class and a simple ideology critique, she gives us a vivid portrait of everyday lives lived at a leading edge of globalization.”—William T. S. Mazzarella, University of Chicago“Appropriately Indian is a highly readable, richly detailed, and insightful contribution to the literature on transnationalism and contributes to the social sciences in moving the referent from the state to everyday strategies of identity.” -- Unna Lassiter * International Social Science Review *“Smitha Radhakrishnan gives us a textured account of members of a new transnational class represented by India’s skilled knowledge professionals who have indeed played a leading role in the global IT industry. Her wide-ranging interviews reveal the ways in which they craft their identities by bridging Indian cultural practices with Western work practices and values.... I find this book to be timely, engaging, and a valuable insight into a group that belongs to a growing class of transnational professionals.” -- Indermohan Virk * Contemporary Sociology *“This book is a strong rebuttal to the popular argument that neoliberal economic policies have opened the doors of opportunity for all. Insteadit offers important insights into how local cultures and internal hierarchies shape the nature of cultural and economic globalization.... [T]hisis an exceptionally well written and theoretically rich book that will be a great addition to graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses ontransnationalism, globalization, culture, development, sociological theories, or South Asian studies.” -- Jaita Talukdar * American Journal of Sociology *“Appropriately Indian is an innovative sociological study of Indian IT professionals, mainly women, and the cultural and social changes in post-liberalization India that are revealed by their narratives about their work and personal experiences…. the monograph is a must-read for scholars of contemporary south Asia, globalization, and the sociology of work, class, and gender.” -- Carol Upadhya * International Review of Social History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: On Background 1 1. Privilege: Situating India's Transnational Class 25 2. Global/Indian: Cultural Politics in the IT Workplace 53 3. Merit: Ideologies of Achievement in the Knowledge Economy 87 4. Individuals: Narratives of Embedded Slaves 115 5. Family: Gendered "Balance" and the Everyday Production of the Nation 145 6. Religion: When the Private is Transnational 173 Conclusion: Apolitical Politics 199 Notes 207 Bibliography 215 Index 227

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of the racial consciousness of white transracial women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom.Trade Review“By building her argument through images, as well as statistics and anecdotes, Twine opposes nearly a century of prejudice against visual evidence within sociology. . . . A White Side of Black Britain . . . seems destined to become a landmark in the field. . .” - Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent“Twine is also an expert storyteller, and it is through the book’s richly detailed stories that she demonstrates the importance of researching transracial intimacy to gain a better understanding of race, class, and gender, along with nationalism and ethnic tensions. . . . The research strategies and microsociological dynamics that Twine has identified in this book will undoubtedly prove essential for any scholar undertaking such difficult and valuable projects.” - Erik Love, Jadaliyya“France Windance Twine’s A White Side of Black Britain is a lovely andimportant book. It is lovely because it is carefully researched, finelycrafted, and illustrated with compelling photographs that add dimensionto the study and its methodology. It is important because its ethnographicfocus on white women’s participation in British multiracial families givesit an extraordinary vantage point from which to explore the everydayconstitution and contestation of racial borders, boundaries, and identitiesalong the double axis of class and gender.” - Elizabeth Long, American Journal of Sociology“A White Side of Black Britain raises important questions such as how white women are raising children as members of black–white interracial families, what meanings are attributed to their whiteness and how class inequality, gender regimes and prescriptions for respectable femininity mediate the ways that white women are evaluated in transracial families. The way in which Twine features and captures the conversations in the book throughlanguage and illustrations make the book appealing to a range of audiences.” - Victoria Showunmi, European Journal of Women’s Studies“A White Side of Black Britain is likely to become a landmark text in the fields of ‘mixed race’ and whiteness studies. France Winddance Twine offers a sympathetic and generous treatment of a complex and fraught subject, and she combines compelling, intimate vignettes and photos with nuanced analysis and thought-provoking links to contemporary debates.”—Claire Alexander, author of The Art of Being Black“What happens to the racial consciousness of white women who marry black men and have black children? France Winddance Twine reveals through a deep and extensive ethnography with more than forty white women in such relationships how their consciousness changes, allowing them to become sensitive and adept at recognizing and dealing with racism. This is truly original research that deserves a wide readership.”—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism without Racists“A White Side of Black Britain raises important questions such as how white women are raising children as members of black–white interracial families, what meanings are attributed to their whiteness and how class inequality, gender regimes and prescriptions for respectable femininity mediate the ways that white women are evaluated in transracial families. The way in which Twine features and captures the conversations in the book through language and illustrations make the book appealing to a range of audiences.” -- Victoria Showunmi * European Journal of Women's Studies *“By building her argument through images, as well as statistics and anecdotes, Twine opposes nearly a century of prejudice against visual evidence within sociology. . . . A White Side of Black Britain . . . seems destined to become a landmark in the field. . .” -- Charles Donelan * Santa Barbara Independent *“France Windance Twine’s A White Side of Black Britain is a lovely and important book. It is lovely because it is carefully researched, finely crafted, and illustrated with compelling photographs that add dimension to the study and its methodology. It is important because its ethnographic focus on white women’s participation in British multiracial families gives it an extraordinary vantage point from which to explore the everyday constitution and contestation of racial borders, boundaries, and identities along the double axis of class and gender.” -- Elizabeth Long * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Territories of Whiteness in Black Britain 1 1. A Class Analysis of Interracial Intimacy 31 2. Disciplining Racial Dissidents: Transgressive Women, Transracial Mothers 60 3. The Concept of Racial Literacy 89 4. Racial Literacy in Practice 116 5. Written on the Body: Ethnic Capital and Black Cultural Production 146 6. Archives of Interracial Intimacies: Race, Respectability, and Family Photographs 171 7. White Like Who? Status, Stigma, and the Social Meanings of Whiteness 195 8. Gender Gaps in the Experience of Interracial Intimacy 223 Conclusion: Constricted Eyes and Racial Visions 257 Notes 267 References 279 Index 297

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Book SynopsisAn argument for a cultural bioethics that recognizes and attempts to address the greater vulnerability to exploitation experienced by groups including African Americans and women in medical and legal contexts.Trade Review“In her exceptional book, Holloway turns to literature to ‘illustrate matters of ethical concern and to assist listeners in hearing a patient’s story, in order to develop a more thoughtful perspective on treatment.’ . . . Holloway offers incisive comments that relate fictional episodes to real-life events, enhancing the ability of both to reveal the deep connections that bind ethics to culture, race, and gender. Private Bodies, Public Texts invites health professionals, lawyers and ethicists to honor those connections.” - Karunesh Tuli, ForeWord Reviews‘[Holloway] offers a cultural bioethics that may be able to help us understand and navigate the complex narratives we are co-creating.” - Brent Winter, News and Observer“Private Bodies, Public Texts is a creative and complicated call to do bioethics differently. . . . Holloway's encyclopedic collection of legal and bioethical cases, melded with captivating fiction and discriminating analyses, make this book nourishing sustenance for anyone who believes that bioethicshas a way to go in understanding not only that race and gender matter but also how they matter.” - Charlene Galarneau, Women’s Review of Books“The strength of Private Bodies, Public Texts is that it effectively demonstrates how the moral subject of bioethics is universal and impartial only insofar as it assumes the perspective of white, middle-class men.” - Stephanie Jenkins, Signs“Holloway’s book is undoubtedly a significant achievement, especially in its deep exposition of how racial and gender constructs shape and frame attitudes, practices, and beliefs towards the value of privacy in medicine and science. Scholars using tools drawn from narrative and cultural studies in bioethical inquiry will find in Holloway’s approach a model for the potential of such frameworks to enrich and thicken bioethical analysis and a road map for important and developing modalities in second-generation American bioethics.” - Daniel S. Goldberg, Journal of Medical Humanties“Private Bodies/Public Texts is an illuminating meditation on the social construction of personal identity, with special focus on gender and racial categorizations in biomedical ethics. Drawing on diverse sources from medicine, law and literature, Karla FC Holloway shows how devalued gender and racial identities not only set the stage for past biomedical abuses but are ironically replicated in the paradigmatic examples that contemporary bioethics invokes in the supposed service of correcting those abuses. This is a subtle, challenging book.”—Robert A. Burt, Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law, Yale University“Private Bodies/Public Texts is as powerful as it is beautifully written. Karla FC Holloway’s is a very different kind of bioethics, one that challenges us to think both more broadly and more specifically about what privacy and justice mean. And she reminds us, with sometimes piercing insight, just how critical gender and race can be in making meaning out of both.”—Ruth R. Faden, Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics“Karla FC Holloway has written an important book that challenges the objectification of patients’ stories that is so common in the practice of bioethics. She persuasively argues for a cultural ethics, an ethics which gives constitutive weight to the cultural context of those stories, especially the cultural contexts of race and gender identity. Using this approach, she presents crucial new insights into issues of reproduction, clinical trials, genomics and death and dying. Her discussion of the events at Memorial Medical Center after Katrina will become a classic in the field. But most importantly, she shows us that the practice of bioethics must change if it is to successfully relate to the issues raised by the thick narratives of reality.”—Baruch A. Brody, Baylor College of Medicine“Private Bodies, Public Texts is a creative and complicated call to do bioethics differently. . . . Holloway's encyclopedic collection of legal and bioethical cases, melded with captivating fiction and discriminating analyses, make this book nourishing sustenance for anyone who believes that bioethics has a way to go in understanding not only that race and gender matter but also how they matter.” -- Charlene Galarneau * Women's Review of Books *“Holloway’s book is undoubtedly a significant achievement, especially in its deep exposition of how racial and gender constructs shape and frame attitudes, practices, and beliefs towards the value of privacy in medicine and science. Scholars using tools drawn from narrative and cultural studies in bioethical inquiry will find in Holloway’s approach a model for the potential of such frameworks to enrich and thicken bioethical analysis and a road map for important and developing modalities in second-generation American bioethics.” -- Daniel S. Goldberg * Journal of Medical Humanities *“In her exceptional book, Holloway turns to literature to ‘illustrate matters of ethical concern and to assist listeners in hearing a patient’s story, in order to develop a more thoughtful perspective on treatment.’ . . . Holloway offers incisive comments that relate fictional episodes to real-life events, enhancing the ability of both to reveal the deep connections that bind ethics to culture, race, and gender. Private Bodies, Public Texts invites health professionals, lawyers and ethicists to honor those connections.” -- Karunesh Tuli * Foreword Reviews *“The strength of Private Bodies, Public Texts is that it effectively demonstrates how the moral subject of bioethics is universal and impartial only insofar as it assumes the perspective of white, middle-class men.” -- Stephanie Jenkins * Signs *‘[Holloway] offers a cultural bioethics that may be able to help us understand and navigate the complex narratives we are co-creating.” -- Brent Winter * News & Observer *“...Holloway’s Private Bodies, Public Texts, is a tour de force of interdisciplinary analysis...All of Holloway’s disciplinary investments are evident in this book, as she deftly weaves between works of American literature, landmark cases in American legal history, and moments in the history of American medical experimentation to advance her argument.” -- José E. Limón * American Literature *Table of ContentsPreface xv Acknowledgements xxi Introduction. The Law of the Body 1 1. Bloodchild 25 2. Cartographies of Desire 67 3. Who's Got the Body? 101 4. Immortality in Cultures 137 Notes 173 Bibliography 199 Index 211

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Book SynopsisThis in-depth analysis of Adrian Pipers art locates her groundbreaking work at the nexus of Conceptual and feminist art of the late 1960s and 1970s.Trade Review“Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment is an important book. John P. Bowles has much to say not only about Piper’s own artistic journey but also about how scholars have chosen to read the avant-garde creative production of the 1960s and 1970s, and whether or not one can ever escape the ‘burden of the flesh’ when one creates or interprets works of art.”—Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, author of Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker“John P. Bowles’s Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment is a groundbreaking, meticulously researched, and beautifully written text that challenges its readers to understand Adrian Piper’s early work in provocative new ways. Bowles forces us to re-evaluate our understanding of the histories of Conceptualism, Minimalism, feminism, and their intersections with the visual practices of African American artists.”—Steven Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles“An amount of scholarship and personal acquaintance makes this book an informative read that leaves one wanting to know more about Piper’s exemplary approach to the question of what it might mean to make political art.” -- Maria Walsh * Art Monthly *“Bowles’s Adrian Piper: Race, Gender and Embodiment offers a detailed view of an artist dealing with the contingency of identity. . . . The inclusion of more than a decade of personal communication between Bowles and Piper make this a particularly fascinating study.” -- Jordana Moore Saggese * CAA Reviews *“While there is much written about Piper, there are few volumes dedicated exclusively to such a complete investigation of her artistic career. It is a great addition to contemporary art scholarship, and is therefore recommended for any academic or research library that supports such pursuits.” -- Melanie Emerson * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“With a well-organized index and bibliography, this monograph will be useful for specialists in contemporary African American art. An examination of Piper ’s sophisticated work and writing would make a challenging graduate seminar for students of art history or ethnic/women’s studies.” -- Stacy E. Schultz * Woman's Art Journal *“By locating Piper’s art within various political, aesthetic, and philosophical contexts, this final chapter realizes some of the book’s best qualities by providing the reader with an understanding of the artwork’s political, historical, and aesthetic complexities without depriving the artist of her own. Moreover, Bowles’ multidisciplinary approach advances an engagement with an artist who undoubtedly should be listened to more.” -- Sarah Jane Cervenak * Women & Performance *"[B]y placing Piper in a critical relationship to feminist and Black Arts practices and insisting on the importance of her Minimalist and Conceptual strategies, Bowles highlights the ways in which her work makes crucial connections between canonical 1960s and 1970s discourses. He thus positions his text to radically revise the field’s understanding of Piper’s overall project, as well as the importance of her early work." -- Megan Driscoll * Art Journal *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Adrian Piper's Performance of Race and the Moral Question of Racism 1 Section I, 1965–1970The Paradox of the Black Woman Conceptual Artist 1. Contingent and Universal: Adrian Piper and the Minimalist Ideal 33 2. Hypothesis: Modernism and the Woman Artist's Studio 69 Section II, 1970–1975Personal Politics and Performance Art 3. May 1970: Art and Activism 125 4. Catalysis: Feminist Art and Experience 162 5. Food for the Spirit: Transcendence and Desire 205 6. "Acting Like a Man": The Mythic Being and Black Feminism 229 Conclusion: The Mythic Being and the Aesthetics of Direct Address 257 Notes 263 Bibliography 299 Index 319

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Book SynopsisArgues that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one anotherTrade Review“The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader succeeds in mapping a new field of inquiry for those of us working in science and technology studies. This brilliant collection of essays successfully bridges postcolonialist and feminist approaches to science and technology studies and provides the foundation for essential transformations of curriculum and research in this area. The essays provoke examination of how different knowledge systems function, and they call into question who benefits and is disadvantaged by those systems. For those committed to the tenet that just societies require just practices of science, this collection is indispensable. No science and technology studies curriculum is complete without it.”—Nancy Tuana, Dupont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University“This magisterial, compelling, and important collection pushes the boundaries of postcolonial studies in urgent ways. It charts the richness and depth of knowledge systems across the non-Western world, delineating their differences from, contributions to, and marginalization by what is thought of as Western science. This book makes it impossible to ignore the interconnections between long histories of imperialism, the dynamics of the Cold War, and the asymmetries of globalization, or to isolate science from social relations. It also maps the ground on which we can imagine a different future.”—Ania Loomba, co-editor of South Asian Feminisms“The anthology lives up to its aspirations of providing an accessible compass to issues and questions that have been approached with a ‘‘postcolonial sensibility’’... By highlighting cross-connections between contributions of different sections, Harding succeeds in bringing the texts of diverse disciplinary backgrounds into conversation with each other and thus underscores the postcolonialist need for a trans-disciplinary cooperation.” -- Anna Mohr * Science and Education *“…Harding has succeeded in representing great geographical variety and historical depth, making her compilation an important reference book in the field of STS.” -- Harry Yi-Jui Wu * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *“The book will serve admirably in classes for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in which the history and future of global science and technology policy are discussed.” -- William Kelleher Story * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology 1 I. Counterhistories 33 1. Discovering the Oriental West / John M. Hobson 39 2. Long-Distance Corporations, Big Sciences, and the Geography of Knowledge / Steven J. Harris 61 3. Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery / Mary Terrall 84 4. Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman of Art and Science / Ella Reitsma 103 5. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies / Londa Schiebinger 110 6. Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens / Lucille H. Brockway 127 7. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic / Judith Carney 140 II. Other Cultures' Sciences 151 8. Navigation in the Western Carolines: A Traditional Science / Ward H. Goodenough 159 9. Science for the West, Myth for the Rest? / Colin Scott 175 10. Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity / Peter Mühlhäusler 198 11. Gender and Indigenous Knowledge / Helen Appleton, Maria E. Fernandez, Catherine L. M. Hill, and Consuelo Quiroz 211 12. Whose Knowledge, Whose Genes, Whose Rights? / Stephen B. Brush 225 13. The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity / D. Michael Warren 247 III. Residues and Reinventions 14. Development and the Anthropology of Modernity / Arturo Escobar 269 15. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory / Catherine V. Scott 290 16. Security and Survival: Why Do Poor People Have Many Children? / Betsy Hartmann 310 17. Call for a New Approach / Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment 318 18. The Human Genome Diversity Project: What Went Wrong? / Jenny Reardon 321 19. Bioprospecting's Representational Dilemma / Cori Hayden 343 IV. Moving Forward: Possible Pathways 365 20. Islamic Science: The Contemporary Debate / Ziauddin Sardar 383 21. Mining Civilizational Knowledge / Susantha Goonatilake 380 22. Toward the Integration of Knowledge Systems: Challenges to Thought and Practice / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers 388 23. Human Well-Being and Federal Science: What's the Connection? / Daniel Sarewitz 403 24. Science in a Era of Globalization: Alternative Pathways / David J. Hess 419 25. Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policymakers, and Citizens in Environmental Governance / Karen Bäckstrand 439 Copyright Acknowledgments 459 Index 463

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Book SynopsisArgues that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one anotherTrade Review“The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader succeeds in mapping a new field of inquiry for those of us working in science and technology studies. This brilliant collection of essays successfully bridges postcolonialist and feminist approaches to science and technology studies and provides the foundation for essential transformations of curriculum and research in this area. The essays provoke examination of how different knowledge systems function, and they call into question who benefits and is disadvantaged by those systems. For those committed to the tenet that just societies require just practices of science, this collection is indispensable. No science and technology studies curriculum is complete without it.”—Nancy Tuana, Dupont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University“This magisterial, compelling, and important collection pushes the boundaries of postcolonial studies in urgent ways. It charts the richness and depth of knowledge systems across the non-Western world, delineating their differences from, contributions to, and marginalization by what is thought of as Western science. This book makes it impossible to ignore the interconnections between long histories of imperialism, the dynamics of the Cold War, and the asymmetries of globalization, or to isolate science from social relations. It also maps the ground on which we can imagine a different future.”—Ania Loomba, co-editor of South Asian Feminisms“The anthology lives up to its aspirations of providing an accessible compass to issues and questions that have been approached with a ‘‘postcolonial sensibility’’... By highlighting cross-connections between contributions of different sections, Harding succeeds in bringing the texts of diverse disciplinary backgrounds into conversation with each other and thus underscores the postcolonialist need for a trans-disciplinary cooperation.” -- Anna Mohr * Science and Education *“…Harding has succeeded in representing great geographical variety and historical depth, making her compilation an important reference book in the field of STS.” -- Harry Yi-Jui Wu * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *“The book will serve admirably in classes for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in which the history and future of global science and technology policy are discussed.” -- William Kelleher Story * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology 1 I. Counterhistories 33 1. Discovering the Oriental West / John M. Hobson 39 2. Long-Distance Corporations, Big Sciences, and the Geography of Knowledge / Steven J. Harris 61 3. Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery / Mary Terrall 84 4. Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman of Art and Science / Ella Reitsma 103 5. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies / Londa Schiebinger 110 6. Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens / Lucille H. Brockway 127 7. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic / Judith Carney 140 II. Other Cultures' Sciences 151 8. Navigation in the Western Carolines: A Traditional Science / Ward H. Goodenough 159 9. Science for the West, Myth for the Rest? / Colin Scott 175 10. Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity / Peter Mühlhäusler 198 11. Gender and Indigenous Knowledge / Helen Appleton, Maria E. Fernandez, Catherine L. M. Hill, and Consuelo Quiroz 211 12. Whose Knowledge, Whose Genes, Whose Rights? / Stephen B. Brush 225 13. The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity / D. Michael Warren 247 III. Residues and Reinventions 14. Development and the Anthropology of Modernity / Arturo Escobar 269 15. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory / Catherine V. Scott 290 16. Security and Survival: Why Do Poor People Have Many Children? / Betsy Hartmann 310 17. Call for a New Approach / Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment 318 18. The Human Genome Diversity Project: What Went Wrong? / Jenny Reardon 321 19. Bioprospecting's Representational Dilemma / Cori Hayden 343 IV. Moving Forward: Possible Pathways 365 20. Islamic Science: The Contemporary Debate / Ziauddin Sardar 383 21. Mining Civilizational Knowledge / Susantha Goonatilake 380 22. Toward the Integration of Knowledge Systems: Challenges to Thought and Practice / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers 388 23. Human Well-Being and Federal Science: What's the Connection? / Daniel Sarewitz 403 24. Science in a Era of Globalization: Alternative Pathways / David J. Hess 419 25. Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policymakers, and Citizens in Environmental Governance / Karen Bäckstrand 439 Copyright Acknowledgments 459 Index 463

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Book SynopsisCollection of essays and poems that address the challenges of being a Chicana, a lesbian, and a feminist in the changing world of the twenty-first century.Trade Review“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” - Victoria Bolf, Lambda Literary Review“Nostalgia, evolving consciousness, and the concept of (w)riting –writing to remember / making rite to remember / having the right to remember–lyrically permeate the pages of this book. Moraga’s ideas have matured and become more profound with the passage of time; I look forward to reading more of her eloquent resistance and wisdom in the coming years.” - The Feminist Texican [Reads]“This is an overall compelling, timely, and on many fronts, prophetic read. There is just enough background discourse on Chicana feminist thought and history for those uninitiated readers, and many new critical reflections and insights for the more seasoned readers wondering what this author has to offer since her last influential work. Both will potentially walk away from this book with an overdue sense of indignation, as well as a sense of hope that within the burgeoning nest of Chicana consciousness and social activism, lies the golden egg of a just, social democracy in the United States.” - Christiane Grimal, GRAAT Anglophone Studies“A Xicana Codex reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” - Alvina E. Quintana, Women’s Review of Books“‘I am no prophet, only a witness to the writing already on the wall that divides my own native homeland’ says Cherríe Moraga in the opening of her contemporary codex. Moraga speaks directly, as a powerful voice of a pivotal generation, a generation that is aging and coming to terms with its urgent, collective story. This political memoir in essays is a testimony to the awakening of an indigenous consciousness that has been disappeared in the memory of colonized Americas. The collection is blessed by the drawings of Celia Herrera Rodríguez. They provide the ceremonial flow. They represent the voices of the plants, earth and elements that give dreaming to the human mind. What a powerful offering in a time of reckoning.”—Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, poet, musician, performer, playwright“Cherríe Moraga’s A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness is a hope fulfilled. After the passing of Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana/o studies suffered something like an eclipse of the moon but here comes radical, creative light into our lives and scholarship once more. Moraga’s intellectual and emotional courage about sexuality, race, queerness, and feminist energy shows us that Barack Obama and all Americans also live in the time of Latinos and Xicanas. Underlying these essays is the creative question ‘how can this new demography of many colors and genders be cultivated into a new democracy?’”—Davíd Carrasco, author of Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers“A Xicana Codex reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” -- Alvina E. Quintana * Women's Review of Books *“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” -- Victoria Bolf * Lambda Literary Review *“While I may turn to other writings for cultural criticism, Moraga provides what I have not been able to find on any other front: an indigenous Xicana path that insists on transgression as a political and spiritual imperative in a national environment whose core values are corrupt.” -- Paloma Martinez-Cruz * Letras Femeninas *Table of ContentsDrawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez xiii Prólogo: A Living Codex xv Agradecimentos xix A Xicana Lexicon xxi One. Existo Yo A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness 3 From Inside the First World: On 9/11 and Women-of-Color Feminism 18 An Irrevocable Promise: Staging the Story Xicana 34 Two. The Warring Inside What Is Left of Us 49 MeXicana Blues 51 Weapons of the Weak: On Fear and Political Resistance 54 California Dreaming 73 Cuento Xicano 76 Indígena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember 79 The Altar of My Undoing 97 Three. Salt of the Earth Aguas Sagradas 105 And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief: Eulogy for Marsha Gómez 107 Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 111 The Salt That Cures: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa 116 Four. The Price of Beans South Central Farmers 133 The Other Face of (Im)migration: In Conversation with West Asian Feminists 135 Floricanto 146 Modern-Day Malinches 148 What's Race Gotta Do With It? On the Election of Barack Obama 151 This Benighted Nation We Name Home: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Ethnic Studies 163 Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer 175 Epílogo: Xicana Mind, Beginner Mind 193 Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada: The Art of Celia Herrera Rodríguez 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 229 Index 237

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Book SynopsisCollection of essays and poems that address the challenges of being a Chicana, a lesbian, and a feminist in the changing world of the twenty-first century.Trade Review“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” - Victoria Bolf, Lambda Literary Review“Nostalgia, evolving consciousness, and the concept of (w)riting –writing to remember / making rite to remember / having the right to remember–lyrically permeate the pages of this book. Moraga’s ideas have matured and become more profound with the passage of time; I look forward to reading more of her eloquent resistance and wisdom in the coming years.” - The Feminist Texican [Reads]“This is an overall compelling, timely, and on many fronts, prophetic read. There is just enough background discourse on Chicana feminist thought and history for those uninitiated readers, and many new critical reflections and insights for the more seasoned readers wondering what this author has to offer since her last influential work. Both will potentially walk away from this book with an overdue sense of indignation, as well as a sense of hope that within the burgeoning nest of Chicana consciousness and social activism, lies the golden egg of a just, social democracy in the United States.” - Christiane Grimal, GRAAT Anglophone Studies“A Xicana Codex reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” - Alvina E. Quintana, Women’s Review of Books“‘I am no prophet, only a witness to the writing already on the wall that divides my own native homeland’ says Cherríe Moraga in the opening of her contemporary codex. Moraga speaks directly, as a powerful voice of a pivotal generation, a generation that is aging and coming to terms with its urgent, collective story. This political memoir in essays is a testimony to the awakening of an indigenous consciousness that has been disappeared in the memory of colonized Americas. The collection is blessed by the drawings of Celia Herrera Rodríguez. They provide the ceremonial flow. They represent the voices of the plants, earth and elements that give dreaming to the human mind. What a powerful offering in a time of reckoning.”—Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, poet, musician, performer, playwright“Cherríe Moraga’s A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness is a hope fulfilled. After the passing of Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana/o studies suffered something like an eclipse of the moon but here comes radical, creative light into our lives and scholarship once more. Moraga’s intellectual and emotional courage about sexuality, race, queerness, and feminist energy shows us that Barack Obama and all Americans also live in the time of Latinos and Xicanas. Underlying these essays is the creative question ‘how can this new demography of many colors and genders be cultivated into a new democracy?’”—Davíd Carrasco, author of Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers“A Xicana Codex reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” -- Alvina E. Quintana * Women's Review of Books *“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” -- Victoria Bolf * Lambda Literary Review *“While I may turn to other writings for cultural criticism, Moraga provides what I have not been able to find on any other front: an indigenous Xicana path that insists on transgression as a political and spiritual imperative in a national environment whose core values are corrupt.” -- Paloma Martinez-Cruz * Letras Femeninas *Table of ContentsDrawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez xiii Prólogo: A Living Codex xv Agradecimentos xix A Xicana Lexicon xxi One. Existo Yo A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness 3 From Inside the First World: On 9/11 and Women-of-Color Feminism 18 An Irrevocable Promise: Staging the Story Xicana 34 Two. The Warring Inside What Is Left of Us 49 MeXicana Blues 51 Weapons of the Weak: On Fear and Political Resistance 54 California Dreaming 73 Cuento Xicano 76 Indígena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember 79 The Altar of My Undoing 97 Three. Salt of the Earth Aguas Sagradas 105 And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief: Eulogy for Marsha Gómez 107 Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 111 The Salt That Cures: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa 116 Four. The Price of Beans South Central Farmers 133 The Other Face of (Im)migration: In Conversation with West Asian Feminists 135 Floricanto 146 Modern-Day Malinches 148 What's Race Gotta Do With It? On the Election of Barack Obama 151 This Benighted Nation We Name Home: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Ethnic Studies 163 Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer 175 Epílogo: Xicana Mind, Beginner Mind 193 Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada: The Art of Celia Herrera Rodríguez 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 229 Index 237

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Book SynopsisThe difficulties college-educated black women face when trying to date, marry, and have childrenTrade Review“Inequalities of Love is an important and innovative book. It combines rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods in order to give both a macro-demographic portrait and an intimate individual-level account of family-formation decisions, choices, contexts, and constraints. It moves away from the simplistic causal arguments about the relationship between childbearing and socioeconomic outcomes by refocusing our attention on systems of meaning and evaluation, and by expanding the conversation beyond pure economic attainment to include status attainment. Inequalities of Love is an imminently smart book that will appeal to sociologists, demographers, human development scholars, and policy researchers.”—Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City“I found Inequalities of Love fascinating and innovative. Many authors throw around rhetoric about the ‘intersections’ of gender, race, and class, but Averil Y. Clarke has really given us an intersectional analysis. Her unique combination of qualitative interviews and skilled analysis of demographic data produces a new understanding of how race and class create unequal access to ‘love,’ serious relationships, and marriage.”—Paula England, co-editor of Unmarried Couples with Children“Clarke gives a nuanced insight into the perils of success and how it can actually endanger black professional women’s future prospects of finding a ‘Mr. Right’ in the 21st century. The book will clearly add variety and debate to the role for women in society from a womanist and feminist perspective, and will be very useful to black women embarking on professional careers. Recommended. All levels/libraries.” -- M. Christian * Choice *“Inequalities of Love is a necessary study on the dating practices, challenges, and outcomes for college-educated black women.... Overall, Clarke’s work is well written, adequately organized, and is both theoretical engaged and grounded.” -- Kris Marsh * International Journal of Sociology *“It is theoretically rich and compelling. Detailed statistical analyses of national data are combined with fascinating narratives from interviewees in ways that reveal processes that underlie class formation and maintenance. Moreover, the author aims to move inequality scholarship in a new direction—the consideration of inequalities in love and reproduction. The book is an excellent choice for scholars and teachers in the fields of gender, family studies, and social inequality.” -- Shirley A. Hill * Contemporary Sociology *“Inequalities of Love… is a testament to the notion that sometimes the simplest explanation does not provide the most accurate understanding…. I recommend this book to anyone who seeks literature on the female (and human) experience, which moves away from a singular construction of behavior toward a more holistic stance in assessing human action.” -- Megan Douglass * Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy *Table of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Inequality: What's Love Got to Do with It? 1 1. School: Makin' It 41 2. Family: Unequal Roads to It 89 3. Marriage: "I Do" It When and If I Can 115 4. Sex: Is Everybody Doing It? 159 5. Contraception: To Plan It or Not to Plan It 193 6. Abortion: The Usefulness of It 231 Conclusion. Love Notes 271 Appendix 287 Notes 317 References 371 Index 403

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzaldúas concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorists life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives.Trade Review“Spiritual Mestizaje offers brilliant readings of some of the most significant Chicana writers and artists of our era. It is indispensible to understanding anew the broad spiritual and social significance of U.S. ethnic cultures. In this book, Theresa Delgadillo lucidly demonstrates how the call for social justice made by contemporary Chicana writers also affirms the imperative for spiritual growth. By examining representations of spirituality in major Chicana literary and filmic texts, Delgadillo deftly considers how religious practices inform transformations of consciousness. She weaves together two central components of Chicana literature to prove that they work in tandem in the continuing quest for respect, equality, and enlightenment.”—Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California, Los Angeles“Building on Gloria Anzaldúa’s groundbreaking theory-praxis of spiritual activism, Theresa Delgadillo offers a bold, innovative analysis of the contributions that a politics of spirit can make to critical resistance and individual-collective subject formation. Spiritual Mestizaje should be required reading for anyone interested in contemporary women-of-color theory, postcolonial thought, feminist/womanist studies, religious studies, and/or theology.”—AnaLouise Keating, editor of The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader“Theresa Delgadillo’s commitment to ‘the social practice of imagination’ carries Chicana/o studies to a new level of maturity through a skillful focus on spiritual mestizaje and social justice as they are inscribed in the work of eight Chicana writers. We travel in literary and spiritual realms where authors have explored with extraordinary inventiveness the ways that people and institutions have struggled to regulate sexualized female bodies. And thankfully, the religious vision of Gloria Anzaldúa now receives its fuller illumination and application in this borderlands of words, feelings, images, and diversities that map a new geography of critical work.”—Davíd Carrasco, Harvard Divinity School“Delgadillo's study makes a compelling case for the way that Chicana narratives imagine and enact alternative spiritualities, and how those spiritualities can offer new strategies for conceiving of individual and collective subject formation.” -- Stella Setka * Modern Fiction Studies *“In addition to making Alcalá’s fascinating novels more widely known, Delgadillo skillfully illustrates how the Anzaldúan paradigm, particularly as refurbished through her elaboration of spiritual mestizaje, remains powerfully relevant for contemporary Chicana feminist practices.” -- John Morán González * American Literature *”Delgadillo offers incisive readings of key contemporary Chicana writers and filmmakers, but more importantly she presents a framework for ‘the analysis of religion and spirituality in borderlands Chicana narrative.’ The first chapter is a critical tour de force, developing a theory of spiritual mestizaje, an epistemology in which social justice, spirituality, politics, and narrative form come into play with memory and oppositional history. The author deftly examines the disciplinary points of contact to situate her critical intervention in recent scholarship. . . . Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers.” -- E. Rodriguez y Gibson * Choice *“Spiritual Mestizaje represents a rich and nuanced contribution to the field of Chicano studies as she meticulously uncovers hitherto unexplored facets of spirituality and popular expressions of religiosity as central to gendered processes of identity formation.” -- Nuala Finnegan * Journal of American Studies *“[A] timely and groundbreaking contribution to the study of religion." -- Karen Mary Davalos * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. A Theory of Spiritual Mestizaje 2. Bodies of Knowledge 3. Sacred Fronteras 4. Border Secrets: Gender, Judaism, and Indigenous Worldviews in the Americas 5. "Bad Religion" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIlluminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s.Trade Review“Radical black women had to challenge both the CP's sexism and its racism, and McDuffie provides a judicious and finely tuned analysis of blackwomen's complicated relationship with the Party. . . . One of the great breakthroughs of McDuffie's book is his careful examination of personal testimonies, which like any narratives, demand analysis.” - Mary Helen Washington, Women’s Review of Books“By the end of Sojourning for Freedom, black left feminism appears not as a reaction to Moynihan and masculinism in the 1960s, but as an intergenerational radical tradition that forged critiques of gendered racial capitalism in the previous century, before providing an influential framework for thinking about the interlocking of oppressions for our own era. But enough of this review. Go and read this very valuable book for yourself!” - John J. Munro, H-1960s, H-Net Reviews“Sojourning for Freedom is a groundbreaking monograph, especially for a historian’s first book. Based on impressive archival research as well as forty oral histories conducted by the author, this book will change the way historians conceptualize black women’s activism in the Old Left and the New Left.” - Anne Meis Knupfer, Journal of American History“Sojourning for Freedom is a fine scholarly work... McDuffie’s eloquent, but succinct, prose allows for easy reading… the book should spur penetrating discussions in undergraduate and graduate courses devoted to history, politics, women/gender studies, and sociology. Indeed, Sojourning for Freedom affords endless opportunities for students and professors alike to articulate interesting view-points about the black feminist ideology and American communism from the early through the middle twentieth century.” - Brenda I. Marshall, The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies“Sojourning for Freedom is an excellent primer on the communist party andthe Cold War in the United States as it relates to the eye-opening participation and motivations of black left feminists. It should be required reading in undergraduate and graduate courses covering this content area, as well as appealing to a general reading audience.” - Dolita Cathcart, History: Reviews of New Books“[I]lluminate[s] the ways that gender, race, and class intersected to shape the American Left.” - Andrea Friedman, American Historical Review“Sojourning for Freedom inserts Communism into the historiography of black women’s activism. Providing a bridge between the black women’s club movement and Pan-Africanism, and later civil rights and black feminist activism, Erik S. McDuffie speaks to the historical continuity of protest strategies and concerns, such as internationalism. Drawing on his thorough research and original interviews, he makes a significant contribution toward a more complex history of black struggle.”—Kimberly Springer, author of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980“Erik S. McDuffie does more than introduce us to a fascinating group of black left feminists in the U.S. Communist Party. He also provides a genealogy of intersectional thinking on the workings of race, class, and gender by uncovering the predecessors of black women’s movements of the 1960s and 1970s.”—Eileen Boris, co-editor of The Practice of U.S. Women’s History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues“Sojourning for Freedom is a fine scholarly work... McDuffie’s eloquent, but succinct, prose allows for easy reading… the book should spur penetrating discussions in undergraduate and graduate courses devoted to history, politics, women/gender studies, and sociology. Indeed, Sojourning for Freedom affords endless opportunities for students and professors alike to articulate interesting view-points about the black feminist ideology and American communism from the early through the middle twentieth century.” -- Brenda I. Marshall * The Griot *“Sojourning for Freedom is a groundbreaking monograph, especially for a historian’s first book. Based on impressive archival research as well as forty oral histories conducted by the author, this book will change the way historians conceptualize black women’s activism in the Old Left and the New Left.” -- Anne Meis Knupfer * Journal of American History *“Sojourning for Freedom is an excellent primer on the communist party and the Cold War in the United States as it relates to the eye-opening participation and motivations of black left feminists. It should be required reading in undergraduate and graduate courses covering this content area, as well as appealing to a general reading audience.” -- Dolita Cathcart * History: Reviews of New Books *“[I]lluminate[s] the ways that gender, race, and class intersected to shape the American Left.” -- Andrea Friedman * American Historical Review *“By the end of Sojourning for Freedom, black left feminism appears not as a reaction to Moynihan and masculinism in the 1960s, but as an intergenerational radical tradition that forged critiques of gendered racial capitalism in the previous century, before providing an influential framework for thinking about the interlocking of oppressions for our own era. But enough of this review. Go and read this very valuable book for yourself!” -- John J. Munro H-1960s * H-Net Reviews *“Radical black women had to challenge both the CP's sexism and its racism, and McDuffie provides a judicious and finely tuned analysis of black women's complicated relationship with the Party. . . . One of the great breakthroughs of McDuffie's book is his careful examination of personal testimonies, which like any narratives, demand analysis.” -- Mary Helen Washington * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1. Black Communist Women Pioneers, 1919–1930 25 2. Searching for the Soviet Promise, Fighting for Scottsboro and Harlem's Survival, 1930–1935 58 3. Toward a Brighter Dawn: Black Women Forge the Popular Front, 1935–1940 91 4. Racing against Jim Crow, Fascism, Colonialism, and the Communist Party, 1940–1946 126 5. "We Are Sojourners for Our Rights": The Cold War, 1946–1956 160 6. Ruptures and Continuities, 1956 Onward 193 Notes 221 Bibliography 261 Index 297

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzaldúas concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorists life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives.Trade Review“Spiritual Mestizaje offers brilliant readings of some of the most significant Chicana writers and artists of our era. It is indispensible to understanding anew the broad spiritual and social significance of U.S. ethnic cultures. In this book, Theresa Delgadillo lucidly demonstrates how the call for social justice made by contemporary Chicana writers also affirms the imperative for spiritual growth. By examining representations of spirituality in major Chicana literary and filmic texts, Delgadillo deftly considers how religious practices inform transformations of consciousness. She weaves together two central components of Chicana literature to prove that they work in tandem in the continuing quest for respect, equality, and enlightenment.”—Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California, Los Angeles“Building on Gloria Anzaldúa’s groundbreaking theory-praxis of spiritual activism, Theresa Delgadillo offers a bold, innovative analysis of the contributions that a politics of spirit can make to critical resistance and individual-collective subject formation. Spiritual Mestizaje should be required reading for anyone interested in contemporary women-of-color theory, postcolonial thought, feminist/womanist studies, religious studies, and/or theology.”—AnaLouise Keating, editor of The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader“Theresa Delgadillo’s commitment to ‘the social practice of imagination’ carries Chicana/o studies to a new level of maturity through a skillful focus on spiritual mestizaje and social justice as they are inscribed in the work of eight Chicana writers. We travel in literary and spiritual realms where authors have explored with extraordinary inventiveness the ways that people and institutions have struggled to regulate sexualized female bodies. And thankfully, the religious vision of Gloria Anzaldúa now receives its fuller illumination and application in this borderlands of words, feelings, images, and diversities that map a new geography of critical work.”—Davíd Carrasco, Harvard Divinity School“Delgadillo's study makes a compelling case for the way that Chicana narratives imagine and enact alternative spiritualities, and how those spiritualities can offer new strategies for conceiving of individual and collective subject formation.” -- Stella Setka * Modern Fiction Studies *“In addition to making Alcalá’s fascinating novels more widely known, Delgadillo skillfully illustrates how the Anzaldúan paradigm, particularly as refurbished through her elaboration of spiritual mestizaje, remains powerfully relevant for contemporary Chicana feminist practices.” -- John Morán González * American Literature *”Delgadillo offers incisive readings of key contemporary Chicana writers and filmmakers, but more importantly she presents a framework for ‘the analysis of religion and spirituality in borderlands Chicana narrative.’ The first chapter is a critical tour de force, developing a theory of spiritual mestizaje, an epistemology in which social justice, spirituality, politics, and narrative form come into play with memory and oppositional history. The author deftly examines the disciplinary points of contact to situate her critical intervention in recent scholarship. . . . Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers.” -- E. Rodriguez y Gibson * Choice *“Spiritual Mestizaje represents a rich and nuanced contribution to the field of Chicano studies as she meticulously uncovers hitherto unexplored facets of spirituality and popular expressions of religiosity as central to gendered processes of identity formation.” -- Nuala Finnegan * Journal of American Studies *“[A] timely and groundbreaking contribution to the study of religion." -- Karen Mary Davalos * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. A Theory of Spiritual Mestizaje 2. Bodies of Knowledge 3. Sacred Fronteras 4. Border Secrets: Gender, Judaism, and Indigenous Worldviews in the Americas 5. "Bad Religion" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIlluminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s.Trade Review“Radical black women had to challenge both the CP's sexism and its racism, and McDuffie provides a judicious and finely tuned analysis of blackwomen's complicated relationship with the Party. . . . One of the great breakthroughs of McDuffie's book is his careful examination of personal testimonies, which like any narratives, demand analysis.” - Mary Helen Washington, Women’s Review of Books“By the end of Sojourning for Freedom, black left feminism appears not as a reaction to Moynihan and masculinism in the 1960s, but as an intergenerational radical tradition that forged critiques of gendered racial capitalism in the previous century, before providing an influential framework for thinking about the interlocking of oppressions for our own era. But enough of this review. Go and read this very valuable book for yourself!” - John J. Munro, H-1960s, H-Net Reviews“Sojourning for Freedom is a groundbreaking monograph, especially for a historian’s first book. Based on impressive archival research as well as forty oral histories conducted by the author, this book will change the way historians conceptualize black women’s activism in the Old Left and the New Left.” - Anne Meis Knupfer, Journal of American History“Sojourning for Freedom is a fine scholarly work... McDuffie’s eloquent, but succinct, prose allows for easy reading… the book should spur penetrating discussions in undergraduate and graduate courses devoted to history, politics, women/gender studies, and sociology. Indeed, Sojourning for Freedom affords endless opportunities for students and professors alike to articulate interesting view-points about the black feminist ideology and American communism from the early through the middle twentieth century.” - Brenda I. Marshall, The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies“Sojourning for Freedom is an excellent primer on the communist party andthe Cold War in the United States as it relates to the eye-opening participation and motivations of black left feminists. It should be required reading in undergraduate and graduate courses covering this content area, as well as appealing to a general reading audience.” - Dolita Cathcart, History: Reviews of New Books“[I]lluminate[s] the ways that gender, race, and class intersected to shape the American Left.” - Andrea Friedman, American Historical Review“Sojourning for Freedom inserts Communism into the historiography of black women’s activism. Providing a bridge between the black women’s club movement and Pan-Africanism, and later civil rights and black feminist activism, Erik S. McDuffie speaks to the historical continuity of protest strategies and concerns, such as internationalism. Drawing on his thorough research and original interviews, he makes a significant contribution toward a more complex history of black struggle.”—Kimberly Springer, author of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980“Erik S. McDuffie does more than introduce us to a fascinating group of black left feminists in the U.S. Communist Party. He also provides a genealogy of intersectional thinking on the workings of race, class, and gender by uncovering the predecessors of black women’s movements of the 1960s and 1970s.”—Eileen Boris, co-editor of The Practice of U.S. Women’s History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues“Sojourning for Freedom is a fine scholarly work... McDuffie’s eloquent, but succinct, prose allows for easy reading… the book should spur penetrating discussions in undergraduate and graduate courses devoted to history, politics, women/gender studies, and sociology. Indeed, Sojourning for Freedom affords endless opportunities for students and professors alike to articulate interesting view-points about the black feminist ideology and American communism from the early through the middle twentieth century.” -- Brenda I. Marshall * The Griot *“Sojourning for Freedom is a groundbreaking monograph, especially for a historian’s first book. Based on impressive archival research as well as forty oral histories conducted by the author, this book will change the way historians conceptualize black women’s activism in the Old Left and the New Left.” -- Anne Meis Knupfer * Journal of American History *“Sojourning for Freedom is an excellent primer on the communist party and the Cold War in the United States as it relates to the eye-opening participation and motivations of black left feminists. It should be required reading in undergraduate and graduate courses covering this content area, as well as appealing to a general reading audience.” -- Dolita Cathcart * History: Reviews of New Books *“[I]lluminate[s] the ways that gender, race, and class intersected to shape the American Left.” -- Andrea Friedman * American Historical Review *“By the end of Sojourning for Freedom, black left feminism appears not as a reaction to Moynihan and masculinism in the 1960s, but as an intergenerational radical tradition that forged critiques of gendered racial capitalism in the previous century, before providing an influential framework for thinking about the interlocking of oppressions for our own era. But enough of this review. Go and read this very valuable book for yourself!” -- John J. Munro H-1960s * H-Net Reviews *“Radical black women had to challenge both the CP's sexism and its racism, and McDuffie provides a judicious and finely tuned analysis of black women's complicated relationship with the Party. . . . One of the great breakthroughs of McDuffie's book is his careful examination of personal testimonies, which like any narratives, demand analysis.” -- Mary Helen Washington * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1. Black Communist Women Pioneers, 1919–1930 25 2. Searching for the Soviet Promise, Fighting for Scottsboro and Harlem's Survival, 1930–1935 58 3. Toward a Brighter Dawn: Black Women Forge the Popular Front, 1935–1940 91 4. Racing against Jim Crow, Fascism, Colonialism, and the Communist Party, 1940–1946 126 5. "We Are Sojourners for Our Rights": The Cold War, 1946–1956 160 6. Ruptures and Continuities, 1956 Onward 193 Notes 221 Bibliography 261 Index 297

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Book SynopsisUnspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S.Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms.Trade Review“Unspeakable Violence is an outstanding analysis of violence in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. As a historian, I am most impressed by the care that Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández takes to ground her analysis in solid historical research. What I find so refreshing is her willingness to put forth courageous new arguments about what has been little discussed in Chicana/o studies, Latina/o studies, or ethnic studies more broadly. Rather than taking the standard approach of only analyzing violence when Latinas/os are the victims, Guidotti-Hernández reveals borderlands violence in all of its complexity. This is exceptional scholarship.”—George J. Sánchez, author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945“In this exquisite book, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández examines little-known but critically important episodes of violence in U.S.–Mexican borderlands history. Providing a necessary, long-overdue corrective to Chicana/o and borderlands studies, she suggests that in recounting these events as instances of victimization or acts of resistance, Chicana/o feminist and nationalist scholars create tidy narratives for consolidating Chicana/o nationalist identity. In doing so, they disregard Mexican-American complicity in the very acts of violence they describe.”—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development“It is impossible, of course, to wrangle such a wide-ranging and intelligent study into a few easy quips, and to attempt to do so would go against the notion that Guidotti-Hernández's examples of borderland violence reveal a complexity in Arizona's and Mexico's culture and history for which many historians, let alone politicians, don't always like to account.” -- Tim Hull * Tucson Weekly *“Nevertheless, more work can be done to examine the interdisciplinary problems of investigating intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender, and nationality. Unspeakable Violence is a significant point of departure for this important work.” -- Jason Oliver Chang * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Unspeakable Violence has arrived on the scene like a breath of fresh air. . . . Unspeakable Violence further exemplifies how the most effective interdisciplinary scholarship is equally indebted to theoretical rigor and historical responsibility. Refusing to pull punches with its multifaceted assessment of Chicano nationalism and its unflinching methodological strategy, Guidotti-Hernández’s volume makes clear to historians the value of literary texts by writers like Jovita González and Monserrat Fontes, whose indelible contributions to an evidential archive are necessary to a more composite record of the past.” -- Richard T. Rodríguez * American Literature *“Nicole Guidotti-Hernández’s Unspeakable Violence takes on a lot of sacred cows from chicano(a) nationalism to Mexican indigenismo…One of the most exciting aspects of this book is its explicitly transnational approach.” -- Elliott Young * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix A Note on Terminology xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part One 1. A Women with No Names and Many Names: Lynching, Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity 35 2. Webs of Violence: The Camp Grant Indian Massacre, Nation, and Genocidal Alliances 81 3. Spaces of Death: Border (Anthropological) Subjects and the Problem of Racialized and Gendered Violence in Jovita González's Archive 133 Part Two Introduction to Part Two 173 4. Transnational Histories of Violence during the Yaqui Indian Wars in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands: The Historiography 177 5. Stripping the Body of Flesh and Memory: Toward a Theory of Yaqui Subjectivity 235 Postscript. On Impunidad: National Renewals of Violence in Greater Mexico and the Americas 289 Notes 297 Bibliography 343 Index 361

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Book SynopsisUnspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S.Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms.Trade Review“Unspeakable Violence is an outstanding analysis of violence in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. As a historian, I am most impressed by the care that Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández takes to ground her analysis in solid historical research. What I find so refreshing is her willingness to put forth courageous new arguments about what has been little discussed in Chicana/o studies, Latina/o studies, or ethnic studies more broadly. Rather than taking the standard approach of only analyzing violence when Latinas/os are the victims, Guidotti-Hernández reveals borderlands violence in all of its complexity. This is exceptional scholarship.”—George J. Sánchez, author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945“In this exquisite book, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández examines little-known but critically important episodes of violence in U.S.–Mexican borderlands history. Providing a necessary, long-overdue corrective to Chicana/o and borderlands studies, she suggests that in recounting these events as instances of victimization or acts of resistance, Chicana/o feminist and nationalist scholars create tidy narratives for consolidating Chicana/o nationalist identity. In doing so, they disregard Mexican-American complicity in the very acts of violence they describe.”—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development“It is impossible, of course, to wrangle such a wide-ranging and intelligent study into a few easy quips, and to attempt to do so would go against the notion that Guidotti-Hernández's examples of borderland violence reveal a complexity in Arizona's and Mexico's culture and history for which many historians, let alone politicians, don't always like to account.” -- Tim Hull * Tucson Weekly *“Nevertheless, more work can be done to examine the interdisciplinary problems of investigating intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender, and nationality. Unspeakable Violence is a significant point of departure for this important work.” -- Jason Oliver Chang * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Unspeakable Violence has arrived on the scene like a breath of fresh air. . . . Unspeakable Violence further exemplifies how the most effective interdisciplinary scholarship is equally indebted to theoretical rigor and historical responsibility. Refusing to pull punches with its multifaceted assessment of Chicano nationalism and its unflinching methodological strategy, Guidotti-Hernández’s volume makes clear to historians the value of literary texts by writers like Jovita González and Monserrat Fontes, whose indelible contributions to an evidential archive are necessary to a more composite record of the past.” -- Richard T. Rodríguez * American Literature *“Nicole Guidotti-Hernández’s Unspeakable Violence takes on a lot of sacred cows from chicano(a) nationalism to Mexican indigenismo…One of the most exciting aspects of this book is its explicitly transnational approach.” -- Elliott Young * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix A Note on Terminology xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part One 1. A Women with No Names and Many Names: Lynching, Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity 35 2. Webs of Violence: The Camp Grant Indian Massacre, Nation, and Genocidal Alliances 81 3. Spaces of Death: Border (Anthropological) Subjects and the Problem of Racialized and Gendered Violence in Jovita González's Archive 133 Part Two Introduction to Part Two 173 4. Transnational Histories of Violence during the Yaqui Indian Wars in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands: The Historiography 177 5. Stripping the Body of Flesh and Memory: Toward a Theory of Yaqui Subjectivity 235 Postscript. On Impunidad: National Renewals of Violence in Greater Mexico and the Americas 289 Notes 297 Bibliography 343 Index 361

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the folk songs from the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of North India to explore how ideas of gender, caste, and class are socially constructed, transmitted, questioned, and reaffirmed through their performance.Trade Review“Unearthing Gender is a welcome addition to literature on South Asian gender and folklore. Jassal writes with compassion and with technical rigor—with an eye for poetry and an appreciation for the power of performance. She is clearly moved by the creativity and artistry of the performers with whom she worked, and she conveys this sentiment well.” -- Ian Woolford * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Erudite and original, this book makes a signal contribution to scholarship on gender, class, caste, sexualities, identities, and labor by bringing attention to the lives and practices of low-caste peasants in the rural North Indian countryside. Engaging and expertly written – Jassal’s prose enacts a most pleasing poetics to this reader’s ear – the genius behind Unearthing Gender lies in its use of women’s folk song genres.” -- Antoinette DeNapoli * Anthropos *“Jassal’s project breaks new ground for ethnomusicologists to take up the challenge of combining research on the labor of music making in the context of rural agrarian political economies. . . . An engaging combination of detailed ethnography and insightful interpretation of song texts and their social significance. . . .” -- Rehanna Kheshgi * Ethnomusicology Review *“Ultimately, this beautifully written and highly readable (and teachable) ethnography offers important insights into gender, caste, and kinship. Its most immediate impact is the richness of the worlds it explores and the possibilities it raises for thinking about the place of expression in the crafting of culture. What comes through most vividly, aside from the poetry of the songs themselves, is the vibrancy and warmth of the lives of those who sing them. Jassal’s portrait of women’s expressive lives is one of deep humanity and, at its core, is about possibilities for action, intimacy, and selfhood.” -- Sarah Pinto * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"A particularly cogent example of how much is to be gained by attending simultaneously to the structural and expressive aspects of culture and to the subtle and complex ways subversion and reinforcement can harmonize and create dissonance in the very same tune." -- Coralynn V. Davis * Asian Ethnology *"Recalling Smita Tiwari Jassal’s own ancestral roots in this rural region, I see this lovingly researched book as embodying one such way of remembering, reframing, and transmitting songs into the future." -- Kirin Narayan * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation xvii Introduction. The Unsung Sing 1 1. The Daily Grind 33 2. Singing Bargains 71 3. Biyah/Biraha: Emotions in a Rite of Passage 115 4. Sita's Trials 155 5. When War is Marriage 189 6. Taking Liberties 219 Conclusion. Taking Liberties 219 Notes 261 Glossary 271 Bibliography 277 Index 289

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together scholars and artists in disability studies, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism, to show how much sexuality studies and disability studies have to learn from each other.Trade Review"This is a big collection, literally, politically, and theoretically. With essays drawing on sociology, anthropology, literary studies, history, and cultural studies, as well as some more lyrical, performative, and autobiographical, Sex and Disability will be indispensable for a wide range of audiences in gender studies, disability studies, queer studies and beyond."—Siobhan B. Somerville, author of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture"This riveting collection of essays is a fascinating rethinking of what sex and disability could feel like together, affirmatively and generatively. Opening with a candid, frank introduction that moves deftly between the autobiographical and the political, the volume mounts a serious challenge to the sex-ableism of queer theory and the tendency to think of sex and disability in negative terms. Having read about pregnant men, the vagaries of touch, amputee devotees, and sex addiction, the reader will emerge uncertain about what exactly sex is, who has it, and with what. More trenchantly, these works demand an acknowledgement of how notions of ableism severely limit broader experiences of sexual erotics, intimacy, and arousal. Kudos to the editors for undertaking this important project."—Jasbir K. Puar, author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times“As a political intellectual project, Sex and Disability aims toward a queer disability refusal of the normalization of our bodies, desires, spaces, imaginations. This refusal is an opening: what might happen to queer theories and practices of sexuality if we centered disability? ... [T]he editors have set the stage for future conversations, political action, and, really, hotter sex.” -- Alexis Shotwell * Signs *“[R]apturous and sophisticated in both scope and nuance.” -- Jacob Miller * Cyberhetoric *“[S]timulating, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Many of the entries left me with food for thought, including some intriguing reframing of social issues that will inform my own work in the future.” -- S. E. Smith * Global Comment *“Although sexuality studies and disability studies have independently generated much scholarship, few have sufficiently bridged the disciplines as extensively as this anthology and showed as convincingly that "sex and disability" do in fact come together.... Recommended.” -- Y. Kiuchi * Choice *“The vast majority of the contributions that engage with queer and disability theory here are, by turns, beautifully written, engaging, perceptive, hilarious, and nuanced. . . . [A]n intellectually invigorating read.” -- Anna Hamilton * Bitch *“Sex and Disability is one of the most important volumes to appear in disability studies in years and, I would hazard to guess, in sexuality studies as well.” -- Bruce Henderson * Journal of Sex Research *“This book shows sex to be at work in encounters and objects not usually considered to be erotic, and marks the terrifying and exhilarating ways in which disability turns up in unexpected places. Such an undressing of sex and disability as is provided in this collection is sure to have a significant impact on disability studies in the years to come.” -- Kelly Fritsch * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *“Though McRuer and Mollow acknowledge that they are not the first to bridge these fields, what they do here, and quite impressively, is to harness the energies of this emerging discourse into a single volume at a defining moment in disability studies and disability culture. . . . One of the anthology’s most exciting elements is the complicated interplay its essays stage between body theory and embodied experience.” -- Cynthia Barounis * symploke *“Mollow and McRuer have edited an important book. The collection is an exciting contribution to the fields of disability, queer studies, and queer theory. Every chapter is an inspirational read, but taken together, the contributions provide insightful discussion with layers of reflection that would be difficult to incorporate otherwise. The volume not only shows the multiple ways sex and disability are intertwined, but also invites readers to think beyond established understandings of those concepts, thereby challenging boundaries and transforming ideas of disability and sex.” -- Nina Mackert * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Anna Mollow and Robert McRuer 1 Part I: Access 1 1. A Sexual Culture for Disabled People / Tobin Siebers 37 2. Bridging Theory and Experience: A Critical-Interpretive Ethnography of Sexuality and Disability / Russell Shuttleworth 54 3. The Sexualized Body of the Child: Parents and the Politics of "Voluntary" Sterilization of People Labeled Intellectually Disabled / Michel Desjardins 69 Part II: Histories 4. Dismembering the Lynch Mob: Intersecting Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexual Menace / Michelle Jarman 89 5. "That Cruel Spectacle": The Extraordinary Body Eroticized in Lucas Malet's The History of Sir Richard Calmady / Rachel O'Connell 108 6. Pregnant Men: Modernism, Disability, and Biofuturity / Michael Davidson 123 7. Touching Histories: Personality, Disability, and Sex in the 1930s / David Serlin 145 Part III: Spaces 8. Leading with Your Head: On the Borders of Disability, Sexuality, and the Nation / Nicole Markotic and Robert McRuer 165 9. Normate Sex and Its Discontents / Abby L. Wilkerson 183 10. I'm Not the Man I Used to Be: Sex, HIV, and Cultural "Responsibility" / Chris Bell 208 Part IV: Lives 11. Golem Girl Gets Lucky / Riva Lehrer 231 12. Fingered / Lezlie Frye 256 13. Sex as "Spock": Autism, Sexuality, and Autobiographical Narrative / Rachel Groner 263 Part V: Desires 14. Is Sex Disability?: Queer Theory and the Disability Drive / Anna Mollow 285 15. An Excess of Sex: Sex Addiction as Disability / Lennard J. Davis 313 16. Desire and Disgust: My Ambivalent Adventures in Divoteeism / Alison Kafer 331 17. Hearing Aid Lovers, Pretenders, and Deaf Wannabees: The Fetishizing of Hearing / Kristen Harmon 355 Works Cited 373 Contributors 393 Index 399

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Book SynopsisA feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.Trade Review“Heroic rescue narratives of 'orphaned’ brown babies—from the adoption of Native children to the fairytale story of Zahara Jolie-Pitt—often crumble under scrutiny. Briggs, who adopted a Mexican-American daughter, looks unflinchingly at the disturbing history of U.S. adoption across race and borders.” - Ms. Magazine“Briggs shines a bright light on the ‘politics of transracial and transnational adoption.’ . . . Her provocative retelling of recent adoption history emphasizes that conservative economic forces have steadily eroded state support of children in institutions or through foster care, promoting adoption as the better alternative.” - Martha Nichols, Women’s Review of Books“[I]n juxtaposing histories and current realities of domestic interracial adoption with those of transnational adoption from Latin America, Briggs’s work contributes to the ongoing scholarly conversation about motherhood as a key battleground in global struggles over power, rights, and wellbeing.” - Clare Daniel, H-Net Reviews“In Somebody’s Children, Laura Briggs reminds us that [transnational] adoptions are not only about how children and parents are joined across borders. They are also just as significantly about how so many children came to be defined as adoptable in the first place.” - Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, HAHR“[Briggs] provides a refreshing and long-overdue feminist/womanist perspective on transracial and transnational adoption practices…. This book presents a powerful argument for a reexamination and reshaping of transracial and transnational adoption policy and practices.” - Robin Spath, Affilia“Her work shines a light on the difficult path to creating and maintaining a stance of solidarity with the poor and disenfranchised… Scholars of race, kinship, human rights, cultural politics, and U.S. and Latin American history will find the book valuable and engrossing, and might even be tempted to do more reading or research on adoption.” - Sara Dorow, Reviews in American History"For decades, a child-saving ideology that devalues the bonds of children of color with their families and communities has served to mask social, economic, and political inequities in the United States and abroad. Laura Briggs's astute analysis exposes the historical struggles underlying this devaluation in domestic and foreign policies. Somebody's Children is essential reading for everyone concerned about the politics of adoption and the equal dignity of families worldwide."—Dorothy Roberts, author of the books Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, and Fatal Invention"I have been longing for someone to write this book for a number of years—and how fortunate we are that Laura Briggs has made this her project; she is an outstanding scholar and thinker. A brilliant and wide-ranging book, Somebody's Children makes a powerful contribution to the study of adoption. The public policy implications of Briggs's work are stunning, and I hope this book will contribute to reshaping adoption practice in the United States."—Rickie Solinger, author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America“Briggs shines a bright light on the ‘politics of transracial and transnational adoption.’ . . . Her provocative retelling of recent adoption history emphasizes that conservative economic forces have steadily eroded state support of children in institutions or through foster care, promoting adoption as the better alternative.” -- Martha Nichols * Women's Review of Books *“Heroic rescue narratives of 'orphaned’ brown babies—from the adoption of Native children to the fairytale story of Zahara Jolie-Pitt—often crumble under scrutiny. Briggs, who adopted a Mexican-American daughter, looks unflinchingly at the disturbing history of U.S. adoption across race and borders.” * Ms. *"In Somebody’s Children, Laura Briggs reminds us that [transnational] adoptions are not only about how children and parents are joined across borders. They are also just as significantly about how so many children came to be defined as adoptable in the first place." -- Jessaca B. Leinaweaver * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[Briggs] provides a refreshing and long-overdue feminist/womanist perspective on transracial and transnational adoption practices…. This book presents a powerful argument for a reexamination and reshaping of transracial and transnational adoption policy and practices.” -- Robin Spath * Affilia *“Somebody’s Children offers a critically engaged history of the state politics of transnational and transracial adoption.” -- Kim Park Nelson * Signs *“As the book’s title suggests, adopted children were ‘somebody’s children,; a fact disturbingly absent from most adoption narratives. Briggs does history and family law a great service by bringing that truth to light.” -- Joanna L. Grossman * Journal of American History *“Briggs provides us with a powerful and penetrating account of the politics of transracial and transnational adoption in the USA. Through a painstaking and thorough historical analysis, Briggs articulates a nuanced account of politics, policy and practice in relation to the most vulnerable children and families – in both domestic and international adoptions. . . . The book will be of interest to scholars of child welfare and adoption, race and ethnicity, human rights, and cultural history. It should be essential reading for practitioners and policymakers in the field of adoption.” -- Ravinder Barn * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Transracial Adoption in the United States 1. African American Children and Adoption, 1950–1975 27 2. The Making of the Indian Child Welfare Act, 1922–1978 59 3. "Crack Babies," Race, and Adoption Reform, 1975–2000 94 Part II. Transnational Adoption and Latin America 4. From Refugees to Madonnas of the Cold War 129 5. Uncivil Wars 160 6. Latin American Family Values 197 Part III. Emerging Fights Over the Politics of Adoption 7. Gay and Lesbian Adoption in the United States 241 Epilogue. U.S. Immigrants: The Next Fight over Race, Adoption, and Foster Care? 269 Notes 285 Bibliography 319 Index 353

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Book SynopsisPaying particular attention to hula performances that toured throughout the U.S. beginning in the late nineteenth century, Adria L. Imada investigates the role of hula in the American colonization of Hawai'i.Trade Review"Attentive to global forces of U.S. imperialism and to the agency of discrete cultural producers, Adria L. Imada conceives of Hawaiian hula as constitutive of colonial relations involving collaboration and resistance. Moreover and significantly, 'hula circuits' outside of Hawai`i, she suggests, sustained Hawaiian culture (and hence nationhood) even as they transformed it—an astute and provocative contention."—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Island World: A History of Hawai’i and the United States"In Aloha America, Adria L. Imada shows how U.S. elites used a blend of tropicalism and orientalism to facilitate U.S. domination over Hawai'i. By foregrounding the eroticized bodies of Hawaiian women hula dancers, these elites created what Imada calls an 'imagined intimacy' between the U.S. public and the subjugated Hawaiians. The sexualized images of Hawaiian women helped to occlude resistance to U.S. imperialism in the Pacific and to make Hawai'i suitable for statehood by shifting Americans' attention away from its large Asian immigrant population. At the same time, hula served as a countercolonial archive of collective Hawaiian memory, preserving preconquest histories, epistemologies, and ontologies."—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“[An] extensively researched history. . . . Archival digs brought Imada into contact with surviving dancers and their families, whose stories she wove with her own experiences to produce a comprehensive account of how the “adaptive and resilient practice” of hula works in conjunction with tourism. . . .Fascinating photographs of the dancers—with careful commentary on poses and dress—illuminate the mannerisms and views of the performers. “ * Publishers Weekly *“For a reader who is not deeply familiar with hula and its culture, and may be guilty of watching hula simply for the entertainment factor, Aloha America is a refreshing page-turner. Albeit the moderate level of scholarly information, Imada makes the text easy to digest, also injecting touching anecdotes of hula life behind the stage lights. The final product is a book that is more an interesting field study than strict academic rhetoric.” -- Jamie Noguchi * Honolulu Weekly *“Well written and beautifully illustrated with archival photographs, the book provides dynamic portrayals of individual Hawaiians…With chapter 3, on world exhibitions in the United States, as the book’s centerpiece, Imada tells a lively and layered history of hula circuits in the U.S. empire, an important story about hula practices and people operating beyond Hawaii but never outside its politics.” -- Cristina Bacchilega * Journal of American History *“Aloha America is an impressive and provocative book. It will command a broad readership among scholars of American studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, gender studies, indigenous studies, performance studies, and U.S. history.” -- Christine Skwiot * American Historical Review *“In Aloha America, Adria L. Imada offers a nuanced and detailed study of how hula performers from Hawai’i negotiated the objectifying gaze of audiences...Imada writes in a clear and engaging style, breaking down the theoretical concepts she draws from in concise and digestible fashion.” -- Vernadette V. Gonzalez * Hawaiian Journal of History *“Aloha America is an original, important contribution to Asian American studies as it foregrounds Hawaiian cultural movements, U.S. imperialism in the Pacific, and the embodied and emotional intimacies that shape gendered and sexualized relations between colonized and colonizer. It is theoretically sophisticated, empirically robust, and highly engaging...” -- Miliann Kang * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Aloha America is a richly textured and engaging narrative of the fraught relationship between the United States and Hawai’i as seen through the lens of hula, the region’s most recognizable and widely circulated cultural practice…. This is an utterly engaging and thorough work of scholarship, and it is a welcome contribution to the fields of dance, theatre, and performance studies, one that also deeply engages indigenous studies, gender studies, and American studies frameworks…. What Imada provides is a deep understanding of racially mixed, commoner-status, (mostly) female artists’ lives as they navigated the globe, imperial politics, and their own modern desires.” -- Angela K. Ahlgren * Theatre Journal *Table of ContentsNote on Language ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Aloha America 1 1. Lady Jane at the Boathouse: The Intercultural World of Hula 29 2. Modern Desires and Counter-Colonial Tactics: Gender, Performance, and the Erotics of Empire 59 3. Impresarios on the Midway: World's Fairs and Colonial Politics 103 4. "Hula Queens" and "Cinderella": Imagined Intimacy in the Empire 153 5. The Troupes Meet the Troops: Imperial Hospitality and Military Photography in the Pacific Theater 213 Epilogue. New Hula Movements 255 Chronology. Hawai'i Exhibits at International Expositions, 1894–1915 269 Abbreviations of Collections, Libraries, and Archives 271 Notes 273 Glossary 337 Bibliography 339 Index 357

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Book SynopsisShares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfareTrade Review“Here is history watched in its unfolding, then put on record. Women tell an astute listener what they saw, read, and remember even as their careful witness—at once an eloquent and tragic story—is enabled by the knowing attention of a seasoned diplomat and psychologist. This effort advances the kind of history Tolstoy urged be written—a narration of on-the-scene individuals rendered by one herself very much willing to be respectfully among them.”—Robert Coles, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities and former James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University“I met Swanee Hunt as a diplomat in Vienna. I worked beside her as an activist in the Balkans. Now I know her as a writer, addressing a world sorely in need of her message of challenge and hope. Her words resonate with the authenticity of an observer and advocate who has devoted not only attention, time, and position, but also soul.”—Queen Noor of Jordan, humanitarian activist for world peace and justice and best-selling author of Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life“Swanee Hunt is a diplomat, human rights advocate, and teacher. With This Was Not Our War she shows she is also a gifted listener and writer. In these pages, Hunt captures the rationales and rationalizations for war as well as the despair and stirring dignity of twenty-six women who lived through the Bosnian horrors. Hunt lets the women speak for themselves, telling the story of Bosnia’s descent and recovery their way, and, in so doing, she shows just how vital their voices, insights, and talents will be in rebuilding Bosnia and its shattered lives.”—Samantha Power, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide“An important and well-written book that is a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the Balkans, anthropology of conflict, and international affairs.” -- Aleksandra Sasha Milicevic * International Feminist Journal of Politics *“With lessons for virtually all societies struggling with civil strife or tensions arising of unsettled histories of violence and injury, the women, mediated by Swanee Hunt’s perceptive and empathetic ear, tell us that reconciliation will require three things: telling the truth, imposing justice, and remembering that the perpetrators are human.” -- Franke Wilmer * Peace & Change *“Hunt brilliantly and insightfully succeeds in relating the voices of the women whom she calls her friends and who, in turn, become familiar to the reader through the sharing of their own personal experiences.” -- Stephanie Anne-Gaelle Vieille * Millennium *"This Was Not Our War is replete with quotes from scores of Yugoslavian women-Christians, Muslims, Jews-and is a fine example of oral history. It is pertinent and ought to be acquired by all libraries of schools teaching twentieth century history, women's studies, religious studies, or multiculturalism." -- Edward Grosek * Catholic Library World *"Hunt, who was President Clinton's ambassador to Austria, has put together interviews with 26 Bosnian women. They come from different backgrounds but share an emotional strength and a generosity of spirit, a dignity and humanity, that together make the case for a greater role for women in the politics of their societies-and make the rest of the world's hesitancy to intervene to defend human rights in Bosnia very had to justify." -- Stanley Hoffmann * Foreign Affairs *"The women whose stories are included in the book represent a wide cross-section of Bosnian society. . . . Their bold, painful and sometimes appalling stories are accompanied by strikingly mournful photographs. . . . This Was Not Our War is not solely a book about the war. It's also a book about dignity, the human spirit, generosity, courage, and even about love." -- Eetta Prince Gibson * Jerusalem Post *"Women speak wrenchingly and courageously about the fight to save their homes and protect their children; the decision to stay or flee; the attempt to preserve their own bodies and souls; and the ongoing challenge to rebuild their lives and society. . . . Hunt succeeds in capturing, organizing and analyzing the complexities inherent in conversations with 26 very different people during and after an abhorrent war. . . . Readers will be inspired by [these women's] courage. . . ." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword / William Jefferson Clinton xi Preface xv Context The Balkans xxviii Key Players xxxiii Introduction 1 I. Madness 7 1. Hell Breaks Loose 15 2. Love in the Crucible 59 3. Reasons for the War 73 4. The Lie of Intractable Hatred 95 II. To Heal History 115 5. Challenges 119 6. Women Transforming 137 7. The Road to Reconciliation 169 Epilogue: The Courage to Hope 191 Profiles 197 Closing Thoughts 251 Acknowledgments 259 Notes 263 Bibliography 291 Index 297

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Book SynopsisChandra explores how English became an Indian language during the colonial period of 1850-1930. Using archival and literary sources, she focuses on elite language education for girls and women.Trade Review“This book is an indispensable reference for those interested in challenging the traditional discourse of national, imperial, and postcolonial histories. This engaging interrogation of the seductive efficiencies of the English language in India, from a postcolonial feminist perspective, turns the way we conceive of the language of the colonizer, in effect, inside out.” - Kristin Hutchins, Women’s Studies"The Sexual Life of English poses a significant challenge to modern Indian history, which has tended to take the links between language and culture and the gendered colonial self for granted, when engaging the latter at all. From now on, it will be impossible to grapple with liberalism, education, women, domesticity, class and caste, conjugality, nationalism, sexuality, and so much more without reckoning with Shefali Chandra's cogent, subversive arguments."—Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism"Shefali Chandra's rethinking of cultural theory and modern Indian history is remarkable. Her major thesis, that Indian English has a brutal and loving social history of sexualization, will set a model for analogous studies in other national traditions. Her breakthrough argument is that English acquisition produced male cultural authority through the installation of biosexual difference. The point, then, is not the phallogocentrism of English as English but rather the installation of a 'native' phallogocentric power in the processes of colonization and postcolonization. All those who have found wanting the orthodox position in the historiography of subaltern studies will find The Sexual Life of English an exhilarating read."—Tani E. Barlow, author of The Question of Women in Chinese FeminismTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Spelling ix Part One 1. Learning Gender, Knowing English: An Introduction 3 2. "The Prudent and Cautious Engrafting of English Upon Our Female Population": Pedagogy and Performativity 29 3. "The Language of the Bedroom": Mimicry, Masculinity, and the Sexual Power of English 57 4. "A New Generation of Hipless and Breastless Women . . . To the Forefront in Europe and America": Literature, Social Class, and the Wider World of English 83 Part Two 5. "I Shall Read Pretty English Stories to My Mother and Translate Them into Marathi for Her": Widowhood, Virtue, and the Secularization of Caste 117 6. "Why Had I Ever Begun to Learn English?": Desire, Labor, and the Transregional Orientation of Caste 137 7. Dosebai Jessawalla and the "March of Advancement in the Face of Obloquy" 157 8. Epilogue: "I Am an Indian. I Have No Language": Parvatibai Athavale and the Limits to English 175 Salaams 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 245 Index 267

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Book SynopsisRadical Sensations examines the radical world-movements that emerged between 1886 and 1927 adapted sentiment, sensation, and new forms of visual culture to move people to participate in projects of social, political, and economic transformation.Trade Review"Radical Sensations is superb scholarship in every way. It engages many emerging currents in contemporary scholarship but has the field of transnational radicalism between 1886 and 1927 all to itself. Among its many contributions, a singularly important one is Shelley Streeby's explanation of why culture counts and how history happens. Part of politics is the production and management of affect. Streeby shows how sentiment and sensation became the lingua franca of American politics in the nineteenth century, with mixed results for radical social movements. The very discourses of sentiment and sensationalism that enabled some radical critiques to gain traction with the masses hobbled others by letting sympathy substitute for social justice."—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place"This is a brilliantly conceived book, filled with novel insights into the ways that new media and visual technologies intersected with and enabled what Shelley Streeby aptly terms 'the proliferation of rival world visions and internationalisms’ of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. Radical Sensations is the book that I have been waiting to teach in courses on U.S. history or transnational methodology."—Penny M. Von Eschen, author of Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957“Provocative and insightful. . . .” -- Paul Buhle * Journal of American History *“Radical Sensations is a work of astonishing complexity, a cultural history that gives us a portrait into a bridge period of Hemispheric eras, one that must piece together nineteenth-century physical expansion to later twentieth-century articulations….” -- Samantha Pinto * American Literature *"[Streeby's] unique approach and nuanced use of visual and print sources make this book a must-read for all labor historians." -- David M. Struthers * Labor *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Sentiment, Sensation, Visual Culture, and Radical World Movements, 1886–1927 1 Part I. Global Haymarkket 1. Looking at State Violence: Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket 35 2. From Haymarket to the Mexican Revolution: Anarchists, Socialists, Wobblies, and Magonistas 71 Part II. Revolutionary US-Mexico Borderlands 3. Sensational Socialism, the Horrors of the Porfiriato, and Mexico's Civil Wars 111 4. The End(s) of Barbarous Mexico on the Boundaries of Revolutionary Internationalism 151 Part III. Black Radical New York City 5. Sensational Counter-Sensationalisms: Black Radicals Struggle Over Mass Culture 173 6. Archiving Black Transnational Modernity: Scrapbooks, Stereopticons, and Social Movements 193 7. "Wanted—A Colored International": Hubert H. Harrison, Marcus Garvey, and Modern Media 229 Epilogue. Deportation Scenes 251 Notes 269 Bibliography 305 Index 323

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Book SynopsisRadical Sensations examines the radical world-movements that emerged between 1886 and 1927 adapted sentiment, sensation, and new forms of visual culture to move people to participate in projects of social, political, and economic transformation.Trade Review"Radical Sensations is superb scholarship in every way. It engages many emerging currents in contemporary scholarship but has the field of transnational radicalism between 1886 and 1927 all to itself. Among its many contributions, a singularly important one is Shelley Streeby's explanation of why culture counts and how history happens. Part of politics is the production and management of affect. Streeby shows how sentiment and sensation became the lingua franca of American politics in the nineteenth century, with mixed results for radical social movements. The very discourses of sentiment and sensationalism that enabled some radical critiques to gain traction with the masses hobbled others by letting sympathy substitute for social justice."—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place"This is a brilliantly conceived book, filled with novel insights into the ways that new media and visual technologies intersected with and enabled what Shelley Streeby aptly terms 'the proliferation of rival world visions and internationalisms’ of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. Radical Sensations is the book that I have been waiting to teach in courses on U.S. history or transnational methodology."—Penny M. Von Eschen, author of Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957“Provocative and insightful. . . .” -- Paul Buhle * Journal of American History *“Radical Sensations is a work of astonishing complexity, a cultural history that gives us a portrait into a bridge period of Hemispheric eras, one that must piece together nineteenth-century physical expansion to later twentieth-century articulations….” -- Samantha Pinto * American Literature *"[Streeby's] unique approach and nuanced use of visual and print sources make this book a must-read for all labor historians." -- David M. Struthers * Labor *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Sentiment, Sensation, Visual Culture, and Radical World Movements, 1886–1927 1 Part I. Global Haymarkket 1. Looking at State Violence: Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket 35 2. From Haymarket to the Mexican Revolution: Anarchists, Socialists, Wobblies, and Magonistas 71 Part II. Revolutionary US-Mexico Borderlands 3. Sensational Socialism, the Horrors of the Porfiriato, and Mexico's Civil Wars 111 4. The End(s) of Barbarous Mexico on the Boundaries of Revolutionary Internationalism 151 Part III. Black Radical New York City 5. Sensational Counter-Sensationalisms: Black Radicals Struggle Over Mass Culture 173 6. Archiving Black Transnational Modernity: Scrapbooks, Stereopticons, and Social Movements 193 7. "Wanted—A Colored International": Hubert H. Harrison, Marcus Garvey, and Modern Media 229 Epilogue. Deportation Scenes 251 Notes 269 Bibliography 305 Index 323

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Book SynopsisSecuring Paradise analyzes how cultures of U.S. imperialism are produced and sustained in Asia and the Pacific, particularly in Hawaii and the Philippines, by the mutually reinforcing dynamics of tourism and militarism.Trade Review"Securing Paradise will become a landmark work. It is the first systematic comparison of the Philippines and Hawai`i within the shared optic of U.S. imperial history and its military-tourism security complex. It will serve as a model for an emergent American postcolonial studies, paving the way for a more appropriately cosmopolitan critique of the already cosmopolitan workings of capitalism and empire."—Vicente L. Rafael, author of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines"In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez's original research and fascinating case studies substantiate her argument that in both the Philippines and Hawai`i, militarization and tourism have worked hand-in-glove in the service of U.S. national security strategy in the Pacific. Gonzalez digs deep into the dynamic interplay between militarism and tourism in this timely, consciousness-raising analysis."—Cynthia Enloe, author of Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link“Highly recommended.” -- D. J. Timothy * Choice *"[A]n impressive scholarly contribution to transnational U.S. history and American Studies." -- Christine Skwiot * Journal of American History *“[A] bold and creative argument for understanding the twinned projects of tourism and US militarism in the Pacific as grounded in multiple but always overlapping discourses of security. . . . Undoubtedly, Securing Paradise will become required reading in many fields, from Pacific Islands studies and Asian American studies to indigenous studies, women and gender studies, ethnic studies, and American studies.” -- Maile Arvin * Contemporary Pacific *“Securing Paradise compels readers with its unique and inventive approach to a ground-breaking subject. . . .” -- Michael C. Hawkins * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *“Securing Paradise is a significant contribution to the vibrant field of cultural studies of US imperialism. The book constantly reminds readers of the violence that tropical discourse, militarisation and the tourist industry exert on colonised peoples. Perhaps most importantly Gonzalez has written a history of a tenaciously imperial present, which in Hawai?i and the Philippines—as in many other places in the Pacific and the Caribbean—cannot be understood without thinking about the links between militarism and tourism.” -- Holger Droessler * Journal of Pacific History *“Gonzalez has written an important book that makes concrete the lingering affective and material consequences of the U.S. empire’s projection of freedom with violence in the twentieth century. It has laid the groundwork for other scholars to examine similar processes of ‘decolonization’ as they unfolded elsewhere—in Guam, Samoa, Okinawa, for example—that will deepen our understanding of the pernicious effects and persistence of the American empire in the Pacific.” -- Simeon Man * Hawaiian Journal of History *"The text is to be applauded for its quality of analysis, and for its original contribution to tourism studies, military studies and American studies literatures..... Gonzalez presents an impressive and fascinating analysis of her selected case studies. She deftly overlaps mobile sexualities, re-colonization via militarism and tourism, and neoliberalism." -- Claudia Bell * Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Military-Tourism Partnerships in Hawai'i and the Philippines 1 1. Manifest Destinations and the Work of Tropical Fictions 21 2. Scenic Highways, Masculinity, Modernity, and Mobility 49 3. Neoliberalization and U.S.-Philippines Circuits of Sacrifice and Gratitude 83 4. Remembering Pearl Harbor, Reinforcing Vigilance 115 5. The Machine in the Garden: Helicopter Airmobilities, Aerial Fields of Vision, and Surrogate Tropics 147 6. Playing Soldier and Going Native in Subic Freeport's Jungle Tour 181 Conclusion. Insecurities, Tourism, and Terror 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 253 Index 271

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Book SynopsisCredit, Fashion, Sex is a historical account of how, in Old Regime France, credit was both a central part of economic exchange and a crucial concept for explaining dynamics of influence and power in all spheres of life.Trade Review"Credit, Fashion, Sex is one of the most remarkable books that I have read in the past decade. It is a virtuoso performance that marshals interest in a staggering array of interconnected themes, among them gender and sex, capitalism and nonmaterial levers of power, the role of information and the pretensions of absolutism, the consumer revolution and stark inequality, fashion and anxiety, confidence and deceit. It shows us how understanding credit systems inflects the way we fathom everything else."—Steven L. Kaplan, author of Le pain maudit: Retour sur la France des années oubliées, 1945–1958"If you want to understand how things really worked in the world of French Queen Marie Antoinette, then read this book. Behind the glitter and the glowing beauty stood the fashion designer who provided style and most important, credit, for the rich rarely settled their debts. With this masterful and fascinating study, Clare Haru Crowston lays bare a whole cultural system in which economics, fashion, marriage, and social distinction were intertwined in brilliant and ultimately fatal ways."—Lynn Hunt, author of Inventing Human Rights: A History"This is a book teeming with insights about the economy and culture of the Old Regime. The twinning of credit and fashion in Crowston’s analysis offers a refreshing new perspective on the history of fashion. . . . This is an important book that many early modern French historians will want to read and debate.” -- Jennifer M. Jones * H-France, H-Net Reviews *"After reading this book, I cannot imagine lecturing on the old regime without devoting attention to the theme of credit." -- Charles Walton * H-France, H-Net Reviews *"Expands our understanding of the role of women in old regime credit markets, even as she transforms our understanding of the credit markets themselves." -- Thomas Luckett * Journal of Economic History *“As illuminating as the book is for historians of eighteenth-century France, its most important contribution may be the innovative methodology by which it integrates economic, social, cultural, and political history. In this respect, the book serves as a model for all scholars interested in cutting-edge research that combines the best of the humanities and social sciences.” -- Michael Kwass * Journal of Social History *"Crowston’s second book is a strong follow-up to the impressive Fabricating Women (2001), and, like her first, cleverly combines economic, social and gender history to provide innovative new insights into Old Regime France, in particular Paris. … [A]n excellent monograph and substantial contribution to the field." -- Anna Jenkin * French History *“Overall, Crowston convincingly and skillfully argues for the importance of a complex and dynamic economy of regard that operated in Old Regime France. Furthermore, she presents the individuals who engaged in this system as conscious and informed participants. Important links with the intertwined themes of gender, power, and sex are highlighted, demonstrating the influence of credit upon all else.” -- Serena Dyer * The Economic History Review *"The elasticity and evolution of the notion [of credit] are the springboards for a well-argued investigation into how it underpinned the Ancien Régime. And like a blemish on a painting, once this is pointed out, it is impossible to ignore and one is left wondering how it was ever overlooked." -- Paul Scott * History *"Crowston models an approach that should inspire a new generation of historians to work seriously and fruitfully on this kind of source material and use it to explore many themes.... Credit, Fashion, Sex brilliantly makes the case for why centralizing credit in all its complexity and multiple registers as an analytical category transforms our understanding of early modern French society in important ways that have often eluded us." -- Julie Hardwick * History Workshop Journal *“Full of fascinating insights and narrative detail, Crowston’s book is deeply learned and admirably ambitious.” -- Amalia D. Kessler * American Historical Review *“Clare Crowston’s ambitious, multifaceted study…. offers a profusion of insights and information…. [W]e should be thankful for what adds up to a landmark contribution to the socio-cultural history of the Old Regime.” -- Sarah Maza * Canadian Journal of History *"This is important, detailed research that demonstrates how the credit system and network worked rather than falling back on existing assumptions.... The book is a reminder of how many questions remain to ask and answer. It also shows what a fine scholar can do when given the time and physical space (i.e., a book’s length) to explore analytical issues in depth. This is a tour de force in many respects." -- Deborah Simonton * Business History Review *"[A] bold, powerfully argued, and innovative work, which will compel broad rethinking in the way that historians conceptualize relationships between the ancien régime society and economy." -- John Borgonovo * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsIllustrations and Tables ix Money and Measurements xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Credit and Old Regime Economies of Regard 21 2. Critiques and Crises of the Credit System 56 3. Incredible Style: Intertwined Circuits of Credit, Fashion, and Sex 96 4. Credit in the Fashion Trades of Eighteenth-Century Paris 139 5. Fashion Merchants: Managing Credit, Narrating Collapse 195 6. Madame Déficit and Her Minister of Fashion: Self-Fashioning and the Politics of Credit 246 7. Family Affairs: Consumption, Credit, and the Marriage Bond 283 Conclusion. Credit is Dead. Long Live Credit! 316 Notes 329 Bibliography 383 Index 407

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Book SynopsisHeidi Tinsman offers a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both Chile and the United States during the late twentieth century and early twenty-first.Trade Review"Buying into the Regime is a pathbreaking study of gender, labor, and consumption in Chile and the United States. Heidi Tinsman masterfully integrates U.S. and Latin American history. Her book is not only a major contribution to Chilean history, it should also be required reading for U.S. historians and their graduate students. I anticipate that it will work beautifully in undergraduate courses as well."—Julie Greene, author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal"Linking production, consumption, and social conflict in grape production in California and Chile, Heidi Tinsman traces historical connections and interesting disconnects between the industries and social movements in both countries. United Farm Worker support for undocumented workers in California did not expand into an internationalist consciousness, while the anticonsumerism of anti-Pinochet activists overlooked the contradictory combination of empowerment and exploitation experienced by female fruit workers. A fascinating example of the benefits of a transnational approach."—Florencia E. Mallon, editor of Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas“Buying into the Regime is a fascinating history of grapes and consumption during the Cold War, focusing specifically on the close relationship between the United States and Chile….That the book consciously avoids simple answers makes it an especially welcome addition to the literature on the Cold War in Chile.” -- Gregory Weeks * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * "An exceptionally rich work that will undoubtedlybbecome a staple of graduate-level food, labor, and gender courses for years to come." -- Bartow J. Elmore * Journal of American History *"In this compelling work, Heidi Tinsman has opened up new ways to conceptualize transnationalism in history.... with Tinsman’s insights in hand, contemporary movement organizers can hope to avoid some of the mistakes of their predecessors." -- Eileen Findlay * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Based on extensive field work and impressive archival research, Buying into the Regime is a creative history of the Chilean grape and fruit industry and its relations to U.S. institutions, markets, and politics from the 1920s into the twenty-first century." -- Brian Loveman * American Historical Review *“[A] brilliant and idiosyncratic addition to the burgeoning literature of commodity history…. Tinsman has written a sweeping and provocative book that encourages us to reframe our views of Chilean and US history.” -- Jason M. Colby * Canadian Journal of History *"A wonderful model of rethinking imperial models of history and a rich analysis of how working people themselves, across vast distances, have taken on the challenges of promoting democracy within the deeply interwoven webs of global power." -- Dana Frank * Labor *"I wholeheartedly recommend this book to those interested in comparative Latin American and US history, social movements, and rural and gender studies." -- Christobal Kay * Journal of Latin American Studies *“Nonspecialists, graduate students, and undergraduates will read this important book easily and with enthusiasm. Specialists in Chilean, Latin American, US, labor, gender, and transnational history will agree that Buying into the Regime is on the cutting edge of historical research. It is a brilliant example of linking local actors to larger historical processes, both within national borders and beyond them.” -- Brandi A. Townsend * History: Reviews of New Books *"With grapes as her medium, Tinsman sheds new light on two complex relationships: that between the United States and Chile, and that between consumerism and social justice in both nations....Scholars of Chile, the United States, food, gender, and consumption will each learn a great deal from Buying into the Regime." -- Tore C. Olsson * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Long Miracle: Collaborations in the Chilean Fruit Industry, 1900–1990 25 2. Fables of Abundance: Grape Workers and Consumption in Chile 64 3. The Fresh Sell: Marketing Grapes in the United States 103 4. Boycott Grapes! Challenges by the United Farm Workers and the Chile Solidarity Movement 146 5. Not Buying It: Democracy Struggles in Chile 207 Epilogue 255 Notes 267 Bibliography 331 Index

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Book SynopsisHeidi Tinsman offers a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both Chile and the United States during the late twentieth century and early twenty-first.Trade Review"Buying into the Regime is a pathbreaking study of gender, labor, and consumption in Chile and the United States. Heidi Tinsman masterfully integrates U.S. and Latin American history. Her book is not only a major contribution to Chilean history, it should also be required reading for U.S. historians and their graduate students. I anticipate that it will work beautifully in undergraduate courses as well."—Julie Greene, author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal"Linking production, consumption, and social conflict in grape production in California and Chile, Heidi Tinsman traces historical connections and interesting disconnects between the industries and social movements in both countries. United Farm Worker support for undocumented workers in California did not expand into an internationalist consciousness, while the anticonsumerism of anti-Pinochet activists overlooked the contradictory combination of empowerment and exploitation experienced by female fruit workers. A fascinating example of the benefits of a transnational approach."—Florencia E. Mallon, editor of Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas“Buying into the Regime is a fascinating history of grapes and consumption during the Cold War, focusing specifically on the close relationship between the United States and Chile….That the book consciously avoids simple answers makes it an especially welcome addition to the literature on the Cold War in Chile.” -- Gregory Weeks * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * "An exceptionally rich work that will undoubtedlybbecome a staple of graduate-level food, labor, and gender courses for years to come." -- Bartow J. Elmore * Journal of American History *"In this compelling work, Heidi Tinsman has opened up new ways to conceptualize transnationalism in history.... with Tinsman’s insights in hand, contemporary movement organizers can hope to avoid some of the mistakes of their predecessors." -- Eileen Findlay * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Based on extensive field work and impressive archival research, Buying into the Regime is a creative history of the Chilean grape and fruit industry and its relations to U.S. institutions, markets, and politics from the 1920s into the twenty-first century." -- Brian Loveman * American Historical Review *“[A] brilliant and idiosyncratic addition to the burgeoning literature of commodity history…. Tinsman has written a sweeping and provocative book that encourages us to reframe our views of Chilean and US history.” -- Jason M. Colby * Canadian Journal of History *"A wonderful model of rethinking imperial models of history and a rich analysis of how working people themselves, across vast distances, have taken on the challenges of promoting democracy within the deeply interwoven webs of global power." -- Dana Frank * Labor *"I wholeheartedly recommend this book to those interested in comparative Latin American and US history, social movements, and rural and gender studies." -- Christobal Kay * Journal of Latin American Studies *“Nonspecialists, graduate students, and undergraduates will read this important book easily and with enthusiasm. Specialists in Chilean, Latin American, US, labor, gender, and transnational history will agree that Buying into the Regime is on the cutting edge of historical research. It is a brilliant example of linking local actors to larger historical processes, both within national borders and beyond them.” -- Brandi A. Townsend * History: Reviews of New Books *"With grapes as her medium, Tinsman sheds new light on two complex relationships: that between the United States and Chile, and that between consumerism and social justice in both nations....Scholars of Chile, the United States, food, gender, and consumption will each learn a great deal from Buying into the Regime." -- Tore C. Olsson * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Long Miracle: Collaborations in the Chilean Fruit Industry, 1900–1990 25 2. Fables of Abundance: Grape Workers and Consumption in Chile 64 3. The Fresh Sell: Marketing Grapes in the United States 103 4. Boycott Grapes! Challenges by the United Farm Workers and the Chile Solidarity Movement 146 5. Not Buying It: Democracy Struggles in Chile 207 Epilogue 255 Notes 267 Bibliography 331 Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive historical study of French films made between 1930 and 1956—before, during, and after the Second World War—homes in on cinematic representations of gender relations.Trade Review"The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930–1956 makes an incontrovertible case for a social history of French cinema, bringing to light a whole world of films, and a period in French film history, overlooked by formalist critics. Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier’s analyses of character, gender, and ideology are trenchant, and there is an analytic surprise on every page of this fascinating book. Required reading!"—Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French"This flawless translation of La Drôle de guerre des sexes is a boon to cinema studies. Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier rightly argue that attention to the New Wave and auteur theory obfuscated much of the great film made in France during the years prior to the war, during the Occupation, and after the Liberation. Their book will rejuvenate historical and ideological study of classical French cinema in the Anglophone world. Anyone interested in French film history and theory will find it invaluable."—Tom Conley, author of An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France"[An] important and thorough work of film history and criticism. . . . Graham's expert translation brings to English readers an invaluable examination of a period of French history as represented in its cinema and analyses of particular films. . . . [T]he authors perform an important service to film history by revisiting and reframing well-known films and by unearthing many largely forgotten films. Essential. All readers." -- L. M. Anderst * Choice *"A classic in the field and we can congratulate the press on this new translation, not so as to freeze its original ideas into a new orthodoxy but rather to serve as a spur for continued reflection." -- Hugo Frey * American Historical Review *"Burch and Sellier’s seminal study not only broke the pattern when it first came out in the original French but also provided a timely and insightful account of attitudes to gender and shifting sexual identities during three of the most eventful periods in twentieth-century French history … The originality and lasting appeal of [their] approach thus derives from the choice of an under-studied section of French cinema history as much as from the in-depth analysis of the relationship between film and society across a vast array of mainstream, high-quality productions alongside unsuccessful or marginal productions." -- Romona Fotiade * French History *"[T]his translation of Burch and Sellier’s study will prove immensely valuable for non-French-speaking researchers..." -- Claire Boyle * French Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I. The Prewar Period, 1930–1939 13 1. Panorama of a Cine-Family Romance 15 Film Analyses 54 Part II. The German Occupation, 1940–1944: Fathers Take a Backseat 89 2. Castrated Fathers 91 3. Women in the Service of the Patriarchy 103 4. Misogyny Lingers On 114 5. Absent Men, Fleeing Men 125 6. Women Take Control of Their Destiny 133 7. The Zazou Film: A Dissident Style during the Occupation 140 8. A Woman Faced with Her Desire 150 9. Gentle Male Figures and New Fathers 164 Film Analyses 180 Part III. The Postwar Period, 1945–1956: Settling of Scores 235 10. The Destabilizing Effects of the Liberation 237 11. Restoring the Patriarchal Order 269 Film Analyses 305 Conclusion 341 References 347 Index 357

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Street Corner Secrets is a nuanced ethnographic exploration of lives of poor migrant women who are part of the urban informal economy in the Indian metropolis of Mumbai…. [T]his book is a significant contribution to making sense of the place of sex work in the lives of poor migrant women in urban India." -- Anjua Agrawal * American Anthropologist *"Based on critical ethnography, archival research, and discourse analysis, Svati Shah makes an important intervention in the ongoing feminist debates on sex work... Shah provides in this book... a much needed focus on the political economy of sexual commerce." -- Manisha Desai * Gender & Society *"Overall, this book’s ethnography makes a vibrant contribution to urban anthropology. Crafting an understanding of sexual labour that reflects the intricacies of rural-urban migration, the book sheds light on the management of knowledge around sex work, from secrecy to the rehabilitation of 'rescued' prostitutes, and shows how spaces occupied by women sex workers have multiple uses and meanings in Mumbai’s contested urban landscape." -- Atreyee Sen * Pacific Affairs *"Svati P. Shah’s new book Street Corner Secrets makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around sex work in India.... Multi-sited urban ethnography alongside meticulous participant observation, provides a fascinating insight into Shah’s participants." -- Rohit Dasgupta * Royal Society for Asian Affairs *"Street Corner Secrets offers a window into the narrow field of livelihood options that poor, migrant women navigate in urban India and, importantly, provides a much-needed model for ending the analytic exceptionalism of sex work." -- Lauren Wilks * Sociology *"Within activist circles, global feminist discourse, and academic conversations surrounding gender and agency, sex work has often been framed as an exceptional space of disempowerment, trafficking, and exploitation. Svati P. Shah’s beautifully engaged ethnography, Street Corner Secrets, challenges this narrative by attending to the material landscape of rural labor migration to Mumbai....This text will appeal to scholars in anthropology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, labor studies, urban studies, human rights, and South Asia studies, as well as upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses invested in similar disciplines." -- Maura Finkelstein * GLQ *"Street Corner Secrets is a compelling exploration of the intersections between space, society, and sex work. It is a thorough and fascinating text for readers who are interested in topics that range from the political economies of space, to the precariousness of informal labor, to debates over sexual commerce. . . . [The] clear, accessible style is appropriate for newcomers and seasoned scholars alike. Svati Shah’s reflexive ethnography is engaged, feminist anthropology at its best." -- Cara Snyder * Society & Space *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Day Wage Labor and Migration: Making Ends Meet 41 2. Sex, Work, and Silence from the Construction of Workers' Naka 77 3. Sex Work and the Street 113 4. Red-Light Districts, Rescue, and Real Estate 147 Conclusion. Agency, Livelihoods, and Spaces 189 Notes 207 Bibliography 231 Index 247

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Street Corner Secrets is a nuanced ethnographic exploration of lives of poor migrant women who are part of the urban informal economy in the Indian metropolis of Mumbai…. [T]his book is a significant contribution to making sense of the place of sex work in the lives of poor migrant women in urban India." -- Anjua Agrawal * American Anthropologist *"Based on critical ethnography, archival research, and discourse analysis, Svati Shah makes an important intervention in the ongoing feminist debates on sex work... Shah provides in this book... a much needed focus on the political economy of sexual commerce." -- Manisha Desai * Gender & Society *"Overall, this book’s ethnography makes a vibrant contribution to urban anthropology. Crafting an understanding of sexual labour that reflects the intricacies of rural-urban migration, the book sheds light on the management of knowledge around sex work, from secrecy to the rehabilitation of 'rescued' prostitutes, and shows how spaces occupied by women sex workers have multiple uses and meanings in Mumbai’s contested urban landscape." -- Atreyee Sen * Pacific Affairs *"Svati P. Shah’s new book Street Corner Secrets makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around sex work in India.... Multi-sited urban ethnography alongside meticulous participant observation, provides a fascinating insight into Shah’s participants." -- Rohit Dasgupta * Royal Society for Asian Affairs *"Street Corner Secrets offers a window into the narrow field of livelihood options that poor, migrant women navigate in urban India and, importantly, provides a much-needed model for ending the analytic exceptionalism of sex work." -- Lauren Wilks * Sociology *"Within activist circles, global feminist discourse, and academic conversations surrounding gender and agency, sex work has often been framed as an exceptional space of disempowerment, trafficking, and exploitation. Svati P. Shah’s beautifully engaged ethnography, Street Corner Secrets, challenges this narrative by attending to the material landscape of rural labor migration to Mumbai....This text will appeal to scholars in anthropology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, labor studies, urban studies, human rights, and South Asia studies, as well as upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses invested in similar disciplines." -- Maura Finkelstein * GLQ *"Street Corner Secrets is a compelling exploration of the intersections between space, society, and sex work. It is a thorough and fascinating text for readers who are interested in topics that range from the political economies of space, to the precariousness of informal labor, to debates over sexual commerce. . . . [The] clear, accessible style is appropriate for newcomers and seasoned scholars alike. Svati Shah’s reflexive ethnography is engaged, feminist anthropology at its best." -- Cara Snyder * Society & Space *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Day Wage Labor and Migration: Making Ends Meet 41 2. Sex, Work, and Silence from the Construction of Workers' Naka 77 3. Sex Work and the Street 113 4. Red-Light Districts, Rescue, and Real Estate 147 Conclusion. Agency, Livelihoods, and Spaces 189 Notes 207 Bibliography 231 Index 247

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Dance Floor Democracy is a model for what we might call embodied social and cultural history: works that takes the body (including that of the researcher herself) as a site of knowledge. … Dance Floor Democracy reveals scholarly practice as its own kind of dancing.” -- Gayle Wald * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“With its beautiful and clear writing style, this book would be of interest to an audience of general readers, as well as to specialists in dance and jazz. Tucker’s research methodology in this book is applicable to a wide range of interdisciplinary fields, including jazz studies, American studies, African American studies, ethnomusicology, and anthropology.” -- Yoko Suzuki * Women and Music *“More than just a straightforward history of the Canteen, Tucker’s smart and sophisticated analysis utilizes this unique wartime institution to understand the variety of ways in which WWII is remembered and memorialized in the present day. … Dance Floor Democracy makes for a thoughtful, eye-opening account of the complexities of the World War II generation, especially given Tucker’s masterful skills as an oral historian.” -- Elizabeth R. Escobedo * Western Historical Quarterly *"Tucker contributes here not only to the fields of history, jazz, and American studies but also to the burgeoning field of critical dance studies. Reckoning with dance, in Tucker’s work, is a way to think differently about politics." -- Danielle Goldman * Journal of American History *"Dance Floor Democracy is a valuable and exceptionally well-researched revisionist history of the Hollywood Canteen, critiquing not only the dominant paradigm of a friendly, democratic site, but also giving voice to the ‘others’ whose stories have been eclipsed by the feel-good memory of whom we wish we had been." -- Rebecca A. Bryant * Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue. Dance Floor Democracy? xiii Introduction. Writing on a Crowded Dance Floor 1 Part I. On Location: Situating the Hollywood Canteen (and Swing Culture as National Memory) in Wartime Los Angeles 1. Wrestling Hollywood to the Map 25 2. Cruising the Cahuenga Pass(t) 51 3. Operating from the Curbstone 76 Part II. Patriotic Jitterbugs: Tracing the Footsteps of the Soldier-Hostess Dyad 4. Dyad Democracy 107 5. Injured Parties 146 6. Torquing Back 179 Part III. Women in Uniforms, Men in Aprons: Dancing outside the Soldier-Hostess Dyad 7. The Dyad from Without 199 8. The View from the Mezzanine 212 9. Men Serving Men 226 Part IV. Swing Between the Nation and the State 10. (Un)American Patrol: Following the State on the Dance Floor of the Nation 243 11. The Making(s) of National Memory: Hollywood Canteen (the Movie) 281 Notes 321 Bibliography 351 Index 365

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Dance Floor Democracy is a model for what we might call embodied social and cultural history: works that takes the body (including that of the researcher herself) as a site of knowledge. … Dance Floor Democracy reveals scholarly practice as its own kind of dancing.” -- Gayle Wald * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“With its beautiful and clear writing style, this book would be of interest to an audience of general readers, as well as to specialists in dance and jazz. Tucker’s research methodology in this book is applicable to a wide range of interdisciplinary fields, including jazz studies, American studies, African American studies, ethnomusicology, and anthropology.” -- Yoko Suzuki * Women and Music *“More than just a straightforward history of the Canteen, Tucker’s smart and sophisticated analysis utilizes this unique wartime institution to understand the variety of ways in which WWII is remembered and memorialized in the present day. … Dance Floor Democracy makes for a thoughtful, eye-opening account of the complexities of the World War II generation, especially given Tucker’s masterful skills as an oral historian.” -- Elizabeth R. Escobedo * Western Historical Quarterly *"Tucker contributes here not only to the fields of history, jazz, and American studies but also to the burgeoning field of critical dance studies. Reckoning with dance, in Tucker’s work, is a way to think differently about politics." -- Danielle Goldman * Journal of American History *"Dance Floor Democracy is a valuable and exceptionally well-researched revisionist history of the Hollywood Canteen, critiquing not only the dominant paradigm of a friendly, democratic site, but also giving voice to the ‘others’ whose stories have been eclipsed by the feel-good memory of whom we wish we had been." -- Rebecca A. Bryant * Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue. Dance Floor Democracy? xiii Introduction. Writing on a Crowded Dance Floor 1 Part I. On Location: Situating the Hollywood Canteen (and Swing Culture as National Memory) in Wartime Los Angeles 1. Wrestling Hollywood to the Map 25 2. Cruising the Cahuenga Pass(t) 51 3. Operating from the Curbstone 76 Part II. Patriotic Jitterbugs: Tracing the Footsteps of the Soldier-Hostess Dyad 4. Dyad Democracy 107 5. Injured Parties 146 6. Torquing Back 179 Part III. Women in Uniforms, Men in Aprons: Dancing outside the Soldier-Hostess Dyad 7. The Dyad from Without 199 8. The View from the Mezzanine 212 9. Men Serving Men 226 Part IV. Swing Between the Nation and the State 10. (Un)American Patrol: Following the State on the Dance Floor of the Nation 243 11. The Making(s) of National Memory: Hollywood Canteen (the Movie) 281 Notes 321 Bibliography 351 Index 365

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This meticulously researched book expertly draws from dazzling range material to produce a new understanding of how star images are produced and reproduced over time and to different ends." -- Kristen Hatch * Journal of American History *"Recycled Stars makes an original and sophisticated contribution to film and television studies and will be widely welcomed by readers and teachers. It is also illustrated with a delectable selection of stills that communicate the glamour and the sheer creepiness of the star images under discussion in equal measure." -- Ruth Barton * Journal of American Studies *"Desjardins covers [Gloria Swanson and Lucille Ball] and much more in this fascinating tome, which is richly illustrated with frame grabs from kinescopes, as she considers the shifting landscape of mid-20th-century female celebrity. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." -- G. A. Foster * Choice *"Well-written and using a rich variety of examples and methods, Recycled Stars is a useful and very readable addition to star studies, feminist media studies and film history." -- Ellen Wright * Celebrity Studies *"In addition to being multidisciplinary, this book demonstrates the importance of considering different elements of film studies together. Areas that were previously separate in film studies, such as stardom, fandom, and industrial factors, present a completely different understanding of the field when brought together—an understanding that could greatly benefit future research and study." -- Catherine Bednarz * International Journal of Communication *“Recycled Stars offers valuable insights into the relationships between stars and their publics, extending traditional scholarship by evaluating their impacts and consequences beyond a specific historical moment.” -- Patrick Kent Russell * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "The Elegance . . . Is Almost Overwhelming": Glamour and Discursive Struggles over Female Stardom in Early Television 13 2. Norma Desmond, Your Spell Is Everywhere: The Time and Place of the Female Film Star in 1950s Television and Film 57 3. Maureen O'Hara's "Confidential" Life: Recycling Hollywood Film Stars in the 1950s through Scandalous Gossip and Moral Biography 99 4. After the Laughter: Recycling Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as a Star Couple 143 5. Star Bodies, Star Bios: Stardom, Gender, and Identity Politics 191 Conclusion 243 Notes 253 Select Bibliography 295 Index 305

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Women’s Cinema, World Cinema is another smart, deep and open-hearted achievement I will choose to live beside. White lets us know, in this collection of essays, investigations, speculations, gossip and political insights that feminist cinema is now, in fact, a global event that defies national boundary…. It’s a book that succeeds in expanding the reader’s consciousness with wit and bold intellectual drive.” -- Sarah Schulman * Lambda Literary Review *“Bringing these excellent, inspiring filmmakers into sharp focus, this comprehensive study is smoothly organized and could even serve as a text for a semester-long course on 21st-century feminist cinema. Boldly illustrated and written in a clear, accessible style, this will be a key resource for those interested in contemporary film history, theory, and criticism…. Highly recommended. All readers.” -- G. A. Foster * Choice *"Women’s Cinema, World Cinema is a substantial victory in terms of scholarship and the ripple effect it could have on the far-flung communities of people who care about women’s cinema." -- Erin Trahan * Women's Review of Books *"With her brilliantly clear-sighted study,White bestows on her readers the right not to be defensive about female film authorship quantitatively any longer. Her work argues, instead, that 'women’s cinema' be understood, valued, and defended qualitatively as the key space of feminist film culture—as a 'discursive terrain . . . still very much at stake' (3)." -- Catherine Grant * Film Quarterly *"A must-read for programmers, critics, teachers, and all viewers.... It’s both a brilliant reading of some of the most inventive current filmmakers... and an insightful lowdown of changes in film production, exhibition and reception over the last decade." -- Sophie Mayer * British Film Institute *"White’s book is one of 2015’s major feminist works because of its demonstration of feminism as a process defying stereotypes and driving continual cultural change—‘post’ only in its capacity to overtake itself." -- Leanne Bibby * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *"White’s monograph is undoubtedly an invaluable addition to the discussion of women’s cinema. White’s most far-reaching contribution to both women’s and film studies is her carefully crafted and detailed exploration of the geopolitics of global women’s cinema. Her case studies convey the struggle between the personal and the global, and the national and the international, showing multiple pathways of engagement with these issues, and the close links between distribution, exhibition and evaluation within the US art house and international film festival spheres." -- Judith Rifeser * Film-Philosophy *"White has dealt with material that is dauntingly unwieldy and has provided the great scholarly service of making it far less so for others. She has provided a wonderful 'map', one that enables an informed and focused engagement with the very best of contemporary women's cinema from the Global South. Her book makes a very strong case for the importance of women's cinema as world cinema. I recommend it most warmly." -- Mette Hjort * Cultural Studies Review *"A must-read book for a wide variety of audiences. White’s writing, rich and densely coded, avoids overly specialized terminology . . . . Reading this book feels like a comprehensive experience in learning how to read the world differently." -- Maggie Hennefeld * Cultural Critique *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 11. To Each Her Own Cinema. World Cinema and the Woman Cineaste 29Jane Campion's Cannes Connections 30Lucrecia Martel's Vertiginous Authorship 44Samira Makhmalbaf's Sororal Cinema 562. Framing Feminisms. Women's Cinema as Art Cinema 68Deepa Mehta's Elemental Feminism 76Iranian Diasporan Women Directors and Cultural Capital 883. Feminist Film in the Age of the Chick Flick. Global Flows of Women's Cinema 104Engendering New Korean Cinema in Jeong Jae-eun's Take Care of My Cat 108Nadine Labaki's Celebrity 1204. Network Narratives. Asian Women Directors 132Two-Timing the System in Nia Dinata's Love for Share 136Zero Chou and the Spaces of Chinese Lesbian Film 1425. Is the Whole World Watching? Fictions of Women's Human Rights 169Sabiha Sumar's Democratic Cinema 175Jasmila Žbanic's Grbavica and Balkan Cinema's Incommensurable Gazes 181Claudia Llosa's Trans/national Address 187Afterword 199Notes 203Bibliography 235Filmography 247Index 251

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This meticulously researched book expertly draws from dazzling range material to produce a new understanding of how star images are produced and reproduced over time and to different ends." -- Kristen Hatch * Journal of American History *"Recycled Stars makes an original and sophisticated contribution to film and television studies and will be widely welcomed by readers and teachers. It is also illustrated with a delectable selection of stills that communicate the glamour and the sheer creepiness of the star images under discussion in equal measure." -- Ruth Barton * Journal of American Studies *"Desjardins covers [Gloria Swanson and Lucille Ball] and much more in this fascinating tome, which is richly illustrated with frame grabs from kinescopes, as she considers the shifting landscape of mid-20th-century female celebrity. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." -- G. A. Foster * Choice *"Well-written and using a rich variety of examples and methods, Recycled Stars is a useful and very readable addition to star studies, feminist media studies and film history." -- Ellen Wright * Celebrity Studies *"In addition to being multidisciplinary, this book demonstrates the importance of considering different elements of film studies together. Areas that were previously separate in film studies, such as stardom, fandom, and industrial factors, present a completely different understanding of the field when brought together—an understanding that could greatly benefit future research and study." -- Catherine Bednarz * International Journal of Communication *“Recycled Stars offers valuable insights into the relationships between stars and their publics, extending traditional scholarship by evaluating their impacts and consequences beyond a specific historical moment.” -- Patrick Kent Russell * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "The Elegance . . . Is Almost Overwhelming": Glamour and Discursive Struggles over Female Stardom in Early Television 13 2. Norma Desmond, Your Spell Is Everywhere: The Time and Place of the Female Film Star in 1950s Television and Film 57 3. Maureen O'Hara's "Confidential" Life: Recycling Hollywood Film Stars in the 1950s through Scandalous Gossip and Moral Biography 99 4. After the Laughter: Recycling Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as a Star Couple 143 5. Star Bodies, Star Bios: Stardom, Gender, and Identity Politics 191 Conclusion 243 Notes 253 Select Bibliography 295 Index 305

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Book SynopsisBased on extensive archival and ethnographic research on dozens of women who have worked in adult entertainment since the 1980s, A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on representations of black women’s sexuality in the porn industry.Trade Review“This much-needed volume reminds scholars of the need to deepen porn studies and strengthen its interdisciplinary possibilities through various theoretical lenses and critical approaches. Supporting her book with abundant images, Miller-Young thoughtfully exposes readers to concepts both visually and intellectually. … A necessary volume for academics as well as those interested in popular culture studies that have a dialogue with race and/or women. Essential. Graduate students/faculty.” -- M. Martinez * Choice *“Reading A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography on a New York subway train will earn you some very interesting looks. Adorned with a cover photo featuring the beautiful porn star Jeannie Pepper topless in a white fur like something out of Superfly, and the customary wall of text that comes with academic books on the back, it brings out New York's best double takes. … A Taste for Brown Sugar offers fine scholarship, done with the utmost respect of the subject and the workers chronicled.” -- Sydette Harry * Make/Shift *"Through meticulous research and a masterly melding of the best of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical work in black women’s sexuality, A Taste for Brown Sugar analyzes African American women’s agency within the adult entertainment industry.... If A Taste for Brown Sugar can produce a solid analysis of such a difficult, controversial topic, Miller-Young has set a high bar for similar projects that study oppositional knowledge." -- Patricia Hill Collins * Journal of American History *"[E]ssential reading for anyone seeking to understand new work on feminism, critical race studies, pornography, and film history." -- Svati P. Shah * Women's Review of Books *"A Taste for Brown Sugar is a necessary, long overdue text that should interest scholars and students of various fields and backgrounds, particularly those interested in feminist theory, media studies, histories of black women, sex work, and of course porn studies.... The book is impressive, cultivating a rich and diverse tapestry of urgent voices and images, revealing the complicated interplay between labor and representation." -- Laura Helen Marks * Feminist Media Studies *"Everyone interested in understanding the industry and the people, especially the Black women involved, in front of and behind the cameras, should read this book cover to cover.... There is a wide audience for this well-researched and well-produced book.... The general public as well as researchers from film and media studies, history, sexuality studies, African American studies, labor studies, critical race studies, sociology, and anthropology will appreciate A Taste for Brown Sugar." -- Sherri L. Barnes * Feminist Collections *"Miller-Young offers a compelling examination of African American women’s participation in one of the nation’s most understudied industries: the porn business. Filling a void within African American women’s historiography and presenting a more nuanced perspective on women’s work, she situates black female porn laborers within the larger context of 20th-century work. Miller-Young has produced a bold and engaging study that challenges historians of the black female experiences to re-conceptualize ideas about race and gender and labor and black sexualities." -- LaShawn Harris * Souls *"In a field so dominated by the visual, it is Miller-Young’s insistence that we hear, as well as see, black women in porn that makes her book so textured, colorful, brash, and critically engrossing. Divided into six well-written and informative chapters, this ambitious scholarly tour de force offers an ethnographic account of black women’s labor in the porn industry, as well as a historicist cultural appraisal of blackness in pornography from the early twentieth century into our present era." -- L. H. Stallings * Black Camera *"Throughout six chapters of insightful and rigorous thought, Miller-Young traces the evolution of black sex actors as a heavily stereotyped spectacle during the silent era to a more nuanced and contemporary understanding of them as working professionals seeking, and oftentimes finding, autonomy and female sexual empowerment. A Taste for Brown Sugar is a leap forward in feminist thinking and sex work studies, and a crucial read for any student of women's studies." -- Laura L. S. Bauer * Women's Studies *"All those who are interested in porn, African American, film, cultural or queer studies would benefit from reading this multifaceted, nuanced, decidedly non-white interpretation of the porn industry." -- Angela Mika Holton * Sexuality & Culture *"A Taste for Brown Sugar has raised the bar for porn studies." -- Whitney Strub * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"By centering labor, Miller-Young deftly side-steps debates about whether pornography can be feminist and instead shows us that economies of desire are mutable and can be manipulated to find spaces of survival and even pleasure. This perspective is an important addition to black feminist sexuality studies. Audiences interested in American studies, labor history, the history of pornography, black feminism, and sexuality studies should take note of this important book." -- Amber Jamilla Musser * GLQ *"A Taste of Brown Sugar is a profoundly impressive history, guided confidently by Miller-Young’s expert hand. Her interviews, excerpts of which are incorporated throughout the book, provide critical evidence for her nuanced thesis and demonstrate the value of oral history in otherwise 'traditional' historical accounts." -- Mario Alvarez * Oral History Review *"Miller-Young ends the book with a succinct, pointed conclusion that reminds the reader one last time of the humanity at the core of the adult film industry—but it could equally describe the relationship of pornography studies to cinema and media studies more broadly. . . . It’s that relentless focus, even more than the important, meaty historical inquiry, deep textual analysis, and ideological interventions, that make A Taste for Brown Sugar required reading." -- Peter Aliluna * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *Table of ContentsPreface. Confessions of a Black Feminist Academic Photographer vii Acknowledgments viii Introduction. Brown Sugar: Theorizing Black Women's Sexual Labor in Photography 1 1. Sepia Sex Scenes: Spectacles of Difference in Race Porn 23 2. Sexy Soul Sisters: Black Women in the Golden Era 66 3. Black Chicks: Marketing Black Women in the Video Era 104 4. Ho Theory: Black Female Sexuality at the Convergence of Hip Hop and Pornography 142 5. (Black) Porn Star: Aspirations and Realities in Porn Work 180 6. Behind the Scenes: Confronting Disempowerment and Creating Change in Black Women's Porn Work 226 Epilogue. Behind the Camera: Black Women's Illicit Erotic Interventions 263 Notes 283 Bibliography 315 Index 355

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Book SynopsisJean Ma shows how the rise and domination of singing actresses—or songstresses—in Chinese cinema attests to the changing roles of women in urban modernity, the complex symbiosis between the film and music industries, and the distinctive gendering of lyrical expression.Trade Review“It is not that often that in a single volume, an author completely revolutionizes the way one looks at a subject. But that is what Ma (art and art history, Stanford) does in this volume, which is one of the most significant feminist historiographies of the past decade…. Required reading for anyone interested in film or Chinese culture in general.” -- G. A. Foster * Choice *"All in all, Sounding the Modern Woman is well worth close attention. It advances our understanding of the connections between the Shanghai and Hong Kong film industries as well as enriches the historical discourse as it indicates many points of continuity over not only the transition to sound cinema but also the tumultuous war years and the Cold War situation that followed." -- Andrew Stuckey * H-Asia, H-Net Reviews *"Ma’s masterly revelation of the fates of very real people and events that led to the making of these mythic icons of vitality, eros, and death, and the ambivalence with which she underscores their eventual fading from contemporary cinematic attention, makes this tome worthy of a place on the curious reader’s shelf." -- Shzr Ee Tan * Music, Sound, and the Moving Image *"Sounding the Modern Woman is an important examination of the songstress in pre-war Shanghai and post-war Hong Kong film and signals the importance of listening for the gendered meanings of history and popular culture – not just looking for them." -- Catherine Horne * Media International Australia *"Jean Ma’s book is more than a scholarly exploration of sound and music in Chinese cinema. . . . [W]ith attention to the timbre, expression, and on-and-off screen collaboration of female voices, this book breaks through the practice of textual analysis and spectatorship studies. In this respect, I regard Ma’s book as a significant feminist historical intervention." -- S. Louisa Wei * Pacific Affairs *"As the title suggests, Sounding the Modern Woman gives the songstress (including her silent ancestors and rebellious successors) a voice in the history of Chinese cinema. It is most certainly a thoughtfully researched, intellectually inspiring, and analytically eye-opening study of the songstress as a medium." -- Victor Fan * MCLC Resource Center *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. A Songstress Is Born 31 2. From Shanghai to Hong Kong 71 3. The Little Wildcat 103 4. The Mambo Girl 139 5. Carmen, Camille, and the Undoing of Women 185 Coda 213 Notes 219 Chinese Films Cited 247 Bibliography 253 Index 267

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Book SynopsisCollecting almost four decades of writings by feminist activist Ann Snitow, Feminism of Uncertainty includes well-known essays, such as "A Gender Diary," along with pieces appearing here for the first time.Trade Review“Snitow’s work has always been very readable. Her prose has that luminous fluency that comes only after a writer has been steeped in decades of rigorous reading, writing and activism. These essays repeatedly emphasise how important her students are to her. … For third- and fourth-wave feminist readers, The Feminism of Uncertainty will be both an introduction to Snitow’s philosophy and a valuable reminder not to reinvent the feminist wheel.” -- Emma Rees * Times Higher Education *"Ann Snitow is a hero of late twentieth-century radicalism, in its many guises. . . . [A] valuable resource for the ambitious future scholar/activist digging into feminism’s past. . . . The Feminism of Uncertainty shines brightest when Snitow’s uncertainty politics clash with the realities of action (and for Snitow, thinking, reading, and speaking are all actions)." -- Paula Rabinowitz * Women's Review of Books *"At a time when the field is cleaved with irreconcilable differences between earlier epistemologies of feminisms and emergent perspectives, this book fills a major gap as it cuts across divides and speaks across eras and ideologies." -- Basuli Deb * Socialism and Democracy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Feminism of Uncertainty: I 1 Part I. Continuing a Gender Diary 1. A Gender Diary 21 2. Critiquing a Gender Diary 59 Part II. Mothers/Lovers 3. Introduction to Mothers/Lovers 71 4. Dorothy Dinnerstein: Creative Unknowing 80 5. From the Gender Diary: Living with Dorothy Dinnerstein (1923–1992) 93 6. Changing Our Minds about Motherhood: 1963–1990 97 7. The Sex Wars in Feminism: Retrenchment versus Transformation 123 8. The Poet of Bad Girls: Angela Carter (1940–1992) 139 9. Inside the Circus Tent: Excerpts from an Interview with Angela Carter, 1988 148 10. The Beast Within: Lady into Fox and A Man in the Zoo, by David Garnett 153 Part III. The Feminist Picaresque 11. Introduction to The Feminist Picaresque 159 12. Occupying Greenham Common 163 13. Feminist Futures in the Former East Bloc 191 14. Feminism Travels: Cautionary Tales 204 15. Who are the Polish Feminists? (Slawka) 216 16. “Should I Marry Him?” Questions from Students 228 17. The Peripatetic Feminist Activist/Professor Spends One Day in a Small City in Albania 238 18. Certainty and Doubt in the Classroom: Teaching Film in Prison 241 Part IV. Refugees from Utopia 19. Introduction to Refugees from Utopia 273 20. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Making of The Feminist Memoir Project 275 21. The Politics of Passion: Ellen Willis (1941–2006) 293 22. Returning to the Well: Revisiting Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex 297 Part V. The Feminism of Uncertainty 23. Introduction to The Feminism of Uncertainty 307 24. Life Sentence: My Uncertainty Principle 310 25. Doubt’s Visionary: Doris Lessing 316 26. Utopia, Downsized: A Farrago 328 27. The Feminism of Uncertainty: II 330 Appendix: Publication History 335 Bibliography 339 Index 355

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