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Duke University Press Sounding the Modern Woman The Songstress in
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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Duke University Press The Repeating Body
Book SynopsisKimberly Juanita Brown explores the literary and visual representations of how black women bear the marks of slavery, centers black women in narratives of slavery, and uncovers and critiques the refusal to see the violence done to black women's bodies.Trade Review"The Repeating Body offers a nuanced analysis grounded in detailed readings of embodiment in black diasporic and especially black feminist artistic works. . . . In this thoughtful study, Brown is probing the limits of the very stories that she understands as technologies of survival." -- S. Trimble * Contemporary Women's Writing *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Visualizing the Body of the Black Atlantic 1 1. Black Rapture: Corporeal Afterimage and Transnational Desire 18 2. Fragmented Figurations of the Maternal 57 3. The Boundaries of Excess 96 4. The Return: Conjuring the Figure, Following the Form 138 Conclusion: Photographic Incantations of the Visual 177 Notes 195 Bibliography 229 Index 245
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Duke University Press Shapeshifters
Book SynopsisIn Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter''s residents—who range in age from fifteen to twenty-two—employ strategic methods she characterizes as choreography to disrupt the social hierarchies and prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the residents exercising their agency, while their creation of alternative family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women''s experiences to tell larger stories: of Detroit''s history, the Great Migration, dTrade Review"Cox shows that 'Black girls’ lives matter' and how their voices articulate that. This ethnographic study of young black women and girls is an essential read and companion to the larger picture of African American lives in urban settings, which are often mired in poverty, crime, and despair. However, this rare study brings hope rather than hopelessness as it delves into the heart of human expression and gives voice to a will to live beyond any limitations of what poverty may dictate in contemporary North America." -- M. Christian * Choice *"This lively book, Cox’s account of her work as a participant-observer in a Detroit homeless shelter for teen girls, reveals both the many obstacles faced by young women of color and the creative ways in which they use self-expression (language, music, fashion, and dance) to find a new way to live otherwise. The stories, harrowing and fascinating, shine a light on the lives of our least empowered citizens—teenage African American girls—while Cox’s thinking helps us see the power of being able to shape-shift." -- Anne Fernald * Public Books *"A creative and compelling ethnographic study, Shapeshifters challenges us to revise the ways we think, write, and theorize about young black women, starting with making their voices and self-analyses the subject of the book. Rather than analyzing the girls’ narratives through the lens of academic theories, even those of black feminists, Cox asks that 'we open ourselves up to a conversation with them.'" -- Farah Jasmine Griffin * Public Books *"Shapeshifters is an engaging, powerful read of the lived experience of young Black girls’ lives that intersects with race, class, gender, and agency, providing a fresh perspective on citizenship, change, and standpoint." -- Olivia R. Hetzler * Gender & Society *"While so much urban ethnography excludes women altogether, and black women in particular, Shapeshifters centers young black women, not simply as the subject of the book, but as authors of a world. Shapeshifters proceeds from a position in which black life matters, where young women are sharp eyed critics and citizen-subjects all too aware of where their rights and responsibilities are limited or truncated, and further aware (and willing) to adopt the innovative tactics they need to surmount or work around said limitations." -- Sameena Mulla * Anthropoliteia *"It is movement—its unpredictability, its interactions with space, and its many evolutions—that organizes Cox’s work and makes it an invaluable contribution to studies of black girlhood, feminist theory, and ethnography." -- Danielle Bainbridge * TDR: The Drama Review *"Shapeshifters is a courageous and rich exploration of the lives of power and agency of Black girls and women. . . . A theoretically rich and ethnographically sound body of work." -- Denice D. Nabinett * Journal of Negro Education *"Any serious scholar working at the intersection of race and gender, or at the nexus where theories of identity meet conceptualizations of a just and inclusive polity, will benefit from taking the time to engage with Cox’s work." -- John L. Jackson Jr * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Part I. Terrain Introduction 3 1. "We Came Here to Be Different": The Brown Family and Remapping Detroit 38 Part II. Scripts 2. Renovations 81 3. Narratives of Protest and Play 122 Part III. Bodies 4. Sex, Gender, and Scripted Bodies 155 5. The Move Experiment 185 Epilogue 237 Notes 243 References 263 Index 273
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Duke University Press Economies of Violence
Book SynopsisJennifer Suchland argues that human trafficking should be understood as symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics rather than as a criminal activity, and that treating trafficking as a crime and by focusing on victims is insufficient to combatting it.Trade Review"Economies of Violence's exploration of trafficking's economic and social causes is . . . useful not only for decoding the genealogy of sex trafficking discourse, but also as an appeal to governments and societies and to develop more robust methods for combatting not only human trafficking but also precarious labor together with the social exclusion and legal inferiority it ensues." -- Shulamit Almog * International Journal for the Semiotics of Law *"Suchland’s attention to the erasure of capitalism’s violence provides a refreshing way to rethink the role of law, order, and the police in the context of human betterment. . . . Suchland’s book offers an innovative contribution to the emerging field of critical feminist trafficking studies." -- Julietta Hua * Law, Culture and the Humanities *"Economies of Violence untangles dense discursive webs around sex trafficking by showing precarious labor as the lynchpin of sex trafficking and the U.S.S.R.’s postsocialist transition. . . . Importantly centering the neglected postsocialist world, Suchland allows readers to imagine and contemplate the structural economic inequities of global capitalism that produce precarious labor and undergird global violence." -- Jennifer A. Zenovich * Women's Studies in Communication *"[Economies of Violence] offers a timely, wide-ranging and provocative reconceptualization of trafficking discourses, especially of the ways in which the prohibitionist position has come to inform global anti-trafficking policy. . . . [Suchland's] excellent book not only provides an important challenge to prohibitionist arguments, but also offers sex workers and advocates many profound and important analytical resources." -- Robert Heynen * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"Suchland makes great strides for our understanding of counter-trafficking with her genealogical analysis. . . . This book is a deep well from which to draw multiple and complex discussions." -- Leyla J. Keough * Slavic Review *"Lively and thought-provoking, Suchland’s book challenges us to consider the alternative interpretations of sex trafficking that have been displaced by contemporary notions of human rights, bodily autonomy and victimhood." -- Celia Donert * Slavonic and East European Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Trafficking as Aberration: The Making of Globalization's Victims 1 Part I. Global 25 1. Sex Trafficking and the Making of a Feminist Subject of Analysis 29 2. The Natasha Trade and the Post-Cold War Reframing of Precarity 53 Part II. Postsocialist 85 3. Second World/Second Sex: Alternative Genealogies in Feminist Homogenous Empty Time 89 4. Lost in Transition: Postsocialist Trafficking and the Erasure of Systemic Violence 121 Part III. Economies of Violence 159 5. Freedom as Choice and the Neoliberal Economism of Trafficking Discourse 163 Conclusion. Antitrafficking beyond the Carceral State 187 Notes 195 References 219 Index 247
£98.60
Duke University Press Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary
Book SynopsisIn this intimate portrait, Margaret Randall tells the story of Haydée Santamaría, the only woman to participate in every phase of the Cuban Revolution. Although unknown outside Cuba, Santamaría was part of Fidel Castro's inner circle and played a key role in post-revolutionary Cuba's political and artistic development.Trade Review"Santamaría’s story is one which should be told, and Randall does so vividly and insightfully." * Publishers Weekly *“[T]he past is sometimes hard to put away, as Randall’s loving elegy to Haydée Santamaría shows. … Her life story demonstrates the heavy costs that prolonged revolutionary struggles can extract even from their apparent victors. A feminist sensibility adds poignancy to Randall’s tender, impressionistic portrait of a self-effacing and melancholic yet much revered Cuban fighter.” -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“Margaret Randall brings a poet’s voice to her work. She captures history, gleans it from correspondence, interviews, and research, but imbues it with an uncommon lyrical quality. … Both of Randall’s recent books make Cuba come alive. These books are well timed with the restoration of diplomatic relations and the easing of travel restrictions. They convey the vibrant history of revolutionary change. They also give human dimensions to the heroes of that revolution, reminding us what they risked, the losses they suffered, and what they were able to achieve.” -- Alice Embree * The Rag Blog *“The life of Haydée Santamaría was divided between a few days of heroism and decades of bureaucratic toil. A new biography by the poet and activist Margaret Randall, who knew and loved her, tells stories of courage and sacrifice that sometimes make her sound too amazing to be true.” -- Lorna Scott Fox * Bookforum *"Much more than a straightforward biography of one woman, this intimate account of revolution, bordering on the autobiographical at times, will surely inspire readers to ponder change in their own societies. ...Essential. All levels/libraries." -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary delves deftly into an extraordinary life, tying in the author’s own experiences and memories of Santamaría with biographical facts and interviews to present a detailed, yet personal history that speaks not only of the successes of the Revolution, but also the personal impact that such upheaval can bring. ...Margaret Randall has created an engaging book that invites the reader to share in her reflections on arguably one of the most influential, but lesser known, figures of the Cuban revolution." -- Katherine Bailey * LSE Review of Books *"In brisk, gripping prose, Randall makes clear the challenges faced by a woman forging a new society in the second half of the twentieth century. . . . This is a deeply personal book about a heroic woman, written by someone justifiably proud to call Haydée Santamaría a friend." -- Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt * Monthly Review *"[O]ne comes away with a sense of Santamaria as a principled and humane leader, as a woman before her time, and as an extraordinary, if flawed, human being. Because Randall is a poet her book is more lyrical and personal than academic in its approach. The end result is a book that sheds new light on one of Cuba's most vital, and least known, revolutionaries." -- J. Patrice McSherry * Journal of Global South Studies *"Randall delivers a portrait that is touching and empathetic, and which should be interesting to novices as well as specialists in Cuban history." -- Michelle Chase * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"... Randall’s book constitutes a superb example of feminist recov-ery work. It is by far the most comprehensive account on this revolutionary woman, who is little known outside of Cuba. Political leanings aside, Randall’s book is essential to readers looking to educate themselves, expand their knowledge on or consider a more unorthodox narrative on either Haydée Santamaría or 20th-century Cuban history." -- Silvia M. Roca-Martínez * The Latin Americanist *"[T]his is an outstanding study that explores the complexities and contradictions of the life of Haydée Santamaría, a key figure in the attack on Moncada, rebellion, and revolution. It is written for anyone interested in social justice, women, culture, or Cuba. Readers will certainly not be disappointed." -- Emily J. Kirk * International Journal of Cuban Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Before We Begin 1 2. Why Haydée? 11 3. Early Life 31 4. Moncada 53 5. War 81 6. Witness 107 7. Casa de las Américas 127 8. Two, Three, Many Vietnams: Haydée and Che 159 9. The Woman beneath the Myth 177 10. Impossible Possibility: Elegy for Haydée Santamaría 195 Notes 207 Bibliography 217 Index 221
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Duke University Press Shapeshifters
Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of the Fresh Start homeless shelter in Detroit, Aimee Meredith Cox shows how the shelter's residents—young black women whose average age is twenty—critique their social marginalization and find creative ways to exercise their agency.Trade Review"Cox shows that 'Black girls’ lives matter' and how their voices articulate that. This ethnographic study of young black women and girls is an essential read and companion to the larger picture of African American lives in urban settings, which are often mired in poverty, crime, and despair. However, this rare study brings hope rather than hopelessness as it delves into the heart of human expression and gives voice to a will to live beyond any limitations of what poverty may dictate in contemporary North America." -- M. Christian * Choice *"This lively book, Cox’s account of her work as a participant-observer in a Detroit homeless shelter for teen girls, reveals both the many obstacles faced by young women of color and the creative ways in which they use self-expression (language, music, fashion, and dance) to find a new way to live otherwise. The stories, harrowing and fascinating, shine a light on the lives of our least empowered citizens—teenage African American girls—while Cox’s thinking helps us see the power of being able to shape-shift." -- Anne Fernald * Public Books *"A creative and compelling ethnographic study, Shapeshifters challenges us to revise the ways we think, write, and theorize about young black women, starting with making their voices and self-analyses the subject of the book. Rather than analyzing the girls’ narratives through the lens of academic theories, even those of black feminists, Cox asks that 'we open ourselves up to a conversation with them.'" -- Farah Jasmine Griffin * Public Books *"Shapeshifters is an engaging, powerful read of the lived experience of young Black girls’ lives that intersects with race, class, gender, and agency, providing a fresh perspective on citizenship, change, and standpoint." -- Olivia R. Hetzler * Gender & Society *"While so much urban ethnography excludes women altogether, and black women in particular, Shapeshifters centers young black women, not simply as the subject of the book, but as authors of a world. Shapeshifters proceeds from a position in which black life matters, where young women are sharp eyed critics and citizen-subjects all too aware of where their rights and responsibilities are limited or truncated, and further aware (and willing) to adopt the innovative tactics they need to surmount or work around said limitations." -- Sameena Mulla * Anthropoliteia *"It is movement—its unpredictability, its interactions with space, and its many evolutions—that organizes Cox’s work and makes it an invaluable contribution to studies of black girlhood, feminist theory, and ethnography." -- Danielle Bainbridge * TDR: The Drama Review *"Shapeshifters is a courageous and rich exploration of the lives of power and agency of Black girls and women. . . . A theoretically rich and ethnographically sound body of work." -- Denice D. Nabinett * Journal of Negro Education *"Any serious scholar working at the intersection of race and gender, or at the nexus where theories of identity meet conceptualizations of a just and inclusive polity, will benefit from taking the time to engage with Cox’s work." -- John L. Jackson Jr * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Part I. Terrain Introduction 3 1. "We Came Here to Be Different": The Brown Family and Remapping Detroit 38 Part II. Scripts 2. Renovations 81 3. Narratives of Protest and Play 122 Part III. Bodies 4. Sex, Gender, and Scripted Bodies 155 5. The Move Experiment 185 Epilogue 237 Notes 243 References 263 Index 273
£72.25
Duke University Press The Spectral Wound
Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of sexual violence during the 1971 Bangladesh War for Independence, Nayanika Mookherjee shows how the public celebration of the hundreds of thousands of rape victimsâcalled birangonas by the stateâworks to homogenize and silence the experiences of these women.Trade Review"The Spectral Wound is an exceptional book. It has thoroughly explored its subject from every conceivable angle in such a way as to give it a real intellectual richness." -- Nardina Kaur * Economic and Political Weekly *"It is a pleasure to review books that offer an innovative reading of important areas of recent scholarship. Nayanika Mookherjee’s book throws an epistemic challenge to previous authors and interpretations on the subject." -- Rachana Chakraborty * Social History *"Mookerjee's exemplary and closely argued The Spectral Wound highlights the central conundrum of making wartime rapes public: heroism, implied and acknowledged by the designation birangona, can only be acquired by making your shame public....[An] uncommonly complex and delicately observed study..." -- Ritu Menon * Women's Review of Books *"[Mookherjee] asks, ‘What would it mean for the politics of identifying wartime rape if we were to highlight how the raped woman folds the experience of sexual violence into her daily socialities, rather than identifying her as a horrific wound?’ That is the central question of this powerful and perceptive book." -- Michael Lambek * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Critical, reflective, and transformative to our understanding of gender violence, memory, and recuperation, Mookherjee’s extraordinary ethnography is undoubtedly essential reading for scholars and students of feminist theory, anthropology, Bangladesh, and South Asia studies." -- Elora Halim Chowdhury * Journal of Asian Studies *"Engaging and lucidly written, The Spectral Wound raises a host of theoretical and ethical considerations. How might we re-conceptualize the experience of wartime rape without reducing survivor subjectivities to their “wounds?” To whom is the feminist activist accountable? . . . This thoughtful and provocative text calls on the reader to revisit such dilemmas instead of taking the answers for granted." -- Dina M. Siddiqi * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"Nayanika Mookherjee’s research is important as a testimonial, a guide, and as a recovery of the individual experiences of those raped in 1971." -- Maitreyi * Dhaka Tribune *Table of ContentsForeword ix Preface: A Lot of History, a Severe History xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: The "Looking-Glass Border" 1 Part I 1. The Month of Mourning and the Languid Floodwaters: The Weave of National History 31 2. We Would Rather Have Shaak (Greens) Than Murgi (Chicken) Polao: The Archiving of the Birangona 47 3. Bringing Out the Snake: Khota (Scorn) and the Public Secrecy of Sexual Violence 67 4. A Mine of Thieves: Interrogting Local Politics 91 5. My Own Imagination in My Own Body: Embodied Transgressions in the Everyday 107 Part II 6. Mingling in Society: Rehabilitation Program and Re-membering the Raped Woman 129 7. The Absent Piece of Skin: Gendered, Racialized, and Territorial Inscriptions of Sexual Violence during the Bangladesh War 159 8. Imagining the War Heroine: Examination of State, Press, Literary, Visual, and Human Rights Accounts, 1971–2001 177 9. Subjectivities of War Heroines: Victim, Agent, Traitor? 228 Part III Conclusion. The Truth is Tough: Human Rights and the Politics of Transforming Experiences of Wartime Rape "Trauma" into Public Memories 251 Postscript: From 2001 until 2013 264 Notes 277 Glossary 291 References 293 Index 309
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Duke University Press addicted.pregnant.poor
Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women?Trade Review"The Mission District is very much a part of this narrative. Knight understands that individual women’s stories do not exist in a vacuum within the city; they speak volumes about the gentrification to the area unhinted-at in the book’s title, the new people moving in, the private 'Google buses' that shuttle tech workers to their well-paid jobs. ... This is a sobering, poignant ethnography that affords dignity to women whose lives are stripped of it by a system that has let them down." -- Lisa McKenzie * Times Higher Education *"Addicted.pregnant.poor is a poignant read. Knight describes a range of conflicting emotions elicited throughout the course of her research. She depicts the ambivalent feelings of the array of professionals included in the study; her book evokes similar responses in the reader. Throughout the book, Knight poses reflexive questions for which there are no clear answers. While we see the perspective of pregnant addicts, as well as of those whose life’s work is to aid or manage them, the reader is left confounded regarding viable solutions.Yet, with this thorough treatment of the issues faced by addicted pregnant women and their service providers, there is now more contextualized information for professionals and policy-makers to work with. This book is a valuable resource for all stakeholders and should be a staple for everyone involved in work with pregnant addicts." -- Kalynn Amundson * Journal of Children and Poverty *"Addicted.pregnant.poor is the sort of ethnography you start reading and don’t put down again until it’s finished. ... an honest and often harrowing account of women who have quite literally fallen through the cracks." -- Kirsten Bell * Somatosphere *"Knight’s capacity for storytelling is a significant strength of this book. Through a combination of ethno-photography and strategic integration of strikingly vivid verbatim field notes, she adds colorful context to her analysis. The field notes really allow the women’s voices to be heard in a way that enables the reader to vicariously experience the pain of child loss, eviction from the daily rent hotel rooms, public benefit denial, arrests, and the literal highs and lows of cyclical drug use. ... This book clearly highlights the discrepancies between intent and impact so that social workers, as well as other professionals, can reflect on where they have been going wrong and identify new approaches for intervention with women at risk for addiction, poverty, and the lack of good health care when pregnant." -- Janaé E. Bonsu * Affilia *"Knight has succeeded in focusing an ethnographic lens on a rarely studied group of people: drug-using women who are pregnant and living in daily rent hotels. . . .The author makes excellent use of powerful photos of life in the hotels, wisely not including pictures of the women themselves. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries." -- I. Glasser * Choice *"This evocative text is a masterful synthesis of sincerity and sophistication, intensely self-reflexive, making for an exemplary text for graduate seminars in qualitative, ethnographic methodology." -- Nancy Campbell * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Overall, this book is a wonderful contribution to the anthropology of addiction and of homelessness, with a specific focus on gender that is unique and far-reaching. Knight succeeds in humanizing a population that is continually judged, disregarded, and rendered as a failure." -- Parsa Bastani * Association for Feminist Anthropology *"Reading addicted.pregnant.poor is stressful, not because the reader can expect the drama of a clear resolution to the women’s troubles, but precisely because she cannot. Knight’s attention to multifaceted truths, to conflict, and to incongruous realities shines in her outright refusal to engage in simplification and reduction." -- Andrea Grimes * Women's Review of Books *"addicted.pregnant.poor. is a potent and sensitive account of the struggles of these women's pregnancy, poverty and addiction, vividly captured with compelling field note extracts and photographs taken by the author, and will be of interest to the fields of medicine, psychology, anthropology, social work, social policy and sociology." -- Naomi Rudoe * Women's Studies International Forum *"With its horrifying portrayal of gender, addiction, and reproduction, addicted.pregnant.poor could easily have crossed the border into ethnoporn. Instead, Kelly Ray Knight critiques ineffectual policies to address these issues against the gentrifying Mission District in San Francisco. Knight, a former public health outreach worker who spent four years conducting research there, offers a cogent and detailed discussion of just how ridiculously difficult it is to be pregnant, to be poor, and to be addicted." -- Dana-Ain Davis * American Ethnologist *"[T]he book eloquently illustrates the sobering reality for poor women living in daily-rent hotels who face societal pressure, stigma, and legal policies that keep them in a state of uncertainty and varying degrees of stability. Knight’s straightforward writing and carefully thorough documentation capture the complexities, triumphs, and limitations that women encounter." -- Erika Derkas * Journal of Anthropological Research *"This is high-quality, feminist research, and it can be held up as an example of exceptional qualitative social science research methods. All at once this book is breathtaking, gritty, difficult to read, yet also hopeful." -- Sheila Katz * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Consumption and Insecurity 33 2. Addicted Pregnancy and Time 68 3. Neurocratic Futures in the Disability Economy 102 4. Street Psychiatrics and New Configurations of Madness 125 5. Stratified Reproduction and the Kin of Last Resort 151 6. Victim-Perpetrators 178 Conclusion 206 Appendix 240 Notes 247 Bibliography 279 Index 297
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Duke University Press Economies of Violence
Book SynopsisJennifer Suchland argues that human trafficking should be understood as symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics rather than as a criminal activity, and that treating trafficking as a crime and by focusing on victims is insufficient to combatting it.Trade Review"Economies of Violence's exploration of trafficking's economic and social causes is . . . useful not only for decoding the genealogy of sex trafficking discourse, but also as an appeal to governments and societies and to develop more robust methods for combatting not only human trafficking but also precarious labor together with the social exclusion and legal inferiority it ensues." -- Shulamit Almog * International Journal for the Semiotics of Law *"Suchland’s attention to the erasure of capitalism’s violence provides a refreshing way to rethink the role of law, order, and the police in the context of human betterment. . . . Suchland’s book offers an innovative contribution to the emerging field of critical feminist trafficking studies." -- Julietta Hua * Law, Culture and the Humanities *"Economies of Violence untangles dense discursive webs around sex trafficking by showing precarious labor as the lynchpin of sex trafficking and the U.S.S.R.’s postsocialist transition. . . . Importantly centering the neglected postsocialist world, Suchland allows readers to imagine and contemplate the structural economic inequities of global capitalism that produce precarious labor and undergird global violence." -- Jennifer A. Zenovich * Women's Studies in Communication *"[Economies of Violence] offers a timely, wide-ranging and provocative reconceptualization of trafficking discourses, especially of the ways in which the prohibitionist position has come to inform global anti-trafficking policy. . . . [Suchland's] excellent book not only provides an important challenge to prohibitionist arguments, but also offers sex workers and advocates many profound and important analytical resources." -- Robert Heynen * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"Suchland makes great strides for our understanding of counter-trafficking with her genealogical analysis. . . . This book is a deep well from which to draw multiple and complex discussions." -- Leyla J. Keough * Slavic Review *"Lively and thought-provoking, Suchland’s book challenges us to consider the alternative interpretations of sex trafficking that have been displaced by contemporary notions of human rights, bodily autonomy and victimhood." -- Celia Donert * Slavonic and East European Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Trafficking as Aberration: The Making of Globalization's Victims 1 Part I. Global 25 1. Sex Trafficking and the Making of a Feminist Subject of Analysis 29 2. The Natasha Trade and the Post-Cold War Reframing of Precarity 53 Part II. Postsocialist 85 3. Second World/Second Sex: Alternative Genealogies in Feminist Homogenous Empty Time 89 4. Lost in Transition: Postsocialist Trafficking and the Erasure of Systemic Violence 121 Part III. Economies of Violence 159 5. Freedom as Choice and the Neoliberal Economism of Trafficking Discourse 163 Conclusion. Antitrafficking beyond the Carceral State 187 Notes 195 References 219 Index 247
£25.19
Duke University Press Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary
Book SynopsisIn this intimate portrait, Margaret Randall tells the story of Haydée Santamaría, the only woman to participate in every phase of the Cuban Revolution. Although unknown outside Cuba, Santamaría was part of Fidel Castro's inner circle and played a key role in post-revolutionary Cuba's political and artistic development.Trade Review"Santamaría’s story is one which should be told, and Randall does so vividly and insightfully." * Publishers Weekly *“[T]he past is sometimes hard to put away, as Randall’s loving elegy to Haydée Santamaría shows. … Her life story demonstrates the heavy costs that prolonged revolutionary struggles can extract even from their apparent victors. A feminist sensibility adds poignancy to Randall’s tender, impressionistic portrait of a self-effacing and melancholic yet much revered Cuban fighter.” -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“Margaret Randall brings a poet’s voice to her work. She captures history, gleans it from correspondence, interviews, and research, but imbues it with an uncommon lyrical quality. … Both of Randall’s recent books make Cuba come alive. These books are well timed with the restoration of diplomatic relations and the easing of travel restrictions. They convey the vibrant history of revolutionary change. They also give human dimensions to the heroes of that revolution, reminding us what they risked, the losses they suffered, and what they were able to achieve.” -- Alice Embree * The Rag Blog *“The life of Haydée Santamaría was divided between a few days of heroism and decades of bureaucratic toil. A new biography by the poet and activist Margaret Randall, who knew and loved her, tells stories of courage and sacrifice that sometimes make her sound too amazing to be true.” -- Lorna Scott Fox * Bookforum *"Much more than a straightforward biography of one woman, this intimate account of revolution, bordering on the autobiographical at times, will surely inspire readers to ponder change in their own societies. ...Essential. All levels/libraries." -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary delves deftly into an extraordinary life, tying in the author’s own experiences and memories of Santamaría with biographical facts and interviews to present a detailed, yet personal history that speaks not only of the successes of the Revolution, but also the personal impact that such upheaval can bring. ...Margaret Randall has created an engaging book that invites the reader to share in her reflections on arguably one of the most influential, but lesser known, figures of the Cuban revolution." -- Katherine Bailey * LSE Review of Books *"In brisk, gripping prose, Randall makes clear the challenges faced by a woman forging a new society in the second half of the twentieth century. . . . This is a deeply personal book about a heroic woman, written by someone justifiably proud to call Haydée Santamaría a friend." -- Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt * Monthly Review *"[O]ne comes away with a sense of Santamaria as a principled and humane leader, as a woman before her time, and as an extraordinary, if flawed, human being. Because Randall is a poet her book is more lyrical and personal than academic in its approach. The end result is a book that sheds new light on one of Cuba's most vital, and least known, revolutionaries." -- J. Patrice McSherry * Journal of Global South Studies *"Randall delivers a portrait that is touching and empathetic, and which should be interesting to novices as well as specialists in Cuban history." -- Michelle Chase * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"... Randall’s book constitutes a superb example of feminist recov-ery work. It is by far the most comprehensive account on this revolutionary woman, who is little known outside of Cuba. Political leanings aside, Randall’s book is essential to readers looking to educate themselves, expand their knowledge on or consider a more unorthodox narrative on either Haydée Santamaría or 20th-century Cuban history." -- Silvia M. Roca-Martínez * The Latin Americanist *"[T]his is an outstanding study that explores the complexities and contradictions of the life of Haydée Santamaría, a key figure in the attack on Moncada, rebellion, and revolution. It is written for anyone interested in social justice, women, culture, or Cuba. Readers will certainly not be disappointed." -- Emily J. Kirk * International Journal of Cuban Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Before We Begin 1 2. Why Haydée? 11 3. Early Life 31 4. Moncada 53 5. War 81 6. Witness 107 7. Casa de las Américas 127 8. Two, Three, Many Vietnams: Haydée and Che 159 9. The Woman beneath the Myth 177 10. Impossible Possibility: Elegy for Haydée Santamaría 195 Notes 207 Bibliography 217 Index 221
£22.49
Duke University Press Light in the DarkLuz en lo Oscuro
Book SynopsisLight in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldua's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions.Trade Review"Published more than a decade after Anzaldúa’s death, the collection of essays is a welcomed resource for scholars and students of Anzaldúa, Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, and American studies. Overall, Anzaldúa’s chapters and Keating’s editorial work are of the highest caliber and great additions to the body of Anzaldúa’s work." -- Monica Montelongo Flores * Southwestern American Literature *"[T]he publication of a new book of [Anzaldua's] writing provides a glorious new opportunity to revel in her brilliant mind.... In our contemporary world of intense binary thinking and wall building, Gloria Anzaldúa’s insights provide an inspiring way forward." -- Susan Noyes Platt * Raven Chronicles *"The publication of Gloría Anzaldúa's Light in the Dark/ Luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality eleven years after her death in 2004 is a highly anticipated—and enormously important—event in feminist scholarship, one that takes both philosophy and activism in new directions. The manuscript ... makes significant philosophical contributions to feminism, epistemology, aesthetics, ontology, critical philosophy of race, and social and political thought at the same time that it calls into question how we conceive of and organize these areas of study to begin with." -- Natalie Cisneros * Hypatia Reviews online *"Moving from the intricate Tex-Mex-rootedness of Borderlands to the more spiritual, historical-mythical, liminal negotiation zone of Light in the Darkness, Anzaldúa continues her examination of in-between spaces. Her concept of nepantla enables multiple thematic and stylistic lines to intersect, defining possible spaces of cultural transformation." -- Romana Radlwimmer * Women's Review of Books *"Throughout Light, Anzaldúa courageously offers up her lived experiences to argue for the importance of spirituality, theories in the flesh, and the female body.... Scholars invested in intellectual praxis will find a powerful guide to social justice inquiry within this publication." -- Robert Gutierrez-Perez * Women's Studies in Communication *"Perhaps the book’s greatest strength is Keating’s vast editorial knowledge.... Under Keating’s care, Light in the Dark continues Anzaldúa’s metaphysical philosophies, reiterating, expanding, and inspiring consciousness building and setting innovative directions for future Chicana/o studies.... The text offers a new way of decolonizing the mind, transforming the world, and reaching out into the universe." -- Iracema M. Quintero * Aztlán *"Light in the Dark is not only a previously missing piece of Anzaldúa’s oeuvre, important to the growing field of scholarship on Anzaldúa, but also a text that speaks broadly across disciplines and will surely influence scholarship in women’s studies, philosophy, politics, Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, border studies, native studies, sexuality studies and beyond." -- Michelle R. Martin-Baron * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"This text would serve as an excellent book in a literature course, and could be used as the capstone of Anzaldúa’s other writings. Keating has done an excellent job of editing this piece—she has made it easy to forget that the work was published after Anzaldúa’s death." -- Fawn-Amber Montoya * The Americas *Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality: Anzaldúa's Twenty-First-Century Imperative ix Preface. Gestures of the Body—Escribiendo para idear 1 1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño 9 2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities 23 3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera 47 4. Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism 65 5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process 95 6. now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts 117 Agradecimientos | Acknowledgements 161 Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents, and Chapter Outline) 165 Appendix 2. Anzaldúa's Health 171 Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2 176 Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4 180 Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chapters' Development 190 Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volume 200 Notes 205 Glossary 241 References 247 Index 257
£75.65
Duke University Press Dilemmas of Difference
Book SynopsisDrawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism.Trade Review"Radcliffe’s book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and gender. Highly recommended." -- E. E. O'Connor * Choice *"Sarah Radcliffe's recent book offers a rich ethnography of indigenous women in Ecuador which specifically addresses how they encounter and experience development interventions." -- Jessica Hope * Journal of Development Studies *"Dilemmas of Difference represents a timely contribution to the critical literature on indigenous women and development and to the debate of neoliberal instrumentalization of difference.... Overall, with a genealogy of development frameworks contrasted with indigenous women’s experience, Radcliffe demonstrates the persistence of postcolonial stereotypes and colonial assumptions of social difference that produce indigenous women’s dissatisfaction with development." -- María Moreno * American Anthropologist *"Radcliffe’s book represents a powerful contribution to critical development studies and the discipline of geography." -- Emily Billo * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Development and Social Heterogeneity 1 1. Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present 37 2. The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment 75 Interlude I 121 3. Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women 125 4. Politics, Statistics, and Affect: "Indigenous Women in Development" Policy 157 Interlude II 189 5. Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions 193 6. From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices 225 7. Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference 257 Notes 291 Glossary 295 Bibliography 329 Index 359
£112.20
Duke University Press Speaking of the Self
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia—from a seventeenth-century Mughal princess to twentieth century Pakistani novelists—construct and articulate their subjectivity through their autobiographical memoirs, poetry, novels, and diaries.Trade Review"The authors . . . present a significant corpus of scholarship relating to autobiography and gender which can apply broadly not only in South Asia but beyond. By carefully exploring important theoretical aspects and alternative examples of autobiography, the authors open new grounds and sources to critique autobiographical writing and methods." -- Niroshini Somasundaram * IIAS Newsletter *"Speaking of the Self is a significant contribution to understanding the complexities of representing the self by women . . . in South Asian cultures across regions and ages. It sensitizes the reader to the importance of the social, cultural, political, regional, and historical milieu in which the autobiographical narratives are played out." -- Monika Browarczyk * Biography *“These ten essays, along with a helpful introduction, come together to form an interesting and excellent collection. . . . All of these essays should be of interest to scholars and graduate students working on gender and women’s history in South Asia. Many would be useable within an undergraduate class on a wide range of related subjects." -- Judith Walsh * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 1 Part I. Negotiating Autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion 1. A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad / Sylvia Vatuk 33 2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon 56 3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam 72 4. Kailashabashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Women "Constructing" Her "Self" in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shudhra Ray 95 Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning 5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti 121 6. Tawa'if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women's Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha 141 7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari 165 Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self 8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro's Kafis / Anshu Malhotra 205 9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 230 10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen 255 Select Bibliography 281 Contributors 301 Index 305
£80.10
Duke University Press Speaking of the Self Gender Performance and
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia—from a seventeenth-century Mughal princess to twentieth century Pakistani novelists—construct and articulate their subjectivity through their autobiographical memoirs, poetry, novels, and diaries.Trade Review"The authors . . . present a significant corpus of scholarship relating to autobiography and gender which can apply broadly not only in South Asia but beyond. By carefully exploring important theoretical aspects and alternative examples of autobiography, the authors open new grounds and sources to critique autobiographical writing and methods." -- Niroshini Somasundaram * IIAS Newsletter *"Speaking of the Self is a significant contribution to understanding the complexities of representing the self by women . . . in South Asian cultures across regions and ages. It sensitizes the reader to the importance of the social, cultural, political, regional, and historical milieu in which the autobiographical narratives are played out." -- Monika Browarczyk * Biography *“These ten essays, along with a helpful introduction, come together to form an interesting and excellent collection. . . . All of these essays should be of interest to scholars and graduate students working on gender and women’s history in South Asia. Many would be useable within an undergraduate class on a wide range of related subjects." -- Judith Walsh * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 1 Part I. Negotiating Autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion 1. A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad / Sylvia Vatuk 33 2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon 56 3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam 72 4. Kailashabashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Women "Constructing" Her "Self" in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shudhra Ray 95 Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning 5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti 121 6. Tawa'if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women's Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha 141 7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari 165 Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self 8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro's Kafis / Anshu Malhotra 205 9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 230 10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen 255 Select Bibliography 281 Contributors 301 Index 305
£20.69
Duke University Press Dilemmas of Difference
Book SynopsisDrawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism.Trade Review"Radcliffe’s book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and gender. Highly recommended." -- E. E. O'Connor * Choice *"Sarah Radcliffe's recent book offers a rich ethnography of indigenous women in Ecuador which specifically addresses how they encounter and experience development interventions." -- Jessica Hope * Journal of Development Studies *"Dilemmas of Difference represents a timely contribution to the critical literature on indigenous women and development and to the debate of neoliberal instrumentalization of difference.... Overall, with a genealogy of development frameworks contrasted with indigenous women’s experience, Radcliffe demonstrates the persistence of postcolonial stereotypes and colonial assumptions of social difference that produce indigenous women’s dissatisfaction with development." -- María Moreno * American Anthropologist *"Radcliffe’s book represents a powerful contribution to critical development studies and the discipline of geography." -- Emily Billo * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Development and Social Heterogeneity 1 1. Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present 37 2. The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment 75 Interlude I 121 3. Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women 125 4. Politics, Statistics, and Affect: "Indigenous Women in Development" Policy 157 Interlude II 189 5. Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions 193 6. From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices 225 7. Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference 257 Notes 291 Glossary 295 Bibliography 329 Index 359
£27.90
Duke University Press Conquest
Book SynopsisIn this revolutionary text, Native American scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the disturbing connections between white settler colonialism, genocide, and violence against Native American women and children.Trade Review"A must-read for everyone concerned about Native people and our Native world." -- Haunani-Kay Trask, author of From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i "Conquest is the book Aboriginal women have been waiting for. Andrea Smith has not only meticulously researched the place of rape and violence against Indigenous women in the colonial process, but she is the first to fully articulate the connections between violence against the earth, violence against women, and North America's terrible inclination toward war." -- Lee Maracle, author of I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism "Andrea Smith has no fear. She challenges conventional activist thinking about global and local, sexism and racism, genocide and imperialism. But what's more, in every chapter she tries to answer the key question: What is to be done? Conquest is unsettling, ambitious, brilliant, disturbing: read it, debate it, use it." -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, The Graduate Center, City University of New York "Andrea Smith brilliantly weaves together feminist explanations of violence against Native women, the historical data regarding colonialism and genocide, and a strong critique of the current responses to the gender violence against women of color ... Conquest is one of the most significant contributions to the literature in Native Studies, feminist theory, and social movement theory in recent years." -- Beth E. Richie, author of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered Black Women "Whether it is our reliance on the criminal justice system to protect women from violence or the legitimacy of the U.S. as a colonial nation-state, Andrea Smith's incisive and courageous analysis cuts through many of our accepted truths and reveals a new way of knowing rooted in Native women's histories of struggle. More than a call for action, this book provides sophisticated strategies and practical examples of organizing that simultaneously take on state and interpersonal violence. Conquest is a must-read not only for those concerned with violence against women and Native sovereignty, but also for antiracist, reproductive rights, environmental justice, antiprison, immigrant rights, and antiwar activists." -- Julia Sudbury editor of Global Lockdown: Race Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex "Give thanks for the very great honor of listening to Andrea Smith. This book will burn a hole right through your mind with its accurate analysis and the concise compilation of information that makes it the first of its kind. Conquest is not only instructive, it is healing. I want every Indian I know to read it." -- Chrystos, artist, poet, and activist "Conquest radically rethinks the historical scope and dimensionality of 'sexual violence,' a historical vector of bodily domination that is too often reduced to universalizing-hence racist-narratives of gendered oppression and resistance. Offering a breathtaking genealogy of white supremacist genocide and colonization in North America, this book provides a theoretical model that speaks urgently to a broad continuum of political and intellectual traditions. In this incisive and stunningly comprehensive work, we learn how the proliferation of sexual violence as a normalized feature of modern Euro-American patriarchies is inseparable from violence against Indigenous women, and women of color. In Conquest, Andrea Smith has presented us with an epochal challenge, one that should productively disrupt and perhaps transform our visions of liberation and radical freedom." -- Dylan Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside "Conquest is not for those who flinch from an honest examination of white supremacist history, or who shy away from today's controversies in the reproductive health and anti-violence movements. This book is a tough, thoughtful, and passionate analysis of the colonization of America and the resistance of Indigenous women. Andrea Smith is one of this country's premiere intellectuals and a good old-fashioned organizer-a rare combination that illuminates her praxis and gift to social justice movement building in the 21st century." -- Loretta Ross coauthor of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive JusticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Foreword / Winona LaDuke ix Introduction 1 1. Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide 7 2. Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations 35 3. Rape of the Land 55 4. "Better Dead than Pregnant": The Colonization of Native Womens' Reproductive Health 79 5. "Natural Laboratories": Medical Experimentation in Native Communities 109 6. Spiritual Appropriations as Sexual Violence 119 7. Anticolonial Responses to Gender Violence 137 8. U.S. Empire and the War Against Native Sovereignty 177 Endnotes 193 Resource Guide 223 Index 231
£18.99
Duke University Press Negotiated Moments
Book SynopsisPlacing the body at the center of critical improvisation studies, the contributors to Negotiated Moments explore the challenges of negotiating subjectivity through improvisation in various forms—from jazz, Japanese taiko drumming, and Iranian classical music to sound walking and political street theater.Trade Review"Collective insights touch on a number of themes that cut to the core of critical improvisation studies. . . . The editors of Negotiated Moments have assembled an impressive and diverse array of studies." -- Joel V. Hunt * Notes *"A timely and relevant collection guiding the way for a radically inclusive approach to critical studies of improvisation. . . . One of the outstanding intellectual contributions of this book lies in its presentation of so many viable alternatives to prevailing dominant views about improvised music focused on individual genius and legitimacy of lineage." -- Miki Kaneda * Journal of the Society for American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Improvising at the Nexus of Discursive and Material Bodies / Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman 1 1. Improvisation within a Scene of Constraint: An Interview with Judith Butler / Tracy McMullen 21 Part I. Listening, Place, and Space 2. "How Am I to Listen to You?": Soundwalking, Intimacy, and Improvised Listening / Andra McCartney 37 3. Community Sound [e]Scapes: Improvising Bodies and Site/Space/Place in New Media Audio Art / Rebecca Caines 55 Part II. Technology and Embodiment 4. Improvising Composition: How to Listen to the Time Between / Pauline Oliveros 75 5. The Networked Body: Physicality, Embodiment, and Latency in Multisite Performance / Jason Robinson 91 6. Openness from Closure: The Puzzle of Interagency in Improvised Music and a Neocybernetic Solution / David Borgo 113 7. Mediating the Improvising Body: Art Tatum's Postmortem Performance in a Posthuman World / Andrew Raffo Dewar 131 Part III. Sensibility and Subjectivity 8. Banding Encounters: Embodied Practices in Improvisation / Introduction and Conclusion by Tomie Hahn; Essays by Louise Campbell, Lindsay Vogt, Simon Rose, George Blake, Catherine Lee, Sherrie Tucker, François Mouillot, Jovana Milovic, and Pete Williams 9. Learning to Go with the Flow: David Rokeby's Very Nervous System and the Improvising Body / Jesse Stewart 169 10. Stretched Boundaries: Improvising across Abilities / Introduction and Conclusion by Sherrie Tucker; Essays by Pauline Oliveros, Neil Rolnick, Christine Sun Kim, Clara Tomaz, David Whalen, Leif Miller, and Jaclyn Heyen 181 Part IV. Gender, Trauma, and Memory 11. The Erotics of Improvisation in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees / Gillian Sidall 201 12. Corregidora: Corporeal Archaeology, Embodied Memory, Improvisation / Nina Sun Eidsheim and Mandy-Suzanne Wong 13. Theorizing the Saxophonic Scream in Free Jazz Improvisation / Zachary Wallmark 233 14. Extemporaneous Genomics: Nicole Mitchell, Octavia Butler, and Xenogenesis / Kevin McNeilly and Julie Dawn Smith 245 Part V. Representation and Identity 15. Faster and Louder: Heterosexist Improvisation in North American Taiko / Deborah Wong 265 16. Improvisation and the Audibility of Difference: Safa, Canadian Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Recognition / Ellen Waterman 281 17. Performing the National Body Politic in Twenty-First-Century Argentina / Illa Carrillo Rodríguez and Berenice Corti 307 Discography 327 References 329 Contributors 351 Index 355
£112.20
Duke University Press Negotiated Moments
Book SynopsisPlacing the body at the center of critical improvisation studies, the contributors to Negotiated Moments explore the challenges of negotiating subjectivity through improvisation in various forms—from jazz, Japanese taiko drumming, and Iranian classical music to sound walking and political street theater.Trade Review"Collective insights touch on a number of themes that cut to the core of critical improvisation studies. . . . The editors of Negotiated Moments have assembled an impressive and diverse array of studies." -- Joel V. Hunt * Notes *"A timely and relevant collection guiding the way for a radically inclusive approach to critical studies of improvisation. . . . One of the outstanding intellectual contributions of this book lies in its presentation of so many viable alternatives to prevailing dominant views about improvised music focused on individual genius and legitimacy of lineage." -- Miki Kaneda * Journal of the Society for American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Improvising at the Nexus of Discursive and Material Bodies / Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman 1 1. Improvisation within a Scene of Constraint: An Interview with Judith Butler / Tracy McMullen 21 Part I. Listening, Place, and Space 2. "How Am I to Listen to You?": Soundwalking, Intimacy, and Improvised Listening / Andra McCartney 37 3. Community Sound [e]Scapes: Improvising Bodies and Site/Space/Place in New Media Audio Art / Rebecca Caines 55 Part II. Technology and Embodiment 4. Improvising Composition: How to Listen to the Time Between / Pauline Oliveros 75 5. The Networked Body: Physicality, Embodiment, and Latency in Multisite Performance / Jason Robinson 91 6. Openness from Closure: The Puzzle of Interagency in Improvised Music and a Neocybernetic Solution / David Borgo 113 7. Mediating the Improvising Body: Art Tatum's Postmortem Performance in a Posthuman World / Andrew Raffo Dewar 131 Part III. Sensibility and Subjectivity 8. Banding Encounters: Embodied Practices in Improvisation / Introduction and Conclusion by Tomie Hahn; Essays by Louise Campbell, Lindsay Vogt, Simon Rose, George Blake, Catherine Lee, Sherrie Tucker, François Mouillot, Jovana Milovic, and Pete Williams 9. Learning to Go with the Flow: David Rokeby's Very Nervous System and the Improvising Body / Jesse Stewart 169 10. Stretched Boundaries: Improvising across Abilities / Introduction and Conclusion by Sherrie Tucker; Essays by Pauline Oliveros, Neil Rolnick, Christine Sun Kim, Clara Tomaz, David Whalen, Leif Miller, and Jaclyn Heyen 181 Part IV. Gender, Trauma, and Memory 11. The Erotics of Improvisation in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees / Gillian Sidall 201 12. Corregidora: Corporeal Archaeology, Embodied Memory, Improvisation / Nina Sun Eidsheim and Mandy-Suzanne Wong 13. Theorizing the Saxophonic Scream in Free Jazz Improvisation / Zachary Wallmark 233 14. Extemporaneous Genomics: Nicole Mitchell, Octavia Butler, and Xenogenesis / Kevin McNeilly and Julie Dawn Smith 245 Part V. Representation and Identity 15. Faster and Louder: Heterosexist Improvisation in North American Taiko / Deborah Wong 265 16. Improvisation and the Audibility of Difference: Safa, Canadian Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Recognition / Ellen Waterman 281 17. Performing the National Body Politic in Twenty-First-Century Argentina / Illa Carrillo Rodríguez and Berenice Corti 307 Discography 327 References 329 Contributors 351 Index 355
£27.90
Duke University Press The Feminist Bookstore Movement
Book SynopsisKristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and fall, showing how the women at the heart of the movement developed theories and practices of lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability that continue to resonate today.Trade Review"An oft-forgotten chapter in the women's lib movement of the 1970s was the rise of independent, women-owned bookstores, many of which created safe spaces for conversations that spurred second-wave feminism. Hogan has written a history of those thought-leading small businesses and the lesbians and women of color behind them, in which she celebrates the power of the feminist printed word." * Ms. *"It’s difficult to write the history of women’s bookstores without romanticizing a complex world of books, ideas, feelings, and feminist community that many of us miss. Hogan describes the pleasures of these communities, as well as the anger and factionalism that their commitments provoked. A literary history that opens and closes with Hogan’s own experience working at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, The Feminist Bookstore Movement leads us through the rise and fall of this network, which, at its peak, included 130 businesses in North America." -- Claire Bond Potter * Chronicle Review *"Hogan gives us a more complicated narrative; she focuses on a broad base of women from different backgrounds working together as activists, rather than on a few commercially successful writers. It is a history from the bottom-up rather than a female-adjusted Great Man style of history. . . .Hogan’s story should make us think about how we can build the communities that will give us the next books that will change our lives." -- Laura Tanenbaum * The New Republic *"[A]n eminently readable text that traces the history of feminist bookstores from their rise in the 1970s through the 1990s. . . . This work will appeal to scholars and everyday readers who enjoy microhistories. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." -- M. Martinez * Choice *"In some ways, The Feminist Bookstore Movement is a classic Second Wave recovery project, casting a loving glance backward as it seeks to uncover a series of lost moments obscured by the financial fate (and fight) of feminist bookstores in the ’90s. But Hogan’s account also spills beyond generational borders." -- Stephanie Young * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The Feminist Bookstore Movement offers more than a chronicle of the rise and fall of feminist bookstores from 1970 to 2003. Drawing from archival documents, interviews, and scholarship, Hogan delineates the infrastructure that housed a lesbian, antiracist, anticapitalist, community-oriented culture, and she textures her account with thick descriptions of lived experience." -- Ellen Messer-Davidow * American Historical Review *"Hogan's richly researched text is resplendent with photos that commemorate the 1970s-1980s era of feminism....Indeed, the engaging narrative prompted winsome memories of my brief, mid-1980s stint as an employee at Womanbooks in New York City while in journalism school. The passage of three decades has not dimmed my affection for the colourful posters, shelves of dazzling books and smiling co-workers that greeted me when I began my shift. I'm honoured to have been a part of the tradition that Kristen Hogan recounts, to sublime effect, in her outstanding contribution to lesbian and feminist letters." -- Evelyn C. White * Herizons *"Carefully researched and highly engaging. . . . The Feminist Bookstore Movement is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of feminist writing and publishing, as well as anyone seeking to understand how feminist alternative economies and communities took shape and survived in the late twentieth century." -- Kate Eichhorn * Journal of American History *“A radical contribution to contemporary feminist dialogue. . . . This book will be of potential relevance to feminist, queer and antiracist readers both within and beyond the North American context.” -- Chiara Xausa * Women's Studies International Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface. Reading the Map of Our Bodies xiii 1. Dykes with a Vision 1970–1976 1 2. Revolutionaries in a Capitalist System 1976–1980 33 3. Accountable to Each Other 1980–1983 69 4. The Feminist Shelf, A Transnational Project 1984–1993 107 5. Economics and Antiracist Alliances 1993–2003 145 Epilogue. Feminist Remembering 179 Notes 195 Bibliography 241 Index 261
£75.65
Duke University Press Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness Memoir of a
Book SynopsisIn this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America.Trade Review"A terrifically courageous piece of work. I cannot think of another text written by a white woman that is like it, and I cannot imagine one that would address these complex issues with greater lucidity, grace, intelligence, and love." -- Claire Bond Potter"[Lazarre] . . . moves the reader. . . . When she writes, 'I wish I could become Black for my sons,' she delves straight into the heart of her dilemma." -- Helen Schulman * Elle *"A compassionate, compelling outpouring of anecdotal family stories and confessionals . . . that fine-tune the reader's awareness to racism in everyday life. Lazarre's voice is artful and measured, like a friend's, and her prose is thick with images . . . Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness provides substantial food for thought for both white and black perspectives on the murky issue of race in America." * Publishers Weekly *"A novelist, essayist, and teacher, Lazarre presents her troubling but clear-eyed vision of her life and times with incisiveness and grace." -- John Gregory Brown * Chicago Tribune *"[A] compelling story of one mother's honest efforts to reach across the chasm between black and white America to comfort and guide her sons as they navigate their way to adulthood and self-sufficiency." -- Gregory Howard Williams * Los Angeles Times Book Review *"Lazarre cuts close to the bone in this penetrating 'story of the education of an American woman.'" -- Mary Carroll * Booklist *"The inimitable eloquence of Lazarre's Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness defies facile summation." -- Kwame Okoampahoofe Jr. * New York Amsterdam News *"This insightful Jewish mother opens our eyes to the pervasiveness of racism in our culture—a reality that Jews and other whites can easily ignore." -- Rabbi Rachel Cowan author of * Mixed Blessings: Marriage between Christians and Jews *"A beautifully written, deeply thoughtful journey into the worlds of self and other." * Kirkus Reviews *"[An] illuminating book . . . Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness offer[s] invaluable insights not just for those working to raise children in biracial families, but for all who would like to understand the notion of whiteness in order to see beyond it and reach for fairness." -- Boyd Zenner * Women's Review of Books *"This is a passionate, provocative, and moving narrative that should be on every American's reading list. Jane Lazarre writes from an angle of vision that seems completely missing from the fractured and deeply troubled discourse about race in America. Her honesty and courage in telling this story is as instructive as it is praiseworthy, compelling us to think and feel differently." -- Sekou Sundiata author of * The Circle is Unbroken Is a Hard Bop *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xiii Prologue xxvii 1. The Richmond Museum of the Confederacy 1 2. Color Blind: The Whiteness of Whiteness 21 3. Passing Over 53 4. Reunions, Retellings, Refrains 99 5. A Color with No Precise Name 125 Notes 137
£86.70
Duke University Press Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness
Book SynopsisIn this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America.Trade Review"A terrifically courageous piece of work. I cannot think of another text written by a white woman that is like it, and I cannot imagine one that would address these complex issues with greater lucidity, grace, intelligence, and love." -- Claire Bond Potter"[Lazarre] . . . moves the reader. . . . When she writes, 'I wish I could become Black for my sons,' she delves straight into the heart of her dilemma." -- Helen Schulman * Elle *"A compassionate, compelling outpouring of anecdotal family stories and confessionals . . . that fine-tune the reader's awareness to racism in everyday life. Lazarre's voice is artful and measured, like a friend's, and her prose is thick with images . . . Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness provides substantial food for thought for both white and black perspectives on the murky issue of race in America." * Publishers Weekly *"A novelist, essayist, and teacher, Lazarre presents her troubling but clear-eyed vision of her life and times with incisiveness and grace." -- John Gregory Brown * Chicago Tribune *"[A] compelling story of one mother's honest efforts to reach across the chasm between black and white America to comfort and guide her sons as they navigate their way to adulthood and self-sufficiency." -- Gregory Howard Williams * Los Angeles Times Book Review *"Lazarre cuts close to the bone in this penetrating 'story of the education of an American woman.'" -- Mary Carroll * Booklist *"The inimitable eloquence of Lazarre's Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness defies facile summation." -- Kwame Okoampahoofe Jr. * New York Amsterdam News *"This insightful Jewish mother opens our eyes to the pervasiveness of racism in our culture—a reality that Jews and other whites can easily ignore." -- Rabbi Rachel Cowan author of * Mixed Blessings: Marriage between Christians and Jews *"A beautifully written, deeply thoughtful journey into the worlds of self and other." * Kirkus Reviews *"[An] illuminating book . . . Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness offer[s] invaluable insights not just for those working to raise children in biracial families, but for all who would like to understand the notion of whiteness in order to see beyond it and reach for fairness." -- Boyd Zenner * Women's Review of Books *"This is a passionate, provocative, and moving narrative that should be on every American's reading list. Jane Lazarre writes from an angle of vision that seems completely missing from the fractured and deeply troubled discourse about race in America. Her honesty and courage in telling this story is as instructive as it is praiseworthy, compelling us to think and feel differently." -- Sekou Sundiata author of * The Circle is Unbroken Is a Hard Bop *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xiii Prologue xxvii 1. The Richmond Museum of the Confederacy 1 2. Color Blind: The Whiteness of Whiteness 21 3. Passing Over 53 4. Reunions, Retellings, Refrains 99 5. A Color with No Precise Name 125 Notes 137
£22.79
Duke University Press Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists The
Book SynopsisAya Hirata Kimura traces the experiences of citizen scientists—particularly mothers—who after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster collected scientific data that revealed radiation-contaminated food, showing how the Japanese government used neoliberal and traditional gender ideologies to discount and socially sanction these women and their findings.Trade Review“Addressing this post-3/11 environment through rich engagement with anthropological subjects, Kimura offers a rigorous theoretical analysis that extends far beyond the circumstances of Fukushima…. A significant contribution to the research areas of science and technology studies, post-feminism, neoliberalism, food studies, nuclear disaster and Japanese society.” -- Joel Neville Anderson * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"Kimura gives a full account of the complexity of the issues she addresses by creating cross-disciplinary linkages that help readers to see the radioactive contamination of food in post-Fukushima Japan from new and multiple perspectives. . . . This book stands out because it reminds us that scholarship is never objective, that social science scholars have to position themselves and that the thin line between scholarship and activism is often blurred. The greatest achievement of this book, however, is to give the marginalized women and citizen scientists a voice outside of Japan." -- Cornelia Reiher * Pacific Affairs *"Radiation Brain Mom and Citizen Scientists makes a valuable contribution to feminist studies, science and technology studies, and sociological explorations of contemporary Japan. Readers will appreciate Kimura's keen observations and theoretical competence, which together give voice to psychosocially disoriented citizens – women in particular – who are confronting uncertain risks in contemporary society." -- Ryo Morimoto * Monumenta Nipponica *“Radiation Brain Moms is an empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated important piece of scholarship. This study will challenge and reward scholars; graduate students and general readers interested in contemporary Japanese society in the aftermath of the March 11 disasters; anthropologists, sociologists, and historians of disasters; people interested in social studies of science and technology; and those engaged in gender and feminist science studies.” -- Tsipy Ivry * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. "Moms with Radiation Brain": Gendered Food Policing in the Name of Science 27 2. Engineering of Citizens 55 3. School Lunches: Science, Motherhood, and Joshi Power 78 4. Citizen Radiation-Measuring Organizations 104 5. The Temporality of Contaminants 132 Conclusion 155 Notes 159 References 173 Index 201
£76.50
Duke University Press Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists The
Book SynopsisAya Hirata Kimura traces the experiences of citizen scientists—particularly mothers—who after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster collected scientific data that revealed radiation-contaminated food, showing how the Japanese government used neoliberal and traditional gender ideologies to discount and socially sanction these women and their findings.Trade Review“Addressing this post-3/11 environment through rich engagement with anthropological subjects, Kimura offers a rigorous theoretical analysis that extends far beyond the circumstances of Fukushima…. A significant contribution to the research areas of science and technology studies, post-feminism, neoliberalism, food studies, nuclear disaster and Japanese society.” -- Joel Neville Anderson * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"Kimura gives a full account of the complexity of the issues she addresses by creating cross-disciplinary linkages that help readers to see the radioactive contamination of food in post-Fukushima Japan from new and multiple perspectives. . . . This book stands out because it reminds us that scholarship is never objective, that social science scholars have to position themselves and that the thin line between scholarship and activism is often blurred. The greatest achievement of this book, however, is to give the marginalized women and citizen scientists a voice outside of Japan." -- Cornelia Reiher * Pacific Affairs *"Radiation Brain Mom and Citizen Scientists makes a valuable contribution to feminist studies, science and technology studies, and sociological explorations of contemporary Japan. Readers will appreciate Kimura's keen observations and theoretical competence, which together give voice to psychosocially disoriented citizens – women in particular – who are confronting uncertain risks in contemporary society." -- Ryo Morimoto * Monumenta Nipponica *“Radiation Brain Moms is an empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated important piece of scholarship. This study will challenge and reward scholars; graduate students and general readers interested in contemporary Japanese society in the aftermath of the March 11 disasters; anthropologists, sociologists, and historians of disasters; people interested in social studies of science and technology; and those engaged in gender and feminist science studies.” -- Tsipy Ivry * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. "Moms with Radiation Brain": Gendered Food Policing in the Name of Science 27 2. Engineering of Citizens 55 3. School Lunches: Science, Motherhood, and Joshi Power 78 4. Citizen Radiation-Measuring Organizations 104 5. The Temporality of Contaminants 132 Conclusion 155 Notes 159 References 173 Index 201
£22.49
Duke University Press Freedom without Permission
Book SynopsisIn a series of case studies focusing on the Arab spring revolutions, the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body, gender, and space to the revolutions, showing how a diverse group of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms.Trade Review"This book will certainly add to the scholarship and would be a highly informative read for those interested in deeply understanding the multiple levels and spaces in which revolution has happened in the Arab world and beyond. Freedom Without Permission is an insightful and fascinating read." -- Autumn R. Cockrell-Abdullah * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Freedom without Permission offers a variety of analyses and viewpoints while considering women’s bodies and spaces as sites of revolutions and uprisings. All contributing authors demonstrate an eye for detail and a strength of analysis that have shaped gender politics and the politics of gender during and after the revolutions." -- Douja M. Mamelouk * Review of Middle East Studies *“The articles provide fascinating accounts of gendered and embodied politics of space that defy a reductionist approach to revolutionary insurgencies.” -- Gül Aldikaçti Marshall * Gender & Society *"This collection presents an important contribution not only to gender studies and Middle Eastern studies, but to the study of revolutions and social movements." -- Deema Kaedbey * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime 1 1. Politics in the Digital Boudoir: Sentimentality and the Transformation of Civil Debate in Egyptian Women's Blogs / Sonali Pahwa 25 2. Gender and the Fractured Mythscapes of National Identity in Revolutionary Tunisia / Lamia Benyoussef 51 3. Making Intimate "Civilpolitics" in Southern Yemen / Susanne Dahlgren 80 4. The Sect-Sex-Police Nexus and Politics in Bahrain's Pearl Revolution / Frances S. Hasso 105 5. "The Women Are Coming": Gender, Space, and the Politics of Inauguration / Zakia Salime 138 6. Cautious Enactments: Interstitial Spaces of Gender Politics in Saudia Arabia / Susana Galán 166 7. Revolution Undressed: The Politics of Rage and Aesthetics in Aliaa Elmahdy's Body Activism / Karina Eileraas 196 8. Intimate Politics of Protest: Gendering Embodiments and Redefining Spaces in Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park and the Arab Revolutions / Banu Gökariksel 221 Bibliography 259 Contributors 279 Index 283
£80.10
Duke University Press Freedom without Permission Bodies and Space in
Book SynopsisIn a series of case studies focusing on the Arab spring revolutions, the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body, gender, and space to the revolutions, showing how a diverse group of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms.Trade Review"This book will certainly add to the scholarship and would be a highly informative read for those interested in deeply understanding the multiple levels and spaces in which revolution has happened in the Arab world and beyond. Freedom Without Permission is an insightful and fascinating read." -- Autumn R. Cockrell-Abdullah * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Freedom without Permission offers a variety of analyses and viewpoints while considering women’s bodies and spaces as sites of revolutions and uprisings. All contributing authors demonstrate an eye for detail and a strength of analysis that have shaped gender politics and the politics of gender during and after the revolutions." -- Douja M. Mamelouk * Review of Middle East Studies *“The articles provide fascinating accounts of gendered and embodied politics of space that defy a reductionist approach to revolutionary insurgencies.” -- Gül Aldikaçti Marshall * Gender & Society *"This collection presents an important contribution not only to gender studies and Middle Eastern studies, but to the study of revolutions and social movements." -- Deema Kaedbey * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime 1 1. Politics in the Digital Boudoir: Sentimentality and the Transformation of Civil Debate in Egyptian Women's Blogs / Sonali Pahwa 25 2. Gender and the Fractured Mythscapes of National Identity in Revolutionary Tunisia / Lamia Benyoussef 51 3. Making Intimate "Civilpolitics" in Southern Yemen / Susanne Dahlgren 80 4. The Sect-Sex-Police Nexus and Politics in Bahrain's Pearl Revolution / Frances S. Hasso 105 5. "The Women Are Coming": Gender, Space, and the Politics of Inauguration / Zakia Salime 138 6. Cautious Enactments: Interstitial Spaces of Gender Politics in Saudia Arabia / Susana Galán 166 7. Revolution Undressed: The Politics of Rage and Aesthetics in Aliaa Elmahdy's Body Activism / Karina Eileraas 196 8. Intimate Politics of Protest: Gendering Embodiments and Redefining Spaces in Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park and the Arab Revolutions / Banu Gökariksel 221 Bibliography 259 Contributors 279 Index 283
£25.19
Duke University Press Rwandan Women Rising
Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1994, the tiny African nation of Rwanda was ripped apart by a genocide that left nearly a million dead. Neighbors attacked neighbors. Family members turned against their own. Today, 64 percent of the seats in Rwanda's elected house of Parliament are held by women. This book tells their stories.Trade Review"This is an important book on a gripping topic...." -- Jane Haile * New York Journal of Books *"There’s no doubt that the stories in Rwandan Women Rising carry lessons about the importance of fostering and maintaining women’s leadership to achieve “enduring stability and meaningful reunification” in conflict-ridden societies across the globe." -- Kathleen B. Jones * Los Angeles Review of Books *"This book gives unwavering evidence of the necessity of women in peace building efforts, not to fill seats at the table, but as leaders of lasting change." * WATER *"This book is a testimony to and a work of honesty and hope, and reflects horror, heartache and healing. Its contribution to literature on Rwanda, women’s rights and welfare, development, social change and transitional justice is substantial. It is humane, searing and invaluable and should be read widely and carefully. Its lessons and wisdom, which are characterized by humility and careful self-reflection on the part of author and interviewees alike, make it an exceptional work of enduring consequence with a potential for positive, transformative impact." -- Noam Schimmel * International Affairs *"In Rwandan Women Rising, Swanee Hunt traces this history through interviews with over 80 of the Rwandan activists whose work made this possible, addressing such issues as sexual violence, equality in marriage and girls' education. Accompanied by fullcolour photographs, Hunt's interlocutors make a strong case: A woman's place is in the peace process." -- Jade Colbert * Globe and Mail *"Through well narrated local voices situated in Rwanda, this book is able to provide readers with detailed and fresh insights into how Rwandan women participate in politics and influence policies aimed at peace promotion and nation reconstruction, in turn encouraging us to advance further women’s leadership for the sake of global security." -- Xianan Jin * Feminist Review *Table of ContentsTimeline xi Key Terms xvii Biographies of Speakers xix Foreword / Jimmy Carter xxix Preface xxxiii With Thanks xxxix Introduction 1 Part I. Starting Places 19 1. Foremothers 24 2. The Pressure Builds 33 3. Stateless 44 4. To Arms 52 5. Genocide 58 6. Immediate Aftermath 70 Part II. The Path to Public Leadership 77 7. Community Training Ground 84 8. A Pull from the Top 93 9. Emboldened Ministry of Gender 107 10. Countrywide Women's Councils 114 11. Caucus Crucible 122 12. Fanning Out 129 13. A New Constitution 135 14. The Quota 140 15. Pioneering in Parliament 146 16. Spurring Local Leadership151 Part III. Bending toward Reconciliation 161 17. Bringing Them Together 165 18. Bringing Them Home 171 19. Rethinking Rape 182 20. To Testify 191 21. Off the Sidelines 199 22. Far beyond the Stats 206 23. Risk and Resignation 211 Part IV. Signposts 219 24. The Meaning of Marriage 223 25. Safety: A New Language 229 26. Challenging Changes 235 27. Unmasking Ambition 242 28. Health Means Whole 251 29. Every Body Matters 257 30. Thriving Progress 265 31. Little Ones 272 32. Reading Rights 278 Part V. Building the Road They're Walking 289 33. Solidarity and Sisterhood 293 34. Manning the Movement 299 35. Sowing Confidence 305 36. Flying High 314 37. Planting Deep 322 38. Charting New Pathways 331 39. Complements and Compliments 336 40. Coming Up 345 Epilogue 357 Notes 377 Index 385
£29.45
Duke University Press The Great Woman Singer
Book SynopsisUsing a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Puerto Rican singers to explore how their voices, performance style, physical appearance, and subject matter of their songs challenged social and cultural norms.Trade Review"A welcome addition to the growing field of Latina/o sound studies. . . . [The Great Woman Singer] provides us with a guide to listen anew and in new ways." -- Iván Ramos * Sounding Out! *"Something resonates and pulses throughout Licia Fiol-Matta’s The Great Woman Singer. . . . Fiol-Matta’s attention to the gendering and racialization of the voice in Puerto Rican popular music makes crucial interventions within Latin American and Caribbean studies." -- Summer Kim Lee * Women & Performance *“Privileging vocality, the sonic over the scopic, Fiol-Matta guides us through a series of questions the very performers spur as social subjects. She also provides a heuristic through which we might listen with more care to glean an understanding of the social web within which 'great’ cultural producers operate.” -- Leticia Alvarado * Latino Studies *"This new book makes a number of important interventions into the gendered history of music and performance and, in the process, offers some new and potentially deeply influential formulations. . . . Fiol-Matta changes completely the way we read 'great female singers' but in the process she questions the value of 'greatness,' 'femaleness,' and 'singing.'" -- Jack Halberstam * Current Musicology *"An investigation that doesn’t refuse that wonder of childhood . . . The Great Woman Singer gives us the ample material evidence and imaginative know-how to extend women’s vocal influence to record all kinds of different stories." -- Alexandra T. Vazquez * Current Musicology *"Fiol-Matta models for us a mode of both listening and looking with deep care. . . . She expertly weaves the archival excavation of the lives and artistic output of each of the four figures in the book with a critical theorization of voice and gender, but she does this so seamlessly that we may fail initially to apprehend just how difficult this archival labor must have been." -- Gayatri Gopinath * Current Musicology *“Rich in detail and theoretically sound . . . the paradigmatic nature of the biographies offered within makes Fiol Matta’s work vital not only to students of Puerto Rican music, but to scholars of Latin American and (non-Latina/o/x) US popular music as a whole." -- María Elena Cepeda * Centro *"The Great Woman Singer is a brilliant intervention in Puerto Rican studies that contributes to our knowledge about Puerto Rican culture through gender, voice, and music." -- Frances R. Aparicio * Studies in Latin American Popular Culture *"Popular music scholarship has sometimes shown a tendency to eschew cultural theory in favor of either archival heft, formal analysis, or colorful anecdote. In her work, Fiol-Matta defiantly bucks this trend, showing theoretical sophistication without abandoning either historiographical rigor or novel appeal." -- Jason Borge * Revista de Estudios Hispanicos *"Licia Fiol-Matta has written a marvelous exploration of the voice. In the process, she assembles a vocal archive of Puerto Rican performers whose labor is usually relegated to footnotes or cursory mentions. She demonstrates the ways these singers worked through, with and against the nothingness they were assigned." -- Lorena Alvarado * Journal of Popular Music Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. I Am Nothing 1 1. Getting Off . . . the Nation 16 2. So What If She's Black? 67 3. Techne and the Lady 121 4. The Thinking Voice 172 Epilogue. Nothing Is Something 226 Notes 233 Bibliography 269 Index 279
£999.99
Duke University Press The Great Woman Singer
Book SynopsisUsing a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Puerto Rican singers to explore how their voices, performance style, physical appearance, and subject matter of their songs challenged social and cultural norms.Trade Review"A welcome addition to the growing field of Latina/o sound studies. . . . [The Great Woman Singer] provides us with a guide to listen anew and in new ways." -- Iván Ramos * Sounding Out! *"Something resonates and pulses throughout Licia Fiol-Matta’s The Great Woman Singer. . . . Fiol-Matta’s attention to the gendering and racialization of the voice in Puerto Rican popular music makes crucial interventions within Latin American and Caribbean studies." -- Summer Kim Lee * Women & Performance *“Privileging vocality, the sonic over the scopic, Fiol-Matta guides us through a series of questions the very performers spur as social subjects. She also provides a heuristic through which we might listen with more care to glean an understanding of the social web within which 'great’ cultural producers operate.” -- Leticia Alvarado * Latino Studies *"This new book makes a number of important interventions into the gendered history of music and performance and, in the process, offers some new and potentially deeply influential formulations. . . . Fiol-Matta changes completely the way we read 'great female singers' but in the process she questions the value of 'greatness,' 'femaleness,' and 'singing.'" -- Jack Halberstam * Current Musicology *"An investigation that doesn’t refuse that wonder of childhood . . . The Great Woman Singer gives us the ample material evidence and imaginative know-how to extend women’s vocal influence to record all kinds of different stories." -- Alexandra T. Vazquez * Current Musicology *"Fiol-Matta models for us a mode of both listening and looking with deep care. . . . She expertly weaves the archival excavation of the lives and artistic output of each of the four figures in the book with a critical theorization of voice and gender, but she does this so seamlessly that we may fail initially to apprehend just how difficult this archival labor must have been." -- Gayatri Gopinath * Current Musicology *“Rich in detail and theoretically sound . . . the paradigmatic nature of the biographies offered within makes Fiol Matta’s work vital not only to students of Puerto Rican music, but to scholars of Latin American and (non-Latina/o/x) US popular music as a whole." -- María Elena Cepeda * Centro *"The Great Woman Singer is a brilliant intervention in Puerto Rican studies that contributes to our knowledge about Puerto Rican culture through gender, voice, and music." -- Frances R. Aparicio * Studies in Latin American Popular Culture *"Popular music scholarship has sometimes shown a tendency to eschew cultural theory in favor of either archival heft, formal analysis, or colorful anecdote. In her work, Fiol-Matta defiantly bucks this trend, showing theoretical sophistication without abandoning either historiographical rigor or novel appeal." -- Jason Borge * Revista de Estudios Hispanicos *"Licia Fiol-Matta has written a marvelous exploration of the voice. In the process, she assembles a vocal archive of Puerto Rican performers whose labor is usually relegated to footnotes or cursory mentions. She demonstrates the ways these singers worked through, with and against the nothingness they were assigned." -- Lorena Alvarado * Journal of Popular Music Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. I Am Nothing 1 1. Getting Off . . . the Nation 16 2. So What If She's Black? 67 3. Techne and the Lady 121 4. The Thinking Voice 172 Epilogue. Nothing Is Something 226 Notes 233 Bibliography 269 Index 279
£25.19
Duke University Press Archives of Labor
Book SynopsisLori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture by analyzing previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature, showing how white, African American, and Mexican American factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes understood themselves while forging class identity.Trade Review"[Archives of Labor] is a remarkable feat of original research and suggests routes for further study – not least on formal innovation and tone in antebellum literature." -- Stephanie Kelley * TLS *"In the depth and range of her arguments, as well as in the important questions about methodology that her work implicitly raises, Merish opens up new debates and issues for feminist working-class recovery projects in the antebellum period and beyond it. . . . Future scholars and activists can build on Merish’s imaginative and resourceful study." -- Francesca Sawaya * American Literary History *“Archives of Labor is a marvel of archival recovery. Exploring many previously unknown and understudied texts, Merish focused not just on novels and poetry, but also on radical labor periodicals, pamphlet novels, periodical literature, theatrical melodrama, the testimonios of Mexican mission workers, and other literary ephemera. . . . An important interdisciplinary contribution to feminist history and literary scholarship.” -- Ana Stevenson * Australasian Journal of American Studies *"Powerful, groundbreaking. . . . Archives of Labor makes an important and decisive contribution to the vocabulary of class in American literary studies." -- Andrew Lawson * Legacy *"Exciting . . . Lori Merish has written a book about how feminists, scholars, and workers can commemorate their own struggles for emancipation by giving gendered particularity to memory itself." -- Bill V. Mullen * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Lori Merish’s Archives of Labor offers a nuanced and thoroughly researched analysis of antebellum American working-class women’s engagement with literary culture. . . . Archives of Labor is a remarkable book that merits the close attention of historians and literary scholars alike, both for its argument and its methods." -- Susan M. Ryan * Journal of the Early Republic *"The book’s broad literary scope is one of its truly great pleasures. . . . Merish anchors her brilliant analyses of these works in the often paradoxical, critical challenges which these women leveled against the 'romance' of labor, the 'moralization' and sentimental eroticizing of 'virtuous' seamstresses, and the middleclass privatizing of sympathy and domesticity." -- Xiomara Santamarina * Nineteenth-Century Contexts *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Factory Fictions: Lowell Mill Women and the Romance of Labor 33 2. Factory Labor and Literary Aesthetics: The Lowell Mill Girl, Popular Fiction, and the Proletarian Grotesque 73 3. Narrating Female Dependency: The Sentimental Seamstress and the Erotics of Labor Reform 113 4. Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and the Labor of Race 153 5. Hidden Hands: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Working-Class Performance 180 6. Writing Mexicana Workers: Race, Labor, and the Western Front 219 Postscript. Looking for Antebellum Workingwomen 247 Notes 251 Works Cited 285 Index 303
£80.10
Duke University Press Downwardly Global
Book SynopsisLalaie Ameeriar follows the experiences of immigrant Pakistani women in Toronto who—despite being skilled, white-collar workers—suffer high levels of unemployment and poverty and who are advised by government-sanctioned worker programs to conform to an embodied form of multiculturalism that privileges whiteness and erases difference.Trade Review“Ameeriar’s book echoes an important refrain from diasporic feminist scholars, insisting that despite the various scales at which disenfranchisement and violence function, migrant women resourcefully find ways to persist.” -- Kareem Khubchandani * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Radically subversive, superbly written.” -- Pnina Werbner * Pacific Affairs *"Of interest to scholars of citizenship and governance, globalization and neoliberalism, gender and embodiment, multiculturalism and race, this book is a rich read for its deployment of analytical concepts and the creation of two new ones: pedagogies of affect and sanitized sensorium." -- Alison Shaw * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Bodies and Bureaucracies 25 2. Pedagogies of Affect 53 3. Sanitizing Citizenship 75 4. Racializing South Asia 101 5. The Catastrophic Present 127 Conclusion 153 Notes 169 References 181 Index 201
£76.50
Duke University Press Downwardly Global
Book SynopsisLalaie Ameeriar follows the experiences of immigrant Pakistani women in Toronto who—despite being skilled, white-collar workers—suffer high levels of unemployment and poverty and who are advised by government-sanctioned worker programs to conform to an embodied form of multiculturalism that privileges whiteness and erases difference.Trade Review“Ameeriar’s book echoes an important refrain from diasporic feminist scholars, insisting that despite the various scales at which disenfranchisement and violence function, migrant women resourcefully find ways to persist.” -- Kareem Khubchandani * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Radically subversive, superbly written.” -- Pnina Werbner * Pacific Affairs *"Of interest to scholars of citizenship and governance, globalization and neoliberalism, gender and embodiment, multiculturalism and race, this book is a rich read for its deployment of analytical concepts and the creation of two new ones: pedagogies of affect and sanitized sensorium." -- Alison Shaw * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Bodies and Bureaucracies 25 2. Pedagogies of Affect 53 3. Sanitizing Citizenship 75 4. Racializing South Asia 101 5. The Catastrophic Present 127 Conclusion 153 Notes 169 References 181 Index 201
£22.49
Duke University Press Archives of Labor
Book SynopsisLori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture by analyzing previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature, showing how white, African American, and Mexican American factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes understood themselves while forging class identity.Trade Review"[Archives of Labor] is a remarkable feat of original research and suggests routes for further study – not least on formal innovation and tone in antebellum literature." -- Stephanie Kelley * TLS *"In the depth and range of her arguments, as well as in the important questions about methodology that her work implicitly raises, Merish opens up new debates and issues for feminist working-class recovery projects in the antebellum period and beyond it. . . . Future scholars and activists can build on Merish’s imaginative and resourceful study." -- Francesca Sawaya * American Literary History *“Archives of Labor is a marvel of archival recovery. Exploring many previously unknown and understudied texts, Merish focused not just on novels and poetry, but also on radical labor periodicals, pamphlet novels, periodical literature, theatrical melodrama, the testimonios of Mexican mission workers, and other literary ephemera. . . . An important interdisciplinary contribution to feminist history and literary scholarship.” -- Ana Stevenson * Australasian Journal of American Studies *"Powerful, groundbreaking. . . . Archives of Labor makes an important and decisive contribution to the vocabulary of class in American literary studies." -- Andrew Lawson * Legacy *"Exciting . . . Lori Merish has written a book about how feminists, scholars, and workers can commemorate their own struggles for emancipation by giving gendered particularity to memory itself." -- Bill V. Mullen * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Lori Merish’s Archives of Labor offers a nuanced and thoroughly researched analysis of antebellum American working-class women’s engagement with literary culture. . . . Archives of Labor is a remarkable book that merits the close attention of historians and literary scholars alike, both for its argument and its methods." -- Susan M. Ryan * Journal of the Early Republic *"The book’s broad literary scope is one of its truly great pleasures. . . . Merish anchors her brilliant analyses of these works in the often paradoxical, critical challenges which these women leveled against the 'romance' of labor, the 'moralization' and sentimental eroticizing of 'virtuous' seamstresses, and the middleclass privatizing of sympathy and domesticity." -- Xiomara Santamarina * Nineteenth-Century Contexts *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Factory Fictions: Lowell Mill Women and the Romance of Labor 33 2. Factory Labor and Literary Aesthetics: The Lowell Mill Girl, Popular Fiction, and the Proletarian Grotesque 73 3. Narrating Female Dependency: The Sentimental Seamstress and the Erotics of Labor Reform 113 4. Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and the Labor of Race 153 5. Hidden Hands: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Working-Class Performance 180 6. Writing Mexicana Workers: Race, Labor, and the Western Front 219 Postscript. Looking for Antebellum Workingwomen 247 Notes 251 Works Cited 285 Index 303
£25.19
Duke University Press Mothering through Precarity
Book SynopsisJulie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim explore how working- and middle-class mothers of young children negotiate difficulties of holding a family together during difficulties such as job loss, health scares, and weakening social services through their everyday engagement with digital media.Trade Review"... women, with children or without, have a lot to gain from this smart, insightful work. It outlines a nagging problem so specific I lacked a clear definition of it before I started reading.... It’s an idea rooted directly in our dominant political ideology, one that many cannot name: neoliberalism." -- Amani Newton * Pittsburgh City Paper *"Mothering through Precarity ... richly illustrates what a theoretically, conceptually and emotionally confused and paradoxical situation women are in with respect to an online world that offers family-enhancing information and advice, communicative solace and flexible income-earning opportunities, but also exploits their ongoing efforts at maintaining a positive family environment by creating new anxieties and offering meagre financial returns.... After reading this book, it is not so difficult to understand why some women in the Rust Belt voted for Donald Trump’s media-fuelled promises of a better future." -- E. Stina Lyon * Times Higher Education *"Mothering through Precarity is at its best when it demonstrates digital media as a crucial mechanism by which mothers daily discipline themselves to feel ever more optimistic and upbeat in spite of the pervasive uncertainty they feel.... Suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses at the intersection of family, gender, and media, we recommend this book, and in particular chapter three and the Conclusion, for sections highlighting the use of digital media in families." -- Elissa Zeno and Allison J. Pugh * Gender & Society *"Mothering Through Precarity is a critical contribution to the study of . . . the affective and psychic life of neoliberalism. . . . With genuine empathy and care for their interviewees, Wilson and Chivers Yochim show how mothers are caught up in the forces of precarization that threaten their families, and how they turn to the digital mamasphere to resist the turbulences of advanced neoliberalism." -- Shani Orgad * Journal of Communication Inquiry *"This rich approach to the topic and subjects of inquiry makes this book valuable to feminist media and cultural studies’ scholars, motherhood studies, and those with an interest in the gendered aspects of new media and affect theory. . . . An original and important scholarly contribution on gendered digital culture and the growing mamasphere." -- Tisha Dejmanee * International Journal of Communication *"A well-written and well-argued book about modern motherhood. . . both thought-provoking and deeply saddening. . . . This book is recommended for scholars of motherhood, contemporary gender performance, neoliberalism, and digital media consumption." -- Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Digital Mundane: Mothering, Media, and Precarity 1 1. Mother Loads: Why "Good" Mothers Are Anxious 31 2. Mamapreneurialism: Family Appreciation in the Digital Mundane 65 3. Digital Entanglements: Staying Happy in the Mamasphere 103 4. Individualized Solidarities: Privatizing Happiness Together 137 Conclusion. Socializing Happiness (or, Why We Wrote an Unhappy Book) 169 Afterword. Packets and Pockets 185 Notes 189 Bibliography 205 Index 213
£90.10
Duke University Press Mothering through Precarity Womens Work and
Book SynopsisJulie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim explore how working- and middle-class mothers of young children negotiate difficulties of holding a family together during difficulties such as job loss, health scares, and weakening social services through their everyday engagement with digital media.Trade Review"... women, with children or without, have a lot to gain from this smart, insightful work. It outlines a nagging problem so specific I lacked a clear definition of it before I started reading.... It’s an idea rooted directly in our dominant political ideology, one that many cannot name: neoliberalism." -- Amani Newton * Pittsburgh City Paper *"Mothering through Precarity ... richly illustrates what a theoretically, conceptually and emotionally confused and paradoxical situation women are in with respect to an online world that offers family-enhancing information and advice, communicative solace and flexible income-earning opportunities, but also exploits their ongoing efforts at maintaining a positive family environment by creating new anxieties and offering meagre financial returns.... After reading this book, it is not so difficult to understand why some women in the Rust Belt voted for Donald Trump’s media-fuelled promises of a better future." -- E. Stina Lyon * Times Higher Education *"Mothering through Precarity is at its best when it demonstrates digital media as a crucial mechanism by which mothers daily discipline themselves to feel ever more optimistic and upbeat in spite of the pervasive uncertainty they feel.... Suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses at the intersection of family, gender, and media, we recommend this book, and in particular chapter three and the Conclusion, for sections highlighting the use of digital media in families." -- Elissa Zeno and Allison J. Pugh * Gender & Society *"Mothering Through Precarity is a critical contribution to the study of . . . the affective and psychic life of neoliberalism. . . . With genuine empathy and care for their interviewees, Wilson and Chivers Yochim show how mothers are caught up in the forces of precarization that threaten their families, and how they turn to the digital mamasphere to resist the turbulences of advanced neoliberalism." -- Shani Orgad * Journal of Communication Inquiry *"This rich approach to the topic and subjects of inquiry makes this book valuable to feminist media and cultural studies’ scholars, motherhood studies, and those with an interest in the gendered aspects of new media and affect theory. . . . An original and important scholarly contribution on gendered digital culture and the growing mamasphere." -- Tisha Dejmanee * International Journal of Communication *"A well-written and well-argued book about modern motherhood. . . both thought-provoking and deeply saddening. . . . This book is recommended for scholars of motherhood, contemporary gender performance, neoliberalism, and digital media consumption." -- Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Digital Mundane: Mothering, Media, and Precarity 1 1. Mother Loads: Why "Good" Mothers Are Anxious 31 2. Mamapreneurialism: Family Appreciation in the Digital Mundane 65 3. Digital Entanglements: Staying Happy in the Mamasphere 103 4. Individualized Solidarities: Privatizing Happiness Together 137 Conclusion. Socializing Happiness (or, Why We Wrote an Unhappy Book) 169 Afterword. Packets and Pockets 185 Notes 189 Bibliography 205 Index 213
£22.49
Duke University Press The War on Sex
Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors outline the current war on sex, in which—despite the expansion of sexual liberties in the United States—sex has become the target of ever-expanding regulation and control, from sex offender registries to the criminalization of HIV.Trade Review"Interdisciplinary in scope and inclusive of activist voices from outside the academy, the book is an essential introduction to a struggle for self-determination and sexual self-assertion that has been occurring behind mainstream social movements’ focus on dignity and respectability.... [A]n urgent, well-argued agenda...." -- Ben Miller * Lambda Literary Review *"This is an illuminating, often disturbing book, handling some extremely touchy subjects...." -- Perry Brass * Huffington Post *"[A]n ambitious and provocative collection of essays.... The political credentials of many contributors to this volume show that much can be achieved in the face of overwhelming odds, and serve as a model for blending scholarship with civic engagement." -- Dan Udy * TLS *"The editors have done a valuable service putting together these 17 rigorous pieces that, collectively, paint a grim picture of the nation’s sexual culture.... It’s a valuable book meant for an academic audience, a useful resource for one’s bookcase to draw upon when considering a truly troubling dimension of sex and contemporary life: the criminalization of sex." -- David Rosen * New York Journal of Books *"At a moment when Queer Studies in the United States has turned its attention away from sex to matters considered more pressing, The War on Sex appears as a welcome reminder of the urgent work that remains to be done. . . . A thoroughly researched, expertly edited collection of substantial scholarly contributions . . . With meticulous documentation and persuasive argumentation, the various chapters of The War on Sex combine to tell a powerful story." -- Tim Dean * European Journal of American Culture *"The War on Sex ultimately throws down a resounding gauntlet for scholars of sexuality, demanding we attend to. . . emerging twenty-first century regulatory frameworks." -- Whitney Strub * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"This book should be required reading for prosecutors, judges, therapists, social workers, and anyone who cares about criminal justice reform." * William A. Percy Foundation for Social & Historical Studies *Table of ContentsForeword. Thinking Sex and Justice / Trevor Hoppe ix Introduction. The War on Sex / David M. Halperin 1 Part I. The Politics of Sex 1. The New Pariahs: Sex, Crime and Punishment in America / Roger N. Lancaster 65 2. Sympathy for the Devil: Why Progressives Haven't Helped the Sex Offender, Why They Should, and How They Can / Judith Levine 126 3, Queer Disavowel: "Controversial Crimes" and Building Abolition / Owen Daniel-McCarter, Erica R. Meiners, and R Noll 174 4. A New Iron Closet: Failing to Extend the Spirit of Lawrence v. Texas to Prison and Prisoners / J. Wallace Borchert 191 5. Seeing the Sex and Justice Landscape through the Vatican's Eyes: The War on Gender and the Seamless Garmet of Sexual Rights / Mary Anne Case 211 Part II. The Invention of the Sex Offender 6. Sex Panic, Psychiatry, and the Expansion ofthe Carceral State / Regina Kunzel 229 7. The Creation of the Modern Sex Offender / Scott de Orio 247 8. For What They Might Do: A Sex Offender Exception to the Constitution / Laura Mansnerus 268 Part III. Sex Work and the Trouble with Trafficking 9. The "Hooker Teacher" Tell All / Melissa Petro 291 10. Carceral Politics as Gender Justice? The "Traffic in Women" and Neoliberal Circuits of Crime, Sex, and Rights / Elizabeth Bernstein 297 11. California's Proposition 35 and the Trouble with Trafficking / Carol Queen and Penelope Saunders 323 Part IV. Making HIV a Crime 12. HIV: Prosecution or Prevention? HIV is Not a Crime / Sean Strub 347 13. HIV Monsters: Gay Men, Criminal Law, and the New Political Economy of HIV / Gregory Tomso 353 14. HIV Care as Social Rehabilitation: Medical Governance, the AIDS Surveillance Industry, and Therapeutic Citizenship Neoliberal Taiwan / Hans Tao-Ming Huang 378 Part V. Resistance 15. The New War on Sex: A Report from the Global Front Lines/ Maurice Tomlinson 409 16. Building a Movement for Justice: Doe v. Jindal and the Campaign Against Louisiana's Crime Against Nature Statute / Alexis Agathocleous 429 17. Bringing Sex to the Table of Justice / Amber Hollibaugh 454 Afterword. How You Can Get Involved / Trevor Hoppe 461 Contributors 465 Index 469
£112.20
Duke University Press The War on Sex
Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors outline the current war on sex, in which—despite the expansion of sexual liberties in the United States—sex has become the target of ever-expanding regulation and control, from sex offender registries to the criminalization of HIV.Trade Review"Interdisciplinary in scope and inclusive of activist voices from outside the academy, the book is an essential introduction to a struggle for self-determination and sexual self-assertion that has been occurring behind mainstream social movements’ focus on dignity and respectability.... [A]n urgent, well-argued agenda...." -- Ben Miller * Lambda Literary Review *"This is an illuminating, often disturbing book, handling some extremely touchy subjects...." -- Perry Brass * Huffington Post *"[A]n ambitious and provocative collection of essays.... The political credentials of many contributors to this volume show that much can be achieved in the face of overwhelming odds, and serve as a model for blending scholarship with civic engagement." -- Dan Udy * TLS *"The editors have done a valuable service putting together these 17 rigorous pieces that, collectively, paint a grim picture of the nation’s sexual culture.... It’s a valuable book meant for an academic audience, a useful resource for one’s bookcase to draw upon when considering a truly troubling dimension of sex and contemporary life: the criminalization of sex." -- David Rosen * New York Journal of Books *"At a moment when Queer Studies in the United States has turned its attention away from sex to matters considered more pressing, The War on Sex appears as a welcome reminder of the urgent work that remains to be done. . . . A thoroughly researched, expertly edited collection of substantial scholarly contributions . . . With meticulous documentation and persuasive argumentation, the various chapters of The War on Sex combine to tell a powerful story." -- Tim Dean * European Journal of American Culture *"The War on Sex ultimately throws down a resounding gauntlet for scholars of sexuality, demanding we attend to. . . emerging twenty-first century regulatory frameworks." -- Whitney Strub * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"This book should be required reading for prosecutors, judges, therapists, social workers, and anyone who cares about criminal justice reform." * William A. Percy Foundation for Social & Historical Studies *Table of ContentsForeword. Thinking Sex and Justice / Trevor Hoppe ix Introduction. The War on Sex / David M. Halperin 1 Part I. The Politics of Sex 1. The New Pariahs: Sex, Crime and Punishment in America / Roger N. Lancaster 65 2. Sympathy for the Devil: Why Progressives Haven't Helped the Sex Offender, Why They Should, and How They Can / Judith Levine 126 3, Queer Disavowel: "Controversial Crimes" and Building Abolition / Owen Daniel-McCarter, Erica R. Meiners, and R Noll 174 4. A New Iron Closet: Failing to Extend the Spirit of Lawrence v. Texas to Prison and Prisoners / J. Wallace Borchert 191 5. Seeing the Sex and Justice Landscape through the Vatican's Eyes: The War on Gender and the Seamless Garmet of Sexual Rights / Mary Anne Case 211 Part II. The Invention of the Sex Offender 6. Sex Panic, Psychiatry, and the Expansion ofthe Carceral State / Regina Kunzel 229 7. The Creation of the Modern Sex Offender / Scott de Orio 247 8. For What They Might Do: A Sex Offender Exception to the Constitution / Laura Mansnerus 268 Part III. Sex Work and the Trouble with Trafficking 9. The "Hooker Teacher" Tell All / Melissa Petro 291 10. Carceral Politics as Gender Justice? The "Traffic in Women" and Neoliberal Circuits of Crime, Sex, and Rights / Elizabeth Bernstein 297 11. California's Proposition 35 and the Trouble with Trafficking / Carol Queen and Penelope Saunders 323 Part IV. Making HIV a Crime 12. HIV: Prosecution or Prevention? HIV is Not a Crime / Sean Strub 347 13. HIV Monsters: Gay Men, Criminal Law, and the New Political Economy of HIV / Gregory Tomso 353 14. HIV Care as Social Rehabilitation: Medical Governance, the AIDS Surveillance Industry, and Therapeutic Citizenship Neoliberal Taiwan / Hans Tao-Ming Huang 378 Part V. Resistance 15. The New War on Sex: A Report from the Global Front Lines/ Maurice Tomlinson 409 16. Building a Movement for Justice: Doe v. Jindal and the Campaign Against Louisiana's Crime Against Nature Statute / Alexis Agathocleous 429 17. Bringing Sex to the Table of Justice / Amber Hollibaugh 454 Afterword. How You Can Get Involved / Trevor Hoppe 461 Contributors 465 Index 469
£27.90
Duke University Press The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Book SynopsisThe Revolution Will Not Be Funded gathers essays by radical activists, educators, and non-profit staff from around the globe who critically rethink the long-term consequences of what they call the "non-profit industrial complex," which works against the efforts of social justice organizations.Trade Review"A stinging indictment of what the authors call the 'non-profit industrial complex.'" -- Elisabeth Prügl * Signs *"Fiery" * Utne Reader *"A crucial intervention into mainstream ways of thinking about political organization and social change." -- Ryne Clos * Spectrum Culture *"Powerfully demonstrate[s] what we too often forget: our attempts at securing safety for ourselves and our communities are subject to much more powerful attempts by the state and society to make itself safe—including to make itself safe from us and our most radical, challenging, revolutionary, feminist ideas." -- Ruthann Robson * Women's Studies Quarterly *"Although The Revolution Will Not Be Funded presents no easy answers for those of us struggling both to make a living and to create social change, it exhorts us to put the consideration of our movements' missions, and the way we fulfill them, before considerations of organizational and job security—and to regularly revisit within our organizations the question of whether the form and the content of our work are essentially compatible." -- Christy Thornton * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsPreface / Andrea Smith ix Foreword / Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse xiii Introduction: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded 1 Part I: The Rise of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Dylan Rodríguez 21 In the Shadow of the State / Ruth Wilson Gilmore 41 From Black Awakening in Capitalist America / Robert L. Allen 53 Democratizing American Philanthropy / Christine E. Ahn 63 Part II: Non-Profits and Global Organizing The Filth on Philanthropy: Progressive Philanthropy's Agenda to Misdirect Social Justice Movements / Tiffany Lethabo King and Ewuare Osayande 79 Between Radical Theory and Community Praxis: Reflections on Organizing and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Amara H. Pérez, Sisters in Action for Power 91 Native Organizing Before the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Madonna Thunder Hawk 101 Fundraising is Not a Dirty Word: Community-based Economic Strategies for the Long Haul / Stephanie Guilloud and William Cordery, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide "we were never meant to survive": Fighting Violence Against Women and the Fourth World War / Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo 113 Social Service or Social Change? / Paul Kivel 129 Pursuing a Radical Anti-Violence Agenda Inside/Outside a Non-Profit Structure / Alisa Bierria, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) 151 The NGOization of the Palestine Liberation Movement: Interviews with Hatem Bazian, Noura Erekat, Atef Said, and Zeina Zaatari / Andrea Smith 165 Part III: Rethinking Non-Profits, Reimagining Resistance Radical Social Change: Searching for a New Foundation / Adjoa Florência Joes de Almeida 185 Are the Cops in Our Heads and Hearts? / Paula X. Rojas 197 Non-Profits and the Autonomous Grassroots / Eric Tang 215 On Our Own Terms: Ten Years of Radical Community Building with Sista II Sista / Nicole Burrowes, Morgan Cousins, Paula X. Rojas, and Ije Ude 227 About the Contributors 235 Index 242
£72.25
Duke University Press The Labor of Faith Gender and Power in Black
Book SynopsisJudith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of a Black Pentecostal church in Harlem, showing how their work keeps the church running while providing them with a spiritual authority that allows them to exercise power in the male-led church.Trade Review"Casselberry has written an excellent study of the work of African American women in the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. in Harlem. . . . By focusing on developing a holy, black, female personhood, the author shows how 21st-century women’s spiritual power operates in Pentecostal churches that are male led but female dominated. Recommended." -- L. H. Mamiya * Choice *"An excellent source for educators and students looking to deepen their understanding of black women’s religious power and expression." * WATER *"[Casselberry] points the way forward with a compelling argument that by centering on these women in a small, urban parish in a less well-known segment of Pentecostalism—Apostolic Pentecostalism, she is able to offer an innovative interpretation of these women’s lives. Her labor has produced an important intervention in a neglected area of scholarship for women’s studies, black and diaspora studies, religious studies, and anthropology." -- Marlon Millner * Pneuma *"Casselberry’s work is sure to shift the field of Black Pentecostalism studies, as she encourages the field to take seriously the spiritual labor of 20th and 21st century holiness women." -- Ahmad Greene-Hayes * Reading Religion *"The Labor of Faith sheds light on the paradoxical construction of gender that is characteristic for the broader Pentecostal movement. . . . I am confident that reading Judith Casselberry’s book will inspire researchers engaged in empirical research on gender across religious and secular contexts, in particular those researchers that wish to move beyond the religious secular binary will find inspiration in her conceptualization of women’s labor." -- Brenda Bartelink * Religion and Gender *"The Labor of Faith is a beautiful ethnography of women’s religious labor in the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. . . . Through luminously evocative and accessible prose, Casselberry conveys the deeply felt significance that women in COOLJC attach to their work in its manifold forms and contexts. In so doing, she makes a key contribution to the literature on Pentecostalism that sheds new light on aspects of US labor history as well." -- Frederick Klaits * Anthropological Quarterly *"This sympathetic and insightful ethnography is a tribute to her empathic and careful observation of a Black Church from a very different tradition. . . . The Labor of Faith is an important addition to the growing literature that corrects easy condemnation of Pentecostal ‘patriarchy.'" -- Bernice Martin * Journal of Contemporary Religion *"The Labor of Faith joins a vivid ethnography to an intriguing provocation around the relationship between labor, religiosity, and gender." -- Josh Brahinsky * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“Judith Casselberry’s The Labor of Faith made me think deeply.... Everyone should read this text, one that takes seriously my heart and my joy, the practices of Blackpentecostal women, their making worlds otherwise than the normative.” -- Ashon Crawley * Hypatia *Table of ContentsPrologue ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. The Instruments of Faith 17 2. Church Building 45 3. Church Sustaining 79 4. Women's Work 104 5. Harvesting Souls for Christ 125 6. The Beauty of Holiness 152 Conclusion 170 Notes 173 Bibliography 197 Notes 207
£90.10
Duke University Press The Labor of Faith
Book SynopsisJudith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of a Black Pentecostal church in Harlem, showing how their work keeps the church running while providing them with a spiritual authority that allows them to exercise power in the male-led church.Trade Review"Casselberry has written an excellent study of the work of African American women in the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. in Harlem. . . . By focusing on developing a holy, black, female personhood, the author shows how 21st-century women’s spiritual power operates in Pentecostal churches that are male led but female dominated. Recommended." -- L. H. Mamiya * Choice *"An excellent source for educators and students looking to deepen their understanding of black women’s religious power and expression." * WATER *"[Casselberry] points the way forward with a compelling argument that by centering on these women in a small, urban parish in a less well-known segment of Pentecostalism—Apostolic Pentecostalism, she is able to offer an innovative interpretation of these women’s lives. Her labor has produced an important intervention in a neglected area of scholarship for women’s studies, black and diaspora studies, religious studies, and anthropology." -- Marlon Millner * Pneuma *"Casselberry’s work is sure to shift the field of Black Pentecostalism studies, as she encourages the field to take seriously the spiritual labor of 20th and 21st century holiness women." -- Ahmad Greene-Hayes * Reading Religion *"The Labor of Faith sheds light on the paradoxical construction of gender that is characteristic for the broader Pentecostal movement. . . . I am confident that reading Judith Casselberry’s book will inspire researchers engaged in empirical research on gender across religious and secular contexts, in particular those researchers that wish to move beyond the religious secular binary will find inspiration in her conceptualization of women’s labor." -- Brenda Bartelink * Religion and Gender *"The Labor of Faith is a beautiful ethnography of women’s religious labor in the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. . . . Through luminously evocative and accessible prose, Casselberry conveys the deeply felt significance that women in COOLJC attach to their work in its manifold forms and contexts. In so doing, she makes a key contribution to the literature on Pentecostalism that sheds new light on aspects of US labor history as well." -- Frederick Klaits * Anthropological Quarterly *"This sympathetic and insightful ethnography is a tribute to her empathic and careful observation of a Black Church from a very different tradition. . . . The Labor of Faith is an important addition to the growing literature that corrects easy condemnation of Pentecostal ‘patriarchy.'" -- Bernice Martin * Journal of Contemporary Religion *"The Labor of Faith joins a vivid ethnography to an intriguing provocation around the relationship between labor, religiosity, and gender." -- Josh Brahinsky * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“Judith Casselberry’s The Labor of Faith made me think deeply.... Everyone should read this text, one that takes seriously my heart and my joy, the practices of Blackpentecostal women, their making worlds otherwise than the normative.” -- Ashon Crawley * Hypatia *Table of ContentsPrologue ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. The Instruments of Faith 17 2. Church Building 45 3. Church Sustaining 79 4. Women's Work 104 5. Harvesting Souls for Christ 125 6. The Beauty of Holiness 152 Conclusion 170 Notes 173 Bibliography 197 Notes 207
£22.49
Duke University Press The Biopolitics of Feeling
Book SynopsisKyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be affected—to expose the powerful workings of sentimental biopower in the nineteenth-century United States, uncovering a vast apparatus of sensory regulation that aimed to shape the evolution of the national population.Trade Review"[Schuller's] terminology here may act as a springboard for additional theorizations of race. . . . An ambitious, conscientious history." -- Joshua Falek * Cultural Studies *"The importance of this book to nineteenth-century studies cannot be understated: it fundamentally rewrites the history of sentimentalism, an affective and cultural formation that dominated norms of comportment and embodiment across the period. . . . " -- Kyla Tompkins * American Quarterly *"The Biopolitics of Feeling takes a refreshingly head-on approach to the historical entanglement of race and sex in the United States. . . Stunningly convincing . . . Readers will find an abundant resource of theoretically informed readings of postbellum and Progressive Era science and literature throughout the study, but they will be also unable to ignore Schuller’s urgent warning about feminism’s embeddedness in the machinations of biopower." -- Britt Rusert * Catalyst *"Impressibility and sentimentalism combine in this book to form a rubric assessing a broad and fascinating archive. . . . Schuller offers a broad view of how nineteenth-century Americans were given repeated exposure to the logic of impressibility and affective fitness, to the point where both became unconscious components of civic life." -- Sheila Liming * Legacy *"An impressive synthesis of historical and theoretical work. . . . A well-documented critique of society and valuable contribution to scholarship on biopolitics that addresses persistent issues that can spark intellectual discussions. The book would be useful for scholars across disciplines such as Philosophy, Health Studies, Critical Race Studies, Ethnic Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies." -- Rosemary Onyango * Journal of International Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sentimental Biopower 1 1. Taxonomies of Feeling: Sensation and Sentiment in Evolutionary Race Science 35 2. Body as Text, Race as Palimpsest: Frances E. W. Harper and Black Feminist Biopolitics 68 3. Vaginal Impressions: Gyno-neurology and the Racial Origins of Sexual Difference 100 4. Incremental Life: Biophilanthropy and the Child Migrants of the Lower East Side 134 5. From Impressibility to Interactionism: W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Eugenics, and the Struggle against Genetic Determinisms 172 Epilogue. The Afterlives of Impressibility 205 Notes 215 Bibliography 247 Index 271
£76.50
Duke University Press Experimental Beijing
Book SynopsisExamining the cultural and gender politics of Chinese contemporary art at the turn of the twenty-first century, Sasha Su-Ling Welland shows how artists, curators, officials, and urban planners negotiated the meanings of the avant-garde, built new cultural institutions, wrote new histories of Chinese art, and imagined new, more gender-inclusive worlds.Trade Review"Drawing on her own ethnographic fieldwork, Welland investigates the power dynamics (traditional versus modern, male versus female) that played out in China as the role of experimental art was negotiated and new cultural institutions were erected." * Art in America *"For all readers, including non-specialists, Welland should succeed in making lost lives and camouflaged histories visible and palpable. The limpid prose, theoretically informed structure and expanded multimedia materials available on the book’s accompanying website would make it a captivating textbook for an advanced undergraduate course or a stimulating methodological text for graduate seminars. Marking a major contribution to the field, this is a masterful, thought-provoking and luminous text." -- Ros Holmes * Journal of Gender Studies *"A much welcome addition not only to the expanding scholarship on contemporary Chinese art, but also to Chinese feminist art, and gender studies." -- Meiqin Wang * The China Quarterly *"Experimental Beijing is a complex book that demands close reading not only by scholars interested in gender issues in art, but also those who wish for a multi-dimensional picture of the worlds of Chinese contemporary art." -- Doris Sung * China Perspectives *“Through interviews and communications on other occasions with a broad range of people, including artists, curators, officials, and urban planners, Welland shows convincingly the particular world of those almost forgotten artists and their creative strivings. … In so doing she creates a space for dialogue and cultural encounter in the text, averts the reader from the trap of translation and situates them in this admirably detailed account of the Chinese contemporary art world.” -- Siying Duan & Jun Zeng * Visual Anthropology *“Experimental Beijing is excellent at revealing the complex complicity between Chinese contemporary art and the new Chinese market economy and the heavy price that is paid by Chinese women artists for it.” -- Chris Berry * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"Situated at the intersection of art history, anthropology, and gender studies, Experimental Beijing enacts incisive interventions in histories of Chinese contemporary art, global contemporary art, and feminist art.… Engagingly written with fluid and lyrical prose." -- Peggy Wang * The Art Bulletin *Table of ContentsNote on the Digital Companion ix Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Prologue. Worldly Fables 1 Introduction. Chinese Contemporary Art in the Expanded Field 7 Part I. Art Worldings 1. Xianfeng Beijing 43 2. Showcase Beijing 79 Part II. Zones of Encounter 3. The Besieged City 111 4. The Hinterlands of Feminist Art 135 Part III. Feminist Sight Lines 5. Red Detachment 179 6. Opening the Great Wall 206 7. Camoflaged Histories 236 Epilogue. Recursive Worldly Fables 265 Notes 275 Bibliography 305 Index 323
£35.10
Duke University Press Louise Thompson Patterson
Book SynopsisThis is the story of Louise Thompson Patterson—a leading and transformative figure in the radical African American politics of the twentieth century—who spent her entire life dedicating herself toward achieving social justice and liberation for all.Trade Review(Starred Review) "An important book in helping to understand the persistent racism faced by African Americans in this country and what individuals can do to help fight against the injustice." -- Amy Lewontin * Library Journal *"It’s fascinating to read biographies of Black women, particularly those for women as complex and layered as Louise Thompson Patterson.... Gilyard offers a look at one of the most dynamic Black women who’s ever walked the Earth." -- Evette Dionne * Bitch *"Louise Thompson Patterson is the finest sort of biography: impeccably researched and chock full of detail, it also compels the reader by crafting a powerful image of the world in which Louise and her comrades lived and struggled.... Gilyard has offered a masterful portrayal of a key figure in 20th century American history; more importantly his work reminds us there are heroes—imperfect people, like all humans, yet heroes nonetheless—whose commitment, idealism, and perseverance can still serve as an inspiration for us today." -- Hans Rollman * PopMatters *"[T]he story of a highly engaged African American Leftist who remained true to her convictions over the course of the 20th century. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- J. E. Anderson * Choice *"Keith Gilyard offers deep and invaluable insight into the life of one of the most important Black leftists of the twentieth century." -- Charisse Burden-Stelly * Black Perspectives *"A compelling narrative of political development. . . . We are fortunate to have Gilyard’s informed, sensitive account of a Black woman of the Left." -- Cheryl Higashida * Against the Current *"This pioneering biography deftly contributes to the emerging historiography on radical black feminists." -- Anthony J. Stanonis * Journal of American History *"Louise Thompson Patterson has brought Patterson’s story to life through abundant research and appropriate admiration." -- Paul Buhle * Science & Society *"Louise Thompson Patterson is a compelling, descriptive, and engaging narrative. . . . A welcome addition to existing biographical studies on radical black women political leaders." -- LaShawn Harris * Left History *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Louise Alone, 1901–1916 7 2. California Community, 1917–1925 26 3. Shades of Control, 1925–1928 42 4. Harlem Kaleidoscope, 1928–1932 61 5. Madam Moscow, 1932 81 6. The Struggle Has Nine Lives, 1932–1934 97 7. Popular Fronts, 1935–1937 113 8. Ba Ba Ba Bop, 1937–1940 129 9. Bronzeville Brigades, 1941–1949 145 10. Sojourns and Sojourners, 1949–1959 162 11. A Fairer Public Hearing, 1960–1969 182 12. Confirming Commitments, 1970–1984 195 13. Still Reaching, 1984–1999 212 Notes 231 Bibliography 271 Index 283
£80.10
Duke University Press Embodying the Sacred
Book SynopsisThrough the lives of religious women in colonial Lima, a new understanding of the ways in which pious Catholic women engaged with material and immaterial notions of the sacred or were themselves objectified as conduits of the divine in spiritual narratives.Trade Review"Important reading for those interested in women’s expressions of devotion in colonial Lima and modes of theorizing spiritual practices more generally. . . . Particularly valuable for giving voice (and body) to female figures and their devotional models." -- Gabrielle Greenlee * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *"Nancy Van Deusen offers a suggestive and rewarding path to analyze how women felt and embodied their relation to God and the divine in seventeenth-century Lima. . . . This work is a notable contribution to understanding the complexities of women’s spirituality." -- Asunción Lavrin * Catholic Historical Review *"This is a powerful monograph that creatively embraces the fragmentary and contradictory texts and objects that mystical women left behind." -- Karen B. Graubart * American Historical Review *"Van Deusen is deft at uncovering fascinating and little-known women whose lives reveal a spectrum of behaviors, beliefs, and activities that shed new light on early modern devotional practices." -- Erin Kathleen Rowe * HAHR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Material and Immaterial Embodiment 1. Rosa de Lima and the Imitatio Morum 23 2. Reading the Body: Mystical Theology and Spiritual Actualization in Early Seventeenth-Century Lima 47 3. Living in an (Im)Material World: Ángla de Carranza as a Reliquary 71 Part II. The Relational Self 4. Carrying the Cross of Christ: Donadas in Seventeenth-Century Lima 95 5. María Jacinta Montoya, Nicolás de Ayllón, and the Unmaking of an Indian Saint in Late Seventeenth-Century Peru 117 6. Amparada de mi libertad: Josefa Portocarrero Laso de la Vega and the Meaning of Free Will 143 Conclusion 167 Notes 175 Bibliography 231 Index 259
£72.25
Duke University Press Louise Thompson Patterson
Book SynopsisThis is the story of Louise Thompson Patterson—a leading and transformative figure in the radical African American politics of the twentieth century—who spent her entire life dedicating herself toward achieving social justice and liberation for all.Trade Review(Starred Review) "An important book in helping to understand the persistent racism faced by African Americans in this country and what individuals can do to help fight against the injustice." -- Amy Lewontin * Library Journal *"It’s fascinating to read biographies of Black women, particularly those for women as complex and layered as Louise Thompson Patterson.... Gilyard offers a look at one of the most dynamic Black women who’s ever walked the Earth." -- Evette Dionne * Bitch *"Louise Thompson Patterson is the finest sort of biography: impeccably researched and chock full of detail, it also compels the reader by crafting a powerful image of the world in which Louise and her comrades lived and struggled.... Gilyard has offered a masterful portrayal of a key figure in 20th century American history; more importantly his work reminds us there are heroes—imperfect people, like all humans, yet heroes nonetheless—whose commitment, idealism, and perseverance can still serve as an inspiration for us today." -- Hans Rollman * PopMatters *"[T]he story of a highly engaged African American Leftist who remained true to her convictions over the course of the 20th century. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- J. E. Anderson * Choice *"Keith Gilyard offers deep and invaluable insight into the life of one of the most important Black leftists of the twentieth century." -- Charisse Burden-Stelly * Black Perspectives *"A compelling narrative of political development. . . . We are fortunate to have Gilyard’s informed, sensitive account of a Black woman of the Left." -- Cheryl Higashida * Against the Current *"This pioneering biography deftly contributes to the emerging historiography on radical black feminists." -- Anthony J. Stanonis * Journal of American History *"Louise Thompson Patterson has brought Patterson’s story to life through abundant research and appropriate admiration." -- Paul Buhle * Science & Society *"Louise Thompson Patterson is a compelling, descriptive, and engaging narrative. . . . A welcome addition to existing biographical studies on radical black women political leaders." -- LaShawn Harris * Left History *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Louise Alone, 1901–1916 7 2. California Community, 1917–1925 26 3. Shades of Control, 1925–1928 42 4. Harlem Kaleidoscope, 1928–1932 61 5. Madam Moscow, 1932 81 6. The Struggle Has Nine Lives, 1932–1934 97 7. Popular Fronts, 1935–1937 113 8. Ba Ba Ba Bop, 1937–1940 129 9. Bronzeville Brigades, 1941–1949 145 10. Sojourns and Sojourners, 1949–1959 162 11. A Fairer Public Hearing, 1960–1969 182 12. Confirming Commitments, 1970–1984 195 13. Still Reaching, 1984–1999 212 Notes 231 Bibliography 271 Index 283
£25.19
Duke University Press Embodying the Sacred
Book SynopsisThrough the lives of religious women in colonial Lima, a new understanding of the ways in which pious Catholic women engaged with material and immaterial notions of the sacred or were themselves objectified as conduits of the divine in spiritual narratives.Trade Review"Important reading for those interested in women’s expressions of devotion in colonial Lima and modes of theorizing spiritual practices more generally. . . . Particularly valuable for giving voice (and body) to female figures and their devotional models." -- Gabrielle Greenlee * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *"Nancy Van Deusen offers a suggestive and rewarding path to analyze how women felt and embodied their relation to God and the divine in seventeenth-century Lima. . . . This work is a notable contribution to understanding the complexities of women’s spirituality." -- Asunción Lavrin * Catholic Historical Review *"This is a powerful monograph that creatively embraces the fragmentary and contradictory texts and objects that mystical women left behind." -- Karen B. Graubart * American Historical Review *"Van Deusen is deft at uncovering fascinating and little-known women whose lives reveal a spectrum of behaviors, beliefs, and activities that shed new light on early modern devotional practices." -- Erin Kathleen Rowe * HAHR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Material and Immaterial Embodiment 1. Rosa de Lima and the Imitatio Morum 23 2. Reading the Body: Mystical Theology and Spiritual Actualization in Early Seventeenth-Century Lima 47 3. Living in an (Im)Material World: Ángla de Carranza as a Reliquary 71 Part II. The Relational Self 4. Carrying the Cross of Christ: Donadas in Seventeenth-Century Lima 95 5. María Jacinta Montoya, Nicolás de Ayllón, and the Unmaking of an Indian Saint in Late Seventeenth-Century Peru 117 6. Amparada de mi libertad: Josefa Portocarrero Laso de la Vega and the Meaning of Free Will 143 Conclusion 167 Notes 175 Bibliography 231 Index 259
£19.79
Duke University Press The Pursuit of Happiness Black Women Diasporic
Book SynopsisBianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women who travel to Jamaica and form affective relationships Jamaican men and women that help construct notions of diasporic belonging and a form of happiness that resists the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States.Trade Review"Breathtaking. . . . Simply reading this book felt like an act of self-care for me—a breath of fresh air." -- Erica Lorraine Williams * Anthrodendum *"This book will be of interest to scholars in many fields, such as Black feminist studies, transnational and diaspora studies, and the anthropology of tourism and mobility. I particularly want to highlight the book’s contribution to affect studies, given Williams’ careful attention to the ways in which her interlocutors’ emotions are influenced by their racial, gendered, classed, and national subjectivities." -- Dannah Dennis * Journal for the Anthropology of North America *"The Pursuit of Happiness is an insightful and engrossing book about African-American women on topics few readers are privileged to hear about or understand." -- Jualynne E. Dodson * American Journal of Sociology *"The Pursuit of Happiness challenges white-centric understandings of Caribbean tourism, male-centric understandings of black diasporic connections, and youth-centric notions of leisure and emotional fulfillment. Williams's positioning of African American women as agents is especially remarkable. ... [This book] makes a vital contribution to transnational black feminist thought and feminist geography, African Diaspora studies, critical race studies, Caribbean studies, tourism studies, and cultural anthropology by centering black women's emotions and transnational mobilities within these fields." -- Nicosia Shakes * Anthropological Quarterly *"The Pursuit of Happiness is a beautifully written text which humanizes the lives, experiences, and desires of Black women. There are few exceptions wherein scholarly texts examines the experiences of U.S. Black women beyond the borders of the U.S. Williams' work is a guiding light as to how this may be successfully and meaningfully done in future works." -- Antwann Michael Simpkins * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. "Jamaica Crawled Into My Soul": Black Women, Affect, and the Promise of Diaspora 1 Interlude 27 1. More Than a Groove: Pursuing Happiness as a Political Project 31 Interlude 63 2. "Giving Back" to Jamaica: Experiencing Community and Conflict While Traveling with Diasporic Heart 65 Interlude 95 3. Why Jamaica? Seeking the Fantasy of a Black Paradise 99 Interlude 121 4. Breaking (It) Down: Gender, Emotional Entanglements, and the Realities of Romance Tourism 123 Interlude 159 5. Navigating (Virtual) Jamaica: Online Diasporic Contact Zones 163 Interlude 185 Epilogue. Lessons Learned 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 209 Index 221
£72.25
Duke University Press Ezilis Mirrors
Book SynopsisOmise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divinity Ezilia pantheon of lwa feminine spirits in Vodouin ways that offer a new model of queer black feminist theory.Trade Review"Ezili’s Mirrors thoroughly and carefully mines the utility and uniqueness of multiple spiritual and thought traditions, aesthetics, and sources of knowledge. . .. Ezili’s Mirrors is important because through it Tinsley shows us ways that black femme life and black queer life exists and asserts itself as other than the abject, the undesirable, the inappropriate, and the excessive." -- Alexandria Smith * The New Inquiry *"I have longed for a book as daring as Ezili's Mirrors." -- Meredith Coleman-Tobias * Reading Religion *"This pathbreaking work prompts Black feminist and queer diaspora scholars to use their academic training not as an endpoint, but as a point of departure, emboldening scholars to turn to whatever sources that are necessary to write books that will sustain alternative forms of knowing under increasing conditions of precarity in Black queer diasporic lives, loves, and labor." -- Darius Bost * The Black Scholar *"Once in a great while, a gem of a book comes along. It is not only elegantly written and astutely composed, compellingly and courageously argued, but it also opens up new and generative ways of looking at the African diaspora and the disciplines devoted to its study. I am talking about Tinsley’s Ezili’s Mirrors. I read the book with intense joy, on many levels: its theoretical polyamory, its dazzling methodology, its engrossing narrations, and the different senses it calls on." -- Gloria Wekker * TSQ *"Ezili's Mirrors makes an original contribution to the development of the field of queer black religion and to the ways in which this scholarship has a wider, public impact in the representation and self-understanding of queer-of-color spiritual communities whose members experience lives of constant fragmentation and recomposition daily, globally." -- Roberto Strongman * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Bridge. Read This Book Like a Song 1 Introduction. For the Love of Laveau 3 Bridge. A Black Cisfemme Is a Beautiful Thing 29 1. To Transcender Transgender 31 Bridge. Sissy Werk 65 2. Mache Ansanm 67 Bridge. My Femdom, My Love 99 3. Riding the Red 101 Bridge. For the Party Girls 133 4. Its a Party 135 Bridge. Baía and Marigo 169 Conclusion. Arties's Song 171 Notes 195 Glossary 223 Bibliography 225 Index 241
£72.25
