Gender studies: women and girls Books
The University of North Carolina Press Fit Citizens
Book SynopsisIn this first historical study of Black women's exercise, Ava Purkiss reveals that physical activity was both a path to self-improvement and a means to expand notions of Black citizenship. Through this narrative of national belonging, Purkiss explores how exercise enabled Black women to reimagine Black bodies, health, beauty, and recreation.
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The University of North Carolina Press Greenwich Village 1913
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman transports students into the bohemian section of New York City known as an epicentre of rebels, artists, and seekers of personal transformation.
£23.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Earning Their Wings The WASPs of World War II
Book SynopsisEstablished by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot’s license. Sarah Parry Myers not only offers a history of this short-lived program but considers its long-term consequences for the women who participated and subsequent generations of servicewomen and activists.
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University of Texas Press Independent Stardom
Book SynopsisBringing to light an often-ignored aspect of Hollywood studio system history, this book focuses on female stars who broke the mold of a male-dominated, often manipulative industry to dictate the path of their own careers through freelancing. Runner-up, Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association, 2016During the heyday of Hollywood's studio system, stars were carefully cultivated and promoted, but at the price of their independence. This familiar narrative of Hollywood stardom receives a long-overdue shakeup in Emily Carman's new book. Far from passive victims of coercive seven-year contracts, a number of classic Hollywood's best-known actresses worked on a freelance basis within the restrictive studio system. In leveraging their stardom to play an active role in shaping their careers, female stars including Irene Dunne, Janet Gaynor, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, and Barbara Stanwyck challenged Hollywood's patriarchal structure. Through extensive, original archival research, Independent Stardom uncovers this hidden history of women's labor and celebrity in studio-era Hollywood. Carman weaves a compelling narrative that reveals the risks these women took in deciding to work autonomously. Additionally, she looks at actresses of color, such as Anna May Wong and Lupe Vélez, whose careers suffered from the enforced independence that resulted from being denied long-term studio contracts. Tracing the freelance phenomenon among American motion picture talent in the 1930s, Independent Stardom rethinks standard histories of Hollywood to recognize female stars as creative artists, sophisticated businesswomen, and active players in the then (as now) male-dominated film industry.Trade Review"Carman upends conventional wisdom in this valuable and informative historical study of the business practices of freelance actresses during the 1930s." * Publishers Weekly *"Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System (published by University of Texas Press) tells a story that can shift perspectives on how Golden Age Hollywood operated." * The Shepherd Express *"Carman’s work is important, not only as an alternative history of Hollywood labor, but also as guide for working on workers in early cinema." * Media Industries Journal *"Carman's book . . . gives new insight into the gendered workings of the dream factory." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Independent Stardom Is Born Chapter One. 1930s Hollywood: The Golden Age for Talent Chapter Two. The [Freelance] Contract in Context Chapter Three. Labor and Lipstick: Promoting the Independent Persona Chapter Four. Independent Stardom Goes Mainstream Appendix One. Key Freelance Deals of Independent Stardom Case Study Stars, 1930–1945 Appendix Two. Motion Picture Archives and Library Materials Consulted Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press Walking Nature Home
Book SynopsisA beautifully written, moving memoir about how the diagnosis of a terminal illness led to a perilous journey of self-awareness that not only restored the author's health but also taught her the healing power of love and of our connection to the natural woTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter One. Orion Chapter Two. Aries Chapter Three. Virgo Chapter Four. Cancer Chapter Five. The Big Dipper Chapter Six. The Pleiades Chapter Seven. Leo Chapter Eight. The Milky Way Chapter Nine. Orion Again Notes, Inspiration, and Resources Other Sources
£999.99
University of Texas Press Modernizing Patriarchy
Book SynopsisThis ethnographic study breaks the silence on women's rights and contemporary development in Morocco, where legal and educational advances are actually leaving some women behind, especially educated, single women.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Ethnographic Reflections Chapter Two: Politicization of Gender Chapter Three: The State, the Public, and Women's Rights Chapter Four: Twenty-First-Century Marriage: Gender Equality or Complementarity Chapter Five: Rural, Educated, and Single Conclusion Appendix Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Book SynopsisWith in-depth explorations of six contemporary American and British films and shows, this pioneering volume spotlights black female characters who play central, subversive roles in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.Trade ReviewWhere No Black Woman Has Gone Before does not pretend to be a comprehensive account of black women in speculative film and television, as Mafe makes clear, but it is the first book-length study of black femininity in this area...By attending to the visual and linguistic coding of black and female characters, Mafe exposes biases less explicit than plain exclusion. * Times Literary Supplement *Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before initiates a dialogue about black women in speculative film and television...a compelling contribution to the scholarship on speculative cinema and television, and will serve well scholars, students, and teachers in the field. * Journal of American Culture *Mafe's coda strikes a good balance between reflection and optimism while pointing to possible future directions black women in television and film may go. Mafe's goal of bringing light to subversive portrayals in speculative film and television is laudable and well executed. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before makes a genuine contribution as a pioneering effort in the study of race and gender in sf film and television. * Science Fiction Studies *Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before is concise and accessible with five well-written and theorized chapters…Mafe's narrow focus on representations of black women in non 'obvious block buster films' and in supporting roles raises insightful and useful points about the difference between superficial dismissible black female characters versus complex well-rounded black female characters...Mafe's arguments are sound and her reading of the texts convincing. * Journal of Popular Culture *Ambitious...Mafe’s argument highlights the need for more black female characters in speculative fiction...this text is a first step in the analysis of black female characters in speculative fiction and how difficult it is to find representation when the examples are few and far between. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *[Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before] contributes to the discourse of race and genre in scholarship by expanding upon the complex position of black female characters in film and television that come under the broad banner of 'speculative fiction'...The strength of Mafe's book…lies in her way of reading these films and the black female characters in them. She endorses a mode of spectatorship that allows the conservative and radical tendencies of these films to exist side by side. By doing so, she suggests ways in which black female protagonists can be deconstructive figures, but also open spaces for new styles and tropes in sf. * Science Fiction Film and Television *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: To Boldly Go Chapter 1. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: 28 Days Later Chapter 2. Last One Standing: Alien vs. Predator Chapter 3. The Black Madonna: Children of Men Chapter 4. Thank Heaven for Little Girls: Beasts of the Southern Wild Chapter 5. Intergalactic Companions: Firefly and Doctor Who Coda: Final Frontiers Notes Works Cited Index
£63.00
University of Texas Press Love Sex and Desire in Modern Egypt
Book SynopsisCombining vivid stories of love affairs with classic anthropological theories of kinship, gift-giving, and honor, this rich ethnography documents how ideals of relationships and respectability clash with the reality of life in modern Cairo.Trade ReviewAn important study of double standards in the Arab world. * The Arab Weekly *[Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt] is an ambitious book, and Wynn delivers great theoretical insight…Wynn makes important contributions to anthropological theories of gender and sexuality in the Arab world, as well as sharing rich ethnographic evidence, furthering the diversity of scholarly representations of Middle Eastern women. * Association for Feminist Anthropology *Engagingly written, Wynn's study of love, desire, and respectability in Egypt offers important insights for scholars working on these topics and is essential reading for those working on gender and sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa. * American Anthropologist *Wynn expertly charts the various ways that Cairene females are assessed as respectable, and how these assessments are internalized, no matter what the woman's class or background…This is an excellent book for anthropology students, especially in its interplay of theoretical and research chapters. It is a guide to the minefields of ethnography and an argument against rigid categories and theories in any field. * Al Jadid *An interrogation of urban life and gendered mobilities in Cairo, Egypt...The book’s narrative style and care with which key characters and interlocutors are developed throughout, reiterate Wynn’s dedication to the political stakes of her text. From the antique store owners, workers and tour guides (called tourist hustlers) to belly dancers and university students the ethnography spans a variety of social groups and classes where themes of love, sex, and desire intertwine with the economy such that intimacy and circulation and exchange of money becomes closely tied. * New Books in Middle Eastern Studies *Reducing problems to issues of status is a frequent bias of anthropological analyses. Consequently, Wynn’s theoretical discussion of how love and desire combine with the gaze of others is crucial. Seen in this light, the richness and subtlety of the book’s central argument about respectability make it a key contribution to current debates on gender and love in anthropology...Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt is also an intelligent and beautifully written book that anyone interested in the subject will find a pleasure to read. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Foreigners Like Things Looking Old and Dark, Not Shiny Chapter 2. Mimesis, Kinship, Gift, and Other Things That Bind Us in Love and Desire Chapter 3. “Why Can’t You Study Respectable Women?” Chapter 4. Mimesis, Genre, Gender, and Sexuality in Middle East Tourism Chapter 5. Demimonde: Belly Dancers, Extramarital Affairs, and the Respectability of Women Chapter 6. Gift, Prostitute: Money and Intimacy Chapter 7. “Honor Killing”: On Anthropological Writing in an International Political Economy of Representations Chapter 8. Kinship, Honor, and Shame Chapter 9. Love, Revolution, and Intimate Violence Epilogue. Fifteen Years Later Notes References Index
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University of Texas Press Danger Pay Memoir of a Photojournalist in the
Book SynopsisAn engrossing memoir in which a photojournalist records both the precursors to today’s conflicts in the Middle East and her own deeply felt conviction that news coverage of the region actually increases the conflicts there.Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue Part I: There's a New Kid in Town 1. The Burning Bush 2. Reorienting 3. Crossing the Bridge 4. Ode to Abu Ammar 5. Gaza Slick 6. Photo Op 7. A Room with a View Part II: The Moment and the Mask 8. His Majesty 9. Let's Get Some Color 10. House of Hashem 11. Up, Up, and Away 12. Private Conversations (I) Part III: Passing Through 13. TWA Flight #847 14. Exile 15. Cruising 16. Caviar, Khat, and Cover Pix Part IV: Inside Terror, Inc. 17. Dance into Darkness 18. Journalists Are Used to Danger 19. He Who Builds 20. Private Conversations (II) 21. Promise Me I Won't Be Touched 22. Lebanon Part V: Travels in Sudan 23. Sorry, All Lines Are Jammed 24. Wau (Wow!) 25. I Don't Know What I'm Feeling 26. You Need Something to Peg the Story On Part VI: The Striptease 27. Everybody Must Get Stoned 28. Photo-Realism, the "Real" Picture, and the Ingathering 29. The Striptease Part VII: The Mother of All Battles 30. What the Hell Am I Doing? 31. The Sealed Room 32. The Striptease, Take 2 Epilogue 33. The Old Man 34. War on Another Front
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University of Texas Press Channeling Knowledges Water and AfroDiasporic
Book SynopsisHow water enables Caribbean and Latinx writers to reconnect to their pasts, presents, and futures. Water is often tasked with upholding division through the imposition of geopolitical borders. We see this in the construction of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the US-Mexico border, as well as in how the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean are used to delineate the limits of US territory. In stark contrast to this divisive view, Afro-diasporic religions conceive of water as a place of connection; it is where spiritual entities and ancestors reside, and where knowledge awaits. Departing from the premise that water encourages confluence through the sustainment of contradiction, Channeling Knowledges fathoms water’s depth and breadth in the work of Latinx and Caribbean creators such as Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, and the Border of Lights collective. Combining methodologies from literary studies, anthropo
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University of Texas Press Channeling Knowledges
Book SynopsisHow water enables Caribbean and Latinx writers to reconnect to their pasts, presents, and futures. Water is often tasked with upholding division through the imposition of geopolitical borders. We see this in the construction of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the US-Mexico border, as well as in how the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean are used to delineate the limits of US territory. In stark contrast to this divisive view, Afro-diasporic religions conceive of water as a place of connection; it is where spiritual entities and ancestors reside, and where knowledge awaits. Departing from the premise that water encourages confluence through the sustainment of contradiction, Channeling Knowledges fathoms water’s depth and breadth in the work of Latinx and Caribbean creators such as Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, and the Border of Lights collective. Combining methodologies from literary studies, anthropoTrade ReviewHey-Colón’s approach to water is expansive and groundbreaking, as the book engages with saltwaters and freshwaters, unsettling the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally linked these bodies of water to either Caribbean or Latinx Studies . . . As such, Channeling Knowledges, which is part of the "Latinx: The Future Is Now" series run by the University of Texas Press, represents a crucial and timely contribution to Afrolatinx, Caribbean, Border, and Religious Studies. * A Contracorriente *Table of Contents Acknowledgements Prologue. Infusing the Sacred: The Liquid Knowledges of the Afro-Diasporic World Chapter 1. Channeling the Undocumented in Mayra Santos-Febres’s boat people Chapter 2. The Techno-Resonances of Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé Chapter 3. Afro-Diasporic Currents in the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers Chapter 4. Orishas in the Borderlands Epilogue. Water and Light: The Bóveda as Counter-Archive Notes Works Cited Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press The Value Gap FemaleDriven Films from Pitch to
Book SynopsisHow female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood. Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic problems of employment disparities and exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change. The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and distribution, examining the realities facing women working in the industry during this transformative moment. Drawing from five years of extensive interviews with female producers, writers, and directors at different stages of their careers, Courtney Brannon Donoghue examines how Hollywood business cultures value female-driven projects as risky or not bankable. Industry claims that movies
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University of Texas Press The Value Gap
Book SynopsisHow female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.Table of Contents Introduction. Mind the Gaps Chapter 1. The Gendered Workplace (Employment Gap) Chapter 2. Script Market to Pitch Meetings (Development Gap) Chapter 3. Production Work and Gendered Cultures (Leadership Gap) Chapter 4. Film Festivals and Markets (Programming Gap) Chapter 5. Distribution and Marketing (Bankability Gap) Conclusion. Gendered Value in a Changing Media Marketplace Acknowledgments Notes Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Duchess of Palms
Book SynopsisA fifties girl tells the fascinating story of her marriages to novelist Billy Lee Brammer and Congressman Bob Eckhardt, and how these relationships propelled her into the multifaceted life she has led on her own terms.Trade ReviewThe ‘answer record’ to The Gay Place – by Brammer’s ex-wife. * Texas Monthly *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Chapter One In the Beginning Big Nadine, Little Nadine: 1930s and 1940s My Role Model A New Life, and New Problems Big Nadine Growing up, in Body and Mind Billy Lee Brammer, 1950 Young Marrieds Testing the Waters, Pushing the Boundaries Chapter Two 1951-1961: A Wild Ride in Washington Meeting "The Senator" Wandering Eyes and Hands The LBJ Charisma The 1956 Election A Marriage on the Verge Deep in the Heart The Best of Times, the Worst of Times Sadness Permeated the Marriage A Novel Finds Success, but a Marriage Crumbles Bill's Swinging Sixties Chapter Three 1961-1966: A New Love and Politics The Power of Fantasy Tragedy and the Aftermath The Run for Congress Chapter Four 1967-1969: Life as a Congressional Wife Congress, Itself Junkets: The Perk That Almost Makes It Worth It The Congressional Social Whirl A Front-Row Seat to a Revolution A Culture in Turmoil A More Personal Revolution Chapter Five The Seventies: Changes, Both Public and Private More Changes and a Growing Distance Multiple Roles, Many Faces Reefer Madness Bill Makes an Appearance Back Home to Texas, Once Again The Death of a Marriage An Experimental Walk Down Memory Lane Endings Bring Beginnings The Nineties and the Circle Closes Epilogue Index
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University of Texas Press Winifred Sanford
Book Synopsis Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slipping into relative obscurity. First championed by her mentor, H. L. Mencken, and published in his magazine, The American Mercury, many of Sanford’s stories were set during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s and 1930s and offer a unique perspective on life in the boomtowns during that period. Four of her stories were included in The Best American Short Stories of 1926. Questioning the sudden end to Sanford’s writing career, Wiesepape, a leading literary historian of Texas women writers, delved into the author’s previously unexamined private papers and emerged with an insightful and revealing study that sheds light on both Sanford’s abbreviated career and the domestic lives of women at the time. The first in-depth account of Sanford’s life and Trade ReviewWinifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer is a well-researched and thorough account of Sanford’s life…If you are part of the ever-growing community of scholars who can’t help but puzzle over the shortage of women writers, especially Texas women writers, then this biography may be for you. * Texas Books in Review *Wiesepape’s methodology in bridging Sanford’s private and public life proves to be highly effective, as she leaves few gaps in Sanford’s life unaccounted for. * Great Plains Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: The Story BeginsChapter Two: A Wonderful TimeChapter Three: Keeping HouseChapter Four: Difficult AdjustmentsChapter Five: The American Mercury AdventureChapter Six: Plans, Pressures, and ExpectationsChapter Seven: Unexpected InterruptionsChapter Eight: Pieces of the PuzzleChapter Nine: One Story Ends and Another BeginsConclusionA List of Winifred Sanford’s PublicationsA List of Stories and Novels That Winifred Sanford Wrote but Never PublishedAppendix A: Letters Exchanged Between Winifred Sanford and the Editors of The American MercuryAppendix B: Lagniappe: Two Unpublished Stories by Winifred SanfordAppendix C: Two Nonfiction Articles for WritersBibliography
£19.79
University of Texas Press Quantum Justice
Book SynopsisHow girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Putting a Mic in the Margins Chapter 1. Quantum Justice Leaps and Poetic Echoes Chapter 2. “Understand This, and Be Happy in Life”: Contradicting Conditions, Complicating Community Chapter 3. “Always Giving Something Up”: Decision Making and Subjectivity Chapter 4. What Girls Want: Dreams and Desires Chapter 5. “My Shining Makes You Glow”: Motherhood and Girls from the Future Chapter 6. Too Close for Comfort: Motherhood and Girls Revising the Past Chapter 7. Girls Making a Way Afterword Acknowledgments References
£71.10
University of Texas Press Quantum Justice
Book SynopsisHow girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Putting a Mic in the Margins Chapter 1. Quantum Justice Leaps and Poetic Echoes Chapter 2. “Understand This, and Be Happy in Life”: Contradicting Conditions, Complicating Community Chapter 3. “Always Giving Something Up”: Decision Making and Subjectivity Chapter 4. What Girls Want: Dreams and Desires Chapter 5. “My Shining Makes You Glow”: Motherhood and Girls from the Future Chapter 6. Too Close for Comfort: Motherhood and Girls Revising the Past Chapter 7. Girls Making a Way Afterword Acknowledgments References
£21.59
University of Texas Press Breaking the Gender Code
Book SynopsisA history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.Trade ReviewIn charting women’s efforts across the nation to secure inclusion in urban public space over the long twentieth century, Georgina Hickey reveals how fundamental gender segregation was—and remains—to ‘organizing and stratifying’ American society….[G]ender segregation…’justified harassment and violence against other women,’ particularly women of color, immigrant, queer, and working-class women. This is a major contribution to both urban history and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. * Lit Hub *Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Right and Reason: Understandings of Women’s Presence in the Modern City 2. Building Women into the City: Infrastructure and Services in the Early Twentieth Century 3. The City and the Girl: Midcentury Consumption, Civil Rights, and (In)Visibility 4. When Girls Became Women: Confronting Exclusion and Harassment in the Long 1960s 5. The Public Is Political: Demanding Safe Streets and Neighborhoods 6. Taking Up Space and Making Place: Late-Century Institution Building 7. Privacy in Public: The (Almost) Policy Revolution Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
£31.50
Duke University Press Laughing at the Devil
Book SynopsisIn this impassioned, analytical, playful, and irreverent book, theologian Amy Laura Hall takes up Julian of Norwich's call to laugh at the Devil as a means to transform a setting of dread and fear into the means to create hope, solidarity, and resistance.Trade Review"Although Hall addresses serious topics, her treatment is boundless and joyful. Those familiar with Julian's writings should find this unique take to be contemporary and relevant." -- James Wetherbee * Library Journal *"In Laughing at the Devil, Amy Laura Hall urges her own readers to read Julian [of Norwich] and to keep thinking along with her. This brief study is worthy of careful reading. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, general readers." -- G.H. Shriver * Choice *"A book to read with the heart as well as the mind." -- Willard E. Roth * Sharing the Practice *"Amy Laura Hall’s Laughing at the Devil is valuable because she resists a bloodless and spiritualized vision of Julian’s theology. Covenant theologians seeking to understand the significance of Waldenström’s insistence that the cross was a demonstration of divine love will find in Hall’s Julian an important conversation partner." -- Jodie Boyer Hatlem * Covenant Quarterly *"A labor of love: a testament to the richness of Julian’s writing and the balm of a new theological perspective for those deeply hurt by life. . . . For readers grappling with tragedy, pain, and bewilderment at the world’s evils, Laughing at the Devil makes meaningful Julian’s revelation that all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well." -- Andrew K. Lee * Reading Religion *"A fresh take on Julian of Norwich that you don’t need a divinity degree to understand. . . . In Hall’s hands, Julian the anchorite mystic becomes a spiritual friend. She may have prayed in mean and miserable times, but she gets a generous vision of God’s love for us all." -- Lillian Daniel * Christian Century *"This is a pastoral and prophetic book for all readers who seek a centering hope in times of overwhelming oppression and pain, in which a toxic blend of religion and politics entices people to cope with the fear of pain or their present suffering through various mechanisms of control and punishment—be it shame, intimidation, or scrutinizing methods accounting for grace and redemption. Selective in its sources, teachers of theology and ethics will find this a great companion book to reflect with students on how to translate historical theological writings into real lived embodied situations in ways that matter. . . ." -- Heike Peckruhn * Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics *"Amy Laura Hall has written a short book about Julian of Norwich and ethics that is both a laugh-out-loud read and an entirely serious reflection on living in the safety of the cross. Hall’s reflections made this medieval English visionary come alive for me, and she also helped me enable Julian to seem relevant—even someone to celebrate—for undergraduates living in a time of pandemic, political division, and fear. . . . I recommend this book highly for scholars, for students, and for anyone wanting to understand Julian of Norwich and reflect on the cross in a fresh and invigorating way." -- Robert W. Heimburger * Studies in Christian Ethics *Table of ContentsPreface. Devil: Zero xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction. Love in Everything 1 1. Time: On Poynte 19 2. Truth: Divine Delight 41 3. Blood: Spiritual Safety 61 4. Bodies: Nakedly and Truly 81 Postscript 109 Appendix. A Summary of Julian's Visions 113 References 115 Index 119
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Duke University Press Spirit on the Move
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism's appeal to black women worldwide and the ways it provides them with a source of community, access to power, and way to challenge social inequalities.Trade Review“The editors and contributors of Spirit on the Move have successfully attended to this task without fear of troubling the waters of tidy conclusions in favor or against Black women’s relation to Pentecostalism. Scholars and Pentecostal practitioners can listen to and be taught by the global women portrayed in the pages of this book.” -- Allison Kach * Sociology of Religion *“Should be widely read by the African Studies community and particularly within the (re-emerging!) field of African Christianity.” -- Adam Mohr * African Studies Review *“Spirit on the Move begins with a clear and provocative introduction in which Elizabeth A. Pritchard details the empirical evidence of Pentecostalism’s special appeal to Black women.... This volume [is] a most welcome single-volume contribution to Pentecostal studies, gender studies, and race studies.” -- Devaka Premawardhana * H-Africa, H-Net Reviews *“These essays provide a marvelous introductory text to the intersectional study of Black women and Global Pentecostalism.... [Spirit on the Move] has included Pentecostalism’s appeal to Black women across the diaspora and countries on the continent of Africa.” -- Marcia Clarke * Pneuma *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Elizabeth A. Pritchard 1 Part I. Saving Race 1. Voices of God: Blackness and Gender in a Brazilian Black Gospel Music Scene / John Burdick 27 2. Race, Gender, and Christian Diaspora: New Pentecostal Intersectionalities and Haiti / Elizabeth McAlister 44 Part II. Scrutinizing and Sanctifying the Body 3. Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War in Mozambique / Linda van de Kamp 67 4. "Dressed as Becometh Holiness": Gender, Race, and the Body in a Storefront Sanctified Church / Deidre Helen Crumbley 89 Part III. Sonic Power 5. West African and Caribbean Women Evangelists: The Wailing Women Worldwide Intercessors / Paula Aymer 109 6. "The Kingdom in the Midst": Sounding Bodies, Aesthetic Labor, and the End Times / Judith Casselberry 128 Part IV. Modeling the State 7. A Critical Approach to Concepts of "Power" and "Agency" in Ghana's Charismatic (or Neo-Pentecostal) Churches / Jane Soothill 151 8. Bless Us with Children: Pregnancy, Prosperity, and Pragmatism in Nigeria's Christ Apostolic Church / Laura Premack 180 References 197 Contributors 221 Index 225
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Duke University Press Spirit on the Move
Book SynopsisPentecostalism is currently the fastest-growing Christian movement, with hundreds of millions of followers. This growth overwhelmingly takes place outside of the West, and women make up 75 percent of the membership. The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism''s appeal to black women worldwide and the ways it provides them with a source of community and access to power. Exploring a range of topics, from Neo-Pentecostal churches in Ghana that help women challenge gender norms to evangelical gospel musicians in Brazil, the contributors show how Pentecostalism helps black women draw attention to and seek remediation from the violence and injustices brought on by civil war, capitalist exploitation, racism, and the failures of the state. In fleshing out the experiences, theologies, and innovations of black women Pentecostals, the contributors show how Pentecostal belief and its various practices reflect the movement''s complexity, reach, and adaptability to speTrade Review“The editors and contributors of Spirit on the Move have successfully attended to this task without fear of troubling the waters of tidy conclusions in favor or against Black women’s relation to Pentecostalism. Scholars and Pentecostal practitioners can listen to and be taught by the global women portrayed in the pages of this book.” -- Allison Kach * Sociology of Religion *“Should be widely read by the African Studies community and particularly within the (re-emerging!) field of African Christianity.” -- Adam Mohr * African Studies Review *“Spirit on the Move begins with a clear and provocative introduction in which Elizabeth A. Pritchard details the empirical evidence of Pentecostalism’s special appeal to Black women.... This volume [is] a most welcome single-volume contribution to Pentecostal studies, gender studies, and race studies.” -- Devaka Premawardhana * H-Africa, H-Net Reviews *“These essays provide a marvelous introductory text to the intersectional study of Black women and Global Pentecostalism.... [Spirit on the Move] has included Pentecostalism’s appeal to Black women across the diaspora and countries on the continent of Africa.” -- Marcia Clarke * Pneuma *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Elizabeth A. Pritchard 1 Part I. Saving Race 1. Voices of God: Blackness and Gender in a Brazilian Black Gospel Music Scene / John Burdick 27 2. Race, Gender, and Christian Diaspora: New Pentecostal Intersectionalities and Haiti / Elizabeth McAlister 44 Part II. Scrutinizing and Sanctifying the Body 3. Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War in Mozambique / Linda van de Kamp 67 4. "Dressed as Becometh Holiness": Gender, Race, and the Body in a Storefront Sanctified Church / Deidre Helen Crumbley 89 Part III. Sonic Power 5. West African and Caribbean Women Evangelists: The Wailing Women Worldwide Intercessors / Paula Aymer 109 6. "The Kingdom in the Midst": Sounding Bodies, Aesthetic Labor, and the End Times / Judith Casselberry 128 Part IV. Modeling the State 7. A Critical Approach to Concepts of "Power" and "Agency" in Ghana's Charismatic (or Neo-Pentecostal) Churches / Jane Soothill 151 8. Bless Us with Children: Pregnancy, Prosperity, and Pragmatism in Nigeria's Christ Apostolic Church / Laura Premack 180 References 197 Contributors 221 Index 225
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Duke University Press A Primer for Teaching Women Gender and Sexuality
Book Synopsis A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching women, gender, and sexuality in history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate these issues into their world history classes. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present possible course topics, themes, concepts, and approaches while offering practical advice on materials and strategies helpful for teaching courses from a global perspective in today''s teaching environment for today''s students. In their discussions of pedagogy, syllabus organization, fostering students'' historical empathy, and connecting students with their community, Wiesner-Hanks and Willoughby draw readers into the process of strategically designing courses that will enable students to analyze genderTrade Review"As world historians, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present effective discussions of the opportunities and problems associated with this most comprehensive field. Brimming with stimulating ideas and resources. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. P. Johnson * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: This Book and How to Use It vii Part I. Starting from Scratch 1. Setting Goals: Why Teach Women's, Gender, or Sexuality History? 3 2. Choosing a Focus and a Title: Women, Gender, or Sexuality? 17 3. Organizing Material: Chronological and Thematic Approaches 27 4. Incorporating Key Issues: Theory and Concepts from Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 41 Part II. Modifying Existing Courses 5. Integrating Gender More Fully as a Category of Analysis: Beyond "Add Men and Stir" 55 6. Globalizing a Regionally Based Course: Teaching What You Do Not Know 67 7. Incorporating Feminist Pedagogy as You Move Online: Feminist Principles in a Virtual World 77 Part III. Common Challenges and Opportunities 8. Fostering Historical Empathy: Ethical Frameworks and Contextualization 91 9. Developing Assessments That Fit Your Course Goals: Test, Papers, and Assignments 101 10. Connecting with the Community: Opportunities for Local Research and Civic Engagement 113 Notes 125 Selected Bibliography 141 Index 147
£84.15
Duke University Press A Primer for Teaching Women Gender and Sexuality
Book Synopsis A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching women, gender, and sexuality in history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate these issues into their world history classes. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present possible course topics, themes, concepts, and approaches while offering practical advice on materials and strategies helpful for teaching courses from a global perspective in today''s teaching environment for today''s students. In their discussions of pedagogy, syllabus organization, fostering students'' historical empathy, and connecting students with their community, Wiesner-Hanks and Willoughby draw readers into the process of strategically designing courses that will enable students to analyze genderTrade Review"As world historians, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present effective discussions of the opportunities and problems associated with this most comprehensive field. Brimming with stimulating ideas and resources. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. P. Johnson * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: This Book and How to Use It vii Part I. Starting from Scratch 1. Setting Goals: Why Teach Women's, Gender, or Sexuality History? 3 2. Choosing a Focus and a Title: Women, Gender, or Sexuality? 17 3. Organizing Material: Chronological and Thematic Approaches 27 4. Incorporating Key Issues: Theory and Concepts from Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 41 Part II. Modifying Existing Courses 5. Integrating Gender More Fully as a Category of Analysis: Beyond "Add Men and Stir" 55 6. Globalizing a Regionally Based Course: Teaching What You Do Not Know 67 7. Incorporating Feminist Pedagogy as You Move Online: Feminist Principles in a Virtual World 77 Part III. Common Challenges and Opportunities 8. Fostering Historical Empathy: Ethical Frameworks and Contextualization 91 9. Developing Assessments That Fit Your Course Goals: Test, Papers, and Assignments 101 10. Connecting with the Community: Opportunities for Local Research and Civic Engagement 113 Notes 125 Selected Bibliography 141 Index 147
£21.59
Duke University Press An Intimate Rebuke
Book SynopsisThroughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women—the Mothers—make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and expel the forces of evil. In An Intimate Rebuke Laura S. Grillo draws on fieldwork in Côte d’Ivoire that spans three decades to illustrate how these rituals of Female Genital Power (FGP) constitute religious and political responses to abuses of power. When deployed in secret, FGP operates as spiritual warfare against witchcraft; in public, it serves as a political activism. During Côte d’Ivoire’s civil wars FGP challenged the immoral forces of both rebels and the state. Grillo shows how the ritual potency of the Mothers’ nudity and the conjuration of their sex embodies a moral power that has been foundational to West African civilizatTrade Review"A detailed and thoughtful history of Côte d’Ivoire that gives due placement to civilian women who have largely been ignored in the definitive historical monographs. . . . Grillo’s scholarship has groundbreaking strengths. For those interested in religion, her detailed documentation of myth, ritual, secret societies, symbolism, witchcraft, and the appeal to the spiritual domain—and her defense of the inclusion of this knowledge as a requisite in understanding a country’s history—is utterly exquisite. . . . The work is inimitable—Grillo is sensitive, sensible, and devotes attention to detail." -- Dianna Bell * Reading Religion *“Ultimately, Grillo demonstrates how knowledge of the moral authority of women elders remained and remains embedded in West Africa and that women enact FGP to defend not only social equity and justice but also their own rights. An Intimate Rebuke will be required reading for all future analysis of women’s authority and mobilization.” -- Jill E. Kelly * African Studies Review *“Grillo’s work redefines our understanding of the use of ritual and moral values in the current postcolonial political order by focusing on the ignored phenomenon of Female Genital Power.... Grillo’s work is an important contribution to the study of gender, religion, history, and politics, particularly in Côte d’Ivoire but also in the whole West African subregion.” -- Carole Ammann * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Home and the Unhomely: The Foundational Nature of Female Genital Power 19 1. Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers 21 2. Matrifocal Morality: FGP and the Foundations of "Home" 54 3. Gender and Resistance: The "Strategic Essentialism" of FGP 81 Part II. Worldliness: FGP in the Making of Ethnicity, Alliance, and the War in Côte D'Ivoire 117 4. Founding Knowledge/Binding Power: The Moral Foundations of Ethnicity and Alliance 121 5. Women at the Checkpoint: Challenging the Forces of Civil War 152 Part III. Timeliness: Urgent Situations and Emergent Critiques 171 6. Violation and Deployment: FGP in Politics in Côte D'Ivoire 175 7. Memory, Memorialization, and Morality 198 Conclusion. An Intimate Rebuke: A Local Critique in the Global Postcolony 228 Notes 239 References 255 Index 275
£76.50
Duke University Press Second World Second Sex
Book SynopsisKristen Ghodsee recuperates the lost history of feminist activism from the so-called Second World, showing how women from state socialist Bulgaria and socialist-leaning Zambia created networks and alliances that challenged American women's leadership of the global women's movement.Trade Review"An engaging narrative of feminist movements during the Cold War. . . . [Ghodsee's] work is vital in documenting a neglected component of feminist history while illuminating a new resource for feminist theorists and activists interested in thinking about the political project of gender justice outside the confines of dominant, Western, liberal feminism. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- C. E. Rasmussen * Choice *"Second World, Second Sex is a must read for anyone hoping to understand the complexities of a global women’s rights movement that goes beyond the boundaries of Western, liberal feminism." -- Tony Pecinovsky * People's World *"A powerful reminder that ultimately structural conditions are of prime importance if women’s emancipation is to succeed. . . . Ghodsee’s book ultimately reminds as, through the often moving testimonies of former activists she has collected, that women’s activism, also when attached to or even dominated the state, can be effective and progressive." -- Tanja R. Müller * Twentieth-Century Communism *"Interrogating why the activities of women in countries with strong states promoting gender equality should be deemed inauthentic vis-à-vis those in democracies that perpetuate patriarchal norms, alongside rendering the Cold War as a battle between not just capitalism and communism but also competing visions of feminism, Second World, Second Sex is essential reading for anyone in any field interested in women’s activism in the twentieth century." -- Christine Varga-Harris * Slavic Review *“Besides offering a masterful reconstruction of Cold War women’s activism and East-South alliances, Second World, Second Sex provides its readers with extensive and previously uncovered historical documentation, together with important methodological reflections on feminist knowledge production. The book will be of great interest for historians of gender, transnationalism, and the Cold War, and will undoubtedly expand the scope of scholarly research on transnational women’s and feminist history.” -- Chiara Bonfiglioli * American Historical Review *“The Cold War’s end has seen the vision and achievements of the socialist women’s activists marginalized, devalued, and almost forgotten, the neoliberal consensus quickly undoing in the East and South many of the rights which had been so dearly won. Ghodsee articulates a concern that powerful forces in the West still conspire to suppress or delegitimize histories that take state socialist women’s activism seriously…. Ghodsee’s persistence and peerless scholarship have ensured that it will not be allowed to disappear from the mainstream narratives of feminism.” -- Dominic Martin * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Second World, Second Sex has to be strongly recommended not only to scholars in Slavic studies, feminist, gender and postcolonial studies, as well as international relations, but to all those who have high expectations of the current trend of re/connecting the feminist and the climate change movements, as well as the new global actions combating inequality, racism and violence against women and girls, as necessary actions to restore the political relevance to transnational women’s organizing efforts, as was the case in the 1970s and 1980s.” -- Renata Jambrešic Kirin * Wagadu *“Ghodsee beautifully describes the relationships that she established with women’s activists throughout the course of her research.... This is why her book is so important: it challenges hegemonic accounts of both Cold War politics and the international Decade for Women.” -- Jennifer Erickson * American Ethnologist *“Ghodsee makes her argument skillfully and with clarity. . . . This is an impressively ambitious book with an undeniably original topic and a bold argument.” -- Alexandra Ghit * International Review of Social History *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms viii Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Erasing the Past 1 Part I. Organizing Women under Socialism and Capitalism 1. State Feminism and the Woman Question 31 2. A Brief History of Women's Activism in Domestic Political Context: Case 1: Bulgaria 53 3. Emancipated Women and Anticommunism in the American Political Imagination 76 4. A Brief History of Women's Activism in Domestic Political Context: Case 2: Zambia 97 5. Sandwiched between Superpowers 121 Part II. The Women's Cold War 6. The Lead-Up to International Women's Year 135 7. Historic Gatherings in Mexico and the German Democratic Republic 146 8. Preparing for the Mid-Decade Conference 160 9. The Third Week in July 174 10. School of Solidarity 186 11. Strategizing for Nairobi 198 12. Showdown in Kenya 207 Conclusion. Phantom Herstories 221 Appendix. A Few Reflections on the Challenges of Socialist Feminist Historiography 244 Notes 249 Selected Bibliography 283 Index 301
£75.65
Duke University Press An Intimate Rebuke
Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of female empowerment, Laura S. Grillo offers new perspectives on how elder West African women deploy an ancient ritual in which they dance naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to protest abuses of state power, globalization, witchcraft, rape, and other social dangers.Trade Review"A detailed and thoughtful history of Côte d’Ivoire that gives due placement to civilian women who have largely been ignored in the definitive historical monographs. . . . Grillo’s scholarship has groundbreaking strengths. For those interested in religion, her detailed documentation of myth, ritual, secret societies, symbolism, witchcraft, and the appeal to the spiritual domain—and her defense of the inclusion of this knowledge as a requisite in understanding a country’s history—is utterly exquisite. . . . The work is inimitable—Grillo is sensitive, sensible, and devotes attention to detail." -- Dianna Bell * Reading Religion *“Ultimately, Grillo demonstrates how knowledge of the moral authority of women elders remained and remains embedded in West Africa and that women enact FGP to defend not only social equity and justice but also their own rights. An Intimate Rebuke will be required reading for all future analysis of women’s authority and mobilization.” -- Jill E. Kelly * African Studies Review *“Grillo’s work redefines our understanding of the use of ritual and moral values in the current postcolonial political order by focusing on the ignored phenomenon of Female Genital Power.... Grillo’s work is an important contribution to the study of gender, religion, history, and politics, particularly in Côte d’Ivoire but also in the whole West African subregion.” -- Carole Ammann * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Home and the Unhomely: The Foundational Nature of Female Genital Power 19 1. Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers 21 2. Matrifocal Morality: FGP and the Foundations of "Home" 54 3. Gender and Resistance: The "Strategic Essentialism" of FGP 81 Part II. Worldliness: FGP in the Making of Ethnicity, Alliance, and the War in Côte D'Ivoire 117 4. Founding Knowledge/Binding Power: The Moral Foundations of Ethnicity and Alliance 121 5. Women at the Checkpoint: Challenging the Forces of Civil War 152 Part III. Timeliness: Urgent Situations and Emergent Critiques 171 6. Violation and Deployment: FGP in Politics in Côte D'Ivoire 175 7. Memory, Memorialization, and Morality 198 Conclusion. An Intimate Rebuke: A Local Critique in the Global Postcolony 228 Notes 239 References 255 Index 275
£25.19
Duke University Press The Oocyte Economy
Book SynopsisCatherine Waldby trace how the history of the valuing of human oocytes—the reproductive cells specific to women—intersects with the biological and social life of women.Trade Review"What Waldby presents so compellingly is that there is an oocyte economy. Eggs have value and meaning, indeed they have different values and meanings in different contexts." -- Jane Maienschein * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"Waldby has a long and impressive history of publications dealing with the social, political, ethical, and biomedical aspects of changing global markets for stem cells, umbilical cord blood, human eggs, fertilized blastocysts, embryos, and other (by-)products of artificially assisted reproduction." -- A. H. Koblitz * Choice *"The Oocyte Economy is not only a rigorous study but a riveting read." -- Claire Horn * Women's Review of Books *"This book offers a fascinating foray into the changing meaning of human oocytes for Western women and reproductive scientists. As such, it is a must-read for scholars of reproduction, and for related courses in anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and the history of science and medicine." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"A thought-provoking and original examination of the emergence of an economy premised on deep cultural beliefs about the meaning of oocytes.… Likely to become required reading in medicine, gender, and in the interdisciplinary field of reproduction." -- Rosanna Hertz * Society *"The Oocyte Economy ultimately provides unparalleled insights into fertility practices to better conceptualize ethical arguments pertaining to assisted reproductive technologies. This book will appeal to social sciences and humanities scholars of medicine, especially those seeking refined theorizing on tissue donation made possible by the unique features of human eggs." -- Nathalie Egalite * International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics *"A fascinating account of the complex social meanings attached to egg cells and the possibilities and mysteries that technoscience is still unlocking about them. . . . The Oocyte Economy is replete with historical accounts and quotes from a range of different participants, making this book of particular interest to anybody interested in the expanding reproductive markets with a focus on tissue economies, IVF patients, and reproductive labor." -- Anna Molas * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Temporal Oocytes: Fertility and Deep Time 23 2. Twentieth-Century Oocytes: Experiment and Experience 41 3. Precious Oocytes: IVF and the Deficit Spiral 64 4. Global Oocytes: Medical Tourism and the Transaction of Fertility 88 5. Cold-Chain Oocytes: Vitrification and the Formation of Corporate Egg Banks 119 6. Private Oocytes: Personal Egg Banking and Generational Time 114 7. Innovation Oocytes: Therapeutic Cloning and Mitochondrial Donation 161 Conclusion 191 Appendix 199 Notes 205 References 211 Index 231
£90.10
Duke University Press The Oocyte Economy
Book SynopsisCatherine Waldby trace how the history of the valuing of human oocytes—the reproductive cells specific to women—intersects with the biological and social life of women.Trade Review"What Waldby presents so compellingly is that there is an oocyte economy. Eggs have value and meaning, indeed they have different values and meanings in different contexts." -- Jane Maienschein * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"Waldby has a long and impressive history of publications dealing with the social, political, ethical, and biomedical aspects of changing global markets for stem cells, umbilical cord blood, human eggs, fertilized blastocysts, embryos, and other (by-)products of artificially assisted reproduction." -- A. H. Koblitz * Choice *"The Oocyte Economy is not only a rigorous study but a riveting read." -- Claire Horn * Women's Review of Books *"This book offers a fascinating foray into the changing meaning of human oocytes for Western women and reproductive scientists. As such, it is a must-read for scholars of reproduction, and for related courses in anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and the history of science and medicine." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"A thought-provoking and original examination of the emergence of an economy premised on deep cultural beliefs about the meaning of oocytes.… Likely to become required reading in medicine, gender, and in the interdisciplinary field of reproduction." -- Rosanna Hertz * Society *"The Oocyte Economy ultimately provides unparalleled insights into fertility practices to better conceptualize ethical arguments pertaining to assisted reproductive technologies. This book will appeal to social sciences and humanities scholars of medicine, especially those seeking refined theorizing on tissue donation made possible by the unique features of human eggs." -- Nathalie Egalite * International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics *"A fascinating account of the complex social meanings attached to egg cells and the possibilities and mysteries that technoscience is still unlocking about them. . . . The Oocyte Economy is replete with historical accounts and quotes from a range of different participants, making this book of particular interest to anybody interested in the expanding reproductive markets with a focus on tissue economies, IVF patients, and reproductive labor." -- Anna Molas * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Temporal Oocytes: Fertility and Deep Time 23 2. Twentieth-Century Oocytes: Experiment and Experience 41 3. Precious Oocytes: IVF and the Deficit Spiral 64 4. Global Oocytes: Medical Tourism and the Transaction of Fertility 88 5. Cold-Chain Oocytes: Vitrification and the Formation of Corporate Egg Banks 119 6. Private Oocytes: Personal Egg Banking and Generational Time 114 7. Innovation Oocytes: Therapeutic Cloning and Mitochondrial Donation 161 Conclusion 191 Appendix 199 Notes 205 References 211 Index 231
£22.49
Duke University Press African Feminisms
Book SynopsisThis special issue, edited by the co-directors of the African Feminist Initiative (AFI) at Pennsylvania State University, is a partnership between Meridians and the AFI. The issue builds on the AFI's work to promote the study of African feminist thought and activism within the U.S. academy and to create equitable partnerships between scholars and practitioners of African feminism. Through the multiplicity of feminisms theorized in this issue, contributors challenge patriarchal ideologies and structures on myriad fronts, both on the African continent and beyond. The issue includes poetry, memoirs, essays, interviews, reflections, and testimonials on African feminisms, addressing such topics as hip hop, ethnography, secessionist movements, saving Nigerian girls, and women's writing. Contributors. Gabeba Baderoon, Abena P. A. Busia, Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Msia Kibona Clark, Alicia C. Decker, Chipo Dendere, Abosede George, Tsitsi Jaji, Selina Makana, Patricia McFadden, Anne Moraa, Ja
£15.19
Duke University Press Honeypot
Book SynopsisIn this engaging and moving book, E. Patrick Johnson combines magical realism, poetry, and performative writing to bear witness to the real-life stories of black southern queer women in ways that reveal the complexity of identity and the challenges these women face.Trade Review“In this critically singular work E. Patrick Johnson excavates heretofore unexplored stories of contemporary southern black women whose narratives of loving other women subvert their erasure in queer histories of LGBTQ communities. Gesturing toward black storytelling traditions within which both myth and fact shape the story, Johnson values and gives value to black women’s understandings of themselves and the transformative power of self-initiated freedoms. I've never read an oral history as powerful as Honeypot.” -- Alexis De Veaux, author of * Yabo *“E. Patrick Johnson delivers again. We make a corner turn from his book of delicious tea leaves and find ourselves submerged in the long-legged pages of sweet woman truth. The stories are of southern women loving themselves and other women too. Here are memories and moments shaping a new tradition of resilience and rosewater.” -- Nikky Finney, author of * Head Off & Split *“Like Virgil guiding Dante, cigarette-smoking Miss B., a trickster and shape-shifter, guides E. Patrick Johnson (Dr. EPJ) through the magical ‘beehive’ of ‘Hymen’ (indeed), where most of the action of this time-traveling oral epic unfolds. Miss B.—a cross between Pearl Bailey and Nipsey Russell—admonishes Dr. EPJ and the reader to ‘pull your shit tight or this is going to be a very long journey.’ There is so much telling in this book and so much pride.” -- Cheryl Clarke, author of * Living as a Lesbian *“E. Patrick Johnson's Honeypot simmers with delight and insight as black lesbian women share their stories of triumph and horror. Never before have I encountered space ruled by these voices, and never before have they been invited to bare it all unashamedly. It's about time!” -- Daniel Black, author of * Perfect Peace *"At times devastating and always gripping, Honeypot is an innovative and educational glimpse into the lives of black Southern LGBTQ+ women." -- Eileen Gonzalez * Foreword Reviews *“[T]his text moves at its own pace, forces the reader to follow rather than lead, and slows things down a bit.... Slowing down, reflecting, collecting stories, sharing those stories fresh from lips that are often sealed—by choice, habit, or oppression—is, perhaps, just the salve we need in this moment.” -- Jade C. Huell * Text and Performance Quarterly *“Johnson leaves the women of his book to describe their intimate worlds without interruption or bringing attention to himself.... His work offers queer of color scholars a bridge for taking on projects that are as experimental as they are exploratory into Black queer practices across the diaspora.” -- Paul J. Edwards * The Black Scholar *“This book . . . is both true and fantastic, wary and indulgent, self-conscious and daring. . . . Honeypot delivers more than it said it would, and it holds the capacity to reduce the threat felt by those who might fear women who love women.” -- Katrina Spencer * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsForeword / Alexis Pauline Gumbs ix Preface. You Catch More Bees with Honey Than with Vinegar xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. The Adventures of Miss B. and Me 1 1. The Hive 5 2. Blessed Bee 55 3. Honeybee Blues 69 4. Honey Love 112 5. Beebop and Beeswax 132 6. All Hail the Queen (Bee) 153 Epilogue. Flight 220 Appendix. List of Honeybees 223 Notes 227 Index 229
£72.25
Duke University Press Naked Agency
Book SynopsisAcross Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This insurrectionary nakedness, often called genital cursing, owes its cultural potency to the religious belief that spirits residing in women's bodies can be unleashed to cause misfortune in their targets, including impotence, disease, and death. In Naked Agency, Naminata Diabate analyzes these collective female naked protests in Africa and beyond to broaden understandings of agency and vulnerability. Drawing on myriad cultural texts from social media and film to journalism and fiction, Diabate uncovers how women create spaces of resistance during socio-political duress, including such events as the 2011 protests by Ivoirian women in Côte d'Ivoire and Paris as well as women's disrobing in Soweto to prevent the destruction of their homes. Through the concept of naked agency, Diabate explores fluctuating narratives of power and victimhood to challenge simplistic accounts of African women's helplessness and to show how they exercise political power in the biopolitical era.Trade Review“This is an expansive but nuanced and thought-provoking study of female nakedness as political intervention around Africa. Naked Agency offers a rich analysis of the many potential meanings of defiant disrobing as a signifying shorthand in relation to questions of agency within, but also potentially outside of an African context.” -- Moradewun Adejunmobi, coeditor of * Routledge Handbook of African Literature *“Bringing new insights to discussions of biopolitics and subjectivity, Naminata Diabate explores African women's naked protests to illuminate the contradictory nature of women's agency and the paradox of aggressive disrobing as a counter to globalization that depends on the globalized meaning of state power. She also makes a strong case for avoiding the problems found in most writings on African women of seeing women as either victims or heroic agents while doing an especially great job of exposing the double-edged nature of secularization in the postcolonial world.” -- E. Frances White, author of * Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability *“Bold and erudite, Naked Agency analyses strategic skirt-lifting to shame, take revenge on or punish offensive men by exposing the vulva.... Naked Agency has made a profound impression on me.” -- Tobe Levin Von Gleichen * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“With a mixed method of textual analysis validated by ethnography, Naked Agency stands out among most scholarships that employ either one or the other, to arrive at a contextually nuanced epistemology. . . . I hope this book helps reconstruct and decolonize the mind of the West about the cultural practices of the other.” -- Oladoyin Abiona * Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry *“Naked Agency is a book that challenges censorship and manipulations of African modes of being, knowing, thinking, and theorizing about itself. . . . Naked Agency is what happens when scholars theorize and write from an Africa centered perspective.” -- Marame Gueye, Kenneth Harrow, Adélékè Adé?`k?´ * Journal of the African Literature Association *“The strengths of Diabate’s work rest not merely rest in her extensive review of theories of power but also in her ability to interweave multiple narratives. . . . Thought-provoking for students at any level.” -- Cathy Skidmore-Hess * Journal of Global South Studies *“[Naked Agency] is flawless, in its arguments, its language, and its clarity. . . . Although [Diabate’s] book may seem to be targeted at academics, her conceptualization of agency is relevant to anyone trying to understand the dynamic aspect of agency and resistance in complex bio-political arenas in the world.” -- Supriya Joshi * Rural Sociology *“Naked Agency [is] extraordinarily capacious in its geographical, cultural, and generic scope. . . . By reading openly, the author is able to read across actors, sites, languages, cultures, genres, etc.” -- Chijioke K. Onah * Research in African Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Exceptional Nakedness 1 Section I. Restriction Scene 1. Exceptional Conditions and Darker Shades of Biopolitics 29 Scene 2. Dobsonville and the Question of Autonomy 43 Section II. Co-operation Scene 3. Africanizing Nakedness as (Self-)Instrumentalization 65 Scene 4. In the Name of National Interest 89 Scene 5. Film as Instrumental and Interpretive Lens 107 Section III. Repression Scene 6. Secularizing Genital Cursing and Rhetorical Backlash 131 Scene 7. Epistemic Ignorance and Menstrual Rags in Paris 149 Scene 8. Mis(Reading) Murderous Reactions 175 Epilogue: Defiant Disrobing Going Viral 191 Notes 197 References 219 Index 251
£98.60
Duke University Press Honeypot Black Southern Women Who Love Women
Book SynopsisIn this engaging and moving book, E. Patrick Johnson combines magical realism, poetry, and performative writing to bear witness to the real-life stories of black southern queer women in ways that reveal the complexity of identity and the challenges these women face.Trade Review“In this critically singular work E. Patrick Johnson excavates heretofore unexplored stories of contemporary southern black women whose narratives of loving other women subvert their erasure in queer histories of LGBTQ communities. Gesturing toward black storytelling traditions within which both myth and fact shape the story, Johnson values and gives value to black women’s understandings of themselves and the transformative power of self-initiated freedoms. I've never read an oral history as powerful as Honeypot.” -- Alexis De Veaux, author of * Yabo *“E. Patrick Johnson delivers again. We make a corner turn from his book of delicious tea leaves and find ourselves submerged in the long-legged pages of sweet woman truth. The stories are of southern women loving themselves and other women too. Here are memories and moments shaping a new tradition of resilience and rosewater.” -- Nikky Finney, author of * Head Off & Split *“Like Virgil guiding Dante, cigarette-smoking Miss B., a trickster and shape-shifter, guides E. Patrick Johnson (Dr. EPJ) through the magical ‘beehive’ of ‘Hymen’ (indeed), where most of the action of this time-traveling oral epic unfolds. Miss B.—a cross between Pearl Bailey and Nipsey Russell—admonishes Dr. EPJ and the reader to ‘pull your shit tight or this is going to be a very long journey.’ There is so much telling in this book and so much pride.” -- Cheryl Clarke, author of * Living as a Lesbian *“E. Patrick Johnson's Honeypot simmers with delight and insight as black lesbian women share their stories of triumph and horror. Never before have I encountered space ruled by these voices, and never before have they been invited to bare it all unashamedly. It's about time!” -- Daniel Black, author of * Perfect Peace *"At times devastating and always gripping, Honeypot is an innovative and educational glimpse into the lives of black Southern LGBTQ+ women." -- Eileen Gonzalez * Foreword Reviews *“[T]his text moves at its own pace, forces the reader to follow rather than lead, and slows things down a bit.... Slowing down, reflecting, collecting stories, sharing those stories fresh from lips that are often sealed—by choice, habit, or oppression—is, perhaps, just the salve we need in this moment.” -- Jade C. Huell * Text and Performance Quarterly *“Johnson leaves the women of his book to describe their intimate worlds without interruption or bringing attention to himself.... His work offers queer of color scholars a bridge for taking on projects that are as experimental as they are exploratory into Black queer practices across the diaspora.” -- Paul J. Edwards * The Black Scholar *“This book . . . is both true and fantastic, wary and indulgent, self-conscious and daring. . . . Honeypot delivers more than it said it would, and it holds the capacity to reduce the threat felt by those who might fear women who love women.” -- Katrina Spencer * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Table of ContentsForeword / Alexis Pauline Gumbs ix Preface. You Catch More Bees with Honey Than with Vinegar xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. The Adventures of Miss B. and Me 1 1. The Hive 5 2. Blessed Bee 55 3. Honeybee Blues 69 4. Honey Love 112 5. Beebop and Beeswax 132 6. All Hail the Queen (Bee) 153 Epilogue. Flight 220 Appendix. List of Honeybees 223 Notes 227 Index 229
£18.89
Duke University Press Her Stories
Book SynopsisFrom The Guiding Light to Passions, Elana Levine traces the history of daytime television soap operas as an innovative and highly gendered mass cultural form.Trade Review“Her Stories is the definitive account of a sphere of televisual expression long overlooked and too often maligned, told clearly and compellingly by an accomplished historian and committed viewer whose research has left few stones unturned. A major contribution to our understanding of American television and its intersection with women's lives, traced across more than seven decades.” -- Michele Hilmes, Professor Emerita of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison“Her Stories offers an important history of American soap operas, from the genre's transition from radio to television in the 1950s and its heyday in the classic network era to its diminished significance in the age of streaming. Elana Levine's rich industrial history smartly mines scripts, trade journals, and production notes, and sponsors' memos. Most significantly, it places these developments into the larger context of women's everyday lives and the changing politics of gender.” -- Lynn Spigel, author of * TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television *"For soap fans, past and present, who wonder why the shows they love have disappeared, or deteriorated beyond recognition, or who think they know what could-have-should-have been done, if only, Elana Levine’s new book, Her Stories, connects the dots with a combination of nuance and rigorous research." -- Lynn Liccardo, Soap Opera Critic and author of * as the world stopped turning... *"Elana Levine has crafted a comprehensive history that is about so much more than daytime dramas. In Levine's research, soap operas are also about cultural impacts, articulations of gender, and the production of media texts as both economic and cultural objects. . . . As soap opera become relics of television past, Her Stories becomes a valuable account of media history." -- Linda Levitt * Popmatters *"A fascinating study of the history of soap opera . . . full of wonderful details. . . . Levine makes clear that despite the widespread dismissal of soap operas, they were far from marginal to the history of television, but rather absolutely central." -- Kelly Faircloth * Jezebel *"Elana Levine is a longtime fan of soap operas, so in Her Stories, she merges personal experience with extensive research to examine how the genre has shaped our understanding of gender and predicted the potential decline of broadcast network television." -- Evette Dionne * Bitch Magazine *“Her Stories makes a compelling and rigorous case that soap opera indeed plays a leading role in shaping U.S. histories of both gender and television.... Levine’s study also, by its very existence, shows that television’s gendered past remains largely unsettled and unacknowledged – a search that is still worth pursuing.” -- Madeline Ullrich * View *“With Her Stories, Levine contributes a valuable refocalization of the history of American television. By using soaps as a through line, Levine provides profound insights into the shifting standards, approaches, and trends that shaped representation and industrial structure over the course of seven decades.” -- Lauren Wilks * New Review of Film and Television Studies *"Elana Levine masterfully examines the micro- and macrolevel issues of the American broadcast television industry through the lens of the daytime soap opera. . . . . Through the intertwining of daytime soap operas with the cultural, industrial, and economic aspects of television, Her Stories makes an airtight argument that the history of one is the history of the other." -- Laura C. Brown * Journal of Popular Culture *“Her Stories is not just a history of soap operas.... Her Stories is a compelling and exhaustive history of American culture told through soap operas.” -- Abby Whitaker * H-Soz-Kult *“Elana Levine’s terrific new book is accessible and authoritative, of interest to anyone concerned with the study of television, and an excellent demonstration of how to handle a complex media studies research project.” -- Christine Geraghty * Feminist Media Studies *“In Her Stories, as in her other work, Levine does not shy away from the high stakes of her history, forging an argument that proponents of prestige television are rarely compelled (or able) to make: that...soap operas index the conflicts and character of American culture from mid-century to the present day.” -- Annie Berke * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[Her Stories] will appeal to media scholars, broadcast and television historians, and women’s, gender and sexuality scholars.... The narrative sparkles with clear evidence from a variety of soaps and a compelling argument about the significance of soap opera to not only women’s history but also to network broadcast television history and American society at large.” -- Serenity Sutherland * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The New TV Soap: Late 1940s to Early 1960s 1. Serials in Transition: From Radio to Television 19 2. Daytime Therapy: Help and Healing in the Postwar Soap 44 Part II. The Classic Network Era: Mid-1960s to Late 1980s 3. Building Network Power: The Broadcasting Business and the Craft of Soap Opera 73 4. Turning to Relevance: Social Issue Storytelling 106 5. Love in the Afternoon: The Fracturing Fantasies of the Soap Boom 153 Part III. A Post-Network Age: Late 1980s to 2010s 6. Struggles for Survival: Stagnation and Innovation 199 7. Reckoning with the Past: Reimagining Characters and Stories 236 8. Can Her Stories Go On? Soap Opera in a Digital Age 280 Notes 299 Bibliography 357 Index 369
£112.20
Duke University Press Infamous Bodies
Book SynopsisSamantha Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures.Trade Review“Infamous Bodies is required reading for scholars of black feminist theory. This ambitious, provocative book interrogates female celebrity as a crucial genre through which black women come into political view. Samantha Pinto's careful and thoughtful wrestling with black women celebrities who have become—or perhaps always were—‘difficult’ in and for black feminist studies requires that scholars probe the very meaning of the ‘political’ for black feminist thought. Black feminist theory will be both challenged and transformed by Pinto's careful and counterintuitive readings of black women's representation and by Pinto’s call for the necessary centrality of vulnerability to our scholarly and political work.” -- Jennifer C. Nash, author of * Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality *“With theoretical innovation and a commitment to bringing to light forgotten cultural moments, Samantha Pinto considers notorious figures of black female historical celebrity for what they can tell us about the limits of liberal humanist conceptions of freedom, agency, and consent. Fueled by a powerful sense of urgency, Pinto’s rich and valuable contribution pushes black studies and feminist and queer studies of representation and history to new places while prompting readers to think about how celebrity culture continues to treat black women with the broadest strokes.” -- Francesca T. Royster, author of * Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era *"[A] must-have counterintuitive, historical analysis. . . . The book is well written . . . and would be ideal for the following departments: sociology, women's studies, and African American studies. The book would pair well with the following courses: women authority and power, women's right and status; and feminism." -- Shauntey James * Ethnic and Racial Studies *This excellent text is a must read for those studying cultural and Black feminist representations to understand how those that proliferated in the past inform contemporary debates related to '[B]lack women’s sexual, embodied visibility as always politically suspect.'" -- C. B. Regester * Choice *"Pinto’s work is skilfully crafted. . . . With a theoretical focus of Black feminism, structured through a framework of human rights discourse, and with a call to reframe Black feminist thought and historiography, Pinto’s work offers scholars new possibilities for asking different questions of our material and the way in which we see, read and write about them." -- Rebecca J. Fraser * European Journal of American Culture *"Infamous Bodies feels acutely timely. Dense with citation and conceptual triangulation, Pinto’s is an up-to-date intervention rooted in the history of the field. There are many potential audiences for this text—within literary studies, media studies, sexuality studies, and political theory—but any feminist scholar keeping abreast of contemporary debates will find something of interest here." -- Deborah Thurman * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *"Infamous Bodies is a generative contribution to the field of Black feminist theory, particularly for scholars interested in the early intersections of contracts, labor, and international human rights. This is also an insightful text for practitioners of art criticism and performance theory." -- Margarita Lila Rosa * The Black Scholar *"Pinto offers new radical political futures for black feminist studies. . . . She adds to existing critical human rights scholarship on vulnerability with a novel reconfiguration of what agency and freedom look like." -- Marietta Kosma * US Studies Online *"Pinto’s is an innovative study which expands upon the contemporary discourses central to black feminist scholarship and will likely become an essential read in its field." -- Laura Skinner * Journal of Gender Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Infamous Bodies, Corrective Histories 1 1. Fantasies of Freedom: Phillis Wheatley and the "Deathless Fame" of Black Feminist Thought 31 2. The Romance of Consent: Sally Hemings, Black Women's Sexuality, and the Fundamental Vulnerability of Rights 65 3. Venus at Work: The Contracted Body and Fictions of Sarah Baartman 105 4. Civic Desire: Mary Seacole's Adventures in Black Citizenship 139 5. #DevelopmentGoals: Sovereignty, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and the Production of the Black Feminist Political Subject 173 Conclusion. Black Feminist Celebrity and the Political Life of Vulnerability 203 Notes 207 References 221 Index 243
£72.25
Duke University Press Her Stories
Book SynopsisFrom The Guiding Light to Passions, Elana Levine traces the history of daytime television soap operas as an innovative and highly gendered mass cultural form.Trade Review“Her Stories is the definitive account of a sphere of televisual expression long overlooked and too often maligned, told clearly and compellingly by an accomplished historian and committed viewer whose research has left few stones unturned. A major contribution to our understanding of American television and its intersection with women's lives, traced across more than seven decades.” -- Michele Hilmes, Professor Emerita of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison“Her Stories offers an important history of American soap operas, from the genre's transition from radio to television in the 1950s and its heyday in the classic network era to its diminished significance in the age of streaming. Elana Levine's rich industrial history smartly mines scripts, trade journals, and production notes, and sponsors' memos. Most significantly, it places these developments into the larger context of women's everyday lives and the changing politics of gender.” -- Lynn Spigel, author of * TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television *"For soap fans, past and present, who wonder why the shows they love have disappeared, or deteriorated beyond recognition, or who think they know what could-have-should-have been done, if only, Elana Levine’s new book, Her Stories, connects the dots with a combination of nuance and rigorous research." -- Lynn Liccardo, Soap Opera Critic and author of * as the world stopped turning... *"Elana Levine has crafted a comprehensive history that is about so much more than daytime dramas. In Levine's research, soap operas are also about cultural impacts, articulations of gender, and the production of media texts as both economic and cultural objects. . . . As soap opera become relics of television past, Her Stories becomes a valuable account of media history." -- Linda Levitt * Popmatters *"A fascinating study of the history of soap opera . . . full of wonderful details. . . . Levine makes clear that despite the widespread dismissal of soap operas, they were far from marginal to the history of television, but rather absolutely central." -- Kelly Faircloth * Jezebel *"Elana Levine is a longtime fan of soap operas, so in Her Stories, she merges personal experience with extensive research to examine how the genre has shaped our understanding of gender and predicted the potential decline of broadcast network television." -- Evette Dionne * Bitch Magazine *“Her Stories makes a compelling and rigorous case that soap opera indeed plays a leading role in shaping U.S. histories of both gender and television.... Levine’s study also, by its very existence, shows that television’s gendered past remains largely unsettled and unacknowledged – a search that is still worth pursuing.” -- Madeline Ullrich * View *“With Her Stories, Levine contributes a valuable refocalization of the history of American television. By using soaps as a through line, Levine provides profound insights into the shifting standards, approaches, and trends that shaped representation and industrial structure over the course of seven decades.” -- Lauren Wilks * New Review of Film and Television Studies *"Elana Levine masterfully examines the micro- and macrolevel issues of the American broadcast television industry through the lens of the daytime soap opera. . . . . Through the intertwining of daytime soap operas with the cultural, industrial, and economic aspects of television, Her Stories makes an airtight argument that the history of one is the history of the other." -- Laura C. Brown * Journal of Popular Culture *“Her Stories is not just a history of soap operas.... Her Stories is a compelling and exhaustive history of American culture told through soap operas.” -- Abby Whitaker * H-Soz-Kult *“Elana Levine’s terrific new book is accessible and authoritative, of interest to anyone concerned with the study of television, and an excellent demonstration of how to handle a complex media studies research project.” -- Christine Geraghty * Feminist Media Studies *“In Her Stories, as in her other work, Levine does not shy away from the high stakes of her history, forging an argument that proponents of prestige television are rarely compelled (or able) to make: that...soap operas index the conflicts and character of American culture from mid-century to the present day.” -- Annie Berke * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[Her Stories] will appeal to media scholars, broadcast and television historians, and women’s, gender and sexuality scholars.... The narrative sparkles with clear evidence from a variety of soaps and a compelling argument about the significance of soap opera to not only women’s history but also to network broadcast television history and American society at large.” -- Serenity Sutherland * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The New TV Soap: Late 1940s to Early 1960s 1. Serials in Transition: From Radio to Television 19 2. Daytime Therapy: Help and Healing in the Postwar Soap 44 Part II. The Classic Network Era: Mid-1960s to Late 1980s 3. Building Network Power: The Broadcasting Business and the Craft of Soap Opera 73 4. Turning to Relevance: Social Issue Storytelling 106 5. Love in the Afternoon: The Fracturing Fantasies of the Soap Boom 153 Part III. A Post-Network Age: Late 1980s to 2010s 6. Struggles for Survival: Stagnation and Innovation 199 7. Reckoning with the Past: Reimagining Characters and Stories 236 8. Can Her Stories Go On? Soap Opera in a Digital Age 280 Notes 299 Bibliography 357 Index 369
£27.90
Duke University Press Infamous Bodies
Book SynopsisSamantha Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures.Trade Review“Infamous Bodies is required reading for scholars of black feminist theory. This ambitious, provocative book interrogates female celebrity as a crucial genre through which black women come into political view. Samantha Pinto's careful and thoughtful wrestling with black women celebrities who have become—or perhaps always were—‘difficult’ in and for black feminist studies requires that scholars probe the very meaning of the ‘political’ for black feminist thought. Black feminist theory will be both challenged and transformed by Pinto's careful and counterintuitive readings of black women's representation and by Pinto’s call for the necessary centrality of vulnerability to our scholarly and political work.” -- Jennifer C. Nash, author of * Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality *“With theoretical innovation and a commitment to bringing to light forgotten cultural moments, Samantha Pinto considers notorious figures of black female historical celebrity for what they can tell us about the limits of liberal humanist conceptions of freedom, agency, and consent. Fueled by a powerful sense of urgency, Pinto’s rich and valuable contribution pushes black studies and feminist and queer studies of representation and history to new places while prompting readers to think about how celebrity culture continues to treat black women with the broadest strokes.” -- Francesca T. Royster, author of * Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era *"[A] must-have counterintuitive, historical analysis. . . . The book is well written . . . and would be ideal for the following departments: sociology, women's studies, and African American studies. The book would pair well with the following courses: women authority and power, women's right and status; and feminism." -- Shauntey James * Ethnic and Racial Studies *This excellent text is a must read for those studying cultural and Black feminist representations to understand how those that proliferated in the past inform contemporary debates related to '[B]lack women’s sexual, embodied visibility as always politically suspect.'" -- C. B. Regester * Choice *"Pinto’s work is skilfully crafted. . . . With a theoretical focus of Black feminism, structured through a framework of human rights discourse, and with a call to reframe Black feminist thought and historiography, Pinto’s work offers scholars new possibilities for asking different questions of our material and the way in which we see, read and write about them." -- Rebecca J. Fraser * European Journal of American Culture *"Infamous Bodies feels acutely timely. Dense with citation and conceptual triangulation, Pinto’s is an up-to-date intervention rooted in the history of the field. There are many potential audiences for this text—within literary studies, media studies, sexuality studies, and political theory—but any feminist scholar keeping abreast of contemporary debates will find something of interest here." -- Deborah Thurman * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *"Infamous Bodies is a generative contribution to the field of Black feminist theory, particularly for scholars interested in the early intersections of contracts, labor, and international human rights. This is also an insightful text for practitioners of art criticism and performance theory." -- Margarita Lila Rosa * The Black Scholar *"Pinto offers new radical political futures for black feminist studies. . . . She adds to existing critical human rights scholarship on vulnerability with a novel reconfiguration of what agency and freedom look like." -- Marietta Kosma * US Studies Online *"Pinto’s is an innovative study which expands upon the contemporary discourses central to black feminist scholarship and will likely become an essential read in its field." -- Laura Skinner * Journal of Gender Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Infamous Bodies, Corrective Histories 1 1. Fantasies of Freedom: Phillis Wheatley and the "Deathless Fame" of Black Feminist Thought 31 2. The Romance of Consent: Sally Hemings, Black Women's Sexuality, and the Fundamental Vulnerability of Rights 65 3. Venus at Work: The Contracted Body and Fictions of Sarah Baartman 105 4. Civic Desire: Mary Seacole's Adventures in Black Citizenship 139 5. #DevelopmentGoals: Sovereignty, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and the Production of the Black Feminist Political Subject 173 Conclusion. Black Feminist Celebrity and the Political Life of Vulnerability 203 Notes 207 References 221 Index 243
£19.79
Duke University Press Engendering
Book Synopsis
£10.99
Duke University Press Traffic in Asian Women
Book SynopsisLaura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of Asian women functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of US power and knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century.Trade Review“Deeply thought-provoking and powerfully written, Traffic in Asian Women is an eminently illuminating examination of the contradictory figuration of ‘Asian Women.’ Laura Hyun Yi Kang offers a singular model of critically erudite, deeply engaged scholarship.” -- Lisa Yoneyama, author of * Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes *“Traffic in Asian Women is a meticulously researched, thoroughly compelling, and persistently incisive study. It is a book full of brilliance, one that shows us how to conduct outward facing, politically engaged research in ways that enact intersectional thinking, not only in research but as a way of relating to the world.” -- Kandice Chuh, author of * The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man” *“This is a mode of feminist writing that rejects faith in the twinned powers of exposure and expertise…. Kang’s deft history skips a stone across regimes of visibility and governance, alighting on their connective systems instead of laying claim to the subjects inside.” -- Zoë Hu * Baffler *“Through its detailed historiography, [Traffic in Asian Women] documents how multiple political, legal, and ethical frameworks have ultimately proved inadequate to fully acknowledge violence against Asian women throughout the twentieth century and beyond.” -- Kodai Abe * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Traffic in Asian Women is a generative text for scholars of the comfort system and its legacies, Asian Studies, transnational American and Asian American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, among others.... Kang demonstrates the value of continuously learning from those possessing intimate knowledge about experiences of racial and gendered violence and living their effects.” -- Nicolyn Woodcock * American Studies *“While written for practitioners of U.S. women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, American studies, and Asian American studies, [Traffic in Asian Women] is likely to appeal to social work scholars and policymakers interested in questions of intersectionality, critical race and ethnic studies, cultural production, human rights, transnational feminism, and social movement.” -- Alexa Ploss * Affilia *“Although Traffic in Asian Women is ostensibly a reconsideration of history, . . . Kang's main interest is in the present and future—in shifting the efforts of those who claim to be feminists and/or human rights activists toward a wider sphere of current injustices. . . . Kang's is a powerful polemic.” -- Margaret D. Stetz * History Teacher *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Traffic in Asian Women 1 1. Asian Women as Method? 19 2. Traffic in Women 51 3. Sexual Slavery 83 4. Violence against Women 117 5. Truth Disclosure 153 6. Just Compensation 189 7. Enduring Memorials 221 Notes 261 Bibliography 311 Index 331
£112.20
Duke University Press Traffic in Asian Women
Book SynopsisIn Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military "comfort system" (19321945) within that broader geohistorical arc. Although many have upheld the "comfort women" case as exemplary of both the past violation and the contemporary empowerment of Asian women, Kang argues that it has profoundly destabilized the imaginary unity and conceptual demarcation of the category. Kang traces how "Asian women" have been alternately distinguished and effaced as subjects of the traffic in women, sexual slavery, and violence against women. She also explores how specific modes of redress and justice were determined by several overlapping geopolitical and economic changes ranging from U.S.-guided movements of capital across Asia and the end of the Cold War to the emergence of new media technologies that facilitated the global circulation of "comfort women" stories.Trade Review“Deeply thought-provoking and powerfully written, Traffic in Asian Women is an eminently illuminating examination of the contradictory figuration of ‘Asian Women.’ Laura Hyun Yi Kang offers a singular model of critically erudite, deeply engaged scholarship.” -- Lisa Yoneyama, author of * Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes *“Traffic in Asian Women is a meticulously researched, thoroughly compelling, and persistently incisive study. It is a book full of brilliance, one that shows us how to conduct outward facing, politically engaged research in ways that enact intersectional thinking, not only in research but as a way of relating to the world.” -- Kandice Chuh, author of * The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “After Man” *“This is a mode of feminist writing that rejects faith in the twinned powers of exposure and expertise…. Kang’s deft history skips a stone across regimes of visibility and governance, alighting on their connective systems instead of laying claim to the subjects inside.” -- Zoë Hu * Baffler *“Through its detailed historiography, [Traffic in Asian Women] documents how multiple political, legal, and ethical frameworks have ultimately proved inadequate to fully acknowledge violence against Asian women throughout the twentieth century and beyond.” -- Kodai Abe * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Traffic in Asian Women is a generative text for scholars of the comfort system and its legacies, Asian Studies, transnational American and Asian American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, among others.... Kang demonstrates the value of continuously learning from those possessing intimate knowledge about experiences of racial and gendered violence and living their effects.” -- Nicolyn Woodcock * American Studies *“While written for practitioners of U.S. women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, American studies, and Asian American studies, [Traffic in Asian Women] is likely to appeal to social work scholars and policymakers interested in questions of intersectionality, critical race and ethnic studies, cultural production, human rights, transnational feminism, and social movement.” -- Alexa Ploss * Affilia *“Although Traffic in Asian Women is ostensibly a reconsideration of history, . . . Kang's main interest is in the present and future—in shifting the efforts of those who claim to be feminists and/or human rights activists toward a wider sphere of current injustices. . . . Kang's is a powerful polemic.” -- Margaret D. Stetz * History Teacher *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Traffic in Asian Women 1 1. Asian Women as Method? 19 2. Traffic in Women 51 3. Sexual Slavery 83 4. Violence against Women 117 5. Truth Disclosure 153 6. Just Compensation 189 7. Enduring Memorials 221 Notes 261 Bibliography 311 Index 331
£27.90
Duke University Press Emancipations Daughters
Book SynopsisRiché Richardson examines how five iconic black womenMary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncédefy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States.Trade Review“The women Riché Richardson examines broaden notions of black womanhood in opposition to the dominant imagery perpetuated by filmmakers, advertisers, and other cultural producers in the United States. This broad spectrum of black womanhood from the early twentieth century to the present allows Richardson to make an expansive argument about the role of these women in the broader American imaginary. The idea of black women as mothers of the nation outside of the mammy role is a powerful one that has not been framed in the way Richardson does here. Emancipation's Daughters is an engaging and important book.” -- Lisa B. Thompson, author of * Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class *“Riché Richardson has given our tumultuous American moment a brilliant gift. Emancipation’s Daughters is an impeccably crafted guide to the struggles, creativity, and iconic labors of African American mothers and their emancipated daughters.” -- Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor, Vanderbilt University"Richardson employs a diversity of resources throughout, including political speeches, artistic images and photos, memorials and monuments, biographies and autobiographies, and literary works to consider how Black women leaders have redefined or advanced a notion of American selfhood that is different from the national story of the 'founding fathers.' . . . Throughout the book, Richardson nicely complements the text with images to illustrate her case studies and overall thesis. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Emancipation’s Daughters significantly intervenes in how we understand Black women leaders in ways that resist the mama-fication (and even aunt-ification) that most Black women leaders experience in the public sphere. This is most powerfully exemplified in the way Richardson evokes the term 'daughters' as opposed to the familiar framing of Black women leaders as mothers. This strategic choice is quite compelling." -- Stacie McCormick * American Literary History *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: An Exemplary American Woman 1 1. Mary McLeod Bethune's "My Last Will and Testament" and Her National Legacy 39 2. From Rosa Parks's Quiet Strength to Memorializing a National Mother 87 3. America's Chief Diplomat: The Politics of Condoleezza Rice from Autobiography to Art and Fashion 128 4. First Lady and "Mom-in-Chief": The Voice and Vision of Michelle Obama in the Video South Side Girl and in American Grown 178 Conclusion: Beyoncé's South and the Birth of a "Formation" Nation 220 Notes 235 Bibliography 257 Index 281
£75.65
Duke University Press Aesthetics of Excess
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color.Trade Review“Aesthetics of Excess brings together culo, spandex, and style to make bold provocations on race, aesthetics, and embodiment. Making a sparkling intervention into conversations on racialized sexuality, Hernandez uses the "body narratives" we inherit to add fleshy substance to our understanding of how color, culture, and class shape how subjects traverse geographies of belonging.” -- Juana María Rodríguez, author of * Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings *“I am thrilled that Jillian Hernandez has found a thoughtful, thorough way to begin a conversation around the Latinx, academic, and institutional discomfort with what they perceive as young women's problematic, not-Latina-feminist-enough gender politics. What a joy it is to know that this highly original and downright necessary book is now in the world. Aesthetics of Excess makes an outstanding contribution to feminist scholarship.” -- Maria Elena Buszek, author of * Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture *"There’s a real beauty to being able to own yourself and how you show up in the world; Aesthetics of Excess illuminates it." -- Evette Dionne * Bitch Media *“Black and Latina aesthetic practices are carefully crafted and layered. Aesthetics of Excess treats these self-stylings with the nuance they deserve, understanding them as interventions in a visual landscape that surveilles excess as a way to continually police working-class women of color.” -- Kristie Soares * Latino Studies *“In a world that continually tells Black and Latina girls to take up less space, to be less visible, to do their work without comment, sigh, or sass, Hernandez and her team at WOTR celebrate the excess. . . . Hernandez deftly explores and theorizes the contours of blackness and latinidad in Miami.” -- Aria S. Halliday * American Quarterly *“Hernandez manages the difficult feat of crafting an approachable text that could be read by the young women she speaks with while remaining faithful to the demands of a scholarly monograph. . . . [The Aesthetics of Excess] is a thrilling work that never forgets that loving its subjects is essential to scholarly precision.” -- Iván Ramos * Lateral *"The book’s strength lies in Hernandez’s sharp arguments and the theoretical threads she interweaves. Rather than considering Black and Latina body aesthetics against the implicit whiteness of categories deemed 'standard' or 'tasteful' in mainstream US culture, the book names them, claims them, and presents them in their own light." -- Alicia Eler * Hyperallergic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Interlude One 29 1. Reading Black and Latina Embodiment in Miami 37 2. Sexual-Aesthetic Excess: Or, How Chonga Girls Make Class Burn 63 3. "Fine as Hell": The Aesthetic Erotics of Masculinity 99 Interlude Two 133 4. Rococo Pink: The Power of Nicki Minaj's Aesthetics of Fakery 145 Interlude Three 187 5. Encounters with Excess: Girls Creating Art, Theory, and Sexual Bodies 201 Interlude Four 233 Epilogue 251 Notes 271 References 279 Index 293
£75.65
Duke University Press Black Diamond Queens
Book SynopsisMaureen Mahon documents the major contributions African American women vocalists such as Big Mama Thornton, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, and Merry Clayton have made to rock and roll throughout its history.Trade Review“We've got to know where we came from in order to get where we want to go, and there's no doubt that Maureen knows where she is headed! You can absolutely feel the passion in every word she speaks, whether in person or on paper, and Black Diamond Queens is no exception.” -- Quincy Jones“I thought I knew the stories of the women who populate this stellar revisioning of rock and roll history. Now I realize how much I had to learn. A revolutionary read that should chasten rock historians and will delight anyone who wants the full picture of how black women shaped a culture that pushed them to the side and how they survived.” -- Ann Powers, author of * Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music *"... Mahon has done plenty to expose how Black women rockers have been marginalized by musicians, audiences, historians, and critics. A well-researched, sociologically savvy effort to expand the rock canon." * Kirkus Reviews *“The book that's poised to set rock history free. Maureen Mahon's Black Diamond Queens sets the record straight by offering a meticulously detailed study of the ways in which Black women musicians and entertainers played pivotal roles in the birth of the genre and fearlessly revolutionized the form. Essential reading for anyone who cares about popular music culture.” -- Daphne A. Brooks, author of * Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910 *Starred Review. "With depth and breadth, Mahon’s work centers the many African American women who heavily influence rock and roll, from LaVern Baker to Tina Turner. Rock and roll emerged neither from a vacuum nor from the minds of white, male performers alone. Mahon’s comprehensive research and intelligent thinking are captured in her compelling writing." -- Emily Dziuban * Booklist *"If you are curious about music and its development across genres or would like more examples of Black women’s exquisite impact on every aspect of life, Black Diamond Queens is for you. You won’t find many of these queens on the walls of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or in canonical texts discussing the origins of rock and roll. Still, crucially and inspiringly, you might see yourself in this group of Black women whose manicured fingers are all over rock and roll. At the very least, you will be exposed to some incredible new songs." -- Briana Spivey * Women's Review of Books *"A rare gem. . . . this meticulously researched book is a key entry in the ongoing record-correction of 20th-century popular music history, one that recenters women, and most crucially, women of color. . . . The collective telling of their complex stories, within an intersectional feminist framework, is the kind of illuminating scholarship that rock really needs." -- Jillian Mapes * Pitchfork *"As I read each page of Black Diamond Queens, learning about the Black women who contributed to not only the sound but the ethos of rock and roll, I felt like I was also learning about myself. In the end, the stories felt less like a permission slip to feel at home in a genre I most resonate with, but a reminder that, like these women, I should never feel the need to ask for permission at all." -- Erica Campbell * UPROXX *"Black Diamond Queens does what the best music books do: It urges us to play this music again — or for the first time — and to listen to it. Mahon’s brilliant book repays careful reading and challenges us to think anew about the history of rock and roll and the ways we might have traditionally understood it." -- Henry Carrigan * No Depression *"[H]ighly recommended for anyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge of the legacies and profoundness of Black women in music.' -- Jordannah Elizabeth * Amsterdam News *"This monograph is not only a welcome addition to works on genre, gender, and race but contributes a unique insight into Black-middle-class respectability politics in twentieth-century America. Black Diamond Queens is a great jumping-off point for contemporary Black feminist theorists, musicologically trained or not. Mahon has gifted scholars with a mantle, leaving room for others to take it up and continue the work of re-storing music history through the investigation of race, gender, and genre." -- Larissa A. Irizarry * Notes *"Mahon’s use of contemporaneous accounts, interviews, and illustrations contributes immensely to 'setting the record straight' regarding the impact, role, and significance of a group of historic figures often subverted by a male-dominated record industry and largely overlooked in the standard literature on the evolution of rock 'n' roll. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- D. V. Moskowitz * Choice *"Rich, engrossing, and profoundly important. . . . Black Diamond Queens offers a long-overdue correction of the rock and roll historical record. And the final verdict? Black women rock." -- Kimberly Mack * Journal of Popular Music Studies *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Rocking and Rolling with Big Mama Thornton 29 2. LaVern Baker, the Incredible Disappearing Queen of Rock and Roll 52 3. Remembering the Shirelles 76 4. Call and Response 105 5. Negotiating "Brown Sugar" 141 6. The Revolutionary Sisterhood of Labelle 182 7. The Fearless Funk of Betty Davis 213 8. Tina Turner's Turn to Rock 240 Epilogue 273 Notes 285 Bibliography 349 Index 375
£80.75
Duke University Press Emancipations Daughters
Book SynopsisRiché Richardson examines how five iconic black womenMary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncédefy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States.Trade Review“The women Riché Richardson examines broaden notions of black womanhood in opposition to the dominant imagery perpetuated by filmmakers, advertisers, and other cultural producers in the United States. This broad spectrum of black womanhood from the early twentieth century to the present allows Richardson to make an expansive argument about the role of these women in the broader American imaginary. The idea of black women as mothers of the nation outside of the mammy role is a powerful one that has not been framed in the way Richardson does here. Emancipation's Daughters is an engaging and important book.” -- Lisa B. Thompson, author of * Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class *“Riché Richardson has given our tumultuous American moment a brilliant gift. Emancipation’s Daughters is an impeccably crafted guide to the struggles, creativity, and iconic labors of African American mothers and their emancipated daughters.” -- Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor, Vanderbilt University"Richardson employs a diversity of resources throughout, including political speeches, artistic images and photos, memorials and monuments, biographies and autobiographies, and literary works to consider how Black women leaders have redefined or advanced a notion of American selfhood that is different from the national story of the 'founding fathers.' . . . Throughout the book, Richardson nicely complements the text with images to illustrate her case studies and overall thesis. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Emancipation’s Daughters significantly intervenes in how we understand Black women leaders in ways that resist the mama-fication (and even aunt-ification) that most Black women leaders experience in the public sphere. This is most powerfully exemplified in the way Richardson evokes the term 'daughters' as opposed to the familiar framing of Black women leaders as mothers. This strategic choice is quite compelling." -- Stacie McCormick * American Literary History *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: An Exemplary American Woman 1 1. Mary McLeod Bethune's "My Last Will and Testament" and Her National Legacy 39 2. From Rosa Parks's Quiet Strength to Memorializing a National Mother 87 3. America's Chief Diplomat: The Politics of Condoleezza Rice from Autobiography to Art and Fashion 128 4. First Lady and "Mom-in-Chief": The Voice and Vision of Michelle Obama in the Video South Side Girl and in American Grown 178 Conclusion: Beyoncé's South and the Birth of a "Formation" Nation 220 Notes 235 Bibliography 257 Index 281
£20.69
Duke University Press Black Diamond Queens
Book SynopsisAfrican American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre''s most iconic acts. Despite this, black women''s importance to the music''s history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.Trade Review“We've got to know where we came from in order to get where we want to go, and there's no doubt that Maureen knows where she is headed! You can absolutely feel the passion in every word she speaks, whether in person or on paper, and Black Diamond Queens is no exception.” -- Quincy Jones“I thought I knew the stories of the women who populate this stellar revisioning of rock and roll history. Now I realize how much I had to learn. A revolutionary read that should chasten rock historians and will delight anyone who wants the full picture of how black women shaped a culture that pushed them to the side and how they survived.” -- Ann Powers, author of * Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music *"... Mahon has done plenty to expose how Black women rockers have been marginalized by musicians, audiences, historians, and critics. A well-researched, sociologically savvy effort to expand the rock canon." * Kirkus Reviews *“The book that's poised to set rock history free. Maureen Mahon's Black Diamond Queens sets the record straight by offering a meticulously detailed study of the ways in which Black women musicians and entertainers played pivotal roles in the birth of the genre and fearlessly revolutionized the form. Essential reading for anyone who cares about popular music culture.” -- Daphne A. Brooks, author of * Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910 *Starred Review. "With depth and breadth, Mahon’s work centers the many African American women who heavily influence rock and roll, from LaVern Baker to Tina Turner. Rock and roll emerged neither from a vacuum nor from the minds of white, male performers alone. Mahon’s comprehensive research and intelligent thinking are captured in her compelling writing." -- Emily Dziuban * Booklist *"If you are curious about music and its development across genres or would like more examples of Black women’s exquisite impact on every aspect of life, Black Diamond Queens is for you. You won’t find many of these queens on the walls of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or in canonical texts discussing the origins of rock and roll. Still, crucially and inspiringly, you might see yourself in this group of Black women whose manicured fingers are all over rock and roll. At the very least, you will be exposed to some incredible new songs." -- Briana Spivey * Women's Review of Books *"A rare gem. . . . this meticulously researched book is a key entry in the ongoing record-correction of 20th-century popular music history, one that recenters women, and most crucially, women of color. . . . The collective telling of their complex stories, within an intersectional feminist framework, is the kind of illuminating scholarship that rock really needs." -- Jillian Mapes * Pitchfork *"As I read each page of Black Diamond Queens, learning about the Black women who contributed to not only the sound but the ethos of rock and roll, I felt like I was also learning about myself. In the end, the stories felt less like a permission slip to feel at home in a genre I most resonate with, but a reminder that, like these women, I should never feel the need to ask for permission at all." -- Erica Campbell * UPROXX *"Black Diamond Queens does what the best music books do: It urges us to play this music again — or for the first time — and to listen to it. Mahon’s brilliant book repays careful reading and challenges us to think anew about the history of rock and roll and the ways we might have traditionally understood it." -- Henry Carrigan * No Depression *"[H]ighly recommended for anyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge of the legacies and profoundness of Black women in music.' -- Jordannah Elizabeth * Amsterdam News *"This monograph is not only a welcome addition to works on genre, gender, and race but contributes a unique insight into Black-middle-class respectability politics in twentieth-century America. Black Diamond Queens is a great jumping-off point for contemporary Black feminist theorists, musicologically trained or not. Mahon has gifted scholars with a mantle, leaving room for others to take it up and continue the work of re-storing music history through the investigation of race, gender, and genre." -- Larissa A. Irizarry * Notes *"Mahon’s use of contemporaneous accounts, interviews, and illustrations contributes immensely to 'setting the record straight' regarding the impact, role, and significance of a group of historic figures often subverted by a male-dominated record industry and largely overlooked in the standard literature on the evolution of rock 'n' roll. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- D. V. Moskowitz * Choice *"Rich, engrossing, and profoundly important. . . . Black Diamond Queens offers a long-overdue correction of the rock and roll historical record. And the final verdict? Black women rock." -- Kimberly Mack * Journal of Popular Music Studies *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Rocking and Rolling with Big Mama Thornton 29 2. LaVern Baker, the Incredible Disappearing Queen of Rock and Roll 52 3. Remembering the Shirelles 76 4. Call and Response 105 5. Negotiating "Brown Sugar" 141 6. The Revolutionary Sisterhood of Labelle 182 7. The Fearless Funk of Betty Davis 213 8. Tina Turner's Turn to Rock 240 Epilogue 273 Notes 285 Bibliography 349 Index 375
£22.79
Duke University Press Confidence Culture
Book SynopsisShani Orgad and Rosalind Gill examine how imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks hold women back rather than entrenched social injustices.Trade Review“Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill’s brilliant study of the intersections within and between ‘confidence culture’ and neoliberal capitalism makes a vital contribution to how we think about gender, the body, and media. Complicating analyses on both the media representation and the user applications of the contemporary confidence movement, this crucially important book will appeal to media studies, American studies, and feminist scholars as well as a wide public audience.” -- Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of * Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny *"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- M. M. Ferree * Choice *"Confidence Culture offers critical feminist insight into the conditions shaping our existence, experiences and our feelings. . . . An absolute necessity for scholars of gender, media studies, sociology and other interdisciplinary areas." -- Ipsita Pradhan * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Confidence Imperative 1 1. Body Confidence 29 2. Confidence at Work 56 3. Confident Relating 76 4. Confident Mothering 100 5. Confidence without Borders 124 Conclusion: Beyond Confidence 143 Notes 163 Bibliography 203 Index 229
£72.25
Duke University Press Complaint
Book SynopsisDrawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power.Trade Review“Sara Ahmed always has her finger on the pulse of the times as she assists us to explore the deeper meanings and philosophical nuances of quotidian concepts and practices. Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, Complaint! is precisely the text we need at this moment as we seek to understand and transform the institutional structures promoting racism and heteropatriarchy.” -- Angela Y. Davis“In her latest contribution to our knowledge, Sara Ahmed gifts us with a book about the phenomenology of complaint and the layered, entangled complexity of how power works institutionally. She foregrounds that to complain is to transgress. To transgress is to become a site of negation. To negate is to trigger an institution into protecting the status quo through risk-adverse processes that are experienced as violent and exhaustive. Ahmed’s intellectually expansive book achieves two things: it exposes the meaning, experiences, and perceptions of complaint and provides testimony to the courage of those who complain, who fight, who believe justice should not just appear to be done; it must be done.” -- Aileen Moreton-Robinson, author of * Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism *"[Ahmed] presents a strong argument that power in higher education tends to protect itself, that diversity initiatives are often nothing more than window dressing, and that those who file complaints about a hostile work environment often face accusations of disloyalty or troublemaking. . . . Most of the charges here are broad and general, but anyone who has worked in higher education will recognize much of what Ahmed brings to light. Sharp criticism of an overlooked systemic problem in higher education." * Kirkus Reviews *"In her powerful new book . . . Sara Ahmed builds on a series of oral and written testimonies from students and employees who have complained to higher education universities about harassment and inequality. Here, she asks readers to think about some inescapable questions: What happens when complaints are pushed under the rug? How is complaint radical feminism? And, how can we learn about power from those who choose to fight against the powerful?" -- Rebecca Schneid * Indy Week *"This is audacious but persuasive critique, which accrues its power by stealth. Complaint! is dense with insight, but admirably lucid." -- Zora Simic * Australian Book Review *"Inspired by the students she worked with, Ahmed’s new book examines the act—indeed, the feminist pedagogy—of complaining within an organization. With the help of testimonials from individuals who filed complaints of harassment, bullying, and abuse at Goldsmiths and other universities, Ahmed explores the cracks within these formal systems and illustrates the painful processes that survivors experience too often." -- Yvette Dionne and Rosa Cartagena * Bitch *"An absolutely brilliant endeavor. . . . The real nuance and sophistication of this book, written with such emotional and intellectual insight, the means by which Ahmed identifies strategies of institutional power in relation to power in relation to harassment and abuse is revelatory, thorny, painful, and very, very necessary." -- Linda M. Morra * Getting Lit with Linda *"Sara Ahmed’s Complaint! is an antidote to apathy. . . . The potent reminder that Ahmed offers is that we are not the ones with the problem, that a number of voices raised up in complaint can help identify that the problem lies elsewhere." -- Eda Gunaydin * Sydney Review of Books *"It’s feminism that isn’t out to win friends but should certainly influence people. It’s angry because anger is required. And it’s collective and inclusive. . . . ever quick to pick up on ironies and contradictions, she nails it time after time. 'Making a complaint is often necessary because of a crisis or trauma,' she writes, but 'the complaint often becomes part of the crisis or trauma.' Such phrases characterise Ahmed’s Möbius band idiolect; they hit home because of the writer’s extraordinary skill." -- Emma Rees * Times Higher Education *"Ahmed brings great authority and gravity to Complaint!, from her own experiences (she resigned from an institution after they mishandled a series of complaints), her engagement with a “complaint collective” in the UK, and her decades-long scholarship in feminist, queer, and race studies. Black feminism and women of color feminism anchor the book. The author does not flinch at the difficult intersections where one underrepresented or traditionally marginalized group seems at odds with another; instead, she examines the effects of complaint in each area of these intersections, retaining her sharp focus on an analysis of power dynamics." -- Ellen Mayock * Public Books *"This is another insightful book in Ahmed’s well-regarded series of considerations of what acting as a feminist in non-feminist institutions means. . . . Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." * Choice *"Ahmed illuminates how institutions like the university are designed for precisely the people who can and continue to flourish while miming theoretical righteousness and perpetuating violent norms." -- Anna Nguyen * LSE Review of Books *“Complaint! offers catharsis, collectivity, and care. It is an archive of complaint, it is a radical call to action, and it is a feminist record. It is also beautifully written, deeply painful, and absolutely necessary at this very moment.” -- Catherine Oliver * Gender, Place & Culture *"This book is inspiring and a source of solidarity. It provides encouragement to protest and fight for change. And whilst no doubt a difficult read for university leaders, they should read it to help them reflect on what is happening in their institutions and learn how they can truly implement those policies and practice to bring about fair and just equality of opportunity." -- Gill Crozier * British Journal of Sociology of Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Hearing Complaint 1 Part I. Institutional Mechanics 27 1. Mind the Gap! Policies, Procedures, and Other Nonperformatives 29 2. On Being Stopped 69 Part II. The Immanence of Complaint 101 3. In the Thick of It 103 4. Occupied 137 Part III. If These Doors Could Talk? 175 5. Behind Closed Doors: Complaints and Institutional Violence 179 6. Holding the Door: Power, Promotion, Progression 220 Part IV. Conclusions 257 7. Collective Conclusions by Leila Whitley, Tiffany Page, and Alice Corble, with Heidi Hasbrouck, Chryssa Sdrolia and others 261 8. Complaint Collectives 274 Notes 311 References 343 Index 353
£80.75
Duke University Press Vulgar Beauty
Book SynopsisMila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chinese-ness.Trade Review“In this gorgeously written book, Mila Zuo captures how Chinese female film stars perform beauty in ways that reflect their negotiation with the racial sexualization of their femininity. With a rigorous and lucid ferocity, Zuo boldly brings together critical theory, philosophy, aesthetics, women of color feminism, feminist film theory, and performance theory to help us understand Chinese women’s presences on screen. Fearless and powerful, Vulgar Beauty is a pleasure to read.” -- Celine Parreñas Shimizu, author of * The Proximity of Other Skins: Ethical Intimacy in Global Cinema *"[Zuo's] metaphoric language, mostly revolving around food, offers the reader not only an intellectual exploration of the power of vulgar beauty to destabilize racial and patriarchal power structures but also a flavorful and aesthetic journey in and of itself." -- E. Nastacia Schmoll * Lateral *"Anyone interested in performance, in gender and sexuality, in race on an international stage, in Chinese politics and history in this century of suffering, needs to read this book. Anyone hungry, voracious perhaps, for interdisciplinary diasporic and transnational critique that engages not only with cultural but also intellectual traditions from China and Korea had better prepare to feast." -- Vivian L. Huang * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Tasting Vulgar Beauty 1 1. Bitter Medicine, Racial Flavor: Gong Li 39 2. Salty-Cool: Maggie Cheung and Joan Chen 73 3. Pungent Atmospheres: Bai Ling and Tang Wei 113 4. Sweet and Soft Coupling: Vivian Hsu and Shu Qi 152 5. Sour Laughter: Charlyne Yi and Ali Wong 193 Conclusion: Aftertaste 234 Notes 241 Bibliography 267 Index 289
£75.65
Duke University Press The Force of Witness
Book SynopsisIn The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence. Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and her years of activism, Fregoso traces the micro and macro scales of misogyny and the patterns of state complicity with gender violence. She shows how different forms of witnessing—from activist-mothers’ bearing witness to the memories of their daughters and expert witnesses in court cases to communal witnessing and a scholar-activist-citizen witnessing her own actions—are key to resisting feminicidal violence. Fregoso situates these forms of witness in the histories, contexts, structures, bodies, and intersectional struggles they emerge from. By outlining the complexities of feminicidal violence in relation to witnessing processes, Fregoso challenges the notion of witness as an individual or autonomous subject inscribed solely in the legal or religious arenas. Rather,Trade Review"Fregoso masterfully and poignantly combines theory, scholarship, and activism in this volume, thereby bearing witness and accompanying others in their struggles for justice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- I. Coronado * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prelude 1 1. Chronicles of Witness 13 Interlude 1: Re-Memory for the Dead 58 2. Mexico’s Longest War 63 3. The Artist and Witness 96 Interlude 2: Redressing Injustice 115 4. The Art of Witness 119 5. Witnesses to Mexico’s “Living Dead” 138 Interlude 3: Flor de Arena 159 6. Stolen Lives and Fugitivity 163 Postlude 183 Notes 185 Bibliography 211 Index 229
£70.55
