Gender studies: women and girls Books

Book SynopsisAsian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system.Trade Review"Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance." -- Yolanda Flores Niemann * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia *"A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone—including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders." -- Carmen Gonzalez * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247595 * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Recommended." * Choice *"Fight the Tower explicitly challenges readers to action from the opening Women of Color in Academia Manifesto to the conclusion: turn research into action and join the movement to build a new academy of liberatory education that models and “fosters the kind of respect and empathy upon which social justice is built.” * International Examiner *Table of ContentsContents Prologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty Against Injustices in the Academy Shirley Hune Section I: “Fear is the Path to the Dark Side”: Introducing The Fight Waking WP Introduction: “The Time to Fight is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis Section 2: “That’s No Moon!”: Attack of the Institution Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim? WP Chapter 1: Unpacking the Master’s Plan: Asian American Women Resisting the Language of Academic Imperialism Eliza Noh Chapter 2: Investigating Discrimination: Injustice Against Women of Color in the Academy Jane Junn and Mai’a K. Davis Cross Chapter 3: Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in Academia Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee, and Jing Mai Section 3: “You Are Unwise to Lower Your Defenses”: The Phantom Menace The Cost of Speaking WP Chapter 4: Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students Negotiating Power in Academia Shannon Deloso Chapter 5: Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation Of and By Hmong Americans Kaozong N. Mouavangsou Chapter 6: An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate School Cindy Nhi Huynh Chapter 7: Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight Akiko Takeyama Chapter 8: How to Leave Academia Rani Neutill Section 4: “Do. Or Do Not. There is No Try”: Radical Love as Pedagogy and Practice She Shall Not Be Moved WP Chapter 9: Attack on the Spirit by the “Rational World” (and Spiritual Recovery from It) Brett J. Esaki Chapter 10: Care Work: The Invisible Labor of Asian American Women in Academia Wei Ming Dariotis and Grace J. Yoo Chapter 11: Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano Chapter 12: Mothering is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care) Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales Chapter 13: Resistance is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah! Genevieve Erin O’Brien Chapter 14: Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies Wei Ming Dariotis Section 5: The Academic Awakens: “We Are One with the Force and the Force is One with Us” Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke Wei Ming Dariotis and Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde My Kintsuki WP Epilogue: Upward and Onward: Asian American Women’s Legal Resistance Robyn Rodriguez Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisUtilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women’s sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in this period hesitated to advocate for adolescent sexual and reproductive rights, revealing a new culture war altogether--one between adults of various political stripes in the cultural mainstream who prioritized the desire to delay girlhood sexual experience at all costs, and adults who remained culturally underground in their support for teenagers’ access to frank sexual information, and who would dare to advocate for this in public. The book tells the story of how the latter group of adults fought alongside teenagers themselves, who constituted a large and increasingly visible part of this activism. The history of the debates over teenage sexual behavior reveals unexpected alliances in American political battles, and sheds new light on the resurgence of the right in the US in recent years.Trade Review“Teenage Dreams is a vital contribution to our historic understanding of the US culture wars from the 1980s to the present moment. This rich analysis uncovers a wealth of youth activism around sexuality, revealing how we might benefit if we heard the voices of youth who are typically left out of public conversations on their own sexuality.” -- Julie Bettie * author of Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity *"Teenage sexuality has long been a site of contention in US politics and popular culture. Examining policies and popular ideologies starting in the 1980s, Charlie Jeffries brings to light political and social histories that have long restricted teenage girl sexuality. Jeffries’ research into how multiple influencers of US policy have denied teen girls access to sex-positive education and information is as timely as it is informative." -- Rebekah J. Buchanan * author of Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics *“Teenage Dreams is a vital contribution to our historic understanding of the US culture wars from the 1980s to the present moment. This rich analysis uncovers a wealth of youth activism around sexuality, revealing how we might benefit if we heard the voices of youth who are typically left out of public conversations on their own sexuality.” -- Julie Bettie * author of Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity *"Teenage sexuality has long been a site of contention in US politics and popular culture. Examining policies and popular ideologies starting in the 1980s, Charlie Jeffries brings to light political and social histories that have long restricted teenage girl sexuality. Jeffries’ research into how multiple influencers of US policy have denied teen girls access to sex-positive education and information is as timely as it is informative." -- Rebekah J. Buchanan * author of Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Teenage Girls and the New Right 2. Women and Children? Sexual Speech and Sexual Harm 3. Explicit Content: Cultures of Girlhood 4. The Third Wave and the Third Way 5. Medicine, Education, and Sexualization Epilogue: Girlhood Sexualities in the Contemporary Culture Wars Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1978 the world’s first “test-tube baby” was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of the human body has created new opportunities for family building, but also prompted new conflicts about rights to and control over reproductive cells. In collaborative forms of reproduction that build on IVF technologies, such as egg and embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, multiple women may variously contribute to conception, gestation/birth, and the legal and social responsibilities for rearing a child, creating intentionally fragmented maternities. Undoing Motherhood examines the implications of such fragmented maternities in the post-IVF reproductive era for generating maternity uncertainty—an increasing cultural ambiguity about what does and should constitute maternity. Undoing Motherhood explores this uncertainty in the social worlds of reproductive medicine and law. Trade Review“Undoing Motherhood is fascinating and unique; there is really no other published work that empirically examines the issues, debates, and contestations about maternity from the meso-level/organizational level that shape definitions about maternity and ensuing contestations when assisted reproductive technologies are involved.” — Susan Markens, author of Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Motherhood “Undoing Motherhood beautifully weaves together the worlds of reproductive medicine and the law to explore how technology has complicated the meaning of motherhood. The book is a compelling story of how new reproductive technologies have profoundly affected our conceptions of parenthood.” — Naomi R. Cahn, author of The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived FamiliesTable of Contents1. A New Maternity Uncertainty? 2. Conceiving Motherhood and the Repronormative Family 3. Losing My Genetics: Paternal versus Maternal Concerns 4. Contingent Maternities? Maternal Claims Making in Collaborative Reproduction 5. Designating Maternity: Contested Motherhood and the Courts 6. Adopting or Resisting New Maternities? 7. Concluding Thoughts: Maternity Somewhere in Between Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisOfficial Companion to the Library of Congress Exhibition.The campaign for women’s suffrage—considered the largest reform movement in American history—lasted more than seven decades. The struggle was not for the fainthearted. For years, determined women organized, lobbied, paraded, petitioned, lectured, picketed, and faced imprisonment in pursuit of the right to vote. Drawing from the Library’s extensive collections of photographs, personal papers, and the organizational records of such figures as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Church Terrell, Carrie Chapman Catt, the National Woman’s Party, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Shall Not Be Denied traces the movement leading to the women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, the contributions of suffragists who worked to persuade women that they deserved the same rights as men, the divergent political strategies and internal divisions they overcame, the push for a federal women’s suffrage amendment, and the legacy of the movement. A companion to the exhibition staged by the Library of Congress, which opened on June 4, 2019—the 100th anniversary of the US Senate’s passage of the suffrage amendment that would become the 19th amendment—Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote is part of the national commemoration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage.Published by Rutgers University Press in association with the Library of Congress. Trade Review“This artfully presented collection of photographs, broadsheets, cartoons, pamphlets and varied other illustrations of women’s struggle for equality in America, along with illuminating prose, makes it clear that the battle for rights has been bitter, sometimes brutal. And it’s not over yet. Though it might make you mad—read it and learn!” -- Cokie Roberts * journalist and author of Founding Mothers, Ladies of Liberty, Capital Dames *"The history of this struggle is one of celebration and setbacks, commanded by dynamic and formidable personalities—change-makers—who believed in relentless action and civil disobedience in the name of equality and justice. In fighting for the right to vote, women formed national political organizations, developed new strategies for protest, and brought women into the public sphere in new and more visible ways. These advances laid the groundwork for civic action that has been emulated by those working for other civil rights causes." -- Carla D. Hayden * Librarian of Congress, from the foreword *Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Carla D. Hayden 1 Building a Movement 2 New Tactics for a New Generation 3 Fortitude, Sacrifice, Victory 4 The Fight Continues Acknowledgments Bibliography / Further Reading Index Illustration Credits

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Book SynopsisLatinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina information workers in the Bell System from their entrance in 1973 to their retirements by 2015. Author Melissa Villa-Nicholas demonstrates the importance of Latinas of the field of telecommunications through their own words and uses supporting archival research to provide an overview of how Latinas engage and remember a critical analysis of their work place, information technologies, and the larger globalized economy and shifting borderlands through their intersectional identities as information workers. The book offers a rich and engaging portrait of the critical history of Latinas in telecommunications, from their manual to automated to digitized labor. Trade Review“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at AT&T.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing *“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at ATT.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Comp *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Why Latinas? Overlapping Technology Histories 2 The Invisible Information Worker 3 Latinas on the Line 4 We Were Family 5 The Telecommunications Life Cycle: Lorraine 6 Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLatinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina information workers in the Bell System from their entrance in 1973 to their retirements by 2015. Author Melissa Villa-Nicholas demonstrates the importance of Latinas of the field of telecommunications through their own words and uses supporting archival research to provide an overview of how Latinas engage and remember a critical analysis of their work place, information technologies, and the larger globalized economy and shifting borderlands through their intersectional identities as information workers. The book offers a rich and engaging portrait of the critical history of Latinas in telecommunications, from their manual to automated to digitized labor. Trade Review“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at AT&T.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing *“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at ATT.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Comp *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Why Latinas? Overlapping Technology Histories 2 The Invisible Information Worker 3 Latinas on the Line 4 We Were Family 5 The Telecommunications Life Cycle: Lorraine 6 Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBefore Bemberg: Argentine Women Filmmakers calls into question the historiography of Argentine women filmmakers that has centered on María Luisa Bemberg to the exclusion of her predecessors. Its introductory discussion of the abundant initial participation by women in film production in the 1910s is followed by an account of their exclusion from creative roles in the studio cinema, which was only altered by the opportunities opened by a boom in short filmmaking in the 1960s. The book then discusses in depth the six sound features directed by women before 1980, which, despite their trailblazing explorations of the perspectives of female characters, daring denunciations of authoritarianism and censorship, and modernizing formal invention, have been forgotten by Argentine film history. Looking at the work and roles of Eva Landeck, Vlasta Lah, María Herminia Avellaneda and María Elena Walsh and Maria Bemberg, the book recognizes these filmmakers’ contributions at a significant moment in which movements to eliminate gender-based oppression and violence in Argentina and elsewhere are surging.Watch some of the films discussed in the book with English subtitles (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF_6F4am5024rklIWwExUVA?view_as=subscriber).Trade Review“Before Bemberg excavates a fascinating history of Argentine women filmmakers that have rarely been acknowledged. The book promises to widen the framing of important filmmakers in the Argentine film canon including Maria Luisa Bemberg, Lucrecia Martel and other contemporary women directors. Matt Losada’s work presents an important contribution to the lesser known, but equally important women directors from earlier eras that are at last gaining wider recognition." -- Tamara Falicov * author of The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film *"Film production in Argentina had been very much a male affair until the emergence of María Luisa Bemberg in the 1970s. Losada has undertaken a significant documentary history of Bemberg’s predecessors, in a study that contributes to our understanding of both the difficulties women faced in the industry and their contributions to cinema." -- David William Foster * author of Queer Issues in Latin American Filmmaking *"Losada's contribution to the scholarship of Argentine cinema and Latin American women's cinema is invaluable. Specifically, his archival research into Argentine women directors before Bemberg is instrumental in understanding the true history of women's active participation in Argentine cinema from the very beginning." * The Americas *"In short, Losada presents us with a text full of information, destined to rewrite the history of the cinematographic directors who preceded Bemberg. Added to the archival work is the wide dissemination of the research carried out by Argentine critics, many of whom are linked in one way or another to AsAECA. Although the analysis of the films is excellent, this reader is left wanting to know more about the time and who marked it, but as long as that is the reaction, Losada has more than fulfilled its objective." * Imagofagia, Magazine of the Argentine Association of Film and Audiovisual Studies *"The book's initial claim to recuperation, one that would allow today's cinephiles and scholars to access a more complete history and acknowledge the past difficulties and possibilities for women', is substantiated by the critical reading of a wide range of primary and secondary sources, combined with impeccable textual analysis. What eventually enables the delivery of the far more complex story' that this study aims to accomplish, is the author's ability to navigate from the macro i.e., the working conditions of women within the industry, during the era of the studio system in Argentina), to the micro (i.e., the detailed examination of how the gendered mechanics of the cinematic apparatus are challenged and de-constructed in the films that form this study's corpus)." -- Constanza Burucúa * Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies *“Before Bemberg excavates a fascinating history of Argentine women filmmakers that have rarely been acknowledged. The book promises to widen the framing of important filmmakers in the Argentine film canon including Maria Luisa Bemberg, Lucrecia Martel and other contemporary women directors. Matt Losada’s work presents an important contribution to the lesser known, but equally important women directors from earlier eras that are at last gaining wider recognition." -- Tamara Falicov * author of The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film *"Film production in Argentina had been very much a male affair until the emergence of María Luisa Bemberg in the 1970s. Losada has undertaken a significant documentary history of Bemberg’s predecessors, in a study that contributes to our understanding of both the difficulties women faced in the industry and their contributions to cinema." -- David William Foster * author of Queer Issues in Latin American Filmmaking *"Losada's contribution to the scholarship of Argentine cinema and Latin American women's cinema is invaluable. Specifically, his archival research into Argentine women directors before Bemberg is instrumental in understanding the true history of women's active participation in Argentine cinema from the very beginning." * The Americas *"In short, Losada presents us with a text full of information, destined to rewrite the history of the cinematographic directors who preceded Bemberg. Added to the archival work is the wide dissemination of the research carried out by Argentine critics, many of whom are linked in one way or another to AsAECA. Although the analysis of the films is excellent, this reader is left wanting to know more about the time and who marked it, but as long as that is the reaction, Losada has more than fulfilled its objective." * Imagofagia, Magazine of the Argentine Association of Film and Audiovisual Studies *"The book's initial claim to recuperation, one that would allow today's cinephiles and scholars to access a more complete history and acknowledge the past difficulties and possibilities for women', is substantiated by the critical reading of a wide range of primary and secondary sources, combined with impeccable textual analysis. What eventually enables the delivery of the far more complex story' that this study aims to accomplish, is the author's ability to navigate from the macro i.e., the working conditions of women within the industry, during the era of the studio system in Argentina), to the micro (i.e., the detailed examination of how the gendered mechanics of the cinematic apparatus are challenged and de-constructed in the films that form this study's corpus)." -- Constanza Burucúa * Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. A History of the Gendered Division of Labor in Argentine Cinema 2. Eva Landeck 3. Beauvoir Before Bemberg: Lah, Avellaneda-Walsh, Bemberg Acknowledgements About the Author Filmography Works Cited

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Book SynopsisErotic Cartographies uses subjective mapping, a participatory data collection technique, to demonstrate how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices to reinforce and resist colonial ascriptions on subject bodies. The women strategically embody their sexual identities to challenge imposed subject categories and to contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging. Erotic Cartographies refers to the processes of mapping territories of self-knowing and self-expression, both cognitively in the imagination and on paper during the mapping exercise, exploring how meaning is given to space, and how it is transformed. Using the women’s quotes and maps, the book focuses on the false binary of public-private, the practices of home and family, and religious nationalism and spiritual self-seeking, to demonstrate the women’s challenges to the structural, symbolic, and interpersonal violence of colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.Trade Review"Erotic Cartographies is a significant and a very welcome contribution to the small but growing body of scholarship on same-sex loving women in the Caribbean. Through subjective maps, Ghisyawan teases out Trinidadian women’s articulations of identity, passion, friendship, and family, as well as how they resist homophobia and find spaces of safety and belonging. It is a finely crafted study that is theoretically and methodologically rich, clearly produced with much care and respect. A vital text in Queer, Caribbean and decolonial studies." -- Kamala Kempadoo * author of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Hu *"Ghisyawan makes an outstanding contribution to Caribbean knowledge production in this profound and insightful study of Caribbean sexuality and same-sex desire. Through a much-needed focus on same-sex-loving women and space-making practices, she offers a unique decolonial methodology through subjective mapping and intersectional feminist praxis that demonstrates complex understandings of safety, visibility, place, identity, and queerness. Erotic Cartographies locates and affirms queer Caribbean belonging and spaces by examining lived experiences, creativity, spirituality, and erotic subjectivities that are fiercely and powerfully defiant." -- Angelique V. Nixon * author of Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture *"For Ghisyawan, the erotic is a kind of self-knowing that allows us to reshape space into safe havens, shifting and eliminating the boundaries of what it means to transgress, while also intuiting unsafe spaces and knowing the kinds of performances that become necessary around the potential hostilities of family members, friends, coworkers, and strangers. Ultimately, Erotic Cartographies challenges us to consider the role the erotic plays in our lives as what moves us toward decolonial spaces that are more than just safe enough. By allowing ourselves to inhabit our erotic selves more fully, we also allow ourselves to map the world anew." -- Jessica Díaz Rodríguez * Sx Salon *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsNote on Trinidadian LanguageProloguePart I: Introduction and Methodology1 Introduction: Erotic Cartographies and the Decolonial2 Subjective Mapping: Queer Decolonial MethodologyPart II: Confronting Binaries: Space, Gender, and Social Class3 Being in Public: Queer Transnational Subjectivities4 Contesting “Home”: Unsettling Public-Private BoundariesPart III: State, Religion, and Personhood5 Religious Nationalism: Its Roots and Fruit6 “Dealing Up with the Spirit”: Spiritual Knowledge and Erotic Fulfillment7 ConclusionAppendix 1. Analytics Used for MapsAppendix 2. Bio-Data of Research ParticipantsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisRecently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Being childfree challenges the ‘procreation imperative’ residing at the center of our hetero-normative understandings, occupying an uneasy position in relation to—simultaneously—traditional academic ideologies and prevalent social norms. After all, as Adi Avivi recognizes, "if a woman is not a mother, the patriarchal social order is in danger." This collection engages with these (mis)perceptions about childfree people: in media representations, demographics, historical documents, and both psychological and philosophical models. Foundational pieces from established experts on the childfree choice--Rhonny Dam, Laurie Lisle, Christopher Clausen, and Berenice Fisher--appear alongside both activist manifestos and original scholarly work, comprehensively brought together. Academics and activists in various disciplines and movements also riff on the childfree life: its implications, its challenges, its conversations, and its agency—all in relation to its inevitability in the 21st century. Childfree across the Disciplines unequivocally takes a stance supporting the subversive potential of the childfree choice, allowing readers to understand childfreedom as a sense of continuing potential in who—or what—a person can become.Trade Review"Offering a timely rejoinder to pronatalism, Childfree Across the Disciplines features numerous authors who see 'reproductive consciousness' as a key component of reproductive justice. This volume’s perspective is especially vital in a world that too often assumes childlessness to be a sacrifice, default, or deficit, rather than accurately representing what childfreedom is: a reasoned and purposeful attempt to forge identities and life pathways that are not circumscribed by reproductive imperatives." -- Suzanne Leonard * co-editor of Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture *"Childfree Across the Disciplines is a first of its kind, bringing academic and activist voices together as it challenges readers to rethink what they think they know to be true about the childfree choice, who makes it, and why." -- Amy Blackstone * author of Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence *"Offering a timely rejoinder to pronatalism, Childfree Across the Disciplines features numerous authors who see 'reproductive consciousness' as a key component of reproductive justice. This volume’s perspective is especially vital in a world that too often assumes childlessness to be a sacrifice, default, or deficit, rather than accurately representing what childfreedom is: a reasoned and purposeful attempt to forge identities and life pathways that are not circumscribed by reproductive imperatives." -- Suzanne Leonard * co-editor of Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture *"Childfree Across the Disciplines is a first of its kind, bringing academic and activist voices together as it challenges readers to rethink what they think they know to be true about the childfree choice, who makes it, and why." -- Amy Blackstone * author of Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: Childfree across the Disciplines by Davinia Thornley Part I: Childfree Subjectivities Chapter 1. Affirming Social Value: Women without Children [republished] by Berenice Fisher Chapter 2. Childfree Minority Stress by Melanie Brewster and Olivia Snow Chapter 3. “You will Change Your Mind”: The Controlling Function of Microaggressions on the Minds of Parents and Non-Parents by Adi Avivi Chapter 4. Selfish is Not a Four-Letter Word: Self-Care and Other-Care among Childfree Women by Amanda Michiko Shigihara Part II: Childfree Representation Chapter 5. Childfree in Toyland [republished] by Christopher Clausen Chapter 6. The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day by Laura Carroll Chapter 7. Reproductive Villains: The Representation of Childfree Women in Mainstream Cinema and Television by Natalia Cherjovsky Part III: Childfree Economic and Environmental Perspectives Chapter 8. Excerpts from An Atypical Chick: A Gay Man in a Woman's Body [republished] by Rhonny Dam Chapter 9. The Breadwinner Dilemma: The Real and Opportunity Cost of Children by Laura S. Scott Chapter 10. Voluntary Childlessness: An Upstream Choice in the Anthropocene by Erika M. Arias Part IV: Childfree Redefinitions Chapter 11: Recognizing Our Womanhood, Redefining Femininity [republished] by Laurie Lisle Chapter 12. Refusing to be Othered: Re-defining the “Silent Bodies” of Childfree Women by Anna Gotlib Concluding Thoughts by Davinia Thornley Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisScience plays a substantial, though under-acknowledged, role in shaping popular understandings of rape. Statistical figures like “1 in 4 women have experienced completed or attempted rape” are central for raising awareness. Yet such scientific facts often become points of controversy, particularly as conservative scholars and public figures attempt to discredit feminist activists. Rape by the Numbers explores scientists’ approaches to studying rape over more than forty years in the United States and Canada. In addition to investigating how scientists come to know the scope, causes, and consequences of rape, this book delves into the politics of rape research. Scholars who study rape often face a range of social pressures and resource constraints, including some that are unique to feminized and politicized fields of inquiry. Collectively, these matters have far-reaching consequences. Scientific projects may determine who counts as a potential victim/survivor or aggressor in a range of contexts, shaping research agendas as well as state policy, anti-violence programming and services, and public perceptions. Social processes within the study of rape determine which knowledges count as credible science, and thus who may count as an expert in academic and public contexts.Trade Review"This book will truly be a welcome wake-up call for those social scientists dedicated to studying rape and sexual assault. It effectively reveals the many blind spots of much of the work that has been done over the past several decades, and is refreshingly full of valid and reasonable recommendations and potential solutions to help move this field of study forward most inclusively and productively." -- Deborah White * Professor, Trent University *“Rape by the Numbers is an important, well-researched, theoretically sophisticated, and engagingly presented book. It brings concepts from the field of science and technology studies together with quantitative and qualitative data to generate an important analysis and set of recommendations about the social science of sexual violence.” -- Alexandra Rutherford * director, Psychology's Feminist Voices Oral History and Digital Archive Project, York University *"Rape by the Numbers lights a path toward more critical and equitable rape research. I encourage students of gender, sexuality, labor, feminist science, and violence to follow where that newly lit path leads." * Gender & Society *"This book will truly be a welcome wake-up call for those social scientists dedicated to studying rape and sexual assault. It effectively reveals the many blind spots of much of the work that has been done over the past several decades, and is refreshingly full of valid and reasonable recommendations and potential solutions to help move this field of study forward most inclusively and productively." -- Deborah White * Professor, Trent University *“Rape by the Numbers is an important, well-researched, theoretically sophisticated, and engagingly presented book. It brings concepts from the field of science and technology studies together with quantitative and qualitative data to generate an important analysis and set of recommendations about the social science of sexual violence.” -- Alexandra Rutherford * director, Psychology's Feminist Voices Oral History and Digital Archive Project, York University *"Rape by the Numbers lights a path toward more critical and equitable rape research. I encourage students of gender, sexuality, labor, feminist science, and violence to follow where that newly lit path leads." * Gender & Society *"This book is essential reading, and a powerful reminder to sexual violence scientists to consider and reflect on the partial knowledge they/we produce, and the social processes that impact and are impacted by their/our research." -- Heather R. Hlavka * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of Contents1 Introduction Part I Conceptualizing Rape 2 Locating the Problem 3 Accounting for Rape 4 Investigating the Aftermath Part II Social Mechanisms 5 Choosing to Study Rape 6 Dividends and Detriments of Dissent 7 Conclusion Appendix: Interview Guide Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHigh-Risk Feminism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established tradition of studying women in war, we tend to focus on their roles as mothers or carers, as peacemakers, or sometimes as revolutionaries. This book explains the gendered underpinnings of why women engage in feminist mobilization, even when this takes place in a ‘domain of losses’ that exposes them to high levels of risk. It follows four women’s organizations who break with traditional gender norms and defy armed groups’ social and territorial control, exposing them to retributive punishment. It provides rich evidence to document how women are able to surmount the barriers to mobilization when they frame their actions in terms of resistance, rather than fear. Trade Review"High Risk Feminism in Colombia updates all our frameworks to explain why women mobilize for gender justice in the face of explicit threats making them targets for violence. In Colombia—but with relevance to Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan and many other contexts—Zulver shows how feminist identities and frames have evolved well beyond the strategic essentialism of motherhood, empowering current generations to protest." -- Jacqui True * author of The Political Economy of Violence against Women *"High Risk Feminism in Colombia is a much-needed contribution to our understanding of why, how, and when women engage in gender justice struggles (feminisms), even in contexts where such visible participation puts them at high risk. This is truly an engaged project and a rigorous academic effort to bring to life the agency of women struggling for gender justice in violent contexts where their lives are threatened." -- María Emma Wills Obregón * Adjoint Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Universidad de Los Andes *"Using the idea of ‘high risk feminism’ allows Julia Zulver to unpack the multiple risks faced by women activists and the strategies and reasonings they deploy to defend their rights as women. Considering the ongoing gendered violence and dispossession in Colombia and Latin America, understanding and supporting feminist activism is more important than ever." -- Jelke Boesten * co-editor of Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts: Global Perspectives on Commemoration an *"This fascinating and imperative volume examines feminist mobilization and collective resistance catalyzed by danger, loss and risk in Colombia." * Ms. Magazine *"Zulver offers a compellingly theorized and empirically profound insight into Colombian women’s civil society mobilization. High-Risk Feminism in Colombia is an essential read for scholars of gender and armed conflict, as well as those interested in civilian agency during war." -- Anne-Kathrin Kreft * International Affairs *"High-Risk Feminism in Columbia provides a new explanation of why women engage in feminist mobilization despite the high risks...Through detailed and conscientious documentation of four women's organizations, Julia Zulver paints an impressive picture of feminist agency in violent contexts. The book is theoretically innovative and based on a compelling methodology and impressive empirics... [I]ts insights are relevant for a wide range of contexts, such as Afghanistan, Kenya, or the Philippines. Other peace scholars will surely take up the original framework that Zulver proposes in order to advance our knowledge of feminist mobilization." -- Peace Studies section * International Studies Association *Table of ContentsList of Photos & Maps List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: High-Risk Feminism in Colombia 2. Why Women Mobilize in High-Risk Contexts 3. The High-Risk Feminism Framework 4. The Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas: Creating a Site of Feminist Resistance in a Conflict Zone 5. Afromupaz: Intersectional High-Risk Feminism in Cuerpo y Cara de Mujer 6. La Soledad: When Women Do Not Mobilise 7. Conclusion: Why Understanding Women’s Grassroots Mobilization Matters Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical cancer prevention reveals the inner workings of emerging post-communist medicine, which aligns the state and the market, public and private health care providers, policy makers, and ordinary women. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women’s responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care. Cervical cancer prevention – and especially the HPV vaccination – provided Romanians a legitimate instance to express their conflicting views of post-communist medicine. What sets Romania apart is that pronatalism, patriarchy, lived religion, medical reforms, and moral contestation of preventive medicine bring into line systemic contingencies that expose the historical, social, and cultural trajectories of cervical cancer. Trade Review"The Cancer Within is a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceausescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era." -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *"Beautifully written and theoretically inspired, this vivid and pathbreaking ethnography shows how history continues to haunt Romanian women’s sexual and reproductive lives, and how post-socialist healthcare provides no panacea for a cervical cancer crisis and accompanying HPV vaccine hesitancy. The Cancer Within is a must-read for those interested in gender, sexuality, and reproductive health, as well as medicine in the post-socialist era." -- Marcia Inhorn * author of America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins *"The Cancer Within is a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceauşescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era." -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson Note on Terminology Introduction: Systemic Contingencies Part I: Women’s, Men’s and God’s Will 1. ”We All Descend from Communism” 2. Reproductive Invisibility Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part One. 3. Beyond Rationalities Part II: Medicine and Its Moralities 4. Dismantling Medicine Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part Two. 5. The Other Hospital 6. Locating Corruption Conclusion: The Space between Informed and Non-informed Refusal Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCaShawn Thompson crafted Black Girls Are Magic as a proclamation of Black women’s resilience in 2013. Less than five years later, it had been repurposed as a gateway to an attractive niche market. Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic examines the commercial infrastructure that absorbed Thompson’s mantra. While the terminology may have changed over the years, mainstream brands and mass media companies have consistently sought to acknowledge Black women’s possession of a distinct magic or power when it suits their profit agendas. Beginning with the inception of the Essence brand in the late 1960s, Timeka N. Tounsel examines the individuals and institutions that have reconfigured Black women’s empowerment as a business enterprise. Ultimately, these commercial gatekeepers have constructed an image economy that operates as both a sacred space for Black women and an easy hunting ground for their dollars. Trade Review“Branding Black Womanhood unearths the untold histories of the now-ubiquitous, commercial concept of 'Black Girl Magic.' With clear and compelling prose, Timeka Tounsel thoughtfully tells the story of how representations of Black women as 'magic' both provides Black women with empowerment and delivers a sparkly image that can seriously undercut Black women’s need for care.”— Ralina L. Joseph, author of Generation Mixed Goes to School: Listening to Multiracial KidsTable of ContentsPrologue Introduction: Black Women and the Twenty-First Century Image Economy Chapter 1: The Black Woman that Essence Built Chapter 2: Self-Branding Black Womanhood: The Magic of Susan L. Taylor Chapter 3: Marketing Dignity: The Commercial Grammar of Black Female Empowerment Chapter 4: Beyond Magic: Black Women Content Creators and Productive Vulnerability Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews with women ages 40 to 50, and newspaper coverage of mammography, Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the “mammography wars,” offering insights into the entrenched nature of debates over mammography that often get missed when applying a medical lens. Friedman’s analysis also suggests the sociology of attention’s unique potential for analyzing cultural conflicts beyond mammography, and even beyond medicine. Trade Review“Friedman is a thorough researcher with a clear, engaging style. Her focus on patterns of attention as the organizing analytical framework is fresh and unusual: a fascinating read.” -- Kelly Joyce * professor of sociology, Drexel University *“Mammography Wars is an insightful intervention into deeply entrenched conflict surrounding mammography screening standards in the United States. Friedman deftly blends together empirical analysis of the narratives driving disagreements among professionals and patients alike with a clear and accessible take on the power of the sociology of attention, breaking through seemingly intractable ideological battles to resolve conflict.” -- Piper Sledge * author of Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy *Table of Contents Introduction: The Mammography Wars Chapter 1: Skepticism and Interventionism as Attentional Types Chapter 2: Attentional Diversity—The Cognitive Structure of Patients’ Narratives of Mammography Chapter 3: Attentional Battles over Mammography Chapter 4: Attentional Weight—Relevance, Risk, and Expertise in Mammography Chapter 5: Mammography and Time Conclusion: Attentional Flexibility Appendix Acknowledgements Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and news platforms, Lawson maps the processes by which celebrity culture, digital platforms, and feminism transform one another. As she analyzes celebrity-centered stories ranging from “The Fappening” and the digital attack on actress Leslie Jones to stars’ activism in response to #MeToo, Lawson demonstrates how celebrity culture functions as a hypervisible space in which networked publics confront white feminism, assert the value of productive anger in feminist politics, and seek remedies for women’s vulnerabilities in digital spaces and beyond. Just Like Us asserts that, together, celebrity culture and digital platforms form a crucial discursive arena where postfeminist logics are unsettled, opening up more public, collective modes of holding individuals and groups accountable for their actions. Trade Review"An incisive look at the role of technology and celebrity culture during the #MeToo moment and beyond. In key case studies, Lawson shows how 21st-century strides for women have been confronted by misogynistic backlash, enabled by digital platforms. A critical read at this pivotal moment for women’s rights." -- Andrea McDonnell * co-author of Celebrity: A History of Fame *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Rise of Celebrity Feminism 1 Hacking Celebrity: Sexuality, Privacy, and Networked Misogyny in the Celebrity Nude Photo Hack 2 Staging Feminism: Negotiating Labor and Calling Out Racism at the 2015 Academy Awards 3 Nasty Women, Silly Girls: Feminist Generation Gaps and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign 4 Platform Vulnerabilities: Fighting Harassment and Misogynoir in the Digital Attack on Leslie Jones 5 TIME’S UP: Celebrity Feminism after #MeToo Conclusion: Celebrity Feminist Futures Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisEven academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities, Black and Smart analyzes the experiences of academically talented Black undergraduate women navigating their social and academic lives at urban historically white institutions and offers strategies for creating more inclusive academic and social environments for talented undergraduates. Table of Contents1. Students Like Jada: Invisible High-Achieving Black Women 2. Beyond Black and Smart 3. Learning While Black and Brilliant 4. Thriving and Threats in Campus Life 5. Performing Authentic Identities 6. Implications for Practice and Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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