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Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors.     In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads' campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law's treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itselfdebates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community's rights and freedoms. 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Essential.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Anna Lvovsky’s \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall\u003c\/i\u003e offers an exciting, novel contribution to the fast-growing field of police history in the United States. . . . \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e reshapes our understanding of the state’s regulation of gay life, and it complicates long-held assumptions about the relationship between police knowledge and police power.\" * American Journal of Legal History *\u003cbr\u003e\"With precise details and careful analysis, \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e tells a fascinating story about how the policing of homosexuality from the 1940s to the 1960s was far more contradictory and contested than we might think, and how courts of law played a crucial role in the emerging understanding and visibility of LGBT life.\" * The Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review Worldwide *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Lvovsky examines with both precision and breadth a time period during which litigants in queer society encountered considerably greater difficulty in the justice system... This important book casts new light on the legal intricacies and political realities of anti-gay legislation several generations before courts began looking with disfavor on laws stigmatizing or even criminalizing members of the queer community.\" * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lvovsky chronicles the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life in the US from the1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. She finds that the vice squads’ campaigns stood at the center of debates about not only the law’s treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself—debates that had often unexpected effects on the LGBTQ community’s civil liberties, and that continue to be relevant today.\" * Law \u0026amp; Social Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"In her stunning new book, \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Lvovsky argues that, in the United States, the criminal justice system was disjointed on the subject of homosexuality and how it should be policed. . . In an elegantly written examination of state liquor boards, courts and police, Lvovsky demonstrates that individual agents and agencies of the criminal justice system, alongside same-sex desiring people and ‘experts’, shaped and reshaped the public and legal concept of the ‘homosexual.'\" * Journal of Urban History *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this sophisticated and original work, Anna Lvovsky interrogates the policing of queer sexual and cultural expression in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. . . This textured and innovative study will interest legal and urban historians and scholars of gender and sexuality in the United States.\" * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Lvovsky tackles a topic—the history of police abuses of queer people and spaces—that historians have long documented and gives it an impressive new spin. Histories of LGBTQ experience in particular cities, for example, always include significant attention to these anti-LGBTQ policing practices. Lvovsky, however, turns this topic on its head by approaching the issue from the perspective of the state regulatory, police, and judicial systems. . . . Lvovsky has produced a work of impressive and fascinating scholarship. . .\" * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e offers powerful lessons for today’s civil rights battles, both in the courts and online. The book uses a case study of state enforcement of anti-vice laws against gay people to tell a larger story about an epistemological struggle over facts and knowledge, as well as the limits, if any, they place on power.\" * Michigan Law Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Visibility is the clarion call of LGBT politics, but \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e scrambles the signal. Lvovsky takes familiar moments of gay visibility as her starting point, showing how media attention hardened stereotypes about gay culture. Those stereotypes had a curious afterlife in the legal system, leading to 'epistemic gaps' between enforcement institutions. . . . By elaborating on this process, Lvovsky reveals the 'regulatory underside' to gay cultural visibility. . . [and] brings new insight to a question that has puzzled scholars across several fields: Why and how does cultural representation lead to increased state repression?\" * The University of Chicago Law Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lvovsky’s sophisticated approach paints a complex portrait of the state apparatus aimed at regulating queer spaces . . . [\u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e is] a crucial contribution to the scholarly literatures on LGBT communities and policing more generally. I expect it will be useful in part or in whole in courses for instructors in a wide range of disciplines, including history; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; criminology; and sociology.\" * Journal of the History of Sexuality *\u003cbr\u003e“Lvovsky has done incredible detective work to take us deep inside the machinery of antigay policing during its peak years. Focusing on three distinct sites—the regulation of gay bars by state liquor agencies, the work of plainclothes decoys, and the policing of public restrooms through ‘peepholes’—Lvovsky shows that a legal system we assumed to be monolithically repressive was in fact internally divided about these practices. This subtle and smart book not only illuminates the boundaries around sexual difference but criminal justice as well. Revelatory in every sense of the word.” -- Margot Canaday, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\"Lvovsky takes the vice patrolman—the villain who lurks at the edges of virtually every work of the queer communities that flourished in twentieth-century U.S. cities—and insistently pulls him into the spotlight. \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e is ambitious, meticulously researched, exceptionally well-conceived, and startlingly original. It deserves a wide readership among historians of law and legal history, LGBTQ history, urban history, and the history of policing and punishment. It is, in fact, a tour de force that will be read and reread by every scholar in the field and will lead us to ask new questions of our sources in the years to come.\" -- Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e“Lvovsky has written a splendid, insightful history of anti-gay policing in mid-twentieth century America. \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol \u003c\/i\u003eshows how investigatory tactics evolved and how they prompted and were in turn shaped by debates about the nature and prevalence of same-sex desire, the appropriate limits on law enforcement, and the kinds of authority and expertise that should matter in answering those questions. It's a gripping read, combining rich, ground-level detail with sober assessments of what those decades-old struggles signified and what lessons they hold for us today.” -- David Sklansky, Stanford Law School\u003cbr\u003e“’The 'police’ and ‘the gay community’ are often portrayed as monolithic entities. In \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e, Lvovsky shows how each entity revealed the extraordinary diversity of the other through their interactions in the pre-Stonewall United States. This is the debut of an important new scholar, who can etch a legal world in scrimshaw with strokes that are both bold and sure.” -- Kenji Yoshino, New York University School of Law\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ONE \/ When Anyone Can Tell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e TWO \/ Expert Witnesses on Trial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THREE \/ Plainclothes Decoys and the Limits of Criminal Justice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FOUR \/ The Rise of Ethnographic Policing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FIVE \/ Peepholes and Perverts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SIX \/ The Popular Press and the Gay World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EPILOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732920250711,"sku":"9780226769783","price":29.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226769783.jpg?v=1719998952"},{"product_id":"on-christopher-street-9780226824611","title":"On Christopher Street","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the eyes of publishing icon Michael Denneny, this cultural autobiography traces the evolution of the US's queer community in the three decades post-Stonewall.     The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in minute detail, and rightly memorialized in books, on tv, and in film as pivotal and powerful moments in queer history. Yet what about the moments in betweenthe tumultuous decade post-Stonewall when the queer community's vitality and creativity exploded across the country, even as the AIDS crisis emerged?  Michael Denneny was there for it all. As a founder and editor of the wildly influential magazine Christopher Street and later as the first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects in the 1970s and beyond. At St. Martin's Press, he acquired a slew of landmark titles by gay authorsmany for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editionspropelling queer voices into the mainstream cu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Because of his pivotal role in creating modern gay literature, Denneny has perhaps done more than any other single individual to actually create contemporary gay literary culture. \u003ci\u003eOn \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Street \u003c\/i\u003eshows that there was a first-rate intellect behind his more familiar role as publisher and editor. While this volume is an important window on the recent past, it also demonstrates the extent to which one man’s lively and humane intellect influenced the creation of contemporary gay culture.” * David Carter, author of Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOn Christopher Street \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a remarkable glimpse into the first decades after the Stonewall Riots, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a new culture in formation. A valuable and thoughtful account of a foundational moment in American cultural history.” * David K. Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare *\u003cbr\u003e“There simply is no other person in the LGBT community who has been as pivotal for LGBT publishing, from newspapers and magazines to books. This important book is a testament to the history of our community.” * Mark Segal, founder and publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News and author of And Then I Danced *\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael Denneny’s memoir-in-essays \u003ci\u003eOn Christopher Street\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates various aspects of gay life in the past half-century. . . . The book’s primary focus is the state of the burgeoning gay literary scene and its public and critical reception. In\u003cbr\u003e preserving articles as they appeared at the time, the book revives the atmosphere, hopes, fears, ambitions, and challenges of the nascent community, as experienced by Denneny as a gay man living and working in New York. It also exposes the flawed, underdeveloped personal perspectives that Denneny spent subsequent years grappling with and refining.\" * Foreword *\u003cbr\u003e\"As a founder and editor of the wildly influential literary journal \u003ci\u003eChristopher Street \u003c\/i\u003eand later as the first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects in the 1970s and beyond. At St. Martin’s Press, he acquired a slew of landmark titles by gay authors—many for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editions—propelling queer voices into the mainstream cultural conversation. . . . \u003ci\u003eOn Christopher Street\u003c\/i\u003e revisits that heady period to map out the cultural forces, geographies, and storylines of LGBTQ in those decades. Through 41 micro-chapters, Denneny draws on his journal writings, articles, interviews, and more from the 1970s and ’80s to put us there in this formative and also tragic time.\" * Queer Forty *\u003cbr\u003e\"As the queer community has survived countless attempts at suppression and elimination, this book offers not only a historical account of the political environment of the 1970s-80s. It also showcases tried and true forms of activism and rhetoric, ones that have kept and continue to make our survival possible.\" * Out in Jersey *\u003cbr\u003e\"If you love reading about gay life, you owe a debt to Michael Denneny.\" * Passport *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Becoming Real\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Morning in Gay America (1970–1980)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Street\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003cbr\u003e Dead Souls at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e: A Puzzling Case\u003cbr\u003e Lovers: The Story of Two Men\u003cbr\u003e “Everything Is Only Ten Years Old”: A Conversation with Felice Picano\u003cbr\u003e Decent Passions: Real Stories about Love\u003cbr\u003e Blue Moves: Conversation with a Male Porn Dancer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Beginning to Count Ourselves (1980–1983)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Archeologist of the Present: Michel Foucault in New York City\u003cbr\u003e Gay Politics and Its Premises: Sixteen Propositions\u003cbr\u003e Sixteen Propositions: An Exchange\u003cbr\u003e Scaring the Horses; or the Question of Gay Identity\u003cbr\u003e Who Are We? What Do We Want? How Best Might We Get it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: The State of the Tribe (1983–1987)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gay Pride and Survival in the Eighties\u003cbr\u003e The State of Gay Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Oedipus Revised: David Leavitt’s \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Language of Cranes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paragraph 175, or How Dark Can It Get?\u003cbr\u003e A Culture in a Crucible\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: Workaday Publishing, or Hegel’s Ernst (1985–1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Further Down the Road\u003cbr\u003e The Universal Voice of Gay Writers\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Allen Barnett\u003cbr\u003e How to Review a Gay Novel\u003cbr\u003e Chasing the Crossover Audience and Other Self-Defeating Strategies\u003cbr\u003e Editing Fiction and the Question of “Political Correctness”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 5: On the Raft of the Medusa (1988–1990)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Death of a Generation\u003cbr\u003e An Intellectual Ambush\u003cbr\u003e A Quilt of Many Colors\u003cbr\u003e Preaching to the Choir\u003cbr\u003e The Present Moment\u003cbr\u003e A Letter to Ed White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 6: In the Gathering Darkness an Age of Heroes (1991–1996)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eulogy for Allen Barnett\u003cbr\u003e Honoring Richard Rouillard\u003cbr\u003e Eulogy for Randy Shilts\u003cbr\u003e Necessary Bread: Gay Writing Comes of Age\u003cbr\u003e Stonewall: From Event to Idea\u003cbr\u003e Three Takes on John Preston\u003cbr\u003e Food for Life: A Dinner Party in Two Hours\u003cbr\u003e Turning . . . Turning: The Boys in the Band\u003cbr\u003e A Mouthful of Air: The Case of Larry Kramer\u003cbr\u003e Key West Seminar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 7: Reconsiderations (1996–2014)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hymn to the Gym\u003cbr\u003e AIDS Books: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going\u003cbr\u003e Affectionate Men\u003cbr\u003e Last Letter to Paul Monette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Looking Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: \u003ci\u003eOut \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: A Few Words about \u003ci\u003eChristopher Street\u003c\/i\u003e’s Finances\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: The Stonewall Inn Editions\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732929589591,"sku":"9780226824611","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226824611.jpg?v=1723809973"},{"product_id":"looking-through-the-speculum-9780226830865","title":"Looking through the Speculum","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHighlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women's health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces.     The women's health movement in the United States, beginning in 1969 and taking hold in the 1970s, was a broad-based movement seeking to increase women's bodily knowledge, reproductive control, and well-being. It was a political movement that insisted that bodily autonomy provided the key to women's liberation. It was also an institution-building movement that sought to transform women's relationships with medicine; it was dedicated to increasing women's access to affordable health care without the barriers of homophobia, racism, and sexism. But the movement did not only focus on women's bodies. It also encouraged activists to reimagine their relationships with one another, to develop their relationships in the name of personal and political change, and, eventually, to discover and confront th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A well-researched, eye-opening book about the evolution of the women’s health movement. 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Houck chronicles how feminist health activists established women’s health clinics to offer an alternative to the patriarchal model of medicine in which male physicians controlled procedures, information, and medications central to women’s intimate lives. Houck takes us inside the clinics to illustrate how feminist activists put into practice ideas about feminist health care and feminist leadership models. Over time, as the patient population became less white, less heterosexual, and less cisgender, clinics had to deliver more expansive services and adjust to new leadership models to appeal to poorer and less privileged women, women of color, and patients seeking trans care. This is a book not only about women’s attempts to take control of their intimate health care needs, but also about struggles for democracy and leadership these changes brought. 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Meticulously researched and elegantly written, it stands as a foundational piece of scholarship, one that future studies of Japanese sexualities and masculinities will respond to for years come. That, in itself, is a singular accomplishment, and one that is achieved by very few scholars.\" * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCartographies of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e is the best book on the topic of \u003ci\u003enanshoku\u003c\/i\u003e to date, not only in English, but in any language, and it is unlikely to be surpassed any time soon. . . . It combines meticulous research and superb analysis, and is indeed a theoretically nuanced discussion of representations of male-male sexuality that renders justice to the scope and significance of the topic.\" * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Japan's history. Pflugfelder's analysis of discourses on homosexuality in the Edo period (1600-1868) is vastly superior to any we have seen before . . . 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It examines the pivotal role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African diasporic identity formation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Miller’s study incites a much-needed dialogue between existing scholarship on the figure of the dandy—particularly its performative queering of modern narratives of masculinity and nationhood—and the legacies of imperialism and slavery that attest to the constant, if silent, presence of race and racializing discourse in those same narratives. . . . [A]n absorbing and timely study of the black dandy.” - Jaime Hanneken, \u003ci\u003eComparative Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Encompassing the genres of drama, fiction, photography, film, and sculpture, Miller's study highlights the ways in which diaspora can be located in the image and the imagination of the body and its garments. . . . The value of Miller's text is in its historical range.” - Alisa K. 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The value of Miller's text is in its historical range.” -- Alisa K. Braithwaite * Modern Fiction Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Miller has performed a cultural excavation, sifting through fragments of visual and literary culture to trace a history of black style and assemble the first history of black dandyism. Her work deserves a place among the finer recent contributions to black performance studies. . . .” -- Kristin Moriah * Callaloo *\u003cbr\u003e“Miller’s study incites a much-needed dialogue between existing scholarship on the figure of the dandy—particularly its performative queering of modern narratives of masculinity and nationhood—and the legacies of imperialism and slavery that attest to the constant, if silent, presence of race and racializing discourse in those same narratives. . . . [A]n absorbing and timely study of the black dandy.” -- Jaime Hanneken * Comparative Literature *\u003cbr\u003e“Monica L. 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With essays drawing on sociology, anthropology, literary studies, history, and cultural studies, as well as some more lyrical, performative, and autobiographical, \u003ci\u003eSex and Disability\u003c\/i\u003e will be indispensable for a wide range of audiences in gender studies, disability studies, queer studies and beyond.\"—\u003cb\u003eSiobhan B. Somerville\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eQueering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This riveting collection of essays is a fascinating rethinking of what sex and disability could feel like together, affirmatively and generatively. Opening with a candid, frank introduction that moves deftly between the autobiographical and the political, the volume mounts a serious challenge to the sex-ableism of queer theory and the tendency to think of sex and disability in negative terms. Having read about pregnant men, the vagaries of touch, amputee devotees, and sex addiction, the reader will emerge uncertain about what exactly sex is, who has it, and with what. More trenchantly, these works demand an acknowledgement of how notions of ableism severely limit broader experiences of sexual erotics, intimacy, and arousal. Kudos to the editors for undertaking this important project.\"—\u003cb\u003eJasbir K. Puar\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTerrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As a political intellectual project, \u003ci\u003eSex and Disability\u003c\/i\u003e aims toward a queer disability refusal of the normalization of our bodies, desires, spaces, imaginations. This refusal is an opening: what might happen to queer theories and practices of sexuality if we centered disability? ... [T]he editors have set the stage for future conversations, political action, and, really, hotter sex.” -- Alexis Shotwell * Signs *\u003cbr\u003e“[R]apturous and sophisticated in both scope and nuance.” -- Jacob Miller * Cyberhetoric *\u003cbr\u003e“[S]timulating, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Many of the entries left me with food for thought, including some intriguing reframing of social issues that will inform my own work in the future.” -- S. E. Smith * Global Comment *\u003cbr\u003e“Although sexuality studies and disability studies have independently generated much scholarship, few have sufficiently bridged the disciplines as extensively as this anthology and showed as convincingly that \"sex and disability\" do in fact come together.... Recommended.” -- Y. Kiuchi * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“The vast majority of the contributions that engage with queer and disability theory here are, by turns, beautifully written, engaging, perceptive, hilarious, and nuanced. . . . [A]n intellectually invigorating read.” -- Anna Hamilton * Bitch *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSex and Disability\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most important volumes to appear in disability studies in years and, I would hazard to guess, in sexuality studies as well.” -- Bruce Henderson * Journal of Sex Research *\u003cbr\u003e“This book shows sex to be at work in encounters and objects not usually considered to be erotic, and marks the terrifying and exhilarating ways in which disability turns up in unexpected places. Such an undressing of sex and disability as is provided in this collection is sure to have a significant impact on disability studies in the years to come.” -- Kelly Fritsch * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Though McRuer and Mollow acknowledge that they are not the first to bridge these fields, what they do here, and quite impressively, is to harness the energies of this emerging discourse into a single volume at a defining moment in disability studies and disability culture. . . . One of the anthology’s most exciting elements is the complicated interplay its essays stage between body theory and embodied experience.”   -- Cynthia Barounis * symploke *\u003cbr\u003e“Mollow and McRuer have edited an important book. The collection is an exciting contribution to the fields of disability, queer studies, and queer theory. Every chapter is an inspirational read, but taken together, the contributions provide insightful discussion with layers of reflection that would be difficult to incorporate otherwise. The volume not only shows the multiple ways sex and disability are intertwined, but also invites readers to think beyond established understandings of those concepts, thereby challenging boundaries and transforming ideas of disability and sex.” -- Nina Mackert * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Anna Mollow and Robert McRuer 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Access 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Sexual Culture for Disabled People \/ Tobin Siebers 37\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bridging Theory and Experience: A Critical-Interpretive Ethnography of Sexuality and Disability \/ Russell Shuttleworth 54\u003cbr\u003e 3. 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Poignant, inspiring reading.” —Kirkus Reviews  “Raw, candid, and often uncomfortable.” —Library Journal  “[A] powerful read.” —USA Today  “An essential testament to the togetherness and resilience of the queer community.” —Electric Literature  “One of the most powerful voices of his generation, Brandon Wolf tells a story of race, place, and the struggle for belonging that will drive you to tears and expand your capacity for hope, as well as your appreciation for the power of community. A true inspiration.” —Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut  “This book is both a necessary reckoning and a soft place to land. Brandon’s story is a journey that challenges readers to not only find hope but also find the resolve necessary to take action. A must-read for anyone who wants to be filled with the spirit of progress.” —Frederick Joseph, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning activist  “A Place for Us is daring, raw, and necessary. The fight to end America’s gun violence epidemic has long been grounded in the courage and tenacity of those most directly impacted. Brandon’s survivor story will spur you to get up and fight for a better, safer tomorrow.” —Shannon Watts, founder, Moms Demand Action  “A Place for Us is a breathtakingly honest memoir that challenges all of us to rise above our darkest moments in order to courageously live as our most authentic selves.” —Igor Volsky, cofounder and executive director of Guns Down America","brand":"Amazon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48740448272727,"sku":"9781542036481","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781542036481.jpg?v=1720054723"},{"product_id":"a-place-for-us-a-memoir-9781542036467","title":"A Place for Us: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom one of the most vital and passionate LGBTQ+ activists comes a powerful memoir about self-discovery, community, love, and resilience in the face of adversity.  You never forget your first. First kiss. First love. First heartache. They all burrow their way into your subconscious, destined to reshape how you see the world forever.  Growing up in rural Oregon, Brandon Wolf grappled with the devastating loss of his supportive mother and with the embedded racism and homophobia of a community that made him feel like an unwelcome stranger. After the lack of connection and role models led him down a spiral of risky behavior, Wolf escaped to survive. In Orlando, he found what he’d been searching for: belonging—in a community that was a safe space with people he’d come to call his chosen family. They taught Wolf how to love, and be loved, unconditionally. Then, on June 12, 2016, in an exhilarating refuge where Wolf and hundreds of others had discovered a liberating new normal, they were suddenly challenged with fighting for a way out—in order to survive. Overnight, everything was ripped away by chaos, panic, and fear. But the unimaginable tragedy also gave Wolf a new power: purpose.  In this unforgettable coming-of-age memoir, Wolf shares his transformative journey from young outsider to galvanizing activist. Marshaling the compassion and strength of a community, Wolf explores how to get through the darkest times with healing, hope, and resistance. “With our backs against the wall,” he writes, “we find a way out together.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for A Place for Us  “[A] blazing debut. In stirring prose, Wolf mounts a testament to the power of community and a howling cry for justice. This is unforgettable.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)  “This heartfelt book will appeal not only to LGBTQ+ readers, but to anyone committed to the fight for social justice for any marginalized community. Poignant, inspiring reading.” —Kirkus Reviews  “Raw, candid, and often uncomfortable.” —Library Journal  “[A] powerful read.” —USA Today  “An essential testament to the togetherness and resilience of the queer community.” —Electric Literature  “One of the most powerful voices of his generation, Brandon Wolf tells a story of race, place, and the struggle for belonging that will drive you to tears and expand your capacity for hope, as well as your appreciation for the power of community. A true inspiration.” —Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut  “This book is both a necessary reckoning and a soft place to land. Brandon’s story is a journey that challenges readers to not only find hope but also find the resolve necessary to take action. A must-read for anyone who wants to be filled with the spirit of progress.” —Frederick Joseph, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning activist  “A Place for Us is daring, raw, and necessary. The fight to end America’s gun violence epidemic has long been grounded in the courage and tenacity of those most directly impacted. 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