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Yale University Press What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said The
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Jack Balkin has gathered a terrific group of constitutional scholars to debate a fundamental issue: same-sex marriage. This is a great introduction to the confounding question of how Americans should interpret their Constitution in today's world.”—Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Sex and the Constitution"By including a wide spectrum of voices and social movement perspectives, this book provides an extraordinary case study of how constitutional law and politics can produce starkly different social meanings of such fundamental concepts as marriage and equality."—Nan D. Hunter, Georgetown University“This engaging and thought-provoking book features a wide range of scholarly views about marriage, constitutional liberty and equality, and the roads not taken in Obergefell.”— Mary L. Bonauto, attorney at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
£35.62
WW Norton & Co The Man Who Ate Too Much
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of America’s best-known and least understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped.Trade Review"Birdsall’s sentences have rhythm, too, and compress time and place so that a meal becomes a history." -- Ligaya Mishan - The New York Times Book Review"Birdsall is not a polite biographer, and I say this with admiration... [he] applies his deep research to give us critical readings of Beard’s culinary style, documenting its zigzagging development through travel and apprenticeship, looking into dishes that shaped him and crucial meals he cooked, finding intellectual and sensual meaning in the relics of Beard’s delights." -- Tejal Rao - The New York Times Magazine"Birdsall has a good story to tell, and tells it well..." -- Adam Gopnik - The New Yorker"Like the life of James Beard, this biography is big and beautiful, heartbreaking and true. It is the celebration that Beard deserves." -- Rien Fertel - The Wall Street Journal"This is the first biography of Beard in 25 years and looks at not only his professional achievements but also his personal life as a gay man in 20th century America." -- The food books of 2020 to buy - The Independent"Packed with sensory detail, The Man Who Ate Too Much is a magnificent tribute to a titan of American life, who taught us, through the coded—or universal—language of food, our inalienable right to the pursuit of pleasure." -- Stephanie Sy-Quia - Times Literary Supplement
£25.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Intersectionality Sexuality and Psychological
Book SynopsisThis book explores the diversity in lesbian, gay, and bisexual lives, with the aim of opening up therapists' understanding of this diversity so that they can work in an ethical, supportive and non-discriminatory way with these individuals.Table of ContentsContributors ix Foreword by Dominic Davies xv Acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1 Roshan das Nair & Catherine Butler 1 Intersecting Identities 9 Damien W. Riggs & Roshan das Nair 2 Gender 31 Sonja J. Ellis 3 Race and Ethnicity 59 Roshan das Nair & Sonya Thomas 4 Religion 89 Roshan das Nair & Sonya Thomas 5 Refugees and Asylum Seekers 113 Stephen Higgins & Catherine Butler 6 Social Class 137 Roshan das Nair & Susan Hansen 7 Physical Health 163 Adam Jowett & Elizabeth Peel 8 Mental Health 185 Roshan das Nair & Sarah Fairbank 9 Disability 213 Catherine Butler 10 Age and Ageing 239 Stuart Gibson & Susan Hansen 11 From Invert to Intersectionality: Understanding the Past and Future of Sexuality 263 Esther D. Rothblum Index 269
£46.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press LGBT Youth in Americas Schools
Book SynopsisJason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill, experts on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public policy advocacy, combine an accessible review of social science research with analyses of school practices. In addition, portraits of LGBT youth and their experiences with discrimination at school bring human faces to the issues the authors discuss.Trade ReviewTimely, comprehensive, and highly readable, this study warrants inclusion in any library serving school administrators, teachers, and other adults who work with and care for children and teens." — School Library Journal"For some of us, the days of high school may seem far removed, but LGBT Youth is truly a must-read for any educator and/or parent." — Instinct"While topics such as marriage equality, anti-LGBT hate crimes, and adoption by same-sex couples continue to grab news headlines, Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill remind readers to remember the youth affected by these human rights struggles in schools across the country. The educational foundation we offer these students today will impact the success of their, and our, tomorrow." — Gay Calgary Magazine"Cianciotto and Cahill's treatise is an informative and compelling basis for continuing the discussion (especially as regards LGBT students of color) of how best to protect the rights of a vulnerable and largely disenfranchised group." — Publishers Weekly"This book makes a pivotal and substantial contribution to the field that extends beyond the contributions of many other existing resources. ... [W]e recommend this book highly to researchers, school violence professionals, youth workers, educators, and policy makers in hopes that it will serve as a catalyst in our collective efforts to promote the overall health and well-being of LGBT youth." — Journal of School Violence"The authors do an exceptional job of providing a research-based background to contextualize the book around the need to support victims of homophobia in schools." — H.M. Miller, Mercy College, Choice - Highly Recommended
£24.65
LUP - University of Michigan Press Out of the Closets and into the Courts Legal
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the gay rights cases, and explores the complex relationship between litigation and social change. This work describes what happens when these cases enter the courtroom, and explains why they have met with mixed success. It explores both the promise and the limits of using legal mobilization to effect social change.
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Bulldaggers Pansies and Chocolate Babies
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£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Regimes of Desire
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£23.70
The University of Michigan Press EliteLed Mobilization and Gay Rights
Book SynopsisArgues that what appears to be public opinion backlash against gay rights is more consistent with elite-led mobilization - a strategy used by anti-gay elites, primarily white evangelicals, seeking to prevent the full incorporation of LGBT Americans in the polity in order to achieve political objectives and increase their political power.Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Iowa's Irony Chapter 2 Toward a Theory of Elite-Led Mobilization Chapter 3 In Search of Backlash: The Experiments Chapter 4 In Search of Backlash: Observational Evidence Chapter 5 Institutions and Attitudes Chapter 6 The History of Gay Rights: Backlash or Elite-Led Mobilization? Chapter 7 Iowa's Judicial Retention Elections: Backlash or Elite-Led Mobilization? Chapter 8 Organize, Mobilize, Legislate, and Litigate Appendices Notes Bibliography
£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Queer Livability
Book SynopsisBrings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. The book shows that individual voices of trans and queer writers had a significant impact on the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality and introduces lesser known texts to a new readership.Table of Contents Introduction Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing Chapter 1 Hospitable Reading: Autobiography, Readership and Ethics in Sexual-Scientific Life Writing Chapter 2 Gender, Agency and Prosthetic Metaphor in Sexual-Scientific Life Writing Chapter 3 Frames of Livability: Sexual-scientific Encounter, Photography and the Department Store Chapter 4 Trans-investiture: Writing Gender Transition in the 1890s and 1920s Chapter 5 Queer Livability and Sexual Subjectivity in the Wolf Man Archive Conclusion
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers
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£22.75
LUP - University of Michigan Press James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination
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£19.90
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Skin of Meaning
Book SynopsisIn this collection, Aaron Shurin has brought together thirty years’ worth of his provocative essays. Fuelled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry, Shurin’s essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry’s possibilities.Trade ReviewReading these essays I’m struck by how fully Aaron Shurin combines a personal history with a prophetic, conceptual, strongly non-personal vision. With masterful intelligence he has presided over, partaken of, and influenced through his analysis avant-gardes as varied as Language Poetry, New Narrative, and conceptual or procedural poetry, on each of which he has written near-definitive texts. His writing about AIDS, brilliantly gathered here—rich, fantastic, and steely-eyed—encompasses the functions of a great novel: total immersion into a mysterious eco-political world. The Skin of Meaning concludes with a bracing interview, in which one of the more profoundly original poets of our day insists on a ‘unity of semantic and phonemic density together’ as poetry’s bottom line, at which point one wants to stand up and cheer, book in hand—book flies into sky, into stars, into the ages.” —Kevin Killian, California College of the Arts
£25.60
LUP - University of Michigan Press Charles Ludlam Lives
Book SynopsisPlaywright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive. Sean F. Edgecomb focuses on neo-Ridiculous artists to trace the connections between Ludlam's legacy and their performances.Trade ReviewSean Edgecomb thinks beyond pre- and post-Stonewall definitions of camp (without neglecting their significance) to argue that camp not only persists but remains a relevant tactic of transformational queer performance. Charles Ludlam Lives! is a smart, beautifully written book that will make a lasting contribution to gay and lesbian performance history."" - Shane Vogel, Indiana University""Charles Ludlam would be thrilled—just as he toyed with and overturned the conventions of popular theatre, this book playfully and brilliantly queers performance scholarship in its exploration of Ridiculous legacies. Edgecomb’s research is adventurous, and the writing is lively and compelling. Most importantly, the central figures, Charles Ludlam, Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, and Taylor Mac, receive the full diva treatment they deserve."" - James Wilson, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Translocas
Book SynopsisFocuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx ‘locas’ and the various forms of violence that queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the US are subjected to.
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press The Taylor Mac Book Ritual Realness and Radical
Book SynopsisThe first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Featuring essays, interviews, and commentaries by noted critics and artists, the volume examines the vastness of Mac’s theatrical imagination, the singularity of their voice, and the inclusiveness of their cultural insights and critiques.Trade ReviewThe Taylor Mac Book is an overdue encomium to the work of an artist who defines the cutting edge in theater, performance, and the interpretation of American song. With maximalist exuberance and impish daring, Taylor Mac has revived the fortunes of queer aesthetics for our parlous times. How great that now we all get to hang out with judy and the crew in this deliriously welcome collection of essays." —Tavia Nyong’o, Yale University "This book is a joy to read, conveying the spirit, mischief, and intellect of Taylor Mac’s work and reflecting its genius and complexity. The mix of topics and styles is well suited to the multifaceted nature of Mac’s work and also makes for engaged reading." —Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway, University of LondonTable of Contents Preface: “It’s going to go on a lot longer than you want it to”: A Conversation about Taylor Mac, Covid and Collaboration. David Román and Sean F. Edgecomb Acknowledgments Introduction: The Early Performance of Taylor Mac Sean F. Edgecomb 1: Participation, Endurance, and the Pucker in Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge Carrie J. Preston 2: Between Hir and There: Considering Taylor Mac’s Work as Bridging Genres Kelly I. Aliano 3: Queer Pussy Time: Taylor Mac’s Lesbian Decade Kim Marra 4: Too Slow: Taylor Mac and the Rubs of Time Lisa A. Freeman 5: Taylor Mac, Walt Whitman, and Adhesive America: Cruising Utopia with the Good Gay Poet Jennifer Buckley 6: Circles and Lines: Community and Legacy in Taylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to “Titus Andronicus” Erika T. Lin 7: Designturgy, Being Queer: Taylor Mac Wears Machine Dazzle in 24 Decades Sissi Liu 8: Sing the Revolution!: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Taylor Mac and the Great American Songbook David Román 9: The Walk Across America for Mother Earth Paul Zimet 10: An Interview with Taylor Mac Kevin Sessums 11: Reflections on CollaborationMatt RayMachine Dazzle Viva DeConciniNiegel SmithTigger! Ferguson Barbara Gustern Linda Brumbach Contributors Bibliography Index
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press Queer Roots for the Diaspora
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is a fascinating and impressive piece of work, which makes animportant contribution to queer, post-colonial, and diaspora studies.” - William Marshall, University of Stirling
£73.10
The University of Michigan Press Big Feelings
£76.90
LUP - University of Michigan Press Singing Out GALA Choruses and Social Change
Book SynopsisCan you change the world through song? This appealing idea has long been the aim of singers who are part of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses. By taking a close look at these choruses and their mission, Heather MacLachlan unpacks the fascinating historical and cultural dynamics behind groups that seek to change society for the better.
£64.95
University of California Press Sapphos Lyre
Book SynopsisPresents the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Map Introduction ARCHILOCHOS ALKMAN STESICHOROS SAPPHO ALKAIOS IBYKOS ANAKREON SIMONI DES KORINNA TELESILLA PRAXILLA ERINNA ANYTE NOSSIS MOIRO HEDYLA MELINNO Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography Numeration Table
£22.50
University of California Press Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia 2 Studies
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality. Their studies in cross-cultural variations in homosexual behaviour in a non-Western culture area indicate that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Paperback Edition Editor's Preface 1 Gilbert H. Herdt Ritualized Homosexual Behavior in the Male Cults of Melanesia, 1862-1983: An Introduction 2 Michael R. Allen Homosexuality, Male Power, and Political Organization in North Vanuatu: A Comparative Analysis 3 J. Van Baal The Dialectics of Sex in Marind-anim Culture 4 Gilbert H. Herdt Semen Transactions in Sambia Culture 5 Kenneth E. Read The Nama Cult Recalled 6 Eric Schwimmer Male Couples in New Guinea 7 Laurent Serpenti The Ritual Meaning of Homosexuality and Pedophilia among the Kimam-Papuans of South Irian Jaya 8 Arve S0rum Growth and Decay: Bedamini Notions of Sexuality 9 Shirley Lindenbaum Variations on a Sociosexual Theme in Melanesia Bibliography Contributors Index Maps 1 New Guinea and adjacent islands 2 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) 3 Southwest New Guinea (lrian Jaya) Map of Melanesia frontispiece
£27.90
University of California Press Cartographies of Desire
Book SynopsisA study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history. It explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. It opens with speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text on homosexuality.Trade Review"This is scholarship at its best. Gregory Pflugfelder' s wide-ranging study of male-male sexuality in Japan is brilliantly conceived and scrupulously argued. He shows how cultural constructs shaped the ways in which Japanese have conceptualized male-male sexuality from the Edo period through the early twentieth century. Wisely he takes as his subject discourse about sexuality, not sexual activity. He examines popular, legal, and medical dimensions of this discourse, noting the interaction among these domains and the impact on them of foreign ideas and larger changes in Japanese society." * Monumenta Nipponica *"The book has great merit. 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 *"Cartographies of Desire is the best book on the topic of nanshoku 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 *"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 . . . Pflugfelder offers important insights into the reasons why homosexuality in Japan manifests itself as it does today, with popular culture again providing the major discourse." * Social Science Japan Journal *"A meticulous and brilliantly argued piece of scholarship and should become the definitive work on early-modern Japanese male homosexuality." * Culture, Health & Sexuality *"This book is an extraordinary contribution to the substantial, growing amount of English-language scholarship on the history of homosexuality in Japan. . . . This is an indispensable work, there being nothing comparable even in Japanese, and it will have a major impact on studies of male-male sexuality in global perspective." * American Historical Review *"A landmark book. It deserves reading and rereading, not only for its theoretical sophistication and wealth of historical detail, but also for the clear proof it offers that the study of sexuality has the potential to generate important insights about vast areas of the human past." * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note Introduction 1. Authorizing Pleasure: Male-Male Sexuality In Edo-Period Popular Discourse 2. Policing the Perisexual: Male-Male Sexuality In Edo-Period Legal Discourse 3. The Forbidden Chrysanthemum: Male-Male Sexuality In Meiji Legal Discourse 4. Toward the Margins: Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Popular Discourse 5. Doctoring Love: Male-Male Sexuality In Medical Discourse From the Edo Period Through the Early Twentieth Century 6. Pleasures of the Perverse: Male-Male Sexuality In Early Twentieth-Century Popular Discourse Bibliography Index
£26.10
University of California Press Plane Queer
Book SynopsisBeginning with the founding of profession in late 1920s and continuing into post-September 11 era, this title examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identified as female-oriented. It examines various hardships these men faced at work, paying particular attention to conflation of gender-based, and AIDS-based discrimination.Trade Review"A stunning success and an enormously important contribution to not only LGBT history, but also to the labor, feminist, legal, aviation, and AIDS historiographic literatures... Plane Queer is essential reading for anybody interested in LGBT history... Pick the book up. Read it. You won't be disappointed, I promise." -- Chrislove Daily Kos "In this seemingly narrow demographic, Tiemeyer finds notable achievements in equal rights, from the first workplace health benefits for domestic partners, in 2001, to a 1984 legal decision forcing an airline to reinstate a flight attendant with AIDS, which he argues was a key step in the run-up to the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act." -- Don Sapatkin Philadelphia Inquirer "Tiemeyer's fascinating, in-depth study reveals that the very assumption that male flight attendants are gay has led to major conflicts--and major progress." -- Jim Gladstone Passport MagazineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Pre--World War II "Gay" Flight Attendant 2. The Cold War Gender Order 3. "Homosexual Panic" and the Steward's Demise 4. Flight Attendants and Queer Civil Rights 5. Flight Attendants, Women's Liberation, and Gay Liberation 6. Flight Attendants and the Origins of an Epidemic 7. The Traynor Legacy versus the "Patient Zero" Myth 8. Queer Equality in the Age of Neoliberalism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£50.15
University of California Press Plane Queer
Book SynopsisBeginning with the founding of profession in late 1920s and continuing into post-September 11 era, this title examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identified as female-oriented. It examines various hardships these men faced at work, paying particular attention to conflation of gender-based, and AIDS-based discrimination.Trade Review"A stunning success and an enormously important contribution to not only LGBT history, but also to the labor, feminist, legal, aviation, and AIDS historiographic literatures... Plane Queer is essential reading for anybody interested in LGBT history... Pick the book up. Read it. You won't be disappointed, I promise." -- Chrislove Daily Kos "In this seemingly narrow demographic, Tiemeyer finds notable achievements in equal rights, from the first workplace health benefits for domestic partners, in 2001, to a 1984 legal decision forcing an airline to reinstate a flight attendant with AIDS, which he argues was a key step in the run-up to the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act." -- Don Sapatkin Philadelphia Inquirer "Tiemeyer's fascinating, in-depth study reveals that the very assumption that male flight attendants are gay has led to major conflicts--and major progress." -- Jim Gladstone Passport MagazineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Pre--World War II "Gay" Flight Attendant 2. The Cold War Gender Order 3. "Homosexual Panic" and the Steward's Demise 4. Flight Attendants and Queer Civil Rights 5. Flight Attendants, Women's Liberation, and Gay Liberation 6. Flight Attendants and the Origins of an Epidemic 7. The Traynor Legacy versus the "Patient Zero" Myth 8. Queer Equality in the Age of Neoliberalism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press The Mating Game
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Noting that 'the more things change, the more they stay the same,' Lamont finds that traditional gender-role expectations have not changed much; men still ask women out more often and hope for sex sooner than women, and women generally still wait to be asked out and are reticent to have sex 'too soon.' This book provides an interesting take on some presupposed assumptions." * CHOICE *"The Mating Game is an ambitious project that strategically investigates views held by three distinct groups, each navigating complex social structures and cultural narratives around romantic courtship. Lamont offers a refreshing and strong framework to analyze courtship on an individual, group, and societal level. It is a strong addition to growing scholarship on young adults as well as the possible application of queerness in mainstream cultural reform." * Men and Masculinities *"Lamont’s well-designed empirical project and insightful theoretical analysis advance our conversations about the state of the gender revolution in the 21st century." * American Journal of Sociology *"Lamont’s analysis of these stories reminds us that there are possibilities beyond what society currently offers us. I ultimately came away from this book feeling inspired and empowered to turn such possibilities into reality." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Puzzling Persistence of Gendered Dating 2. The Quest for Egalitarian Love 3. New Goals, Old Scripts: Heterosexual Women Caught between Tradition and Equality 4. A Few Good (Heterosexual) Men: Inequality Disguised as Romance 5. Queering Courtship: LGBQ People Reimagine Relationships 6. The More Things Change . . . 7. Dated Dating and the Stalled Gender Revolution Appendix 1: Summary of Interview Respondents Appendix 2: Interview Guide Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press A Dirty South Manifesto Sexual Resistance and
Book SynopsisFrom the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of southern reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality. In A Dirty South Manifesto, L.H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resistance in the New Southa movement that is antiracist, decolonial, and transnational. For people within economically disenfranchised segments of society, those in sexually marginalized communities, and the racially oppressed, the South has been a sexual dystopia. Throughout this book, Stallings delivers hard-hitting manifestos for the new sex wars. With her focus on contemporary Black southern life, Stallings offers an invitation to anyone who has ever imagined a way of living beyond white supremacist heteropatriarchy.Trade Review"An excellent addition to the existing literature on reproductive rights and sexual freedom." * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *"A Dirty South Manifesto is thoughtful and thought-provoking, and it is funny and heart-breaking at the same time." * Resources for Gender & Women's Studies: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Slow Tongue Manifesto Chapter 1 Dirt Manifesto Chapter 2 Geophukit Manifesto Chapter 3 T.R.A.P. (The Ratchet Alliance for Prosperity) Manifesto Chapter 4 WeUsIOurU Future Pronouns Manifesto Chapter 5 Honeysuckle, Not Honey Sucka! Manifesto Coda Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
£64.00
University of California Press A Dirty South Manifesto Sexual Resistance and
Book SynopsisFrom the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of southern reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality. In A Dirty South Manifesto, L.H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resistance in the New Southa movement that is antiracist, decolonial, and transnational. For people within economically disenfranchised segments of society, those in sexually marginalized communities, and the racially oppressed, the South has been a sexual dystopia. Throughout this book, Stallings delivers hard-hitting manifestos for the new sex wars. With her focus on contemporary Black southern life, Stallings offers an invitation to anyone who has ever imagined a way of living beyond white supremacist heteropatriarchy.Trade Review"An excellent addition to the existing literature on reproductive rights and sexual freedom." * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *"A Dirty South Manifesto is thoughtful and thought-provoking, and it is funny and heart-breaking at the same time." * Resources for Gender & Women's Studies: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction Slow Tongue Manifesto Chapter 1 Dirt Manifesto Chapter 2 Geophukit Manifesto Chapter 3 T.R.A.P. (The Ratchet Alliance for Prosperity) Manifesto Chapter 4 WeUsIOurU Future Pronouns Manifesto Chapter 5 Honeysuckle, Not Honey Sucka! Manifesto Coda Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
£15.19
University of California Press Bathroom Battlegrounds How Public Restrooms Shape
Book SynopsisToday's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United Statesone that concerns more than mere potty politics. Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years' worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importance of the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status. Chronicling the debut of nineteenth-century comfort stations, twentieth-century mandates requiring equal-but-separate men's and women's rooms, and twenty-first-century uproar over laws like North Carolina's bathroom bill, Davis reveals how public restrooms are far from marginal or unimportant social spaces. Instead, they areand always have beenconsequential sites in which ideology, institutions, and inequality collide.Trade Review“Essential. All readership levels.” * CHOICE *"Davis finds that bathrooms have consistently been entangled with larger cultural matters such as the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status." * Law & Social Inquiry *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Politicizing the Potty 2. Professionalizing Plumbing 3. Regulating Restrooms 4. Working against the Washroom 5. Leveraging the Loo 6. Transforming the Toilet Conclusion Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Bathroom Battlegrounds How Public Restrooms Shape
Book SynopsisToday's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United Statesone that concerns more than mere potty politics. Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years' worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importance of the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status. Chronicling the debut of nineteenth-century comfort stations, twentieth-century mandates requiring equal-but-separate men's and women's rooms, and twenty-first-century uproar over laws like North Carolina's bathroom bill, Davis reveals how public restrooms are far from marginal or unimportant social spaces. Instead, they areand always have beenconsequential sites in which ideology, institutions, and inequality collide.Trade Review“Essential. All readership levels.” * CHOICE *"Davis finds that bathrooms have consistently been entangled with larger cultural matters such as the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status." * Law & Social Inquiry *"This work is an important contribution to scholarship on gender, boundary work, organizations, and citizenship. Davis’s work is simultaneously empirically and theoretically driven and easy to read." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Politicizing the Potty 2. Professionalizing Plumbing 3. Regulating Restrooms 4. Working against the Washroom 5. Leveraging the Loo 6. Transforming the Toilet Conclusion Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Queer Public History
Book SynopsisOver the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher education, which in turn helped queer historians become more influential in politics, law, and society. Through a collection of essays written over three decades by award-winning historian Marc Stein, Queer Public History charts the evolution of queer historical interventions in the academic sphere and explores the development of publicly oriented queer historical scholarship. From the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the rise of queer activism in the 1990s to debates about queer immigration, same-sex marriage, and the politics of gay pride in the early twenty-first century, Stein introduces readers to key themes Trade Review"Queer Public History is a uniquely personal look into how public history has been formed in the LGBTQ+ community. The linkages between public and academic, between personal and political, and their ties to activism are laid out for the reader to explore in detail. Stein’s contribution is both to public history and to LGBTQ+ history and highlights how, in his case, they cannot be understood separately and are the better for it." * Public Historian *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction Part One. Queer Memories of the 1980s 1. Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide 2. Memories of the 1987 March on Washington Part Two. Discipline, Punish, and Protest 3. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers 4. Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market 5. Post-Tenure Lavender Blues 6. Political History and the History of Sexuality Part Three. Histories of Queer Activism 7. Coming Out and Going Public: A History of Lesbians and Gay Men Taking to Queer Street, Philadelphia, USA 8. Approaching Stonewall from the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves 9. Recalling Dewey’s Sit-In 10. Fifty Years of LGBT Movement Activism in Philadelphia 11. Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting Part Four. Queer Historical Interventions 12. Monica, Bill, History, and Sex 13. In My Wildest Dreams: Advice for George Bush 14. In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name 15. From the Glorious Strike to Obama’s New Executive Order 16. “In My Mind I’m (Not) Going to Carolina” Part Five. Queer Immigration 17. Alienated Affections: Remembering Clive Michael Boutilier (1933–2003) 18. The Supreme Court’s Sexual Counter-Revolution 19. Immigration Is a Queer Issue: From Fleuti to Trump 20. Defectives of the World, Unite! Part Six. Sex, Law, and the Supreme Court 21. Queer Eye for the FBI 22. Gay Rights and the Supreme Court: The Early Years 23. Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage 24. Five Myths about Roe v. Wade 25. Refreshing Abominations: An Open Letter to Anthony Kennedy Part Seven. Exhibiting Queer History 26. Introduction to the Philadelphia LGBT History Project 27. U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit 28. “Black Lesbian in White America”: Interviewing Anita Cornwell Part Eight. Stonewall, Popularity, and Publicity 29. Toward a Theory of the Stonewall Revolution 30. Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969 31. A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein 32. Stonewall and Queens 33. Recalling Purple Hands Protests of 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of California Press Unlivable Lives
Book SynopsisAnti-violence movements rooted in identity politics are commonplace, including those to stop violence against people of color, women, and LGBT people. Unlivable Lives reveals the unintended consequences of this approach within the transgender rights movement in the United States. It illustrates how this form of activism obscures the causes of and lasting solutions to violence and exacerbates fear among members of the identity group, running counter to the goal of making lives more livable. Analyzing over a thousand documents produced by thirteen national organizations, Westbrook charts both a history of the movement and a path forward that relies less on identity-based tactics and more on intersectionality and coalition building. Provocative and galvanizing, this book envisions new strategies for anti-violence and social justice movements and will revolutionize the way we think about this form of activism.Trade Review"This book will appeal to all people interested in trans politics. Versatile and accessible, it will be helpful to activists and useful for graduate and undergraduate courses in social movements, sociology of gender, public policy, law, criminology, and women/gender/sexuality studies." * Mobilization *"Unlivable Lives represents a splendid contribution to sociological literature as well as a useful volume for teachers and researchers working in a variety of subfields and disciplines." * Contemporary Sociology *"Laurel Westbrook has written an invaluable analysis of the trans anti-violence movement in the United States. . . . a courageous book." * New Mexico Historical Review *"Unlivable Lives makes an invaluable intervention in how academics and activists discuss trans people and organize against violence." * TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly *"Westbrook’s writing is simultaneously accessible and theoretically sophisticated. . . . This work is an important contribution to the study of anti-transgender crime, particularly with the paucity of reliable data on fatal violence against transgender persons." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Unlivable Lives: The Origins and Outcomes of Identity-Based Anti-Violence Activism 2. Violence Matters: Producing Identity through Accounts of Murder 3. Atypical Archetypes: The Causes and Consequences of Famous Victims of Violence 4. Homogeneous Subjecthood: How Activists' Focus on Identity Obscures Patterns of Violence 5. Valuable and Vulnerable: How Activists' Tactical Repertoires Shape Subjecthood and Generate Fear 6. Shaping Solutions: How Identity Politics Influences Violence-Prevention Efforts 7. Facilitating Livable Lives: Alternative Approaches to Anti-Violence Activism Appendix A: Transgender Anti-Violence Organizations Appendix B: Collecting Data on Murders of Transgender People Notes References Index
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University of California Press Loves Next Meeting
Book SynopsisHow queerness and radical politics intersectedearlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor organizing, sympathized like many with the earlyprewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opposed US police and state harassment, fought racial discrimination, and aligned themselves with the dispossessed. Whether they were themselves straight, gay, or otherwise queer, they brought sexual dissidence and radicalism into conversation at the height of the Left's influence on American culture. Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love's Next MeetiTrade Review“A startling and joyful work of scholarship, a book about revolutionary people that feels revolutionary itself.” * Jacobin *"Nothing less than revelatory. . . . As Lecklider shows, through a combination of meticulous archival research and astute, often surprising analysis, in the decades before Stonewall, homosexual and gender nonconforming men and women were fighting for liberation through involvement with the Left. . . . They took part in radical labor organizing, joined the fight against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War, opposed racism, sexism, and state and police repression. They were intersectional avant la lettre." * PopMatters *“Rather than treat political radicalism and dissident sexuality as discrete phenomena, Lecklider convincingly demonstrates how sexual “deviance” and anti-capitalist views coevolved alongside racial and immigrant justice and women’s liberation in the context of the US's diversifying urban centers. . . . Students of sexuality, American radicalism, and urban history will learn much from Love’s Next Meeting.” * CHOICE *“Lecklider traces a usable past for queer-Left politics that is saturated with humor and memorable detail. . . . Love’s Next Meeting makes a major contribution to histories of sexuality, queer politics, the Left, and American culture. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and passionately written." * Journal of the History of Sexuality * "Pithy and provocative, Love’s Next Meeting is the culmination of Lecklider’s years long deep dive into the question of why sexual dissidents were attracted to the Old Left even though the Left officially rejected them." * Against the Current: A Socialist Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Deviant Politics 1. "Flaunting the Transatlantic Breeze": Sexual Dissidents on the Left 2. "After Sex, What?": Politicizing Sex on the Left 3. "To Be One with the People": Homosexuality and the Cultural Front 4. "If I Can Die under You": Homosexuality and Labor on the Left 5. "Socialism & Sex Is What I Want": Women, Gender, and Sexual Dissidence in the 1930s and 1940s 6. "Playing the Queers": Homosexuality in Proletarian Literature 7. "We Who Are Not Ill": Queer Antifascism 8. "The Secret Element of Their Vice": Deviant Politics in the Cold War List of Abbreviations Notes Index
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University of California Press Amphibious Subjects
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate menknown in local parlance as sassoresiding in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of amphibious personhood, Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World's Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the heart of homophobic darkness in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries.
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University of California Press A Proximate Remove
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, and critical practices of queer theory? Through a close reading of The Tale of Genji, an eleventh-century text that depicts the lifestyles of aristocrats during the Heian period, A Proximate Remove explores this question by mapping the destabilizing aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological dimensions of experiencing intimacy and loss. The spatiotemporal fissures Reginald Jackson calls proximate removes suspend belief in prevailing structures. Beyond issues of sexuality, Genji queers in its reluctance to romanticize or reproduce a flawed social order. An understanding of this hesitation enhances how we engage with premodern texts and how we question contemporary disciplinary stances. Trade Review"Jackson presents an original and sometimes intriguing approach to Genji that goes beyond conventional Heian literary studies, offering fresh perspectives while expanding the interpretive paradigms for queer studies at the same time." * Journal of Japanese Studies *
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University of California Press A Few Good Gays
Book SynopsisThe US military has done an about-face on gender and sexuality policy over the last decade, ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell, restrictions on women in combat, and transgender exclusion. Contrary to expectations, servicemembers have largely welcomed cisgender LGB individualsyet they continue to vociferously resist trans inclusion and the presence of women on the front lines. In the minds of many, the embodied deficiencies of cisgender women and trans people of all genders puts othersand indeed, the nationat risk. In this book, Cati Connell identifies the homonormative bargain that underwrites these uneven patterns of receptiona bargain that comes with significant concessions, upholding and even exacerbating race, class, and gender inequality in the pursuit of sexual equality. In this handshake deal, even the widespread support for open LGB service is highly conditional, revocable upon violation of the bargain. Despite the promise of inclusivity, in practice, the military has made room only Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Dawning of a Kinder, Gentler US Military Part 1 Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1. “The Hard Work to Get Me in the Door”: A History of the Gay Ban 2. “What They Do in Their Private Life, I Couldn’t Care Less”: Striking the Homonormative Bargain 3. “He Acts Straight but He Has This One Thing . . .”: Open LGB Service and Queer Social Control Part 2 Ending Combat Exclusion 4. “When You Want to Create a Group of Male Killers, You Kill the Woman in Them”: Feminine Abjection and the Impossibility of Women Warriors 5. “My Problem’s Not That I’m Gay; My Problem Is That I’m a Woman”: The Patriotic Paternalism of Combat Exclusion Part 3 Removing Medical Restrictions on Transgender Service 6. “Once He Saw Them as Soldiers, I Knew We Had It”: The Trans Ban Tug of War 7. “You Can’t Have Three Bathrooms at a Forward Operating Position”: Gender Panic in the Transgendering Organization Part 4 Conclusion 8 . We Will Be Greeted as Gay Liberators? Methodological Appendix A Methodological Appendix B Methodological Appendix C Notes References Index
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University of California Press Violent Differences The Importance of Race in
Book Synopsis2023 Honorable Mention for Outstanding Book Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Despite rising attention to sexual assault and sexual violence, queer men have been largely excluded from the discussion. Violent Differences is the first book of its kind to focus specifically on queer male survivors and to devote particular attention to Black queer men. Whereas previous scholarship on male survivors has emphasized the role of masculinity, Doug Meyer shows that race and sexuality should be regarded as equally foundational as gender. Instead of analyzing sexual assault against queer men in the abstract, this book draws attention to survivors' lived experiences. Meyer examines interview data from sixty queer men who have suffered sexual assault, highlighting their interactions with the police and their encounters with victim blaming. Violent Differences expands approaches to studying sexual assault by considering a new group of survivors and by revealing that race, gender, and sexuality all remain essential for understanding how this violence is experienced.Trade Review"Makes a tremendous contribution to the interdisciplinary scholarship on gender-based violence, a field that still suffers from lack of engagement with queer life and queer questions. Meyer’s work should give us hope that we can reimagine the field from a rigorously intersectional ground." * Social Forces *"Violent Differences provides an insightful examination of the unique experiences of queer men of color who have experienced sexual victimization." * Gender & Society *"The reader who is interested in better understanding the nuanced nature of violence against the LGBTQIA + community will not be disappointed in the skillful and thoughtful way Meyer presents his findings while defining and elaborating on the nomenclature associated with this issue." * Criminal Justice Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Understanding Sexual Assault against Queer Men through the Lens of Intersectionality 1 “Why Didn’t You Fight Back?”: Black Queer Male Survivors and Discourses of Blame 2 Queer Male Survivors and Police Interactions 3 Survivors’ Self-Blame and Differences within the Queer Umbrella 4 Racial Differences Regarding Emasculation 5 Constructing Hierarchies of Victimhood 6 Outing, Disclosing Marginalized Identities, and Navigating Multiple Stigmas Conclusion: Future Challenges and Possibilities Appendix: Methods Notes References Index
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University of California Press Violent Differences
Book Synopsis2023 Honorable Mention for Outstanding Book Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Despite rising attention to sexual assault and sexual violence, queer men have been largely excluded from the discussion. Violent Differences is the first book of its kind to focus specifically on queer male survivors and to devote particular attention to Black queer men. Whereas previous scholarship on male survivors has emphasized the role of masculinity, Doug Meyer shows that race and sexuality should be regarded as equally foundational as gender. Instead of analyzing sexual assault against queer men in the abstract, this book draws attention to survivors' lived experiences. Meyer examines interview data from sixty queer men who have suffered sexual assault, highlighting their interactions with the police and their encounters with victim blaming. Violent Differences expands approaches to studying sexual assault by considering a new group of survivors and by revealing that race, gender, and sexuality all remain essential for understanding how this violence is experienced.Trade Review"Makes a tremendous contribution to the interdisciplinary scholarship on gender-based violence, a field that still suffers from lack of engagement with queer life and queer questions. Meyer’s work should give us hope that we can reimagine the field from a rigorously intersectional ground." * Social Forces *"Violent Differences provides an insightful examination of the unique experiences of queer men of color who have experienced sexual victimization." * Gender & Society *"The reader who is interested in better understanding the nuanced nature of violence against the LGBTQIA + community will not be disappointed in the skillful and thoughtful way Meyer presents his findings while defining and elaborating on the nomenclature associated with this issue." * Criminal Justice Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Understanding Sexual Assault against Queer Men through the Lens of Intersectionality 1 “Why Didn’t You Fight Back?”: Black Queer Male Survivors and Discourses of Blame 2 Queer Male Survivors and Police Interactions 3 Survivors’ Self-Blame and Differences within the Queer Umbrella 4 Racial Differences Regarding Emasculation 5 Constructing Hierarchies of Victimhood 6 Outing, Disclosing Marginalized Identities, and Navigating Multiple Stigmas Conclusion: Future Challenges and Possibilities Appendix: Methods Notes References Index
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University of California Press Possible Histories
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage practices while they were traveling, while Syrian women accessed more economic autonomy though their participation in peddling networks. In Possible Histories, Charlotte Karem Albrecht explores this peddling economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a site for revealing how dominant ideas about sexuality are imbricated in Arab American racial histories. Karem Albrecht marshals a queer affective approach to community and family history to show how Syrian immigrant peddlers and their interdependent networks of labor and care appeared in interconnected discourses of modernity, sexuality, gender, class, and race. Possible HistorTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Terms and Translations Introduction 1. Traveler, Peddler, Stranger, Syrian: Queer Provocations and Sexual Threats 2. “A Woman without Limits”: Syrian Women in the Peddling Economy 3. Wandering in Diaspora: The Syrian American Elite and Sexual Normativity 4. The Possibilities of Peddling: Imagining Homosocial and Homoerotic Pleasure in Arab America Conclusion: Alixa Naff and the Parenthetical Syrian American Lesbian Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sexuality and the Christian Body
Book Synopsisaeo Takes on one of the most controversial contemporary theological issues. aeo Provides new insights into Christian arguments about the body, focusing on homosexuality. aeo Offers constructive arguments for the fittingness in the Christian tradition of marriage--like homosexual relationships.Trade Review"This is the most sustained, serious and original theological work on sexuality and in particular same-sex relationships to have appeared for many years. As in Barth, thoughtful, theological conservations lead to a radical and liberating stance. This book may well turn a debate that often is no more than the marshalling of untheological prejudices in a constructive and responsible direction." Duncan B. Forrester, University of Edinburgh "Both sides of the gay marriage debate will benefit from this startlingly original and theologically rich treatment of the graced body. Here are Christian traditions not slavishly reproduced but put to a genuinely radical use." Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago "Eugene Rogers has produced a serious and illuminating study of the controversial issue of sexuality that can be read with profit by all sides in this sometimes bitter debate......Rogers has written an important book that deepens our understanding of marraige as well as contributing to the current debate on sexuality."Bishop Paul Richardson "This is an unusual, challenging and important book, which makes a powerful theological case for same-sex marriage...The main strength of the book lies, however, in its uncompromising engagement with Paul's letter to the Romans and the twin ethical discourses, natural law and divine command, that locate evil in homosexual activity." Modern Believing "This is an extremely good book. Rogers's argument...is theologically informed, carefully constructed and powerfully presented at every turn. It should be widely read, for there is much of great value." Stephen R. Holmes, Journal of Theological Studies "This is a work of some theological richness, subtlety and scope, which is - for that very reason - notably free from the familiar dogmatisms and polemicizing that cloud the debate on homosexuality. It is tempting to conclude that, if there is a serious theological case to be made for same-sex marriage, this is it." Studies in Christian Ethics "This study deserves the careful attention of anyone who is interested in identifying and understanding the foundations on which a biblically-informed Christian sexual ethic must rest." Pro Ecclesia "Sexuality and the Christian Body shows a young theologian at work on a central dilemma of our day, a Christian who brings to his vocation scholarly rigor, moral and intellectual imagination, and, supremely, great theological passion. These are great gifts, and we can look forward eagerly to more." Theology TodayTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Orientation in the Debates: Sexuality and the People of God. 1. The Politics of the People of God. 2. The Identity of the People of God. Contrary to Nature. 3. The Holiness of the People of God: Monogamy and Monasticism. Part II: Retrieving Traditional Accounts: Aquinas and Barth. 4. The Storied Context of the Vice against Nature: Retrieving a Narrative. 5. Nature and Justice when Science and Scripture Conflict: Retrieving a Narrative. 6. Karl Barth on Jews and Gender: A Preliminary Critique. 7. Unintended Abstraction in Barth's Doctrine of Israel: Retrieving a Doctrine of the Spirit. 8. Unintended Abstraction in Barth's Account of Gender: Retrieving Co-Humanity. Part III: The Way of the Body into the Triune God. 9. Creation, Procreation, and the Glory of the Triune God. 10. Eros and Philanthropy. 11. The Shape of the Body and the Shape of Grace. 12. Hostility and Hospitality. 13. The Narrative of Providence and a Charge for a Wedding. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Queer Studies
Book SynopsisQueer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays that over the past two decades have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital and important areas of study in both the humanities and social sciences. Brings together important essays that have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital areas of study in the humanities and social sciences. Includes an introductory essay by the editors that provides a context for this pivotal scholarship and promotes dialogue across disciplines. Discusses key issues in the field, including sexual politics, cultural construction of sexuality, transnationalism, race, community, sexual citizenship and the nation-state. Functions as a primary text for introductory as well as advanced courses, as a general introduction to the field, and as a scholarly resource. Trade Review"There is much here that is fascinating and adds to our knowledge of the multiplicity of ways in which people experience and live their sexualities." Sexualities "Refusing the easy collapse of queer studies into gay and lesbian studies, Corber and Valocchi offer scholars and activists a collection of essays that maps the complexities of non-normative desires as they are produced in and through social institutions, economic practices, disciplinary structures, and cultural discourse. In the process, they reclaim the political hope that queer studies is a radical intervention into regimes of being and knowing!" Robyn Wiegman, Duke University "Queer Studies may very well be the first Reader that students and professors should consult to get an overview of the field. Interdisciplinary, ambitious, and accessible, the volume is a fine contribution to this dynamic field." Steven Seidman, University at Albany, State University of New York "There is much here that is fascinating and adds to our knowledge of the multiplicity of ways in which people experience and live their sexualities" Richard Dunphy, University of DundeeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I Practices, Identities, Communities 1 The Trouble with Harry Thaw 21 Martha M. Umphrey 2 Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism 31 Cheryl Chase 3 Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS 46 Cathy J. Cohen 4 Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Women or Men 61 C. Jacob Hale Part II the Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality 5 The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America 73 Lisa Duggan 6 The Returns of Cleopatra Jones 88 Jennifer DeVere Brody 7 (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler 102 Laura Kipnis Part III Sexual Citizenship and the Nation-State 8 Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity 121 Nayan Shah 9 The Talk of the County: Revisiting Accusation, Murder, and Mississippi, 1895 142 John Howard 10 The Brandon Teena Archive 159 Judith Halberstam 11 Sex in Public 170 Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner Part IV Transnationalizing Sexualities 12 Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan 187 Jennifer Robertson 13 Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion 206 Gayatri Gopinath 14 The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia 218 Tom Boellstorff 15 A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes 237 Don Kulick Index 255
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Harvard University Press A Converts Tale Art Crime and Jewish Apostasy in
Book SynopsisSalomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.Trade Review[An] illuminating microhistory of the Jewish goldsmith and Christian convert Salomone da Sesso, and how far he and his family were truly able to integrate into their ‘host’ society of Renaissance Mantua and Ferrara. -- Simon Ditchfield * Times Higher Education *Reconstructs the complex relations between Christians and Jews in the Renaissance, highlighting a darker side of an era often seen as enlightened. -- Ariel David * Haaretz *Breaks new ground…Herzig’s engaging tome illustrates how deeply the fates of individual converts could depend on their immediate circumstances…Herzig’s masterful portrait of Ercole reveals much about Ercole’s life and world, and it shows that this acclaimed goldsmith embodied important trends common to many premodern converts. -- Paola Tartakoff * Marginalia *Enriches our present understanding of apostasy through an interdisciplinary investigation of the artistic, political, social and psychological undertones of the phenomenon…Herzig is able to turn a micro-historical case study into a macroscopic biopic of a self-fashioned virtuoso of the arts and the social life of 16th-century Ferrara…Convincingly succeeds in painting a full-color portrait of an equally raw and embellished life. -- Allegra Baggio Corradi * Reviews in History *Herzig interweaves art history and family history, probing also the relations between Jewish communities and Christian patrons…A significant contribution to historical scholarship…The book’s rich descriptions and lucid prose make this convert’s tale one well worth reading. -- Debra Kaplan * American Historical Review *[A] richly detailed work of microhistory…Herzig’s investigation of Salomone/Ercole’s history leads to new reflections on the lives of Jewish converts and Christian rulers in early modern Italy and how punishment, gender, and religion intertwined. -- Meghan Callahan * Canadian Journal of History *Meticulously researched and superbly written…Provides a more ambitious and richly textured panorama of the wider effects of Salomone’s life as a Jew, as a Christian, and as a goldsmith, in relation to his family members, his patrons, associates—both Jews and Christians—and the Renaissance culture and society in which he lived…Herzig’s work will stand at the forefront of research on the conversion of Jews to Christianity in Renaissance Italy for many years to come. -- Katherine E. Aron-Beller * H-Net Reviews *Extremely well-written and meticulously researched…Sheds light on the expectations and realities of Jewish converts as well as the stigma of conversion in the community. Through these analyses, Herzig answers the overarching question of why Salomone converted—and concludes that it was for both protection and financial reasons. -- Nilab Ferozan * Renaissance and Reformation *In a major feat of archival sleuthing, Herzig presents a study of conversion that will interest academics and the general audience alike. -- Dana E. Katz * Renaissance Quarterly *[A] bravura piece of scholarship…[an] extraordinary story…Herzig’s expertise extends to many fields…Shows the personal side of conversion in a way that confirms more theoretical recent scholarship…The power of this story lies in how it shows layers of society interdependent and melded together. Herzig gives us an impoverished Jewish community, an unstable but striving artisan class, the many intermediaries who ran crucial interference between artists and patrons, the rulers themselves, and the broader political network in which they governed. -- Emily Michelson * Renaissance Studies *Excellent…presents a vivid portrait of Salomone, tracing his life story as he and his family converted from Judaism to Christianity. Herzig deftly interweaves microhistory with broader considerations of gender, religious difference, and cultural assimilation in the Renaissance, crafting an exceedingly readable narrative that enriches our understanding of the intersections between artistic patronage and religious conversion in the Italian Renaissance. -- Rachel Miller * Annali d’Italianistica *[Herzig’s] account of Salomone/Ercole’s life and times throws an intriguing light on the complex situation of Jewish communities in Renaissance Italy in the years before the Council of Trent. -- Brian G. H. Ditcham * Sixteenth Century Journal *A thoroughly researched investigation of the life of one of the most celebrated Renaissance goldsmiths, A Convert’s Tale offers a vivid, layered portrayal of the ambiguities inherent in both Jewish–Christian and patron–client relations in Renaissance Italy. Herzig’s book is exemplary in its insightful treatment of the familial and gendered implications of conversion to Christianity. Its impressive reconstruction of the often unglamorous vicissitudes of a busy artisan’s existence, and its masterful presentation of the complex power dynamics that marked the uneven relations between Jews/Jewish converts and their princely protectors, make A Convert’s Tale an unmissable read for Renaissance and Jewish Studies scholars alike. -- Francesca Bregoli, author of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century ReformHerzig’s brilliant case study offers captivating new perspectives, not just for the glance it casts on Salomone’s apostasy, but also on the profound effects, both negative and positive, his adherence to Christianity had on his family over the long term. A Convert’s Tale will increase our understanding of conversion in early modern Italy and move scholarship on Jewish–Christian relations in fascinating new directions. -- Konrad Eisenbichler, author of The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century SienaA Convert’s Tale is an incisive book that with impressive sophistication blends archival research with cultural and social history. Herzig employs a microhistorical approach to thoroughly examine the life of a noted virtuoso goldsmith as a Jew and later as a convert in Renaissance Italy. In so doing she shines a light on the life of converts from Judaism to Christianity, Jewish–Christian relations, patronage, and homosexuality in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian cities with her usual, admirable command of primary sources and scholarship. -- Federica Francesconi, University at Albany, State University of New YorkA compelling read, a book that will be of great interest to scholars and students of art and material culture, of Jews and Jewish converts, of Renaissance court life, and of aristocratic marriages, with particular insight into the condition of women within them. -- Miri Rubin * Journal of Modern History *A fascinating, detailed microhistorical portrait of the life and career of Salomone da Sesso, a virtuoso Jewish goldsmith who converted to Catholicism in Ferrara in 1491…[Herzig’s work] provides a great deal of insight into the place of Jews in the society and culture of the Italian Renaissance. -- Rosa Salzberg * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *Throughout this beautifully written book, Herzig calls on us to reflect from multiple perspectives on the material she has uncovered…the historian’s own inquisitive, analytic voice and comparative methodology stand behind this tale, revealing a great deal about how—with what achievements and what limitations—it is possible to reconstruct the past by astutely examining the pieces of the puzzle that have survived dispersed among the archives. -- L. Scott Lerner * Journal of Jewish Identities *[A Convert’s Tale] presents the life of Salomone—later baptized as Ercole de’Fedeli—and the advantages, trials, and tribulations of a convert in quattrocento Italy. Chasing Salomone and his family through the archives, Herzig connects this convert’s life to the broader histories of artistry, patronage, intra-Jewish communal affairs, interfaith relations, and identity politics. -- Marci Freedman * H-Judaic *
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Princeton University Press The Straight State
Book SynopsisShows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. This title looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Biennial Book Award, Order of the Coif Winner of the 2011 John Boswell Prize, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History Winner of the 2010 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Studies by the Lambda Literary Foundation Co-Winner of the 2010 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association Winner of the 2010 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Winner of the 2010 Cromwell Book Prize, American Society for Legal History "It is not really news that inhabitants of the United States are governed by what historian Margot Canaday calls, in the title of her excellent book, a 'straight state.' For some time now, scholars of sexuality (following in the footsteps of those who have studied and challenged the race and gender hierarchies embedded in state policies and actions) have professed the analytical goal of what historian Lisa Duggan, writing in 1994, called 'queering the state.' These scholars have argued that the supposed naturalness of the heterosexual couple, and the unnaturalness of alternatives, is presumed and reinforced in the ordinary workings of government. Canaday's substantial contribution is to trace, in gripping and at times horrifying detail, exactly how the United States came to operate in this fashion over the course of much of the twentieth century. The Straight State provides a compelling history of the designation of 'the homosexual as the anticitizen.' ... The Straight State is a captivating, engagingly written work of social, political, legal and sexual history, and the fruit of an extraordinary attention to archival documents."--Steven Epstein, Nation "[Canaday] succeeds in ... contributing brilliantly both to understandings of the relationship between state practices and the construction of identity and to the story of the rise of the modern bureaucratic state as a sexual state... [This] book ... presents a fascinating reframing of a familiar story and opens substantial new space for related research."--Julie Novkov, Perspectives on Politics "[The Straight State] is a pathbreaking, riveting historical study... [Canaday's] brilliant book is revelatory."--David A. J. Richards, Law and History Review "Princeton Professor Margot Canaday has presented us with a superb and groundbreaking analysis of the role of federal institutions in shaping the LGBT identity over the course of the 20th Century... Professor Canaday's work satisfies in a way all too rarely encountered in contemporary historical writing. The Straight State opens our eyes to the role of evolving federal policies in immigration, welfare, and the military in defining homosexuality and the gay persona... The Straight State is indispensable to the student of modern queer history."--Toby Grace, Out in Jersey "Canaday contends that the emergence of state bureaucracy in the 20th-century US may be tracked through its developing definition and regulation of homosexuality... While some scholars may debate the author's particular inferences from her evidence, this volume opens new ground in gender research."--Choice "The Straight State makes three outstanding contributions: it delineates the state as a whole fresh category in the formation of gay identities; elite reform becomes more important than bottom up revolution; while she moves gay history, convincingly, right into the mainstream of historical inquiry. Canaday has, therefore, produced an extremely important book."--Kevin White, Journal of Social History "Canaday offer[s] a much more complete record than has previously appeared in print of the law of gay-straight discrimination and its meaning in people's lives."--Felicia Kornbluh, Law & Social Inquiry "[An] absorbing account of federal policies, [this study] makes an important intervention by showing why historians of sexuality need to pay more attention to questions of citizenship and the practices of the administrative state."--George Chauncey, American Historical Review "[This] book contributes to an ongoing body of lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender theoretical, historical, and social research in fascinating new ways, revealing the extent to which normative critiques continue to inform queer theory and structure queer lives."--Jaime Cantrell, Feminist FormationsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART I: Nascent Policing Chapter 1: IMMIGRATION "A New Species of Undesirable Immigrant": Perverse Aliens and the Limits of the Law, 1900-1924 19 Chapter 2: MILITARY "We Are Merely Concerned with the Fact of Sodomy": Managing Sexual Stigma in the World War I-Era Military, 1917-1933 55 Chapter 3: WELFARE "Most Fags Are Floaters": The Problem of "Unattached Persons" during the Early New Deal, 1933-1935 91 PART II: Explicit Regulation Chapter 4: WELFARE "With the Ugly Word Written across It": Homo-Hetero Binarism, Federal Welfare Policy, and the 1944 GI Bill 137 Chapter 5: MILITARY "Finding a Home in the Army": Women's Integration, Homosexual Tendencies, and the Cold War Military, 1947-1959 174 Chapter 6: IMMIGRATION "Who Is a Homosexual?": The Consolidation of Sexual Identities in Mid-twentieth-century Immigration Law, 1952-1983 214 Conclusion 255 Index 265
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Princeton University Press Syrian Episodes Sons Fathers and an
Book SynopsisWhen Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand intimate interactions of religious, political, and familial authTrade Review"First of all, the book is gorgeously written. Second, it is the anthropology of experience rather than the anthropology of abstruse theory."--Martin Peretz, New Republic "Vivid detail fills Syrian Episodes, a book startling in its frankness about the Princeton professor's friendly, frustrating, and even flirtatious encounters in Syria's second-largest city... The author fulfills his early promise of an ethnography that is as much about others' questions as his own. Both intrigue the reader as one reads conversations about subjects as varied as God, sex, movies, George W. Bush, and the Ba'ath Party. Drawing on his experiences at the souk, and the university, Mr. Borneman tells the stories of young men, some oppressed by paternal authority, some adrift without it."--Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education "Readers who are nostalgic for the orientalist tradition of encounters with the exotic other would enjoy this book, particularly given the accessible narrative style in which it is written."--Faedah M. Totah, H-NET ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xxix Chapter I: P Aleppo 1 "Prayer is better than sleep" 1 Imad's Japanese Girlfriend 7 Farce 11 "I would rather have children than fly" 13 "Once you love deeply, you never forget" 21 "My father says he saves for me" 23 "As long as she gets along with me, she will have no problems with my mother" 26 "Do you desire your mother?" 29 Traffic, or the Normal Order of Things 31 Preparing to Teach 42 Administrative Pleasantries 43 "But we are homophobic!" 52 "So, what do you think of Muslims?" 62 "I'd like to be the next president" 68 "The religious people see this and hate it, but they cannot turn it off" 74 "God will tell us when we have to do something" 84 "Kiss Daddy! Kiss Daddy!" 88 Chapter II: P The Souk 96 "Come into my shop and let me take you" 96 "Do you have a brother?" 100 "Ossi oder NorMAL?" 103 The Souk's Logic of Exchange 107 Fathers, Sons, Brothers, and Inheritance 112 Dream Collector 115 Dream of the Mistress 117 "How great is my disappointment when I see my dreams breaking down" 119 "Every woman thinks I only want to sleep with her" 123 Cell Phone, Cassettes, String Underwear 127 "That is fieldwork!" 128 "A father, perhaps a brother" 130 Fathers and Sons 145 "It is a blessing" 149 The Rumor 153 Chapter III: P Syria 156 "These are my children" 156 Aleppian Food, in Public 162 Obtaining an Exit Visa 166 The Ba'ath Party 169 Student Radicals 175 Teaching Anthropology and American Culture 178 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 187 Wild Dog Attack 190 Chapter IV: P Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Syria 192 Pedagogy 192 Lectures 194 Films 196 Coda: January 2006 200 Further Reading 225 Index 233
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Princeton University Press One Soul We Divided
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Princeton University Press One Soul We Divided
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Princeton University Press The Double
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An extraordinary selection of over 120 works reveals the splits, juxtapositions, reflections, and multiplications deployed by modern and contemporary artists to explore sameness and difference, the original and the copy, the self and the other."---Rachel Vogel, CAA.Reviews"An elegant exhibition catalogue. . . . The Double remind[s] us vividly that virtually all art is inherently a self-reflection of its maker and a mirror of the times in which it was made."---Donald Brackett, Critics at Large
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Queer Wars
Book SynopsisThe claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence.Trade Review"Queer Wars is broad in its scope, engaging in its material, thorough in its conception, and passionate in its argument on how advocacy should build a consensus that protects sexual minorities globally from violence and discrimination. A book for strategists, activists, academics and international workers alike." Edwin Cameron, Constitutional Court of South Africa "The global struggle for sexual and gender minority rights is one of the most critical and contested human rights movements of our time. As queer communities mobilize, and the coming generation of young people worldwide express greater tolerance, acceptance and calls for freedom, the pushback has been intense. Altman and Symons have done us all an invaluable service in unpacking the complex politics around LGBT rights, demands, cultures and contexts. Queer Wars is essential reading for all engaged in pressing for more just, open and diverse societies." Chris Beyrer, Johns Hopkins University and President of the International AIDS Society "Dennis Altman�s and Jonathan Symons� work Queer Wars is a timely and accessible intervention on the global state of play for queer rights." Australian Institute of International AffairsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Queer Wars: How should we respond to global polarization over gay rights?Chapter 1: Setting the Agenda Chapter 2: The Emergence of a Global Movement Chapter 3: Queer Rights as Human Rights Chapter 4: The Conservative Backlash Chapter 5: International Polarization Chapter 6: What is to be done?NotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Queer Youth in the Province of the Severely
Book SynopsisExplores how youth identities have been constructed through dominant and often competing discourses about youth, sexuality, and gender, and how queer youth in Alberta negotiated the contradictions of these discourses.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Gendering: Troubled Theories, Troubling Identities2 Production and Consumption of Youth Identity3 Social/Legal Production of Sexual Minorities in Canada4 Queer Identities and Strange Representations in the Province of the Severely NormalNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Canadian War on Queers
Book SynopsisThe Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians.Trade ReviewKinsman and Gentile have taken on an ambitious project both with respect to their topic as well as the scope of more than four decades worth of material. This is an incredibly important piece of work and will be appreciated by those who have a historical interest in national security campaigns and queer history, as well as those who want a history on which to base contemporary resistance to the security campaigns that are still being mounted against many marginalized people today. * TOPIA, Spring 2011 *This account of the surveillance of Canadian lesbians and gays in the name of national security is impressive, at once bone-chilling and inspiring. -- David Rayside * Left History, 14.2 *An important intervention into mainstream studies of Canadian historiography. -- Jack Hixson-Vulpe * Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 *Table of ContentsPreface: National Security Wars Then and Now1 Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History2 Queer History and Sociology from Below: Resisting National Security as an Ideological Practice3 The Cold War against Queers: Social and Historical Contexts4 The Social Relations of National Security: Spying and Interrogation5 The “Fruit Machine”: Attempting to Detect Queers6 Queer Resistance and the Security Response7 The Campaign Continues in the 1970s: Security Risks and Lesbian Purges in the Military8 “Gay Political Activists” and “Radical Lesbians”: Organizing against the National Security State9 From Exclusion to Assimilation10 Resisting the Expanding National Security State: From the Canadian War on Queers to the War on “Terror”AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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