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Book SynopsisLyndon K. Gill foregrounds a queer presence in foundational elements of Trinidad and Tobago's national imaginary—Carnival masquerade design, Calypso musicianship, and queer HIV/AIDS activism—to show how same-sex desire provides the means for the nation's queer population to develop survival and community building strategies.Trade Review"Highly recommended." -- E. Pappas * Choice *"Part history and part ethnography, Lyndon K. Gill’s Erotic Islands offers an innovative approach to nascent and long-established fields such as black diaspora studies and anthropology, correspondingly. Scholars of Caribbean studies or queer studies will likewise benefit from Erotic Islands." -- Alejandro Stephano Escalante * ASAP/Journal *"Reading Erotic Islands is a sensual exercise. The chapters, organized based on the senses, visual, aural and tactile engagement in art and activism, are punctuated by excerpts from Gill’s field diaries, also rich with sensory descriptions. . . . The text successfully engages the reader on multiple levels. Erotic Islands provides rich and provocative explorations of same-sex desire and instructions for applying the erotic lens, while making invaluable contribution to deeper understandings of the queer Caribbean." -- Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan * Anthropos *“I celebrate this book for resisting dominant imaginings of paradise and refuting the idea that the region is unlivable for same-sex-desiring persons. This work takes seriously the spaces of our Queer Caribbean lives with caring analysis.” -- Angelique V. Nixon * GLQ *“Some ethnographers are griots who rely on ethnography to reveal certain truths about the world. Lyndon Gill is one such scholar. Attentive to the transformative power of language, story-telling, and multiple registers of world-making, he reveals the power of ‘eros as a lens, vital for surveying the elaborate topography of connections we share as political, sensual, and spiritual beings’ (p. 11).” -- Ana-Maurine Lara * Asian Journal of Social Science *“Erotic Islands is a thought-provoking text that offers integral concepts to queer, diaspora, Black, and Caribbean studies. It is a pivotal tool that excavates the dynamism of queer Caribbean efforts toward recognition, safety, and autonomy.” -- Sabia McCoy-Torres * Transforming Anthropology *

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Book SynopsisStephen Dillon examines the literary and artistic work of feminist, queer antiracist activists who were imprisoned or became fugitives in the United States during the 1970s, showing how they were among the first to theorize and make visible the co-constitutive symbiotic relationship between neoliberalism and racialized mass-incarceration.Trade Review"Dillon’s overall project returns a genealogy of antiprison politics to con-temporary queer theoretical debates on temporality, fugitivity, and desire. ... [His] text is thus not only a valuable contribution to Black feminist thought and queer studies but also a model for abolition itself." -- Cameron Clark * GLQ *"This is an excellent book for our times, an era provoking fresh outrage over children in cages and the brutal treatment of bodies fleeing violence by states that claim to honor human rights. It is a time to bathe in the spirit of many of the authors Dillon presents. Fugitive Life is a compelling reminder of the logics of the carceral state as they have been unfolding over centuries, and the inevitable — if frequently intangible —logics of resistance that also result." -- Keally McBride * Politics and Gender *“In Fugitive Life, Stephen Dillon uses the writings of fugitive activists to analyze how gender, race, and sexuality were deployed in the development of a new system of power in 1970: the neoliberal-carceral state. The book is beautifully written and a significant intervention that is sure to become a foundational text in a number of academic fields.” -- Erin Mayo-Adam * Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *“Beautifully written, Fugitive Life is a key text for readers in American studies, criminology, queer studies, Black studies, and—keenly—for those of us who count ourselves as ongoing scholars of, and participants in, radical social and political movements.” -- Melanie Brazzell and Erica R. Meiners * QED *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. "Escape-Bound Captives": Race, Neoliberalism, and the Force of Queerness 1 1. "We're Not Hiding but We're Invisible": Law and Order, the Temporality of Violence, and the Queer Fugitive 27 2. Life Escapes: Neoliberal Economics, the Underground, and Fugitive Freedom 54 3. Possessed by Death: Black Feminism, Queer Temporality, and the Afterlife of Slavery 84 4. "Only the Sun Will Bleach His Bones Quicker": Desire, Police Terror, and the Affect of Queer Feminist Futures 119 Conclusion. "Being Captured Is Beside the Point": A World beyond the World 143 Notes 155 Bibliography 171 Index 185

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Book SynopsisThe Rest of It is the untold and revealing story of how Martin Duberman—a major historian and a founding figure in the history of gay and lesbian studies—managed to survive and be productive during a difficult twelve year period in which he was beset by drug addiction, health problems, and personal loss.Trade Review"Challenging gay invisibility and confronting anti-gay bigotry among the intelligentsia are key battlefronts on which Marty fought early, bravely and often. The passion of his arguments and efforts is everywhere in the testimony of The Rest of Us." -- Lawrence D. Mass * Medium *"Sharp and engaging, with tasteful anecdotes that anchor Duberman not in a historical lineage but firmly within his own personal journey. This highly intelligent book is not just another contribution to gay history; it is also an important pillar in the author's literary biography. A fascinating look into a significant period in the life of a much-loved literary figure." * Kirkus Reviews *"We queers are better off, better informed and better empowered, for Duberman’s astute, engaged lifetime of work. We are also better off for reading The Rest of It, for understanding the beautifully written history of one man, yes, but in effect, a part of the history of us all." -- D. Gilson * Lambda Literary Review *"The Rest of It is not a revisionist memoir or the roars of a gay literary lion in winter. It is instead an intimate, revealing, and vibrant account of a writer’s personal struggles with Duberman in top form. Duberman’s account of this pivotal time in GLBTQ history is as sharp as ever...." -- Lew J. Whittington * New York Journal of Books *"Duberman is one of America's great intellectuals; all readers can enjoy this well-rounded self-portrait of a tumultuous decade in the life of an important thinker." -- David Azzolina * Library Journal *"The Rest of It, a memoir of the years 1976 to 1988, confirms Duberman’s status as one of our most brilliant and essential memoirists. This is clearly a skilled, dedicated historian’s memoir, as it minutely details the writer’s personal life while also grounding us in the political and social turmoil of the time. . . . The Rest of It will engage and enrich readers with its brutally honest examination of one man’s life lived fully. It deserves a place on your bookshelf." -- Hank Trout * A&U Magazine *"Duberman's emotionally raw and keenly observant memoir illuminates both his turbulent life and the years when gay publishing began to flower just as AIDS started to devastate its landscape." -- Kevin Howell * Shelf Awareness *"Martin Duberman has been a touchstone for a generation of gay men, and, once again, he offers up his life experiences to help us better understand our own. The Rest of It is a lively book; it forces readers to engage with the difficult, often contentious personality of a brilliantly accomplished gay man wrestling with his demons." -- Daniel A. Burr * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Filled with tidbits of gossip with appearances by luminaries of the era like Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer, The Rest Of Us is a brutally honest examination of a painful period in the writer’s life and career." * The Advocate *“[I] highly recommend this book. It was a pleasure to read, and I learned a great deal about Duberman and the world he inhabited. The book is at times witty, sad, happy, and darkly funny. We urge our students to write history ‘warts and all,’ and Duberman has turned that advice upon himself and produced a book that I am glad to have read.” -- Jerry Watkins * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsPreface xi 1. My Mother's Death 1 2. Attempted Therapies: Theater, LSD, Bioenergetics 9 3. A New Kind of History: Gay Scholarship 14 4. Reading My Circadian Chart 26 5. Hustlers 37 6. A Heart Attack 45 7. The Reagan Years Begin 51 8. The New York Civil Liberties Union and the Gay Movement 56 9. Writing the Paul Robeson Biography 79 10. New York Native 91 11. CUNY, Christopher Lasch, and Eugene Genovese 96 12. The Onset of AIDS 107 13. Completing Robeson 117 14. The Salmagundi Controversy 126 15. Paul Robeson Jr. 135 16. Depression 139 17. Hospitalization 154 18. Getting Clean: AA and CA 162 19. East Germany and After 172 20. The Theater Again 181 21. Aftermaths: 1985–1988 187 Acknowledgments 223 Index 225

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Book SynopsisStephen Dillon examines the literary and artistic work of feminist, queer antiracist activists who were imprisoned or became fugitives in the United States during the 1970s, showing how they were among the first to theorize and make visible the co-constitutive symbiotic relationship between neoliberalism and racialized mass-incarceration.Trade Review"Dillon’s overall project returns a genealogy of antiprison politics to con-temporary queer theoretical debates on temporality, fugitivity, and desire. ... [His] text is thus not only a valuable contribution to Black feminist thought and queer studies but also a model for abolition itself." -- Cameron Clark * GLQ *"This is an excellent book for our times, an era provoking fresh outrage over children in cages and the brutal treatment of bodies fleeing violence by states that claim to honor human rights. It is a time to bathe in the spirit of many of the authors Dillon presents. Fugitive Life is a compelling reminder of the logics of the carceral state as they have been unfolding over centuries, and the inevitable — if frequently intangible —logics of resistance that also result." -- Keally McBride * Politics and Gender *“In Fugitive Life, Stephen Dillon uses the writings of fugitive activists to analyze how gender, race, and sexuality were deployed in the development of a new system of power in 1970: the neoliberal-carceral state. The book is beautifully written and a significant intervention that is sure to become a foundational text in a number of academic fields.” -- Erin Mayo-Adam * Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *“Beautifully written, Fugitive Life is a key text for readers in American studies, criminology, queer studies, Black studies, and—keenly—for those of us who count ourselves as ongoing scholars of, and participants in, radical social and political movements.” -- Melanie Brazzell and Erica R. Meiners * QED *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. "Escape-Bound Captives": Race, Neoliberalism, and the Force of Queerness 1 1. "We're Not Hiding but We're Invisible": Law and Order, the Temporality of Violence, and the Queer Fugitive 27 2. Life Escapes: Neoliberal Economics, the Underground, and Fugitive Freedom 54 3. Possessed by Death: Black Feminism, Queer Temporality, and the Afterlife of Slavery 84 4. "Only the Sun Will Bleach His Bones Quicker": Desire, Police Terror, and the Affect of Queer Feminist Futures 119 Conclusion. "Being Captured Is Beside the Point": A World beyond the World 143 Notes 155 Bibliography 171 Index 185

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Book SynopsisIn this tenth anniversary expanded edition of Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking book—which features a new preface by Tavia Nyong’o and a new postscript by the author—Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism.Trade Review“A profound and challenging book that should be read widely and repeatedly, Puar’s latest work contains revelations about contemporary power that offer avenues for transforming academic knowledge and our own subjectivities.” -- Liz Philipose * Signs *“Terrorist Assemblages is brilliant, hyperkinetic, and perhaps, most of all, ferocious. It is ferocious in its analysis and critique not only of networks of control over and unrelenting superpanopticism of queer, racialized bodies but also of queer, feminist, and critical race theory and activism.” -- Victor Román Mendoza * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Few points of identification, cherished political practices, or progressive claims are left unimplicated in Puar's analysis of the war on terror. . . . Terrorist Assemblages exemplifies the most difficult and yet most important work that critical theory can offer its readers and practitioners: a thoroughgoing interrogation of the inequalities, oppressions and injustices that shape the present, which refuses to leave its authors' and readers' own investments outside its critiques.” -- Elisabeth Anker * Theory & Event *“Puar provides compelling and convincing examples of the unwitting effects of homonormative discourse.” -- Celia Jameson * Parallax *“Jasbir Puar’s Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times is a powerful, energetic, and highly insightful read. The book absorbs a surprising amount of intellectual, political, and emotional labour. . . . [R]eaders can have that rare and golden experience of emerging from these pages transformed. Indeed, the demands that Puar places on her reader are substantial, but the rewards well worth it. Cutting, courageous, and prescient, Terrorist Assemblages is well worth the read.” -- Deborah Cowen * Antipode *"It is her ability to traverse the theoretical terrains between theories of affect and nonrepresentation as well as discourse and identity that exemplifies how these seemingly opposed poststructuralisms do, in fact, enrich each other and make Terrorist Assemblages a critically important work." -- Lauren L. Martin * Annals of the AAG *"Terrorist Assemblages is a challenging and urgent book that pushes studies of the sexual beyond their comfort zone. . . . The chapters offer a series of bold and creative readings that aim to rewrite emergent orthodoxies within both critical and not so critical discourses on the 'war on terror.' Where such discourses perpetuate separation and distance, Puar strikingly demonstrates connectivity and coincidence." -- Natalie Oswin * Social & Cultural Geography *"Terrorist Assemblages will appeal to scholars who wish to push the limits of interdisciplinary thinking and writing. In both form and content, this book energetically experiments with different theoretical frameworks and disparate sources to produce fresh insights on a variety of issues. For these and many other reasons, Terrorist Assemblages is bound to become a mainstay in graduate courses across a range of disciplines, and will certainly be cited as a key text in scholarship that examines how discourses surrounding sexuality are mobilized in the service of war, nation-building, and imperialism." -- Sean McCarthy * E3W Review of Books *"Terrorist Assemblages is a rich and textured read that lays bare the perniciousness of liberal politics while asking for the hard work it takes to build radical solidarity." -- Rupal Oza * Social & Cultural Geography *". . . I think it only appropriate that we succumb to this project’s velocity, that we explore Puar’s virtuosic, methodological interventions, while acknowledging the captivating intellectual performance at the heart of Terrorist Assemblages. . . . Puar importantly provides a salient and scathing political critique of nationalism in its hetero, homo, religious and racialized incarnations." -- Karen Tongson * Women & Performance *“Puar’s project brings what we might describe as a racial politics of tolerance to the production of queers. . . . In doing so, she challenges those of us engaged in human rights theory and advocacy for sexual minorities to a serious consideration of what it is that enables such advocacy to be effective in the first instance, and what the effectiveness of such campaigns means for the re-positioning of LGBT subjects in mainstream political economies. . . . Her examination of terrorist discourses foregrounds a dimension of Foucault’s characterization of contemporary power that has been largely ignored by theorists who take up this framework for speaking of power: namely, the instrumentality of death—that is, the extent to which the protection and management of some life/lives is contingent on letting others die.” -- Margaret Denike * Feminist Legal Studies * "Since the publication of Puar’s book, the presence of Islamophobic and openly gay politicians like Pim Fortuyn and Geert Wilders—who had seemed exceptional in the early 2000s—has become rather the norm. . . . Puar’s book has been extremely important in the effort to make sense of these phenomena." -- Sara R. Farris * Social Text *Table of ContentsForeword / Tavia Nyong'o xi Preface: Tactics, Strategies, Logistics xvii Introduction: Homonationalism and Biopolitics 1 1. The Sexuality of Terrorism 37 2. Abu Ghraib and U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism 79 3. Intimate Control, Infinite Direction: Rereading the Lawrence Case 114 4. "The Turban is Not a Hat": Queer Diaspora and the Practices for Profiling 166 Conclusion: Queer Times, Terrorist Assemblages 203 Postscript: Homonationalism in Trump Times 223 Acknowledgments 243 Notes 249 References 307 Index 342

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Adler invites us to shift priorities, focusing on the poorest and most marginalized sectors of our communities while at the same time resisting and challenging the prototypical frames of gay identity—the picket-fenced same-sex headed household. . . . [An] important contribution toward a more emancipatory queer agenda. . . . [A] timely reminder that the legacy of Stonewall is still unfolding." -- Scott Skinner-Thompson * Slate *"Gay Priori will stimulate its readers’ imaginations. It will challenge its readers, even when they close Adler’s pages, to look outside their field of vision and ask themselves what ideas of sexual justice and other kinds they rule out as unimaginable." -- Robert Leckey * Sexualities *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. LGBT Equal Rights Discourse 1. The Indeterminacy Trap 19 2. The LGBT Rights-Bearing Subject 60 3. Reformist Desire 100 Part II. A Step Off the Well-Lit Path 4. Bringing Legal Realism to Political Economy 145 5. Making the Distributive Turn 175 Conclusion 212 Notes 217 Bibliography 247 Index 259

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Adler invites us to shift priorities, focusing on the poorest and most marginalized sectors of our communities while at the same time resisting and challenging the prototypical frames of gay identity—the picket-fenced same-sex headed household. . . . [An] important contribution toward a more emancipatory queer agenda. . . . [A] timely reminder that the legacy of Stonewall is still unfolding." -- Scott Skinner-Thompson * Slate *"Gay Priori will stimulate its readers’ imaginations. It will challenge its readers, even when they close Adler’s pages, to look outside their field of vision and ask themselves what ideas of sexual justice and other kinds they rule out as unimaginable." -- Robert Leckey * Sexualities *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. LGBT Equal Rights Discourse 1. The Indeterminacy Trap 19 2. The LGBT Rights-Bearing Subject 60 3. Reformist Desire 100 Part II. A Step Off the Well-Lit Path 4. Bringing Legal Realism to Political Economy 145 5. Making the Distributive Turn 175 Conclusion 212 Notes 217 Bibliography 247 Index 259

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Book SynopsisTeaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articulate queer theories of literacy and writing instruction, while also considering the embodied actuality of being a queer teacher.

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Book SynopsisWhat's Queer about Europe focuses on those queer types of artistic, political or theoretical exchanges that take place in the presence of the idea of Europe. This book is not about queer communities in Europe but about how Queer Theory helps us initiate counter-intuitive encounters for imagining Europe.Trade Review"In their stating that 'Queer and Europe defamiliarize each other...' in their introduction to What's Queer About Europe, Dasgupta and Rosello open up a wonderfully inventive field of uncanny mismatches between subject and method. They unleash the creative justaposition of different cultural and political materials that range from the Roman travels of Montaigne to the Eurovsion Song Contest, from the critique of colonialism to the critical, queer subject in contemporary French cinema, or the strangely contradictory needs for the normative and the queer in the legal regulation of migration. This is truly a feast of trans-disciplinary defamiliarizing, at once learned and witty, challenging and profoundly necessary if queer studies or area studies are to take on a new vivacity that embodies the commonality and dissensus of out times." -- -Adrian Rifkin University of London "This book stages multiple encounters between Europe and Queer as two paradigms of transgression - an unusual constellation that results in an imaginative set of investigations of different identity intersections, moving freely across time and space, and between cultural and political contexts in a wide range of genres and media. The essays deal with fascinating historical and contemporary phenomena and are written in a mode of communicative critique that opens up inner contradictions through unexpected dialogues. The result is an invitation to queer Europe transnationally, empowering but without utopian illusions, and far beyond the ordinary discourses in these two fascinating fields." -- -Johan Fornas Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Sodertorn University, Sweden, author of Signifying EuropeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Queer and Europe: An Encounter Sudeep Dasgupta and Mireille Rosello Queer Histories: Imagining Other European Constructions (Same-Sex) Marriage and the Making of Europe: Renaissance Rome Revisited Gary Ferguson A Case of Mistaken Identity: Female Russian Social-Revolutionaries in Early-Twentieth-Century Switzerland Dominique Grisard Straight Migrants Queering European Man Nacira Guenif Queering Euro-Global Politics Queering European Sexualities Through Italy's Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities Sandra Ponzanesi Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American "Others" Lucille Cairns From European Grand Narratives to Queer Counter-Stories Sick Man of Transl-Asia: Bruce Lee and Queer Cultural Translation Paul Bowman What's Queer about Remy, Ratatouille, and French Cuisine? Laure Murat Pathos as Queer Sociality in Contemporary European Visual Culture: Francois Ozon's Time to Leave Emma Wilson Queer/Euro Visions Carl Stychin Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOut of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.Trade Review"... Dillon's memoir charts his wide-ranging life of education, gender transition, and conversion to Buddhism...show(s) continuity of concerns with those of transgender individuals today." -Publishers Weekly "First and foremost, [Dillon/Jivaka] was a seeker after truth, who traveled wherever his queries led him. His peregrinations from Laura to Michael to Lobzang were all of a piece, as spiritual and metaphysical as they were intellectual and transsexual and medical." -- -Susan Stryker from the foreword "The importance of this work to the history of sexuality-and especially to the history of transsexuality-cannot be overstated." -- -Jose Ignacio Cabezon University of California, Santa Barbara "Blocked from publication in the 1960s and then hidden in a warehouse in London, Michael Dillon's autobiography moldered away for decades in the darkness. Now, for the first time ever, it has burst into print. The book illuminates the life of one of the ground-breaking transgender pioneers of the 20th century. Just important, it is a suspenseful and heart-breaking tale that begins at the English seaside and ends with a mysterious death in the Himalayan mountains. In his gripping autobiography, Dillon finds new answers to enduring questions about gender. At the same time, he never manages to solve the puzzle of his own identity and dies in the pursuit of transcendence. Dillon's memoir deserves a place alongside the great spiritual narratives, from Augustine to Merton. This edition is beautifully put together, with an introduction and notes supplied by a trio of scholars who have immersed themselves in Dillon's life history." -- -Pagan Kennedy author of The First Man-Made Man "While so much of the history of transsexualism has circulated around and through a few highly publicized lives of trans women, Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge have made an indelible contribution to the modern histories of gender and sexuality by publishing this autobiography. Their introduction carefully situates the history of one of the earliest female to male transitions and gives us a smart and sympathetic account of the political, social and material complexities of Dillon/Jivaka's life. This is an astonishing story." -- -Jack Halberstam author of Female Masculinity and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural LivesTable of ContentsForeword by Susan Stryker Editors' Note "In His Own Way, In His Own Time": An Introduction to Out of the Ordinary Out of the Ordinary Author's Introduction Part I. Conquest of the Body 1. Birth and Origins 2. The Nursery 3. Schooldays 4. Oxford 5. War-The Darkest of Days Part II. Conquest of the Mind 6. Medical Student 7. Resident Medical Officer 8. Surgeon M.N. 9. On the Haj 10. Round the World 11. Interlude Ashore 12. The Last Voyage 13. Imji Getsul Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka: A Timeline Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisCruising the Library examines the ways in which library classifications have organized sexuality and sexual perversion. The author studies the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification, as well as the Library of Congress’s Delta Collection, a restricted collection of obscenity until 1964.Trade Review"An original study on an old institution- the U.S. Library of Congress. Adler's reading of crucial and cultural theory are accurate and insightful. She presents a practical example of the philosophical power of library documentation as a tool of metaphysics and political economy." -- -Ronald E. Day author of Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data "Tailor-made for the critlib movement, this demonstration that the Library of Congress is not a neutral space begs one critical question: where should it be shelved?" -Kirkus Reviews "This compelling book should be read by everyone who cares about the complex politics of knowledge production and dissemination. Melissa Adler's highly readable account of the fate of queer, non-normative sexual knowledge within the Library of Congress is both startling and important. It speaks to the very real importance of libraries and librarians to contemporary intellectual life." -- -Janice Radway Northwestern University "In this rewarding study, Melissa Adler shows how systems used to classify and catalogue information for libraries operate as mechanisms of control. In particular, she focuses on the ways sexual identities are constructed and disciplined through library practices. Using Eve Sedgwick's work as a paradigmatic test case, and the Library of Congress as a site, including its infamous Delta Collection, she produces a study that is as compelling as it is far-reaching in its implications. A must-read for present and future professionals, but also, a useful text for anyone concerned with official instruments for the production of knowledge." -- -Johanna Drucker Breslauer Professor, Information Studies, UCLA

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Book SynopsisOut of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.

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Book SynopsisA gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways.Bookworms know what scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they devour a work of literary fiction, whatever else they may be doing, they are reading about themselves. Read Shakespeare, and you become Cleopatra, Hamlet, or Bottom. Or at the very least, you experience the plays as if you are in a small room alone with them, and they are speaking to your life, your sensibility.Drawing on fifty years as a Shakespearean, Leonard Barkan has produced a captivating book that asks us to reconsider what it means to read. Barkan violates the rule of distance he was taught and has always taught his students. He asks: Where does this brilliantly contrived fiction actually touch me? Where is Shakespeare in effect telling the story of my life?King Lear, for Barkan, raises unanswerable questions about what exactly a father does afterTable of ContentsPreface | ix 1 Father Uncertain. King Lear | 1 2 Athens Scrambled. A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 33 3 Mothers and Sons. Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, Macbeth, Hamlet | 73 4 Faith Awakened. The Winter’s Tale | 109 5 Queer. As You Like It, the Sonnets, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night | 149 6 The Royal and the Real. Richard II | 176 Readings | 207 Acknowledgments | 213 Index | 215 Photographs follow page 104

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Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to the representation of male homosexuality in Chinese cinemas. This work states that representations of male homosexuality in Chinese film are polyphonic and multifarious, posing a challenge to monolithic and essentialized constructions of both Chineseness and homosexuality.

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Book SynopsisOffers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends ('femmes') in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. It demonstrates how these same-sex Indonesian couples negotiate transgressive identities and desires and how their experiences speak to the struggles and desires of sexual and gender minorities everywhere.

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Book SynopsisOffers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends ('femmes') in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. It demonstrates how these same-sex Indonesian couples negotiate transgressive identities and desires and how their experiences speak to the struggles and desires of sexual and gender minorities everywhere.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Danish Sheikh’s work shows that it is possible to think law, literature, and love together -- and to do so with vulnerability, compassion, and intelligence. These plays bring together incredibly disparate philosophical questions, political movements, and popular culture, anchored by a commitment to justice. In the world of Love and Reparation, the courtroom becomes a place of more than confession and prosecution – it becomes a site of storytelling and the imagination of alternative possibilities for justice.” -- Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong“Love and Reparation offers any law teacher a rare opportunity to discuss with students the elusive relations of law and life. Contempt, the first play in this volume, demonstrates the necessity of drawing methods of text and performance together to illuminate how a trial is both an event of law, and also a form of political story telling about how people’s lived experiences are exposed or transformed when they come to law. In my own experience, as an audience member, and as a teacher of the text, this is a work that stages informed, critical engagement with law, and important collective conversations about personal and public responsibility.” -- Ann Genovese, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School“The text nurtures the reader’s meandering by creating large, subtly interconnected spaces, opening multiple pathways for us to travel. I loved the journey it took me on, loved the writing, loved how it connected the very intimate with the political and legal. As wonderful as it would be to watch this play staged, it fully stands as a piece of writing in and of itself.” -- Klaus Mueller, Founder and Chair, Salzburg Global LGBT Forum“How does law, whether it is the law contained within legal statutes, the law of love, friendship, communitas and strife, or the symbolic in psychology, insinuate itself into our queer lives, loves and longings? Using the conceit of the dialogue and the dialogic in 'The Symposium', Plato’s Greek play on love, Danish Sheikh dramatizes something beautiful, tender and extraordinary in these two plays. The Platonic dialogue on love frames and orchestrates both plays—and through them the playwright makes us witness, participate in and feel the myriad stories through which queer lives shape themselves before and after the sodomy statute was read down. The plays stage interwoven genres through which people find or lose their voices, giving us the fully banal horror of homophobia in the witness statements when 377 was reinstated interspersed with affidavits from queer chronicles, and post 377 being struck down, the jostling montage of different voices, whether that of lovers, organizers and lawyers, friends or therapist and patient, stumbling through courses to lives after.” -- Geeta Patel, Professor, University of Virginia“Because ‘reason will only take us so far’, in these sharp, witty and heart breaking plays, Danish Sheikh immerses us in the affective lives of law—in particular, the law that criminalised homosexuality in India until 2018. Through glimpses of the many queer lives that are shaped in ways both direct and subtle by the violence of the law, Sheikh forces the law to confront the complex realities of these lives. Lurking beneath the frequently self-deprecating humour of his characters is a profound meditation on the weighty afterlives of a law that ostensibly no longer exists (or does it remain forever enshrined in some deepest recess of the psyche?). Brace yourself for a ride through contempt, pride, shame, love, repair and a range of other emotional states for which we do not yet have names.” -- Rahul Rao, Reader in Political Theory, SOAS, University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I. ContemptPart II. Pride

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Book SynopsisCombining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links between groups of queer men Focuses on three main ''population groups'' in Cape Townwhite, coloured, and black Africans Discusses how HIV remains a key issue for queer men in South Africa Utilizes new research datathe first comprehensive cross-community study of queer identities in South Africa Trade Review"This attention to the materiality of the city, as well as the relational complexities of historical and contemporary interactions between queer men from different racialised backgrounds is one of the major strengths of this book. Queer Visibilities offers valuable lessons for sexual geographers and urban geographers alike and deserves to be widely read." (Area, 2011) "Tucker successfully resists closing down debate, carefully qualifying his points without qualifying them out of existence. His assessments are many, detailed and well substantiated by interview quotations. One is unable to comprehensively review the many valuable insights he brings here. Read the book." (Book Southern Africa, September 2010)"Queer Visibilities is a much-needed intervention in the geographies of sexualities. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and archival work, it provides a theoretically sophisticated examination of the interconnected politics of class and race in the production of sexualised space within contemporary Cape Town." –Jon Binnie, Manchester Metropolitan University "How can we understand the closet if we do not understand our visibilities? Tucker has provided an impressive study driven by intellectual parley between geography, queer theory, postcolonial and development studies. This book adds to the already powerful queer geographies on a fascinating place as well as to debates around queer globalisations." –Michael Brown, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 Queer Visibilities in Cape Town. Part I Visibilities. 2 Legacies and Visibilities among White Queer Men. 3 Coloured Visibilities and the Raced Nature of Heteronormative Space. 4 How to be a Queer Xhosa Man in the Cape Town Townships. Part II Interactions. 5 Social Invisibilities. 6 Political Invisibilities (and Visibilities). 7 The Costs of Invisibility. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisCombining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links between groups of queer men Focuses on three main ''population groups'' in Cape Townwhite, coloured, and black Africans Discusses how HIV remains a key issue for queer men in South Africa Utilizes new research datathe first comprehensive cross-community study of queer identities in South Africa Trade Review"Queer Visibilities is a much-needed intervention in the geographies of sexualities. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and archival work, it provides a theoretically sophisticated examination of the interconnected politics of class and race in the production of sexualised space within contemporary Cape Town." –Jon Binnie, Manchester Metropolitan University "How can we understand the closet if we do not understand our visibilities? Tucker has provided an impressive study driven by intellectual parley between geography, queer theory, postcolonial and development studies. This book adds to the already powerful queer geographies on a fascinating place as well as to debates around queer globalisations." –Michael Brown, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Series Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 Queer Visibilities in Cape Town. Part I Visibilities. 2 Legacies and Visibilities among White Queer Men. 3 Coloured Visibilities and the Raced Nature of Heteronormative Space. 4 How to be a Queer Xhosa Man in the Cape Town Townships. Part II Interactions. 5 Social Invisibilities. 6 Political Invisibilities (and Visibilities). 7 The Costs of Invisibility. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first book to examine the complexity of sexual identity, philosophy, and behavior in Amish culture. The Amish offer a startling contrast to the postmodern view of sexuality and gender roles. After the sexual revolution of the 1960s, mainstream American culture never looked back. Meanwhile, the Amish never looked forward. In twenty-first-century Amish communities, heteronormative sexuality is still based on a unifying principle: an understanding of sexuality as emerging from a divine plan. In the eyes of the Amish, sex is squandered by those who embrace it as hedonistic or who carve out a sexual identity that moves them away from that singular, God-given purpose. But this communal emphasis on sex for procreation does not mean that the Amish do not possess a complex range of sexual identities and opinions. In Serpent in the Garden, clinical psychologist James A. Cates breaks new ground in the study of Amish sexuality by examining this shrouded, rarely discussed subject. The firstTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Pilgrim Journey: Amish DisciplineChapter 2. Peculiar People, Queer TheoryChapter 3. The Birds and the Bees (and the Horses and the Cows): Learning about SexualityChapter 4. "Knowing" One Another: Ramifications of the Physical ActChapter 5. Gender Roles: Housework and HarvestingChapter 6. Intimacy: The True Serpent in the GardenChapter 7. Suffer Little Children: Child Sexual AbuseChapter 8. Victorian's Secret: Paraphilias and the AmishChapter 9. The Love That Won't Shut Up: Sexual Minorities and the AmishEpilogue. Rubbing Shoulders with Rahab: Emerging Views on SexualityAppendixesA. Suggestions for Further ReadingB. Professional Interaction and Amish SexualityC. A Quick Guide to Other Plain GroupsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the microaggressions that LGBTQ people face on a daily basis, highlights theirimpact on mental health, and discusses ways mental health providers can help clients process and addressmicroaggressions. In contrast to outright assaults and hate crimes, microaggressions are typically more covert or innocuous in nature—sometimes intentional or unintentional—communicating hostile, insulting, or negative messages about people of oppressed groups. Since the first edition of this book (That''s So Gay!: Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community) was published, there has been a cultural shift towards the acceptance of LGBTQ people in some parts of the United States. Yet many state governments have also passed laws that attack and discriminate against LGBTQ people, while institutional and interpersonal discrimination continues to occur in the lives of LGBTQ people throughout the country. This bTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Preface An Introduction to Microaggressions: Understanding Definitions and Impact Chapter 1: A Brief History of LGBTQ People and Civil Rights Chapter 2: A Review of Microaggression Literature Chapter 3: Sexual Orientation Microaggressions: Experiences of Queer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Pansexual People Chapter 4: Gender Identity Microaggressions: Experiences of Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Nonbinary People Chapter 5: Intersectional Microaggressions: Experiences of LGBTQ People of Color Chapter 6: Intersectional Microaggressions: Experiences of LGBTQ People with Disabilities, LGBTQ People of Diverse Sizes, Older LGBTQ People, and LGBTQ Youth Chapter 7: Intersectional Microaggressions: Experiences of LGBTQ Religious and Non-Religious People, LGBTQ Immigrants, and LGBTQ Poor and Working-Class People Chapter 8: The Processes of Dealing with Microaggressions: Considerations for Targets and Allies Chapter 9: Conclusion: Recommendations for LGBTQ People, Allies, and Upstanders References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisAct Up-Paris became one of the most notable protest groups in France in the mid-1990s. Founded in 1989, and following the New York model, it became a confrontational voice representing the interests of those affected by HIV through openly political activism. Action=Vie, the English-language translation of Christophe Broqua's study of the grassroots activist branch, explains the reasons for the group's success and sheds light on Act Up's defining featuressuch as its unique articulation between AIDS and gay activism. Featuring numerous accounts by witnesses and participants, Broqua traces the history of Act Up-Paris and shows how thousands of gay men and women confronted the AIDS epidemic by mobilizing with public actions. Act Up-Paris helped shape the social definition not only of HIV-positive persons but also of sexual minorities. Broqua analyzes the changes brought about by the group, from the emergence of new treatments for HIV infection to normalizing homosexuality and a controver

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Book SynopsisHow people used popular culture between the world wars to articulate sexual identities and practicesTrade Review"When Stopes asked her readers to write to her with evidence to support her theory that women had a 'cycle' of desire - feeling more amorous at certain times of the month than others - she was inundated with thousands of letters from men and women women desperate for information desperate for information about sex... Other men and women were writing letters sharing their sexual experiences, fantasies and bizarre proclivities to magazines such as London Life. These were published alongside racy pictures of chorus girls disrobing. An American academic has unearthed these letters to Stopes and the risque magazines, drawing on them for an intriguing new book about British sex lives between the wars and how people communicated their sexual problems and desires." - Daily MailM, Dec 2012 "Through an impressive and stimulating array of sources ranging from letters to Marie Stopes, readers' correspondence in the glamour and 'queer magazine' London Life, and court cases, historian Sigel charts the making of sexual identities in interwar Britain. Emphasizing the agency of individuals, Sigel convincingly makes the argument that sexology was less important than popular ephemera in the evolution and construction of personal sexual narratives and identities. In placing agency at the core of her argument, Sigel helpfully explores the processes of reading as individuals interpreted and folded popular sources into their own sexual stories... Clear, accessible, and dispassionate, this book makes important interventions in queer scholarship and the study of sexual identities. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--Choice, July 2013 "Making Modern Love is a fascinating contribution... Sigel successfully achieves one of the principal aims of her book: to show how ordinary people (as opposed to sexologists, sex reformers, and writers) wielded agency in the articulation of sexual stories and in framing their own 'sexual selves.'... There are many specific things to praise in Making Modern Love. Sigel's empathetic and nuanced reading of a variety of sources is one... Sigel's book remains an important intervention in our understanding of sexual lives in twentieth-century Britain." - American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Narratives and Identity 1 Reading Matters 2 Reading Married Love 3 Fashioning Fetishism from the Pages of London Life 4 Mr. Hyde and the Cross-Dressing Kink 5 Whipping Stories in the Pages of the PRO Conclusion: Narratives and History Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow people used popular culture between the world wars to articulate sexual identities and practicesTrade Review"When Stopes asked her readers to write to her with evidence to support her theory that women had a 'cycle' of desire - feeling more amorous at certain times of the month than others - she was inundated with thousands of letters from men and women women desperate for information desperate for information about sex... Other men and women were writing letters sharing their sexual experiences, fantasies and bizarre proclivities to magazines such as London Life. These were published alongside racy pictures of chorus girls disrobing. An American academic has unearthed these letters to Stopes and the risque magazines, drawing on them for an intriguing new book about British sex lives between the wars and how people communicated their sexual problems and desires." - Daily MailM, Dec 2012 "Through an impressive and stimulating array of sources ranging from letters to Marie Stopes, readers' correspondence in the glamour and 'queer magazine' London Life, and court cases, historian Sigel charts the making of sexual identities in interwar Britain. Emphasizing the agency of individuals, Sigel convincingly makes the argument that sexology was less important than popular ephemera in the evolution and construction of personal sexual narratives and identities. In placing agency at the core of her argument, Sigel helpfully explores the processes of reading as individuals interpreted and folded popular sources into their own sexual stories... Clear, accessible, and dispassionate, this book makes important interventions in queer scholarship and the study of sexual identities. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--Choice, July 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Narratives and Identity 1 Reading Matters 2 Reading Married Love 3 Fashioning Fetishism from the Pages of London Life 4 Mr. Hyde and the Cross-Dressing Kink 5 Whipping Stories in the Pages of the PRO Conclusion: Narratives and History Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor decades, Singapore's gay activists have sought equality and justice in a state where law is used to stifle basic civil and political liberties. This book takes an expansive view of the gay movement to examine its emergence, development, strategies, and tactics, as well as the roles of law and rights in social processes.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Mobilizing Gay Rights under Authoritarianism 2 Legal Restrictions, Political Norms, and Being Gay in Singapore 3 Timorous Beginnings 4 Cyber Organizing 5 Transition 6 Coming Out 7 Mobilizing in the Open 8 Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements Appendix A: Research Design and Methods Appendix B: Study Respondents: Singapore’s Gay Activists Appendix C: Singapore’s Gay Movement Organizations and Major Events Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFor decades, Singapore's gay activists have sought equality and justice in a state where law is used to stifle basic civil and political liberties. In her groundbreaking book, Mobilizing Gay Singapore, Lynette Chua asks, what does a social movement look like in an authoritarian state? She takes an expansive view of the gay movement to examine its emergence, development, strategies, and tactics, as well as the roles of law and rights in social processes. Chua tells this important story using in-depth interviews with gay activists, observations of the movement's activities-including Pink Dot events, where thousands of Singaporeans gather in annual celebrations of gay pride-movement documents, government statements, and media reports. She shows how activists deploy pragmatic resistance to gain visibility and support, tackle political norms that suppress dissent, and deal with police harassment, while avoiding direct confrontations with the law. Mobilizing Gay Singapore also addresses Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Mobilizing Gay Rights under Authoritarianism 2 Legal Restrictions, Political Norms, and Being Gay in Singapore 3 Timorous Beginnings 4 Cyber Organizing 5 Transition 6 Coming Out 7 Mobilizing in the Open 8 Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements Appendix A: Research Design and Methods Appendix B: Study Respondents: Singapore’s Gay Activists Appendix C: Singapore’s Gay Movement Organizations and Major Events Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisInfluential sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded Berlin's Institute of Sexual Sciences in 1919 as a home and workplace to study homosexual rights activism and support transgender people. It was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933. This episode in history prompted Heike Bauer to ask, Is violence an intrinsic part of modern queer culture? The Hirschfeld Archives answers this critical question by examining the violence that shaped queer existence in the first part of the twentieth century. Hirschfeld himself escaped the Nazis, and many of his papers and publications survived. Bauer examines his accounts of same-sex life from published and unpublished writings, as well as books, articles, diaries, films, photographs and other visual materials, to scrutinize how violence-including persecution, death and suicide-shaped the development of homosexual rights and political activism. The Hirschfeld Archives brings these fragments of queer experience together to reveal many unknown and i

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Book SynopsisAmputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternativeeven resistantepistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulatedrather than created a crisis formasculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of anti-prophylactic citizenshipa mode of political belonging characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and riskto examine counternarratives of American masculinity. Investigating the work of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity. Her

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Book SynopsisAmputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternativeeven resistantepistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulatedrather than created a crisis formasculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of anti-prophylactic citizenshipa mode of political belonging characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and riskto examine counternarratives of American masculinity. Investigating the work of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity. Her

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Book Synopsis Cynthia Wu’s provocative Sticky Rice examines representations of same-sex desires and intraracial intimacies in some of the most widely read pieces of Asian American literature. Analyzing canonical works such as John Okada’s No-No Boy, Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt, H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has Hands, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging, as well as Philip Kan Gotanda’s play, Yankee Dawg You Die, Wu considers how male relationships in these texts blur the boundaries among the homosocial, the homoerotic, and the homosexual in ways that lie beyond our concepts of modern gay identity. The “sticky rice” of Wu’s title is a term used in gay Asian American culture to describe Asian American men who desire other Asian American men. The bonds between men addressed in Sticky Rice show how the thoughts and actions founded by real-life intraracially desiring Asian-raced m

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Book Synopsis Cynthia Wu’s provocative Sticky Rice examines representations of same-sex desires and intraracial intimacies in some of the most widely read pieces of Asian American literature. Analyzing canonical works such as John Okada’s No-No Boy, Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt, H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has Hands, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging, as well as Philip Kan Gotanda’s play, Yankee Dawg You Die, Wu considers how male relationships in these texts blur the boundaries among the homosocial, the homoerotic, and the homosexual in ways that lie beyond our concepts of modern gay identity. The “sticky rice” of Wu’s title is a term used in gay Asian American culture to describe Asian American men who desire other Asian American men. The bonds between men addressed in Sticky Rice show how the thoughts and actions founded by real-life intraracially desiring Asian-raced m

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Book SynopsisBlack queer lives often exist outside conventional civic institutions and therefore have to explore alternative intimacies to experience a sense of belonging. Civic Intimacies examines howand to what extentthese different forms of intimacy catalyze the values, aspirations, and collective flourishing of Black queer denizens of Baltimore. Niels van Doorn draws on 18 months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork for his innovative cross-disciplinary analysis of contemporary debates in political and cultural theory.Van Doorn describes the way that these systematically marginalized communities improvise on citizenship not just to survive but also to thrive despite the proliferation of violence and insecurity in their lives. By reimagining citizenship as the everyday reparative work of building support structures, Civic Intimacies highlights the extent to which sex, kinship, memory, religious faith, and sexual health are rooted in collective practices that are deeply political. These systems suTrade Review“Civic Intimacies is a thoughtful, timely, and engaging critique that rethinks the category of citizenship not simply as the domain of those on the inside but as constituted through its outside, through those subjects or nonsubjects that are seen as the very antithesis of sovereignty, subjectivity, and citizenship. Van Doorn challenges hegemonic notions of citizenship while also demonstrating how Black queer subjects create new understandings of citizenship through political, social, and cultural work.”—Rashad Shabazz, Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, and author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago

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Book SynopsisBlack queer lives often exist outside conventional civic institutions and therefore have to explore alternative intimacies to experience a sense of belonging. Civic Intimacies examines howand to what extentthese different forms of intimacy catalyze the values, aspirations, and collective flourishing of Black queer denizens of Baltimore. Niels van Doorn draws on 18 months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork for his innovative cross-disciplinary analysis of contemporary debates in political and cultural theory.Van Doorn describes the way that these systematically marginalized communities improvise on citizenship not just to survive but also to thrive despite the proliferation of violence and insecurity in their lives. By reimagining citizenship as the everyday reparative work of building support structures, Civic Intimacies highlights the extent to which sex, kinship, memory, religious faith, and sexual health are rooted in collective practices that are deeply political. These systems suTrade Review“Civic Intimacies is a thoughtful, timely, and engaging critique that rethinks the category of citizenship not simply as the domain of those on the inside but as constituted through its outside, through those subjects or nonsubjects that are seen as the very antithesis of sovereignty, subjectivity, and citizenship. Van Doorn challenges hegemonic notions of citizenship while also demonstrating how Black queer subjects create new understandings of citizenship through political, social, and cultural work.”—Rashad Shabazz, Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, and author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1998,Q & A: Queer in Asian America,edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, became a canonical work in Asian American studies and queer studies. This new edition ofQ & Ais neither a sequel nor an update, but an entirely new work borne out of the progressive political and cultural advances of the queer experiences of Asian North American communities.The artists, activists, community organizers, creative writers, poets, scholars, and visual artists that contribute to this exciting new volume make visible the complicated intertwining of sexuality with race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Sections address activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism anddiaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilien

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1998,Q & A: Queer in Asian America,edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, became a canonical work in Asian American studies and queer studies. This new edition ofQ & Ais neither a sequel nor an update, but an entirely new work borne out of the progressive political and cultural advances of the queer experiences of Asian North American communities.The artists, activists, community organizers, creative writers, poets, scholars, and visual artists that contribute to this exciting new volume make visible the complicated intertwining of sexuality with race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Sections address activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism anddiaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilien

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Book SynopsisAfter China officially decriminalized same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term that refers to nonheterosexual and gender nonconforming identities in the People's Republic of China, has improved. However, for all the positive change, there are few opportunities for political and civil rights advocacy under Xi Jinping's authoritarian rule. Words like Water explores the nonconfrontational strategies the tongzhi movement uses in contemporary China. Caterina Fugazzola analyzes tongzhi organizers' conceptualizations of, and approaches to, social change, explaining how they avoid the backlash that meets Western tactics, such as protests, confrontation, and language about individual freedoms. In contrast, the groups' intentional use of community and family-oriented narratives, discourses, and understandings of sexual identity are more effective, especially in situations where direct political engagement is not possible. PrTrade Review“There is currently no book out there that examines the LGBTQ/tongzhi movement in contemporary China from a social movement perspective. Through a nuanced analysis of the discursive and linguistic strategies employed by Chinese tongzhi groups and individuals, Words like Water provides a strong and plausible account of tongzhi activism that moves away from the Western rightsbased model of sexual politics. In this engaging ethnography, Caterina Fugazzola brings social movement theory and transnational queer Asian studies into conversation and decenters the Western discourse on sexual identity and politics, rights and activism, and mobilization and visibility. Fugazzola’s work is particularly significant for understanding the complexity of Chinese (queer) politics under the current political climate in China.”—Travis S. K. Kong, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong, and the author of Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China“An insightful exploration of Chinese LGBT activists based on careful research of their lived experiences, this book unravels the unique cultural and rhetorical contentions around sexual identities confronting this group. It is a timely interrogation of the limitations of prevalent rights-based approaches within transnational advocacy cooperation by highlighting the tension between political visibility and cultural change. A fascinating testament to Chinese LGBT activists’ tightrope walks between authoritarian rule and global queer mobilization, where opportunities and challenges are inseparable, Fugazzola’s extensive fieldwork inspires a rich and nuanced portrayal of China’s cultural battles for a harmonious blend of cosmopolitan and nationalistic, modern and traditional identities.”—Yan Long, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisLiterature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this literary moment. In Sapphic Fathers, Gretchen Schultz explores how these male writers and their readers took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender during a time of social and political upheaval.Tracing this phenomenon through poetry (Baudelaire, Verlaine), erotica and the popular novel (Belot), and literary fiction (Zola, Maupassant, Péladan, Mendès), and into scientific treatises, Schultz demonstrates that the literary discourse on lesbianism became the basis for the scientific and medical understanding of female same-sex desire in France. She also shows that the cumulative impact of this discourse left tangible traces that lasted well beyond nineteenth-century France, persisting into twentieth-century America to become the basis of lesbTrade Review'One of the amazing "take always" of this ambitious study is the uncovering of the enormous intertextual debt of the American lesbian pulp movement to the French "Sapphic fathers." -- Carol Mossman The French Review, vol 90:01:2016 'Wide-ranging, deeply researched, beautifully expressed study of both elite and popular culture... Highly recommended.' -- A.M. Rea Choice vol 52:10:2015 "Gretchen Schultz presents a unique and novel perspective on an important topic. The final chapter is a tour de force of literary history and criticism." -- Melanie C. Hawthorne, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University "A significant scholarly achievement. Readers whose primary interest is in cultural or intellectual history have a lot to gain from this research." -- Peter Cryle, Emeritus Professor, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland 'Schultz succeeds brilliantly in bringing nineteenth-century French culture, social concerns and gender politics vividly to life.' -- Brian Dempsey The James Morgan Brown review Autumn 2016 'The scholars of 19th- century France will recognize this wide ranging, deeply researched, beautifully expressed study of both elite and popular culture as a major contribution... Highly recommended.' -- A.M. Rea Choice Magazine vol 52:10:2015Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Backstories 1. The Poetics of Lesbian Identification 2. Tribades for Sale: Popular Fiction and Backroom Books 3. Dystopian Sapphism: Anti-Feminism, Class Warfare, and the Elite Novel at the Fin du Siecle 4. Scientia sapphica 5. Intertexts and Afterlives: From the French Canon to US Pulp Fiction Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn Valerii Pereleshin: The Life of a Silkworm, Bakich delves deep into Pereleshin's poems and letters to tell the rich life story of this underappreciated writer.Trade Review'This book offers its reader a mind-blowing adventure: it is the story of the life and writing of a twentieth century Russian poet at once too strange, too radical, and too good to be true.' -- Polina Barskova The Russian review vol 75:02:2016Table of ContentsBrief Outline of Valerii Pereleshin's Life Preface PART ONE: CHINA, 1920-1952 1. Russian Childhood 2. Harbin: On the Way of Becoming a Poet 3. Harbin: The Poet as a Monk 4. Beijing: "Wonderful, Beloved City" 5. Shanghai: Fogs and Chimeras 6. The Long Farewell PART TWO: BRAZIL, 1953-1992 7. Cidada marvelhosa 8. Resurrection of a Poet 9. From Mount Nebo 10. The Lefthander 11. New Roads and Great Loss 12. Growing Recognition 13. Last Love, Last Books, Last Years

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Book SynopsisBringing together international research in social work, this book examines key concepts including the social determinants of health (SDoH) and human rights approaches to LGBT health.Trade Review“An important and innovative addition to the growing research on LGBT health disparities. The book provides both a social work and an international perspective to a field typically dominated by US based public health research.” Ilan H. Meyer, UCLA School of Law"The collection is a much-needed text to develop the international debate in social work further along the way to social justice." Social Work Education"Excellent international reader" Jagdish Douhan, de Montfort University, textbook adopter"An outstanding contribution to the field of LGBT studies in social work and its ability to walk the line between social and individual worlds is outstanding." British Journal of Social Work“An important contribution to the knowledge needed by those on social work services to understand the complex matrix not only of the persistent discrimination experienced by LGBT people but the health inequalities they encounter on their journeys through life.” Ruth Stark, MSc, CQSW, MBE, President International Federation of Social Workers"Strengths include the book's depth of coverage on practical interventions and best practices, especially with older LGBT people." Choice“Committed to health equity and human rights, this valuable book offers important theoretical and practical insights to improve LGBT wellbeing across the lifecourse, from early childhood to end-of-life care, and does so cognizant of commingled inequitable power relations involving sexuality, class, race/ethnicity, and gender, within and between nations.” Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health"This original book gives a much-needed focus on the role of social work in addressing LGBT health inequalities. It makes a vital and necessary contribution towards promoting equality for LGBT people." Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker for Adults (England), UK Department of Health"Excellent international reader." Jagdish Chouhan, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Gary Bailey; Introduction: social work’s contribution to tackling lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans health inequalities ~Julie Fish and Kate Karban; Part One: Key issues in social work with LGBT people; Much to be desired: LGBT health inequalities and inequities in Canada ~ Nick J. Mulé; Between public neglect and private needs: conceptualising approaches to LGBT issues in Italian social work ~ Andrea Nagy and Urban Nothdurfter; Queering the pitch: a need for mainstreaming LGBTQ issues in professional social work education and practice in India ~ Ketki Ranade; Life in the Pink Dragon’s Den: mental health services and social inclusion for LGBT people in Wales ~ Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett, Michele Raithby and Paul Willis; Part Two: Service design and practice development; Coming into view? The experiences of LGBT young people in the care system in Northern Ireland ~ Nicola Carr and John Pinkerton; Social services for LGBT young people in the United States: are we there yet? Elizabeth A. Winter, Diane E. Elze, Susan Saltzburg and Mitchell Rosenwald; Unique experiences and needs of LGBT older people: one community in rural California responds ~ Elizabeth Breshears and Valerie Lester Leyva; Good practice in health and social care provision for LGBT older people in the UK ~ Sue Westwood, Andrew King, Kathryn Almack, Yiu-Tung Suen and Louis Bailey; A theoretical model for intervening in complex sexual behaviours: sexual desires, pleasures and passion – La Pasión – of Spanish-speaking gay men in Canada ~ Gerardo Betancourt; Research and policy about end of life care for LGBT people in the UK ~ Kathryn Almack, Tes Smith and Bridget Moss; LGBT asylum seekers and health inequalities in the UK ~ Kate Karban and Ala Sirriyeh; Part Three: Social work education and research; Pedagogy for unpacking heterosexist and cisgender bias in social work education in the United States ~ Susan Saltzburg; Maximising research outcomes for trans children and their families in Canada using social action and other participatory methods of inquiry ~ Annie Pullen Sansfaçon and Kimberley Ens Manning; Mental health inequalities among LGBT older people in the United States: curricula developments ~ Valerie Lester Leyva; Strategies for maximising participation from LGB people in internet surveying in the United States ~ Andy Dunlap; Gay and bisexual men raped by men: an invisible group in social work in Sweden ~ Hans Knutagård; Queering social work methods in health disparities and health promotion in the United States ~ Tyler M. Argüello; Conclusion ~ Kate Karban and Julie Fish.

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Book SynopsisBringing together international research in social work, this book examines key concepts including the social determinants of health (SDoH) and human rights approaches to LGBT health.Trade Review“An important and innovative addition to the growing research on LGBT health disparities. The book provides both a social work and an international perspective to a field typically dominated by US based public health research.” Ilan H. Meyer, UCLA School of Law"The collection is a much-needed text to develop the international debate in social work further along the way to social justice." Social Work Education"Excellent international reader" Jagdish Douhan, de Montfort University, textbook adopter"An outstanding contribution to the field of LGBT studies in social work and its ability to walk the line between social and individual worlds is outstanding." British Journal of Social Work“An important contribution to the knowledge needed by those on social work services to understand the complex matrix not only of the persistent discrimination experienced by LGBT people but the health inequalities they encounter on their journeys through life.” Ruth Stark, MSc, CQSW, MBE, President International Federation of Social Workers"Strengths include the book's depth of coverage on practical interventions and best practices, especially with older LGBT people." Choice“Committed to health equity and human rights, this valuable book offers important theoretical and practical insights to improve LGBT wellbeing across the lifecourse, from early childhood to end-of-life care, and does so cognizant of commingled inequitable power relations involving sexuality, class, race/ethnicity, and gender, within and between nations.” Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health"This original book gives a much-needed focus on the role of social work in addressing LGBT health inequalities. It makes a vital and necessary contribution towards promoting equality for LGBT people." Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker for Adults (England), UK Department of Health"Excellent international reader." Jagdish Chouhan, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Gary Bailey; Introduction: social work’s contribution to tackling lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans health inequalities ~Julie Fish and Kate Karban; Part One: Key issues in social work with LGBT people; Much to be desired: LGBT health inequalities and inequities in Canada ~ Nick J. Mulé; Between public neglect and private needs: conceptualising approaches to LGBT issues in Italian social work ~ Andrea Nagy and Urban Nothdurfter; Queering the pitch: a need for mainstreaming LGBTQ issues in professional social work education and practice in India ~ Ketki Ranade; Life in the Pink Dragon’s Den: mental health services and social inclusion for LGBT people in Wales ~ Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett, Michele Raithby and Paul Willis; Part Two: Service design and practice development; Coming into view? The experiences of LGBT young people in the care system in Northern Ireland ~ Nicola Carr and John Pinkerton; Social services for LGBT young people in the United States: are we there yet? Elizabeth A. Winter, Diane E. Elze, Susan Saltzburg and Mitchell Rosenwald; Unique experiences and needs of LGBT older people: one community in rural California responds ~ Elizabeth Breshears and Valerie Lester Leyva; Good practice in health and social care provision for LGBT older people in the UK ~ Sue Westwood, Andrew King, Kathryn Almack, Yiu-Tung Suen and Louis Bailey; A theoretical model for intervening in complex sexual behaviours: sexual desires, pleasures and passion – La Pasión – of Spanish-speaking gay men in Canada ~ Gerardo Betancourt; Research and policy about end of life care for LGBT people in the UK ~ Kathryn Almack, Tes Smith and Bridget Moss; LGBT asylum seekers and health inequalities in the UK ~ Kate Karban and Ala Sirriyeh; Part Three: Social work education and research; Pedagogy for unpacking heterosexist and cisgender bias in social work education in the United States ~ Susan Saltzburg; Maximising research outcomes for trans children and their families in Canada using social action and other participatory methods of inquiry ~ Annie Pullen Sansfaçon and Kimberley Ens Manning; Mental health inequalities among LGBT older people in the United States: curricula developments ~ Valerie Lester Leyva; Strategies for maximising participation from LGB people in internet surveying in the United States ~ Andy Dunlap; Gay and bisexual men raped by men: an invisible group in social work in Sweden ~ Hans Knutagård; Queering social work methods in health disparities and health promotion in the United States ~ Tyler M. Argüello; Conclusion ~ Kate Karban and Julie Fish.

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s. She argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise among girls and young women decades earlier.

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Book SynopsisAt once a dramatic courtroom narrative and a deeper meditation on the enduring power of homophobia, Cruising for Conspirators shows how the same dynamics that promoted the unjust prosecution of Clay Shaw in the wake of JFK’s assassination continue to inform conspiratorial thinking to this day.

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Book SynopsisExamining blues songs, Black newspapers, vice reports, memoirs, sexology case studies, and more, Cookie Woolner illuminates the unconventional lives Black lady lovers formed to suit their desires.Trade ReviewExtraordinary in its scope and inventiveness to focus on their intimate lives . . . . Woolner's beautiful prose and writing style makes this book a delight to read. Academics and general readers alike will be drawn to it."—Starred review, Library Journal Impeccably researched and compellingly written examination of Black women who loved women during the 1920s and 1930s."—Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention for the National Women’s Studies Association''s 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize2021 Finalist Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards2022 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQStudies, Popular Culture Association The Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, GL/Q Caucus, Modern Language Association (MLA) 2022 AAHHE Book of the Year Award, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theoreTrade Review[Brown Trans Figurations'] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture...scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. * Publishers Weekly *A needed contribution to trans Latinx studies. [Brown Trans Figurations] offers a series of compelling close readings of literature, photography, film, and other accounts of Chicanx trans people and representation in the United States. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Brown Trans Figurations is an extremely well-written and groundbreaking book, accessible yet simultaneously quite complex, in Latina/o/x studies. It will be required reading in queer, trans, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and in American studies and ethnic studies classrooms...Brown Trans Figurations is crucial reading for persons interested in the differences between queer and trans Latinx experience, the tensions between Chicana feminism and transgender and transsexual lives, and the racism that infects dominant representations of trans and queer Chicanxs and Latinxs...Galarte’s theorization of brown trans fgurations transforms Latina/o studies in profound ways. * Latino Studies *Everyone would benefit from reading this book, and learning about the brown trans community...The book is extremely relevant and important in this current political climate that has villainized both the trans and Latinx community for different reasons. Libraries that have LGBTQ and Latinx collections should consider purchasing this book. If Galarte has shown anything, it is that the issues within those communities intersect and must be addressed simultaneously. * International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together Chapter 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive Chapter 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other Chapter 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM Borderlands Chapter 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities Coda: Reading with the X Notes References Index

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