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Book SynopsisFrom the tenor of contemporary discussions, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome. Making use of substantial fragments of trial transcripts Gary Ferguson brings the story of a same-sex marriage to life in striking detail. He unearths an incredible amount of detail about the men, their sex lives, and how others responded to this information, which allows him to explore attitudes toward marriage, sex, and gender at the time. Emphasizing the instability of marriage in premodern Europe, Ferguson argues that same-sex unions should be considered part of the institution''s complex and contested history.Trade ReviewFerguson's findings about a group of foreign immigrants appropriating the social and religious ritual of marriage within their own self-defined community open up a new window on homosexual activity in Renaissance Rome. The author has deftly uncovered a clandestine subculture that departed from traditional gender norms, sexual stereotypes, and marriage practices, making an important contribution to the history of marriage and sexuality. * American Historical Review *In its analysis of texts, narrative and legal, Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome is truly exemplary. * Journal of Modern History *This is a short book, but it punches above its weight. Although the book will be of most interest to historians of sexuality and other early modern historians, I would not hesitate to give it to students as an excellent model of how to read historical documents as texts while also placing them within several different relevant contexts and opening up productive ambiguities. * Journal of the History of Sexuality *[The book is a] splendid microhistorical investigation, a piece of archival detective work that challenges prevailing views about sexual identity in early modern Europe.... It is compelling reading that should make scholars, students, and activists think again about the history of sexuality. * H-Net Reviews/H-Histsex *An original and deeply thoughtful study.... Ferguson's sensitive discussion of the men's testimonies, fragmentary though they are, challenges 'some engrained historiographical notions' about same-sex erotic relationships in early modern Europe.... Ferguson's extraordinary, compassionate and poignant book allows these events to speak to us urgently about sexuality past and the present. * Gender & History *Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome will be of interest to historically inclined scholars from all disciplines, but will especially delight historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and art historians.... The case of the men at the church of Saint John at the Latin Gate demands attention, and should not be thought of as an exceptional event but as a new window into the diverse forms of historical sexuality and as a methodological example of the way to excavate these latent pasts. * H-Histsex *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Engagement PART I. STORIES—OBSERVERS 1. A French Writer Visits: Montaigne's Travel Journal and a Thrice-Told Tale 2. "Our Marriages"? Male to Male / Like Husband and Wife 3. Marriage— Rites, Analogues, Meanings 4. Other Witnesses, Other Stories PART II. STORIES—ACTORS 5. Final Hours: Wills and Execution 6. Voices on Trial: Beginning with Battista the Boatman 7. Saint John at the Latin Gate: Marco Pinto 8. Marriage as Alibi, as Euphemism, as Recruitment 9. Marriage and Community PART III. HISTORIES 10. Looking Forward / Looking Back: The History of Sexuality 11. Ghost Stories: Queer History

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Book SynopsisTrans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston.Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives—literary texts, trial transcripts, documents, and artifacts—that denaturalize gender as a category. The volume historicizes the many different social lives of sexual differentiation, exploring what gender might have been before modern medicine, the anatomical sciences, and the sedimentation of gender difference into its putatively binary form.The volume''s multidisciplinary group of contributors consider how individuals, communities, and states understood and enacted gender as a social experience distinct from the assignment of sex aTrade ReviewThe collection's concluding essays address methodological questions, frameworks, and terminology, offering many possibilities for approaching trans-centered analysis in medieval and early modern scholarship. Overall, the collection is an important contribution to the premodern era, and the diversity of sources, methodologies, and approaches will appeal to a wide variety of students and scholars. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Benefits of Being Trans Historical, by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna M. Klosowska Part I: Archives: Revisiting Law and Medicine 1. Mapping the Borders of Sex, by Leah DeVun 2. Elenx de Céspedes: Indeterminate Genders in the Spanish Inquisition, by Igor H. de Souza 3. The Case of Marin le Marcis, by Kathleen Perry Long 4. The Transgender Turn: Eleanor Rykener Speaks Back, by M.W. Bychowski 5. Wojciech of Pozna and the Trans Archive, Poland, 1550–1561, by Anna M. Klosowska Part II: Frameworks: Representing Early Trans Lives 6. Recognizing Wilgefortis, by Robert Mills 7. Performing and Desiring Gender Variance in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, by Abdulhamit Arvas 8. Without Magic or Miracle: The Romance of Silence and the Prehistory of Genderqueerness, by Masha Raskolnikov 9. Transgender Translation, Humanism, and Periodization: Vasco da Lucena's Deeds of Alexander the Great, by Zrinka Stahuljak Part III: Interventions: Critical Trans Methodologies 10. Visualizing the Trans-Animal Body: The Hyena in Medieval Bestiaries, by Emma Campbell 11. Maimed Limbs and Biosalvation: Rehabilitation Politics in Piers Plowman, by Micah James Goodrich 12. Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium?, by Roland Betancourt 13. Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown, by Alexa Alice Joubin 14. Laid Open: Examining Genders in Early America, by Scott Larson 15. Epilogue: Against Consensus, by Greta LaFleur

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Informed by interviews with activists from all walks of life—city dwellers, villagers, political dissidents, children of military families, wage laborers, shopkeepers, beauticians, spirit mediums, lawyers, students—Chua details the vivid particulars of the LGBT activist experience founding a movement first among exiles and migrants and then in Myanmar's cities, towns, and countryside. A distinct political and emotional culture of activism took shape, fusing shared emotions and cultural bearings with legal and political ideas about human rights. For this network of activists, human rights moved hearts and minds and crafted a transformative web of friendship, fellowship, and affection among queer Burmese. Chua's investigation provides crucial insights into the intersection of emotions and interpersonal relationships with law, rights, and social movements.Trade Review"The Politics of Love in Myanmar is highly original, compelling, and powerful. Lynette Chua's ethnography excavates the emotional bonds and 'way of life' that developed through human rights practice by LGBT activists in post-2011 Myanmar. Beautifully written and brilliantly theorized, the book is highly recommended reading for scholars interested in human rights, legal mobilization, social movements, and LGBT politics." -- Michael McCann * University of Washington *"Lynette Chua deftly opens a new window on the empirical investigation of emotions, demonstrating the surprising ways that emotions animate not just relationships and social movements, but the interpretation, assertion, and lived meaning of rights. The lessons drawn from the vivid, human lives of Tun Tun, Tin Hla, and their fellow activists are a revelation." -- Kathryn Abrams * University of California, Berkeley *"In addition to being a pioneering and timely study of LGBT mobilization in Myanmar, Chua's book is a valuable contribution to the study of human rights and sociolegal scholarship on rights and social movements." -- Wei Wei * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis introduces the book's central concept of human rights practice as a way of life and presents an overview of the Burmese LGBT movement. It sets out the three motivating questions of the book: How did the Burmese LGBT movement emerge? How do LGBT activists of the movement make sense of human rights and put them into action, that is, practice human rights? What are the implications of their human rights practice? The chapter also explains the significance of the book: a study about how human rights matter in a society where they were suppressed for decades and where self-conceptions have been informed by Buddhist beliefs and other cultural sources of knowing, feeling, and interacting with the world. 1Human Rights Practice as a Way of Life chapter abstractThis chapter elaborates on the book's central concept, human rights practice as a way of life, to explain how it advances human rights studies and sociolegal research on the relationship between rights and social movements. This concept has three salient features: (1) The practice comprises recursive, overlapping social processes of formation, grievance transformation, and community building, (2) which are shaped by and shape emotions and interpersonal relationships and (3) produce three outcomes: self-transformation of the rights bearer, the creation of a distinctive emotion culture, and the introduction of new claims by a new collective claimant, LGBT rights for LGBT people, into Burmese politics. The chapter also uses the concept to explain the flaws and limitations of Burmese LGBT activists' human rights practice. By tracing processes and attending to emotions and relationships, the concept emphasizes the complexities of agency when assessing the power and prospects of human rights. 2Forming the Movement: Founding Emotions and Social Ties chapter abstractThis chapter draws from the author's fieldwork to illustrate formation processes, the first of three sets of processes that make up Burmese LGBT activists' human rights practice as a way of life. As the chapter details the movement's emergence from formation processes, it begins to show how emotions and interpersonal relationships constitute human rights practice. To get in touch with and encourage other Burmese to participate in their human rights workshops and join the movement, movement pioneers make use of preexisting ties rooted in all kinds of suffering caused by the violence of the Burmese state and the discrimination of queer Burmese. By tapping these relationships, they also stir up raw emotions that stem from the suffering, affections toward movement leaders, and a mix of apprehension, courage, and composure that recruits have to muster to answer their calls. 3Transforming Grievances: Emotional Fealty to Human Rights chapter abstractThis chapter draws from the author's fieldwork to illustrate grievance transformation, the second set of social processes of human rights practice as a way of life. Grievance transformation elicits, remakes, and produces emotions to cultivate Burmese LGBT activists' fealty to human rights and perpetuate their practice. To make human rights relevant to their lives, they engage familiar cultural schemas and resources, using common experiences, Buddhist karmic beliefs and social norms that support the movement's cause and sidelining those that are disadvantageous to it. Their unique interpretation, centered around dignity, social belonging, and responsibility, depicts human rights as a collective good to be collectively achieved. The processes of grievance transformation lead to three interrelated outcomes—self-transformation, distinctive emotion culture, and new political claims of LGBT rights in Myanmar—demonstrating how human rights practice has the potential to influence formal institutions of law and politics from the bottom up. 4Building Community: Emotional Bonds Among Activists chapter abstractThis chapter uses empirical details to illustrate community building, the third set of processes in the human rights practice as a way of life. Community-building processes engender affinity, camaraderie, solidarity, and fellowship, which germinate affective ties among those who commit to their practice, forming a community of Burmese LGBT activists. The bonds emerge from the affinity of sharing the collective marker of "LGBT" and from the social interactions involved in practicing human rights together. They bind people together as LGBT activists, draw them to stay with the movement, and sustain the practice itself. Community building contributes to self-transformation, distinctive emotion culture, and new claims and claimant by emphasizing LGBT identities as an embodiment of dignity, facilitating bonding inclusive of all queer Burmese, and creating an LGBT activist community. They further highlight the potential to influence formal institutions of law and politics starting from personal and grassroots changes. 5Faults, Fault Lines, and the Complexities of Agency chapter abstractThis chapter examines the flaws and limitations of Burmese LGBT activists' human rights practice as a way of life. Power dynamics, differences, and divides among activists result in varying degrees of self-transformation and adoption of their distinctive emotion culture. Their ability to make LGBT rights claims is also hampered by deep norms, beliefs, power, and hierarchy in Burmese society. Because the shortcomings arise from the social processes of human rights practice, they also critically inform the power and prospects of human rights to stimulate collective action and social change. They are just as vital as the enthusiasm and optimism encountered in previous chapters. The shortcomings, together with the positive outcomes, indicate that human rights practice is far from overtaking the old and entrenched modes of feeling, interacting, and knowing already existing in Burmese society. Instead, with human rights, LGBT activists offer an alternative way of life alongside others. Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter takes stock of the book's central concept, human rights practice as a way of life. It looks at the concept's principal features and contributions to human rights scholarship as well as the sociolegal study of rights and social movements. It considers the book's broader lessons for understanding the potential of human rights to advance collective action and attain social progress. It concludes with the intellectual premises with which the book started: the socially contingent nature of human rights, reflecting on what relational and emotional emphases mean for their empirical study.

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Informed by interviews with activists from all walks of life—city dwellers, villagers, political dissidents, children of military families, wage laborers, shopkeepers, beauticians, spirit mediums, lawyers, students—Chua details the vivid particulars of the LGBT activist experience founding a movement first among exiles and migrants and then in Myanmar's cities, towns, and countryside. A distinct political and emotional culture of activism took shape, fusing shared emotions and cultural bearings with legal and political ideas about human rights. For this network of activists, human rights moved hearts and minds and crafted a transformative web of friendship, fellowship, and affection among queer Burmese. Chua's investigation provides crucial insights into the intersection of emotions and interpersonal relationships with law, rights, and social movements.Trade Review"The Politics of Love in Myanmar is highly original, compelling, and powerful. Lynette Chua's ethnography excavates the emotional bonds and 'way of life' that developed through human rights practice by LGBT activists in post-2011 Myanmar. Beautifully written and brilliantly theorized, the book is highly recommended reading for scholars interested in human rights, legal mobilization, social movements, and LGBT politics." -- Michael McCann * University of Washington *"Lynette Chua deftly opens a new window on the empirical investigation of emotions, demonstrating the surprising ways that emotions animate not just relationships and social movements, but the interpretation, assertion, and lived meaning of rights. The lessons drawn from the vivid, human lives of Tun Tun, Tin Hla, and their fellow activists are a revelation." -- Kathryn Abrams * University of California, Berkeley *"In addition to being a pioneering and timely study of LGBT mobilization in Myanmar, Chua's book is a valuable contribution to the study of human rights and sociolegal scholarship on rights and social movements." -- Wei Wei * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis introduces the book's central concept of human rights practice as a way of life and presents an overview of the Burmese LGBT movement. It sets out the three motivating questions of the book: How did the Burmese LGBT movement emerge? How do LGBT activists of the movement make sense of human rights and put them into action, that is, practice human rights? What are the implications of their human rights practice? The chapter also explains the significance of the book: a study about how human rights matter in a society where they were suppressed for decades and where self-conceptions have been informed by Buddhist beliefs and other cultural sources of knowing, feeling, and interacting with the world. 1Human Rights Practice as a Way of Life chapter abstractThis chapter elaborates on the book's central concept, human rights practice as a way of life, to explain how it advances human rights studies and sociolegal research on the relationship between rights and social movements. This concept has three salient features: (1) The practice comprises recursive, overlapping social processes of formation, grievance transformation, and community building, (2) which are shaped by and shape emotions and interpersonal relationships and (3) produce three outcomes: self-transformation of the rights bearer, the creation of a distinctive emotion culture, and the introduction of new claims by a new collective claimant, LGBT rights for LGBT people, into Burmese politics. The chapter also uses the concept to explain the flaws and limitations of Burmese LGBT activists' human rights practice. By tracing processes and attending to emotions and relationships, the concept emphasizes the complexities of agency when assessing the power and prospects of human rights. 2Forming the Movement: Founding Emotions and Social Ties chapter abstractThis chapter draws from the author's fieldwork to illustrate formation processes, the first of three sets of processes that make up Burmese LGBT activists' human rights practice as a way of life. As the chapter details the movement's emergence from formation processes, it begins to show how emotions and interpersonal relationships constitute human rights practice. To get in touch with and encourage other Burmese to participate in their human rights workshops and join the movement, movement pioneers make use of preexisting ties rooted in all kinds of suffering caused by the violence of the Burmese state and the discrimination of queer Burmese. By tapping these relationships, they also stir up raw emotions that stem from the suffering, affections toward movement leaders, and a mix of apprehension, courage, and composure that recruits have to muster to answer their calls. 3Transforming Grievances: Emotional Fealty to Human Rights chapter abstractThis chapter draws from the author's fieldwork to illustrate grievance transformation, the second set of social processes of human rights practice as a way of life. Grievance transformation elicits, remakes, and produces emotions to cultivate Burmese LGBT activists' fealty to human rights and perpetuate their practice. To make human rights relevant to their lives, they engage familiar cultural schemas and resources, using common experiences, Buddhist karmic beliefs and social norms that support the movement's cause and sidelining those that are disadvantageous to it. Their unique interpretation, centered around dignity, social belonging, and responsibility, depicts human rights as a collective good to be collectively achieved. The processes of grievance transformation lead to three interrelated outcomes—self-transformation, distinctive emotion culture, and new political claims of LGBT rights in Myanmar—demonstrating how human rights practice has the potential to influence formal institutions of law and politics from the bottom up. 4Building Community: Emotional Bonds Among Activists chapter abstractThis chapter uses empirical details to illustrate community building, the third set of processes in the human rights practice as a way of life. Community-building processes engender affinity, camaraderie, solidarity, and fellowship, which germinate affective ties among those who commit to their practice, forming a community of Burmese LGBT activists. The bonds emerge from the affinity of sharing the collective marker of "LGBT" and from the social interactions involved in practicing human rights together. They bind people together as LGBT activists, draw them to stay with the movement, and sustain the practice itself. Community building contributes to self-transformation, distinctive emotion culture, and new claims and claimant by emphasizing LGBT identities as an embodiment of dignity, facilitating bonding inclusive of all queer Burmese, and creating an LGBT activist community. They further highlight the potential to influence formal institutions of law and politics starting from personal and grassroots changes. 5Faults, Fault Lines, and the Complexities of Agency chapter abstractThis chapter examines the flaws and limitations of Burmese LGBT activists' human rights practice as a way of life. Power dynamics, differences, and divides among activists result in varying degrees of self-transformation and adoption of their distinctive emotion culture. Their ability to make LGBT rights claims is also hampered by deep norms, beliefs, power, and hierarchy in Burmese society. Because the shortcomings arise from the social processes of human rights practice, they also critically inform the power and prospects of human rights to stimulate collective action and social change. They are just as vital as the enthusiasm and optimism encountered in previous chapters. The shortcomings, together with the positive outcomes, indicate that human rights practice is far from overtaking the old and entrenched modes of feeling, interacting, and knowing already existing in Burmese society. Instead, with human rights, LGBT activists offer an alternative way of life alongside others. Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter takes stock of the book's central concept, human rights practice as a way of life. It looks at the concept's principal features and contributions to human rights scholarship as well as the sociolegal study of rights and social movements. It considers the book's broader lessons for understanding the potential of human rights to advance collective action and attain social progress. It concludes with the intellectual premises with which the book started: the socially contingent nature of human rights, reflecting on what relational and emotional emphases mean for their empirical study.

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Book SynopsisGay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet... Jarred by the closing of his favorite local watering hole in Cleveland, Ohio, Greggor Mattson embarks on a journey across the country to paint a much more complex picture of the cultural significance of these spaces, inside "big four" gay cities, but also beyond them. No longer the only places for their patrons to socialize openly, Mattson finds in them instead a continuously evolving symbol; a physical place for feeling and challenging the beating pulse of sexual progress. From the historical archives of Seattle's Garden of Allah, to the outpost bars in Texas, Missouri or Florida that serve as community hubs for queer youth—these are places of celebration, where the next drag superstar from Alaska or Oklahoma may be discovered. They are also fraught grounds for confronting the racial and gender politics within and without the LGBTQ+ community. The question that frames this story is not asking whether these spaces are needed, but for whom, earnestly exploring the diversity of folks and purposes they serve today. Loosely informed by the Damron Guide, the so-called "Green Book" of gay travel, Mattson logged 10,000 miles on the road to all corners of the United States. His destinations are sometimes thriving, sometimes struggling, but all offering intimate views of the wide range of gay experience in America: POC, white, trans, cis; past, present, and future. Trade Review"A fun, thoughtful, and nuanced examination of the past, present, and future roles of the 'gay bar' as the demand for and economics of queer community space wildly in flux." —Hugh Ryan, author of The Women's House of Detention and When Brooklyn Was Queer"Who Needs Gay Bars offers a powerful collection of microsociological portraits of gay bars across the United States. It accumulates into a nuanced map of a queer world shaped by desire, social and political urgencies, and politico-economic pressures as diverse as the community—from large urban to isolate rural outposts. It is ambitious in its expanse and surprisingly intimate in approach."—Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, The University of Texas, Austin"Breathtakingly intimate and yet vast in scope, this passion project balances sharp insights with the kind of lived-in details that make you want to pull up a stool and stay a while."—Samantha Allen, author of Real Queer America and Patricia Wants to Cuddle"With intelligent and easily accessible writing, this account stands as a testament to our community's resilience."—Alex Espinoza, author of Cruising and The Five Acts of Diego León"Queer bars have been a life-saving sanctuary for LGBTQ people over the last century, and they continue to serve as incubators, not just for queer and trans culture, but how we might also continue to build an even queerer future."—Honey Mahogany, Co-Owner, The Stud"In Who Needs Gay Bars? [Mattson] paints a vivid and nearly comprehensive portrait of the current state of gay bars as an institution and as an important component of the LGBTQ community in all its unwieldy diversity. He also paints a personal journey that many LGBTQ readers will relate to."—Gary L. Day, Philadelphia Gay News"Mattson does his best to survey as many of the myriad issues as possible, faced by an equally myriad number of bars of a dazzling variety. It's also a personal journey by the author that many LGBTQ readers will identify with."—Booklist"[one of] the best queer American travelogues since Edmund White's States of Desire was published way back in 1980."—Passport"[Who Needs Gay Bars?] does an excellent job of addressing how both the LGBTQ+ community and the non-LGBTQ+ community are responsible for the decline in access to gay bars.... Recommended."—A. J. Ramirez, CHOICETable of ContentsI: Ambivalence II: Gay Bar Fundamentals III: Safe Spaces for Whom IV: Lesbian-Owned Bars V: Cruisy Men's Bars VI: How to Save a Gay Bar VII: National Monuments

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Book SynopsisSexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship more generally. But what does it mean in a continually changing political landscape of gender and sexuality? In this timely intervention, Diane Richardson examines the normative underpinnings and varied critiques of sexual citizenship, asking what they mean for its future conceptual and empirical development, as well as for political activism. Clearly written, the book shows how the field of sexuality and citizenship connects to a range of important areas of debate including understandings of nationalism, identity, neoliberalism, equality, governmentality, individualization, colonialism, human rights, globalization and economic justice. Ultimately this book calls for a critical rethink of sexual citizenship. Illustrating her argument with examples drawn from across the globe, Richardson contends that this is essential if scholars want to understand the sexual politics that made the field of sexuality and citizenship studies what it is today, and to enable future analyses of the sexual inequalities that continue to mark the global order.Trade Review"Diane Richardson has long had a reputation for acute sensitivity to the emergent issues in our complex sexual world. In this comprehensive but compelling book she tackles the central but contested concept of sexual citizenship. In Richardson's steady hands this becomes a lens to explore a range of critical ideas, analyses and experiences. The result is never less than illuminating and challenging, an invaluable guide to our perplexities."Jeffrey Weeks, author of What is Sexual History? "Drawing on literature from geography, gender studies, sociology and political science, Richardson challenges us to think in an interdisciplinary way about the impact of structural differences and marginalizations. As the leading scholar in this field, Diane Richardson offers an insightful engagement with the concept, and political outcomes, of sexual citizenship which is undoubtedly a must read for any contemporary student of the social sciences."Angelia Wilson, University of Manchester "Diane Richardson has given us a powerful resource for understanding the diverse debates and interdisciplinary approaches to sexual citizenship that will enhance our ability to produce rich, in-depth critical analyses of the shifting local, international, and transnational contexts for the co-constitution of sexuality and citizenship." Nancy A. Naples, Gender & Development “The book provides a persuasive and easy to read analysis of the sexual citizenship literature and how it has evolved over time, but also the limitations of sexual citizenship within the Euro-North American historical configuration. The conceptual analysis offers a social, cultural, economic and political exposition on the concept of sexual citizenship and brings forward the complex linkages of undeviating issues relating to sexuality, gender and citizenship.”SociologyTable of Contents1. Making Sexual Citizenship PART ONE: RE-THINKING SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP 2. What is Sexual Citizenship? 3. Limits to Sexual Citizenship 4. Sexualizing Citizenship: Now You See it, Now You Don�t PART TWO: TRANSFORMING CITIZENSHIP? SEXUALITY, GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP STRUGGLES 5. Global Influences on Sexuality and Citizenship 6. Sexuality, the State and Governance 7. Materializing Sexuality

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Book SynopsisThe story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and deeply connected to issues of colonization, incarceration, and capitalism. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the one-dimensional mainstreaming of queerness falsely placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation. As recent activism is increasingly making clear, this one-dimensional legacy has promoted forms of exclusion that marginalize queers of color, the poor, and transgender individuals. This forceful book joins the call to reimagine and reconnect the fight for social justice in all its varied forms.Trade Review"One-Dimensional Queer is as clear an account as you could hope to encounter of how race and sexuality came to be understood as separate formations in US history. The resultant mainstreaming of LGBT cultures has been disastrous in terms of seeing our way out of the current crisis we inhabit. Offering solutions as well as critique, Ferguson's book is destined to be a crucial part of any library of liberation."—Jack Halberstam, Columbia University "In this searing critique of pink capitalism and rainbow-approved state violence, Ferguson slays the flat misnomer that the 1969 Stonewall Riots were only about gay sex. Instead, he brilliantly contextualizes Stonewall multi-dimensionally in histories of anti-racist and anti-imperialist rebellion."—Steven W. Thrasher, The Guardian and Northwestern University "One-Dimensional Queer is as clear an account as you could hope to encounter of how race and sexuality came to be understood as separate formations in US history. The resultant mainstreaming of LGBT cultures has been disastrous in terms of seeing our way out of the current crisis we inhabit. Offering solutions as well as critique, Ferguson's book is destined to be a crucial part of any library of liberation."—Jack Halberstam, Columbia University "In this searing critique of pink capitalism and rainbow-approved state violence, Ferguson slays the flat misnomer that the 1969 Stonewall Riots were only about gay sex. Instead, he brilliantly contextualizes Stonewall multi-dimensionally in histories of anti-racist and anti-imperialist rebellion."—Steven W. Thrasher, The Guardian and Northwestern University "One-Dimensional Queer raises provocative and important questions about the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality, and about the extent to which capitalism has determined the course of LGBT+ lives." (New York Journal of Books) "Gay liberation didn't originate as a single-issue movement, and must confront neoliberalism and gentrification as well as anti-queer violence." (Black Agenda Report) "A fascinating unearthing of seldom discussed LGBT history, including groups like STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) and the Philadelphia-area collective DykeTactics." (KPFA Women's Magazine) "One-Dimensional Queer demands that we reexamine the intersectional history of the LGBTQ movement, which was rooted in many other movements of the '60s and '70s, to find instruments of true radical change." (TruthOut.org) "Ferguson's book convincingly shows that the 'multidimensional' (or intersectional) queer story offers a more viable starting point for political-theoretical questions." (Die Tageszeitung – Kultur) "In One Dimensional Queer, Ferguson asks his reader not to parse individual elements of society but to consider how various gears work as a cohesive whole. Those who elide bits and pieces, whole chunks and swaths, of the history of oppression are complicit in that oppression. . . . Ferguson, alongside the many activists, historians, and critics he documents, offers a way forward towards liberation. And in doing so, Ferguson provides a way for us to think about creating a more just world; he offers his reader a way to consider one's queerness broadly, to open their methods of inquiry, and to consider history in a more spacious, more equitable way." (QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking) "[A]n extraordinary contribution to the fields of LGBTQ Studies, American Studies, and queer of color critique. One Dimensional Queer is necessary reading for scholars interested in the history of sexuality in the 20th-century US, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies." (Women's Studies)Table of Contents Contents Introduction Chapter 1. The Multidimensional Beginnings of Gay Liberation Chapter 2. Gay Emancipation Goes to Market Chapter 3. Queerness and the One-Dimensional City Chapter 4. The Multidimensional Character of Violence Conclusion: The Historical Assumptions of Multidimensional Queer Politics Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAt first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few blocks away from her. To Barbara, Pearl was "the most gorgeous woman in the world," and the two began an affair that lasted over a decade. Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States. In doing so, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws our attention away from the postwar landscape of urban gay bars and into the homes of married women, who tended to engage in affairs with wives and mothers they met in the context of their daily lives: through work, at church, or in their neighborhoods. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and the no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. Well into the 1980s, many women remained ambivalent about divorce and resistant to labeling themselves as lesbian, therefore complicating a simple interpretation of their lives and relationship choices. By revealing the extent to which marriage has historically permitted space for wives' relationships with other women, Her Neighbor's Wife calls into question the presumed straightness of traditional American marriage.Trade ReviewThe strength of the book is Gutterman’s investment in reviewing and utilizing the personal letters that many women wrote to advocates...The correspondence and other sources that she examines also help her share stories from Black and Latina women who loved women, with some inclusion of Asian and Native American women as well, thus broadening the voices and experiences missing from white-focused lesbian narratives…[A] well-documented cultural history that reminds us just how deeply the 1970 feminist slogan ‘the personal is political’ reflected many women’s struggles to live their lives honestly and openly regarding their same-sex desires. * Journal of Women's Historty *Her Neighbor’s Wife is beautiful and smart and should be widely read…Gutterman’s broadest intervention into the historiography is her contention that marriage was queer. She points out that you got screened for the military but not for your marriage license; that you could lose your teaching license for being gay but remain in your marriage. Marriage in the postwar period contained room for queerness and, in making room, it became queer itself. Though we cannot know numbers, Gutterman is utterly convincing that marriage was very queer indeed. * The Sixties *Ambitious and wide-ranging, Her Neighbor’s Wife opens interesting, provocative questions and modes of inquiry for historians of sexuality and the field of LGBTQ studies…In addition to Gutterman’s careful attention to interlacing feminist and queer analysis, another strength of [the book] is the assembled archive…This, combined with Gutterman’s own oral histories and her sensitive, thoughtful reading of primary sources, makes this book an exemplar of methodological rigor. * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Her Neighbor's Wife is a revelation. Lauren Jae Gutterman locates lesbian histories not at the margins but at the center of postwar American life, often accommodated within marriages with men and family life. Alert to the complex meanings of married women's desire for women, beyond the poles of protest and conformity, Gutterman queers postwar marriage, the family, and normativity itself. * Regina Kunzel, author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality *In a field dominated by studies of gay men (still), Her Neighbor's Wife offers an LGBT history that centers a gendered analysis of women's lives. It is a critical intervention in histories of marriage, same-sex desires, feminism, and therapeutic ideas of the authentic self. * Rebecca L. Davis, author of More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss *Her Neighbor's Wife is an engaging, highly readable sociocultural history that serves as a necessary and illuminating corrective to the general dearth of lesbian history. Lauren Jae Gutterman shows the concept of fluidity has a much deeper past than what is typically imagined and that heterosexual marriage was much less straight than it seemed. * Heather Murray, author of Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America *

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Book SynopsisThe right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a rallying point for political issues ranging from abortion to gay liberation to sex education. Yet this notion of privacy originated not only from legal arguments, nor solely from political movements on the left or the right, but instead from ambivalent moderates who valued both personal freedom and the preservation of social norms. In The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac, Clayton Howard chronicles the rise of sexual privacy as a fulcrum of American cultural politics. Beginning in the 1940s, public officials pursued an agenda that both promoted heterosexuality and made sexual privacy one of the state's key promises to its citizens. The 1944 G.I. Bill, for example, excluded gay veterans and enfranchised married ones in its dispersal of housing benefits. At the same time, officials required secluded bedrooms in new suburban homes and created educational campaigns designed to teach children respect for parents' privacy. In the following decades, measures such as these helped to concentrate middle-class families in the suburbs and gay men and lesbians in cities. In the 1960s and 1970s, the gay rights movement invoked privacy to attack repressive antigay laws, while social conservatives criticized tolerance for LGBTQ+ people as an assault on their own privacy. Many self-identified moderates, however, used identical rhetoric to distance themselves from both the discriminatory language of the religious right and the perceived excesses of the gay freedom struggle. Using the Bay Area as a case study, Howard places these moderates at the center of postwar American politics and shows how the region's burgeoning suburbs reacted to increasing gay activism in San Francisco. The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac offers specific examples of the ways in which government policies shaped many Americans' attitudes about sexuality and privacy and the ways in which citizens mobilized to reshape them.Trade Review"In this elegantly argued, deeply researched book, Clayton Howard charts the history of the politics of the so-called right to privacy in American society since World War Two...[A] superb book, a major piece of scholarship that will change how we think about the history of modern sexuality and political economy in the United States since 1945. At a time when concepts of personal 'privacy' are once again politically fraught, this book helps us understand why popular opinion on the matter has long been considerably more complicated than the polarized binaries of much contemporary political and legal discourse. " * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"[A]n ambitious, well-researched, and important study. Howard weaves together an impressive range of sources that map connections between postwar federal housing policies, debates about urban reform, ordinary suburbanites’ sex lives, and early homophile activism...At a moment when calls for political consensus and moderation are widespread, Howard’s analysis of 'moderation’s small-‘c’ conservative tendencies' and its potential to hamper struggles for social justice is sorely needed." * History: Review of New Books *"[A]n original and ambitious study of postwar sexual politics in San Francisco and its suburbs..Bridging diverse subjects is Howard's attention to the question of sexual privacy, or, more specifically, the burgeoning assumption that nonnormative sexual practices and identities could be countenanced if they were relegated to the private sphere. . . . Howard's insights into the politics of sexual privacy and moderation are powerful and worthy of attention." * Journal of American History *"[A] wide-reaching, deeply researched work that is truly interdisciplinary in both its themes and archive...[I]t explores the interconnections among the history of sexuality, political history, urban history, the history of domesticity, architectural and design history, and legal history, putting all of these areas into productive conversation, not to mention into intellectual and social history writ large. It should serve as a model for other historians who wish to think about history outside of extreme, or at least firmly avowed ideological positions, and explore the analytical possibilities of ambivalence." * American Historical Review *"The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac is a fascinating book that brings together in revelatory ways the political economy of metropolitan development and the history of sexuality, offering new interpretations of postwar political culture. Through a rigorous investigation of housing and neighborhood development, it makes logical what first appears to be a paradox: the triumph of a 'tolerate but not endorse' politics around non-normative sexuality in the second half of the twentieth century. Clayton Howard makes a convincing case for a 'metropolitan' approach to political economy and social life and weighs the implications for sexual politics more thoroughly and creatively than I have seen anywhere else." * Sarah Igo, author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America *"Clayton Howard has written an important, provocative, and path-breaking book centered on a wide-ranging, eye-opening, and nuanced discussion of the right to privacy and its role in conversations about public and domestic spaces, sexual rights and freedoms, and the proper place of queer and straight people in the body politic. No one has identified the varied threads of privacy embedded throughout the social fabrics of modern cities and suburbs like this before." * Bryant Simon, Temple University *

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Book SynopsisA new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives The gay and lesbian novel has long been a distinct literary genre with its own awards, shelving categories, bookstore spaces, and book reviews. But very little has been said about the remarkable history of its emergence in American literature, particularly the ways in which the novel about homosexuality did not just reflect but actively produced queer life.Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s insight that the history of society is connected to the history of language, author Natasha Hurley charts the messy, complex movement by which the queer novel produced the very frames that made it legible as a distinct literature and central to the imagination of queer worlds. Her vision of the queer novel's development revolves around the bold argument that literary circulation is the key ingredient that has made the gay and lesbian novel and its queer forebears available to its audiences.Challenging the narrative that the gay and lesbian novel came into view in response to the emergence of homosexuality as a concept, Hurley posits a much longer history of this novelistic genre. In so doing, she revises our understanding of the history of sexuality, as well as of the processes of producing new concepts and the evolution of new categories of language.Trade Review"Circulating Queerness outlines a queer literary history founded in ‘rogue circulation’—the surprising pathways and unexpected affinities that emerge when texts stray beyond their expected circuits—rather than identity. Natasha Hurley’s attention to the way queerness accrues through rereading and recirculation constitutes a powerful intervention into how we understand what queer literature has been and what it might become."—Dana Luciano, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsContentsPrologue: On the Queer Worlds of BooksIntroduction: Circuits, Lies, and the Queer Novel in America1. Acquired Queerness: The Sexual Life and Afterlife of Typee2. The Stoddard Archive and Its Dissed Contents3. Type Complication and Literary Old Maids4. Reading The Bostonians’s History of Sexuality from the Outside In5. Worlds Inside: Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century TypesCoda: Short Circuits and Untrodden PathsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause What if the very structure on which social movements rely, the nonprofit system, is reinforcing the inequalities activists seek to eliminate? That is the question at the heart of this bold reassessment of the system’s massive expansion since the mid-1960s. Focusing on the LGBT movement, Myrl Beam argues that the conservative turn in queer movement politics, as exemplified by the shift toward marriage and legal equality, is due mostly to the movement’s embrace of the nonprofit structure. Based on oral histories as well as archival research, and drawing on the author’s own extensive activist work, Gay, Inc. presents four compelling case studies. Beam looks at how people at LGBT nonprofits in Minneapolis and Chicago grapple with the contradictions between radical queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations. Through interview subjects’ incisive, funny, and heartbreaking commentaries, Beam exposes a complex world of committed people doing the best they can to effect change, and the flawed structures in which they participate, rail against, ignore, and make do. Providing a critical look at a social formation whose sanctified place in the national imagination has for too long gone unquestioned, Gay, Inc. marks a significant contribution to scholarship on sexuality, neoliberalism, and social movements.Trade Review"Gay, Inc. is a beacon of persuasive clarity, outlining the emotionally compelling but politically compromising role of nonprofit organizations in LGBTQ life. With nuanced ethnographic research, Myrl Beam provokes us to see the conflicts between mission and fundraising, between participants and donors, that shape our deepest commitments to social justice. Gay, Inc. is a must read for scholars and activists alike."—Lisa Duggan, New York University"An essential read for anyone who is trying to figure out how social change works, Gay, Inc. helps us understand queer and trans resistance in depth, bringing new insight into social movement debates about the role of nonprofits using grounded histories of resistance and conflict within queer politics."—Dean Spade, Seattle University School of LawTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Neoliberalism, Nonprofitization, and Social Change2. The Work of Compassion: Institutionalizing Affective Economies of AIDS and Homelessness3. Community and Its Others: Safety, Space, and Nonprofitization4. Capital and Nonprofitization: At the Limits of “By and For”5. Navigating the Crisis of Neoliberalism: A Stance of Undefeated DespairConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mutually Assured Destruction in the shadow of a strategic air command base. Communists and antiwar hippies were the enemy, but lesbians were a threat, too: they were unhealthy, criminal, and downright insane. It took Dianna a while to figure out that she was one, a little longer to discover how she fit in with her new communities in the city and the countryside. This is her story—a frank account by turns comic and painful of a well-behaved Midwestern girl finding her way through polite denial and repression and running head-on into the eye-opening events of the 1960s and ’70s before landing on a dairy farm.A bumpy route takes Dianna to the Twin Cities, then to rural Minnesota and Wisconsin as—by way of the antiwar movement, women’s liberation, and a dose of lesbian feminism—she and her friends try to establish a rural utopia free of sexual oppression, violence, materialism, environmental degradation—and men. They dream big, love as they see fit, and make do until they don’t. Dianna buys a dairy farm and, with it, a new set of problems thanks to the Reagan-era farm crisis. A firsthand account of the lesbian feminist movement at its inception, Wild Mares is a deeply personal, wryly wise, and always engaging view of identity politics lived and learned in real life and, literally, on the ground, flourishing in the fertile soil of a struggling dairy farm in the American heartland.Trade Review"Dianna Hunter’s engaging memoir thoughtfully recounts a feminist era, ethos, and way of life that until recently has been largely lost to the historical record. Told with nuanced self-reflection and respect for wider contexts, Hunter’s stories will challenge any narrow assumptions about what it was like to create and live the ‘second wave.’"—Finn Enke, author of Finding the Movement"Wild Mares is the riveting story of the struggles and integrity of a contemporary pioneer who tried to change the world with few resources other than her own extraordinary courage, stamina, resourcefulness, and idealism. From teaching the first women’s studies class at her college, to chopping wood and hauling it home through snowdrifts on a horse-drawn sleigh, to operating her own dairy farm, to advocating at the state government for struggling farmers, Dianna Hunter is an inspiring feminist force."—Nancy Manahan, author of Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence"Wild Mares helps to remind people reading it in 2018 and beyond that much work has been done over the decades in the LGBTQ community, but the forces that aim to divide and regress are always present"—Woman Today"A worthwhile look at non-traditional twentieth-century farming, and at Midwestern lesbian history."—South Florida Gay News"Wild Mares refers to the horses Hudson loved, but also to the eager, sometimes-confused and socially-conscious wild young lesbians on whose shoulders the new generations stand."—Twin Cities Pioneer Press "Wild Mares is a slow burn of a read that offers an important glimpse into a slice of all-too-recent history. There is power in storytelling, in lifting voices, in showing how we were part of major cultural moments. " —AutoStraddleTable of ContentsPrologue1. The Great Man and the Dead Cow2. MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD World3. They Can’t Kill Us All (Can They?)4. A Room of My Own 5. Getting There6. The First Lesbian Conference7. Country Lesbian Manifesto8. The Trouble with Land9. Suzanne Takes You Down10. Family of Woman11. Women, Horses, and Other Embodied Spirits12. Lurk-in-the-Ditch13. Another Dance and a Funeral14. At the Speed of Hooves15. Rising Moon16. Making Hay17. Mel’s Place (Dick Pulls Us Through)18. Del Lago 19. Thundering Ice, Talking Spirits20. Ravenna’s Refuge21. Dancing Leads to This22. Divorce and Dispossession23. Going, Going, GoneAcknowledgmentsResources

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Book SynopsisHow global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve Commodities of Care examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions, ideas, and practices as they unfold in communities of men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. Targeted for the scaling-up of HIV testing, Elsa L. Fan examines how the impact of this initiative has transformed these men from subjects of care into commodities of care: through the use of performance-based financing tied to HIV testing, MSM have become a source of economic and political capital. In ethnographic detail, Fan shows how this particular program, ushered in by global health donors, became the prevailing strategy to control the epidemic in China in the late 2000s. Fan examines the implementation of MSM testing and its effects among these men, arguing that the intervention produced new markets of men, driven by the push to meet testing metrics. Fan shows how men who have sex with men in China came to see themselves as part of a global “MSM” category, adopting new selfhoods and socialities inextricably tied to HIV and to testing. Wider trends in global health programming have shaped national public health responses in China and, this book reveals, have radically altered the ways health, disease, and care are addressed. Trade Review"Commodities of Care is a forceful examination of how global health is working to transform patients from biomedical entities into market commodities. Elsa L. Fan’s ethnography is a tour de force, tracing the regime of HIV testing through the organizations established to serve gay men in China to show how they are co-opted by global audit regimes. This book will serve as an important bridge between global health and anthropology to begin dialogues that must happen for these fields to move forward."—Elanah Uretsky, author of Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China "[Commodities of Care]continues the conversation among global health scholars on the unintended and sometimes negative consequences of metrics and audit culture. This book would be well suited for both graduate and undergraduate courses on gender and global health."—Gender & SocietyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Productivity of HIV Testing2. Making Up (and Making Available) MSM in China3. Markets of and Marketing to MSM4. Remaking Communities of Belonging5. Ethical Practice Among MSM in ChinaConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve Commodities of Care examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions, ideas, and practices as they unfold in communities of men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. Targeted for the scaling-up of HIV testing, Elsa L. Fan examines how the impact of this initiative has transformed these men from subjects of care into commodities of care: through the use of performance-based financing tied to HIV testing, MSM have become a source of economic and political capital. In ethnographic detail, Fan shows how this particular program, ushered in by global health donors, became the prevailing strategy to control the epidemic in China in the late 2000s. Fan examines the implementation of MSM testing and its effects among these men, arguing that the intervention produced new markets of men, driven by the push to meet testing metrics. Fan shows how men who have sex with men in China came to see themselves as part of a global “MSM” category, adopting new selfhoods and socialities inextricably tied to HIV and to testing. Wider trends in global health programming have shaped national public health responses in China and, this book reveals, have radically altered the ways health, disease, and care are addressed. Trade Review"Commodities of Care is a forceful examination of how global health is working to transform patients from biomedical entities into market commodities. Elsa L. Fan’s ethnography is a tour de force, tracing the regime of HIV testing through the organizations established to serve gay men in China to show how they are co-opted by global audit regimes. This book will serve as an important bridge between global health and anthropology to begin dialogues that must happen for these fields to move forward."—Elanah Uretsky, author of Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China "[Commodities of Care]continues the conversation among global health scholars on the unintended and sometimes negative consequences of metrics and audit culture. This book would be well suited for both graduate and undergraduate courses on gender and global health."—Gender & SocietyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Productivity of HIV Testing2. Making Up (and Making Available) MSM in China3. Markets of and Marketing to MSM4. Remaking Communities of Belonging5. Ethical Practice Among MSM in ChinaConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is “queer,” as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of Fancy offers a powerful new method of accounting for ineffable and diffuse forms of desire, mining early modern drama and prose literature to describe new patterns of affective resonance.Starting with the question of how and why readers seek traces of desire in texts from bygone times and places, The Shapes of Fancy demonstrates a practice of critical attunement to the psychic and historical circulations of affect across time within texts, from texts to readers, and among readers. Closely reading for uncharted desires as they recur in early modern drama, witchcraft pamphlets, and early Atlantic voyage narratives and demonstrating how each is structured by qualities of secrecy, impossibility, and excess, Christine Varnado follows four “shapes of fancy”: the desire to be used to others’ ends; indiscriminate, bottomless appetite; paranoid self-fulfilling suspicion; and melancholic longings for impossible transformations and affinities. These affective dynamics go awry in atypical and perverse ways. In other words, argues Varnado, these modes of feeling are recognizable on the page or stage as “queer” because of how, and not by whom, they are expressed.This new theorization of desire expands the notion of queerness in literature, decoupling the literary trace of queerness from the binary logics of same-sex versus opposite-sex and normative versus deviant that have governed early modern sexuality studies. Providing a set of methods for analyzing affect and desire in texts from any period, The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading, making a case for readerly investment and identification as vital engines of meaning making and political insight.Trade Review"The Shapes of Fancy pursues an innovative expansion of the lexicon of queer desire. Christine Varnado forges links between early modern and contemporary thinkers, and she engages a constellation of affective modes, from mediation and consumption to paranoia and melancholia. Her supple analyses illuminate the intricate, often unexpected vectors, artifacts, and afterlives of erotic connection."—Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University"Christine Varnado’s book makes a surprising and incisive intervention into early modern studies. In its queerest moments, The Shapes of Fancy argues for a capacious theory of desire, expanding scholarly understanding of sexuality in the past to include forgotten, ambivalent, and challenging forms of pleasure."—Holly Dugan, The George Washington University"An incredibly useful touchstone for queer studies."—Modern Philology "This powerful book brings important and fresh insight to the literature." —CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Reading for Desire1. Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go-Between2. Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing3. It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt4. Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial MelancholiaConclusion: The Persistence of FancyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is “queer,” as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of Fancy offers a powerful new method of accounting for ineffable and diffuse forms of desire, mining early modern drama and prose literature to describe new patterns of affective resonance.Starting with the question of how and why readers seek traces of desire in texts from bygone times and places, The Shapes of Fancy demonstrates a practice of critical attunement to the psychic and historical circulations of affect across time within texts, from texts to readers, and among readers. Closely reading for uncharted desires as they recur in early modern drama, witchcraft pamphlets, and early Atlantic voyage narratives and demonstrating how each is structured by qualities of secrecy, impossibility, and excess, Christine Varnado follows four “shapes of fancy”: the desire to be used to others’ ends; indiscriminate, bottomless appetite; paranoid self-fulfilling suspicion; and melancholic longings for impossible transformations and affinities. These affective dynamics go awry in atypical and perverse ways. In other words, argues Varnado, these modes of feeling are recognizable on the page or stage as “queer” because of how, and not by whom, they are expressed.This new theorization of desire expands the notion of queerness in literature, decoupling the literary trace of queerness from the binary logics of same-sex versus opposite-sex and normative versus deviant that have governed early modern sexuality studies. Providing a set of methods for analyzing affect and desire in texts from any period, The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading, making a case for readerly investment and identification as vital engines of meaning making and political insight.Trade Review"The Shapes of Fancy pursues an innovative expansion of the lexicon of queer desire. Christine Varnado forges links between early modern and contemporary thinkers, and she engages a constellation of affective modes, from mediation and consumption to paranoia and melancholia. Her supple analyses illuminate the intricate, often unexpected vectors, artifacts, and afterlives of erotic connection."—Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University"Christine Varnado’s book makes a surprising and incisive intervention into early modern studies. In its queerest moments, The Shapes of Fancy argues for a capacious theory of desire, expanding scholarly understanding of sexuality in the past to include forgotten, ambivalent, and challenging forms of pleasure."—Holly Dugan, The George Washington University"An incredibly useful touchstone for queer studies."—Modern Philology "This powerful book brings important and fresh insight to the literature." —CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Reading for Desire1. Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go-Between2. Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing3. It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt4. Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial MelancholiaConclusion: The Persistence of FancyAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisEngaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In Lesbian Death, Mairead Sullivan probes the perception that lesbian status is in retreat, exploring the political promises—and especially the failures—of lesbian feminism and its usefulness today. Lesbian Death reads how lesbian is conceptualized in relation to death from the 1970s onward to argue that lesbian offers disruptive potential. Lesbian Death examines the rise of lesbian breast cancer activism in San Francisco in conversation with ACT UP, the lesbian separatist manifestos “The C.L.I.T. Papers,” the enduring specter of lesbian bed death, and the weaponization of lesbian identity against trans lives. By situating the lesbian as a border figure between feminist and queer, Lesbian Death offers a fresh perspective on the value of lesbian for both feminist and queer projects, even if her value is her death. Trade Review "Mairead Sullivan’s refreshing book delves deeply into the decades-long dynamic in which the lesbian—as figure, identity, and political project—is somehow always already dying even as younger and older generations infuse the lesbian with new and vital promise. Analyzing fears of lesbian death registered in narratives of loss, aggression, murderousness, bed death, and so many wars (sex wars, theory wars, butch-fem border wars, intersectionality wars, and TERF wars), this engaging work trenchantly illuminates the disruptive potential and undeniable persistence of the lesbian at the heart of the often-tense relations among feminist, queer, and trans articulations of community."—Finn Enke, author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism "Lesbian Death is a thoroughgoing analysis of the work of ‘the lesbian’—especially tales of her imminent demise—in discourse and culture. Neither romanticized nor maligned, here, the figure of the lesbian is vital to queer/trans/feminist world-making. A generous and generative contribution to queer and lesbian studies, Mairead Sullivan’s treatment is timely and inspired."—Angela Willey, author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology "A compelling and timely book to think with, especially for those of us invested in building more just feminist, queer, trans, and lesbian worlds, whatever language we use to do so."—Autostraddle

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Book SynopsisA questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being “out, loud, and proud.” Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation. Far from being an unambiguous good, argues Thomsen, visibility politics can, in fact, preclude collective action. They also advance metronormativity, postraciality, and capitalism. To make these interventions, Thomsen develops the theory of unbecoming: interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful—the past, the rural, politics—is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility. Trade Review"Carly Thomsen’s Visibility Interrupted is a must-read for any LGBTQ (loving) people who have ever thought that being 'out, loud, and proud' was a good thing. Disclosing how visibility politics emerges out of urban spaces and presumes that the rural is unbecoming, Thomsen goes on to demonstrate what women in rural South Dakota and Minnesota can teach us about LGBTQ politics, the rural, and the relation between the two. Provocative, extensively researched, and delivered in Thomsen’s lively voice, this groundbreaking ‘queer archive’ offers a new understanding of sexuality as spatial and a more capacious politics inspired by LGBTQ rural life."—Rosemary Hennessy, Rice University"Visibility Interrupted advances research and energizes debate in an emergent and under-examined area in LGBTQ studies: queer rurality. Not only does this work critique dominant queer metronormativity in the field, it also critically displaces the strongly masculinist conception of the bucolic and the rustic by focusing on LGBTQ women’s identity formation, world-making processes, and community-building practices in the rural Midwest. Carly Thomsen argues for complicating the queer rural Midwest and queerness in general by offering a critical optic that refuses the flattening of the pastoral and envisions alternative formations of LGBTQ future."—Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities"Despite decades of critique of visibility politics, the rural continues to persist as an inherently oppressive space for queers. This is an energizing read, both as a synthesis of these debates as well as a fresh take on the suturing of LGBTQ visibility to hegemonic constructs of race and capitalism. Uninterested in a politics of inclusion, Carly Thomsen artfully situates visibility as a form of labor—the work of producing and curating oneself inevitably for capitalism and for the state—that is unappealing and unnecessary for her rural lesbian interlocutors. Visibility therefore becomes a political aim that preempts other horizons of political action. Anchored in the growing scholarship on rural queer studies, Visibility Interrupted is also a major contribution to queer and feminist theory, critical race studies, and critical disability studies. The thought-provoking stories of these irreverent lesbians reveal the imaginative paucity at the heart of urban metronormative sexual cultures."—Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University "As the first book-length study to focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) women in the rural Midwest, Thomsen’s Visibility Interrupted identifies and responds to the shortcomings of an LGBTQ activist agenda that views visibility as a foremost catalyst for social change."—Gender & Society"A well-researched, notable addition to the expanding field of rural queer studies. Visibility Interrupted complicates assumptions about metronormativity, successfully demonstrating that LGBTQ people do live in rural settings and enjoy happy, liberated lives far from inferior to those of their urban counterparts. Focusing on LGBTQ women in the Midwest—specifically South Dakota and Minnesota—the book also aids in addressing the dearth of queer studies of women when compared to those of gay men."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Theorizing Queer Rurality and Calls for LGBTQ Visibility1. Metronormativity as Legacy: The Cases of Matthew Shepard and Jene Newsome2. (Be)coming Out, Be(com)ing Visible3. Post-Race, Post-Space: Calls for Disability and LGBTQ Visibility4. Queer Labors: Visibility and Capitalism5. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Metronormativity on the Move6. What’s the Use? Queer Critique in MotionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being “out, loud, and proud.” Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation. Far from being an unambiguous good, argues Thomsen, visibility politics can, in fact, preclude collective action. They also advance metronormativity, postraciality, and capitalism. To make these interventions, Thomsen develops the theory of unbecoming: interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful—the past, the rural, politics—is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility. Trade Review"Carly Thomsen’s Visibility Interrupted is a must-read for any LGBTQ (loving) people who have ever thought that being 'out, loud, and proud' was a good thing. Disclosing how visibility politics emerges out of urban spaces and presumes that the rural is unbecoming, Thomsen goes on to demonstrate what women in rural South Dakota and Minnesota can teach us about LGBTQ politics, the rural, and the relation between the two. Provocative, extensively researched, and delivered in Thomsen’s lively voice, this groundbreaking ‘queer archive’ offers a new understanding of sexuality as spatial and a more capacious politics inspired by LGBTQ rural life."—Rosemary Hennessy, Rice University"Visibility Interrupted advances research and energizes debate in an emergent and under-examined area in LGBTQ studies: queer rurality. Not only does this work critique dominant queer metronormativity in the field, it also critically displaces the strongly masculinist conception of the bucolic and the rustic by focusing on LGBTQ women’s identity formation, world-making processes, and community-building practices in the rural Midwest. Carly Thomsen argues for complicating the queer rural Midwest and queerness in general by offering a critical optic that refuses the flattening of the pastoral and envisions alternative formations of LGBTQ future."—Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities"Despite decades of critique of visibility politics, the rural continues to persist as an inherently oppressive space for queers. This is an energizing read, both as a synthesis of these debates as well as a fresh take on the suturing of LGBTQ visibility to hegemonic constructs of race and capitalism. Uninterested in a politics of inclusion, Carly Thomsen artfully situates visibility as a form of labor—the work of producing and curating oneself inevitably for capitalism and for the state—that is unappealing and unnecessary for her rural lesbian interlocutors. Visibility therefore becomes a political aim that preempts other horizons of political action. Anchored in the growing scholarship on rural queer studies, Visibility Interrupted is also a major contribution to queer and feminist theory, critical race studies, and critical disability studies. The thought-provoking stories of these irreverent lesbians reveal the imaginative paucity at the heart of urban metronormative sexual cultures."—Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University "As the first book-length study to focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) women in the rural Midwest, Thomsen’s Visibility Interrupted identifies and responds to the shortcomings of an LGBTQ activist agenda that views visibility as a foremost catalyst for social change."—Gender & Society"A well-researched, notable addition to the expanding field of rural queer studies. Visibility Interrupted complicates assumptions about metronormativity, successfully demonstrating that LGBTQ people do live in rural settings and enjoy happy, liberated lives far from inferior to those of their urban counterparts. Focusing on LGBTQ women in the Midwest—specifically South Dakota and Minnesota—the book also aids in addressing the dearth of queer studies of women when compared to those of gay men."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Theorizing Queer Rurality and Calls for LGBTQ Visibility1. Metronormativity as Legacy: The Cases of Matthew Shepard and Jene Newsome2. (Be)coming Out, Be(com)ing Visible3. Post-Race, Post-Space: Calls for Disability and LGBTQ Visibility4. Queer Labors: Visibility and Capitalism5. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Metronormativity on the Move6. What’s the Use? Queer Critique in MotionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets The Poetics of Cruising explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of leading poets, from Walt Whitman in the nineteenth century to Eileen Myles in the twenty-first. What is it that happens, asks Jack Parlett, and what is it that is sought, in this often transient moment of perception we call cruising, this perceptual arena where acts of looking between strangers are intensified and eroticized? Parlett believes that this moment is not only optical in nature but visual: a mode of looking that warrants comparison with the ways in which we behold still and moving images. Whether it’s Whitman’s fixation with daguerreotypes, Langston Hughes’s hybrid photographic works, or Frank O’Hara’s love of Hollywood movie stars, argues Parlett, the history of poets cruising abounds with this intermingling between the verbal and the visual, the passing and the fixed. To look at someone in the act of cruising, this history suggests, is to capture, consider, and aestheticize, amid the flux and instantaneity of urban time. But it is also to reveal the ambivalence at the heart of this erotic search, where power may be unevenly distributed across glances, and gendered and racialized bodies are marked. Thus, in identifying for the first time this confluence of cruising, poetry, and visual culture, Parlett concludes that the visual erotic economy associated with gay cruising today, exemplified by the photographic grid of an app like Grindr, is not a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Innovative, astute, and highly readable, and drawing on compelling archival material, The Poetics of Cruising is a must for scholars of queer and LGBTQ literature and culture, modern and contemporary poetry, visual studies, and the history of sexuality.Trade Review"The Poetics of Cruising is a thoughtfully researched and rigorous examination of the literary pleasures of sex in public across two centuries. Jack Parlett examines the poetics and politics of cruising, a queerly ekphrastic practice, at the intersections of gender, race, and class. Moving between past and present, words and images, close reading and close looking, The Poetics of Cruising explores the enduring appeal of cruising without nostalgia."—Fiona Anderson, author of Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York’s Ruined Waterfront"The Poetics of Cruising is an innovative, astute, and highly readable account of the intersections of gay life, visuality, and poetics in the work of important gay writers from Walt Whitman to David Wojnarowicz. Analyzing unpublished materials alongside literary texts, The Poetics of Cruising—a model of how to combine history, theory, and close reading—is a fascinating and beautifully written account of cruising as a practice, aesthetic, and methodology."—Christopher Castiglia, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Look1. Passing Strangers2. Walt Whitman, Looking at You3. Looking for Langston Hughes4. Frank O’Hara’s Moving Pictures5. David Wojnarowicz’s PortraitsCoda: A ClickAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis accessible book introduces the key concepts and theoretical developments of queer criminology and explains what they mean for modern criminal justice frameworks and practitioners. The book sets out experiences of the LGBTQ+ population as victims, offenders and professionals in legal systems in the US and internationally and explores what they mean for elements of those systems including police, courts, corrections and victims’ services. It is both a useful reference point for academics, students and professionals and a guide to how queer criminology can be theoretically applied and practically implemented in the worlds of policing, courts, corrections, and victims' services.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Towards Freedom, Empowerment, and Agency: An Introduction to Queering Criminology in Theory and Praxis: Reimaging Justice in the Criminal Legal System and Beyond – Carrie L. Buist and Lindsay Kahle Semprevivo 1. Gender- and Sexuality-Based Violence Among LGBTQ People: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory – Meredith G.F. Worthen 2. Queer Pathways – Michael K. Winters 3. Queer Criminology and the Destabilization of Child Sexual Abuse – Dave McDonald 4. Queer(y)ing the Experiences of LGBTQ Workers in Criminal Processing Systems – Angela Dwyer and Roddrick A. Colvin 5. ‘PREA Is a Joke’: A Case Study of How Trans PREA Standards Are(n’t) Enforced – April Carrillo 6. Queerly Navigating the System: Trans* Experiences Under State Surveillance – Rayna E. Momen 7. Sex-Gender Defining Laws, Birth Certificates, and Identity – Jon Rosenstadt 8. Effects of Intimate Partner Violence in the LGBTQ Community: A. Systematic Review – Illandra Denysschen and Rosalind Evans 9. Health Covariates of Intimate Partner Violence in a National Transgender Sample – Victoria Kurdyla, Adam M. Messinger, and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz 10. Serving Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex Youth in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall – Alexandria Garcia, Naseem Badiey, Laura Agnich Chavez, and Wendy Still 11. Liberating Black Youth Across the Gender Spectrum Through the Deconstruction of the White Femininity/Black Masculinity Duality – Angela Irvine-Baker, Aisha Canfield, and Carolyn Reyes 12. ‘I Thought They Were Supposed to Be on My Side’: What Jane Doe’s Experience Teaches Us About Institutional Harm Against Trans Youth – Vanessa R. Panfil and Aimee Wodda 13. The Role of Adolescent Friendship Networks in Queer Youth’s Delinquency – Nayan G. Ramirez 14. ‘At the Very Least’: Politics and Praxis of Bail Fund Organizers and the Potential for Queer Liberation – Luca Suede Connolly and Rose M. Buckelew 15. A Conspiracy – Lucilla R. Harrell and S. Page Dukes 16. LGBTQ+ Homelessness: Resource Obtainment and Issues With Shelters – Trye Mica Price and Tusty ten Bensel 17. The Color of Queer Theory in Social Work and Criminology Practice: A World Without Empathy – Rebecca S. Katz 18. Camouflaged: Tackling the Invisibility of LGBTQ+ Veterans When Accessing Care – Shanna N. Felix and Chrystina Y. Hoffman 19. Barriers to Reporting, Barriers to Services: Challenges for Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Victimization – Danielle C. Slakoff and Jaclyn A. Siegel Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Do Justice? Current and Future Directions in Queer Criminological Research and Practice – Lindsay Kahle Semprevivo and Carrie L. Buist

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the words and stories of queer Turkish activists, this book aims to unravel the complexities of queer lives in Turkey. In doing so, it challenges dominant conceptualizations of the queer Turkish experience within critical security discourses. The book argues that while queer Turks are subjected to ceaseless forms of insecurity in their governance, opportunities for emancipatory resistance have emerged alongside these abuses. It identifies the ways in which the state, the family, Turkish Islam and other socially-mediated processes and agencies can expose or protect queers from violence in the Turkish community.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Ambiguities of Queer Research 2. Turkish Governmentality: A Genealogy of Heteropatriarchal Nationalism 3. Assembling Turkish Queers 4. Assembing Trans Identity 5. The Queer Common Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the 2010s, London’s LGBTQ+ scene was hit by extensive venue closures. For some, this represented the increased inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in society. For others, it threatened the city’s status as a ‘global beacon of diversity’ or merely reaffirmed the hostility of London’s neoliberal landscapes. Navigating these competing realities, Olimpia Burchiellaro explores the queer politics of LGBTQ+ inclusion in London. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with activists, professionals and LGBTQ-friendly businesses, the author reveals how gender and sexuality come to be reconfigured in the production and consumption of LGBTQ+ inclusion and its promises. Giving voice to queer perspectives on inclusion, this is an important contribution to our understanding of urban policy, nightlife, neoliberalism and LGBTQ+ politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Between Corporate Inclusivity and the Closure of Queer Spaces: The Neoliberal Politics of Inclusion in East London 2. Coming Out for Business: Lesbian Tech CEOs and the CEO-ization of Queer Politics 3. Diversity Work and Queer Value: Putting Queer Differences to Work in the LGBTQ-friendly Corporation 4. The Straightening Tendencies of Inclusion: The Friends of the Joiners Arms and the Normativities of Gentrification 5. As Soon as this Pub Closes: The Temporalities of Gentrification and Other Queer Utopias 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWinner, "Gold" Independent Publishing Award (IPPY) for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Winner, The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, 34th Annual Triangle Awards 2023 Lammy Finalist, Gay Memoir/Biography A coming-of-age memoir of life on the front lines of the AIDS crisis with ACT UP New York. From the moment Ron Goldberg stumbled into his first ACT UP meeting in June 1987, the AIDS activist organization became his life. For the next eight years, he chaired committees, planned protests, led teach-ins, and facilitated their Monday night meetings. He cruised and celebrated at ACT UP parties, attended far too many AIDS memorials, and participated in more than a hundred zaps and demonstrations, becoming the group’s unofficial “Chant Queen,” writing and leading chants for many of their major actions. Boy with the Bullhorn is both a memoir and an immersive history of the original New York chapter of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, from 1987 to 1995, told with great humor, heart, and insight. Using the author’s own story, “the activist education of a well-intentioned, if somewhat naïve nice gay Jewish theater queen,” Boy with the Bullhorn intertwines Goldberg’s experiences with the larger chronological history of ACT UP, the grassroots AIDS activist organization that confronted politicians, scientists, drug companies, religious leaders, the media, and an often uncaring public to successfully change the course of the AIDS epidemic. Diligently sourced and researched, Boy with the Bullhorn provides both an intimate look into how activist strategies are developed and deployed and a snapshot of life in New York City during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic. On the occasions where Goldberg writes outside his personal experience, he relies on his extensive archive of original ACT UP documents, news articles, and other published material, as well as activist videos and oral histories, to help flesh out actions, events, and the background stories of key activists. Writing with great candor, Goldberg examines the group’s triumphs and failures, as well as the pressures and bad behaviors that eventually tore ACT UP apart. A story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, from engaging in outrageous, media-savvy demonstrations, to navigating the intricacies of drug research and the byzantine bureaucracies of the FDA, NIH, and CDC, Boy with the Bullhorn captures the passion, smarts, and evanescent spirit of ACT UP—the anger, grief, and desperation, but also the joy, camaraderie, and sexy, campy playfulness—and the exhilarating adrenaline rush of activism.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Part I: Becoming an Activist 1 Awakening | 3 2 First Steps | 22 3 Welcome to ACT UP | 38 4 We Are Family | 52 Part II: Expanding the Agenda 5 ACT NOW and the Nine Days of Rain | 67 6 Taking Actions | 83 7 Summer Awakening | 97 8 Seize Control of the FDA | 117 Part III: Crashing Through 9 Targeting City Hall | 141 10 Storming the Ivory Tower | 163 11 Remember Stonewall Was a Riot | 179 12 Parallel Tracks | 192 13 Heading Inside | 211 14 Stop the Church | 222 Part IV: The Gorgeous Mosaic 15 The Myers Mess | 235 16 Time’s Up, Mario! | 248 17 Storm the NIH | 256 18 Inside or Out | 266 19 Can the Center Hold? | 280 20 Bombs Are Dropping | 301 Part V: Days of Desperation 21 Desperate Measures | 317 22 Splitting Differences | 333 23 Target Bush | 351 24 Strategies and Consequences | 370 Part VI: AIDS Campaign ’92 25 ACT UP / Petrelis | 383 26 The In-Your-Face Primary | 394 27 Unconventional Behavior | 402 28 Vote as If Your Life Depended on It | 417 Afterword | 437 Acknowledgments | 443 Notes | 449 Index | 483 Photographs follow page 214

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Book SynopsisThe Un-Natural State is a one-of-a-kind study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story. Thompson analyzes the meaning of rural drag shows, including a compelling description of a 1930s seasonal beauty pageant in Wilson, Arkansas, where white men in drag shared the stage with other white men in blackface, a suggestive mingling that went to the core of both racial transgression and sexual disobedience. These small town entertainments put on in churches and schools emerged decades later in gay bars across the state as a lucrative business practice and a larger means of community expression, while in the same period the state's sodomy law was rewritten to condemn sexual acts between those of the same sex in language similar to what was once used to denounce interracial sex. Thompson goes on to describe several lesbian communities established in the Ozark Mountains during the sixties and seventies and offers a substantial account of Eureka Springs's informal status as the "gay capital of the Ozarks." Through this exploration of identity formation, group articulation, political mobilization, and cultural visibility within the context of historical episodes such as the Second World War, the civil rights movement, and the AIDS epidemic,The Un-Natural State contributes not only to our understanding of gay and lesbian history but also to our understanding of the South.

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Book SynopsisHas Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Sexualities without Genders and other Queer Utopias: Biddy Martin. 2. Sexual Traffic: Gayle Rubin (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). 3. Sissies and Sisters: Gender, Sexuality and the Possibilities of Coalition: William Spurlin (Columbia University). 4. Reflections on Gynophobia: Emily Apter (UCLA). 5. Mother, Can't You See I'm Burning? Between Female Homosexuality and Homosociality in Radclyffe Hall's The Unlit Lamp: Trevor Hope (University of Rochester). 6. Desiring Machines? Queer Re-visions of Feminist Film Theory: Carole-Anne Tyler (University of California, Riverside). 7. André Gide and the Niece's Seduction: Naomi Segal (University of Reading). 8. Savage Nights: Mandy Merck. 9. Coming Out of the Real: Knots and Queries: Elizabeth Wright (Girton College, Cambridge). Index.

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Book SynopsisHas Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Sexualities without Genders and other Queer Utopias: Biddy Martin. 2. Sexual Traffic: Gayle Rubin (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). 3. Sissies and Sisters: Gender, Sexuality and the Possibilities of Coalition: William Spurlin (Columbia University). 4. Reflections on Gynophobia: Emily Apter (UCLA). 5. Mother, Can't You See I'm Burning? Between Female Homosexuality and Homosociality in Radclyffe Hall's The Unlit Lamp: Trevor Hope (University of Rochester). 6. Desiring Machines? Queer Re-visions of Feminist Film Theory: Carole-Anne Tyler (University of California, Riverside). 7. André Gide and the Niece's Seduction: Naomi Segal (University of Reading). 8. Savage Nights: Mandy Merck. 9. Coming Out of the Real: Knots and Queries: Elizabeth Wright (Girton College, Cambridge). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a vivid, funny portrait of the four tumultuous years a young editor spent working in the gay press. Boston's weekly ""Gay Community News"" was ""the center of the universe"" during the late 1970s, writes Amy Hoffman in this memoir of gay liberation before AIDS, before gay weddings, and before The L Word. Provocative, informative, inspiring, and absurd, with a small circulation but a huge influence, ""Gay Community News"" produced a generation of leaders, writers, and friends. In addition to capturing the heady atmosphere of the times - the victories, controversies, and tragedies - Hoffman's memoir is also her personal story, written with wit and insight, of growing up in a political movement; of her deepening relationships with charismatic, talented, and sometimes utterly weird coworkers; and of trying to explain it all to her large Jewish family.Trade ReviewFunny, engaging, enlightening, heart-breaking: a history of the heart that will touch everyone who reads it. - Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent ""Amy Hoffman has written a fabulous memoir of post-Stonewall lesbian and gay liberation. The book captures the radical political spirit of the 1970s, conjuring up a world of men, women, and differently gender-configured activists who sought to foment a revolution to end capitalism, racism, homophobia, and sexism all the while putting out a weekly newspaper.... This is memoir at its best."" - Janice Irvine, author of Disorders of Desire ""Part social history, part personal memoir, and part off-beat love story. Amy Hoffman writes with so much charm and wit that this portrait of a group of political radicals trying to change the world becomes an endearing and completely accessible tribute to the power of community and the importance of convictions. There is something to love, admire, and laugh about on every page of this book. I hated to see it end."" - Stephen McCauley, author of The Object of My Affection ""An Army of Ex-Lovers is Amy Hoffman's witty, nuanced, personal history of Gay Community News, Boston's gay weekly newspaper in the 1970s and '80s. I expected as much from this fine writer. What is delightfully unexpected is that it is also the love story between a gay man and a lesbian. Political, cranky, fully committed, loyal, and loud. It's big love. It's the untold story of those early years of gay liberation."" - Kate Clinton, author of Don't Get Me Started

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Book SynopsisThe making of gay and lesbian politicsTrade Review"This important study is both an analysis of and a call to an involved politics. It opens the door to a far-reaching dialogue."—Martin Duberman, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The City University of New York"It is in the process of coming out...Blasius argues, that lesbians and gay men create themselves—as new subjects, as the producers of new truth, and as agents of social change. Blasius gives a coherent account that ties together all these processes—from coming out to the emergence of lesbian and gay studies-and goes on to show the 'ethical' contribution that lesbians and gay men make to contemporary American society."—Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review"An engaging book that intelligently explores a range of possibilities in human relations."—George Kateb, Department of Politics, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Creation of Gay and Lesbian Politics A Historical Ontology of Politics Power, Subjectivity, and Truth Politics and Technologies of Government 2. A Politics of Sexuality Poser in Modernity: Biopower Sexuality Becomes a Political Issue Sexuality: A Technology of Government The Lesbian and Gay Politics of Sexuality 3. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Political Identity A Genealogy of Gay and Lesbian Identity Erotics: From Subjection to Agency Silence = Death: Coming Out and the Creation of the Self Conclusion: After Sexuality, Erotics? 4. What Are Lesbian and Gay Rights? Sexuality and Normativity: A Relational Right AIDS and Biopower Conclusion 5. An Ethos of Lesbian and Gay Existence Lesbian and Gay Existence: Sexual Orientation, Lifestyle, and Community The Emergence of a Lesbian and Gay Ethos Ethos, Knowledge, and Politics Gay and Lesbian Politics and a New Ethic Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisHow sexuality and sexual orientation intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, and religion in the ongoing formation of national identityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Nation's Rights and National Rites 3. Righting Wrongs 4. Queer Nations 5. Eurocentrism 6. Reimagining Australia 7. Concluding Remarks Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be queer and Asian American at the turn of the century? The writers, activists, essayists, and artists who contribute to this volume consider how Asian American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. Their collective aim (in the words of the editors) is \u0022to articulate a new conception of Asian American racial identity, its heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity -- concepts that after all underpinned the Asian American moniker from its very inception.\u0022 Q & A approaches matters of identity from a variety of points of view and academic disciplines in order to explore the multiple crossings of race and ethnicity with sexuality and gender. Drawing together the work of visual artists, fiction writers, community organizers, scholars, and participants in roundtable discussions, the collection gathers an array of voices and experiences that represent the emerging communities of a queer Asian America. Collectively, these contributors contend that Asian American studies needs to be more attentive to issues of sexuality and that queer studies needs to be more attentive to other aspects of difference, especially race and ethnicity. Vigorously rejecting the notion that a symmetrical relationship between race and homosexuality would weaken lesbian/gay and queer movements, the editors refuse to \u0022believe that a desirably queer world is one in which we remain perpetual aliens -- queer houseguests -- in a queer nation.\u0022Trade Review"Astute, provocative, and exemplary, Q & A: Queer in Asian America sets a bold and serious agenda for engaging race, desire, culture, and globalization today." -- Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics "The writers, artists, and activists in Q & A take us to so many fascinating places where 'queer' and 'Asian American' cross paths, that we end up seeing all of American history from a new angle of vision. This brilliant, provocative collection makes clear the kind of intelligence we lose whenever it's assumed that history is heterosexual and that 'queer' equals 'white.'" -Alan Berube, author of Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two "This is a spectacular set of essays that compel an important and creative shifting of perspective within every page. What is 'queer' and what is 'Asian American' turn out to be vitally defined by one another. Timely, brave, necessary, and incisive, this book should change every field that it touches." -Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley "A breakthrough gathering of voices, astounding in their individual clarity and their collective diversity... Q & A presents a compelling challenge to those who cling to the notion that race and sexual orientation can be considered separate identities, rather than interwoven, interdependent aspects of one's singular social/political self." -Jeff Yang, publisher and founder of A. Magazine: Inside Asian AmericaTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Introduction Q & A: Notes on a Queer Asian America David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom Part One: Working Out 1. Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America Karin Aguilar-San Juan 2. The Heat Is On: Miss Saigon Coalition: Organizing Across Race and Sexuality Yoko Yoshikawa 3. Queer Asian American Immigrants: Opening Borders and Closets Ignatius Bau 4. Coalition Politics: (Re)turning the Century Vera Miao Part Two: Im/Proper Images 5. Creating, Curating, and Consuming Queer Asian American Cinema: An Interview with Marie K. Morohoshi Ju Hui Judy Han with Marie K. Morohoshi 6. "A Vaudeville Against Coconut Trees": Colonialism, Contradiction, and Coming Out in Michael Magnaye's White Christmas Victor Bascara 7. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn Richard Fung 8. Lisa's Closet Gaye Chan Part Three: Keeping Records 9. Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History Nayan Shah 10. history of disease Patti Duncan 11. Queer API Men in Los Angeles: A Roundtable on History and Political Organizing Introduced and edited by Eric C. Wat and Steven Shum 12. Toward a Queer Korean American Diasporic History Jeeyeun Lee Part Four: Closets/Margins 13. Litany Russell Leong 14. Trying fo' Do Anykine to Donna: Fragments of a Prose Work Donna Twuyuko Tanigawa 15. Transgender/Transsexual Roundtable Transcribed by Diep Khac Tran Edited by Diep Khac Tran, Bryan, and Rhode 16. Mahu: The Gender Imbalance Jennifer Tseng 17. Curry Queens and Other Spices Sandip Roy Part Five: Paternity 18. in his arms Joel Barraquiel Tan 19. The Strange Love of Frank Chin Daniel Y. Kim 20. The Unknowable and Sui Sin Far: The Epistemological Limits of "Oriental" Sexuality Min Song 21. Webs of Betrayal, Webs of Blessings You-Leng Leroy Lim 22. Heterosexuality in the Face of Whiteness: Divided Belief in M. Butterfly David L. Eng Part Six: Out Here and Over There 23. Monster Justin Chin 24. Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodern Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet Mark Chiang 25. Incidents of Travel Ju Hui Judy Han 26. Transnational Sexualities: South Asian (Trans)nation(alism)s and Queer Diasporas Jasbir K. Puar Selected Bibliography: Anthologies, Fiction, and Nonfiction Compiled by Alice Y. Hom Resource Guide Compiled by Alice Y. Hom About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisWhile much is known about prostitution and sex work from studies of female sex workers and their customers, relatively little is known about men who sell sex, either to women or other men. Particularly poorly understood are their motivations for doing so, the circumstances in which the sale of sex occurs, the meanings attached to the acts by both sex worker and client, and the HIV-related risks involved. Each chapter, written by a national expert, is based on months and even years of interviews with male sex workers, including young boys and elderly men in some countries. The workers discuss why they do the work, what it is like, and what their behavior means to them. For example, those who have regular sex with men often strenuously affirm their heterosexuality, though there is considerable variety in their attitudes. Each chapter relates the experiences of the male sex workers to the political economy of their neighborhood and assesses the implications of their work for HIV transmission and the AIDS epidemic. The researchers and the sex workers discuss the value of different kinds of health promotion interventions.Trade Review"What is exciting about this book is that it crosses so many boundaries, bringing together as it does accounts from every continent and from a wide range of disciplines. The various authors seek to situate sex-work within a range of frameworks: sociological and psychological, but also historical (Sri Lanka), economic (Britain and the United States), political (Brazil), legal (Canada), even linguistic (Thailand)." -Dennis Altman, from the Foreword "This international collection was put together to be a multi-national response to the lack of information about male prostitution throughout the world. Spanning Europe, Latin America, India, and North Africa, this collection of policy recommendations is put together from interviews with the prostitutes by regional experts, who also offer recommendations on the value of different kinds of health promotion and intervention efforts." -Lambda Book Report "Each chapter provides fascinating data, gathered primarily through interviews and ethnographies, on the lives of men in this occupation... This volume is the first to bring together male prostitution in a global perspective...[and it] makes contributions to studies of sexuality and lesbians in the workplace as well as to military sociology. By implication, it also makes important contributions to public policy debates on gays in the military." -Contemporary Sociology "A big asset of the book is the inclusion of sex workers' narratives... [this book offers] original and important contributions to a nascent area of study... [and] constitute[s] an enlightening reading for health and sex educators and a welcome addition to the literature on sexuality and gender." -Journal of Sex ResearchTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Foreword Dennis Altman Chapter 1 Selling Sex in Cardiff and London Peter Davies and Rayah Feldman Chapter 2 Sex for Money Between Men and Boys in the Netherlands: Implications for HIV Prevention Wim Zuilhof Chapter 3 Travestis and Gigolos: Male Prostitution and HIV Prevention in France Lindinalva Laurindo da Salva Chapter 4 Male Sex Work and HIV/AIDS in Canada Dan Allman and Ted Myers Chapter 5 Social Environment and Male Sex Work in the U.S. Edward V. Morse, Patricia M. Simon, and Kendra E. Burchfiel Chapter 6 Aspects of Male Sex Work in Mexico City Ana Luisa Liguori and Peter Aggleton Chapter 7 Three Decades of Male Sex Work in Santo Domingo E. Antonio de Moya and Rafael Garcia Chapter 8 Cacherismo in a San Jose Brothel: Aspects of Male Sex Work in Costa Rica Jacobo Schifter and Peter Aggleton Chapter 9 Natural Born Targets: Male Hustlers and AIDS Prevention in Urban Brazil Patrick Larvie Chapter 10 Fletes in Parque Kennedy: Sexual Cultures among Young Men Who Sell Sex to Other Men in Lima Carlos F. Caceres and Oscar G. Jimenez Chapter 11 Through a Window Darkly: Men Who Sell Sex to Men in India and Bangladesh Shivananda Khan Chapter 12 Male Sex Work in Sri Lanka Nandesena Ratnapala Chapter 13 Bar Talk: Thai Male Sex Workers and Their Customers Graeme Storer Chapter 14 Walking the Tightrope: Sexual Risk and Male Sex Work in the Philippines Michael L. Tan Chapter 15 Marginalisation and Vulnerability: Male Prostitution in Morocco Amine Boushaba, Oussama Tawil, Latefa Imane, and Hakima Himmich Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book gays and lesbians from the Deep South to East Texas and Appalachia speak from vivid personal experience and turn an analytical eye on the South and its culture. Some contributors examine the power of traditional Southern attitudes toward race and religion, and consider the "don't ask, don't tell" attitude about homosexuality in some communities (the "public secret"). Other contributors show how gay culture is thriving in the form of women's festivals, gay bars, and unusual networks like that of Asian and Pacific Islanders in Atlanta. Out in the South is organized into sections that focus on a central metaphor of space and location. This grounds the book in the sense of the South as a special region and in the inside/outside dilemma faced by many gay and lesbian Southerners as they negotiate their place in an often-inhospitable homeland. Author note: Carlos L. Dews is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Florida. He is the editor of Carson McCullers' unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare. Carolyn Leste Law is Dissertation Advisor in the Graduate School at Northern Illinois University and an independent scholar interested in social justice. Together, they edited This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class (Temple).Trade Review"Out in the South creates an amazing and long awaited dialogue between 'The South' and queer voices, the two estranged stepchildren of academics. In this collection of largely personal essays and oral histories, Dews and Law have gathered a group of writers who break stereotypes from within and without the gay community, and challenge us, once again, to embrace the full complexity of our humanity." --Professor Rebecca Mark, author of The Dragon's Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apple " 'We live in the South, that strangest of regions, where pigs once ranged free over the land.' So begins one of the extraordinary pieces of writing found in this collection. Whether sounding a note of wry humor or affirming the ubiquity of the church and religion or naming the interplay of race or evoking the reality of a fearful isolation, these works always convey a quiet bravery born of honest determination to figure out what being southern and gay or lesbian means. The editors speak with searing clarity about why they embark on this venture. They should congratulate themselves on how richly and deeply they fulfilled their original impulses. Out in the South will be of value to anyone who has ever breathed through a southern summer or survived outside the ever-clear boundaries of a region where pigs did indeed range over the land and where kudzu and prejudice still thrive all year round." --Toni A.H. McNaron, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, University of Minnesota; author of the memoir, I Dwell in Possibility, and author of Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confront Homophobia (Temple) "Out in the South is a hymn of regional reckoning. Editors Dews and Law have assembled a choir of the South's Gay and Lesbian writers, teachers and thinkers who are unafraid to claim the birthright, confront the stereotypes and celebrate the dirt road and downtown in every Southern Queer's search for being and identity. These voices--flat-out, focused and familiar as kin--demand a place in the discussion of heritage, history and home." --Jay Quinn, Editor of Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Writers and author of The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Sexual Identity "Out in the South is a collection of fourteen diverse essays, plus a trenchant introduction and an incendiary afterword by the editors, that illustrate and analyze what it means to be both queer and Southern today. In none of these pieces is the ongoing homophobia, racism, classism, or hypocrisy of the South minimized. The unique value of the volume is that all these things, as well as the inescapable cultural institution of fundamentalist Christianity, are looked at head-on by queer Southerners themselves...Out in the South is unprecedented in its scope, complexity, and daring." --Lambda Book ReportTable of ContentsIntroduction - Carolyn Leste Law Part I: Claiming Queer Space in a Hostile Place 1. Emmett's Story: Russell County, Alabama - Joseph Beam 2. Out in the Mountains: Exploring Lesbian and Gay Lives - Kate Black and Marc A. Rhorer 3. Claiming Space in the South: A Conversation Among Members of Asian/Pacific Islander Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered Network of Atlanta - Patti Duncan 4. Women's Festivals On the Front Lines - Bonnie J. Morris 5. Race and Gay Community in "Southern Town" - David Knapp Whittier Part II: Striking Out/Striking Back 6. Leaving the Confederate Closet - Bonnie R. Strickland 7. Black Gay Men and White Gay Men: A Less than Perfect Union - Charles I. Nero 8. Same Difference: My Southern Queer Stories - Donna Smith 9. Tennessee Williams Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Hypocrisy, Paradox and Homosexual Panic in the New/Old South - James R. Keller Part III: Representing Queer Lives in Public Space 10. Greetings From Out Here: Southern Lesbians and Gays Bear Witness to the Public Secret - R. Bruce Brasell 11. Looking for a City: The Ritual and Politics of Ethnography - Edward R. Gray 12. From Southern Baptist Belle To Butch (And Beyond) - Laura Milner 13. "Lines I Dare": Southern Lesbian Writing - Mab Segrest 14. Myth and Reality: The story of gay people in the South - Jim Grimsley Afterword - Carlos L. Dews

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Book SynopsisIn the twentieth century, countless Americans claimed gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities, forming a movement to secure social as well as political equality. This collection of essays considers the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that developed in the United States in the midst of widespread upheaval and change.Whether the subject is an individual life story, a community study, or an aspect of public policy, these essays illuminate the ways in which individuals in various locales understood the nature of their desires and the possibilities of resisting dominant views of normality and deviance. Theoretically informed, but accessible, the essays shed light too on the difficulties of writing history when documentary evidence is sparse or \u0022coded.\u0022 Taken together these essays suggest that while some individuals and social networks might never emerge from the shadows, the persistent exploration of the past for their traces is an integral part of the on-going struggle for queer rights.Trade Review"This important collection brings together classic essays with new scholarship in a bold effort to reconfigure the field of lesbian and gay history. Lucid and comprehensive, the book will appeal not just to scholars and students, but to a crossover audience of general readers."—Paula Martinac, author of The Queerest Places: A Guide to Gay and Lesbian Historic Sites"This book is recommended for the queer and unqueer alike. Not only comprehensive and engaging, it also marks an important step in the ongoing effort to define and illustrate the idea of queer scholarship."—Committee on Gay and Lesbian History"[T]his collection offers a more complicated portrayal of the middle of the century, the years between the depression of the 1930s and the social and political revolutions of the 1960s."—The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Where Are We to Begin? – John Howard Part I: Categories of Sexuality2. Romantic Friendship – Leila J. Rupp 3. "Someone to Talk Our Language": Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, and the Little Review in Chicago – Holly A. Baggett 4. The New Negro Renaissance, A Bisexual Renaissance: The Lives and Works of Angelina Weld Grimké and Richard Bruce Nugent – Brett Beemyn Part II: Evidence, Narrative, and Biography5. "The Burning of Letters Continues": Elusive Identities and the Historical Construction of Sexuality – Estelle B. Freedman 6. Paula Snelling: A Significant Other – Margaret Rose Gladney 7. Homophobia and the Trajectory of Postwar American Radicalism: The Career of Bayard Rustin – John D’Emilio Part III: Science, Fictions8. Perverting the Diagnosis: The Lesbian and the Scientific Basis of Stigma – Allida M. Black 9. "A Thought a Mother Can Hardly Face": Sissy Boys, Parents, and Professionals in Mid-Twentieth-Century America – Julia Grant 10. Something They Did in the Dark: Lesbian and Gay Novels in the United States, 1948-1973 – Chris Freeman Part IV: Community, Institutions11. Rizzo’s Raiders, Beaten Beats, and Coffeehouse Culture in 1950s Philadelphia – Marc Stein 12. Black Feminist Organizations and the Emergence of Interstitial Politics – Kimberly Springer 13. Protest and Protestantism: Early Lesbian and Gay Institution Building in Mississippi – John Howard Part V: Public Debates and Public Policy14. Health Care, the AIDS Crisis, and the Politics of Community: The North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project, 1982-1996 – Ian K. Lekus 15. The Immigrant Infection: Images of Race, Nation, and Contagion in the Public Debates on AIDS and Immigration – Jennifer Brier 16. The Myth of Lesbian (In)Visibility: World War II and the Current "Gays in the Military" Debate – Leisa D. Meyer Conclusion17. Where Are We Now, Where Are We Going, and Who Gets to Say? – Vicki L. Eaklor About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Moira Kenney makes the case that Los Angeles better represents the spectrum of gay and lesbian community activism and culture than cities with a higher gay profile. Owing to its sprawling geography and fragmented politics, Los Angeles lacks a single enclave like the Castro in San Francisco or landmarks as prominent as the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, but it has a long and instructive history of community building. By tracking the terrain of the movement since the beginnings of gay liberation in 1960’s Los Angeles, Kenney shows how activists lay claim to streets, buildings, neighborhoods, and, in the example of West Hollywood, an entire city. Exploiting the area's lack of cohesion, they created a movement that maintained a remarkable flexibility and built support networks stretching from Venice Beach to East LA. Taking a different path from San Francisco and New York, gays and lesbians in Los Angeles emphasized social services, decentralized communities (usually within ethnic neighborhoods), and local as well as national politics. Kenney's grounded reading of this history celebrates the public and private forms of activism that shaped a visible and vibrant community. Author note: Moira Rachel Kenney is the Research Director at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California, Berkeley.Trade Review"This is a fresh and fascinating approach to both social history and the geography of America's most cutting-edge and least understood city. This book sparkles with stories of Los Angeles' gay/lesbian and AIDS street activism through the decades, as well as serendipitous or smart strategies for staking spaces of our own--so crucial to our liberation. LA's leading role in U.S. gay history is finally claimed!" --Torie Osborn, former Executive Director, LA Gay and Lesbian Center and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; author of Coming Home to America "Mapping Gay L.A. will make a significant contribution to our knowledge in a number of ways: it reinforces the L.A. dimension to a gay/lesbian story overly dominated by San Francisco and New York; it brings lesbian issues into constant interplay with the broader concerns of the gay movement; it demonstrates how culture and space are intertwined. Kenney approaches her topic from a political activist's perspective, appropriate to the period of gay history. She is in command of her subject matter and the case studies are exemplary." --Dana Cuff, Professor, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA "Kenney's much-needed book restores L.A. to its rightful place in the history of lesbian and gay America. It's highly readable and expertly told. The book's emphasis on place and political activism banishes the silences that have shrouded an important social revolution that is still going on." --Michael Dear, Director of the Southern California Studies Center at USC and author of The Postmodern Urban ConditionTable of ContentsList of Maps Foreword Robert Dawidoff Acknowledgments 1. Locating the Politics of Difference 2. Inclusion and Exclusion in West Hollywood 3. Beyond Gentrification: Social Services and the Redevelopment of Hollywood Boulevard 4. Separate Space and Separatism: Lesbian Culture and Community 5. Out of the Bars and into the Streets: Direct Action from Liberation to Transformation 6. The Remapped City Notes Index

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Book SynopsisLiberal democracy has provided a certain degree of lesbian and gay rights. But those rights, as we now know, are not unlimited, and they continue to be the focus of efforts by lesbian and gay movements in the United States to promote social change. In this compelling critique, Craig Rimmerman looks at the past, present, and future of the movements to analyze whether it is possible for them to link identity concerns with a progressive coalition for political, social, and gender change, one that take into account race, class, and gender inequalities. Enriched by eight years of interviews in Washington, D.C. and New York City, and by the author's experience as a Capitol Hill staffer, From Identity to Politics will provoke discussion in classrooms and caucus rooms across the United States.Trade Review"Rimmerman points a wide angle lens in the direction of the gay and lesbian movement, allowing him to capture the full breadth of its organizations and their varied strategies. He brings toughminded analysis to his topic, and is willing to challenge strategies for change that he finds bankrupt. The result is a book whose insights can only invigorate gay and lesbian politics in the United States today." -John D'Emilio, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities "Craig Rimmerman has written the best kind of academic book, one that is rich in factual detail yet broad in its perspective. His critique of the current lesbian and gay movements clarifies the limitations that are inherent in a narrow identity politics and makes a strong case for building even broader coalitions and doing more grassroots organizing. Any student of social movements, and especially students of the lesbian and gay movements, will find this book a rewarding read." -Patricia A. Cain, author of Rainbow Rights: The Role of Lawyers and Courts in the Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Movement "Craig Rimmerman has written an insightful book that belongs on the bookshelf of not only students of gay and lesbian politics, but of everyone interested in social movements. His thoughtful critique of various strategies that various movement activists have chosen will be enormously helpful to academics and activists alike." -Clyde Wilcox, Department of Government, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Perspectives on the Lesbian and Gay Movements 2. The Assimilationist Strategy: Electoral Politics and Interest-Group Liberalism 3. The Legal Rights Strategy 4. Unconventional Politics as a Strategy for Change 5. The Christian Right's Challenge 6. Critical Reflections on the Movements' Futures Appendix A: Platform of the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation Appendix B: The Millennium March Agenda: A Status Update Appendix C: Another Divisive Anti-Gay Initiative from the OCA: Bringing Discrimination into Oregon's Schools Appendix D: Basic Rights Oregon Targets Queer Youth Activists Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first full-length study of the literary criticism on the works of the controversial twentieth-century German writer Hans Henny Jahnn. Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959) is one of Germany's most controversial modern authors, in large part due to sharply diverging reactions to the depictions of sado-masochistic brutality, incest, and homoeroticism in his plays and novels. Jahnn's rank as a writer has long been a topic of intense debate between rival schools of critics, and his works have provoked extreme responses, both positive and negative, from a wide spectrum of scholars, writers, and critics, including such prominent figures as Alfred Döblin, Walter Benjamin, Thomas and Klaus Mann, Wolfgang Koeppen, Walter and Adolf Muschg, Wilhelm Emrich, Hubert Fichte and many others. Freeman focuses on characteristic examples ofdifferent approaches to Jahnn: structuralist, psychoanalytic, Jungian-archetypal, Marxist, biographical, literary-historical, postmodern, gay, and feminist. Freeman shows how behind the veil of objectivity, literary scholars oftenhave a hidden agenda that is based on an emotional reaction to Jahnn's portrayal of homosexuality and violence, his negative images of women, and his worldview, which some critics have linked to some of the same ideological presuppositions as those of National Socialism. This is the first full-length study of Jahnn criticism. Thomas Freeman is associate professor of German at Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.Trade ReviewThomas Freeman's survey of H. H. Jahnn scholarship -- from the first reviews during the Weimar Republic to the cultural studies and feminist approaches of the 90s -- reads like a detective novel. -- Inge Stephan * HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET BERLIN. *An overview of Jahnn's work, as well as some interesting and intersecting perspectives on the shape ... of 20th-century literary criticism. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Journalistic Criticism: The Jahnn Controversy and the Discovery of the Misunderstood Outsider First Scholarly Approaches Jahnn and Myth Structure: The Second Generation of Academics Genre and Intertextuality Defenders of Jahnn: Aesthetic and Modernist Interpretations Religion Psychology and Literature Political Ideology and Social Criticism Science: Biopolitics and Literature Gay Studies and Jahnn Feminist Approaches The 1994 Jahnn Centennial Conclusion Works Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisContributions exploring the representation and reality of LGBTQ+ individuals and issues in historical and contemporary German-speaking culture. The German-speaking lands have a long history of engagement, ranging from celebratory to horrific, with non-normative genders and sexualities, including through cultural output, language, and politics. Queering German Culture, volume 10 of the Edinburgh German Yearbook, foregrounds this via new analyses of a variety of LGBTQ+ cultural artifacts - archives both physical and digital, literature in the form of novels and periodicals, and film both narrative and documentary - to consider a spectrum of gender and sexual identities. Individual chapters employ a range of lenses, including psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonial and queer theory, to analyze work by ThomasMann, Thomas Brussig, Jenny Erpenbeck, Terézia Mora, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Fatih Akin, among others. Contributors: Nicholas Courtman, Leanne Dawson, Kyle Frackman, Sarra Kassem, Lauren Pilcher, John L. Plews, Gary Schmidt, Cyd Sturgess. Leanne Dawson is Lecturer in German and Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh.Trade Review[This volume ] excels in offering fascinating material and skillfully argued scholarship. It succeeds in foregrounding queer experiences within German culture, while also providing an accessible collection for those unfamiliar with the German or queer contexts. [A] worthy contribution to the steady queering of scholarship and society, an essential task in these precarious times. -- Domenic DeSocio * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Leanne Dawson PART I. QUEER HISTORIES AND ARCHIVES From Brooklyn to Berlin: Queer Temporality, In/Visibility, and the Politics of Lesbian Archives - Leanne Dawson "Die zarte Haut einer schönen Frau": Fashioning Femininities in Weimar Germany's Lesbian Periodicals - Cyd Sturgess Based on a True Story: Tracking What Is Queer about Queer German Documentary - Kyle Frackman PART II. QUEERING THE OTHER The Culture of Faces: Reading Physiognomical Relations in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig - John L. Plews Seeing the Human in the (Queer) Migrant in Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, Ging, Gegangen and Terézia Mora's Alle Tage - Nick Courtman The Transgressive Representations of Gender and Queerness in Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite - Sarra Kassem PART III. QUEERING NORMATIVITY Bitter Tears and Pretty Excess in Fassbinder's Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant and Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss - Lauren Pilcher Mothers, Masculinities, and Queer Potentials: Jonathan Franzen's Rereading of Thomas Brussig and Phillip Roth - Gary Schmidt

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Book SynopsisArchive Activism is a memoir of activism rooted in a new way to converse with history—by rescuing it. Archive activists discover documents and other important materials often classified, “gone missing,” or sealed that somehow escaped the fireplace or shredder. It is an approach to LGBTQ advocacy and policy activism based on citizen archivery and original archival research to effect social change.Research=Activism is the formula growing out of Charles Francis’s personal story as a gay Texan born and raised during the 1950s and 1960s in Dallas. The rescues range in time and place from Francis’s first encounter with a raucous, near-violent religious demonstration in Fort Worth to attics loaded with forgotten historic treasures of LGBTQ pioneers. Archive Activism tells how Francis helped Governor George W. Bush achieve his dream of becoming president in 2000 by reaching out to gay and lesbian supporters, the first time a Republican candidate for president formally met with gay and lesbian Americans. This inspired Francis to engage with deleted LGBTQ history by forming a historical society with an edge, a new Mattachine Society of Washington, DC. For the first time, Archive Activism reveals how LGBTQ secrets were held for decades at the LBJ Presidential Library in the papers of President Johnson’s personal secretary, sealed until her death at age 105. Mattachine’s signature discovery is a federal attorney’s classified assault blandly filed under “Suitability” at the National Archives: “What it boils down to is that most men look upon homosexuality as something uniquely nasty.” Archive Activism is not only a memoir but also an essential roadmap for activists from any group armed only with their library cards.Trade Review“This is a wonderful book. Although it is a memoir, it is also a handbook for ordinary folks—whether LGBTQ or not—to engage in everyday activism. It can be applicable to any group that has been erased from the mainstream historical archive because of their nonnormative status. This is a recovery project of a particular silenced and erased history of gays and lesbians in the United States.”—Gust A. Yep, coeditor of Queer Theory and Communication and LGBT Studies and Queer Theory “Charles Francis has written a magnificently cinematic memoir of a life of anxiety, commitment, and outright fun, populated by characters from Jayne Mansfield to David Rockefeller to George W. Bush. Charles brought gay-rights pioneer Frank Kameny’s papers to the Library of Congress, uncovered Nancy Reagan’s refusal to help a dying Rock Hudson, and found the roots of Executive Order 10450, which in 1954 declared homosexual ‘perversion’ a national security threat. Charles Francis engages his readers at once and takes them on a ride that is, at turns, horrifying, uplifting, and delightful.”—Ambassador (ret.) James K. Glassman, former U.S. Under Secretary of State and Founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas “The National Archives greets visitors with the Shakespearean stone inscription: WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE. In this lively, impassioned memoir, Charles Francis puts it with a very American plain-spokenness: ‘The key to Archive Activism is not only finding the stuff, but using it . . . to make the world a better place.’ I can’t think of another book that better conveys the excitements and real-life results that can be obtained by the citizen-scholar.”—Thomas Mallon, author of Fellow Travelers and Mrs. Paine’s Garage “An intimate memoir and a stirring rallying cry, Archive Activism is required reading for anyone fighting the erasure of a community’s history. From the Eisenhower Administration to the January 6th insurrection, this book shows us how the first drafts of history are written—and crucially, he explains how we as citizens can correct them. His work to recover buried history has been essential for activists and historians alike, gifting us the opportunity to learn firsthand from the queer pioneers who paved the way for our generation. Without Charles Francis, my book and so many others like it would not have been possible. Archive Activism is an urgent, inspiring text that belongs on every bookshelf.”—Eric Cervini, author of The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America “The Rainbow Community has a courageous and noble history which should never be forgotten. Charles Francis significantly assisted in making that history--his new book is essential reading for those who need to be inspired by our history. Charles is that rare person who is a brilliant story teller, historian, and activist. I am honored to know him.”--David Mixner, author of Stranger Among FriendsArchive Activism describes the efforts by author Charles Francis and his supporters to uncover long hidden documents, among other things, revealing how LGBTQ federal workers were forced out of their jobs in the 1950s and 1960s. . . .Francis describes in the book his early archive activism efforts that included co-founding the Kameny Papers Project, which arranged for the Library of Congress to acquire the voluminous collection of the documents of Frank Kameny."--Washington Blade

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Book SynopsisLanguage and Sexuality explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the emerging field of "queer linguistics" and moving from theory into practice with case studies of language use in a wide variety of cultural settings. The resulting volume combines the perspectives of the field's top scholars with exciting new research to present new ideas on the ways in which language use intersects with sexual identity.

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Book SynopsisThe first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature and culture, Tortilleras interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining carefully the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, including Carmelita Tropicana and Christina Peri Rossi, among others, the contributors create a picture of the complicated and multi-textured contributions of Latina and Hispanic lesbians to literature and culture. More than simply describing this sphere of creativity, the contributors also recover from history the long, veiled existence of this world, exposing its roots, its impact on lesbian culture, and, making the power of lesbian performance and literature visible. Author note: Lourdes Torres is Associate Professor of Latin American/Latino studies at De Paul University. Inmaculada Perpetusa-Seva is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky.Trade Review"Finalmente, the hole in the canon has been filled by Tortilleras, a book as fierce as the women it chronicles from the 17th century Catalina Erauso who passes as a man in Peru to the 21st century writer extraordinaire and political activist in the U.S. Cherrie Moraga. Exelente!"-Carmelita Tropicana is an Obie award winning Performance Artist and writer of I, Carmelita Tropicana - Performing Between Cultures "Tortilleras is a landmark collection. It fosters a necessary and meaningful dialogue between feminist scholars in U.S. Latina and Latin American studies grappling with questions of lesbian representation in literary and visual culture. Torres and Pertusa have compiled a timely volume that richly complicates previous debates and energetically maps new directions for the future. This most vital book shows how studies in gender and sexuality must lie at the heart of our work."-Tiffany Ana Lopez, University of California, Riverside "This anthology pushes us to think beyond the margins of repression in fiction and nonfiction queer literature and culture and art and film. Once you look through Tortilleras, you'll be compelled to look for the work these scholars are reviewing and see if your examination compares...[it] is the first anthology of its kind to open a vein and say, 'Here,' to our LGBT community, scholars, and students."-Lambda Book Report "...groundbreaking...pioneering in many ways...challenges patterns of marginalization, offering a fascinating, critical approach to the obscured and vital reality of Latina lesbian identity, agency, difference and otherness."-Multicultural Review "The most striking feature of this anthology is the vast terrain it traverses; ... Tortilleras establishes valuable new frames for study in this field."-symploke "[The book] is an important and innovative addition to this corpus... [it] will no doubt provoke new conversations and new research in a number of fields."-The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Lourdes TorresPart I: coming Out/Covering Up1. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Lesbian Characters in Spanish Fiction (1964-79) - Wilfredo Hernandez2. Carme Riera: (Un)Covering the Lesbian Subject or Simulation of Coming Out? - Inmaculada Pertusa3. Tomboy Tantrums and Queer Infatuations: Reading Lesbianism in Magali Garcia Ramis's Felices Dias, Tio Sergio - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes4. Coming-Out Stories and the Politics of Identity in the Narrative of Terri de la Pena - Salvador C. FernandezPart II: (Re)presenting Lesbian Desire5. Silent Pleasures and Pleasures of Silence: Ana Maria Moix's "Las Virtudes Peligrosas" - Nancy Vosburg6. Reading, Writing, and the Love that Dares Not Seak Its Name: Eloquent Silences in Ana Maria Moix's Julia - Gema Perez-Sanchez7. Outside the Castle Walls: Beyond Lesbian Counterplotting in Cristina Peri Rossi's Desastres Intimos - Janis Breckenridge8. "He Made Me a Hole!" Gender Bending, Sexual Desire, and the Representation of Sexual Violence - Regina M. BuccolaPart III: Sites of Resistance9. Bomberas on Stage: Carmelita Tropicana Speaking in Tongues Against History, Madness, Fate, and the State - Karina Lissette Cespedes10. Empowering the Feminine/Feminist/Lesbian Subject Through the Lens: The Representation of Women in Maria Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la Peor de Todas - Maria Claudia Andre11. The Lesbian Family in Christina Peri Rossi's "The Witness": A Study in Utopia and Infiltrations - Sara E. Cooper12. Chicana Lesbianism and the Multigenre Text - Elisa A. GarzaPart IV: Racialized Lesbianisms13. Interracial Lesbian Erotics in Early Modern Spain: Catalina de Erauso and Elana/o de Cespedes - Sherry Velasco14. Violence, Desire, and Transformative Remembering in Emma Perez's Gulf Dreams - Lourdes Torres15. Learning to Live Without Black Familia: Cherrie Moraga's Nationalist Articulations - Christina Sharpe16. Shameless Histories: Chicana Lesbian Fictions Talking Race/Talking Sex - Catriona Rueda EsquibelAbout the Contributors

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Book SynopsisMarc Stein's City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves is refreshing for at least two reasons: it centers on a city that is not generally associated with a vibrant gay and lesbian culture, and it shows that a community was forming long before the Stonewall rebellion. In this lively and well received book, Marc Stein brings to life the neighborhood bars and clubs where people gathered and the political issues that rallied the community. He reminds us that Philadelphians were leaders in the national gay and lesbian movement and, in doing so, suggests that New York and San Francisco have for too long obscured the contributions of other cities to gay culture.Trade Review"Important and provocative, this book persuasively demonstrates that lesbian and gay history is central to understanding twentieth-century urban culture. And it rejects mere celebration for a more profound scrutiny that balances liberal against conservative aspects of the historical challenge to heterosexism."—Martin Duberman, author of Stonewall"By leaving behind the gay meccas of New York and San Francisco and training his gaze on Philadelphia, Stein has produced a gay and lesbian history that startles and informs."—John D'Emilio, author of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities"Eye-opening, often entertaining....Filled with colorful anecdotes and fun facts....Let's think of what Marc Stein has done as an act of public service to Philadelphia's gay community."—Kevin Riordan, Philadelphia Gay News"Philadelphians should be proud of the courage and creativity with which their lesbian and gay fellow citizens coped with and fought oppression in the Cradle of Liberty, and Stein can clearly be proud of his pioneering book."—Doug Ireland, Philadelphia InquirerTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Everyday Geographies, 1945-19721. Your Place or Mine?: Residential Zones in the "City of Neighborhoods"2. "No-Man's-Land": Commercial Districts in the "Quaker City"3. The Death and Life of Public Space in the "Private City"Part II. Public Cultures, 1945-19604. "The Most Fabulous Faggot in the Land"5. The "Objectionable" Walt Whitman Bridge6. Rizzo's Raiders and Beaten BeatsPart III. Political Movements, 1960-19697. "Come Out! Come Out! Wherever You Are!" 19608. "Earnestly Seeking Respectability," 1960-19639. "News for 'Queers' and Fiction for 'Perverts,'" 1963-196710. "The Masculine-Feminine Mystique," 1967-1969Part IV. Twin Revolutions? 1969-197211. "Turning Points," 1969-197012. Gay Liberation in the "Birthplace of the Nation," 1970-197113. Radicalesbian Feminism in "Fillydykia," 1971-1972Conclusion: Sexual Pride, Sexual ConservatismAbbreviationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the courts, the best chance for achieving a broad set of rights for gays and lesbians lies with judges who view liberalism as grounded in an expansion of rights rather than a constraint of government activity. At a time when most gay and lesbian politics focuses only on the issue of gay marriage, Courts, Liberalism, and Rights guides readers through a nuanced discussion of liberalism, court rulings on sodomy laws and same-sex marriage, and the comparative progress gays and lesbians have made via the courts in Canada. As debates continue about the ability of courts to affect social change, Jason Pierceson argues that this is possible. He claims that the greatest opportunity for reform via the judiciary exists when a judiciary with broad interpretive powers encounters a political culture that endorses a form of liberalism based on broadly conceived individual rights; not a negative set of rights to be held against the state, but a set of rights that recognizes the inherent dignity and worth of every individual.Trade Review"Courts, Liberalism, and Rights is passionate scholarship at its best. It is a thoughtful defense of judicial activism to protect the inherent dignity and worth of every individual. This book should be required reading for every member of Congress and the Executive Branch concerned about 'judicial activism.'"-Michael Mello, Vermont Law School, and author of Legalizing Gay Marriage "Pierceson has written an engaging book that should appeal to a broad array of readers. It lucidly explores issues of public law, comparative politics, political culture, liberal political theory, and institutionalism."-Evan Gerstmann, Loyola Marymount University "This is an excellent analysis of many of the legal issues dealing with sodomy and same-sex marriages, and helps to explain why they have developed in the way that they have. The material is theoretically rich and grounded in diverse literature."-Richard Pacelle, Georgia Southern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. U.S. Federal Courts and Gay Rights: A History of Hesitancy3. Liberalism and Gay Politics: Rights and Their Critics4. Toward a Better Liberalism5. Sodomy Laws, Courts, and Liberalism6. Lessons from Continued Sodomy Adjudication7. Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Hawaii and Alaska8. Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Vermont9. Developments after Vermont: An Evolving Jurisprudence and Its Backlash10. Canada: Rethinking Courts, Rights, and Liberalism11. Courts, Social Change, and the Power of Legal Liberalism12. ConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Mormon Church entered the public square on LGBT issues by joining forces with traditional-marriage proponents in Hawaii in 1993. Since then, the church has been a significant player in the ongoing saga of LGBT rights within the United States and at times has carried decisive political clout.Gregory Prince draws from over 50,000 pages of public records, private documents, and interview transcripts to capture the past half-century of the Mormon Church's attitudes on homosexuality. Initially that principally involved only its own members, but with its entry into the Hawaiian political arena, the church signaled an intent to shape the outcome of the marriage equality battle. That involvement reached a peak in 2008 during California's fight over Proposition 8, which many came to call the “Mormon Proposition.” In 2015, when the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land, the Mormon Church turned its attention inward, declaring same-sex couples “apostates” and denying their children access to key Mormon rites of passage, including the blessing (christening) of infants and the baptism of children.Trade ReviewFocusing on the place held by three immensely popular Sufi saints—Rumi, Yunus Emre, and Haji Bektash—in the Turkish imagination, Soileau provides a fascinating insight into the religious sensibilities and social and political conflicts of modern Turkey. He perceptively reconstructs contestations about the nature of their sainthood that allowed socialists and nationalists, Alevis and Sunnis, humanists and Islamists to appropriate these saints as icons symbolising their own world view."" - Martin van Bruinessen, co-author of Sufism and the ""Modern"" in Islam

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Book SynopsisIn this first-ever comprehensive examination of queerbaiting, fan studies scholar Joseph Brennan and his contributors examine cases that shed light on the sometimes exploitative industry practice of teasing homoerotic possibilities that, while hinted at, never materialize in the program narratives. Through a nuanced approach that accounts for both the history of queer representation and older fan traditions, these essayists examine the phenomenon of queerbaiting across popular TV, video games, children's programs, and more. Contributors: Evangeline Aguas, Christoffer Bagger, Bridget Blodgett, Cassie Brummitt, Leyre Carcas, Jessica Carniel, Jennifer Duggan, Monique Franklin, Divya Garg, Danielle S. Girard, Mary Ingram-Waters, Hannah McCann, Michael McDermott, E. J. Nielsen, Emma Nordin, Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon, Emily E. Roach, Anastasia Salter, Elisabeth Schneider, Kieran Sellars, Isabela Silva, Guillaume Sirois, Clare Southerton

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Book SynopsisThis inaugural volume of the new book series, Research in Queer Studies is a collection of memoirs or short narrative essays in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer PK-12 teachers and/or administrators (either “out” or “not out”) recount their personal experiences as a queer teachers. The authors of these stores write about significant experiences that describe how their sexual identity has shaped who they are today as teachers/administrators, by answering the following questions: In light of your sexual identity, how did you become who you are today? Why did you decide to become a teacher? What role did your sexual identity play in that decision? What kinds of significant moments, including queer issues (e.g., bullying) regarding students and/or yourself, have you experience in your teaching? In light of who you are as an individual, what do you hope to achieve and become as a queer teacher in the future?

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Book SynopsisThis inaugural volume of the new book series, Research in Queer Studies is a collection of memoirs or short narrative essays in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer PK-12 teachers and/or administrators (either “out” or “not out”) recount their personal experiences as a queer teachers. The authors of these stores write about significant experiences that describe how their sexual identity has shaped who they are today as teachers/administrators, by answering the following questions: In light of your sexual identity, how did you become who you are today? Why did you decide to become a teacher? What role did your sexual identity play in that decision? What kinds of significant moments, including queer issues (e.g., bullying) regarding students and/or yourself, have you experience in your teaching? In light of who you are as an individual, what do you hope to achieve and become as a queer teacher in the future?

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Book SynopsisIn Sex Science Self, Bob Ostertag cautions against accepting and defending any technology uncritically—even, maybe even especially, a technology that has become integrally related to identity. Specifically, he examines the development of estrogen and testosterone as pharmaceuticals.Ostertag situates this history alongside the story of an increasingly visible and political lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender population. He persuasively argues that scholarship on the development of sex hormone chemicals does not take into account LGBT history and activism, nor has work in LGBT history fully considered the scientific research that has long attempted to declare a chemical essence of gender. In combining these histories, Ostertag reveals the complex motivations behind hormone research over generations and expresses concern about the growing profits from estrogen and testosterone, which now are marketed with savvy ad campaigns to increase their use across multiple demographics.Ostertag does not argue against the use of pharmaceutical hormones. Instead he points out that at a time when they are increasingly available, it is more important than ever to understand the history and current use of these powerful chemicals so that everyone—within the LGBT community and beyond—can make informed choices.In this short, thoughtful, and engaging book, Ostertag tells a fascinating story while opening up a wealth of new questions and debates about gender, sexuality, and medical treatments.Trade ReviewSex Science Self makes a significant contribution to the field of LGBT studies by placing debates about trans identity and politics in a new, provocative context. Wonderfully written, the book guides its readers through a great deal of complicated scientific material in clear, direct, and highly readable language, making it both accessible and completely engaging.""—Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States

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