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Book Synopsis`Lively and engaging the themes of the chapters are well chosen and cover areas in which several key debates have taken place' - Nina Wakeford, University of SurreyWhat are the relations between homosexuality, globalization and social theory? Why has the debate on globalization paid so little attention to questions of sexuality? This timely and stimulating book explores the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence. The book focuses on several key test issues to exploit and develop analysis: queer mobility migration and tourism the economics of queer globalization queer politics of post-colonialism the spatial politics of AIDS queer cosmopolitanism nationhood and sexual citizenship.The book regains an important human dimension that has been conspicuously neglected in the wider debate on globalization.Table of ContentsSexuality and Social Theory - the Challenge of Queer Globalization The Nation and Sexual Dissidence Locating Queer Globalization The Economics of Queer Globalization Queer Postcolonialism Queer Mobility and the Politics of Migration and Tourism AIDS and Queer Globalization Queering Transnational Urbanism Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPeter Filene's path breaking study did both.-Elaine Tyler May, from the ForewordTrade ReviewThis updated edition contains... new material on such timely topics as changing attitudes toward domesticity and work, prostitution, women's friendships, health and sexuality, 'manliness,' fatherhood, and the change and demise of previously all-male institutions. Current LiteratureTable of ContentsForewordPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the First Edition Part I: The End of the Victorian Era (1890–1919)Prologue. As They WereChapter 1. Women and the WorldChapter 2. Women and the HomeChapter 3. Men and ManlinessChapter 4. In Time of WarPart II: The Modern Era (1920–1998)Chapter 5. New GenerationsChapter 6. The Long Amnesia: Depression, War, and DomesticityChapter 7. The Children of DomesticityChapter 8. The Children of the Women's MovementEpilogue. As We Are BecomingAppendix A. The Female Labor Force, 1890–1990Appendix B. Higher Education, 1870–1990NotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisFinalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesA profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom.Keeling reads selected works, such as Sun Ra's 1972 film Space is the Place and the 2005 film The Aggressives, to juxtapose the Afrofuturist tradition of speculative imagination with the similar speculations Trade ReviewJust when the world seems to be collapsing, Queer Times, Black Futures guides us towards an anti-fragile future that exists here and now. The key? Embracing and holding in tension: Afro-futurist freedom dreams, the queer temporalities that animate Black Swans, and the radical refusal and opacity of Herman Melville's Bartleby and Eduoard Glissant's philosophy. If we haven't realized the possibilities that lie waiting in the present, its because the frame of black experience has not yet registered. Moving seamlessly from James Snead to Sun Ra, from Gilbert Simondon to Beth Coleman, Audre Lorde to Gilles Deleuze, Keeling helps us imagine the (im)possible. Stop reading this blurb and start reading this book. Now. -- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of Updating to Remain the SameFor its contributions to queer constructions of temporality and futurity, in particular in the context of Black media and existence, the text is valuable for queer of color theorists. Professors and students of media, cultural, and/or communication studies would also find the text useful as it provides analyses of various Black and queer media—transnational films, avantgarde music, and digital technologies. * QED *Not satisfied to leave readers in the abyss of endless critique, Keeling is concerned with alternative futures and the ethical imagination of 'the time after the future.' Queer Times, Black Futures is masterful--deeply engaging, wide ranging, carefully researched, and creative in its use of allegory to demonstrate the potential and effect of opacity for black futures and possibilities. -- Herman Gray, Emeritus Professor, UC Santa Cruz...an incredible, (im)possible work that is invested in worlds to come with the necessary caveat that its readers divest from a critical project that is measured in immediate returns. -- Courtney R. Baker * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *

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Book SynopsisFrom Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measuresTrade Review"Amy L. Stone crafts a compelling, deeply textured portrayal of the more than 200 anti-gay ballot campaigns in the U.S. since 1974. Through interviews with movement leaders and other sources, Stone deftly analyzes the tension between winning campaigns and building a sustainable movement, between national, urban activists and local, rural communities, as well as debates over tactics and messaging. Gay Rights at the Ballot Box is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the central, disturbing role anti-gay politics has played in contemporary U.S. politics." —Sean Cahill, Ph.D., Fenway Institute and New York UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Winning (but Mostly Losing) at the Ballot Box1. From Anita Bryant to California Proposition 8: The Religious Right’s Attack on LGBT Rights2. An Uphill Battle in the 70s and 80s: Building LGBT Movement Infrastructure3. Fighting the Right in the 90s: Developing Sophisticated Campaigns4. A Winning Streak: Teaching Campaign Tactics, Building Statewide Organizations, and Spreading Victories 5. Losing at Same-Sex Marriage: Rethinking Ballot Measure Tactics6. Smears, Tears, and Queers: Race and Transgender Inclusion in CampaignsConclusion: The Future of Gay Rights at the Ballot BoxNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisArgues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. This book urges us to see how the indeterminacies of subjectivity found in literary texts challenge identitarian constructions.Trade Review“Carla Freccero’s beautifully written book offers a strong, persuasive, and new way of reading queer early modern texts. Refusing the historicist view that would draw fierce lines between premodern and modern, Freccero asks her reader to consider premodern texts as intervening in the logic of their times and persisting within modernity in spectral form. Her intense engagement with queer early modern scholarship is enriched and disoriented by her insistence that contemporary practices of ‘queering’ are haunted by their unfinished and unfinishable past. Her singular and deft way of moving between contemporary culture and politics and the animated remnants of premodern texts offers a brilliant model for contemporary scholarship and a truly innovative turn in queer studies.”—Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of California, Berkeley“Had he lived in the sixteenth century, André Breton would have proclaimed: ‘Art will be queer or it will not be.’ Such is the enduring truth we obtain from Carla Freccero’s powerful, inventive, indeed genial readings of the early modern canon. A brilliant work showing us what we can do with what we call the past.”—Tom Conley, author of The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France“Queer/Early/Modern is an important and exciting contribution to the literature on representations of sexuality and subjectivity in early modern literature and culture. The book will be of interest to anyone who has been engaged in the project of ‘queering’ the Renaissance and beyond not simply as a way of finding precursors for modern lifestyles and identities but as a political gesture meant to resist essentialist critiques that attempt to simplify the complexity of (queer) identities by anchoring them in rigid notions of history. Freccero is not afraid to make bold claims, and she has the historical knowledge and theoretical prowess to support them convincingly.” -- David LaGuardia * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“If the academy were a spa, then Queer/Early/Modern would be its hot-rock massage. At once painful and invigorating, this brilliant book destroys heteronormative historiography with a force belied only by its exquisitely beautiful prose.” -- Madhavi Menon * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments iv 1. Prolepses: Queer/Early/Modern 1 Part One. Past, Present 2. Always Already Queer (French) Theory 13 3. Undoing the Histories of Homosexuality 31 4. Queer Nation: Early/Modern France 51 Part Two. Futures 5. Queer Spectrality 69 Notes 105 Bibliography 149 Index 173

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Book SynopsisExamines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century.Trade Review“I consider Kathryn Bond Stockton to be one of the most impressive and important queer critics in the academy today, and The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century only confirms that assessment. It is magnificent: the kind of book that defines the field and is returned to again and again, inspiring all sorts of thought and work for generations to come.”—Michael Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence“I don’t know when I’ve been so captivated by a book and eager to get to the next page. That it is original and that addresses a topic, the queer child, pretty much completely ignored is one mark of its importance. Even more striking though is the ease with which stunning insights are delivered as if they were a matter of course. Many readers will be struck by the centrality of Kathryn Bond Stockton’s book and the graceful way it exposes and breaks the silence surrounding the queer child.”—James R. Kincaid, author of Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child MolestingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Growing Sideways, or Why Children Appear to Get Queerer in the Twentieth Century 1 Part I. Sideways Relations: "Pedophiles" and Animals 1. The Smart Child is the Masochistic Child: Pedagogy, Pedophilia, and the Pleasures of Harm 61 2. Why the (Lesbian) Child Requires an Interval of Animal: The Family Dog as a Time Machine 89 Part 2. Sideways Motions: Sexual Motives, Criminal Motives 3. What Drives the Sexual Child? The Mysterious Motions of Children's Motives 119 4. Feeling Like Killing? Murderous Motives of the Queer Child 155 Part 3. Sideways Futures: Color and Money 5. Oedipus Raced, or the Child Queered by Color: Birthing "Your" Parents via Intrusions 183 Conclusion: Money Is the Child's Queer Ride: Sexing and Racing around the Future 219 Notes 245 Bibliography 275 Index 287

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Book SynopsisGayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 70s with the essay The Traffic in Women, which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, Thinking Sex. This volume collects her essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history.Trade Review“This book brings together a canonical collection of her writing, but it is more than a reader: she rewrites the genealogy of sexuality studies, giving us a precise intellectual history of sexuality studies that recognises the pivotal role played by academic homosexuals other than the now-feted and individuated Michel Foucault. . . . [I]t is clarifying to read Rubin's analyses, still germane, direct and sharp after all these years. She is alert to nuances in the social field, keen to represent the intersectionality of issues around sex, and judiciously observant of any nexus of inequality.” - Sally R. Munt, Times Higher Education Supplement“Gayle S. Rubin has had an incalculable impact on the study of gender and sexuality over the past 35 years. Rubin’s work changed the very language and vocabulary with which we discuss sexuality and gender. . . . It is fitting that a scholar of Gayle S. Rubin’s stature has finally been rewarded with a comprehensive collection of her most influential essays. While Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader will please seasoned scholars of queer theory and gay and lesbian studies with its first ever assemblage of Rubin’s most significant work, I believe that the collection will most benefit those who are just making their first steps into the study of queer culture.” - Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review“Finally: a collection of Gayle Rubin’s writings. It is long overdue and sorely needed. . . . For decades, her works appeared in scholarly journals and small-press publications. This collection includes a dozen of her already published pieces, some updated with thoughtful afterwords. She truly has something to say, not only about women and lesbian culture, but (from her unique and insightful perspective) about the sexual crisis America now faces.” - David Rosen, The Brooklyn Rail“The definitive collection of Gayle Rubin’s work is now available. . . . Deviations offers up articles that shaped the thinking of the modern feminist and LGBT movements, while contextualizing the gradual institutionalization and canonization of sexuality studies. In providing the opportunity to think through the history of American feminism, including the racialization of feminist debates on sexuality, Deviations provides an impetus for ‘thinking sex’ even more critically.” - Svati P. Shah, Women’s Review of Books“Foundational essays and commentary from America’s preeminent queer feminist intellectual; a must-have for any scholar and every library.”—Esther Newton, author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas“Gayle S. Rubin has been breaking new intellectual ground around gender and sexuality for almost four decades. This collection of essays lets us see in one place the breadth, depth, and profound originality of her thinking. It’s a wonder to behold. As I reread some familiar pieces and encountered some new ones, I was reminded how much I am in her debt.”—John D’Emilio, co-author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America“It is rare to find an intellectual who founded an entire field of sexuality studies, whose theoretical contributions have been so far-reaching, and who continues to make rich, surprising, and singular interventions. These are the essays that riveted generations and claim our attention time and again. Gayle S. Rubin gives us the material life of sexual categories, lucid and careful argumentation, extraordinary and unprecedented archives. This brilliant collection is a gift for anyone who wants to follow the formidable trajectory of the most exacting and influential intellectual of sexuality studies.”—Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley“The essays in Deviations cover a tightly meshed set of concerns in an extraordinarily provocative manner. Whether Gayle S. Rubin writes about antiporn politics, lesbian literary histories, gay male leather communities, S/M cultures, or butch-femme erotics, she always provides deeply engaged and respectful accounts of the kinds of knowledges that are produced in sexual subcultures but are often passed over by mainstream theorists and researchers. This is a fantastic collection, and it will be an immensely popular book.”—Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure“Finally: a collection of Gayle Rubin’s writings. It is long overdue and sorely needed. . . . For decades, her works appeared in scholarly journals and small-press publications. This collection includes a dozen of her already published pieces, some updated with thoughtful afterwords. She truly has something to say, not only about women and lesbian culture, but (from her unique and insightful perspective) about the sexual crisis America now faces.” -- David Rosen * The Brooklyn Rail *“Gayle S. Rubin has had an incalculable impact on the study of gender and sexuality over the past 35 years. Rubin’s work changed the very language and vocabulary with which we discuss sexuality and gender. . . . It is fitting that a scholar of Gayle S. Rubin’s stature has finally been rewarded with a comprehensive collection of her most influential essays. While Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader will please seasoned scholars of queer theory and gay and lesbian studies with its first ever assemblage of Rubin’s most significant work, I believe that the collection will most benefit those who are just making their first steps into the study of queer culture.” -- Chase Dimock * Lambda Literary Review *“The definitive collection of Gayle Rubin’s work is now available. . . . Deviations offers up articles that shaped the thinking of the modern feminist and LGBT movements, while contextualizing the gradual institutionalization and canonization of sexuality studies. In providing the opportunity to think through the history of American feminism, including the racialization of feminist debates on sexuality, Deviations provides an impetus for ‘thinking sex’ even more critically.” -- Svati P. Shah * Women's Review of Books *“This book brings together a canonical collection of her writing, but it is more than a reader: she rewrites the genealogy of sexuality studies, giving us a precise intellectual history of sexuality studies that recognises the pivotal role played by academic homosexuals other than the now-feted and individuated Michel Foucault. . . . [I]t is clarifying to read Rubin's analyses, still germane, direct and sharp after all these years. She is alert to nuances in the social field, keen to represent the intersectionality of issues around sex, and judiciously observant of any nexus of inequality.” -- Sally R. Munt * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sex, Gender, Politics 1 1. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex (1975) 33 2. The Trouble with Trafficking: Afterthoughts on "The Traffic in Women" 66 3. Introduction to A Woman Appeared to Me 87 4. The Leather Menace: Comments on Politics and S/M 109 5. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality 137 6. Afterword to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" 182 7. Postscript to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" 190 8. Blood under the Bridge: Reflections on "Thinking Sex" 194 9. The Catacombs: A Temple of the Butthole 224 10. Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries 241 11. Misguided, Dangerous, and Wrong: An Analysis of Antipornography Politics 254 12. Sexual Traffic: Interview with Gayle Rubin by Judith Butler 276 13. Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in Urban North America 310 14. Geologies of Queer Studies: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again 347 Notes 357 Bibliography 425 Index 469

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together scholars and artists in disability studies, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism, to show how much sexuality studies and disability studies have to learn from each other.Trade Review"This is a big collection, literally, politically, and theoretically. With essays drawing on sociology, anthropology, literary studies, history, and cultural studies, as well as some more lyrical, performative, and autobiographical, Sex and Disability will be indispensable for a wide range of audiences in gender studies, disability studies, queer studies and beyond."—Siobhan B. Somerville, author of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture"This riveting collection of essays is a fascinating rethinking of what sex and disability could feel like together, affirmatively and generatively. Opening with a candid, frank introduction that moves deftly between the autobiographical and the political, the volume mounts a serious challenge to the sex-ableism of queer theory and the tendency to think of sex and disability in negative terms. Having read about pregnant men, the vagaries of touch, amputee devotees, and sex addiction, the reader will emerge uncertain about what exactly sex is, who has it, and with what. More trenchantly, these works demand an acknowledgement of how notions of ableism severely limit broader experiences of sexual erotics, intimacy, and arousal. Kudos to the editors for undertaking this important project."—Jasbir K. Puar, author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times“As a political intellectual project, Sex and Disability aims toward a queer disability refusal of the normalization of our bodies, desires, spaces, imaginations. This refusal is an opening: what might happen to queer theories and practices of sexuality if we centered disability? ... [T]he editors have set the stage for future conversations, political action, and, really, hotter sex.” -- Alexis Shotwell * Signs *“[R]apturous and sophisticated in both scope and nuance.” -- Jacob Miller * Cyberhetoric *“[S]timulating, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Many of the entries left me with food for thought, including some intriguing reframing of social issues that will inform my own work in the future.” -- S. E. Smith * Global Comment *“Although sexuality studies and disability studies have independently generated much scholarship, few have sufficiently bridged the disciplines as extensively as this anthology and showed as convincingly that "sex and disability" do in fact come together.... Recommended.” -- Y. Kiuchi * Choice *“The vast majority of the contributions that engage with queer and disability theory here are, by turns, beautifully written, engaging, perceptive, hilarious, and nuanced. . . . [A]n intellectually invigorating read.” -- Anna Hamilton * Bitch *“Sex and Disability is one of the most important volumes to appear in disability studies in years and, I would hazard to guess, in sexuality studies as well.” -- Bruce Henderson * Journal of Sex Research *“This book shows sex to be at work in encounters and objects not usually considered to be erotic, and marks the terrifying and exhilarating ways in which disability turns up in unexpected places. Such an undressing of sex and disability as is provided in this collection is sure to have a significant impact on disability studies in the years to come.” -- Kelly Fritsch * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *“Though McRuer and Mollow acknowledge that they are not the first to bridge these fields, what they do here, and quite impressively, is to harness the energies of this emerging discourse into a single volume at a defining moment in disability studies and disability culture. . . . One of the anthology’s most exciting elements is the complicated interplay its essays stage between body theory and embodied experience.” -- Cynthia Barounis * symploke *“Mollow and McRuer have edited an important book. The collection is an exciting contribution to the fields of disability, queer studies, and queer theory. Every chapter is an inspirational read, but taken together, the contributions provide insightful discussion with layers of reflection that would be difficult to incorporate otherwise. The volume not only shows the multiple ways sex and disability are intertwined, but also invites readers to think beyond established understandings of those concepts, thereby challenging boundaries and transforming ideas of disability and sex.” -- Nina Mackert * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Anna Mollow and Robert McRuer 1 Part I: Access 1 1. A Sexual Culture for Disabled People / Tobin Siebers 37 2. Bridging Theory and Experience: A Critical-Interpretive Ethnography of Sexuality and Disability / Russell Shuttleworth 54 3. The Sexualized Body of the Child: Parents and the Politics of "Voluntary" Sterilization of People Labeled Intellectually Disabled / Michel Desjardins 69 Part II: Histories 4. Dismembering the Lynch Mob: Intersecting Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexual Menace / Michelle Jarman 89 5. "That Cruel Spectacle": The Extraordinary Body Eroticized in Lucas Malet's The History of Sir Richard Calmady / Rachel O'Connell 108 6. Pregnant Men: Modernism, Disability, and Biofuturity / Michael Davidson 123 7. Touching Histories: Personality, Disability, and Sex in the 1930s / David Serlin 145 Part III: Spaces 8. Leading with Your Head: On the Borders of Disability, Sexuality, and the Nation / Nicole Markotic and Robert McRuer 165 9. Normate Sex and Its Discontents / Abby L. Wilkerson 183 10. I'm Not the Man I Used to Be: Sex, HIV, and Cultural "Responsibility" / Chris Bell 208 Part IV: Lives 11. Golem Girl Gets Lucky / Riva Lehrer 231 12. Fingered / Lezlie Frye 256 13. Sex as "Spock": Autism, Sexuality, and Autobiographical Narrative / Rachel Groner 263 Part V: Desires 14. Is Sex Disability?: Queer Theory and the Disability Drive / Anna Mollow 285 15. An Excess of Sex: Sex Addiction as Disability / Lennard J. Davis 313 16. Desire and Disgust: My Ambivalent Adventures in Divoteeism / Alison Kafer 331 17. Hearing Aid Lovers, Pretenders, and Deaf Wannabees: The Fetishizing of Hearing / Kristen Harmon 355 Works Cited 373 Contributors 393 Index 399

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | 1 1 What “Theory” Knew: Sedgwick, Queerness, Hermeneutics | 33 2 The Genealogy of Sex: Bersani, Laplanche, and Self-Shattering Sexuality | 62 3 Boundaries Are for Sissies: Violation in Jane Gallop and Henry James | 85 4 Adults Only: Lee Edelman’s No Future and the Limits of Queer Critique | 116 5 Psychology as Ideology-Lite: Butler, and the Trouble with Gender Theory | 141 6 Two Girls2: Sedgwick + Berlant, Relational and Queer | 171 Acknowledgments | 201 Notes | 203 Works Cited | 223 Index | 233

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | 1 1 What “Theory” Knew: Sedgwick, Queerness, Hermeneutics | 33 2 The Genealogy of Sex: Bersani, Laplanche, and Self-Shattering Sexuality | 62 3 Boundaries Are for Sissies: Violation in Jane Gallop and Henry James | 85 4 Adults Only: Lee Edelman’s No Future and the Limits of Queer Critique | 116 5 Psychology as Ideology-Lite: Butler, and the Trouble with Gender Theory | 141 6 Two Girls2: Sedgwick + Berlant, Relational and Queer | 171 Acknowledgments | 201 Notes | 203 Works Cited | 223 Index | 233

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Book SynopsisCelebrating the history of the LGBTQ+ community?s marriage equality movement from the 1950s until today, this triumphant journey is presented in compelling stories of the pioneering couples, along with winning photographs.Published to coincide with Pride Month, this beautiful, moving tome honors the brave LGBTQ+ couples, activists, and allies who fought for and ultimately gained the right to marry. The chronological presentation of 100 inspiring stories of these dauntless partners up to the strategistsof today, recount how they were instrumental in bringing about this basic civil right. Beginning in the pre-1970s era when gay couples were nearly invisible, the story then shifts to the growing activism of the 1980s and 1990s, continues with the landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2015, which granted full marriage equality across the nation, and concludes with an exploration of current issues. These moving profiles, along with archival images, feature couples from major court cases, such as Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, along with well-known personalities whose narratives helped draw attention to marriage equality, including Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni, George and Brad Takei, and Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi.

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Book SynopsisDo the conventional insights of depth psychology have anything to offer the gay patient?  Can contemporary psychoanalytic theory be used to make sense of gay identities in ways that are helpful rather than hurtful, respectful rather than retraumatizing?  In Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man Jack Drescher addresses these very questions as he outlines a therapeutic approach to issues of sexual identity that is informed by traditional therapeutic goals (such as psychological integration and more authentic living) while still respecting, even honoring, variations in sexual orientation.     Drescher''s exploration of the subjectivities of gay men in psychoanalytic psychotherapy is more than a long-overdue corrective to the inadequate and often pathologizing tomes of traditional psychoanalytic writers.  It is a vitally human testament to the richly varied inner experiences of gay men.  Drescher does not assume that sexual orientatTable of ContentsIntroduction. Defining a Gay Identity. Theories of the Etiology of Homosexuality. Therapeutic Meanings of Antihomosexuality. Psychoanalytic Theories of Homosexual Development. Reparative Therapies. The Therapist's Stance. Developmental Narratives of Gay Men. The Closet. Coming Out.

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Book SynopsisTedesco became a priest and then realized that he was gay.Trade ReviewA rare and fascinating look into the soul of a man desperately searching for his happiness in others and in the church before finally turning to himself. - Tony McEwing, Fox News

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Book Synopsis“If truth be told, and it always should, I was taken in by the view, as so many others, both before and since. For me, it wasn’t the sea which proved my downfall, but a pair of eyes.  Eyes, specifically, made to drown in.”Imagine thinking you had the ideal life.  The perfect partner, on whom you relied and trusted.  An infant child, newly adopted.  Then one day, you wake up, and the life you’ve been living has suddenly turned upside down.  Everything thought true becomes suspect.  And you learn, quite quickly, that you can never again trust the person sleeping beside you.If Kergan Edwards-Stout’s life was a Lifetime movie, surely he would be played by Valerie Bertinelli, and his husband played by some charming hunk. But life is far more subtle than that.  And even now, the truth is murkier, and even more disturbing.  For Kergan, that email proved to be only the beginning.Like

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Book SynopsisThis Element aims to understand how multilingualism, second language acquisition and minority language revitalisation have overlooked queer sexual identities. The marginalisation of queer subjects in these strands of linguistics can be traced to the Fishmanian model of 'Reversing Language Shift' (RLS).

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems in Westernized nation-states. Moving past a binary concept of diversity that involves only race and gender, this book elaborates upon a wide variety of other forms of diversity, including sexuality, disability, mental health, gendered identity, refugees, the young and the ageing, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) peoples, with an awareness of how intersecting identities make some people more vulnerable than others. With reported statistics providing only a snapshot of the incongruent experiences of diverse minorities in contact with criminal justice systems, there is a clear need for nuanced training and accessible information regarding diversity in criminal justice. The book examines diversity in terms of both criminal justice agents and justice-involved individuals such as people in prison, those convicted of crimesTrade Review"This book is a powerfully written, engaging exploration of intersectionality and culturally safe practices. My first response, on reading was, to say, "Wow, this book has so many potential applications and I'll be recommending it to the many organisations I work with!". It is likely to be if value to new scholars, seasoned academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. In many settings, we grapple with how to ensure that our approaches are inclusive and non-discriminatory. This book provides a framework likely to enhance critical thinking that will cause reflection and meaningful change across multiple sectors, including criminal justice. Highly recommend."Dr. Tracey Price-Allan, Director of MyCorZ Consultancy Ltd, Board Member of the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA)"While it is questionable whether the criminal system can ever be culturally safe, this book makes an important contribution to critical understandings of cultural threats to marginalised people who are criminalised. It brings together a diverse field of scholars who interrogate the nature of criminalisation for oppressed peoples and make recommendations for systemic change. People in the criminalising system are often typecast as 'suspects', 'offenders' or 'inmates'. This book shines a light on their intersectional humanity and how the system intrudes on their, and our, basic human rights. Finally, this book addresses the toxic cultures within criminalising agencies that contribute to structural oppression within and outside of the agencies. This is a valuable resource for academics and students who want to learn about systemic bias and the harms it wreaks on individuals and society."Professor Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney "Understanding the underlying and implicit role diversity plays across criminal justice systems is vital in creating fair and just societies. This book provides a nuanced and in-depth analysis on working towards this shared goal and aspiration, whilst holding existing structures and systems accountable to being much better in its approach and application. Such diverse contexts and lived experiences can create cultural safe perspectives and practices as privileged across the various narratives within this edited collection." Professor Jioji Ravulo, The University of SydneyTable of ContentsPrefaceSection 1 – Understanding Culture, Diversity, ad Criminal JusticeChapter 1: Introduction to Culture, Diversity, and Criminal JusticeAlex Workman, Ranya Kaddour, and Patricia M. GriffinChapter 2: Trauma-Informed Practices: The Need for Cultural Safety in Criminal JusticeTinashe Dune, Alex Workman, Patricia M. Griffin, and Ranya KaddourSection 2 – Culturally Diverse PeopleChapter 3: Indigenous peopleKrystal Lockwood, Rachel Stringfellow, Stephen Corporal, and Sally WeidleChapter 4: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)Rashmi Pithavadian and Meghna BhatChapter 5: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Mary Hilmi, Katarzyna Olcoń, and Melissa PhillipsChapter 6: People with Disabilities, Chronic Disease, and Illness Anita Eseosa Ogbeide, Ranya Kaddour, and Lydia Kaki OcanseyChapter 7: Mental HealthBill Walsh, Jeffrey Czarnec, and Charles Tucker Jr.Chapter 8: Gender and Sexuality Diverse PeopleAlex Workman, Matthew Ball, and Tinashe DuneChapter 9: WomenJane Townsley, Ellie Lenawarungu, and Samantha BurtonChapter 10: MenDarren Stocker, Charles James Kocher, Robert Lindblom, and John McGuireChapter 11: The ElderlyLacey Schaefer and Emily MoirChapter 12: The YoungAngelica Ojinnaka, Leah Maree, Annalise Zareba, and Asheka JacksonSection 3 – Toward a Culturally Safe Justice SystemChapter 13: Intersectionality: The Way Forward for Culture, Diversity, and Criminology within Criminal Justice SystemsRanya Kaddour, Alex Workman, and Patricia. M GriffinGlossary

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Book SynopsisThis volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies. Engaging with contemporary debates and controversies, Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies presents a definitive collection of original contributions, which are both theoretically and empirically grounded and cross-disciplinary in nature. Individual chapters offer an in-depth study of new empirical data and case studies, covering keywords such as transpacific, viscerality, fandom, postcoloniality, ethnicity and activism. Imagining new conversations across several fields, including literature, film, communication, ethnic studies, anthropology, history, sociology and politics, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Queer Studies and Asian culture, literature and film, as well as gender and sexuality.<Table of Contents1. Introduction – Queer Sinophone Studies: Intellectual Synergies 2. Transpacific – Transfiguring Asian North America and the Sinophonic in Jia Qing Wilson-Yang’s Small Beauty 3. Viscerality – Choreographies of Flesh: The Geopolitics of Visceral Violence in Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) 4. Postcoloniality – Postcoloniality beyond China-centrism: Queer Sinophone Transnationalism in Hong Kong Cinema 5. Ethnicity – A Queerness of Relation: The Plight of the ‘Ethnic Minority’ in Chan Koon-Chung’s Bare Life 6. Liminality – So Happy Together… Too: Contemporary Philippine Gay Comedy and the Queering of Chinese-Filipino Liminality 7. Fandom – Transcultural Desires and Lesbian Fandom: Takarazuka Revue in Taiwan 8. Adaptation – Recognition, Reproach, Repression: The Ren Likui Case in 1947 Tianjin and the Cultural Politics of Homosexual Murder in the Sinophone World 9. Intermediality – "A Weird Concept’: Queer Intermediality in Dung Kai-cheung’s Fiction 10. Activism – Language, Class, and the Hoenggong-Gwailou Divide in Hong Kong LGBTI Activism 11. Residual – The Polite Residuals of Heteronormativity: Legalizing Transgender Marriage from the European Court of Human Rights to Sinophone Hong Kong

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Book SynopsisThis book takes stock of German gender equality in several policy fields after 16 years of governments led by Angela Merkel and her conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU). While maintaining its status as an economic engine in Europe, Germany has historically been a laggard in adopting gender equality measures. The European Gender Equality Index, however, now ranks Germany relatively high and shows substantial progress since 2005. While this has gone mostly unnoticed, Germany has passed far-reaching legislation in major policy fields relevant for gender equality.Investigating the effects of Merkel''s tenure on gender equality, the chapters in this volume assess policy output and outcomes with a focus on internal power dynamics in Germany, as well as international and European Union (EU)-level pressures in the policy domains of political representation, LGBTI rights, migration, the labor market, and care. It examines how policy measures introduced by conservative go

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Book SynopsisThis book provides research and analysis on an understudied topic: the LBGTQ+ community as victims and offenders. Most publications focus on LBGTQ+ history and the community''s movement towards equality and acceptance in society and in law. A focus on how the criminal justice system victimizes and marginalizes LBGTQ+ persons is needed. Consequently, this work includes chapters on members of the LBGTQ+ community who work in the criminal justice system, forced sexual orientation efforts, transgender legal concerns, LBGTQ+ persons who are arrested and imprisoned, and online dating hate crimes. International scholars provide their individual stories about being gay, bisexual or lesbian and working as a police or correctional officer. Other international contributors explain their research on crime and how the law and criminal justice community does not provide LBGTQ+ persons with protection or support as offenders or victims. This book will of interest to researchers and advanced studenTable of ContentsIntroduction: The LBGTQ+ Community and Criminal Justice 1. Confronting Oppression: Reframing Need and Advancing Responsivity for LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adults 2. Hate Hurts: Exploring the Impact of Online Hate on LGBTQ+ Young People 3. Gay Dating Platforms, Crimes, and Harms in India: New Directions for Research and Theory 4. “Missing and Missed”: Failures of the Bruce McArthur Investigation and the Ongoing Victimization of Toronto’s Rainbow Streets 5. Workplace Experiences of Lesbian and Bisexual Female Police Officers in the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary 6. Surviving the Landings: An Autoethnographic Account of Being a Gay Female Prison Officer (in an Adult Male Prison in England) 7. From Victimization to Incarceration: Transgender Women in Costa Rica 8. Litigation on Gender Confirmation Surgery and Hormonal Therapy among Trans Women Prisoners: Views from the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals 9. No Such Thing as Acceptable Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: An International Human Rights Analysis 10. Exploring How Gender and Sex Are Measured in Criminology and Victimology: Are We Measuring What We Say We Are Measuring? 11. Comparing the Gay and Trans Panic Defenses

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Book SynopsisStu Oakley and Lotte Jeffs are the authors of The Queer Parent, the first LGBTQ+ focused parenting book to be published by a mainstream press, and hosts of award-winning podcast queer parenting podcast Some Families.Stu Oakley is a leading film and TV publicist, having worked on major franchises including Star Wars, Barbie, Paddington and Jurassic World.Lotte Jeffs is also the author of This Love, a novel dubbed One Day for a new generation' by Grazia, published by Dialogue, and picture book My Magic Family, published by Puffin. She is a celebrated magazine writer and editor, and was previously Deputy Editor of Elle.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter One: Queer Youth Histories: An Introduction; Daniel Marshall.- Chapter Two:Toward Psychosexual Development: Preliminaries to Queer Youth Prehistory; Diederik F. Janssen.- Chapter Three: Perverse Plasticity in G. Stanley Hall’s Modern American Adolescence; Don Romesburg.- Chapter Four: Same-sex Desire and Young New Zealanders before 1950; Chris Brickell.- Chapter Five:“‘We Will Never Betray You, Brothers and Sisters:’ Queer Youth and the Intellectual History of Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World”; Scott de Groot.- Chapter Six: “Cherishing all the Children of the Nation Equally” – Gay Youth Organisation and Activism in Ireland; Patrick James McDonagh and Páraic Kerrigan.- Chapter Seven: The “New” Trans Child: Pioneering Families and Documentary Television; Jessica Ann Vooris.- Chapter Eight: Between Norms and Differences : The Online Histories of Quebec's Queer Youth; Roberto Ortiz Nunez and Dominique Meunier.- Chapter Nine: The Print Culture of ‘Bombay Dost’:The “Recent Past” of Queer Youth in Postcolonial India; Pawan Singh.- Chapter Ten: Tuning into yourself: queer coming of age and music; Marion Wasserbauer.- Chapter Eleven: Escaping to a Digital Congregation: LGBTQIA Mormon Youth on Tumblr and the Rise and Decline of Queerstake; David Eichert.- Chapter Twelve: Historical and contemporary silences: the experiences of queer Muslim youth; Shanon Shah Mohd Sidik.- Chapter Thirteen: Schoolgirl lesbians in Hong Kong: (A)historicity, temporality, and survival; Sonia Wong.- Chapter Fourteen: Growing up needing the past: an activist’s reflection on the history of LGBT History Month in the UK; Sue Sanders.- Chapter Fifteen: Being a young gay person in the 1970s: reflections on reading Young, Gay and Proud; Karen Charman.- Chapter Sixteen: Mundjulk: One plant, many leaves; Laniyuk Garcon.- Index

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Book SynopsisA USA Today National Bestseller!An inspiring and personal roadmap to servant leadership In All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive's Journey to Living and Leading Authentically, celebrated corporate leader James Fielding delivers an inspirational leadership story told from the perspective of an out and proud LGBTQ+ executive. In the book, you'll explore a call-to-action for authentic servant leadership that encourages people to own their truth and bring out the best in themselves and their communities. The author explains his key decisions and inflection points and highlights how his leadership style, learnings, successes, and failures informed his rise through the rungs of the corporate ladder. You'll also find: The importance of becoming and remaining a lifelong learner and constantly curious How to control the controllable while leaving space for the possible Strategies for employing truthful and inspiratiTable of ContentsPreface xi Learning 1 Control the Controllable, but Leave Space for the Possible 1 Learning 2 Be a Lifelong Learner and Stay Constantly Curious 21 Learning 3 Don’t Let Anyone Dim Your Light 33 Learning 4 Find and Embrace All Your Families, Especially the Ones You Choose 67 Learning 5 How to Define Enough? 95 Learning 6 May We Leave Our Corner of the World a Better Place than We Found It 105 Learning 7 Trust Your Jiminy Cricket Learn to Listen to and Love Yourself 121 Learning 8 Building High- Performing Teams and Cultures of Excellence 137 Learning 9 Selfish Is Not a Bad Word 169 Learning 10 Authentic Kindness Is More Important than Being Right or First 183 Epilogue 193 Acknowledgments 197 About the Author 201 Index 203

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Book SynopsisDrawing on international perspectives and research, this book explores the experiences of sex and sexuality in individuals and groups living with HIV in later life (50+).Trade Review"HIV, Sex, and Sexuality in Later Life stands as a pioneering work, transcending borders, and offering a nuanced understanding of the intricate interplay between aging, HIV, and sexuality. Each chapter adds a unique perspective, creating a collective narrative that challenges stereotypes and amplifies voices often marginalized in discussions of global significance." Social Work and EducationTable of ContentsForeword: Dare we hope for the erotic? HIV/AIDS, sexuality and ageing - OmiSoore H. Dryden Introduction - Mark Henrickson, Casey Charles, Shiv Ganesh, Sulaimon Giwa, Kan Diana Kwok and Tetyana Semigina Part 1: Women 1. The ‘disease of love’: trajectories of women living with HIV in Switzerland - Vanessa Fargnoli 2. Beyond the biomedical: HIV as a barrier to intimacy for older women living with HIV in the United Kingdom - Jacqui Stevenson 3. ‘Everyone is on their own and nobody needs us’: women ageing with HIV in Ukraine - Tetyana Semigina, Tetiana Yurochko and Yulia Stopolyanska Part 2: Gay and bisexual men 4. Chemsex among gay men living with HIV aged over 45 in England and Italy: sociality and pleasure in times of undetectability - Cesare Di Feliciantonio 5. Freed from fear: reconstructing older gay male sexuality through PrEP – an account of a generational experience - Jacek Kolodziej 6. In the company of men: gay culture and HIV in Aotearoa New Zealand - Michael Stevens 7. Growing old with stigma: a case study of four older Chinese gay/bisexual men living with HIV in Hong Kong - Barry Man Wai Lee 李 文 偉 Part 3: Intersectional lives, multiple stigmas 8. Out in Africa: facing the HIV other in Nairobi - Casey Charles 9. Survival of an older Bangladeshi lesbian experiencing intersectional vulnerability - Kanamik Kani Khan 10. Sanjeevani: early ageing and HIV survival in queer Mumbai - Casey Charles Afterword - Mark Henrickson

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Book SynopsisThis vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms.

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Book Synopsis Theatre of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp. Much of contemporary theatre owes this form a great debt but little has been written about its history or aesthetic markers. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the important practitioners, along with critical commentary of their work. Beginning with Ridiculous'' most recognizable name, Charles Ludlam, the author traces the development of this campy, queer genre, from the B movies of Maria Montez to the Pop Art scene of Andy Warhol to the founding of the Play-House of the Ridiculous and the dawn of Ludlam''s career and finally to the contemporary theatre scene.

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Book SynopsisThe conventional idea of the commonsa resource managed by the community that uses itmight appear anachronistic as global capitalism attempts to privatize and commodify social life. Against these trends, contemporary queer energies have been directed toward commons-forming initiatives from activist provision of social services to the maintenance of networks around queer art, protest, public sex, and bar cultures that sustain queer lives otherwise marginalized by heteronormative society and mainstream LGBTQ politics. This issue forges a connection between the common and the queer, asking how the category queer might open up a discourse that has emerged as one of the most important challenges to contemporary neoliberalization at both the theoretical and practical level. Contributors look to radical networks of care, sex, and activism present within diverse queer communities including HIV/AIDS organizing, the Wages for Housework movement, New York's Clit Club community, and trans/queer

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Book SynopsisOver the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity. With marked tenderness, the contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on Sedgwick''s many critical inventions, from her elucidation of poetry''s close relation to criticism and development of new versions of queer performativity to highlighting the power of writing to engender new forms of life. As the essays in Reading Sedgwick demonstrate, Sedgwick''s work is not only an ongoing vital force in queer theory and affect theory; it can help us build a more positive world in the midst of the bleak contemporary moment. Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Judith Butler, Lee Edelman, Jason Edwards, Ramzi Fawaz, Denis Flannery, Jane Gallop, Jonathan Goldberg, Meridith Trade Review“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon. We need her intelligence, her queer sensibility, and her way with words. Reading Sedgwick will be welcome both for those encountering her for the first time and as a reprise for those wishing to be reminded of her work's particular charm, enlivening curiosity, and power.” -- Christina Crosby, author of * A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain *"This volume is required reading in queer studies. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. M. Jarrett * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant 1 Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz 6 Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick 34 1. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman 37 2. Proust at the End / Judith Butler 63 3. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards 72 4. In / Denis Flannery 92 5. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop 113 6. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg 121 7. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse 132 8. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon 141 9. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz 152 10. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon 166 11. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker 178 12. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg 189 13. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker 203 14. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon 236 15. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman 242 Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton 274 Acknowledgments 279 Bibliography 281 Contributors 295 Index 299

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Book SynopsisJohn D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a family who worshipped Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported Richard Nixon produce an antiwar activist and pacifist? How does a family in which the word divorce was never spoken raise a son who comes to explore the hidden gay sexual underworld of New York City?Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D’Emilio’s coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood to an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan to Columbia University and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. He shares his personal experiences of growing up in a conservative, tight-knit, multigenerational Trade Review"Unusual among today’s memoirs, this one is upbeat and generous spirited about its author’s early life and challenges. . . . The author’s compassionate spirit suffuses the text to such a degree that one hopes for a future continuation into his years as a professional historian. A warm, humane coming-of-age memoir. . . ." * Kirkus Reviews *“In this fascinating self-portrait and insightful portrait of his times, a prominent queer historian recalls growing up in the 1950s and ’60s—a smart, pious, conservative, Catholic boy from a working-class Italian family in the Bronx transforms himself into a radical left, openly gay Columbia University student.” -- Jonathan Ned Katz, author of * The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams *"D’Emilio’s youthful reminiscences make for a classic work of literature that deserves a wide readership. One hopes this memoir is only the first in a succession." (Starred Review) -- David Azzolina * Library Journal *"[D'Emilio's] memoir is a love letter to Manhattan. but also to the Bronx of his childhood, to the schools that educated and occasionally hindered him, to the family members who nourished him—even when they no longer understood him—so he would someday find his life's work. . . . Based on the many pleasures offered by this book, I hope he decides to write the sequel." -- Daniel A. Burr * Gay and Lesbian Review *"D’Emilio, who has been an eminent historian of the American gay man’s experience and struggle during his lifetime, has turned his searching eye inward and now gives us a different kind of history—one that’s pegged to his own life, loves and learnings. Every page is fork-tender with emotion, and to be honest, in my mind’s eye, I imagined him going back to a huge file of every sweet or difficult or thoughtful observation he’d ever excised from one of his academic books and sewing them together with hindsight for this volume." -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra! *"As D’Emilio applies his skills as an acclaimed social and cultural historian to his own youth, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood offers us a caring and thoughtful window into a time of enormous change in American society and the Catholic Church. His account is warm and gracious; he is quick to acknowledge his own limitations while acknowledging the crucial role of his friends and family in shaping and loving the gay Catholic man he became." -- Brian Linnane * America *Table of ContentsPreface ix Part I. An Italian Boy from the Bronx 1. An Italian Family 3 2. Big Grandma's House 11 3. School: Becoming a Big Boy 17 4. Baby Jim 25 5. Change, and More Change 32 6. A Family of Friends 40 7. God Help Me! 49 8. A Beginning and an End 57 Part II. A Jesuit Education 9. A Whole New World 65 10. Striving to Win 76 11. My Sexual Desires 84 12. Another Ending 94 13. Working in the City 105 Part III. Everything Changes 14. God Is Dead 119 15. War and Peace 128 16. This Is Me 140 17. I Come Out, Sort Of 148 18. Her Name Is Margaret Mead 160 19. And Then I Studied 169 20. Now What Do I Do? 182 21. A Door Opens 194 Postscript 205 Acknowledgments 207

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Book SynopsisPetrus Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensusglobal capitalism's latest mutationto develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.Trade Review"Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields." -- Wenqing Kang * Modern Chinese Literature And Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order 1 Part I: Theory 1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus 21 2. The Specter of Materialism 52 Part II: History 3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution 81 4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia 104 5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus 135 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism 161 Notes 165 Bibliography 195 Index

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Book SynopsisA compelling examination of the social and legal experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and queer stepparent familiesLesbian, bisexual, and queer families formed after the dissolution of a marriage face a range of obstacles. In Queer Stepfamilies, Katie L. Acosta offers a wealth of insight into their complex experiences as they negotiate parenting among multiple parents and family-building in a world not designed to meet their needs. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Acosta follows the journeys of more than forty families as they navigate a legal and social landscape that fails to recognize their existence. Acosta contextualizes the legal realities of LGBTQ stepparent families and considers the actions these parents take to protect their families in the absence of comprehensive policies or laws geared to meet their needs. Queer Stepfamilies reveals the obstacles these families face in family courts during divorce proceedings and custody cases, and highlights their distrust of courts when it cTrade ReviewThis is a fantastic and important book. Putting forth profound and often heartbreaking narratives about the struggles and strengths of LBQ stepparent families, Katie L. Acosta advocates for family forms that resist the limited—and limiting—terms used to describe them today. Queer Stepfamilies offers the reader useful roadmaps and pathways for better understanding these complexities. -- Carla A. Pfeffer, author of Queering Families: The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender MenWhile grounded in academic research, the book generally avoids jargon, quotes extensively from the family interviews, and feels readable for anyone interested in the subject ... Those engaged in plural parenting will likely value this book for sharing the stories, solutions, and struggles of others in similar situations. Others involved with supporting, advocating for, or writing about LGBTQ families in general should read it, too, in order to better understand the full range of what being part of a queer family may encompass. * Mombian *Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than forty US families, Acosta contextualizes the legal realities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer stepparent families and considers the actions that these parents take to protect their families in the absence of comprehensive policies or laws geared to meet their needs. * Law and Social Inquiry *

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Book SynopsisThe importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ communityFestivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annual events in which entire cities participate, and LGBTQ people are a visible part of these celebrations. In other words, the party is on, the party is queer, and everyone is invited. In Queer Carnival, Amy Stone takes us inside these colorful, eye-catching, and often raucous events, highlighting their importance to queer life in America's urban South and Southwest. Drawing on five years of research, and over a hundred days at LGBTQ events in cities such as San Antonio, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge, and Mobile, Stone gives readers a front-row seat to festivals, carnivals, and Mardi Gras celebrations, vividly bringing these queer cultural spaces and the people that create and participate in them to life. Stone shows how these events serve a larger fundamental purpose, helping LGBTQ people to cultivate a sense of belonging in cities that may be otherwiseTrade Review"In this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Amy L. Stone takes readers on a journey through the possibilities of festivals in places that are usually overlooked in discussions of LGBTQ lives, loves, and celebrations. Exploring the importance and complexities of the carnivalesque for LGBTQ urban and broader cultures, they augment our current thinking about citizenship in accessible and engaging ways. This book is recommended reading for all interested in LGBTQ studies, festivals, cities, communities, and citizenship." * Kath Browne, co-author of Heteroactivism: Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and Equalities *"Queer Carnival sparkles with extraordinary observations about overlooked parts of the country that receive too little attention but in which most queer people live—and where presidential elections are often decided. Stone convincingly shows that there is indeed ‘something reconciliatory about being desired for one's difference,’ whether this comes from the mayor attending your raunchy drag number or having a nephew escort his butch lesbian aunt to the stage" * Greggor Mattson, author of The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform: Governing Loose Women *

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Book SynopsisVivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand today Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding gender and sexuality within a more pragmatic, dynamic, and socially relevant framework. It shows how gender relations must be understood on a large scale as well as in intimate detail. The contributors return to the basics, questioning how gender patterns change, how we can realize gender equality, and how the structures of gender impact daily life. Gender Reckonings covers not only foundational concepts of gender relations and gender justice, but also explores postcolonial patterns of gender, intersectionality, gender fluidity, transgender practices, neoliberalism, and queer theory. Gender Reckonings combines the insights of gender and sexuality scholars from different generations, fiTrade Review"The publication of Raewyn Connell's Gender and Power in 1987 proclaimed a new sociology of gender, from sex roles to situating gender relations in multiple fields of power. These exciting new essays refer back over three decades of theory and research, and suggest just how germinal that work was in generating new avenues of thinking about gender." -- Michael Kimmel,Author of Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era"A refreshingly up-to-date collection of essays that covers a wide range of theories and debates, Gender Reckonings brings much needed clarity and breadth to the challenges of undoing or re-imagining gender away from its hegemonic moorings. These new essays by seasoned experts in gender and sexuality studies will be of enormous use to scholars and students alike, and are sure to become catalysts for future feminist analyses." -- Suzanna Danuta Walters,Author of The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality"This collection by eminent scholars with a spectrum of styles and conceptual frameworks contributes immensely to our sociological understanding of gender theory and research. In looking back and moving forward, these authors celebrate, critique, and consider the changes and challenges of the social analysis of gender. This compelling volume demonstrates the diverse ways that contexts matter and the importance of engaging in social research for gender equality and social justice." -- Margaret Abraham,Co-editor of Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity, and Practices of Citizenship

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Book SynopsisHow homophobic backlash unexpectedly strengthened mobilization for LGBT political rights in post-communist Europe While LGBT activism has increased worldwide, there has been strong backlash against LGBT people in Eastern Europe. Although Russia is the most prominent anti-gay regime in the region, LGBT individuals in other post-communist countries also suffer from discriminatory laws and prejudiced social institutions. Combining an historical overview with interviews and case studies in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, Conor O'Dwyer analyzes the development and impact of LGBT movements in post-communist Eastern and Central Europe. O'Dwyer argues that backlash against LGBT individuals has had the paradoxical effect of encouraging stronger and more organized activism, significantly impacting the social movement landscape in the region. As these peripheral Eastern and Central European countries vie for inclusion or at least recognition in the increasingly LGBT-frTrade ReviewReaders will learn a great deal about activist groups in those countries, and will understand the role “Europeanization” had on the LGBT movement after the fall of communism … This book will best serve graduate students, faculty, and practitioners in politics. * Choice *This book is an ambitious, mixed-method examination of LGBT activism in postcommunist East-Central Europe that makes the counterintuitive argument that backlash to international pressures can be constructive to a social movement’s development... Coming Out of Communism is a tour de force in comparative analysis, interrogating civil society—which is notoriously difficult to study—and covering issues often ignored by the field. * Perspectives on Politics *In this masterful and timely study, ODwyer shows us how backlash can paradoxically benefit the domestic organizing capacity of LGBT rights advocates. This is a novel and compelling argument, substantiated by meticulously documented contention around those rights in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. In crafting this argument, ODwyer demonstrates the great potential that the often-ignored study of LGBT politics offers for understanding a host of theoretical debates pertinent to political scientists. As unfettered populism and nationalism shake the core of liberal democracies, this book is needed more than ever, because it provides a sliver of hope in times of great peril for the most vulnerable among us. -- Phillip M. Ayoub,Author of When States Come Out: Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of VisibilityWhy has LGBT rights activism flourished in some post-communist states and floundered in others following accession to the European Union? How come joining the EU was, in some places, accompanied by increasingly intolerant public attitudes toward sexual minorities, rather than acceptance? In Coming Out of Communism, Conor ODwyer solves these puzzles, highlighting the role of homophobic backlash in provoking stronger organizing for LGBT rights in the region.Anyone interested in LGBT issues, social movements, or the impact of transnational institutions on domestic politics, will undoubtedly enjoy learning from ODwyers keen analysis and intriguing field research in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. -- Valerie Sperling,Author of Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in RussiaCompelling and illuminating, especially where O’Dwyer’s local informants, observation, and research blends with synthesis from area-specific scholarship. * Slavic Review *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre ResearchHonorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American Society for Theatre ResearchArgues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong'o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness. Moving fluidly between the insurgent art of the 1960's and the intersectional activism of the present day, Afro-Fabulations challenges genealogies of blackness that ignore its creative capacity to exceed conditions of traumatic loss, social death, and archival erasure.If black survival in an anti-black world often feels like a race against time, Afro-Fabulations looks to the modes of memory and imaTrade ReviewBy foregrounding crucial modes of disappearance, withdrawal, obfuscation, and eclipse found across diverse examples of contemporary art, literature, and performance ... Nyong’o further renegotiates the terms of ongoing debates in literary studies, queer theory, and black thought most broadly. * LA Review of Books *To afro-fabulate is to listen to and know the ongoing history of anti-black racism, but also to rebuke it by telling another story. In showing us how artists and performers engage in this act of telling, Nyongo offers not only a compelling new way to think about works that challenge history, narrative, and truth, but also a method in which we might continue that work. * Brooklyn Rail *The imaginative power of Nyong’o’s words, his push to reimagine chronology and time through the optics of Blackness and his insistence on the intellectual stakes of Afrofabulatory ambivalence stuck with me, reminding me of the importance of the ephemeral, the everyday, and the speculative. * Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal *Tavia Nyong’o provides detailed descriptions of various performances, along with intuitive and counterintuitive insights about their creators. The book uses “interdisciplinary modes of investigation” to “aid this process of critical fabulation in a variety of ways...especially insofar as they bring into co-presence a sense of the incompossible, mingling what was with that might have been” (7). * QED *

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Book SynopsisWhy LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignityIn 2015, when the Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the equal dignity of marriage recognition, the concept of dignity became a cornerstone for gay rights victories. In Disrupting Dignity, Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle explore the darker side of dignity, tracing its invocation across public health politics, popular culture, and law from the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis to our current moment. With a compassionate eye, Engel and Lyle detail how politicians, policymakers, media leaders, and even some within LGBTQ+ communities have used the concept of dignity to shame and disempower members of those communities. They convincingly show how dignityand the subsequent chase to be defined by its termsbecame a tool of the state and the marketplace thereby limiting its more radical potential. Ultimately, Engel and Lyle challenge our understanding of dignity as anTrade ReviewThis clever book critically explores the political underbelly of dignity, disrupting the cornerstone of modern LGBT rights and liberties. Creatively weaving legal, political, and cultural narratives into a powerful critique, Engel and Lyle offer a wake-up call to those who have succumbed to the seductive strains of dignity. A must-read for anyone envisioning new parameters for the LGBT movement in the coming political time. -- Susan Burgess, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Ohio UniversityThis pathbreaking book weaves together narratives from public health, popular culture, and constitutional law to understand dignity. In Engel and Lyle’s wide-ranging analysis, dignity is bared, not as an uplifting concept that promotes queer recognition and equality, but rather as a device of neoliberal discipline that divides political subjects into insiders and transgressive outsiders. Provocative and insightful, the book takes readers on a journey through criticism to a reimagination of dignity. -- Julie Novkov, co-author of American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for CitizenshipIn crisscrossing the humanities and social sciences, Engel and Lyle have put together a truly interdisciplinary project that speaks to many different audiences. Disrupting Dignity makes an original argument in demonstrating the rhetorical violence that ‘dignity,’ specifically, does to the queer worldmaking that happens in gay male sexual spaces. -- F. Hollis Griffin, author of Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital AgeIn undertaking such an ambitious, cross-disciplinary, and sweeping conceptual analysis, Engel and Lyle implicitly claim that dignity’s effects are felt everywhere; it enculturates us to accept neoliberalism’s constraints, adhere to predominant understandings of propriety regarding sexual conduct, and tread lightly within a legal system that responds to a limited range of LGBTQ+ interests. -- Matthew Dean Hindman * Journal of American Political Thought *Disrupting Dignity provides one such peek into what is to be gained by refusing dignity, and my expectation is that it will serve as a valuable resource for future scholarship and political praxis oriented toward that queer world of possibility. * Perspectives on Politics *

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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 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 SynopsisBringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides a foundational guide to queer methodologies in the study of political violence and conflict. Contributors provide illuminating discussions on why queer approaches are important, what they entail and how to utilise a queer approach to political violence and conflict. The chapters explore a variety of methodological approaches, including fieldwork, interviews, cultural analysis and archival research. They also engage with broader academic debates, such as how to work with research partners in an ethical manner. Including valuable case studies from around the world, the book demonstrates how these methods can be used in practice. It is the first critical, in-depth discussion on queer methods and methodologies for research on political violence and conflict.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Telling Queer Stories of Conflict – Jamie J. Hagen, Samuel Ritholtz, Andrew Delatolla Part 1: Queer Approaches to Conflict Research 1. The ‘Queer’ in Conflict Research As Subject, Structure, and Method: Initial Epistemological Considerations for the Early Career Researcher – Samuel Ritholtz 2. Queering the Politics of Knowledge in Conflict Research – Jose Fernando Serrano Amaya 3. Workshop As Queer Feminist Praxis: Insights From Colombian Queer and Trans Women Organising for Peace – Jamie J. Hagen Part 2: Queer Methods of Conflict Research 4. The Visual As Queer Method – Dean Cooper-Cunningham 5. Poetry as a Queer Epistemological Method: Disrupting Knowledge of the Lebanese Civil War With Etel Adnan’s the Arab Apocalypse – Andrew Delatolla 6. Queer Tools for the Ruthless Archive: Methodological Notes on Trans and Queer History for Doing Archival Research – Patricio Simonetto Part 3: Queer Experiences of Conflict Research 7. Researching Queer Lives in the Shadow of Northeast Nigeria’s Conflict – Chitra Nagarajan 8. Entangled Intimacies, Queer Attachments: Reflections on Fieldwork With a Diaspora of War – Ahmad Qais Munhazim 9. Doing NGO Research With Diverse Sogiesc Refugees in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey: A Conversation – Zeynep Pınar Erdem, Charbel Maydaa, Henri Myrttinen and Helena Berchtold Conclusion: Thinking (of) Queer Conflict Research – Laura Sjoberg Appendix I: Guide for Good Practices for Researching Queer and Trans Communities in Highly Sensitive Contexts – Cristian González Cabrera, Erin Kilbride, Kyle Knight, Yasemin Smallens, Rasha Younes Appendix II: “The Emotional Work Is Part of the Work”: Strategies To Maintain Researcher Emotional and Psychological Safety During Challenging Fieldwork – Maureen Freed

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Book SynopsisThis book is about ardent Korean female fans of gay representation in the media, their status in contemporary Korean society, their relationship with other groups such as the gay population, and, above all, their contribution to reshaping the Korean media's portrayal of gay people. Jungmin Kwon names the Korean female fandom for gay portrayals as “FANtasy” subculture, and argues that it adds to the present visibility of the gay body in Korean mainstream media, thus helping to change the public's perspective toward sexually marginalized groups.The FANtasy subculture started forming around text-based media, such as yaoi, fan fiction, and U.S. gay-themed dramas (like Will & Grace), and has been influenced by diverse social, political, and economic conditions, such as the democratization of Korea, an open policy toward foreign media products, the diffusion of consumerism, government investment in the culture, the Hollywoodization of the film industry, and the popularity of Korean culture abroad. While much scholarly attention has been paid to female fandom for homoerotic cultural texts in many countries, this book seeks to explore a relatively neglected aspect of the subculture: its location in and influence on Korean society at large.

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Book SynopsisFor decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ liberation unfolded in plain sight in front of millions of viewers, most of whom were laughing too hard to mind. From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from network-censor fights over Soap to behind-the-scenes activism on the set of The Golden Girls, from Ellen’s culture clash to Modern Family’s primetime power-couple, Hi Honey, I’m Homo! is the story not only of how subversive queer comedy transformed the American sitcom, from its inception through today, but how our favourite sitcoms transformed, and continue to transform, America. Accessible, entertaining, and informative, Hi Honey, I'm Homo! is filled with exclusive commentary and interviews from celebrities, behind-the-scenes creators, and more

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Book SynopsisFor decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed “undesirable,” suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly vivid account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality, now with a new foreword by Sarah Schulman, remains an essential contribution to gay history and our understanding of historical fascism, as well as a remarkable and complex story of survival and identity.Table of ContentsPreface by Sarah SchulmanIntroduction by Klaus Müller1. Imprisoned as a “Degenerate”2. Arrival at Sachsenhausen3. A Camp of Torture and Toil4. Flossenbürg5. The Polish Boys and the Gypsy Capo6. Commander “Dustbag”7. Burnings and Tortures8. A Pink-Triangled Capo9. A “Cure” for Homosexuality, and Air Raids10. The End, and Home AgainGlossary

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Book SynopsisChristopher Zyda confronts the long-buried and painful memories of his harrowing fifteen-year journey in The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation, a heart-wrenching love story and coming-of-age tale during the early years of the AIDS crisis in Los Angeles.It all begins in early 1984, when Chris, a twenty-one year old UCLA English Literature major, risks ostracism when he comes out of the closet to his fraternity brothers just as the AIDS pandemic is beginning to explode in gay communities across the United States. Soon afterward, Chris meets and falls in love with Stephen, a graduate of Yale University and Law School, and the two of them build a life together as their friends start to fall sick and die from the spreading storm of AIDS.Stephen begins showing symptoms of AIDS in early 1986, and Chris faces a difficult choice as he is certain that he, too, eventually will be stricken by the disease. He abandons his writing career and attends the UCLA business school so that he can earn enough money to pay for healthcare during Stephen's illness.The Storm is filled with heart, optimism, and love, interspersed with Los Angeles history, gay and lesbian history, AIDS history, and the backdrop of the 1980s and 1990s. It is an unflinching and, at times, raw memoir of perseverance, integrity, forgiveness, the power of love, spiritual growth, Carpe Diem, dreams, and, most of all: survival and ultimate triumph.Trade Review"The Storm achieves something remarkable, managing to tell a painfully disturbing story that ultimately offers an inspiring message of hope. With storytelling bravado, Christopher Zyda demonstrates the virtue of English majors becoming great financial executives, as he takes us on a very dark journey that illuminates the worst and best of the human condition. We witness homophobia on full, vicious display, and we also meet people who stepped up to do the right thing, as I was very pleased to learn was the case with so many of Chris’ colleagues at Disney. This memoir is as important as it is riveting, since it delivers a powerful firsthand perspective on what it was like to be gay in America before and during the storm of AIDS, as well as the devastating toll the epidemic took not just on those who were struck down, but on those who survived."—Michael D. Eisner, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company"Christopher Zyda has the soul of an artist and the razor-sharp mind of a senior corporate executive. He brings these two qualities together to make The Storm a singular, exciting, and very intimate memoir. This is a look at the AIDS crisis and prejudice through a unique point of view—that of a senior executive at one of America’s largest and most important corporations, The Walt Disney Company. At the same time, it is a deeply personal, human, and revelatory look at coming of age in a very different America. Chris has written a book that is both devastating and harrowing, but at the same time joyous, optimistic and hopeful. This is the essence of great literature, and The Storm is an important and very moving memoir."—Peter Chernin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Chernin Group, and former President and Chief Operating Officer of News Corporation"In my career, I’ve been involved with a number of action movies. Well, you might say that The Storm is an action memoir! Christopher Zyda’s epic account of the AIDS crisis is not only incredibly moving, but it moves! This page-turner is emotional, suspenseful, dramatic, and has as many surprising plot twists as the best blockbusters. Because it is a memoir, it is intensely personal and affecting. At the same time, Zyda tells his tale on a vast canvas that encompasses all that was going on in America during that era, giving the book a remarkably epic feel. Most of all, I was deeply touched by this riveting story of suffering and loss, redemption, and ultimate triumph."—Lawrence Gordon, producer of numerous blockbuster films including Die Hard, 48 Hours, and Field of Dreams, and former President and Chief Operating Officer of 20th Century Fox"Christopher Zyda’s compelling memoir is a passion play. He courageously reveals with wit and pathos, the enormous struggle he endured to evolve, against all odds, into a fully formed exceptional human being. Chris’ “coming of age” in the period of AIDS hysteria brings to light a remarkable triumph of the human spirit. He suffered the agony of self-doubt, the loss of a great love, the pain of abandonment, and the cruelty of ignorant and mean-spirited people. Instead of giving into cynicism, he fought for his life and plumbed his natural gifts of intellect, compassion, toughness, and morality to prevent the dark side from winning. Victorious in many of his principled battles, it was ultimately through Chris’ practice of forgiveness that he transformed himself and countless others. He proclaims that we must “accept responsibility to save ourselves.” In seizing a carpe diem mindset—he does just that. He is one of the better angels of our nature."—Elaine P. Wynn, co-founder of Wynn Resorts and Mirage Resorts

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Book SynopsisThis singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City’s Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates—Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur—were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women’s prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher. Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition—and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women’s House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired. Winner, 2023 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book AwardCrimeReads, Best True Crime Books of the Year

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