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McGill-Queen's University Press Maurice
Book SynopsisMaurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man’s journey to self-acceptance as someone who loves and desires men. Rebutting its critical reception, this volume champions the film as a sympathetic adaptation, making a case for its underappreciated positive depiction of gay love.Trade Review“The writing is the greatest joy of this book – in its daring and originality, its clarity and avoidance of academic stuffiness, its freshness and nimble erudition, Greven's Maurice is witty, deeply moving, superbly literate, and erotically tactile, like the movie he praises. In naming Merchant Ivory's Maurice a classic, Greven has created a classic of his own. Long may it be read.” Will Aitken, author of Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic“Greven succeeds in restoring Maurice to an honored place among significant movies that feature a gay protagonist. The concluding chapter is sophisticated yet accessible to a broad audience. Greven writes with a clarity that will likely appeal to general audiences and film scholars alike.” Library Journal"Maurice is placed by media professor David Greven in a tradition of melancholy and lyrical gay films exemplified by Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, and later Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name. Greven … makes clear in an autobiographical note that Maurice had a tremendous effect on people like himself: lonely gay men who were still closeted when they saw it.” Gay & Lesbian Review
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John Wiley & Sons Untimely Bodies Untimely Aesthetics
Book SynopsisUntimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics examines the fluidity of time in eight contemporary films by focusing on characters who struggle for connection in an environment shaped by heteronormative temporality and intimacies. The book proposes a model for viewing non-normative relationality through the concepts of “untimeliness” and queer time.Trade Review“The Berlin School has left a permanent mark on film history that deserves continued interest in the scholarly space. Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics meaningfully contributes to this ongoing and ever-expanding scholarly conversation by deriving its methodological approach from theoretical traditions, including queer studies, that have been underused in the discourse thus far. The book reframes how we think about what the Berlin School films do – this is not a small feat.” Marco Abel, University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
£71.10
Columbia University Press A Lure of Knowledge
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Columbia University Press Acting Gay
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a series of close readings of the central works of gay male drama, as written by American and English playwrights. The plays discussed reflect the transformation of gay men in 20th-century British and American societies.
£70.40
Columbia University Press The Homoerotic Photograph
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAllen Ellenzweig's long, thorough text is a model of scholarship that succeeds in interweaving the evolution of gay culture and how it related to changes in the culture at large, with art history. Los Angeles Times [A] handsome volume... stimulating and highly readable.Oxford Art JournalOxford Art JournalOxford Art Journal Oxford Art Journal An important contribution to the understanding of contemporary gay expression and sexual politics... A seriously researched and broadly conceived study of the subject. Highly recommended.Choice Choice
£35.70
Columbia University Press Elizabeth Bishop the Biography of a Poetry Paper
Book SynopsisThis study charts the evolution of Bishop's poetry, aided by newly discovered diaries, previously unpublished work and early drafts. It focuses on the poet's 20-year residence in Brazil, and attempts to provide a new understanding of Bishop's treatment of love, sex and gender.Table of ContentsIn the footsteps of Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil; the body's roses; time's Andromedas; the mappings of "North and South"; Miss Bishop and Miss Moore; skunk and armadillo; Brazilian choices; the gallery of her glance; "Geography III"; last poems.
£27.00
Columbia University Press Writing AIDS Gay Literature Language Analysis
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and gay culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and moral responsibility.Table of ContentsSUZANNE POIRIER, On Writing AIDS; LEE EDELMAN, The Mirror and the Tank - AIDS, Subjectivity, and the Rhetoric of Activism; MICHAEL S. SHERRY, The Language of War in AIDS Discourse; SANDER L. GILMAN, Plague in Germany, 1939/1989 - Cultural Images of Race, Space, and Disease; EMILY APTER, Fantom Images - Herve Guibert and the Writing of "sida" in France; RICHARD DELLAMORA, Apocalyptic Utterance in Edmund White's "An Oracle"; PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER, Eloquence and Epitaph: Black Nationalism and the Homophobic Impulse in Responses to the Death of Max Robinson; PETER M. BOWEN, AIDS 101; PAULA A. TREICHLER, AIDS Narratives on Television - Whose Story?; JOHN M. CLUM, "And Once I Had It All" - AIDS Narratives and Memories Of An American Dream; JAMES W. JONES, Refusing the Name - The Absence of AIDS in Recent American Gay Male Fiction; JOSEPH CADY, Immersive and Counter-Immersive Writing About AIDS - The Achievement of Paul Monette's "Love Alone"; JAMES MILLER, Dante on Fire Island - Reinventing Heaven in the AIDS Elegy; Timothy F. MURPHY, Testimony; FRANKLIN BROOKS AND TIMOTHY F. MURPHY, Annotated Bibliography of AIDS Literature, 1982-91.
£69.00
Columbia University Press Deviant Eyes Deviant Bodies
Book SynopsisStraayer looks at commercial film and video from a new angle, and compels readers to consider the wealth of films made by and for non-traditional viewers. She surveys Hollywood productions ranging from the 1935 Stella Dallas to 1994's Mrs. Doubtfire.Trade ReviewIn the course of this fascinating, polemical book... [Straayer] writes interestingly about such films as Some Like It Hot, Victor / Victoria, Adoption, and Orlando and about a number of experimental films... Informative, challenging, thought-provoking, and perhaps unsettling. Choice
£27.00
Columbia University Press En Travesti Women Gender Subversion Opera Paper
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Columbia University Press Gay Fiction Speaks
Book SynopsisA collection of in-depth analytical interviews with twelve of the best-known gay novelists writing in English today, including Armistead Maupin, David Leavitt, Alan Garganus, and others.Trade ReviewA meaty compendium of worthwhile thoughts and ideas to mull over. The interviewer and the authors have collaborated to bring forth a wealth of colorful authorial confessions, personal and historical anecdotes, prescriptions for a host of the world's ills, and takes on the intersections of life and fiction. The Gay & Lesbian Review Delightful and illuminating interviews... I closed this book feeling wiser and more informed about gay literature and the craft of writing in general. -- Martin Wilson Lambda Book Report Culled from incisive interviews, Canning strives for in-depth dialogues with scintillating results. He's captured the genius and energy of our finest generation of gay writers and its impact on today's reader. Brimming with vitality, attitude, individuality and innovation, this anthology of interviews uncovers the stories behind your favorite creative players. Genre The pleasure of the interviews comes from Canning's ability to prompt quirky and ingenious responses from his subjects... as a whole, the book illustrates how these serious artists negotiate the cultural minefields of literary and identity politics in a marketplace that both values and devalues them as 'gay.' Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsForeword by David Bergman Introduction James Purdy John Rechy Edmund White Andrew Holleran Armistead Maupin Felice Picano Allan Gurganus Ethan Mordden Dennis Cooper Alan Hollinghurst David Leavitt Patrick Gale
£25.20
Columbia University Press Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian Gay and
Book SynopsisA compilation of articles providing an overview of current thought on the psychological aspects of lesbian, gay and bisexual experience. Divided into nine sections, the meaning of sexual orientation, discrimation, identity development, diversity, adolescence and mental health, are all discussed.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction to the Second Edition: Lesbian Gay Male and Bisexual Dimensions in the Psychological Study of Human Diversity Douglas C. Kimmel and Linda D. Garnets Part I: The Meaning of Sexual Orientation Contemporary Issue: Degree of Choice versus No Choice of Sexual Orientation 1. What a Light It Shed: The Life of Evelyn Hooker Douglas C. Kimmel and Linda D. Garnets 2. Biological Perspectives on Sexual Orientation, by J. Michael Bailey 3. Bisexual Identities, by Ronald C. Fox 4. Explaining Diversity in the Development of Same-Sex Sexuality Among Young Women, by Lisa M. Diamond and Ritch C. Savin-Williams Part II: Psychological Dimensions of Prejudice Discrimination and Violence Contemporary Issue: Sexual Prejudice Verbal Abuse Physical Harassment and Violence Based on Sexual Orientation 5. The Psychology of Sexual Prejudice, by Gregory M. Herek 6. Do Heterosexual Women and Men Differ in Their Attitudes Toward Homosexuality? A Conceptual and Methodological Analysis., by Mary E. Kite and Bernard E. Whitley Jr. 7. Violence and Victimization of Lesbians and Gay Men: Mental Health Consequences, by Linda Garnets Gregory M. Herek and Barrie Levy 8. Matthew Shepard's Death: A Professional Awakening, by Ritch C. Savin-Williams Part III: Identity Development and Stigma Management Contemporary Issue: Effects of Historical Differences Between Older and Younger Generations of Lesbians Bisexuals and Gay Men 9. Finding a Sexual Identity and Community: Therapeutic Implications and Cultural Assumptions in Scientific Models of Coming Out., by Paula C. Rust 10. Why Tell If You're Not Asked? Self-Disclosure Intergroup Contact and Heterosexuals' Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men Gregory M. Herek 11. Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Youths' Relationships with Their ParentsRitch C. Savin-Williams 12. Employment and Sexual Orientation: Disclosure and Discrimination in the Workplace, by M. V. Lee Badgett Part IV: Diversity Among Gay Men Lesbians and Bisexuals Contemporary Issue: Racism in the Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Community 13. Beyond Heterosexism and Across the Cultural Divide Developing an Inclusive Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Psychology: A Look to the Future, by Beverly Greene 14. Native Gay and Lesbian Issues: The Two-Spirited, by Terry Tafoya 15. Sapphic Shadows: Challenging the Silence in the Study of SexualityEvelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa 16. Identifying and Addressing Health Issues of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Populations in Rural Communities: Psychological Perspectives, by Douglas C. Kimmel Part V: Relationships and Families Contemporary Issue: Legal Recognition of Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Relationships and Families 17. The Close Relationships of Lesbians Gay Men and Bisexuals, by Letitia Anne Peplau and Leah R. Spalding 18. Monogamy and Polyamory, by Paula C. Rust 19. Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents, by Charlotte J. Patterson 20. Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian-American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons, by Alice Y. Hom Part VI: Adolescence Midlife and Aging Contemporary Issue: The Impact of AIDS on Adolescents and Older Persons 21. Developmental and Adjustment Issues of Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Adolescents: A Review of the Empirical Literature, by Karla Anhalt and Tracy L. Morris 22. Lesbians and Gay Men in Midlife, by Douglas C. Kimmel and Barbara E. Sang 23. Being Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Sixty or Older, by Arnold H. Grossman Anthony R. D'Augelli and Timothy S. O'Connell Part VII: Health Contemporary Issue: Barriers to Health Care for Lesbians Gay Men and Bisexuals 24. AIDS and Stigma, by Gregory M. Herek 25. Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Health: Findings and Concerns, by Gay and Lesbian Medical Association and Columbia University Center for Lesbian 26. Long-Term Care and Hospice: The Special Needs of Older Gay Men and Lesbians, by Lora Connolly Part VIII: Mental Health Contemporary Issue: Effects of State and National Legislation and Popular Votes Regarding Sexual Orientation Issues on the Psychological Well-Being of Gay Men Lesbians and Bisexuals 27. "Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio": Historical Perspectives on Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Mental Health, by Esther D. Rothblum 28. The Practice and Ethics of Sexual Orientation Conversion TherapyDouglas C. Haldeman 29. Minority Stress and the Mental Health in Gay Men, by Ilan H. Meyer Part IX: Status of Research Practice and Public Policy Issues in American Psychology Contemporary Issue: Benefits of Bisexuals Lesbians and Gay Men to Society and to Heterosexual Women and Men 30. Avoiding Heterosexist Bias in Psychological Research, by Gregory M. Herek Douglas C. Kimmel Hortensia Amaro and Gary B. Melton 31. Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Clients, by American Psychological Association 32. Seeing Is Believing: Research on Women's Sexual Orientation and Public Policy, by Sheila James Kuehl Acknowledgments Index
£38.25
Columbia University Press Case Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice
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Columbia University Press Case Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender
Book SynopsisFocuses on sexual orientation and gender expression in relation to social work practice. This book includes scenarios that: feature gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) individuals, couples, and families; and highlight GLBT issues in groups, organizations, communities, policy arenas, and research.Trade ReviewCase Studies goes beyond the basic education of theoretical concepts specific to the LGBT population and allows for the elicitation of discussion. -- Mona Tiernan PsycCritiquesTable of ContentsContents List of Contributors Preface Chapter Index Table Part 1 1. "Passages: From Feeling Woman to Being Woman," Stephen Erich, Sandra Donnelly, and Josephine Tittsworth 2. "Finding Hope: The Case of Randall," Patricia L. Greer and Deana F. Morrow 3."The Covert Life of Philip Johnson," David Henton 4. "Brian at the Crossroads: A Case Study," Sello Sithole 5.,"Young, Transgender, and Out in East Los Angeles," David Henton 6., "The Military Life: The Case of Saundra," Patricia L. Greer and Deana F. Morrow 7."Shonda Harrison: A Young Transgender Client in Jail," Patricia M. Hayes and Robert H. Keefe 8."Sandy Miller's Competency, Religious Beliefs, and Homophobia," Glenda F. Lester Short 9. "Ronald Jackson: A Man on the 'Down Low,'" Robert H. Keefe and Patricia M. Hayes 10. "Thelma Without Louise: The Story of an Aging Woman Who Identifies with Women," Elise M. FullmerPart 2. Couples and Families 11. "Are We a Family Now? The Case of Morgan, Shea, and Alex," Cheryl A. Parks and Nancy A. Humphreys 12. "The Case of Joan and Terri: Implications of Society's Treatment of Sexual Orientation for Lesbians and Gays with Disabilities," Eileen DeHope 13. "A Family in Transition," Cathryne L. Schmitz and Janet Wright 14. "From Lesbian Relationship to Trans/Lesbian Relationship," Arlene Istar Lev 15. "Alan's Story: A Heterosexually Married Couple Faces a Sexual Identity Crisis," David Jenkins 16. "Seeking a Child Through International Adoption: Lucy's and Robin's Story," Nancy A. Humphreys and Cheryl A. Parks 17. "Making Difficult Decisions," Harriet L. Cohen 18. "Jack and Karen: A Transgender Love Story," Carolyn A. Bradley 19. "'Who's Your Daddy?'," Lori MessingerPart 3. Groups 20. "The Day We Shared Our Coming Out Stories," Elizabeth Cramer 21. "Homeless Because I Am Different! Homeless Youth: Stories from the Field," Donna McIntosh 22. "Gender Identity Case Histories," D. R. Yonkin Part 4. Organizations and Communities 23. "'Building Excuses'" in the Workplace, Kristina M. Hash 24. "Designing a Strategy for Changing Agency Policy," Nancy A. Humphreys and Cheryl A. Parks 25. "Making the Link: Domestic Violence in the GLBT Community," Marcie Fisher-Borne 26. "A Leap of Faith: Southern Ministers Organizing for Change," Marcie Fisher-BornePart 5. Policy and Research 27. "Hate Crime Laws: Making a Difference," Lori Messinger 28. "A Policy Analysis of a Constitutional Amendment: Implications for Aging Populations," Lori Messinger 29. "Getting It Right: Doing Research with GLBT Youths," Lori Messinger
£22.50
Columbia University Press Hear Us Out
Book SynopsisThe author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream.Trade ReviewHear Us Out is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews,Gay Fiction Speaks, a standard reference for scholars. That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book... Canning has a wonderful knack for this work. -- David McConnell Lambda Book Report Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews -- Christopher Hennessy The Gay and Lesbian ReviewTable of ContentsGary Indiana Bernard Cooper Christopher Bram Michael Cunningham Jim Grimsley Stephen McCauley Colm Toibin Paul Russell Peter Cameron Matthew Stadler Philip Hensher Dale Peck
£83.60
Columbia University Press The Violet Hour
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Columbia University Press The Long Arc of Justice
Book SynopsisIn his support of same-sex marriage, the author defines matrimony as the development and maintenance of intimacy through which people meet their basic needs and carry out their everyday living, and he contends that this definition applies equally to homosexual and heterosexual couples.Trade ReviewA clever and insightful explanation...Throughout the book, Mohr makes his points well. -- Johanna Lunglhofer Washington Blade This eloquent articulation of what gays deserve from American society. -- Richard Labonte gsyndicate.com An engaging and challenging blend of politics, ethics and philosophical discourse, Arc is a must-read for anyone who's even remotely interested in where the queer rights movement is going and where it has been. Just Out The Long Arc of Justice is a powerful little book of applied ethics in which Richard Mohr devotes his characteristic analytic rigor to a broad range of important gay and lesbian issues. -- James S. Stramel Gay & Lesbian Review The book redefines and elevates contemporary discussions regarding rights for gays and lesbians. -- Sarah Scalia Inside Illinois The Long Arc of Justice is a powerful little book of applied ethics in which Richard Mohr applies his characteristic analytical rigor and penetrating cultural analysis to the broad range of important gay and lesbian issues... I expect this book will become the industry standard. APA Newsletter The result is a book that is a readable and relevant as its predecessor was over a decade ago. -- Jesse Monteagudo TWN - South Florida's Gay Community Newspaper Eloquent articulation of what gays deserve from American society. -- Richard Labonte Between the Lines Newspaper An excellent book... Definitely worth reading and is refreshing in its creativity, clarity, and conviction that justice is slowly moving. -- Patrick D. Hopkins HypatiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Taboo's End 1. Lesbian and Gay Basics: Some Questions, Facts, and Values 2. Sexual Privacy 3. The Case for Lesbian and Gay Marriage 4. Equality 5. Civil Rights 6. Understanding Lesbians and Gay Men in the Military Conclusion: America's Promise and the Lesbian and Gay Future Notes Acknowledgments
£63.00
Columbia University Press Mad for Foucault
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] provocative and thoughtful book. -- Christopher Roman Foucault StudiesTable of ContentsPreface: Why We Need Madness Acknowledgments Introduction: Mad for Foucault 1. How We Became Queer First Interlude: Nietzsche's Dreadful Attendant 2. Queer Moralities Second Interlude: Wet Dreams 3. Unraveling the Queer Psyche Third Interlude: Of Meteors and Madness 4. A Queer Nephew Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism 5. A Political Ethic of Eros Postlude: A Fool's Laughter Notes Works Cited Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Mad for Foucault
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] provocative and thoughtful book. -- Christopher Roman Foucault StudiesTable of ContentsPreface: Why We Need Madness Acknowledgments Introduction: Mad for Foucault 1. How We Became Queer First Interlude: Nietzsche's Dreadful Attendant 2. Queer Moralities Second Interlude: Wet Dreams 3. Unraveling the Queer Psyche Third Interlude: Of Meteors and Madness 4. A Queer Nephew Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism 5. A Political Ethic of Eros Postlude: A Fool's Laughter Notes Works Cited Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Homoerotics of Orientalism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA masterpiece and rare achievement; a completely new and convincing reading of a body of politicized knowledge that has dominated much of the field in the last thirty years. The entire concept of Orientalism will have to be totally rethought following Boone's book. -- Moshe Sluhovsky, Vigevani Chair in European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem This book offers an erudite and timely interpretation of the phenomenon of homoeroticism in orientalism in the Near and Middle East. Treating a broad range of Western representations of the "Orient", Boone provides an important corrective to Edward Said's Orientalism by addressing the powerful ways in which Europeans writers' and artists' representations of homoeroticism in the "Orient" have covertly enabled the appeal of orientalism as a predominantly male mode of discourse. -- Ali Behdad, John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at UCLA; author of Belated Travelers and A Forgetful Nation. Joseph Boone has opened a triple dialogue between Western perceptions (and fantasies) of Middle-Eastern homoeroticism, queer theory as it has evolved over the past decade, and the growing field of sexual studies in the Islamic world. Read The Homoerotics of Orientalism and discover that Boone has taken the necessary steps in offering oneself up to unsuspected, multiple ways of being. As he says, "how might the terms 'homoeroticism' and 'Orientalism', the two operative words of my title, each find itself refigured, wrenched apart and re-conjoined to create new meanings? -- Richard Howard, Poet, Columbia University A veritable tour de force. Boone's groundbreaking, timely book challenges us to revisit a wide range of orientalist visual and textual artifacts produced over the last four hundred and fifty years in which the recurrence of homoerotic desire contests heterosexual norms, colonial control, and race and gender hierarchies. The wealth of textual and visual materials and the broad selection of figures are, in and of themselves, extraordinary contributions to scholarship. A must read for scholars both of Anglo-European-American and Middle-Eastern and Islamicate gender and sexuality studies. -- Sahar Amer, Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies, University of Sydney Orientalism will never be the same after Boone's extraordinary book, which disrupts the heterosexual template implicit in Edward Said's and refashions the cultural traffic between East and West as inescapably reciprocal, dialectical, and multiple-in a word, global. As much an intervention in visual culture as it is a revelatory history of the literatures of both West and East, The Homoerotics of Orientalism with its staggering erudition and critical finesse courageously recasts the stark divide of Occident and Orient that produced Orientalism as mutually constitutive, creative, and informing as it has been destructive, and it does so in the form of a critical gift-a book of utmost generosity, judiciousness, and political imagination- that carries its own charge of love. -- Jennifer Wicke, Professor of English, University of Virginia Boone shatters the old binaries of Western Orientalist discourses AND the field of postcolonial studies and offers much needed insight for the field of sexuality studies in the Muslim world. A remarkable achievement! -- Janet Afary, Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity and Professor of Religious Studies and Feminism, University of California, Santa Barbara Once every decade or so, a book appears that revolutionizes the field of GLBT studies... [The Homoerotics of Orientalism] is a book that post-colonialists will seize immediately and argue over endlessly--but one that will also permeate the wider GLBT intellectual landscape. Every reader will benefit. Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide This remarkable study models an ethics of cross-cultural reading that exposes, with nuance and economy, the crucial role played by the homoerotics of Orientalism in shaping the world as we know it today. -- Christopher Harrity The Advocate [A] substantial and fascinating book. -- Robert Aldrich H-Histsex The Homoerotics of Orientalism is an outstanding and bold intellectual discussion of transgressive sexualities in both the Islamic and the Western worlds... A well-researched book that puts forth a new thinking on Orientalism... Highly recommended. Choice Important and engaging volume. Journal of Modern History Meticulously researched. Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: Re-Orienting Sexuality Part I: Theory and History 1. Histories of Cross-Cultural Encounter, Orientalism, and the Politics of Sexuality 2. Beautiful Boys, Sodomy, and Hamams: A Textual and Visual History of Tropes Part II: Geographies of Desire 3. Empire of 'Excesse,' City of Dreams: Homoerotic Imaginings in Istanbul and the Ottoman World 4. Epic Ambitions and Epicurean Appetites: Egyptian Stories I 5. Colonialism and Its Aftermaths, Gide to Chahine: Egyptian Stories II Part III: Modes and Genres 6. Queer Modernism and Middle Eastern Poetic Genres: Appropriations, Forgeries, and Hoaxes 7. Looking Backward: Homoeroticism in Miniaturist Painting and Orientalist Art 8. Looking Again: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Visual Cultures Notes Index
£102.00
Columbia University Press What Matters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA window onto how spirituality has functioned as a social category that bestows value on even 'secular' objects, What Matters? brilliantly demystifies spirituality without banishing spirits. With an embarrassment of riches at hand, including paranormal shadows in 'real' science, turns to 'tribalism' in psytrance festivals, and 'spiritual' motivations within secular humanitarianism, these essays are an original foray into how spirituality is used to account for contemporary human experience, with piety and irony in play. -- Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, author of Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity ...a helpful classroom resource. -- Ryan Harper Sociology of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Things of Value From a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of Prehistory Conquering Religious Contagions and Crowds: Nineteenth-Century Psychologists and the Unfinished Subjugation of Superstition and Irrationality Religious and Secular, "Spiritual" and "Physical" in Ghana Volunteer Experience Secular Humanitarianism and the Value of Life Homeschooling the Enchanted Child: Ambivalent Attachments in the Domestic Southwest Mind Matters: Esalen's Sursem Group and the Ethnography of Consciousness Tribalism, Experience, and Remixology in Global Psytrance Culture Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press What Matters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA window onto how spirituality has functioned as a social category that bestows value on even 'secular' objects, What Matters? brilliantly demystifies spirituality without banishing spirits. With an embarrassment of riches at hand, including paranormal shadows in 'real' science, turns to 'tribalism' in psytrance festivals, and 'spiritual' motivations within secular humanitarianism, these essays are an original foray into how spirituality is used to account for contemporary human experience, with piety and irony in play. -- Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, author of Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity ...a helpful classroom resource. -- Ryan Harper Sociology of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Things of Value From a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of Prehistory Conquering Religious Contagions and Crowds: Nineteenth-Century Psychologists and the Unfinished Subjugation of Superstition and Irrationality Religious and Secular, "Spiritual" and "Physical" in Ghana Volunteer Experience Secular Humanitarianism and the Value of Life Homeschooling the Enchanted Child: Ambivalent Attachments in the Domestic Southwest Mind Matters: Esalen's Sursem Group and the Ethnography of Consciousness Tribalism, Experience, and Remixology in Global Psytrance Culture Acknowledgments Contributors Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press German Jew Muslim Gay The Life and Times of Hugo
Book SynopsisHugo Marcus (18801966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus's life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle.Trade ReviewThis biography succeeds in contextualizing his ideas, while leaving the man himself, rightly perhaps, still somewhat in the shadows. * Times Literary Supplement *Offers a full look at a writer and thinker who successfully lived in and moved among different worlds. * Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review *Baer delivers an inspiring story that changes our perception about larger historiographical issues. -- Javier Samper Vendrell * German History *This extraordinary biography of Hugo Marcus reads like an amazing detective novel of twentieth-century history. Baer recreates the life and times of a gay Jewish intellectual in Germany who converts to Islam and whose life is saved from the Nazis by the Muslim community of Berlin. The story is a thrilling page turner that upends our assumptions about Jewishness, homosexuality, Muslim-Jewish relations, orientalism, and the challenges of modernity. -- Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeThat identity is fluid is no surprise in the twenty-first century: that such fluid identities collided with changing realities in the rapid transition from Imperial to Republican to Nazi Germany in the early twentieth century may also not surprise the reader. Yet the story of Hugo Marcus seems unique: we have other accounts of gay Jews fighting their double stigmatization as well as the lives of German Jews attracted to or indeed converting to Islam during this period. Yet in the tale of Hugo Marcus, elegantly told by Marc David Baer, we have a biography that links complex questions of identity to institutional histories and their dislocation in the German-speaking world. Ending with his ashes strewn on a paupers' grave in Bern, Marcus’s tale is moving, exemplary in its uniqueness for the transitions of German Jewish intellectuals and perhaps indicative of paths yet to be followed by other marginalized individuals in our ever darkening age of rising antisemitism, Islamophobia, and homophobia. -- Sander Gilman, coauthor of Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of InsanityPerhaps most significant among the important contributions of Baer’s brilliant biography of the queer, German-Jewish convert to Islam, Hugo Marcus, is the new perspective he offers on the history of Jewish-Muslim relations. Not only Marcus’s engagement with Islam but also that of other Jewish converts to Islam—as well as that of Jewish 'Orientalists'—allow Baer to demonstrate the mutual 'Semitic' affinity of Jews and Muslims. -- Robert Beachy, author of Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern IdentityIt is indubitable that any reader of this extraordinary biography will be rewarded with a profound insight into the nature of religious passion and its intersection with sexual desire, in particular among marginalized, oppressed, persecuted, and exiled individuals such as Marcus. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *The book reveals fascinating facets of Marcus’s life as a Jewish, Muslim, and gay German. Yet Marcus belonged to all and none of these categories. If anything, his life and death are a testament to the failure of compartmentalizing identity and intellectual history. * German Historical Institute London Bulletin *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Goethe as Pole Star1. Fighting for Gay Rights in Berlin, 1900–19252. Queer Convert: Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany, 1925–19333. A Jewish Muslim in Nazi Berlin, 1933–19394. Who Writes Lives: Swiss Refuge, 1939–19655. Hans Alienus: Yearning, Gay Writer, 1948–1965Conclusion: A Goethe Mosque for BerlinNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press German Jew Muslim Gay The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
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Columbia University Press Foucaults Strange Eros
Book SynopsisIn this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject.Trade ReviewIn a provocative take on eros as a verb—as erosion of the thinking subject bound by grids of intelligibility that define her identity—Huffer offers the splendid final installment of her Foucault trilogy. Forcefully written with a capacious imagination, this book exemplifies the enviable rewards of a sustained in-depth engagement with Foucault as an ethopoietic thinker. -- Rey Chow, author of Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial ExperienceIn this innovative and intimate work, Huffer recuperates from the work of Michel Foucault a philosophy of eros with the potential to replace the unduly dominant orders of sexuality. Eros would always be murmuring and calling for various forms of release, including the release of 'self from self.' The consequences of eros' broad scope and elusiveness, are shown to encompasses the full range of Foucault’s work, and to challenging our understanding of freedom, intimacy, passion, ethics, and selfhood. -- Penelope Deutscher, author of Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive ReasonFoucault's Strange Eros challenges its readers to describe aptly, to touch delicately their seeking, mortal, embodied selves. The book elicits and sustains their interest. It rejoices on some pages to weep on others, but it is animated throughout by generous reading and creative responding. -- Mark Jordan, author of Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in FoucaultBowing, bending down, and keeping watch over Foucault's work, Lynne Huffer listens for Foucault's Strange Eros and its ethical call. Huffer reads Foucault as a poet, allowing us to hear the discontinuous Sapphic murmur beneath philosophy's Platonic ground. This is an inspired work of love and a tour de force. -- Sverre Raffnsøe, editor in chief of Foucault Studies and author of Michel Foucault: A Research CompanionFoucault's Strange Eros is a haunting and beautiful book. In this final book in her Foucault trilogy, Lynne Huffer once again returns to the theme of Foucault’s erotic ethics. Drawing on Anne Carson's new translations and writings on Sappho, she identifies a queer feminist erotic, a non-phallic creative capacity for new relational forms. In this light, Foucault's genealogies are revealed as rooted in a poignant ethical sensibility—that of a loving and vigilant guardian of the lost 'little ones' in the archives, one who uncovers traces of unnecessary and intolerable suffering, and events that did not take place. This is what is meant by thought of the outside—impossible thought, or thoughts and experiences erased and rendered impossible within present conditions of possibility. Thus, Huffer deepens our appreciation of genealogy as an ethical practice of freedom, of eros—a practice that might loosen our attachments to present understandings of self and world—to ways of living that create unnecessary suffering and violence. -- Jana Sawicki, Williams CollegeTable of ContentsPreface: ProwlingIntroduction: Foucault’s Strange Eros1. Eros Is Strange: Foucault, the Outside, and the Historical A Priori (Fragments)2. Ars Erotica: Poetic Cuts in the Archives of Infamy3. Erotic Time: Unreason, Eros, and Foucault’s Evil Genius4. Prowling Eros: Carriers of Light in the Panopticon5. Now Again (δεῦτε): Foucault, Wittig, SapphoCoda: SapphicAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
£72.00
Columbia University Press Foucaults Strange Eros
Book SynopsisIn this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject.Trade ReviewIn a provocative take on eros as a verb—as erosion of the thinking subject bound by grids of intelligibility that define her identity—Huffer offers the splendid final installment of her Foucault trilogy. Forcefully written with a capacious imagination, this book exemplifies the enviable rewards of a sustained in-depth engagement with Foucault as an ethopoietic thinker. -- Rey Chow, author of Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial ExperienceIn this innovative and intimate work, Huffer recuperates from the work of Michel Foucault a philosophy of eros with the potential to replace the unduly dominant orders of sexuality. Eros would always be murmuring and calling for various forms of release, including the release of 'self from self.' The consequences of eros' broad scope and elusiveness, are shown to encompasses the full range of Foucault’s work, and to challenging our understanding of freedom, intimacy, passion, ethics, and selfhood. -- Penelope Deutscher, author of Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive ReasonFoucault's Strange Eros challenges its readers to describe aptly, to touch delicately their seeking, mortal, embodied selves. The book elicits and sustains their interest. It rejoices on some pages to weep on others, but it is animated throughout by generous reading and creative responding. -- Mark Jordan, author of Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in FoucaultBowing, bending down, and keeping watch over Foucault's work, Lynne Huffer listens for Foucault's Strange Eros and its ethical call. Huffer reads Foucault as a poet, allowing us to hear the discontinuous Sapphic murmur beneath philosophy's Platonic ground. This is an inspired work of love and a tour de force. -- Sverre Raffnsøe, editor in chief of Foucault Studies and author of Michel Foucault: A Research CompanionFoucault's Strange Eros is a haunting and beautiful book. In this final book in her Foucault trilogy, Lynne Huffer once again returns to the theme of Foucault’s erotic ethics. Drawing on Anne Carson's new translations and writings on Sappho, she identifies a queer feminist erotic, a non-phallic creative capacity for new relational forms. In this light, Foucault's genealogies are revealed as rooted in a poignant ethical sensibility—that of a loving and vigilant guardian of the lost 'little ones' in the archives, one who uncovers traces of unnecessary and intolerable suffering, and events that did not take place. This is what is meant by thought of the outside—impossible thought, or thoughts and experiences erased and rendered impossible within present conditions of possibility. Thus, Huffer deepens our appreciation of genealogy as an ethical practice of freedom, of eros—a practice that might loosen our attachments to present understandings of self and world—to ways of living that create unnecessary suffering and violence. -- Jana Sawicki, Williams CollegeTable of ContentsPreface: ProwlingIntroduction: Foucault’s Strange Eros1. Eros Is Strange: Foucault, the Outside, and the Historical A Priori (Fragments)2. Ars Erotica: Poetic Cuts in the Archives of Infamy3. Erotic Time: Unreason, Eros, and Foucault’s Evil Genius4. Prowling Eros: Carriers of Light in the Panopticon5. Now Again (δεῦτε): Foucault, Wittig, SapphoCoda: SapphicAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
£20.90
MO - University of Illinois Press The Third Sex
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What a charming and peculiar bulletin from the past is this little book from 1927, supposedly written by a man famous in his day as a cultural impresario and libertine but now remembered as the husband of Colette. . . . Whoever wrote it, this slender volume offers a fascinating glimpse not so much of exotic homosexual practices but of something much more delicate and transitory: the moment just beforehomosexuality became an identity, before sexual acts had been organized into the solid categories we recognize and traffic in today. A collision of conflicting impulses and wildly incongruous discourses, 'The Third Sex' does not know what it is--'gay Baedeker,' cautionary tale, scientific treatise, pornographic handbook, literary essay, opportunity to slander the Italians and Germans--and that is what makes it so delightful."--New York Times Book Review"Ostensibly a quasi-scientific tour of the male homosexual world in France, Italy, and Germany in the 1920s, 'The Third Sex' is by turns leering, sympathetic, philosophical, patronizing, exuberant, impenetrable, tender and hilarious, often all on the same page. . . . This slender volume offers a fascinating glimpse not so much of exotic homosexual practices but of something much more delicate and transitory: the moment just before sexual acts had been organized into the solid categories we recognize and traffic today. . . . It's not about the love that dared not speak its name; it's about the love that didn't quite know what its name was yet and was trying on many different ones, all at the same time."--Stacey D'Erasmo, New York Times Book Review"Willy ends this strange and fascinating text with the old question: is it better to stay in the closet or openly celebrate one's sexuality? The questions of The Third Sex are those we seem[ed] to still be facing at the last quarter of the century."--Rain Taxi “Well worth reading. The very idea of a widespread, trendy 1920s homosexuality is fascinating.”--Modernism/Modernity
£35.10
University of Illinois Press Oscar Wilde in America
Book SynopsisOscar Wilde's grand U.S. tour, captured in dozens of newspaper interviewsTrade Review"A generous and welcome sampling."--New York Review of Books "Highly recommended."--Choice"[A] rewarding, absorbing, and necessary book."--The Gay and Lesbian Review "Wilde was a source of fascination and provocation, and these assembled portraits reveal the rawness and the refinements, the pride and the anxieties, of American culture in the making during this important period. A vital and valuable book."--Eric Haralson, editor of Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry"This stimulating work is an invaluable record of Wilde's speech, appearance, and demeanor. An excitingly fresh study of interest both to Wilde specialists and to general readers."--Donald Mead, chairman of the Oscar Wilde Society and editor of The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Interviews; 1 "Oscar Wilde's Arrival," New York World, 3 January 1882; 2 "Oscar Wilde," New York Evening Post, 4 January 1882; 3 "Our New York Letter," Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 January 1882; 4 "The Theories of a Poet," New York Tribune, 8 January 1882; 5 "The Science of the Beautiful," New York World, 8 January 1882; 6 "A Talk with Wilde," Philadelphia Press, 17 January 1882; 7 "The Aesthetic Bard," Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 January 1882; 8 "What Oscar Has to Say," Baltimore American, 20 January 1882, 4; 9 "Wilde and Forbes," New York Herald, 21 January 1882, 3; 10 "An Interview with the Poet," Albany Argus, 28 January 1882; 11 "Oscar Wilde," Boston Herald, 29 January 1882; 12 "The Aesthetic Apostle," Boston Globe, 29 January 1882; 13 Lilian Whiting, "They Will Show Him," Chicago Inter-Ocean, 10 February 1882; 14 "A Man of Culture Rare," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 8 February 1882; 15 "Wilde Sees the Falls," Buffalo Express, ca 9 February 1882; rpt Wheeling Register, 27 Feb 1882; 16 "The Apostle of Art," Chicago Inter-Ocean, 11 February 1882; 17 "Truly Aesthetic," Chicago Inter-Ocean, 13 February 1882; 18 "Wilde," Cleveland Leader, 20 February 1882; 19 "With Mr Oscar Wilde," Cincinnati Gazette, 21 February 1882; 20 "Oscar Wilde," Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 February 1882; 21 "Utterly Utter," St Louis Post-Dispatch, 25 February 1882; 22 "Speranza's Gifted Son," St Louis Globe-Democrat, 26 February 1882; 23 "Oscar As He Is," St Louis Republican, 26 February 1882; 24 "Oscar Wilde," Chicago Tribune, 1 March 1882; 25 "Philosophical Oscar," Chicago Times, 1 March 1882; 26 "David and Oscar," Chicago Tribune, 5 March 1882; 27 "Oscar Wilde in Omaha," Omaha Weekly Herald, 24 March 1882; 28 "Oscar Wilde: An Interview with the Apostle of Aestheticism," San Francisco Examiner, 27 Mar 1882; 29 "Oscar Wilde's Views," San Francisco Morning Call, 27 March 1882; 30 "Lo! The Aesthete," San Francisco Chronicle, 27 March 1882; 31 "Oscar Arrives," Sacramento Record-Union, 27 March 1882; 32 Mary Watson, "Oscar Wilde at Home," San Francisco Examiner, 9 April 1882; 33 "Oscar Wilde," Salt Lake Herald, 12 April 1882; 34 "Oscar Wilde," Denver Rocky Mountain News, 13 April 1882; 35 "Art and Aesthetics," Denver Tribune, 13 April 1882; 36 "What Mr Wilde Says about Himself," Manchester Examiner and Times; rpt New York Tribune, 11 June 1882; Chicago Tribune, 17 June 1882, 3; 37 "Aesthetic / An Interesting Interview with Oscar Wilde," Dayton Daily Democrat, 3 May 1882; 38 "Oscar Wilde's Return," New York World, 6 May 1882; 39 "Oscar Wilde in Montreal," Montreal Witness, 15 May 1882; 40 "Oscar Wilde: The Arch-Aesthete on Aestheticism," Montreal Star, 15 May 1882; 41 "Oscar Wilde," Toronto Globe, 25 May 1882; 42 "The Aesthete at the Art Exhibition," Toronto Globe, 26 May 1882; 43 "Oscar Wilde / Talks of Texas," New Orleans Picayune, 25 June 1882; 44 "Oscar Wilde: Arrival of the Great Aesthete," Atlanta Constitution, 5 July 1882; 45 "Oscar Dear, Oscar Dear!" Charleston News and Courier, 8 July 1882; 46 "Loveliness and Politeness," New York Sun, 20 August 1882; 47 "The Apostle of Beauty in Nova Scotia," Halifax Herald, 10 October 1882; 48 "Oscar Wilde Thoroughly Exhausted," New York Tribune, 27 November 1882; Appendix Wilde's lecture "Impressions of America"; Bibliography of Wilde interviews; Works Cited
£81.90
University of Illinois Press Queer Migration Politics Activist Rhetoric and
Book SynopsisOffers activists, queer scholars, feminists, and immigration scholars productive tools for theorizing political efficacy.Trade ReviewBook of the Year, LGBTQ Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2014. "This is the sphere of academic work, but Chávez goes beyond that, calling for theorization that privileges the experiences of those walking the streets and putting their bodies on the line."--make/shift"Offers extensive insight into the intersectional aspects and coalitions of queer migrants. . . . This book is an excellent contribution to the study of rhetoric, social movements, queer rights, and immigration politics."--QED "With little existing scholarship on coalition building across social movement groups, Chavez provides qualitatively supported evidence for coalitional possibilities at the U.S.-Mexico border. Chavez's research differs from other lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/question (LGBTQ) and social movement scholarship as it explores uncharted terrain in the collaboration of activist groups while paying particular attention to intersectionality when analyzing the experiences of individuals who are marginalized by virtue of their nationality as well as their sexual orientation. An inspiring read for anyone with an interest in contemporary equality discourses."--Women's Studies in Communication "Chavez successfully tries to break this perception by merging together discussions around immigration rights, queer rights, and social justice. This study provides the reader a lens to see the triangular relationship between multiple oppression (or discrimination), coalition, and radical change. A clear illustration of the latest queer migration politics in the US sociopolitical world."--Gender, Place and Culture"A highly original contribution and is easily one of the most thoughtful books in queer studies I have read in a long time. Chavez's focus on rhetoric provides a unique lens through which to examine how queers, migrants, and queer migrants are intervening in their differential marginalization vis-a-vis nation-states, neoliberal political economy, and presumptions of citizenship as the telos of belonging. By the end of Queer Migration Politics, readers are left with the question of the extent to which queer migrant coalitional politics will expand and transform normative, nation-based LGBTQ and migrant politics."--GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies"Timely and prophetic."--Queer Theory"This study provides the reader a lens to see the triangular relationship between multiple oppression (or discrimination), coalition, and radical change. A clear illustration of the latest queer migration politics in the US sociopolitical world."--Gender, Place and Culture
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Against Citizenship
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This thoughtful, energizing, and inspiring work should be commended for scholars and activists alike who are engaged in sociopolitical critique."--H-Net Reviews"Recommended."--Choice"Against Citizenship will be regarded as one of the most important books in queer and feminist theory of its generation. Broad in its intellectual scope, Brandzel's deft skill at bridging feminist and queer studies with critical ethnic studies and critical Indigenous studies offers a model for the kind of intersectional analysis required to understand and challenge the violence of normativities. It is a powerful read."--Karma Chávez, author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities"Amy Brandzel reaches broadly across and deeply into queer, feminist, indigenous and critical race studies to expose the irredeemable violences of U.S. citizenship. By bringing together case studies rarely considered within the same frame, Brandzel enacts the kind of intersectional alliance-building towards which Brandzel urges readers. This book energized me, and I look forward to using Brandzel's ideas as a springboard for building coalitions that reject faith in citizenship and instead create other kinds of affinities and attachments."--Noelani Goodyear-Ka’opua, coeditor of A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty"This provocative book is a must-read for scholars and activists engaged in political critique and projects that are invested in challenging the limits of inclusion lodged within the normative frameworks of U.S. law. Brandzel skillfully documents the violence of anti-intersectional politics, epistemologies, and citizenship practices within cases of hate crime legislation, same-sex marriage, and the tensions between civil rights and indigenous rights to effectively argue that the politics of alliance requires activisms against US citizenship as it is constructed through a process of human devaluing. As an ethical alternative, the author offers a dynamic methodology for engaging in a politics of responsibility and accountability for those committed to queer studies and liberatory coalition building."--J. K?haulani Kauanui, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity"Brandzel's humility and care are refreshing and significant, bringing nuance and reflection at every turn to the application of various critical tools to moments of purported inclusion that reveal vital insights about the shape and operations of US citizenship. Brandzel convincingly argues that citizenship is an exclusionary product, and the efforts at including more types of people in it inevitably reify its exclusive nature and undermine opportunities to practice coalition among populations targeted for exclusion."--Feminist FormationsTable of ContentsPreface: A Politics of Presence for the Present ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Violence of the Normative 1 1 The Specters of Citizenship: Hate Crimes and the Fear of the Repressed 31 2 Intersectionalities Lost and Found: Same-Sex Marriage Law and the Monstrosities of Alliance 70 3 Legal Detours of U.S. Empire: Locating Race and Indigeneity in Law, History, and Hawai'i 100 Conclusion: In and Out of Time 137 Notes 149 Bibliography 181 Index 203
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University of Illinois Press Ugly Differences Queer Female Sexuality in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A unique and rare opportunity to engage with a plethora of postpunk subcultural texts in academic writing and a refreshing radical reading of them through the concept of ugliness . . . would highly recommend . . . a joy to read." --Hypatia"Divest yourself of Dante's dreamscape and head for Howard's underground ugly. It's a tour you won't forget: smart, sexy, surprising, subversive. Howard's queer females will shake every last investment in beauty out of your soul, leaving you to contemplate a set of fertile negatives. No one should miss this delicious underworld."--Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Queer Timing The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"If one is able to do as Potter asks and suspend contemporary sexual knowledge for the duration of one's reading, Queer Timing is a welcome return to familiar objects, histories, and concepts, one that will likely inspire readers to similarly return to their own objects of study with fresh eyes." --Journal of the History of Sexuality“Susan Potter offers a counterhistory of queer representation by examining films and extrafilmic archival materials from the late nineteenth century to the late 1920s. . . . Queer Timing provides a provocative approach to tracing queer sexuality in early cinema." --Women's Studies in Communication "Queer Timing represents an exceptional example of film scholarship and early cinema history grounded in queer theory. It provides a necessary queer complication to historiographical understandings of early cinema and spectatorship." --Synoptique "Complicating the critical consensus, Queer Timing foregrounds the centrality of women’s same-sex desire to historically distinct cinematic discourses of both homo- and heterosexuality." --Film History "Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema is an important contribution in the fields of film and queer temporality studies. . . . All in all, [it] is a very thorough analysis." --Feminist Media Studies "Susan Potter provides a necessary complication of early cinema studies by taking seriously both the particularities of early cinema and the radical alterity of the sexualities that--though fleeting--indelibly informed it. While film historical writing deeply aligned with both queer theory and the history of sexuality remains all too rare, Queer Timing might be the first study to so thoroughly pursue its project of lesbian emergence in precisely these terms."--Mark Lynn Anderson, author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America"Queer Timing is notable for its careful delineation of the objects it analyzes. Readers encounter especially thoughtful and well-grounded historical claims." --Choice"A virtuosic exploration of the sexual opacity of early cinema, Queer Timing centers the figure of the modern lesbian in order to decenter everything we thought we knew about her."--Heather K. Love, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History
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University of Illinois Press The Journalist of Castro Street
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stoner has crafted an amazingly exhaustive biography of Shilts . . . Through interviews, oral histories, Shilts’s own journals, and archival materials, Stoner provides a deeper, more nuanced understanding of Shilts, his work, his advocacy, and his legacy." --Journalism History"[The Journalist of Castro Street] is an important addition to the HIV/AIDS archive, particularly thanks to its careful discussion of political figures like Harvey Milk, George Moscone, Dan White, and Gaëtan Dugas." --Media History"A major contribution to gay history." --Booklist"A serious account of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most divisive gay figures." --Times Literary Supplement"A sympathetic, first-rate narrative of one of the most notable journalists of our time. Stoner captures the passions and imperfections of both the fearless writer and the gay-rights crusader."--Patrick Lee Plaisance, author of Virtue in Media: The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News and Public Relations"The Journalist of Castro Street is a moving biography of a journalist and his life's work. . . . This is an excellent piece of writing." --Seattle Book Review"The Journalist of Castro Street is the result of copious research and interviewing." --The Gay & Lesbian Review"[In The Journalist of Castro Street] we get to discover Shilts, as if in real time, as he discovers himself, one page at a time." --A&U Magazine "The first-ever biography of the acclaimed investigative journalist and author captures a complex portrait of Randy Shilts, offering a rare behind-the-scenes glance into his short, yet blazing trajectory through life and (early AIDS and LGBTQ+) journalism." --A&U Magazine "Well written, comprehensive, and insightful. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice "Andrew Stoner has masterfully woven a powerful story: well-written, historically grounded, thoughtful, engaging, and important. The Journalist of Castro Street is engrossing yet haunting. It is indispensable for anyone who would understand the early years of the AIDS crisis, the intersection of the epidemic and the news media, and the challenges facing Shilts as the openly gay journalist blazed a trail into the media mainstream. It is not merely a biography of Shilts, it is more."--Edward M. Alwood, former CNN correspondent and author of Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Black Queer Freedom
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA 2020 Seminary Co-op Notable Book "GerShun Avilez highlights the impact of injury's threat to Black queer life through the diaspora. . . . These writers negotiate risk in order to express desire, intimacy, and the potential for freedom. . . . A brilliantly researched and clearly written book. . . . A model of what scholarship should be in this contemporary moment." --GLQ"Black Queer Freedom is an outstanding work of literary and cultural criticism, and exemplary of the riches to be had in black queer studies. It illuminates how space—be it the street, the prison, the hospital, or the place of labor—mediates our injury and our desire. The black queer subject, what Avilez calls 'the injury-bound subject,' is shaped by spatial injury and vulnerability and also enlivened by desire. Avilez explores how black queer artists articulate the erotic imperative of spatial justice, offering artistic address that exceed legal redress available for black queer people. Considering a wide array of genres—poetry, fiction, memoir, ethnography, oral history, and portraiture—and traversing a wide terrain—Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States—Avilez shows the capaciousness of black queer life and art and indeed guides us to reach higher ground where freedom is possible."—Dagmawi Woubshet, author of The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS"With pristine writing and bold thinking about queer desire, gender, and spatial justice, Avilez's Black Queer Freedom is a timely addition to the growing body of scholarship on black vulnerability, trauma, and queerness. Avilez dynamically illustrates how gender non-conforming artists are important to challenging the boundaries of black freedom."—LaMonda Horton-Stallings, author of Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual CulturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Freedom in Restriction Part One. Threatened Bodies in Motion Chapter 1. Movement in Black: Queer Bodies and the Desire for Spatial Justice Chapter 2. Geographies of Mobility: Migratory Subjects and the Uncertainty of Itineracy Part Two. Bodies in Spaces of Injury Chapter 3. Uneven Vulnerability: Queer Hypervisibility and Spaces of Imprisonment Chapter 4. The Shadow of Institutions: Medical Diagnosis and the Elusive Queer Body Conclusion: Lives of Constraint, Paths to Freedom Notes Index
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University of Illinois Press And They Were Wonderful Teachers
Book SynopsisA stirring examination of how Cold War repression and persecution extended to gay and lesbian teachers in FloridaTrade ReviewCritics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), 2010. "A worthwhile history for both activists and educators."--SocialistWorker.org"Important not only to scholars of sexual orientations but also to those who study the civil rights movement and issues related to academic freedom."--H-Florida"This book offers detailed and compelling evidence of institutional and social hostility toward lesbian and gay educators at mid-century, something we generally knew existed but has been frighteningly absent from the public record. This exceptional book renders in engrossing detail just how homophobia played out in schools."--Jackie M. Blount, author of Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century"Evocative and effective. This book makes a significant contribution not only to our understanding of the Johns Committee but to the history of education."--David K. Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal GovernmentTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xix 1. Politics of Intimidation in the Sunshine State 1 2. A Stealth Investigation 20 3. Silence Will Not Protect You 50 4. Doing the Public's Business 98 5. A Profession at Risk 120 Conclusion 145 Notes 149 Index 181
£17.09
University of Illinois Press PreGay L.A.
Book SynopsisA rich and definitive history of the gay rights movement's West Coast originsTrade Review“White skillfully weaves informative studies of key leaders such as Harry Hay with illuminating analyses of the movement’s overall developments. Highly recommended.”--Choice“White details this history for posterity with dedication and attention to detail. For historians and those interested in the evolution of the movement for homosexual rights in Los Angeles, Pre-Gay LA emerges as a valuable reference tool.”--Bay Area Reporter"This book reminds us how much we owe to the men and women who, more than half a century ago, bravely stood up against prejudice, how hard they worked, how human they were, and in the end how admirable. Todd White has written a carefully documented account of people and organizations engaged in a struggle for gay rights many years before Stonewall."--Gay & Lesbian Review
£19.79
University of Illinois Press Songs in Black and Lavender
Book SynopsisShows how studying the women's music festivals provides insights into the role of music and lesbian community formation. This book argues that the women's music festival is a significant institutional site for the emergence of black feminist consciousness in the contemporary period.Trade Review"Written with candor and humor, Hayes's study models a welcome, crucial, and decisive turn in scholarship on women's music. Recommended."--Choice"This is the book we've been waiting for. Hayes provides valuable interrogations of the internal and external politics around race, gender, sexuality, culture, and the formations of black feminist consciousness that can make or break a social movement." --Kimberly Springer, author of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980"Exhibiting multiple sites of influence and authorities, the first chapter, 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman Festigoer,' is one of the most engaging ethnographies I have read. Who can resist a scholar who isn't afraid to talk about serious matters via one of the highest forms of intelligence: humor?"--Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop"This book is amazingly fresh and confident. Certainly there is nothing like it in ethnomusicology."--Deborah Wong, author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music
£19.94
University of Illinois Press Queer Migration Politics
Book Synopsis Delineating an approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, Queer Migration Politics examines a series of 'coalitional moments' in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the predominant rhetoric, imagery, and ideologies that signal a sense of national identity. Karma Chávez analyzes how activists use coalition to articulate the shared concerns of queer politics and migration politics, as both populations seek to imagine their ability to belong in various communities and spaces, their relationships to state and regional politics, and their relationships to other people whose lives might be very different from their own. Advocating a politics of the present and drawing from women of color and queer of color theory, this book contends that coalition enables a vital understanding of how queerness and immigration, citizenship and belonging, and inclusion and exclusion are linked.Trade ReviewBook of the Year, LGBTQ Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2014. "This is the sphere of academic work, but Chávez goes beyond that, calling for theorization that privileges the experiences of those walking the streets and putting their bodies on the line."--make/shift"Offers extensive insight into the intersectional aspects and coalitions of queer migrants. . . . This book is an excellent contribution to the study of rhetoric, social movements, queer rights, and immigration politics."--QED "With little existing scholarship on coalition building across social movement groups, Chavez provides qualitatively supported evidence for coalitional possibilities at the U.S.-Mexico border. Chavez's research differs from other lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/question (LGBTQ) and social movement scholarship as it explores uncharted terrain in the collaboration of activist groups while paying particular attention to intersectionality when analyzing the experiences of individuals who are marginalized by virtue of their nationality as well as their sexual orientation. An inspiring read for anyone with an interest in contemporary equality discourses."--Women's Studies in Communication "Chavez successfully tries to break this perception by merging together discussions around immigration rights, queer rights, and social justice. This study provides the reader a lens to see the triangular relationship between multiple oppression (or discrimination), coalition, and radical change. A clear illustration of the latest queer migration politics in the US sociopolitical world."--Gender, Place and Culture"A highly original contribution and is easily one of the most thoughtful books in queer studies I have read in a long time. Chavez's focus on rhetoric provides a unique lens through which to examine how queers, migrants, and queer migrants are intervening in their differential marginalization vis-a-vis nation-states, neoliberal political economy, and presumptions of citizenship as the telos of belonging. By the end of Queer Migration Politics, readers are left with the question of the extent to which queer migrant coalitional politics will expand and transform normative, nation-based LGBTQ and migrant politics."--GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies"Timely and prophetic."--Queer Theory"This study provides the reader a lens to see the triangular relationship between multiple oppression (or discrimination), coalition, and radical change. A clear illustration of the latest queer migration politics in the US sociopolitical world."--Gender, Place and Culture
£20.69
University of Illinois Press Oscar Wilde in America
Book SynopsisOscar Wilde's grand U.S. tour, captured in dozens of newspaper interviewsTrade Review"A generous and welcome sampling."--New York Review of Books "Highly recommended."--Choice"[A] rewarding, absorbing, and necessary book."--The Gay and Lesbian Review "Wilde was a source of fascination and provocation, and these assembled portraits reveal the rawness and the refinements, the pride and the anxieties, of American culture in the making during this important period. A vital and valuable book."--Eric Haralson, editor of Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry"This stimulating work is an invaluable record of Wilde's speech, appearance, and demeanor. An excitingly fresh study of interest both to Wilde specialists and to general readers."--Donald Mead, chairman of the Oscar Wilde Society and editor of The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies
£19.94
University of Illinois Press Roll Over Tchaikovsky
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is important work, bringing the scholarship of sexuality into a fascinating new setting. The project required a rare combination of skills--musical understanding, rich knowledge of present-day Russian culture, and the talents of an ethnographer who can be accepted as a confidant by Russian gay men. The research will never be duplicated, and this book is of great value to scholars of popular music, popular culture generally, and sexuality."--Fred Everett Maus, Department of Music, University of Virginia"I thoroughly enjoyed Roll Over, Tchaikovsky! Amico has produced an intensive, well-argued study that should be read by anyone with an interest in today's Russia."--Eliot Borenstein, author of Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture
£21.59
University of Illinois Press Ugly Differences
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A unique and rare opportunity to engage with a plethora of postpunk subcultural texts in academic writing and a refreshing radical reading of them through the concept of ugliness . . . would highly recommend . . . a joy to read." --Hypatia"Divest yourself of Dante's dreamscape and head for Howard's underground ugly. It's a tour you won't forget: smart, sexy, surprising, subversive. Howard's queer females will shake every last investment in beauty out of your soul, leaving you to contemplate a set of fertile negatives. No one should miss this delicious underworld."--Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
£19.79
University of Illinois Press Queer Timing
Book SynopsisJohn Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular Culture Association (PCA), 2020 In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema. Potter sees the emergence of lesbian figures as only the most visible but belated outcome of multiple sexuality effects. Early cinema reconfigured older erotic modalities, articulated new--though incoherent--sexual categories, and generated novel forms of queer feeling and affiliation. Potter draws on queer theory, silent film historiography, feminist film analysis, and archival research to provide an original and innovative analysis. Taking a conceptually oriented approach, she articulates the processes of filmic representation and spectatorship that reshaped, marginalized, or suppressed women's same-sex desires and identities. As she pursues a sense of timing, Potter stages scenes of the erTrade Review"If one is able to do as Potter asks and suspend contemporary sexual knowledge for the duration of one's reading, Queer Timing is a welcome return to familiar objects, histories, and concepts, one that will likely inspire readers to similarly return to their own objects of study with fresh eyes." --Journal of the History of Sexuality“Susan Potter offers a counterhistory of queer representation by examining films and extrafilmic archival materials from the late nineteenth century to the late 1920s. . . . Queer Timing provides a provocative approach to tracing queer sexuality in early cinema." --Women's Studies in Communication "Queer Timing represents an exceptional example of film scholarship and early cinema history grounded in queer theory. It provides a necessary queer complication to historiographical understandings of early cinema and spectatorship." --Synoptique "Complicating the critical consensus, Queer Timing foregrounds the centrality of women’s same-sex desire to historically distinct cinematic discourses of both homo- and heterosexuality." --Film History "Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema is an important contribution in the fields of film and queer temporality studies. . . . All in all, [it] is a very thorough analysis." --Feminist Media Studies "Susan Potter provides a necessary complication of early cinema studies by taking seriously both the particularities of early cinema and the radical alterity of the sexualities that--though fleeting--indelibly informed it. While film historical writing deeply aligned with both queer theory and the history of sexuality remains all too rare, Queer Timing might be the first study to so thoroughly pursue its project of lesbian emergence in precisely these terms."--Mark Lynn Anderson, author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America"Queer Timing is notable for its careful delineation of the objects it analyzes. Readers encounter especially thoughtful and well-grounded historical claims." --Choice"A virtuosic exploration of the sexual opacity of early cinema, Queer Timing centers the figure of the modern lesbian in order to decenter everything we thought we knew about her."--Heather K. Love, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History
£19.79
University of Illinois Press The Journalist of Castro Street
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stoner has crafted an amazingly exhaustive biography of Shilts . . . Through interviews, oral histories, Shilts’s own journals, and archival materials, Stoner provides a deeper, more nuanced understanding of Shilts, his work, his advocacy, and his legacy." --Journalism History"[The Journalist of Castro Street] is an important addition to the HIV/AIDS archive, particularly thanks to its careful discussion of political figures like Harvey Milk, George Moscone, Dan White, and Gaëtan Dugas." --Media History"A major contribution to gay history." --Booklist"A serious account of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most divisive gay figures." --Times Literary Supplement"A sympathetic, first-rate narrative of one of the most notable journalists of our time. Stoner captures the passions and imperfections of both the fearless writer and the gay-rights crusader."--Patrick Lee Plaisance, author of Virtue in Media: The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News and Public Relations"The Journalist of Castro Street is a moving biography of a journalist and his life's work. . . . This is an excellent piece of writing." --Seattle Book Review"The Journalist of Castro Street is the result of copious research and interviewing." --The Gay & Lesbian Review"[In The Journalist of Castro Street] we get to discover Shilts, as if in real time, as he discovers himself, one page at a time." --A&U Magazine "The first-ever biography of the acclaimed investigative journalist and author captures a complex portrait of Randy Shilts, offering a rare behind-the-scenes glance into his short, yet blazing trajectory through life and (early AIDS and LGBTQ+) journalism." --A&U Magazine "Well written, comprehensive, and insightful. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice "Andrew Stoner has masterfully woven a powerful story: well-written, historically grounded, thoughtful, engaging, and important. The Journalist of Castro Street is engrossing yet haunting. It is indispensable for anyone who would understand the early years of the AIDS crisis, the intersection of the epidemic and the news media, and the challenges facing Shilts as the openly gay journalist blazed a trail into the media mainstream. It is not merely a biography of Shilts, it is more."--Edward M. Alwood, former CNN correspondent and author of Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press
£999.99
Indiana University Press Namibias Rainbow Project
Book SynopsisTells the story of the unexpected effects of The Rainbow Project (TRP), a LGBT rights program for young Namibians begun in response to President Nujoma's notorious hate speeches against homosexuals.Trade ReviewOverall, Lorway convincingly illustrates that the refiguring of identity categories and subjectivities by Western aid organizations is not the solution to Africa's problems with homophobia or to the violent dilemmas faced by so many LGBT Africans. As in many other circumstances involving Western aid, it often does more harm than good. * Africa *Namibia's Rainbow Project is a very important book as it helps make sense of the time the Rainbow Youth live in and of how they can transform the situations they are facing. This book is creative and formulates key questions on the current Namibia's social, economic, and political reality that help enlighten the African situation as a whole. This book is ideal for teaching and for young researchers who need to know the complexity of projects about politics and health in Africa. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *[This book] should be compulsory reading for all those GLBT groups that have embraced global issues and forgotten the dangers of wading in without very carefully thinking through the long-term implications of immediate action. * Gay and Lesbian Review *Namibia's Rainbow Project is a monograph that will captivate readers and help to dispel persisting misconceptions about queer Africans. This book is likely to interest students and scholars of social movements, gender, and sexuality in southern Africa and scholars who specialise in Namibia. * Journal of Southern Africa Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrologue: Approaching the TransnationalIntroduction1. The Instrumentality of Sex2. Subjectivity as a Political Territory 3. Remaking Female Citizenship4. The Naturalization of Intimate Partner Violence5. Thinking Through the Foreigner FetishConclusion: Post-structural ViolenceNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.04
Indiana University Press Pink 2.0 Encoding Queer Cinema on the Internet
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Scope and TerminologyIntroduction: Questioning the "Queer Internet"1. Digitizing Gay Fandom: Corporate Encounters with Queer Cinema on the Internet2. Epistemology of the Blogosphere: Queer Cinema on Gay Porn Sites3. Franco, Ginsberg, Kerouac & Co.: Constructing a Beat Topos with Digital Networked Technologies4. Liberating Gayness: Selling the Sexual Candor of I Love You Phillip Morris5. "Nollywood Goes Homo": Gay Identifications on the Nigerian InternetConclusion: AntiviralBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press FTM
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they do about it? How do their families respond? Who are their lovers? What does it mean for everyone else? To answer these and other questions, Devor spent years compiling in-depth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgender people. Here, he traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce into trans identities, culminating in gender and sex transformations. Using trans men's own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescence, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify their images of themselves as men. With a new introduction, Devor positions the volume in twenty-first century debates of identity politTrade ReviewThis is the most comprehensive, professional book to date on FTM transsexualism and the many aspects of their life journeys. For its volume, this book is clearly understandable and reads without excessive use of scientific and academic rhetoric, thus making the book available to a broad audience. It is nonjudgmental, nonsensational, and provocative in its honesty, interpretation, and challenge to the future of societal opinion regarding FTM gender identity. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Journal of Sex ResearchDevor's exploration of the life experiences and transformations of female-to-male transsexuals richly describes a heretofore neglected topic. Devor's compelling description provides readers with insights that both contrast with and complement the existing literature on male-to-female transsexuals and other transgendered individuals. (Reviewing a previous edition) * Contemporary Sociology *A landmark in the documentation of the personal lives of transsexual men. (Reviewing a previous edition) * The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality *The book alternates specialized academic analysis with the individual studies, and should be of interest to both professionals who work with transsexuals and scholars interested in gender theory. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- ChoiceWriting with an intelligent and accessible style, Dr. Devor balances exposition, analysis, and excerpts from her subjects' interviews to present a coherent picture of what social life is like for FTMs as they find their identity and learn about themselves. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Jamison "James" GreenThis is the most comprehensive, professional book to date on FTM transsexualism and the many aspects of their life journeys. For its volume, this book is clearly understandable and reads without excessive use of scientific and academic rhetoric, thus making the book available to a broad audience. It is nonjudgmental, nonsensational, and provocative in its honesty, interpretation, and challenge to the future of societal opinion regarding FTM gender identity. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Journal of Sex ResearchDevor's exploration of the life experiences and transformations of female-to-male transsexuals richly describes a heretofore neglected topic. Devor's compelling description provides readers with insights that both contrast with and complement the existing literature on male-to-female transsexuals and other transgendered individuals. (Reviewing a previous edition) * Contemporary Sociology *A landmark in the documentation of the personal lives of transsexual men. (Reviewing a previous edition) * The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality *The book alternates specialized academic analysis with the individual studies, and should be of interest to both professionals who work with transsexuals and scholars interested in gender theory. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- ChoiceWriting with an intelligent and accessible style, Dr. Devor balances exposition, analysis, and excerpts from her subjects' interviews to present a coherent picture of what social life is like for FTMs as they find their identity and learn about themselves. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Jamison "James" GreenTable of ContentsForeword, 2016 / by Jamison GreenForeword, 1997 / by Jamison GreenAcknowledgementsNew IntroductionOriginal IntroductionPart I: First Questions1. Have Female-to-Male Transsexuals Always Existed?2. Theories about TranssexualismPart II: Childhood Years3. Finding Out about Gender: Theories of Childhood Gender Acquisition4. Family Scenes5. Who Would Want to Be a Girl?: The Women (and Girls) in Participants' Families6. Men Rule: The Men (and Boys) in Participants' Families7. Lessons Learned at Home: Summary of Family Relationships8. Childhood Friends and Foes: Relationships with Non-Family MembersPart III: Adolescence9. Adolescence Is about Change10. Crises at Puberty11. Adolescent Friendships12. Women Are Different: Relationships with Female Relatives13. Access Denied, Restrictions Apply: Relationship with Male Relatives14. Looking for Love, Groping for Identity: Adolescent Sexuality15. Concluding AdolescencePart IV: Pre-Transition Years16. Finding IdentitiesPart V: Changing Over17. A Long Road18. Making the Decision19. Making the Changes20. Coming Out Stories21. Are We There Yet?Part VI: Life after Transition22. Nature Calls: Toilet Traumas and Medical Necessities23. The Naked Truth about Sexuality24. Visions of Genders25. Lessons from the JourneyPart: VII: Concluding26. Conclusions and QuestionsAppendixNotesBibliographySubject IndexParticipant Index
£31.50
Indiana University Press Pink 2.0 Encoding Queer Cinema on the Internet
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Scope and TerminologyIntroduction: Questioning the "Queer Internet"1. Digitizing Gay Fandom: Corporate Encounters with Queer Cinema on the Internet2. Epistemology of the Blogosphere: Queer Cinema on Gay Porn Sites3. Franco, Ginsberg, Kerouac & Co.: Constructing a Beat Topos with Digital Networked Technologies4. Liberating Gayness: Selling the Sexual Candor of I Love You Phillip Morris5. "Nollywood Goes Homo": Gay Identifications on the Nigerian InternetConclusion: AntiviralBibliographyIndex
£19.94
Indiana University Press Queer Women and Religious Individualism
Book SynopsisSpiritual, queer, and community identity in 21st-century AmericaTrade ReviewWilcox (Whitman College) has crafted a remarkably fine study in the sociology of religion that she developed from a base of only 29 LBT core interview subjects. Here she proves herself the equal of Robert Bellah et al., in their landmark community studies Habits of the Heart (1985) and The Good Society (CH, Mar'92, 29-4200), by combining the skills of an adept urban historian, social geographer, gender philosopher, and empathetic observer. The resulting book integrates her interview data into a broader base that enables her to move beyond the responses of interviewees and boundaries of institutional religion into a close description of contemporary styles of spiritual seeking and alternative strategies of human identity formation. Wilcox's insights extend to the dilemmas faced by a large cross-section of 21st-century American citizens so that her study makes good on the two key phrases in her title. It is about religious individualism as well as queer women. She earlier published Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community (CH, Jun'04, 41-5867) and coedited, with D. R. Machacek, Sexuality and the World's Religions (CH, Apr'04, 41-4608). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. -- ChoiceG. R. Thursby, emeritus, University of Florida, April 2010"Original research into areas that have not been much investigated or written about.... A rather masterful user of [theory], Wilcox is especially interested in taking the idea of 'intersectionality'... and using it as a theoretical reminder that one must represent women in their clearest life contexts of race, gender, community, economics, physical and emotional resources, etc., as well as the individual power they muster to create their own religious lives." —Leonard Primiano, Cabrini College"A remarkably fine study in the sociology of religion. [Wilcox] proves herself the equal of Robert Bellah et al., in their landmark community studies Habits of the Heart (1985) and The Good Society, by combining the skills of an adept urban historian, social geographer, gender philosopher, and empathetic observer. [The result is] a close description of contemporary styles of spiritual seeking and alternative strategies of human identity formation. Highly recommended." —Choice"[This book] approaches the dialogue [of women and religion] with a timely case study that explores the intersection of religious experience and queer identities." —JAAR / Jrnl American Academy of Religion"In this volume Wilcox explores her findings of a survey of women conducted in the Los Angeles area, investigating female sexual variations in relation to religion and spirituality....The volume usefully concludes with biographical summaries and methodological considerations." —Stephen Hunt, Religion and GenderTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsMap of Los Angeles1. Beyond the Congregation2. Setting the Stage: Historical Contexts3. Queering the Spiritual Marketplace4. Negotiating Religion: Continuity, Conversion, Innovation5. Tiles in the Mosaic: Organizations as Resources6. Building a Mosaic: The Sacred (and the) Self7. Queer Women, Religion, and PostmodernityAppendix A. Biographical Summaries Appendix B. Methods and Methodological ConsiderationsAppendix C. Interview SchedulesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£20.89
University of Texas Press Pillar of Salt
Book SynopsisWritten with exquisite sensitivity and wit, this memoir by one of Mexico’s foremost men of letters describes coming of age during the violence of the Mexican Revolution and “living dangerously” as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society.Trade Review"And if 'translators translate context,' as Edith Grossman asserts, then what we encounter when we read Pillar of Salt is a supreme translation not only of language but also of culture, politics, sexuality, and boyhood." * Bookslut *"Reading [Pillar of Salt] was like shining a black light into a motel room, laying bare the secret traces of every lurid, defiant act that had preceded me there." * The Believer *Table of Contents Introduction The Sidelong World: Where Confession and Proclamation Are Compounded, by Carlos Monsiváis Pillar of Salt by Salvador Novo “This flower of fourteen petals”: Salvador Novo and the Sonnet, by Marguerite Feitlowitz Sonnets Notes Index of Names
£25.19
