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Book SynopsisQueer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays that over the past two decades have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital and important areas of study in both the humanities and social sciences. Brings together important essays that have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital areas of study in the humanities and social sciences. Includes an introductory essay by the editors that provides a context for this pivotal scholarship and promotes dialogue across disciplines. Discusses key issues in the field, including sexual politics, cultural construction of sexuality, transnationalism, race, community, sexual citizenship and the nation-state. Functions as a primary text for introductory as well as advanced courses, as a general introduction to the field, and as a scholarly resource. Trade Review"There is much here that is fascinating and adds to our knowledge of the multiplicity of ways in which people experience and live their sexualities." Sexualities "Refusing the easy collapse of queer studies into gay and lesbian studies, Corber and Valocchi offer scholars and activists a collection of essays that maps the complexities of non-normative desires as they are produced in and through social institutions, economic practices, disciplinary structures, and cultural discourse. In the process, they reclaim the political hope that queer studies is a radical intervention into regimes of being and knowing!" Robyn Wiegman, Duke University "Queer Studies may very well be the first Reader that students and professors should consult to get an overview of the field. Interdisciplinary, ambitious, and accessible, the volume is a fine contribution to this dynamic field." Steven Seidman, University at Albany, State University of New York "There is much here that is fascinating and adds to our knowledge of the multiplicity of ways in which people experience and live their sexualities" Richard Dunphy, University of DundeeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I Practices, Identities, Communities 1 The Trouble with Harry Thaw 21 Martha M. Umphrey 2 Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism 31 Cheryl Chase 3 Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS 46 Cathy J. Cohen 4 Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Women or Men 61 C. Jacob Hale Part II the Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality 5 The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America 73 Lisa Duggan 6 The Returns of Cleopatra Jones 88 Jennifer DeVere Brody 7 (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler 102 Laura Kipnis Part III Sexual Citizenship and the Nation-State 8 Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity 121 Nayan Shah 9 The Talk of the County: Revisiting Accusation, Murder, and Mississippi, 1895 142 John Howard 10 The Brandon Teena Archive 159 Judith Halberstam 11 Sex in Public 170 Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner Part IV Transnationalizing Sexualities 12 Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan 187 Jennifer Robertson 13 Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion 206 Gayatri Gopinath 14 The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia 218 Tom Boellstorff 15 A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes 237 Don Kulick Index 255

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Book SynopsisSalomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.Trade Review[An] illuminating microhistory of the Jewish goldsmith and Christian convert Salomone da Sesso, and how far he and his family were truly able to integrate into their ‘host’ society of Renaissance Mantua and Ferrara. -- Simon Ditchfield * Times Higher Education *Reconstructs the complex relations between Christians and Jews in the Renaissance, highlighting a darker side of an era often seen as enlightened. -- Ariel David * Haaretz *Breaks new ground…Herzig’s engaging tome illustrates how deeply the fates of individual converts could depend on their immediate circumstances…Herzig’s masterful portrait of Ercole reveals much about Ercole’s life and world, and it shows that this acclaimed goldsmith embodied important trends common to many premodern converts. -- Paola Tartakoff * Marginalia *Enriches our present understanding of apostasy through an interdisciplinary investigation of the artistic, political, social and psychological undertones of the phenomenon…Herzig is able to turn a micro-historical case study into a macroscopic biopic of a self-fashioned virtuoso of the arts and the social life of 16th-century Ferrara…Convincingly succeeds in painting a full-color portrait of an equally raw and embellished life. -- Allegra Baggio Corradi * Reviews in History *Herzig interweaves art history and family history, probing also the relations between Jewish communities and Christian patrons…A significant contribution to historical scholarship…The book’s rich descriptions and lucid prose make this convert’s tale one well worth reading. -- Debra Kaplan * American Historical Review *[A] richly detailed work of microhistory…Herzig’s investigation of Salomone/Ercole’s history leads to new reflections on the lives of Jewish converts and Christian rulers in early modern Italy and how punishment, gender, and religion intertwined. -- Meghan Callahan * Canadian Journal of History *Meticulously researched and superbly written…Provides a more ambitious and richly textured panorama of the wider effects of Salomone’s life as a Jew, as a Christian, and as a goldsmith, in relation to his family members, his patrons, associates—both Jews and Christians—and the Renaissance culture and society in which he lived…Herzig’s work will stand at the forefront of research on the conversion of Jews to Christianity in Renaissance Italy for many years to come. -- Katherine E. Aron-Beller * H-Net Reviews *Extremely well-written and meticulously researched…Sheds light on the expectations and realities of Jewish converts as well as the stigma of conversion in the community. Through these analyses, Herzig answers the overarching question of why Salomone converted—and concludes that it was for both protection and financial reasons. -- Nilab Ferozan * Renaissance and Reformation *In a major feat of archival sleuthing, Herzig presents a study of conversion that will interest academics and the general audience alike. -- Dana E. Katz * Renaissance Quarterly *[A] bravura piece of scholarship…[an] extraordinary story…Herzig’s expertise extends to many fields…Shows the personal side of conversion in a way that confirms more theoretical recent scholarship…The power of this story lies in how it shows layers of society interdependent and melded together. Herzig gives us an impoverished Jewish community, an unstable but striving artisan class, the many intermediaries who ran crucial interference between artists and patrons, the rulers themselves, and the broader political network in which they governed. -- Emily Michelson * Renaissance Studies *Excellent…presents a vivid portrait of Salomone, tracing his life story as he and his family converted from Judaism to Christianity. Herzig deftly interweaves microhistory with broader considerations of gender, religious difference, and cultural assimilation in the Renaissance, crafting an exceedingly readable narrative that enriches our understanding of the intersections between artistic patronage and religious conversion in the Italian Renaissance. -- Rachel Miller * Annali d’Italianistica *[Herzig’s] account of Salomone/Ercole’s life and times throws an intriguing light on the complex situation of Jewish communities in Renaissance Italy in the years before the Council of Trent. -- Brian G. H. Ditcham * Sixteenth Century Journal *A thoroughly researched investigation of the life of one of the most celebrated Renaissance goldsmiths, A Convert’s Tale offers a vivid, layered portrayal of the ambiguities inherent in both Jewish–Christian and patron–client relations in Renaissance Italy. Herzig’s book is exemplary in its insightful treatment of the familial and gendered implications of conversion to Christianity. Its impressive reconstruction of the often unglamorous vicissitudes of a busy artisan’s existence, and its masterful presentation of the complex power dynamics that marked the uneven relations between Jews/Jewish converts and their princely protectors, make A Convert’s Tale an unmissable read for Renaissance and Jewish Studies scholars alike. -- Francesca Bregoli, author of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century ReformHerzig’s brilliant case study offers captivating new perspectives, not just for the glance it casts on Salomone’s apostasy, but also on the profound effects, both negative and positive, his adherence to Christianity had on his family over the long term. A Convert’s Tale will increase our understanding of conversion in early modern Italy and move scholarship on Jewish–Christian relations in fascinating new directions. -- Konrad Eisenbichler, author of The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century SienaA Convert’s Tale is an incisive book that with impressive sophistication blends archival research with cultural and social history. Herzig employs a microhistorical approach to thoroughly examine the life of a noted virtuoso goldsmith as a Jew and later as a convert in Renaissance Italy. In so doing she shines a light on the life of converts from Judaism to Christianity, Jewish–Christian relations, patronage, and homosexuality in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian cities with her usual, admirable command of primary sources and scholarship. -- Federica Francesconi, University at Albany, State University of New YorkA compelling read, a book that will be of great interest to scholars and students of art and material culture, of Jews and Jewish converts, of Renaissance court life, and of aristocratic marriages, with particular insight into the condition of women within them. -- Miri Rubin * Journal of Modern History *A fascinating, detailed microhistorical portrait of the life and career of Salomone da Sesso, a virtuoso Jewish goldsmith who converted to Catholicism in Ferrara in 1491…[Herzig’s work] provides a great deal of insight into the place of Jews in the society and culture of the Italian Renaissance. -- Rosa Salzberg * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *Throughout this beautifully written book, Herzig calls on us to reflect from multiple perspectives on the material she has uncovered…the historian’s own inquisitive, analytic voice and comparative methodology stand behind this tale, revealing a great deal about how—with what achievements and what limitations—it is possible to reconstruct the past by astutely examining the pieces of the puzzle that have survived dispersed among the archives. -- L. Scott Lerner * Journal of Jewish Identities *[A Convert’s Tale] presents the life of Salomone—later baptized as Ercole de’Fedeli—and the advantages, trials, and tribulations of a convert in quattrocento Italy. Chasing Salomone and his family through the archives, Herzig connects this convert’s life to the broader histories of artistry, patronage, intra-Jewish communal affairs, interfaith relations, and identity politics. -- Marci Freedman * H-Judaic *

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Book SynopsisShows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. This title looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Biennial Book Award, Order of the Coif Winner of the 2011 John Boswell Prize, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History Winner of the 2010 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Studies by the Lambda Literary Foundation Co-Winner of the 2010 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association Winner of the 2010 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Winner of the 2010 Cromwell Book Prize, American Society for Legal History "It is not really news that inhabitants of the United States are governed by what historian Margot Canaday calls, in the title of her excellent book, a 'straight state.' For some time now, scholars of sexuality (following in the footsteps of those who have studied and challenged the race and gender hierarchies embedded in state policies and actions) have professed the analytical goal of what historian Lisa Duggan, writing in 1994, called 'queering the state.' These scholars have argued that the supposed naturalness of the heterosexual couple, and the unnaturalness of alternatives, is presumed and reinforced in the ordinary workings of government. Canaday's substantial contribution is to trace, in gripping and at times horrifying detail, exactly how the United States came to operate in this fashion over the course of much of the twentieth century. The Straight State provides a compelling history of the designation of 'the homosexual as the anticitizen.' ... The Straight State is a captivating, engagingly written work of social, political, legal and sexual history, and the fruit of an extraordinary attention to archival documents."--Steven Epstein, Nation "[Canaday] succeeds in ... contributing brilliantly both to understandings of the relationship between state practices and the construction of identity and to the story of the rise of the modern bureaucratic state as a sexual state... [This] book ... presents a fascinating reframing of a familiar story and opens substantial new space for related research."--Julie Novkov, Perspectives on Politics "[The Straight State] is a pathbreaking, riveting historical study... [Canaday's] brilliant book is revelatory."--David A. J. Richards, Law and History Review "Princeton Professor Margot Canaday has presented us with a superb and groundbreaking analysis of the role of federal institutions in shaping the LGBT identity over the course of the 20th Century... Professor Canaday's work satisfies in a way all too rarely encountered in contemporary historical writing. The Straight State opens our eyes to the role of evolving federal policies in immigration, welfare, and the military in defining homosexuality and the gay persona... The Straight State is indispensable to the student of modern queer history."--Toby Grace, Out in Jersey "Canaday contends that the emergence of state bureaucracy in the 20th-century US may be tracked through its developing definition and regulation of homosexuality... While some scholars may debate the author's particular inferences from her evidence, this volume opens new ground in gender research."--Choice "The Straight State makes three outstanding contributions: it delineates the state as a whole fresh category in the formation of gay identities; elite reform becomes more important than bottom up revolution; while she moves gay history, convincingly, right into the mainstream of historical inquiry. Canaday has, therefore, produced an extremely important book."--Kevin White, Journal of Social History "Canaday offer[s] a much more complete record than has previously appeared in print of the law of gay-straight discrimination and its meaning in people's lives."--Felicia Kornbluh, Law & Social Inquiry "[An] absorbing account of federal policies, [this study] makes an important intervention by showing why historians of sexuality need to pay more attention to questions of citizenship and the practices of the administrative state."--George Chauncey, American Historical Review "[This] book contributes to an ongoing body of lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender theoretical, historical, and social research in fascinating new ways, revealing the extent to which normative critiques continue to inform queer theory and structure queer lives."--Jaime Cantrell, Feminist FormationsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART I: Nascent Policing Chapter 1: IMMIGRATION "A New Species of Undesirable Immigrant": Perverse Aliens and the Limits of the Law, 1900-1924 19 Chapter 2: MILITARY "We Are Merely Concerned with the Fact of Sodomy": Managing Sexual Stigma in the World War I-Era Military, 1917-1933 55 Chapter 3: WELFARE "Most Fags Are Floaters": The Problem of "Unattached Persons" during the Early New Deal, 1933-1935 91 PART II: Explicit Regulation Chapter 4: WELFARE "With the Ugly Word Written across It": Homo-Hetero Binarism, Federal Welfare Policy, and the 1944 GI Bill 137 Chapter 5: MILITARY "Finding a Home in the Army": Women's Integration, Homosexual Tendencies, and the Cold War Military, 1947-1959 174 Chapter 6: IMMIGRATION "Who Is a Homosexual?": The Consolidation of Sexual Identities in Mid-twentieth-century Immigration Law, 1952-1983 214 Conclusion 255 Index 265

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Book SynopsisWhen Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand intimate interactions of religious, political, and familial authTrade Review"First of all, the book is gorgeously written. Second, it is the anthropology of experience rather than the anthropology of abstruse theory."--Martin Peretz, New Republic "Vivid detail fills Syrian Episodes, a book startling in its frankness about the Princeton professor's friendly, frustrating, and even flirtatious encounters in Syria's second-largest city... The author fulfills his early promise of an ethnography that is as much about others' questions as his own. Both intrigue the reader as one reads conversations about subjects as varied as God, sex, movies, George W. Bush, and the Ba'ath Party. Drawing on his experiences at the souk, and the university, Mr. Borneman tells the stories of young men, some oppressed by paternal authority, some adrift without it."--Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education "Readers who are nostalgic for the orientalist tradition of encounters with the exotic other would enjoy this book, particularly given the accessible narrative style in which it is written."--Faedah M. Totah, H-NET ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xxix Chapter I: P Aleppo 1 "Prayer is better than sleep" 1 Imad's Japanese Girlfriend 7 Farce 11 "I would rather have children than fly" 13 "Once you love deeply, you never forget" 21 "My father says he saves for me" 23 "As long as she gets along with me, she will have no problems with my mother" 26 "Do you desire your mother?" 29 Traffic, or the Normal Order of Things 31 Preparing to Teach 42 Administrative Pleasantries 43 "But we are homophobic!" 52 "So, what do you think of Muslims?" 62 "I'd like to be the next president" 68 "The religious people see this and hate it, but they cannot turn it off" 74 "God will tell us when we have to do something" 84 "Kiss Daddy! Kiss Daddy!" 88 Chapter II: P The Souk 96 "Come into my shop and let me take you" 96 "Do you have a brother?" 100 "Ossi oder NorMAL?" 103 The Souk's Logic of Exchange 107 Fathers, Sons, Brothers, and Inheritance 112 Dream Collector 115 Dream of the Mistress 117 "How great is my disappointment when I see my dreams breaking down" 119 "Every woman thinks I only want to sleep with her" 123 Cell Phone, Cassettes, String Underwear 127 "That is fieldwork!" 128 "A father, perhaps a brother" 130 Fathers and Sons 145 "It is a blessing" 149 The Rumor 153 Chapter III: P Syria 156 "These are my children" 156 Aleppian Food, in Public 162 Obtaining an Exit Visa 166 The Ba'ath Party 169 Student Radicals 175 Teaching Anthropology and American Culture 178 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 187 Wild Dog Attack 190 Chapter IV: P Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Syria 192 Pedagogy 192 Lectures 194 Films 196 Coda: January 2006 200 Further Reading 225 Index 233

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An extraordinary selection of over 120 works reveals the splits, juxtapositions, reflections, and multiplications deployed by modern and contemporary artists to explore sameness and difference, the original and the copy, the self and the other."---Rachel Vogel, CAA.Reviews"An elegant exhibition catalogue. . . . The Double remind[s] us vividly that virtually all art is inherently a self-reflection of its maker and a mirror of the times in which it was made."---Donald Brackett, Critics at Large

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Book SynopsisThe claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence.Trade Review"Queer Wars is broad in its scope, engaging in its material, thorough in its conception, and passionate in its argument on how advocacy should build a consensus that protects sexual minorities globally from violence and discrimination. A book for strategists, activists, academics and international workers alike." Edwin Cameron, Constitutional Court of South Africa "The global struggle for sexual and gender minority rights is one of the most critical and contested human rights movements of our time. As queer communities mobilize, and the coming generation of young people worldwide express greater tolerance, acceptance and calls for freedom, the pushback has been intense. Altman and Symons have done us all an invaluable service in unpacking the complex politics around LGBT rights, demands, cultures and contexts. Queer Wars is essential reading for all engaged in pressing for more just, open and diverse societies." Chris Beyrer, Johns Hopkins University and President of the International AIDS Society "Dennis Altman�s and Jonathan Symons� work Queer Wars is a timely and accessible intervention on the global state of play for queer rights." Australian Institute of International AffairsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Queer Wars: How should we respond to global polarization over gay rights?Chapter 1: Setting the Agenda Chapter 2: The Emergence of a Global Movement Chapter 3: Queer Rights as Human Rights Chapter 4: The Conservative Backlash Chapter 5: International Polarization Chapter 6: What is to be done?NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores how youth identities have been constructed through dominant and often competing discourses about youth, sexuality, and gender, and how queer youth in Alberta negotiated the contradictions of these discourses.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Gendering: Troubled Theories, Troubling Identities2 Production and Consumption of Youth Identity3 Social/Legal Production of Sexual Minorities in Canada4 Queer Identities and Strange Representations in the Province of the Severely NormalNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians.Trade ReviewKinsman and Gentile have taken on an ambitious project both with respect to their topic as well as the scope of more than four decades worth of material. This is an incredibly important piece of work and will be appreciated by those who have a historical interest in national security campaigns and queer history, as well as those who want a history on which to base contemporary resistance to the security campaigns that are still being mounted against many marginalized people today. * TOPIA, Spring 2011 *This account of the surveillance of Canadian lesbians and gays in the name of national security is impressive, at once bone-chilling and inspiring. -- David Rayside * Left History, 14.2 *An important intervention into mainstream studies of Canadian historiography. -- Jack Hixson-Vulpe * Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 *Table of ContentsPreface: National Security Wars Then and Now1 Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History2 Queer History and Sociology from Below: Resisting National Security as an Ideological Practice3 The Cold War against Queers: Social and Historical Contexts4 The Social Relations of National Security: Spying and Interrogation5 The “Fruit Machine”: Attempting to Detect Queers6 Queer Resistance and the Security Response7 The Campaign Continues in the 1970s: Security Risks and Lesbian Purges in the Military8 “Gay Political Activists” and “Radical Lesbians”: Organizing against the National Security State9 From Exclusion to Assimilation10 Resisting the Expanding National Security State: From the Canadian War on Queers to the War on “Terror”AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.Trade ReviewJudging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Barry AdamPrefaceIntroduction1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City HallConclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.Trade ReviewJudging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Barry AdamPrefaceIntroduction1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City HallConclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the rarely heard voices of Canada’s lesbian mothers, Transforming Law’s Family explores the legal dimensions of planned lesbian parenthood and proposes avenues for legal change.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Legal and Social Context 2 On Whose Terms? On What Terms? Lesbian and Gay FamilyRecognition 3 Defining Queer Kinship: How Do Lesbian Mothers Understand TheirFamilial Relationships? 4 Engaging with Reform: Legal Mechanisms for the Recognition of theLesbian Family 5 (Re)forming Law’s Family 6 Some Concluding Thoughts on Law Reform and Progressive SocialChange Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCanada is considered a leader when it comes to LGBTQ rights, but as Queer Mobilizations shows, this has less to do with progressive politicians than with the work of queer activists who have fought for policy changes from their local city halls to the chambers of Parliament.Trade ReviewThis is a good book to turn to for an overall inventory of LGBTQ equality-seeking actions across the country over the years. It will likely prove to be an important resource for anyone interested in social change, social movements, and LGBTQ studies in Canada. -- Barry Adam, University of Windsor * Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 78 *Table of ContentsForeword / Elise ChenierIntroduction / Manon TremblayPart 1: The National Level1 LGBTQ Activism: The Pan-Canadian Political Space / Miriam Smith2 LGBTQ Issues as Indigenous Politics: Two-Spirit Mobilization in Canada / Julie Depelteau and Dalie GirouxPart 2: The Regional Level3 Queer Advocacy in Ontario / David Rayside4 Quebec and Sexual Diversity: From Repression to Citizenship? / Manon Tremblay5 Mobilization on the Periphery: LGBT Activism and Success in Atlantic Canada / Joanna Everitt6 LGBT Movements in Western Canada: British Columbia / Brian Burtch, Aynsley Pescitelli, and Rebecca Haskell7 “Severely Queer” in Western Canada: LGBT2Q Activism in Alberta / Alexa DeGagnePart 3: The Municipal Level8 From Contestation to Incorporation: LGBT Activism and Urban Politics in Montreal / Julie Podmore9 Gay and Lesbian Political Mobilization in Urban Spaces: Toronto / Catherine J. Nash10 Building Queer Infrastructure: Trajectories of Activism and Organizational Development in Decolonizing Vancouver / Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram11 “Punch[ing] More Than Its Weight”: LGBT organizing in Halifax, Nova Scotia / Nathaniel M. LewisConclusion / Manon TremblayIndex

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Book SynopsisCanada is considered a leader when it comes to LGBTQ rights, but as Queer Mobilizations shows, this has less to do with progressive politicians than with the work of queer activists who have fought for policy changes from their local city halls to the chambers of Parliament.Trade ReviewThis is a good book to turn to for an overall inventory of LGBTQ equality-seeking actions across the country over the years. It will likely prove to be an important resource for anyone interested in social change, social movements, and LGBTQ studies in Canada. -- Barry Adam, University of Windsor * Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 78 *Table of ContentsForeword / Elise ChenierIntroduction / Manon TremblayPart 1: The National Level1 LGBTQ Activism: The Pan-Canadian Political Space / Miriam Smith2 LGBTQ Issues as Indigenous Politics: Two-Spirit Mobilization in Canada / Julie Depelteau and Dalie GirouxPart 2: The Regional Level3 Queer Advocacy in Ontario / David Rayside4 Quebec and Sexual Diversity: From Repression to Citizenship? / Manon Tremblay5 Mobilization on the Periphery: LGBT Activism and Success in Atlantic Canada / Joanna Everitt6 LGBT Movements in Western Canada: British Columbia / Brian Burtch, Aynsley Pescitelli, and Rebecca Haskell7 “Severely Queer” in Western Canada: LGBT2Q Activism in Alberta / Alexa DeGagnePart 3: The Municipal Level8 From Contestation to Incorporation: LGBT Activism and Urban Politics in Montreal / Julie Podmore9 Gay and Lesbian Political Mobilization in Urban Spaces: Toronto / Catherine J. Nash10 Building Queer Infrastructure: Trajectories of Activism and Organizational Development in Decolonizing Vancouver / Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram11 “Punch[ing] More Than Its Weight”: LGBT organizing in Halifax, Nova Scotia / Nathaniel M. LewisConclusion / Manon TremblayIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book contends that Canada's acceptance of gay rights obscures and abets multiple forms of oppression and details how, in the fight for equality and inclusion, some LGBTQ communities gain acceptance within the mainstream, and as a result become complicit in a system that fortifies white supremacy, furthers settler colonialism, advances neoliberalism, and props up imperialist mythologies.Table of ContentsForeword / Rinaldo WalcottIntroduction: Interventions, Iterations, and Interrogations That Disturb the (Homo)Nation / Suzanne Lenon and OmiSoore H. Dryden1 Queer Regulation and the Homonational Rhetoric of Canadian Exceptionalism / Julian Awwad2 Unveiling Fetishnationalism: Bidding for Citizenship in Queer Times / Amar Wahab3 Pink Games on Stolen Land: Pride House and (Un)Queer Reterritorializations / Sonny Dhoot4 Disruptive Desires: Reframing Sexual Space at the Feminist Porn Awards / Naomi de Szegheo-Lang5 Monogamy, Marriage, and the Making of Nation / Suzanne Lenon6 Homonationalism at the Border and in the Streets: Organizing against Exclusion and Incorporation / Kathryn Trevenen and Alexa DeGagne7 “A Queer Too Far”: Blackness, “Gay Blood,” and Transgressive Possibilities / OmiSoore H. Dryden8 National Security and Homonationalism: The QuAIA Wars and the Making of the Neoliberal Queer / Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman9 Don’t Be a Stranger Now: Queer Exclusions, Decarceration, and HIV/AIDS / Marty FinkReferencesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA celebratory history of how lesbians “made a scene” by creating places and opportunities to form relationships, debate politics, and build their own culture across Canada.Trade ReviewThis well-researched study of twenty formative years of lesbian community-building in Canada covers a lot of ground … Millward has captured the flavor of an era by combining data from previous studies with eyewitness accounts and black-and-white photos from private collections. She proposes a symbiotic relationship between self-defined lesbians and their “scene” or social milieu: a lesbian identity requires a social context, and vice versa. -- Jean Roberta * The Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Creating Places1 “The Lesbian, Drinking, Is Never at Her Best”: Beer Parlours, Taverns, and Bars2 “No Drugs, No Straights”: Members-Only Clubs3 “Let’s Decide What We Are – A Drop-In or a Café with Entertainment”: BuildingsPart 2: Overcoming Geography4 “It Was an Incredible Conference”: Getting Together5 “An Event That Is Talked About as Far Away as Toronto”: Claiming Public Space6 “Be Daring – Live the Unbelievable and Challenging Life of a Rural Lesbian!”: Outside the Big CityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA celebratory history of how lesbians “made a scene” by creating places and opportunities to form relationships, debate politics, and build their own culture across Canada.Trade ReviewThis well-researched study of twenty formative years of lesbian community-building in Canada covers a lot of ground … Millward has captured the flavor of an era by combining data from previous studies with eyewitness accounts and black-and-white photos from private collections. She proposes a symbiotic relationship between self-defined lesbians and their “scene” or social milieu: a lesbian identity requires a social context, and vice versa. -- Jean Roberta * The Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Creating Places1 “The Lesbian, Drinking, Is Never at Her Best”: Beer Parlours, Taverns, and Bars2 “No Drugs, No Straights”: Members-Only Clubs3 “Let’s Decide What We Are – A Drop-In or a Café with Entertainment”: BuildingsPart 2: Overcoming Geography4 “It Was an Incredible Conference”: Getting Together5 “An Event That Is Talked About as Far Away as Toronto”: Claiming Public Space6 “Be Daring – Live the Unbelievable and Challenging Life of a Rural Lesbian!”: Outside the Big CityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBy challenging the erasure of radical histories, this book makes an invaluable contribution to remembering and rethinking Canadian sex and gender activism from the 1970s to the present.Trade ReviewThis collection is a must-read for queer and sexuality theorists and historians alike. -- Natalie Adamyk, University of Toronto * Labour/Le travail, Vol. 82 *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline RankinPart 1: Histories of Resistance and Activism1 Liberating Marriage: Gay Liberation and Same-Sex Marriage in Early 1970s Canada / Elise Chenier2 “Seducing the Unions”: Organized Labour and Strategies for Gay Liberation in Toronto in the 1970s / Mathieu Brûlé3 “À bas la répression contre les homosexuels!” Resistance and Surveillance of Queers in Montreal, 1971-76 / Patrizia Gentile4 Fire, Passion, and Politics: The Creation of Blockorama as Black Queer Diasporic Space in the Toronto Pride Festivities / Beverly Bain5 The Emergence of the Toronto Dyke March / Allison Burgess6 Rupert Raj, Transmen, and Sexuality: The Politics of Transnormativity in Metamorphosis Magazine during the 1980s / Nicholas Matte7 Queer Resistance and Regulation in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights / Gary KinsmanPart 2: The Politics and Power of Resistance8 “A History of That Which Was Never Supposed to Be Possible”: Rethinking Gender Passing in History / Fabien Rose9 “Your Cuntry Needs You”: The Politics of Early 1990s Canadian S/M Dyke Porn / Andrea Zanin10 Safe Sex Work and the City: Canadian Sex Work Activists Re-Imagine Real/Virtual Cityscapes / Shawna Ferris11 “Collateral Damage”: Anti-Trafficking Campaigns, Border Security, and Sex Workers’ Rights Struggles in Canada / Annalee Lepp12 Nationalism, Sexuality, and the Politics of Anti-Citizenship / Cynthia Wright13 Trans-ing the Canadian Passport: On the Biopolitical Storying of Race, Gender, and Borders / Bobby NobleSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBy challenging the erasure of radical histories, this book makes an invaluable contribution to remembering and rethinking Canadian sex and gender activism from the 1970s to the present.Trade ReviewThis collection is a must-read for queer and sexuality theorists and historians alike. -- Natalie Adamyk, University of Toronto * Labour/Le travail, Vol. 82 *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline RankinPart 1: Histories of Resistance and Activism1 Liberating Marriage: Gay Liberation and Same-Sex Marriage in Early 1970s Canada / Elise Chenier2 “Seducing the Unions”: Organized Labour and Strategies for Gay Liberation in Toronto in the 1970s / Mathieu Brûlé3 “À bas la répression contre les homosexuels!” Resistance and Surveillance of Queers in Montreal, 1971-76 / Patrizia Gentile4 Fire, Passion, and Politics: The Creation of Blockorama as Black Queer Diasporic Space in the Toronto Pride Festivities / Beverly Bain5 The Emergence of the Toronto Dyke March / Allison Burgess6 Rupert Raj, Transmen, and Sexuality: The Politics of Transnormativity in Metamorphosis Magazine during the 1980s / Nicholas Matte7 Queer Resistance and Regulation in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights / Gary KinsmanPart 2: The Politics and Power of Resistance8 “A History of That Which Was Never Supposed to Be Possible”: Rethinking Gender Passing in History / Fabien Rose9 “Your Cuntry Needs You”: The Politics of Early 1990s Canadian S/M Dyke Porn / Andrea Zanin10 Safe Sex Work and the City: Canadian Sex Work Activists Re-Imagine Real/Virtual Cityscapes / Shawna Ferris11 “Collateral Damage”: Anti-Trafficking Campaigns, Border Security, and Sex Workers’ Rights Struggles in Canada / Annalee Lepp12 Nationalism, Sexuality, and the Politics of Anti-Citizenship / Cynthia Wright13 Trans-ing the Canadian Passport: On the Biopolitical Storying of Race, Gender, and Borders / Bobby NobleSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisQueering Representation explores what happens when LGBTQ people move out of the closet and into the political arena.Trade ReviewThe authors do a great job of maintaining a balanced approach while engaging many seldom-explored issues. They force the reader to abandon their assumptions by examining the data and problematizing the issues raised by LGBTQ voters and representatives without reaching beyond the scope of the book. -- David Girard * Alternate Routes *Table of ContentsForeword / Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovoIntroductionPart 1: LGBTQ Voters1 Profile of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Electorate in Canada / Andrea M.L. Perrella, Steven D. Brown, and Barry Kay2 Winning as a Woman/Winning as a Lesbian: Voter Attitudes toward Kathleen Wynne in the 2014 Ontario Election / Joanna Everitt and Tracey Raney3 Media Framing of Lesbian and Gay Politicians: Is Sexual Mediation at Work? / Mireille Lalancette and Manon Tremblay4 Electing LGBT Representatives and the Voting System in Canada / Dennis PilonPart 2: LGBTQ Representatives5 LGBT Groups and the Canadian Conservative Movement: A New Relationship? / Frédéric Boily and Ève Robidoux-Descary6 Liberalism and the Protection of LGBT Rights in Canada / Brooke Jeffrey7 A True Match? The Federal New Democratic Party and LGBTQ Communities and Politics / Alexa DeGagne8 Representation: The Case of LGBTQ People / Manon Tremblay9 Pathway to Office: The Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, and Election of LGBT Candidates / Joanna Everitt, Manon Tremblay, and Angelia Wagner10 LGBTQ Perspectives on Political Candidacy in Canada / Angelia Wagner11 Out to Win: The ProudPolitics Approach to LGBTQ Electoralism / Curtis Atkins12 LGBT Place Management: Representative Politics and Toronto’s Gay Village / Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-MurrayAfterword: The Champion / Graeme TrueloveIndex

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Book SynopsisPrairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the Canadian prairies.Trade Review"Reclaiming the term 'fairies' from diminishment and disrespect to pride, gender, and sexual difference is a notable claim. This research forms part of a trans-national project and contributes to the extensive cultural geographic literature on queer urban histories." -- Anne Burke * The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One 1930-1969: Queer Spaces and Opportunities Chapter 1 The Torch of Golden Boy Burns Bright: Winnipeg 1930-1969 Chapter 2 A Kiss is Never Just a Kiss: Saskatchewan Queer History 　 Part Two 1970-1985: Communities, Community Building and Culture Chapter 3 Wilde Times: Winnipeg’s Organizational Development Chapter 4 Grassroots: Organizational & Social Developments in Saskatoon & Regina Chapter 5 Outlaws: Organizational and Social Activities in Edmonton & Calgary 　 Part Three 1970-1985: Activism, Reaction, Visibility and Violence Chapter 6 "Love and Let Love": Winnipeg Activism, Visibility & Violence Chapter 7 "Towards a Gay Community": Saskatoon Activism and Leadership Chapter 8 Found Ins at the Pisces Spa: Edmonton & Calgary Activism, Repression and Education Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe story of Sidney Franklin, a gay Jewish American bullfighter who triumphed over prejudice and adversity as he achieved what no American had ever accomplished, teaching Ernest Hemingway lessons in grace, machismo, and respect. Trade Review“Interjecting his opinions clearly while letting readers judge Franklin’s motives for themselves, Paul presents an absorbing biography of a twentieth century original, a confidante, lover, narcissist, and bravura performer whose capacity for suffering captured one of America’s greatest literary minds.”—Publishers Weekly “Lovingly and engagingly written.”—Kate McLoughlin, Times Literary Supplement“Finally! A fascinating, in-depth, warts-and-all biography of the legendary Hemingway hero, surely one of the great picaresque and colorful enigmas of modern times. Ears and tail to Bart Paul!”—Barnaby Conrad, author of Matador and The Death of Manolete“A must-read for all those interested in Ernest Hemingway’s life and loves, even if bullfighting leaves them cold.”—Martin Rubin, Washington Times “Since people began writing about the adventurous life of Sidney Franklin, be it Lillian Ross, Ernest Hemingway or others, [his story] seems to be shrouded in hyperbole, mystery, or just plain b.s. It’s taken Bart Paul to come along and tell the whole truth. I am very happy that after all these years, a real biography has finally been written. Congratulations, Bart Paul. Por fin, la verdad.”—Tony Brand, Aficionado práctico and scholar of bullfighting“In this well-researched biography, Bart Paul deftly depicts the extraordinary life of the Jewish boy from Brooklyn who became the most famous American bullfighter. Franklin not only was Ernest Hemingway’s inside informant while he was writing Death in the Afternoon, the writer arranged for the bullfighter to accompany him to Spain while he covered the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. Mr. Paul captures Franklin’s wavering fortunes, alongside all the glitter, the gossip and the turmoil of the taurine scene in the early to mid twentieth century.”—Valerie Hemingway, author of Running with the Bulls: My Years with the HemingwaysTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction:The AlternativeAct One1. The Bull2. Que Viva Mexico3. The Wisdom of the AztecAct Two4. El Niño de la Synagoga5. Thanks, Ma6. Yanqui Flamenco7. Death in the Afternoon –with Drinks and Dinner to Follow8. To the Ear9.Hard TimesAct Three10. The Big Parade11. A Fine Romance12. The Beard13. The Master Horn14. The Sword15. Separate Trails16. Hemingway’s Gay Blade17. The Alternativa18. The New Man19. Servalavari20. Recuerdos21. Sol y SombraAcknowledgments and AfterthoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThrough stories about playing this full-contact, theatrical, and revolutionary sport, Collective Chaos shows the value of gaining a truly radical self-knowledge through teamwork, love, discipline, and critical consideration of our local and global societies and of our roles and responsibilities within them.Trade Review“Collective Chaos is an informative, witty, hilarious collision of all things roller derby. It has everything from a history of the sport to player profiles and even personal narrative. Samantha Tucker and Amy Spears have unique voices and an important message that anyone, regardless of skating experience, would benefit from reading.” -- Gabe Montesanti, author of Brace for Impact: A MemoirTable of ContentsIntroduction The Basics: What the Heck Is Roller Derby Anyway? 1 These United Skates Ohio Player Profile: The Tiny Dictator A Word from Amy Spears, Ohio Native 2 Small to Get Big Ohio Player Profile: The Humbly Great A Word from Amy Spears, Slightly Famous in Roller Derby 3 False Start Ohio Player Profile: The Wizard A Word from Amy Spears, Roller Derby Historian 4 Fresh Meat Ohio Player Profile: The Next Generation A Word from Amy Spears, Who Invented Roller Derby 5 Pivot Ohio Player Profile: The Mastermind A Word from Amy Spears, Married, Divorced, Remarried to Roller Derby 6 Mindful Jockdom Ohio Player Profile: The Inspiration A Word from Amy Spears, Washed-Up Roller Derby Skater 7 O-H-I-O Ohio Player Profile: The Force A Word from Amy Spears, Derby Lifer 8 Derby Veteran Ohio Player Profile: The Forever Rookies A Word from Amy Spears: The Season That Never Happened 9 We Got Tired Ohio Player Profile: Kegel’s Wife A Word from Amy Spears: Democracy and Protest 10 Racism in Roller Derby Ohio Player Profile: A Word from Pain Train A Word from Amy Spears: Roller Derby in the Future Epilogue Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the development of France's male and female homosexual communities and its gay liberation movements after 1968. The book focuses on the construction of social institutions, treating gay activist organizations and their relation to post-1968 French feminism, gay ghettos in French cities, the gay press, the impact of AIDS on political identity, and the renewed militancy of the 1990s. While acknowledging the influence of America's gay liberation movement on the French situation, the author emphasizes the differences arising from the fact that homosexuality has not historically been criminalized in France as it has been in the United States.The book is divided into four parts. Part I, The Revolution of Desire (1968-79), which examines the activism of the early post-1968 gay liberation movement, is preceded by a historical summary that traces French cultural, political, and social attitudes toward homosexuality. It also explores the relations between the movemenTrade Review"An exhaustive, thoroughly researched work with a surprising 'you-are-there' readability."—Library Journal"English-speaking audiences have a number of reasons for reading The Pink and the Black, not the least of which are its detailed chronology of events and its extensive bibliography. By remaining faithful to its original French edition, the English translation provides a fascinating, unabridged peek into the French debates over how to construct a new brand of homosexuality, an identity Made in France. The Pink and the Black is an important addition to cross-cultural studies of homosexuality."—Journal of HomosexualityTable of ContentsAcronyms used in this book; Preface to the English-language edition; Prologue; Part I. The Revolution of Desire (1968-79): 1. 'My name is Guy Hocquenghem'; 2. Women's liberation: year zero; 3. 'Down with daddy's homosexuality!' (before 1970); 4. Drifting; 5. The militant explosion; Part II. The Era of Socialization (1979-84): 6. 'We must be relentlessly gay'; 7. 'Seven years of happiness'? (May 1981); 8. Swan song; 9. Happiness in the ghetto; Part III. The End of the Carefree Life (1981-89): 10. The conflagration; 11. Aides: the history of a social movement; 12. Backlash; 13. The hecatomb; Part IV. The Era of Contradictions (1989-96): 14. ACT UP: the history of a political movement; 15. The second homosexual revolution; 16. The identity movement; Epilogue; Chronology; Interview sources; Notes; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the development of France's male and female homosexual communities and its gay liberation movements after 1968.Trade Review"An exhaustive, thoroughly researched work with a surprising 'you-are-there' readability."—Library Journal"English-speaking audiences have a number of reasons for reading The Pink and the Black, not the least of which are its detailed chronology of events and its extensive bibliography. By remaining faithful to its original French edition, the English translation provides a fascinating, unabridged peek into the French debates over how to construct a new brand of homosexuality, an identity Made in France. The Pink and the Black is an important addition to cross-cultural studies of homosexuality."—Journal of HomosexualityTable of ContentsAcronyms used in this book; Preface to the English-language edition; Prologue; Part I. The Revolution of Desire (1968-79): 1. 'My name is Guy Hocquenghem'; 2. Women's liberation: year zero; 3. 'Down with daddy's homosexuality!' (before 1970); 4. Drifting; 5. The militant explosion; Part II. The Era of Socialization (1979-84): 6. 'We must be relentlessly gay'; 7. 'Seven years of happiness'? (May 1981); 8. Swan song; 9. Happiness in the ghetto; Part III. The End of the Carefree Life (1981-89): 10. The conflagration; 11. Aides: the history of a social movement; 12. Backlash; 13. The hecatomb; Part IV. The Era of Contradictions (1989-96): 14. ACT UP: the history of a political movement; 15. The second homosexual revolution; 16. The identity movement; Epilogue; Chronology; Interview sources; Notes; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisReading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book uses the subculture of camp to argue that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures.Trade Review"At home in queer theory, Trask offers a revisionist discussion of postwar American culture. He marshals an impressive array of sociological, psychological, and literary prose to examine the ways in which the 'consensus culture' of the Cold War 1950s produced an ironic, self-knowing detachment within liberal academic culture . . . Recommended." -- B. Diemert * CHOICE *"Full of surprises, Trask's book shows how Cold War academic culture shared in the irony, detachment, and performance of 1950s camp. Or so the New Left believed, which explains why they viewed homosexuals and college professors with such suspicion. This stunning history of postwar America shows what was at stake when angry young men put their bodies on the line on college campuses in the 1960s, and it illuminates the ongoing paradoxes of Left protest." -- Heather Love * University of Pennsylvania *

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Book SynopsisThis study of the transnational exchange of identity discourses asks why the French see queer theory as an American conspiracy against the traditional family and national identity.Trade Review"A signature contribution to contemporary political and critical theory, Bruno Perreau's book aptly situates the fears that haunted the French imagination during the bitter opposition to the "marriage for all" bill in the twin fears of cultural invasion by the United States--via gender theory--and of contagion by a minority culture. In deconstructing queer theory's "return" to France, Perreau gracefully navigates the challenge of diagnosing the cultural fantasies at play without succumbing to the binaries, French/American, local/global, and majority/minority, that the social movement had itself reified." -- Bernard Harcourt * Columbia University *"Bruno's Perreau's book offers fascinating and original interpretations of the nationalist discourses informing public protests against 'marriage for all' in France. His insights into the 'straight mind of the nation' and the parochialism of 'homonationalist' critiques connect fantasies of sovereign geographies to demonization and systemic violence. Anyone interested in contemporary queer theory and post-colonialism must read this book." -- Jacqueline Stevens * Northwestern University *"Queer Theory: The French Response is an excellent contribution to the field of gender studies, queer theory, and political theory, and it will interest anyone concerned with the evolving political landscape in Europe and the United States. It should be essential reading for scholars and students in gender studies and queer theory who are also committed activists interested in thinking beyond 'homonationalism' and the 'gay international.' Perreau's new book encourages us all to seek and create new narratives where being queer means simultaneously 'coming and going' instead of simply 'coming out.'" -- Denis M. Provencher * EuropeNow *"Bruno Perreau's brilliant and compelling analysis of queer theory's controversial arrival on the French scene covers the full range of repercussions of this cultural encounter and translation. Not only does he offer glimpses into the outer reaches of French public hysteria over the unwanted cultural import called "gender," but he reveals how debates on sexuality, gender, and parenthood strike at the heart of national belonging. Taking into account the various anxieties about French and European inclusion that come to over-determine the so-called gender debates, his book demonstrates that queer theory becomes something new and foreign when it seeps into French soil. The consequences are at once alarming and illuminating." -- Judith Butler * University of California, Berkeley *"Overall Queer Theory: The French Response is an important addition to both queer theory and political theory for its examination of how cultural fantasies shape theory as it travels. The arguments advanced in the book will be useful to scholars of contemporary politics, transnational cultural studies, and queer theory. By focusing on where queer theory and political theory overlap, Perreau brings into focus a pressing oversight of the modern liberal State: minorities." -- Kim Coates * QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe notion of gender was debated in France long before the 2013 law on marriage equality. In 2004, a mayor in the south of France celebrated the first gay marriage. One year later, a court denied two trans women the right to marry because they did not behave as husband and wife. The introduction locates public debates on gender in France, and shows that they have heavily weighed on the 2013 law, which maintains discriminations against LGBT people with regard to parenthood, trans rights, and nationality. From this standpoint, France has experienced no clear "before-and-after" watershed. French conservatives indeed see themselves as majority victims of a system devised to benefit minorities. They credit the idea that LGBT rights are the product of a "theory" to legitimize their own doctrine. References to the United States become all the more potent since they accredit the idea of a foreign plot. 1Who's Afraid of "Gender Theory"? chapter abstractThe first chapter deals with manifestations of opposition to gay marriage in France: roots, organization, activist tactics (street demonstrations, posters, social media), and discourse. It shows how opposition to the concept of gender arose in the Vatican during the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, and was then developed under the label of "human ecology." Catholic parents' associations protested against gender equality and non-traditional gender roles in school programs. Chapter 1 shows that demonstrators, such as La Manif pour tous, played simultaneously on fear of the enemy within (by establishing a parallel between Judaism and homosexuality) and on racism (by placing sexual minorities in the same category as foreign, uncivilized freaks). They notably targeted the French Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira, because she is a black woman from French Guiana and the author of a law that made slavery a crime against humanity. 2The Many Meanings of Queer chapter abstractThe second chapter examines how queer theory was variously employed in France. Queer theory arrived in France in the early 1990s thanks to several French activist groups—such as ACT UP Paris and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The 1990s were also marked by research seminars that trained a new generation of scholars but also promoted the translation of American publications. Chapter 2 shows that the English word queer, previously meaningless in French, has become more common. Use of the term nevertheless remains ambiguous. It enables certain radical activists to distinguish themselves from an institutional LGBT culture. But queer is also adopted by the mass media, to find new audiences without offending their traditional ones. Chapter 2 ends up with Les Tordu(e)s, a group that organized an alternative event to the official Pride parade, and a student movement called Queer Week at the elite university Sciences Po. 3Transatlantic Homecomings chapter abstractChapter 3 addresses one of the most controversial debates among queer movements and theorists across the Atlantic today, concerning homonationalism and gay imperialism, which both refer to an instrumentalization of the gay and lesbian agenda to the benefit of nationalist and racist policies. Although the critique may be valid, in its current form it turns out to be contradictory in so far as it re-essentializes sexual categories (the "homo" in homonationalism) and dismisses hybrid identities forged across the north/south divide. Chapter 3 provides the critical tools to counteract excessive drift of these concepts. It examines the rise of the far right in France, the transatlantic fantasy of a global theory of sexuality, the limits of intersectionality, and the fear of the ordinary in queer studies. Chapter 3 shows that minority claims are not a synonym for local claims, opening new ways to resist oppression in a global context. 4The Specter of Queer Politics chapter abstractChapter 4 analyzes political resistance to queer theory in France. It traces the fear of homosexual betrayal since the First World War, and shows that the fantasy of betrayal is now echoed in the left-wing ideals underpinning the French Republic. It examines more specifically the role of France's socialist party in the development of an "anti-communitarian" discourse. In this context, several philosophers—notably Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy—have strived to rethink the notion of "common." They argue that a community always escapes all attempts to grasp it, since we have only death in common. Chapter 4 argues that minorities do not have the luxury of disavowing their sense of belonging. In the wake of Didier Eribon's work, it suggests that "community" is not a constantly receding horizon but a critical return to an experienced event. Conclusion chapter abstractDebate over queer theory in France is not a carbon copy of the one in America. Nor can it be encapsulated as a strategy of empowerment vis-à-vis the nationalist trend of sexual politics in France. The conclusion argues that queer theory destabilizes the very concepts of global and local in so far as it sheds light on the concomitance of affiliation and disaffiliation with the group. It muddies the picture of a national sense of belonging. Whereas the nation-state seeks to objectivize the framework of citizenship by linking genealogy ("vertical" affiliation to a lineage) to community ("horizontal" affiliation to a group), queer theory views kinship as a way of simultaneously belonging and not belonging.

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Book SynopsisExamines the literacy practices of Black LGBTQ people, developing - from sixty in-depth interviews conducted with individuals of various ages living across the United States - an analytical theory of “black queer literacies”.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Masten has much to teach us about the consequence of learning to hear how words resonated for Shakespeare's first audiences, and how they can be made to sound and resound today. . . . As Masten indicates, queer philology need not be confined to the study of terms used to describe and 'inscribe' sex and gender, but should be extended to include all the terms of the social exclusions that currently concern us." * Times Literary Supplement *"A groundbreaking new study. . . . Queer Philologies should prove a seminal work for literary critics, sexual historians, queer theorists, and textual editors. Animated by Masten's witty prose, deeply enmeshed in the relevant scholarship, and often breathtaking in its acuity, originality, and capaciousness of thought, it is the most pleasurable polemic in recent literary history." * Review of English Studies *"[A] tour de force of erudition and intellectual wit that maps out a new region of scholarship: 'queer philology.' . . . Masten undertakes a vast philological program to show how vagaries and occluded regularities of early modern sex/gender vocabularies are intimately woven into specific traits of early modern orthography, rhetorical structures, etymologies, and familial bonds between words and word clusters." * SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *"A careful and thought-provoking study . . . with stunning insight and extremely thoughtful attention to detail. Queer Philologies suggests exciting new possibilities in one of the foundational fields of literary study." * Comparative Drama *"Masten's page-turning case studies show us the necessity to get fully philological in order to get fully queer. It is not that we should queer time or locate some version of the 'homosexual' in early modern texts but that we should be more historical and more philological in order to read queerly." * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *"Queer Philologies, Jeffrey Masten's brilliant new book, makes the queerness of linguistic relations into the stuff of a genuine page-turner. Doing nothing less than reinventing the field of philology for the twenty-first century, Masten charts striking moments in the two-way traffic between words and world, exploring how accident and error figure in the shaping of sexuality and multiply its significations beyond all scholarly control. To dip into this book is to recognize that it's destined to become a classic, one of the works without which queer theory and early modernism no longer can be thought." * Lee Edelman, Tufts University *"A masterpiece as well as a great intellectual joy. Masten finds in philology and in the history of the book a new approach to the analysis of norms and normativities-that is, to practices of standardization, including the standardization of sex and gender. This queer manifesto for the mutual implication of the history of sexuality and the materiality of language is as powerful as it is scrupulous, as original as it is radical. No one who reads this book will ever think of the letter Q in the same way again." * David Halperin, University of Michigan *"A brilliant, exacting, original book. Coherently organized, deftly argued, elegant in style, and utterly unique, Queer Philologies is not only full of insights relevant to scholars of early modern literature; it advances paradigm-shattering proposals relevant to queer studies scholars and historians of sexuality more generally." * Valerie Traub, University of Michigan *"Jeffrey Masten's witty and searching book will help a new generation of students to recover the philological grounds for the early modern period's sexual relations and gender constructions. Deploying and extending his signature combination of queer theory and textual scholarship, Masten gives us startling new readings of key works, words, and even letters that leave them looking very queer indeed." * William Sherman, Victoria and Albert Museum *Table of ContentsNote on Citations and Quotations Introduction. On Q: An Introduction to Queer Philology Chapter 1. Spelling Shakespeare: Early Modern "Orthography" and the Secret Lives of Shakespeare's Compositors LEXICON 1. FRIENDSHIP Chapter 2. "Sweet Persuasion," the Taste of Letters, and Male Friendship Chapter 3. Extended "Conversation": Living with Christopher Marlowe; a Brief History of "Intercourse" LEXICON 2. BOY-DESIRE Chapter 4. Reading "Boys": Performance and Print Chapter 5. "Amorous Leander," Boy-desire, Gay Shame; Or, Straightening Out Christopher Marlowe LEXICON 3. SODOMY Chapter 6. Is the "Fundament" a Grave? Translating the Early Modern Body Chapter 7. When Genres Breed: "Mongrell Tragicomedie" and Queer Kinship Editing Philologies Chapter 8. All Is Not Glossed: Editing Sex, Race, Gender, and Affect in Shakespeare Chapter 9. More or Less Queer: Female "Bumbast" in Sir Thomas More Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFor Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare''s time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history. Building on the work of theorists and historians who have, following Foucault, investigated the importance of words like homosexual, sodomy, and tribade in a variety of cultures and historical periods, Masten argues that just as the history of sexuality requires the history of language, so too does philology, the love of the word, require the analytical lens provided by the study of sexuality.Masten unpacks the etymology, circulation, transformation, and constitutive power of key words within the early modern discourse of sex and gender—terms such as conversation and intercourse, fundament and foundation, friend and boy—that described bodies, pleasures, emoTrade Review"Masten has much to teach us about the consequence of learning to hear how words resonated for Shakespeare's first audiences, and how they can be made to sound and resound today. . . . As Masten indicates, queer philology need not be confined to the study of terms used to describe and 'inscribe' sex and gender, but should be extended to include all the terms of the social exclusions that currently concern us." * Times Literary Supplement *"A groundbreaking new study. . . . Queer Philologies should prove a seminal work for literary critics, sexual historians, queer theorists, and textual editors. Animated by Masten's witty prose, deeply enmeshed in the relevant scholarship, and often breathtaking in its acuity, originality, and capaciousness of thought, it is the most pleasurable polemic in recent literary history." * Review of English Studies *"[A] tour de force of erudition and intellectual wit that maps out a new region of scholarship: 'queer philology.' . . . Masten undertakes a vast philological program to show how vagaries and occluded regularities of early modern sex/gender vocabularies are intimately woven into specific traits of early modern orthography, rhetorical structures, etymologies, and familial bonds between words and word clusters." * SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *"A careful and thought-provoking study . . . with stunning insight and extremely thoughtful attention to detail. Queer Philologies suggests exciting new possibilities in one of the foundational fields of literary study." * Comparative Drama *"Masten's page-turning case studies show us the necessity to get fully philological in order to get fully queer. It is not that we should queer time or locate some version of the 'homosexual' in early modern texts but that we should be more historical and more philological in order to read queerly." * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *"Queer Philologies, Jeffrey Masten's brilliant new book, makes the queerness of linguistic relations into the stuff of a genuine page-turner. Doing nothing less than reinventing the field of philology for the twenty-first century, Masten charts striking moments in the two-way traffic between words and world, exploring how accident and error figure in the shaping of sexuality and multiply its significations beyond all scholarly control. To dip into this book is to recognize that it's destined to become a classic, one of the works without which queer theory and early modernism no longer can be thought." * Lee Edelman, Tufts University *"A masterpiece as well as a great intellectual joy. Masten finds in philology and in the history of the book a new approach to the analysis of norms and normativities-that is, to practices of standardization, including the standardization of sex and gender. This queer manifesto for the mutual implication of the history of sexuality and the materiality of language is as powerful as it is scrupulous, as original as it is radical. No one who reads this book will ever think of the letter Q in the same way again." * David Halperin, University of Michigan *"A brilliant, exacting, original book. Coherently organized, deftly argued, elegant in style, and utterly unique, Queer Philologies is not only full of insights relevant to scholars of early modern literature; it advances paradigm-shattering proposals relevant to queer studies scholars and historians of sexuality more generally." * Valerie Traub, University of Michigan *"Jeffrey Masten's witty and searching book will help a new generation of students to recover the philological grounds for the early modern period's sexual relations and gender constructions. Deploying and extending his signature combination of queer theory and textual scholarship, Masten gives us startling new readings of key works, words, and even letters that leave them looking very queer indeed." * William Sherman, Victoria and Albert Museum *Table of ContentsNote on Citations and Quotations Introduction. On Q: An Introduction to Queer Philology Chapter 1. Spelling Shakespeare: Early Modern "Orthography" and the Secret Lives of Shakespeare's Compositors LEXICON 1. FRIENDSHIP Chapter 2. "Sweet Persuasion," the Taste of Letters, and Male Friendship Chapter 3. Extended "Conversation": Living with Christopher Marlowe; a Brief History of "Intercourse" LEXICON 2. BOY-DESIRE Chapter 4. Reading "Boys": Performance and Print Chapter 5. "Amorous Leander," Boy-desire, Gay Shame; Or, Straightening Out Christopher Marlowe LEXICON 3. SODOMY Chapter 6. Is the "Fundament" a Grave? Translating the Early Modern Body Chapter 7. When Genres Breed: "Mongrell Tragicomedie" and Queer Kinship Editing Philologies Chapter 8. All Is Not Glossed: Editing Sex, Race, Gender, and Affect in Shakespeare Chapter 9. More or Less Queer: Female "Bumbast" in Sir Thomas More Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical professionals are unprepared and sometimes unwilling to care for the sick, and a national health bureaucracy is slow to invest resources in finding a cure. Yet this widely accepted narrative, while accurate, creates the impression that the gay community lacked any capacity to address AIDS. In fact, as Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease. Before AIDS explores this heretofore unrecognized story, chronicling the development of a national gay health network by highlighting the origins of longstanding gay health institutions in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, placing them in a larger political coTrade Review"[A] highly compelling, important book . . . Katie Batza's Before AIDS dramatically expands our portrait of the gay 1970s and of the relationships between gay liberation, the US state, and the politics of health. Through three case studies and a tightly argued, absorbingly written analysis, Batza shows that health activism was central to gay politics well before the beginning of the AIDS epidemic." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"Before AIDS is the first book to chart the development of a national gay health network in the 1970s. Katie Batza's insightful and compelling analysis makes valuable contributions to the history of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, the history of medicine, and American political history." * Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology *"Well-conceived, deftly argued, and based on an impressive range of primary materials, oral interviews, and a good command of the secondary literature, Before AIDS brings fresh light and perspective to the wider field of the history of sexuality in the United States." * Jonathan Bell, University College London *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Fighting Epidemics and Ignorance Chapter 1. Reimagining Gay Liberation Chapter 2. Beyond Gay Liberation Chapter 3. Gay Health Harnesses the State Chapter 4. Redefining Gay Health Chapter 5. The Gay Health Network Meets AIDS Epilogue. AIDS and the State Enmeshed Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe strength of the book is Gutterman’s investment in reviewing and utilizing the personal letters that many women wrote to advocates...The correspondence and other sources that she examines also help her share stories from Black and Latina women who loved women, with some inclusion of Asian and Native American women as well, thus broadening the voices and experiences missing from white-focused lesbian narratives…[A] well-documented cultural history that reminds us just how deeply the 1970 feminist slogan ‘the personal is political’ reflected many women’s struggles to live their lives honestly and openly regarding their same-sex desires. * Journal of Women's Historty *Her Neighbor’s Wife is beautiful and smart and should be widely read…Gutterman’s broadest intervention into the historiography is her contention that marriage was queer. She points out that you got screened for the military but not for your marriage license; that you could lose your teaching license for being gay but remain in your marriage. Marriage in the postwar period contained room for queerness and, in making room, it became queer itself. Though we cannot know numbers, Gutterman is utterly convincing that marriage was very queer indeed. * The Sixties *Ambitious and wide-ranging, Her Neighbor’s Wife opens interesting, provocative questions and modes of inquiry for historians of sexuality and the field of LGBTQ studies…In addition to Gutterman’s careful attention to interlacing feminist and queer analysis, another strength of [the book] is the assembled archive…This, combined with Gutterman’s own oral histories and her sensitive, thoughtful reading of primary sources, makes this book an exemplar of methodological rigor. * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Her Neighbor's Wife is a revelation. Lauren Jae Gutterman locates lesbian histories not at the margins but at the center of postwar American life, often accommodated within marriages with men and family life. Alert to the complex meanings of married women's desire for women, beyond the poles of protest and conformity, Gutterman queers postwar marriage, the family, and normativity itself. * Regina Kunzel, author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality *In a field dominated by studies of gay men (still), Her Neighbor's Wife offers an LGBT history that centers a gendered analysis of women's lives. It is a critical intervention in histories of marriage, same-sex desires, feminism, and therapeutic ideas of the authentic self. * Rebecca L. Davis, author of More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss *Her Neighbor's Wife is an engaging, highly readable sociocultural history that serves as a necessary and illuminating corrective to the general dearth of lesbian history. Lauren Jae Gutterman shows the concept of fluidity has a much deeper past than what is typically imagined and that heterosexual marriage was much less straight than it seemed. * Heather Murray, author of Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America *

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Book SynopsisIn 'Women Together/Women Apart', Tirza True Latimer explores the revolutionary period between World War I and World War II when lesbian artists working in Paris began to shape the first visual models that gave lesbians a collective sense of identity and allowed them to recognize each other.Trade ReviewWomen Together/Women Apart is an eloquent and highly readable exploration of women artists and performers which makes a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarship on lesbian subcultures and identities in the interwar period. - Laura Doan, author of Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture

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Book SynopsisReveals how various British texts from the eighteenth century associate female cross-dressing with the possibility of intimate, embodied same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender embodiments as crucial to the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire.

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Book SynopsisWith engaged scholarship and an exciting contribution to the field of Israel/Palestine studies, queer scholar-activist Corinne Blackmer stages a pointed critique of scholars whose anti-Israel bias pervades their activism as well as their academic work. Blackmer demonstrates how the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks to delegitimize and isolate Israel has become a central part of social justice advocacy on campus, particularly within gender and sexuality studies programs. The chapters focus on the intellectual work of Sarah Schulman, Jasbir Puar, Angela Davis, Dean Spade, and Judith Butler, demonstrating how they misapply critical theory in their discussions of the State of Israel. Blackmer shows how these LGBTQ intellectuals mobilize queer theory and intersectionality to support the BDS movement at the expense of academic freedom and open discourse.

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Book SynopsisProvides a primer on the current state of the same-sex marriage debate, and a new way of framing the issue that provides valuable new insights into the political, social, and personal stakes involvedTrade Review"Badgett’s gleanings are enlightening . . . for anyone who cares about the issues raised by legalizing civil marriage for same-sex couples." * California Lawyer *"An eminently readable volume that draws on state population data, survesy, and Badgets own interviews." * Against The Current *"On the heels of marriage debates all over the country, professor M.V. Lee Badgett comes out with an in-depth take on the big marriage questions: why and how? Badgett looks at marriage from all sides of the equation: sociological trends, the specific rights at hand as well as the interesting prospects of how a community shaped by legal inequality will adjust to unimaginable legal equality." * Instinct *"Amid the intense controversy still surrounding same-sex marriage in the U.S., Badgett speaks in a refreshingly tempered voice. . . . Its a fine piece of social-science research, painstakingly detailed and compelling in its findings." * Ms. Magazine *"When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage provides a well-grounded contribution to the arguments needed to fight for full rights for LGBT people here in the United States and around the world." * International Socialist Review *"In When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Gay Marriage, Badgett offers perspective on same-sex marriage through carefully considered evidence emerging from other Western societies that have recognized civil protections for same-sex couples. In doing so, Badgett offers a unique book different from other works that may present purely legal, political, or historical views of same-sex marriage. Badgett's book will help scholars in a variety of social scientific fields and members of the public to gain a more full and realistic understanding of same-sex marriage and its place in societies." -- Pamela J. Lannutti * Sex Roles *"This is the best analysis of same-sex marriage to date. A brilliant book." -- Verta Taylor,co-author of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret"Badgetts cogent and comprehensive study of the societal implications of same-sex marriage is learned and persuasive; gays and lesbians who once again pick up their protest signs and banners might do well to bring along Badgetts book as well." * Publishers Weekly *"When Gay People Get Married devotes considerable time to contemplating whether marriage discrimination against same-sex couples can be equitably rectified by alternative forms of family recognition--something that could satisfy or at least appeal to both conservative and radical opponents of marriage." * Women’s Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: A Different Perspective 2 Why Marry? The Value of Marriage 3 Forsaking All Other Options 4 The Impact of Gay Marriage on Heterosexuals 5 Something Borrowed: Trying Marriage On 6 Something New: Will Marriage Change Gay People? 7 Marriage Dissent in the Gay Community 8 Strange Bedfellows: Assessing Alternatives to Marriage 9 The Pace of Change: Are We Moving Too Fast? 10 Conclusion: Marriage Under Renovation? Appendix 1: Constructing Measures and Making Comparisons Appendix 2: Methods Involved in the Dutch Couples Study Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisCovers a range of topics around sexual and gender identities. This book features contributors who assess the conflict between postmodernism and identity, the concept which typically serves as a linchpin for social and political organizing. It focuses upon disciplines or topics, or practical guides aimed primarily at a heterosexual audience.

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Book SynopsisEmphasizing the interconnectedness of gay and lesbian lives and the literature which has been instrumental in defining, reconstructing, and representing these lives, this study serves as a diverse introduction to queer culture and literature.

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Book SynopsisAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another. This title seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic.Trade ReviewHalf the 14 essays in this interdisciplinary study of seventeenth- through nineteenth-century America are reprintsthough its useful to have work that appeared in academic journals collected in one place. Among original work, Ramon A. Gutierrez's revisionist perspective on Native American berdache will raise the most eyebrows: rather than exalt their same-sex spirituality, fashionable among gay liberationists and radical faeries alike, the author's theory is that they led lives of sexual ‘humiliation and endless work, not of celebration and veneration.’ Among the reprints, Caleb Crain's account of a romantic triangle among three Philadelphia men that began in 1786, culled from their diaries, is the sweetest. Several essays draw on court records dating back as far as three hundred years to unearth queer lives, while others glean an intriguing and instructive glimpse of the past through a reading of Colonial-era fiction and journalism. * Q Syndicate *Illuminate[s] the complexity, breadth, and social impact of sexuality in history. * The Gay & Lesbian Review *A powerful interdisciplinary compilation that will keep specialists and general readers thoroughly engaged. . . . Long Before Stonewall redirects our attention to a period of American history that for too long has been undervalued as a field for scholarly inquiry into sexuality. * Journal of the Early Republic *Thoughtful, persuasive, solidly constructed, and likely to endure the test of time. * Choice *An excellent introduction to the dynamic new work on sexuality in colonial and early national America, which not only expands our understanding of early America but forces us to rethink paradigms and periodizations that have long governed histories of sexuality in the U.S. A valuable contribution. -- George Chauncey,author of Why Marriage?Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Long Before Stonewall Thomas A. FosterPart I Colonial Native Americas1 Warfare, Homosexuality, and Gender Status Among American Indian Men in the Southwest Ramon A. Gutierrez2 Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-WomenGunlog Fur3 "Abominable Sin" in Colonial New MexicoTracy BrownPart II Colonial British America4 "The Cry of Sodom": Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England Richard Godbeer5 Border CrossingsAnne G. Myles6 Hermaphrodites and "Same-Sex" Sex in Early America Elizabeth Reisvii7 Mapping an Atlantic Sexual CultureClare A. LyonsPart III Romantic Bonds in the Early Republic8 An Excerpt from Surpassing the Love of Men Lillian Faderman9 Leander, Lorenzo, and CastalioCaleb Crain10 The Swan of Litch?eldLisa L. MoorePart IV Reformers in the New Nation11 Sexual Desire, Crime, and Punishment in the Early Republic Mark E. Kann12 The Black Body Erotic and the Republican Body Politic,1790-1820 John Saillant13 What's Sex Got to Do with It? Laura Mandell14 In a French Position: Radical Pornography and Homoerotic Society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the Secret Witness Stephen ShapiroAfterword John D'EmilioAbout the Contributors Index About the Editor

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Book SynopsisThe metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, Scott Herring draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplinesart, media, literature, performance, and fashion studieshe develops an extended critique of how metronormativity saturates LGBTQ politics, artwork, and criticism. To counter this ideal, he offers a vibrant theory of queer anti-urbanism that refuses to dismiss the rural as a cultural backwater.Impassioned and provocative, Another Country expands the possibilities of queer studies beyond its city limits. Herring leads his readers from faeries in the rural Midwest to photographs of white supremacists in the deep South, from Roland Barthes's obsession with Parisian fashion to a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel set in the Appalachian Mountains, and from cubist paintings in Lancaster County to leTrade ReviewSmart and edgy...the value of this book lies principally in the provocative conceptual tools it offers to articulate the roadblocks and raptures of queer migrations. -- Amin Ghaziani * American Journal of Sociology *In Another Country, Herring responds to gaps that urban-centered studies have left opened in queer histories . . . Herring's work evidences a fierce commitment to existing queer metropolitan-migration narratives, favoring the backward, rustic and unfashionable, and embracing these stereotypes for their own subversively disruptive potentials. His quality content analysis and skillful ability to anticipate counter-arguments and avoid intellectual pitfalls keeps the reader on her toes. -- Jaime Cantrell * Feminist Formations *Reading across the genres of literature, print and visual media, photography, and fashion, Scott Herring not only complicates the queers move from rural to urban space, but also the ways in which queers in & othered spaces enact an anti-urbanism through their own & rural stylistics. Another Country is fierce! -- E. Patrick Johnson,author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South;An Oral HistoryScott Herring presents an exquisitely detailed road atlas of the complicated intersection between topography and destiny. -- Alison Bechdel,author of Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out ForWriters, artists, and activists have worked throughout the past century to imagine and materialize sustainable queer lives everywhere from Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Iowa to Alabama. Herring provides the definitive account of the myriad ways that LGBT people have constituted non-urban sites as vibrant and sexy spaces of resistance to hetero- and homonormativity, to compulsory consumerism, and to entrenched hierarchies of race, class, gender, and ability. In so doing, Another Country redraws the map of contemporary queer studies. -- Robert McRuer,author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and DisabilityHerring has a distinctive voice, elegant with a sharp wit...a book that is as beautiful as it is brilliant. * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: I Hate New York Urban Legends From Non-Metro to Anti-Urbanism City Subversions, Rural Stylistics, Paper Cut Politics Outsider Artifacts1. Autobiographies of the Ex-Urban Queer Modernist MetronormativityGone-to-KansasStill Life with Charles DemuthBerlin StoryRaw Deals2. Critical Rusticity An Aesthetic of Anti-UrbanityBicoastalityCountry WomenOut of the Closets, Into the WoodsRFD Country3. Southern Backwardness Your Best BubbaAlabama SouvenirsEastaboga/TaorminaCaravaggio's Rednecks4. Unfashionability Steel Boots of LeatherStyle-less"Enemy Clothing"Outdated5. Queer Infrastructure Pittsburgh to the East, Philadelphia to the WestRoads to NowhereIf OnlyAlt-Routes Coda: On the Borderlands of the Midwest Notes Index About the Author A color insert follows page

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language AssociationFinalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationSexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is assigned cultural meaning, Juana María Rodríguez takes the stereotypes of the hyperbolically gestural queer Latina femme body as a starting point from which to discuss how gestures and forms of embodiment inform sexual pleasures and practices in the social realm.Centered on the sexuality of racialized queer female subjects, the book's varied archivewhich includes burlesque border crossings, daddy play, pornography, sodomy laws, and sovereignty claimsseeks to bring to the Trade ReviewThe books intriguing methodological protocols, its vibrant archives, and its foregrounding of a Latina femme perspective make it a commanding contribution to performance studies, porn studies, women of color feminisms, Latinastudies, and queer of color critique. That is productively engages such a wide range of disciplines speaks to the success of its own amorous gesturing. * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *Fun, sensual, and theoretically sophisticated, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings questions facile binary oppositions by exploring the intricate and perverse world of fantasy and pleasure, particularly in contexts in which marginality, submission, and racialization seem to foreclose key moments of identification for queer subjects of color. -- Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,author of Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Caribbean Context With a distinctly lush style of inquiry, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings mobilizes the stereotype of the hyperbolically gestural Latina femme with and for both pleasure and politics. Juana María Rodríguez is a fierce critic in all the best senses of that word. -- Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer HistoriesThrough sensuous and seductive prose, Juana María Rodríguez demonstrates how queer gesture highlights the tension between socially inscribed corporeal regulation and agential enactments of subjectivity. Pivoting away from this binary through a reading of Latin@ excess, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings demands that we radically reclaim abject sex as a site of queer futurity. -- E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History Table of Contents" v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Who's Your Daddy? Queer Kinship and Perverse Domesticity 29 2. Sodomy, Sovereignty, and Other Utopian Longings 69 3. Gesture in Mambo Time 99 4. Latina Sexual Fantasies, the Remix 139 The Afterglow 183

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Book SynopsisBased on 60 in-depth interviews with a diverse group of straight men and women, this title explores how straight Americans make sense of their sexual and gendered selves in this new landscape, particularly with an understanding of how race does and does not play a role in these conceptions.Trade Review"We can get terribly caught up in trying to pin down and label human behaviors, as though we were consistent and immutable creatures rather than the messy bundles of complex contradictions that most of us actually are. What James Joseph Dean does so well in Straights: Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture is provide a conceptual framework for thinking about this & messiness of human sexuality and identity . . .Straights is timely and powerfully intersectional, with gender, sexuality and race established as robustly formative constellations of identity. Dean is the first commentator to articulate quite so clearly and thoughtfully how being & straight is no longer a social given, but a political position." * Times Higher Education *"One of the strengths of Deans approach is his attention to the heterosexual identity management strategies of both men and women. This enables him to draw out gendered differences in the presentation of heterosexuality that enhances understanding of both sexes." * Sociology *"[A] contemporary classic that will long serve as the key introductory text on heterosexuality." * Teaching Sociology,Greggor Mattson *"This is a detailed account of an interesting empirical study." * Journal of Gender Studies *"Dean has masterfully created a unique view of GLBTQ identity and its effect in heterosexuality, something heretofore seriously lacking in GBLTQ studies and highlighted with this book." * Choice *"The author has produced an innovative account of how the unprecedented cultural visibility of gays and lesbians compels black and white straight men and women to refashion their heterosexuality." * American Journal of Sociology *"James Dean's book illuminates the cusp of lived social change in gender and sexual relations, with homophobic attitudes on the decline and public support for gay rights and families on the rise. Straights shows how, during this 'post-closet' historical moment, people of various racial-ethnic groups define, mark, and sometimes contest heterosexual identities, privilege, and heteronormative social relations." -- Michael Messner,author of Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of MasculinityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Thinking Straight: Gender, Race, and (Anti)homophobias 2. From "Normal" to Heterosexual: The Historical Making of Heterosexualities 3. Straight Men: Renegotiating Hegemonic Masculinity and Its Homophobic Bargain 4. Straight Women: Doing and Undoing Compulsory Heterosexuality 5. Queering Heterosexualities? Metrosexuals and Sexually Fluid Straight Women 6. Conclusion: Straights, Post-Closeted Culture, and the Continuum of Identity PracticesAppendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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