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Book SynopsisPresents an ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities. This book challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity.Trade Review“A lively ethnography that brilliantly reveals how Filipino gay immigrants manipulate symbols and meanings in order to survive and even flourish within the racial, ethnic, class, and gendered spaces of America and a globalizing world. Global Divas is a must-read for all those interested in the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status.”—Yen Le Espiritu, author of Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries“Global Divas points toward a truly cross-cultural anthropology of queerness in rendering the lives of Filipino gay men in New York. Martin F. Manalansan IV breaks through mainstream ignorance and stereotyping to achieve a rich portrait of the rituals, attitudes, language, and travails of his immigrant subjects and by extension, of queer immigrant experience in general.”—Esther Newton, author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public IdeasTable of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: Points of Departure 1 1 The Borders Between Bakla and Gay 21 2 Speaking in Transit: Queer Language and Translated Lives 45 3 "Out There": The Topography of Race and Desire in the Global City 62 4 The Biyuti and Drama of everyday Life 89 5 "To Play with the World": The Pageantry of Identities 126 6 Tita Aida: Intimate Geographies of Suffering 152 Conclusion: Locating the Diasporic Deviant/Diva 184 Notes 193 An Elusive Glossary 199 Works Cited 205 Index 219

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Book SynopsisA reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid-twentieth centuryTrade Review“Between You and Me is a brilliant read that flirtatiously winks and kisses its way through the New York art world of the postwar period, turning our favorite icons inside out and back in again. It’s all in the gossip. Larry Rivers painted a ‘visual gossip column’ and was described by Frank O’Hara as a ‘demented telephone,’ but it takes a smart flirt (the best kind) like Gavin Butt to see gossip’s methodological promise. Taking gossip into his own mouthy hands, Butt slurs the studios of Rivers, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol with their own reckless talk: kisses turn into smacks, and winks into home runs. (Between you and me, that’s how I like it.)”—Carol Mavor, author of Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden“Between You and Me is boldly original and beautifully written. Gavin Butt renders a rich (which is to say dishy) description of a queer past that might enable us to imagine a queer futurity. His book will stand as a lasting contribution to queer theory and visual cultural studies and, perhaps more importantly, serve as a political and methodological wake-up call to the discourse of art history.”—José Esteban Muñoz, coeditor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol“Queers do sing, if only in each other's ears. In his new Queer Studies book Between You and Me, art historian Gavin Butt . . . delves into the rampant gay social scene that accompanied the Pop Art era, in which so many pivotal figures were as gay as periwinkle pasta.” -- Roberto Friedman * Bay Area Reporter *“Between You and Me is a nimble book—balancing a self-consciousness about what it means to work on the most ephemeral of subjects, what it means to deploy gossip as a critical strategy, and how gossip figures in both the content and the form of art from this period. The result is a portrait of the evolution of new kinds of artistic personas, and a map for producing new methodologies for writing about them.” -- Jennifer Doyle * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Gossip: The Hardcore of Art History? 1 1. The American Artist in a World of Suspicion 23 2. Idol Gossip: Myths of Genius and the Making of Queer Worlds 51 3. The Gift of Gab: Camp Talk and the Art of Larry Rivers 74 4. Dishing on the Swish, or, the “Inning” of Andy Warhol 106 5. Bodies of Evidence: Queering Disclosure in the Art of Jasper Johns 136 Afterword: Flirting with an Ending 163 Notes 167 Bibliography 189 Index 201

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Book SynopsisA reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid-twentieth centuryTrade Review“Between You and Me is a brilliant read that flirtatiously winks and kisses its way through the New York art world of the postwar period, turning our favorite icons inside out and back in again. It’s all in the gossip. Larry Rivers painted a ‘visual gossip column’ and was described by Frank O’Hara as a ‘demented telephone,’ but it takes a smart flirt (the best kind) like Gavin Butt to see gossip’s methodological promise. Taking gossip into his own mouthy hands, Butt slurs the studios of Rivers, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol with their own reckless talk: kisses turn into smacks, and winks into home runs. (Between you and me, that’s how I like it.)”—Carol Mavor, author of Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden“Between You and Me is boldly original and beautifully written. Gavin Butt renders a rich (which is to say dishy) description of a queer past that might enable us to imagine a queer futurity. His book will stand as a lasting contribution to queer theory and visual cultural studies and, perhaps more importantly, serve as a political and methodological wake-up call to the discourse of art history.”—José Esteban Muñoz, coeditor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol“Queers do sing, if only in each other's ears. In his new Queer Studies book Between You and Me, art historian Gavin Butt . . . delves into the rampant gay social scene that accompanied the Pop Art era, in which so many pivotal figures were as gay as periwinkle pasta.” -- Roberto Friedman * Bay Area Reporter *“Between You and Me is a nimble book—balancing a self-consciousness about what it means to work on the most ephemeral of subjects, what it means to deploy gossip as a critical strategy, and how gossip figures in both the content and the form of art from this period. The result is a portrait of the evolution of new kinds of artistic personas, and a map for producing new methodologies for writing about them.” -- Jennifer Doyle * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Gossip: The Hardcore of Art History? 1 1. The American Artist in a World of Suspicion 23 2. Idol Gossip: Myths of Genius and the Making of Queer Worlds 51 3. The Gift of Gab: Camp Talk and the Art of Larry Rivers 74 4. Dishing on the Swish, or, the “Inning” of Andy Warhol 106 5. Bodies of Evidence: Queering Disclosure in the Art of Jasper Johns 136 Afterword: Flirting with an Ending 163 Notes 167 Bibliography 189 Index 201

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studiesTrade Review“Black Queer Studies makes a dynamic contribution to the shifting landscape of queer studies. This volume will surely transform our understandings of both black studies and queer studies, and it will create new idioms for the analysis and theorization of race and sexuality. Black Queer Studies is necessary and long overdue.”—Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity“There are moments of epistemological excitement that recognize changes already ongoing, and then there are moments that at the same time both recognize and generate new ways of knowing. The creation of Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology is such a moment. It changes our horizons of thought. I’m excited about its effect on my thinking and grateful to the contributors and editors for the boundary stretching.”—Wahneema Lubiano, editor of The House That Race Built“This fine collection of essays demonstrates the importance of black queer quests and questions.”—Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture“Cogent, dealing well with some of the race/gender topics addressed intelligently in studies such as William Hawkeswood's One of the Children (1996) and Roderick Ferguson's Aberrations in Black (2004). Recommended.” -- R B Shuman * Choice *"Insightful. . . . From the racial segregation that can occur in gay neighborhoods to current debates about the depiction of black gays and lesbians in film, many of the essays pursue important questions about sexual and racial identity. . . . Each of these essays feels more like a prayer, a kind you'd hope to hear in church: a calm and quiet attempt to speak to the complex fears and thoughts that trouble all our hearts." -- Quinn Eli * News & Observer *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Foreword: “Home” Is a Four-Letter Word / Sharon P. Holland ix Introduction: Queering Black Studies/ “Quaring” Queer Studies / E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson 1 I. DISCIPLINARY TENSIONS: BLACK STUDIES/QUEER STUDIES Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? / Cathy J. Cohen 21 Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity / Roderick A. Ferguson 52 Straight Black Studies: On African American Studies, James Baldwin, and Black Queer Studies / Dwight A. McBride 68 Outside in Black Studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora / Rinaldo Walcott 90 The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Evidence, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge / Phillip Brian Harper 106 “Quare” Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother / E. Patrick Johnson 124 II. REPRESENTING THE “RACE”: BLACKNESS, QUEERS, AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY Beyond the Closet as Raceless Paradigm / Marlon B. Ross 161 Privilege / Devon W. Carbado 190 “Joining the Lesbians”: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility / Kara Keeling 213 Why Are Gay Ghettoes White? / Charles I. Nero 228 III. HOW TO TEACH THE UNSPEAKABLE: RACE, QUEER STUDIES, AND PEDAGOGY Embracing the Teachable Moment: The Black Gay Body in the Classroom as Embodied Text / Bryant Keith Alexander 249 Are We Family? Pedagogy and the Race for Queerness / Keith Clark 266 On Being a Witness: Passion, Pedagogy, and the Legacy of James Baldwin / Maurice O. Wallace 276 IV. BLACK QUEER FICTION: WHO IS “READING” US? But Some of Us Are Brave Lesbians: The Absence of Black Lesbian Fiction / Jewelle Gomez 289 James Baldwin‘s Giovanni‘s Room: Expatriation, “Racial Drag,” and Homosexual Panic / Mae G. Henderson 298 Robert O‘Hara‘s Insurrection: “Que(e)rying History” / Faedra Chatard Carpenter 323 Bibliography 349 Contributors 371 Index 375

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

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Book SynopsisWhen and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of sorrow and ways of creative historical knowing? How and why is it central to camp? This title deals with these questiions.Trade Review“Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame is an exciting, pointed, splendidly written, culturally important book.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, PerformativityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction Embracing Shame: “Black” and “Queer” in Debasement 1 1. Cloth Wounds, or When Queers Are Martyred to Clothes: Debasements of a Fabricated Skin 39 2. Bottom Values: Anal Economics in the History of Black Neighborhoods 67 3. When Are Dirty Details and Scenes Compelling? Tucked in the Cuts of Interracial Anal Rape 101 4. Erotic Corpse: Homosexual Miscegenation and the Decomposition of Attraction 149 5. Prophylactics and Brains: Slavery in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS 177 Conclusion: Dark Camp: Behind and Ahead 205 Notes 223 Bibliography 257 Index 265

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the role public spaces—parks, clubs, book stores—played in shaping the feminist movement in three Midwestern cities during the 1960s and 1970s.Trade Review“In places like softball fields, church basements, and dance floors, Anne Enke locates a cast of compelling characters who don’t usually make it into history books. The result is a startlingly original history of second-wave feminism. Enke forces us to think freshly about the 1960s, political mobilization, and the ways that people change the world around them.”—John D’Emilio, coauthor of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America“Possibly the best book to date on the ‘second wave’ women’s movement and certainly the most original . . . one of the best handful of studies of any social movement. I look forward to using it in my courses.”—Linda Gordon, author of The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction“Enke gives us an account of feminist political values as they are struggled over in action, day by day. Taken cumulatively, the record she provides in this book of the flexibility, genius, and solid achievements of the modern women’s liberation movement—in all its varied forms—is simply astonishing.” -- Ann Snitow * Women's Review of Books *“Enke’s book confidently moves beyond any feminist need to legitimize itself and instead explores the explosion of sites of feminist activism . . . that challenged social practices and laws restricting women’s use of public space, thereby producing the possibility for greater feminist organizing.” -- Julia Balén, * Signs *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Locating Feminist Activism 1 Part 1: Community Organizing and Commercial Space 1. “Someone or Something Made That a Women’s Bar”: Claiming the Nighttime Marketplace 25 2. “Don’t Steal It, Read It Here”: Building Community in the Marketplace 62 Part 2: Public Assertion and Civic Space 3. “Kind of Like Mecca”: Playgrounds, Players, and Women’s Movement 105 4. Out in Left Field: Feminist Movement and Civic Athletic Space 145 Part 3: Politicizing Place and Feminist Institutions 5. Finding the Limit of Women’s Autonomy: Shelters, Health Clinics, and the Practice of Property 177 6. If I Can’t Dance Shirtless, It’s Not a Revolution: Coffeehouse, Clubs, and the Construction of “All Women” 217 Conclusion: Recognizing the Subject of Feminist Activism 252 Notes 269 Bibliography 335 Index 357

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Book SynopsisA feminist analysis of the Chicano family that sees it as a site of political struggle with patriarchal masculinity, nationalism, and homophobia.Trade Review“Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Next of Kin and would recommend it highly. I plan to include it the next time I teach a gender and migration course. I think it would work well for upper-division undergraduate as well as graduate students.” - Leah Schmalzbauer, International Journal of Sociology of the Family“[T]he publication of Rodríguez’s book is exceptionally timely given widespread prejudices many Chicanos–Chicanas are still facing. The book is engagingly written and will certainly be of great value for specialists in the Americas, queer and feminist theory, cultural studies, popular culture, kinship, and migration.” - Julia Pauli, American Anthropologist“The centrality of the family to Chicano culture is indisputable. One of Next of Kin’s merits lies in its push to expand the notion of exactly who makes up this family. The cultural studies approach, which allows for the analysis of various modes of cultural expression, explains the general absence of canonical literary texts, many of which prominently feature both biological and fictive representations of family. Rodríguez counters this by critically engaging a rich variety of cultural practices, all of great relevance to the reconfiguration of la familia Chicana.” - José Pablo Villalobos, Camino Real“By studying the works of writers, filmmakers, painters, and musicians, Rodríguez assembles a rich cultural study and illustrates how ‘alternative’ family configurations (as opposed to the husband-dominated model) have existed in Chicano culture longer than previously thought. . . .” - Charlie Vázquez“Next of Kin offers one of the most cogent articulations of Chicana/o cultural critique to date. Through elegant readings of a dynamic archive of Chicano literary and popular culture, Richard T. Rodríguez scrutinizes the cultural authority of the biological Chicana/o family, critiquing its exclusionary impulses and championing transformative reconfigurations of la familia. Along the way, he provides a nuanced consideration of Chicana/o political and cultural history.”—José Esteban Muñoz, author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics“A gorgeous tapestry of cultural forms and interpretive brilliance, Next of Kin reopens the debate over our conflicted understandings of la familia in light of the challenges produced by feminism and queer studies. A must read for all those interested in Chicana and Chicano politics, fiction, film, photography, performance, and painting. Richard T. Rodríguez has given us a map with which to negotiate the twenty-first century uses of the family.”—George Mariscal, author of Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975“[T]he publication of Rodríguez’s book is exceptionally timely given widespread prejudices many Chicanos–Chicanas are still facing. The book is engagingly written and will certainly be of great value for specialists in the Americas, queer and feminist theory, cultural studies, popular culture, kinship, and migration.” -- Julia Pauli * American Anthropologist *“By studying the works of writers, filmmakers, painters, and musicians, Rodríguez assembles a rich cultural study and illustrates how ‘alternative’ family configurations (as opposed to the husband-dominated model) have existed in Chicano culture longer than previously thought. . . .” -- Charlie Vázquez“Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Next of Kin and would recommend it highly. I plan to include it the next time I teach a gender and migration course. I think it would work well for upper-division undergraduate as well as graduate students.” -- Leah Schmalzbauer * International Journal of Sociology of the Family *“The centrality of the family to Chicano culture is indisputable. One of Next of Kin’s merits lies in its push to expand the notion of exactly who makes up this family. The cultural studies approach, which allows for the analysis of various modes of cultural expression, explains the general absence of canonical literary texts, many of which prominently feature both biological and fictive representations of family. Rodríguez counters this by critically engaging a rich variety of cultural practices, all of great relevance to the reconfiguration of la familia Chicana.” -- José Pablo Villalobos * Camino Real *Table of ContentsAbout the Series v Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Staking Family Claims 1 Reappraising the Archive 19 Shooting the Patriarch 55 The Verse of the Godfather 95 Carnal Knowledge 135 Afterword: Making Queer Familia 167 Notes 177 Bibliography 211 Discography 235 Filmography 237 Index 239

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Book SynopsisThis provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression.Trade Review“Ahmed’s analyses are spot-on and provocative. . . . Ahmed’s analysis of this and other topics is unpredictable and engaging.” - Heather Seggel, The Gay & Lesbian Review“Ahmed's language is a joy, and her work on each case study is filled with insight and rigor as she doggedly traces the social networks of dominance concealed and congealed around happiness. . . . The Promise of Happiness is an important intervention in affect studies that crucially approaches one of the major assumptions guiding social life: the assumption that we need to be happy.” - Sean Grattan, Social Text“. . . [F]ascinating and important, both in showing us how to read some keytexts differently and in showing how to think more carefully about happinessand its politics. . . . [T]here is a perverse happiness to be taken from readingsuch an interesting book about the insufficiency of happiness.” - Richard Ashcroft, Textual Practice“The Promise of Happiness bridges philosophy and cultural studies, phenomenology and feminist thought—providing a fresh and incisive approach to some of the most urgent contemporary feminist issues. Ahmed navigates this bridge with a voice both clear and warm to convey ideas that are as complex as they are intimate and accessible. Her treatment of affect as a phenomenological project provides feminist theorists a way out of mind-body divides without reverting to essentialisms, enabling Ahmed to attend to intersectional and global power relations with acuity and originality.” - Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Signs“The Promise of Happiness is richly valuable not only for its discussion of utilitarianism but also for its broader deconstruction of the workings of happiness in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and social science. Whereas other feminist theorists also occasionally cast a critical eye toward happiness, or raise consciousness of female unhappiness, Ahmed has produced a volume that is unparalleled in its sustained and extensive expose´ of the entanglements between discourses of happiness and oppression.” - Andrea Veltman, Hypatia“Ahmed enhances feminism’s critical toolbox by guiding us to regard affect as a cipher for society as we track how it produces and is produced by politics. ... Ahmed draws on feminism to potentially enhance the quality of life for her readers, who are offered mindful practices of relinquishing attachment to various ideals in a text that is neither Pollyannaish nor depressing.” - Naomi Greyser, Feminist Studies“At a time when happiness studies are all the rage and feminism is accused of destroying women’s happiness, Sara Ahmed offers a bold critique of the consensus that happiness is an unconditional good. Her new book asks searching questions about the nature of the good life, making its case in a wonderfully pellucid prose. What a paradox that a defense of the kill-joy should be such a pleasure to read! This timely, original, and intellectually expansive book is sure to trigger a great deal of debate.”—Rita Felski, University of Virginia“What could be more naturalized and less subject to ideological critique than happiness? How are we to get critical perspective on it? Through her readings of texts and films, Sara Ahmed shows how this might work. By revealing the complexity and ambivalence of happiness, she intervenes in several fields—including queer and feminist theory, affect studies, and critical race theory—in a genuinely new and exciting way.”—Heather K. Love, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History “The Promise of Happiness is an extraordinary text that should become a mainstay of affect studies and that serves as a strikingly powerful model of astute cultural critique. Ahmed offers an insightful study of our preoccupation with and desire for happiness.” -- Jenna Supp-Montgomerie * Women's Studies Quarterly *“Expand[s] the political horizons of feeling and cultural politics with exciting complexity . . . brilliant.” -- Sarah Cefai * Cultural Studies Review *“By unpacking the attribution of happiness to specific choices and lives, Ahmed encourages us to consider how ‘the promise of happiness’ serves as a moral imperative. A stimulating and—dare I say—pleasurable read, the book may not have a happy ending, but it does propose what might happen instead.” -- Kestryl Cael Lowrey * Lambda Literary Review *“Fascinating and important, both in showing us how to read some key texts differently and in showing how to think more carefully about happiness and its politics. . . . [T]here is a perverse happiness to be taken from reading such an interesting book about the insufficiency of happiness.” -- Richard Ashcroft * Textual Practice *“The Promise of Happiness is richly valuable not only for its discussion of utilitarianism but also for its broader deconstruction of the workings of happiness in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and social science. Whereas other feminist theorists also occasionally cast a critical eye toward happiness, or raise consciousness of female unhappiness, Ahmed has produced a volume that is unparalleled in its sustained and extensive expose´ of the entanglements between discourses of happiness and oppression.” -- Andrea Veltman * Hypatia *“The Promise of Happiness bridges philosophy and cultural studies, phenomenology and feminist thought—providing a fresh and incisive approach to some of the most urgent contemporary feminist issues. Ahmed navigates this bridge with a voice both clear and warm to convey ideas that are as complex as they are intimate and accessible. Her treatment of affect as a phenomenological project provides feminist theorists a way out of mind-body divides without reverting to essentialisms, enabling Ahmed to attend to intersectional and global power relations with acuity and originality.” -- Aimee Carrillo Rowe * Signs *“Ahmed enhances feminism’s critical toolbox by guiding us to regard affect as a cipher for society as we track how it produces and is produced by politics. ... Ahmed draws on feminism to potentially enhance the quality of life for her readers, who are offered mindful practices of relinquishing attachment to various ideals in a text that is neither Pollyannaish nor depressing.” -- Naomi Greyser * Feminist Studies *“Ahmed's language is a joy, and her work on each case study is filled with insight and rigor as she doggedly traces the social networks of dominance concealed and congealed around happiness. . . . The Promise of Happiness is an important intervention in affect studies that crucially approaches one of the major assumptions guiding social life: the assumption that we need to be happy.” -- Sean Grattan * Social Text *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Happiness, Why Now? 1 1. Happy Objects 21 2. Feminist Killjoys 50 3. Unhappy Queers 88 4. Melancholic Migrants 121 5. Happy Futures 160 Conclusion: Happiness, Ethics, Possibility 199 Notes 225 References 283 Index 301

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Book SynopsisProvides a theoretical analysis of how Asian migration and diaspora support the consolidation of gay and lesbian family and intimacy in our colorblind age, and develops a poststructuralist account of kinship.Trade Review“The Feeling of Kinship is a timely examination of the persistence of racial and national differentiation within the privileged investments of ‘queer liberalism’ in its particular focus on the rights to affective union in domesticity, privacy, and family. Here, as elsewhere, David L. Eng demonstrates his gifts of critical precision and elegant presentation.”—Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego“Spanning psychoanalysis, law, and aesthetics, and reading richly and with passion, David L. Eng's The Feeling of Kinship looks at transnational adoption as an exemplary scene of contemporary intimacy in the United States. This is a fearless book that knows and feels what it means to have to defend oneself from the ‘liberal’ place in which one lives; what it means racially, sexually, and legally to have to be defensive in a nation that identifies itself with freedom.”—Lauren Berlant, author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American CultureTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1 1. The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 23 2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in The Book of Salt and Happy Together 58 3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in First Person Plural 93 4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation (with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138 5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in History and Memory 166 Notes 199 Bibliography 225 Index 239

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking comparative analysis of the historical development and contemporary dynamics of LGBT activism in Mexico and Brazil.Trade Review“The detailed analysis of the different efforts in each country and the careful cross-national comparison makes this work an essential source for any scholar working on Brazil, Mexico, democratization in Latin America, and the emergence of gender and sexual movements demanding equal rights and an end to discrimination.” - James N. Green, The Americas“Rafael de la Dehesa has written an empirically rich and analytically nuanced book that explores the rise and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist engagements with the state in Brazil and Mexico. . . . de la Dehesa makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of LGBT movements and of Brazilian and Mexican politics. . . . [H]is comparative analysis deepens our understanding of how globalization, in particular the transnational project of liberal modernity, powerfully affects local activism, but in contingent and nonhomogenizing ways.” - Deborah Gould, Perspectives on Politics“[A]nother wonderful piece of scholarship based on a decade of field research, including nearly 270 interviews with a wide range of respondents. . . . [A] beautifully written, eloquently argued, and entirely original work. De la Dehesa has written the first English-language monograph focused on the interaction of Latin American LGBT communities with party systems and the state. . . . This book is sure to find a wide audience, as it explores key issues in Latin American and sexuality studies, as well as in sociology and politics.” - Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Signs“Rafael de la Dehesa does a wonderful job comparing the activism of the LGBT movements in both countries, something that is important mainly because of the lack of this kind of rigorous studies in Latin America. Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil, a model of comparative analysis, reveals a significant history of organization and political presence of sexual minorities in Latin America that has remained mostly ignored.” - R. Hernandez Rodriguez, The Latin Americanist“Rafael de la Dehesa’s work stands out among recent studies of social movement activism around sexual identities and scholarly publications on democratisation in Latin America. It breathes fresh air into the debate on the nature and meaning of the democratisation processes in the region and provides key insights on the role that civil society groups have played in domestic and transnational contexts. . . . Without any doubt this will soon become a seminal piece for anyone interested in interdisciplinary and comparative analyses, North and South.” - Antonio Torres-Ruiz, Journal of Latin American Studies“Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is an exceptional study with the potential to become a major reference in this field of research. It will help to define the analysis of LGBT political mobilization in the global South for some time to come.”—Richard Parker, author of Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil“Rafael de la Dehesa uses the tools and methods of comparative politics to move queer activism from the margins to the center of the debate. He delves deeply into the historical development and current dynamics of queer political interactions with the state in two countries whose institutional and cultural contexts he knows thoroughly. And he makes major contributions to current thinking about neoliberalism, governmentality, the public sphere, and the limits and potential of ‘sexual citizenship.’”—Rosalind Petchesky, co-author of Sexuality, Health, and Human Rights“Very little has been written on the emergence of gay and lesbian rights as an issue in the public sphere in Latin America, or on the social forces that have led to related legislative gains. Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil fills a gap and should be welcomed by specialists in Latin American studies, gay and lesbian studies, social movements, and civil rights.”—Barry D. Adam, co-editor of The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement“Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is an excellent read. To my knowledge, it provides the first systematic comparison of national LGBT movements in Latin America. . . . [I]t has the potential to reorient existing academic understandings of the manner in which LGBT social movements are becoming globalized. In short, this is a well-researched and extremely thoughtful book that will make an important contribution to the study of LGBT movements in particular and social movements more generally. It is also a welcome addition to analyses of liberal democracies throughout Latin America.” -- Hector Carrillo * American Journal of Sociology *“[T]he author’s history of homosexuality in Brazil and Mexico is lively…. Top-down changes in policy do not necessarily lead to cultural shifts. But in Latin America, as these authors show, today the grassroots are rising to the challenge.” -- Catesby Holmes * NACLA Report on the Americas *“[A]nother wonderful piece of scholarship based on a decade of field research, including nearly 270 interviews with a wide range of respondents. . . . [A] beautifully written, eloquently argued, and entirely original work. De la Dehesa has written the first English-language monograph focused on the interaction of Latin American LGBT communities with party systems and the state. . . . This book is sure to find a wide audience, as it explores key issues in Latin American and sexuality studies, as well as in sociology and politics.” -- Elisabeth Jay Friedman * Signs *“Rafael de la Dehesa has written an empirically rich and analytically nuanced book that explores the rise and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist engagements with the state in Brazil and Mexico. . . . de la Dehesa makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of LGBT movements and of Brazilian and Mexican politics. . . . [H]is comparative analysis deepens our understanding of how globalization, in particular the transnational project of liberal modernity, powerfully affects local activism, but in contingent and nonhomogenizing ways.” -- Deborah Gould * Perspectives on Politics *“Rafael de la Dehesa’s work stands out among recent studies of social movement activism around sexual identities and scholarly publications on democratisation in Latin America. It breathes fresh air into the debate on the nature and meaning of the democratisation processes in the region and provides key insights on the role that civil society groups have played in domestic and transnational contexts. . . . Without any doubt this will soon become a seminal piece for anyone interested in interdisciplinary and comparative analyses, North and South.” -- Antonio Torres-Ruiz * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface xi Introduction: Hybrid Modernities, Modern Sexualities 1 Part I. Frames 1. On Sexual Subjects and Public Spheres 27 Part II. Doorways 2. Occupying the Partisan Field: First Door on the Left 61 3. The Limits of Liberalization: Entering the Electoral Field 87 Part III. Pathways 4. Advancing Homosexual Citizenship: Brazil's Early Turn to Legislatures 115 5. Life at the Margins: Coalition Building and Sexual Diversity in the Mexican Legislature 146 6. Brazil without Homophobia, or, A Technocratic Alternative to Political Parties 178 Conclusion: The Hope and Fear of Institutions 204 Acronyms 219 Notes 221 Bibliography 247 Index 287

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Book SynopsisProvides a theoretical analysis of how Asian migration and diaspora support the consolidation of gay and lesbian family and intimacy in our colorblind age, and develops a poststructuralist account of kinship.Trade Review“The Feeling of Kinship is a timely examination of the persistence of racial and national differentiation within the privileged investments of ‘queer liberalism’ in its particular focus on the rights to affective union in domesticity, privacy, and family. Here, as elsewhere, David L. Eng demonstrates his gifts of critical precision and elegant presentation.”—Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego“Spanning psychoanalysis, law, and aesthetics, and reading richly and with passion, David L. Eng's The Feeling of Kinship looks at transnational adoption as an exemplary scene of contemporary intimacy in the United States. This is a fearless book that knows and feels what it means to have to defend oneself from the ‘liberal’ place in which one lives; what it means racially, sexually, and legally to have to be defensive in a nation that identifies itself with freedom.”—Lauren Berlant, author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American CultureTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1 1. The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 23 2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in The Book of Salt and Happy Together 58 3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in First Person Plural 93 4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation (with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138 5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in History and Memory 166 Notes 199 Bibliography 225 Index 239

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Book SynopsisShakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare.Trade Review“The adventurous essays in Shakesqueer demonstrate that queer theory does indeed need Shakespeare, if only to defy rumors of its own demise: the essays show what is vital about a queer studies that might have been thought by this point too domesticated or reified or ‘fixed’ to be intellectually vibrant.”—Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern“What happens when queer theory gets into bed with Shakespeare? A play in forty-eight acts, this spirited group production never ceases to entertain and surprise with its queer cast of characters: virgins, eunuchs, and lechers; queens, kings, and pageboys; tyrants, assassins, and killjoys; lions, tigers, and bears—oh my! Full of toil and trouble, wit and wisdom, Shakesqueer succeeds where few other edited collections do: it puts the play back in playwright, and the fun back in theory.”—Diana Fuss, Princeton University“In the end, this book is a big, glorious mess, full of playful juxtapositions and frightening possibilities. It is thrilling. Theatre scholars, queer theorists, actors, directors, and dramaturges will all find something useful and interesting.” -- Michael Cramer * Sixteenth Century Journal *“When studying endless Shakespeare plays on English Literature courses, we always had a hunch there were some exceptionally queer goings on beyond some same sex sonnets and this collection of essays proves us right. Earl on earl analysis sits beside complex queer theories on the bard.” * Gay Times *“Few works of literary criticism deserve the descriptor ‘monumental,’ but this one does. . . . The book is both readable and witty. It is also important, for it drives the final nail into the coffin of 20th-century Shakespearean studies. . . . No hierarchies survive this book. Every play and poem receives a fresh new reading. . . . Essential. All readers.” -- M. J. Emery * Choice *“If you're looking for clues to Romeo and Mercutio's secret romance in the new academic volume Shakesqueer : A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by Madhavi Menon (Duke), you're barking up the wrong yew tree. American University professor Menon and her queer-theorist contributors find queerness in Shakespeare in that term's most all-encompassing meaning of oddball, unusual, or non-normative. But when you come to think of it, fairy queen Titania falling in love with an ass named Bottom is pretty queer, in all senses of the word.” -- Roberto Friedman * Bay Area Reporter *“It is rare to see a volume that does so much, and does it with such consistent wit, thoughtfulness, and creativity. . . . In putting together this volume, Menon has done scholars from all fields and periods an immense service. Shakesqueer gives us a very queer new reading ‘’companion’’ — friend, helpmeet, comrade-in-arms — that makes us exquisitely aware of the need for the perverse and disruptive critical practice its essays so pleasurably model.” -- Melissa E. Sanchez * Renaissance Quarterly *“There’s something for every queer scholar and Bard-lover in the anthology; from bears in Henry VIII to eunuchs in Antony and Cleopatra, from the death drive in Hamlet to precariously heterosexual marriages in All’s Well that Ends Well, the contributing authors chart Shakespeare’s varied engagements with queerness, putting pressure on assumptions that Shakespeare has nothing to offer to contemporary queer theory. . . . The assorted essays assert that Shakespeare has as much to offer queer theory as queer theory can contribute to understanding and deconstructing the Bard’s texts. This book belongs on every bookish queer’s shelf, right where the leather-bound Complete Works of William Shakespeare butts up against Butler and Foucault.” -- Kestryl Cael Lowrey * Lambda Literary Review *“This fascinating collection of essays explores the queer elements within all of Shakespeare’s works. With contributions from scholars of both queer studies and Shakespeare, the volume represents a joining of the two fields rarely attempted before.” -- Charles Green * Gay & Lesbian Review *“[Shakesqueer] manages to put the fun back into academic research. Shakesqueer is a highly entertaining collection of essays, which all focus on the strange, the unusual, that is, the queer element in the Shakespearean oeuvre.” -- Veronika Schandl * European Journal of English Studies *"For 'insider experts'—those who are Shakespeareans, queer theorists, or both (always, already, at once)—Shakesqueer provides a garden of delights between its covers. . . . Shakesqueer extends, enriches, and strengthens the vocabulary of Shakespeare criticism in concert with queer theory." -- Stephen F. Evans * Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Queer Shakes / Madhavi Menon 1 All is True (Henry VIII)The Unbearable Sex of Henry VIII / Steven Bruhm 28 All's Well That Ends WellIs Marriage Always Already Heterosexual? / Julie Crawford 39 Antony and CleopatraAught an Eunuch Has / Ellis Hanson 48 As You Like ItFortune's Turn / Valerie Rohy 55 Cardenio"Absonant Desire": The Question of Cardenio / Philip Lorenz 62 The Comedy of ErrorsIn Praise of Error / Lynne Huffer 72 Coriolanus"Tell Me Not Wherein I Seem Unnatural": Queer Meditations on Coriolanus in the Time of War / Jason Edwards 80 Cymbelinedesire vomit emptiness: Cymbeline's Marriage Time / Amanda Berry 89 HamletHamlet's Wounded Name / Lee Edelman 97 Henry IV, Part 1When Harry Met Harry / Matt Bell 106 Henry IV, Part 2 The Deep Structure of Sexuality: War and Masochism in Henry IV, Part 2 / Daniel Juan Gil 114 King Henry VScrambling Harry and Sampling Hal / Drew Daniel 121 Henry VI, Part 1"Wounded Alpha Bad Boy Soldier" / Mario Digangi 130 Henry VI, Part 2The Gayest Play Ever / Stephen Guy-Bray 139 Henry VI, Part 3Stay / Cary Howie 146 Julius CaeserThus, Always: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln / Bethany Schneider 152 King JohnQueer Futility: Or, The Life and Death of King John / Kathryn Schwarz 163 King LearLear's Queer Cosmos / Laurie Shannon 171 A Lover's ComplaintLearning How to Love (Again) / Ashley T. Shelden 179 Love's Labour's LostThe L Words / Madhavi Menon 187 Love's Labour's WonDoctorin' the Bard: A Contemporary Appropriation of Love's Labour's Won / Hector Kollias 194 MacbethMilk / Heather Love 201 Measure for MeasureSame-Saint Desire / Paul Morrison 209 The Merchant of VeniceThe Rites of Queer Marriage in The Merchant of Venice / Arthur L. Little Jr. 216 The Merry Wives of WindsorWhat Do Women Want? / Jonathan Goldberg 225 A Midsummer Night's DreamShakespeare's Ass Play / Richard Rambuss 234 Much Ado About NothingClosing Ranks, Keeping Company: Marriage Plots and the Will to be Single in Much Ado About Nothing / Ann Pellegrini 245 OthelloOthello's Penis: Or, Islam in the Closet / Daniel Boyarin 254 Pericles"Curious Pleasures": Pericles beyond the Civility of Union / Patrick O'Malley 263 The Phoenix and the TurtleNumber There in Love Was Slain / Karl Steel 271 The Rape of LucreeDesire My Pilot Is / Peter Coviello 278 Richard IIPretty Richard / Judith Brown 286 Richard IIIFuck the Disabled: The Prequel / Robert McRuer 294 Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet Love Death / Carla Freccero 302 Sir Thomas MoreMore or Less Queer / Jeffrey Masten 309 The SonnetsMomma's Boy / Aranye Fradenburg 319 Speech Therapy / Barbara Johnson 328 More Life: Shakespeare's Sonnet Machines / Julian Yates 333 The Taming of the ShrewLatin Lovers in The Taming of the Shrew / Bruce Smith 343 The TempestForgetting The Tempest / Kevin Ohi 351 Timon of AthensSkepticism, Sovereignty, Sodomy / James Kuzner 361 Titus AndronicusA Child's Garden of Atrocities / Michael Moon 369 Troilus and CressidaThe Leather Men and the Lovely Boy: Reading Positions in Troilus and Cressida / Alan Sinfeild 376 Twelfth NightIs There an Audience for My Play? / Sharon Holland 385 The Two Gentlemen of VeronaPageboy, or The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Movie / Amy Villajero 394 The Two Noble KinsmenPhiladelphia, or War / Jody Greene 404 Venus and Adonis421Venus and Adonis Freeze / Andrew Nicholls 414 The Winter's TaleLost, or "Exit, Pursued by a Bear": Causing Queer Children on Shakespeare's TV / Kathryn Bond Stockton 421 References 429 Further Reading 449 Contributors 467 Index 477

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives.Trade Review“Tacit Subjects is a joy to read, an important piece of ethnographic scholarship, and a crucial node for a more enlightened and progressive understanding of queer lives lived on the edges of nations, histories, and cultures. Carlos Ulises Decena meticulously engages with, departs from, energizes, and reframes recent LBGTQ scholarship. He exhorts us to consider alternative modes of queer habitations ensconced in histories of racialized migration, colonial occupations, poverty, dictatorship, and humdrum existence in late-capitalist America.” —Martin Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora“Without a doubt, Tacit Subjects is the most intelligent and coherent book on Latino homosexuality (and homosociality) that I have read in a very long time. It is a corrective to many readings of the Latina/o dynamic around disclosure, as well as the imperative of revelation that seems to mark most of the work in Anglo-American LGBTQ studies. It is a trenchant and powerful call for us to listen carefully to what others say and understand how their wisdom can teach us to abandon our preconceived notions of normativity.”—José Quiroga, author of Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America“[T]his book provides a compelling look at the lives of samesex loving Dominican immigrant men. It is a powerful piece of work, which will be ofgreat interest to those in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, sexuality/queer studies, globalisation and public health.” -- Ian W. Holloway * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Overall, Tacit Subjects develops new theoretical terrains in sexuality, masculinity, and migration studies through its deep and personal engagement with the complex lives of a group of Dominican immigrant men living in New York City. It will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, and I for one will be using it in my gender and sexuality courses as part of a sophisticated suite of texts exploring the movement, organization, and transformation of sexual desires and identities within and across Dominican borders.” -- David A. B. Murray * GLQ *“A thoughtful discussion of the connections among linguistic practice, masculinity, and sexual sameness in the Santo Dominican diaspora. . . . Tacit Subjects shows why studies of the Dominican diaspora must pay attention to discursive practices. More than that, Decena’s work challenges the rest of us to mobilize narrative data in ways that give ethnographic subjects in any location adequate spaces to speak for themselves.” -- William L. Leap * American Ethnologist *“There is much packed into this worthwhile book. Its achievements are many, among them the rare capacity of a scholarly book to intertwine complex theorization with the kind of vibrant ethnographic storytelling that this text captures. . . . [R]eaders across the social sciences and humanities, will find this an intriguing, elucidatory and captivating read. It is an important contribution to the multiple, intersecting fields of anthropology, gender studies, masculinity studies, queer studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies and sociology, among others.” -- Diana J. Fox * A Contracorriente *“This is an absorbing and challenging examination of homoracial transnational erotics. It is a very careful and layered autoethnography cum-participant observation and life history interview study of 25 Dominican immigrant men in New York City.... As such, this volume presents a nuanceddisarticulation of dominicanidad (Dominican identity) with telling comments as to the nature of transnational desires and relations, and pointed conclusions as to the complex construction and performance of identity in general.... This book not only adds a tacit and homosexual dimension to migrant studies, but it is also an invaluable corrective to the often static portrayal of migrant identity.” -- Jonathan Skinner * Social Anthropology *“His theoretical constructs always seem appropriate to the data he has gathered. He introduces and elaborates them in ways that illuminate the data while simultaneously emerging from the data...rarely have I seen the movement among culture, material circumstances, politics, and political identity so well and so thoroughly accomplished as in Decena’s beautifully written book.” -- Michael Hames-Garcia * American Anthropologist *“Decena unpacks the meanings behind the boundaries and links created by those in his study, focusing on their perceptions of other Dominicans in relation to their own positions as marginal, working-class, immigrant people attempting to advance based on a social status hierarchy in a host country. Tacit Subjects is clearly a must read for any scholar interested in race, class, sexualities and migration.” -- Katie L. Acosta * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Tacit Subjects 17 Part I. Leaving Living in the Mental Island 39 2. Moving Portraits 41 3. Desencontrando la dominicanidad in New York City 67 Part II. Body Languages 107 4. Eso se nota: Scenes from Queer Childhoods 111 5. Code Swishing 139 Part III. Colonial Zones 173 6. Virando la dominicanidad 177 7. To Be Someone, To Be Somewhere: Erotic Returns and U.S.-Caribbean Circuits of Desire 205 Epilogue 239 Notes 241 Bibliography 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives.Trade Review“Tacit Subjects is a joy to read, an important piece of ethnographic scholarship, and a crucial node for a more enlightened and progressive understanding of queer lives lived on the edges of nations, histories, and cultures. Carlos Ulises Decena meticulously engages with, departs from, energizes, and reframes recent LBGTQ scholarship. He exhorts us to consider alternative modes of queer habitations ensconced in histories of racialized migration, colonial occupations, poverty, dictatorship, and humdrum existence in late-capitalist America.” —Martin Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora“Without a doubt, Tacit Subjects is the most intelligent and coherent book on Latino homosexuality (and homosociality) that I have read in a very long time. It is a corrective to many readings of the Latina/o dynamic around disclosure, as well as the imperative of revelation that seems to mark most of the work in Anglo-American LGBTQ studies. It is a trenchant and powerful call for us to listen carefully to what others say and understand how their wisdom can teach us to abandon our preconceived notions of normativity.”—José Quiroga, author of Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America“[T]his book provides a compelling look at the lives of samesex loving Dominican immigrant men. It is a powerful piece of work, which will be ofgreat interest to those in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, sexuality/queer studies, globalisation and public health.” -- Ian W. Holloway * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Overall, Tacit Subjects develops new theoretical terrains in sexuality, masculinity, and migration studies through its deep and personal engagement with the complex lives of a group of Dominican immigrant men living in New York City. It will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, and I for one will be using it in my gender and sexuality courses as part of a sophisticated suite of texts exploring the movement, organization, and transformation of sexual desires and identities within and across Dominican borders.” -- David A. B. Murray * GLQ *“A thoughtful discussion of the connections among linguistic practice, masculinity, and sexual sameness in the Santo Dominican diaspora. . . . Tacit Subjects shows why studies of the Dominican diaspora must pay attention to discursive practices. More than that, Decena’s work challenges the rest of us to mobilize narrative data in ways that give ethnographic subjects in any location adequate spaces to speak for themselves.” -- William L. Leap * American Ethnologist *“There is much packed into this worthwhile book. Its achievements are many, among them the rare capacity of a scholarly book to intertwine complex theorization with the kind of vibrant ethnographic storytelling that this text captures. . . . [R]eaders across the social sciences and humanities, will find this an intriguing, elucidatory and captivating read. It is an important contribution to the multiple, intersecting fields of anthropology, gender studies, masculinity studies, queer studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies and sociology, among others.” -- Diana J. Fox * A Contracorriente *“This is an absorbing and challenging examination of homoracial transnational erotics. It is a very careful and layered autoethnography cum-participant observation and life history interview study of 25 Dominican immigrant men in New York City.... As such, this volume presents a nuanceddisarticulation of dominicanidad (Dominican identity) with telling comments as to the nature of transnational desires and relations, and pointed conclusions as to the complex construction and performance of identity in general.... This book not only adds a tacit and homosexual dimension to migrant studies, but it is also an invaluable corrective to the often static portrayal of migrant identity.” -- Jonathan Skinner * Social Anthropology *“His theoretical constructs always seem appropriate to the data he has gathered. He introduces and elaborates them in ways that illuminate the data while simultaneously emerging from the data...rarely have I seen the movement among culture, material circumstances, politics, and political identity so well and so thoroughly accomplished as in Decena’s beautifully written book.” -- Michael Hames-Garcia * American Anthropologist *“Decena unpacks the meanings behind the boundaries and links created by those in his study, focusing on their perceptions of other Dominicans in relation to their own positions as marginal, working-class, immigrant people attempting to advance based on a social status hierarchy in a host country. Tacit Subjects is clearly a must read for any scholar interested in race, class, sexualities and migration.” -- Katie L. Acosta * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Tacit Subjects 17 Part I. Leaving Living in the Mental Island 39 2. Moving Portraits 41 3. Desencontrando la dominicanidad in New York City 67 Part II. Body Languages 107 4. Eso se nota: Scenes from Queer Childhoods 111 5. Code Swishing 139 Part III. Colonial Zones 173 6. Virando la dominicanidad 177 7. To Be Someone, To Be Somewhere: Erotic Returns and U.S.-Caribbean Circuits of Desire 205 Epilogue 239 Notes 241 Bibliography 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisCollection of essays and poems that address the challenges of being a Chicana, a lesbian, and a feminist in the changing world of the twenty-first century.Trade Review“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” - Victoria Bolf, Lambda Literary Review“Nostalgia, evolving consciousness, and the concept of (w)riting –writing to remember / making rite to remember / having the right to remember–lyrically permeate the pages of this book. Moraga’s ideas have matured and become more profound with the passage of time; I look forward to reading more of her eloquent resistance and wisdom in the coming years.” - The Feminist Texican [Reads]“This is an overall compelling, timely, and on many fronts, prophetic read. There is just enough background discourse on Chicana feminist thought and history for those uninitiated readers, and many new critical reflections and insights for the more seasoned readers wondering what this author has to offer since her last influential work. Both will potentially walk away from this book with an overdue sense of indignation, as well as a sense of hope that within the burgeoning nest of Chicana consciousness and social activism, lies the golden egg of a just, social democracy in the United States.” - Christiane Grimal, GRAAT Anglophone Studies“A Xicana Codex reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” - Alvina E. Quintana, Women’s Review of Books“‘I am no prophet, only a witness to the writing already on the wall that divides my own native homeland’ says Cherríe Moraga in the opening of her contemporary codex. Moraga speaks directly, as a powerful voice of a pivotal generation, a generation that is aging and coming to terms with its urgent, collective story. This political memoir in essays is a testimony to the awakening of an indigenous consciousness that has been disappeared in the memory of colonized Americas. The collection is blessed by the drawings of Celia Herrera Rodríguez. They provide the ceremonial flow. They represent the voices of the plants, earth and elements that give dreaming to the human mind. What a powerful offering in a time of reckoning.”—Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, poet, musician, performer, playwright“Cherríe Moraga’s A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness is a hope fulfilled. After the passing of Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana/o studies suffered something like an eclipse of the moon but here comes radical, creative light into our lives and scholarship once more. Moraga’s intellectual and emotional courage about sexuality, race, queerness, and feminist energy shows us that Barack Obama and all Americans also live in the time of Latinos and Xicanas. Underlying these essays is the creative question ‘how can this new demography of many colors and genders be cultivated into a new democracy?’”—Davíd Carrasco, author of Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers“A Xicana Codex reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” -- Alvina E. Quintana * Women's Review of Books *“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” -- Victoria Bolf * Lambda Literary Review *“While I may turn to other writings for cultural criticism, Moraga provides what I have not been able to find on any other front: an indigenous Xicana path that insists on transgression as a political and spiritual imperative in a national environment whose core values are corrupt.” -- Paloma Martinez-Cruz * Letras Femeninas *Table of ContentsDrawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez xiii Prólogo: A Living Codex xv Agradecimentos xix A Xicana Lexicon xxi One. Existo Yo A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness 3 From Inside the First World: On 9/11 and Women-of-Color Feminism 18 An Irrevocable Promise: Staging the Story Xicana 34 Two. The Warring Inside What Is Left of Us 49 MeXicana Blues 51 Weapons of the Weak: On Fear and Political Resistance 54 California Dreaming 73 Cuento Xicano 76 Indígena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember 79 The Altar of My Undoing 97 Three. Salt of the Earth Aguas Sagradas 105 And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief: Eulogy for Marsha Gómez 107 Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 111 The Salt That Cures: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa 116 Four. The Price of Beans South Central Farmers 133 The Other Face of (Im)migration: In Conversation with West Asian Feminists 135 Floricanto 146 Modern-Day Malinches 148 What's Race Gotta Do With It? On the Election of Barack Obama 151 This Benighted Nation We Name Home: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Ethnic Studies 163 Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer 175 Epílogo: Xicana Mind, Beginner Mind 193 Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada: The Art of Celia Herrera Rodríguez 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 229 Index 237

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

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Book SynopsisCollection of essays and poems that address the challenges of being a Chicana, a lesbian, and a feminist in the changing world of the twenty-first century.Trade Review“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” - Victoria Bolf, Lambda Literary Review“Nostalgia, evolving consciousness, and the concept of (w)riting –writing to remember / making rite to remember / having the right to remember–lyrically permeate the pages of this book. Moraga’s ideas have matured and become more profound with the passage of time; I look forward to reading more of her eloquent resistance and wisdom in the coming years.” - The Feminist Texican [Reads]“This is an overall compelling, timely, and on many fronts, prophetic read. There is just enough background discourse on Chicana feminist thought and history for those uninitiated readers, and many new critical reflections and insights for the more seasoned readers wondering what this author has to offer since her last influential work. Both will potentially walk away from this book with an overdue sense of indignation, as well as a sense of hope that within the burgeoning nest of Chicana consciousness and social activism, lies the golden egg of a just, social democracy in the United States.” - Christiane Grimal, GRAAT Anglophone Studies“A Xicana Codex reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” - Alvina E. Quintana, Women’s Review of Books“‘I am no prophet, only a witness to the writing already on the wall that divides my own native homeland’ says Cherríe Moraga in the opening of her contemporary codex. Moraga speaks directly, as a powerful voice of a pivotal generation, a generation that is aging and coming to terms with its urgent, collective story. This political memoir in essays is a testimony to the awakening of an indigenous consciousness that has been disappeared in the memory of colonized Americas. The collection is blessed by the drawings of Celia Herrera Rodríguez. They provide the ceremonial flow. They represent the voices of the plants, earth and elements that give dreaming to the human mind. What a powerful offering in a time of reckoning.”—Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, poet, musician, performer, playwright“Cherríe Moraga’s A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness is a hope fulfilled. After the passing of Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana/o studies suffered something like an eclipse of the moon but here comes radical, creative light into our lives and scholarship once more. Moraga’s intellectual and emotional courage about sexuality, race, queerness, and feminist energy shows us that Barack Obama and all Americans also live in the time of Latinos and Xicanas. Underlying these essays is the creative question ‘how can this new demography of many colors and genders be cultivated into a new democracy?’”—Davíd Carrasco, author of Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers“A Xicana Codex reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” -- Alvina E. Quintana * Women's Review of Books *“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” -- Victoria Bolf * Lambda Literary Review *“While I may turn to other writings for cultural criticism, Moraga provides what I have not been able to find on any other front: an indigenous Xicana path that insists on transgression as a political and spiritual imperative in a national environment whose core values are corrupt.” -- Paloma Martinez-Cruz * Letras Femeninas *Table of ContentsDrawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez xiii Prólogo: A Living Codex xv Agradecimentos xix A Xicana Lexicon xxi One. Existo Yo A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness 3 From Inside the First World: On 9/11 and Women-of-Color Feminism 18 An Irrevocable Promise: Staging the Story Xicana 34 Two. The Warring Inside What Is Left of Us 49 MeXicana Blues 51 Weapons of the Weak: On Fear and Political Resistance 54 California Dreaming 73 Cuento Xicano 76 Indígena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember 79 The Altar of My Undoing 97 Three. Salt of the Earth Aguas Sagradas 105 And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief: Eulogy for Marsha Gómez 107 Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 111 The Salt That Cures: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa 116 Four. The Price of Beans South Central Farmers 133 The Other Face of (Im)migration: In Conversation with West Asian Feminists 135 Floricanto 146 Modern-Day Malinches 148 What's Race Gotta Do With It? On the Election of Barack Obama 151 This Benighted Nation We Name Home: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Ethnic Studies 163 Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer 175 Epílogo: Xicana Mind, Beginner Mind 193 Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada: The Art of Celia Herrera Rodríguez 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 229 Index 237

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Book SynopsisIn Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against peoples perceived as nonnormative and irrational. Reddy argues that the modern liberal state is organized as a “counterviolence” to race even as, and precisely because, race persists as the condition of possibility for the modern subject. Rejecting liberal notions of modernity as freedom from violence or revolutionary ideas of freedom through violence, Reddy contends that liberal modernity is a structure for authorizing state violence. Contemporary neoliberal societies link freedom to the notion of legitimate (state) violence and produce narratives of liberty that tie rights and citizenship to institutionalized violence. To counter these formulations, Reddy pTrade Review“Freedom with Violence is a one of a kind, once in a generation book. Chandan Reddy argues that ‘American political modernity’ depends absolutely on a notion of freedom crafted out of a constitutive violence which takes the form of race. In chapters on Du Bois and the logics of nationality and territoriality; Nella Larson and the history of black alienation; immigration and sexuality; and gay marriage and the perils of legal recognition, he pulls his argument into tighter and tighter spirals, connecting his thesis about race to brilliantly original accounts of sexuality and making stunning connections between North American racial politics and European colonialism. This is a classic, landmark study.”—Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure“Freedom with Violence is one of the most important books of our time. Chandan Reddy formulates a new understanding of the relationship between the state and nonnormative social identities, explains the epistemological foundations for prevailing political practices, and argues for the urgent need to deploy queer of color critique and build a critical ethnic studies from it. Moving deftly across disciplines and decades, analyzing literature and law, social identities and state formation, expressive culture and critical theory, he reveals unexpected links between the race-gender-sex-citizenship nexus that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century and the one that prevails at the turn of the twenty-first.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“Deft, capacious, and provocative, Freedom with Violence promises a major shift in how we think race, sexuality, and US imperialism in relation to the compromised project of modernity. Our political and intellectual formations will never be the same again.”—M. Jacqui Alexander, author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred“[A] significant contribution in both critical ethnic studies and queer studies. Reddy’s willingness to look beyond his examples could even be the reason it offers so much.” -- Stine H. Bang Svendsen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“In this ambitious book, Reddy examines the coupling of freedom and violence under the modern state. He untangles literary texts, legal structures and social practices to argue that the state legitimizes further racial violence through granting freedom.” -- Chandra Russo and Howard Winant * Sexualities *“Reddy has produced a substantial work that rethinks the interconnections between race and sexuality as constitutive to the vision of freedom and identity, and he exposes the violence that attends those ideals in the 20th century. . . . This book forced this reviewer to rethink his own engagement with these issues in his teaching. It will challenge many boundaries in the university and in US culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Sophisticated upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty.” -- D. E. Magill * Choice *“Reddy’s previous work brilliantly spilled over disciplinary boundaries in ways that have made Freedom with Violence one of the most widely awaited first books in my memory. George Lipsitz’s back cover assessment of it as ‘one of the most important books of our times’ captures both the import and the timeliness of Reddy’s contribution.” -- David Roediger * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Freedom's Amendments: Race, Sexuality, and Disposability under the State Form 1 Part I 1. Freedom and Violence in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk: The Land of Racial Equality 55 2. Legal Freedom as Violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Black Literary Publics during the Interwar Years 90 Interlude 134 Part II 3. Rights-Based Freedom with Violence: Immigration, Sexuality, and the Subject of Human Rights 143 4. Moving beyond a Freedom with Violence: The Politics of Gay Marriage in the Era of Racial Transformation 182 Conclusion. Don't Ask, Don't Tell 219 Notes 247 Bibliography 283 Index 297

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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.Trade Review“Freedom with Violence is a one of a kind, once in a generation book. Chandan Reddy argues that ‘American political modernity’ depends absolutely on a notion of freedom crafted out of a constitutive violence which takes the form of race. In chapters on Du Bois and the logics of nationality and territoriality; Nella Larson and the history of black alienation; immigration and sexuality; and gay marriage and the perils of legal recognition, he pulls his argument into tighter and tighter spirals, connecting his thesis about race to brilliantly original accounts of sexuality and making stunning connections between North American racial politics and European colonialism. This is a classic, landmark study.”—Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure“Freedom with Violence is one of the most important books of our time. Chandan Reddy formulates a new understanding of the relationship between the state and nonnormative social identities, explains the epistemological foundations for prevailing political practices, and argues for the urgent need to deploy queer of color critique and build a critical ethnic studies from it. Moving deftly across disciplines and decades, analyzing literature and law, social identities and state formation, expressive culture and critical theory, he reveals unexpected links between the race-gender-sex-citizenship nexus that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century and the one that prevails at the turn of the twenty-first.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“Deft, capacious, and provocative, Freedom with Violence promises a major shift in how we think race, sexuality, and US imperialism in relation to the compromised project of modernity. Our political and intellectual formations will never be the same again.”—M. Jacqui Alexander, author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred“[A] significant contribution in both critical ethnic studies and queer studies. Reddy’s willingness to look beyond his examples could even be the reason it offers so much.” -- Stine H. Bang Svendsen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“In this ambitious book, Reddy examines the coupling of freedom and violence under the modern state. He untangles literary texts, legal structures and social practices to argue that the state legitimizes further racial violence through granting freedom.” -- Chandra Russo and Howard Winant * Sexualities *“Reddy has produced a substantial work that rethinks the interconnections between race and sexuality as constitutive to the vision of freedom and identity, and he exposes the violence that attends those ideals in the 20th century. . . . This book forced this reviewer to rethink his own engagement with these issues in his teaching. It will challenge many boundaries in the university and in US culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Sophisticated upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty.” -- D. E. Magill * Choice *“Reddy’s previous work brilliantly spilled over disciplinary boundaries in ways that have made Freedom with Violence one of the most widely awaited first books in my memory. George Lipsitz’s back cover assessment of it as ‘one of the most important books of our times’ captures both the import and the timeliness of Reddy’s contribution.” -- David Roediger * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Freedom's Amendments: Race, Sexuality, and Disposability under the State Form 1 Part I 1. Freedom and Violence in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk: The Land of Racial Equality 55 2. Legal Freedom as Violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Black Literary Publics during the Interwar Years 90 Interlude 134 Part II 3. Rights-Based Freedom with Violence: Immigration, Sexuality, and the Subject of Human Rights 143 4. Moving beyond a Freedom with Violence: The Politics of Gay Marriage in the Era of Racial Transformation 182 Conclusion. Don't Ask, Don't Tell 219 Notes 247 Bibliography 283 Index 297

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

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Book SynopsisExamining debates in interdisciplinary identity studies, this title studies debates in Women's Studies, American Studies, Queer Theory and Whiteness studies, especially at points when the key terms changed, as happened when Women's Studies was superseded by Gender Studies.Trade Review“This book is as incisive in its articulation of the stakes involved in post–Civil Rights academic field formations as it is responsive to the affective investments shaping specific fields' modes of self-governance and self-reinvention. What do we want from identity knowledges—and what do they offer us? In the incongruent spaces opened up by these questions, and against the nonsynchronized discourses marked by political obligations, institutional structures, and methodological ambitions, Robyn Wiegman narrates what she calls object lessons with inimitable intensity, agility, and imagination. If visionary thinking about identity studies is an art, she has given us a brilliant master-class performance.”—Rey Chow, author of Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture“This brilliant, commodious book gives us a name for that fast-moving conceptual traffic arrayed across the academic galaxy from the 1970s to the present; as a strategy for naming, Object Lessons brings about ‘identity knowledges’ as a rethought object of desire and destination, its political commitments pursued to the bone, in the immediacy of its institutional arrangements. The reader will not want to miss Robyn Wiegman in this quite stunning and masterful outcome.”—Hortense Spillers“This is a contentious book, but without contention, knowledges become rigid and fortified. Robyn Wiegman induces us to think more carefully about the ways in which politically committed knowledges make themselves as they make knowledge of their objects of investigation.”—Elizabeth Grosz, author of Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art“The lesson that emerges from [Wiegman’s] argument resounds forcefully throughout Object Lessons as a whole. It teaches that whether in creating fields of scholarly practice or in the theorization of objects of knowledge, the institutional formation of identity knowledges is inescapably attached to what these knowledges critique and thereby attempt to leave behind. Identity knowledges, in other words, appear in Object Lessons as moored to and made in the very gestures of disavowal,” -- Nick Mitchell * Signs *“Object Lessons by Robyn Wiegman is a profoundly pedagogic book. By which I mean: it is a book that teaches us how we are taught. . . . The book prompted me to reflect on my own relation to Women’s Studies even if I did not always recognise the version of Women’s Studies being presented (and we do not need to recognise each other’s versions to know they bear some relation).” -- Sara Ahmed * Feminist Theory *“[Wiegman’s] book left me reeling in the best possible way, precisely because it focuses in on the affective life of our critical impulses. Wiegman peels back the veneer on our investments in a variety of politics — feminist, anti-racist, imperialist, queer— leaving us to confront why we show up to struggle with our work. This book gave me the gift of recognizing conflict and incommensurability as powerful sites from which to continue to passionately invest in politics.” -- Naomi Greyser * Feminist Studies *“Object Lessons is an excellent contribution to the field of critical scholarship... Recommended for scholars and graduate students working in the areas of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, particularly, as well as other identity-based disciplines. Wiegman is a brilliant thinker and her text provides a site for considering the stakes of the projects with which we’re engaged and how the “stakes” are defined in the first place.While Wiegman offers no easy answers, for scholars who have ever asked questions of themselves, like: “Does my work do anything?” and “Does this work really matter?” what Wiegman does offer is a thoughtful meditation on the narratives that work to sustain the aspirational hopes of disciplines emerging out of left critique; specifically, the hope that critical practices will deliver the futures of which we dream.” -- Elizabeth Groeneveld * Reviews in Cultural Theory *“In addition to engaging identity studies’ practitioners, Object Lessons effectively addresses students being disciplined in interdisciplines and schooled in the tradition of oppositional positions: all those, in other words, for whom the limits, possibilities, and pleasures of academic labor are inextricably bound to the questions of the legibility and precarity of their institutional homes.” -- Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan * Women & Performance *“In Object Lessons, Robyn Wiegman considers how the political imaginary of the feminist alternative functions. She explores our attachments to feminism’s objects, quite brilliantly showing how we – as feminists – invest in theory and critique’s ability to transform the world. I am not entirely sure how she manages it, but Wiegman combines uncomfortable insights about, for example, our desires for the concept and practice of ‘intersectionality’ to deliver us from the burden of ongoing racism and injustice, with a generosity that invites the reader in and keeps her reading.” -- Clare Hemmings * Feminist Theory *"An extraordinary work of critical theory within academic identity knowledges, and deserves to be numbered among the best works of contemporary feminist and queer theory." -- Jessica Durham * Colloquy *"Masterfully cover[s] a wide range of theoretical material, from the complex intercalation of women’s studies with gender studies, through the fraught relation of queer studies to conceptions of 'normativity' (306), and the equally fractious question of how the discourse ofinternationalization has played out within the 'field imaginary' (14) of American studies. . . . Object Lessons is an important book, shrewd both in its critique and its awareness of the limitations of critique." -- Paul Giles * American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: How to Read This Book 1 1. Doing Justice with Objects: Or, the "Progress" of Gender 36 2. Telling Time: When Feminism and Queer Theory Diverge 91 3. The Political Conscious: Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity 137 4. Refusing Identification: Americanist Pursuits of Global Noncomplicity 197 5. Critical Kinship: Universal Aspirations and Intersectional Judgments 239 6. The Vertigo of Critique: Rethinking Heteronormativity 301 Bibliography 345 Index 391

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Book SynopsisMuraco studies friendships between straight women and gay men and straight men and lesbians to consider how their relationships both challenge and reinforce conventional notions of sexuality and gender. Based on in-depth interviews, the book considers how people experience gender and sex roles differently within these intersectional relationships.Trade Review“Odd Couples presents a wealth of information on the initiation, development, and sustenance of intersectional friendships. . . . People in gay-straight friendships living outside of urban areas with large LGBT communities would especially appreciate this book. They need confirmation that they are not alone, and that their friendships are probably stronger than others.” - Rachel Wexelbaum, Lambda Literary Review“Social research like this breathes life into queer theory by grounding it in the mire of human proficiency. All of these best buddies demonstrate the skills required to maintain affection across sex/gender binaries in scenarios that are largely unscripted by dominant culture. Muraco selects vignettes that illustrate some of the delicate negotiations that transpire between lesbians and their straight male mates, and straight women and their gay chums.” - Sally R. Munt, Times Higher Education Supplement“Odd Couples explores the untraditional ‘chosen’ families that many in the gay and lesbian community have turned to whether out of necessity in the face of rejection from biological families or out of preference for constructing a community with shared values. These explorations are especially relevant in a time when more people-inside or outside the gay and lesbian community-are claiming their own kin. . . . [I]f you're invested in a timely exploration of shifting friendship paradigms in relation to sex, gender, and family, it starts a conversation you should join.” - Nina Lary, Bitch“Overall, Odd Couples is well organized and enjoyable to read...[Muraco’s] study offers scholars a perceptive investigation into the complicated dynamics of gender and sexuality in friendships.” - Elroi J. Windsor, American Journal of Sociology“...by page 2 of this book, I knew that Muraco had managed to articulate what is most precious about my intersectional friendship in a way that I had not previously been able to do.” - Rebecca G. Adams, Gender and Society"In this extremely engaging and enlightening book, Anna Muraco sheds new light on the intersection of sex and sexual orientation, the complexity of friendship, and its relevance in contemporary North American society."—Brian de Vries, coeditor of Gay and Lesbian Aging"Theoretically important and fascinating to read, Odd Couples adds to the surprisingly scant social scientific literature on friendship. More significantly, it explores friendships between gay men and straight women and between lesbians and straight men in a way that no other work has. Clearly locating her study in the psychological and sociological literature on friendships, family, identity development, and gender issues, Anna Muraco adds to our understanding of gay and lesbian lives and raises provocative questions about gender and sexuality."—Peter M. Nardi, author of Gay Men's Friendships: Invincible Communities“Odd Couples explores the untraditional ‘chosen’ families that many in the gay and lesbian community have turned to whether out of necessity in the face of rejection from biological families or out of preference for constructing a community with shared values. These explorations are especially relevant in a time when more people-inside or outside the gay and lesbian community-are claiming their own kin. . . . [I]f you're invested in a timely exploration of shifting friendship paradigms in relation to sex, gender, and family, it starts a conversation you should join.” -- Nina Lary * Bitch *“Odd Couples presents a wealth of information on the initiation, development, and sustenance of intersectional friendships. . . . People in gay-straight friendships living outside of urban areas with large LGBT communities would especially appreciate this book. They need confirmation that they are not alone, and that their friendships are probably stronger than others.” -- Rachel Wexelbaum * Lambda Literary Review *“Social research like this breathes life into queer theory by grounding it in the mire of human proficiency. All of these best buddies demonstrate the skills required to maintain affection across sex/gender binaries in scenarios that are largely unscripted by dominant culture. Muraco selects vignettes that illustrate some of the delicate negotiations that transpire between lesbians and their straight male mates, and straight women and their gay chums.” -- Sally R. Munt * Times Higher Education *“Overall, Odd Couples is well organized and enjoyable to read...[Muraco’s] study offers scholars a perceptive investigation into the complicated dynamics of gender and sexuality in friendships.” -- Elroi J. Windsor * American Journal of Sociology *“Odd Couples is therefore a significant analysis of how people negotiate the vicissitudes of sex, gender, and sexual orientation in everyday life as well as a much-needed contribution to the sociology of friendship. It should be read by anyone interested in the complexities of contemporary intimacy.” -- Harry Blatterer * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. You've Got to Have FriendsVignette: Frank and Rebecca 13 2. Snapshots of the Intersectional FriendshipVignette: Ming and Ben 35 3. We Are FamilyVignette: Brenda and Dan 56 4. Gender Cops and RobbersVignette: Mark and Cristina 78 5. What's Sex Got to Do with It?Vignette: Justine and Antonio 101 6. The Personal Is PoliticalVignette: Leyla and Ethan 118 7. The Future of Intersectional Friendships 145 Appendix 1 155 Appendix 2 157 Appendix 3 163 Notes 167 References 173 Index 187

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Book SynopsisRand took up figure skating at age 43. As she became increasingly immersed in the world of adult competition (participating in the Gay Games and the Adult Nationals), she found herself focusing her research on the world of skating. These essays reflect on the sexualization of female skaters, the hairdos and costumes, and racial bias in movement genres and athletic standards.Trade Review“I really enjoyed Erica Rand's study of gender, politics, and the pleasure of skating; she has a love for the sport and a critical eye to what is going on at and under the surface. . . . Figure skating is an area where sport, gender, sex, politics, money, and race come together in a fascinating way. Erica Rand's writing combines the personal details of her life and experiences as a skater with research into different aspects of sport and gender theory. . . . The book is accessible to skating enthusiasts and well worth reading. If you're looking for ways to pass the time before the 2012-13 skating season starts, definitely consider picking up this book.” - Caroline Land, Crowding the Book Truck“A book of essays by self-described ‘queer femme’ Rand, a figure-skating college professor who competed in the Gay Games in 2006, in which she examines the exclusionary practices in the sport (heterosexual storylines and rigidly gendered costumes, for example) but also takes time to celebrate the joy of sliding about the ice.” - Diva“[Rand’s] personal love for skating shines through the essays collected in Red Nails, Black Skates, leading to an incisive yet upbeat analysis of both the sport's shortcomings and the depths of its potential.” - Dani Alexis Ryskamp, Shelf Awareness"I recently sacrificed hours of sleep to read Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash and Pleasure On and Off the Ice by Erica Rand. The short essays in the book present the witty, emotional and often hilarious insights of a professor who took up competitive adult skating fuelled by a love of skating and a desire to think about the gender and social norms that seem so natural to the sport.” - Tina Chen, Winnipeg Free Press“As a figure skater herself, [Rand] explores the gender policing that plagues her beloved sport, presenting her personal journey in a breezy blend of anecdotes that also hit on tough topics like queer identity, race, class, sex,and money. . . . For an academic, Rand's writing is surprisingly light thanksto her humor and honesty, the latter being one of the book's great strengths.” - Mai Nguyen, Bitch“Rather than being overly academic, Red Nails is smart and witty and warmly personal, a fascinating read for anyone interested in LGBT sports and queer lives.“ - Diane Anderson-Minshall, The Advocate"Red Nails, Black Skates is a fabulous read, a smart and often hilarious account of one queer critic's journey deep into the heart of figure skating. The intricate interplay of gender, race, and class in skating culture makes it a perfect site for tackling the ways that antigay and sexist paradigms re-enforce one another, as well as anxieties about race and class. In this brilliantly written book, Erica Rand takes feminist sports studies to a new level, without sacrificing her own stories about the pleasures of figure skating and the lessons that she has learned as a skater."—Jennifer Doyle, author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire and the feminist soccer blog From a Left Wing"Erica Rand brings us into the fascinating world of skating on ice. Her personal journey is riveting. In sharing it, she offers insight into the complexities of spending a lifetime immersed in her sport and tells many stories about figure skating that have not been told until now. A brilliant piece of work and a must-read."—Helen Carroll, Sports Project Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights“[Rand’s] personal love for skating shines through the essays collected in Red Nails, Black Skates, leading to an incisive yet upbeat analysis of both the sport's shortcomings and the depths of its potential.” -- Dani Alexis Ryskamp * Shelf Awareness *“A book of essays by self-described ‘queer femme’ Rand, a figure-skating college professor who competed in the Gay Games in 2006, in which she examines the exclusionary practices in the sport (heterosexual storylines and rigidly gendered costumes, for example) but also takes time to celebrate the joy of sliding about the ice.” * Diva *“I really enjoyed Erica Rand's study of gender, politics, and the pleasure of skating; she has a love for the sport and a critical eye to what is going on at and under the surface. . . . Figure skating is an area where sport, gender, sex, politics, money, and race come together in a fascinating way. Erica Rand's writing combines the personal details of her life and experiences as a skater with research into different aspects of sport and gender theory. . . . The book is accessible to skating enthusiasts and well worth reading. If you're looking for ways to pass the time before the 2012-13 skating season starts, definitely consider picking up this book.” -- Caroline Land * Crowding the Book Truck *“Rather than being overly academic, Red Nails is smart and witty and warmly personal, a fascinating read for anyone interested in LGBT sports and queer lives.“ -- Diane Anderson-Minshall * The Advocate *"I recently sacrificed hours of sleep to read Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash and Pleasure On and Off the Ice by Erica Rand. The short essays in the book present the witty, emotional and often hilarious insights of a professor who took up competitive adult skating fuelled by a love of skating and a desire to think about the gender and social norms that seem so natural to the sport.” -- Tina Chen * Winnipeg Free Press *“This is a captivating book that is, simultaneously, all about, and not just about, figure skating. . . . Read this book if you contemplate pleasure and/or seek an understanding of pleasure. The ultimate pleasure in this project, for the reader, may lie in her mapping the interactions among bodies that both complicate and simplify being happy within your own skin.” -- Angeletta KM Gourdin * Feminist Formations *“Red Nails, Black Skates is a good read, bringing together critique of the sociopolitics of figure skating with numerous everyday facets of Rand’s life. … Feminized sports are often dismissed by dominant culture, making her contribution to critical sport and gender studies ever more important. Rand’s book is pleasurable, not only for its engaging narratives about the intricacies of the skating world, but also for critical analysis of sport and athletic life.” -- Claire Carter * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Skate to Write, Write to Skate 1 I. Seeing and Getting: Notes on Fieldwork Introduction. Being in Deep 17 1. Seeing and Getting 20 2. Sandbagging, or Grown-Ups Do This? 26 3. Score 32 II. Skating Is Like Sex, Except When It Isn't Introduction. Pleasure Points 43 4. Skating Is Like Sex, Except When It Isn't 46 5. The End of Me, or My Brief Life in Hockey 52 6. When God Gets Involved 60 III. Hooks Introduction. Redoing the Laces 71 7. White Skates Become You 73 8. Form-Fitting: The Bra in Three Stories 79 9. My Grandmother's Shoes 85 10. Black Skates, or the Stake in Wanting 89 IV. Ladies Introduction. Athletic, Artistic, or Just Plain Perverse 97 11. Skank or Ballerina: Codes of the Crotch Shot 103 12. Cracking the Normative 111 13. Oh, Right, Policing Femininity: Nine Inch Nails at Adult Nationals 117 14. Booty Block: Raced Femininity 128 V. Masculine Wiles Introduction. Masculinity with Teeth 139 15. "I Stand beside Him with an Axe!": Hockey Guys Together 144 16. Quads Make the Man, or What's too Gay for Men's Figure Skating 153 17. The Girl who Fooled by Butchdar 160 VI. Having the Wherewithal Introduction. Up from the Botton 169 18. Buy-In: Some Notes on Cost 174 19. So You Think You can Train, or Why Can Joshua Dance? 180 20. Gifts of Nature, Freaks of Culture 186 VII. Blade Scars/Biopsy Scars: Rethinking Risk and Choice Introduction. Blade Scars/Biopsy Scars 199 21. Parsing Perilicious 204 22. Telling the Mrs. 210 23. What Sticks Out 215 24. Losing her Manhood 219 VIII. The Politics of Pleasure 25. Pleasure on Its Face 227 26. Politics at Hand 235 27. Getting the Goods 242 Conclusion. If I Ruled the Rink, or Make the Rink by Skating 249 Notes 263 Bibliography 285 Index 297

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Book SynopsisMel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise "wrong," animates cultural life in important ways.Trade Review“This work is a bricolage demonstrating the dexterity of cultural studies today in its explorations of the limits of live- liness. Although the work speaks primarily to queer theory and Asian American studies, it will stir anthropologists of multiple subfields.” -- Rheana Salazar Parrenas * American Anthropologist *“To read Mel Chen’s book Animacies is both a challenge and a pleasure … [it] offers critical positions that will be of interest to Asian Americanists.” -- Neel Ahuja * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Chen’s book touches upon many topics in Animacies and provides channels for further investigation and expansion for those who wish to study linguistics, disability studies, race, animal studies, gender, and sexuality studies.” -- Marissa Malady * Feminist Legal Studies *"Animacies provides us with fresh, provocative insights into the queer possibilities of kinship and intimacies with some of the most overlooked forms of material existence. Readers will find much to admire in this book." -- Cynthia Wu * TSQ *" . . . the lucidity of Chen's histories of each of the intersecting fields of study makes these [first] chapters worth reading and teaching. The latter half . . . stands out as innovative work that advances new potentialities for cultural studies sensitive to the multivalent dimensions of relationality." -- Christine Yao * College Literature *“Chen’s prose is animate; it leaps off the page and sparks in the reader both respect in Chen’s outstanding linguistic ability and wonder in the flow of her prose, her mastery of theoretical sources, and the flux of her intense, immense subject. . . . Animacies is a significant addition to disability theory, gender theory, linguistic theory, queer theory, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory, and is the first book, in my mind, to perform a transnational, transhistorical, and interdisciplinary investigation into the concept of animacy. It is a work that would be at home in both the undergraduate and the graduate classroom (certain chapters, at least), and should be read by any scholar of feminist, queer, disability, linguistic, or postcolonial bent. In this book, Chen has perfected the impossible art of writing a book that is, somehow, all things to all people—or at least, it should be. There is something for everyone here. Animacies is a groundbreaking work of interstitial scholarship. . .” -- Erin Kingsley * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews * “Throughout the book, Chen interweaves the topics and implications of society, race, biopolitics, sexuality, disability, and queer studies as it relates to linguistics, animacy, and animacy hierarchy. Chen utilizes an immense amount of examples through pictures, historical events, and theories to cover a large amount of material. Chen’s book touches upon many topics in Animacies and provides channels for further investigation and expansion for those who wish to study linguistics, disability studies, race, animal studies, gender, and sexuality studies.” -- Marissa Malady * Sexuality and Disability *"Animacies is an erudite mapping of the coerciveness of cosmological hierarchies of being, of the ontological classifications that deny life to the people, phenomena, and things that they sort into impossible solitudes." -- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Animating Animacy 1 Part I * Words 1. Language and Mattering Humans 23 2. Queer Animation 57 Part II * Animals 3. Queer Animality 89 4. Animals, Sex, and Transsubstantiation 127 Part III * Metals 5. Lead's Racial Matters 159 6. Following Mercurial Affect 189 Afterword: The Spill and the Sea 223 Notes 239 Bibliography 261 Index 283

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Book SynopsisDocuments how activism oscillates between the potential for new social arrangements and the questions that arise once the activists' goals have been accomplishedTrade Review"Dave draws upon ethnographically rich data from her fieldwork among lesbian activists in New Delhi and innovative scholarship from queer studies, anthropology and critical theory to produce an important book for students of queer anthropology, the anthropology of South Asia and the emerging field of the anthropology of ethics.” -- Brian A. Horton * Social Anthropology *“The exciting aspect of this book is how Dave draws on the everyday practices of queer activism, in particular lesbian activism in India, to expose the deeply considered and ethical positions that they take. . . . Dave’s book marks a significant contribution to the archive of queer scholarship generally, but more importantly to making visible a postcolonial perspective in this scholarship." -- Ratna Kapur * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Naisargi Dave’s book on queer activism in India offers something new and valuable. A book-length account of the queer political landscape with a focus on lesbian activism, this study is distinctive both for its longer temporal view and for the productively ambivalent positionality of its author.” -- Rahul Rao * International Dialogue *"Dave’s is a fascinating study, so rich and detailed in its intimate telling of the textures of everyday activism that one is absorbed as if reading a novel." -- Srila Roy * Antipode *"While shedding light on the myriad challenges to the achievement of sexual rights and justice, Dave ultimately paints a portrait of radical possibility where the affective, the material, and the political effects of activism cannot be predetermined." -- Amy Bhatt * Signs *“Dave’s book, with its anecdotes, observations, and rich endnotes, will no doubt add to our understanding of urban lesbian activism while compelling us to reflect about methods and ethics in the age of “affect.”” -- Shohini Ghosh * Journal of Asian Studies *"A more nuanced understanding of the ethical convictions that motivates ordinary individuals to join a movement, to become activists, to go on acting primarily in their own interests but also in the interests of others like them, can only be gained by a complete reading of this richly textured ethnography." -- Harjant Gill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Rendering Real the Imagined 33 2. Within Limits, Freedom 61 3. Virtuous Women, Radical Ethics, and New Regimes of Value 97 4. Public "Emergence" 137 5. To Be Lawful, to Be Just 167 Appendix. Cast of Organizations 205 Notes 207 References 235 Index 253

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Book SynopsisRevisiting the rhetoric about and from within the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Victoria Hesford argues that contemporary accounts of the movement obscure its diversity.Trade Review"Feeling Women's Liberation is a major contribution to understanding second-wave feminism as both a historical event and an ongoing political project. With this engaging and necessary book, Victoria Hesford is working at the forefront of the critical reassessment of the history of the women's movement of the 1970s."—Robyn Wiegman, author of Object Lessons"Feeling Women's Liberation is a model of cultural studies: self-reflexive about its archive, theoretically sophisticated, and possessed of a compelling central case study, Kate Millett. Recovering forgotten—or, rather, repressed—archival materials, Victoria Hesford offers a brilliantly written genealogy of the politically charged figure of the lesbian feminist in popular and academic discourse from 1970 to the present."—Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories"In this book, Victoria Hesford offers us a history of feminism as a history of feeling. Attending to feminist pasts with an ear that is alive to detail, Hesford explores the surprising entanglements that make up the unfinished lives of feminism. Through readings of memories, films, and media texts, she explores not only how feminism is a movement but also how we are moved by feminism and how even the most anxious of figures—such as the feminist-as-lesbian—are animating sites of potential. This powerful and poetic text demonstrates how we can take better care of feminist memories."—Sara Ahmed, author of On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Everyday Life“The author shines in her detailed and close readings of the material…. Feeling Women’s Liberation advances understandings of feeling, collective memory, and the persistence of the women’s movement…. Hesford’s intervention answers lingering questions regarding caricatures of feminists past and present.” -- Alison Dahl Crossley * Gender & Society *“In Feeling Women’s Liberation Victoria Hesford takes a fresh approach….[The book] is an important and powerful contribution to the history of a complex movement, drawing much needed attention to the way that it was and is a product of feeling as much as of politics and propaganda.” -- Bridget Lockyer * Women's History Review *“Hesford’s examinations of the interrelation between the movement’s self-representation and the representation by the mass media are extremely effective and illuminating. ... The attention to affect in Feeling Women’s Liberation ... is highly instructive in demonstrating the ‘interdependence between politics and emotion through the constitutive presence of rhetoric’.” -- Victoria Browne * Subjectivity *“Hesford has written a tour de force that should be read by anyone interested in the history of the women's movement, feminist theory, or queer theory…Essential.” -- B. A. McGowan * Choice *"Feeling Women’s Liberation makes a significant contribution to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies collections. The book is suitable for knowledgeable researchers as well as undergraduate students." -- Shana Higgins * Feminist Collections *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Around 1970: The Feminist-as-Lesbian and a Movement in the Making 1 1. From Lady Protestors to Urban Guerrillas: Media Representations of the Women's Liberation Movement in 1970 25 2. "Goodbye to All That": Killing Daddy's Girls and the Revolt against Proper Femininity 81 3. Becoming Woman Identified Woman: Sexuality, Family Feelings, and Imagining Women's Liberation 114 4. Fear of Flying: Kate Millett, the Difficulty of the New, and the Unmaking of the Feminist-as-Lesbian 155 5. Looking for Ghosts: Remembering Women's Liberation 206 Epilogue. The Politics of Memory and Feeling Historical 249 Notes 269 Bibliography 317 Index 331

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Book SynopsisIn this long-awaited work, the queer theorist Annamarie Jagose demonstrates that attention to orgasm as an object of queer and feminist thought reveals much about gender, agency, history, and modernity.Trade Review“[W]hile thinking too hard about achieving orgasm in the bedroom (…or kitchen…or office…or elsewhere) may foreclose its possibility, Jagose shows the opposite effect occurs in critical inquiry.” -- Marcie Bianco * Lambda Literary Review *“Altogether, I did learn more about orgasms. As a piece of cultural criticism, it is scholarly and carefully wrought. . . . The strength of Jagose’s book lies not in the repetition of this romantic position but rather in its careful trace of the human orgasm in social, medical and representational history. ‘Seeing’ orgasm’s trace in this way is quite handy.” -- Sally R. Munt * Times Higher Education *“The diversity of the archival material covered in Orgasmology is the book’s greatest strength. Jagose’s method is an intricate meshwork of discourses, unified by her focus on the same elusive object. . . . Jagose offers a fascinating tour of the orgasm in the 20th-century. . . .” -- Sand Avidar-Walzer * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Orgasmology is a frothy series of engagements with the cultural-bodily terrain of orgasm. . . . A good gift for the feminist-studies grad student who doesn’t have time for orgasms.” -- Ela Przbylo * Bitch *“Orgasmology itself enacts the discursive diversity and productivity that characterizes twentieth-century orgasm. Eloquently written, and supple and wide-ranging in its argument, the book is bound to produce galvanizing effects on scholars working in queer theory, gender studies and cultural studies.” -- Guy Davidson * Australian Humanities Review *“Jagose’s interdisciplinary archive – spanning science, philosophy, the arts, and media – structurally parallels the multivalence of her research subject and offers exciting contributions to the fields of feminist and queer studies. . . . Jagose’s commitment to thinking orgasm in terms of a beyond, of elsewheres previously unknown, is compelling, exciting, and inspiring for anyone interested in busting the paradigms, and reinventing the possibilities, of the sexual and indeed the human.” -- Ben Bagocius * Make *"Jagose models the payoff of looking at again, more, differently, or sideways after you (think that you) have taken a stance on something — including orgasms. As I read Orgasmology, I kept pausing to revisit texts and cultural moments that I have long found generative for queer thinking that either looked differently interesting from the orgasm out or from the orgasm revisited with the benefit of Jagose’seye toward history, representation, science, instruction, and politics." -- Erica Rand * GLQ *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction. Orgasm and the Long Twentieth Century 1 1. About Time: Simultaneous Orgasm and Sexual Normalcy 40 2. Straight Woman / Gay Man: Orgasm and the Double Blind of Modern Sex 78 3. Behaviorism's Queer Trace: Sexuality and Orgasmic Reconditioning 106 4. Face Off: Artistic and Medico-Sexological Visualizations of Orgasm 135 5. Counterfeit Pleasures: Fake Orgasm and Queer Agency 175 Coda. Orgasm's End 207 Works Cited 217 Index 239

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Book SynopsisIntimate Activism tells the story of the Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas.Trade Review"Intimate Activism is an excellent ethnography of gender- and sexual-rights activism in postrevolutionary Nicaragua. Cymene Howe deftly folds the rich stories and description into a lively and sharp analysis. She has crafted an important work that provides new and productive ways of thinking about liberalism, activism, and global cultural flows."—Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora"Cymene Howe's richly textured ethnography offers nuanced insight into the workings of lesbian and gay activism in postrevolutionary Nicaragua, showing how both the contours of Nicaraguan history and the shadow cast by U.S. movements shape local efforts to create visibility and pride. This evocative work sets a standard for understanding the transnational foundations of activism in the global South that should resonate in the field for years to come."—Ellen Lewin, coeditor of Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology"An eloquent ethnography of sexual rights advocacy in Nicaragua in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries." -- Patrick Staib * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Of particular interest is Howe’s reporting on three lesbian discussion groups, one hosted by a European-backed nongovernmental organization, another facilitated by local grass-roots activists, and a third convened in a rural setting. Throughout, Howe keenly observes ‘intimate pedagogies’: small face-to-face meetings that address deeply personal aspects of people’s lives.” -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“Howe aptly describesIntimate Activism as an ethnography of activism, yet it is much more. Her work contributes to the decolonial project that is called for if we are to take both indigenous, or local, and global knowledge seriously...Written clearly and concisely, it will be of wide interest and will make a welcome addition to courses in cultural anthropology, Latin American studies, and gender and sexuality studies. -- Florence E. Babb * Women's Review of Books *“Intimate Activism will be an interesting read for researchers and graduate and undergraduate students working on same-sex sexualities, social movements and gender and sexual politics in Latin America, and its emphasis on lesbian identities and organizing is particularly welcome, since it is still a little explored area in those fields of study.” -- Camilo Antillón * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Cymene Howe’s engaging, theoretically sophisticated, and well-written book is an ethnography of would-be social engineers (most of them Nicaraguan) trying to increase tolerance for sexual diversity in Nicaragua." -- Stephen O. Murray * American Anthropologist *“Cymene Howe has made an important contribution to the literature on sexuality, culture, and politics in Latin America in general and in Nicaragua in particular…. As an ethnography that paints pictures of a range of sexuality rights work during an important period of time, Cymene Howe’s Intimate Activism is quite successful. Her vivid images and nuanced analysis of the tensions inherent in trying to globalize, “normalize,” and simultaneously respect local sexual practices make this an excellent book for scholars or for courses on Latin American gender, sexuality, or culture.” -- Karen Kampwirth * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Howe importantly situates herself in her field as a queer and engaged ethnographer, highlighting the similarities between activism and anthropological research as collaborative, participatory efforts. Aside from this, her highly descriptive book provides a number of significant suggestions to scholars of activism, from the complexities of a politics of visibility to the intricacies of rights politics, claims-making, and subject-shaping.” -- Irene Peano * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Struggle 1 1. A History of Sexuality 23 2. Intimate Pedagogies 61 3. Pride and Prejudice 92 4. Mediating Sexual Subjectivities 128 Conclusion. Getting the Word Out 160 Notes 173 References 197 Index 221

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Book SynopsisA historical and ethnographic account of how LGBT activism for safe neighborhoods inadvertently dovetailed with and reinforced anticrime measures harmful to the poor and people of color.Trade Review"Safe Space is a pathbreaking book for the interdisciplinary fields of queer studies and American studies. Offering a trenchant account of the stakes of gay (and sometimes lesbian) claims to urban geographies, this carefully researched history unsettles many of the heroic assumptions driving the current politics of sexual identity in the United States. It will make a crucial intervention in a number of scholarly and activist debates."—Siobhan B. Somerville, author of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture"A wonderful book that bursts through the usual boundaries of gay history. Christina B. Hanhardt weaves class, race, and sexuality tightly together in her urban history of the past fifty years and, in doing so, succeeds in upsetting much of the conventional wisdom about the gay movement and gay politics. Her analysis implicitly calls for the revival of a multi-issue, intersectional queer politics that challenges injustices of every sort and sees them all as linked."—John D'Emilio, author of The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture"Christina B. Hanhardt's brilliant book should be required reading for all those interested in how the LGBT movement's politics have come to reinforce racialized governance logics and control of economically and socially marginal populations."—Urvashi Vaid, author of Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics“This is a deep and intriguing study of what neighborhood and safety have meant—and seemed to mean—to different facets of the gay community at different times in its development in the period following WWII. . . . While obviously written for an academic audience, Safe Space will be accessible to most readers, and offers some insights into ways that gay spaces may not have been quite what we thought they were.” -- Kel Munger * Lit/Rant *“A commendable revision of the LGBT story in America. . . . A dramatic picture of a febrile movement that had a difficult relationship with its competitors. The book further excels by demonstrating this history through the experiences of LGBT people of color, transgender individuals, and immigrants. This rich analysis serves as a useful primer on why gay neighborhoods are at the epicenter of discussions about gentrification.” * Publishers Weekly *“The book’s extensive coverage of LGBT activism in the latter half of the 20th century illustrates how contemporary socio-legal gains were made possible by resistance-fuelled, political organising. What began as a gay backlash to victimisation soon became a platform for resistance to state violence. . . . Overall, this is a fascinating insight into lesser-known aspects of America’s gay liberation movement.” -- Marian Duggan * Times Higher Education *"Hanhardt challenges commonly accepted narratives about safe streets, LGBT identity, and intersections of visibility and vulnerability. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- A. B. Audant * Choice *"Recommended both for its astute and never simplified analyses of social movements as well as its cautionarily optimistic political vision, Christina B. Hanhardt’s Safe Space is a necessary and welcome contribution to the field of LGBT and Queer Studies." -- Rachel F. Corbman * Sociological Review *“Scholars and academics studying urban spaces, as well as grassroots activists within and outside the LGBT community, should take note of Hanhardt’s work. Her discussion of the emergence of LGBT activist claims to the protection of property and of self and the ways these protections became viewed as natural rights expected in American urban spaces helps illuminate not only specific transformations within urbanized LGBT populations in New York and San Francisco, but broader divisions which formed in liberal activist groups after the 1960s.” -- Geoffrey West * Planning Perspectives *“Against the fractured landscape of cities characterized by uneven development, Safe Space is a clarion call for radicals to recognize the common deterrents facing all those working for more just cities. . . . Safe Space recognizes that claiming the city as an equitable space for all will require a broader understanding of identity, its use as a tool for development, and its latent potential as a site of resistance.” -- Eric Peterson * Jacobin *“Hanhardt’s voice is that of an activist saddened, sometimes enraged, by how the potential for both equality and diversity was squandered by a middle-class white gay movement. Her book, then, is itself a moral intervention, one that combines social research and utopian politics.” -- Idoo Tavory * Public Books *“Safe Space is a richly researched examination of activist organizations and less-organized activist efforts on behalf of LGBT rights in San Francisco and New York over the last fifty years. Hanhardt draws on archival materials as well as interviews and participant observation to provide a view that is close to the ground, attentive to the trees, even sometimes the weeds, without losing view of the forest.” -- Miranda Joseph * GLQ *“Safe Space is impressive in its research and scope. . . . Safe Space is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the intersections of LGBT history, critical race and sexuality studies, and urban studies.” -- Daniel W. Rivers * Journal of American History *"Hanhardt’s Safe Space offers an activist historiography of urban redevelopment and displacement, where biopolitical shifts have carved the social and physical landscape of San Francisco and New York City from the 1960s to the present.... She skillfully manages a dance of scale—telling both a macro history of changing postwar American liberalism and the micro histories of the ways it all came to remake daily life." -- Eric A. Stanley * QED *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "The White Ghetto": Sexual Deviancy, Police Accountability, and the 1960s War on Poverty 35 2. Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Safe Streets Patrols and Militant Gay Liberalism in the 1970s 81 3. "Count the Contradictions": Challenges to Gay Gentrification at the Start of the Reagan Era 117 4. Visibility and Victimization: Hate Crime Laws and the Geography of Punishment, 1980s and 1990s 155 5. "Canaries of the Creative Age": Queer Critiques of Risk and Real Estate in the Twenty-First Century 185 Conclusion 221 Epilogue 227 Appendix: Neighborhood Maps of New York and San Francisco 231 Notes 233 Bibliography 315 Index 335

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Book SynopsisEthereal Queer offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s.Trade Review"Amy Villarejo, already an important and increasingly influential voice in the fields of film theory, gender, and sexuality, here presents a dramatically new intervention in both television theory and debates over queer representation. Ethereal Queer moves beyond concerns about visibility and positive images to provide valuable ways of understanding the force of television in the twentieth century, bringing media studies and continental philosophy into vibrant and productive dialogue."—Jeffrey Sconce, editor of Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics"[A]n engaging, brilliant, and meticulous account of queerness, temporality, and television. The book abounds with fundamental insights . . ." -- T. E. Adams * Choice *"Elegantly written, often witty and even moving, this thought-provoking book is both tightly focused and ambitious in its approach to television and queerness. Amy Villarejo offers brilliant insights into theoretical and televisual texts, repeatedly providing new ways of confronting and moving beyond the intersection of sexuality and television."—Patricia White, Professor of English Literature and Film Studies, Swarthmore College"[P]arts of Ethereal Queer are excellent-- particularly when it comes to Villarejo's apt dissection of recent Western Media conglomeration and how it has impacted television spectatorship." -- Anna Hamilton * Bitch *"Whether she's citing Theodor Adorno or Amistead Maupin, pondering Our Miss Brooks or American Family, Amy Villarejo channels her lifelong love of television while at the same time analyzing its function as a 'pragmatic pedagogy of queer life.' I couldn't ask for a better TV Guide than this set of gripping meditations that dares to dream so brilliantly on our behalf."—B. Ruby Rich, author of New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut"The brilliance of Villarejo’s argument is that she shows that prior to the increase of open LGBT characters on television, closeted or one-off queer characters represented an act of survival, representation, and identity that television lacked.... Villarejo’s thesis proves worthy of tuning into and remembering for a long time to come." -- John Erickson * Lambda Literary Review *“A fine exploratory entry into the intersection between television studies and queer theory….Villarejo offers nuanced and sustained meditations on her aptly titled ethereal subject matter….Wholly readable and at times quite enjoyable (Villarejo’s own occasional autobiographical notes are well served by her engaging prose), Ethereal Queer emerges as a probing undertaking that sketches out possible methods and approaches to queer representation in that ever-shifting medium of television.” -- Manuel Betancourt * Film Quarterly *“Villarejo explodes the parameters of genre studies, queer historiography, and the identity politics of “representational justice” to put forward a theoretical meditation on temporality, wherein queer identity and televisual presentation inform, indeed constitute, each other but themselves only ever appear as ethereal (4, 5).... Ethereal Queer advances the postidentitarian impulses of these other volumes on intricate intellectual grounds without falling into the “queering” of anything not strictly heteronormative.” -- Heather N. Lukes * Women's Studies Quarterly *"Ethereal Queer’s robust philosophical interventions undoubtedly enrich and challenge ongoing discussions in queer and media studies about how television’s 'prosthetic lifeworlds' constantly refigure sexuality and gender. Let’s not be shy: Villarejo’s book is a showstopper." -- Candace Moore * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Adorno's Antenna 30 2. Excursus on Media and Temporality 66 3. "Television Ate My Family": Lance Loud on TV 81 4. Queer Ascension: Television and Tales of the City 122 Coda: Becoming 152 Notes 163 Bibliography 185 Index 195

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Book SynopsisEsther Newton tells the story of Cherry Grove, the popular gay and lesbian resort community off of Long Island. Newton discusses the importance of camp, gay theater and the intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality in America's first gay and lesbian town.Trade Review"An ambitious history. . . . Newton should be applauded for writing sympathetically about people who were remarkably resilient in the face of enormous homophobia." * The Nation *"Cherry Grove, Fire Island stands as an important document of gay and lesbian life in the twentieth century. Newton makes a convincing case for Cherry Grove as America's first gay town and its influence on gay culture by describing the central place of drag in Cherry Grove history, the impact of the Arts Project as the first theater by gays for gays, and the need for a place such as Cherry Grove where gay men and lesbians could associate in public." -- Karen Wilson * Lambda Book Report *"Life at the Grove is always viewed through the prism of history, showing how such events as the Great Depression, World War II, McCarthyism and, of course, the 1969 Stonewall riots, which marked the beginning of the modern gay and lesbian rights movement, affected gay Grovers. That attention, and [Newton's] obvious affection for her subject—and subjects—propels the book effortlessly through the decades." * Boston Globe *"Newton shines, weaving stunning anecdotes of violence and humiliations among her descriptions of fabulous parties and sex. . . . Her empathy conveys the enormous integrity of people whose most radical gesture was to be fabulous in the face of hate." * Village Voice *"A monumental achievement and invaluable contribution to gay and lesbian studies." -- Donna Penn * GLQ *"Groundbreaking." -- Carl Luss * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Newton has written a soundly researched cultural history of this unique homosexual summer retreat. . . . Based on interviews with 46 former and current residents, [Newton] chronicles the colony's development from an isolated few cabins to a thriving, commercial, publicized community with Mafia-run discos and occasional police raids." * Publishers Weekly *"Esther Newton documents the town's history from its gay beginnings in the 1930s through the first decade following Stonewall, utilizing as her primary resource interviews with . . . Cherry Grove residents. All of these narrators . . . love their town, and repeatedly tell of their joy in first finding themselves there. . . . Although the Grove has had its share of straight-gay and owner-renter clashes, and has never been free of racism, anti-Semitism, or misogyny, it still emerges as a special place; Newton's affection for it is palpable." -- Vera Wisman * Women's Review of Books *"Newton foregrounds the role of lesbians and analyzes their invisibility and minority status in the community. She is also sensitive to how race and class function in the Grove, considering both the community's heterogeneity and the structures of exclusion that limit its boundaries. . . . The patience and love with which Newton . . . [has] acted . . . to make [her] narrators' histories heard provides a wealth of material for analysis." -- Ann Cvetkovich * Signs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Preface to the 2014 Edition xv Prologue 1 Part I. How the Grove Became Gay: 1936–1945 13 1. "Built upon the Sand" 15 Part II. The Gay Country Club: 1946–1959 37 2. The Battle for the Beach 43 3. Conviviality and Camp 68 4. Trouble in Paradise 94 Part III. The Nation Takes Shape: 1960–1969 109 5. The Rise of Gay Commercialism 113 6. The Geometry of Gay Prejudice 142 7. Plays, Parties, and Sex 170 Part IV. The "Lithuanians" and the "Doughnut Rack": The Lesbian Minority, 1936–1980 203 8. The "Fun Gay Ladies" 207 9. "Just One of the 'Boys'" 221 Part VI. The Grove after Stonewall: 1970–1980 235 10. The Ad Hoc Committee to Save Cherry Grove 243 11. Bored on the Fourth of July 266 Epilogue 285 Appendix on Methods 301 Notes 305 Narrators 349 References Cited 353 Index 369

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Book SynopsisIn this new collection of poetry, the acclaimed gay Latino physician author Rafael Campo continues his nuanced examination of the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing.Trade Review"Alternative Medicine (a wonderful euphemism for poetry) is an extraordinarily powerful and moving book—especially its central poems about doctoring, about the sadness and helplessness of being a doctor. Only someone who has actually lived these poems could have written them. Rafael Campo is that rare poet. This book makes art out of the pain and blood of experience."—Lloyd Schwartz, poet and Frederick S. Troy Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston"Rafael Campo is an extraordinarily skillful poet: his technique manifests itself in the range of forms he so brilliantly masters. But he is also a poet of gravity and poignant observation. Unlike so many people writing today, he has subjects, passions, and themes that are profoundly important."—Sandra M. Gilbert, poet and Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of California, Davis“In a style both precise and emotional, playful and earnest, Campo delivers a most extraordinary message: that in writing, in seeing, in remembering, and in being, we embody, simultaneously, the ache as well as the cure.” -- Briana Shemroske * Booklist *"These poems are thoughtful, grounded, elegant and free of B.S. If only more doctors, preachers and writers were willing to do this in the midst of teaching and healing: to listen, and to speak the truth even when that means admitting the truth is not fully to be had, at least not yet." * Seminary Ridge Review *“Dr. Rafael Campo's poems are precise and incisive. You measure their beats as if listening through a stethoscope. You feel the scalpel cut through to your soul--eschewing anesthesia because you want to be awake and alert for Campo's kind of surgical intervention. He slices through the facade of your life to pull back layers of skin and mores to the core mystery of the purpose of your body.” -- Tom Lombardo * Canadian Medical Association Journal *“Rafael Campo’s Alternative Medicine is indeed what this doctor orders. And it is alternative: to the tunnel vision, where-did-the-day-go, mind numbing way I, and I daresay many of us, frequently pass time. Take a swig or a nibble, hold the poet’s hand, meet a new universe.” -- Audrey Shafer * Journal of Medical Humanities *“Alternative Medicine is a stunning and valuable tribute to humanitarian love as the one necessary constant in a chaotic world where suffering is all too real. These wise and humane poems are therapeutic and generous. As such, they are essential reading for anyone who feels not only compassion for those who suffer but also believes it is our duty to live a life in the service of humanity.” -- Sonja James * The Journal (Martinsburg, WV) *

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Book SynopsisIn this new collection of poetry, the acclaimed gay Latino physician author Rafael Campo continues his nuanced examination of the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing.Trade Review"Alternative Medicine (a wonderful euphemism for poetry) is an extraordinarily powerful and moving book—especially its central poems about doctoring, about the sadness and helplessness of being a doctor. Only someone who has actually lived these poems could have written them. Rafael Campo is that rare poet. This book makes art out of the pain and blood of experience."—Lloyd Schwartz, poet and Frederick S. Troy Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston"Rafael Campo is an extraordinarily skillful poet: his technique manifests itself in the range of forms he so brilliantly masters. But he is also a poet of gravity and poignant observation. Unlike so many people writing today, he has subjects, passions, and themes that are profoundly important."—Sandra M. Gilbert, poet and Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of California, Davis“In a style both precise and emotional, playful and earnest, Campo delivers a most extraordinary message: that in writing, in seeing, in remembering, and in being, we embody, simultaneously, the ache as well as the cure.” -- Briana Shemroske * Booklist *"These poems are thoughtful, grounded, elegant and free of B.S. If only more doctors, preachers and writers were willing to do this in the midst of teaching and healing: to listen, and to speak the truth even when that means admitting the truth is not fully to be had, at least not yet." * Seminary Ridge Review *“Dr. Rafael Campo's poems are precise and incisive. You measure their beats as if listening through a stethoscope. You feel the scalpel cut through to your soul--eschewing anesthesia because you want to be awake and alert for Campo's kind of surgical intervention. He slices through the facade of your life to pull back layers of skin and mores to the core mystery of the purpose of your body.” -- Tom Lombardo * Canadian Medical Association Journal *“Rafael Campo’s Alternative Medicine is indeed what this doctor orders. And it is alternative: to the tunnel vision, where-did-the-day-go, mind numbing way I, and I daresay many of us, frequently pass time. Take a swig or a nibble, hold the poet’s hand, meet a new universe.” -- Audrey Shafer * Journal of Medical Humanities *“Alternative Medicine is a stunning and valuable tribute to humanitarian love as the one necessary constant in a chaotic world where suffering is all too real. These wise and humane poems are therapeutic and generous. As such, they are essential reading for anyone who feels not only compassion for those who suffer but also believes it is our duty to live a life in the service of humanity.” -- Sonja James * The Journal (Martinsburg, WV) *

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Book SynopsisBlack performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. In this collection of new essays, some of its pioneering thinkers demonstrate the breadth and depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory.Trade Review“With this compelling volume, DeFrantz and Gonzalez provide less a settled corpus of methodologies applied to a canon of academically sanctioned performance genres than an articulation and elaboration of black corporealities, vocalities, and ‘sensibilities’ across a heterogeneous field of performative enunciations--’high’ and pop culture, geographically dispersed and diasporic. . . . This promises to become a key work. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” -- R. Remshardt * Choice *"This is theory that dances. [...] Black Performance Theory convenes 14 scholars and practitioners of Africana performance and bids them dance and groove across national, hemispheric, oceanic, planetary, disciplinary, epochal, formal, and methodological boundaries in pursuit of blackness in motion." -- La Marr Jurelle Bruce * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsForeword / D. Soyini Madison Acknowledgments Introduction. From "Negro Experiment" to "Black Performance" / Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez Part I: Transporting Black 1. Navigations: Diasporic Transports and Landings / Anita Gonzalez 2. Diasporic Spidering: Constructing Contemporary Black Identities / Nadine George-Graves 3. Twenty-First-Century Post-Humans: The Rose of the See-J / Hershini Bhana Young 4. Hip Work: Undoing the Tragic Mulata / Melissa Blanco Borelli Part II: Black-En-Scene 5. Black-Authored Lynching Drama's Challenge to Theater History / Koritha Mitchell 6. Reading "Spirit" and the Dancing Body in the Choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson / Carl Paris 7. Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters / Rickerby Hinds Part III: Black Imaginary 8. Black Movements: Flying Africans in Spaceships / Soyica Diggs Colbert 9. Post-logical Notes on Self-Election / Wendy S. Walters 10: Cityscaped: Ethnospheres / Anna B. Scott Part IV: Hi-Fidelity Black 11. "Rip It Up": Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richard's Sound / Tavia Nyong'o 12. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough: Presence, Spectacle, and Good Feeling in Michael Jackson's This Is It / Jason King 13. Afro-sonic Feminist Praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in High Fidelity / Daphne A. Brooks 14. Hip-Hop Habitus V.2.0 / Thomas F. DeFrantz Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBlack performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. In this collection of new essays, some of its pioneering thinkers demonstrate the breadth and depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory.Trade Review“With this compelling volume, DeFrantz and Gonzalez provide less a settled corpus of methodologies applied to a canon of academically sanctioned performance genres than an articulation and elaboration of black corporealities, vocalities, and ‘sensibilities’ across a heterogeneous field of performative enunciations--’high’ and pop culture, geographically dispersed and diasporic. . . . This promises to become a key work. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” -- R. Remshardt * Choice *"This is theory that dances. [...] Black Performance Theory convenes 14 scholars and practitioners of Africana performance and bids them dance and groove across national, hemispheric, oceanic, planetary, disciplinary, epochal, formal, and methodological boundaries in pursuit of blackness in motion." -- La Marr Jurelle Bruce * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsForeword / D. Soyini Madison Acknowledgments Introduction. From "Negro Experiment" to "Black Performance" / Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez Part I: Transporting Black 1. Navigations: Diasporic Transports and Landings / Anita Gonzalez 2. Diasporic Spidering: Constructing Contemporary Black Identities / Nadine George-Graves 3. Twenty-First-Century Post-Humans: The Rose of the See-J / Hershini Bhana Young 4. Hip Work: Undoing the Tragic Mulata / Melissa Blanco Borelli Part II: Black-En-Scene 5. Black-Authored Lynching Drama's Challenge to Theater History / Koritha Mitchell 6. Reading "Spirit" and the Dancing Body in the Choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson / Carl Paris 7. Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters / Rickerby Hinds Part III: Black Imaginary 8. Black Movements: Flying Africans in Spaceships / Soyica Diggs Colbert 9. Post-logical Notes on Self-Election / Wendy S. Walters 10: Cityscaped: Ethnospheres / Anna B. Scott Part IV: Hi-Fidelity Black 11. "Rip It Up": Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richard's Sound / Tavia Nyong'o 12. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough: Presence, Spectacle, and Good Feeling in Michael Jackson's This Is It / Jason King 13. Afro-sonic Feminist Praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in High Fidelity / Daphne A. Brooks 14. Hip-Hop Habitus V.2.0 / Thomas F. DeFrantz Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPorn Archives explores how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and transmitting documents and artifacts, and shows that porn has become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as the production of pleasure.Trade Review"The consensus in Porn Archives is that the conditions for the production and reception of pornography have changed so radically since the 1980s that the questions feminists were asking about censorship, agency, gender, violence, and power seem today, if not irrelevant, at least in need of a serious makeover. Given the diverse, transnational, cross-media archive that the volume brings together, the argument is persuasive—even to die-hards like me." -- Heather Love * Public Books *"Given its grand scope and quality, Porn Archives is sure to quickly become a valuable resource for anyone doing research in pornography studies." -- Laura L. S. Bauer * Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Pornography, Technology, Archive / Tim Dean 1 Part I. Pedagogical Archives 1. Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field / Linda Williams 29 2. Pornography as a Utilitarian Social Structure: A Conversation with Frances Ferguson 44 3. The Opening of Kobena, Cecilia, Robert, Linda, Juana, Hoang, and the Others / Nguyen Tan Hoang 61 4. Pornography in the Library / David Squires 78 Part II. Historical Archives 5. "A Quantity of Offensive Matter": Private Cases in Public Places / Jennifer Burns Bright and Ronan Crowley 103 6. Up from Underground / Loren Glass 127 7. "A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm": Teleny and the Defense of the Phallus / Joseph Bristow 144 Part III. Image Archives 8. Art and Pornography: At the Limit of Action / Robert L. Caserio 163 9. Big Black Beauty: Drawing and Naming the Black Male Figure in Superhero and Gay Porn Comics / Darieck Scott 183 10. Gay Sunshine, Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive / Robert Dewhurst 213 11. This Is What Porn Can Be Like! A Conversation with Shine Louise Houston / Mireille Miller-Young 234 Part IV. Rough Archives 12. Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic Archive / Lisa Downing 249 13. Rough Sex / Eugenie Brinkema 262 14. "It's Not Really Porn": Insex and the Revolution in Technological Interactivity / Marcia Klotz 284 Part V. Transnational Archives 15. Porno Ricans at the Borders of Empire / Ramon E. Soto-Crespo 303 16. Butts, Bundas, Bottoms, Ends: Tracing the Legacy of the Pornochanchada in A B ... Profunda / Melissa Schindler 317 17. Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the Limits of Belief and Humiliation / John Paul Ricco 338 18. Parody of War: Pleasure at the Limits of Pornography / Prabha Manuratne 356 Part VI. Archives of Excess 19. Fantasy Uncut: Foreskin Fetishism and the Morphology of Desire / Harri Kalha 375 20. Stadler's Boys; or, The Fictions of Child Pornography / Steven Ruszczycky 399 21. Stumped / Tim Dean 420 Appendix. Clandestine Catalogs: A Bibliography of Porn Research Collections / Caitlin Shanley 441 Filmography 457 Bibliography 459 Notes on Contributors 481 Index 485

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Book SynopsisFocused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, this book illuminates how everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities.Trade Review"Immersing herself in Havana’s gay culture, Stout, an American anthropologist, gives readers a street-level view of the turbulent changes under way in Cuba, as Cuban society gradually transitions from conformist socialism to a more market-oriented individualism." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“As an ethnography, After Love gives a richly evidenced account of how Latin America’s neoliberalization changes the very possibilities for economic and intimate relationships. Focusing on queer identities, Stout’s work is a welcome addition to the scholarship on neoliberalism in the region as it is able to illustrate the complex interplay through which neoliberal subjects constitute themselves through the resistance, re-imagining and embracing new forms of economic transfers through ‘love’ relationships.” -- M. Gabriela Torres * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"In After Love, Noelle Stout provides a refreshing take on a widely-studied topic: sex tourism and hustling in contemporary Cuba. Focusing on a handful of case studies of mostly young habaneros trying to get by in a hostile economy and rapidly changing social and political environment, this is ethnography at its best: powerful portrayals of daily life presented in an engaging and elegant style." -- Carrie Hamilton * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Stout's attention to experiences of abandonment, betrayal, and disillusionment adds to the growing scholarship on Cuban sexual identities under neoliberalism and raises important question about populations in Cuba's economies of desire who have reached the outer limits of affective exchanges." -- Karina Lissette Cespedes * GLQ *“After Love is a very good book, well written, sympathetic, and insightful. It wears its sophisticated theory lightly, making it both accessible and rewarding to read as much as for the picture of contemporary Cuba it paints as for the more general insights it provides into how people negotiate the contradictions life throws at them.” -- Mark Graham * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This book is a timely and important contribution to contemporary anthropological accounts of queer sexual politics in Cuba. Beyond anthropologists specializing in Cuba or the Caribbean, this book is of interest to Cuban historians, professors and students of gender studies, scholars working on the intersection of neoliberalism and desire, and those utilizing affect theory. Stout’s debut is an extremely useful contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on contemporary Cuban sexual culture." -- Lisa M. Corrigan * QED *"After Love is a must-read for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and queer politics in the Caribbean and is also a good read for those seeking to understand the broader socioeconomic contradictions of Cuba’s postsocialist transition. The engaging and crisp prose, rich with thick description and methodological intuitions, makes it an excellent text for assigning in undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Mrinalini Tankha * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Can't Be Bought or Sold? Love and Intimacy in the Aftermath of Crisis 1. Tolerated, Not Accepted: The Historical Context of Queer Critiques 2. A Normal Fag with a Job: The Complicated Desires of Urban Gays 3. Tell Me You Love Me: Urban Gay Men Negotiate Commodified Sex 4. Smarter Than You Think: Sex, Desire, and Labor Among Hustlers 5. Get Off the Bus: Sex Tourism, Patronage, and Queer Commodities Conclusion. Love in Crisis: The Politics of Intimacy and Solidarity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPorn Archives explores how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and transmitting documents and artifacts, and shows that porn has become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as the production of pleasure.Trade Review"The consensus in Porn Archives is that the conditions for the production and reception of pornography have changed so radically since the 1980s that the questions feminists were asking about censorship, agency, gender, violence, and power seem today, if not irrelevant, at least in need of a serious makeover. Given the diverse, transnational, cross-media archive that the volume brings together, the argument is persuasive—even to die-hards like me." -- Heather Love * Public Books *"Given its grand scope and quality, Porn Archives is sure to quickly become a valuable resource for anyone doing research in pornography studies." -- Laura L. S. Bauer * Women's Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Pornography, Technology, Archive / Tim Dean 1 Part I. Pedagogical Archives 1. Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field / Linda Williams 29 2. Pornography as a Utilitarian Social Structure: A Conversation with Frances Ferguson 44 3. The Opening of Kobena, Cecilia, Robert, Linda, Juana, Hoang, and the Others / Nguyen Tan Hoang 61 4. Pornography in the Library / David Squires 78 Part II. Historical Archives 5. "A Quantity of Offensive Matter": Private Cases in Public Places / Jennifer Burns Bright and Ronan Crowley 103 6. Up from Underground / Loren Glass 127 7. "A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm": Teleny and the Defense of the Phallus / Joseph Bristow 144 Part III. Image Archives 8. Art and Pornography: At the Limit of Action / Robert L. Caserio 163 9. Big Black Beauty: Drawing and Naming the Black Male Figure in Superhero and Gay Porn Comics / Darieck Scott 183 10. Gay Sunshine, Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive / Robert Dewhurst 213 11. This Is What Porn Can Be Like! A Conversation with Shine Louise Houston / Mireille Miller-Young 234 Part IV. Rough Archives 12. Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic Archive / Lisa Downing 249 13. Rough Sex / Eugenie Brinkema 262 14. "It's Not Really Porn": Insex and the Revolution in Technological Interactivity / Marcia Klotz 284 Part V. Transnational Archives 15. Porno Ricans at the Borders of Empire / Ramon E. Soto-Crespo 303 16. Butts, Bundas, Bottoms, Ends: Tracing the Legacy of the Pornochanchada in A B ... Profunda / Melissa Schindler 317 17. Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the Limits of Belief and Humiliation / John Paul Ricco 338 18. Parody of War: Pleasure at the Limits of Pornography / Prabha Manuratne 356 Part VI. Archives of Excess 19. Fantasy Uncut: Foreskin Fetishism and the Morphology of Desire / Harri Kalha 375 20. Stadler's Boys; or, The Fictions of Child Pornography / Steven Ruszczycky 399 21. Stumped / Tim Dean 420 Appendix. Clandestine Catalogs: A Bibliography of Porn Research Collections / Caitlin Shanley 441 Filmography 457 Bibliography 459 Notes on Contributors 481 Index 485

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Book SynopsisFocused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, this book illuminates how everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities.Trade Review"Immersing herself in Havana’s gay culture, Stout, an American anthropologist, gives readers a street-level view of the turbulent changes under way in Cuba, as Cuban society gradually transitions from conformist socialism to a more market-oriented individualism." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“As an ethnography, After Love gives a richly evidenced account of how Latin America’s neoliberalization changes the very possibilities for economic and intimate relationships. Focusing on queer identities, Stout’s work is a welcome addition to the scholarship on neoliberalism in the region as it is able to illustrate the complex interplay through which neoliberal subjects constitute themselves through the resistance, re-imagining and embracing new forms of economic transfers through ‘love’ relationships.” -- M. Gabriela Torres * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"In After Love, Noelle Stout provides a refreshing take on a widely-studied topic: sex tourism and hustling in contemporary Cuba. Focusing on a handful of case studies of mostly young habaneros trying to get by in a hostile economy and rapidly changing social and political environment, this is ethnography at its best: powerful portrayals of daily life presented in an engaging and elegant style." -- Carrie Hamilton * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Stout's attention to experiences of abandonment, betrayal, and disillusionment adds to the growing scholarship on Cuban sexual identities under neoliberalism and raises important question about populations in Cuba's economies of desire who have reached the outer limits of affective exchanges." -- Karina Lissette Cespedes * GLQ *“After Love is a very good book, well written, sympathetic, and insightful. It wears its sophisticated theory lightly, making it both accessible and rewarding to read as much as for the picture of contemporary Cuba it paints as for the more general insights it provides into how people negotiate the contradictions life throws at them.” -- Mark Graham * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This book is a timely and important contribution to contemporary anthropological accounts of queer sexual politics in Cuba. Beyond anthropologists specializing in Cuba or the Caribbean, this book is of interest to Cuban historians, professors and students of gender studies, scholars working on the intersection of neoliberalism and desire, and those utilizing affect theory. Stout’s debut is an extremely useful contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on contemporary Cuban sexual culture." -- Lisa M. Corrigan * QED *"After Love is a must-read for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and queer politics in the Caribbean and is also a good read for those seeking to understand the broader socioeconomic contradictions of Cuba’s postsocialist transition. The engaging and crisp prose, rich with thick description and methodological intuitions, makes it an excellent text for assigning in undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Mrinalini Tankha * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Can't Be Bought or Sold? Love and Intimacy in the Aftermath of Crisis 1. Tolerated, Not Accepted: The Historical Context of Queer Critiques 2. A Normal Fag with a Job: The Complicated Desires of Urban Gays 3. Tell Me You Love Me: Urban Gay Men Negotiate Commodified Sex 4. Smarter Than You Think: Sex, Desire, and Labor Among Hustlers 5. Get Off the Bus: Sex Tourism, Patronage, and Queer Commodities Conclusion. Love in Crisis: The Politics of Intimacy and Solidarity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu demonstrates how queer Marxist critics in China use queer theory as a non-liberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation, and in doing so, he revises current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be.Trade Review"Liu’s book charts a bold intellectual path for queer studies, Marxist theory, and Chinese studies. . . . The book provides truly transdisciplinary insights on how the normative reproduction of society depends on queer marginalization and social existence. It is in this way that Queer Marxism in Two Chinas demonstrates how queer theory, Marxism, and Chineseness matter to each other." -- Alvin K. Wong * Twentieth-Century China *"Overall, Liu’s new book is beautifully written, theoretically rich, and intellectually rigorous, enabling a critical lens to scrutinize queer cultural productions and reproductions in Taiwan and mainland China." -- John Wei * China Review International *"Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is a theoretically rigorous, intellectually stimulating, and conceptually rich book.... The book is an important contribution to both queer studies and China studies, and it is well-positioned to (re)define the emergent field of queer China studies." -- Jia Tan * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"Liu’s approach establishes an innovative set of dialogues between cultural production, social activism, and queer theory that serve as fertile ground for a sustained critique of liberal politics. Given Liu’s eclectic selection of sources and provocative theoretical ambitions, scholarly interest in this work will go far beyond the field of modern Chinese studies; readers drawn to Marxism, queer studies, literature, and cinema will all find much to ponder in these pages." -- Harlan D. Chambers * Journal of Asian Studies *“A powerful and insightful analysis. . . . Petrus Liu’s book is impressive precisely because it helps us reimagine queer theory, Marxism, and the Chinas, as well as their novel potential reconfigurations.” -- Calvin Hui * GLQ *"Liu offers a poignant corrective to the relationship between culture and economy for queer Marxism." -- J. Daniel Luther * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *"Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is an important work that promises to radically change perspectives and alter proportions, not least because it brings into clear focus three subjects rarely thought about together and somewhat peripheral in Chinese studies: Marxism, queerness, and Taiwan. The effect is like looking at a non-Mercator map: once you have seen it, the world will never look the same again." -- Yün Peng * Cultural Critique *"Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is the most exciting book I have read in a long time in the overlapping but distinct fields of queer theory, China studies, Marxism, and cultural theory. We have all been reading so many insightful but depressing books that offer us a feeling of no way out of systems of domination, especially capitalism. This book instead gives us some hope to think about and act on projects of social justice that are expansive in their reach and imagination." -- Lisa Rofel * Asian Journal of Social Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Marxism, Queer Liberalism, and the Quandary of Two Chinas 1 2. Chinese Queer Theory 34 3.The Rise of the Queer Chinese Novel 85 4. Genealogies of the Self 114 5. Queer Human Rights in and aganist the Two Chinas 138 Notes 171 Bibliography 195 Index 225

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Book SynopsisSetting forth a politic that goes beyond the quest for the legal inclusion of trans populations, this revised and expanded edition of Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.Trade Review"With Normal Life, Spade has succeeded in reframing the terms of LGBT politics by building a far-reaching vision for queer and trans politics that is rooted in community work that has already begun. . . . [It] lay[s] out a road map for queer and trans activists that leads neither to the altar nor to war, but guides us to resist state power by building community and returning to our radical roots." -- Wendy Elisheva Somerson * Bitch *"Dean Spade’s much-anticipated book is a rich tapestry of critical inquiry, interventions into legal and transgender studies, and strategies for transformative resistance. . . . The strength of Normal Life lies in Spade’s commitment to accessibility as a matter of political and ethical principle. This principle is evident in the way Spade skillfully articulates theoretical concepts in common parlance, enabling critical trans politics to inform political struggles beyond the academy. Moreover, his concrete discussions of administrative governance and transformative political interventions position radical change within our reach rather than demarcate it to the realm of speculative futures." -- Dan Irving * GLQ *"[Normal Life] makes an important contribution to a new and emerging critical trans politic. It is provocative, comprehensive, and engaging. It should be widely discussed as an important strategic framework for work within the LGBTQ movement." -- Jennifer Levi and Giovanna Shay * Women's Review of Books *"Spade's book is personal, practical, and theoretical. It lays out a framework for a critical trans politics, and gives fresh analyses of immigration, legal reform, wealth distribution, and lesbian and gay politics—all buoyantly and optimistically aimed at a repaired world." -- Kate Clinton * Progressive *"[Spade] provides an eminently teachable text for courses on power in society, social movements, and community organizing—in the university, and outside. . . .We will have to take Spade's proposals very seriously to build a movement centered on those most affected by administrative violence." -- Marcia Ochoa * Social Justice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Rights, Movements, and Critical Trans Politics 1 1. Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape 21 2. What's Wrong with Rights 38 3. Rethinking Transphobia and Power—Beyond a Rights Framework 50 4. Administering Gender 73 5. Law Reform and Movement Building 94 Conclusion: "This Is a Protest, Not a Parade" 117 Afterword 139 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 167 Index 207

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Book SynopsisOver the course of several personal essays, genderqueer activist/writer Eli Clare weaves together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home, all the while providing an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually experience the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance.Trade Review"Eli Clare's Exile and Pride . . . challenge[s] us to think beyond identity politics. This set of nine interconnected essays defies categorization in its exploration not only of queerness and disability but also of class, race, urban-rural divides, gender identity, sexual abuse, environmental destruction, and the meaning of home. . . . Clare gives us a vision of a broad-based and intersectional politics that can move us beyond the current divisions of single-issue movements." -- Rachel Rosenbloom * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsForeword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales xi Preface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections from a Decade Later xxi A Note About Gender, or Why is this White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian? xxvii The Mountain 1 Part I: Place Clearcut: Explaining the Distance 17 Losing Home 31 Clearcut: Brutes and Bumper Stickers 51 Clear Cut: End of the Line 61 Casino: An Epilogue 71 Part II. Bodies Freaks and Queers 81 Reading Across the Grain 119 Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart 143 Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition 161 Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade 165 Notes 173 Index 179

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Book SynopsisIn Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home.Trade Review"... Metroimperial Intimacies demonstrates the multifaceted ways in which the United States attempted to manage the chaotic categories of race and sex in the new colony. Although not the first scholar to examine political cartoons and pensionado writing, Mendoza treads new ground in his attention to how male same-sex intimacy registered in these genres, enlarging our understanding of how colonial anxieties about race and sex shaped the social, legal, and cultural spaces of U.S.–Philippine relations." -- Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Victor Román Mendoza demonstrates that the history of American empire in the early-twentieth century Philippines can indeed be queered through intrepid research and savvy analysis. . . . [T]he analysis ranges from pathbreaking to brilliant." -- Kristin Hoganson * Canadian Journal of History *"Using a queer of color critique, Metroimperial Intimacies provides an innovative and much-needed study of social and sexual intimacies within the context of the early years of U.S. imperial colonialism in the Philippines." -- Genevieve Clutario * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Racial-Sexual Governance and the U.S. Colonial State in the Philippines 35 2. Unmentionable Liberties: A Racial-Sexual Differend in the U.S. Colonial Philippines 63 3. Menacing Receptivity: Philippine Insurrectos and the Sublime Object of Metroimperial Visual Culture 95 4. The Sultan of Sulu's Epidemic of Intimacies 131 5. Certain Peculiar Temptations: Little Brown Students and Racial-Sexual Governance in the Metropole 167 Conclusion 203 Notes 211 Bibliography 259 Index 279

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Book SynopsisIn Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state.Trade Review"[A] knowledge of the myriad ways in which power works helps us to arm ourselves in our fight for social justice, individual rights and democratic freedoms. Puri's book gives us the helpful ammunition we need in our struggle." -- Ratnabir Guha * Telegraph India *“Sexual States is deftly crafted.… Puri employs multiple methods with aplomb and to excellent effect.” -- Joseph J. Fischel * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"[Puri] not only adds to a growing corpus of literature highlighting the necessity of a theoretical and political alliance in resisting state surveillance and brutality among those persecuted as ethno-religious minorities and those persecuted as gender and sexual minorities; she also draws attention to the Indian context, and by extension post-colonial contexts more broadly, as a theater of knowledge production in its own right, with its own intersecting and divergent histories of governmentality, biopolitics, and, sexuality. This should be considered required reading for any scholars interested in the Indian state, postcoloniality and sexuality studies." -- Lars Olav Aaberg * New Books Asia *"Puri’s book is an important addition to the critical sociological literature on sexualities, state, law, and biopolitics, not only for its theoretical sophistication but also for its empirical depth and rich ethnographic insights." -- Chaitanya Lakkimsetti * Contemporary Sociology *“Sexual States is a well-written book that will be important not only for how it makes us rethink sexual justice in India but also for the transnational framework it provides to understand the intricacies of sexuality, the state, and neoliberal processes.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Part One. Introduction 1. Governing Sexuality, Constituting States 3 2. Engendering Social Problems, Exposing Sexuality's Effects on Biopolitical States 24 Part Two. Sexual Lives of Juridicial Governance 3. State Scripts: Antisodomy Law and the Annals of Law and Law Enforcement 49 4. "Half Truths": Racialization, Habitual Criminals, and the Police 74 Part Three. Opposing Law, Contesting Governance 5. Pivoting toward the State: Phase One of the Struggle against Section 377 101 6. States versus Sexuality: Decriminalizing and Recriminalizing Homosexuality in the Postliberalized Context 126 Afterlives 150 Notes 165 Bibliography 193 Index 211

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Book SynopsisIn Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home.Trade Review"... Metroimperial Intimacies demonstrates the multifaceted ways in which the United States attempted to manage the chaotic categories of race and sex in the new colony. Although not the first scholar to examine political cartoons and pensionado writing, Mendoza treads new ground in his attention to how male same-sex intimacy registered in these genres, enlarging our understanding of how colonial anxieties about race and sex shaped the social, legal, and cultural spaces of U.S.–Philippine relations." -- Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Victor Román Mendoza demonstrates that the history of American empire in the early-twentieth century Philippines can indeed be queered through intrepid research and savvy analysis. . . . [T]he analysis ranges from pathbreaking to brilliant." -- Kristin Hoganson * Canadian Journal of History *"Using a queer of color critique, Metroimperial Intimacies provides an innovative and much-needed study of social and sexual intimacies within the context of the early years of U.S. imperial colonialism in the Philippines." -- Genevieve Clutario * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Racial-Sexual Governance and the U.S. Colonial State in the Philippines 35 2. Unmentionable Liberties: A Racial-Sexual Differend in the U.S. Colonial Philippines 63 3. Menacing Receptivity: Philippine Insurrectos and the Sublime Object of Metroimperial Visual Culture 95 4. The Sultan of Sulu's Epidemic of Intimacies 131 5. Certain Peculiar Temptations: Little Brown Students and Racial-Sexual Governance in the Metropole 167 Conclusion 203 Notes 211 Bibliography 259 Index 279

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