LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics Books
Temple University Press,U.S. Vulnerable Constitutions
Book SynopsisAmputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternativeeven resistantepistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulatedrather than created a crisis formasculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of anti-prophylactic citizenshipa mode of political belonging characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and riskto examine counternarratives of American masculinity. Investigating the work of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity. Her
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Sticky Rice A Politics of Intraracial Desire
Book Synopsis Cynthia Wu’s provocative Sticky Rice examines representations of same-sex desires and intraracial intimacies in some of the most widely read pieces of Asian American literature. Analyzing canonical works such as John Okada’s No-No Boy, Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt, H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has Hands, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging, as well as Philip Kan Gotanda’s play, Yankee Dawg You Die, Wu considers how male relationships in these texts blur the boundaries among the homosocial, the homoerotic, and the homosexual in ways that lie beyond our concepts of modern gay identity. The “sticky rice” of Wu’s title is a term used in gay Asian American culture to describe Asian American men who desire other Asian American men. The bonds between men addressed in Sticky Rice show how the thoughts and actions founded by real-life intraracially desiring Asian-raced m
£70.20
Temple University Press,U.S. Sticky Rice A Politics of Intraracial Desire
Book Synopsis Cynthia Wu’s provocative Sticky Rice examines representations of same-sex desires and intraracial intimacies in some of the most widely read pieces of Asian American literature. Analyzing canonical works such as John Okada’s No-No Boy, Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt, H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has Hands, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging, as well as Philip Kan Gotanda’s play, Yankee Dawg You Die, Wu considers how male relationships in these texts blur the boundaries among the homosocial, the homoerotic, and the homosexual in ways that lie beyond our concepts of modern gay identity. The “sticky rice” of Wu’s title is a term used in gay Asian American culture to describe Asian American men who desire other Asian American men. The bonds between men addressed in Sticky Rice show how the thoughts and actions founded by real-life intraracially desiring Asian-raced m
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Civic Intimacies
Book SynopsisBlack queer lives often exist outside conventional civic institutions and therefore have to explore alternative intimacies to experience a sense of belonging. Civic Intimacies examines howand to what extentthese different forms of intimacy catalyze the values, aspirations, and collective flourishing of Black queer denizens of Baltimore. Niels van Doorn draws on 18 months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork for his innovative cross-disciplinary analysis of contemporary debates in political and cultural theory.Van Doorn describes the way that these systematically marginalized communities improvise on citizenship not just to survive but also to thrive despite the proliferation of violence and insecurity in their lives. By reimagining citizenship as the everyday reparative work of building support structures, Civic Intimacies highlights the extent to which sex, kinship, memory, religious faith, and sexual health are rooted in collective practices that are deeply political. These systems suTrade Review“Civic Intimacies is a thoughtful, timely, and engaging critique that rethinks the category of citizenship not simply as the domain of those on the inside but as constituted through its outside, through those subjects or nonsubjects that are seen as the very antithesis of sovereignty, subjectivity, and citizenship. Van Doorn challenges hegemonic notions of citizenship while also demonstrating how Black queer subjects create new understandings of citizenship through political, social, and cultural work.”—Rashad Shabazz, Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, and author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
£73.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Civic Intimacies
Book SynopsisBlack queer lives often exist outside conventional civic institutions and therefore have to explore alternative intimacies to experience a sense of belonging. Civic Intimacies examines howand to what extentthese different forms of intimacy catalyze the values, aspirations, and collective flourishing of Black queer denizens of Baltimore. Niels van Doorn draws on 18 months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork for his innovative cross-disciplinary analysis of contemporary debates in political and cultural theory.Van Doorn describes the way that these systematically marginalized communities improvise on citizenship not just to survive but also to thrive despite the proliferation of violence and insecurity in their lives. By reimagining citizenship as the everyday reparative work of building support structures, Civic Intimacies highlights the extent to which sex, kinship, memory, religious faith, and sexual health are rooted in collective practices that are deeply political. These systems suTrade Review“Civic Intimacies is a thoughtful, timely, and engaging critique that rethinks the category of citizenship not simply as the domain of those on the inside but as constituted through its outside, through those subjects or nonsubjects that are seen as the very antithesis of sovereignty, subjectivity, and citizenship. Van Doorn challenges hegemonic notions of citizenship while also demonstrating how Black queer subjects create new understandings of citizenship through political, social, and cultural work.”—Rashad Shabazz, Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, and author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. QA
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1998,Q & A: Queer in Asian America,edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, became a canonical work in Asian American studies and queer studies. This new edition ofQ & Ais neither a sequel nor an update, but an entirely new work borne out of the progressive political and cultural advances of the queer experiences of Asian North American communities.The artists, activists, community organizers, creative writers, poets, scholars, and visual artists that contribute to this exciting new volume make visible the complicated intertwining of sexuality with race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Sections address activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism anddiaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilien
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Temple University Press,U.S. QA
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1998,Q & A: Queer in Asian America,edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, became a canonical work in Asian American studies and queer studies. This new edition ofQ & Ais neither a sequel nor an update, but an entirely new work borne out of the progressive political and cultural advances of the queer experiences of Asian North American communities.The artists, activists, community organizers, creative writers, poets, scholars, and visual artists that contribute to this exciting new volume make visible the complicated intertwining of sexuality with race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Sections address activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism anddiaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilien
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Words like Water
Book SynopsisAfter China officially decriminalized same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term that refers to nonheterosexual and gender nonconforming identities in the People's Republic of China, has improved. However, for all the positive change, there are few opportunities for political and civil rights advocacy under Xi Jinping's authoritarian rule. Words like Water explores the nonconfrontational strategies the tongzhi movement uses in contemporary China. Caterina Fugazzola analyzes tongzhi organizers' conceptualizations of, and approaches to, social change, explaining how they avoid the backlash that meets Western tactics, such as protests, confrontation, and language about individual freedoms. In contrast, the groups' intentional use of community and family-oriented narratives, discourses, and understandings of sexual identity are more effective, especially in situations where direct political engagement is not possible. PrTrade Review“There is currently no book out there that examines the LGBTQ/tongzhi movement in contemporary China from a social movement perspective. Through a nuanced analysis of the discursive and linguistic strategies employed by Chinese tongzhi groups and individuals, Words like Water provides a strong and plausible account of tongzhi activism that moves away from the Western rightsbased model of sexual politics. In this engaging ethnography, Caterina Fugazzola brings social movement theory and transnational queer Asian studies into conversation and decenters the Western discourse on sexual identity and politics, rights and activism, and mobilization and visibility. Fugazzola’s work is particularly significant for understanding the complexity of Chinese (queer) politics under the current political climate in China.”—Travis S. K. Kong, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong, and the author of Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China“An insightful exploration of Chinese LGBT activists based on careful research of their lived experiences, this book unravels the unique cultural and rhetorical contentions around sexual identities confronting this group. It is a timely interrogation of the limitations of prevalent rights-based approaches within transnational advocacy cooperation by highlighting the tension between political visibility and cultural change. A fascinating testament to Chinese LGBT activists’ tightrope walks between authoritarian rule and global queer mobilization, where opportunities and challenges are inseparable, Fugazzola’s extensive fieldwork inspires a rich and nuanced portrayal of China’s cultural battles for a harmonious blend of cosmopolitan and nationalistic, modern and traditional identities.”—Yan Long, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley
£56.10
University of Toronto Press Sapphic Fathers
Book SynopsisLiterature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this literary moment. In Sapphic Fathers, Gretchen Schultz explores how these male writers and their readers took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender during a time of social and political upheaval.Tracing this phenomenon through poetry (Baudelaire, Verlaine), erotica and the popular novel (Belot), and literary fiction (Zola, Maupassant, Péladan, Mendès), and into scientific treatises, Schultz demonstrates that the literary discourse on lesbianism became the basis for the scientific and medical understanding of female same-sex desire in France. She also shows that the cumulative impact of this discourse left tangible traces that lasted well beyond nineteenth-century France, persisting into twentieth-century America to become the basis of lesbTrade Review'One of the amazing "take always" of this ambitious study is the uncovering of the enormous intertextual debt of the American lesbian pulp movement to the French "Sapphic fathers." -- Carol Mossman The French Review, vol 90:01:2016 'Wide-ranging, deeply researched, beautifully expressed study of both elite and popular culture... Highly recommended.' -- A.M. Rea Choice vol 52:10:2015 "Gretchen Schultz presents a unique and novel perspective on an important topic. The final chapter is a tour de force of literary history and criticism." -- Melanie C. Hawthorne, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University "A significant scholarly achievement. Readers whose primary interest is in cultural or intellectual history have a lot to gain from this research." -- Peter Cryle, Emeritus Professor, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland 'Schultz succeeds brilliantly in bringing nineteenth-century French culture, social concerns and gender politics vividly to life.' -- Brian Dempsey The James Morgan Brown review Autumn 2016 'The scholars of 19th- century France will recognize this wide ranging, deeply researched, beautifully expressed study of both elite and popular culture as a major contribution... Highly recommended.' -- A.M. Rea Choice Magazine vol 52:10:2015Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Backstories 1. The Poetics of Lesbian Identification 2. Tribades for Sale: Popular Fiction and Backroom Books 3. Dystopian Sapphism: Anti-Feminism, Class Warfare, and the Elite Novel at the Fin du Siecle 4. Scientia sapphica 5. Intertexts and Afterlives: From the French Canon to US Pulp Fiction Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Valerii Pereleshin
Book SynopsisIn Valerii Pereleshin: The Life of a Silkworm, Bakich delves deep into Pereleshin's poems and letters to tell the rich life story of this underappreciated writer.Trade Review'This book offers its reader a mind-blowing adventure: it is the story of the life and writing of a twentieth century Russian poet at once too strange, too radical, and too good to be true.' -- Polina Barskova The Russian review vol 75:02:2016Table of ContentsBrief Outline of Valerii Pereleshin's Life Preface PART ONE: CHINA, 1920-1952 1. Russian Childhood 2. Harbin: On the Way of Becoming a Poet 3. Harbin: The Poet as a Monk 4. Beijing: "Wonderful, Beloved City" 5. Shanghai: Fogs and Chimeras 6. The Long Farewell PART TWO: BRAZIL, 1953-1992 7. Cidada marvelhosa 8. Resurrection of a Poet 9. From Mount Nebo 10. The Lefthander 11. New Roads and Great Loss 12. Growing Recognition 13. Last Love, Last Books, Last Years
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Bristol University Press Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans Health
Book SynopsisBringing together international research in social work, this book examines key concepts including the social determinants of health (SDoH) and human rights approaches to LGBT health.Trade Review“An important and innovative addition to the growing research on LGBT health disparities. The book provides both a social work and an international perspective to a field typically dominated by US based public health research.” Ilan H. Meyer, UCLA School of Law"The collection is a much-needed text to develop the international debate in social work further along the way to social justice." Social Work Education"Excellent international reader" Jagdish Douhan, de Montfort University, textbook adopter"An outstanding contribution to the field of LGBT studies in social work and its ability to walk the line between social and individual worlds is outstanding." British Journal of Social Work“An important contribution to the knowledge needed by those on social work services to understand the complex matrix not only of the persistent discrimination experienced by LGBT people but the health inequalities they encounter on their journeys through life.” Ruth Stark, MSc, CQSW, MBE, President International Federation of Social Workers"Strengths include the book's depth of coverage on practical interventions and best practices, especially with older LGBT people." Choice“Committed to health equity and human rights, this valuable book offers important theoretical and practical insights to improve LGBT wellbeing across the lifecourse, from early childhood to end-of-life care, and does so cognizant of commingled inequitable power relations involving sexuality, class, race/ethnicity, and gender, within and between nations.” Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health"This original book gives a much-needed focus on the role of social work in addressing LGBT health inequalities. It makes a vital and necessary contribution towards promoting equality for LGBT people." Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker for Adults (England), UK Department of Health"Excellent international reader." Jagdish Chouhan, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Gary Bailey; Introduction: social work’s contribution to tackling lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans health inequalities ~Julie Fish and Kate Karban; Part One: Key issues in social work with LGBT people; Much to be desired: LGBT health inequalities and inequities in Canada ~ Nick J. Mulé; Between public neglect and private needs: conceptualising approaches to LGBT issues in Italian social work ~ Andrea Nagy and Urban Nothdurfter; Queering the pitch: a need for mainstreaming LGBTQ issues in professional social work education and practice in India ~ Ketki Ranade; Life in the Pink Dragon’s Den: mental health services and social inclusion for LGBT people in Wales ~ Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett, Michele Raithby and Paul Willis; Part Two: Service design and practice development; Coming into view? The experiences of LGBT young people in the care system in Northern Ireland ~ Nicola Carr and John Pinkerton; Social services for LGBT young people in the United States: are we there yet? Elizabeth A. Winter, Diane E. Elze, Susan Saltzburg and Mitchell Rosenwald; Unique experiences and needs of LGBT older people: one community in rural California responds ~ Elizabeth Breshears and Valerie Lester Leyva; Good practice in health and social care provision for LGBT older people in the UK ~ Sue Westwood, Andrew King, Kathryn Almack, Yiu-Tung Suen and Louis Bailey; A theoretical model for intervening in complex sexual behaviours: sexual desires, pleasures and passion – La Pasión – of Spanish-speaking gay men in Canada ~ Gerardo Betancourt; Research and policy about end of life care for LGBT people in the UK ~ Kathryn Almack, Tes Smith and Bridget Moss; LGBT asylum seekers and health inequalities in the UK ~ Kate Karban and Ala Sirriyeh; Part Three: Social work education and research; Pedagogy for unpacking heterosexist and cisgender bias in social work education in the United States ~ Susan Saltzburg; Maximising research outcomes for trans children and their families in Canada using social action and other participatory methods of inquiry ~ Annie Pullen Sansfaçon and Kimberley Ens Manning; Mental health inequalities among LGBT older people in the United States: curricula developments ~ Valerie Lester Leyva; Strategies for maximising participation from LGB people in internet surveying in the United States ~ Andy Dunlap; Gay and bisexual men raped by men: an invisible group in social work in Sweden ~ Hans Knutagård; Queering social work methods in health disparities and health promotion in the United States ~ Tyler M. Argüello; Conclusion ~ Kate Karban and Julie Fish.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans Health
Book SynopsisBringing together international research in social work, this book examines key concepts including the social determinants of health (SDoH) and human rights approaches to LGBT health.Trade Review“An important and innovative addition to the growing research on LGBT health disparities. The book provides both a social work and an international perspective to a field typically dominated by US based public health research.” Ilan H. Meyer, UCLA School of Law"The collection is a much-needed text to develop the international debate in social work further along the way to social justice." Social Work Education"Excellent international reader" Jagdish Douhan, de Montfort University, textbook adopter"An outstanding contribution to the field of LGBT studies in social work and its ability to walk the line between social and individual worlds is outstanding." British Journal of Social Work“An important contribution to the knowledge needed by those on social work services to understand the complex matrix not only of the persistent discrimination experienced by LGBT people but the health inequalities they encounter on their journeys through life.” Ruth Stark, MSc, CQSW, MBE, President International Federation of Social Workers"Strengths include the book's depth of coverage on practical interventions and best practices, especially with older LGBT people." Choice“Committed to health equity and human rights, this valuable book offers important theoretical and practical insights to improve LGBT wellbeing across the lifecourse, from early childhood to end-of-life care, and does so cognizant of commingled inequitable power relations involving sexuality, class, race/ethnicity, and gender, within and between nations.” Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health"This original book gives a much-needed focus on the role of social work in addressing LGBT health inequalities. It makes a vital and necessary contribution towards promoting equality for LGBT people." Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker for Adults (England), UK Department of Health"Excellent international reader." Jagdish Chouhan, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Gary Bailey; Introduction: social work’s contribution to tackling lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans health inequalities ~Julie Fish and Kate Karban; Part One: Key issues in social work with LGBT people; Much to be desired: LGBT health inequalities and inequities in Canada ~ Nick J. Mulé; Between public neglect and private needs: conceptualising approaches to LGBT issues in Italian social work ~ Andrea Nagy and Urban Nothdurfter; Queering the pitch: a need for mainstreaming LGBTQ issues in professional social work education and practice in India ~ Ketki Ranade; Life in the Pink Dragon’s Den: mental health services and social inclusion for LGBT people in Wales ~ Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett, Michele Raithby and Paul Willis; Part Two: Service design and practice development; Coming into view? The experiences of LGBT young people in the care system in Northern Ireland ~ Nicola Carr and John Pinkerton; Social services for LGBT young people in the United States: are we there yet? Elizabeth A. Winter, Diane E. Elze, Susan Saltzburg and Mitchell Rosenwald; Unique experiences and needs of LGBT older people: one community in rural California responds ~ Elizabeth Breshears and Valerie Lester Leyva; Good practice in health and social care provision for LGBT older people in the UK ~ Sue Westwood, Andrew King, Kathryn Almack, Yiu-Tung Suen and Louis Bailey; A theoretical model for intervening in complex sexual behaviours: sexual desires, pleasures and passion – La Pasión – of Spanish-speaking gay men in Canada ~ Gerardo Betancourt; Research and policy about end of life care for LGBT people in the UK ~ Kathryn Almack, Tes Smith and Bridget Moss; LGBT asylum seekers and health inequalities in the UK ~ Kate Karban and Ala Sirriyeh; Part Three: Social work education and research; Pedagogy for unpacking heterosexist and cisgender bias in social work education in the United States ~ Susan Saltzburg; Maximising research outcomes for trans children and their families in Canada using social action and other participatory methods of inquiry ~ Annie Pullen Sansfaçon and Kimberley Ens Manning; Mental health inequalities among LGBT older people in the United States: curricula developments ~ Valerie Lester Leyva; Strategies for maximising participation from LGB people in internet surveying in the United States ~ Andy Dunlap; Gay and bisexual men raped by men: an invisible group in social work in Sweden ~ Hans Knutagård; Queering social work methods in health disparities and health promotion in the United States ~ Tyler M. Argüello; Conclusion ~ Kate Karban and Julie Fish.
£29.44
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Bad Girls Young Women Sex and Rebellion before
Book SynopsisIn this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s. She argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise among girls and young women decades earlier.
£26.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Cruising for Conspirators How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime
Book SynopsisAt once a dramatic courtroom narrative and a deeper meditation on the enduring power of homophobia, Cruising for Conspirators shows how the same dynamics that promoted the unjust prosecution of Clay Shaw in the wake of JFK’s assassination continue to inform conspiratorial thinking to this day.
£23.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Famous Lady Lovers
Book SynopsisExamining blues songs, Black newspapers, vice reports, memoirs, sexology case studies, and more, Cookie Woolner illuminates the unconventional lives Black lady lovers formed to suit their desires.Trade ReviewExtraordinary in its scope and inventiveness to focus on their intimate lives . . . . Woolner's beautiful prose and writing style makes this book a delight to read. Academics and general readers alike will be drawn to it."—Starred review, Library Journal Impeccably researched and compellingly written examination of Black women who loved women during the 1920s and 1930s."—Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine
£69.70
University of Texas Press Brown Trans Figurations
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention for the National Women’s Studies Association''s 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize2021 Finalist Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards2022 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQStudies, Popular Culture Association The Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, GL/Q Caucus, Modern Language Association (MLA) 2022 AAHHE Book of the Year Award, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theoreTrade Review[Brown Trans Figurations'] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture...scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. * Publishers Weekly *A needed contribution to trans Latinx studies. [Brown Trans Figurations] offers a series of compelling close readings of literature, photography, film, and other accounts of Chicanx trans people and representation in the United States. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Brown Trans Figurations is an extremely well-written and groundbreaking book, accessible yet simultaneously quite complex, in Latina/o/x studies. It will be required reading in queer, trans, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and in American studies and ethnic studies classrooms...Brown Trans Figurations is crucial reading for persons interested in the differences between queer and trans Latinx experience, the tensions between Chicana feminism and transgender and transsexual lives, and the racism that infects dominant representations of trans and queer Chicanxs and Latinxs...Galarte’s theorization of brown trans fgurations transforms Latina/o studies in profound ways. * Latino Studies *Everyone would benefit from reading this book, and learning about the brown trans community...The book is extremely relevant and important in this current political climate that has villainized both the trans and Latinx community for different reasons. Libraries that have LGBTQ and Latinx collections should consider purchasing this book. If Galarte has shown anything, it is that the issues within those communities intersect and must be addressed simultaneously. * International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together Chapter 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive Chapter 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other Chapter 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM Borderlands Chapter 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities Coda: Reading with the X Notes References Index
£78.30
University of Texas Press Brown Trans Figurations Rethinking Race Gender
Book SynopsisOne of the first books focused solely on the trans Latinx experience, Brown Trans Figurations describes how transness and brownness interact within queer, trans, and Latinx historical narratives and material contexts.Trade Review[Brown Trans Figurations'] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture...scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. * Publishers Weekly *A needed contribution to trans Latinx studies. [Brown Trans Figurations] offers a series of compelling close readings of literature, photography, film, and other accounts of Chicanx trans people and representation in the United States. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Brown Trans Figurations is an extremely well-written and groundbreaking book, accessible yet simultaneously quite complex, in Latina/o/x studies. It will be required reading in queer, trans, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and in American studies and ethnic studies classrooms...Brown Trans Figurations is crucial reading for persons interested in the differences between queer and trans Latinx experience, the tensions between Chicana feminism and transgender and transsexual lives, and the racism that infects dominant representations of trans and queer Chicanxs and Latinxs...Galarte’s theorization of brown trans fgurations transforms Latina/o studies in profound ways. * Latino Studies *Everyone would benefit from reading this book, and learning about the brown trans community...The book is extremely relevant and important in this current political climate that has villainized both the trans and Latinx community for different reasons. Libraries that have LGBTQ and Latinx collections should consider purchasing this book. If Galarte has shown anything, it is that the issues within those communities intersect and must be addressed simultaneously. * International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together Chapter 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive Chapter 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other Chapter 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM Borderlands Chapter 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities Coda: Reading with the X Notes References Index
£25.19
MD - Duke University Press None Like Us
Book SynopsisIt passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls melancholy historicism-a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed towardthe recovery of a we at the point of our violent origin. Best argues that there is and can be no we following from such a time and place, that black identity is constituted in and through negation, taking inspiration from David Walker's prayer that none like us may ever live again until time shall be no more. Best draws out the connections between a sense of impossible black sociality and strains of negativity that have operated under the sign of queer. In None Like Usthe art of El Anatsui and Mark Bradford, the literature of Toni Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks, even rumors in the archive, evidence an apocalyptic aesthetics, or self-eclipse, which opens the circuits between past and present and thus charts a queer future for black study.Trade Review"None Like Us begins as an intervention into black studies. To accomplish this, it turns to works of art and invention by people whom history has needed to be black. But as it unravels any claim to genre, discipline, field, identity, or audience, the book issues a broad invitation to the reader to see black studies and queer theory, black and queer life, not as identities to inhabit, but as critical perspectives on history and on a present tense that has been so scarred by various melodramas of the self—of its defense, self-possession, and propriety—that have played themselves out on both sides of anti-racist critique." -- Kris Cohen * Public Books *"Compelling. . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- C. E. Bender * Choice *"Best’s ambitious and well-reasoned thesis confronts the challenge of thinking like a work of art but also of thinking the work of art as an object of critical studies, particularly in Black Studies. ... Responsibly argued and impressively confessional, Best offers thoughtful ways of reconfiguring Black Studies." -- Alice Mikail Craven * Modern Language Review *“… None Like Us is distinctive as it aims to break with the well-established and perhaps taken-for-granted tenet in the black political present and contemporary black criticism, of a communitarian, shared slave past…. With its themes of identity and belonging, history and the archive, along with a range of visual and literary works, None Like Us would appeal to the interdisciplinary field of Black Studies sociologists; historians, anthropologists, in addition to scholars with an interest in art and visual culture.” -- Karen Wilkes * Visual Studies *“None Like Us is attempting to produce a version of Blackness that does not need to work through the white gaze and, instead, understands freedom on its own terms. . . . Best prioritizes the present, the surface, and the pleasures of engaging on one’s own terms.” -- Amber Jamilla Musser * Cultural Critique *"Best picks apart the tropes that are often treated as foregone conclusions: that the heirs of a people made chattel would incur and even embrace the terms foisted upon them, that the first-person plural of Black studies is monolithic." -- Lauren Michele Jackson * The New Yorker *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Unfit for History 1 Part I. On Thinking Like a Work of Art 1. My Beautiful Elimination 29 2. On Failing to Make the Past Present 63 Part II. A History of Discontinuity Interstice. A Gossamer Writing 83 3. The History of People Who Did Not Exist 91 4. Rumor in the Archive 107 Acknowledgments 133 Notes 135 Bibliography 173 Index 193
£70.55
Duke University Press Seeking Rights from the Left
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Seeking Rights from the Left evaluate the impact of the Latin American “Pink Tide” of left-leaning governments (2000-2015) on feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues.Trade Review"Seeking Rights from the Left provides a relevant and nuanced overview of the extremely complex and diverse political processes commonly known as the Pink Tide in Latin America, focusing on gender and sexuality issues. . . . The book raises old and new questions about relationships among the left—broadly speaking—and feminist, women’s, gay, lesbian, and transgender political demands." -- Nayla Luz Vacarezza * Mobilization *"The depth of analysis contained in this collection is remarkable. As the chapters reveal, the quest to secure political rights for women and the LGBT community during the Pink Tide era was full of contradictions and mixed results. However, as Sonia E. Alvarez suggests in her afterword, that is precisely what makes this a valuable contribution to the fields of Latin American Studies, Gender and Sexuality, and Politics: it provides a historical dimension to further understand the vibrant cultural developments of activists who remain committed to defend human rights today." -- Ángela Pérez-Villa * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"As an edited volume, the book is well organized and thematically coherent. . . . The introduction written by Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush should be carefully read and reread. Here the authors provide a wonderfully written exposition of the volume’s conceptual and methodological framework and the research questions animating not just its own empirical chapters but the broader field as well. As such, I recommend it (and the rest of the volume) to anyone teaching relevant graduate seminars." -- Matthew Ward * Gender & Society *“One of the strengths of this volume is that each chapter features many different voices–from the elite as well as the marginalized and from both political insiders and outsiders–in order to provide a full and complete picture of a critical period in Latin American history…. Seeking Rights from the Left is an intriguing and thought-provoking volume.” -- Evan C. Rothera * Social Movement Studies *"Seeking Rights from the Left is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on feminist and queer activism, and represents an important and timely contribution to scholarly understandings of the relationship between grassroots identity-based movements and state power." -- Baird Campbell * Journal of Latin American Research *"This is a superb comparative study of how the Pink Tide's leadership engaged with the existing demands of feminist, women's, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations.… Seeking Rights is a very helpful tool for teaching comparative politics and intersectionality because it studies complex coalitions that were created to change the traditional ideas about gender and sexuality." -- Adriana Novoa * Hypatia *“[Seeking Rights from the Left] is a must-read.... What this book illustrates is the need for any progressive movement to make its engagement with sexual and reproductive rights central rather than peripheral to its vision for a better Latin America.” -- Cora Fernández Anderson * Journal of Latin American Studies *“Seeking Rights from the Left takes up the important question of how far the grouping of post-dictatorship left-wing administrations known as the Pink Tide . . . managed to advance feminist goals for sexual, LGBTQ, and reproductive rights. . . . A richly researched volume.” -- Rachel Nolan * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Amy Lind ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Contesting the Pink Tide / Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush 1 1. Explaining Advances and Drawbacks in Women's and LGBTIQ Rights in Uruguay: Multisited Pressures, Political Resistance, and Structural Inertias / Niki Johnson, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, and Diego Sempol 48 2. LGBT Rights Yes, Abortion No: Explaining Uneven Trajectories in Argentina under Kirchnerism (2003-15) / Constanza Tabbush, María Constanza Díaz, Catalina Trebisacce, and Victoria Keller 82 3. Working within a Gendered Political Consensus: Uneven Progress on Gender and Sexuality Rights in Chile / Gwynn Thomas 115 4. Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Public Policy: Progress and Regression in Depatriarchalizing and Deheteronormalizing the State / Marlise Matos 144 5. De Jure Transformation, De Facto Stagnation: The Status of Women's and LGBT Rights in Bolivia / Shawnna Mullenax 173 6. Toward Feminist Socialism? Gender, Sexuality, Popular Power, and the State in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution / Rachel Elfenbein 200 7. Nicaragua and Ortega's "Second" Revolution: "Restituting the Rights" of Women and Sexual Diversity? / Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas 235 8. Ecuador's Citizen Revolution (2007-17): A Lost Decade for Women's Rights and Gender Equality / Annie Wilkinson 269 Afterword. Maneuvering the "U-Turn": Comparative Lessons from the Pink Tide and Forward-Looking Strategies for Feminist and Queer Activisms in the Americas / Sonia E. Alvarez 305 Contributors 313 Index 317
£98.60
Duke University Press Female Masculinity
Book SynopsisIn this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinitywhich features a new preface by the authorJack Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities, cataloging the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.Trade Review“[Halberstam] steers herself admirably between the subtle and not so subtle interactions between the personal and theoretical.” -- Millissa Deitz * Screening the Past *“[R]efreshing . . . . Halberstam forces us to look at familiar texts and problems in fresh ways and leaves room for future scholarship to expand her critical insights. . . . [S]he has taken on a vast project and is clearly committed to sketching the contours of many possible approaches to female masculinity rather than dwelling on one or two . . . .[A]ccessible and enlightening . . . .” -- Rachel Adams * GLQ *“A significant contribution to a growing genre of feminist analyses of masculinity. . . . Female Masculinity's greatest strength lies in its scope. . . . [It] should rank among our most important, sophisticated feminist analyses of the way maleness is constructed in Western culture. Because of its focus on specifically lesbian contributions to masculinity, Halberstam's book surpasses its predecessors in its special relevance to lesbian readers. Finally (and perhaps most importantly for Halberstam's peers), because of her book's attention to both popular and high art subjects, Female Masculinity is an important contribution to the growing field of Cultural Studies.” -- Heather Findlay * Lesbian Review of Books *“Halberstam’s refusal to work within the ‘difference’ paradigm raises a series of exciting questions . . . . Female Masculinity takes on everything from eighteenth-century frictioners (tribades) to mustachioed drag kings like Mo B. Dick and Buster Hymen to transgender dykes. Halberstam argues convincingly that there has been persistent bias against masculine women in the lesbian community and in lesbian criticism. Moreover, she uses the example of the masculine woman to suggest that lesbians need a subtler vocabulary for sexuality and gender. . . .” -- Heather Love * Transition *“In this landmark study, Halberstam consolidates her position as a key theorist within Queer scholarship. Female Masculinity is an immensely persuasive, powerfully-written text that imparts exciting and important theoretical ideas. It constitutes a valuable initial challenge to those in feminism and cultural studies who conflate masculinity with maleness, and offers an inspiring start for ongoing study.” -- Maria Antoniou * Feminist Theory *"[A] unique offering in queer studies: a study of the masculine lesbian woman. Halberstam makes a compelling argument for a more flexible taxonomy of masculinity, including not only men, who have historically held the power in society, but also women who embody qualities that are usually associated with maleness, such as strength, authority, and independence." * Library Journal *"Halberstam’s book can be added to the list of important studies of masculinity and femininity. . . . Along with Judith Butler, Terry Castle, Sue-Ellen Case, and Eve K. Sedgwick, Halberstam—especially in her previous work on masculinity and lesbianism—is already established as one of the most thought-provoking voices in queer studies. This book will only enhance that reputation. Female Masculinity should find a wide readership. . . ." * Choice *"Judith Halberstam’s Female Masculinity is truly a pioneering document which disrupts eras of silence surrounding this topic. . . . [S]he crafts her language in a very inviting and accessible manner. She is clearly trying to be understood, which is a refreshing change from too many academic works. In addition, she infuses humor and little personal preferences or irritations (mostly through colorful adjective choices) into the middle of serious analysis, which makes the whole academic process more interesting and less elusive. . . . Whether you agree or disagree with her choices, the ideas are definitely stimulating. It is a book you’ll want to sit down with your friends and talk about. You find yourself overjoyed at one moment that someone has finally written down exactly what you’ve felt but haven’t been able to articulate, and in the next moment irritated because you think she’s mistaken. It is essentially an opening to the major taboo of masculinity in women . . . . [T]he genuine enthusiasm she brings to her research is catchy and this book could very well be the catalyst for expanding a whole field of thought. And, on a personal level, it simply affirms our lives and ideas." * Gay and Lesbian Times (San Diego) *"Judith Halberstam’s new book, Female Masculinity, is an extraordinary and studied work that carefully presents an analysis of gender, and more specifically, masculinity, without over-simplification or narrow definition. . . . This is the most thorough and broad-visioned work on female masculinity that I have yet seen. Halberstam’s work is an essential contribution to our increasing understanding of gender expression and its relationship to biology and sexual orientation, as well as to everything else." * Lambda Book Report *"There is a need for this book; Halberstam’s analysis offers the reader a fresh and positive spin on the much maligned stone butch figure, for example, and the book contains an interesting selection of photos of drag kings, transgender, and butch women. There are long sections detailing butch characters in film and modern drag performers, an area on which little has been written." * Siren *"Female Masculinity is a full-on attack on the idea that masculinity is exclusively—or even primarily—the property of men. . . . [It] aims to help restore a sense of butch pride, and to validate the entitlement of women to their own masculinity. . . . There’s an interesting defense of the stone butch, more often cast as a damaged and dysfunctional figure, and a walk along the debated borders between butch lesbians and female to male transsexuals. An accessible chapter on butch representation in film observes the emasculation of butches in mainstream productions—Fried Green Tomatoes, Desert Hearts—and there’s a useful analysis of what’s at stake in the drag king club acts in America and the UK. . . . [This is] the first full-length study in a crucial area and it’s a great starting point." * Diva *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xi Preface xxiii 1. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men 1 2. Perverse Presentation: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders 45 3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion 75 4. Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues 111 5. Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum 141 6. Looking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film 175 7. Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance 231 8. Raging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities 267 Notes 279 Bibliography 307 Filmography 319 Index 323
£75.65
Duke University Press My Butch Career
Book SynopsisEsther Newtona pioneer figure in gay and lesbian studiestells the compelling and disarming story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her lesbian identity during one of the worst periods of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century.Trade Review"Newton is not afraid to get personal and offer her mistakes, personality development, and failed relationships for contemplation. After decades of personal and professional struggle, Newton finds a scholarly community in an evolved culture and helps to create the academic study of gender and sexuality. This book is simultaneously a memoir and an exemplar of this important field." -- Emily Dziuban * Booklist *"In the tradition of the best memoirs, it is chattily engaging, historically illuminating, and deeply, provocatively ruminative. . . . My Butch Career feels intoxicatingly, palpably real: It’s a story we can reach out and touch and one we can also situate ourselves in, even if we’re decades younger than the 78-year-old Newton. What makes My Butch Career so compelling is that while writing about herself, Newton is also examining her milieu with the eye of the cultural anthropologist she became. The story she tells is as much our story as it is hers." -- Victoria A. Brownworth * Curve *"The most captivating part of the book sees Newton circulating through second-wave feminist and lesbian circles in New York and Paris, where the debates, social hierarchies, and tangled affairs she encounters bring her to a late coming of age. In the eighties, her scholarship, once ignored, achieves recognition with the rise of gender and sexuality studies. The book is a thoughtful examination of how personal experiences spur intellectual progress." * The New Yorker *"Throughout My Butch Career, Newton is remarkably candid about the ways that class has influenced her work and perspective on the historical events unfolding around her. . . . It’s a testament to just how great an anthropologist and chronicler of queer life she is that Newton makes sure to include the kinds of details that paint a more complete and complex picture of the world as she’s experienced it." -- Alexis Clements * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Disarming and compelling. . . . My Butch Career is the humorous and graceful story of a gender outlaw in the making, blazing the trail in queer academia." * The Advocate *"My Butch Career joins a distinguished list of lesbian herstories. . .. It is for readers interested in the psychological and cultural challenges for an individual who identifies as a butch lesbian, as well as readers who are interested in lesbian herstory within the greater context of thegay rights movement." -- Cassandra Langer * Gay & Lesbian Review *"My Butch Career is an important narrative of liberation that contributes singularly to the growing body of collective LGBTQ history. It covers the first forty-one years of the writer’s life, a time frame that calls out for a sequel. Newton concludes her memoir with a tribute to the queer writers who have preceded her. With this work, she has secured her place in that pantheon." -- Anne Charles * Lambda Literary Review *“My Butch Career is an arrival story.... All anthropologists, students as well as educators, should read this because it calls attention to what has changed and shows the importance of LGBT/queer social movements and networks of non-normative communities.” -- Anika Keinz * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. A Hard Left Fist 18 2. A Writer's Inheritance 33 3. Manhattan Tomboy 56 4. California Trauma 72 5. Baby Butch 81 6. Anthropology of the Closet 102 7. Lesbian Feminist New York 119 8. The Island of Women 160 9. In-Between Dyke 183 10. Paris France 198 11. Butch Revisited 237 Notes 249 Bibliography 261 Index 265
£25.19
Duke University Press Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies
Book SynopsisDamon R. Young tracks the emergence of new forms of sexuality in French and American cinema from the 1950s to the present, showing how cinema transformed narratives of sexuality and how women and queers were both agents and objects of that transformation.Trade Review"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages." -- Guy Davidson * Continuum *"Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible." -- Ricky Varghese * Public *"Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed." -- Nick Davis * GLQ *"Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex." -- Sam Hunter * Film & History *"Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies." -- Haley Hvdson * Synoptique *"[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies." -- Nick Rees-Roberts * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Sex Public 1 Part I. Women 1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject 21 2. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex 54 Part II. Criminals 3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil 95 4. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract 122 Part III. Citizens 5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy 159 6. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus 187 Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality 215 Notes 239 Bibliography 279 Index 295
£80.10
Duke University Press None Like Us
Book SynopsisIt passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed towardthe recovery of a “we” at the point of “our” violent origin. Best argues that there is and can be no “we” following from such a time and place, that black identity is constituted in and through negation, taking inspiration from David Walker’s prayer that “none like us may ever live again until time shall be no more.” Best draws out the connections between a sense of impossible black sociality and strains of negativity that have operated under the sign of queer. In None Like Usthe art of El Anatsui and Mark Bradford, the literature of Toni Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks, even rumors in the archivTrade Review"None Like Us begins as an intervention into black studies. To accomplish this, it turns to works of art and invention by people whom history has needed to be black. But as it unravels any claim to genre, discipline, field, identity, or audience, the book issues a broad invitation to the reader to see black studies and queer theory, black and queer life, not as identities to inhabit, but as critical perspectives on history and on a present tense that has been so scarred by various melodramas of the self—of its defense, self-possession, and propriety—that have played themselves out on both sides of anti-racist critique." -- Kris Cohen * Public Books *"Compelling. . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- C. E. Bender * Choice *"Best’s ambitious and well-reasoned thesis confronts the challenge of thinking like a work of art but also of thinking the work of art as an object of critical studies, particularly in Black Studies. ... Responsibly argued and impressively confessional, Best offers thoughtful ways of reconfiguring Black Studies." -- Alice Mikail Craven * Modern Language Review *“… None Like Us is distinctive as it aims to break with the well-established and perhaps taken-for-granted tenet in the black political present and contemporary black criticism, of a communitarian, shared slave past…. With its themes of identity and belonging, history and the archive, along with a range of visual and literary works, None Like Us would appeal to the interdisciplinary field of Black Studies sociologists; historians, anthropologists, in addition to scholars with an interest in art and visual culture.” -- Karen Wilkes * Visual Studies *“None Like Us is attempting to produce a version of Blackness that does not need to work through the white gaze and, instead, understands freedom on its own terms. . . . Best prioritizes the present, the surface, and the pleasures of engaging on one’s own terms.” -- Amber Jamilla Musser * Cultural Critique *"Best picks apart the tropes that are often treated as foregone conclusions: that the heirs of a people made chattel would incur and even embrace the terms foisted upon them, that the first-person plural of Black studies is monolithic." -- Lauren Michele Jackson * The New Yorker *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Unfit for History 1 Part I. On Thinking Like a Work of Art 1. My Beautiful Elimination 29 2. On Failing to Make the Past Present 63 Part II. A History of Discontinuity Interstice. A Gossamer Writing 83 3. The History of People Who Did Not Exist 91 4. Rumor in the Archive 107 Acknowledgments 133 Notes 135 Bibliography 173 Index 193
£18.99
Duke University Press Seeking Rights from the Left
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Seeking Rights from the Left evaluate the impact of the Latin American Pink Tide of left-leaning governments (2000-2015) on feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues.Trade Review"Seeking Rights from the Left provides a relevant and nuanced overview of the extremely complex and diverse political processes commonly known as the Pink Tide in Latin America, focusing on gender and sexuality issues. . . . The book raises old and new questions about relationships among the left—broadly speaking—and feminist, women’s, gay, lesbian, and transgender political demands." -- Nayla Luz Vacarezza * Mobilization *"The depth of analysis contained in this collection is remarkable. As the chapters reveal, the quest to secure political rights for women and the LGBT community during the Pink Tide era was full of contradictions and mixed results. However, as Sonia E. Alvarez suggests in her afterword, that is precisely what makes this a valuable contribution to the fields of Latin American Studies, Gender and Sexuality, and Politics: it provides a historical dimension to further understand the vibrant cultural developments of activists who remain committed to defend human rights today." -- Ángela Pérez-Villa * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"As an edited volume, the book is well organized and thematically coherent. . . . The introduction written by Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush should be carefully read and reread. Here the authors provide a wonderfully written exposition of the volume’s conceptual and methodological framework and the research questions animating not just its own empirical chapters but the broader field as well. As such, I recommend it (and the rest of the volume) to anyone teaching relevant graduate seminars." -- Matthew Ward * Gender & Society *“One of the strengths of this volume is that each chapter features many different voices–from the elite as well as the marginalized and from both political insiders and outsiders–in order to provide a full and complete picture of a critical period in Latin American history…. Seeking Rights from the Left is an intriguing and thought-provoking volume.” -- Evan C. Rothera * Social Movement Studies *"Seeking Rights from the Left is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on feminist and queer activism, and represents an important and timely contribution to scholarly understandings of the relationship between grassroots identity-based movements and state power." -- Baird Campbell * Journal of Latin American Research *"This is a superb comparative study of how the Pink Tide's leadership engaged with the existing demands of feminist, women's, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations.… Seeking Rights is a very helpful tool for teaching comparative politics and intersectionality because it studies complex coalitions that were created to change the traditional ideas about gender and sexuality." -- Adriana Novoa * Hypatia *“[Seeking Rights from the Left] is a must-read.... What this book illustrates is the need for any progressive movement to make its engagement with sexual and reproductive rights central rather than peripheral to its vision for a better Latin America.” -- Cora Fernández Anderson * Journal of Latin American Studies *“Seeking Rights from the Left takes up the important question of how far the grouping of post-dictatorship left-wing administrations known as the Pink Tide . . . managed to advance feminist goals for sexual, LGBTQ, and reproductive rights. . . . A richly researched volume.” -- Rachel Nolan * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Amy Lind ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Contesting the Pink Tide / Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush 1 1. Explaining Advances and Drawbacks in Women's and LGBTIQ Rights in Uruguay: Multisited Pressures, Political Resistance, and Structural Inertias / Niki Johnson, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, and Diego Sempol 48 2. LGBT Rights Yes, Abortion No: Explaining Uneven Trajectories in Argentina under Kirchnerism (2003-15) / Constanza Tabbush, María Constanza Díaz, Catalina Trebisacce, and Victoria Keller 82 3. Working within a Gendered Political Consensus: Uneven Progress on Gender and Sexuality Rights in Chile / Gwynn Thomas 115 4. Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Public Policy: Progress and Regression in Depatriarchalizing and Deheteronormalizing the State / Marlise Matos 144 5. De Jure Transformation, De Facto Stagnation: The Status of Women's and LGBT Rights in Bolivia / Shawnna Mullenax 173 6. Toward Feminist Socialism? Gender, Sexuality, Popular Power, and the State in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution / Rachel Elfenbein 200 7. Nicaragua and Ortega's "Second" Revolution: "Restituting the Rights" of Women and Sexual Diversity? / Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas 235 8. Ecuador's Citizen Revolution (2007-17): A Lost Decade for Women's Rights and Gender Equality / Annie Wilkinson 269 Afterword. Maneuvering the "U-Turn": Comparative Lessons from the Pink Tide and Forward-Looking Strategies for Feminist and Queer Activisms in the Americas / Sonia E. Alvarez 305 Contributors 313 Index 317
£25.19
Duke University Press Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies
Book SynopsisBeginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema began to display forms of sexuality that were no longer strictly associated with domesticity nor limited to heterosexual relations between loving couples. Women’s bodies and queer sexualities became intensely charged figures of political contestation, aspiration, and allegory, central to new ways of imagining sexuality and to new liberal understandings of individual freedom and social responsibility. In Making Sex Public Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of two conflicting narratives: on the one hand, a new model of sex as harmoniously integrated into civic existence; on the other, an idea of women’s and queer sexuality as corrosive to the very fabric of social life. Taking a transatlantic perspective from the late ''50s through the present, from And God Created Woman and Barbarella to Cruising and Shortbus,Trade Review"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages." -- Guy Davidson * Continuum *"Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible." -- Ricky Varghese * Public *"Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed." -- Nick Davis * GLQ *"Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex." -- Sam Hunter * Film & History *"Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies." -- Haley Hvdson * Synoptique *"[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies." -- Nick Rees-Roberts * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Sex Public 1 Part I. Women 1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject 21 2. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex 54 Part II. Criminals 3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil 95 4. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract 122 Part III. Citizens 5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy 159 6. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus 187 Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality 215 Notes 239 Bibliography 279 Index 295
£999.99
Duke University Press Transhistoricities
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£8.99
Duke University Press Reading Sedgwick
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on the long and influential career of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose pioneering work in queer theory has transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity.Trade Review“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon. We need her intelligence, her queer sensibility, and her way with words. Reading Sedgwick will be welcome both for those encountering her for the first time and as a reprise for those wishing to be reminded of her work's particular charm, enlivening curiosity, and power.” -- Christina Crosby, author of * A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain *"This volume is required reading in queer studies. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. M. Jarrett * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant 1 Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz 6 Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick 34 1. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman 37 2. Proust at the End / Judith Butler 63 3. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards 72 4. In / Denis Flannery 92 5. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop 113 6. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg 121 7. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse 132 8. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon 141 9. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz 152 10. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon 166 11. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker 178 12. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg 189 13. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker 203 14. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon 236 15. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman 242 Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton 274 Acknowledgments 279 Bibliography 281 Contributors 295 Index 299
£112.20
Duke University Press Beside You in Time
Book SynopsisElizabeth Freeman expands bipolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century and showing how time became a social and sensory means by which people resisted disciplinary regimes and assembled into groups in ways that created new forms of sociality.Trade Review“Beside You in Time is a singularly powerful meditation on the biopoliticized timing of bodies but also upon the carnal body as an instrument of sociability, a tool for fugitive world-making. Elizabeth Freeman takes discourses and scenes we thought we knew and, by locating them in a context so fresh in conception, brings them to a new dynamic life. Americanists, queer theorists, anybody interested in the state of critical theory after New Historicism: all will be eager to get hold of this field-shifting and necessary book.” -- Peter Coviello, author of * Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism *“Elizabeth Freeman's fierce femme provocation expands contemporary critical thinking about biopower, leading queer Americanist scholarship toward an exploration of the rich potentialities buried within the history of sexuality.” -- Dana Luciano, author of * Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America *"This book makes an important contribution to queer theory as well as to American literary and cultural studies in the long nineteenth century, as Elizabeth Freeman frames the field." -- Daniel T. O'Hara * Review 19 *"What I like most about Freeman’s Beside You in Time is its capacious sense of reading, along with the queer possibilities that inhere, for her, in all social encounters and interactions. The book is filled with insights on Freeman’s practice as a teacher and scholar. . . . Her close readings invite an intimate, associative interpretation that refreshes and surprises with its insights." -- Ben Bascom * American Literary History *“Freeman’s analytical imagination is on full display…. Beside You in Time helps us think differently about how bodies connect through time, through desire, through narrative (itself a chronological technology), and, most importantly, through contact with each other. She helps us reconsider our present moment as we are physically distanced but temporally together: on our computer screens and on the streets.” -- Sarah E. Chinn * Studies in the Novel *“Freeman is productively in conversation with cultural theorists of the last forty years, and she argues generously and generatively, adding nuance and worthy provocations.” -- Stephanie P. Browner * Modern Philology *“Beside You in Time . . . remind[s] us of the robust synergies between religious and queer studies, while suggesting how we might better understand the field’s long-standing emphasis on nonnormativity within rather than against histories of racist and colonial exclusions.” -- Travis M. Foster * GLQ *“When readers get into the close readings that make up the bulk of Freeman’s discussion, they will find that she is a lucid and illuminating literary interpreter.” -- Thomas Allen * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Shake it Off: The Physiopolitics of Shaker Dance, 1774–1856 27 2. The Gift of Constant Escape: Playing Dead in African American Literature, 1849–1900 52 3. Feeling Historicisms: Libidinal History in Twain and Hopkins 87 4. The Sense of Unending: Defective Chronicity in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Melanctha" 124 5. Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood 158 Coda. Rhythm Travel 187 Notes 191 References 199 Index 219
£72.25
Duke University Press The Queer Games AvantGarde
Book SynopsisBonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games.Trade Review“In their new book, Bonnie Ruberg introduces and documents the provocative, playful, and occasionally weird world of queer game-making. The Queer Games Avant-Garde provides a compelling collection of interviews from many of the designers who dance at the edges of what games can be. This book is recommended reading for designers, artists, researchers, and anyone who takes play seriously.” -- Carly A. Kocurek, author of * Brenda Laurel: Pioneering Games for Girls *“Bonnie Ruberg and twenty-two incredible game makers give voice to a game revolution. The queer games avant-garde isn't just pushing at the boundaries of the medium, it's exploding what games can be into millions of multi-colored worlds where we can all play! An exuberant and essential exploration of the personal, political, and playful.” -- Colleen Macklin, Associate Professor of Media Design at Parsons School of Design"The queer game makers who operate from marginalised subject positions, making their voices heard in and through games, form an important and timely topic for a book. For a European reader, The Queer Games Avant-Garde offers a fascinating glimpse of contemporary North American realities and the anxieties around doing creative work in the current political climate." -- Tanja Sihvonen * Times Higher Education Supplement *"This is a special book. . . . The world of video games is so much bigger and more spectacular than the AAA marketing cycle would have you believe. Ruberg’s conversations are a reminder of the breath of the medium, and also the steps we must take collectively for a healthier, safer, and more vibrant future." -- Sharon Ross * Report Door *"The book’s 20 chapters run the gamut of queer desire and representation, intimacy (rather than empathy), community, intersectionality, influences, and queering games beyond representation. . . . [I]t’s accessible for those who aren’t scholars including game makers, gamers, games journalists, and anyone interested in the present and future of queer and indie games." -- Naseem Jamnia * Bitch *"Given both its fascinating subject and its approach to the subject, The Queer Games Avant-Garde is a fresh and fascinating peek into an underexplored area of video games, as well as a highly relevant exploration of the ways in which these games both draw from and give back to their creators and players.… All in all, The Queer Games Avant-Garde will provide an interesting and accessible read for a wide range of readers interested in the creation and theorization of video games." -- Maria Alberto * Information, Communication & Society *"The Queer Games Avant-Garde is a generous and generative book; it is approachable, accessible, teachable, and complements Ruberg's other books and projects.… But most importantly, the book offers radical possibilities, both practical and playful." -- Edmond Y. Chang * American Journal of Play * "Queer Games Avant-Garde is a superb teaching tool across game design, digital arts, queer studies, and digital humanities classrooms that will be sure to spark numerous meaningful debates, both critical and practical. . . . It will also be an excellent resource for scholars seeking to reimagine what academic knowledge production looks like and who counts as a contributor to knowledge." -- Daniella Gati * Information and Culture *“Venkat’s storytelling is absorbing. He appears a writer who finds joy in crafting prose, sometimes imbuing it with a playfulness that lands most aptly. . . . This is a meticulously crafted book, but it is nowhere stilted or overworked. It performs deep conceptual labor with a jargon-free lightness of touch that academic writing would do well to emulate.” -- Zahra Hayat * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Reimagining the Medium of Video Games 1 Part I. Queer People, Queer Desires, Queer Games 1. Dietrich Squinkifer: Nonbinary Characters, Asexuality, and Game Design as Joyful Resistance 33 2. Robert Yang: The Politics and Pleasures of Representing Sex between Men 42 3. Aevee Bee: On Designing for Queer Players and Remaking Autobiographical Truth 51 Part II. Queerness as a Mode of Game-Making 4. Llaura McGee: Leaving Space for Messiness, Complexity, and Chance 63 5. Andi McClure: Algorithms, Accidents, and the Queerness of Abstraction 73 6. Liz Ryerson: Resisting Empathy and Rewriting the Rules of Game Design 81 Part III. Designing Queer Intimacy in Games 7. Jimmy Andrews + Loren Schmidt: Queer Body Physics, Awkwardness as Emotional Realism, and the Challenge of Designing Consent 93 8. Naomi Clark: Disrupting Norms and Critiquing Systems through "Good, Nice Sex with a Tentacle Monster" 102 9. Elizabeth Sampat: Safe Spaces for Queerness and Games against Suffering 113 Part IV. The Legacy of Feminist Performance Art in Queer Games 10. Kara Stone: Softness, Strength, and Danger in Games about Mental Health and Healing 125 11. Mattie Brice: Radical Play through Vulnerability 134 12. Seanna Musgrave: "Touchy-Feely" Virtual Reality and Reclaiming the Trans Body 143 Part V. Intersectional Perspectives in/on Queer Games 13. Tonia B****** + Emilia Yang: Making Games about Queer Women of Color by Queer Women of Color 153 14. Nicky Case: Playable Politics and Interactivity for Understanding 162 15. Nina Freeman: More Than Just "the Women Who Make Sex Games" 171 Part VI. Analog Games: Exploreing Queerness Through Non-Digital Play 16. Avery Alder: Queer Storytelling and the Mechanics of Desire 183 17. Kat Jones: Bisexuality, Latina Identity, and the Power of Physical Presence 192 Part VII. Making Queer Games, Queer Change, and Queer Community 18. Mo Cohen: On Self-Care, Funding, and Other Advice for Aspiring Queer Indie Game Makers 205 19. Jerome Hagan: Are Queer Games Bringing "Diversity" to Mainstream Industry? 215 20. Sarah Schoemann: The Power of Community Organizing 223 Afterword. The Future of the Queer Games Avant-Garde 233 Appendix. Queer Indie Games to Play at Home or in the Classroom 245 Notes 257 Bibliography 265 Index 271
£72.25
Duke University Press Beside You in Time
Book SynopsisElizabeth Freeman expands bipolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century and showing how time became a social and sensory means by which people resisted disciplinary regimes and assembled into groups in ways that created new forms of sociality.Trade Review“Beside You in Time is a singularly powerful meditation on the biopoliticized timing of bodies but also upon the carnal body as an instrument of sociability, a tool for fugitive world-making. Elizabeth Freeman takes discourses and scenes we thought we knew and, by locating them in a context so fresh in conception, brings them to a new dynamic life. Americanists, queer theorists, anybody interested in the state of critical theory after New Historicism: all will be eager to get hold of this field-shifting and necessary book.” -- Peter Coviello, author of * Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism *“Elizabeth Freeman's fierce femme provocation expands contemporary critical thinking about biopower, leading queer Americanist scholarship toward an exploration of the rich potentialities buried within the history of sexuality.” -- Dana Luciano, author of * Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America *"This book makes an important contribution to queer theory as well as to American literary and cultural studies in the long nineteenth century, as Elizabeth Freeman frames the field." -- Daniel T. O'Hara * Review 19 *"What I like most about Freeman’s Beside You in Time is its capacious sense of reading, along with the queer possibilities that inhere, for her, in all social encounters and interactions. The book is filled with insights on Freeman’s practice as a teacher and scholar. . . . Her close readings invite an intimate, associative interpretation that refreshes and surprises with its insights." -- Ben Bascom * American Literary History *“Freeman’s analytical imagination is on full display…. Beside You in Time helps us think differently about how bodies connect through time, through desire, through narrative (itself a chronological technology), and, most importantly, through contact with each other. She helps us reconsider our present moment as we are physically distanced but temporally together: on our computer screens and on the streets.” -- Sarah E. Chinn * Studies in the Novel *“Freeman is productively in conversation with cultural theorists of the last forty years, and she argues generously and generatively, adding nuance and worthy provocations.” -- Stephanie P. Browner * Modern Philology *“Beside You in Time . . . remind[s] us of the robust synergies between religious and queer studies, while suggesting how we might better understand the field’s long-standing emphasis on nonnormativity within rather than against histories of racist and colonial exclusions.” -- Travis M. Foster * GLQ *“When readers get into the close readings that make up the bulk of Freeman’s discussion, they will find that she is a lucid and illuminating literary interpreter.” -- Thomas Allen * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Shake it Off: The Physiopolitics of Shaker Dance, 1774–1856 27 2. The Gift of Constant Escape: Playing Dead in African American Literature, 1849–1900 52 3. Feeling Historicisms: Libidinal History in Twain and Hopkins 87 4. The Sense of Unending: Defective Chronicity in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Melanctha" 124 5. Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood 158 Coda. Rhythm Travel 187 Notes 191 References 199 Index 219
£18.89
Duke University Press Information Activism
Book SynopsisFor decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn''t want them. In Information Activism Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed the foundation for their work. Often learning on the fly and using everything from index cards to computers, these activists brought people and their visions of justice together to organize, store, and provide access to information. Focusing on the transition from paper to digital-based archival techniques from the 1970s to the present, McKinney shows how media technologies animate the collective and unspectacular labor that sustains social movements, including their antiracist and trans-inclusive endeavors. By bringing sexuality studies to bear on media history, McKinney demonstrates how groups with precarious access to control over information create their own innovative and resourcefTrade Review“In an age when technological innovation itself is often assumed to make the world a better place, Cait McKinney reminds us that, for the past fifty years, lesbian feminist activists have resourcefully patched together their own heterodox information infrastructures—composed of telephone hotlines and spiral-bound notebooks, index cards and digitization technologies, hacked tools and customized protocols—to serve clear social and ethical ends. Their information activism enabled them to create systems of connection and care that are responsive to human need, rather than, as is so common today, to advertisers and algorithms.” -- Shannon Mattern, author of * Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media *“Through what might seem like an unlikely mashup of lesbian feminism and information studies, Cait McKinney illuminates both in original and compelling ways. The novel concept of information activism is a valuable contribution to understandings of social movements and counterpublics. And McKinney sheds new light on often misunderstood or neglected histories of lesbian feminism by exploring amateur obsessions with circulating information, including digital media. Together, information and lesbian feminism become unexpectedly sexy, erotic, and affectively charged.” -- Ann Cvetkovich, author of * Depression: A Public Feeling *"Steeped in the words, culture, vernacular, ephemera, and ways of interacting that have been refined by decades of lesbians, queers, and other feminists. The details are delightful. The writing is warm. Individuals and communities come to life on the page." -- Alexandra Juhasz * Lambda Literary Review *"What can we extrapolate from the sparse log that is left behind? In Information Activism, McKinney ... approaches this question with palpable respect for those doing the work at the time and with a sharp curiosity for the pieces of information that they didn’t leave behind. Each chapter examines a different kind of network—newsletters, hotlines, indexing projects, and archives—and centers the women who created and maintained them to make lifesaving, community-sustaining information available and accessible." -- Meerabelle Jesuthasan * The Nation *"Saturated with vivid historical detail, a testimony to McKinney’s extensive archival research. . . . The book’s intimate depictions of pre-digital information management invite its readers to reflect on the staggering amount of slow, painstaking technology work that went into feminism’s second wave." -- Deborah Thurman * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *"I loved reading this book. . . . McKinney illustrates the interconnectedness of past social movements, present activism, and the attainability of liberatory futures." -- aems emswiler * Information & Culture *"McKinney's Information Activism reinforces why information activism matters. . . . McKinney's work does not feel wholly bound to either the past or present. Like many meaningful queer projects, it is oriented toward a sense of futurity: a perpetual process of improvisation, revision, and worldmaking." -- Harris Kornstein * Catalyst *"McKinney compellingly argues against strict and discrete definitions of print and digital, drawing instead a through-line between current pressing questions of ethics, access, and search retrieval on the one hand and past archiving practices of lesbian feminist activists on the other. . . . This work is a fascinating read for scholars of media and information, archives, queer histories, and activism. It raises a number of important questions about medium-specific affordances, privacy, and access that merit further study." -- Nelanthi Hewa * Canadian Journal Of Communication *"Information Activism is a critical celebration of activist-archivism, practiced via newsletters, crisis lines, periodicals, and other archive-community hybrid spaces. . . . Through a refusal of the safe, straight archive, and an embrace of strategic opacity and theft . . . McKinney invite[s] us to an archive that loves us back. Information is care, passed in the verb of love for ourselves and for each other, and these texts sustain kinship lines both new and old." -- Sarah Cavar * Feminist Media Studies *"Information Activism is a perfect book for readers interested in lesbian feminist activist histories and how social movements are sustained through old and new media technologies and productions. . . . McKinney offers readers a perfect entrée into thinking critically about LGBTQ+ archives and communities. Media studies and archival studies scholars might consider joining together to build on McKinney’s timely and important research to center the role that community archives play in building and sustaining community networks." -- Jamie A. Lee * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Internet That Lesbians Built: Newsletter Networks 33 2. Calling to Talk and Listening Well: Information as Care at Telephone Hotlines 67 3. The Indexers: Dreaming of Computers while Shuffling Paper Cards 105 4. Feminist Digitization Practices at the Lesbian Herstory Archives 153 Epilogue. Doing Lesbian Feminism in an Age of Information Abundance 205 Notes 217 Bibliography 261 Index 281
£75.65
Duke University Press My Butch Career
Book SynopsisEsther Newtona pioneer figure in gay and lesbian studiestells the compelling and disarming story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her lesbian identity during one of the worst periods of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century.Trade Review"Newton is not afraid to get personal and offer her mistakes, personality development, and failed relationships for contemplation. After decades of personal and professional struggle, Newton finds a scholarly community in an evolved culture and helps to create the academic study of gender and sexuality. This book is simultaneously a memoir and an exemplar of this important field." -- Emily Dziuban * Booklist *"In the tradition of the best memoirs, it is chattily engaging, historically illuminating, and deeply, provocatively ruminative. . . . My Butch Career feels intoxicatingly, palpably real: It’s a story we can reach out and touch and one we can also situate ourselves in, even if we’re decades younger than the 78-year-old Newton. What makes My Butch Career so compelling is that while writing about herself, Newton is also examining her milieu with the eye of the cultural anthropologist she became. The story she tells is as much our story as it is hers." -- Victoria A. Brownworth * Curve *"The most captivating part of the book sees Newton circulating through second-wave feminist and lesbian circles in New York and Paris, where the debates, social hierarchies, and tangled affairs she encounters bring her to a late coming of age. In the eighties, her scholarship, once ignored, achieves recognition with the rise of gender and sexuality studies. The book is a thoughtful examination of how personal experiences spur intellectual progress." * The New Yorker *"Throughout My Butch Career, Newton is remarkably candid about the ways that class has influenced her work and perspective on the historical events unfolding around her. . . . It’s a testament to just how great an anthropologist and chronicler of queer life she is that Newton makes sure to include the kinds of details that paint a more complete and complex picture of the world as she’s experienced it." -- Alexis Clements * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Disarming and compelling. . . . My Butch Career is the humorous and graceful story of a gender outlaw in the making, blazing the trail in queer academia." * The Advocate *"My Butch Career joins a distinguished list of lesbian herstories. . .. It is for readers interested in the psychological and cultural challenges for an individual who identifies as a butch lesbian, as well as readers who are interested in lesbian herstory within the greater context of thegay rights movement." -- Cassandra Langer * Gay & Lesbian Review *"My Butch Career is an important narrative of liberation that contributes singularly to the growing body of collective LGBTQ history. It covers the first forty-one years of the writer’s life, a time frame that calls out for a sequel. Newton concludes her memoir with a tribute to the queer writers who have preceded her. With this work, she has secured her place in that pantheon." -- Anne Charles * Lambda Literary Review *“My Butch Career is an arrival story.... All anthropologists, students as well as educators, should read this because it calls attention to what has changed and shows the importance of LGBT/queer social movements and networks of non-normative communities.” -- Anika Keinz * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. A Hard Left Fist 18 2. A Writer's Inheritance 33 3. Manhattan Tomboy 56 4. California Trauma 72 5. Baby Butch 81 6. Anthropology of the Closet 102 7. Lesbian Feminist New York 119 8. The Island of Women 160 9. In-Between Dyke 183 10. Paris France 198 11. Butch Revisited 237 Notes 249 Bibliography 261 Index 265
£17.99
Duke University Press Keith Harings Line
Book SynopsisRicardo Montez traces the drawn and painted line that was at the center of Keith Haring's artistic practice, engaging with Haring's messy relationships to race-making and racial imaginaries.Trade Review“Keith Haring's Line is a brilliant, engaging, and necessary book. Centering the story of Haring's line on the queer people of color with whom Haring collaborated, Ricardo Montez gifts the reader with an intensely productive vocabulary for naming and exploring the relational dynamics that define the practices of a number of artists working across incommensurate forms of difference. Montez's writing does justice to so many neglected figures (like Juan Dubose and graffiti artist LA II) and importantly situates Haring's practice in relationship to performance-centered scenes of the 1970s and 1980s. This is not only the definitive take on Haring, it is the book on Haring's world.” -- Jennifer Doyle, author of * Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art *“A well-written and carefully elaborated study of Keith Haring and the cultural politics of race and desire that spans beyond Haring. Ricardo Montez's careful reading of different ‘scenes’ of interracial desire allows the reader to get close to the nuances of the power dynamics played out within them. Original and compelling.” -- Gavin Butt, author of * Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963 *"Keith Haring’s Line is neither a biography nor a general assessment of Haring’s work as an artist. Rather, it is a queer musing upon the intersections of sex and race in Haring’s work. . . . Montez writes with authority about photography, art, and queer theory, but the passion of this book lies in its interrogation of sex and race." -- Dennis Altman * Gay and Lesbian Review *"Keith Haring’s Line exudes political and aesthetic friction, impressively threading many entry points and tactics. Following in the legacy of his late mentor José Esteban Muñoz (to whom the book is dedicated), Montez brings deliberate specificity to the ubiquitous figure of Haring. By exposing and avoiding the trappings of linearity, singularity, and script, Montez is instead able to present vulnerability, fluidity, and flesh." -- Danilo Machado * Hyperallergic *"Montez's book is a welcome addition to a constellation of projects—some foundational, others newer—that pay fuller, much-needed attention to the exchanges between race and queer desire in New York City's 'Downtown scene' of the early 1980s.… Like Haring's line, Montez's prose is crisp and decisive. In this final chapter and throughout his readings, his beautiful writing invites readers to rethink our scholarly machines, to reimagine what critical writing and our theory-landed prose can do. Keith Haring's Line places its author's affective investments on full display." -- Tyler T. Schmidt * Postmodern Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Call of the Impossible Figure 1 1. Desire in Transit: Writing It Out in New York City 31 2. "Trade' Marks: LA II and a Queer Economy of Exchange 61 3. Theory Made Flesh?: Keeping Up with Grace Jones 83 4. Drips, Rust, and Residue: Forms of Longing 109 Notes 135 Bibliography 141 Index 145
£67.15
Duke University Press Sexual Hegemony
Book SynopsisIn Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie''s attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as twentieth-century New York City, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule. Whether policing male sodomy during the Medici rule in Florence or accusing the French aristocracy of monstrous sexuality in the wake of the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie weaponized both sexual constraint and sexual freedom in order to produce and control a reliable and regimented labor class and subordinate it to civil society and the state. Only by grasping sexuality as a field of social contention and the site of class conflict, Chitty contends, can we embark on a pTrade Review“In this theoretically sophisticated and historically rigorous book, Christopher Chitty builds a compelling argument for an approach to the history of sexuality that is embedded in property relations, economic crises, and political institutions. The result is a modernized History of Sexuality that speaks to contemporary concerns with increasing forms of precarity. A work ahead of its time, Sexual Hegemony makes an uncannily prescient and powerful intervention. Its importance and brilliance cannot be overstated.” -- Petrus Liu, author of * Queer Marxism in Two Chinas *“[Sexual Hegemony] is extraordinary, even singular—and my hope is that it will change the way we think about sexuality and anticapitalist struggle alike.” -- Christopher Nealon, from the Introduction"Both a labor of love and a collaboration across the frontier of death, Sexual Hegemony is one of that desire’s most uniquely affecting expressions." -- Josephine Livingstone * The New Republic *“Sexual Hegemony is not a theory of sexuality but a history of it. It’s a history of the people who were left out of previous histories and who more closely resemble the same people left out of the modern, mainstream gay and lesbian movement…. In Chitty’s history, queerness is criminality and vice versa, and until we undo the stigmatization of those working against the regime of property and its armed wing, the state, our gender and sexuality will be, in Chitty’s phrase, only ‘partially emancipated.’… The implications of Chitty’s history are not just for those who study the broad movements of capitalism but also those who live within it now.” -- Adam Fales * Homintern *“Homosexuality is a modern invention, and 150 years later, we’re still arguing about what it means and where it came from, and whether it was invented at all. It is, to quote Andrew Holleran, ‘like a boarding school in which there are no vacations.’ Chitty invites us to burn the boarding school down, and in the ashes, with history as our guide, to build something for everyone.” -- Ben Miller * The Baffler *“Christopher Chitty’s Sexual Hegemony, an ambitious retelling of the history of capitalism through the politics of gay sex...suggests new substantive and methodological directions for the history of homosexuality—directions that could transform the meaning of queer politics in our moment.” -- Kate Redburn * Dissent Magazine *"Sexual Hegemony is thought provoking, theoretically intricate, and wide-ranging. Likely to become a significant text for advanced students and scholars of gender and sexuality studies, history, and philosophy. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- L. Hengehold * Choice *“Max Fox has done an excellent job in bringing together Chitty’s work and editing the texts into a coherent volume that (I have no doubt) will go down as a classic in queer history and political theory.” -- Matthew J. Cull * Women, Gender & Research *“Sexual Hegemony . . . is a book clearly shaped by the financial crisis of 2008, the failures of neoliberalism, and the supposed successes of gay rights activism in much of the developed world. . . . His work stands as an incitement for scholars to probe the entanglements of sexuality and capital in the past and in our own rapidly changing world.” -- Samuel Clowes Huneke * Journal of Social History *“Chitty’s passion and engagement are evident on every page. Few academic works attest so strongly to a young scholar’s desire to make sense of the world in all its complexity. It is fortunate that Chitty wrote as much as he did and that Max Fox and others made sure that what he wrote made it into print.” -- Ian Frederick Moulton * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Chitty’s work opens many possibilities for postcolonial, decolonial and geographically grounded analysis. As a researcher of Chinese queer politics, Chitty provides a way of thinking about sexuality within East Asia’s long tradition of intersovereign trades, market civilization and proletarianization. . . . Sexual Hegemony will rock the world of Marxism as well as queer theory in the Anglophone academia.” -- Ian L Tian * Sexualities *“Among Sexual Hegemony’s most striking interventions is Chitty’s insistence (one supported by a rich historical archive) that heterosexism is a tool of class struggle rather than a prejudice rooted in morality or religion. . . . SexualHegemony takes no easy guesses at the shape future sexual solidarities will take. Instead, it offers a usable past that helps us think better about what it might look like to build them.” -- Heather Berg * GLQ *Table of ContentsForeword / Max Fox vii Introduction / Christopher Nealon 1 Part I: Sexual Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism 1. Homosexuality and Capitalism 21 2. Sodomy and the Government of Cities 42 3. Sexual Hegemony and the Capitalist World System 73 4. Homosexuality and Bourgeois Hegemony 106 Part II. Homosexuality and the Desire for History 5. Historicizing the History of Sexuality 141 6. Homosexuality as a Category of Bourgeois Society 167 Notes 193 Index 217
£72.25
Duke University Press Long Term
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms of queer commitments and their durational aspect. They consider commitment in all its guises, particularly relationships beyond and aside from monogamous partnering. These include chosen and involuntary long-term commitments to families, friends, pets, and coworkers; to the care of others and care of self; and to financial, psychiatric, and carceral institutions. Whether considering the enduring challenges of chronic illnesses and disability, including HIV and chronic fatigue syndrome; theorizing the queer family as a scene of racialized commitment; or relating the grief and loss that comes with caring for pets, the contributors demonstrate that attending to the long term offers a fuller understanding of queer engagements with intimacy, mortality, change, dependence, and care.Trade Review“Every now and again an edited volume comes along and sets a new agenda for a field. This absolutely dazzling piece of scholarship is precisely such a landmark contribution. Encountering the scrambled landscape of gay life in the post-Obergefell world while grappling with the new possibilities for commitment made possible by the legalization of gay marriage, Long Term is a truly original and outstanding work.” -- Benjamin Kahan, author of * The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality *“The essays in Long Term enter the quotidian realm of queer commitments not to settle scores with the outsized celebration of antinormativity that writes the political into prerecorded narratives of heroic refusal, but to inhabit the small acts and minor tempos that compose the work, anxiety, and yes even the pleasure of ordinary endurance. Lushly descriptive and wholly engaging, this collection is both a living document and a critically nuanced guide to the persistence of queer commitments.” -- Robyn Wiegman, author of * Object Lessons *"Disability and carework are the volume’s most prominent scenes of queer commitment: palliative care for a dying mother or companion animals; living on after a partner’s catastrophic stroke; living with gendered and queered chronic illness. . . . The authors pause on small scenes of the mundane, finding queer attachments in 'suspended time and repetitive actions' and the thickness of the everyday." -- Margot Weiss * Public Books *“Long Term plunges us into everyday scenes of belonging, which are rife with complicity, ambivalence, and damage. We move from deathbeds to the dance floor, from prisons to hospitals, from gay adoption to companion species caretaking. . . . Herring and Wallace loosen heteronormativity’s fierce grip on the narration of the long term while better attuning queer theory to practices of care that enable queerness to endure." -- Tyler Bradway * American Literary History *Table of ContentsForeword: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey / E. Patrick Johnson vii Introduction: A Theory of the Long Term / Scott Herring and Lee Wallace 1 1. Committed to the End: On Caretaking, Rereading, and Queer Theory / Elizabeth Freeman 25 2. Loss and the Long Term / Amy Villarejo 46 3. Unhealthy Attachments: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Commitment to Endure / Sally R. Munt 63 4. A Lifetime of Drugs / Kane Race 89 5. Death Do Us Part / Carla Freccero 117 6. Never Better: Queer Commitment Phobia in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life / Scott Herring 134 7. Race, Incarceration, and the Commitment of Volunteer / Amy Jamgochian 155 8. The Color of Kinship: Race, Biology, and Queer Reproduction / Jaya Keaney 175 9. Toward a Political Economy of the Long Term / Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever 199 10. Serial Commitment, or, 100 Ways to Leave Your Lover / Annemarie Jagose and Lee Wallace 223 11. The Long Run / Heather Love 250 Contributors 267 Index 271
£19.79
Duke University Press Sissy Insurgencies
Book SynopsisMarlon B. Ross explores the figure of the sissy as central to how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated black masculinity from the 1880s to the present.Trade Review“In this remarkable work of African American intellectual history, Marlon B. Ross refuses to allow the sloppy modes of thought that have us tripping over the distinction between gender conduct and sexual orientation. He is vigilant about the matter of maintaining a distinction between the sissy and the homosexual. This long-overdue study will have a very large impact on queer studies, masculinity studies, and African American studies.” -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr, author of * Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-humanist Critique *“Sissy Insurgencies is a model of careful historical and literary analysis from a scholar who has made an indelible mark on masculinity studies, black studies, and queer of color critique. Ambitious and far reaching in scope, this book is a stunning work of sissy insurgent genius.” -- C. Riley Snorton, author of * Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity *"Including considerations of and references to works by Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, among others, Sissy Insurgencies is as much a provocative literary study of African-American fiction and autobiography as it is an examination of the role of the sissy in Black and mainstream American culture." -- Reginald Harris * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsPreamble. Sissies Everywhere ix 1. Can the Sissy Be Insurgent? 1 2. Sissy Housekeeping: Cleanliness, Gender Dissonance, and the Spoils of Political Patronage at Washington's Tuskegee 51 3. Un/fit Manliness: Evading Masculine Brutality in James Weldon Johnson's Sissy Narratives 111 4. Baldwin's Sissy Heroics 165 5. Sissy but Not Gay: Anatomy of the Post-Civil Rights Straight Black Sissy 233 6. Gay but Not Sissy: Race and the Queering of the Professional Athlete 283 Postscript. Whatever Happened or Will Happen to the Sissy-Boy? 343 Notes 349 Bibliography 403 Index 433
£89.10
Duke University Press Bad Education
Book SynopsisLong awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman’s Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity—a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structuring negativity, preventing that order from achieving coherence. But when certain types of persons get read as literalizing queerness, the negation of their negativity can seem to resolve the social antagonism and totalize community. By translating the nothing of queerness into the something of “the queer,” the order of meaning defends against the senselessness that undoes it, thus mirroring, Edelman argues, education’s response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to Lacan’s “ab-sens” Trade Review"This intervention is provocative in its paradoxes. . . . Bad Education thus poses a stunning criticism of all that ‘is’ by commanding a radical (re)turn to a deeply radical Lacan." -- Dylan Lackey * Invisible Culture *"Bad Education expands on Edelman’s widely influential claims in No Future, clarifying his framework and answering his critics. . . . Edelman doubles down on abstraction while engaging deeply with the work of recent Afro-pessimist critics. Refusing the charge that by pitching his argument at the level of structure rather than social reality he has disregarded race, Edelman instead argues that Blackness, like queerness, should be apprehended primarily as structure." -- Heather Love * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Nothing Ventured: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and Afropessimism 1 1. Learning Nothing: Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education 45 2. Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That’s Out of Joint 93 3. Funny/Peculiar/Queer: Michael Haneke’s Aesthetic Education 123 4. There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: Harriet Jacobs’s Negativity 162 Coda: Nothing Gained: Irony, Incest, Indiscernibility 207 Notes 261 Bibliography 317 Index 333
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Duke University Press Feels Right
Book SynopsisIn Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings are good business. But feeling good is elusive for black queer women whose nightlives are undercut by white people, heterosexuality, neoliberal capitalism, burnout, and other buzzkills. Adeyemi documents how black queer women respond to these conditions: how they destroy DJ booths, argue with one another, dance slowly, and stop partying altogether. Their practices complicate our expectations that life at night, on the queer dance floor, or among black queer community simply feels good. Adeyemi’s framework of “feeling right” instead offers a closer, kinesthetic look at how black queer women adroitly manage feeling itself as a complex right they should be afforded in cities that violently structure their movementsTrade Review“Adeyemi’s rich ethnographic observations on Black queer women’s parties in Chicago demonstrate why the dance floor is much more than just a utopian promise of happiness within a hostile socio-political environment. . . . Through dancing and choreography, queerness is not only performed but also learned and experienced by people who may not have encountered it before.” -- Yener Bayramoglu * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"What is innovative about Adeyemi’s text ... is that she carves out a scholarly field that reflects her interest in queer nightlife in the most expansive definition of the phrase. ... Feels Right is a political project that aims to drive many Black queer women to return to nightlife even if their pleasure is contested on the dance floor and in the city." -- Marietta Kosma * European Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Slo ‘Mo and the Pace of Black Queer Life 39 2. Where’s the Joy in Accountability? Black Joy at Its Limits 62 3. Ordinary E N E R G Y 96 Conclusion: An Oral History of the Future of Burnout 120 Notes 143 Bibliography 159 Index 171
£71.10
Duke University Press Kids on the Street
Book SynopsisJoseph Plaster focuses on San Francisco's Tenderloin to explore the informal networks of economic and social support that enabled young people marginalized by gender and sexuality to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States.Trade Review"Kids on the Street is an admirable, thoroughly researched, and carefully documented history of the once vibrant queer culture of the Tenderloin and Polk Street. Featuring scores of interviews with one-time Polk Street denizens, it is also a lament for the displacement of the multiracial, multigender culture of San Francisco’s first post-Stonewall queer district. Drawing attention to that once-thriving, often overlooked culture, the book is a valuable contribution to queer history." -- Hank Trout * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. A Performance Genealogy of US Tenderloins 33 2. Street Churches 69 3. Urban Reformers and Vanguard’s Mutual Aid 108 Intervention 1. Vanguard Revisited 155 4. The Urban Cowboy and the Irish Immigrant 174 5. Polk Street’s Moral Economies 220 Intervention 2. Polk Street Stories 258 Conclusion 276 List of Abbreviations 291 Notes 293 Bibliography 329 Index 345
£73.95
Duke University Press Sexuality and the Rise of China
Book SynopsisTravis S. K. Kong analyzes the changing conditions and meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.Trade Review“Challenging the teleological trajectory of the sexual emancipation model through sociological analysis and compelling storytelling, Sexuality and the Rise of China argues that assessments of social openness cannot reveal the full complexities of inter-Asian constructions of queer lives. Travis S. K. Kong is particularly insightful in demonstrating how the intertwining of the state, politics, and sexuality leads to some unexpected findings about the acceptance or repression of gay rights.” -- Lisa Rofel, author of * Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture *"The combination of ethnographic detail and nuanced analysis make Sexuality and the Rise of China a fascinating, compelling and highly readable account of the social shaping of tongzhi lives." -- Stevi Jackson * Asian Anthropology *"The transnational queer sociology approach used in this study has resulted in a detailed and revealing account of how the post-90s gay generation in Greater China are negotiating their lives, relationships, and identities under the sway of rapid socio-economic and political change. In addition, the study offers a set of innovative and instructive theoretical and methodological ways forward, ones that are locally or regionally sensitive, to research the sociopolitical dimensions of sexuality beyond dominant Western paradigms and sensibilities. Thus, for anyone with research interests in sexuality issues in Greater China and other Asian regions, Kong’s book will become foundational reading. Finally, and in the spirit of transdisciplinarity, the book will provide those of us who are working on queer issues from other backgrounds (for example, in language/discourse studies, anthropology, education studies, or social work) much inspiration." -- Benedict J.L. Rowlett * Journal of Homosexuality *"For anyone working on sexual cultures in East Asia and beyond, this book is essential reading. Its readability and clarity, and profoundly personal style of writing, without compromising on theoretical depth, also make it highly recommended for teaching purposes." -- Jeroen de Kloet * China Information *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Note on Romanization xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Queering Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China 26 2. Coming Out as Relational Politics 62 3. Tongzhi Commons, Community, and Collectivity 86 4. Love and Sex as Cruel Optimism 108 5. Homosexuality, Homonationalism, and Homonormativity 130 Conclusion 155 Glossary 173 Notes 175 Works Cited 193 Index 223
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Duke University Press Sissy Insurgencies
Book SynopsisMarlon B. Ross explores the figure of the sissy as central to how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated black masculinity from the 1880s to the present.Trade Review“In this remarkable work of African American intellectual history, Marlon B. Ross refuses to allow the sloppy modes of thought that have us tripping over the distinction between gender conduct and sexual orientation. He is vigilant about the matter of maintaining a distinction between the sissy and the homosexual. This long-overdue study will have a very large impact on queer studies, masculinity studies, and African American studies.” -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr, author of * Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-humanist Critique *“Sissy Insurgencies is a model of careful historical and literary analysis from a scholar who has made an indelible mark on masculinity studies, black studies, and queer of color critique. Ambitious and far reaching in scope, this book is a stunning work of sissy insurgent genius.” -- C. Riley Snorton, author of * Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity *"Including considerations of and references to works by Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, among others, Sissy Insurgencies is as much a provocative literary study of African-American fiction and autobiography as it is an examination of the role of the sissy in Black and mainstream American culture." -- Reginald Harris * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsPreamble. Sissies Everywhere ix 1. Can the Sissy Be Insurgent? 1 2. Sissy Housekeeping: Cleanliness, Gender Dissonance, and the Spoils of Political Patronage at Washington's Tuskegee 51 3. Un/fit Manliness: Evading Masculine Brutality in James Weldon Johnson's Sissy Narratives 111 4. Baldwin's Sissy Heroics 165 5. Sissy but Not Gay: Anatomy of the Post-Civil Rights Straight Black Sissy 233 6. Gay but Not Sissy: Race and the Queering of the Professional Athlete 283 Postscript. Whatever Happened or Will Happen to the Sissy-Boy? 343 Notes 349 Bibliography 403 Index 433
£23.39
Duke University Press Feels Right
Book SynopsisIn Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings are good business. But feeling good is elusive for black queer women whose nightlives are undercut by white people, heterosexuality, neoliberal capitalism, burnout, and other buzzkills. Adeyemi documents how black queer women respond to these conditions: how they destroy DJ booths, argue with one another, dance slowly, and stop partying altogether. Their practices complicate our expectations that life at night, on the queer dance floor, or among black queer community simply feels good. Adeyemi’s framework of “feeling right” instead offers a closer, kinesthetic look at how black queer women adroitly manage feeling itself as a complex right they should be afforded in cities that violently structure their movementsTrade Review“Adeyemi’s rich ethnographic observations on Black queer women’s parties in Chicago demonstrate why the dance floor is much more than just a utopian promise of happiness within a hostile socio-political environment. . . . Through dancing and choreography, queerness is not only performed but also learned and experienced by people who may not have encountered it before.” -- Yener Bayramoglu * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"What is innovative about Adeyemi’s text ... is that she carves out a scholarly field that reflects her interest in queer nightlife in the most expansive definition of the phrase. ... Feels Right is a political project that aims to drive many Black queer women to return to nightlife even if their pleasure is contested on the dance floor and in the city." -- Marietta Kosma * European Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Slo ‘Mo and the Pace of Black Queer Life 39 2. Where’s the Joy in Accountability? Black Joy at Its Limits 62 3. Ordinary E N E R G Y 96 Conclusion: An Oral History of the Future of Burnout 120 Notes 143 Bibliography 159 Index 171
£17.99
Duke University Press Kids on the Street
Book SynopsisJoseph Plaster focuses on San Francisco's Tenderloin to explore the informal networks of economic and social support that enabled young people marginalized by gender and sexuality to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States.Trade Review"Kids on the Street is an admirable, thoroughly researched, and carefully documented history of the once vibrant queer culture of the Tenderloin and Polk Street. Featuring scores of interviews with one-time Polk Street denizens, it is also a lament for the displacement of the multiracial, multigender culture of San Francisco’s first post-Stonewall queer district. Drawing attention to that once-thriving, often overlooked culture, the book is a valuable contribution to queer history." -- Hank Trout * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. A Performance Genealogy of US Tenderloins 33 2. Street Churches 69 3. Urban Reformers and Vanguard’s Mutual Aid 108 Intervention 1. Vanguard Revisited 155 4. The Urban Cowboy and the Irish Immigrant 174 5. Polk Street’s Moral Economies 220 Intervention 2. Polk Street Stories 258 Conclusion 276 List of Abbreviations 291 Notes 293 Bibliography 329 Index 345
£20.69
Duke University Press A Part of the Heart Cant Be Eaten
Book SynopsisIn A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten, award-winning author, sex educator, speaker, and podcast host Tristan Taormino shares her coming-of-age story in which she reveals how the roots of her radical sexuality and career grew out of an extraordinary queer father-daughter relationship.Trade Review“How fortunate we are to have such a passionate and skillful writer who has chosen to share with us her many wonderful and varied romantic relationships and sexual encounters, and the wisdom she’s accrued in the process. This is such a fun read!” -- Kate Bornstein, author of * Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us *“Tristan Taormino’s memoir is unabashedly, in-your-face, all-caps QUEER in the best way humanly possible. A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten is honest, vulnerable, wise, and at parts, heartbreaking. But there is strength amidst the heartbreak, and Taormino’s message of queer acceptance and living without shame always shines through.” -- Zachary Zane, author of * Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto *“A stunningly beautiful memoir spilling the tea on coming-of-age queerness, pathos, and the pleasure of the century’s end. It’s my perfect time capsule and this is the perfect book.” -- Margaret Cho"With personal images, sincere prose, and powerfully intimate excerpts from her father’s unpublished memoir, Taormino’s text very much orbits around her relationship with her father. The woman emerging from the grief has become a powerful, inspirational, unapologetic sex educator and creative dynamo. A passionate memoir packed with emotional punch and enlightening glimpses of personal liberation." * Kirkus Reviews *"Taormino offers both a stirring tribute to her father and a moving acknowledgement that she 'came of age in a time of more visibility and acceptance than he could have imagined.' . . . Open-minded readers will love this no-holds-barred portrait of family ties and personal liberation." * Publishers Weekly *"A Part Of The Heart Can’t Be Eaten is an entertaining and important historical document and what makes Taormino’s story especially interesting is that she hails from the days before the internet took over. Her heyday was the 1990s, a time when sexual exploration could still be underground, so it had time to mature." -- Stephanie Theobald * Daily Beast *"A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten is a captivating romp through Taormino’s life. . . . This striking portrait of a bold, self-identified femme dyke is intimate, wise, and uncompromising. Taormino offers a kinky sex scene for every emotional gut-punch, sealing her place as a crucial voice in sex and a sharp narrator of both personal and political queer history." -- Ro White * them *"With candor and clarity, Taormino writes about the journey to becoming a culture-shaping writer and thinker, sparing seemingly few details regarding sexual experiences that defined her, her days at Wesleyan, her femme identity, and her early work. It is often bluntly funny ('Writing and anal sex were my passions'), as well as highly sensitive, particularly in Taormino’s recounting of her experiences with depression, with which she was diagnosed in 1993, and her relationship with her gay father." -- Rich Juzwiak * Jezebel *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Conceived 1 Mrs. C’s 12 Artichoke Hearts 15 First Time 22 The Bunk House 28 Buttercake 31 Sex Ed 38 The Beach House 45 Foxglove 52 P-town 57 The Priest’s Brother 64 Mr. Meltme 69 Time in a Bottle 79 The Shower 83 Slutty 88 No Place Like Home 93 My Closet Has No Door 103 Queer Nation 108 Femme Is My Gender 115 Bombshell 122 Riley 129 Change of Plans 132 Daddy’s Girl 142 Sailor’s Berth 146 The Lesbians Upstairs 153 The Price of Our Redemption 162 Unity 172 Reggie Love 178 Paris 184 Scrambled Eggs with Bette Midler 193 The Wolf 199 Poppie 204 Fallout 207 A Night Like This 215 Pucker Up 219 Anal Sex Made Me 223 Adventure Girl 228 My Gay Boyfriend 234 Heart/Throb 239 Turn Me On 246 Buttman Is on the Phone 250 The Learning Curve 256 Feminist Gang Bang 264 Epilogue: My Father’s Eyes 271
£22.79
Duke University Press Unseen Flesh
Book SynopsisNessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice within hostile gynecological spaces.Trade Review“An original and necessary work, Unseen Flesh opens an important critical window on well-being and gynecological health in Brazil, which are colored and conditioned by race/color, class, and sexual identity. Nessette Falu’s focus on Black Brazilian lesbians is historic and significant in itself—the result of her long-term, invested, and loving encounters with people who had been silenced.” -- Jafari S. Allen, author of * There’s a Disco Ball between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bearing Witness to Unseen Flesh 1 1. The Virgin Who Lives within Her Erotic Worth 21 2. Unseen Flesh: Gynecological Trauma, Emotional Power, and Intimate Sociomedical Violence 51 Interlude One: Angela 77 3. The Social Clinic: Mapping the Social and Colonial World of Gynecology 79 Interlude Two: It Doesn’t Matter 111 4. Are We Ethical Subjects? Seeing Ourselves in Shapeshifting Ethics 113 5. Bem-Estar Negra: Lésbicas Negras’ Beautiful Experiments of Worth 141 Notes 169 References 179 Index 195
£70.55
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Duke University Press The Bars Are Ours
Book SynopsisGay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States for the better part of a century, from before gay liberation until after their assumed obsolescence. In The Bars Are Ours Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars, showing how they served as the medium for queer communities, politics, and cultures. Hilderbrand cruises from leather in Chicago and drag in Kansas City to activism against gentrification in Boston and racial discrimination in Atlanta; from New York City's bathhouses, sex clubs, and discos and Houston's legendary bar Mary's to the alternative scenes that reimagined queer nightlife in San Francisco and Latinx venues in Los Angeles. The Bars Are Ours explores these local sites (with additional stops in Denver, Detroit, Seattle, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Orlando as well as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Texas) to demonstrate the intoxicating---even world-making---roles that bars have played in queer public life across the country.Trade Review"[A] sprawling, playful and rigorous account of the clubs and bars that served as petri dishes for American gay identity. . . . The Bars Are Ours illuminates a rocky path to this great gay present." -- Hari Nef * New York Times Book Review *“The Bars Are Ours is a joy to read. Lucas Hilderbrand is able to insert himself into his narrative in ways that make it come alive and, at the same time, steps back and analyzes. The stories are so compelling! Some made me laugh, some left me teary-eyed, and some offered eye-opening insights into a history that is shamefully undertold and underappreciated.” -- John D’Emilio, author of * Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties *“Lucas Hilderbrand’s The Bars Are Ours is a true tour de force. It is a comprehensive historical study of gay bars in the United States that is at once exhaustively researched and beautifully precise. Hilderbrand demonstrates a true respect for this history and tells it in a vital new way. Clearly and elegantly written, this is a nuanced, conceptual, and moving work.” -- Christina B. Hanhardt, author of * Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence *"In his historical opus, Hilderbrand makes a comprehensive study of the history of gay bars in America from 1960 to the present day." -- Gary Day * Booklist *"Hildebrand’s writing is transportive, which bolsters his impressive research. . . . A powerful celebration and examination of LGBTQIA+ nightlife. This book will serve as a significant record of evolving cultural touchstones and queer communities across the country." (Starred Review, A Best Book of 2023) -- Kate Bellody * Library Journal *"A fascinating archival deep dive. . . . Chock-full of excerpts from local gay press rags, recent oral histories, and a treasure trove of old fliers and ads that are as sexy as they are clever and funny, the book shows how the bars reflected the queer communities they attracted—in their irreverence, activism, and spirit of warmth and safety, as well as (sometimes) their overt or implicit discrimination and bias against patrons who did not fit a certain cisgender, gay white male ideal." -- Tim Murphy * The Body *"I have a soft spot for gay bars, which are dwindling fast for some good reasons and also for some difficult ones, and Lucas Hilderbrand’s book The Bars Are Ours tickled the sweet spot in my nostalgia, while also being pretty clear about the ways that gay bars have historically been complicated—racist, gender-policing and often unwelcoming to people who are considered too old, insufficiently fancy or not commercially attractive. Hilderbrand, a professor of media studies, is my favourite kind of smartypants—he knows an absolute ton and still manages to write interesting, vibrant prose with some of the sparkle still on it, not weighted down with jargon and internal politicking of the discipline." -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra! *"A stunning new work of research. . . . One thing that stands out about the book is how howlingly funny some of the passages are, and this makes what could otherwise be a dry academic text both enchanting and engaging. . . . This is ultimately an uplifting and hopeful book. . . . The book leaves the reader feeling that the era of gay bars is not over and they will evolve to meet the needs of our diverse communities in the future." -- Michael Flanagan * Bay Area Reporter *"A history by means of a series of in-depth case studies—a bar crawl, if you will, from the Gold Coast leather bar in Chicago to the drag queens of the Jewel Box in Kansas City to the Latinx cowboys of Club Tempo in Los Angeles. . . . It’s also a crawl into the different aspect of gay culture. We get lengthy histories of leather culture, the role of gay bars in gentrification, and of the racism that often led to them becoming segregated spaces." -- Kevin Brazil * The Baffler *"An essential addition to the growing but still woefully incomplete published histories of gay bars. . . . The precious worth, though, of The Bars Are Ours comes from Hilderbrand’s dedication to being a 'rigorous queen' in his research, digging up delicious tidbits and remembrances from gay bars’ elusive histories that even those of us obsessed with gay bars never heard, read, or knew before." -- Emily Colucci * Filthy Dreams *Table of ContentsPreface. Drunk History, or I Just Wanna Hear a Good Beat xiii Acknowledgments. I Feel Love/Can’t Get You Out of My Head xxi Introduction. We Were Never Being Boring 1 Part I. Cultures 1. Nights in Black Leather: Inventing a Bar Culture in Chicago 37 Interlude 1. Triangle Lounge in Denver 62 2. Show Me Love: Female Impersonation and Drag in Kansas City 68 Interlude 2. Safe Spaces in Detroit 94 Part II. Politics 3. Somewhere There’s a Place for Us: Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Class Conflicts in Boston 101 Interlude 3. Seattle Counseling Service 124 4. Midtown Goddam: Discrimination, Coalition, and Community in Atlanta 127 Interlude 4. Gay Switchboard in Philadelphia 151 Part III. Institutions 5. Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Legends of Sex and Dancing in New York 157 Interlude 5. The Saloon in Minneapolis 192 6. Proud Mary’s: An Institution in Houston 198 Interlude 6. The Main Club in Superior, WI 220 Part IV. Reinventions 7. Further Tales of the City: Queer Parties in Post-disco San Francisco 227 Interlude 7. The Casa Nova in Somerset County, PA 255 8. Donde Todo es Diferente: Queer Latinx Nightlife in Los Angeles / Researched and Written with Dan Bustillo 260 Interlude 8. Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair in Denton, TX 289 Epilogue. After Hours: Pulse in Orlando 294 Appendix 1. Selected Bars and Clubs 303 Appendix 2. LGBTQ+ Periodicals 313 Notes 317 Bibliography 395 Index 425
£23.39
Duke University Press Unseen Flesh
Book SynopsisNessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice within hostile gynecological spaces.Trade Review“An original and necessary work, Unseen Flesh opens an important critical window on well-being and gynecological health in Brazil, which are colored and conditioned by race/color, class, and sexual identity. Nessette Falu’s focus on Black Brazilian lesbians is historic and significant in itself—the result of her long-term, invested, and loving encounters with people who had been silenced.” -- Jafari S. Allen, author of * There’s a Disco Ball between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bearing Witness to Unseen Flesh 1 1. The Virgin Who Lives within Her Erotic Worth 21 2. Unseen Flesh: Gynecological Trauma, Emotional Power, and Intimate Sociomedical Violence 51 Interlude One: Angela 77 3. The Social Clinic: Mapping the Social and Colonial World of Gynecology 79 Interlude Two: It Doesn’t Matter 111 4. Are We Ethical Subjects? Seeing Ourselves in Shapeshifting Ethics 113 5. Bem-Estar Negra: Lésbicas Negras’ Beautiful Experiments of Worth 141 Notes 169 References 179 Index 195
£18.99
