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University of Hertfordshire Press Prostitution in Victorian Colchester: Controlling
Book SynopsisThe decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest in the country and the town experienced an economic upturn as well as benefiting from the many social events organised by officers. But there was a downside: some of the soldiers' behaviour was highly disruptive and, since very few private soldiers were allowed to marry, prostitution flourished. As a result the number of cases of venereal disease soared. Having compiled a database of nearly 350 of Colchester's nineteenth-century prostitutes, the authors examine how they lived and operated and who their customers were. What were the routes into and out of prostitution and what was life like as a prostitute? Was it even seen by some as an acceptable way for girls and young women to boost inadequate earnings from more respectable work? How did prostitution intersect with the social life of the town, especially as this was played out in local beerhouses? This is also an investigation of how authority in its many guises - from policeman and solicitor to magistrate and lady reformer - dealt with prostitution and the many problems associated with it, bringing a great many vested interests into conflict with each other. Such large numbers of women could not be tidied away into a discreet red-light district but lived and worked all over the town. They gave the police considerable trouble, but it was routinely declared that nothing could be done about them. Prostitution itself was not illegal whilst efforts to tackle the women's criminal activity, such as soliciting, theft or assault, were largely ineffective. Under pressure from the army, Parliament passed the Contagious Diseases Acts, allowing prostitutes affected with venereal symptoms in garrison towns to be confined for treatment, but there was widespread opposition to these controversial laws. Bringing to bear considerations of class and gender, urban development, health and welfare, religion and moral reform, this is a wide-ranging, detailed and original study. As well as providing a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century Colchester, it will appeal to all those interested in the history of women's work, policing and society more widely.Table of Contents1. Colchester's Victorian Garrison 2. The Life of the Prostitute, Cradle to Grave 3. Hannah Murrells and Thomas Platford 4. Men who Encouraged Prostitution 5. The Lifeboat and the Anchor 6. The Contagious Diseases Acts and the Lock Hospital 7. Policing Prostitution 8. The Role of Colchester's Solicitors 9. Adjudicating Prostitution 10. The Ship at Headgate 11. Reformers and Neighbours
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Frommann-Holzboog Queer(es) Denken in Der Psychoanalyse: Eine
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The University of Chicago Press Sexual Fields
Book SynopsisCoupling field theory with the ethnographic and theoretical expertise of some of the most important scholars of sexual life at work today, this book offers a game-changing approach that can revolutionize how sociologists will analyze and make sense of contemporary sexual life for years to come.Trade Review"In Adam Isaiah Green's introductory chapter, he lays out the evolution of his sexual fields formulation. This alone is worth the price of the book. But this volume also includes seven chapters written by real movers and shakers in the field of sexuality, each making interesting, substantive contributions. Sexual Fields is certainly a book that every scholar of sexuality should own, and I would not be surprised if this were to become one of the most cited volumes in the field of sexuality." (Verta Taylor, coauthor of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret)"
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The University of Chicago Press The New Politics of Pornography
Book SynopsisFresh empirical evidence of pornography's negative effects and the resurgence of feminist and conservative critiques have caused local, state, and federal officials to reassess the pornography issue. In The New Politics of Pornography, Donald Alexander Downs explores the contemporary antipornography movement and addresses difficult questions about the limits of free speech. Drawing on official transcripts and extensive interviews, Downs recreates and analyzes landmark cases in Minneapolis and Indianapolis. He argues persuasively that both conservative and liberal camps are often characterized by extreme intolerance which hampers open policy debate and may ultimately threaten our modern doctrine of free speech. Downs concludes with a balanced and nuanced discussion of what First Amendment protections pornography should be afforded. This provocative and interdisciplinary work will interest students of political science, women's studies, civil liberties, and constitutional law.
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University of Chicago Press Fuckology
Book SynopsisOne of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists, John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. This book focuses on his three key diagnostic concepts, "hermaphroditism," "transsexualism," and "paraphilia".Trade Review"We see here critical sexuality studies confronting the work of the most influential of modern sexologists, John Money. The point is not to dismiss sexology - that has been done too often and too quickly in queer studies - but to engage with it in a sustained, scholarly manner. Downing, Morland, and Sullivan do that admirably, identifying the casual contradictions and unpacking the constitutive tensions in Money's thinking." (Peter Cryle University of Queensland) "John Money's influential and controversial career has never received the careful, critical, and nuanced attention it deserves - until now. Coauthors Downing, Morland, and Sullivan bring three very different forms of expertise to bear on Money's work and its legacy, in a study that should be of interest to scholars of medicine and sexuality alike." (Susan Stryker University of Arizona) "One of the most prominent and prolific sexologists of the second half of the twentieth century, John Money coined the term "gender" and pioneered the use of surgical procedures to treat intersex and transgender subjects. In this timely and important critical reassessment of Money's work, Downing, Morland, and Sullivan lay bare the inconsistencies and assumptions embedded in his conceptualisation of sex. The title of the book derives from Money's own term for his particular brand of sexology while also, as the authors astutely point out, providing the critical tools with which to fuck with sexology itself." (Elizabeth Stephens University of Queensland) "This book makes a unique and exciting contribution to the field, examining in detail Money's work on the concepts of 'hermaphroditism', 'transsexualism', and 'paraphilia.' It is a well-founded critique that goes to the heart of sexological research methodology and its underpinning assumptions. This work is queer, critical, historically astute, and politically engaged - offering an analysis that many of us have been looking forward to, and that will certainly contribute to our work." (Katrina Roen University of Oslo)
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The University of Chicago Press Documenting Intimate Matters
Book SynopsisOver time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control and has been at the center of fierce political storms. This title features documents that highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality.Trade Review"The history of sexuality is a continuing endeavor. There is still much that has not yet been written about, and interpretations of key topics will inevitably change over time. Studying these documents and reading some of the historical literature can put you on the road to contributing to this exciting and intriguing intellectual endeavor." (John D'Emilio, from the Introduction)"
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The University of Chicago Press Documenting Intimate Matters Primary Sources for
Book SynopsisOver time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control and has been at the center of fierce political storms. This title features documents that highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality.Trade Review"The history of sexuality is a continuing endeavor. There is still much that has not yet been written about, and interpretations of key topics will inevitably change over time. Studying these documents and reading some of the historical literature can put you on the road to contributing to this exciting and intriguing intellectual endeavor." (John D'Emilio, from the Introduction)"
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The University of Chicago Press Tourist Attractions
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The University of Chicago Press Uneasy Virtue The Politics of Prostitution and
Book SynopsisBarbara M. Hobson . . . makes a compelling case for the reform of prostitution policy in . . . Uneasy Virtue. [This volume] demonstrates an effective analytical approach to understanding public policy and its impact on prostitution policy. . . .Uneasy Virtue proves particularly relevant today as right wing groups begin to guide discourse and influence policy around reproductive rights, sexuality and the future of gender equality. As Hobson proposes, the reform of prostitution polciy must be viewed in the broader context of the political and economic struggles to emancipate women and thereby create a more rational society.Samuel Suchowlecky, Commentaries
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The University of Chicago Press Gringo Gulch Sex Tourism and Social Mobility in
Book SynopsisThe story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical inequalities that make Latin American women into suppliers of low-cost sexual labor. But in Gringo Gulch, Megan Rivers-Moore tells a more nuanced story, demonstrating that all the actors intimately entangled in the sex tourism industry sex workers, sex tourists, and the state use it as a strategy for getting ahead. Rivers-Moore situates her ethnography at the intersections of gender, race, class, and national dimensions in the sex industry. Instead of casting sex workers as hapless victims and sex tourists as neoimperialist racists, she reveals each group as involved in a complicated process of class mobility that must be situated within the sale and purchase of leisure and sex. These interactions operate within an almost entirely unregulated bu
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The University of Chicago Press Gringo Gulch Sex Tourism and Social Mobility in
Book SynopsisThe story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical inequalities that make Latin American women into suppliers of low-cost sexual labor. But in Gringo Gulch, Megan Rivers-Moore tells a more nuanced story, demonstrating that all the actors intimately entangled in the sex tourism industry sex workers, sex tourists, and the state use it as a strategy for getting ahead. Rivers-Moore situates her ethnography at the intersections of gender, race, class, and national dimensions in the sex industry. Instead of casting sex workers as hapless victims and sex tourists as neoimperialist racists, she reveals each group as involved in a complicated process of class mobility that must be situated within the sale and purchase of leisure and sex. These interactions operate within an almost entirely unregulated bu
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The University of Chicago Press Criminal Intimacy Prison and the Uneven History
Book SynopsisExplores the sexual lives of prisoners and the sexual culture of prisons over the years, along with the impact of various issues, including race, class, and gender, sexual violence, prisoners' rights activism, and the HIV epidemic. This title argues for the importance of the prison to the history of sexuality.Trade Review"Criminal Intimacy is simply the best book on the history of sexuality that I've read in some time." - David Halperin"
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The University of Chicago Press Criminal Intimacy
Book SynopsisExplores the sexual lives of prisoners and the sexual culture of prisons over the years, along with the impact of various issues, including race, class, and gender, sexual violence, prisoners' rights activism, and the HIV epidemic. This title argues for the importance of the prison to the history of sexuality.Trade Review"Criminal Intimacy is simply the best book on the history of sexuality that I've read in some time." - David Halperin.
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The University of Chicago Press Dominatrix
Book SynopsisDraws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with professional dominatrices in New York City and San Francisco to offer a portrait of these unusual specialists, their work, and their clients. This work presents an analysis of how gender, power, sexuality, and hierarchy shape all of our social experiences.Trade Review"In the tradition of the great occupational ethnographies, Danielle J. Lindemann takes us into professional dominatrices' worlds and shows us, with graceful and consistently engaging prose, how the women she studied build careers, negotiate with clients, and develop accounts that make sense of their work and of the relationships it entails. Dominatrix has much to teach us about gender and sexuality." (Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University)"
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The University of Chicago Press West of Sex
Book SynopsisSex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. The author uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide a coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century.Trade Review"This is a fascinating book, with vivid examples and accessible writing. Pablo Mitchell reveals the shifting and contested ground of sex and romance on the US-Mexico border in a cutting-edge analysis that links nascent sexual identities with the political economy of gender, nation, and racial formations." (Sarah Deutsch, Duke University)"
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The University of Chicago Press West of Sex Making Mexican America 19001930
Book SynopsisSex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. The author uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide a coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century.Trade Review"This is a fascinating book, with vivid examples and accessible writing. Pablo Mitchell reveals the shifting and contested ground of sex and romance on the US-Mexico border in a cutting-edge analysis that links nascent sexual identities with the political economy of gender, nation, and racial formations." (Sarah Deutsch, Duke University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Reproduction by Design
Book SynopsisDrawing on novels, plays, and films of the 1920s and '30s, as well as the work of biologists, psychiatrists, and sexologists, this title brings together the experience and perception of modernity with sexuality, technology, and ecological concerns into a cogent discussion of science's place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.Trade Review"I know of no other work on interwar Britain, or even twentieth-century Britain, that brings together modernity, sexuality, technology, and the environment in quite this way. The result is extremely compelling and successful. It is certain to attract a great deal of interest from both scholars and a wider audience." (Stephen Brooke, York University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Brokered Subjects
Book SynopsisAn analysis of sex trafficking that shows that the public concern for it tends to ignore the actual sex workers involved and instead focus on purportedly humanitarian interventions that mesh comfortably with the modern capitalist and judicial state.
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The University of Chicago Press Brokered Subjects Sex Trafficking and the
Book SynopsisAn analysis of sex trafficking that shows that the public concern for it tends to ignore the actual sex workers involved and instead focus on purportedly humanitarian interventions that mesh comfortably with the modern capitalist and judicial state.
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The University of Chicago Press The Making of Romantic Love
Book SynopsisIn the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. This book illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent - or innocent enough.Trade Review"Let the debates begin! Drawing on an astonishing panoply of sources, from European courtly and troubadour literature to Heian Japanese poetry, from canon law to Puri temple dancing, William M. Reddy's important new book challenges our basic assumptions about eroticism, heroism, the nature of marriages, and the legacy of the Middle Ages in modern culture. Reading this impressive study will leave you a different person." (Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago)"
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The University of Chicago Press Not Under My Roof Parents Teens and the Culture
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with parents and teens, this title offers an intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in the United States and the Netherlands negotiate love, lust, and growing up. It provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption and parent-teen relationships.Trade Review"With grace and style, Amy Schalet presents a forceful and convincing argument about the divergent cultural approaches to sexuality, socialization of adolescents, and conceptions of citizenship in the United States and the Netherlands, probing deep-seated value differences that play out in the management of sex. Nuanced, well documented, and remarkably persuasive, Not Under My Roof is an exemplary study." (Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania)"
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The University of Chicago Press Sex France and Arab Men 19621979
Book SynopsisThe aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked.?Sex, France, and Arab Men is a history of how and whyfrom the upheavals of French Algeria in 1962 through the 1970shighly sexualized claims about Arabs were omnipresent in important public French discussions, both those that dealt with sex and those that spoke of Arabs. Shepard explores how the so-called sexual revolution took shape in a France profoundly influenced by the ongoing effects of the Algerian revolution. Shepard's analysis of both events alongside one another provides a frame that renders visible the ways that the fight for sexual liberation, usually explained as an American and European invention, developed out of the worldwide anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century.Trade Review“A timely history of violence, fear, and prejudice in France since 1962. The figure of the North African Arab, as Todd Shepard deftly shows, is still present in French culture, although what was arguably at first a conflict of nationalisms is nowadays articulated as a fight against terrorism and Muslim extremism. A complex and thorough picture emerges.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Shepard’s study, with its emphasis on daring ideas about sex and revolution half a century ago, is rich with implications for the present.” * London Review of Books *“Shepard’s book is an achievement. His methodological insistence on holding decolonization and the Sexual Revolution together within the same frame of analysis yields new and substantial insights in both of these fields. Shepard is utterly convincing: we cannot understand how the global patterns of the Sexual Revolution impacted France without understanding France’s post-decolonization context. The breadth and depth of Shepard’s archival work, too, is striking. Numerous films, plays, television documentaries, works of scholarship and theory, major and minor right-wing journals, Maghrebi writers, underground magazines and posters, police files: the reader has the dizzying impression that Shepard has located and perceptively analyzed every relevant instance of ‘sex talk’ in these years.” * Politics, Religion & Ideology *“Original and provocative in the best sense. This well-written book is often creative in combining two major themes of the long sixties: multiculturalism and the sexual revolution.” * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“By putting Maghrebi-French men and women at the center of the story, the book casts new light on the 1962–79 period, which has been relatively under-appreciated by scholars of postcolonial France… The book also makes an original contribution to the historiography of the sexual revolution in France, and to the study of sex, gender, and sexuality more broadly.” * International Journal of Middle East Studies *“Shepard’s Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979 is particularly exciting because it challenges long-standing assumptions about the relationship between colony and metropole but also about the history of sexuality in France. As Shepard argues, the so-called French sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was intimately tied to the war in Algeria, to decolonization, and to immigration. Shepard’s thorough commitment to critique shines through in his systematic questioning and denaturalization of long-standing assumptions in the fields of postcolonial criticism, French history, queer theory, and sexuality studies. This book’s theoretical ambitions, its interdisciplinary focus, and its elegance will make this a must-read in all of these fields.” * Camille Robcis, Cornell University *“Shepard’s book offers a radical and radically new account of the intimately entwined histories of the Algerian and Sexual Revolutions in France. Historians frequently view the two decades following the ‘war without a name’ as a period in which French memory of the brutal conflict was occulted, if not completely forgotten. In this deeply researched and convincingly argued book, Shepard shows instead that figures associated with the war, and especially the ‘Arab man’ as both social fact and rhetorical trope, were culturally and politically omnipresent—in literature, journalism, and film, as well as governmental, police, and academic discourse and policy. Indeed, by combining insights of feminist, queer, critical race, and post-colonial theory, this work does not simply offer a new understanding of these pivotal two decades in French and global history. It just as importantly provides critical historical insight into the moment out which so much of that theory emerged.” * Judith Surkis, Rutgers University *"This book is especially recommended for those interested in media criticism of the debates on immigration in Europe and the USA." * Sexuologie (translated from German) *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION / Sex Talk and the Post-Algerian History of France ONE / The Far Right and the Reinvigoration of Sexual Orientalism in Post-Decolonization France TWO / May ’68, “Arab Perversion,” and Anti-Arab Racism THREE / The Algerian Revolution and Arab Men in the Fight for Sexual Revolution FOUR / Homosociality, “Human Contact,” and the Specter of the Arab Man in the Post-’68 French Gay World FIVE / Prostitution and the Arab Man, 1945–1975: Algerian Pimps and the “Takeover” of the “Whores of France” SIX / Prostitution and the Arab Man, 1962–1979: Prostitutes, Arab Clients, and “the Traffic in White Women” SEVEN / Power, Resistance, and Sodomy in Post-Algerian France EIGHT / Rape as Metaphor in the 1970s NINE / Rape as Act in the 1970s CONCLUSION / The Erotics of Algerian Difference, 1979/2016 Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Quest for Sexual Health
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is rich, thought provoking, and timely. Epstein provides an insightful and meticulous analysis that brings together the multiple layers of social, cultural, political, and institutional processes that shape the amorphous and ubiquitous term of sexual health." -- Jennifer Reich, University of Colorado Denver "A major work. The Quest for Sexual Health is likely to change the way we think about the field of sexual health for years to come. This is the kind of critical scholarship that is truly a pleasure to read. I am convinced that it will quickly come to be recognized as the definitive study on the field of 'sexual health.'" -- Richard G. Parker, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: Catching Sexual Health Part One: Making Sexual Health: Invention, Dispersion, and Reassembly Chapter 1: A New Definition and the Backstory: Inventing Sexual Health Chapter 2: Proliferation and Ambiguity: The Buzzwording of Sexual Health Chapter 3: New Projects of Health, Rights, and Pleasure: Recombining Sexual Health Part Two: Operationalizing Sexual Health: Enabling Science, Medicine, and Health Care Chapter 4: Sexuality in the Medical Encounter: Standardizing Sexual Health Chapter 5: Diagnostic Reform and Human Rights in the ICD: Classifying Sexual Health Chapter 6: Surveys and the Quantification of Normality: Enumerating Sexual Health Chapter 7: The New Sexual Health Experts: Evaluating Sexual Health Part Three: Under the Sign of Sexual Health: Beyond the Worlds of Science and Medicine Chapter 8: The Pursuit of Wellness: Optimizing Sexual Health Chapter 9: Social Risks, Rights, and Duties: Governing via Sexual Health Chapter 10: Bridges to the Future: Repoliticizing Sexual Health Conclusion: Whither Sexual Health? Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Touching Encounters
Book SynopsisOften depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. This book addresses how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era of Internet communications.Trade Review"Strongly grounded in debates within sociology, Kevin Walby's work reaches beyond its disciplinary base by drawing on anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, as well as on literary/cultural theory and queer theory. Touching Encounters is very well-researched, well-organized, and well-written - an original and fascinating contribution to the new sociology of sex." (Tim Dean, University at Buffalo, SUNY)"
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Columbia University Press The Politics of Passion
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Columbia University Press Are the Lips a Grave
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is an important and timely intervention into current debates within queer and feminist theory on the respective limits of these scholarly fields. By recuperating a rich sense of 'ethics,' Lynne Huffer argues we must rethink the false boundaries between these two fields to arrive at a more robust understanding of the ethics of sexuality, sexual difference, and gender. -- Shannon Winnubst, Ohio State University Are the Lips a Grave? is unique in its careful presentation of an ethics that does not fall squarely in either the queer camp or the feminist but negotiates significant contributions of both. In this sense, it offers something very important and original to theory debates heated along just these lines. -- Cynthia Willett, author of Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities Against the persistent rumor that feminism and queer theory can never be friends, Lynne Huffer recovers a wide-and at times wild-range of shared political and critical lineages. Provocative, impassioned, and at times deeply personal, Are the Lips a Grave? is the first full-length defense of 'queer feminism.' It is about time! -- Robyn Wiegman, Duke University Finally, a queer feminist reading that will return us to the healthy art of disagreement. Lynne Huffer joins other queer feminists who argue against the queer subject's radical instability and regrounds our theorizing in feminist practices and discourses surrounding the ethical. At one point, she observes, 'Every snapshot is a singular story; at the same time, each story is another story retold.' The stories are (re)told here in often brilliant readings, not the least of which is a thoroughgoing remapping of the place of Lawrence v. Texas in the narrative of queer freedom. As I read this book, I began to unravel some of the most persistent narratives of queerness, reimagining a place for feminist and queer practice along the way. -- Sharon Holland, Duke University Beautifully written and stimulating for the theorist and non-theorist alike...New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Gender StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Claiming a Queer Feminism 1. Are the Lips a Grave? 2. There Is No Gomorrah: Narrative Ethics in Feminist and Queer Theory 3. Foucault's Fist 4. Queer Victory, Feminist Defeat? Sodomy and Rape in Lawrence v. Texas 5. One-Handed Reading 6. Queer Lesbian Silence: Colette Reads Proust 7. What If Hagar and Sarah Were Lovers? 8. After Sex Afterword: Queer Lives in the Balance Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex
Book SynopsisAs awareness of sex trafficking and exploitation have grown, so has the need for improved social work responses. In this volume, expert practitioners, survivors, and researchers model the best practices for working with this population, providing a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of practice with sex trafficking survivors.Trade ReviewNichols’s, Edmond’s, and Heil’s comprehensive text successfully navigates the complex politics of sexual exploitation and gives voice to a diverse array of survivors. The inclusion of individual, program-level, and preventive interventions makes this an essential primer for social workers. -- Andrea Cimino, Johns Hopkins UniversityThis book makes what appears to me to be an important and significant contribution to our knowledge of what services are needed and how they should be provided. The writing is clear, compelling, and easy to follow. -- Dean Duncan III, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillAn invaluable ‘how to’ guide on working with sex trafficking survivors that illuminates the shades of gray within the commercial sex industry. Filled with rich scholarship, this seminal work empowers social service providers to tackle the complexities of sexual exploitation at the practice, program, and policy level. Well done! -- Julie Orme, Howard UniversityThis book is a much needed resource for understanding sex trafficking in its widest meaning, including the various definitions, experiences, perspectives, and populations of sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and sex trade. Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation gives a voice to researchers, practitioners, activists, and survivors. -- Hasmik Chakaryan, Webster UniversityThis book is an important primer for social workers. Compelling. * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *Table of ContentsPrologue, by Andrea J. Nichols and Erin C. HeilPart I: Practice Techniques1. Survivors: A Diverse Community with a Common Body of Knowledge, by Melanie Weaver2. Identification, Assessment, and Outreach, by Rebecca J. Macy3. Safety Planning With Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Amber Sutton and Abby Howard 4. Change is a Process: Using the Transtheoretical Model with Commercially Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Youth and Adults, by Rachel Lloyd5. Evidence Based Trauma-Treatments for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Tonya Edmond 6. Client Centered Harm Reduction, Commercial Sex, and Trafficking: Implications for Rights Based Social Work Practice, by Kathleen M. Preble7. The Hidden Truth: How Our Policies and Practices Can Both Help and Harm Victims of Human Trafficking, by Lynly S. EgyesPart II: Practice with Specific Populations8. Sex Trafficking Among Immigrant Women in the United States: Exploring Social Work Response within a Landscape of Violence Against Immigrant Women, by Laurie Cook Heffron9. Afrocentric Intergenerational Assessment and Recovery from Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Valandra 10. Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of LGBTQ People: Implications for Practice, by Andrea J. Nichols11. Clinical Practice with Commercially Sexually Exploited Girls with Intellectual Disabilities, by Joan A. Reid, Julia Strauss, and Rachael A. HaskellPart III: Programmatic Design12. The Sanctuary Model and Sex Trafficking: Creating Moral Systems to Counteract Exploitation and Dehumanization, by Sandra Bloom13. How Do We Help? A Clinical and Empirical Review of Challenges to Service Provision For Sexually Exploited Clients, by Lara Gerassi and Abby Howard14. System Failure! Is the Department of Children and Families Facilitating Sex Trafficking of Foster Girls? by Joan A. Reid15. Supporting Sex Trafficking Survivors Through a Collaborative Single-Point-of-Contact Model: Mezzo and Micro Considerations, by Maura Nsonwu, Laurie Cook Heffron, Chiquitia Welch-Brewer, and Noël Bridget Busch-ArmendarizPart IV: Prevention and Outreach16. Preventing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: The My Life My Choice Model, by Lisa Goldblatt Grace, Katherine Bright, and Audrey Morrissey17. Prevention and Outreach to At-Risk Groups, by Andrea J. Nichols18. Challenges to Sensational Imagery Used in the Anti-Trafficking Movement and Implications for Practice, by Lauren Peffley and Andrea J. NicholsConclusion, by Andrea J. NicholsBiographies of Editors and ContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex
Book SynopsisAs awareness of sex trafficking and exploitation have grown, so has the need for improved social work responses. In this volume, expert practitioners, survivors, and researchers model the best practices for working with this population, providing a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of practice with sex trafficking survivors.Trade ReviewNichols’s, Edmond’s, and Heil’s comprehensive text successfully navigates the complex politics of sexual exploitation and gives voice to a diverse array of survivors. The inclusion of individual, program-level, and preventive interventions makes this an essential primer for social workers. -- Andrea Cimino, Johns Hopkins UniversityThis book makes what appears to me to be an important and significant contribution to our knowledge of what services are needed and how they should be provided. The writing is clear, compelling, and easy to follow. -- Dean Duncan III, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillAn invaluable ‘how to’ guide on working with sex trafficking survivors that illuminates the shades of gray within the commercial sex industry. Filled with rich scholarship, this seminal work empowers social service providers to tackle the complexities of sexual exploitation at the practice, program, and policy level. Well done! -- Julie Orme, Howard UniversityThis book is a much needed resource for understanding sex trafficking in its widest meaning, including the various definitions, experiences, perspectives, and populations of sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and sex trade. Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation gives a voice to researchers, practitioners, activists, and survivors. -- Hasmik Chakaryan, Webster UniversityThis book is an important primer for social workers. Compelling. * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *Table of ContentsPrologue, by Andrea J. Nichols and Erin C. HeilPart I: Practice Techniques1. Survivors: A Diverse Community with a Common Body of Knowledge, by Melanie Weaver2. Identification, Assessment, and Outreach, by Rebecca J. Macy3. Safety Planning With Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Amber Sutton and Abby Howard 4. Change is a Process: Using the Transtheoretical Model with Commercially Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Youth and Adults, by Rachel Lloyd5. Evidence Based Trauma-Treatments for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Tonya Edmond 6. Client Centered Harm Reduction, Commercial Sex, and Trafficking: Implications for Rights Based Social Work Practice, by Kathleen M. Preble7. The Hidden Truth: How Our Policies and Practices Can Both Help and Harm Victims of Human Trafficking, by Lynly S. EgyesPart II: Practice with Specific Populations8. Sex Trafficking Among Immigrant Women in the United States: Exploring Social Work Response within a Landscape of Violence Against Immigrant Women, by Laurie Cook Heffron9. Afrocentric Intergenerational Assessment and Recovery from Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Valandra 10. Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of LGBTQ People: Implications for Practice, by Andrea J. Nichols11. Clinical Practice with Commercially Sexually Exploited Girls with Intellectual Disabilities, by Joan A. Reid, Julia Strauss, and Rachael A. HaskellPart III: Programmatic Design12. The Sanctuary Model and Sex Trafficking: Creating Moral Systems to Counteract Exploitation and Dehumanization, by Sandra Bloom13. How Do We Help? A Clinical and Empirical Review of Challenges to Service Provision For Sexually Exploited Clients, by Lara Gerassi and Abby Howard14. System Failure! Is the Department of Children and Families Facilitating Sex Trafficking of Foster Girls? by Joan A. Reid15. Supporting Sex Trafficking Survivors Through a Collaborative Single-Point-of-Contact Model: Mezzo and Micro Considerations, by Maura Nsonwu, Laurie Cook Heffron, Chiquitia Welch-Brewer, and Noël Bridget Busch-ArmendarizPart IV: Prevention and Outreach16. Preventing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: The My Life My Choice Model, by Lisa Goldblatt Grace, Katherine Bright, and Audrey Morrissey17. Prevention and Outreach to At-Risk Groups, by Andrea J. Nichols18. Challenges to Sensational Imagery Used in the Anti-Trafficking Movement and Implications for Practice, by Lauren Peffley and Andrea J. NicholsConclusion, by Andrea J. NicholsBiographies of Editors and ContributorsIndex
£38.25
Columbia University Press Transpacific Attachments Sex Work Media Networks
Book SynopsisLily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present.Trade ReviewI find this book engaging, inspiring, and thought-provoking. The book’s greatest accomplishments are its transpacific perspective, the focus on the subject of the sex worker, and its various theoretical approaches to lesser-known works across a broad historical span. . . . [Transpacific Attachments] is destined to be an important resource and reference. -- Sijia Yao * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *This book should be welcomed by scholars in the field of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. * China Review International *Transpacific Attachments effectively infuses Sinophone studies with new theoretical energy by addressing questions of cultural identity and Chineseness through the lens of affect and sexuality. -- Andrea Bachner, Cornell UniversityAn important contribution to transpacific studies, Asian-American studies, and Chinese studies, as well as to scholarship on literature, film, and new media, Transpacific Attachments insightfully sheds new light on how the prostitute figure has worked as a symbolic medium that both produces and problematizes configurations of sexual citizenship and social mobility. -- Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityTranspacific Attachments marshals a dazzling range of literary and audiovisual texts to unpack the figure of the Chinese sex worker and the affective politics this figure refracts. The result is a powerfully refreshing understanding of "Chineseness" as a shifting "affective structure" that defies identity politics with its familiar attachments to nation, ethnicity, and language. -- Yiman Wang, University of California, Santa CruzTranspacific Attachments elegantly and deftly traces structures of affect and sociality across the Pacific through the figure of the “Chinese” sex worker throughout the twentieth century. It offers one of the most nuanced discussions of “Chineseness” in English-language scholarship to date, registering its permutations and transformations by linking the two sides of the Pacific in their affective entanglements and disentanglements. It makes an important contribution to the interrelated fields of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. -- Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TranslationIntroduction: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Transpacific Histories of AffectPart I. Pacific Crossings in the Early Twentieth Century1. Desiring Across the Pacific: Transnational Contact in Early Twentieth-Century Asian/American Literature2. Over My Dead Body: Melodramatic Crossings of Anna May Wong and Ruan LingyuPart II. Sinophonic Liaisons During the Cold War3. Erotic Liaisons: Sinophonic Queering of the Shaw Brothers’ Chinese Dream 4. Offense to the Ear: Hearing the Sinophonic in Wang Zhenhe’s Rose, Rose, I Love YouPart III. Dwelling Desires and the Neoliberal Order5. Dwelling: Affective Labor and Reordered Kinships in The Fourth Portrait and Seeking Asian FemaleCoda: What DwellsNotesBibliographyIndex
£55.00
Columbia University Press Transpacific Attachments
Book SynopsisLily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present.Trade ReviewI find this book engaging, inspiring, and thought-provoking. The book’s greatest accomplishments are its transpacific perspective, the focus on the subject of the sex worker, and its various theoretical approaches to lesser-known works across a broad historical span. . . . [Transpacific Attachments] is destined to be an important resource and reference. -- Sijia Yao * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *This book should be welcomed by scholars in the field of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. * China Review International *Transpacific Attachments effectively infuses Sinophone studies with new theoretical energy by addressing questions of cultural identity and Chineseness through the lens of affect and sexuality. -- Andrea Bachner, Cornell UniversityAn important contribution to transpacific studies, Asian-American studies, and Chinese studies, as well as to scholarship on literature, film, and new media, Transpacific Attachments insightfully sheds new light on how the prostitute figure has worked as a symbolic medium that both produces and problematizes configurations of sexual citizenship and social mobility. -- Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityTranspacific Attachments marshals a dazzling range of literary and audiovisual texts to unpack the figure of the Chinese sex worker and the affective politics this figure refracts. The result is a powerfully refreshing understanding of "Chineseness" as a shifting "affective structure" that defies identity politics with its familiar attachments to nation, ethnicity, and language. -- Yiman Wang, University of California, Santa CruzTranspacific Attachments elegantly and deftly traces structures of affect and sociality across the Pacific through the figure of the “Chinese” sex worker throughout the twentieth century. It offers one of the most nuanced discussions of “Chineseness” in English-language scholarship to date, registering its permutations and transformations by linking the two sides of the Pacific in their affective entanglements and disentanglements. It makes an important contribution to the interrelated fields of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. -- Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TranslationIntroduction: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Transpacific Histories of AffectPart I. Pacific Crossings in the Early Twentieth Century1. Desiring Across the Pacific: Transnational Contact in Early Twentieth-Century Asian/American Literature2. Over My Dead Body: Melodramatic Crossings of Anna May Wong and Ruan LingyuPart II. Sinophonic Liaisons During the Cold War3. Erotic Liaisons: Sinophonic Queering of the Shaw Brothers’ Chinese Dream 4. Offense to the Ear: Hearing the Sinophonic in Wang Zhenhe’s Rose, Rose, I Love YouPart III. Dwelling Desires and the Neoliberal Order5. Dwelling: Affective Labor and Reordered Kinships in The Fourth Portrait and Seeking Asian FemaleCoda: What DwellsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.80
Indiana University Press Consent Culture and Teen Films
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meek's study is revelatory in its understanding of contemporary concerns about sexual consent, ranging from adults' efforts to regulate children's sexual knowledge to teenagers' interests in exploring their sexual identities. The extensive analysis of recent films provides numerous opportunities for reconsidering how the concept of consent is evolving for youth, who are in real life revising fundamental notions of gender, power, and expression. This book may at least provoke more educators and parents to respect how the movies adolescents are watching are often confronting current conditions of youth sexuality in ways that many adult authorities are not."—Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex"This thoughtful and timely volume demonstrates that teen films have become a key site for negotiating the emergent discourse of consent and adolescent sexual agency. Through astute analyses of recent American films, Meek teases out the complexities and contradictions inherent in the ideal of affirmative consent. Consent Culture and Teen Films is an essential addition to the literature on teen films and on Hollywood's representation of adolescent sexuality."—Kristen Hatch, author of Shirley Temple and the Performance of GirlhoodTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Regulating Adolescent Sexuality in U.S. Cinema: From Censorship to Child Pornography Laws2. Flipping the Heterosexual Script and Race-Based Sexual Stereotypes in Teen Comedies of the 2010s and 2020s3. Queering Consent: Navigating Performative and Subjective Consent in Queer Teen Films4. "I Was Not Lolita": Child Sexual Abuse and Children's Agency in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Tale5. The (In)Visibility of Trans Teens: 3 Generations, Adam, and Boy Meets GirlConclusion: Adolescent Sexuality and the Adult ImaginationFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press Consent Culture and Teen Films
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meek's study is revelatory in its understanding of contemporary concerns about sexual consent, ranging from adults' efforts to regulate children's sexual knowledge to teenagers' interests in exploring their sexual identities. The extensive analysis of recent films provides numerous opportunities for reconsidering how the concept of consent is evolving for youth, who are in real life revising fundamental notions of gender, power, and expression. This book may at least provoke more educators and parents to respect how the movies adolescents are watching are often confronting current conditions of youth sexuality in ways that many adult authorities are not."—Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex"This thoughtful and timely volume demonstrates that teen films have become a key site for negotiating the emergent discourse of consent and adolescent sexual agency. Through astute analyses of recent American films, Meek teases out the complexities and contradictions inherent in the ideal of affirmative consent. Consent Culture and Teen Films is an essential addition to the literature on teen films and on Hollywood's representation of adolescent sexuality."—Kristen Hatch, author of Shirley Temple and the Performance of GirlhoodTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Regulating Adolescent Sexuality in U.S. Cinema: From Censorship to Child Pornography Laws2. Flipping the Heterosexual Script and Race-Based Sexual Stereotypes in Teen Comedies of the 2010s and 2020s3. Queering Consent: Navigating Performative and Subjective Consent in Queer Teen Films4. "I Was Not Lolita": Child Sexual Abuse and Children's Agency in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Tale5. The (In)Visibility of Trans Teens: 3 Generations, Adam, and Boy Meets GirlConclusion: Adolescent Sexuality and the Adult ImaginationFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press The Years Work in Showgirls Studies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book does nothing less than stage a major reconsideration of one of cinema's most cherished and contested works. Collectively, these articles offer the reader an invigorating account of the complex intermedial and historiographic relations that can be generated by one movie over time. Whether rethinking what constitutes powerful acting, opening up new trajectories in the study of sex work on film and beyond, or activating a treasure trove of archival material, The Year's Work in Showgirl Studies is an indispensable book for scholars of cinema, performance, and culture."—Ryan Powell, author of Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979"Smart, intricate and delightful, this collection does full justice to the complexities of camp through explorations of Showgirls, the most canonized of bad films. A true treat."—Susanna Paasonen,author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography
£62.90
Indiana University Press The Years Work in Showgirls Studies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book does nothing less than stage a major reconsideration of one of cinema's most cherished and contested works. Collectively, these articles offer the reader an invigorating account of the complex intermedial and historiographic relations that can be generated by one movie over time. Whether rethinking what constitutes powerful acting, opening up new trajectories in the study of sex work on film and beyond, or activating a treasure trove of archival material, The Year's Work in Showgirl Studies is an indispensable book for scholars of cinema, performance, and culture."—Ryan Powell, author of Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979"Smart, intricate and delightful, this collection does full justice to the complexities of camp through explorations of Showgirls, the most canonized of bad films. A true treat."—Susanna Paasonen,author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography
£28.80
University of Washington Press Unruly Figures
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Unruly Figures provides a provocative and theoretically rich account of the uneven terrain of contemporary sexual politics." * Gender & Society *"Social commitment and intellectual vigour make this journey adventurous, and the author transmits its spirit through her evocative, lyrical writing." * Review of Development and Change *"This is an elegantly written book that makes a persuasive case for what Mokkil frames as a queer reading practice of dissident sexuality that works to keep such tensions open." * Journal of Asian Studies *
£110.48
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Enemy of the New Man Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
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£41.36
Yale University Press Capital Affairs The Making of the Permissive
Book SynopsisDid Britain's permissive society start with swinging London? This title challenges the sexual myth of the 1960s, arguing that its roots lay further back in the city's dramatic cultures of austerity and affluence that marked the post-war years. It focuses on sex and urban culture through a series of historical narratives.Trade Review"Mort’s attention to detail and storytelling skills makes this a compelling and brilliant cultural and sexual history."—Julie Anne Taddeo, Journal of British Studies -- Julie Anne Taddeo * Journal of British Studies *
£37.50
WW Norton & Co Pleasure Bound
Book SynopsisA smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.Trade Review"Pleasure Bound shines a sensitive light into the darker corners of Victorian sexuality. The sometimes subtle, sometimes consuming interplay of sensuality and death; the danger and draw of sexual transgression; the irresistible lure of forbidden pleasure--through their erotic longings and adventures, the Victorian sex rebels lead us to the heart of a struggle for authentic sexual expression in an era of repression now past. Or is it?" -- Patricia Anderson, Ph.D., author of When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians"Pleasure Bound is a lively, readable and informative survey of the sometimes surprising connections between art, literature, and the sexual underworld in Victorian England." -- David Lodge, author of Deaf Sentence"As seductive as a Swinburne sapphic, Pleasure Bound is for the casual reader, the aesthete and the pleasure seeker alike. If there wasn't a scholarly excuse for reading it, you'd feel guilty for having so much fun. Just don't leave it lying around." -- Wesley Stace, author of Misfortune"Using a deft combination of biography, aesthetic analysis, and cultural commentary, Pleasure Bound offers a history of those Victorian writers and artists who lived—and sometimes died—for the conjoined cause of eros and art. The result is a bawdy, intricate, edifying, and sometimes heartbreaking book that sheds light on a fascinating constellation of creators, without ever losing sight of the importance of keeping—as Lutz sagely puts it -- 'the dark core dark.'" -- Maggie Nelson, author of The Art of Cruelty"A delightful spree through Victorian England's red-light district, Deborah Lutz's Pleasure Bound explores in lucid and engaging prose the pornographic underpinnings of nineteenth-century British art, poetry, and anthropology." -- Matthew Kaiser, Harvard University"It is unusual to find a history of sex that is both readable and erudite. Deborah Lutz’s Pleasure Bound is a delightful romp between the legs—and elsewhere—of Victorian England that offers a deeply penetrating gaze into its sexual subjects." -- Frederick S. Roden, author of Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture"A polished, thought-provoking, and original work of history that possesses all the finesse of literature." -- Simon Van Booy, author of The Secret Lives of People in Love
£29.24
WW Norton & Co Gender
Book SynopsisThe new gold standard for sociology of gender courses
£62.22
WW Norton & Co The Social Construction of Sexuality
Book SynopsisAn affordable primer to sexuality written from a sociological perspective.
£20.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd 50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality
Book Synopsis50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality seeks to dispel commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality, providing an enlightening, fascinating and challenging book that covers the fifty areas the author s believe individuals must understand to have a safe, pleasurable and healthy sex life.Table of ContentsPreface ix 1 Body Parts Who Has What and How It Works 1 #1 Bigger Penises Are Better 1 #2 Vaginas Are Dirty, Ugly, and Smell Bad 6 #3 Male Circumcision Is Dangerous and Completely Unnecessary 14 #4 The G-spot Is the Most Orgasmic Part of a Woman’s Body 22 #5 Testosterone Is the Main Predictor of Sex Drive in Men, and You Can Always Add More 26 #6 Everyone Is Born Either Male or Female 31 2 Orientation and Identity Who We Are and Who We Want 41 #7 You Can Tell If Someone Is Gay Just by Looking at Him/Her 41 #8 No One Is Really Bisexual 44 #9 Most Transgender Individuals Get Surgery 49 #10 Homosexuality Can Be Cured 55 #11 Same-Sex Relationships Are Inherently Different from Those Between One Man and One Woman 64 #12 Children of Same-Sex Parents Have Psychological Issues and Usually End Up Gay 69 #13 Most Child Molesters Are Gay Men 77 3 Sexual Stats Who Has Sex? How Often? How Hot? 83 #14 Single People Have the Best Sex Life Since They’re Not Tied Down 83 #15 Married Sex Is Boring, and Boring Sex Is Bad 87 #16 Grandma Doesn’t Have Sex (and I Doubt that Mom Does Either) 91 #17 Young People Are Sexually Wild, Promiscuous, and Irresponsible 97 #18 Anal Sex is Not Normal 102 4 Performance Lights, Camera, Orgasm 110 #19 The First Time You Have Sex Is One of the Best and Most Meaningful Events of Your Life 110 #20 Good Sex Always Ends With Simultaneous Orgasms 117 #21 No Partner of Mine Has Ever Faked an Orgasm 123 #22 Women Want to Be Dominated in Bed, Rough Sex Is the Most Fun 126 #23 Only People Who Aren’t Getting Any Masturbate 129 #24 Not Horny? Horny Goat Weed Can Help 132 5 Conception and Contraception Illusions and Delusions 137 #25 She’s Not Going to Get Pregnant if We Just Do It This Once 137 #26 The Pill and Other Birth Control Methods are Actually Dangerous to a Woman’s Health 141 #27 Withdrawal Is Just as Good as Any Other Contraceptive Method 151 #28 Condoms Don’t Work Very Well, Plus They Take All the Fun Out of Sex Anyway 156 #29 Abortion Causes Breast Cancer and a Host of Mental Health Issues 162 6 STIs and Protection The Risks of Romance 167 #30 There’s a Cure for HIV and AIDS 167 #31 STIs Are No Big Deal as Long as You Take Your Medicine 174 #32 HPV Vaccines (and Other Prevention Methods) Turn Girls into Sluts 183 7 Relationships Dating and Desire 190 #33 Hooking Up Never Leads to a Relationship 190 #34 If You Feel Attracted to Someone Else, There Must Be Something Wrong With Your Relationship 194 #35 Most Female Fantasies Revolve Around a Love Story 196 #36 Men Cheat, Women Rarely Do 203 #37 Most Couples have Matched Sexual Appetites 211 8 When Sex is Unhealthy Sex and Trouble 216 #38 Jealousy Is Romantic 216 #39 Alcohol Makes Sex Better 220 #40 Alcohol and Sex Are a Harmless Combination 225 #41 For Girls, Sometimes Sex Just Hurts 229 #42 Men Under 40 Rarely Have Trouble With Erections 234 #43 People Can Get Addicted to Sex, Just Like They’re Addicted to Alcohol or Drugs 241 #44 She Was Asking For It, and Other Common Myths About Sexual Assault 248 #45 Pornography Is Dangerous 253 9 The Not-So-Private Side of Sex Sex, Society, and the Law 262 #46 Sex Education Makes Kids More Sexually Active 262 #47 Men Who Have a Lot of Sex Are Studs, Women Are Sluts 270 #48 Sexting is a Dangerous Epidemic Among Teens 276 #49 If Sex Is Consensual, It Can Never Be Illegal 283 #50 The Struggle for Gay Rights Is Over 292 Index 301
£21.21
University of California Press Dangerous Pleasures
Book SynopsisDrawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I • HISTORIES AND HIERARCHIES Chapter 1. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering Chapter 2. Classifying and Counting PART II • PLEASURES Chapter 3. Rules of the House Chapter 4. Affairs of the Heart Chapter 5. Tricks of the Trade Chapter 6. Careers PART III • DANGERS Chapter 7. Trafficking Chapter 8. Law and Disorder Chapter g. Disease PART IV• INTERVENTIONS Chapter 10. Reformers Chapter 11. Regulators Chapter 12. Revolutionaries PART V • CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS Chapter 13. Naming Chapter 14. Explaining Chapter 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia APPENDIX A: TABLES APPENDIX B: POEMS NOTES GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£29.75
University of California Press Consuming the Romantic Utopia
Book SynopsisA study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of 'true' love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. It studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of cliches and images.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction to the Sociology of Love Romantic Love as a Cultural Practice Romantic Love as a Utopia of Transgression Overview On Methodology PART I. WHEN ROMANCE MET THE MARKET Chapter 1. Constructing the Romantic Utopia The Secularization of Love, or Love as a New Religion Love on Sale Romance vs. Marriage A Romantic Tale Spectacle Conclusion Chapter 2. Trouble in Utopia The Price of Love Alone in Public Dating and the Spirit of Consumerism Conclusion PART 2. ALL THAT IS ROMANTIC MELTS INTO AIR: LOVE AS A POSTMODERN CONDITION Chapter 3· From the Romantic Utopia to the American Dream "You Could Be Here, Now" Such a Natural Love Romance as Invisible Affluence Codes Are Getting Tired Conclusion Chapter 4· An All-Consuming Love Reenchanting the World A Consuming Romance The Luxury of Romance Travel, Nature, and Romance Romance as Liminality The Commerce of Love: Ideology or Utopia? Conclusion Chapter 5. Real Fictions and Fictional Realities Love at First Sight Realist Love Reality as Fiction Fiction as Reality A Postmodern Romantic Condition Conclusion PART 3. THE BUSINESS OF LOVE Chapter 6. Reason within Passion Charting the Heart Passion within Reason, Reason within Passion The Uncertainties of the Heart The Science of Love Therapeutic Discourse as Reflexive Discourse Chapter 7. The Reasons for Passion Agapic and Erosic Love A Very Reasonable Madness Socioeconomic Boundaries Moral and Personality Boundaries Educational and Cultural Boundaries I Talk, Therefore You Love Me Love for Free Conclusion Chapter 8. The Class of Love The Elementary Forms of Romance Love as Difference Love and Symbolic Domination Class, Romance, and the Structure of Everyday Life Conclusion Conclusion: A Happy Ending? The Story of Love Appendix 1. A Few Words about Methods Appendix 2. Questionnaire Appendix 3. Images of Romance Notes References Index
£26.10
University of California Press Stranger Intimacy
Book SynopsisExploring an array of intimacies between global migrants, this title illuminates a transient world of heterogeneous social relations - dignified, collaborative, and illicit. It reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Brilliant... [Shah's] lucid prose, vivid stories, and gripping analysis make it a great read for both academic and general audiences." -- Julia Camacho (University of Texas, El Paso) H-Net Reviews "Show how the history of even a small (in numerical terms) minority has important implications for the ways in which all Americans understand the parameters of citizenship." Southern California Quarterly "An important contribution to the forging of a more complete and inclusive history of the North American West." -- Andrea Geiger, Simon Fraser University Jrnl Of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. Migration, Capitalism, and Stranger Intimacy 1. Passion, Violence, and Asserting Honor 2. Policing Strangers and Borderlands 3. Rural Dependency and Intimate Tensions PART II. Intimacy, Law, and Legitimacy 4. Legal Borderlands of Age and Gender 5. Intimate Ties and State Legitimacy PART III. Membership and Nation-States 6. Regulating Intimacy and Immigration 7. Strangers to Citizenship Conclusion: Estrangement and Belonging Notes Select Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Christians Under Covers
Book SynopsisShows how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. Moving away from debates over homosexuality, premarital sex, and other perceived sexual sins, this title examines Christian sexuality websites to show how some evangelical Christians use digital media to promote the idea that God wants married, and more.Trade Review"Kelsy Burke's new study of evangelical sexuality websites tells a new, finely nuanced and wholly convincing story... fascinating and suggestive." Reading Religion "Burke has constructed an artfully crafted and instructive text that extends sexual work in the sociology of religion, documents the complexity of contemporary religious-sexual relations, and provides a useful example of integrating sexual, gender, and religious sociologies in practice." American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments A Note to Readers on Quoting Online Content Introduction 1 * Godly Sex: A New Evangelical Sexual Logic 2 * Overcoming the Obscene: Using Religion to Talk about Sex 3 * Virtual and Virtuous: Forming Online Religious Communities 4 * Sexual Awakening: Defining Women's Pleasures 5 * What Makes a Man: Making "Bad" Sex "Good" Conclusion: Paths of Desire Appendix A: Websites Mentioned by Name in the Book Appendix B: Doing Internet Ethnography Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Manufacturing Freedom
Book SynopsisSex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these rehabilitation programs promise freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers, such organizations actually propagate a moral economy of low-wage women's work that obfuscates relations of race, gender, national power, and inequality. Manufacturing Freedom is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study, Elena Shih argues that anti-trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption.Trade Review"Elena Shih…makes an important contribution to critical studies of anti-trafficking. . . . an insightful read for criminology and sociology students and instructors interested in a critical approach to anti-trafficking activism." * Journal of Human Trafficking *"An important contribution to the scholarship on human trafficking, Manufacturing Freedom reveals how market-based, anti-trafficking movements bolster the US empire and white supremacy, China’s authoritarian state power, and Thailand’s global market supremacy. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Slave-Free Good 1. The Business of Rehab: Ethical Consumption, Social Enterprise, and the Myth of Vocational Training 2. Manufacturing Freedom: Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work 3. Bad Rehab: House Moms, Shelters, and Maternalist Rehabilitation 4. Trafficking Benevolent Authoritarianism in China 5. Vigilante Humanitarianism in Thailand 6. Quitting Rehab: The Promises and Betrayals of Freedom Conclusion: Redistribution and Possibilities for Global Justice Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: The Embodied Currencies and Debts of Global Feminist Fieldwork Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Panics without Borders
Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of great panic about sex traffickingan idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-eventsbut police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts t
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