Sex and sexuality, social aspects Books
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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Harvard University Press Islamicate Sexualities Translations across
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Sex Radicals
Book SynopsisProvides the first account of the pioneering efforts at sex reform in America from the Gilded Age to the Progressive era. From rare and generally unknown sources, Hal Sears has pieced together the story of the sex radicals and their surprising ideas.
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Pluto Press ManMade Woman
Book SynopsisAn auto-ethnography of cross-dressing, framed by Marxism and psychoanalytic theoryTrade Review'Cremin explores the relationship between theory and life with intelligence and wit' -- Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir (Verso, 2016)'Laced with some occasional edginess, it is a wonderful book, erudite, politically astute, brilliantly written, and at times wickedly funny. It's my favourite I've read for quite some time' -- Jeff Hearn, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the WorldTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. What’s In A Dress? 2. On The Lavatory Question 3. The Aesthetic of Cross-Dressing 4. Everyone’s a Fetishist 5. How Popular Culture Made Me (a Woman) 6. Full Exposure Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Before Sexuality
Book SynopsisSexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past.Trade Review"An indispensable book for historians and literary scholars alike: a succinct introduction to the field that breaks new ground in its embrace of both the medieval and the early modern." Journal of the Northern Renaissance "A vigorously advanced manifesto for reshaping the concepts and approaches we use in studying the history of sexual regimes." Journal of Social History "Essential reading for students and established researchers." Continuity and Change "A groundbreaking study that transcends the boundaries constructedbetween the medieval and the early modern." The Year's Work in English Studies "An important addition to the history of sexuality" European Review of History "An accessible and engaging starting point for any researcher of the history of sex, that opens up an important scholarly space for histories of sexual acts, identities, desires and behaviours that go beyond paying mere 'lip service to social constructivism." Women's History Review "In reminding us of many distinct and fascinating earlier ways of thinking about and understanding sex and sexual behaviours, Phillips and Reay rightly insist that heterosexuality is not only not a given but also has a history." Times Higher Education "Finally, a book on the history of sex that traverses the period boundary commonly erected between medieval and early modern. Deftly weaving together sources across a longue durée, this lucid survey is packed with examples that demonstrate the potential mismatch between modern sexual categories and premodern experience." Robert Mills, King's College London "A generation of scholars have journeyed from a history of sexual behaviour to a history of sexuality and in the process have given us a new vocabulary with which to interrogate our own world. Sex before Sexuality lays out a clear map of the complex intellectual landscape, and will be essential reading for students and scholars." Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire "The authors demonstrate poignantly how to think sex historically in a scintillating book that synthesizes a vast scholarly landscape on premodern sexualities in the West." Helmut Puff, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. List of Images. Introduction: Sex Before Sexuality. 1. Sin. 2. Before Heterosexuality. 3. Between Men. 4. Between Women. 5. Before Pornography. Epilogue: Sex at Sea?
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Becoming Sexual
Book SynopsisThe sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood.Trade Review"A very welcome contribution to the tradition that challenges our too-easy acceptance of the translation of social fear into social fact."Times Higher Education"A unique and invaluable contribution to the field."Clare L. Bennett, University of Worcester"In this persuasive and eye-opening volume, R. Danielle Egan dissects the dominant accounts of the sexualization of girls to reveal deep-seated class and race anxieties that say more about adults' condition than those of young girls. A must-read for anyone interested in youth today."Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology and author of Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture "Why has the figure of the 'sexualized' girl become an object of intense concern, despite a striking lack of evidence to support the claims that are made about contemporary girlhood? Becoming Sexual goes to the heart of this curious development to explore why we are so compelled by 'sexualization' and what our obsession reveals about our culture. This is a politically important book that reveals what is at stake in the sexualization debate for feminism and for girls."Feona Attwood, Sheffield Hallam University "Becoming Sexual is a refreshing and critical engagement with the contemporary and historical logics at work in recent figurations of the 'sexualized' girl-child and a compulsory read for anyone grappling with the wider cultural politics of girls, childhood and sexuality. With the ever-increasing onslaught of popular and pseudo-scientific texts bemoaning the 'sexualization of girls', Becoming Sexual is a MUST READ!"Emma Renold, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction: Sexualization as a Social Problem 1 1 What is Sexualization? 19 2 (Hetero)Sexualization, Pathological Femininity, and Hope for the Future 49 3 Sexualized Tastes, Middle-Class Fantasies, and Fears of Class Contagion 78 4 Unmanageable Bodies, Adult Disgust, and the Demand for Innocence 107 Conclusion: Refl exive Reticence, Affective Response, and the Social Construction of Sexual Problems 129 Notes 139 References 155 Index 182
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Love Online
Book SynopsisThe internet is changing the rules of the game of love. In a world where anything is possible, a potential date - whether it be a one-night stand or the start of a more lasting relationship - can be just a click away. Anyone looking for love online can throw off their inhibitions and can say what they have never dared to before.Trade Review"Kaufmann suggests that we have to reverse out of the cul de sac of sex for sex's sake and recombine it with love once more to make our experiences less chilly but also less clouded by romantic illusions."—The Guardian "Demonstrates the inherent problems that many women still face when it comes to navigating romantic and sexual relationships, whether or not the internet is involved."—Times Higher Education "Confronts the biggest development in the world of love and sex over the past two decade: the internet ... Kaufmann's study mostly shows how the internet, far from transforming our love lives, simply compounds existing contradictions."—Prospect "Kaufmann takes us through the problems that both men and women face in navigating the murky waters of cyberdating ... For Kaufmann, although love online increasingly looks like a hypermarket, it doesn't really offer all the ease and convenience promised. We remain only too trapped by our own passions and humiliations when we try to build relationships with the real people on the other side of an internet exchange."—Inside Story "The internet — a new world unlike any we knew. Here nothing is final and irrevocable, everything can be tried and experimented with and there is always a second chance. But if this is blessing, it is surely a mixed one. What is gained and what lost? And, most importantly, how does love — that blissful state we so passionately desire — fare when suspended between online comforts and the rugged reality of the offline world? Jean-Claude Kaufmann offers us, the perplexed and the confused, a truly priceless service. He locates, spells out and carefully calculates the gains and losses revealed at the critical encounter of the two worlds, at the moment of truth: that first face-to-face date which follows online dating. This illuminating and enlightening study is a report from a battle which no one planned yet few, if any of us, can avoid."—Zygmunt Bauman, University of LeedsTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue: On the net - Love's new world - The hypermarket of desire - A virtual slap in the face - A New Drug - What Does ‘Just for Sex' Mean? - The Net's Hidden Treasures Part I: In real life 1. ‘You never know what to expect' - ‘I Felt A Bit Like A Call Girl' - ‘I'm Looking For a Man' 2. First steps - The Sound of Heels - Why Are so Many People Stood Up? - Inner Beauty - Dates That Do Not Work Out - Making a Quick Get-Away - Having a Drink - Who Pays the Bill? - Getting It Right 3. Getting it right - A New Courtly Code - Should You Kiss on A First Date? - At Your Own Pace - Kino Escalation - Chemistry - ‘If He's A Good Kisser' 4. A new dance - The Revolution in the Dating System - What Flirting Means - ‘Would You Like To Dance?' - The Whole World is A Dance Hall Part II: Pleasure and feeling 5. Should you have sex on a first date ? - ‘If You Want To' - Where's The Harm? - ‘Slag!' - A World Apart - Cafés Elsewhere 6. Sex as a leisurely activity - When Sex Broke Free From Feelings - Sexual Liberation: How Do Things Really Stand? - Feeling Good Together - The Story of A. - Post Coitum 7. The game - The Games People Play - A Popular Sport - Statistics - Some Portraits - Disgust and Cynicism 8. The lovesex imbroglio - A Little Love - FWBs - A New Relationship With Exes? - People Still Want Long-Term Relationships - Sex Is Not A Leisure Activity Like Any Other - Sex, Lies and The Internet - Sex/Love: A Historical Reversal Part III: Women, Sex and Love 9. Unbridled pleasure? - Provisional Freedom - Men Never Change - Freedom, Equality and Sexuality - Revolt - The Impossible Golden Mean - A Cold, Selfish Monster - More 10. The ‘bad boy' paradox - From Prince Charming to Bad Boy - In Praise of Pick-Up Artists - Return of the Bastard 11. Avoiding the traps - Sex Today - A Break From Normal Life - Men As Sex Toys - A Cycle - The Dilemma - Why Women Are Wallflowers - SexLove Conclusion Appendix: on methodology References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Love Online
Book SynopsisThe internet is changing the rules of the game of love. In a world where anything is possible, a potential date - whether it be a one-night stand or the start of a more lasting relationship - can be just a click away. Anyone looking for love online can throw off their inhibitions and can say what they have never dared to before.Trade Review"Kaufmann suggests that we have to reverse out of the cul de sac of sex for sex's sake and recombine it with love once more to make our experiences less chilly but also less clouded by romantic illusions."—The Guardian "Demonstrates the inherent problems that many women still face when it comes to navigating romantic and sexual relationships, whether or not the internet is involved."—Times Higher Education "Confronts the biggest development in the world of love and sex over the past two decade: the internet ... Kaufmann's study mostly shows how the internet, far from transforming our love lives, simply compounds existing contradictions."—Prospect "Kaufmann takes us through the problems that both men and women face in navigating the murky waters of cyberdating ... For Kaufmann, although love online increasingly looks like a hypermarket, it doesn't really offer all the ease and convenience promised. We remain only too trapped by our own passions and humiliations when we try to build relationships with the real people on the other side of an internet exchange."—Inside Story "The internet — a new world unlike any we knew. Here nothing is final and irrevocable, everything can be tried and experimented with and there is always a second chance. But if this is blessing, it is surely a mixed one. What is gained and what lost? And, most importantly, how does love — that blissful state we so passionately desire — fare when suspended between online comforts and the rugged reality of the offline world? Jean-Claude Kaufmann offers us, the perplexed and the confused, a truly priceless service. He locates, spells out and carefully calculates the gains and losses revealed at the critical encounter of the two worlds, at the moment of truth: that first face-to-face date which follows online dating. This illuminating and enlightening study is a report from a battle which no one planned yet few, if any of us, can avoid."—Zygmunt Bauman, University of LeedsTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue: On the net - Love's new world - The hypermarket of desire - A virtual slap in the face - A New Drug - What Does ‘Just for Sex' Mean? - The Net's Hidden Treasures Part I: In real life 1. ‘You never know what to expect' - ‘I Felt A Bit Like A Call Girl' - ‘I'm Looking For a Man' 2. First steps - The Sound of Heels - Why Are so Many People Stood Up? - Inner Beauty - Dates That Do Not Work Out - Making a Quick Get-Away - Having a Drink - Who Pays the Bill? - Getting It Right 3. Getting it right - A New Courtly Code - Should You Kiss on A First Date? - At Your Own Pace - Kino Escalation - Chemistry - ‘If He's A Good Kisser' 4. A new dance - The Revolution in the Dating System - What Flirting Means - ‘Would You Like To Dance?' - The Whole World is A Dance Hall Part II: Pleasure and feeling 5. Should you have sex on a first date ? - ‘If You Want To' - Where's The Harm? - ‘Slag!' - A World Apart - Cafés Elsewhere 6. Sex as a leisurely activity - When Sex Broke Free From Feelings - Sexual Liberation: How Do Things Really Stand? - Feeling Good Together - The Story of A. - Post Coitum 7. The game - The Games People Play - A Popular Sport - Statistics - Some Portraits - Disgust and Cynicism 8. The lovesex imbroglio - A Little Love - FWBs - A New Relationship With Exes? - People Still Want Long-Term Relationships - Sex Is Not A Leisure Activity Like Any Other - Sex, Lies and The Internet - Sex/Love: A Historical Reversal Part III: Women, Sex and Love 9. Unbridled pleasure? - Provisional Freedom - Men Never Change - Freedom, Equality and Sexuality - Revolt - The Impossible Golden Mean - A Cold, Selfish Monster - More 10. The ‘bad boy' paradox - From Prince Charming to Bad Boy - In Praise of Pick-Up Artists - Return of the Bastard 11. Avoiding the traps - Sex Today - A Break From Normal Life - Men As Sex Toys - A Cycle - The Dilemma - Why Women Are Wallflowers - SexLove Conclusion Appendix: on methodology References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex in China
Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s.Trade ReviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 "This nuanced reading of a vast nation's sexual evolution offers a sensible corrective to simplistic notions of a sexophobic government or increased freedom as a result of China's economic spurt. By placing sexuality as negotiated within the socio-political and economic context rather than positing it as some wild, elusive thing that subverts this context, this book wipesdown romance with the washcloth of the real."—New Internationalist "Sex in China introduces readers to some of the most dramatic shifts that have taken place in sexual behaviours and mores since economic reform unleashed massive social changes upon China. Moving from family concerns through to commercial sex, from HIV/AIDS to youth culture, from gay and lesbian relations through to the developing field of sexual studies in China, this comprehensive study shows how a range of factors have come together to produce spaces where new sexual subjectivities and more inclusive forms of citizenship can emerge. This is an iconoclastic study that overturns Western preconceptions and received wisdom about Chinese sexuality. Intrinsically interesting, clearly written, and thoroughly researched, this book will be a 'must read' for anyone interested in the emerging sexual culture of contemporary China."—Michael Dutton, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of ContentsMap Chronology Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 Sex in China: Introduction 2 Marriage and ‘Family Planning’ 3 Youth and Sex(iness) 4 Gay, Lesbian and Queer 5 Commercial Sex 6 Sex and Public Health 7 Sex Studies 8 Concluding Comments
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Addiction
Book SynopsisThe concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet.This book is a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome. Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force.TTrade Review"An absorbing and in-depth history of the cultural epidemic we call sex addiction, that's both authoritative and accessible."—Erotic Review "This is an exquisitely researched, persuasive and often funny account of how, over the last thirty years, enjoying sex more publicly or enthusiastically than conservatives might have wished was turned into a phantasmic syndrome – sex addiction – that became real enough to support a small army of therapists and patients. But it is also a model study more generally of cultural epigenesis, of how the pains, pleasures and foibles of everyday life become pathologies that take a moral, political and financial toll on society."—Thomas Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley "As the sexual cultures of many Western nations have become more fluid, it is perhaps more than curious that the discourse of 'sexual addiction' has gained popular and medical legitimacy. Is it a form of regulating 'irregular' sexualities, a further instance of the medicalization of moral thinking and personal life, or a scientific advance? Reay, Attwood and Gooder provide a much needed critical-historical analysis of this cultural event."—Steven Seidman, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Beginnings3. Addictionology 1014. Cultural Impact5. Sexual Stories6. Diagnostic Disorder7. Sexual Conservatism8. Conclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Addiction
Book SynopsisThe concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet.This book is a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome. Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force.TTrade Review"An absorbing and in-depth history of the cultural epidemic we call sex addiction, that's both authoritative and accessible."—Erotic Review "This is an exquisitely researched, persuasive and often funny account of how, over the last thirty years, enjoying sex more publicly or enthusiastically than conservatives might have wished was turned into a phantasmic syndrome – sex addiction – that became real enough to support a small army of therapists and patients. But it is also a model study more generally of cultural epigenesis, of how the pains, pleasures and foibles of everyday life become pathologies that take a moral, political and financial toll on society."—Thomas Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley "As the sexual cultures of many Western nations have become more fluid, it is perhaps more than curious that the discourse of 'sexual addiction' has gained popular and medical legitimacy. Is it a form of regulating 'irregular' sexualities, a further instance of the medicalization of moral thinking and personal life, or a scientific advance? Reay, Attwood and Gooder provide a much needed critical-historical analysis of this cultural event."—Steven Seidman, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Beginnings3. Addictionology 1014. Cultural Impact5. Sexual Stories6. Diagnostic Disorder7. Sexual Conservatism8. Conclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Cultures
Book SynopsisWhy is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexuality studies through a distinctively cultural lens.Trade Review“Amin Ghaziani’s Sex Cultures demonstrates how to bring LGBT Studies to a broad audience. His central thesis is that sex and sexuality are not biologically determined, but only make sense through the lens of culture. Or, as Ghaziani schematizes it: ‘Sex + Culture = Sexuality’ [...] I can only hope that Ghaziani’s book is widely adopted in classes and can enlighten a generation of youth, thus providing the revolutionary potential of mainstreaming LGBT studies.” The Gay and Lesbian Review “Sex Cultures is a field guide to the study of sexuality that is written in a delightfully accessible manner. [… A] fluid book that will hold up even as the sexual cultures of our world continue to evolve. It is written for scholars, students, and general audiences alike, and recognizes the investment that we all have in better understanding desire and the meanings we attach to it.”Social Forces“Ghaziani showcases his in-depth knowledge, his powerful analyses, and his clear, conversational writing style. These strengths make the text extremely useful to anyone interested in the study of sexuality, social change, or LGBTQ issues. Ghaziani provides a thorough overview of the existing knowledge about sexuality studies, while also advancing aspects of the field using a distinctly cultural approach – Ghaziani’s book is an excellent read.”Sociation“[A]n innovative, conceptually and theoretically novel framework that builds on the sociologies of sexualities and of culture. […] Ghaziani also reminds us of the diverse kinds of institutional consequences associated with different understandings of what sexuality is. This book will be useful in undergraduate and graduate classes alike.”Tristan Bridges, Contemporary Sociology“Ghaziani provides a smart, engaging and accessible introduction to thinking about sex in society. […] Drawing on a canon of scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities, along with a creative strategy of using an international set of ‘case studies’ to breathe life into those respective theories, he places culture in the driver’s seat and thus at the centre of the production of sexuality. […A] well-written, well-evidenced, and scintillating account.”Eric Anderson, British Journal of Sociology“Sex Cultures provides a unique and new way to examine sexuality through a cultural lens. […] Ghaziani helps readers explore how the seemingly abstract concepts of sexuality and culture can be uncovered throughout history and in their everyday lives. […] It is accessible, easy to read and enjoyable, making it a great introduction for students.”Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie“By outlining movements and events that have effected, constructed and formed modern sexual cultures, Ghaziani has produced an accessible, useful pathway for those wanting to start exploring historical and social movements concerning sexuality.”Screening Sex“Sex Cultures is a wonderful introduction to how to think about sexuality today. Unlike so many sexuality textbooks, here’s a teaching resource that elegantly weaves its way through cultural codes, political programs, and moral debates.”Steven Epstein, Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University“This is the book we have been waiting for – a comprehensive and engaging overview of the field of sexuality accessible to beginning students that also provides a concise and updated review of the field for graduate students. Beautifully written and insightful, Ghaziani’s text cleverly couches major theoretical perspectives and empirical questions in case studies that will be invaluable to both instructors and students.”Verta Taylor, Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Feeling Flustered Chapter 1. The City Chapter 2. Politics and Protest Chapter 3. Heterosexualities Chapter 4. Studying Sexuality Conclusion: Culture Wars? Notes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Cultures
Book SynopsisWhy is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexuality studies through a distinctively cultural lens.Trade Review“Amin Ghaziani’s Sex Cultures demonstrates how to bring LGBT Studies to a broad audience. His central thesis is that sex and sexuality are not biologically determined, but only make sense through the lens of culture. Or, as Ghaziani schematizes it: ‘Sex + Culture = Sexuality’ [...] I can only hope that Ghaziani’s book is widely adopted in classes and can enlighten a generation of youth, thus providing the revolutionary potential of mainstreaming LGBT studies.”The Gay and Lesbian Review “Sex Cultures is a field guide to the study of sexuality that is written in a delightfully accessible manner. [… A] fluid book that will hold up even as the sexual cultures of our world continue to evolve. It is written for scholars, students, and general audiences alike, and recognizes the investment that we all have in better understanding desire and the meanings we attach to it.”Social Forces“Ghaziani showcases his in-depth knowledge, his powerful analyses, and his clear, conversational writing style. These strengths make the text extremely useful to anyone interested in the study of sexuality, social change, or LGBTQ issues. Ghaziani provides a thorough overview of the existing knowledge about sexuality studies, while also advancing aspects of the field using a distinctly cultural approach – Ghaziani’s book is an excellent read.”Sociation“[A]n innovative, conceptually and theoretically novel framework that builds on the sociologies of sexualities and of culture. […] Ghaziani also reminds us of the diverse kinds of institutional consequences associated with different understandings of what sexuality is. This book will be useful in undergraduate and graduate classes alike.”Tristan Bridges, Contemporary Sociology“Ghaziani provides a smart, engaging and accessible introduction to thinking about sex in society. […] Drawing on a canon of scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities, along with a creative strategy of using an international set of ‘case studies’ to breathe life into those respective theories, he places culture in the driver’s seat and thus at the centre of the production of sexuality. […A] well-written, well-evidenced, and scintillating account.”Eric Anderson, British Journal of Sociology“Sex Cultures provides a unique and new way to examine sexuality through a cultural lens. […] Ghaziani helps readers explore how the seemingly abstract concepts of sexuality and culture can be uncovered throughout history and in their everyday lives. […] It is accessible, easy to read and enjoyable, making it a great introduction for students.”Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie“By outlining movements and events that have effected, constructed and formed modern sexual cultures, Ghaziani has produced an accessible, useful pathway for those wanting to start exploring historical and social movements concerning sexuality.”Screening Sex“Sex Cultures is a wonderful introduction to how to think about sexuality today. Unlike so many sexuality textbooks, here’s a teaching resource that elegantly weaves its way through cultural codes, political programs, and moral debates.”Steven Epstein, Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University“This is the book we have been waiting for – a comprehensive and engaging overview of the field of sexuality accessible to beginning students that also provides a concise and updated review of the field for graduate students. Beautifully written and insightful, Ghaziani’s text cleverly couches major theoretical perspectives and empirical questions in case studies that will be invaluable to both instructors and students.”Verta Taylor, Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Feeling Flustered Chapter 1. The City Chapter 2. Politics and Protest Chapter 3. Heterosexualities Chapter 4. Studying Sexuality Conclusion: Culture Wars? Notes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What is Sexual History
Book SynopsisUntil the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing innovative insights into the ways in which societies shape and are shaped by sexual values, norms, identities and desires.Table of Contents Contents Preface and Acknowledgements An Introduction What is a History of Sexuality a History of? Narratives Summary of Book Chapter 1: Framing Sexual History Towards a Critical Sexual History Theoretical Detours Bodies Subjectivities and Affect Generations Times Present, Times Past, Times Future Chapter 2: The Invention of Sexual History The Magic of Words The Natural History of Sexuality The New History The Emergence of Social Constructionism Chapter 3: Querying and Queering Same-sex History What is Homosexual History? Recovering the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Historic Present Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Homosexual The Queer Challenge Beyond the Binary Making Connections Chapter 4: Gender, Sexuality and Power Dangers and Pleasures Sexual Violence and Sexual History Historicizing Female Sexuality Sexuality and the Theory Wars Rethinking Power Intersections On Manliness, Masculinity, and Men Chapter 5: Mainstreaming Sexual History Into the Mainstream The Birth of Modern Sexuality? The Normalization of Heterosexuality The Great Transition AIDS and the Burdens of History Same-sex Marriage and New Patterns of Intimacy Chapter 6: The Globalization of Sexual History Globalizing Sexual History Historians and Transnational Sexual History Patterns of Sexual History The Colonial Legacy and the Postcolonial Critique Sexual Regimes, Sexual Lives History and Human Sexual Rights Chapter 7: Memory, Community, Voice Unofficial Knowledges and Counter-history Memory and Community The Sexual Archive Voice Living Sexual History Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index
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University of British Columbia Press Selling Sex
Book SynopsisA diverse and comprehensive dialogue between sex workers, advocates, and researchers that looks at sex work in a new way.Trade ReviewA unique collection of sex workers and their allies describing and defending a timely subject. A very insightful read. -- Maria Nengeh Mensah, professor, School of Social Work, Université du Québec à MontréalAs a Canadian sex worker, I know too well how hard it can be to find a balanced, nuanced analysis of the lived experiences of people in my profession and the complex legal and social realities we encounter. Selling Sex proved to be a notable exception ... this book is invaluable as a resource to help people understand the complexities of the sex trade and to see the people who work within it as competent and capable of making their own decisions, rather than victims in need of rescue or deviants in need of punishment and control. -- Kamala Mara * Canadian Dimension *Selling Sex is an impressive testament to the agency, activism, and theorizing of sex workers, drawing from a multiplicity of viewpoints, including trans, male, youth, and Indigenous experiences. It importantly shines light on histories of sex work, the politics of regulation, and organizing for change in Canada and is a critical intervention into debates on feminism, anti-racism, and decolonization. A deeply insightful collection and a vital new contribution to the field of sex work studies. -- Kamala Kempadoo, professor of Social Science at York University and co-editor of Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and RedefinitionIntellectually stimulating, emotionally engaging and beautifully written, Selling sex: Experience, advocacy and research on sex work in Canada weaves together the diverse voices and perspectives of sex workers, academics, and activists to present a multilayered, complex, and rich understanding of sex work practice, research, policy, and political organizing. This collection of chapters centers the lived experiences of sex workers who are experts in their own lives and who are critical to the knowledge production about sex work.I highly recommend this refreshing and inspiring book that positions itself as a form of activism and resistance against sensationalistic and mainstream narratives of sex work. It challenges unidimentional notions of sex work by highlighting often silenced communities, including male, trans, youth, and indigenous sex trade workers. This collection of voices is an essential read for anyone working in a practice setting with sex workers, for students engaging in a critical analysis of sex work, for researchers committed to privileging the lived experiences of marginalized communities, and for those interested advancing their human rights and engaging in activism for social change. -- Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, California State University Northridge * Affilia *The breadth of ethnographic data and theoretical insights explored in Selling Sex makes it an excellent resource for most courses in sociology, law, gender and sexuality studies, criminology, and anthropology interested in deconstructing the contingent nature of sexuality, labor, and gender identity, and its intersection with various state agencies and other mechanisms of regulation. Similarly, the timely nature of this publication in relation to the Bedford decision situates this text, and the contributing authors, as influential authorities on sex work research in the post-Bedford era. -- Marcus A. Sibley, Carleton University * Canadian Review of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria LovePart 1: Realities, Experiences, and Perspectives1 Work, Sex, or Theatre? A Brief History of Toronto Strippers and Sex Work Identity / Deborah Clipperton2 Myths and Realities of Male Sex Work: A Personal Perspective / River Redwood3 Champagne, Strawberries, and Truck-Stop Motels: On Subjectivity and Sex Work / Victoria Love4 Trans Sex Workers: Negotiating Sex, Gender, and Non-Normative Desire / Tor Fletcher5 We Speak for Ourselves: Anti-Colonial and Self-Determined Responses to Young People Involved in the Sex Trade / JJ6 Decolonizing Sex Work: Developing an Intersectional Indigenous Approach / Sarah Hunt7 Transitioning Out of Sex Work: Exploring Sex Workers’ Experiences and Perspectives / Tuulia LawPart 2: Organizing and Social Change8 Working for Change: Sex Workers in the Union Struggle / Jenn Clamen, Kara Gillies, and Trish Salah9 Overcoming Challenges: Vancouver’s Sex Worker Movement / Joyce Arthur, Susan Davis, and Esther Shannon10 Né dans le Redlight: The Sex Workers’ Movement in Montreal / Anna-Louise Crago and Jenn Clamen11 Stepping All Over the Stones: Negotiating Feminism and Harm Reduction in Halifax / Gayle MacDonald, Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Karolyn Martin, and Rene Ross12 Are Feminists Leaving Women Behind? The Casting of Sexually Assaulted and Sex-Working Women / Jane Doe13 Going ’round Again: The Persistence of Prostitution-Related Stigma / Jacqueline Lewis, Frances M. Shaver, and Eleanor Maticka-TyndalePart 3: The Politics of Regulation14 Regulating Women’s Sexuality: Social Movements and Internal Exclusion / Michael Goodyear and Cheryl Auger15 Crown Expert-Witness Testimony in Bedford v. Canada: Evidence-Based Argument or Victim-Paradigm Hyperbole? / John Lowman16 Repeat Performance? Human Trafficking and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games / Annalee Lepp17 A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Canadian Anti-Pimping Law and How It Harms Sex Workers / Kara Gillies18 Still Punishing to “Protect”: Youth Prostitution Law and Policy Reform / Steven Bittle19 To Serve and Protect? Structural Stigma, Social Profiling, and the Abuse of Police Power in Ottawa / Chris Bruckert and Stacey Hannem20 Beyond the Criminal Code: Municipal Licensing and Zoning Bylaws / Emily van der Meulen and Mariana ValverdeAfterword / Alan YoungIndex
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Cornell University Press Erotic Exchanges
Book SynopsisNina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistresses who dominated it. Kushner’s primary sources include thousands of folio pages of dossiers and other documents generated by the Paris police.Trade ReviewEach chapter of Erotic Exchanges begins with a different woman's story and the questions raised by it... Making for an engaging readthis technique fosters acknowledgement that the woman who works in the demimonde were individual economic actors with complex and intimate social ties. Their eighteenth century was one in which coerced choice was part of the 'fabric of everyday life' (p. 220). -- Pamela Cheek * Eighteenth-Century Life *If a historian is like a detective, this book is like a thrilling page-turner that immerses the reader in the underworld of the demimonde in eighteenth-century Paris.... Kushner's book fulfils its main ambition of 'reconstructing the demimonde' (p. 4) and it constitutes a great addition to the existing literature on eighteenth-century prostitution, police and the sexual underworld. Notwithstanding the theoretical contentions surrounding the concept of 'sexual capital’ this book is a must-read not only for students of the eighteenth century, women’s history, gender or the history of sexuality, but for anyone interested in a broader historical perspective on the sex trade. -- Frank Ejby-Poulsen * European Review of History *In Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Nina Kushner paints a vivid picture of elite prostitutes, or dames entretenues, and the men who supported them.... Through an impressive archival analysis of thousands of pages of police reports, Kushner describes where these women came from, for whom they worked, the terms of their employment, how much they made, and if they had private lives of their own.... In a veritable tour de force, Kushner draws compelling portraits of these women's lives.... Kushner's study is richly textured, smart, and it is a lively read. She navigates extremely well between individual lives, as recorded by the police, and the larger population of kept women. Moreover, in framing sex as work, her research sheds important light on the realities faced by many French women of the mid-century, namely, significant economic fragility. It also offers opportunities to rethink libertine literature and Rococo painting that never tired of depicting the dames entretenues. Erotic Exchanges thus represents an excellent example of sociocultural history that compellingly recreates the demimonde, the women who worked there, and the culture that made it all possible. -- Lesley H. Walker * American Historical Review *In spring 1758 Dame Boujard entrusted her thirteen-year-old daughter Marie to the elite brothel owner Madame Varenne, who promptly set about hawking the girl's virginity. The marquis de Bandol negotiated a price of ninety-six livres (about half the annual salary of a shopgirl), but the deal collapsed when the client claimed that the girl was not a virgin. Marie then spent six months at Varenne’s brothel before contracting a venereal disease (probably syphilis); at the age of fifteen she became the mistress of the marquis de Persenat who paid off her mother’s considerable debts and offered Marie herself a contract of three hundred a month. Forgotten figures like Marie, her mother, Varenne, and the marquis populate Nina Kushner’s richly detailed and persuasive sociocultural history of eighteenth-century Parisian prostitution.... [T]his generous but unsentimental study will be of enduring value to those interested in women’s history, libertinage, and urban culture. -- Thomas Wynn * French Studies *Nina Kushner examines the role of girls' and women's agency along the spectrum of sex work that catered to an upper-class clientele, and in doing so, evokes both sympathy and admiration for her subjects. * Bust *Nina Kushner's Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-CenturyParis brings to life a vibrant but relatively unknown part of early modern urban life, the world of the demimonde, the quasi-respectable underworld, with its elite prostitutes, wealthy patrons, and juicy scandals.... [W]hile several histories of prostitution have illuminated the world of sex work inthe early modern world, none has looked with extended attention at the women at the veryeconomic pinnacle of this domain, the elite prostitutes and mistresses in the demimonde. Kushner reveals the complexity and influence of this corner of Parisian social and cultural life and its relative separateness from the larger world of prostitution. -- Janine M. Lanza * Journal of Modern History *One of the most compelling features of the book is the fact that Kushner raises fascinating questions and draws attention to a number of paradoxes underlying the web of relations between police, prostitutes, clients and procurers.... Erotic Exchanges is not addressed to specialists in Enlightenment France (although those interested in the specific topic of eighteenth-century courtesans will appreciate having a social historian's expert perspective on the subject), but it offers a valuable contribution to the fields of women's history or history of prostitution. Kushner's combination of careful archives research and sharp sociological analyses makes her book an intriguing look into the universe of eighteenth-century France’s elite prostitution. -- Marine Ganofsky * French History *This history brings to life les dames entretenues—women who dazzled and scandalized eighteenth-century Paris as mistresses of powerful men. Kushner traces the pathways to élite prostitution: many mistresses began as actresses and singers; others were sold into the demimonde by their parents. She finds that mistresses were held to have a stabilizing influence on men's romantic whims, and they enjoyed some of the benefits of married women. Contracts guaranteed their pay, and they were often the primary breadwinners for their own families. Some mistresses found lifetime partners in their patrons, and some achieved financial independence, but many were discarded by their late twenties and began a life of streetwalking. Kushner avoids over-contemporizing her subject, affording her women agency but not more than they actually had. * New Yorker *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Police and the Demimonde 2. Leaving Home 3. Being Sold into the Demimonde 4. Madams and Their Networks 5. Contracts and Elite Prostitution as Work 6. Male Experiences of Galanterie 7. Sexual Capital and the Private Lives of Mistresses Conclusion
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Stanford University Press Prostitution and Pornography
Book SynopsisThis collection of new and classic writings about the sex industry asks us to think about the differences between our society's treatment of prostitution and pornography, while investigating how liberalism deals with the sex industry in general.Trade Review"Jessica Spector has compiled the most challenging and thorough volume yet on philosophic themes surrounding the vexed questions of pornography and prostitution. Focusing on the very different ways in which we regard—and discipline—prostitution and pornography, the book raises fundamental questions about important ethical questions as well as questions of freedom, social responsibility, and self-identity. This will be a seminal work in the field." -- Drew A. Hyland"As its title suggests, this is a collection of essays about two of the main arms of the sex industry: prostitution and pornography. It would be an excellent text for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class on the issue, as well as for anyone interested in probing the issues that sex work poses in the debate between radical feminists, who question both the autonomy of the choice of prostitution and the expression value of pornograhy, and the liberal feminists, who tend to defend proostitution as a viable economic choice for women and champion pornography for its expression value and promotion of diversity of lifestyles." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques"This unique, valuable collection offers various perspectives within the liberal feminist discussions of pornography and prostitution." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsTable Of Contents Introduction Jessica Spector "Introduction: Sex, Money, and Philosophy" I. Critiques of the Sex Industry Ch.1 Vednita Carter and Evelina Giobbe "Duet: Prostitution, Racism, and Feminist Discourse" Ch. 2 Christine Stark "Stripping as a System of Prostitution" Ch.3 Carol Pateman "What's Wrong with Prostitution?" Ch.4 Catharine MacKinnon "Equality and Speech" Ch.5 Margaret A.Baldwin "Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform" II. Liberalism and Prostitution Ch.6 Norma Jean Almodovar "Porn Stars, Radical Feminists, Cops and Outlaw Whores: The Battle Between Feminist Theory and Reality, Free Spirits and Free Speech" Ch.7 Martha Nussbaum "'Whether From Reason or Prejudice': Taking Money for Bodily Services" Ch.8 Sibyl Schwarzenbach "Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution" Ch.9 Laurie Shrage "Prostitution and the Case for Decriminalization" III. Liberalism and Pornography Ch.10 Theresa Reed "Private Acts vs. Public Art: Where Prostitution Ends and Pornography Begins" Ch.11 Joshua Cohen "Freedom, Equality, Pornography" Ch.12 Ronald Dworkin "Women and Pornography" Ch.13 Laura Kipnis "Disgust and Desire: Hustler Magazine" IV. The Limits of Liberalism Ch.14 Tracy Quan "The Name of the Pose: A Sex Worker by Any Other Name" Ch.15 Julian Marlowe "Thinking Outside the Box: Men in the Sex Industry" Ch.16 Scott Anderson "Sexual Autonomy and Prostitution: Making Sense of the Prohibition of Prostitution" Ch.17 Debra Satz "Markets in Women's Sexual Labor" Ch.18 Jessica Spector "Obscene Division: Feminist Liberalism's Treatment of Prostitution and Pornography" Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Prostitution and Pornography
Book SynopsisThis collection of new and classic writings about the sex industry asks us to think about the differences between our society's treatment of prostitution and pornography, while investigating how liberalism deals with the sex industry in general.Trade Review"Jessica Spector has compiled the most challenging and thorough volume yet on philosophic themes surrounding the vexed questions of pornography and prostitution. Focusing on the very different ways in which we regard—and discipline—prostitution and pornography, the book raises fundamental questions about important ethical questions as well as questions of freedom, social responsibility, and self-identity. This will be a seminal work in the field." -- Drew A. Hyland"As its title suggests, this is a collection of essays about two of the main arms of the sex industry: prostitution and pornography. It would be an excellent text for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class on the issue, as well as for anyone interested in probing the issues that sex work poses in the debate between radical feminists, who question both the autonomy of the choice of prostitution and the expression value of pornograhy, and the liberal feminists, who tend to defend proostitution as a viable economic choice for women and champion pornography for its expression value and promotion of diversity of lifestyles." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques"This unique, valuable collection offers various perspectives within the liberal feminist discussions of pornography and prostitution." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsTable Of Contents Introduction Jessica Spector "Introduction: Sex, Money, and Philosophy" I. Critiques of the Sex Industry Ch.1 Vednita Carter and Evelina Giobbe "Duet: Prostitution, Racism, and Feminist Discourse" Ch. 2 Christine Stark "Stripping as a System of Prostitution" Ch.3 Carol Pateman "What's Wrong with Prostitution?" Ch.4 Catharine MacKinnon "Equality and Speech" Ch.5 Margaret A.Baldwin "Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform" II. Liberalism and Prostitution Ch.6 Norma Jean Almodovar "Porn Stars, Radical Feminists, Cops and Outlaw Whores: The Battle Between Feminist Theory and Reality, Free Spirits and Free Speech" Ch.7 Martha Nussbaum "'Whether From Reason or Prejudice': Taking Money for Bodily Services" Ch.8 Sibyl Schwarzenbach "Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution" Ch.9 Laurie Shrage "Prostitution and the Case for Decriminalization" III. Liberalism and Pornography Ch.10 Theresa Reed "Private Acts vs. Public Art: Where Prostitution Ends and Pornography Begins" Ch.11 Joshua Cohen "Freedom, Equality, Pornography" Ch.12 Ronald Dworkin "Women and Pornography" Ch.13 Laura Kipnis "Disgust and Desire: Hustler Magazine" IV. The Limits of Liberalism Ch.14 Tracy Quan "The Name of the Pose: A Sex Worker by Any Other Name" Ch.15 Julian Marlowe "Thinking Outside the Box: Men in the Sex Industry" Ch.16 Scott Anderson "Sexual Autonomy and Prostitution: Making Sense of the Prohibition of Prostitution" Ch.17 Debra Satz "Markets in Women's Sexual Labor" Ch.18 Jessica Spector "Obscene Division: Feminist Liberalism's Treatment of Prostitution and Pornography" Notes Bibliography Index
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Teachers' College Press Sex Ed for Caring Schools Creating an
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University of Pennsylvania Press Rape on Prime Time
Book SynopsisRape on Prime Time provides important insight into the social construction of rape in mainstream mass media since the inception of rape law reform in 1974.
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The Catholic University of America Press Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart Cultivating a
Book SynopsisIn an era in which the internet has made pornography readily accessible, Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart offers a theological critique of pornography and retrieves from the Christian tradition an alternative visual culture. This visual culture is constituted by both the character of the images we behold and the manner in which we see.
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New York University Press Victory Girls KhakiWackies and Patriotutes
Book SynopsisExplores the dual discourse on female sexual mobilization that emerged during World War II.Trade ReviewHegarty conducted excellent research in Social Protection Division archives, popular magazines, professional journals, and numerous other wartime materials. * Choice *Hegarty . . . uncover[s] a complex picture. . . . This study . . . significantly enhances our understanding of the World War II period in the United States. * Journal of American History *Offers a fresh perspective on the construction of gender roles during wartime by examining the experience of women who performed moral-maintaining, or as she terms the, sexualized services during World War II. * Military Review *Hegarty has succeeded in writing a very engaging and readable account of an important, and troubling, aspect of the history of the good war. -- Nancy K. Bristow * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes offers a substantive and complex narrative of the sweeping and multiple constraints on female sexuality during World War II. Hegartys study is the best since Allan Brandts epic work in its nuanced attention to the process by which female sexualitydeemed both necessary and suspectwas harnessed in service to the state, while female sexual desire and women’s choices to engage in heterosexual activity remained unspeakable and became critical targets for containment during and after the war. This is a provocative and compelling book. -- Leisa D. Meyer,author of Creating G. I. Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women’s Army Corps During World War IIIn this carefully crafted and highly readable history, Hegarty reminds us of the multiple links between sexuality and war. She captures the contradictions and shows us how womens sexuality was both mobilized and policed. -- Joanne Meyerowitz,author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United StatesThe strength of Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes is [Hegartys] delving deep into bureaucratic files, piecing together the Federal and state U.S. officials steps toward, and thinking behind, mobilizing and controlling American womens sexuality. -- Cynthia Enloe,author of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of EmpireTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations List Introduction 1 The Long Arm of the State 2 Prelude to War 3 "Reservoirs of Infection": Science, Medicine, and Contagious Bodies4 "A Buffer of Whores": Military and Social Ambivalence about Sexuality and Gender 5 "Spell 'IT' to the Marines": The Contradictory Messages of Popular Culture 6 Behind the Lines: The War against Women 7 Conclusion Appendix 1: The Eight Point Agreement Appendix 2: The May ActAppendix 3: Federal Agencies: The Social Protection Division Notes BibliographyIndex About the Author
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University of Arizona Press Just Between Us
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Duke University Press Sins against Nature Sex and Archives in Colonial
Book SynopsisDrawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept “against nature” to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, and other sex acts, thereby demonstrating how the archive influences understandings of bodies, desires, and social categories.Trade Review"Sins Against Nature is a true tour de force. Zeb Tortorici has painstakingly searched numerous archives in Mexico. He has provided detailed notes and has integrated significant theoretical findings into his analysis. Tortorici has written an outstanding book that will, no doubt, shape the scholarly debates within Latin American history and sexuality studies for many years to come." -- Anderson Hagler * Transmodernity *"The cases in Sins against Nature . . . are equally rich in their layering of cultural complexity: religious versus secular, indigenous versus colonial, action versus desire. Tortorici helps us appreciate the challenges of understanding sexuality, not only in colonial New Spain but also in the present." -- Vernon Rosario * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Tortorici has written an expansive, thoughtful, provocative, and innovative encyclopedic work. . . . While Tortorici generously invites his readers to peruse the documents themselves in a digital archive that he has made accessible, his book should stand for many years as an indispensable contribution to the history of so-called unnatural sexuality in New Spain. . . . With this book, Tortorici has singlehandedly raised the historiographical standard for the topic of viceregal sexuality and also made an important contribution to archival theory." -- Nicole Von Germeten * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Sins against Nature fills a critical need for queer methodological approaches to colonial Spanish American history. Tortorici conducts rigorous and historically specific analyses of colonial Spanish America while insisting on a self-reflexive and fluid approach to the research process itself. The book provides scholars both a way for thinking about archives, sexuality, and desire under Spanish colonialism and, as important, guidance on the ethics and implications of historical research in the field and beyond." -- Matthew Goldmark * TSQ *"You will never forget your first time reading Zeb Tortorici’s excellent book. . . . There is so much to praise in Sins Against Nature that it is difficult to know where to begin. . . . Sins Against Nature belongs in your hands and on your bookshelf." -- Jarett Henderson * Itinerario *"This book stayed with me long after I had read it. Tortorici has a gift for bringing to life the people involved in these archival cases and humanizing many of them and the communities from which they came." -- Stephanie Kirk * Early American Literature *"Tortorici has produced a well-written and deeply-researched book that will spark conversations, appeal to specialists, and work well in graduate seminars on historical methods and gender and sexuality in colonial Latin America." -- Evan C. Rothera * Journal of Global South Studies *"Tortorici presents a carefully researched, soundly supported, erudite work of scholarship." -- Aimee E. Hisey * Journal of Social History *"Tortorici’s innovative work is essential reading for historians of colonial sexuality, detailing as it does the ways in which the 'unnatural' was defined and catalogued in New Spain." -- Linda A. Curcio-Nagy * American Historical Review *"Tortorici's intimate narration of both the case and his own archive experience opens consideration and conversation of fundamental ethical questions in the discipline.… The seduction, the titillation of archival discovery is not limited to research on sex. For many historians, it is the experience of research itself. And for that reason, Sins against Nature holds broad appeal, not only for colonial Latin Americanists or historians of sexuality but also for anyone teaching or practicing the craft of history." -- Chad Black * H-LatAm; H-Net Reviews *"Tortorici has provided us with one of the best single books on the history of Latin American homosexuality.… It will become a classic of queer history in Mexican historiography." -- Martin Nesvig * EIAL *Table of ContentsA Note on Translation ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Archiving the Unnatural 1 1. Viscerality in the Archives: Consuming Desires 25 2. Impulses of the Archive: Misinscription and Voyeurism 46 3. Archiving the Signs of Sodomy: Bodies and Gestures 84 4. To Deaden the Memory: Bestiality and Animal Erasure 124 5. Archives of Negligence: Solicitation in the Confessional 161 6. Desiring the Divine: Pollution and Pleasure 197 Conclusion. Accessing Absence, Surveying Seduction 233 Appendix 255 List of Archives 261 Notes 263 Bibliography 297 Index 309
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MP-CSP Canadian Scholars Gender Sex and Tech An Intersectional Feminist
Book SynopsisIn this timely collection, gender, sex, and technology are explored through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. Gender, Sex, and Tech! provides insight into the ways that technology affects, and is affected by, cultural perceptions of gender and sex.Trade Review"Gender, Sex, and Tech! is a rich, fresh, and nuanced volume of essays considering unexpected relationships and interactions amongst different bodies, identities, and technologies, and it does this in accessible yet conceptually strong ways. The series of essays is engaging from the first page, and leads the reader through analyses of technologies we think we might know, but in formative uses of that tech that may not be well known or even recognizable to many audiences. The chapters are followed by considerate and genuinely thought-provoking questions for discussion, making this volume especially useful not only for classrooms but for students looking for technology studies with a little more bite."—Jennifer Dyer, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Gender Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland"A unique resource to reflect on the ways in which gender and sex are key to our use and awareness of tech from dating apps to video gaming to surveillance. The editors provide comprehensive introductions to core feminist research approaches that bring readers to an understanding of intersectionality as a lens for social transformation."—Janice Dodd, Professor Emerita, Women's and Gender Studies, University of ManitobaTable of Contents Acknowledgements A Brief Introduction to Sex and Tech: From Everyday to Extraordinary - Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa SmithPart I: Disrupt Chapter 1: Birth Control Pills, Baby Bottles, and Bikes: Dancing on the Edge of Social Transformation - Lisa Smith Chapter 2: Flowing with Tech: Bringing an Intersectional Lens to Menstruation Technologies - Lauren Friesen and Ana Brito Chapter 3: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence, Student Sexuality, and Post-Secondary Institutions - Shaina McHardyPart II: Connect Chapter 4: Neither Crone nor Cougar: Navigating Intimacy and Ageism on Dating Apps - Treena Orchard Chapter 5: "I'm Not Your Fantasy": Sexual Racism, Racial Fetishization, and the Exploitation of Racialized Men Who Have Sex with Men - Christopher Dietzel Chapter 6: Smartphones and Committed Relationships: Navigating the Intersection of Sex, Gender, and Other Social Variables - Noorin ManjiPart III: Surveillance Chapter 7: A Harem of Computers and a Mummery of Bondage - Jennifer Jill Fellows Chapter 8: Empowerment through Participatory Surveillance? Menstrual and Fertility Self-Tracking Apps as Postfeminist Biopedagogies - Jessica Polzer, Anna Sui, Kelly Ge, Laura Cayen Chapter 9: Artificial Unintelligence: How "Smart" and AI Technologies Perpetuate Bias and Systemic Discrimination - Sahar RazaPart IV: Bodies Chapter 10: Gatekeeping "Authentic" Gender: The Somatechnics of Transition Surgery and "Male Enhancement" - Jennifer Hites-Thomas Chapter 11: "So, You Wanna Live Forever?" Representations of Disability, Gender, and Technology in Cyberpunk 2077 - Tamara Banbury and Kelly FritschPart V: Reclaim Chapter 12: Holding Space for Future Matriarchs: Digital Platforms for Resurging Solidarity - Amber Brown and Angela Knowles Chapter 13: The Ethics of Care and Online Teaching: Personal Reflections on Pandemic Post-Secondary Instruction - Kira Tomsons Chapter 14: Zines and Ezines as Holistic Technologies: DIY Feminism in the Transnational Classroom - Jaime YardConclusion: Coming Home to the Future: Start, Pause, Repeat … - Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith Contributor Biographies
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Extinction of Desire
Book SynopsisWhat would you do if you suddenly became rich? Michael O'Meara had never asked himself this question. A high school history teacher in Maryland, Michael is content- until, after a freak accident, he unexpectedly finds himself the beneficiary of a million dollars that disrupt his life and leave him questioning everything he had and everything he thought he wanted. The Extinction of Desire blends Buddhist philosophy and fiction to maps the course of one man's voyage to uncover the fundamental truths about what is really valuable in life. An engaging novel that seeks to portray a philosophical depiction of the author's worldview theory Addresses core topics in philosophy and religion - knowledge, reality, self and others, value-in narrative form Confronts the place of materialism and instant gratification in our world views Includes a foreword by Charles Johnson, winner of the AmTrade Review"[Boylan] tries to present a philosophical worldview through the characters, actions, and events of his novel. He wants to show us a worldview in its experienced development and not just say that such and such is the case ... [A] brief summary of the action does not do justice to the richness of the story and the fun provided by the humorous characters that Michael encounters on his path toward enlightenment. They provide surprises and laughter along the way." Metapsychology Table of ContentsThe Four Noble Truths. Foreword by Charles Johnson. Prologue: An Ancient Fable. The Extinction of Desire: A Tale of Enlightenment. Acknowledgments
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Extinction of Desire
Book SynopsisWhat would you do if you suddenly became rich? Michael O'Meara had never asked himself this question. A high school history teacher in Maryland, Michael is content- until, after a freak accident, he unexpectedly finds himself the beneficiary of a million dollars that disrupt his life and leave him questioning everything he had and everything he thought he wanted. The Extinction of Desire blends Buddhist philosophy and fiction to maps the course of one man's voyage to uncover the fundamental truths about what is really valuable in life. An engaging novel that seeks to portray a philosophical depiction of the author's worldview theory Addresses core topics in philosophy and religion - knowledge, reality, self and others, value-in narrative form Confronts the place of materialism and instant gratification in our world views Includes a foreword by Charles Johnson, winner of the AmTrade Review"[Boylan] tries to present a philosophical worldview through the characters, actions, and events of his novel. He wants to show us a worldview in its experienced development and not just say that such and such is the case ... [A] brief summary of the action does not do justice to the richness of the story and the fun provided by the humorous characters that Michael encounters on his path toward enlightenment. They provide surprises and laughter along the way." Metapsychology Table of ContentsThe Four Noble Truths. Foreword by Charles Johnson. Prologue: An Ancient Fable. The Extinction of Desire: A Tale of Enlightenment. Acknowledgments
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
Book SynopsisThis Encyclopedia is a comprehensive A-Z reference with over 500 entries that define sexuality from a broad biocultural perspective and show the diversity of human sexual behavior and belief systems.Contains entries ranging from short definitions of scientific, clinical, cultural, and colloquial terms to extended explorations of major conceptsCovers 13 key areas of content, from clinical medicine and body modification to the language of sexuality and the history of sexologyServes as an essential resource for students, scholars, and researchers with contributions from an international team of top scholars and practitioners3 Volumes www.encyclopediaofhumansexuality.comTrade Review"Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduates and above; general readers; professionals/practitioners." (Choice, 1 January 2015) "There is therefore a great deal of relevant information in this book. Readers approaching the topic from an anthropological point of view, e.g. focussing on cultural diversity, will find useful material here." (Reference Reviews 2015)Table of ContentsVolume IAbout the Editors ixContributors xvAlphabetical List of Entries xxxvThematic List of Entries xliiiAcknowledgments xlixIntroduction lviiInternational Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality A–?Volume IIInternational Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality ?–?Volume IIIInternational Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality ?–ZIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities
Book SynopsisA Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world.Trade Review“While perhaps few readers will work through the volume as a whole, nearly all classicists will find some points of intersection with their own sub-fields. The discourses of sex in the ancient world are not confined to love poetry and erotic vase paintings, but pervade almost every aspect of life, if one knows what to look for.” (Phoenix, 1 June 2015) “This volume will be of use to many scholars and teachers across a variety of fields . . . Overall, this is a useful volume with much to recommend it to anyone who needs a solid introduction to any aspect of sexuality in ancient Greece or Rome.” (Religious Studies Review, 4 June 2015) “Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualitiesprovides a thought-provoking overview of an important subject area, it is a fascinating collection of chapters offering a tantalizing taste of a scholarship that is ripe for debate and will continue to encourage scholars to develop their research methods, bringing the cultures of Greece and Rome together for comparison and criticism and dissection and discussion.” (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2014 "Thanks to its wide scope, the collection of papers is guaranteed to appeal to beginners in the field of ancient sexuality as well as to specialists, who will find many details which are new to them. The Companion should also prove useful in teaching courses on issues of ancient sex and sexuality, since it assembles up-to-date, authoritative, well-written treatments of key aspects by noted experts. Its particular value lies in the diversity of the evidence presented and the breadth of the questions asked of the sources." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 2014) Table of ContentsForeword ix Notes on Contributors xi Abbreviations xvii Note on Ancient Greek Words, Names, and Titles xxvii 1 Feminist Theory 1 Marilyn B. Skinner 2 Studies of Ancient Masculinity 17 Mark Masterson 3 Desirability and the Body 31 Mark D. Stansbury-O’Donnell 4 Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Discipline of Classics 54 Kirk Ormand 5 Greek and Roman Marriage 69 Allison Glazebrook and Kelly Olson 6 Prostitution: Controversies and New Approaches 83 Thomas A. J. McGinn 7 Ancient Pederasty: An Introduction 102 Andrew Lear 8 Peer Homosexuality 128 Thomas K. Hubbard 9 Female Homoeroticism 150 Sandra Boehringer 10 From Ascesis to Sexual Renunciation 164 Thomas K. Hubbard and Maria Doerfler 11 Sexual Abuse and Sexual Rights: Slaves’ Erotic Experience at Athens and Rome 184 Edward E. Cohen 12 Sumposion 199 Sean Corner 13 Sexuality in Greek and Roman Religion 214 Jennifer Larson 14 Sexuality in Greek and Roman Military Contexts 230 David D. Leitao 15 Athletics and Sexuality 244 Nick Fisher 16 Phusis and Sensuality: Knowing the Body in Greek Erotic Culture 265 Giulia Sissa 17 Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Erotic Magic in the Greco-Roman World 282 Radcliffe G. Edmonds III 18 Dream Interpretation, Physiognomy, Body Divination 297 Christophe Chandezon, Veronique Dasen, and Jerome Wilgaux 19 Sex in Ancient Greek and Roman Epic 314 Ingrid E. Holmberg 20 Erotic Lyric 335 Richard Rawles and Bartolo Natoli 21 Sexuality in the Extant Greek and Roman Tragedies 352 Hanna M. Roisman 22 The Body Politic: Sexuality in Greek and Roman Comedy and Mime 366 Monica Florence 23 Greco-Roman Satirical Poetry 381 Ralph M. Rosen and Catherine C. Keane 24 Greek and Roman Ethnosexuality 398 Joseph Roisman 25 Platonic and Roman Influence on Stoic and Epicurean Sexual Ethics 417 James Jope 26 Sexual Rhetoric: From Athens to Rome 431 Allison Glazebrook 27 Biography 446 Caroline Vout 28 Epistolography 463 Owen Hodkinson 29 Paths of Love: Age and Gender Dynamics in the Erotic Novel 479 T. Wade Richardson 30 Sexual Themes in Greek and Latin Graffiti 493 Craig Williams 31 Sexuality and Visual Representation 509 John R. Clarke 32 Sexuality in Jewish Writings from 200 BCE to 200 CE 534 Mary R. D’Angelo 33 Early Christian Sexuality 549 Kathy L. Gaca 34 The Early Modern Erotic Imagination 565 Alastair J. L. Blanshard 35 Romantic Appropriations 583 Michael Matthew Kaylor 36 The Early Homophile Movement in Germany 599 Hans Peter Obermayer 37 Ancient Sexuality on Screen 613 Monica S. Cyrino Index of Ancient Works Cited 629 General Index 647
£126.85
Temple University Press,U.S. Challenging Perspectives on StreetBased Sex Work
Book SynopsisAre sex workers victims, criminals, orjust trying to make a living? Over the last five years, public policy and academic discourse have moved from criminalization of sex workers to victim-based understanding, shaped by human trafficking. While most research focuses on macro-level policies and theories, less is known about the on-the-ground perspectives of people whose lives are impacted by sex work, including attorneys, social workers, police officers, probation officers, and sex workers themselves. Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work brings the voices of lower-echelon sex workers and those individuals charged with policy development and enforcement into conversation with one another. Chapters highlight some of the current approaches to sex work, such as diversion courts, trafficking task forces, law enforcement assisted diversion and decriminalization. It also examines how sex workers navigate seldom-discussed social phenomenon like gentrification, pregnancy, imperiali
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Vicarious Kinks
Book SynopsisIn Vicarious Kinks, Ummni Khan looks at the mass of claims that film, feminism, the human sciences, and law make about sadomasochism and its practitioners, and the way those claims become the basis for the legal regulation of sadomasochist pornography and practice.Trade Review'To write a book in support of sadomasochism (s/m) is a risky undertaking for a legal academic... Canadian law and sexuality scholar Ummni Khan rises brilliantly to the challenge... Khan skillfully weaves together her analysis of each discursive framework to paint a picture of the stories we tell about s/m.' -- Dana Phillips McGill Law Journal, vol 61:01:2015 'Bold, original, and unafraid to take risks... Khan's book skillfully analyzes the regulation of s/m from original vantage points, pushing its readers to the boundaries of law and culture.' -- Kyle Kirkup Osgoode Hall Law Journal - vol 53:01:2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prelude Introduction Chapter 1: Who's Your Daddy? S/M's Founding Fathers Chapter 2: Feminists Divided: The Battle over S/M in the Sex Wars Chapter 3: S/M in Show Biz Chapter 4: The Legal Fondling of S/M Pornography Chapter 5: The Legal Fondling of S/M Practice Conclusion: Epistemic Violence, Epistemic Pleasures Notes Bibliography Index
£30.60
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Regulating Sex Work
Book SynopsisRegulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? addresses the rise in sexual commerce and consumption by challenging traditional responses and offering a fresh approach to sex industry regulation Examines different forms of sex regulation by utilizing examples from a range of sex markets in the UK, France, USA, Australia, and India Theorizes the apparent paradox that the increase in punitive approaches to regulating the sex industry is fueling a rise in supply, demand, and diversification of the sex industry Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Changing Social and Legal Context of Sexual Commerce: Why Regulation Matters (Jane Scoular and Teela Sanders). 2. What's Law Got To Do With It? How and Why Law Matters in the Regulation of Sex Work (Jane Scoular). 3. Mainstreaming the Sex Industry: Economic Inclusion and Social Ambivalence (Barbara G. Brents and Teela Sanders). 4. The Movement to Criminalise Sex Work in the United States (Ronald Weitzer). 5. When (Some) Prostitution is Legal: The Impact of Law Reform on Sex Work in Australia (Barbara Sullivan). 6. Labours in Vice or Virtue? Neo-Liberalism, Sexual Commerce, and the Case of Indian Bar Dancing (Prabha Kotiswaran). 7. Male Sex Work: Exploring Regulation in England and Wales (Mary Whowell). 8. Bellwether Citizens: The Regulation of Male Clients of Sex Workers (Belinda Brooks-Gordon). 9. Extreme Concern: Regulating `Dangerous Pictures' in the United Kingdom (Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith). 10. Consuming Sex: Socio-legal Shifts in the Space and Place of Sex Shops (Baptiste Coulmont and Phil Hubbard). 11. Cultural Criminology and Sex Work: Resisting Regulation through Radical Democracy and Participatory Action Research (PAR) (Maggie O'Neill).
£19.71
John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Sexual Histories
Book SynopsisThe second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Elizabeth Reis Part I Early America 9 1 Bodies in Doubt: Intersex in Early America 11 Elizabeth Reis Documents: 1.1 Thomas/Thomasine Hall, 1629 25 1.2 James Parsons, A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites, 1741 27 1.3 Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book, 1671 29 2 Transgressive Male Sex in Early America 34 Thomas A. Foster Documents: 2.1 Bestiality Cases in New Haven, Connecticut, 1638–49 47 2.2 "Trunil Him well brother," 1751 52 3 Indian Women, French Women, and the Regulation of Sex 56 Jennifer M. Spear Documents: 3.1 Journal of Diron d’Artaguiette, 1722–3 73 3.2 Duclos to Pontchartrain, December 25, 1715 75 3.3 Lamothe Cadillac to Pontchartrain, October 26, 1713 77 3.4 Louisiana's Code Noir (1724) 79 4 Rape and Sexual Power in Early America 82 Sharon Block Documents: 4.1 Testimony against David Clark, 1764 95 4.2 Ephraim Wheeler's Rape Trial, 1805 96 5 The Overflowing of Friendship 101 Richard Godbeer Documents: 5.1 Letters of Robert Treat Paine, 1749 114 5.2 Letters of Daniel Webster, 1801–5 116 6 Sex Among the Rabble 122 Clare A. Lyons Documents: 6.1 Philadelphia Magdalen Society, Minutes, 1807-10 134 6.2 Maria; or, the Seduction, 1796 137 6.3 The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House, 1760 139 7 White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South 147 Martha Hodes Document: 7.1 Lewis Bourne Divorce Petition, 1823-5 161 8 Obscenity, Sex Education, and Medical Democracy in the Antebellum United States 165 April Haynes Documents: 8.1 Frederick Hollick, The Marriage Guide, 1850 177 8.2 Letters to the Editor about Dr. Frederick Hollick, 1845 183 Part II Modern America 187 9 Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America 189 Peggy Pascoe Documents: 9.1 "Aoki – Engaged to Daughter of Prelate," 1909 202 9.2 "Emery Girl Ready to Marry the Japanese," 1909 204 9.3 "Aoki Expects to Wed in Portland," 1909 205 9.4 "Whose Business Is It?" 1909 206 9.5 "A Disgusting Spectacle," 1909 206 9.6 "Aoki's Inamorata Flits Northward," 1909 207 10 Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl" 211 Elizabeth Lunbeck Document: 10.1 The Case of Miss A, 1913-14 224 11 When Abortion Was Illegal 230 Leslie J. Reagan Documents: 11.1 A Maryland Abortionist Gets No Pardon, 1904 243 11.2 Dying Declarations Obtained in Abortion Case as Condition to Rendering Aid, 1909 244 11.3 Comments of "Esther E.," 1920 245 12 Contraceptive Consumers 247 Andrea Tone Documents: 12.1 Advertisements for Lysol, 1932, 1933 260 12.2 Facts and Frauds in Women's Hygiene, 1936 262 12.3 What Do the American Women Think about Birth Control? 1938 264 12.4 The Dilex Speech, 1938 268 13 Lesbian Pulp Novels and US Lesbian Identity 270 Yvonne Keller Documents: 13.1 Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, 1928 285 13.2 Tereska Torres, Women's Barracks, 1950 288 13.3 Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker, 1962 291 14 Sex Change and the Popular Press 294 Joanne Meyerowitz Documents: 14.1 Girl Changes into Man, 1936 309 14.2 Psychopathia Transexualis, 1949 311 14.3 New Sex Switches: Behind the Sensational Headlines Loom Unpleasant Medical Facts, 1954 316 14.4 I Want to Become a Woman, 1956 317 15 The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution 320 Rickie Solinger Documents: 15.1 The Slavery of Sex Freedom: America’s Moral Crisis, 1957 335 15.2 Are We Still Stereotyping the Unmarried Mother? 1960 338 15.3 Population Crisis: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures of the Committee on Government Operations, 1965 341 16 Marketing Safe Sex 345 Jennifer Brier Documents: 16.1 "Can We Talk?" 1983 361 16.2 "Information for People of Color, 1987" 363 16.3 Promoting Condoms for Gay Men, 1987 364 Source Acknowledgments 368 Index 372
£52.25
Bristol University Press Designing Prostitution Policy
Book SynopsisThe book offers a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of prostitution policy at the local level.Trade Review“A splendid, evidence-based analysis of policies related to sexual commerce and labor migration in Europe. Scholars and policymakers will find the book’s findings of tremendous value as they weigh alternative proposals for regulating commercial sex. “ Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Challenges of prostitution policy The local governance of prostitution: regulatory drift and implementation capture The national governance of prostitution: political rationality and the politics of discourse Understanding the policy field: migration, prostitution, trafficking and exploitation Prostitution policy beyond trafficking: collaborative governance in prostitution Summary and conclusions
£77.39
Policy Press Intimacy and Ageing
Book SynopsisThis timely book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, addresses the gap in knowledge about late life repartnering and provides a comprehensive map of the changing landscape of late life intimacy.Trade Review"At last, an account of ageing intimacy that blows away stereotypes to engage with the complexities. A must-read for academics and those working with older people." Dr Paul Simpson, Edge Hill UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Intimacy and ageing in late modernity; The changing landscape of intimacy in later life; From marriage to alternative union forms; A life of relationships; Attitudes towards new romantic relationships; Initiation and development of new romantic relationships; A new partner as a resource for social support; Consequences for social network and support structures; Sex in an ideology of love; Time as a structuring condition for new intimate relationships in later life; Discussion; Methodological Appendix.
£25.64
Bristol University Press Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia
Book SynopsisOffering a perceptive study of the urgent human rights issue of trafficking in persons, this important book analyses the development and effectiveness of public policies across Eurasia.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diffusing The Politics of Human Trafficking from Europe to Asia Contrasting Policy Approaches to Human Trafficking in Eurasia Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy Adoption Tracing the Development of Anti-trafficking Institutions Linkages Among Actors in Anti-trafficking Networks Uneven Implementation of Human Trafficking Policies Empirical Comparisons of Human Trafficking Policy Across Eurasia Conclusion: The Implications of Human Trafficking Policies
£75.99
Bristol University Press Sex and Diversity in Later Life
Book SynopsisAddressing diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+), this collection explores how being older intersects with ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. This original text extends knowledge concerning intimacies, practices and pleasures for those thought to represent normative forms of sexual identification and expression.Table of ContentsSeries Editor Introduction ~ Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield Foreword ~ Diana K. Kwok Sex and intimacy in later life: a survey of the terrain ~ Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield Sexual expression and pleasure among black minority ethnic older women ~ Debra Harley Sexual desires and intimacy needs in older persons and towards the end of life ~ Karen Rennie Heterosexual sex, love and intimacy in later life: what have older women got to say? ~ Trish Hafford-Letchfield Sex and Ageing in Older Heterosexual Men ~ Josie Tetley and David Lee Sex and Older Gay Men: An International Perspective ~ Peter Robinson Thinking the Unthinkable: Older Lesbians, Sex and Violence ~ Megan Todd Splitting hairs: Michel Foucault’s ‘heterotopia’ and bisexuality in later life ~ Christopher Wells The age of rediscovery: what is it like to gender transition when you are 50 plus? ~ Laura Scarrone Bonhomme Aging Asexually: Exploring Desexualization and Aging Asexual Intimacies ~ Ela Pryzbylo Older people, sex and social class: unusual bedfellows? ~ Paul Simpson Final reflections: themes on sex and intimacy in later life ~ Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield
£76.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Prescription for Heterosexuality Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era
Book SynopsisIn this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War. She argues that many doctors viewed their patients' sexual habits as more than an issue of personal health.
£26.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Porn Work Sex Labor and Late Capitalism
Book SynopsisEvery porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Part labor history, part ethnography illuminating the lives of the performers who work in the medium, Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it.
£70.50
The University of North Carolina Press Wondrous Transformations A Maverick Physician
Book SynopsisDrawing from research in archival documents, secondary sources, and interviews, Li tells the story of Harry Benjamin’s early ventures in gerontology and his later work with over a thousand transgender patients. Benjamin’s contributions to treatment, education, research, and networking helped to create the foundations of transgender medicine.Trade ReviewA smart and highly readable contribution to transgender studies."—Publishers Weekly
£23.96
University of Texas Press Love in the Drug War
Book SynopsisA nuanced exploration of life in la zona, the prostitution zone in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, where narcos, sex workers, and missionaries are entangled in revelatory relationships of love and obligation.Trade ReviewLove in the Drug War is as detailed as a dissertation and as readable as a novel. * BuzzFeed News *[A] terrifically engaging and accessibly written ethnography...Love in the Drug War is richly illustrated with glossy color photos not often seen in university press books that vividly take the reader into la zona. * Anthropological Quarterly *The lives of people in two immigrant groups in Reynosa, Mexico, illuminate morality and necessity and conversion and survival within the context of vice tourism and a protracted drug war...Luna situates the sex worker/missionary dynamic within the context of a narcoeconomy and the complexities of narcoviolence that places the lives of the most vulnerable in Mexico in grave danger...Recommended. * CHOICE *Love in the Drug War is a wonderfully written and highly original ethnography that fluidly spans a wide range of conceptual fields (violence, migration, sex work, theology and queer studies, to name but a few) making it an attractive read for a large audience...Love in the Drug War is a beautiful anthropological work, and it is Luna’s attentiveness to the everyday details of life in la zona that immerses the reader. Upon turning the final page of the book, the reader is left with this: that from the cracks and crevices of an area defined by its negatives, love and intimacy, however complex, can grow and coexist with violence. * Race & Class *[A] sensitive and theoretically rich ethnography...[Love in the Drug War] is a compelling, approachable, and very teachable ethnographic perspective on sexual labor, emotion, and racialized, gendered, and classed subjectivities on the border. It also offers an intimate lens on the effects of the militarized war on drugs on vulnerable populations. The book advances the creative power of queer theory and ethnography to expand the boundaries of human understanding. * General Anthropology *An ambitious, dangerous, and powerful study of transnational economies, neocolonialism, intimacy, labor, and Christianity...Luna’s work stands among the best in recent ethnographic explorations of sexual economies throughout the Global South, but given her site’s geographic proximity to the Global North, her work offers unique insights into the porousness of even the most militarized national borders thanks to power, privilege, and individual ingenuity...Luna’s work represents ethnography at its finest, showing how the experiences of a small and unseen group of people agentically forge lives that are simultaneously emblematic of forces well beyond their control. * Journal of Anthropological Research *A compelling resource for understanding the construction and negotiation of moral, economic, material, and spiritual value in the context of the drug war on the Mexico-US border…[Luna] provides a rich example of how structural inequalities shape relations of intimacy and value-making in the borderlands...beautifully written and methodologically rigorous...Love in the Drug War is an engaging and necessary read for anyone interested in love, sexuality, and the borderlands. * Humanity & Society *[Love in the Drug War] accurately compiles and intertwines the stories of women who live and work in 'the zone' with the violence in the border city of Reynosa, Mexico...Luna accurately conveys the message of her research in Love in the Drug War. * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Love in the Drug War is an exciting piece of work that pushes us to think about borderlands, queer intimacies, value, morality, love, and obligation together...Love in the Drug War is a unique book that reaches across disciplines. It helps the reader think synthetically across multiple theoretical perspectives, lived experiences, geographies, and methodological orientations. * Current Anthropology *Luna masterfully links cultural anthropology with migration, gender, and queer studies through her ethnographic examination of how the border shapes people's subjectivities across race, gender, class, nationality, and religion. Anyone interested in the Mexico-US border should read and take note of Luna's timely, engaging, and accessible text. * American Ethnologist *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Drug Work and Sex Work in Reynosa 1. Dinero Fácil: The Gendered Moral Economies of Drug Work and Sex Work 2. Rumors of Violence and Feelings of Vulnerability Part II. The Intimate and Economic Obligations of Sex Workers 3. Stigmatized Whores, Obligated Mothers, and Respectable Prostitutes 4. “Sometimes We, as Mothers, Are to Blame”: Drug-Addicted Sex Workers and the Politics of Blame Part III. Missionary Projects in Boystown 5. The Love Triad between Sex Workers, Missionaries, and God 6. Love and Conflict in Sex Worker/Missionary Relationships Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Love in the Drug War
Book Synopsis 2020 — Ruth Benedict Prize – Association for Queer Anthropology, American Anthropological Association 2020 — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize – National Women’s Studies Association 2020 — Honorable Mention, Sara A. Whaley Book Prize 2021 — Best Book in Social Sciences – Mexico Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 2008 and 2009, a time of intense drug violence, Sarah Luna met and built relationships with two kinds of migrants, women who moved from rural Mexico to Reynosa to become sex workers and American missionaries who moved from the United States to forge a fellowship with those workers. Luna examines the entanglements, both intimate and financial, that define their lives. Using the conceptTrade ReviewLove in the Drug War is as detailed as a dissertation and as readable as a novel. * BuzzFeed News *[A] terrifically engaging and accessibly written ethnography...Love in the Drug War is richly illustrated with glossy color photos not often seen in university press books that vividly take the reader into la zona. * Anthropological Quarterly *The lives of people in two immigrant groups in Reynosa, Mexico, illuminate morality and necessity and conversion and survival within the context of vice tourism and a protracted drug war...Luna situates the sex worker/missionary dynamic within the context of a narcoeconomy and the complexities of narcoviolence that places the lives of the most vulnerable in Mexico in grave danger...Recommended. * CHOICE *Love in the Drug War is a wonderfully written and highly original ethnography that fluidly spans a wide range of conceptual fields (violence, migration, sex work, theology and queer studies, to name but a few) making it an attractive read for a large audience...Love in the Drug War is a beautiful anthropological work, and it is Luna’s attentiveness to the everyday details of life in la zona that immerses the reader. Upon turning the final page of the book, the reader is left with this: that from the cracks and crevices of an area defined by its negatives, love and intimacy, however complex, can grow and coexist with violence. * Race & Class *[A] sensitive and theoretically rich ethnography...[Love in the Drug War] is a compelling, approachable, and very teachable ethnographic perspective on sexual labor, emotion, and racialized, gendered, and classed subjectivities on the border. It also offers an intimate lens on the effects of the militarized war on drugs on vulnerable populations. The book advances the creative power of queer theory and ethnography to expand the boundaries of human understanding. * General Anthropology *An ambitious, dangerous, and powerful study of transnational economies, neocolonialism, intimacy, labor, and Christianity...Luna’s work stands among the best in recent ethnographic explorations of sexual economies throughout the Global South, but given her site’s geographic proximity to the Global North, her work offers unique insights into the porousness of even the most militarized national borders thanks to power, privilege, and individual ingenuity...Luna’s work represents ethnography at its finest, showing how the experiences of a small and unseen group of people agentically forge lives that are simultaneously emblematic of forces well beyond their control. * Journal of Anthropological Research *A compelling resource for understanding the construction and negotiation of moral, economic, material, and spiritual value in the context of the drug war on the Mexico-US border…[Luna] provides a rich example of how structural inequalities shape relations of intimacy and value-making in the borderlands...beautifully written and methodologically rigorous...Love in the Drug War is an engaging and necessary read for anyone interested in love, sexuality, and the borderlands. * Humanity & Society *[Love in the Drug War] accurately compiles and intertwines the stories of women who live and work in 'the zone' with the violence in the border city of Reynosa, Mexico...Luna accurately conveys the message of her research in Love in the Drug War. * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Love in the Drug War is an exciting piece of work that pushes us to think about borderlands, queer intimacies, value, morality, love, and obligation together...Love in the Drug War is a unique book that reaches across disciplines. It helps the reader think synthetically across multiple theoretical perspectives, lived experiences, geographies, and methodological orientations. * Current Anthropology *Luna masterfully links cultural anthropology with migration, gender, and queer studies through her ethnographic examination of how the border shapes people's subjectivities across race, gender, class, nationality, and religion. Anyone interested in the Mexico-US border should read and take note of Luna's timely, engaging, and accessible text. * American Ethnologist *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Drug Work and Sex Work in Reynosa 1. Dinero Fácil: The Gendered Moral Economies of Drug Work and Sex Work 2. Rumors of Violence and Feelings of Vulnerability Part II. The Intimate and Economic Obligations of Sex Workers 3. Stigmatized Whores, Obligated Mothers, and Respectable Prostitutes 4. “Sometimes We, as Mothers, Are to Blame”: Drug-Addicted Sex Workers and the Politics of Blame Part III. Missionary Projects in Boystown 5. The Love Triad between Sex Workers, Missionaries, and God 6. Love and Conflict in Sex Worker/Missionary Relationships Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Supersex
Book Synopsis2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited CollectionFrom Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself—seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality. Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and filmTrade ReviewInsightful...Peppard’s assemblage shows just how varied and multivalent superhero media is, as well as highlighting the diversity of experiences and interpretations of it. Supersex is a broad cultural survey of superheroes, with insights that are beguiling fuel for the critical imagination. * Foreword Reviews *Peppard's introduction is a brilliant overview of the history of superhero bodies that perfectly sets the stage for the essays that follow, and the epilogue by Richard Harrison is an inspired piece that provides a satisfying summation for this eclectic collection. Supersex is intelligent and entertaining and, for comics fans, it opens new avenues for thinking about how superheroes affect readers and culture. * Comic Book Yeti *If the stated task of assembling a volume dedicated to 'unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality' does seem not impressive enough, Peppard has also managed to curate a book that is utterly enjoyable to read. In other words, the sexiness of this collection is tied not only to its intellectual contributions, but also to its affective power—at times I felt downright naughty for reveling in Supersex as much as I did...[Supersex is] strong...from cover to cover. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *This thoughtful, up-to-date collection pursues questions anyone who studies superheroes will want to answer...We can do more—and this volume can help us do more—to spot, to interpret, and sometimes even to champion the exceptions, the comics that work on behalf of the readers who want them, against the now all too familiar hetero-patriarchal rules. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *Supersex offers an in-depth starting point to examine superhero sexuality and eroticism...The chapters are not just a collection, but a dialogue that allows for a subjective multiplicity that ultimately provides a rich tapestry of insights that are interlinked even (or especially) when they are contradictory...[Supersex] offers a wonderful exploration of the contradictions inherent to supersex. * Journal of American Studies *From the queering of costume to weapons and war, shapeshifting characters, and buddy systems, Supersex takes the subject to places not usually explored, creating a solid foundation for future scholars and critics...Supersex is a long, rich academic book; however, it’s highly accessible and written with enthusiasm and verve...curious readers seek something a little weightier and will find plenty to ponder. * Women Write about Comics *[A] fantastic collection...Supersex presents an intriguing and analytical look at a topic that has been taboo for many scholars. The breadth of the chapters makes it an invaluable text for the future of superhero studies, sexuality studies, queer studies, and any intersections between these fields. Furthermore, many of these essays will hopefully become jumping off points for future analytical responses to sexuality within superhero comics. * ImageTexT *Table of Contents Introduction. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex (Anna F. Peppard) Part I. Comics 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power (Richard Reynolds) 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age (Matt Yockey) 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm (J. Andrew Deman) 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers (Brian Johnson) 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes (Sarah Panuska) 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers (Keith Friedlander) Part II. Film, Television, and Fan Culture 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability (Christopher B. Zeichmann) 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy (Samantha Langsdale) 9. “No One’s Going to Be Looking at Your Face”: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (Anna F. Peppard) 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity (Jeffrey A. Brown) 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies (Joseph Brennan) 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power (Olivia Hicks) 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay (Anne Kustritz) Epilogue: The Matter with Size (Richard Harrison) Contributors Index
£45.00
University of Texas Press Downtown Juárez
Book SynopsisAn intimate look at the normalization of violence in the lives of sex workers, drug dealers, barflies, and drug addicts in downtown Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.Trade Review[Campbell] constructs a detailed and personal account of how violence is produced in Juárez specifically and Mexico as a whole...The author's writing style transports us to the detailed accounts and experiences he went through in Juárez and brings light to those who have been pushed to the shadows...This book is a valuable contribution to the literature as it provides scholars, social workers, and law enforcement officials with a complex understanding of violence in Juárez and the processes of naturalization of violence that continue to perpetuate violence in Mexico. * Small Wars Journal *This is a masterpiece of urban anthropology and one of the most significant studies of life in Ciudad Juárez in recent memory. It is a formidable work of scholarship that resonates far beyond academe. * El Paso Matters *An extraordinary book...By telling the tragic tales of people who live in very dire conditions—and perform activities that are not ideal—in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Campbell seeks to offer a general explanation of the intense violence that takes place every day in the central part of this very complex border city...This text and its stories are the result of brave, humane, and exemplary ethnographic work that depicts the 'underworlds of violence and abuse.' * NACLA Report *Through his detailed narratives...Campbell successfully details the complexities of Ciudad Juárez that lead some people to barely survive and others to certain destruction…Recommended. * CHOICE *Campbell provides the reader with a gritty but very human account of the limited choices that those living in the Juárez underworld face, and shows how these limited choices become 'normal'...Downtown Juárez is a very compelling read...Readers will come away with an understanding of the everyday lives of the members of the Juárez underworld, and how violence has become a normal part of their daily experience. * The Sociological Review *Campbell’s vivid and captivating ethnography of Downtown Juárez is not only accessible, well written, and engaging, but also makes notable theoretical and methodological contributions...Campbell’s ethnography neither romanticizes nor pathologizes everyday life in Downtown Juárez. Instead, he masterfully centers the lived realities of his informants and provides greater insights into their subjectivities and humanity...A must-read for scholars interested in violence, the borderlands, and ethnographic methodologies. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *By understanding how individuals frequently fall into both [victim and victimizer], and indeed, how being a victimizer often leads someone to become a victim and vice versa, Campbell offers a nuanced reading of violence in the region, drawing attention to often underanalyzed dynamics...[Campbell's] narratives are vibrant and often nuanced. They are a pleasure to read. * Latin American Politics and Society *This [book] is an honest effort to approach the complex problems of this border city…it revels in the rigor of an academic book, but is also accessible to non-specialized readers.[Este libro es] un esfuerzo honesto por aproximarse a la compleja problematica de esta urbe fronteriza . . . Goza de rigor académico, pero también es accesible a los lectores no especializados. * Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos *Table of Contents Introduction: Borders of the Mind—Violence in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico 1. Synergistic Violence and the Normalization of Abuse in a Border Context 2. The Bridge: Concentrations of Power, Economic Exchange, and Transnational Humanity 3. The Historical Roots of Violence, Crime, and Abuse in Downtown Juárez and Colonia Bellavista 4. Colonia Bellavista Today 5. Avenida Juárez Today 6. Prostitution and Sex Workers in the Downtown Street Scene 7. Contemporary Gay Pick-Up Scenes and Danger in Downtown Juárez 8. Border Bar Life: An Introduction 9. A Place without Limits: Inebriation and Dehumanization at The Club 10. Conviviality, Drug Deals, Sexual Abuse, and a Juárez-Based Philosophy of Masculine Nihilism 11. Bars as Sites and Languid Staging Areas for Petty Crimes: Hanging Out in the 69 Lounge, Waiting for Something Bad to Happen 12. Downtown Bars as Locations of both Pleasure and Victimization: Sex, Drugs, and Extortion at El Antro 13. Bars and Criminality: Human Smugglers and Cross-Border Drug Smugglers in Central Juárez 14. Everyday Drug Dealers in Downtown Juárez 15. Human Perseverance amidst Recurring “Drug Wars” 16. The Naturalization of “Drug Violence”: Hit Men and Drug Killings 17. Paloma Makes a Life in the Downtown Bars: Survival amidst Crime, Violence, Drugs, and Sexual Abuse Conclusion: Synergistic Violence and the Cycle of Victimization on the Border Notes Bibliography Index
£78.30
University of Texas Press Downtown Juarez
Book SynopsisAt least 200,000 people have died in Mexico's so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn't believe there is any one answer. Misguided policies, corruption, criminality, and the borderland economy are all factors. But none of these reasons explain how violence in downtown Juárez has become heartbreakingly normal.A rigorous yet moving account, Downtown Juárez is informed by the sex workers, addicts, hustlers, bar owners, human smugglers, migrants, and down-and-out workers struggling to survive in an underworld where horrifying abuses have come to seem like the natural way of things. Even as Juárez's elite northeast section thrives on the profits of multinational corporations, and law-abiding citizens across the city mobilize against crime and official malfeasance, downtown's cantinas, barrios, and brothels are tyrannized by misery. Trade Review[Campbell] constructs a detailed and personal account of how violence is produced in Juárez specifically and Mexico as a whole...The author's writing style transports us to the detailed accounts and experiences he went through in Juárez and brings light to those who have been pushed to the shadows...This book is a valuable contribution to the literature as it provides scholars, social workers, and law enforcement officials with a complex understanding of violence in Juárez and the processes of naturalization of violence that continue to perpetuate violence in Mexico. * Small Wars Journal *This is a masterpiece of urban anthropology and one of the most significant studies of life in Ciudad Juárez in recent memory. It is a formidable work of scholarship that resonates far beyond academe. * El Paso Matters *An extraordinary book...By telling the tragic tales of people who live in very dire conditions—and perform activities that are not ideal—in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Campbell seeks to offer a general explanation of the intense violence that takes place every day in the central part of this very complex border city...This text and its stories are the result of brave, humane, and exemplary ethnographic work that depicts the 'underworlds of violence and abuse.' * NACLA Report *Through his detailed narratives...Campbell successfully details the complexities of Ciudad Juárez that lead some people to barely survive and others to certain destruction…Recommended. * CHOICE *Campbell provides the reader with a gritty but very human account of the limited choices that those living in the Juárez underworld face, and shows how these limited choices become 'normal'...Downtown Juárez is a very compelling read...Readers will come away with an understanding of the everyday lives of the members of the Juárez underworld, and how violence has become a normal part of their daily experience. * The Sociological Review *Campbell’s vivid and captivating ethnography of Downtown Juárez is not only accessible, well written, and engaging, but also makes notable theoretical and methodological contributions...Campbell’s ethnography neither romanticizes nor pathologizes everyday life in Downtown Juárez. Instead, he masterfully centers the lived realities of his informants and provides greater insights into their subjectivities and humanity...A must-read for scholars interested in violence, the borderlands, and ethnographic methodologies. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *By understanding how individuals frequently fall into both [victim and victimizer], and indeed, how being a victimizer often leads someone to become a victim and vice versa, Campbell offers a nuanced reading of violence in the region, drawing attention to often underanalyzed dynamics...[Campbell's] narratives are vibrant and often nuanced. They are a pleasure to read. * Latin American Politics and Society *This [book] is an honest effort to approach the complex problems of this border city…it revels in the rigor of an academic book, but is also accessible to non-specialized readers.[Este libro es] un esfuerzo honesto por aproximarse a la compleja problematica de esta urbe fronteriza . . . Goza de rigor académico, pero también es accesible a los lectores no especializados. * Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos *Table of Contents Introduction: Borders of the Mind—Violence in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico 1. Synergistic Violence and the Normalization of Abuse in a Border Context 2. The Bridge: Concentrations of Power, Economic Exchange, and Transnational Humanity 3. The Historical Roots of Violence, Crime, and Abuse in Downtown Juárez and Colonia Bellavista 4. Colonia Bellavista Today 5. Avenida Juárez Today 6. Prostitution and Sex Workers in the Downtown Street Scene 7. Contemporary Gay Pick-Up Scenes and Danger in Downtown Juárez 8. Border Bar Life: An Introduction 9. A Place without Limits: Inebriation and Dehumanization at The Club 10. Conviviality, Drug Deals, Sexual Abuse, and a Juárez-Based Philosophy of Masculine Nihilism 11. Bars as Sites and Languid Staging Areas for Petty Crimes: Hanging Out in the 69 Lounge, Waiting for Something Bad to Happen 12. Downtown Bars as Locations of both Pleasure and Victimization: Sex, Drugs, and Extortion at El Antro 13. Bars and Criminality: Human Smugglers and Cross-Border Drug Smugglers in Central Juárez 14. Everyday Drug Dealers in Downtown Juárez 15. Human Perseverance amidst Recurring “Drug Wars” 16. The Naturalization of “Drug Violence”: Hit Men and Drug Killings 17. Paloma Makes a Life in the Downtown Bars: Survival amidst Crime, Violence, Drugs, and Sexual Abuse Conclusion: Synergistic Violence and the Cycle of Victimization on the Border Notes Bibliography Index
£23.39
Duke University Press The Lives of Jessie Sampter
Book SynopsisSarah Imhoff tells the story of the queer, disabled, Zionist writer Jessie Sampter (1883–1938), whose body and life did not match typical Zionist ideals and serves as an example of the complex relationships between the body, queerness, disability, religion, and nationalism.Trade Review“Sarah Imhoff presents the remarkable story of Jessie Sampter, whose life breaks with all the conventional associations of a Zionist pioneer. Disabled due to polio, living with a woman in mandate-era Palestine, and a pacifist and internationalist with right-wing Zionist politics, Sampter violated expectations and flouted conventions. Using feminist theory and crip theory, Imhoff reconstructs Sampter’s life and the vital challenges she presented in her day and in our own.” -- Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. A Religious Life 27 2. A Life with Disability 68 3. A Queer Life 106 4. A Theological-Political Life 144 5. Afterlives 193 Notes 223 Bibliography 249 Index 263
£76.50
Duke University Press Abundance
Book SynopsisIn Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead, Arondekar theorizes the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj—a caste-oppressed devadasi collective in South Asia—that are plentiful and quotidian, imaginative and ordinary. For Arondekar, abundance is inextricably linked to the histories of subordinated groups in ways that challenge narratives of their constant devaluation. Summoning abundance over loss upends settled genealogies of historical recuperation and representation and works against the imperative to fix sexuality within wider structures of vulnerability, damage, and precarity. Multigeneric and multilingual, transregional and historically supple, Abundance centers sexuality within area, post/colonial, and anti/castTrade Review“By shifting our attention from the recuperation of sexuality as loss to understanding it as a site of abundance, Anjali Arondekar forces a reckoning with the knowledges of subaltern groups in the global South. Abundance will blow a wide hole in South Asian historiography as well as sexuality studies in the United States.” -- Indrani Chatterjee, author of * Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India *"With her brilliantly conceived Abundance: Sexuality’s History, Professor Anjali Arondekar . . . has reset the bar very high, with one of the best, richest and most important books of Indian historiography ever written. It’s a huge achievement, with even huger implications for how we assess and think about our collective past." -- Vivek Menezes * O Heraldo *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Make.Believe.Sexuality's Subjects 1 1. In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Archives 33 2. A History I Am Not Writing: Sexuality's Exemplarity 63 3. Itinerant Sex: Geopolitics as Critique 90 Coda. I Am Not Your Data. Caste, Sexuality, Protest 112 Acknowledgments 129 Primary Sources 135 Secondary Sources 139 Index 163
£67.15
Duke University Press Sexology and Its Afterlives
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£11.39
