Sex and sexuality, social aspects Books

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/caste histories.Trade 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

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sex and Stigmalays the groundwork for greater understanding of the everyday routines and work-life considerations of legal sex workers. This book is both significant and distinctive for the authors ability to take a phenomenon that typically is considered hidden and stigmatized and attach real faces, lives, workplace, and home issues to these women. Insightful and illuminating." -- Patrice M. Buzzanell,editor of Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives"Sex and Stigmais an engaging and informative book, blending first-person perspectives with feminist scholarship todemystify the brothel as a workplace. A smart and innovative study,readers will benefit fromthe authors blend of scholarly expertise, theirunique access to a difficult-to-reach population, and the inclusion of multiple sex workers perspectives." -- Shira Tarrant,author of The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know"Pushing beyond the well-trod debate of whether prostitution should exist at all, the authors instead emphasize the issues of labor, stigma, secrecy, privacy, and discrimination within legal prostitution — issues that the authors rightly note are generally deemphasized in comparison with headline-grabbing news and analysis of the illegal sex trade." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *"The valuable research presented by these authors [...] is leading to a more comprehensive understanding of the lives of women who work in this highly regulated form of sex work." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *

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Book SynopsisA sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedomReproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has the power to decidelawmakers, the courts, clergy, physicians, or the woman herself. Authorities have rarely put women's needs and interests at the center of these debates. Instead, they have created reproductive laws and policies to solve a variety of social and political problems, with outcomes that affect the lives of different groups of women differently. Reproductive politics were at play when slaveholders devised breeding schemes, when the US government took indigenous children from their families in the nineteenth century, and when doctors pressured Latina women to be sterilized in the 1970s. Tracing the main plot lines of women's reproductive lives, the leading historian Rickie Solinger redefines the idea of reproductive freedom, putting race and class at the center of the effort to control sex and pregnancy in America over time. RevisitingTrade Review"This succinct, highly readable political and cultural history of a wide range of reproductive issues is a near-perfect primer on the topic." -- Publishers Weekly"Readers will find within this book a deeply researched and fine analysis of reproductive politics spanning 250 years. It definitely should be of interest to legal scholars and law students and also to political and social historians." -- The American Journal of Legal History"Offers a thoughtful, lucid overview of reproductive issues throughout US history—an extremely valuable contribution that should be widely read." -- Linda Gordon, author of The Moral Property of Women

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Book SynopsisExplores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail itWorking together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public defenders, and social service providers are profoundly intertwined, yet their relationships are often adversarial and rooted in fundamentally false assumptions. The criminal justice-social services alliance operates on the general belief that the women they police and otherwise regulate choose sex work as a result of traumatization, rather than acknowledging the fact that socioeconomic realities often inform their choices. Drawing on extraordinarily rich ethnographic research, including interviews with over one hundred street-involved women and dozens of criminal justice and social service professionals, Women of the Street argues that despite the intimate knowledge these groups have about each other, measures designed to help these women cTrade ReviewThis significant ethnographic study of women in the sex trade and those they interact with who seek to restrain their business or help them live more healthful lives is a compelling account that takes readers into a little-understood area of society. * Choice *This is perhaps the most insightful ethnographic book on women in the street-based sex trade published in some time. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *Susan Dewey and Tonia St. Germain have written a book that draws readers into the real struggles and dilemmas faced not only by poor and criminalized women but by the social service and police personnel who interact with these women on a daily basis. Their compelling writing draws the reader into the 'systemic intimacy' that the authors describe. Vividly portraying women who cycle in and out of the streets, jails and therapeutic facilities as well as the front-line workers designated to treat or arrest them, Women of the Street fills out our understanding of the intersecting racial, class and gendered forces that set up both the women and the front-line workers to remain stuck in cycles of misery and blame. -- Susan Sered,author of Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal ResponsibilityThe most comprehensive and in-depth study of street prostitution on the market. Based on years of fieldwork with women involved in illicit commerce as well as interviews with the authorities and service providers who interact with them, the authors provide a fascinating ethnographic window into this world. The findings challenge monolithic stereotypes about street prostitution and reveal how the women assert their agency even under extremely dire conditions. The book also shows how the practices of social workers and criminal justice authorities are often counterproductive in subjecting the women to heightened risks, and suggests that decriminalization might be preferable to existing policies. -- Ronald Weitzer,George Washington UniversityThe books methodology is its greatest strength. The literature on street-level prostitution is too often dominated by quantitative research and studies that pathologize sex workers.Women of the Streetis an extraordinary ethnography filled with rich data that offer readers a holistic and deeply human portrait of the lives of women in the sex trade. * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sex and Stigmalays the groundwork for greater understanding of the everyday routines and work-life considerations of legal sex workers. This book is both significant and distinctive for the authors ability to take a phenomenon that typically is considered hidden and stigmatized and attach real faces, lives, workplace, and home issues to these women. Insightful and illuminating." -- Patrice M. Buzzanell,editor of Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives"Sex and Stigmais an engaging and informative book, blending first-person perspectives with feminist scholarship todemystify the brothel as a workplace. A smart and innovative study,readers will benefit fromthe authors blend of scholarly expertise, theirunique access to a difficult-to-reach population, and the inclusion of multiple sex workers perspectives." -- Shira Tarrant,author of The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know"Pushing beyond the well-trod debate of whether prostitution should exist at all, the authors instead emphasize the issues of labor, stigma, secrecy, privacy, and discrimination within legal prostitution — issues that the authors rightly note are generally deemphasized in comparison with headline-grabbing news and analysis of the illegal sex trade." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *"The valuable research presented by these authors [...] is leading to a more comprehensive understanding of the lives of women who work in this highly regulated form of sex work." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *

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Book SynopsisA sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedomReproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has the power to decidelawmakers, the courts, clergy, physicians, or the woman herself. Authorities have rarely put women's needs and interests at the center of these debates. Instead, they have created reproductive laws and policies to solve a variety of social and political problems, with outcomes that affect the lives of different groups of women differently. Reproductive politics were at play when slaveholders devised breeding schemes, when the US government took indigenous children from their families in the nineteenth century, and when doctors pressured Latina women to be sterilized in the 1970s. Tracing the main plot lines of women's reproductive lives, the leading historian Rickie Solinger redefines the idea of reproductive freedom, putting race and class at the center of the effort to control sex and pregnancy in America over time. RevisitingTrade Review"This succinct, highly readable political and cultural history of a wide range of reproductive issues is a near-perfect primer on the topic." -- Publishers Weekly"Readers will find within this book a deeply researched and fine analysis of reproductive politics spanning 250 years. It definitely should be of interest to legal scholars and law students and also to political and social historians." -- The American Journal of Legal History"Offers a thoughtful, lucid overview of reproductive issues throughout US history—an extremely valuable contribution that should be widely read." -- Linda Gordon, author of The Moral Property of Women

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Book SynopsisInformed by a social justice lens, and featuring Canadian content and context, this edited multi-disciplinary book looks at current trends in the teaching of sexuality in higher education, including sexual well-being, positivity, diversity, mutual consent. focuses on the teaching of sexuality in higher education.Table of ContentsPreface – Susan Hillock Introduction- Let’s Teach About Sex Susan Hillock Section 1- Current Debates and Hot Topics Susan Hillock 1. Don’t Ask/ Don’t Tell: Sexuality(ies), Instructor Disclosure, and Trigger Warnings in the Classroom Susan Hillock 2. Restoring Indigenous Sexuality Carrie Bourassa, Betty McKenna, Miranda Keewatin, Sadie Anderson, Marlin Legare, Mikayla Hagel, Danette Starblanket, Jen Billan, & Cari McIlduff 3. Teaching Sexual Consent Terry Humphreys 4. What About The Boys: University students Learning About Sexual Consent-talk From Youth in Northern Ontario” Jennifer L. Johnson 5. The Down Low on Getting Down: Reframing Problem-focused Narratives by Focusing on Sex-positivity and Desire-based Education Amie Kroes 6. Transgender Experiences in Healthcare – Addressing Challenges While Teaching Compassion in Higher Education Colleen McMillan, Mike Lee-Poy, & Carys Massarella Section 2- At the Margins: Diverse Voices And Perspectives Susan Hillock 7. What’s the big deal? A Roundtable Reflecting on Queer and Feminist Porn Studies Laine Zisman Newman, Sarah Lima, Stuart MacLeod, Oreoluwa Adara, & Imogen Tam 8. Past Practices: How to Think About Sex Historically Elise Chenier 9. Queering Masculinity in Early Childhood and Higher Education Classrooms: Gendered Regulation and the 'Double-Bind' of Queer Masculinities Adam W. J. Davies 10. Working With Muslim LGBTQ Service Users: Assessing and Locating Supportive Care and Teaching Practices Maryam Khan 11. Sexuality and Aging Lorna Guse and Hai Luo 12. Uncertain Subjects: (Un)Teaching Pain(ful) Sexualities, Power, and Pedagogy Renee Dumaresque Section 3- Practical Applications and Recommendations Susan Hillock 13. Sex & Gender in the Classroom: Lessons From (and For) the Front Lines Heather Peters 14. The Pitch: Teaching Sexuality at Multiple Levels Nick J. Mulé 15. Sexual Health Education for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disability Shaniff Esmail, Meg Tronson, & Sheena Churla 16. Teachable Moments: The Intersections of Disabilities and Sexualities Michelle Owen & Baden Gaeke Franz 17. Supporting Service Users’ Sexuality: Teaching Best Practices to Social Work Students Gary Christopher Sterling- Murphy & Rick Csiernik 18. Conclusion: Can We Just Stop Faking It: Real Talk About Sex and Sexualities In The Classroom Susan Hillock Contributor Bios Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C

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Book SynopsisInformed by a social justice lens, and featuring Canadian content and context, this edited multi-disciplinary book looks at current trends in the teaching of sexuality in higher education, including sexual well-being, positivity, diversity, mutual consent. focuses on the teaching of sexuality in higher education.Table of ContentsPreface – Susan Hillock Introduction- Let’s Teach About Sex Susan Hillock Section 1- Current Debates and Hot Topics Susan Hillock 1. Don’t Ask/ Don’t Tell: Sexuality(ies), Instructor Disclosure, and Trigger Warnings in the Classroom Susan Hillock 2. Restoring Indigenous Sexuality Carrie Bourassa, Betty McKenna, Miranda Keewatin, Sadie Anderson, Marlin Legare, Mikayla Hagel, Danette Starblanket, Jen Billan, & Cari McIlduff 3. Teaching Sexual Consent Terry Humphreys 4. What About The Boys: University students Learning About Sexual Consent-talk From Youth in Northern Ontario” Jennifer L. Johnson 5. The Down Low on Getting Down: Reframing Problem-focused Narratives by Focusing on Sex-positivity and Desire-based Education Amie Kroes 6. Transgender Experiences in Healthcare – Addressing Challenges While Teaching Compassion in Higher Education Colleen McMillan, Mike Lee-Poy, & Carys Massarella Section 2- At the Margins: Diverse Voices And Perspectives Susan Hillock 7. What’s the big deal? A Roundtable Reflecting on Queer and Feminist Porn Studies Laine Zisman Newman, Sarah Lima, Stuart MacLeod, Oreoluwa Adara, & Imogen Tam 8. Past Practices: How to Think About Sex Historically Elise Chenier 9. Queering Masculinity in Early Childhood and Higher Education Classrooms: Gendered Regulation and the 'Double-Bind' of Queer Masculinities Adam W. J. Davies 10. Working With Muslim LGBTQ Service Users: Assessing and Locating Supportive Care and Teaching Practices Maryam Khan 11. Sexuality and Aging Lorna Guse and Hai Luo 12. Uncertain Subjects: (Un)Teaching Pain(ful) Sexualities, Power, and Pedagogy Renee Dumaresque Section 3- Practical Applications and Recommendations Susan Hillock 13. Sex & Gender in the Classroom: Lessons From (and For) the Front Lines Heather Peters 14. The Pitch: Teaching Sexuality at Multiple Levels Nick J. Mulé 15. Sexual Health Education for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disability Shaniff Esmail, Meg Tronson, & Sheena Churla 16. Teachable Moments: The Intersections of Disabilities and Sexualities Michelle Owen & Baden Gaeke Franz 17. Supporting Service Users’ Sexuality: Teaching Best Practices to Social Work Students Gary Christopher Sterling- Murphy & Rick Csiernik 18. Conclusion: Can We Just Stop Faking It: Real Talk About Sex and Sexualities In The Classroom Susan Hillock Contributor Bios Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C

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Book SynopsisCovering the early eighteenth century through the present, Histories of French Sexuality reveals how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, and otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history.Trade Review“These articles illustrate maturity and diversity in an exciting field of history. They employ an exemplary variety of sources to investigate the many ways in which sexuality is embedded in the fabric of public as well as private life.”—Jeffrey Merrick, author of Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century France“This wonderful collection of imaginatively researched essays demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that sex matters in history. While the focus is on France, the book’s temporal and thematic breadth demonstrates that any empirically rigorous investigation of sexual mores, scandal, regulation, and public or private expressions of desire can lead us to new insights about the structure and rules of politics, the mechanisms of racial policy and colonial rule, and the role of the media in establishing or enforcing sexual identities and taboos. We are introduced to colonists in the Americas and Africa, to Parisian flâneurs, to various ‘unchaste women’ and their paramours, and to sexual pioneers of the digital age. Collectively, the authors take us on a journey that will inspire future research in French history and beyond.”—Annette F. Timm, coauthor of Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe“The more senior scholars in this collection are leading voices in the history of French sexuality and its many connections with related developments in social, cultural, and gender relations from the Old Regime onward. And the younger historians here develop new, striking perspectives, some of them derived from recent efforts among activists to redefine sexual manners and mores within a rapidly changing demographic landscape in the Western world. This work richly deserves the attention of a broad anglophone audience.”—James Smith Allen, author of A Civil Society: The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744–1944Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Andrew Israel Ross and Nina Kushner 1. Colonial Liberties: Sex, Race, and the Law in the French Atlantic, 1603–1791 Jennifer J. Davis 2. Blood, Rape, and Stigmata: Revisiting the Cadière-Girard Affair of 1730 Cathy McClive 3. Unchaste Women: Sexuality and Identity in the Eighteenth Century Nina Kushner 4. Domesticating Pleasure: The Sexual Politics of the French Enlightenment Lisa Jane Graham 5. The Queer Gaze in Haussmann’s Paris, 1850–1900 Andrew Israel Ross 6. Secrets, Sex, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France Jessie Hewitt 7. Sex, Scandal, and Power in the Steinheil Affair of 1908–1909 Sarah Horowitz 8. Mériadeck, Sexual Commerce, and the Urban Milieu Michelle K. Rhoades 9. Two Readings of Gabrielle, or Passion, Mobility, and the Governance of White Prestige in Colonial Senegal Jennifer Anne Boittin 10. Sex before 1968: Adolescence and the Presse Féminine Sarah Fishman 11. Creating Lesbian Community: Sexuality on the French Minitel in the 1980s Tamara Chaplin Afterword Robert A. Nye Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisProstitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seductionthe Victorian fallen woman represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.Trade ReviewAs the subtitle suggests, Anderson’s subject is not so much the prostitute in Victorian literature as it is the rhetoric the Victorians used to construct ‘fallenness.’ * CHOICE *Some ideas in Tainted Souls and Painted Faces will be useful in classroom discussions about the pressures exerted on authors by specific literary forms and generalized cultural anxieties. -- Sally Mitchell * Victorian Studies *

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Book SynopsisMediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and practices these changing forms of 'sexpertise' open up, and which they close down. The book reveals the intimate operation of power in mediated advice, how words and images, stories and sound can work to shore up social injustice. It critically engages with the ideas of choice and responsibility in sex self-help, arguing that these can obscure and/or justify oppression, even if they're sometimes experienced as empowering and/or pleasurable. This bold and incisive book provides a radical challenge to the assumptions underlying the sex advice industry, and presents a critical, collaborative and consensual vision for sex advice of the future.Trade Review"At a time when the field of sexual discourse is often characterized as unbounded we may fail to notice the structuring operations of new normativities. This exceptionally readable book tracks fraught concepts of intimacy as they arise in a range of media forms, and a period of more overt transactionalism and heavy cultural emphasis on production of the sexually desirable, sexually agentic self. The authors' meticulous and rigorous account of public discourses of sexual intimacy is a considerable achievement."—Diane Negra, University College Dublin "Investigating the varied dimensions of mediating our intimate lives, this brilliant book provides a far-reaching analysis of contemporary forms of sex advice, from sex television to sex apps and more. Importantly, Mediated Intimacy not only examines the contemporary media landscape, but it is also a guide for readers to create sex-critical advice on their own, using creative and thought-provoking examples for challenging conventional norms and practices about sexual intimacies."—Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi 1 Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture 1 2 History of Mediated Sex Advice 30 3 Gender, Sexuality and the Body in the Media 51 4 Being Normal 83 5 Work and Entrepreneurship 107 6 Pleasure 132 7 Safety and Risk 153 8 Communication and Consent 176 9 Conclusions 202 References 226 Index 261

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Book SynopsisThe connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways.This illuminating book delves into the interrelation of race and sexuality as inseparable elements of our identities and social lives. The authors approach the topic through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on power, social arrangements and hierarchies, and the production of social difference. Their analysis maps the historical, discursive, and structural manifestations of race and sexuality, noting the everyday effects that the intersections of these categories have on people’s lived experiences. Considering both US-based and transnational cases, this book presents an empirical grounding for understanding how race and sexuality are mutually constitutive categories.Providing a comprehensive overview of racialized sexualities, this book is an essential text for any advanced course on race, sexuality, and intersectionality.Trade Review"Race and Sexuality shows how the connections between these forms of difference emerge in the stereotypes that inform how one group thinks of another, in political agendas that foster inequalities, in media representations of domestic minorities and transnational migrants, and in the justifications of contemporary wars. In doing so, the book posits the still novel idea that to study the intersections of race and sexuality is nothing less than a confrontation with everyday life."Roderick Ferguson, University of Illinois at Chicago "This book is a wonderful primer on the intersections of race and sexuality. Accessible and lucid, it leads uninitiated and sophisticated students through the complexities of racialized sexualities, addressing timely issues and concerns across the global North and global South."Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, Boston "[The] challenge of thinking through the efficiency of available concepts to comprehensively engage with individuals' and groups' shifting social positionings is the major contribution of Race and Sexuality."The Sociological Review“The book should be commended for its substantial contributions and spirited engagement making visible inequalities which might otherwise have remained under the radar.”Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I: DISCOURSES OF RACE/SEXUALITY Chapter 1: Two Systems Operating Synchronously Chapter 2: Race and Sexualities in Everyday Life Spolight 2.1 Racialized Sexualities and the "Down Low" PART II: TRANSNATIONAL, LOCAL AND GLOBAL SEXUAL/RACED MESSAGES Chapter 3: Racialized Sexualization in Transnational Human Rights Spotlight 3.1 Contradictions and Advancements in Colombia: Some Context Chapter 4: Racing Sex Work Spotlight 4.1 Racialized Embodiments, Differential Treatment Chapter 5: Sexualizing Immigration Spotlight 5.1 - Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress: Stereotypes Influencing Policy Conclusion: Racialized Sexualities - On Experience, Policy, and Scholarship Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways.This illuminating book delves into the interrelation of race and sexuality as inseparable elements of our identities and social lives. The authors approach the topic through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on power, social arrangements and hierarchies, and the production of social difference. Their analysis maps the historical, discursive, and structural manifestations of race and sexuality, noting the everyday effects that the intersections of these categories have on people’s lived experiences. Considering both US-based and transnational cases, this book presents an empirical grounding for understanding how race and sexuality are mutually constitutive categories.Providing a comprehensive overview of racialized sexualities, this book is an essential text for any advanced course on race, sexuality, and intersectionality.Trade Review"Race and Sexuality shows how the connections between these forms of difference emerge in the stereotypes that inform how one group thinks of another, in political agendas that foster inequalities, in media representations of domestic minorities and transnational migrants, and in the justifications of contemporary wars. In doing so, the book posits the still novel idea that to study the intersections of race and sexuality is nothing less than a confrontation with everyday life."Roderick Ferguson, University of Illinois at Chicago "This book is a wonderful primer on the intersections of race and sexuality. Accessible and lucid, it leads uninitiated and sophisticated students through the complexities of racialized sexualities, addressing timely issues and concerns across the global North and global South."Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, Boston "[The] challenge of thinking through the efficiency of available concepts to comprehensively engage with individuals' and groups' shifting social positionings is the major contribution of Race and Sexuality."The Sociological Review“The book should be commended for its substantial contributions and spirited engagement making visible inequalities which might otherwise have remained under the radar.”Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I: DISCOURSES OF RACE/SEXUALITY Chapter 1: Two Systems Operating Synchronously Chapter 2: Race and Sexualities in Everyday Life Spolight 2.1 Racialized Sexualities and the "Down Low" PART II: TRANSNATIONAL, LOCAL AND GLOBAL SEXUAL/RACED MESSAGES Chapter 3: Racialized Sexualization in Transnational Human Rights Spotlight 3.1 Contradictions and Advancements in Colombia: Some Context Chapter 4: Racing Sex Work Spotlight 4.1 Racialized Embodiments, Differential Treatment Chapter 5: Sexualizing Immigration Spotlight 5.1 - Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress: Stereotypes Influencing Policy Conclusion: Racialized Sexualities - On Experience, Policy, and Scholarship Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship more generally. But what does it mean in a continually changing political landscape of gender and sexuality? In this timely intervention, Diane Richardson examines the normative underpinnings and varied critiques of sexual citizenship, asking what they mean for its future conceptual and empirical development, as well as for political activism. Clearly written, the book shows how the field of sexuality and citizenship connects to a range of important areas of debate including understandings of nationalism, identity, neoliberalism, equality, governmentality, individualization, colonialism, human rights, globalization and economic justice. Ultimately this book calls for a critical rethink of sexual citizenship. Illustrating her argument with examples drawn from across the globe, Richardson contends that this is essential if scholars want to understand the sexual politics that made the field of sexuality and citizenship studies what it is today, and to enable future analyses of the sexual inequalities that continue to mark the global order.Trade Review"Diane Richardson has long had a reputation for acute sensitivity to the emergent issues in our complex sexual world. In this comprehensive but compelling book she tackles the central but contested concept of sexual citizenship. In Richardson's steady hands this becomes a lens to explore a range of critical ideas, analyses and experiences. The result is never less than illuminating and challenging, an invaluable guide to our perplexities."Jeffrey Weeks, author of What is Sexual History? "Drawing on literature from geography, gender studies, sociology and political science, Richardson challenges us to think in an interdisciplinary way about the impact of structural differences and marginalizations. As the leading scholar in this field, Diane Richardson offers an insightful engagement with the concept, and political outcomes, of sexual citizenship which is undoubtedly a must read for any contemporary student of the social sciences."Angelia Wilson, University of Manchester "Diane Richardson has given us a powerful resource for understanding the diverse debates and interdisciplinary approaches to sexual citizenship that will enhance our ability to produce rich, in-depth critical analyses of the shifting local, international, and transnational contexts for the co-constitution of sexuality and citizenship." Nancy A. Naples, Gender & Development “The book provides a persuasive and easy to read analysis of the sexual citizenship literature and how it has evolved over time, but also the limitations of sexual citizenship within the Euro-North American historical configuration. The conceptual analysis offers a social, cultural, economic and political exposition on the concept of sexual citizenship and brings forward the complex linkages of undeviating issues relating to sexuality, gender and citizenship.”SociologyTable of Contents1. Making Sexual Citizenship PART ONE: RE-THINKING SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP 2. What is Sexual Citizenship? 3. Limits to Sexual Citizenship 4. Sexualizing Citizenship: Now You See it, Now You Don�t PART TWO: TRANSFORMING CITIZENSHIP? SEXUALITY, GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP STRUGGLES 5. Global Influences on Sexuality and Citizenship 6. Sexuality, the State and Governance 7. Materializing Sexuality

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Book SynopsisMedia are central to our experiences and understandings of sex, whether in the form of familiar 'mainstream' genres, pornographies and other sex genres, or the new zones, interactions and technosexualities made possible by the internet and mobile devices. In this engaging new book, Feona Attwood argues that to understand the significance of sex media, we need to examine them in terms of their distinctive characteristics, relationships to art and culture, and changing place in society. Observing the role that media play in relation to sex, gender, and sexuality, this book considers the regulation of sex and sexual representation, issues around the 'sexualization of culture', and demonstrates how a critical focus on sex media can inform debates on sex education and sexual health, as well as illuminate the relation of sex to labour, leisure, intimacy, and bodies. Sex Media is an essential resource for students and scholars of media, culture, gender and sexuality.Trade Review"This sophisticated yet highly accessible book covers key issues in studies of sex, gender and media. Attwood tackles complex issues and divisive debates with admirable clarity and with an unfailing mastery of the content matter in what should be compulsory reading for students in media and gender studies internationally." Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku"Attwood's Sex Media offers a rich and nuanced account of the shifting landscapes of gender, sexuality and sexual representation. Cogent and well written - it is a perfect book for undergraduate seminars in gender and sexuality studies as well as communication studies." Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence UniversityTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Introducing Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Chapter 2: Regulating Sex Media Chapter 3: Sexualization Chapter 4: Sex Media Chapter 5: Sex Media, Culture and Society Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMedia are central to our experiences and understandings of sex, whether in the form of familiar 'mainstream' genres, pornographies and other sex genres, or the new zones, interactions and technosexualities made possible by the internet and mobile devices. In this engaging new book, Feona Attwood argues that to understand the significance of sex media, we need to examine them in terms of their distinctive characteristics, relationships to art and culture, and changing place in society. Observing the role that media play in relation to sex, gender, and sexuality, this book considers the regulation of sex and sexual representation, issues around the 'sexualization of culture', and demonstrates how a critical focus on sex media can inform debates on sex education and sexual health, as well as illuminate the relation of sex to labour, leisure, intimacy, and bodies. Sex Media is an essential resource for students and scholars of media, culture, gender and sexuality.Trade Review"This sophisticated yet highly accessible book covers key issues in studies of sex, gender and media. Attwood tackles complex issues and divisive debates with admirable clarity and with an unfailing mastery of the content matter in what should be compulsory reading for students in media and gender studies internationally." Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku"Attwood's Sex Media offers a rich and nuanced account of the shifting landscapes of gender, sexuality and sexual representation. Cogent and well written - it is a perfect book for undergraduate seminars in gender and sexuality studies as well as communication studies." Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence UniversityTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Introducing Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Chapter 2: Regulating Sex Media Chapter 3: Sexualization Chapter 4: Sex Media Chapter 5: Sex Media, Culture and Society Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWithin the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development. Though it has been an object of media speculation – and frequent sensationalism – for over a decade, this cultural formation remains poorly understood. In the first book-length study of the industry, Rachel O’Neill takes us into the world of seduction seminars, training events, instructional guidebooks and video tutorials. Pushing past established understandings of ‘pickup artists’ as pathetic, pathological or perverse, she examines what makes seduction so compelling for those drawn to participate in this sphere. Seduction vividly portrays how the twin rationalities of neoliberalism and postfeminism are reorganising contemporary intimate life, as labour-intensive and profit-orientated modes of sociality consume other forms of being and relating. It is essential reading for students and scholars of gender, sexuality, sociology and cultural studies, as well as anyone who wants to understand the seduction industry’s overarching logics and internal workings.Trade Review‘If you have ever wondered why masculinity is so overwhelmingly defined by sexual prowess and the accumulation of women as sexual objects, this book will provide a thoughtful, useful and well-argued answer. This terrain has never been studied before and the liveliness of the writing and the timeliness of the topic are as engaging as the debates in feminist theory the author raises. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding some of the fundaments of heterosexuality.’Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem‘In this fascinating read, O’Neill takes us beyond sensational headlines about “pickup artists.” Through careful ethnographic research, she refuses easy interpretations of these men as uniquely misogynist or otherwise pathological, and instead places their behaviour in a larger social context. Her analysis demonstrates that the sexism found in this community is a particularly clear manifestation of the intersecting currents of neoliberalism and postfeminism.’C. J. Pascoe, University of Oregon"This is a brave work of feminist sexual politics that provides an unflinching look into the seduction industry. The author deftly navigates the competing and conflicting justifications of the men who shell out exorbitant amounts of money to become an ideal version of hyper-heteromasculinity at the risk of their psychological and social health."Rebecca Sullivan, University of Calgary"Compelling… O'Neill takes no prisoners in this remarkable book. But nowhere does she lose sight of contextualising the discourse that she scrutinises in relation to larger contexts of injustice and inequality."Times Higher Education "Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy is a long overdue publication that will hopefully allow open dialogue around the seduction industry and its overall impact. [O’Neill’s work] is certainly worth spending some time with." the f word “The brilliance of O’Neill’s books is how she looks past the “spectacle of seduction” to uncover knowledge practices and logics embedded in seduction communities as ordinary or an amplified example of issues and attitudes beyond the community.”Men and Masculinities Table of Contents Introduction 1 The Work of Seduction 2 Pedagogy and Profit 3 Manufacturing Consent 4 Seduction and Sexual Politics Conclusion: Against Seduction Postscript: Power and Politics in Feminist Fieldwork Appendices References

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Book SynopsisWithin the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development. Though it has been an object of media speculation – and frequent sensationalism – for over a decade, this cultural formation remains poorly understood. In the first book-length study of the industry, Rachel O’Neill takes us into the world of seduction seminars, training events, instructional guidebooks and video tutorials. Pushing past established understandings of ‘pickup artists’ as pathetic, pathological or perverse, she examines what makes seduction so compelling for those drawn to participate in this sphere. Seduction vividly portrays how the twin rationalities of neoliberalism and postfeminism are reorganising contemporary intimate life, as labour-intensive and profit-orientated modes of sociality consume other forms of being and relating. It is essential reading for students and scholars of gender, sexuality, sociology and cultural studies, as well as anyone who wants to understand the seduction industry’s overarching logics and internal workings.Trade Review‘If you have ever wondered why masculinity is so overwhelmingly defined by sexual prowess and the accumulation of women as sexual objects, this book will provide a thoughtful, useful and well-argued answer. This terrain has never been studied before and the liveliness of the writing and the timeliness of the topic are as engaging as the debates in feminist theory the author raises. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding some of the fundaments of heterosexuality.’ Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ‘In this fascinating read, O’Neill takes us beyond sensational headlines about “pickup artists.” Through careful ethnographic research, she refuses easy interpretations of these men as uniquely misogynist or otherwise pathological, and instead places their behaviour in a larger social context. Her analysis demonstrates that the sexism found in this community is a particularly clear manifestation of the intersecting currents of neoliberalism and postfeminism.’ C. J. Pascoe, University of Oregon"This is a brave work of feminist sexual politics that provides an unflinching look into the seduction industry. The author deftly navigates the competing and conflicting justifications of the men who shell out exorbitant amounts of money to become an ideal version of hyper-heteromasculinity at the risk of their psychological and social health."Rebecca Sullivan, University of Calgary"Compelling… O'Neill takes no prisoners in this remarkable book. But nowhere does she lose sight of contextualising the discourse that she scrutinises in relation to larger contexts of injustice and inequality." Times Higher Education "Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy is a long overdue publication that will hopefully allow open dialogue around the seduction industry and its overall impact. [O’Neill’s work] is certainly worth spending some time with." the f word“The brilliance of O’Neill’s books is how she looks past the “spectacle of seduction” to uncover knowledge practices and logics embedded in seduction communities as ordinary or an amplified example of issues and attitudes beyond the community.”Men and MasculinitiesTable of Contents Introduction 1 The Work of Seduction 2 Pedagogy and Profit 3 Manufacturing Consent 4 Seduction and Sexual Politics Conclusion: Against Seduction Postscript: Power and Politics in Feminist Fieldwork Appendices References

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Book SynopsisSexuality Concepts for Social Workers is a research-informed, reader-friendly guide that helps practitioners address sexuality-related issues with a variety of clients.Topics covered include the role of values in sexuality, sexual health and reproduction, relationships, sexual orientation, gender and gender identity, sexuality and the lifespan, sex work and sex workers, sexuality in the ill or disabled, and being a sexually healthy adult. Chapters feature discussion questions, implications and applications for real-world practice, case examples, and opinion pieces from each of the authors to enhance learning, reflection, and critical thinking.The second edition features updated QR codes to direct students to additional resources, a new chapter called "Sexuality, Spirituality, and Social Work," updated discussion questions, fresh author opinion pieces, and new topics, including racial preferences when dating, conversion therapy, and sexuality policies in retirement and assisted living facilities.Sexuality Concepts for Social Workers helps practitioners build their sexuality literacy to better assist patients. It is ideal for advanced undergraduate and foundational graduate courses on human behavior, sexuality diversity, and human sexuality for social workers.

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Book SynopsisMore than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground. Written by an international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection provides the much needed in-depth research into how decriminalisation is playing out in sex workers' lives and how different groups of sex workers are experiencing it, while uncovering the challenges and tensions that remain to be negotiated in this field. Using the evidence from New Zealand, it makes an invaluable contribution to the international debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex workers' rights.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Lynzi Armstrong and Gillian Abel Part I ~ Legislative Change in New Zealand ‘On the Clients’ Terms’: Sex Work in New Zealand Before Decriminalisation ~ Jan Jordan Stepping Forward Into the Light of Decriminalisation ~ Dame Catherine Healy, Annah Pickering and Chanel Hati The Future of Feminism and Sex Work Activism in New Zealand ~ Carisa R. Showden Part II ~ The Diversity of Sex Workers in New Zealand The Impacts of Decriminalisation for Trans Sex Workers ~ Fairleigh Gilmour Fear of Trafficking or Implicit Prejudice?: Migrant Sex Workers and the Impacts of Section 19 ~ Lynzi Armstrong, Gillian Abel, and Michael Roguski “My Dollar Doesn’t Mean I’ve Got Any Power or Control Over Them”: Clients Speak Out About Purchasing Sex ~ Shannon Mower Part III ~ Perceptions of Sex Workers in New Zealand "Genuinely Keen to Work": Sex Work, Emotional Labour, and the News Media ~ Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith The Disclosure Dilemma: Stigma and Talking About Sex Work in the Decriminalised Context ~ Lynzi Armstrong and Cherida Fraser Contested Space: Street-based Sex Workers and Community Engagement ~ Gillian Abel

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Book SynopsisUsing unpublished email interviews collected for a Home Office project on the sex industry, this anthology presents the individual stories of sex workers and buyers in England and Wales, in their own words. The author Natasha Mulvihill also re-interviews the participants to reflect on their original interviews, their experience of engaging in research and of managing through the COVID-19 pandemic. Of interest to policymakers and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, law and qualitative methods, the text seeks to navigate through the difficult politics of the sex industry and re-focus our understanding on the lived experiences of those involved.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methods and Ethics 3. Female Independent Sex Workers 4. Male Independent Sex Workers 5. Managed Brothel Workers 6. Erotic Dancers and Strippers 7. Sex Buyers 8. Reflection

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Book SynopsisUsing unpublished email interviews collected for a Home Office project on the sex industry, this anthology presents the individual stories of sex workers and buyers in England and Wales, in their own words. The author Natasha Mulvihill also re-interviews the participants to reflect on their original interviews, their experience of engaging in research and of managing through the COVID-19 pandemic. Of interest to policymakers and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, law and qualitative methods, the text seeks to navigate through the difficult politics of the sex industry and re-focus our understanding on the lived experiences of those involved.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methods and Ethics 3. Female Independent Sex Workers 4. Male Independent Sex Workers 5. Managed Brothel Workers 6. Erotic Dancers and Strippers 7. Sex Buyers 8. Reflection

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Book SynopsisTraces the emergence and marketing of sex education texts —from a single tract, written by a medical researcher and given free to anyone, to a thriving commercial enterprise. It tells the story of how sex education moved from private conversation to purchased text in the early twentieth-century.

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Book SynopsisIn Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home, Sheila R. Morris has collected essays by South Carolinians who explore their gay identities and activism from the emergence of the HIV-AIDS pandemic to the realization of marriage equality in the state thirty years later. Each of the volume’s nineteen essays addresses an aspect of gay life, from hesitant coming-out acts in earlier decades to the creation of grassroots organizations. All the contributors have taken public roles in the gay rights movement.The diverse voices include a banker, a drag queen from a family of prominent Spartanburg Democrats, a marching minister who grew up along the Edisto River, a former Catholic priest and his tugboat dispatcher husband from Long Island, the owner of a feminist bookstore, a Hispanic American who interned for Republican strategist Lee Atwater, a philanthropist politician from Faith, North Carolina, and a straight attorney recognized as the “Mother of Pride” who became active in 1980, when she learned her son was gay.Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement challenges the conventional understanding of the LGBTQ movement in the United States in both place and time. Typically associated with pride marches and anti-AIDS activism on both the east and west coasts and rooted in the counterculture of the 1960s and “Stonewall Rebellion” in New York City, Southern variants of the queer liberation movement have found little room in public or scholarly memory. Confronting an aggressively hostile environment in the South, queer political organization was a late-comer to the region. But it was the very unfriendliness of Southern political soil that allowed a unique and, at times, progressive LGBTQ political community to form in South Carolina. The compelling Southern voices collected here for the first time add a missing piece to the complex puzzle of postwar queer activism in the United States.Harlan Greene, author of the novels Why We Never Danced the Charleston, What the Dead Remember, and The German Officer’s Boy, provides a foreword.

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Book SynopsisFor many Americans, the emergence of a “porno chic” culture provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic magazine like Penthouse. By the 1980s, this pornographic moment was beaten back by the rise of Reagan-era political conservatism and feminist anti-pornography sentiment.This volume places pornography at the heart of the 1970s American experience, exploring lesser-known forms of pornography from the decade, such as a new, vibrant gay porn genre; transsexual/female impersonator magazines; and pornography for new users, including women and conservative Christians. The collection also explores the rise of a culture of porn film auteurs and stars as well as the transition from film to video. As the corpus of adult ephemera of the 1970s disintegrates, much of it never to be professionally restored and archived, these essays seek to document what pornography meant to its producers and consumers at a pivotal moment.In addition to the volume editors, contributors include Peter Alilunas, Gillian Frank, Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Lucas Hilderbrand, Nancy Semin Lingo, Laura Helen Marks, Nicholas Matte, Jennifer Christine Nash, Joe Rubin, Alex Warner, Leigh Ann Wheeler, and Greg Youmans.Trade ReviewThis much-needed collection takes films, publications, and people that have previously existed on the periphery of porn history and places them front and center with essays that are rigorously researched and well written.""—Lynn Comella, coeditor of New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law.

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Book SynopsisGroundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliographyPrior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man in native societies, has received recent scholarly attention but represents just one of many such occurrences of alternative gender identification in these cultures. Editors Sandra Slater and Fay A. Yarbrough have brought together scholars who explore the historical implications of these variations in the meanings of gender, sexuality, and marriage among indigenous communities in North America. Essays that span from the colonial period through the nineteenth century illustrate how these aspects of Native American life were altered through interactions with Europeans.Organized chronologically, Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400–1850 probes gender identification, labor roles, and political authority within Native American societies. The essays are linked by overarching examinations of how Europeans manipulated native ideas about gender for their own ends and how indigenous people responded to European attempts to impose gendered cultural practices at odds with established traditions. Many of the essays also address how indigenous people made meaning of gender and how these meanings developed over time within their own communities. Several contributors also consider sexual practice as a mode of cultural articulation, as well as a vehicle for the expression of gender roles.Representing groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Native American studies, these insightful discussions of gender, sexuality, and identity advance our understanding of cultural traditions and clashes that continue to resonate in native communities today as well as in the larger societies those communities exist within.

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Book SynopsisThe People's Porn is the first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, which offers the back story to the explosion of amateur pornography on the Internet. In doing so, it is a much-needed counterweight to the ahistorical and ideological arguments that dominate most discussions about pornography. Critics focus on mass-produced materials and make claims about pornography as plasticized or commodified. In contrast, this book looks at what people made rather than what they bought, revealing how people thought about sexuality for themselves. Whalers and craftsmen, prisoners and activists, African Americans and feminists, all made their own pornography. The People's Porn challenges preconceptions as it tells a new and fascinating story about American sexual history.Trade Review"Sigel’s great subject is the way consumerism eradicates the creative libido. Her book, for all its alarming examples, is convincing in its argument that homemade porn is a valuable anthropological indicator of sexuality that speaks to the era and place in which it was made. Her reader will certainly look at rude phalluses scraffitoed on subway seats with softer eyes. Behold, before me! A radical, unquenchable expression of the irrepressibly horny human spirit." * New York Review of Books *"Perhaps unsurprisingly for a book of this nature, the accompanying photographs are just as compelling as the text itself, if not more so. There are 97 of them, and they are frequently hilarious. . . . Sigel is a companionable guide . . . with occasional flashes of wit and bawdy remarks." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Sigel’s The People’s Porn attempts the ambitious, unglamorous, but fascinating work of drawing together for the firs time an archive of handmade erotic objects made over two centuries of American history. From erotic scrimshaw made by nineteenth-century sailors to amateur polaroids, it charts a course through the ways in which apparently ‘ordinary’ men and women represented sex in all its variety—cis and trans, straight and queer, in couples or groups, with people or animals and somewhere in between—via prison pornography, pop-up erections, masturbating Santas, and feminist embroidery. In doing so, it tells a story of hidden desire that has often been overlooked . . . The People’s Porn is at its most illuminating when exploring the place of sex in shared cultures of humor and conviviality, showing that pornography was as much about male (and sometimes female) bonding as it was about private fantasy." * History Today *"Sigel’s research glimpses into the history of sexuality in America through handmade pornographic objects, asking what handmade 'trashy' sex objects reveal about our culture and its historical expressions of sexuality. The People’s Porn provides timelines and contexts showing that, no matter what obscenity laws our nation puts in place, individuals have always expressed their sexuality through art and crafts." * Full Stop *"In The People's Porn, Sigel explores the history of handmade smut. . . . Is that a doctored coin in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" * Chicago Magazine *"Sigel has opened the drawer for good with her new book, The People’s Porn, where the historian speaks to the prolific creation of pornography and our unique culture that both harbors and represses it." * Antiques and the Arts Weekly *"Flipping through The People’s Porn, you will see some amazing things. . . . The contrast between these objects—ridiculous, funny, sexy, disturbing—and our idea of what old porn might have been like—sepia, staid—is Sigel’s point. . . . I appreciated the historian’s commitment to letting us know why the groups of objects she analyzes have survived to the present and explaining why the archive of handmade porn is so small. . . . When private pornography goes public, she writes, there’s always a risk." * SLATE *"Masturbation is the only sex act that’s both universal and forbidden. Universal in that everyone does it—unless they exercise peculiar restraint or are lying—but forbidden in that it’s taboo to practice in public and an untouchable topic in polite conversation. . . . The Peoples’ Porn reveals one of America’s bigger hypocrisies, simultaneously producing and consuming scads of soft- to hardcore filth while demonizing and concealing it. As Sigel, among others, points out, porn has the strange power to unite the puritanical right, anti-porn feminists, and vanilla-sex moderates against its supposed society-destroying effects. However, when self-produced, imaginary, and created of one’s own free will for one’s own use, those arguments become as ephemeral and insubstantial as the homemade pornography they critique. A masturbatory activity, to be sure." * Third Coast Review *"Sigel effectively refutes several misconceptions about pornography. First, despite commercial pornography’s extensive reach and impact, much of pornography is 'small business' and not industrialized. Given that, historically, both production and distribution of pornography were limited, pornography for most of its history has been amateur and homemade, both past and present. Second, although the rise of amateur pornography is commonly attributed to the rise of the internet and the spread of more affordable technology in the last twenty years, its contemporary history dates back at least to the early nineteenth century, primarily in the form of homemade pornography. Although studying pornography from the past can be challenging because much has been destroyed by 'anti-porn crusaders,' with close to one hundred pictures, this book clearly illustrates that amateur pornography existed as drawings on scrimshaw teeth, carved compass cases, and coffin figures, among many other forms. These handmade and homemade pornographic objects that escaped destruction reveal the history of amateur pornography in the United States, which showcases consumers’ pursuit of something real, even if the notion of authentic sex and sexuality in itself may be nebulous. Recommended." * Choice *“Sigel fearlessly explores popular erotica, an unknown country where few scholars dare to venture. Her latest book is a fascinating feat of historical archaeology, uncovering rare sexual artefacts and perceptively revealing their significance. She proves that pornography is not always ‘commercialized’: it can often be a lively folk art produced by ordinary men and, yes, women.” -- Jonathan Rose, William R. Kenan Professor of History, Drew University, and author of “The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes”“A magnificent and highly original book that convincingly argues homemade and handmade ‘porn’ objects can tell us important things about history and about sexuality. The People's Porn will be indispensable to anyone with an interest in the continuing debates about the relations between sex, media, and culture.” -- Feona Attwood, author of “Sex Media” and coeditor of “Porn Studies”“From the delicately obscene anonymous scrimshaw carvings of the early nineteenth century to the primitively obscene imaginings of the prolific Henry Darger in the twentieth century, to the contemporary obscene repurposing of the anatomy of Barbie Dolls, The People’s Porn refutes the overblown truism that commercial pornography has been the only game in town.” -- Linda Williams, Professor Emerita of Film, Media, and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of “Screening Sex and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the ‘Frenzy of the Visible’”

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Book SynopsisFrom the time Catterina Vizzani, a young Roman woman, began wooing the woman she was attracted to, she did so dressed as a man. Fleeing Rome to avoid a potential trial for sexual misdeeds, she became Giovanni Bordoni, transitioning and becoming a male in spirit, deed, and body, through what was the most complete physical change possible in the eighteenth century. This volume features Giovanni Bianchi’s 1744 Italian account of Vizzani/Bordoni, published for the first time together with a modern English translation, making available to an English-speaking audience the objective, scientific exploration of gender conducted by Bianchi. John Cleland’s well-known, albeit fanciful, 1751 version of the story has also been reproduced here, shedding light on the divergent sexual politics driving Bianchi’s Italian original and Cleland’s greatly embellished English translation. Through a close examination of Bianchi’s work as anatomical practitioner and scholar, Clorinda Donato traces the development of his advocacy for tolerance of all sexual orientations. Several chapters address the medical and philosophical inquiry into sexual preference, reproduction, sexual identity, and gender fluidity which Enlightenment anatomists from Holland to Italy engaged with in their research concerning the relationship between the mind and the reproductive organs. Meanwhile, it is the social implications of gender ambiguity which may be analysed in Cleland’s condemnation of women who “pass” as men. Drawing on the biographies produced by Bianchi and Cleland, the volume reflects on the motivation of each author to tell the story of Vizzani/Bordoni either as a narration of empowerment or a cautionary tale within the European context of evolving sexual opinions, some based on scientific research, others based on social practice and cultural norms.Trade ReviewReviews Winner of the American Association of Teachers of Italian's 2021 book award in the 1800-Present: Film, Media, & Cultural Studies category.'The story of Caterina Vizzani/Giovanni Bordoni also inspires an articulate volume by Clorinda Donato. [...] In her study, [she] offers a meticulous analysis of the differences between the Italian and English versions. [...] Even more pressing are the knots linked to our present, especially on the side of statements, in the always delicate relationship between nature and culture. [...] That same thread, according to Clorinda Donato, cost Caterina Vizzani/Giovanni Bordoni her life and continues to threaten LGBTQ+ lives today, keeping them poised between visibility and invisibility, exposing them to multiple forms of discrimination.'Translated from Italian:'Oggi la vicenda di Caterina Vizzani/Giovanni Bordoni ispira anche un articolato volume della studiosa americana Clorinda Donato, [...] Clorinda Donato propone, nel suo studio, una minuziosa analisi delle differenze fra la versione italiana e quella inglese. [...] Ancora più stringenti sono i nodi legati al nostro presente, soprattutto sul versante delle enunciazioni, nel sempre delicato rapporto fra natura e cultura.[...] Quello stesso filo, secondo Clorinda Donato, costò la vita a Caterina Vizzani/Giovanni Bordoni e continua a minacciare oggi le vite LGBTQ+, mantenendole in bilico fra visibilità e invisibilità, esponendole a molteplici forme di discriminazione.'Vincenzo Lagioia & Pasquale Palmieri, Doppiozero'Drawing from impressive and exhaustive archival research, this highly original and engaging study focuses on the question of sexual identity in early modern Italy and England. [...] This timely study skillfully and persuasively weaves contemporary relevance into the discussion by exploring questions of gender fluidity, sexual politics, and cultural norms.'American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) from their 2021 book awards.‘[…] The author Clorinda Donato considers the motivation of Bianchi and Cleland to narrate the life of Vizzani/Bordoni in the European context of the Eighteenth century, with a special attention on scientific research, social practice and cultural norms […] The interesting volume by Clorinda Donato also opens to this possibility of research and interpretation.’Maria Pia Pagani, Sinestesie‘Clorinda Donato’s book on the Catterina Vizzani story demonstrates the importance of an informed approach to the biographical treatment of alternative sexualities and constitutes a rich and valuable addition to the historiography of queer sexuality in early modern Europe.’ Sara F. Matthews-Grieco, Early Modern Women'Donato has not only shed light on... [an] important document for historical inquiry on sexuality and gender; she has also succeeded in constructing a dense, multi-layered narrative, one that does not eschew precision and erudition, but that is at the same time extremely readable and, in fact, quite captivating, even for a non-expert readership.' Sabrina Ovan, Annali d’Italianistica'A detailed analysis' Vincenzo Lagioia and Pasquale Palmieri, Doppiozero‘The Life and legend of Catterina Vizzani is an incredibly rich and original study that deepens and nuances our knowledge of ideas and practices of sexuality and gender circulating in Italy and England in the 1700s. A delightful read both for the specialist and general public… an outstanding example of intercultural reading.’ Irene Zanini-Cordi, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century‘Bringing together histories of the Grand Tour, anatomy and dissection, sexuality and gender, translation studies, and much more, this book weaves together a fascinating narrative about Vizzani/Bordoni, biographer Giovanni Bianchi, and English translator and commentator John Cleland. The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani makes available a new critical text for the growing field of trans eighteenth-century studies, and its discussions of women’s sexuality and bodies make it a valuable addition to women’s history and sexuality studies more broadly.’ Ula E. Lukszo Klein, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Giovanni Bianchi, John Cleland and the Breve storia: an overview of Italian and English eighteenth-century sexualities Gender in translation Synopsis of Giovanni Bianchi’s Breve storia Synopsis of John Cleland’s translation of the Breve storia: [An] His[toric]al and phy[s]ic[al] dissertation on the case of Catherine Vizzani (1751) / The True history and adventures of Catharine Vizzani (1755) Female masculinity Genesis of the project Anatomical study in Italy and Holland Reading and writing Vizzani: Cleland’s translation A preliminary note on translation Place, space and agency The cicisbeo Gender studies, queer studies and the Italian peninsula Geographies of sexualities: mapping sexuality in Bianchi’s life and the Breve storia Chapter 1: Situating Giovanni Bianchi: the biography of an anatomist man of letters The geopolitical landscape of Italian science: academies, universities and intellectual life in Rimini and Siena A contested reputation in Siena: Bianchi’s university career Chapter 2: An apology for same-sex love: Bianchi’s discourse to the Academy of the Defective Chapter 3: The literature of science and sexuality in eighteenth-century Italy and its fourteenth- to seventeenth-century European precedents Dutch and Italian precursors in the discourse of generation and the practice of autopsy Religious autopsies, domestic autopsies and science: Bianchi’s parody A 'chaste' performance of militant gender-crossing in seventeenth-century Rome: Spanish warrior Catalina de Erauso, the monja alférez The evidence: the materiality of Vizzani’s guilt and exoneration Chapter 4: Technologies of gender identity in eighteenth- century Italy and England: the story of Catterina Vizzani’s autopsy The structure of the Breve storia Medicine and autopsy in the Breve storia Taking 'a freak of this kind into her head': Cleland on dissection, cause and blame Chapter 5: Novelistic prose in eighteenth-century Italy: Cleland in Italy, Bianchi in England and the cultivation of Boccaccio among men of science and letters Gozzi’s 1764 La Meretrice, the 1810 La Meretrice inglese and the debate over the novel and morality The novel in eighteenth-century Italy Narrating anatomy: anatomists and Boccaccio Bianchi and Boccaccio Chapter 6: The transgendered familial and working spaces of Catterina Vizzani/Giovanni Bordoni and their narrators Cleland’s reimagined spaces of English domestic transgression Chapter 7: Translating transgender: Giovanni Bianchi and John Cleland writing queer desire in the eighteenth century Eighteenth-century gender trouble and its textual resonance Queering eighteenth-century prose Narrating Catterina/Giovanni’s life Translation samples comparing Giovanni Bianchi’s text in my translation with John Cleland’s translation Chapter 8: Cleland’s motivation: Catterina Vizzani as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Chapter 9: The entangled lives and writings of John Cleland and Giovanni Bianchi: biographical synergies and a shared sexual vision Giovanni Bianchi’s doing and undoing In Lode dell’arte comica (1752) Appendix: the texts A note to the three Vizzani texts: John Cleland’s translation, my translation and Giovanni Bianchi’s original John Cleland’s translation: [An] His[toric]al and phy[s]ic[al] dissertation on the case of Catherine Vizzani, containing the adventures of a young woman, born at Rome, who for eight years passed in the habit of a man, was killed for an amour with a young lady; and being found on dissection, a true virgin, narrowly escaped being treated as a saint by the populace. With some curious and anatomical remarks on the nature and existence of the hymen. By Giovanni Bianchi, Professor of Anatomy at Sienna, the surgeon who dissected her. To which are added certain needful remarks by the English editor Clorinda Donato’s translation: Brief history of the life of Catterina Vizzani, Roman woman, who for eight years wore a male servant’s clothing, who after various vicissitudes was in the end killed and found to be a virgin during the autopsy of her cadaver Giovanni Bianchi, Breve storia della vita di Catterina Vizzani Romana che per ott’anni vestì abito da uomo in qualità di Servidore la quale dopo vari Casi essendo in fine stata uccisa fu trovata Pulcella nella sezzione del suo Cadavero Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body in classical antiquity. By applying the category of the technosoma to the ‘natural’ body, this volume explicitly narrows down the discussion of the technical and the natural to the physiological body. In doing so, the present collection focuses on body technologies in the specific form of beautification and body enhancement techniques, as well as medical and surgical treatments. The volume elucidates two main points. Firstly, ancient techno bodies show that the categories of gender and sexuality are at the core of the intersection of the natural and the technical, and intersect with notions of race, age, speciesism, class and education, and dis/ability. Secondly, the collection argues that new body technologies have in fact a very ancient history that can help to address the challenges of contemporary technological innovation. To this end, the volume showcases the intersection of ‘natural’ bodies with technology, gender, sexuality and reproduction. On the one hand, techno bodies tend to align with normative ideas about gender, and sexuality. On the other hand, body modification and/or enhancement techniques work hand in hand with economic and political power and knowledge, thus they often produce techno bodies that are shaped according to individual needs, i.e. according to a certain lifestyle. Consequently, techno bodies threaten to alter traditional ideas of masculinity, femininity, male and female sexuality and beauty.Table of ContentsIntroduction Maria Gerolemou TECHNOLOGIES AND BODIES Short Introduction: In Search of a Definition: What is an (Ancient) Technosoma? Giulia Maria Chesi Dysfunction (δυσέργεια) and Deformity (ἀπρέπεια) in Paul of Aegina’s Surgical Chapters Alessia Guardasole Medical Equipment to repair Broken Bodies: The Plinthion for the Reduction of Dislocations Irene Calà Bodies with Organs, Bodies without Organs Chiara Thumiger Natural born Cyborgs OR when Talos met Medea Genevieve Liveley The Bear Necessities: Thrasyleon, Lucius, and the Status of Skins in The Golden Ass Martin Devecka BODY TECHNOLOGIES AND GENDER Short Introduction: Prosthetic Beauty Giulia Maria Chesi Galen’s Thrasybulus: Medicine, Gymnastic Trainers, and the Technosoma Daniel King Body Beautification and Black Ethiopians in Herodotus’ Ethiopian Logos Giulia Maria Chesi Want to look Younger and Stronger? Cosmetic Hot Baths in Classical Antiquity Maria Gerolemou Mansplaining with Ovid: Ars-cultus-munditia and the ‘Natural’ Body Marguerite Johnson O Tempora, O Morays: Eels and Luxury in Imperial Rome Martin Devecka The Technê that Races: Phoenician-Punic Technosomata in Homer and Plautus Elena Giusti BODY TECHNOLOGIES AND SEXUALITY Short Introduction: Hybrid Pleasures Giulia Maria Chesi Orchids, Lizards and Lettuce: Aphrodisiacs and Technosomata Laurence Totelin Lucian’s lunar Tree-people: Between sexual Technology and the prosthetic Imagination Karen ní Mheallaigh Negotiating Women’s Sexual Identity with a Scalpel: Ancient and Contemporary Views on Female Genital Surgery Elisa Groff Epilogue: Technosomata and Moral Anxiety Rebecca Langlands

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Book SynopsisThis book bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients or clients about sex, gender and sexuality. It covers physiological information about genitalia, variations on sexuality, the differences between men and women in genital sexual arousal and sexual dysfunctions, an understanding of developmental sexuality and information as to whether the sex discussed is normal or pathological. By having a clearer understanding of usual sexual practices, counsellors can be readily equipped to reassure their clients, or refer to an appropriate person for specialist referral. Topics covered include physiological difficulties like erectile problems, ejaculatory difficulties, vaginismus and dyspareunia, and loss of sexual desire; gender problems including cross-dressing, transsexualism and intersex; and psychological problems include sexual addiction, fetishism and unusual sexual practices. These are discussed in the context of individual clients and in couple dynamics, and provide a comprehensive reference for the non-specialist mental health professional.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 Questions of gender 6 Chapter 3 Body and mind 18 Chapter 4 Sexual issues for women 34 Chapter 5 Sexual issues for men 51 Chapter 6 Sex and relationships 65 Chapter 7 Discussing Sex in the Consulting room 78 Chapter 8 Variations in sexuality and gender 87 Chapter 9 Sexual diversity 105 Glossary 121 Useful addresses 123 References 125 Index 138

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Book SynopsisThis is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and challenges in the realm of public health. The volume covers trans sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies.Trade ReviewThis book explores the role of sex work in the lives of transgender women and the hazards that come with this type of work, revealing a complex interplay between sex and gender, survival and validation, desire and love, social justice and health. A must-read for any researcher, health provider, advocate, or policy maker concerned with the health and well-being of sex workers of all genders. -- Walter Bockting, codirector, Program for the Study of LGBT Health, Columbia University Medical Center This is a wonderful collection that helps to fill a huge gap in the research literature. Transgender individuals are the least studied of all sex workers. Wide-ranging in scope, the book covers key social, health, victimization, criminal justice, and policy issues in different nations. The findings document diversity within the transgender population but also indicate that transgender individuals face some unique challenges and are doubly stigmatized by virtue of their gender and involvement in sex work. -- Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business and Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex IndustryTable of ContentsForeword, by Walter BocktingIntroduction, by Toward a Better Understanding of Transgender Sex Work, by Larry A. NuttbrockSection I. Empirical Descriptions and a Conceptual Formulation for Sex Work Among Transwomen in the United States1. Qualitative Description of Sex Work among Transwomen in New York City, by Sel J. Hwahng2. Quantitative Description of Sex Work among Transwomen in New York City, by Larry A. Nuttbrock3. Why Are So Many Transwomen in the Sex Trade, and Why Are So Many of Them Ethnic Minorities?, by Larry A. Nuttbrock and Sel J. HwahngSection II. Survival Sex Among Young Transgender Persons in the United States and the United Kingdom4. Compound Harms: What the Literature Says about Survival Sex among Young Trans People in the United Kingdom and the United States, by Lorna C. BartonSection III. Personal Relationships and Health Risk Behavior5. Relationship Dynamics and Health Risk Behavior among Transwomen and Their Cisgender Male Partners, by Tiffany R. Glynn and Don OperarioSection IV. Mental Health and Substance Use Issues Among Transwomen in the Sex Trade6. Mental Health and Transphobia among Transwomen Sex Workers: Application and Extension of Minority Stress Models, by Don Operario, Tiffany R. Glynn, and Tooru Nemoto7. Sex Work and Major Depression among Transwomen in New York City: Mediating Effects of Gender Abuse and Substance Use, by Larry A. Nuttbrock8. Substance Use among Transgender Sex Workers, by Beth R. HoffmanSection V. HIV Among Transwomen in the Sex Trade9. the Prevalence of HIV among Transwomen Sex Workers: A Review of Current Literature, by Ayden I. Scheim, Laura Winters, Zack Marshall, Daze Jefferies, and Stefan D. Baral10. HIV and Substance Use among Transwomen Sex Workers: A Vicious Cycle of Socioeconomic Hardship, Unmet Service Needs, and Health Risk, by Tiffany R. Glynn, Don Operario, and Tooru Nemoto11. Sex Work, High-Risk Sexual Behavior, and Incident HIV/STI among Transwomen in New York City: A Study of Mediating Factors, by Larry A. Nuttbrock12. Sex Work and Antiretroviral Therapy among Transwomen of Color Living with HIV in New York City, by Larry A. NuttbrockSection VI. Transgender Sex Work in Different Cultural Settings13. Sex Work in Turkey: Experiences of Transwomen, by Ceylan Engin14. Hijras/Transwomen and Sex Work in India: From Marginalization to Social Protection, by Venkatesan Chakrapani, Peter A. Newman, and Ernest Noronha15. Transgender Sex Work in Brazil: Historico-Cultural Perspectives, by Don Kulick16. the Changing Landscape of Transgender Sex Work, Pimping, and Trafficking in Brazil, by Barry M. Wolfe17. Sociocultural Context of Sex Work among Mak Nyah (Transgender Women) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by Tooru Nemoto, Rebecca de Guzman, Yik Koon Teh, Mariko Iwamoto, and Karen Trocki18. Sociocultural Context of Health among Kathoey (Transwomen) and Female Sex Workers in Bangkok, Thailand, by Tooru Nemoto, Usaneya Perngparn, Chitlada Areesantichai, Mariko Iwamato, Charlene Bumanglag, and Julia Moore19. Transgender Sex Work in the Andean Region: Between Vulnerability and Resilience, by Ximena Salazar, Aron Núnez-Curto, Angélica Motta, and Carlos F. Cáceres20. Transgender Sex Work in Spain: Psychosocial Profile and Mental Health, by Rafael Ballester-Arnal, Maria Dolores Gil-Llario, Jesús Castro-Calvo, Trinidad Bergero-Miguel, and José Guzmán-Parra21. Prevalence and Associated Factors of Condomless Receptive Anal Intercourse with Male Clients among Transwomen Sex Workers in Shenyang, China, by Zixin Wang, Joseph T. F. Lau, Yong Cai, Jinghua Li, Tiecheng Ma, and Yan LiuSection VII. Care and Treatment of Transgender Sex Workers22. Issues in the Care and Treatment of Transwomen Sex Workers, by Asa Radix and Zil GoldsteinSection VIII. Criminal Justice Versus Public Health Perspectives on Transgender Sex Work23. Police Abuse, Depressive Symptoms, and High-Risk Sexual Behavior for HIV among Transwomen, by Larry A. Nuttbrock24. Criminal Justice versus Health and Human Rights Perspectives on Transgender Sex Work, by Tara Lyons, Leslie Pierre, Andrea Krüsi, and Kate ShannonSection IX. Analytic Summary and Directions for Further Study25. Analytic Summary and Directions for Further Study, by Walter Bockting and Larry A. NuttbrockContributorsGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and challenges in the realm of public health.The volume covers trans sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies.Trade ReviewThis book explores the role of sex work in the lives of transgender women and the hazards that come with this type of work, revealing a complex interplay between sex and gender, survival and validation, desire and love, social justice and health. A must-read for any researcher, health provider, advocate, or policy maker concerned with the health and well-being of sex workers of all genders. -- Walter Bockting, codirector, Program for the Study of LGBT Health, Columbia University Medical CenterThis is a wonderful collection that helps to fill a huge gap in the research literature. Transgender individuals are the least studied of all sex workers. Wide-ranging in scope, the book covers key social, health, victimization, criminal justice, and policy issues in different nations. The findings document diversity within the transgender population but also indicate that transgender individuals face some unique challenges and are doubly stigmatized by virtue of their gender and involvement in sex work. -- Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business and Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex IndustryStrongly recommended for everyone working with transgender women and/or sex workers. Overall, Transgender Sex Work and Society simply does what it promises: offering a comprehensive overview of all aspects related to transgender sex work and society. . . . [It provides] numerous implications for policy and care and treatment for transgender sex workers. -- Judith Van Schuylenbergh * International Journal of Transgenderism *

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an analysis of the social organization of escort agencies in Poland. Izabela Ślęzak focuses on the actions of female sex workers, who are seen as active participants co-creating their working conditions. She analyzes the interactions between sex workers and their clients. Furthermore, she discusses the relationships between employees of the premises, namely the women providing sex services, the managers of the agencies, and security workers.The conclusions of the publication are the result of long-standing ethnographic research carried out in escort agencies, as well as unstructured interviews with their employees and clients. The book is addressed to people who are interested in qualitative sociology, interpretative sociology, and those who would like to understand contemporary escort agencies which operate in Poland. It will be also important for employees of organizations that work with people who provide sex services.Trade ReviewThe great advantage of the book is its rare sensitivity, combined with the reliability and insight of the researcher’s attitude. The author was able to gain the trust of the researched women, but at the same time she avoids becoming their advocate or an impartial observer who watches a researched scene dispassionately. Without moralizing or judging, this book provides the reader with a reliable picture of sex work performed by women who are made of flesh and blood. They have their concerns and hopes, plans for the future, doubts, and thoughts—they are one of us, to put it briefly. The author disenchants prostitution, presenting it more in terms of work rather than a vice. Therefore, this highly stereotyped fragment of the social world gets a human face. The author has done work that is the essence of a sociologist’s task—to get insight into a social reality and comprehend it. -- Elżbieta Zakrzewska-Manterys, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University

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Book SynopsisAmong the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study sketches in the trade in women and children in Asia, and - making innovative use of Coroner's Inquests and other records - hones in on the details of the prostitutes' lives in the colonial city: the daily brothel routine, crises and violence, social relations, leisure, mobility, disease and death.The result is a powerful historical account of human nature, of human relationships, of pride, prejudice, struggle and spirit. Ordinary people tumble from the pages of the records: they talk about choice of partners, love and betrayal, desperation and alienation, drawing us into their lives. This social history is a powerful corrective to the romantic image of colonial Singapore as a city of excitement, sophistication, exotic charm and easy sex. In the years since its original publication in 1992, this book, and its companion Rickshaw Coolie, have become an inspiration to those seeking to come to grips with Singapore's past.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the dick pic in popular culture. Drawing from a range of disciplines, cultural analyses, lived experiences and theoretical approaches, this book explores the polysemous nature of dick pics. It looks at historical and contemporary theorisations of the penis/phallus, sexualisation and sexual objectification of the male body arguments, contemporary public discourses concerning the dick pic, and men's lived experiences of sexting and dick pic sending. Made possible by advances in mobile and digital technologies, the dick pic is often regarded as a harmful endemic, particularly in the wake of increased recognitions of sexual violence against women. However, very little has been done to explore dick pics outside of violence, pathological, and moral panic framings, such as the erotic possibilities and understandings of the dick pic, and the way certain discourses continue to work to shape and frame how we engage and understand the dick pic in contemporary culture.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1: Locating the Erotic (Heterosexual) Man: Sexualisation and Objectification Debates2: "A Disturbing and Perplexing Phenomenon": Popular Discourses of Dick Pics3: "Critiquing Your Dick Pics with Love": Reading Dick Pics Reparatively4: "That Feeling of to Be Wanted": Process, Relationality, and Desire5: "You Get What You Deserve:" Managing Risk and Backlash When Sending Dick PicsConclusion

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