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Book Synopsis'A brilliant testament to those reclaiming their sexual power' - RUBY RARE'Searingly honest ... A beautiful and important work' - VANITY FAIR'This is a book that really should be pressed into the hands of a generation of young men who have learnt everything they wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask from porn ... Holmes has done an admirable job' SUNDAY TIMES'An important read for any young women starting out on their sexual life' SUNDAY INDEPENDENTWITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRISSIE HYNDE, JENNY ECLAIR AND MANY OTHERSWhat goes through a woman's head while she's having sex?Women on Top of the World is a collection of 51 first person testimonies by 51 women from around the globe, from all ages and from all walks of life. Searingly honest, they reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings during sex to writer Lucy-Anne Holmes. The result is an incredible compendium of true disclosures that are funny and sad, shocking and tender.Every experience is different, unique and fascinating. From 19-year-old Melodie in the UK to 32 year-old Wambui from Kenya and 74-year-old Lucy in New Zealand, we as readers are led down as many paths as there are ways to have sex. There are heterosexual women, gay women, bisexual women, queer women, monogamous women, polyamorous women, those who identify as non-binary and transgender women. There is beautiful sex, bored sex, auto-sexuality, crazy sex, tantric sex, sad sex and sex that is experienced as colours and melted toffee. A range of hugely talented, cutting-edge artists from all over the world - both male and female - have given their visual interpretations with rich and remarkable illustrations that convey the range of emotions contained within these intimate revelations.The result is a stunning, transportive book that will help quench the obvious thirst for narratives for women by women about their journeys of sexual self-discovery.Trade ReviewA brilliant testament to those reclaiming their sexual power * Ruby Rare *This is a book that really should be pressed into the hands of a generation of young men who have learnt everything they wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask from porn ... Holmes has done an admirable job * The Sunday Times *Searingly honest ... A beautiful and important work * Vanity Fair *An important read for any young women starting out on their sexual life * Sunday Independent *Genius writer * The Sun *

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for being intrinsically restrictive with respect to women's rights and sexuality. The authors show that conservative Muslim discourse does not necessarily match practices of believers or of citizens and that women's empowerment is facilitated where indigenous and culturally appropriate strategies are developed. Using case studies from Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Israel and India, they argue persuasively that Muslim religious traditions do not necessarily lead to conservative agendas but can promote emancipatory standpoints. An intervention to the construction of 'Muslim women' as uniformly subordinate, this collection spearheads an unprecedented wake of organizing around sexualities in Muslim communities.Trade ReviewThis exciting collection provides an important contribution to understandings of sexualities and gender, focusing our attention on processes of negotiation, subversion and resistance and challenging assumptions about "Muslimness". With its diversely located studies and rich ethnographic insights, this fascinating book deserves to be widely read. * Andrea Cornwall, professor of anthropology and international development, University of Sussex *This is one of the most exciting collection of essays to emerge in a long time. Too many popular writings on Islam reinforce stereotypes about Muslim women, and few discuss sexuality at all, let alone with such diversity. This collection challenges the tired stream of books that equate Islam with terrorism and women with claustrophobic veils. A must read for any serious scholar of sexuality, Islam, and women's rights. * Chitra Raghavan, professor of psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice *This riveting book sheds new light on women's strategies for resisting sexual repression in a variety of majority Muslim societies in Asia and the Middle East. Complicating contemporary understandings of "Muslimness" , it demonstrates that women in these societies are highly diverse in their attitudes towards and experiences of sexuality. Clear, cogent and compelling, the book will be of interest to activists and academics alike and is certain to become a key text for years to come. * Marc Lafrance, professor of sociology, Concordia University *The authors of this pathbreaking book provide a new and much-needed angle to the study of sexual identities, rights, and claims in Muslim-majority societies. Going beyond the vexed "western vs authentic" dichotomy, this excellent volume should be praised for its ability to widen our understanding of how hegemonic norms of sexuality and sexual behaviour are challenged and contested by diverse actors across religious, secular and sexual orientations. A crucial book for scholars of gender, Islam, rights and sexuality. * Ruba Salih, chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London *The authors are to be congratulated for this excellent volume on sexualities and "Muslimness" in all its diversities. The book captures the challenges of bodily rights, religion and culture for Muslim women's lives in a wide range of nuanced studies that illustrate exactly why sexuality is key to gender equality and human rights. * Wendy Harcourt, Erasmus University, winner of the FWSA 2010 Book Prize *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Policing gender, sexuality and 'Muslimness' - Anissa Hélie PART I: Tools of policing: the politics of history, community, law 1. The politicization of women's bodies in Indonesia: sexual scripts as charters for action - Vivienne Wee 2. Iranian women and shifting sexual ideologies, 1850-2010 - Claudia Yaghoob 3. Moral panic: the criminalization of sexuality in Pakistan - Hooria Hayat Khan 4. The promise and pitfalls of women challenging Muslim family laws in India and Israel - Yüksel Sezgin 5. Sexuality and inequality: the marriage contract and Muslim legal tradition - Ziba Mir-Hosseini PART II: Sites of contestation: reclaiming public spaces 6. Purity, sexuality and faith: Chinese women ahong and women's mosques as shelter and strength - Maria Jaschok with Shui Jingjun 7. Veiled transcripts: the private debate on public veiling in Iran - Shadi Sadr 8. Kicking back: the sports arena and sexual politics in Iran - Homa Hoodfar 9. Morality policing and the public sphere: women reclaiming their bodies and their rights - Homa Hoodfar and Ana Ghoreishian 10. 'Living sexualities': non-hetero female sexuality in urban middle-class Bangladesh - Shuchi Karim 11. Risky rights? Gender equality and sexual diversity in Muslim contexts - Anissa Hélie

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'Brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious history writing' Mail on Sunday 'A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece' - Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five 'Extraordinary' - Guardian 'Historical writing does not get any better than this' Matt Houlbrook, author of The Prince of Tricksters 1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when a glamorous couple invite her to Buenos Aires. She accepts - and disappears. 1910, London, England. Amid a global panic about sex trafficking, detectives are tracking a ring of international criminals when they find a young woman on the streets of Soho who might be the key to cracking the whole case. As more people are drawn into Lydia's life and the trial at the Old Bailey, the world is being reshaped into a new, global era. Choices are being made - about who gets to cross borders, whose stories matter and what justice looks like - that will shape the next century. In this immersive account, historian Julia Laite traces Lydia Harvey through the fragments she left behind to build an extraordinary story of aspiration, exploitation and survival - and one woman trying to build a life among the forces of history.Trade ReviewA gripping, unputdownable masterpiece of scholarly historical research and true crime writing. -- Hallie RubenholdBrilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious history writing * Mail on Sunday *Extraordinary * Guardian *Historical writing does not get any better than this ... Imaginative and compelling, impassioned and powerful, and deeply, deeply moving -- Matt Houlbrook, author * Prince of Tricksters and Queer London *A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece of scholarly historical research and true crime writing. Julia Laite explores the sordid world of crime, sex and international policing in 1910 by focusing on the individuals caught up in an elaborate web of exploitation. Readers who loved The Five will find this story and its skilful telling equally as enthralling. -- Hallie Rubenhold, author * The Five *Demonstrates how, with determination, sensitivity and a careful dose of imagination, extraordinary recoveries are possible ... Laite has taken her slim archival trace and immeasurably enriched it; she has reclaimed a woman's life and restored a more complex reality to the record. -- Sarah Watling * Guardian *One of the great storytellers of her generation, Julia Laite provides a lens through which we can view the practices and experiences of sex trafficking in the early twentieth century. Along the way, Laite nudges us to think about the ethics of telling another person's story. Riveting, powerfully argued and emotionally moving. -- Joanna Bourke * Fear: A Cultural History *A careful, empathetic reconstruction of the early-20th-century vice trade, placing the victims at the heart of the narrative and returning their dignity to them. This is a moving and compelling work of great scholarship. -- Sarah Wise, author * The Blackest Streets *Historical writing does not get any better than this ... Working out from one trial at London's Old Bailey, Laite provides a vivid account of a globalising world at the start of the twentieth century. Imaginative and compelling, impassioned and powerful, and deeply, deeply moving, this book is also a signal example of the contemporary political stakes of writing about the past -- Matt Houlbrook, author * Queer London *With an inventive mix of sources, Laite brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious history writing, but as the author says, it's a story being repeated daily for today's victims of traffickers. * Mail on Sunday *History at its most rigorous and imaginative. Laite provides an insightful account of the regulation of sex trafficking in the early twentieth century and an enthralling encounter with some of the people involved in one of its more salacious episodes. ...A history book that often reads more like a novel, and that challenges the clichés of villains, victims, and heroic rescuers that dominate writing on sex trafficking. ... A masterwork * Australian Book Review *

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Book SynopsisWhat is expected of 21st Century egg and sperm donors, and how does being a donor impact on men and women’s own personal lives and relationships? How do donors navigate connections and relationships created by donation? What do these connections mean to them, and to the people around them –their partners, parents, siblings and children? Donor conception is becoming increasingly widespread and since the new millennium, we have witnessed a dramatic shift in the way that donor conception is regulated and practiced in many jurisdictions around the world. In the past, donor conception has often been a family secret and donors were, almost by definition, anonymous. Now, ‘openness’ is seen as the ideal and donors can expect to be traced or contacted by those born from their donations. But what does this shift mean for donors, and their families? This path-breaking book draws on in-depth interviews with donors, their kin and fertility counsellors, and addresses these questions by analysing how understandings of donation are shaped by the regulatory, cultural and relational contexts in which they are formed. The authors also discuss what donation stories can tell us about contemporary understandings of connectedness, time and morality in the context of reproduction and family life, and consider how reproductive ‘openness’ might be done differently.Trade Review. . . a timely and valuable addition to the existing literature on (donor-)ARTs. It offers unique perspectives and weaves together a coherent narrative in which each part builds on each other. The book will undoubtedly resonate with many scholars and students of the sociology of health and illness interested in donation and social relations. -- Riikka Homanen, Gender Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, FinlandTable of ContentsChapter 1. Donation in UK law and policy: Sociological critique and perspectives Chapter 2. Pathways to donation Chapter 3. Making parents and making people: The ambivalent role of ‘good’ donors Chapter 4. The morality of neutrality: The promise and problems of ‘letting others lead’ Chapter 5. A sense of affinity: The donor-recipient connection Chapter 6. Whose story is it? Donors, their families and the relational impact of donating Conclusion. Being an egg or sperm donor in an age of openness Insights for law and policy. Implications of doing ‘openness’ differently Appendix 1. Interview study with donors, donors’ relatives and fertility counsellors Appendix 2. Mapping the law and policy context

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Book Synopsis Hotbeds of Licentiousness is the first substantial critical engagement with British pornography on film across the 1970s, including the “Summer of Love,” the rise and fall of the Permissive Society, the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, and beyond. By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, author Benjamin Halligan discusses pornography in terms of lifestyle aspirations and opportunities which point to radical changes in British society. In this way, pornography is approached as a crucial optic with which to consider recent cultural and social history.Trade Review “Halligan thrives when exploring a text’s cultural contradictions and the cracks in the philosophies underpinning the work. However, the book’s greatest asset is in taking these films (which rarely appear in most histories of British cinema) seriously.” • Choice “Halligan has uncovered a new canon of British filmmakers who for the most part have been ignored in previous histories, who played an important role in this secretive, frequently controversial world…In his new book… we get some fascinating insight into the history of British pornography and its connection to politics and the campaigning against it of groups such as the Festival of Light.. For anyone interested in this occasionally murky aspect of British film industry, this is an essential addition to a library.” • Cinema Retro “This book is a thought-provoking read not only for devotees of British cinema, but for anybody interested in the byways of film production, how obscenity is defined, the rationale for censorship and that liminal area where film interacts with the prevailing culture.” • Off ScreenTable of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Soul of Pornography Part I: The Permissive Society and Its Discontents Chapter 1. Two Notional Regimes of Permissiveness Chapter 2. An Anti-Permissive Front Part II: The Hardcore Chapter 3. The ‘Connoisseur of Female Beauty’ and the ‘Curve Prospector’: Harrison Marks and Russell Gay Chapter 4. Erectile and Societal Dysfunctionality: The John Lindsay Loops Part III: The Softcore Chapter 5. Derek Ford in Essex Chapter 6. Tory Erotica: Sexual Fantasies for the Nouveau Riche Chapter 7. David Hamilton’s Uranian Cinema Coda: Post-Permissive Pornography Chapter 8. ‘Fucking Bang Me Like a Slag!’: Men with Men after Thatcher Conclusion: ‘That’s What the Average Man Wants’ Reference List

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Book SynopsisHardcore pornographic films combine fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. Pornographic films are also historical documents that give us access to the sexual behavior and eroticism of different historical periods. This book shows how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts, and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies. Yet hardcore pornographic films have also created a body of knowledge that constitutes, in this digital age, an enormous archive of sexual fantasies that serve as both a form of sex education and self-help guides. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography focuses on sex and what can be learned about it from pornographic representations.Trade Review“With Bigger than Life Jeffrey Escoffier had already proved himself the most informative and lively chronicler of the history of gay pornography. Now, against the background of this history, he turns his attention to the making of gay sexual fantasies to convincingly explain how the unfaked realities of sexual acts work to connect with fantasmatic sexual scripts to sell alluring performances.” -- Linda Williams * author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" *"Jeffrey Escoffier brilliantly lays bare what really drives pornography: less the pumping bodies than the underlying sexual scripts, which draw on historical conditions to shape individual desires. No scholar has tracked this process so comprehensively, from the labor arrangements of production to the evolving sites of consumption. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography offers pointed observations on everything from 1970s 'homo-realism' to contemporary gay-for-pay performance, as well as comprehensive theorization that reshapes porn studies." -- Whitney Strub * author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right *"Escoffier returns to the topic of gay pornography that made his previous book Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema From Beefcake To Hardcore so notable. This one examines how the sexual imagination and identifies of the performers, writers, directors and editors have shaped the contours of gay porn." * DNA Magazine *"The study investigates several aspects of the porn industry, including straight and, later, transgender porn, focusing on pay disparity (men get less than women) the rise and fall of 'narrative' stories in features, the persistence of the fictive 'story' told via sex acts, and even a chapter on 'gay-for-pay' among the likes of Jeff Stryker and Ryan Idol. With a focus primarily on the rise and fall of studio porn and its related scenarios and economics, toward the end, Escoffier touches on other forms of porn; actors' cam-shows, nightclub appearances, strip acts and escorting." * Bay Area Reporter *"Published as a collection in February, Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography reflects some 25 years’ worth of interviewing on-and behind-camera talent." * BLOOP *"Escoffier covers porn’s relation to the sexual revolution, he movement from softcore to hardcore porn, the emergence of gay porn, identity through porn, porn screenplays, gay for pay, female actors in straight porn, porn stars, trans porn and porn and the technological revolution." * Reviews by Amos Lassen *"Enlightening and even affordable." * Lambda Literary *"While many might think of pornography as only a minor aspect, Escoffier offers a strong argument that hardcore pornography has been integral to the recent historical developments of sex and sexuality. Hardcore, it is claimed, is an archive of desires and the structural conditions that both propagate and constrain them." * Gotham Center for New York City History *"Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge: A Conversation between Whitney Strub and Jeffrey Escoffier" * NOTCHES *"A key point for Escoffier...is that porn’s supply creates its own demand, restructuring and expanding viewers’ desires: someone might not be into or even know about a particular kink until they see it. And porn is obliged to endlessly introduce new content since viewers bore easily." * Boston Review *"The GLR talks with the author of Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography: 'In porn there are scripts at various levels.'" * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Engaging and accessible. This volume can serve as an excellent introduction both to Escoffier's work and the broader scholarship on pornography (gay, straight, and trans)." * Gay & Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Pornography and the History of Sexuality Chapter One - Pornography, Perversity and Sexual Revolution Chapter Two - Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and Sexual Revolution Chapter Three - Sex in the Seventies: Gay Porn Cinema as an Archive for the History of Sexuality Chapter Four - Porn's Historical Unconscious: Sex, Identity and Everyday Life in the Films of Jack Deveau and Joe Gage Part II: Producing Sex: Sexual Scripts, Work and the Making of Pornography Chapter Five - Scripting the Sex: Fantasy, Narrative and Sexual Scripts in Pornographic Films Chapter Six - Gay-for-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography Chapter Seven - The Wages for Wood: Do Female Performers in the Adult Film Industry Earn More than Male Performers Chapter Eight - Porn Star/Stripper/Escort: Economic and Sexual Dynamics in a Sex Work Career Chapter Nine - Trans Porn, Heterosexuality and Sexual Identity Epilogue: From the Secret Museum to the Digital Archives: Constructing the Sexual Imaginary Acknowledgements About the Author

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Book SynopsisThroughout the 1970s the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of Britain. Inspired by the Stonewall uprisings in the US, the GLF demanded a ''Absolute Freedom For All'' worldwide. Yet half a century on, injustice is rife and LGBT+ inequality remains. Complete LGBT+ liberation means housing rights, universal healthcare, economic freedom and so much more. Although many people believe queers are now free and should behave, assimilate and become palatable Dan Glass shows that the fight is far from over.United Queerdom evocatively captures over five decades of LGBT+ culture and protest from the GLF to 2020s. Showing how central protest is to queer history and identity this book uncovers the back-breaking hard work as well as the glamorous and raucous stories of those who rebelled against injustice and became founders in the story of queer liberation.Trade ReviewUnited Queerdom is a thing of beauty. Dan Glass has penned a memoir that pulsates with existential rage, solidarity, and tactical hope. * Amin Ghaziani, author of There Goes the Gayborhood? *This exuberant book by one of the UK’s most imaginative queer activists is infused with joy, love, fury, passion and hope. Its stories of struggle and change celebrate the power of protest to fight injustice and confront prejudice and discrimination and offer inspiration to future generations of activists. A wonderful read. * Andrea Cornwall, co-editor of Women, Sexuality and The Political Power of Pleasure *For anyone tipping their toe into activism for the first time, or those who wish to expand and deepen their understanding, Dan Glass’s provides a fun but critical and ultimately loving approach to understanding ourselves and the world around us. * Ashley Joiner, Director of Queercircle *Dan has put together a vital handbook for us queers, teaching us how to use queer history, rage, hope and humour as tools to fight for queer liberation. * Daniel Norman, Voices4 London *A joy ride, albeit a very serious one. * David William Foster, Arizona State University *With a raw, deeply personal clarity, Dan Glass articulates a rallying call that none of us can be free until all of us are free. This powerful memoir hands the megaphone to those who need it most. As we hear from those who have been beaten, deported and marginalised by bigotry, patriarchy and fascism across the planet, Glass’s writing fills our hearts and souls with what he calls “queer rage”. This is people power in action. It will help us change the world. * Matt Beard, Executive Director for 'All Out' *United Queerdom is an urgent, fierce and enthralling manifesto for queer fightback. Part memoir, part history, part how-to guide, it is by turns moving, enraging and laugh out loud funny. Glass (literally) drags Gay Liberation into the 2020s. A vivid call to fresh action. * Matt Cook, author of Queer Domesticities *A fascinating and inspiring tour through queer activism and beyond. * Meg-John Barker, author of Queer: A Graphic History *A road map for the ongoing evolution of queer activism and organizing. * Ricky Varghese, author of Raw *One of the greatest global creative change-makers and activists in the world right now brings his incredible charisma, provocation and personality into this important book. A guide and toolkit, documenting his and others life-changing activism and methodologies. A must read for those who want to be inspired to change the world. Bold, honest and deeply moving. * Ruth Daniel, CEO and Artistic Director, ‘In Place of War’ *An optimistic iconoclast, Dan Glass has brought enthusiasm and joy to this memoir of British Gay/HIV activism, rooted in a profound faith in relationships across difference. His insights are sometimes outrageous, often provocative, controversial, heartfelt, funny and motivated by a queer spirit and vision for a better world. * Sarah Schulman, writer *Testimony of an extraordinary history that is recognizable, obscured, and deeply moving. * Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy *Dan is cut from that special Glass; he exists to make a positive difference and this engaging book is evidence that he has delivered. His remarkable story is a walking masterclass in searing authenticity. Expect to be moved, grooved, enraged, and totally impressed with this enlightening non-fiction read and its truly awesome author. * Vernal Scott, author of God's Other Children: A London Memoir *Part memoir, part manifesto, completely fierce, United Queerdom honors the history of London’s LGBTQ and AIDS activists for the first time. Glass skilfully connects the traumas of the past to the current "Second Silence" - budget cuts, rising HIV transmission rates, and the belief that AIDS is history - by spotlighting the work of activists who have come together to advocate for themselves and others. A remarkable book. * Victoria Noe, author of Fag Hags, Divas and Moms *‘One of the greatest global creative change-makers and activists in the world right now brings his incredible charisma, provocation and personality into this important book.' * Ruth Daniel, CEO and Artistic Director, In Place of War *'United Queerdom is a thing of beauty. Dan Glass has penned a memoir that pulsates with existential rage, solidarity, and tactical hope.’ * Amin Ghaziani, author of There Goes the Gayborhood? *Table of ContentsPart I: Sex 1. Chicken Soup 2. An Inalienable Right 3. Shafted? 4. Spiralling Anthills Deep Underground 5. Leave the Gay Donkeys Alone Part II : Power 6. Golden Egg 7. Coming Into 8. Janine 9. As Soon As This Pub Closes 10. Here We Dare to Dream Part III: Space 11. Sex Litter 12. Over Out Dead Bodies 13. Homo Hope 14. Spirit Of The Camp Road 15. Liberation or Slavery

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: “Oil Is the Lubricant” 1. Crude Bargains: Sex and the Making of an Oil Economy 2. Diminishing Returns: Domesticity on the Edge of Whiteness 3. Manufacturing Surplus: Population and Development in the Downstream 4. “Sexuality, Yes! Slavery, No!”: Erotic Rebellion and Economic Freedom 5. Dutch Diseases: Race, Welfare, and the Quantification of Kinship Conclusion: Acts of Attachment Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the history of how, over a span of two decades, the Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease. Nicole Perry offers a timely critique of a failed public health policy that was based on perceptions of gender, race, class, and respectability rather than a reasoned response to the social problem at hand.Trade ReviewPolicing Sex in the Sunflower State shows how patients became prisoners in Kansas as wartime venereal disease control measures shaped peacetime public health policies. Drawing on a unique source base of thousands of intake records, Perry demonstrates the diversity of experience that brought women to the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women while finding common threads of poverty, sexual victimization, and gender discrimination. With a close look at the women who advocated for and staffed the facility, Perry explores the mixed legacy of Progressive Era women's activism and the complicated role of women professionals. Chilling stories of women who traded freedom for medical treatment and reminders of how disease amplifies all kinds of social inequalities make this an important book for today's world." - Pippa Holloway, Douglas Southall Freeman Chair in History, University of Richmond "Nicole Perry provides a detailed, meticulously researched, and well-argued assessment of the creation of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (KSIFW) and its operation during the 1920s and 1930s. Through this close examination of the KSIFW, Perry shows the powerful and sometimes life-changing consequences of the coming together of Progressive Era efforts to 'reform' working-class women, eugenics, and efforts by both the federal government and the states to contain the spread of venereal disease through a moralizing sexual double standard that held women accountable, and ultimately punishable, for its spread. Perry skillfully engages with multiple and often competing perceptions of the KSIFW while also acknowledging the real restraints historians encounter when using institutional documents to gain insight into the lived experiences of working-class inmates." - Michael Rembis, associate professor of history and director of the Center for Disability Studies, University at Buffalo (SUNY), author of Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960, and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Disability History"Nicole Perry's Policing Sex in the Sunflower State offers a fascinating and timely look at the expansive power of state governments to quarantine individuals for the health of the public. Examining the impacts of venereal disease legislation passed during World War I, Perry's work details the use of such legislation to enforce a moral vision. In doing so it offers important insights into the potentially complex relationship among state power, morality, and gender." - Daniel Sledge, author of Health Divided: Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State

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Book SynopsisDrawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept against nature to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, and other sex acts, thereby demonstrating how the archive influences understandings of bodies, desires, and social categories.Trade Review"Sins Against Nature is a true tour de force. Zeb Tortorici has painstakingly searched numerous archives in Mexico. He has provided detailed notes and has integrated significant theoretical findings into his analysis. Tortorici has written an outstanding book that will, no doubt, shape the scholarly debates within Latin American history and sexuality studies for many years to come." -- Anderson Hagler * Transmodernity *"The cases in Sins against Nature . . . are equally rich in their layering of cultural complexity: religious versus secular, indigenous versus colonial, action versus desire. Tortorici helps us appreciate the challenges of understanding sexuality, not only in colonial New Spain but also in the present." -- Vernon Rosario * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Tortorici has written an expansive, thoughtful, provocative, and innovative encyclopedic work. . . . While Tortorici generously invites his readers to peruse the documents themselves in a digital archive that he has made accessible, his book should stand for many years as an indispensable contribution to the history of so-called unnatural sexuality in New Spain. . . . With this book, Tortorici has singlehandedly raised the historiographical standard for the topic of viceregal sexuality and also made an important contribution to archival theory." -- Nicole Von Germeten * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Sins against Nature fills a critical need for queer methodological approaches to colonial Spanish American history. Tortorici conducts rigorous and historically specific analyses of colonial Spanish America while insisting on a self-reflexive and fluid approach to the research process itself. The book provides scholars both a way for thinking about archives, sexuality, and desire under Spanish colonialism and, as important, guidance on the ethics and implications of historical research in the field and beyond." -- Matthew Goldmark * TSQ *"You will never forget your first time reading Zeb Tortorici’s excellent book. . . . There is so much to praise in Sins Against Nature that it is difficult to know where to begin. . . . Sins Against Nature belongs in your hands and on your bookshelf." -- Jarett Henderson * Itinerario *"This book stayed with me long after I had read it. Tortorici has a gift for bringing to life the people involved in these archival cases and humanizing many of them and the communities from which they came." -- Stephanie Kirk * Early American Literature *"Tortorici has produced a well-written and deeply-researched book that will spark conversations, appeal to specialists, and work well in graduate seminars on historical methods and gender and sexuality in colonial Latin America." -- Evan C. Rothera * Journal of Global South Studies *"Tortorici presents a carefully researched, soundly supported, erudite work of scholarship." -- Aimee E. Hisey * Journal of Social History *"Tortorici’s innovative work is essential reading for historians of colonial sexuality, detailing as it does the ways in which the 'unnatural' was defined and catalogued in New Spain." -- Linda A. Curcio-Nagy * American Historical Review *"Tortorici's intimate narration of both the case and his own archive experience opens consideration and conversation of fundamental ethical questions in the discipline.… The seduction, the titillation of archival discovery is not limited to research on sex. For many historians, it is the experience of research itself. And for that reason, Sins against Nature holds broad appeal, not only for colonial Latin Americanists or historians of sexuality but also for anyone teaching or practicing the craft of history." -- Chad Black * H-LatAm; H-Net Reviews *"Tortorici has provided us with one of the best single books on the history of Latin American homosexuality.… It will become a classic of queer history in Mexican historiography." -- Martin Nesvig * EIAL *Table of ContentsA Note on Translation ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Archiving the Unnatural 1 1. Viscerality in the Archives: Consuming Desires 25 2. Impulses of the Archive: Misinscription and Voyeurism 46 3. Archiving the Signs of Sodomy: Bodies and Gestures 84 4. To Deaden the Memory: Bestiality and Animal Erasure 124 5. Archives of Negligence: Solicitation in the Confessional 161 6. Desiring the Divine: Pollution and Pleasure 197 Conclusion. Accessing Absence, Surveying Seduction 233 Appendix 255 List of Archives 261 Notes 263 Bibliography 297 Index 309

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Book SynopsisNow with new chapters on Greek vase painting and Roman artifacts and wall paintings, Controlling Desires is the essential classroom and general introduction to sexual practices, attitudes, and beliefs in the classical world.Table of Contents Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Homer, Hesiod, and Greek Lyric Poetry 3. Sexual Roles and Sexual Rules in Classical Athens 4. Sexuality in Greek Comedy 5. Legal and Illegal Sex in Ancient Greece 6. Philosophical Sex 7. Greek Pots and Greek Sex 8. Love and Sex in Hellenistic Poetry 9. Rome and Roman Sex 10. Roman Comic Sex 11. Legal and Illegal Sex in Ancient Rome 12. Roman Poetry about Love and Sex 13. Excursus: Lesbians in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 14. Roman Sex on the Walls and in Gardens: Artifacts and Images 15. Imperial Sex: Nero and Seneca 16. Sex in Satire and Invective Poetry 17. Epilogue Appendix 1. Timeline of Greek History and Culture Appendix 2. Timeline of Roman History and Culture Notes Further Readings Index

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Book SynopsisOne Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence and organized crime directly developed the sexual blackmail tactics and networks that would later enable the sexual blackmail operation and other crimes of deceased pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Other books on Jeffrey Epstein focus on the depraved nature of his crimes, his wealth, and his most famous/politically-connected friends and acquaintances. This book, in contrast, reveals the extent to which Epstein#&39;s activities were state-sponsored through an exploration of his intelligence connections.

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Book SynopsisA deeply felt book that explores intimacy through the stories of eight relationships, from a leading neuroscientist and author of How We Feel.What is intimacy and why do we need it?Intimacy is that moment when our true identity is revealed to another, when traumas, fears, and ambitions are shared. Whether in friendship, love or family, intimacy redresses itself constantly, demanding we raze emotional barriers and discover who we really are. Through the ordinary stories of eight relationships, neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto has woven an extraordinary narrative of togetherness. He shares the details of romantic partners trapped in a long cycle of attraction and rejection, a single woman who finds herself deep in a fictional relationship with a boyfriend she has invented out of frustration with her love life, and a couple absorbed in a years-long clandestine affair. But intimacy can also extend beyond romantic encounters: coping with the loss of

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Book SynopsisTurning the tables on the pornography debate, this is an analysis of taboo-shattering fiction, film and performance art. It investigates the role of fantasy in art, politics and popular culture and shows how technological advances in science and medicine have altered concepts of the human body.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue PART ONE PERFORMANCE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 1 Contemporary Art Exhibitionists 2 Cutups in Beauty School PART TWO VISCERAL CINEMA 3 Impolitic Bodies: Race and Desire 4 Sex Work: Producing Porn s David Cronenberg's Surreal Abjection PART THREE ARRESTING FICTION 6 J.G. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibitions 7 Criminal Writing: John Hawkes and Robert Coover 8 New Inquisitions: Kathy Acker and William Vollmann 9 Masked Passions: Meese, Mercy, and American Psycho Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with parents and teens, this title offers an intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in the United States and the Netherlands negotiate love, lust, and growing up. It provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption and parent-teen relationships.Trade Review"With grace and style, Amy Schalet presents a forceful and convincing argument about the divergent cultural approaches to sexuality, socialization of adolescents, and conceptions of citizenship in the United States and the Netherlands, probing deep-seated value differences that play out in the management of sex. Nuanced, well documented, and remarkably persuasive, Not Under My Roof is an exemplary study." (Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania)"

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the reunification of Germany one former dissident recalled nostalgically that under the East German regime 'we had more sex and we had more to laugh about'. Love in the Time of Communism is a fascinating history of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution and its limits. Josie McLellan shows that under communism divorce rates soared, abortion become commonplace and the rate of births outside marriage was amongst the highest in Europe. Nudism went from ban to state-sponsored boom, and erotica became common currency in both the official economy and the black market. Public discussion of sexuality was, however, tightly controlled and there were few opportunities to challenge traditional gender roles or sexual norms. Josie McLellan's pioneering account questions some of our basic assumptions about the relationship between sexuality, politics and society and is a major contribution to our understanding of the everyday emotional lives of postwar Europeans.Trade Review'An outstanding book - intriguing, illuminating, and offering entirely fresh perspectives on East German society.' Mary Fulbrook, University College London'Myths about sexuality in East Germany abound, and Josie McLellan takes them on. From adolescent sexuality to sexual contentment within marriage, from same-sex desire to nudism and erotica, from single motherhood to Stasi surveillance - McLellan offers a well-researched and highly accessible account. Love in the Time of Communism is an enjoyable and an informative read.' Elizabeth Heineman, author of Before Porn was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse'Sexuality in the GDR has generated intense debate since the fall of the Berlin Wall, especially concerning to what extent East Germany's 'sexual revolution' diverged from its western counterpart. Josie McLellan's pioneering book offers a fresh account of the subject that goes beyond cliches and nostalgia, showing how pleasure and politics were deeply entangled in this authoritarian regime.' Paul Betts, University of Sussex'… illuminating, perceptive and well-researched.' waterstones.com'Josie McLellan's intriguing and well-written study tackles … myths and contradictory narratives, and considers the close, and at times perplexing, links between politics and society.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'McLellan … delivers superbly on her promise of a rounded history. Her book covers all major topics in the history of East German sexuality. Each chapter not only examines its theme from above and from below but discusses interactions between state policy and popular attitudes. The book offers well-grounded multi-causal explanations of developments. The result is a realistic, fair portrayal of sexuality in the GDR that critically assesses change and continuity over time.' Donna Harsch, German HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction: the East German sexual revolution; 2. 'A bit of freedom': sex and young people; 3. Marriage and monogamy; 4. 'The dictatorship of love': sex, love, and state hypocrisy; 5. Gay men, lesbians, and the struggle for the public sphere; 6. The naked republic: nudism; 7. Picturing sex: East German erotica; 8. Conclusion: space for love?

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Book SynopsisWhen we talk about sex, we talk about women as mysterious, deceptive, and - above all - untrustworthy. Women lie about orgasms. Women lie about being virgins. Women lie about who got them pregnant, about whether they were raped, about how many people they've had sex with and what sort of experiences they've had - the list goes on and on. Over and over we're reminded that, on dates, in relationships, and especially in the bedroom, women just aren't telling the truth. But where does this assumption come from? Are women actually lying about sex, or does society just think we are?In Faking It, Lux Alptraum tackles the topic of seemingly dishonest women; investigating whether women actually lie, and what social situations might encourage deceptions both great and small. Using her experience as a sex educator and former CEO of Fleshbot (the foremost blog on sexuality), first-hand interviews with sexuality experts and everyday women, Alptraum raises important questions: are lying women all that common - or is the idea of the dishonest woman a symptom of male paranoia? Are they trying to please men, or just trying to trick and trap them? And what affect does all this dishonesty - whether real or imagined - have on women's self-images, social status, and safety? Through it all, Alptraum posits that even if women are lying, we're doing it for very good reason--to protect ourselves ("My boyfriend will be here any minute," to a creep who won't go away, for one), and in situations where society has given us no other choice.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was legal in Argentina. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries.Trade Review"Recommended."— Choice "Yarfitz has approached the delicate subject deftly and with sophistication."— H-Net “A fascinating account of Jewish participation in sexual commerce in Buenos Aires…Impure Migration deepens our knowledge of the relation between prostitution and migration.”— Cristiana Schettini, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) / University of San Martín, Argentina “A tour de force. It transcends conventional accounts of victimized prostitutes and malevolent pimps with an intellectually bold exploration of sexual and racialized public anxieties. An important contribution to the history of international mobility, immigrant sociability, gendered labor, and multi-ethnic cities.”— José Moya, professor of history, Barnard College “Impure Migration presents a fascinating chapter in the history of Jewish immigration to the Americas... it is important that this story be made available.”— Adriana M. Brodsky, professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland "Wyklęta Varsovia. Sutenerski szlak "Napoleona" ze Smoczej," by Wojtek Rodak— Weekend Gazeta "If you want to read just one of the very many books on Jewish white slavery, this is the one you should choose. Both specialists and the general public will find this volume engaging and insightful."— Raanan Rein, vice president, Tel Aviv University "This book provides us with exciting ways in which the perspectives of the subaltern can be narrated into a transnational history of elites who dominated the talk about them. Impure Migration is a brilliant piece of history writing which will speak loudly and inspirationally to global and transnational historians. Its findings will equally be of immense help to activists and academics engaged in debates on contemporary sex work and trafficking."— ConnectionsTable of ContentsContents Note on Translation and Transliteration Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: White Slave Wives on the Road to Buenos Aires 1 White Slaves and Dark Masters 2 Jewish Traffic in Women 3 Marriage as Ruse, or Migration Strategy 4 Immigrant Mutual Aid among Pimps 5 The Impure Shape Jewish Buenos Aires Conclusion: After the Varsovia Society Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisUnmasking the lies behind the selling of porn as ‘just a bit of fun’ Big Porn Inc reveals the shocking truths of an industry that trades in violence, crime and degradation. This fearless book will change the way you think about pornography.Trade Review"This is by far the best and most significant of these recent books. It comes from Spinifex, a feminist press in Australia, where radical feminism is prospering rather more than in the U.S. (Spinifex was recently profiled by Barry, 2016). With 40 solid chapters, this is the richest such feminist collection since Laura Lederers (1980) Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography and/or Diana Russells (1983) Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography." Robert Bannon in Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and ViolenceShortlisted as a secondary reference source - 'Highly Commended' - in the Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2012.Contributor Meagan Tyler from Victoria University, Australia was a speaker at the Challenging Porn Conference, at London Metropolitan University in early December 2011.

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Book SynopsisHow did sexual relationships work before, in and outside of marriage in the pre-modern era? What problems did contraception and sexually transmitted diseases pose? How did people deal with prostitution and pornography back then? What were the possibilities for same-sex and queer desire and practice? Using numerous examples and sources from across the continent, Sexuality in Premodern Europe shows that even in earlier centuries, sexual life had an elementary significance for the coexistence of couples and communities. It was just as decisive for how individuals saw themselves and others as it was for maintaining the social, economic and political order.Franz X. Eder interestingly emphasises the socio-historical view of sexuality, offering an apt foil for the cultural perspective which is so prevalent in the field. In this book, sexual behaviour is understood and thought about as social practice. From this vantage point, Eder deals with the function of the sexual in upbringing andTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Reign of the Phallus: Greek Antiquity 3. Infamia and Pudicitia: Roman Antiquity 4. How the ‘Evil’ Thorn Pierced the Flesh: Judaism and Early Christianity 5. Contradictory Sexual Worlds in the Middle Ages 6. Reformation and Discipline: 15th to 17th Century 7. Coda Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious dimension, Sex explores the intersection between sex and ethnography. Anthropological writing tends to focus on the influence of status markers such as position, gender, ethnicity, and age on fieldwork. By contrast, far less attention has been paid to how sex, sexuality, eroticism, desire, attraction, and rejection affect ethnographic research. In the book, anthropologists reflect on their own encounters with sex during fieldwork, revealing how attraction and desire influence the choice of fieldwork subjects, field sites and friendships. They also examine the resulting impact on fieldwork findings and the generation of knowledge. Based on fieldwork in Germany, Denmark, Greece, the USA, Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, and India, the contributors go beyond the common heterosexuality/homosexuality divide to address topics which include celibacy, polyamory and sadomasochism. This long overdue text provTrade Review"At last, a comprehensive volume on sex that crosses oceans and brings ethnographers from across the globe into conversation with one another. Work in this field has too long been ghettoized in narrow domains, either topically or geographically, and this rich collection overcomes longstanding barriers and lays a foundation for new forms of comparison and theoretical innovation, expanding the boundaries of what we all thought we meant by “sex.” - Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa, USA Taking us from Brazilian saunas to a refugee NGO in Greece, from queer Malay Muslims in Singapore to NeoPagans in Texas, these thirteen essays reveal how sex unsettles fieldwork. Contributors reflect on how bodily intimacies, kindlings of lust or longing, and moments of recognition or crossed signals generate fresh ethnographic insight. This is a candid, vulnerable, and thought-provoking volume on sex and ethnography today. - Margot Weiss, Wesleyan University, USA More than 20 years after “Taboo” (Kulick/Wilson, 1995) and “Out in the field” (Lewin/Leap, 1996), these encounters in the field give fresh and ground-breaking insights into the social experience of sex in various ways. Enclosing a wide range of locations, practices and desires, the well-reflected reports of embodied fieldwork show the diversity of “doing relations” with and through sex and intimacy. Overall, this anthology will strengthen the links between queer studies and anthropology. - Beate Binder, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany"Table of ContentsForewordJohn Borneman, Princeton University, USAIntroductionRichard Joseph Martin, Harvard University, USA and Dieter Haller, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany1. Towards an Intimately 'Impure' Ethnography: The Limits of Non-Participant ObservationTimothy M. Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, USA2. When Bodies Talk: Indulging AnthropologySebastian Mohr, Aarhus University, Denmark3. 'Going With': Desire and Power Amid the Politics of Asylum in GreeceHeath Cabot, College of the Atlantic, USA4. (Un)Changing Men in the Face of AIDS in South AfricaHanspeter Reihling, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany5. Fieldwork and Erotic Subjectivity in an American NeoPagan CommunitySusan Harper, Texas Women's University, USA6. The Anthropologist’s New Clothes: Ethnographic Exposure and BDSM in BerlinRichard Joseph Martin, Harvard University, USA7. A Camel Walks into a Brothel: Passing Anxieties in the Sexual Economies of BrazilGregory C. Mitchell, Williams College, USA8. In Bed with My Informant: Navigating Intimacy and Ethics in SingaporeAdlina Maulud, Purdue University, USA9. Dating a Gypsy Punk Musician and Ethnographic Fieldwork among Brazilian RomaniesDiana Budur, Princeton University, USA10. Public Vegetarianism and Public Menstruation: Staging Chastity in GujaratAndrea Luithle-Hardenberg, Tubingen University, Germany11. The Naked Fear: Desire and Identity in MoroccoDieter Haller, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany12. Faux Amis: On the Morals of Not Being Gay in IstanbulSamuel Williams, Musée du quai Branly, France13. Im/Possibilities in the Field: Lessons from JerusalemRobert Phillips, Ball State University, USAGuide for Further ReadingWilliam Leap, American University, USABibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. This book illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent - or innocent enough.Trade Review"Let the debates begin! Drawing on an astonishing panoply of sources, from European courtly and troubadour literature to Heian Japanese poetry, from canon law to Puri temple dancing, William M. Reddy's important new book challenges our basic assumptions about eroticism, heroism, the nature of marriages, and the legacy of the Middle Ages in modern culture. Reading this impressive study will leave you a different person." (Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago)"

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Book SynopsisA landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of Florence, Venice and elsewhere, they brought to light an extraordinary world of early modern sexual activity, extending from city streets and gardens to taverns, monasteries and Mediterranean galleys. Typically, the sodomites (as they were called) were adult men seeking sex with teenage boys. This was something intriguingly different from modern homosexuality: the boys ceased to be desired when they became fully masculine. And the desire for them was seen as natural; no special sexual orientation was assumed.The rich evidence from Southern Europe in the Renaissance period was not matched in the Northern lands; historians struggled to apply this new knowledge to countries such as England or its North American colonies. And whTrade ReviewAfter Forbidden Desire ...sexuality studies has been moved into a new space. * Todd Reeser, Author of Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance, and Professor of French and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA *Sir Noel Malcolm continues to produce books of the highest quality. I have had the privilege of reading the typescript of his latest book, Forbidden Desire in Early-Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750. It is a work of stunning erudition, drawing upon material in most European languages. About 170, 000 words long, and written with Sir Noel's customary elegance and lucidity, it is far and away the best book to have been written on this challenging subject. * Sir Keith Thomas, Author of Religion and the Decline of Magic, and Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford *A book of startling originality and depth. The abundance of Malcolm's archival research, the range of languages and the geographical diversity of his material are stupendous... No one else has had the temerity or linguistic skills to attempt so comprehensive a survey. * Richard Davenport-Hines, The Spectator *Ambitious... full of real scholarly inquisitiveness and human sensitivity. * Daniel Brookes, Daily Telegraph *[A] magnificently researched and gripping book. * Andrew Hadfield, Irish Times *[A] learned forensic analysis... timely work. * Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Times *Noel Malcolm's survey... debunks many myths, but mostly catalogues the extreme violence perpetrated against those judged to have broken religious doctrine. * Peter Conrad, The Observer *A masterclass of what historians can and cannot do with evidence... Malcolm is one of the few preternaturally gifted linguists who could take on such a diverse source base... Noel Malcolm's sweeping survey has given us a lot to chew on. It is a powerful indictment of a priori theorizing. His answers raise new questions that need further investigation. * Jan Machielsen, TLS *[A] deeply erudite, highly original and epoch-making book... This is a work of formidable scholarship that will transform its subject but, like all the best historians, Malcolm is also an elegant writer who never allows his vast corpus of material to obscure his argument... this is an academic page turner. * Daniel Johnson, Engelsberg Ideas *An important [book], put together with the ambition and carefulness that those familiar with Malcolm's work on other topics have come to expect... this is likely to be an epochal study in its field. Powered by breathtaking care and scholarship, it is a book that specialists will be grappling with for years to come. * Tim Smith-Laing, Literary Review *Marshaling an impressive array of sources, Malcolm's lucid prose conveys a vivid sense of the lived realities of his subjects. The result is a landmark volume of social history. * Publishers Weekly *The sweep of this book is impressive and its erudition is without question. It moves easily from broad analysis to specific detail... a scholarly work of history, taking a measured and informed view. * Lucy Wooding, The Tablet *Table of ContentsGregorio and Gianesino Diplomats, Renegades, and Catamites Prejudices Ottoman Realities Western Mediterranean Realities: Men and Boys Contexts of Sexual Life Typical and Untypical The Western Mediterranean Lands Theology and Religion Law and Punishment Literary Works Western Mediterranean Attitudes Ottoman Religion, Law, and Culture Northern Europe: Broad Patterns Northern Europe: Forms of Sexual Behaviour Northern Europe: Contexts of Sexual Life Northern Europe: Literary Works European Colonial Societies England after 1700 France and the Netherlands after 1700 Conclusion: From Sodomy to Homosexuality

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Book Synopsis2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited CollectionFrom Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself—seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality. Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and film

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Book SynopsisA provocative and probing argument showing how human beings can for the first time in history take charge of their moral fate.Is tribalism—the political and cultural divisions between Us and Them—an inherent part of our basic moral psychology? Many scientists link tribalism and morality, arguing that the evolved “moral mind” is tribalistic. Any escape from tribalism, according to this thinking, would be partial and fragile, because it goes against the grain of our nature. In this book, Allen Buchanan offers a counterargument: the moral mind is highly flexible, capable of both tribalism and deeply inclusive moralities, depending on the social environment in which the moral mind operates.We can't be morally tribalistic by nature, Buchanan explains, because quite recently there has been a remarkable shift away from tribalism and toward inclusiveness, as growing numbers of people acknowledge that all human beings have equal moral status, and that at

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Book SynopsisWhat is it like to work in a place that is both a thriving and close-knit community and a globally recognised part of the commercial sex industry? London''s Soho has always been a place of complexity, contrast and change throughout its colourful history, yet urban branding, local community initiatives and licensing regulations have combined to ''clean up'' Soho, arguably to the point of sanitisation, and commercial over-development remains a continuing threat. In spite of all this, Soho retains its edge and remains a unique place to live, work and consume. Based on a ten-year ethnographic study of working in Soho''s sex shops, combining archival material, literary sources, photographic materials and interviews with men and women employed there, Tyler draws together insights from history, geography and cultural studies to tell the unseen story of this fascinating work place.Trade Review'There is a whole section of a bookshelf that could be dedicated to books on Soho - memoirs, photo-journals and seamy exposés, but this superbly researched achievement - Soho at Work: Pleasure and Place in Contemporary London - should take pride of place. Fascinating, sympathetic, original and enlightening from first to last.' Stephen Fry, Writer, broadcaster and founder of the 'Save Soho' campaign'One space: so much history. One human interest: so much activity. One servicescape; so much seeking of gratification. One community; so much abjection. One scene of labouring: so much ethnographic richness. One relic: so much future. One writer: so much courage. One book: so much to learn and treasure.' Gibson Burrell, Universities of Leicester and Manchester'It is easy enough to think that the economy happens in offices buildings and factories, brightly lit and taught in business schools. But in this delicious piece of work Melissa Tyler shows us a different economy, one in which sex, pleasure and money move in intricate ways. This is a beautifully written and well-researched book, well aware of the history and politics of sensuality and the city.' Martin Parker, Lead for the Bristol Inclusive Economy initiative, Bristol University'In this vibrant and engaging book, Melissa Tyler draws together key literatures from cultural history, social geography and sociology to provide a rich and detailed account of contemporary Soho. Accessible, comprehensive and insightful, 'Soho at Work: Pleasure and Place in Contemporary London' tells the story of a colourful and distinctive area of the city through an in-depth analysis of historical and contemporary sources as well as through the vivid accounts of those working in the sex shop industry. A foundational book in organizational geography.' Ruth Simpson, Brunel University, London'Soho has attracted the gaze of scholars and other writers for centuries because of a number of features that distinguish it from other parts of the vast London metropolis: cosmopolitanism; pioneering and high-class cuisine; sleaze; and, by the beginning of the 21st century, a thriving (male) gay scene. Melissa Tyler focuses her book on the third of these and approaches it as a professor of work and organisation studies, meaning that she examines how customers and staff interact in sex shops (but not other types of sex work). She also describes her interdisciplinary approach, which involves history, social science and ethnography.' Panikos Panayi, Times Higher Education'Soho at Work takes us into a district known through a fog of myths and half-truths, a space often depicted as 'no place for a lady'. Stripping away these myths, Melissa Tyler invokes ideas from business and organisation studies to present Soho as a working community whose boundaries are shaped by shared understandings of sexuality, safety and stigma, with both female and male sex shop employees shown to perform complex emotional, aesthetic and gendered work as they deal with a daily roll call of titillated tourists, first-time purchasers and hardened regulars. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected over more than a decade, this is an important and timely account that will surely prove essential reading for all those interested in the relations of gender, sex and the city.' Phil Hubbard, King's College London'The result is a richly descriptive and analytically provocative book that weaves together cultural history, geography, and sociology. Some readers will likely find themselves curiously lured to Soho for a visit, like moths drawn to a (red) light.' J. R. Mitrano, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction. Pleasure and place in Soho; 1. Soho: London's gilded gutter; 2. Putting work in its place: space, place and setting; 3. Shopping for sex: situating work in Soho's sex shops; 4. It's a dirty job: performing abject labour in Soho; 5. No place for a lady? Un/doing gender and sexuality in Soho; Conclusion. Rhythm is our business.

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Book SynopsisWhat is it like to work in a place that is both a thriving and close-knit community and a globally recognised part of the commercial sex industry? London''s Soho has always been a place of complexity, contrast and change throughout its colourful history, yet urban branding, local community initiatives and licensing regulations have combined to ''clean up'' Soho, arguably to the point of sanitisation, and commercial over-development remains a continuing threat. In spite of all this, Soho retains its edge and remains a unique place to live, work and consume. Based on a ten-year ethnographic study of working in Soho''s sex shops, combining archival material, literary sources, photographic materials and interviews with men and women employed there, Tyler draws together insights from history, geography and cultural studies to tell the unseen story of this fascinating work place.Trade Review'There is a whole section of a bookshelf that could be dedicated to books on Soho - memoirs, photo-journals and seamy exposés, but this superbly researched achievement - Soho at Work: Pleasure and Place in Contemporary London - should take pride of place. Fascinating, sympathetic, original and enlightening from first to last.' Stephen Fry, Writer, broadcaster and founder of the 'Save Soho' campaign'One space: so much history. One human interest: so much activity. One servicescape; so much seeking of gratification. One community; so much abjection. One scene of labouring: so much ethnographic richness. One relic: so much future. One writer: so much courage. One book: so much to learn and treasure.' Gibson Burrell, Universities of Leicester and Manchester'It is easy enough to think that the economy happens in offices buildings and factories, brightly lit and taught in business schools. But in this delicious piece of work Melissa Tyler shows us a different economy, one in which sex, pleasure and money move in intricate ways. This is a beautifully written and well-researched book, well aware of the history and politics of sensuality and the city.' Martin Parker, Lead for the Bristol Inclusive Economy initiative, Bristol University'In this vibrant and engaging book, Melissa Tyler draws together key literatures from cultural history, social geography and sociology to provide a rich and detailed account of contemporary Soho. Accessible, comprehensive and insightful, 'Soho at Work: Pleasure and Place in Contemporary London' tells the story of a colourful and distinctive area of the city through an in-depth analysis of historical and contemporary sources as well as through the vivid accounts of those working in the sex shop industry. A foundational book in organizational geography.' Ruth Simpson, Brunel University, London'Soho has attracted the gaze of scholars and other writers for centuries because of a number of features that distinguish it from other parts of the vast London metropolis: cosmopolitanism; pioneering and high-class cuisine; sleaze; and, by the beginning of the 21st century, a thriving (male) gay scene. Melissa Tyler focuses her book on the third of these and approaches it as a professor of work and organisation studies, meaning that she examines how customers and staff interact in sex shops (but not other types of sex work). She also describes her interdisciplinary approach, which involves history, social science and ethnography.' Panikos Panayi, Times Higher Education'Soho at Work takes us into a district known through a fog of myths and half-truths, a space often depicted as 'no place for a lady'. Stripping away these myths, Melissa Tyler invokes ideas from business and organisation studies to present Soho as a working community whose boundaries are shaped by shared understandings of sexuality, safety and stigma, with both female and male sex shop employees shown to perform complex emotional, aesthetic and gendered work as they deal with a daily roll call of titillated tourists, first-time purchasers and hardened regulars. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected over more than a decade, this is an important and timely account that will surely prove essential reading for all those interested in the relations of gender, sex and the city.' Phil Hubbard, King's College London'The result is a richly descriptive and analytically provocative book that weaves together cultural history, geography, and sociology. Some readers will likely find themselves curiously lured to Soho for a visit, like moths drawn to a (red) light.' J. R. Mitrano, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction. Pleasure and place in Soho; 1. Soho: London's gilded gutter; 2. Putting work in its place: space, place and setting; 3. Shopping for sex: situating work in Soho's sex shops; 4. It's a dirty job: performing abject labour in Soho; 5. No place for a lady? Un/doing gender and sexuality in Soho; Conclusion. Rhythm is our business.

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Book SynopsisFor fans of Everything I Know About Love, Wrong Knickers and The Right Sort of Girl this is the incredibly honest and brilliantly raunchy memoir you don''t want to miss.''Honest. Much needed.'' FRANK SKINNER''A hilarious, courageous and compelling read that explores the complicated relationship between culture, religion, identity and sexuality within the British Asian community. A must read for those who have lived it, and for those who haven''t.'' ANITA BHAGWANDAS''Azmat raises complex, consequential matters with a lightness of touch. Sex Bomb is an easy read as she reflects candidly and boldly on her experiences and the factors that led to them.'' CHORTLE__________Sadia is a comedian who loves sex. She is also a hijab-wearing Muslim woman. The two are in a lifelong relationship, but it''s complicated.Sadia Azmat has many different sides to her, she is the goTrade ReviewHonest. Much needed. I was surprised several times... it's a very respectable book in many ways. A logical move from stand-up to autobiography -- Frank Skinnerbold and honest... a memoir that is sure to bring you some warmth and joy * Bustle *Thought-provoking, educational and funny * Tim Lovejoy *Sex Bomb is so hilarious, raw and poignant. I couldn't put it down! * Jena Friedman *Sex Bomb brims with vulnerability, patience and a refreshing mix of confidence and empathy. Frankly, it's impossible not to come away from this book feeling richer, smarter and honoured to have been let into Sadia's world. Sex Bomb is a privilege and a joy to read, and everybody you've ever met should read it. * Anne T. Donahue *Sadia Azmat raises complex, consequential matters with a lightness of touch. Sex Bomb is an easy read as she reflects candidly and boldly on her experiences and the factors that led to them. * Chortle *wickedly entertaining -- Anna Bonnet, Best Non-Fiction Picks of 2022 * i *Refreshing, candid, hilarious and necessary. -- Sarah MalikA hilarious, courageous and compelling read that explores the complicated relationship between culture, religion, identity and sexuality within the British Asian community. A must read for those who have lived it, and for those who haven't. -- Anita Bhagwandas

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Book SynopsisFor fans of Everything I Know About Love, Wrong Knickers and The Right Sort of Girl this is the incredibly honest and brilliantly raunchy memoir you don''t want to miss.''Honest. Much needed.'' FRANK SKINNER''A hilarious, courageous and compelling read that explores the complicated relationship between culture, religion, identity and sexuality within the British Asian community. A must read for those who have lived it, and for those who haven''t.'' ANITA BHAGWANDAS''Azmat raises complex, consequential matters with a lightness of touch. Sex Bomb is an easy read as she reflects candidly and boldly on her experiences and the factors that led to them.'' CHORTLE__________Sadia is a comedian who loves sex. She is also a hijab-wearing Muslim woman. The two are in a lifelong relationship, but it''s complicated.Sadia Azmat has many different sides to her, she is the goTrade ReviewHonest. Much needed. I was surprised several times... it's a very respectable book in many ways. A logical move from stand-up to autobiography -- Frank Skinnerbold and honest... a memoir that is sure to bring you some warmth and joy * Bustle *Thought-provoking, educational and funny * Tim Lovejoy *Sex Bomb is so hilarious, raw and poignant. I couldn't put it down! * Jena Friedman *Sex Bomb brims with vulnerability, patience and a refreshing mix of confidence and empathy. Frankly, it's impossible not to come away from this book feeling richer, smarter and honoured to have been let into Sadia's world. Sex Bomb is a privilege and a joy to read, and everybody you've ever met should read it. * Anne T. Donahue *Sadia Azmat raises complex, consequential matters with a lightness of touch. Sex Bomb is an easy read as she reflects candidly and boldly on her experiences and the factors that led to them. * Chortle *wickedly entertaining -- Anna Bonnet, Best Non-Fiction Picks of 2022 * i *Refreshing, candid, hilarious and necessary. -- Sarah MalikA hilarious, courageous and compelling read that explores the complicated relationship between culture, religion, identity and sexuality within the British Asian community. A must read for those who have lived it, and for those who haven't. -- Anita Bhagwandas

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Book SynopsisSexuality can be defined as a process of integrating emotional, somatic, and intellectual and social aspects in ways that enhance one''s own self. It incorporates intimacy, romance, sensuality, eroticism and relationships, and is an important contributing factor to an individual''s quality of life and sense of well-being. In this book, the authors explore perspectives, issues and the role in society of sexuality. Topics discussed in this compilation include the functional measurement to cognitive mechanisms underlying attitudes toward sexuality and intellectual disability; the impact of rheumatic disease on sexual function; adolescent sexual behaviour; queer sexuality and online pedagogy; sexual upbringing and sexual satisfaction; and sexuality and ageing within correctional facilities.

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Book SynopsisAn affirming and sex-positive guide to working with sex workers: uncovering clinical biases, creating safe spaces, and dismantling the whorearchy.Despite the wide range of sex work--from street-based to OnlyFans--clinicians too often focus on what they think sex workers need, instead of building trust, developing rapport, and really doing the work to understand the unique stressors that make quality mental health care essential for sex worker communities.     Sex-positive therapists Theodore Burnes and Jamila Dawson break down everything that mental health providers need to know to work effectively with sex workers, while dispeling the tired, pervasive myths that continue to impact treatment today. Readers will learn about:Who sex workers are; different types of sex work; and sex workers’ specific therapy needsHow outdated research methodology results in bad data and poor careThe whorearchy--the sex-work hierarchy--and why we need to dismantle it How to recognize and move beyond personal biasesHow to provide effective, affirming, and better clinical careWhat words not to use--and what they reveal about the sexism, racism, misogyny, and transphobia embedded in our society (and our practices)    As sex work changes and evolves, encompassing everything from brothels to cam work, clinical care needs to catch up. This book shows you how.

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Book SynopsisThe trafficking of individuals within U.S borders is commonly referred to as domestic human trafficking, and it occurs in every state of the nation. One form of domestic human trafficking is sex trafficking. Research indicates that most victims of sex trafficking into and within the United States are women and children, and the victims include U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike. Recently, Congress has focused attention on domestic sex trafficking, including the prostitution of children, which is the focus of this book. This book discusses the federal responses and justice system issues involved in the sex trafficking of minors.

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Book SynopsisDuring the last decades, sociologists and urban geographers developed a substantial corpus of studies on the spatial organisation of sex markets in the city, as well as on urban conflicts and exclusionary policies implemented by public authorities. So far, not as much has been done towards analysing how political communication and mass media construct the public figure of "prostitution" and the "prostitute" in order to support repressive and exclusionary urban policies. The first chapter intends to analyse the representations of street prostitution, and particularly of streetwalkers'' bodies, produced by public discourses fueling conflicts around the visibility of sex commerce in the urban space. It aims to show how, in post-modern "space wars" on urban battlefields where communities'' social, ethnic as well as sexual identities are at stake, sex workers are often targeted as a major source of concern and depicted as foreign bodies to be eradicated from what is perceived as a socially, ethnically and culturally homogeneous collectivity. There are a handful of programs that help women exit prostitution, but few have any rigorous outcomes. The authors of chapter two present the need for such programs and introduce a therapeutic intervention for women seeking exit from prostitution that assesses prospective outcomes. The book includes a commentary on the difficult assessment of prostitution from a German perspective.

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Book SynopsisSex trafficking is a state crime. Nevertheless, it is also a federal crime when it involves conducting the activities of a sex trafficking enterprise in a way that affects interstate or foreign commerce or that involves travel in interstate or foreign commerce. Section 1591 of Title 18 of the United States Code outlaws the activities of sex trafficking enterprise that affects interstate or foreign commerce, including patronising such an enterprise. The Mann Act outlaws sex trafficking activities that involve travel in interstate or foreign commerce. This book provides an overview of sex trafficking. It focuses on the sex trafficking of children in the United States and reviews the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act.

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Book SynopsisThis collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contributing authors use Baldwin’s and Fanon’s cultural and psychoanalytic interpretations of Black masculinities to demonstrate their neglected contributions to thinking about and beyond colonialist and Western gender and masculinity studies. This innovative and sophisticated work will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural and media studies, gender and masculinities studies, sociology, political science, history, and critical race and racialization. Foreword by Tommy J. Curry. Contributors: Katerina Deliovsky, Delroy Hall, Dennis O. Howard, Elishma Khokhar, Tamari Kitossa, Kemar McIntosh, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Watufani M. Poe, Satwinder Rehal, John G. Russell, Mohan SiddiTrade Review“Appealing Because He Is Appalling engages critically with the work of James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, exploring various registers of Black masculinity, Black sexuality and anti-Black racism. It is intersectional, reflective of social and political context, varied, and original in its scope.” -- Eddie Bruce-Jones, Reader in Law & Anthropology, Birkbeck College, University of London“Appealing Because He Is Appalling engages with sociology, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, social anthropology, and Black studies across several continents. An exceptionally insightful and rigorous anthology, it will appeal to both scholars and activists.” -- William Henry, Associate Professor, University of West London“Appealing Because He Is Appalling is an epitome of literary dialectics on the restoration of Black man to his original state in Eden. Undoubtedly, it represents a gigantic refocus and paradigmatic shift from Black male ‘gendercide’ to decolonizing rebirth of Black manhood. It is a literary bible, especially for all institutions engaging in Black gender studies.” -- Emmanuel Onyeozili, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland Eastern Shore"Kitossa and the contributing authors have demonstrated a powerful example of reading Black men and boys in generative and restorative ways. Interestingly, Baldwin's and Fanon's cultural and psychoanalytic interpretations of Black masculinities add a profound level of criticality to these essays. I recommend this book for scholars, activists, organizers, and those interested in contemporary developments in Black masculinity studies." Martez Files, Decolonization of Criminology and Justice 4(1), 85-91"This collection is comprehensive, insightful, theoretical, historical, and riveting in its exposure of the dangers and desires that Black masculinity poses in a global context. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- C. B. Regester, Univ. of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, * CHOICE Magazine *“The book compiles a handful of excellent pieces that use this foundational framework to explore the representations of black masculinities and the experiences of black men across the globe…. This collection is an exciting contribution to the literature on masculinities. Its interdisciplinary approach illuminates rich avenues for inquiry regarding the representation of masculinity in media and scholarship.” Warren Jensen, Men and Masculinities, 2021Table of ContentsForeword xi Black Maleness as a Deleterious Category / Tommy J. Curry Preface xxvii Acknowledgements xxxv Introduction xxxix Tamari Kitossa I Erotic Racism, Tropes, and Interracial Sex Art, Nations, and Transnationalism 1 Can the Black Man Be Nude in a Culture That Imagines Him as Naked? 3 A Baldwinian and Fanonian Psychosexual Reading of Black Masculinity in “Western” Art and Cinema / Tamari Kitossa 2 Anaconda East 59 Fetishes, Phallacies, Chimbo Chauvinism, and the Displaced Discourse of Black Male Sexuality in Japan / John G. Russell 3 White Femininity, Black Masculinity, Sex/Romance Tourism, and the Politics of Feminist Theory 105 Theorizing Desire and Erotic Racism / Katerina Deliovsky II What Does a Black Man Want? Situating the Lives of Black Men 4 Beyond the Exotic and the Grotesque 143 Toward a Theology of Black Men and Radical Self-Love in the United Kingdom / Delroy Hall 5 A Krip-Hop Theory of Disabled Black Men 177 Challenging the Disabling of Black America, Resisting Killing and Erasure Through the Arts and Self-Empowerment / Leroy F. Moore Jr. & Tamari Kitossa III National Culture, Transqueering Black Masculinities, and Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity 6 Carrying Corporeal Narratives 235 Weighing the Burden of Antiqueer Representations in Jamaica / Kemar McIntosh 7 A Quare Eye to Slavery 265 Black Homoerotic Encounters in Brazil and Cuba / Watufani M. Poe 8 “7 Eleven” 285 Dialectics of Jamaican Popular Music Culture and Hegemonic Masculinity / Dennis O. Howard IV The Other Other and the Black Man Hot Sex and the Black Man in the Global South 9 Sila ay Malaki 319 Anti-African Racism, the “Filipino Gaze,” and the Paradox of Black Masculinity in Collegiate Basketball in the Philippines / Satwinder Singh Rehal 10 A Fanonist Reading of Anti-Black Sexual Racism in the Indian Imaginary 357 Siddis, African Students, Anti-Blackness, and Psychosexual Politics in the Indian Ocean World and Its Diaspora / Tamari Kitossa, Elishma Noel Khokhar, & Mohan Siddi Contributors 409 Index 413

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Book SynopsisThis international anthology brings together research, heartbreaking personal stories from survivors of the sex industry, and theory from over thirty women and men – activists, survivors, academics and journalists. Not For Sale is groundbreaking in its breadth, analysis and honesty.Trade Review"As this brilliant and timely collection makes clear, men who respect and value women--not to mention social justice and human rights--must not avert our eyes from the sexual exploitation of women and children all around us." --Jackson Katz, cofounder, Mentors in Violence Prevention

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Mary Lucille Sullivan asks whether the concept of sex work as ‘a job like any other’ matches the reality. Discussing the practicalities of brothels as regular businesses, the author unearths astounding facts about both the legal and illegal sectors. Covering issues such as violence, organised crime, women’s health, and mainstream businesses’ involvement in the sex trade.Trade Review"Skillfully analyzes tensions within social movements' ideologies and exposes their dilemmas in action." --Catharine MacKinnonTable of ContentsSetting the Framework: Prostitution in the 21st Century; Institutionalising Men's Rights to Women's Bodies: Legislation (1982-1997); From Prostitutes' Rights to Sex Industry Advocates: The History of the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria; Living Off the Earnings of Prostitution: Sex Industry Expansion and its Beneficiaries; Unregulated and Illegal: Clandestine Prostitution Under Victoria's 'Model Legislation'; Victoria's Sex Agenda: Occupation Health and Safety for the Sex Industry; Rape and Violence as Occupational Hazards; Making Men's Demand Visible; Index.

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Book Synopsis"P is for Prostitution" is a primer unlike any you will have read before, the ABC approach far from simplistic. Through various episodes the author charts her own insights into addiction and the kind of existence that inevitably goes with this. Each letter marks a step on a journey into the lowest circles of hell in which the "author''s creativity and intellect is misdirected towards a chaotic, nihilistic and devastating existence" (reader''s foreword). There are moments of black comedy, sexual horror, and final, uneasy redemption in which the author reclaims the trajectory of her life.

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Book Synopsis“Enjoy this story. I already jumped to the parts about me.” - Boy George The extraordinary life story of David Hodge – the ‘Very Miss Dusty O’. "My story is one of laughter and hedonism, dressing up and showing off. I played Queen in a parallel universe of glamour, rhinestones and couture outfits. It’s also one of alienation and loneliness and of always being the odd one out. I lived through AIDS, Princess Diana and Thatcher but came out singing and dancing my way through Soho and the West End. I survived a murder attempt and bankruptcy. I am still here. Now I paint my feelings and not my face and once again feel as if my journey is beginning. This is my truth. Grubby at times but mine to tell. Here it is. Uncensored." - David Hodge From a skinny, ginger-haired kid from Walsall who was bullied at school, to the ‘Queen of Soho’, who would rule London’s drag scene in its most dazzling era. This gripping true story follows an unassuming boy, separated from other children and made to sit by the window, on to a remarkable career, with celeb buddies including Kylie Minogue, The Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones, Cyndi Lauper and, of course, Boy George. But behind the glitter, there was a far darker reality. David worked simultaneously at London Lighthouse, the pioneering centre for the care of people living with HIV and AIDS. Here, the young David grew up fast and opened his eyes to the true impact of this terrifying pandemic. The contrast was stark between the life of David Hodge during the day and the life of Miss Dusty O after dark. After two decades in clubland, as drink and drugs started to take their toll and he feared he was developing his father’s alcoholic patterns, David changed his life yet again…Trade Review“Enjoy this story. I already jumped to the parts about me.” -- Boy George'You don't have to be a drag queen to know that we all have a looking glass self. David's search for his true self is insightful, lonely, laugh out loud funny. A journey of re-invention where personal stories ask bigger questions about gender, society, identity, creativity, and of course, clothes and makeup.' * Jeanette Winterson CBE, author *'Had me gripped from that killer opening line. Step aboard the Dusty train, all manner of life and love is here. For years David gave good drag. Now he gives good memoir, and I’m here for it.' * Jonathan Harvey, writer *'From bullied gay boy to Queen of Soho, from drag to riches and back again, this is a tale of survival, reinvention and self discovery. Dusty may have been a fabrication but David Hodge is a natural born storyteller. His book is witty, wise and one of the best memoirs I’ve read in years.' * Paul Burston, author, founder of the Polari Prize *'David has written his story of the glittering drag world, famous friends and lavish fun against an undercurrent of sadness… coming out to disapproving parents and the loss of friends to AIDS. A journey towards knowing himself.' * Dame Joan Bakewell *‘A deeply satisfying memoir about escape – from the bullies, from suburbia and ultimately from the gilded cage of his own creation.’ * Julian Clary, actor, author, presenter *'Behind every extraordinary life lies an even more remarkable story. This memoir is one of those rare things…a telling of loss, loneliness, and the ultimate transformation that will inspire queer souls for generations to come. May David sing on…' * Anna Richardson, TV presenter, producer, writer *'Heart wrenching and honest. This memoir is unique in its perspective, straddling the worlds of wealth and celebrity with that of the common man, which makes it a truly fascinating read. Hodge proves that you can have anything you want in life if you dress for it, and in a life full of achievements, this book has to be the top of them all.' * The Recs *'The Boy Who Sat By The Window is as much a cautionary tale as it is a chronicle of a wondrous time in London’s gay nightlife. Mistakes were made and Hodge owns them, and that self-awareness makes for a great read.' * The Queer Review *'This book is amazing.' * James Whale, TalkRadio *

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