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Columbia University Press Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex
Book SynopsisAs awareness of sex trafficking and exploitation have grown, so has the need for improved social work responses. In this volume, expert practitioners, survivors, and researchers model the best practices for working with this population, providing a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of practice with sex trafficking survivors.Trade ReviewNichols’s, Edmond’s, and Heil’s comprehensive text successfully navigates the complex politics of sexual exploitation and gives voice to a diverse array of survivors. The inclusion of individual, program-level, and preventive interventions makes this an essential primer for social workers. -- Andrea Cimino, Johns Hopkins UniversityThis book makes what appears to me to be an important and significant contribution to our knowledge of what services are needed and how they should be provided. The writing is clear, compelling, and easy to follow. -- Dean Duncan III, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillAn invaluable ‘how to’ guide on working with sex trafficking survivors that illuminates the shades of gray within the commercial sex industry. Filled with rich scholarship, this seminal work empowers social service providers to tackle the complexities of sexual exploitation at the practice, program, and policy level. Well done! -- Julie Orme, Howard UniversityThis book is a much needed resource for understanding sex trafficking in its widest meaning, including the various definitions, experiences, perspectives, and populations of sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and sex trade. Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation gives a voice to researchers, practitioners, activists, and survivors. -- Hasmik Chakaryan, Webster UniversityThis book is an important primer for social workers. Compelling. * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *Table of ContentsPrologue, by Andrea J. Nichols and Erin C. HeilPart I: Practice Techniques1. Survivors: A Diverse Community with a Common Body of Knowledge, by Melanie Weaver2. Identification, Assessment, and Outreach, by Rebecca J. Macy3. Safety Planning With Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Amber Sutton and Abby Howard 4. Change is a Process: Using the Transtheoretical Model with Commercially Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Youth and Adults, by Rachel Lloyd5. Evidence Based Trauma-Treatments for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Tonya Edmond 6. Client Centered Harm Reduction, Commercial Sex, and Trafficking: Implications for Rights Based Social Work Practice, by Kathleen M. Preble7. The Hidden Truth: How Our Policies and Practices Can Both Help and Harm Victims of Human Trafficking, by Lynly S. EgyesPart II: Practice with Specific Populations8. Sex Trafficking Among Immigrant Women in the United States: Exploring Social Work Response within a Landscape of Violence Against Immigrant Women, by Laurie Cook Heffron9. Afrocentric Intergenerational Assessment and Recovery from Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Valandra 10. Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of LGBTQ People: Implications for Practice, by Andrea J. Nichols11. Clinical Practice with Commercially Sexually Exploited Girls with Intellectual Disabilities, by Joan A. Reid, Julia Strauss, and Rachael A. HaskellPart III: Programmatic Design12. The Sanctuary Model and Sex Trafficking: Creating Moral Systems to Counteract Exploitation and Dehumanization, by Sandra Bloom13. How Do We Help? A Clinical and Empirical Review of Challenges to Service Provision For Sexually Exploited Clients, by Lara Gerassi and Abby Howard14. System Failure! Is the Department of Children and Families Facilitating Sex Trafficking of Foster Girls? by Joan A. Reid15. Supporting Sex Trafficking Survivors Through a Collaborative Single-Point-of-Contact Model: Mezzo and Micro Considerations, by Maura Nsonwu, Laurie Cook Heffron, Chiquitia Welch-Brewer, and Noël Bridget Busch-ArmendarizPart IV: Prevention and Outreach16. Preventing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: The My Life My Choice Model, by Lisa Goldblatt Grace, Katherine Bright, and Audrey Morrissey17. Prevention and Outreach to At-Risk Groups, by Andrea J. Nichols18. Challenges to Sensational Imagery Used in the Anti-Trafficking Movement and Implications for Practice, by Lauren Peffley and Andrea J. NicholsConclusion, by Andrea J. NicholsBiographies of Editors and ContributorsIndex
£118.75
Columbia University Press Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex
Book SynopsisAs awareness of sex trafficking and exploitation have grown, so has the need for improved social work responses. In this volume, expert practitioners, survivors, and researchers model the best practices for working with this population, providing a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of practice with sex trafficking survivors.Trade ReviewNichols’s, Edmond’s, and Heil’s comprehensive text successfully navigates the complex politics of sexual exploitation and gives voice to a diverse array of survivors. The inclusion of individual, program-level, and preventive interventions makes this an essential primer for social workers. -- Andrea Cimino, Johns Hopkins UniversityThis book makes what appears to me to be an important and significant contribution to our knowledge of what services are needed and how they should be provided. The writing is clear, compelling, and easy to follow. -- Dean Duncan III, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillAn invaluable ‘how to’ guide on working with sex trafficking survivors that illuminates the shades of gray within the commercial sex industry. Filled with rich scholarship, this seminal work empowers social service providers to tackle the complexities of sexual exploitation at the practice, program, and policy level. Well done! -- Julie Orme, Howard UniversityThis book is a much needed resource for understanding sex trafficking in its widest meaning, including the various definitions, experiences, perspectives, and populations of sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and sex trade. Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation gives a voice to researchers, practitioners, activists, and survivors. -- Hasmik Chakaryan, Webster UniversityThis book is an important primer for social workers. Compelling. * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *Table of ContentsPrologue, by Andrea J. Nichols and Erin C. HeilPart I: Practice Techniques1. Survivors: A Diverse Community with a Common Body of Knowledge, by Melanie Weaver2. Identification, Assessment, and Outreach, by Rebecca J. Macy3. Safety Planning With Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Amber Sutton and Abby Howard 4. Change is a Process: Using the Transtheoretical Model with Commercially Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Youth and Adults, by Rachel Lloyd5. Evidence Based Trauma-Treatments for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Tonya Edmond 6. Client Centered Harm Reduction, Commercial Sex, and Trafficking: Implications for Rights Based Social Work Practice, by Kathleen M. Preble7. The Hidden Truth: How Our Policies and Practices Can Both Help and Harm Victims of Human Trafficking, by Lynly S. EgyesPart II: Practice with Specific Populations8. Sex Trafficking Among Immigrant Women in the United States: Exploring Social Work Response within a Landscape of Violence Against Immigrant Women, by Laurie Cook Heffron9. Afrocentric Intergenerational Assessment and Recovery from Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation, by Valandra 10. Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of LGBTQ People: Implications for Practice, by Andrea J. Nichols11. Clinical Practice with Commercially Sexually Exploited Girls with Intellectual Disabilities, by Joan A. Reid, Julia Strauss, and Rachael A. HaskellPart III: Programmatic Design12. The Sanctuary Model and Sex Trafficking: Creating Moral Systems to Counteract Exploitation and Dehumanization, by Sandra Bloom13. How Do We Help? A Clinical and Empirical Review of Challenges to Service Provision For Sexually Exploited Clients, by Lara Gerassi and Abby Howard14. System Failure! Is the Department of Children and Families Facilitating Sex Trafficking of Foster Girls? by Joan A. Reid15. Supporting Sex Trafficking Survivors Through a Collaborative Single-Point-of-Contact Model: Mezzo and Micro Considerations, by Maura Nsonwu, Laurie Cook Heffron, Chiquitia Welch-Brewer, and Noël Bridget Busch-ArmendarizPart IV: Prevention and Outreach16. Preventing the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: The My Life My Choice Model, by Lisa Goldblatt Grace, Katherine Bright, and Audrey Morrissey17. Prevention and Outreach to At-Risk Groups, by Andrea J. Nichols18. Challenges to Sensational Imagery Used in the Anti-Trafficking Movement and Implications for Practice, by Lauren Peffley and Andrea J. NicholsConclusion, by Andrea J. NicholsBiographies of Editors and ContributorsIndex
£38.25
Columbia University Press Transpacific Attachments Sex Work Media Networks
Book SynopsisLily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present.Trade ReviewI find this book engaging, inspiring, and thought-provoking. The book’s greatest accomplishments are its transpacific perspective, the focus on the subject of the sex worker, and its various theoretical approaches to lesser-known works across a broad historical span. . . . [Transpacific Attachments] is destined to be an important resource and reference. -- Sijia Yao * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *This book should be welcomed by scholars in the field of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. * China Review International *Transpacific Attachments effectively infuses Sinophone studies with new theoretical energy by addressing questions of cultural identity and Chineseness through the lens of affect and sexuality. -- Andrea Bachner, Cornell UniversityAn important contribution to transpacific studies, Asian-American studies, and Chinese studies, as well as to scholarship on literature, film, and new media, Transpacific Attachments insightfully sheds new light on how the prostitute figure has worked as a symbolic medium that both produces and problematizes configurations of sexual citizenship and social mobility. -- Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityTranspacific Attachments marshals a dazzling range of literary and audiovisual texts to unpack the figure of the Chinese sex worker and the affective politics this figure refracts. The result is a powerfully refreshing understanding of "Chineseness" as a shifting "affective structure" that defies identity politics with its familiar attachments to nation, ethnicity, and language. -- Yiman Wang, University of California, Santa CruzTranspacific Attachments elegantly and deftly traces structures of affect and sociality across the Pacific through the figure of the “Chinese” sex worker throughout the twentieth century. It offers one of the most nuanced discussions of “Chineseness” in English-language scholarship to date, registering its permutations and transformations by linking the two sides of the Pacific in their affective entanglements and disentanglements. It makes an important contribution to the interrelated fields of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. -- Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TranslationIntroduction: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Transpacific Histories of AffectPart I. Pacific Crossings in the Early Twentieth Century1. Desiring Across the Pacific: Transnational Contact in Early Twentieth-Century Asian/American Literature2. Over My Dead Body: Melodramatic Crossings of Anna May Wong and Ruan LingyuPart II. Sinophonic Liaisons During the Cold War3. Erotic Liaisons: Sinophonic Queering of the Shaw Brothers’ Chinese Dream 4. Offense to the Ear: Hearing the Sinophonic in Wang Zhenhe’s Rose, Rose, I Love YouPart III. Dwelling Desires and the Neoliberal Order5. Dwelling: Affective Labor and Reordered Kinships in The Fourth Portrait and Seeking Asian FemaleCoda: What DwellsNotesBibliographyIndex
£55.00
Columbia University Press Transpacific Attachments
Book SynopsisLily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present.Trade ReviewI find this book engaging, inspiring, and thought-provoking. The book’s greatest accomplishments are its transpacific perspective, the focus on the subject of the sex worker, and its various theoretical approaches to lesser-known works across a broad historical span. . . . [Transpacific Attachments] is destined to be an important resource and reference. -- Sijia Yao * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *This book should be welcomed by scholars in the field of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. * China Review International *Transpacific Attachments effectively infuses Sinophone studies with new theoretical energy by addressing questions of cultural identity and Chineseness through the lens of affect and sexuality. -- Andrea Bachner, Cornell UniversityAn important contribution to transpacific studies, Asian-American studies, and Chinese studies, as well as to scholarship on literature, film, and new media, Transpacific Attachments insightfully sheds new light on how the prostitute figure has worked as a symbolic medium that both produces and problematizes configurations of sexual citizenship and social mobility. -- Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityTranspacific Attachments marshals a dazzling range of literary and audiovisual texts to unpack the figure of the Chinese sex worker and the affective politics this figure refracts. The result is a powerfully refreshing understanding of "Chineseness" as a shifting "affective structure" that defies identity politics with its familiar attachments to nation, ethnicity, and language. -- Yiman Wang, University of California, Santa CruzTranspacific Attachments elegantly and deftly traces structures of affect and sociality across the Pacific through the figure of the “Chinese” sex worker throughout the twentieth century. It offers one of the most nuanced discussions of “Chineseness” in English-language scholarship to date, registering its permutations and transformations by linking the two sides of the Pacific in their affective entanglements and disentanglements. It makes an important contribution to the interrelated fields of Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, queer studies, and Asian American studies. -- Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TranslationIntroduction: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Transpacific Histories of AffectPart I. Pacific Crossings in the Early Twentieth Century1. Desiring Across the Pacific: Transnational Contact in Early Twentieth-Century Asian/American Literature2. Over My Dead Body: Melodramatic Crossings of Anna May Wong and Ruan LingyuPart II. Sinophonic Liaisons During the Cold War3. Erotic Liaisons: Sinophonic Queering of the Shaw Brothers’ Chinese Dream 4. Offense to the Ear: Hearing the Sinophonic in Wang Zhenhe’s Rose, Rose, I Love YouPart III. Dwelling Desires and the Neoliberal Order5. Dwelling: Affective Labor and Reordered Kinships in The Fourth Portrait and Seeking Asian FemaleCoda: What DwellsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.80
Indiana University Press Consent Culture and Teen Films
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meek's study is revelatory in its understanding of contemporary concerns about sexual consent, ranging from adults' efforts to regulate children's sexual knowledge to teenagers' interests in exploring their sexual identities. The extensive analysis of recent films provides numerous opportunities for reconsidering how the concept of consent is evolving for youth, who are in real life revising fundamental notions of gender, power, and expression. This book may at least provoke more educators and parents to respect how the movies adolescents are watching are often confronting current conditions of youth sexuality in ways that many adult authorities are not."—Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex"This thoughtful and timely volume demonstrates that teen films have become a key site for negotiating the emergent discourse of consent and adolescent sexual agency. Through astute analyses of recent American films, Meek teases out the complexities and contradictions inherent in the ideal of affirmative consent. Consent Culture and Teen Films is an essential addition to the literature on teen films and on Hollywood's representation of adolescent sexuality."—Kristen Hatch, author of Shirley Temple and the Performance of GirlhoodTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Regulating Adolescent Sexuality in U.S. Cinema: From Censorship to Child Pornography Laws2. Flipping the Heterosexual Script and Race-Based Sexual Stereotypes in Teen Comedies of the 2010s and 2020s3. Queering Consent: Navigating Performative and Subjective Consent in Queer Teen Films4. "I Was Not Lolita": Child Sexual Abuse and Children's Agency in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Tale5. The (In)Visibility of Trans Teens: 3 Generations, Adam, and Boy Meets GirlConclusion: Adolescent Sexuality and the Adult ImaginationFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press Consent Culture and Teen Films
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meek's study is revelatory in its understanding of contemporary concerns about sexual consent, ranging from adults' efforts to regulate children's sexual knowledge to teenagers' interests in exploring their sexual identities. The extensive analysis of recent films provides numerous opportunities for reconsidering how the concept of consent is evolving for youth, who are in real life revising fundamental notions of gender, power, and expression. This book may at least provoke more educators and parents to respect how the movies adolescents are watching are often confronting current conditions of youth sexuality in ways that many adult authorities are not."—Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex"This thoughtful and timely volume demonstrates that teen films have become a key site for negotiating the emergent discourse of consent and adolescent sexual agency. Through astute analyses of recent American films, Meek teases out the complexities and contradictions inherent in the ideal of affirmative consent. Consent Culture and Teen Films is an essential addition to the literature on teen films and on Hollywood's representation of adolescent sexuality."—Kristen Hatch, author of Shirley Temple and the Performance of GirlhoodTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Regulating Adolescent Sexuality in U.S. Cinema: From Censorship to Child Pornography Laws2. Flipping the Heterosexual Script and Race-Based Sexual Stereotypes in Teen Comedies of the 2010s and 2020s3. Queering Consent: Navigating Performative and Subjective Consent in Queer Teen Films4. "I Was Not Lolita": Child Sexual Abuse and Children's Agency in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Tale5. The (In)Visibility of Trans Teens: 3 Generations, Adam, and Boy Meets GirlConclusion: Adolescent Sexuality and the Adult ImaginationFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press The Years Work in Showgirls Studies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book does nothing less than stage a major reconsideration of one of cinema's most cherished and contested works. Collectively, these articles offer the reader an invigorating account of the complex intermedial and historiographic relations that can be generated by one movie over time. Whether rethinking what constitutes powerful acting, opening up new trajectories in the study of sex work on film and beyond, or activating a treasure trove of archival material, The Year's Work in Showgirl Studies is an indispensable book for scholars of cinema, performance, and culture."—Ryan Powell, author of Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979"Smart, intricate and delightful, this collection does full justice to the complexities of camp through explorations of Showgirls, the most canonized of bad films. A true treat."—Susanna Paasonen,author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography
£62.90
Indiana University Press The Years Work in Showgirls Studies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book does nothing less than stage a major reconsideration of one of cinema's most cherished and contested works. Collectively, these articles offer the reader an invigorating account of the complex intermedial and historiographic relations that can be generated by one movie over time. Whether rethinking what constitutes powerful acting, opening up new trajectories in the study of sex work on film and beyond, or activating a treasure trove of archival material, The Year's Work in Showgirl Studies is an indispensable book for scholars of cinema, performance, and culture."—Ryan Powell, author of Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979"Smart, intricate and delightful, this collection does full justice to the complexities of camp through explorations of Showgirls, the most canonized of bad films. A true treat."—Susanna Paasonen,author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography
£28.80
University of Washington Press Unruly Figures
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Unruly Figures provides a provocative and theoretically rich account of the uneven terrain of contemporary sexual politics." * Gender & Society *"Social commitment and intellectual vigour make this journey adventurous, and the author transmits its spirit through her evocative, lyrical writing." * Review of Development and Change *"This is an elegantly written book that makes a persuasive case for what Mokkil frames as a queer reading practice of dissident sexuality that works to keep such tensions open." * Journal of Asian Studies *
£110.48
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Enemy of the New Man Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
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£41.36
Yale University Press Capital Affairs The Making of the Permissive
Book SynopsisDid Britain's permissive society start with swinging London? This title challenges the sexual myth of the 1960s, arguing that its roots lay further back in the city's dramatic cultures of austerity and affluence that marked the post-war years. It focuses on sex and urban culture through a series of historical narratives.Trade Review"Mort’s attention to detail and storytelling skills makes this a compelling and brilliant cultural and sexual history."—Julie Anne Taddeo, Journal of British Studies -- Julie Anne Taddeo * Journal of British Studies *
£37.50
WW Norton & Co Pleasure Bound
Book SynopsisA smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.Trade Review"Pleasure Bound shines a sensitive light into the darker corners of Victorian sexuality. The sometimes subtle, sometimes consuming interplay of sensuality and death; the danger and draw of sexual transgression; the irresistible lure of forbidden pleasure--through their erotic longings and adventures, the Victorian sex rebels lead us to the heart of a struggle for authentic sexual expression in an era of repression now past. Or is it?" -- Patricia Anderson, Ph.D., author of When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians"Pleasure Bound is a lively, readable and informative survey of the sometimes surprising connections between art, literature, and the sexual underworld in Victorian England." -- David Lodge, author of Deaf Sentence"As seductive as a Swinburne sapphic, Pleasure Bound is for the casual reader, the aesthete and the pleasure seeker alike. If there wasn't a scholarly excuse for reading it, you'd feel guilty for having so much fun. Just don't leave it lying around." -- Wesley Stace, author of Misfortune"Using a deft combination of biography, aesthetic analysis, and cultural commentary, Pleasure Bound offers a history of those Victorian writers and artists who lived—and sometimes died—for the conjoined cause of eros and art. The result is a bawdy, intricate, edifying, and sometimes heartbreaking book that sheds light on a fascinating constellation of creators, without ever losing sight of the importance of keeping—as Lutz sagely puts it -- 'the dark core dark.'" -- Maggie Nelson, author of The Art of Cruelty"A delightful spree through Victorian England's red-light district, Deborah Lutz's Pleasure Bound explores in lucid and engaging prose the pornographic underpinnings of nineteenth-century British art, poetry, and anthropology." -- Matthew Kaiser, Harvard University"It is unusual to find a history of sex that is both readable and erudite. Deborah Lutz’s Pleasure Bound is a delightful romp between the legs—and elsewhere—of Victorian England that offers a deeply penetrating gaze into its sexual subjects." -- Frederick S. Roden, author of Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture"A polished, thought-provoking, and original work of history that possesses all the finesse of literature." -- Simon Van Booy, author of The Secret Lives of People in Love
£29.24
WW Norton & Co Gender
Book SynopsisThe new gold standard for sociology of gender courses
£62.22
WW Norton & Co The Social Construction of Sexuality
Book SynopsisAn affordable primer to sexuality written from a sociological perspective.
£20.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd 50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality
Book Synopsis50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality seeks to dispel commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality, providing an enlightening, fascinating and challenging book that covers the fifty areas the author s believe individuals must understand to have a safe, pleasurable and healthy sex life.Table of ContentsPreface ix 1 Body Parts Who Has What and How It Works 1 #1 Bigger Penises Are Better 1 #2 Vaginas Are Dirty, Ugly, and Smell Bad 6 #3 Male Circumcision Is Dangerous and Completely Unnecessary 14 #4 The G-spot Is the Most Orgasmic Part of a Woman’s Body 22 #5 Testosterone Is the Main Predictor of Sex Drive in Men, and You Can Always Add More 26 #6 Everyone Is Born Either Male or Female 31 2 Orientation and Identity Who We Are and Who We Want 41 #7 You Can Tell If Someone Is Gay Just by Looking at Him/Her 41 #8 No One Is Really Bisexual 44 #9 Most Transgender Individuals Get Surgery 49 #10 Homosexuality Can Be Cured 55 #11 Same-Sex Relationships Are Inherently Different from Those Between One Man and One Woman 64 #12 Children of Same-Sex Parents Have Psychological Issues and Usually End Up Gay 69 #13 Most Child Molesters Are Gay Men 77 3 Sexual Stats Who Has Sex? How Often? How Hot? 83 #14 Single People Have the Best Sex Life Since They’re Not Tied Down 83 #15 Married Sex Is Boring, and Boring Sex Is Bad 87 #16 Grandma Doesn’t Have Sex (and I Doubt that Mom Does Either) 91 #17 Young People Are Sexually Wild, Promiscuous, and Irresponsible 97 #18 Anal Sex is Not Normal 102 4 Performance Lights, Camera, Orgasm 110 #19 The First Time You Have Sex Is One of the Best and Most Meaningful Events of Your Life 110 #20 Good Sex Always Ends With Simultaneous Orgasms 117 #21 No Partner of Mine Has Ever Faked an Orgasm 123 #22 Women Want to Be Dominated in Bed, Rough Sex Is the Most Fun 126 #23 Only People Who Aren’t Getting Any Masturbate 129 #24 Not Horny? Horny Goat Weed Can Help 132 5 Conception and Contraception Illusions and Delusions 137 #25 She’s Not Going to Get Pregnant if We Just Do It This Once 137 #26 The Pill and Other Birth Control Methods are Actually Dangerous to a Woman’s Health 141 #27 Withdrawal Is Just as Good as Any Other Contraceptive Method 151 #28 Condoms Don’t Work Very Well, Plus They Take All the Fun Out of Sex Anyway 156 #29 Abortion Causes Breast Cancer and a Host of Mental Health Issues 162 6 STIs and Protection The Risks of Romance 167 #30 There’s a Cure for HIV and AIDS 167 #31 STIs Are No Big Deal as Long as You Take Your Medicine 174 #32 HPV Vaccines (and Other Prevention Methods) Turn Girls into Sluts 183 7 Relationships Dating and Desire 190 #33 Hooking Up Never Leads to a Relationship 190 #34 If You Feel Attracted to Someone Else, There Must Be Something Wrong With Your Relationship 194 #35 Most Female Fantasies Revolve Around a Love Story 196 #36 Men Cheat, Women Rarely Do 203 #37 Most Couples have Matched Sexual Appetites 211 8 When Sex is Unhealthy Sex and Trouble 216 #38 Jealousy Is Romantic 216 #39 Alcohol Makes Sex Better 220 #40 Alcohol and Sex Are a Harmless Combination 225 #41 For Girls, Sometimes Sex Just Hurts 229 #42 Men Under 40 Rarely Have Trouble With Erections 234 #43 People Can Get Addicted to Sex, Just Like They’re Addicted to Alcohol or Drugs 241 #44 She Was Asking For It, and Other Common Myths About Sexual Assault 248 #45 Pornography Is Dangerous 253 9 The Not-So-Private Side of Sex Sex, Society, and the Law 262 #46 Sex Education Makes Kids More Sexually Active 262 #47 Men Who Have a Lot of Sex Are Studs, Women Are Sluts 270 #48 Sexting is a Dangerous Epidemic Among Teens 276 #49 If Sex Is Consensual, It Can Never Be Illegal 283 #50 The Struggle for Gay Rights Is Over 292 Index 301
£21.21
University of California Press Dangerous Pleasures
Book SynopsisDrawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I • HISTORIES AND HIERARCHIES Chapter 1. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering Chapter 2. Classifying and Counting PART II • PLEASURES Chapter 3. Rules of the House Chapter 4. Affairs of the Heart Chapter 5. Tricks of the Trade Chapter 6. Careers PART III • DANGERS Chapter 7. Trafficking Chapter 8. Law and Disorder Chapter g. Disease PART IV• INTERVENTIONS Chapter 10. Reformers Chapter 11. Regulators Chapter 12. Revolutionaries PART V • CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS Chapter 13. Naming Chapter 14. Explaining Chapter 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia APPENDIX A: TABLES APPENDIX B: POEMS NOTES GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£29.75
University of California Press Consuming the Romantic Utopia
Book SynopsisA study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of 'true' love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. It studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of cliches and images.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction to the Sociology of Love Romantic Love as a Cultural Practice Romantic Love as a Utopia of Transgression Overview On Methodology PART I. WHEN ROMANCE MET THE MARKET Chapter 1. Constructing the Romantic Utopia The Secularization of Love, or Love as a New Religion Love on Sale Romance vs. Marriage A Romantic Tale Spectacle Conclusion Chapter 2. Trouble in Utopia The Price of Love Alone in Public Dating and the Spirit of Consumerism Conclusion PART 2. ALL THAT IS ROMANTIC MELTS INTO AIR: LOVE AS A POSTMODERN CONDITION Chapter 3· From the Romantic Utopia to the American Dream "You Could Be Here, Now" Such a Natural Love Romance as Invisible Affluence Codes Are Getting Tired Conclusion Chapter 4· An All-Consuming Love Reenchanting the World A Consuming Romance The Luxury of Romance Travel, Nature, and Romance Romance as Liminality The Commerce of Love: Ideology or Utopia? Conclusion Chapter 5. Real Fictions and Fictional Realities Love at First Sight Realist Love Reality as Fiction Fiction as Reality A Postmodern Romantic Condition Conclusion PART 3. THE BUSINESS OF LOVE Chapter 6. Reason within Passion Charting the Heart Passion within Reason, Reason within Passion The Uncertainties of the Heart The Science of Love Therapeutic Discourse as Reflexive Discourse Chapter 7. The Reasons for Passion Agapic and Erosic Love A Very Reasonable Madness Socioeconomic Boundaries Moral and Personality Boundaries Educational and Cultural Boundaries I Talk, Therefore You Love Me Love for Free Conclusion Chapter 8. The Class of Love The Elementary Forms of Romance Love as Difference Love and Symbolic Domination Class, Romance, and the Structure of Everyday Life Conclusion Conclusion: A Happy Ending? The Story of Love Appendix 1. A Few Words about Methods Appendix 2. Questionnaire Appendix 3. Images of Romance Notes References Index
£26.10
University of California Press Stranger Intimacy
Book SynopsisExploring an array of intimacies between global migrants, this title illuminates a transient world of heterogeneous social relations - dignified, collaborative, and illicit. It reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Brilliant... [Shah's] lucid prose, vivid stories, and gripping analysis make it a great read for both academic and general audiences." -- Julia Camacho (University of Texas, El Paso) H-Net Reviews "Show how the history of even a small (in numerical terms) minority has important implications for the ways in which all Americans understand the parameters of citizenship." Southern California Quarterly "An important contribution to the forging of a more complete and inclusive history of the North American West." -- Andrea Geiger, Simon Fraser University Jrnl Of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. Migration, Capitalism, and Stranger Intimacy 1. Passion, Violence, and Asserting Honor 2. Policing Strangers and Borderlands 3. Rural Dependency and Intimate Tensions PART II. Intimacy, Law, and Legitimacy 4. Legal Borderlands of Age and Gender 5. Intimate Ties and State Legitimacy PART III. Membership and Nation-States 6. Regulating Intimacy and Immigration 7. Strangers to Citizenship Conclusion: Estrangement and Belonging Notes Select Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Christians Under Covers
Book SynopsisShows how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. Moving away from debates over homosexuality, premarital sex, and other perceived sexual sins, this title examines Christian sexuality websites to show how some evangelical Christians use digital media to promote the idea that God wants married, and more.Trade Review"Kelsy Burke's new study of evangelical sexuality websites tells a new, finely nuanced and wholly convincing story... fascinating and suggestive." Reading Religion "Burke has constructed an artfully crafted and instructive text that extends sexual work in the sociology of religion, documents the complexity of contemporary religious-sexual relations, and provides a useful example of integrating sexual, gender, and religious sociologies in practice." American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments A Note to Readers on Quoting Online Content Introduction 1 * Godly Sex: A New Evangelical Sexual Logic 2 * Overcoming the Obscene: Using Religion to Talk about Sex 3 * Virtual and Virtuous: Forming Online Religious Communities 4 * Sexual Awakening: Defining Women's Pleasures 5 * What Makes a Man: Making "Bad" Sex "Good" Conclusion: Paths of Desire Appendix A: Websites Mentioned by Name in the Book Appendix B: Doing Internet Ethnography Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Manufacturing Freedom
Book SynopsisSex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these rehabilitation programs promise freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers, such organizations actually propagate a moral economy of low-wage women's work that obfuscates relations of race, gender, national power, and inequality. Manufacturing Freedom is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study, Elena Shih argues that anti-trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption.Trade Review"Elena Shih…makes an important contribution to critical studies of anti-trafficking. . . . an insightful read for criminology and sociology students and instructors interested in a critical approach to anti-trafficking activism." * Journal of Human Trafficking *"An important contribution to the scholarship on human trafficking, Manufacturing Freedom reveals how market-based, anti-trafficking movements bolster the US empire and white supremacy, China’s authoritarian state power, and Thailand’s global market supremacy. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Slave-Free Good 1. The Business of Rehab: Ethical Consumption, Social Enterprise, and the Myth of Vocational Training 2. Manufacturing Freedom: Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work 3. Bad Rehab: House Moms, Shelters, and Maternalist Rehabilitation 4. Trafficking Benevolent Authoritarianism in China 5. Vigilante Humanitarianism in Thailand 6. Quitting Rehab: The Promises and Betrayals of Freedom Conclusion: Redistribution and Possibilities for Global Justice Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: The Embodied Currencies and Debts of Global Feminist Fieldwork Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Manufacturing Freedom
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elena Shih…makes an important contribution to critical studies of anti-trafficking. . . . an insightful read for criminology and sociology students and instructors interested in a critical approach to anti-trafficking activism." * Journal of Human Trafficking *"An important contribution to the scholarship on human trafficking, Manufacturing Freedom reveals how market-based, anti-trafficking movements bolster the US empire and white supremacy, China’s authoritarian state power, and Thailand’s global market supremacy. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Slave-Free Good 1. The Business of Rehab: Ethical Consumption, Social Enterprise, and the Myth of Vocational Training 2. Manufacturing Freedom: Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work 3. Bad Rehab: House Moms, Shelters, and Maternalist Rehabilitation 4. Trafficking Benevolent Authoritarianism in China 5. Vigilante Humanitarianism in Thailand 6. Quitting Rehab: The Promises and Betrayals of Freedom Conclusion: Redistribution and Possibilities for Global Justice Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: The Embodied Currencies and Debts of Global Feminist Fieldwork Notes References Index
£999.99
University of California Press Panics without Borders
Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of great panic about sex traffickingan idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-eventsbut police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts t
£64.00
University of California Press Panics without Borders
Book SynopsisWe are living in a time of great panic about sex traffickingan idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-eventsbut police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts t
£22.50
Harvard University Press Islamicate Sexualities Translations across
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£16.10
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Sex Radicals
Book SynopsisProvides the first account of the pioneering efforts at sex reform in America from the Gilded Age to the Progressive era. From rare and generally unknown sources, Hal Sears has pieced together the story of the sex radicals and their surprising ideas.
£26.06
Pluto Press ManMade Woman
Book SynopsisAn auto-ethnography of cross-dressing, framed by Marxism and psychoanalytic theoryTrade Review'Cremin explores the relationship between theory and life with intelligence and wit' -- Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir (Verso, 2016)'Laced with some occasional edginess, it is a wonderful book, erudite, politically astute, brilliantly written, and at times wickedly funny. It's my favourite I've read for quite some time' -- Jeff Hearn, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the WorldTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. What’s In A Dress? 2. On The Lavatory Question 3. The Aesthetic of Cross-Dressing 4. Everyone’s a Fetishist 5. How Popular Culture Made Me (a Woman) 6. Full Exposure Notes Bibliography Index
£72.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Before Sexuality
Book SynopsisSexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past.Trade Review"An indispensable book for historians and literary scholars alike: a succinct introduction to the field that breaks new ground in its embrace of both the medieval and the early modern." Journal of the Northern Renaissance "A vigorously advanced manifesto for reshaping the concepts and approaches we use in studying the history of sexual regimes." Journal of Social History "Essential reading for students and established researchers." Continuity and Change "A groundbreaking study that transcends the boundaries constructedbetween the medieval and the early modern." The Year's Work in English Studies "An important addition to the history of sexuality" European Review of History "An accessible and engaging starting point for any researcher of the history of sex, that opens up an important scholarly space for histories of sexual acts, identities, desires and behaviours that go beyond paying mere 'lip service to social constructivism." Women's History Review "In reminding us of many distinct and fascinating earlier ways of thinking about and understanding sex and sexual behaviours, Phillips and Reay rightly insist that heterosexuality is not only not a given but also has a history." Times Higher Education "Finally, a book on the history of sex that traverses the period boundary commonly erected between medieval and early modern. Deftly weaving together sources across a longue durée, this lucid survey is packed with examples that demonstrate the potential mismatch between modern sexual categories and premodern experience." Robert Mills, King's College London "A generation of scholars have journeyed from a history of sexual behaviour to a history of sexuality and in the process have given us a new vocabulary with which to interrogate our own world. Sex before Sexuality lays out a clear map of the complex intellectual landscape, and will be essential reading for students and scholars." Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire "The authors demonstrate poignantly how to think sex historically in a scintillating book that synthesizes a vast scholarly landscape on premodern sexualities in the West." Helmut Puff, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. List of Images. Introduction: Sex Before Sexuality. 1. Sin. 2. Before Heterosexuality. 3. Between Men. 4. Between Women. 5. Before Pornography. Epilogue: Sex at Sea?
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Becoming Sexual
Book SynopsisThe sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood.Trade Review"A very welcome contribution to the tradition that challenges our too-easy acceptance of the translation of social fear into social fact."Times Higher Education"A unique and invaluable contribution to the field."Clare L. Bennett, University of Worcester"In this persuasive and eye-opening volume, R. Danielle Egan dissects the dominant accounts of the sexualization of girls to reveal deep-seated class and race anxieties that say more about adults' condition than those of young girls. A must-read for anyone interested in youth today."Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology and author of Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture "Why has the figure of the 'sexualized' girl become an object of intense concern, despite a striking lack of evidence to support the claims that are made about contemporary girlhood? Becoming Sexual goes to the heart of this curious development to explore why we are so compelled by 'sexualization' and what our obsession reveals about our culture. This is a politically important book that reveals what is at stake in the sexualization debate for feminism and for girls."Feona Attwood, Sheffield Hallam University "Becoming Sexual is a refreshing and critical engagement with the contemporary and historical logics at work in recent figurations of the 'sexualized' girl-child and a compulsory read for anyone grappling with the wider cultural politics of girls, childhood and sexuality. With the ever-increasing onslaught of popular and pseudo-scientific texts bemoaning the 'sexualization of girls', Becoming Sexual is a MUST READ!"Emma Renold, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction: Sexualization as a Social Problem 1 1 What is Sexualization? 19 2 (Hetero)Sexualization, Pathological Femininity, and Hope for the Future 49 3 Sexualized Tastes, Middle-Class Fantasies, and Fears of Class Contagion 78 4 Unmanageable Bodies, Adult Disgust, and the Demand for Innocence 107 Conclusion: Refl exive Reticence, Affective Response, and the Social Construction of Sexual Problems 129 Notes 139 References 155 Index 182
£16.14
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Love Online
Book SynopsisThe internet is changing the rules of the game of love. In a world where anything is possible, a potential date - whether it be a one-night stand or the start of a more lasting relationship - can be just a click away. Anyone looking for love online can throw off their inhibitions and can say what they have never dared to before.Trade Review"Kaufmann suggests that we have to reverse out of the cul de sac of sex for sex's sake and recombine it with love once more to make our experiences less chilly but also less clouded by romantic illusions."—The Guardian "Demonstrates the inherent problems that many women still face when it comes to navigating romantic and sexual relationships, whether or not the internet is involved."—Times Higher Education "Confronts the biggest development in the world of love and sex over the past two decade: the internet ... Kaufmann's study mostly shows how the internet, far from transforming our love lives, simply compounds existing contradictions."—Prospect "Kaufmann takes us through the problems that both men and women face in navigating the murky waters of cyberdating ... For Kaufmann, although love online increasingly looks like a hypermarket, it doesn't really offer all the ease and convenience promised. We remain only too trapped by our own passions and humiliations when we try to build relationships with the real people on the other side of an internet exchange."—Inside Story "The internet — a new world unlike any we knew. Here nothing is final and irrevocable, everything can be tried and experimented with and there is always a second chance. But if this is blessing, it is surely a mixed one. What is gained and what lost? And, most importantly, how does love — that blissful state we so passionately desire — fare when suspended between online comforts and the rugged reality of the offline world? Jean-Claude Kaufmann offers us, the perplexed and the confused, a truly priceless service. He locates, spells out and carefully calculates the gains and losses revealed at the critical encounter of the two worlds, at the moment of truth: that first face-to-face date which follows online dating. This illuminating and enlightening study is a report from a battle which no one planned yet few, if any of us, can avoid."—Zygmunt Bauman, University of LeedsTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue: On the net - Love's new world - The hypermarket of desire - A virtual slap in the face - A New Drug - What Does ‘Just for Sex' Mean? - The Net's Hidden Treasures Part I: In real life 1. ‘You never know what to expect' - ‘I Felt A Bit Like A Call Girl' - ‘I'm Looking For a Man' 2. First steps - The Sound of Heels - Why Are so Many People Stood Up? - Inner Beauty - Dates That Do Not Work Out - Making a Quick Get-Away - Having a Drink - Who Pays the Bill? - Getting It Right 3. Getting it right - A New Courtly Code - Should You Kiss on A First Date? - At Your Own Pace - Kino Escalation - Chemistry - ‘If He's A Good Kisser' 4. A new dance - The Revolution in the Dating System - What Flirting Means - ‘Would You Like To Dance?' - The Whole World is A Dance Hall Part II: Pleasure and feeling 5. Should you have sex on a first date ? - ‘If You Want To' - Where's The Harm? - ‘Slag!' - A World Apart - Cafés Elsewhere 6. Sex as a leisurely activity - When Sex Broke Free From Feelings - Sexual Liberation: How Do Things Really Stand? - Feeling Good Together - The Story of A. - Post Coitum 7. The game - The Games People Play - A Popular Sport - Statistics - Some Portraits - Disgust and Cynicism 8. The lovesex imbroglio - A Little Love - FWBs - A New Relationship With Exes? - People Still Want Long-Term Relationships - Sex Is Not A Leisure Activity Like Any Other - Sex, Lies and The Internet - Sex/Love: A Historical Reversal Part III: Women, Sex and Love 9. Unbridled pleasure? - Provisional Freedom - Men Never Change - Freedom, Equality and Sexuality - Revolt - The Impossible Golden Mean - A Cold, Selfish Monster - More 10. The ‘bad boy' paradox - From Prince Charming to Bad Boy - In Praise of Pick-Up Artists - Return of the Bastard 11. Avoiding the traps - Sex Today - A Break From Normal Life - Men As Sex Toys - A Cycle - The Dilemma - Why Women Are Wallflowers - SexLove Conclusion Appendix: on methodology References
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Love Online
Book SynopsisThe internet is changing the rules of the game of love. In a world where anything is possible, a potential date - whether it be a one-night stand or the start of a more lasting relationship - can be just a click away. Anyone looking for love online can throw off their inhibitions and can say what they have never dared to before.Trade Review"Kaufmann suggests that we have to reverse out of the cul de sac of sex for sex's sake and recombine it with love once more to make our experiences less chilly but also less clouded by romantic illusions."—The Guardian "Demonstrates the inherent problems that many women still face when it comes to navigating romantic and sexual relationships, whether or not the internet is involved."—Times Higher Education "Confronts the biggest development in the world of love and sex over the past two decade: the internet ... Kaufmann's study mostly shows how the internet, far from transforming our love lives, simply compounds existing contradictions."—Prospect "Kaufmann takes us through the problems that both men and women face in navigating the murky waters of cyberdating ... For Kaufmann, although love online increasingly looks like a hypermarket, it doesn't really offer all the ease and convenience promised. We remain only too trapped by our own passions and humiliations when we try to build relationships with the real people on the other side of an internet exchange."—Inside Story "The internet — a new world unlike any we knew. Here nothing is final and irrevocable, everything can be tried and experimented with and there is always a second chance. But if this is blessing, it is surely a mixed one. What is gained and what lost? And, most importantly, how does love — that blissful state we so passionately desire — fare when suspended between online comforts and the rugged reality of the offline world? Jean-Claude Kaufmann offers us, the perplexed and the confused, a truly priceless service. He locates, spells out and carefully calculates the gains and losses revealed at the critical encounter of the two worlds, at the moment of truth: that first face-to-face date which follows online dating. This illuminating and enlightening study is a report from a battle which no one planned yet few, if any of us, can avoid."—Zygmunt Bauman, University of LeedsTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue: On the net - Love's new world - The hypermarket of desire - A virtual slap in the face - A New Drug - What Does ‘Just for Sex' Mean? - The Net's Hidden Treasures Part I: In real life 1. ‘You never know what to expect' - ‘I Felt A Bit Like A Call Girl' - ‘I'm Looking For a Man' 2. First steps - The Sound of Heels - Why Are so Many People Stood Up? - Inner Beauty - Dates That Do Not Work Out - Making a Quick Get-Away - Having a Drink - Who Pays the Bill? - Getting It Right 3. Getting it right - A New Courtly Code - Should You Kiss on A First Date? - At Your Own Pace - Kino Escalation - Chemistry - ‘If He's A Good Kisser' 4. A new dance - The Revolution in the Dating System - What Flirting Means - ‘Would You Like To Dance?' - The Whole World is A Dance Hall Part II: Pleasure and feeling 5. Should you have sex on a first date ? - ‘If You Want To' - Where's The Harm? - ‘Slag!' - A World Apart - Cafés Elsewhere 6. Sex as a leisurely activity - When Sex Broke Free From Feelings - Sexual Liberation: How Do Things Really Stand? - Feeling Good Together - The Story of A. - Post Coitum 7. The game - The Games People Play - A Popular Sport - Statistics - Some Portraits - Disgust and Cynicism 8. The lovesex imbroglio - A Little Love - FWBs - A New Relationship With Exes? - People Still Want Long-Term Relationships - Sex Is Not A Leisure Activity Like Any Other - Sex, Lies and The Internet - Sex/Love: A Historical Reversal Part III: Women, Sex and Love 9. Unbridled pleasure? - Provisional Freedom - Men Never Change - Freedom, Equality and Sexuality - Revolt - The Impossible Golden Mean - A Cold, Selfish Monster - More 10. The ‘bad boy' paradox - From Prince Charming to Bad Boy - In Praise of Pick-Up Artists - Return of the Bastard 11. Avoiding the traps - Sex Today - A Break From Normal Life - Men As Sex Toys - A Cycle - The Dilemma - Why Women Are Wallflowers - SexLove Conclusion Appendix: on methodology References
£14.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex in China
Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s.Trade ReviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 "This nuanced reading of a vast nation's sexual evolution offers a sensible corrective to simplistic notions of a sexophobic government or increased freedom as a result of China's economic spurt. By placing sexuality as negotiated within the socio-political and economic context rather than positing it as some wild, elusive thing that subverts this context, this book wipesdown romance with the washcloth of the real."—New Internationalist "Sex in China introduces readers to some of the most dramatic shifts that have taken place in sexual behaviours and mores since economic reform unleashed massive social changes upon China. Moving from family concerns through to commercial sex, from HIV/AIDS to youth culture, from gay and lesbian relations through to the developing field of sexual studies in China, this comprehensive study shows how a range of factors have come together to produce spaces where new sexual subjectivities and more inclusive forms of citizenship can emerge. This is an iconoclastic study that overturns Western preconceptions and received wisdom about Chinese sexuality. Intrinsically interesting, clearly written, and thoroughly researched, this book will be a 'must read' for anyone interested in the emerging sexual culture of contemporary China."—Michael Dutton, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of ContentsMap Chronology Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 Sex in China: Introduction 2 Marriage and ‘Family Planning’ 3 Youth and Sex(iness) 4 Gay, Lesbian and Queer 5 Commercial Sex 6 Sex and Public Health 7 Sex Studies 8 Concluding Comments
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Addiction
Book SynopsisThe concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet.This book is a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome. Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force.TTrade Review"An absorbing and in-depth history of the cultural epidemic we call sex addiction, that's both authoritative and accessible."—Erotic Review "This is an exquisitely researched, persuasive and often funny account of how, over the last thirty years, enjoying sex more publicly or enthusiastically than conservatives might have wished was turned into a phantasmic syndrome – sex addiction – that became real enough to support a small army of therapists and patients. But it is also a model study more generally of cultural epigenesis, of how the pains, pleasures and foibles of everyday life become pathologies that take a moral, political and financial toll on society."—Thomas Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley "As the sexual cultures of many Western nations have become more fluid, it is perhaps more than curious that the discourse of 'sexual addiction' has gained popular and medical legitimacy. Is it a form of regulating 'irregular' sexualities, a further instance of the medicalization of moral thinking and personal life, or a scientific advance? Reay, Attwood and Gooder provide a much needed critical-historical analysis of this cultural event."—Steven Seidman, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Beginnings3. Addictionology 1014. Cultural Impact5. Sexual Stories6. Diagnostic Disorder7. Sexual Conservatism8. Conclusion
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Addiction
Book SynopsisThe concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet.This book is a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome. Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force.TTrade Review"An absorbing and in-depth history of the cultural epidemic we call sex addiction, that's both authoritative and accessible."—Erotic Review "This is an exquisitely researched, persuasive and often funny account of how, over the last thirty years, enjoying sex more publicly or enthusiastically than conservatives might have wished was turned into a phantasmic syndrome – sex addiction – that became real enough to support a small army of therapists and patients. But it is also a model study more generally of cultural epigenesis, of how the pains, pleasures and foibles of everyday life become pathologies that take a moral, political and financial toll on society."—Thomas Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley "As the sexual cultures of many Western nations have become more fluid, it is perhaps more than curious that the discourse of 'sexual addiction' has gained popular and medical legitimacy. Is it a form of regulating 'irregular' sexualities, a further instance of the medicalization of moral thinking and personal life, or a scientific advance? Reay, Attwood and Gooder provide a much needed critical-historical analysis of this cultural event."—Steven Seidman, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Beginnings3. Addictionology 1014. Cultural Impact5. Sexual Stories6. Diagnostic Disorder7. Sexual Conservatism8. Conclusion
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Cultures
Book SynopsisWhy is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexuality studies through a distinctively cultural lens.Trade Review“Amin Ghaziani’s Sex Cultures demonstrates how to bring LGBT Studies to a broad audience. His central thesis is that sex and sexuality are not biologically determined, but only make sense through the lens of culture. Or, as Ghaziani schematizes it: ‘Sex + Culture = Sexuality’ [...] I can only hope that Ghaziani’s book is widely adopted in classes and can enlighten a generation of youth, thus providing the revolutionary potential of mainstreaming LGBT studies.” The Gay and Lesbian Review “Sex Cultures is a field guide to the study of sexuality that is written in a delightfully accessible manner. [… A] fluid book that will hold up even as the sexual cultures of our world continue to evolve. It is written for scholars, students, and general audiences alike, and recognizes the investment that we all have in better understanding desire and the meanings we attach to it.”Social Forces“Ghaziani showcases his in-depth knowledge, his powerful analyses, and his clear, conversational writing style. These strengths make the text extremely useful to anyone interested in the study of sexuality, social change, or LGBTQ issues. Ghaziani provides a thorough overview of the existing knowledge about sexuality studies, while also advancing aspects of the field using a distinctly cultural approach – Ghaziani’s book is an excellent read.”Sociation“[A]n innovative, conceptually and theoretically novel framework that builds on the sociologies of sexualities and of culture. […] Ghaziani also reminds us of the diverse kinds of institutional consequences associated with different understandings of what sexuality is. This book will be useful in undergraduate and graduate classes alike.”Tristan Bridges, Contemporary Sociology“Ghaziani provides a smart, engaging and accessible introduction to thinking about sex in society. […] Drawing on a canon of scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities, along with a creative strategy of using an international set of ‘case studies’ to breathe life into those respective theories, he places culture in the driver’s seat and thus at the centre of the production of sexuality. […A] well-written, well-evidenced, and scintillating account.”Eric Anderson, British Journal of Sociology“Sex Cultures provides a unique and new way to examine sexuality through a cultural lens. […] Ghaziani helps readers explore how the seemingly abstract concepts of sexuality and culture can be uncovered throughout history and in their everyday lives. […] It is accessible, easy to read and enjoyable, making it a great introduction for students.”Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie“By outlining movements and events that have effected, constructed and formed modern sexual cultures, Ghaziani has produced an accessible, useful pathway for those wanting to start exploring historical and social movements concerning sexuality.”Screening Sex“Sex Cultures is a wonderful introduction to how to think about sexuality today. Unlike so many sexuality textbooks, here’s a teaching resource that elegantly weaves its way through cultural codes, political programs, and moral debates.”Steven Epstein, Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University“This is the book we have been waiting for – a comprehensive and engaging overview of the field of sexuality accessible to beginning students that also provides a concise and updated review of the field for graduate students. Beautifully written and insightful, Ghaziani’s text cleverly couches major theoretical perspectives and empirical questions in case studies that will be invaluable to both instructors and students.”Verta Taylor, Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Feeling Flustered Chapter 1. The City Chapter 2. Politics and Protest Chapter 3. Heterosexualities Chapter 4. Studying Sexuality Conclusion: Culture Wars? Notes
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Cultures
Book SynopsisWhy is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexuality studies through a distinctively cultural lens.Trade Review“Amin Ghaziani’s Sex Cultures demonstrates how to bring LGBT Studies to a broad audience. His central thesis is that sex and sexuality are not biologically determined, but only make sense through the lens of culture. Or, as Ghaziani schematizes it: ‘Sex + Culture = Sexuality’ [...] I can only hope that Ghaziani’s book is widely adopted in classes and can enlighten a generation of youth, thus providing the revolutionary potential of mainstreaming LGBT studies.”The Gay and Lesbian Review “Sex Cultures is a field guide to the study of sexuality that is written in a delightfully accessible manner. [… A] fluid book that will hold up even as the sexual cultures of our world continue to evolve. It is written for scholars, students, and general audiences alike, and recognizes the investment that we all have in better understanding desire and the meanings we attach to it.”Social Forces“Ghaziani showcases his in-depth knowledge, his powerful analyses, and his clear, conversational writing style. These strengths make the text extremely useful to anyone interested in the study of sexuality, social change, or LGBTQ issues. Ghaziani provides a thorough overview of the existing knowledge about sexuality studies, while also advancing aspects of the field using a distinctly cultural approach – Ghaziani’s book is an excellent read.”Sociation“[A]n innovative, conceptually and theoretically novel framework that builds on the sociologies of sexualities and of culture. […] Ghaziani also reminds us of the diverse kinds of institutional consequences associated with different understandings of what sexuality is. This book will be useful in undergraduate and graduate classes alike.”Tristan Bridges, Contemporary Sociology“Ghaziani provides a smart, engaging and accessible introduction to thinking about sex in society. […] Drawing on a canon of scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities, along with a creative strategy of using an international set of ‘case studies’ to breathe life into those respective theories, he places culture in the driver’s seat and thus at the centre of the production of sexuality. […A] well-written, well-evidenced, and scintillating account.”Eric Anderson, British Journal of Sociology“Sex Cultures provides a unique and new way to examine sexuality through a cultural lens. […] Ghaziani helps readers explore how the seemingly abstract concepts of sexuality and culture can be uncovered throughout history and in their everyday lives. […] It is accessible, easy to read and enjoyable, making it a great introduction for students.”Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie“By outlining movements and events that have effected, constructed and formed modern sexual cultures, Ghaziani has produced an accessible, useful pathway for those wanting to start exploring historical and social movements concerning sexuality.”Screening Sex“Sex Cultures is a wonderful introduction to how to think about sexuality today. Unlike so many sexuality textbooks, here’s a teaching resource that elegantly weaves its way through cultural codes, political programs, and moral debates.”Steven Epstein, Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University“This is the book we have been waiting for – a comprehensive and engaging overview of the field of sexuality accessible to beginning students that also provides a concise and updated review of the field for graduate students. Beautifully written and insightful, Ghaziani’s text cleverly couches major theoretical perspectives and empirical questions in case studies that will be invaluable to both instructors and students.”Verta Taylor, Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Feeling Flustered Chapter 1. The City Chapter 2. Politics and Protest Chapter 3. Heterosexualities Chapter 4. Studying Sexuality Conclusion: Culture Wars? Notes
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd What is Sexual History
Book SynopsisUntil the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing innovative insights into the ways in which societies shape and are shaped by sexual values, norms, identities and desires.Table of Contents Contents Preface and Acknowledgements An Introduction What is a History of Sexuality a History of? Narratives Summary of Book Chapter 1: Framing Sexual History Towards a Critical Sexual History Theoretical Detours Bodies Subjectivities and Affect Generations Times Present, Times Past, Times Future Chapter 2: The Invention of Sexual History The Magic of Words The Natural History of Sexuality The New History The Emergence of Social Constructionism Chapter 3: Querying and Queering Same-sex History What is Homosexual History? Recovering the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Historic Present Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Homosexual The Queer Challenge Beyond the Binary Making Connections Chapter 4: Gender, Sexuality and Power Dangers and Pleasures Sexual Violence and Sexual History Historicizing Female Sexuality Sexuality and the Theory Wars Rethinking Power Intersections On Manliness, Masculinity, and Men Chapter 5: Mainstreaming Sexual History Into the Mainstream The Birth of Modern Sexuality? The Normalization of Heterosexuality The Great Transition AIDS and the Burdens of History Same-sex Marriage and New Patterns of Intimacy Chapter 6: The Globalization of Sexual History Globalizing Sexual History Historians and Transnational Sexual History Patterns of Sexual History The Colonial Legacy and the Postcolonial Critique Sexual Regimes, Sexual Lives History and Human Sexual Rights Chapter 7: Memory, Community, Voice Unofficial Knowledges and Counter-history Memory and Community The Sexual Archive Voice Living Sexual History Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index
£14.99
University of British Columbia Press Selling Sex
Book SynopsisA diverse and comprehensive dialogue between sex workers, advocates, and researchers that looks at sex work in a new way.Trade ReviewA unique collection of sex workers and their allies describing and defending a timely subject. A very insightful read. -- Maria Nengeh Mensah, professor, School of Social Work, Université du Québec à MontréalAs a Canadian sex worker, I know too well how hard it can be to find a balanced, nuanced analysis of the lived experiences of people in my profession and the complex legal and social realities we encounter. Selling Sex proved to be a notable exception ... this book is invaluable as a resource to help people understand the complexities of the sex trade and to see the people who work within it as competent and capable of making their own decisions, rather than victims in need of rescue or deviants in need of punishment and control. -- Kamala Mara * Canadian Dimension *Selling Sex is an impressive testament to the agency, activism, and theorizing of sex workers, drawing from a multiplicity of viewpoints, including trans, male, youth, and Indigenous experiences. It importantly shines light on histories of sex work, the politics of regulation, and organizing for change in Canada and is a critical intervention into debates on feminism, anti-racism, and decolonization. A deeply insightful collection and a vital new contribution to the field of sex work studies. -- Kamala Kempadoo, professor of Social Science at York University and co-editor of Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and RedefinitionIntellectually stimulating, emotionally engaging and beautifully written, Selling sex: Experience, advocacy and research on sex work in Canada weaves together the diverse voices and perspectives of sex workers, academics, and activists to present a multilayered, complex, and rich understanding of sex work practice, research, policy, and political organizing. This collection of chapters centers the lived experiences of sex workers who are experts in their own lives and who are critical to the knowledge production about sex work.I highly recommend this refreshing and inspiring book that positions itself as a form of activism and resistance against sensationalistic and mainstream narratives of sex work. It challenges unidimentional notions of sex work by highlighting often silenced communities, including male, trans, youth, and indigenous sex trade workers. This collection of voices is an essential read for anyone working in a practice setting with sex workers, for students engaging in a critical analysis of sex work, for researchers committed to privileging the lived experiences of marginalized communities, and for those interested advancing their human rights and engaging in activism for social change. -- Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, California State University Northridge * Affilia *The breadth of ethnographic data and theoretical insights explored in Selling Sex makes it an excellent resource for most courses in sociology, law, gender and sexuality studies, criminology, and anthropology interested in deconstructing the contingent nature of sexuality, labor, and gender identity, and its intersection with various state agencies and other mechanisms of regulation. Similarly, the timely nature of this publication in relation to the Bedford decision situates this text, and the contributing authors, as influential authorities on sex work research in the post-Bedford era. -- Marcus A. Sibley, Carleton University * Canadian Review of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria LovePart 1: Realities, Experiences, and Perspectives1 Work, Sex, or Theatre? A Brief History of Toronto Strippers and Sex Work Identity / Deborah Clipperton2 Myths and Realities of Male Sex Work: A Personal Perspective / River Redwood3 Champagne, Strawberries, and Truck-Stop Motels: On Subjectivity and Sex Work / Victoria Love4 Trans Sex Workers: Negotiating Sex, Gender, and Non-Normative Desire / Tor Fletcher5 We Speak for Ourselves: Anti-Colonial and Self-Determined Responses to Young People Involved in the Sex Trade / JJ6 Decolonizing Sex Work: Developing an Intersectional Indigenous Approach / Sarah Hunt7 Transitioning Out of Sex Work: Exploring Sex Workers’ Experiences and Perspectives / Tuulia LawPart 2: Organizing and Social Change8 Working for Change: Sex Workers in the Union Struggle / Jenn Clamen, Kara Gillies, and Trish Salah9 Overcoming Challenges: Vancouver’s Sex Worker Movement / Joyce Arthur, Susan Davis, and Esther Shannon10 Né dans le Redlight: The Sex Workers’ Movement in Montreal / Anna-Louise Crago and Jenn Clamen11 Stepping All Over the Stones: Negotiating Feminism and Harm Reduction in Halifax / Gayle MacDonald, Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Karolyn Martin, and Rene Ross12 Are Feminists Leaving Women Behind? The Casting of Sexually Assaulted and Sex-Working Women / Jane Doe13 Going ’round Again: The Persistence of Prostitution-Related Stigma / Jacqueline Lewis, Frances M. Shaver, and Eleanor Maticka-TyndalePart 3: The Politics of Regulation14 Regulating Women’s Sexuality: Social Movements and Internal Exclusion / Michael Goodyear and Cheryl Auger15 Crown Expert-Witness Testimony in Bedford v. Canada: Evidence-Based Argument or Victim-Paradigm Hyperbole? / John Lowman16 Repeat Performance? Human Trafficking and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games / Annalee Lepp17 A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Canadian Anti-Pimping Law and How It Harms Sex Workers / Kara Gillies18 Still Punishing to “Protect”: Youth Prostitution Law and Policy Reform / Steven Bittle19 To Serve and Protect? Structural Stigma, Social Profiling, and the Abuse of Police Power in Ottawa / Chris Bruckert and Stacey Hannem20 Beyond the Criminal Code: Municipal Licensing and Zoning Bylaws / Emily van der Meulen and Mariana ValverdeAfterword / Alan YoungIndex
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Cornell University Press Erotic Exchanges
Book SynopsisNina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistresses who dominated it. Kushner’s primary sources include thousands of folio pages of dossiers and other documents generated by the Paris police.Trade ReviewEach chapter of Erotic Exchanges begins with a different woman's story and the questions raised by it... Making for an engaging readthis technique fosters acknowledgement that the woman who works in the demimonde were individual economic actors with complex and intimate social ties. Their eighteenth century was one in which coerced choice was part of the 'fabric of everyday life' (p. 220). -- Pamela Cheek * Eighteenth-Century Life *If a historian is like a detective, this book is like a thrilling page-turner that immerses the reader in the underworld of the demimonde in eighteenth-century Paris.... Kushner's book fulfils its main ambition of 'reconstructing the demimonde' (p. 4) and it constitutes a great addition to the existing literature on eighteenth-century prostitution, police and the sexual underworld. Notwithstanding the theoretical contentions surrounding the concept of 'sexual capital’ this book is a must-read not only for students of the eighteenth century, women’s history, gender or the history of sexuality, but for anyone interested in a broader historical perspective on the sex trade. -- Frank Ejby-Poulsen * European Review of History *In Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Nina Kushner paints a vivid picture of elite prostitutes, or dames entretenues, and the men who supported them.... Through an impressive archival analysis of thousands of pages of police reports, Kushner describes where these women came from, for whom they worked, the terms of their employment, how much they made, and if they had private lives of their own.... In a veritable tour de force, Kushner draws compelling portraits of these women's lives.... Kushner's study is richly textured, smart, and it is a lively read. She navigates extremely well between individual lives, as recorded by the police, and the larger population of kept women. Moreover, in framing sex as work, her research sheds important light on the realities faced by many French women of the mid-century, namely, significant economic fragility. It also offers opportunities to rethink libertine literature and Rococo painting that never tired of depicting the dames entretenues. Erotic Exchanges thus represents an excellent example of sociocultural history that compellingly recreates the demimonde, the women who worked there, and the culture that made it all possible. -- Lesley H. Walker * American Historical Review *In spring 1758 Dame Boujard entrusted her thirteen-year-old daughter Marie to the elite brothel owner Madame Varenne, who promptly set about hawking the girl's virginity. The marquis de Bandol negotiated a price of ninety-six livres (about half the annual salary of a shopgirl), but the deal collapsed when the client claimed that the girl was not a virgin. Marie then spent six months at Varenne’s brothel before contracting a venereal disease (probably syphilis); at the age of fifteen she became the mistress of the marquis de Persenat who paid off her mother’s considerable debts and offered Marie herself a contract of three hundred a month. Forgotten figures like Marie, her mother, Varenne, and the marquis populate Nina Kushner’s richly detailed and persuasive sociocultural history of eighteenth-century Parisian prostitution.... [T]his generous but unsentimental study will be of enduring value to those interested in women’s history, libertinage, and urban culture. -- Thomas Wynn * French Studies *Nina Kushner examines the role of girls' and women's agency along the spectrum of sex work that catered to an upper-class clientele, and in doing so, evokes both sympathy and admiration for her subjects. * Bust *Nina Kushner's Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-CenturyParis brings to life a vibrant but relatively unknown part of early modern urban life, the world of the demimonde, the quasi-respectable underworld, with its elite prostitutes, wealthy patrons, and juicy scandals.... [W]hile several histories of prostitution have illuminated the world of sex work inthe early modern world, none has looked with extended attention at the women at the veryeconomic pinnacle of this domain, the elite prostitutes and mistresses in the demimonde. Kushner reveals the complexity and influence of this corner of Parisian social and cultural life and its relative separateness from the larger world of prostitution. -- Janine M. Lanza * Journal of Modern History *One of the most compelling features of the book is the fact that Kushner raises fascinating questions and draws attention to a number of paradoxes underlying the web of relations between police, prostitutes, clients and procurers.... Erotic Exchanges is not addressed to specialists in Enlightenment France (although those interested in the specific topic of eighteenth-century courtesans will appreciate having a social historian's expert perspective on the subject), but it offers a valuable contribution to the fields of women's history or history of prostitution. Kushner's combination of careful archives research and sharp sociological analyses makes her book an intriguing look into the universe of eighteenth-century France’s elite prostitution. -- Marine Ganofsky * French History *This history brings to life les dames entretenues—women who dazzled and scandalized eighteenth-century Paris as mistresses of powerful men. Kushner traces the pathways to élite prostitution: many mistresses began as actresses and singers; others were sold into the demimonde by their parents. She finds that mistresses were held to have a stabilizing influence on men's romantic whims, and they enjoyed some of the benefits of married women. Contracts guaranteed their pay, and they were often the primary breadwinners for their own families. Some mistresses found lifetime partners in their patrons, and some achieved financial independence, but many were discarded by their late twenties and began a life of streetwalking. Kushner avoids over-contemporizing her subject, affording her women agency but not more than they actually had. * New Yorker *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Police and the Demimonde 2. Leaving Home 3. Being Sold into the Demimonde 4. Madams and Their Networks 5. Contracts and Elite Prostitution as Work 6. Male Experiences of Galanterie 7. Sexual Capital and the Private Lives of Mistresses Conclusion
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Stanford University Press Prostitution and Pornography
Book SynopsisThis collection of new and classic writings about the sex industry asks us to think about the differences between our society's treatment of prostitution and pornography, while investigating how liberalism deals with the sex industry in general.Trade Review"Jessica Spector has compiled the most challenging and thorough volume yet on philosophic themes surrounding the vexed questions of pornography and prostitution. Focusing on the very different ways in which we regard—and discipline—prostitution and pornography, the book raises fundamental questions about important ethical questions as well as questions of freedom, social responsibility, and self-identity. This will be a seminal work in the field." -- Drew A. Hyland"As its title suggests, this is a collection of essays about two of the main arms of the sex industry: prostitution and pornography. It would be an excellent text for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class on the issue, as well as for anyone interested in probing the issues that sex work poses in the debate between radical feminists, who question both the autonomy of the choice of prostitution and the expression value of pornograhy, and the liberal feminists, who tend to defend proostitution as a viable economic choice for women and champion pornography for its expression value and promotion of diversity of lifestyles." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques"This unique, valuable collection offers various perspectives within the liberal feminist discussions of pornography and prostitution." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsTable Of Contents Introduction Jessica Spector "Introduction: Sex, Money, and Philosophy" I. Critiques of the Sex Industry Ch.1 Vednita Carter and Evelina Giobbe "Duet: Prostitution, Racism, and Feminist Discourse" Ch. 2 Christine Stark "Stripping as a System of Prostitution" Ch.3 Carol Pateman "What's Wrong with Prostitution?" Ch.4 Catharine MacKinnon "Equality and Speech" Ch.5 Margaret A.Baldwin "Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform" II. Liberalism and Prostitution Ch.6 Norma Jean Almodovar "Porn Stars, Radical Feminists, Cops and Outlaw Whores: The Battle Between Feminist Theory and Reality, Free Spirits and Free Speech" Ch.7 Martha Nussbaum "'Whether From Reason or Prejudice': Taking Money for Bodily Services" Ch.8 Sibyl Schwarzenbach "Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution" Ch.9 Laurie Shrage "Prostitution and the Case for Decriminalization" III. Liberalism and Pornography Ch.10 Theresa Reed "Private Acts vs. Public Art: Where Prostitution Ends and Pornography Begins" Ch.11 Joshua Cohen "Freedom, Equality, Pornography" Ch.12 Ronald Dworkin "Women and Pornography" Ch.13 Laura Kipnis "Disgust and Desire: Hustler Magazine" IV. The Limits of Liberalism Ch.14 Tracy Quan "The Name of the Pose: A Sex Worker by Any Other Name" Ch.15 Julian Marlowe "Thinking Outside the Box: Men in the Sex Industry" Ch.16 Scott Anderson "Sexual Autonomy and Prostitution: Making Sense of the Prohibition of Prostitution" Ch.17 Debra Satz "Markets in Women's Sexual Labor" Ch.18 Jessica Spector "Obscene Division: Feminist Liberalism's Treatment of Prostitution and Pornography" Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Prostitution and Pornography
Book SynopsisThis collection of new and classic writings about the sex industry asks us to think about the differences between our society's treatment of prostitution and pornography, while investigating how liberalism deals with the sex industry in general.Trade Review"Jessica Spector has compiled the most challenging and thorough volume yet on philosophic themes surrounding the vexed questions of pornography and prostitution. Focusing on the very different ways in which we regard—and discipline—prostitution and pornography, the book raises fundamental questions about important ethical questions as well as questions of freedom, social responsibility, and self-identity. This will be a seminal work in the field." -- Drew A. Hyland"As its title suggests, this is a collection of essays about two of the main arms of the sex industry: prostitution and pornography. It would be an excellent text for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class on the issue, as well as for anyone interested in probing the issues that sex work poses in the debate between radical feminists, who question both the autonomy of the choice of prostitution and the expression value of pornograhy, and the liberal feminists, who tend to defend proostitution as a viable economic choice for women and champion pornography for its expression value and promotion of diversity of lifestyles." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques"This unique, valuable collection offers various perspectives within the liberal feminist discussions of pornography and prostitution." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsTable Of Contents Introduction Jessica Spector "Introduction: Sex, Money, and Philosophy" I. Critiques of the Sex Industry Ch.1 Vednita Carter and Evelina Giobbe "Duet: Prostitution, Racism, and Feminist Discourse" Ch. 2 Christine Stark "Stripping as a System of Prostitution" Ch.3 Carol Pateman "What's Wrong with Prostitution?" Ch.4 Catharine MacKinnon "Equality and Speech" Ch.5 Margaret A.Baldwin "Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform" II. Liberalism and Prostitution Ch.6 Norma Jean Almodovar "Porn Stars, Radical Feminists, Cops and Outlaw Whores: The Battle Between Feminist Theory and Reality, Free Spirits and Free Speech" Ch.7 Martha Nussbaum "'Whether From Reason or Prejudice': Taking Money for Bodily Services" Ch.8 Sibyl Schwarzenbach "Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution" Ch.9 Laurie Shrage "Prostitution and the Case for Decriminalization" III. Liberalism and Pornography Ch.10 Theresa Reed "Private Acts vs. Public Art: Where Prostitution Ends and Pornography Begins" Ch.11 Joshua Cohen "Freedom, Equality, Pornography" Ch.12 Ronald Dworkin "Women and Pornography" Ch.13 Laura Kipnis "Disgust and Desire: Hustler Magazine" IV. The Limits of Liberalism Ch.14 Tracy Quan "The Name of the Pose: A Sex Worker by Any Other Name" Ch.15 Julian Marlowe "Thinking Outside the Box: Men in the Sex Industry" Ch.16 Scott Anderson "Sexual Autonomy and Prostitution: Making Sense of the Prohibition of Prostitution" Ch.17 Debra Satz "Markets in Women's Sexual Labor" Ch.18 Jessica Spector "Obscene Division: Feminist Liberalism's Treatment of Prostitution and Pornography" Notes Bibliography Index
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Teachers' College Press Sex Ed for Caring Schools Creating an
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University of Pennsylvania Press Rape on Prime Time
Book SynopsisRape on Prime Time provides important insight into the social construction of rape in mainstream mass media since the inception of rape law reform in 1974.
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The Catholic University of America Press Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart Cultivating a
Book SynopsisIn an era in which the internet has made pornography readily accessible, Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart offers a theological critique of pornography and retrieves from the Christian tradition an alternative visual culture. This visual culture is constituted by both the character of the images we behold and the manner in which we see.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The CrossDressed Caribbean
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New York University Press Victory Girls KhakiWackies and Patriotutes
Book SynopsisExplores the dual discourse on female sexual mobilization that emerged during World War II.Trade ReviewHegarty conducted excellent research in Social Protection Division archives, popular magazines, professional journals, and numerous other wartime materials. * Choice *Hegarty . . . uncover[s] a complex picture. . . . This study . . . significantly enhances our understanding of the World War II period in the United States. * Journal of American History *Offers a fresh perspective on the construction of gender roles during wartime by examining the experience of women who performed moral-maintaining, or as she terms the, sexualized services during World War II. * Military Review *Hegarty has succeeded in writing a very engaging and readable account of an important, and troubling, aspect of the history of the good war. -- Nancy K. Bristow * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes offers a substantive and complex narrative of the sweeping and multiple constraints on female sexuality during World War II. Hegartys study is the best since Allan Brandts epic work in its nuanced attention to the process by which female sexualitydeemed both necessary and suspectwas harnessed in service to the state, while female sexual desire and women’s choices to engage in heterosexual activity remained unspeakable and became critical targets for containment during and after the war. This is a provocative and compelling book. -- Leisa D. Meyer,author of Creating G. I. Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women’s Army Corps During World War IIIn this carefully crafted and highly readable history, Hegarty reminds us of the multiple links between sexuality and war. She captures the contradictions and shows us how womens sexuality was both mobilized and policed. -- Joanne Meyerowitz,author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United StatesThe strength of Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes is [Hegartys] delving deep into bureaucratic files, piecing together the Federal and state U.S. officials steps toward, and thinking behind, mobilizing and controlling American womens sexuality. -- Cynthia Enloe,author of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of EmpireTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations List Introduction 1 The Long Arm of the State 2 Prelude to War 3 "Reservoirs of Infection": Science, Medicine, and Contagious Bodies4 "A Buffer of Whores": Military and Social Ambivalence about Sexuality and Gender 5 "Spell 'IT' to the Marines": The Contradictory Messages of Popular Culture 6 Behind the Lines: The War against Women 7 Conclusion Appendix 1: The Eight Point Agreement Appendix 2: The May ActAppendix 3: Federal Agencies: The Social Protection Division Notes BibliographyIndex About the Author
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University of Arizona Press Just Between Us
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Rethinking Rufus Sexual Violations of Enslaved
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. A careful reading of extant sources reveals that sexual assault of enslaved men also occurred systematically and in a wide variety of forms, including physical assault, sexual coercion, and other intimate violations.
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Duke University Press Sins against Nature Sex and Archives in Colonial
Book SynopsisDrawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept “against nature” to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, and other sex acts, thereby demonstrating how the archive influences understandings of bodies, desires, and social categories.Trade Review"Sins Against Nature is a true tour de force. Zeb Tortorici has painstakingly searched numerous archives in Mexico. He has provided detailed notes and has integrated significant theoretical findings into his analysis. Tortorici has written an outstanding book that will, no doubt, shape the scholarly debates within Latin American history and sexuality studies for many years to come." -- Anderson Hagler * Transmodernity *"The cases in Sins against Nature . . . are equally rich in their layering of cultural complexity: religious versus secular, indigenous versus colonial, action versus desire. Tortorici helps us appreciate the challenges of understanding sexuality, not only in colonial New Spain but also in the present." -- Vernon Rosario * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Tortorici has written an expansive, thoughtful, provocative, and innovative encyclopedic work. . . . While Tortorici generously invites his readers to peruse the documents themselves in a digital archive that he has made accessible, his book should stand for many years as an indispensable contribution to the history of so-called unnatural sexuality in New Spain. . . . With this book, Tortorici has singlehandedly raised the historiographical standard for the topic of viceregal sexuality and also made an important contribution to archival theory." -- Nicole Von Germeten * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Sins against Nature fills a critical need for queer methodological approaches to colonial Spanish American history. Tortorici conducts rigorous and historically specific analyses of colonial Spanish America while insisting on a self-reflexive and fluid approach to the research process itself. The book provides scholars both a way for thinking about archives, sexuality, and desire under Spanish colonialism and, as important, guidance on the ethics and implications of historical research in the field and beyond." -- Matthew Goldmark * TSQ *"You will never forget your first time reading Zeb Tortorici’s excellent book. . . . There is so much to praise in Sins Against Nature that it is difficult to know where to begin. . . . Sins Against Nature belongs in your hands and on your bookshelf." -- Jarett Henderson * Itinerario *"This book stayed with me long after I had read it. Tortorici has a gift for bringing to life the people involved in these archival cases and humanizing many of them and the communities from which they came." -- Stephanie Kirk * Early American Literature *"Tortorici has produced a well-written and deeply-researched book that will spark conversations, appeal to specialists, and work well in graduate seminars on historical methods and gender and sexuality in colonial Latin America." -- Evan C. Rothera * Journal of Global South Studies *"Tortorici presents a carefully researched, soundly supported, erudite work of scholarship." -- Aimee E. Hisey * Journal of Social History *"Tortorici’s innovative work is essential reading for historians of colonial sexuality, detailing as it does the ways in which the 'unnatural' was defined and catalogued in New Spain." -- Linda A. Curcio-Nagy * American Historical Review *"Tortorici's intimate narration of both the case and his own archive experience opens consideration and conversation of fundamental ethical questions in the discipline.… The seduction, the titillation of archival discovery is not limited to research on sex. For many historians, it is the experience of research itself. And for that reason, Sins against Nature holds broad appeal, not only for colonial Latin Americanists or historians of sexuality but also for anyone teaching or practicing the craft of history." -- Chad Black * H-LatAm; H-Net Reviews *"Tortorici has provided us with one of the best single books on the history of Latin American homosexuality.… It will become a classic of queer history in Mexican historiography." -- Martin Nesvig * EIAL *Table of ContentsA Note on Translation ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Archiving the Unnatural 1 1. Viscerality in the Archives: Consuming Desires 25 2. Impulses of the Archive: Misinscription and Voyeurism 46 3. Archiving the Signs of Sodomy: Bodies and Gestures 84 4. To Deaden the Memory: Bestiality and Animal Erasure 124 5. Archives of Negligence: Solicitation in the Confessional 161 6. Desiring the Divine: Pollution and Pleasure 197 Conclusion. Accessing Absence, Surveying Seduction 233 Appendix 255 List of Archives 261 Notes 263 Bibliography 297 Index 309
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