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MP-CSP Canadian Scholars Gender Sex and Tech An Intersectional Feminist
Book SynopsisIn this timely collection, gender, sex, and technology are explored through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. Gender, Sex, and Tech! provides insight into the ways that technology affects, and is affected by, cultural perceptions of gender and sex.Trade Review"Gender, Sex, and Tech! is a rich, fresh, and nuanced volume of essays considering unexpected relationships and interactions amongst different bodies, identities, and technologies, and it does this in accessible yet conceptually strong ways. The series of essays is engaging from the first page, and leads the reader through analyses of technologies we think we might know, but in formative uses of that tech that may not be well known or even recognizable to many audiences. The chapters are followed by considerate and genuinely thought-provoking questions for discussion, making this volume especially useful not only for classrooms but for students looking for technology studies with a little more bite."—Jennifer Dyer, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Gender Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland"A unique resource to reflect on the ways in which gender and sex are key to our use and awareness of tech from dating apps to video gaming to surveillance. The editors provide comprehensive introductions to core feminist research approaches that bring readers to an understanding of intersectionality as a lens for social transformation."—Janice Dodd, Professor Emerita, Women's and Gender Studies, University of ManitobaTable of Contents Acknowledgements A Brief Introduction to Sex and Tech: From Everyday to Extraordinary - Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa SmithPart I: Disrupt Chapter 1: Birth Control Pills, Baby Bottles, and Bikes: Dancing on the Edge of Social Transformation - Lisa Smith Chapter 2: Flowing with Tech: Bringing an Intersectional Lens to Menstruation Technologies - Lauren Friesen and Ana Brito Chapter 3: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence, Student Sexuality, and Post-Secondary Institutions - Shaina McHardyPart II: Connect Chapter 4: Neither Crone nor Cougar: Navigating Intimacy and Ageism on Dating Apps - Treena Orchard Chapter 5: "I'm Not Your Fantasy": Sexual Racism, Racial Fetishization, and the Exploitation of Racialized Men Who Have Sex with Men - Christopher Dietzel Chapter 6: Smartphones and Committed Relationships: Navigating the Intersection of Sex, Gender, and Other Social Variables - Noorin ManjiPart III: Surveillance Chapter 7: A Harem of Computers and a Mummery of Bondage - Jennifer Jill Fellows Chapter 8: Empowerment through Participatory Surveillance? Menstrual and Fertility Self-Tracking Apps as Postfeminist Biopedagogies - Jessica Polzer, Anna Sui, Kelly Ge, Laura Cayen Chapter 9: Artificial Unintelligence: How "Smart" and AI Technologies Perpetuate Bias and Systemic Discrimination - Sahar RazaPart IV: Bodies Chapter 10: Gatekeeping "Authentic" Gender: The Somatechnics of Transition Surgery and "Male Enhancement" - Jennifer Hites-Thomas Chapter 11: "So, You Wanna Live Forever?" Representations of Disability, Gender, and Technology in Cyberpunk 2077 - Tamara Banbury and Kelly FritschPart V: Reclaim Chapter 12: Holding Space for Future Matriarchs: Digital Platforms for Resurging Solidarity - Amber Brown and Angela Knowles Chapter 13: The Ethics of Care and Online Teaching: Personal Reflections on Pandemic Post-Secondary Instruction - Kira Tomsons Chapter 14: Zines and Ezines as Holistic Technologies: DIY Feminism in the Transnational Classroom - Jaime YardConclusion: Coming Home to the Future: Start, Pause, Repeat … - Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith Contributor Biographies
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Extinction of Desire
Book SynopsisWhat would you do if you suddenly became rich? Michael O'Meara had never asked himself this question. A high school history teacher in Maryland, Michael is content- until, after a freak accident, he unexpectedly finds himself the beneficiary of a million dollars that disrupt his life and leave him questioning everything he had and everything he thought he wanted. The Extinction of Desire blends Buddhist philosophy and fiction to maps the course of one man's voyage to uncover the fundamental truths about what is really valuable in life. An engaging novel that seeks to portray a philosophical depiction of the author's worldview theory Addresses core topics in philosophy and religion - knowledge, reality, self and others, value-in narrative form Confronts the place of materialism and instant gratification in our world views Includes a foreword by Charles Johnson, winner of the AmTrade Review"[Boylan] tries to present a philosophical worldview through the characters, actions, and events of his novel. He wants to show us a worldview in its experienced development and not just say that such and such is the case ... [A] brief summary of the action does not do justice to the richness of the story and the fun provided by the humorous characters that Michael encounters on his path toward enlightenment. They provide surprises and laughter along the way." Metapsychology Table of ContentsThe Four Noble Truths. Foreword by Charles Johnson. Prologue: An Ancient Fable. The Extinction of Desire: A Tale of Enlightenment. Acknowledgments
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Extinction of Desire
Book SynopsisWhat would you do if you suddenly became rich? Michael O'Meara had never asked himself this question. A high school history teacher in Maryland, Michael is content- until, after a freak accident, he unexpectedly finds himself the beneficiary of a million dollars that disrupt his life and leave him questioning everything he had and everything he thought he wanted. The Extinction of Desire blends Buddhist philosophy and fiction to maps the course of one man's voyage to uncover the fundamental truths about what is really valuable in life. An engaging novel that seeks to portray a philosophical depiction of the author's worldview theory Addresses core topics in philosophy and religion - knowledge, reality, self and others, value-in narrative form Confronts the place of materialism and instant gratification in our world views Includes a foreword by Charles Johnson, winner of the AmTrade Review"[Boylan] tries to present a philosophical worldview through the characters, actions, and events of his novel. He wants to show us a worldview in its experienced development and not just say that such and such is the case ... [A] brief summary of the action does not do justice to the richness of the story and the fun provided by the humorous characters that Michael encounters on his path toward enlightenment. They provide surprises and laughter along the way." Metapsychology Table of ContentsThe Four Noble Truths. Foreword by Charles Johnson. Prologue: An Ancient Fable. The Extinction of Desire: A Tale of Enlightenment. Acknowledgments
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
Book SynopsisThis Encyclopedia is a comprehensive A-Z reference with over 500 entries that define sexuality from a broad biocultural perspective and show the diversity of human sexual behavior and belief systems.Contains entries ranging from short definitions of scientific, clinical, cultural, and colloquial terms to extended explorations of major conceptsCovers 13 key areas of content, from clinical medicine and body modification to the language of sexuality and the history of sexologyServes as an essential resource for students, scholars, and researchers with contributions from an international team of top scholars and practitioners3 Volumes www.encyclopediaofhumansexuality.comTrade Review"Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduates and above; general readers; professionals/practitioners." (Choice, 1 January 2015) "There is therefore a great deal of relevant information in this book. Readers approaching the topic from an anthropological point of view, e.g. focussing on cultural diversity, will find useful material here." (Reference Reviews 2015)Table of ContentsVolume IAbout the Editors ixContributors xvAlphabetical List of Entries xxxvThematic List of Entries xliiiAcknowledgments xlixIntroduction lviiInternational Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality A–?Volume IIInternational Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality ?–?Volume IIIInternational Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality ?–ZIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities
Book SynopsisA Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world.Trade Review“While perhaps few readers will work through the volume as a whole, nearly all classicists will find some points of intersection with their own sub-fields. The discourses of sex in the ancient world are not confined to love poetry and erotic vase paintings, but pervade almost every aspect of life, if one knows what to look for.” (Phoenix, 1 June 2015) “This volume will be of use to many scholars and teachers across a variety of fields . . . Overall, this is a useful volume with much to recommend it to anyone who needs a solid introduction to any aspect of sexuality in ancient Greece or Rome.” (Religious Studies Review, 4 June 2015) “Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualitiesprovides a thought-provoking overview of an important subject area, it is a fascinating collection of chapters offering a tantalizing taste of a scholarship that is ripe for debate and will continue to encourage scholars to develop their research methods, bringing the cultures of Greece and Rome together for comparison and criticism and dissection and discussion.” (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2014 "Thanks to its wide scope, the collection of papers is guaranteed to appeal to beginners in the field of ancient sexuality as well as to specialists, who will find many details which are new to them. The Companion should also prove useful in teaching courses on issues of ancient sex and sexuality, since it assembles up-to-date, authoritative, well-written treatments of key aspects by noted experts. Its particular value lies in the diversity of the evidence presented and the breadth of the questions asked of the sources." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 2014) Table of ContentsForeword ix Notes on Contributors xi Abbreviations xvii Note on Ancient Greek Words, Names, and Titles xxvii 1 Feminist Theory 1 Marilyn B. Skinner 2 Studies of Ancient Masculinity 17 Mark Masterson 3 Desirability and the Body 31 Mark D. Stansbury-O’Donnell 4 Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Discipline of Classics 54 Kirk Ormand 5 Greek and Roman Marriage 69 Allison Glazebrook and Kelly Olson 6 Prostitution: Controversies and New Approaches 83 Thomas A. J. McGinn 7 Ancient Pederasty: An Introduction 102 Andrew Lear 8 Peer Homosexuality 128 Thomas K. Hubbard 9 Female Homoeroticism 150 Sandra Boehringer 10 From Ascesis to Sexual Renunciation 164 Thomas K. Hubbard and Maria Doerfler 11 Sexual Abuse and Sexual Rights: Slaves’ Erotic Experience at Athens and Rome 184 Edward E. Cohen 12 Sumposion 199 Sean Corner 13 Sexuality in Greek and Roman Religion 214 Jennifer Larson 14 Sexuality in Greek and Roman Military Contexts 230 David D. Leitao 15 Athletics and Sexuality 244 Nick Fisher 16 Phusis and Sensuality: Knowing the Body in Greek Erotic Culture 265 Giulia Sissa 17 Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Erotic Magic in the Greco-Roman World 282 Radcliffe G. Edmonds III 18 Dream Interpretation, Physiognomy, Body Divination 297 Christophe Chandezon, Veronique Dasen, and Jerome Wilgaux 19 Sex in Ancient Greek and Roman Epic 314 Ingrid E. Holmberg 20 Erotic Lyric 335 Richard Rawles and Bartolo Natoli 21 Sexuality in the Extant Greek and Roman Tragedies 352 Hanna M. Roisman 22 The Body Politic: Sexuality in Greek and Roman Comedy and Mime 366 Monica Florence 23 Greco-Roman Satirical Poetry 381 Ralph M. Rosen and Catherine C. Keane 24 Greek and Roman Ethnosexuality 398 Joseph Roisman 25 Platonic and Roman Influence on Stoic and Epicurean Sexual Ethics 417 James Jope 26 Sexual Rhetoric: From Athens to Rome 431 Allison Glazebrook 27 Biography 446 Caroline Vout 28 Epistolography 463 Owen Hodkinson 29 Paths of Love: Age and Gender Dynamics in the Erotic Novel 479 T. Wade Richardson 30 Sexual Themes in Greek and Latin Graffiti 493 Craig Williams 31 Sexuality and Visual Representation 509 John R. Clarke 32 Sexuality in Jewish Writings from 200 BCE to 200 CE 534 Mary R. D’Angelo 33 Early Christian Sexuality 549 Kathy L. Gaca 34 The Early Modern Erotic Imagination 565 Alastair J. L. Blanshard 35 Romantic Appropriations 583 Michael Matthew Kaylor 36 The Early Homophile Movement in Germany 599 Hans Peter Obermayer 37 Ancient Sexuality on Screen 613 Monica S. Cyrino Index of Ancient Works Cited 629 General Index 647
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Temple University Press,U.S. Challenging Perspectives on StreetBased Sex Work
Book SynopsisAre sex workers victims, criminals, orjust trying to make a living? Over the last five years, public policy and academic discourse have moved from criminalization of sex workers to victim-based understanding, shaped by human trafficking. While most research focuses on macro-level policies and theories, less is known about the on-the-ground perspectives of people whose lives are impacted by sex work, including attorneys, social workers, police officers, probation officers, and sex workers themselves. Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work brings the voices of lower-echelon sex workers and those individuals charged with policy development and enforcement into conversation with one another. Chapters highlight some of the current approaches to sex work, such as diversion courts, trafficking task forces, law enforcement assisted diversion and decriminalization. It also examines how sex workers navigate seldom-discussed social phenomenon like gentrification, pregnancy, imperiali
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University of Toronto Press Vicarious Kinks
Book SynopsisIn Vicarious Kinks, Ummni Khan looks at the mass of claims that film, feminism, the human sciences, and law make about sadomasochism and its practitioners, and the way those claims become the basis for the legal regulation of sadomasochist pornography and practice.Trade Review'To write a book in support of sadomasochism (s/m) is a risky undertaking for a legal academic... Canadian law and sexuality scholar Ummni Khan rises brilliantly to the challenge... Khan skillfully weaves together her analysis of each discursive framework to paint a picture of the stories we tell about s/m.' -- Dana Phillips McGill Law Journal, vol 61:01:2015 'Bold, original, and unafraid to take risks... Khan's book skillfully analyzes the regulation of s/m from original vantage points, pushing its readers to the boundaries of law and culture.' -- Kyle Kirkup Osgoode Hall Law Journal - vol 53:01:2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prelude Introduction Chapter 1: Who's Your Daddy? S/M's Founding Fathers Chapter 2: Feminists Divided: The Battle over S/M in the Sex Wars Chapter 3: S/M in Show Biz Chapter 4: The Legal Fondling of S/M Pornography Chapter 5: The Legal Fondling of S/M Practice Conclusion: Epistemic Violence, Epistemic Pleasures Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Regulating Sex Work
Book SynopsisRegulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? addresses the rise in sexual commerce and consumption by challenging traditional responses and offering a fresh approach to sex industry regulation Examines different forms of sex regulation by utilizing examples from a range of sex markets in the UK, France, USA, Australia, and India Theorizes the apparent paradox that the increase in punitive approaches to regulating the sex industry is fueling a rise in supply, demand, and diversification of the sex industry Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Changing Social and Legal Context of Sexual Commerce: Why Regulation Matters (Jane Scoular and Teela Sanders). 2. What's Law Got To Do With It? How and Why Law Matters in the Regulation of Sex Work (Jane Scoular). 3. Mainstreaming the Sex Industry: Economic Inclusion and Social Ambivalence (Barbara G. Brents and Teela Sanders). 4. The Movement to Criminalise Sex Work in the United States (Ronald Weitzer). 5. When (Some) Prostitution is Legal: The Impact of Law Reform on Sex Work in Australia (Barbara Sullivan). 6. Labours in Vice or Virtue? Neo-Liberalism, Sexual Commerce, and the Case of Indian Bar Dancing (Prabha Kotiswaran). 7. Male Sex Work: Exploring Regulation in England and Wales (Mary Whowell). 8. Bellwether Citizens: The Regulation of Male Clients of Sex Workers (Belinda Brooks-Gordon). 9. Extreme Concern: Regulating `Dangerous Pictures' in the United Kingdom (Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith). 10. Consuming Sex: Socio-legal Shifts in the Space and Place of Sex Shops (Baptiste Coulmont and Phil Hubbard). 11. Cultural Criminology and Sex Work: Resisting Regulation through Radical Democracy and Participatory Action Research (PAR) (Maggie O'Neill).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Sexual Histories
Book SynopsisThe second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Elizabeth Reis Part I Early America 9 1 Bodies in Doubt: Intersex in Early America 11 Elizabeth Reis Documents: 1.1 Thomas/Thomasine Hall, 1629 25 1.2 James Parsons, A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites, 1741 27 1.3 Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book, 1671 29 2 Transgressive Male Sex in Early America 34 Thomas A. Foster Documents: 2.1 Bestiality Cases in New Haven, Connecticut, 1638–49 47 2.2 "Trunil Him well brother," 1751 52 3 Indian Women, French Women, and the Regulation of Sex 56 Jennifer M. Spear Documents: 3.1 Journal of Diron d’Artaguiette, 1722–3 73 3.2 Duclos to Pontchartrain, December 25, 1715 75 3.3 Lamothe Cadillac to Pontchartrain, October 26, 1713 77 3.4 Louisiana's Code Noir (1724) 79 4 Rape and Sexual Power in Early America 82 Sharon Block Documents: 4.1 Testimony against David Clark, 1764 95 4.2 Ephraim Wheeler's Rape Trial, 1805 96 5 The Overflowing of Friendship 101 Richard Godbeer Documents: 5.1 Letters of Robert Treat Paine, 1749 114 5.2 Letters of Daniel Webster, 1801–5 116 6 Sex Among the Rabble 122 Clare A. Lyons Documents: 6.1 Philadelphia Magdalen Society, Minutes, 1807-10 134 6.2 Maria; or, the Seduction, 1796 137 6.3 The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House, 1760 139 7 White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South 147 Martha Hodes Document: 7.1 Lewis Bourne Divorce Petition, 1823-5 161 8 Obscenity, Sex Education, and Medical Democracy in the Antebellum United States 165 April Haynes Documents: 8.1 Frederick Hollick, The Marriage Guide, 1850 177 8.2 Letters to the Editor about Dr. Frederick Hollick, 1845 183 Part II Modern America 187 9 Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America 189 Peggy Pascoe Documents: 9.1 "Aoki – Engaged to Daughter of Prelate," 1909 202 9.2 "Emery Girl Ready to Marry the Japanese," 1909 204 9.3 "Aoki Expects to Wed in Portland," 1909 205 9.4 "Whose Business Is It?" 1909 206 9.5 "A Disgusting Spectacle," 1909 206 9.6 "Aoki's Inamorata Flits Northward," 1909 207 10 Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl" 211 Elizabeth Lunbeck Document: 10.1 The Case of Miss A, 1913-14 224 11 When Abortion Was Illegal 230 Leslie J. Reagan Documents: 11.1 A Maryland Abortionist Gets No Pardon, 1904 243 11.2 Dying Declarations Obtained in Abortion Case as Condition to Rendering Aid, 1909 244 11.3 Comments of "Esther E.," 1920 245 12 Contraceptive Consumers 247 Andrea Tone Documents: 12.1 Advertisements for Lysol, 1932, 1933 260 12.2 Facts and Frauds in Women's Hygiene, 1936 262 12.3 What Do the American Women Think about Birth Control? 1938 264 12.4 The Dilex Speech, 1938 268 13 Lesbian Pulp Novels and US Lesbian Identity 270 Yvonne Keller Documents: 13.1 Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, 1928 285 13.2 Tereska Torres, Women's Barracks, 1950 288 13.3 Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker, 1962 291 14 Sex Change and the Popular Press 294 Joanne Meyerowitz Documents: 14.1 Girl Changes into Man, 1936 309 14.2 Psychopathia Transexualis, 1949 311 14.3 New Sex Switches: Behind the Sensational Headlines Loom Unpleasant Medical Facts, 1954 316 14.4 I Want to Become a Woman, 1956 317 15 The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution 320 Rickie Solinger Documents: 15.1 The Slavery of Sex Freedom: America’s Moral Crisis, 1957 335 15.2 Are We Still Stereotyping the Unmarried Mother? 1960 338 15.3 Population Crisis: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures of the Committee on Government Operations, 1965 341 16 Marketing Safe Sex 345 Jennifer Brier Documents: 16.1 "Can We Talk?" 1983 361 16.2 "Information for People of Color, 1987" 363 16.3 Promoting Condoms for Gay Men, 1987 364 Source Acknowledgments 368 Index 372
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Bristol University Press Designing Prostitution Policy
Book SynopsisThe book offers a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of prostitution policy at the local level.Trade Review“A splendid, evidence-based analysis of policies related to sexual commerce and labor migration in Europe. Scholars and policymakers will find the book’s findings of tremendous value as they weigh alternative proposals for regulating commercial sex. “ Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Challenges of prostitution policy The local governance of prostitution: regulatory drift and implementation capture The national governance of prostitution: political rationality and the politics of discourse Understanding the policy field: migration, prostitution, trafficking and exploitation Prostitution policy beyond trafficking: collaborative governance in prostitution Summary and conclusions
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Policy Press Intimacy and Ageing
Book SynopsisThis timely book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, addresses the gap in knowledge about late life repartnering and provides a comprehensive map of the changing landscape of late life intimacy.Trade Review"At last, an account of ageing intimacy that blows away stereotypes to engage with the complexities. A must-read for academics and those working with older people." Dr Paul Simpson, Edge Hill UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Intimacy and ageing in late modernity; The changing landscape of intimacy in later life; From marriage to alternative union forms; A life of relationships; Attitudes towards new romantic relationships; Initiation and development of new romantic relationships; A new partner as a resource for social support; Consequences for social network and support structures; Sex in an ideology of love; Time as a structuring condition for new intimate relationships in later life; Discussion; Methodological Appendix.
£25.64
Bristol University Press Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia
Book SynopsisOffering a perceptive study of the urgent human rights issue of trafficking in persons, this important book analyses the development and effectiveness of public policies across Eurasia.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diffusing The Politics of Human Trafficking from Europe to Asia Contrasting Policy Approaches to Human Trafficking in Eurasia Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy Adoption Tracing the Development of Anti-trafficking Institutions Linkages Among Actors in Anti-trafficking Networks Uneven Implementation of Human Trafficking Policies Empirical Comparisons of Human Trafficking Policy Across Eurasia Conclusion: The Implications of Human Trafficking Policies
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Bristol University Press Sex and Diversity in Later Life
Book SynopsisAddressing diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+), this collection explores how being older intersects with ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class. This original text extends knowledge concerning intimacies, practices and pleasures for those thought to represent normative forms of sexual identification and expression.Table of ContentsSeries Editor Introduction ~ Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield Foreword ~ Diana K. Kwok Sex and intimacy in later life: a survey of the terrain ~ Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield Sexual expression and pleasure among black minority ethnic older women ~ Debra Harley Sexual desires and intimacy needs in older persons and towards the end of life ~ Karen Rennie Heterosexual sex, love and intimacy in later life: what have older women got to say? ~ Trish Hafford-Letchfield Sex and Ageing in Older Heterosexual Men ~ Josie Tetley and David Lee Sex and Older Gay Men: An International Perspective ~ Peter Robinson Thinking the Unthinkable: Older Lesbians, Sex and Violence ~ Megan Todd Splitting hairs: Michel Foucault’s ‘heterotopia’ and bisexuality in later life ~ Christopher Wells The age of rediscovery: what is it like to gender transition when you are 50 plus? ~ Laura Scarrone Bonhomme Aging Asexually: Exploring Desexualization and Aging Asexual Intimacies ~ Ela Pryzbylo Older people, sex and social class: unusual bedfellows? ~ Paul Simpson Final reflections: themes on sex and intimacy in later life ~ Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Prescription for Heterosexuality Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era
Book SynopsisIn this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War. She argues that many doctors viewed their patients' sexual habits as more than an issue of personal health.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Porn Work Sex Labor and Late Capitalism
Book SynopsisEvery porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Part labor history, part ethnography illuminating the lives of the performers who work in the medium, Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it.
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The University of North Carolina Press Wondrous Transformations A Maverick Physician
Book SynopsisDrawing from research in archival documents, secondary sources, and interviews, Li tells the story of Harry Benjamin’s early ventures in gerontology and his later work with over a thousand transgender patients. Benjamin’s contributions to treatment, education, research, and networking helped to create the foundations of transgender medicine.Trade ReviewA smart and highly readable contribution to transgender studies."—Publishers Weekly
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University of Texas Press Love in the Drug War
Book SynopsisA nuanced exploration of life in la zona, the prostitution zone in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, where narcos, sex workers, and missionaries are entangled in revelatory relationships of love and obligation.Trade ReviewLove in the Drug War is as detailed as a dissertation and as readable as a novel. * BuzzFeed News *[A] terrifically engaging and accessibly written ethnography...Love in the Drug War is richly illustrated with glossy color photos not often seen in university press books that vividly take the reader into la zona. * Anthropological Quarterly *The lives of people in two immigrant groups in Reynosa, Mexico, illuminate morality and necessity and conversion and survival within the context of vice tourism and a protracted drug war...Luna situates the sex worker/missionary dynamic within the context of a narcoeconomy and the complexities of narcoviolence that places the lives of the most vulnerable in Mexico in grave danger...Recommended. * CHOICE *Love in the Drug War is a wonderfully written and highly original ethnography that fluidly spans a wide range of conceptual fields (violence, migration, sex work, theology and queer studies, to name but a few) making it an attractive read for a large audience...Love in the Drug War is a beautiful anthropological work, and it is Luna’s attentiveness to the everyday details of life in la zona that immerses the reader. Upon turning the final page of the book, the reader is left with this: that from the cracks and crevices of an area defined by its negatives, love and intimacy, however complex, can grow and coexist with violence. * Race & Class *[A] sensitive and theoretically rich ethnography...[Love in the Drug War] is a compelling, approachable, and very teachable ethnographic perspective on sexual labor, emotion, and racialized, gendered, and classed subjectivities on the border. It also offers an intimate lens on the effects of the militarized war on drugs on vulnerable populations. The book advances the creative power of queer theory and ethnography to expand the boundaries of human understanding. * General Anthropology *An ambitious, dangerous, and powerful study of transnational economies, neocolonialism, intimacy, labor, and Christianity...Luna’s work stands among the best in recent ethnographic explorations of sexual economies throughout the Global South, but given her site’s geographic proximity to the Global North, her work offers unique insights into the porousness of even the most militarized national borders thanks to power, privilege, and individual ingenuity...Luna’s work represents ethnography at its finest, showing how the experiences of a small and unseen group of people agentically forge lives that are simultaneously emblematic of forces well beyond their control. * Journal of Anthropological Research *A compelling resource for understanding the construction and negotiation of moral, economic, material, and spiritual value in the context of the drug war on the Mexico-US border…[Luna] provides a rich example of how structural inequalities shape relations of intimacy and value-making in the borderlands...beautifully written and methodologically rigorous...Love in the Drug War is an engaging and necessary read for anyone interested in love, sexuality, and the borderlands. * Humanity & Society *[Love in the Drug War] accurately compiles and intertwines the stories of women who live and work in 'the zone' with the violence in the border city of Reynosa, Mexico...Luna accurately conveys the message of her research in Love in the Drug War. * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Love in the Drug War is an exciting piece of work that pushes us to think about borderlands, queer intimacies, value, morality, love, and obligation together...Love in the Drug War is a unique book that reaches across disciplines. It helps the reader think synthetically across multiple theoretical perspectives, lived experiences, geographies, and methodological orientations. * Current Anthropology *Luna masterfully links cultural anthropology with migration, gender, and queer studies through her ethnographic examination of how the border shapes people's subjectivities across race, gender, class, nationality, and religion. Anyone interested in the Mexico-US border should read and take note of Luna's timely, engaging, and accessible text. * American Ethnologist *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Drug Work and Sex Work in Reynosa 1. Dinero Fácil: The Gendered Moral Economies of Drug Work and Sex Work 2. Rumors of Violence and Feelings of Vulnerability Part II. The Intimate and Economic Obligations of Sex Workers 3. Stigmatized Whores, Obligated Mothers, and Respectable Prostitutes 4. “Sometimes We, as Mothers, Are to Blame”: Drug-Addicted Sex Workers and the Politics of Blame Part III. Missionary Projects in Boystown 5. The Love Triad between Sex Workers, Missionaries, and God 6. Love and Conflict in Sex Worker/Missionary Relationships Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Love in the Drug War
Book Synopsis 2020 — Ruth Benedict Prize – Association for Queer Anthropology, American Anthropological Association 2020 — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize – National Women’s Studies Association 2020 — Honorable Mention, Sara A. Whaley Book Prize 2021 — Best Book in Social Sciences – Mexico Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 2008 and 2009, a time of intense drug violence, Sarah Luna met and built relationships with two kinds of migrants, women who moved from rural Mexico to Reynosa to become sex workers and American missionaries who moved from the United States to forge a fellowship with those workers. Luna examines the entanglements, both intimate and financial, that define their lives. Using the conceptTrade ReviewLove in the Drug War is as detailed as a dissertation and as readable as a novel. * BuzzFeed News *[A] terrifically engaging and accessibly written ethnography...Love in the Drug War is richly illustrated with glossy color photos not often seen in university press books that vividly take the reader into la zona. * Anthropological Quarterly *The lives of people in two immigrant groups in Reynosa, Mexico, illuminate morality and necessity and conversion and survival within the context of vice tourism and a protracted drug war...Luna situates the sex worker/missionary dynamic within the context of a narcoeconomy and the complexities of narcoviolence that places the lives of the most vulnerable in Mexico in grave danger...Recommended. * CHOICE *Love in the Drug War is a wonderfully written and highly original ethnography that fluidly spans a wide range of conceptual fields (violence, migration, sex work, theology and queer studies, to name but a few) making it an attractive read for a large audience...Love in the Drug War is a beautiful anthropological work, and it is Luna’s attentiveness to the everyday details of life in la zona that immerses the reader. Upon turning the final page of the book, the reader is left with this: that from the cracks and crevices of an area defined by its negatives, love and intimacy, however complex, can grow and coexist with violence. * Race & Class *[A] sensitive and theoretically rich ethnography...[Love in the Drug War] is a compelling, approachable, and very teachable ethnographic perspective on sexual labor, emotion, and racialized, gendered, and classed subjectivities on the border. It also offers an intimate lens on the effects of the militarized war on drugs on vulnerable populations. The book advances the creative power of queer theory and ethnography to expand the boundaries of human understanding. * General Anthropology *An ambitious, dangerous, and powerful study of transnational economies, neocolonialism, intimacy, labor, and Christianity...Luna’s work stands among the best in recent ethnographic explorations of sexual economies throughout the Global South, but given her site’s geographic proximity to the Global North, her work offers unique insights into the porousness of even the most militarized national borders thanks to power, privilege, and individual ingenuity...Luna’s work represents ethnography at its finest, showing how the experiences of a small and unseen group of people agentically forge lives that are simultaneously emblematic of forces well beyond their control. * Journal of Anthropological Research *A compelling resource for understanding the construction and negotiation of moral, economic, material, and spiritual value in the context of the drug war on the Mexico-US border…[Luna] provides a rich example of how structural inequalities shape relations of intimacy and value-making in the borderlands...beautifully written and methodologically rigorous...Love in the Drug War is an engaging and necessary read for anyone interested in love, sexuality, and the borderlands. * Humanity & Society *[Love in the Drug War] accurately compiles and intertwines the stories of women who live and work in 'the zone' with the violence in the border city of Reynosa, Mexico...Luna accurately conveys the message of her research in Love in the Drug War. * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Love in the Drug War is an exciting piece of work that pushes us to think about borderlands, queer intimacies, value, morality, love, and obligation together...Love in the Drug War is a unique book that reaches across disciplines. It helps the reader think synthetically across multiple theoretical perspectives, lived experiences, geographies, and methodological orientations. * Current Anthropology *Luna masterfully links cultural anthropology with migration, gender, and queer studies through her ethnographic examination of how the border shapes people's subjectivities across race, gender, class, nationality, and religion. Anyone interested in the Mexico-US border should read and take note of Luna's timely, engaging, and accessible text. * American Ethnologist *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Drug Work and Sex Work in Reynosa 1. Dinero Fácil: The Gendered Moral Economies of Drug Work and Sex Work 2. Rumors of Violence and Feelings of Vulnerability Part II. The Intimate and Economic Obligations of Sex Workers 3. Stigmatized Whores, Obligated Mothers, and Respectable Prostitutes 4. “Sometimes We, as Mothers, Are to Blame”: Drug-Addicted Sex Workers and the Politics of Blame Part III. Missionary Projects in Boystown 5. The Love Triad between Sex Workers, Missionaries, and God 6. Love and Conflict in Sex Worker/Missionary Relationships Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Supersex
Book Synopsis2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited CollectionFrom Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself—seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality. Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and filmTrade ReviewInsightful...Peppard’s assemblage shows just how varied and multivalent superhero media is, as well as highlighting the diversity of experiences and interpretations of it. Supersex is a broad cultural survey of superheroes, with insights that are beguiling fuel for the critical imagination. * Foreword Reviews *Peppard's introduction is a brilliant overview of the history of superhero bodies that perfectly sets the stage for the essays that follow, and the epilogue by Richard Harrison is an inspired piece that provides a satisfying summation for this eclectic collection. Supersex is intelligent and entertaining and, for comics fans, it opens new avenues for thinking about how superheroes affect readers and culture. * Comic Book Yeti *If the stated task of assembling a volume dedicated to 'unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality' does seem not impressive enough, Peppard has also managed to curate a book that is utterly enjoyable to read. In other words, the sexiness of this collection is tied not only to its intellectual contributions, but also to its affective power—at times I felt downright naughty for reveling in Supersex as much as I did...[Supersex is] strong...from cover to cover. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *This thoughtful, up-to-date collection pursues questions anyone who studies superheroes will want to answer...We can do more—and this volume can help us do more—to spot, to interpret, and sometimes even to champion the exceptions, the comics that work on behalf of the readers who want them, against the now all too familiar hetero-patriarchal rules. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *Supersex offers an in-depth starting point to examine superhero sexuality and eroticism...The chapters are not just a collection, but a dialogue that allows for a subjective multiplicity that ultimately provides a rich tapestry of insights that are interlinked even (or especially) when they are contradictory...[Supersex] offers a wonderful exploration of the contradictions inherent to supersex. * Journal of American Studies *From the queering of costume to weapons and war, shapeshifting characters, and buddy systems, Supersex takes the subject to places not usually explored, creating a solid foundation for future scholars and critics...Supersex is a long, rich academic book; however, it’s highly accessible and written with enthusiasm and verve...curious readers seek something a little weightier and will find plenty to ponder. * Women Write about Comics *[A] fantastic collection...Supersex presents an intriguing and analytical look at a topic that has been taboo for many scholars. The breadth of the chapters makes it an invaluable text for the future of superhero studies, sexuality studies, queer studies, and any intersections between these fields. Furthermore, many of these essays will hopefully become jumping off points for future analytical responses to sexuality within superhero comics. * ImageTexT *Table of Contents Introduction. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex (Anna F. Peppard) Part I. Comics 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power (Richard Reynolds) 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age (Matt Yockey) 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm (J. Andrew Deman) 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers (Brian Johnson) 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes (Sarah Panuska) 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers (Keith Friedlander) Part II. Film, Television, and Fan Culture 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability (Christopher B. Zeichmann) 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy (Samantha Langsdale) 9. “No One’s Going to Be Looking at Your Face”: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (Anna F. Peppard) 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity (Jeffrey A. Brown) 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies (Joseph Brennan) 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power (Olivia Hicks) 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay (Anne Kustritz) Epilogue: The Matter with Size (Richard Harrison) Contributors Index
£45.00
University of Texas Press Downtown Juárez
Book SynopsisAn intimate look at the normalization of violence in the lives of sex workers, drug dealers, barflies, and drug addicts in downtown Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.Trade Review[Campbell] constructs a detailed and personal account of how violence is produced in Juárez specifically and Mexico as a whole...The author's writing style transports us to the detailed accounts and experiences he went through in Juárez and brings light to those who have been pushed to the shadows...This book is a valuable contribution to the literature as it provides scholars, social workers, and law enforcement officials with a complex understanding of violence in Juárez and the processes of naturalization of violence that continue to perpetuate violence in Mexico. * Small Wars Journal *This is a masterpiece of urban anthropology and one of the most significant studies of life in Ciudad Juárez in recent memory. It is a formidable work of scholarship that resonates far beyond academe. * El Paso Matters *An extraordinary book...By telling the tragic tales of people who live in very dire conditions—and perform activities that are not ideal—in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Campbell seeks to offer a general explanation of the intense violence that takes place every day in the central part of this very complex border city...This text and its stories are the result of brave, humane, and exemplary ethnographic work that depicts the 'underworlds of violence and abuse.' * NACLA Report *Through his detailed narratives...Campbell successfully details the complexities of Ciudad Juárez that lead some people to barely survive and others to certain destruction…Recommended. * CHOICE *Campbell provides the reader with a gritty but very human account of the limited choices that those living in the Juárez underworld face, and shows how these limited choices become 'normal'...Downtown Juárez is a very compelling read...Readers will come away with an understanding of the everyday lives of the members of the Juárez underworld, and how violence has become a normal part of their daily experience. * The Sociological Review *Campbell’s vivid and captivating ethnography of Downtown Juárez is not only accessible, well written, and engaging, but also makes notable theoretical and methodological contributions...Campbell’s ethnography neither romanticizes nor pathologizes everyday life in Downtown Juárez. Instead, he masterfully centers the lived realities of his informants and provides greater insights into their subjectivities and humanity...A must-read for scholars interested in violence, the borderlands, and ethnographic methodologies. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *By understanding how individuals frequently fall into both [victim and victimizer], and indeed, how being a victimizer often leads someone to become a victim and vice versa, Campbell offers a nuanced reading of violence in the region, drawing attention to often underanalyzed dynamics...[Campbell's] narratives are vibrant and often nuanced. They are a pleasure to read. * Latin American Politics and Society *This [book] is an honest effort to approach the complex problems of this border city…it revels in the rigor of an academic book, but is also accessible to non-specialized readers.[Este libro es] un esfuerzo honesto por aproximarse a la compleja problematica de esta urbe fronteriza . . . Goza de rigor académico, pero también es accesible a los lectores no especializados. * Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos *Table of Contents Introduction: Borders of the Mind—Violence in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico 1. Synergistic Violence and the Normalization of Abuse in a Border Context 2. The Bridge: Concentrations of Power, Economic Exchange, and Transnational Humanity 3. The Historical Roots of Violence, Crime, and Abuse in Downtown Juárez and Colonia Bellavista 4. Colonia Bellavista Today 5. Avenida Juárez Today 6. Prostitution and Sex Workers in the Downtown Street Scene 7. Contemporary Gay Pick-Up Scenes and Danger in Downtown Juárez 8. Border Bar Life: An Introduction 9. A Place without Limits: Inebriation and Dehumanization at The Club 10. Conviviality, Drug Deals, Sexual Abuse, and a Juárez-Based Philosophy of Masculine Nihilism 11. Bars as Sites and Languid Staging Areas for Petty Crimes: Hanging Out in the 69 Lounge, Waiting for Something Bad to Happen 12. Downtown Bars as Locations of both Pleasure and Victimization: Sex, Drugs, and Extortion at El Antro 13. Bars and Criminality: Human Smugglers and Cross-Border Drug Smugglers in Central Juárez 14. Everyday Drug Dealers in Downtown Juárez 15. Human Perseverance amidst Recurring “Drug Wars” 16. The Naturalization of “Drug Violence”: Hit Men and Drug Killings 17. Paloma Makes a Life in the Downtown Bars: Survival amidst Crime, Violence, Drugs, and Sexual Abuse Conclusion: Synergistic Violence and the Cycle of Victimization on the Border Notes Bibliography Index
£78.30
University of Texas Press Downtown Juarez
Book SynopsisAt least 200,000 people have died in Mexico's so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn't believe there is any one answer. Misguided policies, corruption, criminality, and the borderland economy are all factors. But none of these reasons explain how violence in downtown Juárez has become heartbreakingly normal.A rigorous yet moving account, Downtown Juárez is informed by the sex workers, addicts, hustlers, bar owners, human smugglers, migrants, and down-and-out workers struggling to survive in an underworld where horrifying abuses have come to seem like the natural way of things. Even as Juárez's elite northeast section thrives on the profits of multinational corporations, and law-abiding citizens across the city mobilize against crime and official malfeasance, downtown's cantinas, barrios, and brothels are tyrannized by misery. Trade Review[Campbell] constructs a detailed and personal account of how violence is produced in Juárez specifically and Mexico as a whole...The author's writing style transports us to the detailed accounts and experiences he went through in Juárez and brings light to those who have been pushed to the shadows...This book is a valuable contribution to the literature as it provides scholars, social workers, and law enforcement officials with a complex understanding of violence in Juárez and the processes of naturalization of violence that continue to perpetuate violence in Mexico. * Small Wars Journal *This is a masterpiece of urban anthropology and one of the most significant studies of life in Ciudad Juárez in recent memory. It is a formidable work of scholarship that resonates far beyond academe. * El Paso Matters *An extraordinary book...By telling the tragic tales of people who live in very dire conditions—and perform activities that are not ideal—in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Campbell seeks to offer a general explanation of the intense violence that takes place every day in the central part of this very complex border city...This text and its stories are the result of brave, humane, and exemplary ethnographic work that depicts the 'underworlds of violence and abuse.' * NACLA Report *Through his detailed narratives...Campbell successfully details the complexities of Ciudad Juárez that lead some people to barely survive and others to certain destruction…Recommended. * CHOICE *Campbell provides the reader with a gritty but very human account of the limited choices that those living in the Juárez underworld face, and shows how these limited choices become 'normal'...Downtown Juárez is a very compelling read...Readers will come away with an understanding of the everyday lives of the members of the Juárez underworld, and how violence has become a normal part of their daily experience. * The Sociological Review *Campbell’s vivid and captivating ethnography of Downtown Juárez is not only accessible, well written, and engaging, but also makes notable theoretical and methodological contributions...Campbell’s ethnography neither romanticizes nor pathologizes everyday life in Downtown Juárez. Instead, he masterfully centers the lived realities of his informants and provides greater insights into their subjectivities and humanity...A must-read for scholars interested in violence, the borderlands, and ethnographic methodologies. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *By understanding how individuals frequently fall into both [victim and victimizer], and indeed, how being a victimizer often leads someone to become a victim and vice versa, Campbell offers a nuanced reading of violence in the region, drawing attention to often underanalyzed dynamics...[Campbell's] narratives are vibrant and often nuanced. They are a pleasure to read. * Latin American Politics and Society *This [book] is an honest effort to approach the complex problems of this border city…it revels in the rigor of an academic book, but is also accessible to non-specialized readers.[Este libro es] un esfuerzo honesto por aproximarse a la compleja problematica de esta urbe fronteriza . . . Goza de rigor académico, pero también es accesible a los lectores no especializados. * Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos *Table of Contents Introduction: Borders of the Mind—Violence in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico 1. Synergistic Violence and the Normalization of Abuse in a Border Context 2. The Bridge: Concentrations of Power, Economic Exchange, and Transnational Humanity 3. The Historical Roots of Violence, Crime, and Abuse in Downtown Juárez and Colonia Bellavista 4. Colonia Bellavista Today 5. Avenida Juárez Today 6. Prostitution and Sex Workers in the Downtown Street Scene 7. Contemporary Gay Pick-Up Scenes and Danger in Downtown Juárez 8. Border Bar Life: An Introduction 9. A Place without Limits: Inebriation and Dehumanization at The Club 10. Conviviality, Drug Deals, Sexual Abuse, and a Juárez-Based Philosophy of Masculine Nihilism 11. Bars as Sites and Languid Staging Areas for Petty Crimes: Hanging Out in the 69 Lounge, Waiting for Something Bad to Happen 12. Downtown Bars as Locations of both Pleasure and Victimization: Sex, Drugs, and Extortion at El Antro 13. Bars and Criminality: Human Smugglers and Cross-Border Drug Smugglers in Central Juárez 14. Everyday Drug Dealers in Downtown Juárez 15. Human Perseverance amidst Recurring “Drug Wars” 16. The Naturalization of “Drug Violence”: Hit Men and Drug Killings 17. Paloma Makes a Life in the Downtown Bars: Survival amidst Crime, Violence, Drugs, and Sexual Abuse Conclusion: Synergistic Violence and the Cycle of Victimization on the Border Notes Bibliography Index
£23.39
Duke University Press The Lives of Jessie Sampter
Book SynopsisSarah Imhoff tells the story of the queer, disabled, Zionist writer Jessie Sampter (1883–1938), whose body and life did not match typical Zionist ideals and serves as an example of the complex relationships between the body, queerness, disability, religion, and nationalism.Trade Review“Sarah Imhoff presents the remarkable story of Jessie Sampter, whose life breaks with all the conventional associations of a Zionist pioneer. Disabled due to polio, living with a woman in mandate-era Palestine, and a pacifist and internationalist with right-wing Zionist politics, Sampter violated expectations and flouted conventions. Using feminist theory and crip theory, Imhoff reconstructs Sampter’s life and the vital challenges she presented in her day and in our own.” -- Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. A Religious Life 27 2. A Life with Disability 68 3. A Queer Life 106 4. A Theological-Political Life 144 5. Afterlives 193 Notes 223 Bibliography 249 Index 263
£76.50
Duke University Press Abundance
Book SynopsisIn Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead, Arondekar theorizes the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj—a caste-oppressed devadasi collective in South Asia—that are plentiful and quotidian, imaginative and ordinary. For Arondekar, abundance is inextricably linked to the histories of subordinated groups in ways that challenge narratives of their constant devaluation. Summoning abundance over loss upends settled genealogies of historical recuperation and representation and works against the imperative to fix sexuality within wider structures of vulnerability, damage, and precarity. Multigeneric and multilingual, transregional and historically supple, Abundance centers sexuality within area, post/colonial, and anti/castTrade Review“By shifting our attention from the recuperation of sexuality as loss to understanding it as a site of abundance, Anjali Arondekar forces a reckoning with the knowledges of subaltern groups in the global South. Abundance will blow a wide hole in South Asian historiography as well as sexuality studies in the United States.” -- Indrani Chatterjee, author of * Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India *"With her brilliantly conceived Abundance: Sexuality’s History, Professor Anjali Arondekar . . . has reset the bar very high, with one of the best, richest and most important books of Indian historiography ever written. It’s a huge achievement, with even huger implications for how we assess and think about our collective past." -- Vivek Menezes * O Heraldo *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Make.Believe.Sexuality's Subjects 1 1. In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Archives 33 2. A History I Am Not Writing: Sexuality's Exemplarity 63 3. Itinerant Sex: Geopolitics as Critique 90 Coda. I Am Not Your Data. Caste, Sexuality, Protest 112 Acknowledgments 129 Primary Sources 135 Secondary Sources 139 Index 163
£67.15
Duke University Press Sexology and Its Afterlives
Book Synopsis
£11.39
Duke University Press Abundance Sexualitys History
Book SynopsisIn Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead, Arondekar theorizes the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj-a caste-oppressed devadasi collective in South Asia-that are plentiful and quotidian, imaginative and ordinary. For Arondekar, abundance is inextricably linked to the histories of subordinated groups in ways that challenge narratives of their constant devaluation. Summoning abundance over loss upends settled genealogies of historical recuperation and representation and works against the imperative to fix sexuality within wider structures of vulnerability, damage, and precarity. Multigeneric and multilingual, transregional and historically supple, Abundance centers sexuality within area, post/colonial, and anti/caste histories.Trade Review“By shifting our attention from the recuperation of sexuality as loss to understanding it as a site of abundance, Anjali Arondekar forces a reckoning with the knowledges of subaltern groups in the global South. Abundance will blow a wide hole in South Asian historiography as well as sexuality studies in the United States.” -- Indrani Chatterjee, author of * Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India *"With her brilliantly conceived Abundance: Sexuality’s History, Professor Anjali Arondekar . . . has reset the bar very high, with one of the best, richest and most important books of Indian historiography ever written. It’s a huge achievement, with even huger implications for how we assess and think about our collective past." -- Vivek Menezes * O Heraldo *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Make.Believe.Sexuality's Subjects 1 1. In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Archives 33 2. A History I Am Not Writing: Sexuality's Exemplarity 63 3. Itinerant Sex: Geopolitics as Critique 90 Coda. I Am Not Your Data. Caste, Sexuality, Protest 112 Acknowledgments 129 Primary Sources 135 Secondary Sources 139 Index 163
£17.99
New York University Press Sex and Stigma
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sex and Stigmalays the groundwork for greater understanding of the everyday routines and work-life considerations of legal sex workers. This book is both significant and distinctive for the authors ability to take a phenomenon that typically is considered hidden and stigmatized and attach real faces, lives, workplace, and home issues to these women. Insightful and illuminating." -- Patrice M. Buzzanell,editor of Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives"Sex and Stigmais an engaging and informative book, blending first-person perspectives with feminist scholarship todemystify the brothel as a workplace. A smart and innovative study,readers will benefit fromthe authors blend of scholarly expertise, theirunique access to a difficult-to-reach population, and the inclusion of multiple sex workers perspectives." -- Shira Tarrant,author of The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know"Pushing beyond the well-trod debate of whether prostitution should exist at all, the authors instead emphasize the issues of labor, stigma, secrecy, privacy, and discrimination within legal prostitution — issues that the authors rightly note are generally deemphasized in comparison with headline-grabbing news and analysis of the illegal sex trade." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *"The valuable research presented by these authors [...] is leading to a more comprehensive understanding of the lives of women who work in this highly regulated form of sex work." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *
£23.74
New York University Press Pregnancy and Power Revised Edition
Book SynopsisA sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedomReproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has the power to decidelawmakers, the courts, clergy, physicians, or the woman herself. Authorities have rarely put women's needs and interests at the center of these debates. Instead, they have created reproductive laws and policies to solve a variety of social and political problems, with outcomes that affect the lives of different groups of women differently. Reproductive politics were at play when slaveholders devised breeding schemes, when the US government took indigenous children from their families in the nineteenth century, and when doctors pressured Latina women to be sterilized in the 1970s. Tracing the main plot lines of women's reproductive lives, the leading historian Rickie Solinger redefines the idea of reproductive freedom, putting race and class at the center of the effort to control sex and pregnancy in America over time. RevisitingTrade Review"This succinct, highly readable political and cultural history of a wide range of reproductive issues is a near-perfect primer on the topic." -- Publishers Weekly"Readers will find within this book a deeply researched and fine analysis of reproductive politics spanning 250 years. It definitely should be of interest to legal scholars and law students and also to political and social historians." -- The American Journal of Legal History"Offers a thoughtful, lucid overview of reproductive issues throughout US history—an extremely valuable contribution that should be widely read." -- Linda Gordon, author of The Moral Property of Women
£62.90
New York University Press Women of the Street
Book SynopsisExplores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail itWorking together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public defenders, and social service providers are profoundly intertwined, yet their relationships are often adversarial and rooted in fundamentally false assumptions. The criminal justice-social services alliance operates on the general belief that the women they police and otherwise regulate choose sex work as a result of traumatization, rather than acknowledging the fact that socioeconomic realities often inform their choices. Drawing on extraordinarily rich ethnographic research, including interviews with over one hundred street-involved women and dozens of criminal justice and social service professionals, Women of the Street argues that despite the intimate knowledge these groups have about each other, measures designed to help these women cTrade ReviewThis significant ethnographic study of women in the sex trade and those they interact with who seek to restrain their business or help them live more healthful lives is a compelling account that takes readers into a little-understood area of society. * Choice *This is perhaps the most insightful ethnographic book on women in the street-based sex trade published in some time. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *Susan Dewey and Tonia St. Germain have written a book that draws readers into the real struggles and dilemmas faced not only by poor and criminalized women but by the social service and police personnel who interact with these women on a daily basis. Their compelling writing draws the reader into the 'systemic intimacy' that the authors describe. Vividly portraying women who cycle in and out of the streets, jails and therapeutic facilities as well as the front-line workers designated to treat or arrest them, Women of the Street fills out our understanding of the intersecting racial, class and gendered forces that set up both the women and the front-line workers to remain stuck in cycles of misery and blame. -- Susan Sered,author of Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal ResponsibilityThe most comprehensive and in-depth study of street prostitution on the market. Based on years of fieldwork with women involved in illicit commerce as well as interviews with the authorities and service providers who interact with them, the authors provide a fascinating ethnographic window into this world. The findings challenge monolithic stereotypes about street prostitution and reveal how the women assert their agency even under extremely dire conditions. The book also shows how the practices of social workers and criminal justice authorities are often counterproductive in subjecting the women to heightened risks, and suggests that decriminalization might be preferable to existing policies. -- Ronald Weitzer,George Washington UniversityThe books methodology is its greatest strength. The literature on street-level prostitution is too often dominated by quantitative research and studies that pathologize sex workers.Women of the Streetis an extraordinary ethnography filled with rich data that offer readers a holistic and deeply human portrait of the lives of women in the sex trade. * American Journal of Sociology *
£66.60
New York University Press Sex and Stigma
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sex and Stigmalays the groundwork for greater understanding of the everyday routines and work-life considerations of legal sex workers. This book is both significant and distinctive for the authors ability to take a phenomenon that typically is considered hidden and stigmatized and attach real faces, lives, workplace, and home issues to these women. Insightful and illuminating." -- Patrice M. Buzzanell,editor of Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives"Sex and Stigmais an engaging and informative book, blending first-person perspectives with feminist scholarship todemystify the brothel as a workplace. A smart and innovative study,readers will benefit fromthe authors blend of scholarly expertise, theirunique access to a difficult-to-reach population, and the inclusion of multiple sex workers perspectives." -- Shira Tarrant,author of The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know"Pushing beyond the well-trod debate of whether prostitution should exist at all, the authors instead emphasize the issues of labor, stigma, secrecy, privacy, and discrimination within legal prostitution — issues that the authors rightly note are generally deemphasized in comparison with headline-grabbing news and analysis of the illegal sex trade." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *"The valuable research presented by these authors [...] is leading to a more comprehensive understanding of the lives of women who work in this highly regulated form of sex work." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *
£66.60
New York University Press Pregnancy and Power Revised Edition
Book SynopsisA sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedomReproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has the power to decidelawmakers, the courts, clergy, physicians, or the woman herself. Authorities have rarely put women's needs and interests at the center of these debates. Instead, they have created reproductive laws and policies to solve a variety of social and political problems, with outcomes that affect the lives of different groups of women differently. Reproductive politics were at play when slaveholders devised breeding schemes, when the US government took indigenous children from their families in the nineteenth century, and when doctors pressured Latina women to be sterilized in the 1970s. Tracing the main plot lines of women's reproductive lives, the leading historian Rickie Solinger redefines the idea of reproductive freedom, putting race and class at the center of the effort to control sex and pregnancy in America over time. RevisitingTrade Review"This succinct, highly readable political and cultural history of a wide range of reproductive issues is a near-perfect primer on the topic." -- Publishers Weekly"Readers will find within this book a deeply researched and fine analysis of reproductive politics spanning 250 years. It definitely should be of interest to legal scholars and law students and also to political and social historians." -- The American Journal of Legal History"Offers a thoughtful, lucid overview of reproductive issues throughout US history—an extremely valuable contribution that should be widely read." -- Linda Gordon, author of The Moral Property of Women
£22.79
University of Toronto Press Teaching about Sex and Sexualities in Higher
Book SynopsisInformed by a social justice lens, and featuring Canadian content and context, this edited multi-disciplinary book looks at current trends in the teaching of sexuality in higher education, including sexual well-being, positivity, diversity, mutual consent. focuses on the teaching of sexuality in higher education.Table of ContentsPreface – Susan Hillock Introduction- Let’s Teach About Sex Susan Hillock Section 1- Current Debates and Hot Topics Susan Hillock 1. Don’t Ask/ Don’t Tell: Sexuality(ies), Instructor Disclosure, and Trigger Warnings in the Classroom Susan Hillock 2. Restoring Indigenous Sexuality Carrie Bourassa, Betty McKenna, Miranda Keewatin, Sadie Anderson, Marlin Legare, Mikayla Hagel, Danette Starblanket, Jen Billan, & Cari McIlduff 3. Teaching Sexual Consent Terry Humphreys 4. What About The Boys: University students Learning About Sexual Consent-talk From Youth in Northern Ontario” Jennifer L. Johnson 5. The Down Low on Getting Down: Reframing Problem-focused Narratives by Focusing on Sex-positivity and Desire-based Education Amie Kroes 6. Transgender Experiences in Healthcare – Addressing Challenges While Teaching Compassion in Higher Education Colleen McMillan, Mike Lee-Poy, & Carys Massarella Section 2- At the Margins: Diverse Voices And Perspectives Susan Hillock 7. What’s the big deal? A Roundtable Reflecting on Queer and Feminist Porn Studies Laine Zisman Newman, Sarah Lima, Stuart MacLeod, Oreoluwa Adara, & Imogen Tam 8. Past Practices: How to Think About Sex Historically Elise Chenier 9. Queering Masculinity in Early Childhood and Higher Education Classrooms: Gendered Regulation and the 'Double-Bind' of Queer Masculinities Adam W. J. Davies 10. Working With Muslim LGBTQ Service Users: Assessing and Locating Supportive Care and Teaching Practices Maryam Khan 11. Sexuality and Aging Lorna Guse and Hai Luo 12. Uncertain Subjects: (Un)Teaching Pain(ful) Sexualities, Power, and Pedagogy Renee Dumaresque Section 3- Practical Applications and Recommendations Susan Hillock 13. Sex & Gender in the Classroom: Lessons From (and For) the Front Lines Heather Peters 14. The Pitch: Teaching Sexuality at Multiple Levels Nick J. Mulé 15. Sexual Health Education for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disability Shaniff Esmail, Meg Tronson, & Sheena Churla 16. Teachable Moments: The Intersections of Disabilities and Sexualities Michelle Owen & Baden Gaeke Franz 17. Supporting Service Users’ Sexuality: Teaching Best Practices to Social Work Students Gary Christopher Sterling- Murphy & Rick Csiernik 18. Conclusion: Can We Just Stop Faking It: Real Talk About Sex and Sexualities In The Classroom Susan Hillock Contributor Bios Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C
£49.50
University of Toronto Press Teaching about Sex and Sexualities in Higher
Book SynopsisInformed by a social justice lens, and featuring Canadian content and context, this edited multi-disciplinary book looks at current trends in the teaching of sexuality in higher education, including sexual well-being, positivity, diversity, mutual consent. focuses on the teaching of sexuality in higher education.Table of ContentsPreface – Susan Hillock Introduction- Let’s Teach About Sex Susan Hillock Section 1- Current Debates and Hot Topics Susan Hillock 1. Don’t Ask/ Don’t Tell: Sexuality(ies), Instructor Disclosure, and Trigger Warnings in the Classroom Susan Hillock 2. Restoring Indigenous Sexuality Carrie Bourassa, Betty McKenna, Miranda Keewatin, Sadie Anderson, Marlin Legare, Mikayla Hagel, Danette Starblanket, Jen Billan, & Cari McIlduff 3. Teaching Sexual Consent Terry Humphreys 4. What About The Boys: University students Learning About Sexual Consent-talk From Youth in Northern Ontario” Jennifer L. Johnson 5. The Down Low on Getting Down: Reframing Problem-focused Narratives by Focusing on Sex-positivity and Desire-based Education Amie Kroes 6. Transgender Experiences in Healthcare – Addressing Challenges While Teaching Compassion in Higher Education Colleen McMillan, Mike Lee-Poy, & Carys Massarella Section 2- At the Margins: Diverse Voices And Perspectives Susan Hillock 7. What’s the big deal? A Roundtable Reflecting on Queer and Feminist Porn Studies Laine Zisman Newman, Sarah Lima, Stuart MacLeod, Oreoluwa Adara, & Imogen Tam 8. Past Practices: How to Think About Sex Historically Elise Chenier 9. Queering Masculinity in Early Childhood and Higher Education Classrooms: Gendered Regulation and the 'Double-Bind' of Queer Masculinities Adam W. J. Davies 10. Working With Muslim LGBTQ Service Users: Assessing and Locating Supportive Care and Teaching Practices Maryam Khan 11. Sexuality and Aging Lorna Guse and Hai Luo 12. Uncertain Subjects: (Un)Teaching Pain(ful) Sexualities, Power, and Pedagogy Renee Dumaresque Section 3- Practical Applications and Recommendations Susan Hillock 13. Sex & Gender in the Classroom: Lessons From (and For) the Front Lines Heather Peters 14. The Pitch: Teaching Sexuality at Multiple Levels Nick J. Mulé 15. Sexual Health Education for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disability Shaniff Esmail, Meg Tronson, & Sheena Churla 16. Teachable Moments: The Intersections of Disabilities and Sexualities Michelle Owen & Baden Gaeke Franz 17. Supporting Service Users’ Sexuality: Teaching Best Practices to Social Work Students Gary Christopher Sterling- Murphy & Rick Csiernik 18. Conclusion: Can We Just Stop Faking It: Real Talk About Sex and Sexualities In The Classroom Susan Hillock Contributor Bios Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C
£23.39
University of Nebraska Press Histories of French Sexuality
Book SynopsisCovering the early eighteenth century through the present, Histories of French Sexuality reveals how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, and otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history.Trade Review“These articles illustrate maturity and diversity in an exciting field of history. They employ an exemplary variety of sources to investigate the many ways in which sexuality is embedded in the fabric of public as well as private life.”—Jeffrey Merrick, author of Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century France“This wonderful collection of imaginatively researched essays demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that sex matters in history. While the focus is on France, the book’s temporal and thematic breadth demonstrates that any empirically rigorous investigation of sexual mores, scandal, regulation, and public or private expressions of desire can lead us to new insights about the structure and rules of politics, the mechanisms of racial policy and colonial rule, and the role of the media in establishing or enforcing sexual identities and taboos. We are introduced to colonists in the Americas and Africa, to Parisian flâneurs, to various ‘unchaste women’ and their paramours, and to sexual pioneers of the digital age. Collectively, the authors take us on a journey that will inspire future research in French history and beyond.”—Annette F. Timm, coauthor of Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe“The more senior scholars in this collection are leading voices in the history of French sexuality and its many connections with related developments in social, cultural, and gender relations from the Old Regime onward. And the younger historians here develop new, striking perspectives, some of them derived from recent efforts among activists to redefine sexual manners and mores within a rapidly changing demographic landscape in the Western world. This work richly deserves the attention of a broad anglophone audience.”—James Smith Allen, author of A Civil Society: The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744–1944Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Andrew Israel Ross and Nina Kushner 1. Colonial Liberties: Sex, Race, and the Law in the French Atlantic, 1603–1791 Jennifer J. Davis 2. Blood, Rape, and Stigmata: Revisiting the Cadière-Girard Affair of 1730 Cathy McClive 3. Unchaste Women: Sexuality and Identity in the Eighteenth Century Nina Kushner 4. Domesticating Pleasure: The Sexual Politics of the French Enlightenment Lisa Jane Graham 5. The Queer Gaze in Haussmann’s Paris, 1850–1900 Andrew Israel Ross 6. Secrets, Sex, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France Jessie Hewitt 7. Sex, Scandal, and Power in the Steinheil Affair of 1908–1909 Sarah Horowitz 8. Mériadeck, Sexual Commerce, and the Urban Milieu Michelle K. Rhoades 9. Two Readings of Gabrielle, or Passion, Mobility, and the Governance of White Prestige in Colonial Senegal Jennifer Anne Boittin 10. Sex before 1968: Adolescence and the Presse Féminine Sarah Fishman 11. Creating Lesbian Community: Sexuality on the French Minitel in the 1980s Tamara Chaplin Afterword Robert A. Nye Contributors Index
£69.70
University of Nebraska Press Histories of French Sexuality
Book SynopsisCovering the early eighteenth century through the present, Histories of French Sexuality reveals how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, and otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history.Trade Review“These articles illustrate maturity and diversity in an exciting field of history. They employ an exemplary variety of sources to investigate the many ways in which sexuality is embedded in the fabric of public as well as private life.”—Jeffrey Merrick, author of Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century France“This wonderful collection of imaginatively researched essays demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that sex matters in history. While the focus is on France, the book’s temporal and thematic breadth demonstrates that any empirically rigorous investigation of sexual mores, scandal, regulation, and public or private expressions of desire can lead us to new insights about the structure and rules of politics, the mechanisms of racial policy and colonial rule, and the role of the media in establishing or enforcing sexual identities and taboos. We are introduced to colonists in the Americas and Africa, to Parisian flâneurs, to various ‘unchaste women’ and their paramours, and to sexual pioneers of the digital age. Collectively, the authors take us on a journey that will inspire future research in French history and beyond.”—Annette F. Timm, coauthor of Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe“The more senior scholars in this collection are leading voices in the history of French sexuality and its many connections with related developments in social, cultural, and gender relations from the Old Regime onward. And the younger historians here develop new, striking perspectives, some of them derived from recent efforts among activists to redefine sexual manners and mores within a rapidly changing demographic landscape in the Western world. This work richly deserves the attention of a broad anglophone audience.”—James Smith Allen, author of A Civil Society: The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744–1944Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Andrew Israel Ross and Nina Kushner 1. Colonial Liberties: Sex, Race, and the Law in the French Atlantic, 1603–1791 Jennifer J. Davis 2. Blood, Rape, and Stigmata: Revisiting the Cadière-Girard Affair of 1730 Cathy McClive 3. Unchaste Women: Sexuality and Identity in the Eighteenth Century Nina Kushner 4. Domesticating Pleasure: The Sexual Politics of the French Enlightenment Lisa Jane Graham 5. The Queer Gaze in Haussmann’s Paris, 1850–1900 Andrew Israel Ross 6. Secrets, Sex, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France Jessie Hewitt 7. Sex, Scandal, and Power in the Steinheil Affair of 1908–1909 Sarah Horowitz 8. Mériadeck, Sexual Commerce, and the Urban Milieu Michelle K. Rhoades 9. Two Readings of Gabrielle, or Passion, Mobility, and the Governance of White Prestige in Colonial Senegal Jennifer Anne Boittin 10. Sex before 1968: Adolescence and the Presse Féminine Sarah Fishman 11. Creating Lesbian Community: Sexuality on the French Minitel in the 1980s Tamara Chaplin Afterword Robert A. Nye Contributors Index
£25.19
Cornell University Press Tainted Souls and Painted Faces
Book SynopsisProstitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seductionthe Victorian fallen woman represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.Trade ReviewAs the subtitle suggests, Anderson’s subject is not so much the prostitute in Victorian literature as it is the rhetoric the Victorians used to construct ‘fallenness.’ * CHOICE *Some ideas in Tainted Souls and Painted Faces will be useful in classroom discussions about the pressures exerted on authors by specific literary forms and generalized cultural anxieties. -- Sally Mitchell * Victorian Studies *
£15.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture
Book SynopsisMediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and practices these changing forms of 'sexpertise' open up, and which they close down. The book reveals the intimate operation of power in mediated advice, how words and images, stories and sound can work to shore up social injustice. It critically engages with the ideas of choice and responsibility in sex self-help, arguing that these can obscure and/or justify oppression, even if they're sometimes experienced as empowering and/or pleasurable. This bold and incisive book provides a radical challenge to the assumptions underlying the sex advice industry, and presents a critical, collaborative and consensual vision for sex advice of the future.Trade Review"At a time when the field of sexual discourse is often characterized as unbounded we may fail to notice the structuring operations of new normativities. This exceptionally readable book tracks fraught concepts of intimacy as they arise in a range of media forms, and a period of more overt transactionalism and heavy cultural emphasis on production of the sexually desirable, sexually agentic self. The authors' meticulous and rigorous account of public discourses of sexual intimacy is a considerable achievement."—Diane Negra, University College Dublin "Investigating the varied dimensions of mediating our intimate lives, this brilliant book provides a far-reaching analysis of contemporary forms of sex advice, from sex television to sex apps and more. Importantly, Mediated Intimacy not only examines the contemporary media landscape, but it is also a guide for readers to create sex-critical advice on their own, using creative and thought-provoking examples for challenging conventional norms and practices about sexual intimacies."—Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi 1 Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture 1 2 History of Mediated Sex Advice 30 3 Gender, Sexuality and the Body in the Media 51 4 Being Normal 83 5 Work and Entrepreneurship 107 6 Pleasure 132 7 Safety and Risk 153 8 Communication and Consent 176 9 Conclusions 202 References 226 Index 261
£51.52
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race and Sexuality
Book SynopsisThe connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways.This illuminating book delves into the interrelation of race and sexuality as inseparable elements of our identities and social lives. The authors approach the topic through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on power, social arrangements and hierarchies, and the production of social difference. Their analysis maps the historical, discursive, and structural manifestations of race and sexuality, noting the everyday effects that the intersections of these categories have on people’s lived experiences. Considering both US-based and transnational cases, this book presents an empirical grounding for understanding how race and sexuality are mutually constitutive categories.Providing a comprehensive overview of racialized sexualities, this book is an essential text for any advanced course on race, sexuality, and intersectionality.Trade Review"Race and Sexuality shows how the connections between these forms of difference emerge in the stereotypes that inform how one group thinks of another, in political agendas that foster inequalities, in media representations of domestic minorities and transnational migrants, and in the justifications of contemporary wars. In doing so, the book posits the still novel idea that to study the intersections of race and sexuality is nothing less than a confrontation with everyday life."Roderick Ferguson, University of Illinois at Chicago "This book is a wonderful primer on the intersections of race and sexuality. Accessible and lucid, it leads uninitiated and sophisticated students through the complexities of racialized sexualities, addressing timely issues and concerns across the global North and global South."Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, Boston "[The] challenge of thinking through the efficiency of available concepts to comprehensively engage with individuals' and groups' shifting social positionings is the major contribution of Race and Sexuality."The Sociological Review“The book should be commended for its substantial contributions and spirited engagement making visible inequalities which might otherwise have remained under the radar.”Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I: DISCOURSES OF RACE/SEXUALITY Chapter 1: Two Systems Operating Synchronously Chapter 2: Race and Sexualities in Everyday Life Spolight 2.1 Racialized Sexualities and the "Down Low" PART II: TRANSNATIONAL, LOCAL AND GLOBAL SEXUAL/RACED MESSAGES Chapter 3: Racialized Sexualization in Transnational Human Rights Spotlight 3.1 Contradictions and Advancements in Colombia: Some Context Chapter 4: Racing Sex Work Spotlight 4.1 Racialized Embodiments, Differential Treatment Chapter 5: Sexualizing Immigration Spotlight 5.1 - Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress: Stereotypes Influencing Policy Conclusion: Racialized Sexualities - On Experience, Policy, and Scholarship Bibliography Index
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race and Sexuality
Book SynopsisThe connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways.This illuminating book delves into the interrelation of race and sexuality as inseparable elements of our identities and social lives. The authors approach the topic through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on power, social arrangements and hierarchies, and the production of social difference. Their analysis maps the historical, discursive, and structural manifestations of race and sexuality, noting the everyday effects that the intersections of these categories have on people’s lived experiences. Considering both US-based and transnational cases, this book presents an empirical grounding for understanding how race and sexuality are mutually constitutive categories.Providing a comprehensive overview of racialized sexualities, this book is an essential text for any advanced course on race, sexuality, and intersectionality.Trade Review"Race and Sexuality shows how the connections between these forms of difference emerge in the stereotypes that inform how one group thinks of another, in political agendas that foster inequalities, in media representations of domestic minorities and transnational migrants, and in the justifications of contemporary wars. In doing so, the book posits the still novel idea that to study the intersections of race and sexuality is nothing less than a confrontation with everyday life."Roderick Ferguson, University of Illinois at Chicago "This book is a wonderful primer on the intersections of race and sexuality. Accessible and lucid, it leads uninitiated and sophisticated students through the complexities of racialized sexualities, addressing timely issues and concerns across the global North and global South."Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, Boston "[The] challenge of thinking through the efficiency of available concepts to comprehensively engage with individuals' and groups' shifting social positionings is the major contribution of Race and Sexuality."The Sociological Review“The book should be commended for its substantial contributions and spirited engagement making visible inequalities which might otherwise have remained under the radar.”Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I: DISCOURSES OF RACE/SEXUALITY Chapter 1: Two Systems Operating Synchronously Chapter 2: Race and Sexualities in Everyday Life Spolight 2.1 Racialized Sexualities and the "Down Low" PART II: TRANSNATIONAL, LOCAL AND GLOBAL SEXUAL/RACED MESSAGES Chapter 3: Racialized Sexualization in Transnational Human Rights Spotlight 3.1 Contradictions and Advancements in Colombia: Some Context Chapter 4: Racing Sex Work Spotlight 4.1 Racialized Embodiments, Differential Treatment Chapter 5: Sexualizing Immigration Spotlight 5.1 - Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress: Stereotypes Influencing Policy Conclusion: Racialized Sexualities - On Experience, Policy, and Scholarship Bibliography Index
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sexuality and Citizenship
Book SynopsisSexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship more generally. But what does it mean in a continually changing political landscape of gender and sexuality? In this timely intervention, Diane Richardson examines the normative underpinnings and varied critiques of sexual citizenship, asking what they mean for its future conceptual and empirical development, as well as for political activism. Clearly written, the book shows how the field of sexuality and citizenship connects to a range of important areas of debate including understandings of nationalism, identity, neoliberalism, equality, governmentality, individualization, colonialism, human rights, globalization and economic justice. Ultimately this book calls for a critical rethink of sexual citizenship. Illustrating her argument with examples drawn from across the globe, Richardson contends that this is essential if scholars want to understand the sexual politics that made the field of sexuality and citizenship studies what it is today, and to enable future analyses of the sexual inequalities that continue to mark the global order.Trade Review"Diane Richardson has long had a reputation for acute sensitivity to the emergent issues in our complex sexual world. In this comprehensive but compelling book she tackles the central but contested concept of sexual citizenship. In Richardson's steady hands this becomes a lens to explore a range of critical ideas, analyses and experiences. The result is never less than illuminating and challenging, an invaluable guide to our perplexities."Jeffrey Weeks, author of What is Sexual History? "Drawing on literature from geography, gender studies, sociology and political science, Richardson challenges us to think in an interdisciplinary way about the impact of structural differences and marginalizations. As the leading scholar in this field, Diane Richardson offers an insightful engagement with the concept, and political outcomes, of sexual citizenship which is undoubtedly a must read for any contemporary student of the social sciences."Angelia Wilson, University of Manchester "Diane Richardson has given us a powerful resource for understanding the diverse debates and interdisciplinary approaches to sexual citizenship that will enhance our ability to produce rich, in-depth critical analyses of the shifting local, international, and transnational contexts for the co-constitution of sexuality and citizenship." Nancy A. Naples, Gender & Development “The book provides a persuasive and easy to read analysis of the sexual citizenship literature and how it has evolved over time, but also the limitations of sexual citizenship within the Euro-North American historical configuration. The conceptual analysis offers a social, cultural, economic and political exposition on the concept of sexual citizenship and brings forward the complex linkages of undeviating issues relating to sexuality, gender and citizenship.”SociologyTable of Contents1. Making Sexual Citizenship PART ONE: RE-THINKING SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP 2. What is Sexual Citizenship? 3. Limits to Sexual Citizenship 4. Sexualizing Citizenship: Now You See it, Now You Don�t PART TWO: TRANSFORMING CITIZENSHIP? SEXUALITY, GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP STRUGGLES 5. Global Influences on Sexuality and Citizenship 6. Sexuality, the State and Governance 7. Materializing Sexuality
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Media
Book SynopsisMedia are central to our experiences and understandings of sex, whether in the form of familiar 'mainstream' genres, pornographies and other sex genres, or the new zones, interactions and technosexualities made possible by the internet and mobile devices. In this engaging new book, Feona Attwood argues that to understand the significance of sex media, we need to examine them in terms of their distinctive characteristics, relationships to art and culture, and changing place in society. Observing the role that media play in relation to sex, gender, and sexuality, this book considers the regulation of sex and sexual representation, issues around the 'sexualization of culture', and demonstrates how a critical focus on sex media can inform debates on sex education and sexual health, as well as illuminate the relation of sex to labour, leisure, intimacy, and bodies. Sex Media is an essential resource for students and scholars of media, culture, gender and sexuality.Trade Review"This sophisticated yet highly accessible book covers key issues in studies of sex, gender and media. Attwood tackles complex issues and divisive debates with admirable clarity and with an unfailing mastery of the content matter in what should be compulsory reading for students in media and gender studies internationally." Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku"Attwood's Sex Media offers a rich and nuanced account of the shifting landscapes of gender, sexuality and sexual representation. Cogent and well written - it is a perfect book for undergraduate seminars in gender and sexuality studies as well as communication studies." Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence UniversityTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Introducing Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Chapter 2: Regulating Sex Media Chapter 3: Sexualization Chapter 4: Sex Media Chapter 5: Sex Media, Culture and Society Notes References Index
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Media
Book SynopsisMedia are central to our experiences and understandings of sex, whether in the form of familiar 'mainstream' genres, pornographies and other sex genres, or the new zones, interactions and technosexualities made possible by the internet and mobile devices. In this engaging new book, Feona Attwood argues that to understand the significance of sex media, we need to examine them in terms of their distinctive characteristics, relationships to art and culture, and changing place in society. Observing the role that media play in relation to sex, gender, and sexuality, this book considers the regulation of sex and sexual representation, issues around the 'sexualization of culture', and demonstrates how a critical focus on sex media can inform debates on sex education and sexual health, as well as illuminate the relation of sex to labour, leisure, intimacy, and bodies. Sex Media is an essential resource for students and scholars of media, culture, gender and sexuality.Trade Review"This sophisticated yet highly accessible book covers key issues in studies of sex, gender and media. Attwood tackles complex issues and divisive debates with admirable clarity and with an unfailing mastery of the content matter in what should be compulsory reading for students in media and gender studies internationally." Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku"Attwood's Sex Media offers a rich and nuanced account of the shifting landscapes of gender, sexuality and sexual representation. Cogent and well written - it is a perfect book for undergraduate seminars in gender and sexuality studies as well as communication studies." Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence UniversityTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Introducing Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Chapter 2: Regulating Sex Media Chapter 3: Sexualization Chapter 4: Sex Media Chapter 5: Sex Media, Culture and Society Notes References Index
£16.14
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy
Book SynopsisWithin the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development. Though it has been an object of media speculation – and frequent sensationalism – for over a decade, this cultural formation remains poorly understood. In the first book-length study of the industry, Rachel O’Neill takes us into the world of seduction seminars, training events, instructional guidebooks and video tutorials. Pushing past established understandings of ‘pickup artists’ as pathetic, pathological or perverse, she examines what makes seduction so compelling for those drawn to participate in this sphere. Seduction vividly portrays how the twin rationalities of neoliberalism and postfeminism are reorganising contemporary intimate life, as labour-intensive and profit-orientated modes of sociality consume other forms of being and relating. It is essential reading for students and scholars of gender, sexuality, sociology and cultural studies, as well as anyone who wants to understand the seduction industry’s overarching logics and internal workings.Trade Review‘If you have ever wondered why masculinity is so overwhelmingly defined by sexual prowess and the accumulation of women as sexual objects, this book will provide a thoughtful, useful and well-argued answer. This terrain has never been studied before and the liveliness of the writing and the timeliness of the topic are as engaging as the debates in feminist theory the author raises. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding some of the fundaments of heterosexuality.’Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem‘In this fascinating read, O’Neill takes us beyond sensational headlines about “pickup artists.” Through careful ethnographic research, she refuses easy interpretations of these men as uniquely misogynist or otherwise pathological, and instead places their behaviour in a larger social context. Her analysis demonstrates that the sexism found in this community is a particularly clear manifestation of the intersecting currents of neoliberalism and postfeminism.’C. J. Pascoe, University of Oregon"This is a brave work of feminist sexual politics that provides an unflinching look into the seduction industry. The author deftly navigates the competing and conflicting justifications of the men who shell out exorbitant amounts of money to become an ideal version of hyper-heteromasculinity at the risk of their psychological and social health."Rebecca Sullivan, University of Calgary"Compelling… O'Neill takes no prisoners in this remarkable book. But nowhere does she lose sight of contextualising the discourse that she scrutinises in relation to larger contexts of injustice and inequality."Times Higher Education "Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy is a long overdue publication that will hopefully allow open dialogue around the seduction industry and its overall impact. [O’Neill’s work] is certainly worth spending some time with." the f word “The brilliance of O’Neill’s books is how she looks past the “spectacle of seduction” to uncover knowledge practices and logics embedded in seduction communities as ordinary or an amplified example of issues and attitudes beyond the community.”Men and Masculinities Table of Contents Introduction 1 The Work of Seduction 2 Pedagogy and Profit 3 Manufacturing Consent 4 Seduction and Sexual Politics Conclusion: Against Seduction Postscript: Power and Politics in Feminist Fieldwork Appendices References
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy
Book SynopsisWithin the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development. Though it has been an object of media speculation – and frequent sensationalism – for over a decade, this cultural formation remains poorly understood. In the first book-length study of the industry, Rachel O’Neill takes us into the world of seduction seminars, training events, instructional guidebooks and video tutorials. Pushing past established understandings of ‘pickup artists’ as pathetic, pathological or perverse, she examines what makes seduction so compelling for those drawn to participate in this sphere. Seduction vividly portrays how the twin rationalities of neoliberalism and postfeminism are reorganising contemporary intimate life, as labour-intensive and profit-orientated modes of sociality consume other forms of being and relating. It is essential reading for students and scholars of gender, sexuality, sociology and cultural studies, as well as anyone who wants to understand the seduction industry’s overarching logics and internal workings.Trade Review‘If you have ever wondered why masculinity is so overwhelmingly defined by sexual prowess and the accumulation of women as sexual objects, this book will provide a thoughtful, useful and well-argued answer. This terrain has never been studied before and the liveliness of the writing and the timeliness of the topic are as engaging as the debates in feminist theory the author raises. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding some of the fundaments of heterosexuality.’ Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ‘In this fascinating read, O’Neill takes us beyond sensational headlines about “pickup artists.” Through careful ethnographic research, she refuses easy interpretations of these men as uniquely misogynist or otherwise pathological, and instead places their behaviour in a larger social context. Her analysis demonstrates that the sexism found in this community is a particularly clear manifestation of the intersecting currents of neoliberalism and postfeminism.’ C. J. Pascoe, University of Oregon"This is a brave work of feminist sexual politics that provides an unflinching look into the seduction industry. The author deftly navigates the competing and conflicting justifications of the men who shell out exorbitant amounts of money to become an ideal version of hyper-heteromasculinity at the risk of their psychological and social health."Rebecca Sullivan, University of Calgary"Compelling… O'Neill takes no prisoners in this remarkable book. But nowhere does she lose sight of contextualising the discourse that she scrutinises in relation to larger contexts of injustice and inequality." Times Higher Education "Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy is a long overdue publication that will hopefully allow open dialogue around the seduction industry and its overall impact. [O’Neill’s work] is certainly worth spending some time with." the f word“The brilliance of O’Neill’s books is how she looks past the “spectacle of seduction” to uncover knowledge practices and logics embedded in seduction communities as ordinary or an amplified example of issues and attitudes beyond the community.”Men and MasculinitiesTable of Contents Introduction 1 The Work of Seduction 2 Pedagogy and Profit 3 Manufacturing Consent 4 Seduction and Sexual Politics Conclusion: Against Seduction Postscript: Power and Politics in Feminist Fieldwork Appendices References
£16.14
Cognella, Inc Sexuality Concepts for Social Workers
Book SynopsisSexuality Concepts for Social Workers is a research-informed, reader-friendly guide that helps practitioners address sexuality-related issues with a variety of clients.Topics covered include the role of values in sexuality, sexual health and reproduction, relationships, sexual orientation, gender and gender identity, sexuality and the lifespan, sex work and sex workers, sexuality in the ill or disabled, and being a sexually healthy adult. Chapters feature discussion questions, implications and applications for real-world practice, case examples, and opinion pieces from each of the authors to enhance learning, reflection, and critical thinking.The second edition features updated QR codes to direct students to additional resources, a new chapter called "Sexuality, Spirituality, and Social Work," updated discussion questions, fresh author opinion pieces, and new topics, including racial preferences when dating, conversion therapy, and sexuality policies in retirement and assisted living facilities.Sexuality Concepts for Social Workers helps practitioners build their sexuality literacy to better assist patients. It is ideal for advanced undergraduate and foundational graduate courses on human behavior, sexuality diversity, and human sexuality for social workers.
£112.80
Bristol University Press Sex Work and the New Zealand Model:
Book SynopsisMore than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground. Written by an international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection provides the much needed in-depth research into how decriminalisation is playing out in sex workers' lives and how different groups of sex workers are experiencing it, while uncovering the challenges and tensions that remain to be negotiated in this field. Using the evidence from New Zealand, it makes an invaluable contribution to the international debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex workers' rights.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Lynzi Armstrong and Gillian Abel Part I ~ Legislative Change in New Zealand ‘On the Clients’ Terms’: Sex Work in New Zealand Before Decriminalisation ~ Jan Jordan Stepping Forward Into the Light of Decriminalisation ~ Dame Catherine Healy, Annah Pickering and Chanel Hati The Future of Feminism and Sex Work Activism in New Zealand ~ Carisa R. Showden Part II ~ The Diversity of Sex Workers in New Zealand The Impacts of Decriminalisation for Trans Sex Workers ~ Fairleigh Gilmour Fear of Trafficking or Implicit Prejudice?: Migrant Sex Workers and the Impacts of Section 19 ~ Lynzi Armstrong, Gillian Abel, and Michael Roguski “My Dollar Doesn’t Mean I’ve Got Any Power or Control Over Them”: Clients Speak Out About Purchasing Sex ~ Shannon Mower Part III ~ Perceptions of Sex Workers in New Zealand "Genuinely Keen to Work": Sex Work, Emotional Labour, and the News Media ~ Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith The Disclosure Dilemma: Stigma and Talking About Sex Work in the Decriminalised Context ~ Lynzi Armstrong and Cherida Fraser Contested Space: Street-based Sex Workers and Community Engagement ~ Gillian Abel
£75.99
Bristol University Press Experiences of the Sex Industry
Book SynopsisUsing unpublished email interviews collected for a Home Office project on the sex industry, this anthology presents the individual stories of sex workers and buyers in England and Wales, in their own words. The author Natasha Mulvihill also re-interviews the participants to reflect on their original interviews, their experience of engaging in research and of managing through the COVID-19 pandemic. Of interest to policymakers and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, law and qualitative methods, the text seeks to navigate through the difficult politics of the sex industry and re-focus our understanding on the lived experiences of those involved.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methods and Ethics 3. Female Independent Sex Workers 4. Male Independent Sex Workers 5. Managed Brothel Workers 6. Erotic Dancers and Strippers 7. Sex Buyers 8. Reflection
£76.00
Bristol University Press Experiences of the Sex Industry
Book SynopsisUsing unpublished email interviews collected for a Home Office project on the sex industry, this anthology presents the individual stories of sex workers and buyers in England and Wales, in their own words. The author Natasha Mulvihill also re-interviews the participants to reflect on their original interviews, their experience of engaging in research and of managing through the COVID-19 pandemic. Of interest to policymakers and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, law and qualitative methods, the text seeks to navigate through the difficult politics of the sex industry and re-focus our understanding on the lived experiences of those involved.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methods and Ethics 3. Female Independent Sex Workers 4. Male Independent Sex Workers 5. Managed Brothel Workers 6. Erotic Dancers and Strippers 7. Sex Buyers 8. Reflection
£25.64
University of Massachusetts Press What Adolescents Ought to Know: Sexual Health
Book SynopsisTraces the emergence and marketing of sex education texts —from a single tract, written by a medical researcher and given free to anyone, to a thriving commercial enterprise. It tells the story of how sex education moved from private conversation to purchased text in the early twentieth-century.
£22.75
