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Taylor & Francis Love
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Taylor & Francis Love
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia
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Taylor & Francis Gender Sex and Politics
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Taylor & Francis The Magdalenes
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Taylor & Francis Sex and Class in Womens History Essays from Feminist Studies Routledge Library Editions Womens History
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Taylor & Francis Sex Guides Books and Films about Sexuality for Young Adults Routledge Library Editions Literature and Sexuality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Education Work and Leisure Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Education Work and Leisure Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Sexuality Gender and Power
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Taylor & Francis Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Sex Workers Rights Resistance and Redefinition Oxford Historical Monographs
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thinking Straight
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Taylor & Francis Eros and Economy
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Taylor & Francis Masculinities Sexualities and Love
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consent
Book SynopsisConsent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future examines the conceptualisation of consent' across various historical periods, cultures, and disciplines to offer an expansive, pluralistic vision for future articulations of consent as it circulates throughout contemporary life in sexual encounters, medical contexts, and media representations.This volume is distinctive in its diverse conceptual scope and commitment to cross-disciplinary dialogue, accommodating perspectives on consent that are contextually sensitive and culturally diverse. The chapters examine a range of topics, from socio-cultural engagements with consent in Latin American music, feminist movements in Pakistan, and BDSM in Poland, to theoretical and pedagogical ones exploring alternative possibilities for framing and understanding consent through intersectional approaches and institutional curricula.Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future is of valTable of ContentsTable of Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; PART I: Culture and Resistance 2. Could Briseis Consent? A Critical Comparison of Contemporary Women Writers’ Adaptations of Briseis’s Narrative 3. Stopping the Rapist in our Path: Resisting Rape Culture in Latin American Music and Performance Art 4. Mera Jism, Meri Marzi: Crisis of Consent and Digital Mediations in Pakistan 5. Do to Me What I Could Never Ask of You: Consensual Non-Consent in BDSM and the Limits of Affirmative Consent; PART II: Consent on Stage and Screen 6.‘You Have No Right to Do What You Like with Me’: Rape, Sexual Abuse, and Consent in African American Enslavement and its Afterlives 7. Without Consent or Memory: Consent in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You 8. Beyond ‘Yes, and...’: Consent in the Theatre Arts Curriculum, On-stage and Off; PART III: Lived Experience and (Authorial) Expressions 9. Re-establishing Identity through Testimony: The Rape Survival Narratives of Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice (1799) and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) 10. ‘A Skin of One’s Own’: Decolonising Traumatic Testimony and the Poetics of Wholeness 11. ‘I wasn’t aware at the time, I could actually say “no”’: Intimacy, Expectations, and Consent in Queer Relationships; PART IV: Futures of Consent 12. Troubling Technologies for Sexual Consent 13. Sexual Offences and Defined Consent: Lessons from the Past and a Framework for the Future 14. Op-eds and Fashion Shows: The History and Future of Consent Education in Ireland 15. Consent Wars? Towards a Critical-Governmentality Approach to Consent in Post-Roe America 16. Afterword; Index
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Cambridge University Press Sex Power and Consent
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Cambridge University Press Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
Book SynopsisBased on vivid and compelling oral testimony from a diverse range of people, this book provides the first rounded account of sexuality in marriage in early and mid twentieth-century England. The authors look beyond the conventions of silence among the respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and inhibition.Trade Review'A warm and enjoyable read, at times heartbreaking and at others erotic, its appeal goes beyond its value as an academic text. It is an impressive venture that captures what otherwise might have remained a forgotten part of our sexual history.' Petra Boynton, The Times Higher Education Supplement'I can scarcely recall reading a book which gives a richer, more comprehensive - and ultimately, more deeply moving - account of the human experience.' Simon Callow, The Guardian, in which Sex Before the Sexual Revolution was selected as 'Book of the Week''A brilliant new book … based on the intimate experiences of people from the middle and working classes whose adolescence, marriage and childrearing took place during and after the period between the two world wars … provides a glimpse into an era when sex was not spoken about.' The Daily Express'A peek through the curtains of the pre-Sixties bedroom, this convincing and gripping social history provides undeniable evidence that sex did not start in the Sixties.' Oliver James'… an exciting, pioneering study … Szreter and Fisher advance a refreshingly candid account of English sex, love, and marriage and present the fascinating oral history material to its best advantage. In short, this is an excellent book which deserves to attract a very large readership.' Angus McLaren, Emeritus Professor, University of Victoria'A surprising number of people think that Philip Larkin was right and the British didn't discover sex until the 1960s … This book goes further than any other in breaking the silence and presenting middle and working class people who married between the 1930s and 1950s talking frankly about their sexual experience, revealing that sexual intercourse really did happen before 1963 - and some people even enjoyed it.' Pat Thane, Director, Centre for Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research'A work of deeply engaging and distinguished scholarship, based on fascinating interviews and other primary data, which bring the last century to life in a vivid and often touching manner. In doing so, the authors shatter many myths about intimate life during previous generations and provide the context for the development of modern British sexuality … a major contribution to social history and to the history of sexology. This book should be required reading for all serious students and researchers.' Brett Kahr, Honorary Visiting Professor, Roehampton University, and author of Sex and the Psyche'An accessibly written yet theoretically nuanced analysis of oral histories from the generation that came of age before the sexual revolution … Drawing on the touching, sometimes funny, and occasionally sad oral histories of working and middle class men and women, Sex Before the Sexual Revolution reveals an untold story about how, for some married couples, silence, inhibition, and a shared commitment to privacy were core elements of the erotic, and love was demonstrated both through sexual intimacy and, at times, by deliberate abstinence.' Jennifer Hirsch, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University'Sex Before the Sexual Revolution provides the first rounded, firsthand account of sexuality in marriage in the years 1918–1963. The authors, two distinguished, award-winning academics, studied the testimonies of 89 men and women from all backgrounds. None of them was used to discussing intimate matters - after all, in their day people didn't. Yet the researchers managed to get even the shyest interviewees talking in the end - with truly fascinating results.' Bel Mooney, Daily Mail'This is a fine book, crammed with engaging empirical detail, and providing rich insights into the English marital bedroom in the decades between the First World War and the so-called 'sexual revolution' of the 1960s … Historians of sexuality, gender and demography will pay gratitude to Szreter and Fisher for providing us with this culmination of many years of important work.' Social History of Medicine'Szreter and Fisher skilfully reconstruct a moral universe of sexual knowledge and quotidian experience in which ideals of naturalness, spontaneity, respect and trust framed the intimate lives of at least two generations of English men and women.' Sally Alexander, History Workshop JournalTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. What was Sex?: 2. The facts of life: learning about sex in childhood and youth; 3. Sexual intimacies before marriage; Part II. What was Love?: 4. Romance and love: finding a partner; 5. Married love: caring and sharing; Part III. Exploring Sex and Love in Marriage: 6. Birth control, sex and abstinence; 7. Bodies; 8. Sex, love, duty, pleasure?; 9. The morning after; 10. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press European Sexualities 14001800 38 New Approaches to European History Series Number 38
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Sex
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Cambridge University Press Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai
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Cambridge University Press Sex and the Family in Colonial India
Book SynopsisAn original contribution to scholarship on colonialism, gender and sexuality in India. By following the stories of a number of mixed-race families, at all levels of the social scale, Durba Ghosh offers a fascinating account of how gender, class and race affected the cultural and social mores of the period.Trade Review'Ghosh's book will be immensely valuable to scholars of gender, race, and empire …' Journal of Asian Studies'… Sex and the Family makes an important contribution to the investigation of racial and gender relations in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India by reminding us of the anxiety Englishmen felt and by recovering some of the Indian women's voices.' Eighteenth-Century StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Colonial companions; 2. Residing with begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their 'wives'; 3. Good patriarchs, uncommon families; 4. Native women, native lives; 5. Household order and colonial justice; 6. Servicing military families: family labour, pensions and orphans; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History 9 New Approaches to Asian History Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Sexuality in Europe A TwentiethCentury History 45 New Approaches to European History Series Number 45
Book SynopsisThis original book brings a fascinating and accessible account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called 'the century of sex' and seen as an era of increasing liberalization, Dagmar Herzog instead emphasizes the complexities and contradictions in sexual desires and behaviours, the ambivalences surrounding sexual freedom, and the difficulties encountered in securing sexual rights. Incorporating the most recent scholarship on a broad range of conceptual problems and national contexts, the book investigates the shifting fortunes of marriage and prostitution, contraception and abortion, queer and straight existence. It analyzes sexual violence in war and peace, the promotion of sexual satisfaction in fascist and democratic societies, the role of eugenics and disability, the politicization and commercialization of sex, and processes of secularizaTrade Review'Everything you always wanted to know about the 'century of sex' - here it is, beautifully written, admirably strong in its analysis, compelling in its plea for different narratives that add ambivalences, conflicts and shadow lines to what at first sight appears as a clear-cut story of liberalisation.' Ute Fervet, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin'A masterly synthesis of sexuality's most extreme century. This virtuoso account always links sex to politics, but its real merit is to give emotions, bodies, and pleasures a history.' Philipp Sarasin, Professor of Modern History, University of Zurich'There is not [a] better comparativist than Herzog to illuminate the unexpected twists and turns of this composite history - a landmark in European synthesis and a must-read for all historians of sexuality.' Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University'Herzog develops a sweeping analysis of the central role of sexual practices, cultures, politics, and violence in a century of war, mass mobilization, and wrenching social conflict and change.' George Chauncey, Professor of History, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Reconceiving sexuality, 1900–14; 2. State interventions, 1914–45; 3. Cold War cultures, 1945–65; 4. Pleasure and rebellion, 1965–80; 5. Partnerships and practices, 1980–2010; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Sex Before the Sexual Revolution Intimate Life in England 19181963 16 Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series Number 16
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Cambridge University Press European Sexualities 14001800 38 New Approaches to European History Series Number 38
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Cambridge University Press Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History 9 New Approaches to Asian History Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Sexuality in Europe
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Cambridge University Press Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
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Cambridge University Press Love in the Time of Communism
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Cambridge University Press Queering Sexual Health Translation Pedagogy
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Cambridge University Press Prophylactic Rights
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Cambridge University Press Queering Sexual Health Translation Pedagogy
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Cambridge University Press Stolen Women in Medieval England Rape Abduction and Adultery 11001500 87 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series Series Number 87
Book SynopsisThis study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non-normative marital practices, this work analyses the nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three overlapping offences that it could denote: rape, abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens our understanding of the role of women in the legal system; provides a means for analysing male control over female bodies, sexuality and access to the courts; and reveals ways in which female agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such controls.Trade Review'… offers a rich analysis subdivided into topics that include rape, elopement, forced abduction, adultery, and false accusations … Dunn displays an admirable ability in scrupulous analysis of court records and legislation, attending to the interests of lawmakers as well as all potentially interested parties … Above all, one finishes this book wanting to hear a great deal more from Caroline Dunn.' Sara McDougall, The Medieval Review'Drawing on an impressive selection of primary sources, Caroline Dunn's Stolen Women in Medieval England … examines male control and female agency through an investigation of several different types of sexual offenses … this book lays a strong groundwork for further review of female agency in the Middle Ages.' Rutgers Book Review Journal'The strength of Dunn's study lies in her cogent analysis of sources and how she connects this evidence to changes in the legal statutes and culture in England … [it] offers new insights on the crimes of rape and abduction as well as the clever ways in which the laity maneuvered in and out of marital unions.' Medieval Feminist Forum'Stolen Women offers exceptional thoroughness, subtlety, and precision and will be hard to replace as the new standard work on ravishment in later medieval English law.' Kim M. Phillips, SpeculumTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Laws and legal definitions; 2. Rape; 3. Abduction and forced marriage; 4. Elopement abductions; 5. Adultery; 6. Retaliatory abductions and malicious legal proceedings; Conclusion; Appendix I: ravishment legislation; Appendix II: sources of ravishment cases; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Stolen Women in Medieval England
Book SynopsisDuring the Middle Ages, rape and abduction were understood together as forms of theft. This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England is the first to explore these overlapping offences, examining how women operated within the legal system and the impact this had on their lives.Trade Review'… offers a rich analysis subdivided into topics that include rape, elopement, forced abduction, adultery, and false accusations … Dunn displays an admirable ability in scrupulous analysis of court records and legislation, attending to the interests of lawmakers as well as all potentially interested parties … Above all, one finishes this book wanting to hear a great deal more from Caroline Dunn.' Sara McDougall, The Medieval Review'Drawing on an impressive selection of primary sources, Caroline Dunn's Stolen Women in Medieval England … examines male control and female agency through an investigation of several different types of sexual offenses … this book lays a strong groundwork for further review of female agency in the Middle Ages.' Rutgers Book Review Journal'The strength of Dunn's study lies in her cogent analysis of sources and how she connects this evidence to changes in the legal statutes and culture in England … [it] offers new insights on the crimes of rape and abduction as well as the clever ways in which the laity maneuvered in and out of marital unions.' Medieval Feminist Forum'Stolen Women offers exceptional thoroughness, subtlety, and precision and will be hard to replace as the new standard work on ravishment in later medieval English law.' Kim M. Phillips, SpeculumTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Laws and legal definitions; 2. Rape; 3. Abduction and forced marriage; 4. Elopement abductions; 5. Adultery; 6. Retaliatory abductions and malicious legal proceedings; Conclusion; Appendix I: ravishment legislation; Appendix II: sources of ravishment cases; Bibliography.
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The University of Chicago Press Ive Got to Make My Livin Black Womens Sex Work
Book SynopsisExplores African American women's sex work in Chicago during the decades of some of the city's most explosive growth, expanding not just our view of prostitution, but also of black women's labor, the Great Migration, black and white reform movements, and the emergence of modern sexuality.Trade Review"I've Got to Make My Livin' is a splendid study of the historical interplay of city space, race, class, gender, and sexual politics during the industrial era. In this engaging work, Cynthia Blair creates a compelling portrait and persuasive argument for black women's participation in the underground sexual economy." - Elizabeth Clement, University of Utah.
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The University of Chicago Press Sexual Fields
Book SynopsisCoupling field theory with the ethnographic and theoretical expertise of some of the most important scholars of sexual life at work today, this book offers a game-changing approach that can revolutionize how sociologists will analyze and make sense of contemporary sexual life for years to come.Trade Review"In Adam Isaiah Green's introductory chapter, he lays out the evolution of his sexual fields formulation. This alone is worth the price of the book. But this volume also includes seven chapters written by real movers and shakers in the field of sexuality, each making interesting, substantive contributions. Sexual Fields is certainly a book that every scholar of sexuality should own, and I would not be surprised if this were to become one of the most cited volumes in the field of sexuality." (Verta Taylor, coauthor of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret)"
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The University of Chicago Press Unlimited Intimacy
Book SynopsisPurposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. This title presents an investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it.Trade Review"Unlimited Intimacy is novel, fascinating, insightful, and courageous. Tim Dean convincingly argues that confronting head-on a sexual subculture that is alien to most readers, and understanding the fantasies that propel it, is a very good way of stimulating thought - not only about that subculture, but about one's own choices and behavior, and about the general social process of demonizing and pathologizing certain sexual practices." - Martha Nussbaum"
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University of Chicago Press Fuckology
Book SynopsisOne of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists, John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. This book focuses on his three key diagnostic concepts, hermaphroditism, transsexualism, and paraphilia.Trade Review"We see here critical sexuality studies confronting the work of the most influential of modern sexologists, John Money. The point is not to dismiss sexology - that has been done too often and too quickly in queer studies - but to engage with it in a sustained, scholarly manner. Downing, Morland, and Sullivan do that admirably, identifying the casual contradictions and unpacking the constitutive tensions in Money's thinking." (Peter Cryle University of Queensland) "John Money's influential and controversial career has never received the careful, critical, and nuanced attention it deserves - until now. Coauthors Downing, Morland, and Sullivan bring three very different forms of expertise to bear on Money's work and its legacy, in a study that should be of interest to scholars of medicine and sexuality alike." (Susan Stryker University of Arizona) "One of the most prominent and prolific sexologists of the second half of the twentieth century, John Money coined the term "gender" and pioneered the use of surgical procedures to treat intersex and transgender subjects. In this timely and important critical reassessment of Money's work, Downing, Morland, and Sullivan lay bare the inconsistencies and assumptions embedded in his conceptualisation of sex. The title of the book derives from Money's own term for his particular brand of sexology while also, as the authors astutely point out, providing the critical tools with which to fuck with sexology itself." (Elizabeth Stephens University of Queensland) "This book makes a unique and exciting contribution to the field, examining in detail Money's work on the concepts of 'hermaphroditism', 'transsexualism', and 'paraphilia.' It is a well-founded critique that goes to the heart of sexological research methodology and its underpinning assumptions. This work is queer, critical, historically astute, and politically engaged - offering an analysis that many of us have been looking forward to, and that will certainly contribute to our work." (Katrina Roen University of Oslo)
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The University of Chicago Press The Sexual Organization of the City
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive surveys and interviews with Chicago adults, the editor and his colleagues show that the city is a place where sexual choices and options are constrained. They observe that the social and institutional networks that city dwellers occupy limit their sexual options.Trade Review"The Sexual Organization of the City is billed as a sort of academic 'Sex in the City' - though one that examines a more diverse slice of metropolitan life. Over three years, sociologist Edward O. Laumann and his colleagues questioned 2,114 people in four Chicago neighborhoods on everything from how many partners they'd had in their lives and where they met them to whether they were cheating.... The result is yet another glimpse of American sexual paradoxes." - Christopher Shea, Boston Globe "You don't have to be David Mamet to know that the typical Chicagoan's intense interest in real estate borders on the sexual. And now comes University of Chicago sociologist Edward O. Laumann to tell us that the reverse is also true: Neighborhoods play a critical role in how we choose partners for brief sexual encounters and long-term engagements." - Stephanie B. Goldberg, Chicago"
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The University of Chicago Press Dominatrix
Book SynopsisPresents an analysis of how gender, power, sexuality, and hierarchy shape all of our social experiences. This book draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with professional dominatrices in New York City and San Francisco to offer a portrait of these unusual specialists, their work, and their clients.Trade Review"In the tradition of the great occupational ethnographies, Danielle J. Lindemann takes us into professional dominatrices' worlds and shows us, with graceful and consistently engaging prose, how the women she studied build careers, negotiate with clients, and develop accounts that make sense of their work and of the relationships it entails. Dominatrix has much to teach us about gender and sexuality." (Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Impotence
Book SynopsisA cultural history of impotence that shows us that the failure of men to rise to the occasion has been a recurrent topic since the dawn of human culture. This work also explores the surprising political and social effects of impotence.Trade Review"Although impotence has again become an acceptable topic of conversation, we forget that this subject has enjoyed a long, colorful history. In this fascinating book, Angus McLaren gives us the first cultural history of the topic, exploring the many discussions, rumors, and controversies played out on the public stage throughout the centuries - from the days of Plato up to the present. This is a terrific book." - Dr. Ruth Westheimer"
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The University of Chicago Press Touching Encounters
Book SynopsisOften depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. This book addresses how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era of Internet communications.Trade Review"Strongly grounded in debates within sociology, Kevin Walby's work reaches beyond its disciplinary base by drawing on anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, as well as on literary/cultural theory and queer theory. Touching Encounters is very well-researched, well-organized, and well-written - an original and fascinating contribution to the new sociology of sex." (Tim Dean, University at Buffalo, SUNY)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Comforts of Home Prostitution in Colonial
Book SynopsisThis history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement.Claire Robertson, International Journal of African Historical Studies White's book . . . takes a unique approach to a largely unexplored aspect of African History. It enhances our understanding of African social history, political economy, and gender studies. It is a book that deserves to be widely read.Elizabeth Schmidt, American Historical Review
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MIT Press Ltd Collaborative Society MIT Press Essential
Book SynopsisHow networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society.Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative society might be characterized as a series of services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions though technology. Some believe that the economic aspects of the new collaboration have the potential to make society more equitable; others see collaborative communities based on sharing as a cover for social injustice and user exploitation.The book covers the “sharing economy,” and the hijacking of the term by corporations; different models of peer production, and motivations to participate; collaborative media production and consumption, the definit
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The University of Michigan Press What Do Gay Men Want
Book SynopsisAn effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts. This work demonstrates the insidious ways in which psychology's defining opposition between the normal and the pathological subjects homosexuality to medical reasoning.Trade ReviewCompelling, timely, and provocative. The writing is sleek and exhilarating. It doesn't waste time telling us what it will do or what it has just done - it just does it. - Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology, New York University
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The University of Michigan Press Refining Child Pornography Law
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDuring the early days of the so-called ‘war on drugs,’ possession of marijuana could sometimes lead to a decades-long criminal sentence. In time, the need for reconsideration, and proportionality in sentencing, became apparent. The contemporary sentencing approach to child pornography offenses, including possession, requires an analogous re-examination. This text does an outstanding job of addressing the rationale for sentencing in child pornography cases, and in suggesting the need for potential change, in a thorough, scholarly, and thought-provoking manner.”—Fred S. Berlin, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ~""Our modern digital world has increased exponentially the constitutional, social, and practical issues implicated by criminal laws and policies surrounding child pornography. This book provides a timely, balanced, and astute array of perspectives on a topic that all criminal law theorists and practitioners should be following closely.” —Douglas A. Berman, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
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