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Book SynopsisAccording to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favourable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. This takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital’s public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies.Trade Review"Alyshia Galvez challenges conventional wisdom on how Latinas plan families, making a very important contribution to understanding the Latino health paradox." -- Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D. * Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research, Rutgers University *"This wonderful book demonstrates how immigrant knowledge is rendered irrelevant by the New York City medical establishment, and contributes to our understanding of large-scale transnational immigration issues examined through the lens of gender, pregnancy, and reproduction." -- Rayna Rapp * author, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in *"For years, health professionals have been intrigued by the so-called 'birth-weight paradox'—the fact that recently arrived Mexican immigrant women have fewer pregnancy complications and fewer low-birth-weight babies than their socioeconomic status would predict. Galvez casts the large New York City public hospital prenatal clinic at which she did her interviews as a site of 'subjectification'—the molding of Mexican immigrant women and their families into racialized, needy, passive subjects of medicalization, state intervention, and monitoring. In large part, the women submit because of their own narratives of bettering themselves by their move to the US. This brief description cannot do justice to the richness of Galvez's analysis and the complexity of the women's negotiations with the US health care system. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Alyshia Galvez challenges conventional wisdom on how Latinas plan families, making a very important contribution to understanding the Latino health paradox." -- Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D. * Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research, Rutgers University *"This wonderful book demonstrates how immigrant knowledge is rendered irrelevant by the New York City medical establishment, and contributes to our understanding of large-scale transnational immigration issues examined through the lens of gender, pregnancy, and reproduction." -- Rayna Rapp * author, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in *"For years, health professionals have been intrigued by the so-called 'birth-weight paradox'—the fact that recently arrived Mexican immigrant women have fewer pregnancy complications and fewer low-birth-weight babies than their socioeconomic status would predict. Galvez casts the large New York City public hospital prenatal clinic at which she did her interviews as a site of 'subjectification'—the molding of Mexican immigrant women and their families into racialized, needy, passive subjects of medicalization, state intervention, and monitoring. In large part, the women submit because of their own narratives of bettering themselves by their move to the US. This brief description cannot do justice to the richness of Galvez's analysis and the complexity of the women's negotiations with the US health care system. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for ChangeEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisCan a type of music be 'owned'? Examining how music is linked to racial constructs and how African American musicians and audiences reacted to white appropriation, this title shows the stakes when whites claim the right to play and live the blues. It highlights the performers and venues that represented changing racial politics.Trade Review"Meticulously documented and engagingly written, Blues Music in the Sixties: A Story in Black and White is a book that I have been waiting for since the 1980s. In these six case studies Adelt addresses important issues about race relations, rock music, the folk revival, and the music business during the decade when so many white music enthusiasts 'discovered' many forms of black American music, perhaps most importantly the blues." -- Kip Lornell * Department of Music, George Washington University *"Ultimately, this book is not so much a traditional musicology as a study in reception dynamics and the politics of authenticity. As such, it's a valuable addition to the work of folks like Charles Keil and George Lipsitz." * Cadence *"Meticulously documented and engagingly written, Blues Music in the Sixties: A Story in Black and White is a book that I have been waiting for since the 1980s. In these six case studies Adelt addresses important issues about race relations, rock music, the folk revival, and the music business during the decade when so many white music enthusiasts 'discovered' many forms of black American music, perhaps most importantly the blues." -- Kip Lornell * Department of Music, George Washington University *"Ultimately, this book is not so much a traditional musicology as a study in reception dynamics and the politics of authenticity. As such, it's a valuable addition to the work of folks like Charles Keil and George Lipsitz." * Cadence *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Being Black Twice: Crossover Politics inB. B. King’s Music of the Late 1960s2 Like I Was a Bear or Somethin’: Blues Performancesat the Newport Folk Festival3 Trying to Find an Identity: Eric Clapton’sChanging Conception of Blackness4 Germany Gets the Blues: Race and Nationat the American Folk Blues Festival5 Enough to Make You Want to Sing the Blues:Janis Joplin’s Life and Music6 Resegregating the Blues: Race and Authenticityin the Pages of Living BluesConclusion

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Book SynopsisDrawing from major figures in American literature, including Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and David Foster Wallace, as well as introducing texts from the emerging canon of disability studies, Emily Russell demonstrates the place of disability at the core of American ideals.Trade Review"Examining a diverse range of texts, Reading Embodied Citizenship does a terrific job of situating readings of disabled bodies in a broad historical and cultural context. Elegantly done!" -- Diane Price Herndl * author of Invalid Women *"A unique, compelling, original contribution that combines superb scholarship with an activist sensibility. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Domesticating the Exceptional: Those Extraordinary Twins and the Limits of American Individualism 2 "Marvelous and Very Real": The Grotesque in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Wise Blood 3 The Uniform Body: Spectacles of Disability and the Vietnam War 4 Conceiving the Freakish Body: Reimagining Reproduction in Geek Love and My Year of Meats 5 Some Assembly Required: The Disability Politics of Infinite Jest Conclusion: Inclusion, Fixing, and Legibility Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What makes this book so special is that it does not stop at description, as do most ethnographies. It goes on to explain Sinhalese childhood and child rearing, doing so within a well-considered, smartly-deployed psychoanalytic framework." -- Naomi Quinn * professor emerita, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University *"This is a new kind of research on childhood, one that boldly focuses on a few trajectories of enculturation rather than covering a conventional set of contextual categories … Chapin carries this off with remarkable sophistication, skill and humility in a book that should be read by every student in this field." * Ethos *"This is a nuanced and subtle book … I found it enthralling." * Children & Society *"Chapin's work is a significant contribution to the anthropology of childhood. It tackles important questions about the meaning of child care practices and patterns." -- Jill E. Korbin * Department of Anthropology and Schubert Center for Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration 1. Introduction 2. Sri Lanka: Setting the Ethnographic Context 3. Socializing Desire: Demanding Toddlers and Self-Restrained Children 4. Shaping Attachments: Learning Hierarchy at Home 5. Making Sense of Envy: Desire and Relationships in Conflict 6. Engaging with Hierarchy outside the Home: Education and Efforts at Change 7. Culturing People Notes References Index

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Trade Review"What makes this book so special is that it does not stop at description, as do most ethnographies. It goes on to explain Sinhalese childhood and child rearing, doing so within a well-considered, smartly-deployed psychoanalytic framework." -- Naomi Quinn * professor emerita, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University *"This is a new kind of research on childhood, one that boldly focuses on a few trajectories of enculturation rather than covering a conventional set of contextual categories … Chapin carries this off with remarkable sophistication, skill and humility in a book that should be read by every student in this field." * Ethos *"This is a nuanced and subtle book … I found it enthralling." * Children & Society *"Chapin's work is a significant contribution to the anthropology of childhood. It tackles important questions about the meaning of child care practices and patterns." -- Jill E. Korbin * Department of Anthropology and Schubert Center for Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration 1. Introduction 2. Sri Lanka: Setting the Ethnographic Context 3. Socializing Desire: Demanding Toddlers and Self-Restrained Children 4. Shaping Attachments: Learning Hierarchy at Home 5. Making Sense of Envy: Desire and Relationships in Conflict 6. Engaging with Hierarchy outside the Home: Education and Efforts at Change 7. Culturing People Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Preface: Doing the Jewish Family Introduction 1. Terms of Debate Family History and the History of Families Bearing the Children of Israel Narrating the Family Journey Husbands, Wives, and Rabbis in Antiquity In the Ancient Neighborhood "Jewish Gender"? Beyond "Tradition" and "Modernity" An All-Too-Quick Trip to Israel 2. State of the Question The Medieval Jewish Past Today Mediterranean Wolrds Dreamtimes and Lifetimes Leaving Ashkenaz Back to Europe? From Ethnic Dissolution to Ashkenaz Regained Jewish Genes 3. In a New Key Off-Key Echoes of Old Prejudice The Return of "Race"? Families Undone and Redone Suturing the Tears in Family Memory Cut to Identity Possible Futures Keeping Up with the Goldbergs Who Needs the Jewish Family? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"King...began her ethnographic research...under difficult and often dangerous conditions resulting from the brutal, even genocidal, war undertaken by Saddam Hussein to suppress a Kurdish nationalist movement. Her book focuses on kinship organization and household management, with primary emphasis on how patrilineal or male descent works to maintain Kurdish identity and social cohesion. Recommended." * Choice *"Kurdistan on the Global Stage is an important contribution to ethnographic studies of Iraqi Kurdistan and cannot be missed by anthropologists and others with an interest in the global connections of Kurdistand and the larger Middle East." * American Anthropologist *"King analyses how Kurdish symbols and social relations are sustained, reformulated, and questioned in the age of globalization. King's book is a valuable addition to the anthropology of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Its attention to diachronic changes in Kurdish society makes it particularly useful." * Middle East Journal *"This is a very readable, insightful anthropological study that will be welcomed by all those interested in the Kurds and how Kurdish political actors affect regional and even international politics. I highly recommend King's worthy contribution to the literature and encourage her to continue her valuable work." * Kurdish Studies *"Anthropologist Diane King guides the reader through Kurdistan using a radically different lens in an effort to understand social and political change in an unrecognized state. [This] study offers valuable insights into Iraqi Kurdistan's past and present." * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *"A rare account by an anthropologist of uncommon courage, this unique analysis of the rapid transformation of Iraqi Kurdistan is a must-read for students and scholars of the Middle East." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Yale University *Table of Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Proper Nouns1. Kurdistan Glocal2. Fieldwork in a Danger Zone3. A Man on the Land: Lineages, Identity, and Place4. Gendered Challenges: Women Navigating Patriliny5. Politicking 6. Refuge Seeking, Patriliny, and the Global7. Kurdistan in the WorldNotesGlossary and AcronymsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination is fascinating for readers from different backgrounds, including sociology, law, history and anthropology. ... The accessible language makes Rosen’s book a singularly important source in understanding the complexities of child soldiering." * Children & Society *"A leader in the reinvigoration of child and youth studies in US anthropology, Rosen offers a mature scholar's command of the issues … Working against the expected binary, Rosen combines history and anthropology to challenge the image of child soldiers as particularly African or as the product of a new barbarism in war ... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." * CHOICE *"Excellent, in-depth, and superbly written." * RALPH *"Rosen leaves readers in no doubt as to the dangers of historical amnesia." * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *"In this masterly volume Rosen brings meticulous scholarship to bear in a powerful narrative challenging advocates who mythologize the innocence of child combatants across the developing world today." -- Jo Boyden * University of Oxford *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1—A Tale of Two OrphansChapter 2—The Struggle over RecruitmentChapter 3—Child Soldiers in World War IIChapter 4—The Child Soldier in Popular CultureChapter 5—Modern Child SoldiersChapter 6—The Politics and Culture of Childhood VulnerabilityNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Trade Review"A gracious, observant, and sensitive ethnography."— American Ethnologist "Danely’s (2014) well-written work is important in understanding the lived experiences of older adults as they age, and the impact various parts of their lives have on the construction of their narratives. Studies like this one should be conducted among different cultures and in different places to best understand older adults and how to support them through relationships and policy. Although Danely’s (2014) ethnographic research in Japan is not entirely generalizable because of the vast differences among cultures, many of the points made in the book are important to understand for any aging society to be prepared and learn from experiences in Japan. As other countries follow in Japan’s footsteps of having an aging society, there should be a focus on providing more resources for successful aging in order to then spend less on welfare (Danely, 2014). This book raises an important question: What do the trends surrounding older adults and aging say about a society?"— Journal of Religion, Spirituality, and Aging "Aging and Loss is a beautifully written piece of work that could be enjoyed from multiple perspectives beyond the lenses of anthropology or Asian studies. The fact that the stories took place in Kyoto - an ancient capital and the heart of Japanese traditional arts and culture - will further instill interest among those curious about the rich culture, nature, and changes challenging the city."— American Anthropologist "Devoid of academic jargon, Aging and Loss addresses several key theoretical questions in anthropology today. Its elegant prose makes it accessible to wider audiences, attesting to the power of ethnographic storytelling as a form of knowledge-making."— Anthropological Quarterly "Aging and Loss is a mournful book that treats loss as both a space of emptiness and a temporality of creativity. Achingly beautiful about aging and death in a country where both are rising today."— Anne Allison, author of Precarious Japan "Jason Danely’s book represents an excellent contribution to our understanding of aging in Japan and provides an important exploration of the intersection of religion and aging."— John Traphagan, professor of religious studies, University of Texas at Austin "Danely tackles the complex topic of aging and loss with a great sense of tact and sensitivity. He addresses the topic by employing a skillful analysis of folk stories, films, and delicately conducted interviews … Far from being dry ethnography, this book is written in a poetic and emotive voice. Yet the pictures of aging in Japan are far from overly optimistic."— New Asia BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: Loss 1 Loss, Abandonment, and Aesthetics 2 The Weight of Loss: Experiencing Aging and Grief Part II: Mourning 3 Landscapes of Mourning: Constructing Nature and Kinship 4 Temporalities of Loss: Transience and Yielding 5 Passing it on: Circulating Aging Narratives Part III: Abandonment and Care 6 Aesthetics of Failed Subjectivity Part IV: Hope 7 Care and Recognition: Encountering the Other World 8 The Heart of Aging: An Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures. Yet as this study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work.Trade Review"A deep examination of the rise of male beauty culture." * The New York Times *"Though the grooming work and shop floor are evocative, Barber's attention moves beyond hair to the social exchanges that take place … bringing together emotional labor, aesthetic labor, and physical labor, all the while highlighting the role of sexuality." * Gender & Society *"A well-researched contribution to the sociology of work, gender studies, and consumer culture … Highly recommended." * Choice *"Barber's book innovatively combines theories of work, gender, and culture. It makes a significant contribution to masculinities research. Anyone teaching or conducting research on gender, social class, qualitative methods, work, inequalities, and culture will find this book to be compelling. It is nuanced and rich in detail." * Men & Masculinities *"What does it mean that contemporary men are going to salons, getting their nails done, or dyeing their hair? Kristen Barber examines how these practices are intimately related to shifting definitions of masculinity, and actually buttress gender, race, and class inequalities. A compelling and colorful read." -- C.J. Pascoe * author of Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School *"Barber provides excellent insight into how women groom men while upholding their gender and class identities, and how masculinity and beauty are not at odds with each other. Truly a pleasure." -- Jamie Mullaney * author of Paid to Party: Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales *How it became OK for guys to take care of themselves: an interview with Kristen Barber [http://goo.gl/o3qExa] * NPR's Marketplace *Why barbershops are disappearing: And what it means that some still thrive by Kristen Barber [http://goo.gl/mN4nWW] * The Houston Chronicle *The End of the Barbershop?: An Interview with Kristen Barber [goo.gl/CgX0Zv] -- Word of Mouth * New Hampshire Public Radio *"Barber’s book innovatively combines theories of work, gender, and culture. It makes a significant contribution to masculinities research. Anyone teaching or conducting research on gender, social class, qualitative methods, work, inequalities, and culture will find this book to be compelling. It is nuanced and rich in detail" -- Patti Giuffre * SAGE Pub *What’s the Deal With That Guy’s Fluffy Hair? by Thomas Vinciguerra * New York Times *"New barbershops cash in on male grooming trend" interview with Kristen Barber * Marketplace *"How the ‘Wife Beater’ Tank Top Became A Marker of Class, Ethnicity and Domestic Abuse" by C. Brain Smith * Mel Magazine *"A well-researched book." * Journal of American Culture *"Why So Many Men Chase Skirts, But Won't Wear Them" by Nora Whelan * Playboy *"A salon of his own: Men don't play second fiddle here," by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, * LoHud.com *"A salon of his own: More than just manscaping," by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy * USA Today *"A Short History of Manly Beauty Products for Masculine Men," by Hazel Cills https://jezebel.com/a-short-history-of-manly-beauty-products-for-masculine-1834956610 * Jezebel *"A cut above: Traditional barbershops are back," by Dave McGinn https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/article-a-cut-above-traditional-barbershops-are-back/ * Globe and Mail *"WHAT EXPENSIVE MEN’S HAIRCUTS ARE REALLY SELLING YOU" by Quinn Myers https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/expensive-mens-haircut-worth-it * Mel Magazine *"Masculinity During A Pandemic: How Haircuts And Face Masks Got Political" an interview with Kristen Barber https://www.wortfm.org/masculinity-during-a-pandemic-how-haircuts-and-face-masks-got-political/ * "A Public Affair," WORT *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Men and Beauty: The Historical Expansion of an Industry2 Rocks Glasses and Color Camo: Selling Beauty to Class-Privileged Men3 Heterosexual Aesthetic Labor: Hiring and Requiring Women Beauty Workers4 Hair Care: Emotional Labor and Touching Rules in Men’s Grooming5 “We’re Men’s Women”: Occupational Choice Narratives of Sameness and Difference Conclusion Appendix A. Class, Gender, and the Economy in the Study of Men’s Salons Appendix B. Participant Demographic Information Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe twenty-first century has seen the emergence of the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work.Trade Review"A deep examination of the rise of male beauty culture." * The New York Times *"Though the grooming work and shop floor are evocative, Barber's attention moves beyond hair to the social exchanges that take place … bringing together emotional labor, aesthetic labor, and physical labor, all the while highlighting the role of sexuality." * Gender & Society *"A well-researched contribution to the sociology of work, gender studies, and consumer culture … Highly recommended." * Choice *"Barber's book innovatively combines theories of work, gender, and culture. It makes a significant contribution to masculinities research. Anyone teaching or conducting research on gender, social class, qualitative methods, work, inequalities, and culture will find this book to be compelling. It is nuanced and rich in detail." * Men & Masculinities *"What does it mean that contemporary men are going to salons, getting their nails done, or dyeing their hair? Kristen Barber examines how these practices are intimately related to shifting definitions of masculinity, and actually buttress gender, race, and class inequalities. A compelling and colorful read." -- C.J. Pascoe * author of Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School *"Barber provides excellent insight into how women groom men while upholding their gender and class identities, and how masculinity and beauty are not at odds with each other. Truly a pleasure." -- Jamie Mullaney * author of Paid to Party: Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales *How it became OK for guys to take care of themselves: an interview with Kristen Barber [http://goo.gl/o3qExa] * NPR's Marketplace *Why barbershops are disappearing: And what it means that some still thrive by Kristen Barber [http://goo.gl/mN4nWW] * The Houston Chronicle *The End of the Barbershop?: An Interview with Kristen Barber [goo.gl/CgX0Zv] -- Word of Mouth * New Hampshire Public Radio *"Barber’s book innovatively combines theories of work, gender, and culture. It makes a significant contribution to masculinities research. Anyone teaching or conducting research on gender, social class, qualitative methods, work, inequalities, and culture will find this book to be compelling. It is nuanced and rich in detail" -- Patti Giuffre * SAGE Pub *What’s the Deal With That Guy’s Fluffy Hair? by Thomas Vinciguerra * New York Times *"New barbershops cash in on male grooming trend" interview with Kristen Barber * Marketplace *"How the ‘Wife Beater’ Tank Top Became A Marker of Class, Ethnicity and Domestic Abuse" by C. Brain Smith * Mel Magazine *"A well-researched book." * Journal of American Culture *"Why So Many Men Chase Skirts, But Won't Wear Them" by Nora Whelan * Playboy *"A salon of his own: Men don't play second fiddle here," by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, * LoHud.com *"A salon of his own: More than just manscaping," by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy * USA Today *"A Short History of Manly Beauty Products for Masculine Men," by Hazel Cills https://jezebel.com/a-short-history-of-manly-beauty-products-for-masculine-1834956610 * Jezebel *"A cut above: Traditional barbershops are back," by Dave McGinn https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/article-a-cut-above-traditional-barbershops-are-back/ * Globe and Mail *"WHAT EXPENSIVE MEN’S HAIRCUTS ARE REALLY SELLING YOU" by Quinn Myers https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/expensive-mens-haircut-worth-it * Mel Magazine *"Masculinity During A Pandemic: How Haircuts And Face Masks Got Political" an interview with Kristen Barber https://www.wortfm.org/masculinity-during-a-pandemic-how-haircuts-and-face-masks-got-political/ * "A Public Affair," WORT *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Men and Beauty: The Historical Expansion of an Industry2 Rocks Glasses and Color Camo: Selling Beauty to Class-Privileged Men3 Heterosexual Aesthetic Labor: Hiring and Requiring Women Beauty Workers4 Hair Care: Emotional Labor and Touching Rules in Men’s Grooming5 “We’re Men’s Women”: Occupational Choice Narratives of Sameness and Difference Conclusion Appendix A. Class, Gender, and the Economy in the Study of Men’s Salons Appendix B. Participant Demographic Information Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex.Trade Review"This is a thoughtful and important book about victims of child trafficking. Its strength lies in the juxtaposition of programmatic responses to trafficking with child survivors’ own perceptions of their experiences and needs." -- Alicia Peters * University of New England *"This highly readable, informative text recounts the story of 140 trafficked children as well as the history of this criminal act and its consequences … Goz´dziak recognized the need for a well-researched, objective point of view and presents the challenges and the facts that victims of trafficking face even when identified and rescued from their horrific situations ... Recommended." * Choice *"Gozdziak's work is a welcome addition to the critical study of anti-trafficking institutions and services, a nuanced and compassionate portrayal of the complex lived realities of young people who move and migrate, however precariously, in search of better opportunities and futures." * Refuge *"By centering trafficked youth's voices and experiences, Gozdziak demonstrates the importance of survivor-centered approaches, even when their narratives contradict and complicate current antitrafficking discourse." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"This is a thoughtful and important book about victims of child trafficking. Its strength lies in the juxtaposition of programmatic responses to trafficking with child survivors’ own perceptions of their experiences and needs." -- Alicia Peters * University of New England *"This highly readable, informative text recounts the story of 140 trafficked children as well as the history of this criminal act and its consequences … Goździak recognized the need for a well-researched, objective point of view and presents the challenges and the facts that victims of trafficking face even when identified and rescued from their horrific situations ... Recommended." * Choice *"Gozdziak's work is a welcome addition to the critical study of anti-trafficking institutions and services, a nuanced and compassionate portrayal of the complex lived realities of young people who move and migrate, however precariously, in search of better opportunities and futures." * Refuge *"By centering trafficked youth's voices and experiences, Gozdziak demonstrates the importance of survivor-centered approaches, even when their narratives contradict and complicate current antitrafficking discourse." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Afong Means StrengthIntroduction: Researching and Writing about Child TraffickingPart IMoral Panics1 “Tidal Waves” of Trafficking2 The Old and New AbolitionistsPart II “Captured”3 Snakeheads, Coyotes, and . . . Mothers4 Not Chained to a Bed in a BrothelPart III “Rescued”5 Hidden in Plain Sight6 Jail the Offender, Protect the VictimPart IV “Restored” 7 Idealized Childhoods8 Healing the WoundedEpilogue: Everyday Struggles Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Michele Friedner’s groundbreaking ethnography takes us on a rich, grounded journey with deaf young adults in Bangalore and shows us how they make their way through schools, vocational training, and religious worlds. From the opening scene to the last page, Friedner invites our appreciation of 'deaf gain' and how community, conviviality, kinship, value, and possibility are created." -- Faye Ginsburg * professor of anthropology, New York University *"In Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India Friedner has crafted an ethnographic monograph that is at once a compelling narrative with vivid descriptions, and a carefully researched and powerfully structured theoretical assertion of how deaf identities are multiple, global, and valuable." * Somatosphere *"Adept at signing herself, Michele Friedner is able to move between the worlds of deaf and hearing subjects, giving the work an ethnographic depth that might not be possible to achieve otherwise … This is a pioneering work and will, I am sure, soon become part of the disability studies syllabus in many Indian universities." * Indian Sociology *"Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India is a welcome addition to the still-sparse but growing cross-cultural collection of ethnographies addressing deafness and sign languages … Although primarily analyzing the lives and agency of deaf Indians, this book has much broader significance and is relevant for anyone exploring local responses to regional and global phenomena involving nongovernmental organizations, governmental agencies, religious organizations, multinational corporations, and multilevel marketing businesses." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"From home to the world, this book takes a nuanced view of classic questions of social stigma and value, while it also reorients the discourse on development in contemporary India." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Deaf Turns, Deaf Orientations, Deaf Development1. Orienting from (Bad) Family to (Good) Friends2. Converting to the Church of Deaf Sociality3. Circulation as Vocation4. Deaf Bodies, Corporate Bodies5. Enrolling Deafness in Multilevel Marketing BusinessesConclusion: India’s Deaf Futures/Reorienting the WorldAppendix: Key ConceptsNotesReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"Michele Friedner’s groundbreaking ethnography takes us on a rich, grounded journey with deaf young adults in Bangalore and shows us how they make their way through schools, vocational training, and religious worlds. From the opening scene to the last page, Friedner invites our appreciation of 'deaf gain' and how community, conviviality, kinship, value, and possibility are created." -- Faye Ginsburg * professor of anthropology, New York University *"In Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India Friedner has crafted an ethnographic monograph that is at once a compelling narrative with vivid descriptions, and a carefully researched and powerfully structured theoretical assertion of how deaf identities are multiple, global, and valuable." * Somatosphere *"Adept at signing herself, Michele Friedner is able to move between the worlds of deaf and hearing subjects, giving the work an ethnographic depth that might not be possible to achieve otherwise … This is a pioneering work and will, I am sure, soon become part of the disability studies syllabus in many Indian universities." * Indian Sociology *"Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India is a welcome addition to the still-sparse but growing cross-cultural collection of ethnographies addressing deafness and sign languages … Although primarily analyzing the lives and agency of deaf Indians, this book has much broader significance and is relevant for anyone exploring local responses to regional and global phenomena involving nongovernmental organizations, governmental agencies, religious organizations, multinational corporations, and multilevel marketing businesses." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"From home to the world, this book takes a nuanced view of classic questions of social stigma and value, while it also reorients the discourse on development in contemporary India." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Deaf Turns, Deaf Orientations, Deaf Development1. Orienting from (Bad) Family to (Good) Friends2. Converting to the Church of Deaf Sociality3. Circulation as Vocation4. Deaf Bodies, Corporate Bodies5. Enrolling Deafness in Multilevel Marketing BusinessesConclusion: India’s Deaf Futures/Reorienting the WorldAppendix: Key ConceptsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits accepted representations of the Caribbean from ‘less respectable’ segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and ‘sistah lit’ that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability.Trade Review“In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how ‘insurgent cultural representations’ can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital—while getting the goods.” -- Mimi Sheller * author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies *"This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom." -- Yanique Hume * co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance *"With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets." -- Nadia Ellis * author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora *“In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how ‘insurgent cultural representations’ can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital—while getting the goods.” -- Mimi Sheller * author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies *"This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom." -- Yanique Hume * co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance *"With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets." -- Nadia Ellis * author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally Chapter One: Is not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace Chapter Two: Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in “Sistah Lit” Chapter Three: “Who’s On Top?”: Power, Pleasure and the Politics of Taste Chapter Four: “Fashion Ova Style” The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture Chapter Five: “‘Outta Order’or Outta Door?: Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics & Sexuality” Chapter Six: Gardening in the Garrisons, (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art Conclusion: ‘Puuulll Uuuuuuup:’ Dissident Dreams of Cultural Insurgency Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits accepted representations of the Caribbean from ‘less respectable’ segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and ‘sistah lit’ that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability.Trade Review"This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom."— Yanique Hume, co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance “In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how ‘insurgent cultural representations’ can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital—while getting the goods.”— Mimi Sheller, author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies "With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets."— Nadia Ellis, author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black DiasporaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally Chapter One: Is not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace Chapter Two: Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in “Sistah Lit” Chapter Three: “Who’s On Top?”: Power, Pleasure and the Politics of Taste Chapter Four: “Fashion Ova Style” The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture Chapter Five: “‘Outta Order’or Outta Door?: Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics & Sexuality” Chapter Six: Gardening in the Garrisons, (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art Conclusion: ‘Puuulll Uuuuuuup:’ Dissident Dreams of Cultural Insurgency Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 2010 earthquake in Haiti sparked an international aid response - with pledges and donations of $16 billion - that was exceedingly generous. But now, five years later, that aid has clearly failed. In Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, Mark Schuller captures the voices of those involved in the earthquake aid response, and paints a sharp, unflattering view of the humanitarian enterprise.Trade Review"Mark Schuller offers clear analysis, informed by empirical knowledge. This sets him apart from the usual experts on Haiti. A challenging book from an author who goes the distance to understand the 'other.'" -- Raoul Peck * award-winning Haitian filmmaker and director of Fatal Assistance *"Although the earthquake caused more devastation than the post-disaster response, Schuller's examination suggests how and why the aid response rubbed more hurt into the wound. Based on field-level data, collected with cool rigor, his argument becomes a powerful indictment. Could it have been otherwise? Read Schuller to find out." -- Michael Barnett * George Washington University *Honorable Mention, Barbara Christian Prize for Best Book in Humanities, Caribbean Studies Association, 2017https://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/2017-bc-award-winner/ * Caribbean Studies Association *"Supported by the National Science Foundation Senior and CAREER Grant, Bellagio Center, and others, Schuller’s research on NGOs, globalization, disasters, and gender in Haiti has been published in over thirty book chapters and peer-reviewed articles as well as public media, including a column in Huffington Post" * Huffington Post *"Haiti Suspends Oxfam Great Britain After Sex Scandal" by Catherine Porter * New York Times *"The scholarly contribution of Schuller’s Humanitarian Aftershocks is remarkable." * Journal of Haitian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Foreign Terms List of Names for Camp Residents Introduction 1 Haiti’s Unnatural Disaster: Neoliberalism 2 Racing from the Rubble: Constructing IDPs 3 Hitting Home: Humanitarian Impacts on Haiti’s Households 4 Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: The Gender of Aid 5 Pòch Prela: Camp Committees 6 Aba ONG Volè: The “Republic of NGOs” 7 Colonization within NGOs: Haitian Staff Understandings 8 Fotokopi: Imperialism’s Carbon Copy Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe 2010 earthquake in Haiti sparked an international aid response - with pledges and donations of $16 billion - that was exceedingly generous. But now, five years later, that aid has clearly failed. In Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, Mark Schuller captures the voices of those involved in the earthquake aid response, and paints a sharp, unflattering view of the humanitarian enterprise.Trade Review"Mark Schuller offers clear analysis, informed by empirical knowledge. This sets him apart from the usual experts on Haiti. A challenging book from an author who goes the distance to understand the 'other.'" -- Raoul Peck * award-winning Haitian filmmaker and director of Fatal Assistance *"Although the earthquake caused more devastation than the post-disaster response, Schuller's examination suggests how and why the aid response rubbed more hurt into the wound. Based on field-level data, collected with cool rigor, his argument becomes a powerful indictment. Could it have been otherwise? Read Schuller to find out." -- Michael Barnett * George Washington University *Honorable Mention, Barbara Christian Prize for Best Book in Humanities, Caribbean Studies Association, 2017https://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/2017-bc-award-winner/ * Caribbean Studies Association *"Supported by the National Science Foundation Senior and CAREER Grant, Bellagio Center, and others, Schuller’s research on NGOs, globalization, disasters, and gender in Haiti has been published in over thirty book chapters and peer-reviewed articles as well as public media, including a column in Huffington Post" * Huffington Post *"Haiti Suspends Oxfam Great Britain After Sex Scandal" by Catherine Porter * New York Times *"The scholarly contribution of Schuller’s Humanitarian Aftershocks is remarkable." * Journal of Haitian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Foreign Terms List of Names for Camp Residents Introduction 1 Haiti’s Unnatural Disaster: Neoliberalism 2 Racing from the Rubble: Constructing IDPs 3 Hitting Home: Humanitarian Impacts on Haiti’s Households 4 Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: The Gender of Aid 5 Pòch Prela: Camp Committees 6 Aba ONG Volè: The “Republic of NGOs” 7 Colonization within NGOs: Haitian Staff Understandings 8 Fotokopi: Imperialism’s Carbon Copy Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation - the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery.Trade Review"Succinct, convincing, and organized, Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries." -- Lesley A. Sharp * Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College *"With its clear and compassionate prose, Transplanting Care makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic illness, and the moral influences they exert upon everyday life." * Somatosphere *"Succinct, convincing, and organized, Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries." -- Lesley A. Sharp * Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College *"With its clear and compassionate prose, Transplanting Care makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic illness, and the moral influences they exert upon everyday life." * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction1 Early Navigations2 Troubled Relations and Former Lives3 Precarity and Policy4 When Patients Are Also Caregivers5 Conscripting Caregivers’ Health (Or, When Caregivers are Patients, Too)6 Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care7 Revealing and Reframing Kinship and CareConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation - the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery.Trade Review"Succinct, convincing, and organized, Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries." -- Lesley A. Sharp * Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College *"With its clear and compassionate prose, Transplanting Care makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic illness, and the moral influences they exert upon everyday life." * Somatosphere *"Succinct, convincing, and organized, Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries." -- Lesley A. Sharp * Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College *"With its clear and compassionate prose, Transplanting Care makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic illness, and the moral influences they exert upon everyday life." * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction1 Early Navigations2 Troubled Relations and Former Lives3 Precarity and Policy4 When Patients Are Also Caregivers5 Conscripting Caregivers’ Health (Or, When Caregivers are Patients, Too)6 Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care7 Revealing and Reframing Kinship and CareConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisReports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem - one for which the state must be held accountable.Trade Review"This wide-ranging volume documents the complicity of states in gender violence, from state perpetration of strategic sexual violence in some conflict settings – in Greece, Guatemala, Iraq, among others – to the neglect by states worldwide of women’s security and other basic needs in both war and peace. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike." -- Elisabeth Jean Wood * Yale University *"In this excellent book, the contributors consistently and compellingly question our assumptions about the state and gender violence in ways that will ground forthcoming scholarly conversations." -- Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber * City College of New York *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part One: State Violence, Gender, and Resistance 1. Subaltern Bodies: Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and Political Repression during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967–1974)Katerina Stefatos 2. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan GenocideVictoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos-Álvarez, and Kathleen Dill 3. Gender, Incarceration and Power Relations during the Irish Civil War (1922–1923)Laura McAtackney 4. Resistance and Activism against State Violence in Chiapas, MexicoMelanie Hoewer Part Two: The Continuum of Sexual Violence and the Role of the State 5. Medical Record Review and Evidence of Mass Rape during the 2007/2008 Period of Post-Election Violence in KenyaMike Anastario 6. The Force of Writing in Genocide: On Sexual Violence in the al-Anfal Operations and BeyondFazil Moradi 7. Sexualized Bodies, Public Mutilation, and Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia’s New Order Regime (1965–66)Annie Pohlman Part Three: State Responses to Gender Violence 8. Advances and Limits of Policing and Human Security for Women: Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective Shannon Drysdale Walsh 9. The State to the Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic Violence in Post-Communist RussiaMaija Jäppinen and Janet Elise Johnson 10. The Absent State: Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal Forms of Gender Subordination Serena Cosgrove 11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, and the StateCecilia M. Salvi Conclusion: Sex at the Security Council: Reflections on the Women, Peace and Security AgendaKimberly Theidon Notes on ContributorsIndex 

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Book SynopsisReports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem - one for which the state must be held accountable.Trade Review"In this excellent book, the contributors consistently and compellingly question our assumptions about the state and gender violence in ways that will ground forthcoming scholarly conversations." -- Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber * City College of New York *"This wide-ranging volume documents the complicity of states in gender violence, from state perpetration of strategic sexual violence in some conflict settings – in Greece, Guatemala, Iraq, among others – to the neglect by states worldwide of women’s security and other basic needs in both war and peace. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike." -- Elisabeth Jean Wood * Yale University *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part One: State Violence, Gender, and Resistance 1. Subaltern Bodies: Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and Political Repression during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967–1974)Katerina Stefatos 2. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan GenocideVictoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos-Álvarez, and Kathleen Dill 3. Gender, Incarceration and Power Relations during the Irish Civil War (1922–1923)Laura McAtackney 4. Resistance and Activism against State Violence in Chiapas, MexicoMelanie Hoewer Part Two: The Continuum of Sexual Violence and the Role of the State 5. Medical Record Review and Evidence of Mass Rape during the 2007/2008 Period of Post-Election Violence in KenyaMike Anastario 6. The Force of Writing in Genocide: On Sexual Violence in the al-Anfal Operations and BeyondFazil Moradi 7. Sexualized Bodies, Public Mutilation, and Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia’s New Order Regime (1965–66)Annie Pohlman Part Three: State Responses to Gender Violence 8. Advances and Limits of Policing and Human Security for Women: Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective Shannon Drysdale Walsh 9. The State to the Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic Violence in Post-Communist RussiaMaija Jäppinen and Janet Elise Johnson 10. The Absent State: Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal Forms of Gender Subordination Serena Cosgrove 11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, and the StateCecilia M. Salvi Conclusion: Sex at the Security Council: Reflections on the Women, Peace and Security AgendaKimberly Theidon Notes on ContributorsIndex 

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Book SynopsisGlobalization is radically transforming how India's citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce.Trade Review"This raw, evocative, and beautifully written book is for anyone interested in class, India, socioeconomic inequality, or ethnography … Highly recommended." * Choice *"This innovative analysis builds on captivating stories of everyday life, connecting the capitalist forces we categorize as 'global' with the spaces, practices, and organizations that ground daily experience. It marks an important achievement." -- Mary Hancock * University of California at Santa Barbara *"Dickey has an exceptionally rich longitudinal perspective on how patterns and logics of social organization change and how class shapes lives. She lays out the complex cultural context in and through which material class dynamics operate." -- Mark Liechty * University of Illinois at Chicago *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Transliteration and Pronunciation1. Introduction: The Everyday Life of Class2. What Is Class in Madurai?3. Four Residents, as I Know Them4. Consumption and Apprehension: Class in the Everyday5. Debt: The Material Consequences of Moral Constructs6. Performing the Middle7. Marriage: Drama, Display, and the Reproduction of Class8. Food, Hunger, and the Binding of Class Relations9. Conclusions: Nuancing Class BoundariesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisMany people still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India's citizens perceive class. This title examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism.Trade Review"This raw, evocative, and beautifully written book is for anyone interested in class, India, socioeconomic inequality, or ethnography … Highly recommended." * Choice *"This innovative analysis builds on captivating stories of everyday life, connecting the capitalist forces we categorize as 'global' with the spaces, practices, and organizations that ground daily experience. It marks an important achievement." -- Mary Hancock * University of California at Santa Barbara *"Dickey has an exceptionally rich longitudinal perspective on how patterns and logics of social organization change and how class shapes lives. She lays out the complex cultural context in and through which material class dynamics operate." -- Mark Liechty * University of Illinois at Chicago *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Transliteration and Pronunciation1. Introduction: The Everyday Life of Class2. What Is Class in Madurai?3. Four Residents, as I Know Them4. Consumption and Apprehension: Class in the Everyday5. Debt: The Material Consequences of Moral Constructs6. Performing the Middle7. Marriage: Drama, Display, and the Reproduction of Class8. Food, Hunger, and the Binding of Class Relations9. Conclusions: Nuancing Class BoundariesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. Lee highlights the “logics of transnationalism” that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state. Trade Review"In this distinct contribution to the field of transnational studies, Helene K. Lee shows how ethnic identity comes to take on a very different significance depending on one's nationality and class position." -- Joshua Roth * author of Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan *"Lee examines the expectations and experiences of two groups, whose members think of themselves as Korean." * Asian Affairs *"The book merits reading to encourage reflection on the current social situation and pondering of the possible transformation of Koreanness in the future." * The Review of Korean Studies *"Lee’s study is a crisply written and cogently argued analysis that makes an original contribution to a range of interrelated subjects that have preoccupied social scientists for decades, including diasporic nationalism, return migration, and (im)migrant incorporation." * China Review International *"Lee’s book aptly suggests that we should try to imagine the concept of homeland beyond the simple binary between family and foreign, us and them, and in and out." * The Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. The Premigration Condition 14 2. Return Migrants in the South Korean Immigration System and Labor Market 39 3. Of “Kings” and “Lepers”: The Gendered Logics of Koreanness in the Social Lives of Korean Americans 67 4. “Aren’t We All the People of Joseon?”: Claiming Ethnic Inclusion through History and Culture 97 5. The Logics of Cosmopolitan Koreanness and Global Citizenship 114 Conclusion: Finding Family among Foreigners 134 Acknowledgments 143 Appendix A: Research Methods 147 Appendix B: Characteristics of Respondents 149 Notes 155 References 167 Index 175

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. Lee highlights the “logics of transnationalism” that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state. Trade Review"In this distinct contribution to the field of transnational studies, Helene K. Lee shows how ethnic identity comes to take on a very different significance depending on one's nationality and class position." -- Joshua Roth * author of Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan *"Lee examines the expectations and experiences of two groups, whose members think of themselves as Korean." * Asian Affairs *"The book merits reading to encourage reflection on the current social situation and pondering of the possible transformation of Koreanness in the future." * The Review of Korean Studies *"Lee’s study is a crisply written and cogently argued analysis that makes an original contribution to a range of interrelated subjects that have preoccupied social scientists for decades, including diasporic nationalism, return migration, and (im)migrant incorporation." * China Review International *"Lee’s book aptly suggests that we should try to imagine the concept of homeland beyond the simple binary between family and foreign, us and them, and in and out." * The Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. The Premigration Condition 14 2. Return Migrants in the South Korean Immigration System and Labor Market 39 3. Of “Kings” and “Lepers”: The Gendered Logics of Koreanness in the Social Lives of Korean Americans 67 4. “Aren’t We All the People of Joseon?”: Claiming Ethnic Inclusion through History and Culture 97 5. The Logics of Cosmopolitan Koreanness and Global Citizenship 114 Conclusion: Finding Family among Foreigners 134 Acknowledgments 143 Appendix A: Research Methods 147 Appendix B: Characteristics of Respondents 149 Notes 155 References 167 Index 175

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Book SynopsisUsing an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women's perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. Melanie A. Medeiros explores the women's rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation.Trade Review"From the opening vignette, this vibrant, conceptually sophisticated, and yet accessible ethnography draws us into the contested terrain of intimate relations and divorce in Northeast Brazil. Medeiros skillfully depicts the voices and experiences of rural, working-class women of African descent, helping us see how their lives are shaped both by their own strivings and by forces as diverse as telenovelas and ecotourism. Her work represents a valuable contribution to the emerging anthropology of divorce as well as to work on emotion, gender, race, class, companionate marriage, social suffering, and even the anthropology of tourism." -- Jennifer S. Hirsch * coauthor of The Secret: Love, Marriage and HIV *“This innovative study illuminates Afro-Brazilian women’s experiences in the realms of intimacy, marriage, and divorce. An important contribution!” -- Kia Lilly Caldwell * author of Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy *"Chronicle of Higher Education 'New Scholarly Books' Weekly Book List, August 31, 2018," compiled by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *New Books Network - News Books in Latin American Studies podcast interview with Melanie A. Medeiros https://newbooksnetwork.com/melanie-a-madeiros-marriage-divorce-and-distress-in-northeast-brazil-black-womens-perspectives-on-love-respect-and-kinship-rutgers-up-2018/ * New Books Network *Table of ContentsContents 1 Brogodó, Bahia, Brazil 2 Gender, Employment and Divorce 3 Telenovela Reception and the Rise of Modern Love and Companionate Marriage 4 Respect, Infidelity and Divorce 5 Marital Distress and Social Suffering 6 Matrifocal Kinship and Amor Verdadeiro 7 Conclusion References Index Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisUsing an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women's perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. Melanie A. Medeiros explores the women's rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation.Trade Review"From the opening vignette, this vibrant, conceptually sophisticated, and yet accessible ethnography draws us into the contested terrain of intimate relations and divorce in Northeast Brazil. Medeiros skillfully depicts the voices and experiences of rural, working-class women of African descent, helping us see how their lives are shaped both by their own strivings and by forces as diverse as telenovelas and ecotourism. Her work represents a valuable contribution to the emerging anthropology of divorce as well as to work on emotion, gender, race, class, companionate marriage, social suffering, and even the anthropology of tourism." -- Jennifer S. Hirsch * coauthor of The Secret: Love, Marriage and HIV *“This innovative study illuminates Afro-Brazilian women’s experiences in the realms of intimacy, marriage, and divorce. An important contribution!” -- Kia Lilly Caldwell * author of Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy *"Chronicle of Higher Education 'New Scholarly Books' Weekly Book List, August 31, 2018," compiled by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *New Books Network - News Books in Latin American Studies podcast interview with Melanie A. Medeiros https://newbooksnetwork.com/melanie-a-madeiros-marriage-divorce-and-distress-in-northeast-brazil-black-womens-perspectives-on-love-respect-and-kinship-rutgers-up-2018/ * New Books Network *Table of ContentsContents 1 Brogodó, Bahia, Brazil 2 Gender, Employment and Divorce 3 Telenovela Reception and the Rise of Modern Love and Companionate Marriage 4 Respect, Infidelity and Divorce 5 Marital Distress and Social Suffering 6 Matrifocal Kinship and Amor Verdadeiro 7 Conclusion References Index Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisExplores the intersections between sperm donation and the broader social and political environment in which ""modern families"" are created and regulated. This book provides a captivating read for anyone interested in family and kinship, genetics and eugenics, and how assisted reproductive technologies continue to redefine what it means to be human.Trade Review“An exceptional ethnography of modern reproduction, Romancing the Sperm centers lesbian couples and single women as they engage with sperm donors and banks in a quest to become pregnant. Tober’s extensive research spans decades, from the 1990s to the present, documenting critical shifts over time in sperm banking institutional and modern family formation practices. An accessible read, the book makes a tremendously valuable contribution to feminist writing on reproductive technologies and politics.” -- Rajani Bhatia * author of Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context *“A fascinating and engaging book! It just gets more and more interesting as it goes and is never boring. The quotes from those interviewed are perfect and poignant—they give so much insight into the struggles undergone by those choosing some form of artificial conception. The book thoroughly dispels traditional notions of “family” and shows the multiple and highly creative ways in which families are currently being generated in this brave new world of assisted reproduction. For many, this book will be not only a fascinating, but also an empowering read.” -- Robbie Davis-Floyd * author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage and Ways of Knowing about Birth: Mothers, Midwives, M *RT American interview with Diane Tober * RT America *IVFML Season 2, Episode 7: Is Egg And Sperm Donation ‘Worth It’? interview with Diane Tober * Huff Post FML Becoming Family’ podcast *"Written with scholarly attention to detail, and including a wealth of firsthand testimonies from women who have chosen to use sperm banks, Romancing the Sperm is fascinating and insightful from cover to cover. Highly recommended." * Midwest Book Review *"Tober has written a retrospective ethnographic study of the first generation of women openly to buy sperm to make families. The book is about female choice, or, as she puts it, 'the biopolitics' of choice when women have resources of their own and the sperm of various male types can be bottled, screened, studied for motility, frozen, catalogued and transported." * Times Literary Supplement *Diane Tober, “Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families” New Books Network New Books in Anthropology podcast interview * New Books Network - New Books in Anthropology *"Desperately Seeking Kin: Genetic Longing in the Donor Gamete Context," by Diane Tober * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The book will be useful to scholars and students interested in broader historical perspectives on assisted reproduction, and its clear language and readability will make it appealing in undergraduate courses in medical anthropology, science, technology, and society, kinship and family, and gender and sexuality." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“[Tober’s] groundbreaking book shows us that modern families might be built on contradictions, and yet the kids are still alright.” * Feminist Formations *"What gives Tober’s account unique insight into modern families is that it captures decades of social and academic change....[A] welcome addition to sociological classes on family or reproduction, and some chapters would be particularly useful in classes on gender, masculinity, or sexuality." * Social Forces *“An exceptional ethnography of modern reproduction, Romancing the Sperm centers lesbian couples and single women as they engage with sperm donors and banks in a quest to become pregnant. Tober’s extensive research spans decades, from the 1990s to the present, documenting critical shifts over time in sperm banking institutional and modern family formation practices. An accessible read, the book makes a tremendously valuable contribution to feminist writing on reproductive technologies and politics.” -- Rajani Bhatia * author of Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context *“A fascinating and engaging book! It just gets more and more interesting as it goes and is never boring. The quotes from those interviewed are perfect and poignant—they give so much insight into the struggles undergone by those choosing some form of artificial conception. The book thoroughly dispels traditional notions of “family” and shows the multiple and highly creative ways in which families are currently being generated in this brave new world of assisted reproduction. For many, this book will be not only a fascinating, but also an empowering read.” -- Robbie Davis-Floyd * author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage and Ways of Knowing about Birth: Mothers, Midwives, M *RT American interview with Diane Tober * RT America *IVFML Season 2, Episode 7: Is Egg And Sperm Donation ‘Worth It’? interview with Diane Tober * Huff Post FML Becoming Family’ podcast *"Written with scholarly attention to detail, and including a wealth of firsthand testimonies from women who have chosen to use sperm banks, Romancing the Sperm is fascinating and insightful from cover to cover. Highly recommended." * Midwest Book Review *"Tober has written a retrospective ethnographic study of the first generation of women openly to buy sperm to make families. The book is about female choice, or, as she puts it, 'the biopolitics' of choice when women have resources of their own and the sperm of various male types can be bottled, screened, studied for motility, frozen, catalogued and transported." * Times Literary Supplement *Diane Tober, “Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families” New Books Network New Books in Anthropology podcast interview * New Books Network - New Books in Anthropology *"Desperately Seeking Kin: Genetic Longing in the Donor Gamete Context," by Diane Tober * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The book will be useful to scholars and students interested in broader historical perspectives on assisted reproduction, and its clear language and readability will make it appealing in undergraduate courses in medical anthropology, science, technology, and society, kinship and family, and gender and sexuality." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“[Tober’s] groundbreaking book shows us that modern families might be built on contradictions, and yet the kids are still alright.” * Feminist Formations *"What gives Tober’s account unique insight into modern families is that it captures decades of social and academic change....[A] welcome addition to sociological classes on family or reproduction, and some chapters would be particularly useful in classes on gender, masculinity, or sexuality." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1: Murphy Brown and the Lesbian Baby Boom Chapter 2: Technologies and Politics of Reproduction Chapter 3: Semen to Go: Choosing Conception Alternatively Chapter 4: Semen Transactions: Donor Screening and the Regulation of Sexuality Chapter 5: Grass Roots Eugenics and the Fantasy Donor Chapter 6: Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism Chapter 7: From “Old Eggs” to “Odysseus’ Journey”—the Phenomenology of Infertility Chapter 8: What’s Alternative About Family? Chapter 9: From Murphy Brown to Modern Families Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards a New BioPoliTechs of Emerging Families Afterward Acknowledgements References About the Author

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Book SynopsisExplores the intersections between sperm donation and the broader social and political environment in which ""modern families"" are created and regulated. This book provides a captivating read for anyone interested in family and kinship, genetics and eugenics, and how assisted reproductive technologies continue to redefine what it means to be human.Trade Review“An exceptional ethnography of modern reproduction, Romancing the Sperm centers lesbian couples and single women as they engage with sperm donors and banks in a quest to become pregnant. Tober’s extensive research spans decades, from the 1990s to the present, documenting critical shifts over time in sperm banking institutional and modern family formation practices. An accessible read, the book makes a tremendously valuable contribution to feminist writing on reproductive technologies and politics.” -- Rajani Bhatia * author of Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context *“A fascinating and engaging book! It just gets more and more interesting as it goes and is never boring. The quotes from those interviewed are perfect and poignant—they give so much insight into the struggles undergone by those choosing some form of artificial conception. The book thoroughly dispels traditional notions of “family” and shows the multiple and highly creative ways in which families are currently being generated in this brave new world of assisted reproduction. For many, this book will be not only a fascinating, but also an empowering read.” -- Robbie Davis-Floyd * author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage and Ways of Knowing about Birth: Mothers, Midwives, M *RT American interview with Diane Tober * RT America *IVFML Season 2, Episode 7: Is Egg And Sperm Donation ‘Worth It’? interview with Diane Tober * Huff Post FML Becoming Family’ podcast *"Written with scholarly attention to detail, and including a wealth of firsthand testimonies from women who have chosen to use sperm banks, Romancing the Sperm is fascinating and insightful from cover to cover. Highly recommended." * Midwest Book Review *"Tober has written a retrospective ethnographic study of the first generation of women openly to buy sperm to make families. The book is about female choice, or, as she puts it, 'the biopolitics' of choice when women have resources of their own and the sperm of various male types can be bottled, screened, studied for motility, frozen, catalogued and transported." * Times Literary Supplement *Diane Tober, “Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families” New Books Network New Books in Anthropology podcast interview * New Books Network - New Books in Anthropology *"Desperately Seeking Kin: Genetic Longing in the Donor Gamete Context," by Diane Tober * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The book will be useful to scholars and students interested in broader historical perspectives on assisted reproduction, and its clear language and readability will make it appealing in undergraduate courses in medical anthropology, science, technology, and society, kinship and family, and gender and sexuality." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“[Tober’s] groundbreaking book shows us that modern families might be built on contradictions, and yet the kids are still alright.” * Feminist Formations *"What gives Tober’s account unique insight into modern families is that it captures decades of social and academic change....[A] welcome addition to sociological classes on family or reproduction, and some chapters would be particularly useful in classes on gender, masculinity, or sexuality." * Social Forces *“An exceptional ethnography of modern reproduction, Romancing the Sperm centers lesbian couples and single women as they engage with sperm donors and banks in a quest to become pregnant. Tober’s extensive research spans decades, from the 1990s to the present, documenting critical shifts over time in sperm banking institutional and modern family formation practices. An accessible read, the book makes a tremendously valuable contribution to feminist writing on reproductive technologies and politics.” -- Rajani Bhatia * author of Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context *“A fascinating and engaging book! It just gets more and more interesting as it goes and is never boring. The quotes from those interviewed are perfect and poignant—they give so much insight into the struggles undergone by those choosing some form of artificial conception. The book thoroughly dispels traditional notions of “family” and shows the multiple and highly creative ways in which families are currently being generated in this brave new world of assisted reproduction. For many, this book will be not only a fascinating, but also an empowering read.” -- Robbie Davis-Floyd * author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage and Ways of Knowing about Birth: Mothers, Midwives, M *RT American interview with Diane Tober * RT America *IVFML Season 2, Episode 7: Is Egg And Sperm Donation ‘Worth It’? interview with Diane Tober * Huff Post FML Becoming Family’ podcast *"Written with scholarly attention to detail, and including a wealth of firsthand testimonies from women who have chosen to use sperm banks, Romancing the Sperm is fascinating and insightful from cover to cover. Highly recommended." * Midwest Book Review *"Tober has written a retrospective ethnographic study of the first generation of women openly to buy sperm to make families. The book is about female choice, or, as she puts it, 'the biopolitics' of choice when women have resources of their own and the sperm of various male types can be bottled, screened, studied for motility, frozen, catalogued and transported." * Times Literary Supplement *Diane Tober, “Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families” New Books Network New Books in Anthropology podcast interview * New Books Network - New Books in Anthropology *"Desperately Seeking Kin: Genetic Longing in the Donor Gamete Context," by Diane Tober * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The book will be useful to scholars and students interested in broader historical perspectives on assisted reproduction, and its clear language and readability will make it appealing in undergraduate courses in medical anthropology, science, technology, and society, kinship and family, and gender and sexuality." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“[Tober’s] groundbreaking book shows us that modern families might be built on contradictions, and yet the kids are still alright.” * Feminist Formations *"What gives Tober’s account unique insight into modern families is that it captures decades of social and academic change....[A] welcome addition to sociological classes on family or reproduction, and some chapters would be particularly useful in classes on gender, masculinity, or sexuality." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1: Murphy Brown and the Lesbian Baby Boom Chapter 2: Technologies and Politics of Reproduction Chapter 3: Semen to Go: Choosing Conception Alternatively Chapter 4: Semen Transactions: Donor Screening and the Regulation of Sexuality Chapter 5: Grass Roots Eugenics and the Fantasy Donor Chapter 6: Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism Chapter 7: From “Old Eggs” to “Odysseus’ Journey”—the Phenomenology of Infertility Chapter 8: What’s Alternative About Family? Chapter 9: From Murphy Brown to Modern Families Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards a New BioPoliTechs of Emerging Families Afterward Acknowledgements References About the Author

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Book SynopsisProvides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church members were once deeply embedded in their religious life, Brooks argues that disenchantment unfolds as a struggle to overcome the spiritual, social, and ideological devotion ex-Mormons had to the religious community.Trade Review"An extremely frank, thoughtful, compelling, and analytically rich exploration of contemporary apostasy and religious defection within a Mormon context. As more and more people walk away from their religion, it is essential that we understand the various dynamics at play—and Brooks's investigation on this front is not only highly readable, but extremely insightful. One of the best in-depth studies of apostasy I've ever encountered. Brooks's Disenchanted Lives is excellent. Highly recommended." -- Phil Zuckerman * author of Living the Secular Life *"Brooks has written a must-read for anyone interested in the LDS Church or the formerly religious. His ethnography is a well-researched and deeply informative study of the ties that bind ex-Mormons to the religion they’ve left behind—and the tremendous work they undertake to cut them. His focus on apostasy fills a clear gap in the growing literature on secular people, and his measured account of the challenges facing the Mormon Church is an important contribution to Mormon Studies." -- Joseph Blankholm * assistant professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara *"Understanding ex-Mormons" interview with Marshall Brooks by Jana Reiss * Religion News Service *"Disenchanted Lives is one of the best examinations of religious belief and disbelief published in recent years. It shines in the way Brooks illustrates social science processes with case studies. This is an excellent book worth reading by all who are interested in religion and religious disaffiliation." * Free Inquiry *"The strongest and most intriguing section of the book observes the ways that disenchantment is not simply a matter of rationality and reason coming to win out over faith, but how there are 'emotional, psychological, and embodied dimensions' of leaving the church and its beliefs as well." * Mormon Studies Review *"Contributes to the larger matter in religious studies of why people leave faith traditions even after years of investment." * Reading Religion *"The book is balanced and well-informed, driven not by ideology but by a desire to position the ex-Mormon experience with sensitivity and in the light of other scholarship on religious disaffection. It makes four primary contributions to advance the existing literature." * Dialogue Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The “Crisis of Apostasy” in Modern Mormonism 1 Ambivalent Pasts: Sacred History and the Crisis of Memory 2 “Digging too Deep”: The Paradox of Faith 3 “The Other Side of Happiness”: Disenchantment, Loss, and World-Collapse 4 “I Lost My Body to the Church”: Sexual and Spiritual (dis)Embodiment 5 “Living in the Shadow of the Church”: Apostasy, Stigma, and Projective Fantasy 6 “I’m Apostate, Yes I am”: The Politics and Performance of Secular Identity 7 Religious (dis)Identification: Acquiescence and Anger on the Edge of Mormonism Conclusions: “Pastoral Apologetics” and the Future of Mormonism References About the Author

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Book SynopsisProvides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church members were once deeply embedded in their religious life, E. Marshall Brooks argues that disenchantment unfolds as a struggle to overcome the spiritual, social, and ideological devotion ex-Mormons had to the religious community and not out of a lack of dedication.Trade Review"An extremely frank, thoughtful, compelling, and analytically rich exploration of contemporary apostasy and religious defection within a Mormon context. As more and more people walk away from their religion, it is essential that we understand the various dynamics at play—and Brooks's investigation on this front is not only highly readable, but extremely insightful. One of the best in-depth studies of apostasy I've ever encountered. Brooks's Disenchanted Lives is excellent. Highly recommended." -- Phil Zuckerman * author of Living the Secular Life *"Brooks has written a must-read for anyone interested in the LDS Church or the formerly religious. His ethnography is a well-researched and deeply informative study of the ties that bind ex-Mormons to the religion they’ve left behind—and the tremendous work they undertake to cut them. His focus on apostasy fills a clear gap in the growing literature on secular people, and his measured account of the challenges facing the Mormon Church is an important contribution to Mormon Studies." -- Joseph Blankholm * assistant professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara *"Understanding ex-Mormons" interview with Marshall Brooks by Jana Reiss * Religion News Service *"Disenchanted Lives is one of the best examinations of religious belief and disbelief published in recent years. It shines in the way Brooks illustrates social science processes with case studies. This is an excellent book worth reading by all who are interested in religion and religious disaffiliation." * Free Inquiry *"The strongest and most intriguing section of the book observes the ways that disenchantment is not simply a matter of rationality and reason coming to win out over faith, but how there are 'emotional, psychological, and embodied dimensions' of leaving the church and its beliefs as well." * Mormon Studies Review *"Contributes to the larger matter in religious studies of why people leave faith traditions even after years of investment." * Reading Religion *"The book is balanced and well-informed, driven not by ideology but by a desire to position the ex-Mormon experience with sensitivity and in the light of other scholarship on religious disaffection. It makes four primary contributions to advance the existing literature." * Dialogue Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The “Crisis of Apostasy” in Modern Mormonism 1 Ambivalent Pasts: Sacred History and the Crisis of Memory 2 “Digging too Deep”: The Paradox of Faith 3 “The Other Side of Happiness”: Disenchantment, Loss, and World-Collapse 4 “I Lost My Body to the Church”: Sexual and Spiritual (dis)Embodiment 5 “Living in the Shadow of the Church”: Apostasy, Stigma, and Projective Fantasy 6 “I’m Apostate, Yes I am”: The Politics and Performance of Secular Identity 7 Religious (dis)Identification: Acquiescence and Anger on the Edge of Mormonism Conclusions: “Pastoral Apologetics” and the Future of Mormonism References About the Author

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Book SynopsisFrom 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Going Viral analyzes why outbreak narratives have infected our public discourse and how they have affected the way Americans view the world. Trade Review"Schweitzer sets up shop at the intersection of culture, science and politics and demonstrates—with deep research and penetrating insight—that there are things far more menacing than viral threats." -- Jonathan Allen * award-winning political journalist & coauthor of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign *"Going Viral contextualizes contemporary outbreak narratives in rich detail. Schweitzer's attention to context sets this work apart from others on the subject and does so in an utterly approachable way." -- Stacy Takacs * author of Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-911 America *"A highly infectious read. Schweitzer's thought-provoking and meticulously researched account clearly outlines the relationship between the reality of viral threats and the Hollywood dramatization of the 'outbreak narrative.'" -- Terry Matalas * 12 Monkeys co-creator, executive producer *"Going Viral promises to become a viral sensation. In this elegant, provocative and clever book, Dahlia Schweitzer tackles one of the most controversial and anxiety provoking fears of the twenty-first century: the disastrous end of the world, evoked by either plagues, infections, diseases or outbreaks. Full of knowledge and wit, Schweitzer's innovative scholarship is a joy to read. She is a trailblazer in transdisciplinary scholarship and helps us all better understand what will continue to keep us awake at night." -- Karen A. Ritzenhoff * Central Connecticut State University, coeditor of The Apocalypse in Film *"Dahlia Schweitzer is one of the world’s leading analysts of popular culture, in every conceivable manifestation. She is also one of our best writers: engaging, concise, yet alluring in the best sense. Going Viral takes on one of the questions of our time: the American obsession with sickness as a way of dealing with difference. Bravo!" -- Toby Miller * Universidad del Norte, Colombia *"Going Viral is an incisive and expertly-informed exploration of the anxieties that drive contemporary America; the fears of contagion that shape our public discourse, movie narratives and government policy. Drawing with authority on both medical data and media theory, Schweitzer impressively tracks these concerns across recent history, tracing the dynamic between the diseased human body and the body politic, and examining key varieties of viral threat—from zombie plagues to terrorist cells—across fact, fiction and the porous borders between them. At a time when fears of cultural infection are used to justify the tightening of borders, the infringement of civil liberties and the building of walls, Going Viral is a vital guide to the politics of contamination and protection." -- Will Brooker * co-creator of My So-Called Secret Identity *Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses and the End of the World event listing by David Cotner * LA Weekly *"An interesting examination of why we are so obsessed with viral outbreaks, zombies, and the end of the world." * She Treads Softly *Film Threat Going Viral excerpt * Film Threat *"Zombies and Plagues and Bombs, Oh My! How hyperbolic outbreak narratives have infected our worldview—from media to the government" American Scholar Smarty Pants podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * The American Scholar "Smarty Pants" podcast *"The iZombie Podcast with Robin and Steph" interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * iZombie podcast *The Gentlewoman interview with Dahlia Schweitzer by Richard O'Mahony * The Gentlewoman *"Schweitzer puts together a very thoughtful and thought provoking look at the cross section between our world and the worst case scenarios we keep imagining." * Film Monthly *Fan Theory interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * Fan Theory *"Trump's border wall and 'The Walking Dead' have this in common: America's fear of the global apocalypse" by Noah Berlatsky * NBC.com *"Weekly Book List, March 30, 2018" * Chronicle of Higher Education *"New Books Network" podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * New Books Network *"Colum McCann To Speak At Simsbury Library Event" article - Going Viral event listing * Hartford Courant *"Grad student looks into epidemic of outbreak narratives in media" by Kristin Snyder * Daily Bruin *The "X" Zone Radio Show interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * The "X" Zone Radio Show *New Books Network - New Books in Popular Culture podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * New Books Network - New Books in Popular Culture podcast *"THE BACK STORY—APOCALYPSE NOW: HOW VIRAL FEAR DISTORTS OUR WORLDVIEW BY DAHLIA SCHWEITZER ’98" by Laurie Kenney * Wesleyan Alumni Magazine *"[Going Viral] brings welcome attention to [the outbreak narrative], as indeed does the outbreak narrative itself: it confronts its viewers with the tension between impersonal, unintentional networks and the human response in a world in which both the “human” and human agency are increasingly eroded by those same networks." * Film Quarterly *Interview with Dahlia Schweitzer on "Inquiry," WICN.org * "Inquiry" podcast, WICN.org *Art Center featured interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * Art Center *"A good primer for students just getting used to the idea that there is something more to zombies and apocalyptic plague movies than meets the eye." * Science Fiction Studies *“Schweitzer's book is the clearest successor to [Susan] Sontag's essays that we have, but it takes Sontag's emphasis on the narratives of singular illnesses or viruses and broadens it to survey the metaphorics of virality, infection, and outbreak themselves--the locus of fear, anticipation, and knowledge about illness that predates and frames individuals' experience of illness and is the focal point of the narratives told about a complex array of phenomenon, from the AIDS crisis to the panic over Ebola, from the spread and threat of terrorism to the process of globalization, all culminating, it would seem, in the zombie renaissance of the 2000s." * American Quarterly *"Schweitzer’s use of well-known examples of outbreak narratives, presented with ample background and context, offer entertaining avenues for her audience to engage with....Thorough scholarship." * Western Folklore *"YOU DON'T KNOW DICK with Handsome Dick Manitoba" interview with Dahlia Schweitzer http://youdontknowdick.libsyn.com/website/dahlia-schweitzer-handsome-dick-tv-movies-cats-chicks * You Don't Know Dick podcast *"Well-researched and supported...Going Viral ambitiously goes deep into a network of factors contributing to a multimedia genre." * Journal of Film and Video *Midnight in the Desert interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * Midnight in the Desert *"Five Ways COVID-19 May Impact The Future Of Infrastructure And Transportation" by Rudy Salo https://www.forbes.com/sites/rudysalo/2020/03/31/five-ways-covid-19-may-impact-the-future-of-infrastructure-and-transportation/#5feeec307f31 * Forbes *"Going Viral deserves attention as the first major booklength study of the outbreak narrative, a cultural form that has been afforded a surprisingly limited amount of scholarly study given its extremely prolific nature. Cinema has been imagining how infectious disease might wipe out the human race since at least the mid-1960s, so this is clearly a cultural form that is deserving of academic attention." * Foundation *"Eastern Standard Radio - Chris Begley interview with Dahlia Schweitzer https://esweku.org/track/2411461/chris-begley-w-dahlia-schweitzer * Eastern Standard Radio *"Her book is a well-placed contribution for theorizing about the enormous contemporary popularity of films about pandemics and zombies, and her analyses are generally convincing....There are many pertinent insights here [and] this is a book that had to be written, and all things considered Schweitzer did an admirable job." * Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine *"How Dealing With a Global Pandemic Can Change Outbreak Narratives in Future Zombie Media," by George Yang https://bloody-disgusting.com/video-games/3631432/dealing-global-pandemic-can-change-outbreak-narratives-future-zombie-media/ * Bloody-Disgusting.com *"Campfire Stories with Dahlia Schweitzer: Black Dahlia, Haunted Houses, and True Crime" * Scary Stories We Tell podcast *"Contagion” — Reinfection in the Year 2020," by L.A. Alfonso * Vaxxers *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction 1 The Outbreak Narrative 2 The Globalization Outbreak 3 The Terrorism Outbreak 4 The Post-Apocalypse Outbreak Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFrom 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Going Viral analyzes why outbreak narratives have infected our public discourse and how they have affected the way Americans view the world. Trade Review"Schweitzer sets up shop at the intersection of culture, science and politics and demonstrates—with deep research and penetrating insight—that there are things far more menacing than viral threats." -- Jonathan Allen * award-winning political journalist & coauthor of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign *"Going Viral contextualizes contemporary outbreak narratives in rich detail. Schweitzer's attention to context sets this work apart from others on the subject and does so in an utterly approachable way." -- Stacy Takacs * author of Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-911 America *"A highly infectious read. Schweitzer's thought-provoking and meticulously researched account clearly outlines the relationship between the reality of viral threats and the Hollywood dramatization of the 'outbreak narrative.'" -- Terry Matalas * 12 Monkeys co-creator, executive producer *"Going Viral promises to become a viral sensation. In this elegant, provocative and clever book, Dahlia Schweitzer tackles one of the most controversial and anxiety provoking fears of the twenty-first century: the disastrous end of the world, evoked by either plagues, infections, diseases or outbreaks. Full of knowledge and wit, Schweitzer's innovative scholarship is a joy to read. She is a trailblazer in transdisciplinary scholarship and helps us all better understand what will continue to keep us awake at night." -- Karen A. Ritzenhoff * Central Connecticut State University, coeditor of The Apocalypse in Film *"Dahlia Schweitzer is one of the world’s leading analysts of popular culture, in every conceivable manifestation. She is also one of our best writers: engaging, concise, yet alluring in the best sense. Going Viral takes on one of the questions of our time: the American obsession with sickness as a way of dealing with difference. Bravo!" -- Toby Miller * Universidad del Norte, Colombia *"Going Viral is an incisive and expertly-informed exploration of the anxieties that drive contemporary America; the fears of contagion that shape our public discourse, movie narratives and government policy. Drawing with authority on both medical data and media theory, Schweitzer impressively tracks these concerns across recent history, tracing the dynamic between the diseased human body and the body politic, and examining key varieties of viral threat—from zombie plagues to terrorist cells—across fact, fiction and the porous borders between them. At a time when fears of cultural infection are used to justify the tightening of borders, the infringement of civil liberties and the building of walls, Going Viral is a vital guide to the politics of contamination and protection." -- Will Brooker * co-creator of My So-Called Secret Identity *Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses and the End of the World event listing by David Cotner * LA Weekly *"An interesting examination of why we are so obsessed with viral outbreaks, zombies, and the end of the world." * She Treads Softly *Film Threat Going Viral excerpt * Film Threat *"Zombies and Plagues and Bombs, Oh My! How hyperbolic outbreak narratives have infected our worldview—from media to the government" American Scholar Smarty Pants podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * The American Scholar "Smarty Pants" podcast *"The iZombie Podcast with Robin and Steph" interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * iZombie podcast *The Gentlewoman interview with Dahlia Schweitzer by Richard O'Mahony * The Gentlewoman *"Schweitzer puts together a very thoughtful and thought provoking look at the cross section between our world and the worst case scenarios we keep imagining." * Film Monthly *Fan Theory interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * Fan Theory *"Trump's border wall and 'The Walking Dead' have this in common: America's fear of the global apocalypse" by Noah Berlatsky * NBC.com *"Weekly Book List, March 30, 2018" * Chronicle of Higher Education *"New Books Network" podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * New Books Network *"Colum McCann To Speak At Simsbury Library Event" article - Going Viral event listing * Hartford Courant *"Grad student looks into epidemic of outbreak narratives in media" by Kristin Snyder * Daily Bruin *The "X" Zone Radio Show interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * The "X" Zone Radio Show *New Books Network - New Books in Popular Culture podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * New Books Network - New Books in Popular Culture podcast *"THE BACK STORY—APOCALYPSE NOW: HOW VIRAL FEAR DISTORTS OUR WORLDVIEW BY DAHLIA SCHWEITZER ’98" by Laurie Kenney * Wesleyan Alumni Magazine *"[Going Viral] brings welcome attention to [the outbreak narrative], as indeed does the outbreak narrative itself: it confronts its viewers with the tension between impersonal, unintentional networks and the human response in a world in which both the “human” and human agency are increasingly eroded by those same networks." * Film Quarterly *Interview with Dahlia Schweitzer on "Inquiry," WICN.org * "Inquiry" podcast, WICN.org *Art Center featured interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * Art Center *"A good primer for students just getting used to the idea that there is something more to zombies and apocalyptic plague movies than meets the eye." * Science Fiction Studies *“Schweitzer's book is the clearest successor to [Susan] Sontag's essays that we have, but it takes Sontag's emphasis on the narratives of singular illnesses or viruses and broadens it to survey the metaphorics of virality, infection, and outbreak themselves--the locus of fear, anticipation, and knowledge about illness that predates and frames individuals' experience of illness and is the focal point of the narratives told about a complex array of phenomenon, from the AIDS crisis to the panic over Ebola, from the spread and threat of terrorism to the process of globalization, all culminating, it would seem, in the zombie renaissance of the 2000s." * American Quarterly *"Schweitzer’s use of well-known examples of outbreak narratives, presented with ample background and context, offer entertaining avenues for her audience to engage with....Thorough scholarship." * Western Folklore *"YOU DON'T KNOW DICK with Handsome Dick Manitoba" interview with Dahlia Schweitzer http://youdontknowdick.libsyn.com/website/dahlia-schweitzer-handsome-dick-tv-movies-cats-chicks * You Don't Know Dick podcast *"Well-researched and supported...Going Viral ambitiously goes deep into a network of factors contributing to a multimedia genre." * Journal of Film and Video *Midnight in the Desert interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * Midnight in the Desert *"Five Ways COVID-19 May Impact The Future Of Infrastructure And Transportation" by Rudy Salo https://www.forbes.com/sites/rudysalo/2020/03/31/five-ways-covid-19-may-impact-the-future-of-infrastructure-and-transportation/#5feeec307f31 * Forbes *"Going Viral deserves attention as the first major booklength study of the outbreak narrative, a cultural form that has been afforded a surprisingly limited amount of scholarly study given its extremely prolific nature. Cinema has been imagining how infectious disease might wipe out the human race since at least the mid-1960s, so this is clearly a cultural form that is deserving of academic attention." * Foundation *"Eastern Standard Radio - Chris Begley interview with Dahlia Schweitzer https://esweku.org/track/2411461/chris-begley-w-dahlia-schweitzer * Eastern Standard Radio *"Her book is a well-placed contribution for theorizing about the enormous contemporary popularity of films about pandemics and zombies, and her analyses are generally convincing....There are many pertinent insights here [and] this is a book that had to be written, and all things considered Schweitzer did an admirable job." * Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine *"How Dealing With a Global Pandemic Can Change Outbreak Narratives in Future Zombie Media," by George Yang https://bloody-disgusting.com/video-games/3631432/dealing-global-pandemic-can-change-outbreak-narratives-future-zombie-media/ * Bloody-Disgusting.com *"Campfire Stories with Dahlia Schweitzer: Black Dahlia, Haunted Houses, and True Crime" * Scary Stories We Tell podcast *"Contagion” — Reinfection in the Year 2020," by L.A. Alfonso * Vaxxers *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction 1 The Outbreak Narrative 2 The Globalization Outbreak 3 The Terrorism Outbreak 4 The Post-Apocalypse Outbreak Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. Reed shows that in Africa, superimposing a Western idea of what activism should look like actually hampers the success of these groups.Trade Review“Landscapes of Activism is a remarkable, eye-opening examination of the realities of HIV activism in the global South – what fuels it, what undermines it, and most importantly, the uses to which it has been put by powerful global health players. Reed offers a beautifully written but unsettling ethnographic account of the marred, and at times dysfunctional, forms of civic life that have evolved alongside increasingly biomedical and technocratic HIV treatment efforts.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *“Landscapes of Activism is a rich and nuanced ethnography. Its real strength lies in the quality of Reed’s research material and the social analysis generated from it. Of all the texts dealing with AIDS activism in Africa, this book offers a fresh critique, and its Mozambican-focus makes it particularly interesting.” -- Mandisa Mbali * author of South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics, Senior Lecturer in Historical Stud *“A thoughtful and timely account, this book examines the efforts of HIV support groups to become part of the HIV story in Mozambique -- and their struggle to do so amid the political demands of the state and the overwhelming presence of transnational organizations. Charting the “rise and fall” of HIV activism in Mozambique’s northernmost province, the book movingly describes the everyday challenges facing support group members, from the politics of affiliation to efforts at remaking the self. Well-written and evocative, this book will speak to readers interested in the challenges of providing care in complex landscapes of support and politics.” -- Ramah McKay * Department of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania *“A thoughtful and timely account, this book examines the efforts of HIV support groups to become part of the HIV story in Mozambique - and their struggle to do so amid the political demands of the state and the overwhelming presence of transnational organizations. Charting the “rise and fall” of HIV activism in Mozambique’s northernmost province, the book movingly describes the everyday challenges facing support group members, from the politics of affiliation to efforts at remaking the self. Well-written and evocative, this book will speak to readers interested in the challenges of providing care in complex landscapes of support and politics.” -- Ramah McKay * department of history & sociology of science, University of Pennsylvania *"Chronicle of Higher Education 'New Scholarly Books' Weekly Book List, August 31, 2018," compiled by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction - The Eye of Fátima 1 - Studying HIV and HIV Positive Persons 2 - “Movements” of the Past – Mozambique, Caridade, and Treatment in Africa 3 - AIDS Associations in Cabo Delgado Province 4 - Challenges to HIV/AIDS Activism in the “Sub-universe” of Cabo Delgado 5 - The (Dis)Integration of the Day Hospitals 6 - Biosocial Governmentality References About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThe Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains and certain categories of cultural objects from federally funded institutions. This book analyzes the ways in which religious discourse is used to articulate repatriation claims.

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Book SynopsisIn his now classic work of historical geography, originally published in 1976, Lewis traces the rise and expansion of New Orleans through four major historical periods. Newly reissued by the University of Virginia Press, this second edition offers a revised and greatly expanded look at this unique community on the Mississippi Delta.

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Book SynopsisIn this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks neighbourhood streets, talks to immigrants, interviews authors, and puts herself physically in the spaces that she seeks to understand.

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholarly insights and research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts, Jessica Milner Davis bridges the differences between humor in Japan and the West and examines the spectrum of Japanese humor, from ancient traditions and surviving rituals of laughter to the norms of joke-telling in conversation in Japan and America.

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Book SynopsisConcrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the center, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions. These limitations, Motzafi-Haller argues, create a 'concrete box,' which, unlike the 'glass ceiling' of the liberal feminist discourse, is multi-dimensional and harder to break free from.As the stories unfold, the reader is introduced to the unique paths developed by each of five women in order to keep their families and commuity together in the face of the stigmatic and hegemonic narratives of Israelis who seldom set foot in their social and geographic periphery. Motzafi-Haller's ethnography includes the daily struggles of Nurit, a single mother with a drug-addicted partner, in her attempt to make ends meet

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Book SynopsisAgainst the gloomy forecast of ‘The Vanishing Diaspora’, the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional modalities, and individual practices. This volume explores the global transformations of Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity, tradition, and politics.

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