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Book SynopsisAn enlightening, entertaining look at what the term lesbian really meansand what it means to be a lesbianTwenty-First Century Lesbian Studies focuses on the field’s institutionalization into the humanities and social sciences, examining how the term lesbian is used in activist, community, and cultural contexts, and how its use impacts the lives of women who have chosen it as an identity. The book’s contributors include many of the world’s foremost experts in lesbian studies, as well as scholars whose primary research is in bisexuality, transsexuality and transgender, intersex, and queer theory. The innovative essays touch on five individual themesGenealogies, Readings, Theories, Identities, and Locationsas they explore the past, present, and future of lesbian studies.Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies places the term lesbian at the center of analysis, whether as a concept, a category, an identity, a political position, or an object choice. The book’s cutting-edge essays examine the various meanings of lesbian; the risks taken by women who live and/or act, write, and speak as lesbians; current genealogical myths; and the lives, studies, and activism of lesbians who represent a range of geographical and historical contexts. The book presents research produced outside the United States/United Kingdom, two places which tend to dominate the field, and essays that focus on areas, such as medieval studies, that are often ignored in theoretical discussions. Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies considers these questions: does the term lesbian still have relevance as an identity descriptor or political position? who does lesbian include and/or exclude? how does intersectional thinking impact the way we formulate lesbian identities? are we now post-lesbian? what, if anything, defines the field of lesbian studies? what is the current state of the field? what is the possible future of the field? what current topics should be most important to practitioners? how is work that falls under the lesbian studies umbrella connected to efforts in the areas of feminism, LGBT, intersex, and queer straight studies? and many more Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies is an enlightening, entertaining, and essential read for academics and students working in all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, and for the lesbian/queer population, in general.Table of Contents Introduction (Noreen Giffney and Katherine O’Donnell) SECTION I GENEALOGIES: CONTEXTUALIZING THE FIELD Lesbian Studies After The Lesbian Postmodern: Toward a New Genealogy (Laura Doan) A Lesbian-Feminist Journey Through Queer Nation (Bonnie Zimmerman) A Seat at the Table: Some Unpalatable Thoughts on Shame, Envy and Hate in Institutional Cultures (Sally R. Munt) SECTION II READINGS: DESIRING FICTIONS Queer Paradox/Paradoxical Queer: Anne Garréta’s Pas un jour (2002) (Lucille Cairns) Being Faithful: The Ethics of Homoaffection in Antonia Forest’s Marlow Novels (Caroline Gonda) Fragmented Identities, Frustrated Politics: Transsexuals, Lesbians and ’Queer’ (Katherine Johnson) SECTION III THEORIES: DISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES Of Hyacinths (Michèle Aina Barale) Feminist Theorizing as ’Transposed Autobiography’ (renée c. hoogland) Post-Lesbian? Not Yet (Toni A. H. McNaron) Through the Looking Glass: A ’70s Lesbian Feminist Considers Queer Theory (Margaret Cruikshank) Rescuing Lesbian Camp (Clare Hemmings) Refusing to Make Sense: Mapping the In-Coherences of ’Trans’ (J. Bobby Noble) SECTION IV IDENTITIES: THINKING INTERSECTIONALLY Sister Outsider: An Enduring Vision Embracing Myself, My Sister and the ’Other’ (Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes) Contesting ’Straights’: ’Lesbians’, ’Queer Heterosexuals’ and the Critique of Heteronormativity (Annette Schlichter) The Lesbian Community and FTMs: Détente in the Butch/FTM Borderlands (Jillian T. Weiss) Intersections of Lesbian Studies and Postcolonial Studies: One Possible Future for Class (Donna McCormack) Cal/liope in Love: The ’Prescientific’ Desires of an Apolitical ’Hermaphrodite’ (Morgan Holmes) Carved in Flesh? Inscribing Body, Identity and Desire (Kay Inckle) SECTION V LOCATIONS: TRANSLATING ’LESBIAN’ Lesbian Studies and Activism in India (Ruth Vanita) Lesbian Studies in Thailand (Jillana Enteen) Loud and Lusty Lesbian Queers: Lesbian Theory, Research and Debate in the German-Speaking Context (Antke Engel) Quare Éire (Noreen Giffney) The Un/State of Lesbian Studies: An Introduction to Lesbian Communities and Contemporary Legislation in Japan (Claire Maree) Peripheral Perspectives: Locating Lesbian Studies in Australasia (Sara MacBride-Stewart) ’Russian Love’, or, What of Lesbian Studies in Russia? (Nadya Nartova) Queerying Borders: An Afrikan Activist Perspective (Bernedette Muthien) Where Are the Lesbians in Chaucer? Lack, Opportunity and Female Homoeroticism in Medieval Studies Today (Michelle M. Sauer) Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisClaire McGettrick is an Irish Research Council postgraduate scholar at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests focus on adoption, so-called historical abuses, and related injustices in twentieth-century Ireland. She is cofounder of Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA). She jointly coordinates the multi-award-winning CLANN project with Dr Maeve O'Rourke, as well as the Magdalene Names Project (MNP), which has recorded the details of over 1,900 women who lived and died in Ireland's Magdalen laundries. Katherine O'Donnell is Associate Professor, History of Ideas, UCD School of Philosophy, Ireland, and has published widely on the history of sexuality and gender and the intellectual history of eighteenth-century Ireland. She has been principal investigator on a number of funded research projects, including gathering an archival and oral history of the Magdalen institutions funded by the Irish Research Council. Her teaching awards include the UCD President's Gold Medal for Teaching Excellence and the British Universities' Learning On-Screen Award. She has gained academic honours, including a Fulbright Fellowship and the University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Prize for Prose. As a member of Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR), she has shared in activist honours, including the Irish Labour Party's Thirst for Justice Award.Maeve O'Rourke is lecturer in human-rights law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, and a graduate of University College Dublin, Harvard Law School, and Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham. She is also a barrister (England and Wales) and attorney-at-law (New York). Since 2009 she has provided pro bono legal assistance to Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and is currently co-director of the CLANN project, an evidence-gathering and advocacy collaboration between JFMR, Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA), and Hogan Lovells International, LLP. She was named UK Family Law Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year in 2013.James M Smith is an associate professor in the English department at Boston College. He has published articles in Signs, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Éire-Ireland, and ELH. His book, Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment (Notre Dame UP), was published in 2007 and was awarded the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book by the American Conference for Irish Studies. With Maria Luddy, he coedited a double special issue of Éire-Ireland (Spring/Summer 2009) and the collection Children, Childhood, and Irish Society: 1500 to the Present (Four Courts Press, 2014). He recently coedited a double special issue of Éire-Ireland (Spring/Summer 2020) and the essay collection REDRESS: Ireland and Justice in Transition (forthcoming) on Transitional Justice and institutional abuse in Ireland. He is a member of the advocacy group Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR).Mari Steed was one of more than 2,000 children exported from Ireland to the United States, and was born in the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork, where she also endured being part of the vaccine trials. Mari's mother spent time in a Magdalen laundry. She serves as U.S. coordinator with the Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA). In 2003 Mari cofounded Justice for Magdalens/Research (JFMR), an advocacy organisation that successfully campaigned for a state apology and restorative justice for survivors of Ireland's Magdalen laundries. She currently serves on the group's executive committee. She also serves as vice-president on the executive committee of U.S. adoptee-rights organisation Bastard Nation.Trade ReviewIn many ways, the book is a toolkit for any campaigner engaging with the political system. It exposes a political culture which can too often be frustrating, intransigent, and even cynical when faced with uncomfortable truths. * Dublin Review of Books *[A] significant, moving and powerful account ... The book is a model of social justice campaigning that uses academia, advocacy and activism. * Irish Legal News *Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice is rightly, lucidly and incisively critical of governmental investigations that have been inefficient and unethical. In short, this book is vital for anyhow interested in the historical arc of social policy in relation to pariah groups. It also highlights the enormous efforts of the JFMR and their continued struggle for justice. * Critical Social Policy *This is a challenging and powerfully repetitive book replete with narrative detail. By far the most compelling elements are where the authors rely on survivor experience to propel their verdict of the insouciance and imprudence of the Irish government. The authors succeed in their ambition of restoring power to the survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. * Irish Studies *Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice details the group's efforts to gain apologies to Magdalene survivors from both the Catholic Church and Irish state, financial redress and comprehensive health care for survivors, and access to church and state archives for survivors seeking their personal records. * National Catholic Reporter *This brave book is an archive of an unfinished movement, a survey of the continuing harms of so-called 'historical abuse', and a set of demands for law reform and political change. In places, it is also a love letter to those who survived Ireland's Magdalene laundries. In devastating detail, it shows how Irish politicians, professionals and members of religious orders have resisted demands that these women be recognised as victims of human rights abuse. More than a description of Justice for Magdalenes' campaigning and research, it is an important challenge to official histories and excuses that stubbornly carry undeserved weight in Irish public discourse. * Máiréad Enright, University of Birmingham *The campaign for justice for the girls and women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries is one of the greatest acts of truth-telling in the recent history of Ireland. The walls of institutional denial have had to be demolished slowly and painfully, brick by brick. The experiences of those most involved in this task, so vividly detailed in this vital book, tell us so much, not just about a history that was shamefully obscured, but about the imperative for every society to really know itself. In helping the survivors to reclaim their dignity, this indispensable book also helps the rest of us to reclaim the true meaning of shared citizenship and common humanity. * Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times Journalist and Orwell Prize winner *It is impossible to describe the toxic fog of shame, distortion and indifference these writers worked through so the truth of the Magdalen Laundries could be seen in a proper light. No one wanted to know. They are my heroes. * Anne Enright, Author and winner of the 2007 Booker Prize *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and the Lives Lived There Chapter 2: Survivors Begin to Be Heard Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Campaign: The Strategies Chapter 4: Anatomy of a Campaign: Developing a Human Rights and Justice Agenda Chapter 5: Publication of the IDC Report: The Campaign Within the Campaign Chapter 6: Never Tell, Never Acknowledge (…everyone knew, but no one said) Chapter 7: Ex Gratia ‘Redress’ Chapter 8: Bringing up the Dead: Burials and Land Deals at High Park Chapter 9: Conclusion: Who Do We Want to Be? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHow will Ireland redress its legacy of institutional abuse? What constitutes justice? What is Transitional Justice? How might democracy evolve if survivors' experiences and expertise were allowed to lead the response to a century of gender- and family separation-based abuses? REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice seeks the answers. This collection explores the ways in which Ireland - North and South - treats those who suffered in Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, industrial and reformatory schools, and in a closed and secretive adoption system, over the last 100 years. The essays focus on the structures which perpetuated widespread and systematic abuses in the past and consider how political arrangements continue to exert power over survivors, adopted people and generations of relatives, as well as controlling the remains and memorialisation of the dead. As we mark the centenary of both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice forensically examines the two states' so-called 'redress' schemes and investigations, and the statements of apology that accompanied them. With diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection considers how a Transitional Justice-based, survivor-centred, approach might assist those personally affected, policy makers, the public, and academics to evaluate the complex ways in which both the Republic and Northern Ireland (and other states in a comparative context) have responded to their histories of institutionalisation and family separation. Importantly, the essays collected in REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice seek to offer avenues by which to redress this legacy of continuing harms.Trade Review'This truly outstanding academic endeavour convincingly argues for its timeliness. It illustrates continuity of institutional abuse in Ireland, as the state and religious congregations resist accepting responsibility for their roles.' - Review of Irish Studies in Europe 6.1; 'Most chapters are academic in character, but the reader will also find poetry, photography, creative writing, songs, journalism and survivors' testimonies in this profoundly interdisciplinary volume.' - Historical Dialogues, Justice, And Memory Network, April 2023.; 'The collection snaps our mind's eye from the past and handwringing over what we did or did not know, could or should have done differently. These problems confront us with just as much urgency today.' - Critical Social Policy, March 2023.; 'The contributors to this volume offer a different perspective, one that draws on the pain and truth-telling of survivors themselves.' - James M Smith, The Irish Times, June 2022.; 'My mother was given a half hour's notice to get me ready to have me taken from her.' - The Journal, June 2022.; 'Redress should be read by anyone who cares about the vulnerable, & those who can influence how they are treated today.' - Tina Neylon, The Irish Examiner, October 2022.; 'It is a brave, creative, radical and unflinching collection' - Lindsey Earner-Byrne, The Sunday Independent, August 2022.; 'This is a compelling collection of essays, testimonies, analysis & interrogation. From the loss & denial of identity of the survivor, to the empty rhetorical gestures of state & church, to the closure of access to truth' - Christopher Stanley, The Village, August 2022.; 'It is a brave, creative, radical and unflinching collection, rooted in the concept of transitional justice' - ACIS, August 2022.; 'There isn't a book long enough to contain the stories of the suffering endured by all mothers and their children over the last century, but this one at least puts their experiences to the fore.' - Clodagh Finn, Irish Examiner, June 2022.; 'An Ongoing Injustice: State Responses to "Historical" Abuses in Ireland' - Maeve O'Rourke, The Irish Story, July 2022.; 'Lawyer calls for full baby homes inquiry instead of insincere remorse for survivors' - Nicola Byrne, Irish Mail on Sunday, June 2022.; 'The collection snaps our mind's eye from the past and handwringing over what we did or did not know, could or should have done differently. These problems confront us with just as much urgency today. So, what is it we are going to do now? - Louise Brangan, Critical Social Policy, March 2023.

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