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Terrorist Assemblages
Homonationalism in Queer Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects...
Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV
The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Contemporary feminist theory has moved into posthuman terrains as feminist theorists utilise human/nonhuman relations and a motley crew of nonhuman entities to reinvigorate feminist critique of nature/culture dichotomies. But what place is left for sex/gender relations in this move beyond the human?
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Intersectionality
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with, but not limited to, race, gender, class and sexuality) are produced. Rather than seeing such categories as signaling distinct identities that can be adopted,...
by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely...
New Women of the Old Faith
Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the "New Woman" and Catholics' struggle to define...
Spirited Lives
How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Made doubly marginal by their gender and by their religion, American nuns have rarely been granted serious scholarly attention. Instead, their lives and achievements have been obscured by myths or distorted by stereotypes. Placing nuns into the mainstream of American religious and women's history...
Gay and Lesbian Asia
Culture, Identity, Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
How do Asian cultures construct queer genders, sexualities, and eroticism?
Gay and Lesbian Asia demonstrates the astonishing diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered identities in countries including Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines....
Beyond Monogamy
Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man’s best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why...
New Philosophies of Sex and Love
Thinking Through Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Our amorous and erotic experiences do not simply bring us pleasure; they shape our very identities, our ways of relating to ourselves, each other and our shared world. This volume challenges some of our most prevalent assumptions relating to identity, the body, monogamy, libido, sexual identity, seduction,...
Questioning the ‘Muslim Woman’
Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are often either overlooked or treated as a homogenous group with a common set of interests. Focusing on the narratives of women living in a predominantly Muslim...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This far-reaching and contemporary new Encyclopedia examines and explores the lives and experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals, focusing on the contexts and forces that shape their lives.
The work focuses on LGBTQ issues and identity primarily through...
Authentic Leadership
An Engaged Discussion of LGBTQ Work as Culturally Relevant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This book provides new insights about the roles in which LGBTQ individuals contribute in society and various organizations. The literature is divided into two sections. Section one includes three chapters from higher education administrators, faculty and community activists. The chapters share personal...
by Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Valerie Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war.
The authors compare micro-level gender violence and macro-level state peacefulness...
Sex Trafficking in South Asia
Telling Maya's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary locally...