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Terror in the Heart of Freedom
Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to...
Cooking Lessons
The Politics of Gender and Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2001
Meatloaf, fried chicken, Jell-O, cake—because foods are so very common, we rarely think about them much in depth. The authors of Cooking Lessons however, believe that food is deserving of our critical scrutiny and that such analysis yields many important lessons about American society and its values....
Workable Sisterhood
The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people...
queersexlife
Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Evocative of Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, this frank and personal collection of essays explores the politics of gender, identity, race, and queer sex imbued with the author’s own experiences. Terry Goldie delves into subjects that are both varied and explicit, including drag queens,...
Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970
We are the Supermen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 describes the young black male crisis, why we are largely unfamiliar with the story of the black superman, and why this matters to contemporary debates. It does so by returning to the work of those original black social scientists to explore...
Dangerous Families
Queer Writing on Surviving
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Queer survivors piece together the clues to discover their own lives!
Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving goes beyond the recovery narrative to create a new queer literature of investigation, exploration, and transformation. Twenty-six stories illuminate the reality of growing up...
The Qualities of a Citizen
Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The...
Standup Guy
Manhood After Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Three decades after American women changed their strategy in the battle of the sexes, how do men really feel? About themselves? About feminism? Is it still possible for men to be heroes? Aggressive pursuers of status and dominance--their traditional goals? In this candid dispatch from the front lines...
Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance
Meetings with Remarkable Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for contemporary...
Women in the Church of God in Christ
Making a Sanctified World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Focusing on global examples of gender equality, this collection explores non-dominant models of masculinity that represent gender equity in pro-feminist ways. Essays explore new alternative models of masculinity by a wide variety of contemporary authors and texts, ranging from Paul Auster to Jonathan Franzen.
Rethinking Eros
Sex, Gender, and Desire in Ancient Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Rethinking Eros uses modern popular culture to examine sex, bodies, and gender in the ancient world in all their complexities.
We are All Revolutionaries Here
Militarism, Political Islam and Gender in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
What might link a group of middle-class Pakistani women sipping coffee demurely in a living room, with the fiery young women in black burqas threatening shopkeepers in Islamabad?
When and how do an adolescent girl’s aspirations translate into the maturing of a social and political revolution...