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Spectres of masculinity
How do ghost stories of the Victorian and Edwardian periods challenge and reframe ideas of masculinity?
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Transtopia in the sinophone pacific
Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.
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Girl head
Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen.For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the mate...
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Migration and mobility in an enlarged europe
The book investigates transnational migration and mobility of women from and within Central-Eastern European countries. It looks at women’s practices and experiences mostly in the service sector where they are in demand as substitutes in stereotypically „women’s work“. The book combines different...
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From post-yugoslavia to the female continent
Women’s writing from the former/post-Yugoslavia recollects but also produces the links among the post-Yugoslav present and the Yugoslav past. Drawing attention to an uninterrupted marginalization of women authors, Tijana Matijevic reconceptualizes contemporary literary production from Bosnia and ...
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Family in crisis?
Scholars of cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today’s families cross borders and how cultural texts—sitcoms, films, novels, short stories, and political magazines from Europe and the U.S.—(de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses.
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Between a man and a woman?
Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological conundrum: in today's conservative Chris...
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Gendering european integration theory
The authors engage a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. The contributions illustrate where and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. The chapters are designed to make gender scholars...
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Queerbeograd cabaret
This book demonstrates how staging QueerBeograd contributed to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity.
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The politics of our selves
Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompati...
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There are two sexes
Key selections from the work of a groundbreaking French feminist who thought beyond Freud and Lacan to realize true parity between men and women.
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Poverty and social exclusion during and after poland's transition to capitalism
This book examines poverty in Poland during the transition to capitalism and in the decade that followed through the lives of women in disadvantaged post-industrial urban neighborhoods. It searches for the causes that drive and maintain poverty in changes in industrial relations, welfare regimes,...
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Women political leaders in rwanda and south africa
This book considers the successes, challenges, and controversies of women’s post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, it explores the relationships between their educational, professional, activist, and personal backgrounds.
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»gold fever« and women
Sigrid Schönfelder discusses three healthcare providers within the social reform movement to illustrate the transformative power of the American West.
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Female identities in lesbian web series
Lesbian web series narrate female-centered stories, strengthen identity construction, and generate transnational communities beyond cultural barriers. Julia Obermayr explores representations of lesbian women in U.S.-American, Canadian, and Spanish web series from 2007 onward.
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Caring infrastructures
Theories and methods for transforming the arts through feminist care ethics, fostering support and equity for art workers and caregivers.
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Queer turkey
Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Ralph J. Poole discusses queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors whose multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscr...
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Great queer provocation
Martin Gössl reflects on the possibilities of queer recognition in different social contexts.
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We travel the space ways
This book gathers a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of five hundred years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach toward the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents,...
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Materializing fairness
This book showcases initiatives addressing the gender gap across the tech industry's various sectors.
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Transgression and subversion
Although scholars have recognized the picaresque figure as a transgressive and subversive model, the queer effect of the figure is yet to be examined. Considering class, generation, and topography, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels from...
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No politics but class politics
This book argues against the establishment of a demographically representative social elite, and for economic justice for everyone.
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Sex and world peace
Sex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict and war. This second edition revises and updates the book, enhancing its arguments with fresh data and analysis of additional examples of gender and conflict throughout...
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Come as you are
Roof's ambitious, wide-ranging book links narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory to explore the place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the tradition of western narrative. According to Freud, perversions are the necessary obstacles in a heroic plot of...
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History's queer stories
Critical analysis of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable by its absence. Natalie Marena Nobitz analyzes four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalized heteronormativity during the war.
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Change the record – punk women music politics
M.I. Franklin shows how punk women’s writings provide fans and music scholars with a corrective to androcentric studies of Punk as a DIY politics of resistance to the mainstream.
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Bouncing back: queer resilience in twentieth and twenty-first century english literature and culture
LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analyzing these strategies in t...
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Signs and wonders
Lays the groundwork for a theology and philosophy of life better suited to our (post)modern moment: one that owns up to the vulnerabilities that modernity sought to disavow and better enables us to navigate the ethical issues we now confront.
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Lesbian configurations
What constitutes a narrative as "lesbian"? Hoogland provides original readings of such films as Basic Instinct and Bitter Moon, and novels such as The Bell Jar and Friends and Relations in order to trace the way lesbian identities are negotiated in Western culture.
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Way too cool
Follows the hollowing-out of "coolness" in modern American culture and its reflection of a larger evasion of race, racism, and ethics now common in neoliberal society
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Desiring revolution
There was a moment in the 1970s when sex was what mattered most to feminists. White middle-class women viewed sex as central to both their oppression and their liberation. Young women started to speak and write about the clitoris, orgasm, and masturbation, and publishers and the news media jumped...
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Gender and parenthood
The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendered paren...
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Sight unseen
Reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind.
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The discovery of anxiousness
Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study.
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Paying for masculinity
Men commit crimes. Men are violent. Men start wars. Men have power.In Paying for Masculinity, Murray Knuttila argues that male dominance is best understood in the context of the particular mode of gender practice — hegemonic masculinity — that typifies patriarchal gender orders. This mode of masc...
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Intimacy in illegality
Drawing on rich biographical accounts and ethnographic methods, this book offers an insightful and sensitive look at a mostly unknown aspect of life in illegality. Flaminia Bartolini shows how intimacy should be understood in its intrinsic power dimension and looks critically at the German migrat...
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Marked men
White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy an...
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Ladies in arms
In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read?
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Siegfried the wrestler
Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.
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The birth of chinese feminism
He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global historical...
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Women's leadership in music
The contributors ask what can be considered as leadership in culture from a female point of view today.
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Climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable engineering
This book introduces explores the potential of light weight engineering in the areas of climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable mobility.
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Moves - spaces - places
This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors.
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Queer studies
Queer Studies is designed as an advanced undergraduate textbook in queer studies for this rapidly growing field. It is also appropriate as a required or recommended graduate textbook. The author uses the overarching concept of queering as a way of looking at the lives of queer people across a ran...
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Love and war
An exploration of gender as both a weapon and casualty of war.
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Masculinities ageing between cultures
Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, this book explores ageing masculinities
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Knock me up, knock me down
No longer is pregnancy a repulsive or shameful condition in Hollywood films, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female character. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduc...
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Coming out of partition
Exploring the category of ‘refugee women’ as it emerged in the events of the Bengal Partition, the book claims that they have not only played an important role in shaping women’s movement but also have been responsible for the radical reorientation of social lives in Bengal as they rebuild and re...
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Dancing youth
Sandra Kurfürst examines youth’s aspirations and desires embodied in dance. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including interviews and sensory and digital ethnography, she shows how dancers confront social and gender norms while following their passion.
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Equal rites
Both the Prophet Joseph Smith and his Book of Mormon have been characterized as ardently, indeed evangelically, anti-Masonic. Yet in this sweeping social, cultural, and religious history of nineteenth-century Mormonism and its milieu, Clyde Forsberg argues that masonry, like evangelical Christian...
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