This is a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal of theory and research called 'Political Power and Social Theory'. The book collects seven chapter-length essays by US contributors, dealing with topics such as armed women in contemporary gun culture, sexuality in postcolonial India, the production of an Islamic backlash against homosexuality in Turkey, and NGO discourses against sex trafficking.

Edited by Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Raka Ray, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Evren Savci, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA

Introduction: Perverse Politics? Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity - Ann Shola Orloff, Raka Ray and Evren Savc? Perverse Humanitarianism and the Business of Rescue: What’s Wrong with NGOs and What’s Right about the “Johns”? - Kimberly Kay Hoang Redemptive Capitalism and Sexual Investability - Elizabeth Bernstein Troubling the Subject of Violence: The Pacifist Presumption, Martial Maternalism, and Armed Women in Contemporary Gun Culture - Jennifer Carlson Feminism/s in Power: Rethinking Gender Equality after the Second Wave - Ann Shola Orloff and Talia Shiff Contextualizing the Closet: NAZ, Law, and Sexuality in Postcolonial India - Savina Balasubramanian Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty: The Production of an Islamic Backlash against Homosexuality in Turkey - Evren Savc?