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When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and
Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was
immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's
movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was
in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle
included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the
mid-1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was
long out of print. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman's
pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates
many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with
today's continuing debate about gender difference and inequality.
Gilman's ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and
Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly
all-male canon of American economic and social thought. She
stresses the connection between work and home and between public
and private life; anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for
housework; calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental
leave policies; and argues for new housing arrangements with
communal kitchens and hired cooks. She contends that women's entry
into the public arena and the reforms of the family would be a
win-win situation for both women and men as the public sphere would
no longer be deprived of women's particular abilities, and men
would be able to enlarge the possibilities to experience and
express the emotional sustenance of family life. The thorough and
stimulating introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson provides
substantial information about Gilman's life, personality, and
background. It frames her impact on feminism since the Sixties and
establishes her crucial role in the emergence of feminist and
social thought. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1998.
Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by
it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the
collection, analysis and application of data? This important book
is the first to look at queer data - defined as data relating to
gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The
author shows us how current data practices reflect an incomplete
account of LGBTQ lives and helps us understand how data biases are
used to delegitimise the everyday experiences of queer people.
Guyan demonstrates why it is important to understand, collect and
analyse queer data, the benefits and challenges involved in doing
so, and how we might better use queer data in our work. Arming us
with the tools for action, this book shows how greater knowledge
about queer identities is instrumental in informing decisions about
resource allocation, changes to legislation, access to services,
representation and visibility.
The US military has done an about-face on gender and sexuality
policy over the last decade, ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell,
restrictions on women in combat, and transgender exclusion.
Contrary to expectations, servicemembers have largely welcomed
cisgender LGB individuals-yet they continue to vociferously resist
trans inclusion and the presence of women on the front lines. In
the minds of many, the embodied "deficiencies" of cisgender women
and trans people of all genders puts others-and indeed, the
nation-at risk. In this book, Cati Connell identifies the
homonormative bargain that underwrites these uneven patterns of
reception-a bargain that comes with significant concessions,
upholding and even exacerbating race, class, and gender inequality
in the pursuit of sexual equality. In this handshake deal, even the
widespread support for open LGB service is highly conditional,
revocable upon violation of the bargain. Despite the promise of
inclusivity, in practice, the military has made room only for a
"few good gays," to the exclusion of all others. But should equal
access be the goal? How did we get from there to here? And where do
we go next? In analyzing inclusion as a social movement aspiration,
Connell shows that its steep price is exacted through the continued
abjection of queered Others, both at home and abroad.
This volume critically examines gender inequality, its origins, and
its social and economic implications in Latin America, with a
particular focus on Ecuador. For that purpose, Pablo Quinonez and
Claudia Maldonado-Erazo bring together a collection of articles
that provide insights from different disciplines, including
political economy, history, development studies, political science,
microeconomics, and macroeconomics. In Ecuador, as in Latin America
as a whole, women dedicate more time than men to unpaid activities
while being discriminated against in multiple areas, including
labor markets, politics, and access to high-ranking positions.
Furthermore, these problems are even greater for women from rural
areas and ethnic minorities. Contributors include: Rafael Alvarado,
Maria Anchundia Places, Esteban Arevalo, Diana Cabrera Montece,
Edwin Espinoza Piguave, Gabriela Gallardo, Danny Granda, Claudia
Maldonado-Erazo, Wendy Mora, Diana Moran Chiquito, Sayonara
Morejon, Carlos Moreno-Hurtado, Maria Moreno Zea, Ana Ona Macias,
Pablo Ponce, Pablo Quinonez, Valeria Recalde, Josefina Rosales,
Ximena Songor-Jaramillo, and Daniel Zea.
Despite rising attention to sexual assault and sexual violence,
queer men have been largely excluded from the discussion. Violent
Differences is the first book of its kind to focus specifically on
queer male survivors and to devote particular attention to Black
queer men. Whereas previous scholarship on male survivors has
emphasized the role of masculinity, Doug Meyer shows that race and
sexuality should be regarded as equally foundational as gender.
Instead of analyzing sexual assault against queer men in the
abstract, this book draws attention to survivors' lived
experiences. Meyer examines interview data from sixty queer men who
have suffered sexual assault, highlighting their interactions with
the police and their encounters with victim blaming. Violent
Differences expands approaches to studying sexual assault by
considering a new group of survivors and by revealing that race,
gender, and sexuality all remain essential for understanding how
this violence is experienced.
WINNER OF THE W.E.B. DUBOIS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS A wide-ranging
Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to
the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women From
Michelle Obama to Condoleezza Rice, Black women are uniquely
scrutinized in the public eye. In Re-Imagining Black Women, Nikol
G. Alexander-Floyd explores how Black women-and Blackness more
broadly-are understood in our political imagination and often
become the subjects of public controversy. Drawing on politics,
popular culture, psychoanalysis, and more, Alexander-Floyd examines
our conflicting ideas, opinions, and narratives about Black women,
showing how they are equally revered and reviled as an embodiment
of good and evil, cast either as victims or villains, citizens or
outsiders. Ultimately, Alexander-Floyd showcases the complex
experiences of Black women as political subjects. At a time of
extreme racial tension, Re-Imagining Black Women provides insight
into the parts that Black women play, and are expected to play, in
politics and popular culture.
Despite rising attention to sexual assault and sexual violence,
queer men have been largely excluded from the discussion. Violent
Differences is the first book of its kind to focus specifically on
queer male survivors and to devote particular attention to Black
queer men. Whereas previous scholarship on male survivors has
emphasized the role of masculinity, Doug Meyer shows that race and
sexuality should be regarded as equally foundational as gender.
Instead of analyzing sexual assault against queer men in the
abstract, this book draws attention to survivors' lived
experiences. Meyer examines interview data from sixty queer men who
have suffered sexual assault, highlighting their interactions with
the police and their encounters with victim blaming. Violent
Differences expands approaches to studying sexual assault by
considering a new group of survivors and by revealing that race,
gender, and sexuality all remain essential for understanding how
this violence is experienced.
Transgender survivors of violence tell their stories Transgender
people face some of the highest rates of violence in the US and
around the world, particularly within romantic relationships. In
Transgressed, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz offers a ground-breaking
examination of intimate partner violence in the lives of
transgender people. Drawing on interviews and written accounts from
transgender survivors of intimate partner violence, he sheds
much-needed light on the dynamics of abuse that entrap trans
partners in violent relationships. Transgressed shows how rigidly
gendered discussions of violence have served to marginalize and
silence stories of abuse. Ultimately, these stories of survival
follow their unique journeys as they navigate-and break free-from
the cycle of abuse, providing us with a better understanding of
their experiences. An emotionally compelling read, Transgressed
offers new ways of understanding the complexities of intimate
partner violence through the eyes of transgender survivors.
Sovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the
exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural,
religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a
stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state
and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes
sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public
culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into
relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning
models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and
marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness
emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments
are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away
from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared
repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution.
Queer studies is an extensive field that spans a range of
disciplines. This volume focuses on education and educational
research and examines and expounds upon queer studies particular to
education fields. It works to examine concepts, theories, and
methods related to queer studies across PK-12, higher education,
adult education, and informal learning. The volume takes an
intentionally intersectional approach, with particular attention to
the intersections of white supremacist cisheteropatriachy. It
includes well-established concepts with accessible and entry-level
explanations, as well as emerging and cutting-edge concepts in the
field. It is designed to be used by those new to queer studies as
well as those with established expertise in the field.
STEM of Desire: Queer Theories and Science Education locates,
creates, and investigates intersections of science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and queer theorizing.
Manifold desires-personal, political, cultural-produce and animate
STEM education. Queer theories instigate and explore
(im)possibilities for knowing and being through desires normal and
strange. The provocative original manuscripts in this collection
draw on queer theories and allied perspectives to trace
entanglements of STEM education, sex, sexuality, gender, and desire
and to advance constructive critique, creative world-making, and
(com)passionate advocacy. Not just another call for inclusion, this
volume turns to what and how STEM education and diverse, desiring
subjects might be(come) in relation to each other and the world.
STEM of Desire is the first book-length project on queering STEM
education. Eighteen chapters and two poems by 27 contributors
consider STEM education in schools and universities, museums and
other informal learning environments, and everyday life. Subject
areas include physical and life sciences, engineering, mathematics,
nursing and medicine, environmental education, early childhood
education, teacher education, and education standards. These
queering orientations to theory, research, and practice will
interest STEM teacher educators, teachers and professors,
undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, policy makers, and
academic libraries. Contributors are: Jesse Bazzul, Charlotte
Boulay, Francis S. Broadway, Erin A. Cech, Steve Fifield, blake m.
r. flessas, Andrew Gilbert, Helene Goetschel, Emily M. Gray,
Kristin L. Gunckel, Joe E. Heimlich, Tommye Hutson, Kathryn L.
Kirchgasler, Michelle L. Knaier, Sheri Leafgren, Will Letts, Anna
MacDermut, Michael J. Reiss, Donna M. Riley, Cecilia Rodehn, Scott
Sander, Nicholas Santavicca, James Sheldon, Amy E. Slaton, Stephen
Witzig, Timothy D. Zimmerman, and Adrian Zongrone.
This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of
an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly
conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three
great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been
seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of
gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy
have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its
ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in
exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature
afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects
and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings
of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and
relations more broadly. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by
experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and
critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and
provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models
of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic
form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather
than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings
showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new
vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force
of Euripidean drama. They further demonstrate how the analytical
frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last thirty years
deeply resonate with the ways in which Euripides' plays twist
poetic form in order to challenge well-established modes of the
social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource
for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model
of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current
interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms, and
reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the
center of the interpretive act.
Anti-violence movements rooted in identity politics are
commonplace, including those to stop violence against people of
color, women, and LGBT people. Unlivable Lives reveals the
unintended consequences of this approach within the transgender
rights movement in the United States. It illustrates how this form
of activism obscures the causes of and lasting solutions to
violence and exacerbates fear among members of the identity group,
running counter to the goal of making lives more livable. Analyzing
over a thousand documents produced by thirteen national
organizations, Westbrook charts both a history of the movement and
a path forward that relies less on identity-based tactics and more
on intersectionality and coalition building. Provocative and
galvanizing, this book envisions new strategies for anti-violence
and social justice movements and will revolutionize the way we
think about this form of activism.
Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to
care for the "feebleminded," justified the incarceration,
sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable
members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Institutional
records document the convergence of ableism and racism in Pacific
Colony. Analyzing a vast archive, Natalie Lira reveals how
political concerns over Mexican immigration-particularly ideas
about the low intelligence, deviant sexuality, and inherent
criminality of the "Mexican race"-shaped decisions regarding the
treatment and reproductive future of Mexican-origin patients.
Laboratory of Deficiency documents the ways Mexican-origin people
sought out creative resistance to institutional control and offers
insight into how race, disability, and social deviance have been
called upon to justify the confinement and reproductive constraint
of certain individuals in the name of public health and progress.
This book undertakes a critical analysis of international human
rights law through the lens of queer theory. It pursues two main
aims: first, to make use of queer theory to illustrate that the
field of human rights law is underpinned by several assumptions
that determine a conception of the subject that is gendered and
sexual in specific ways. This gives rise to multiple legal and
social consequences, some of which challenge the very idea of
universality of human rights. Second, the book proposes that human
rights law can actually benefit from a better understanding of
queer critiques, since queer insights can help it to overcome
heteronormative beliefs currently held. In order to achieve these
main aims, the book focuses on the case law of the European Court
of Human Rights, the leading legal authority in the field of
international human rights law. The use of queer theory as the
theoretical approach for these tasks serves to deconstruct several
aspects of the Court's jurisprudence dealing with gender,
sexuality, and kinship, to later suggest potential paths to
reconstruct such features in a queer(er) and more universal manner.
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