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This issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, "Trans-Political
Economy," edited by Dan Irving and Vek Lewis, addresses how
capitalism differentially and unequally affects trans and
sex/gender-diverse people across the globe. "We all, from our
different social and political locations, become implicated in
those architectures through our everyday interactions with a
variety of coordinated and contradictory institutions and
rationalities that order our lives across different local and
global geopolitical spaces and scales," write Lewis and Irving. The
editors of and contributors to this issue reveal how the narrowly
constructed objects of trans studies and political economy (such as
gender, labor, class, and economy) have been complicit in the
necropolitical devaluation of trans lives and existing strategies
crafted for trans survival. Topics include trans visibility and
commodity culture; trans credit reporting; the growing population
of T-girls, trans women truckers; trans street-based sex workers;
the system of sex/gender identification for trans asylum seekers in
South Africa; and waria affective labor in Indonesia. There is also
a roundtable deconstructing trans* political economy. The Arts
& Culture section of this issue features a review of season 7
of RuPaul's Drag Race in relation to certain political-economic
elements of the drag industry as well as an in-depth look at the
representation of transgender lives on film, specifically in Dallas
Buyers Club.
By comparing the intersecting histories of interpretation of Mary
Magdalene, a first-century disciple of Jesus, and La Malinche, a
sixteenth-century Mesoamerican woman enslaved by the Spanish
conquistadores, Jennifer Vija Pietz critically evaluates the use of
past lives to address contemporaneous concerns. She demonstrates
how the earliest sources portray each woman as an agent in the
foundation of a new community: Magdalene's proclamation of Jesus's
resurrection helped form the first Christian community, while La
Malinche's role as interpreter between Spanish and native people
during the Conquest helped establish modern Mexico. Pietz then
argues that over time, various interpreters turn these real women
into malleable icons that they use to negotiate changing
conceptions of communal identity and norms. Strikingly, popular
portraits develop of both women as archetypal whores who represent
transgression-portraits that some women have experienced as
harmful. Although other interpreters present contrary portraits of
Magdalene and La Malinche as admirable emblems of female
empowerment, Pietz argues that the tendency to turn real people
into icons risks producing stereotypes that can obscure past lives
and negatively affect people in the present. In response, she
posits strategies for developing historically plausible and
ethically responsible interpretations of people of the past.
A special issue of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies This
issue provides an area-studies perspective on intimacy and explores
the analytic, theoretical, and political work that intimacy
promises as a concept. The contributors explore how multiple
domains and forms of intimacies are defined and transformed across
the cultural and social worlds of the Middle East, looking in
particular at Egypt, Turkey, and Israel. Focusing on everyday
constructions of intimacies, the contributors engage with questions
about how we should calibrate the evolving nature of intimacy in
times of rapid transition, what intimacy means for individual and
social lives, and what social, political, and economic
possibilities it creates. Topics include physical exercise, Turkish
beauty salons, transnational surrogacy arrangements, gender
reassignment, and coffee shops as intimate spaces for men outside
the family. Article Contributors: Aymon Kreil, Claudia Liebelt,
Sibylle Lustenberger, Sertac Sehlikoglu, Asli Zengin Review and
Third Space Contributors: Dena Al-Adeeb, Adam George Dunn, Rima
Dunn, Meral Duzgun, Iklim Goksel, Didem Havlioglu, Sarah Ihmoud,
Sarah Irving, Adi Kuntsman, Shahrzad Mojab, Afsaneh Najmabadi,
Rachel Rothendler, Afiya Zia
A special issue of Radical History Review In bringing together a
geographically and temporally broad range of interdisciplinary
historical scholarship, this issue of Radical History Review offers
an expansive examination of gender, violence, and the state.
Through analyses of New York penitentiaries, anarchists in early
twentieth-century Japan, and militarism in the 1990s, contributors
reconsider how historical conceptions of masculinity and femininity
inform the persistence of and punishments for gendered violence.
The contributors to a section on violence and activism challenge
the efficacy of state solutions to gendered violence in a
contemporary U.S. context, highlighting alternatives posited by
radical feminist and queer activists. In five case studies drawn
from South Africa, India, Ireland, East Asia, and Nigeria,
contributors analyze the archive's role in shaping current
attitudes toward gender, violence, and the state, as well as its
lasting imprint on future quests for restitution or reconciliation.
This issue also features a visual essay on the "false positives"
killings in Colombia and an exploration of Zanale Muholi's
postapartheid activist photography. Contributors: Lisa Arellano,
Erica L. Ball, Josh Cerretti, Jonathan Culleton, Amanda Frisken,
Raphael Ginsberg, Deana Heath, Efeoghene Igor, Catherine Jacquet,
Jessie Kindig, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Jen Manion, Xhercis Mendez,
Luis Moran, Claudia Salamanca, Tomoko Seto, Carla Tsampiras,
Jennifer Yeager
"Thoughtful and often moving." Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian Female
Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical
background and context to the 'gender wars' or 'TERF wars' - the
fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation.
Using queer and female masculinities as a lens, Finn Mackay
investigates the current generational shift that is refusing the
previous assumed fixity of sex, gender and sexual identity.
Transgender and trans rights movements are currently experiencing
political backlash from within certain lesbian and lesbian feminist
groups, resulting in a situation in which these two minority
communities are frequently pitted against one another or perceived
as diametrically opposed. Uniquely, Finn Mackay approaches this
debate through the context of female masculinity, butch and
transmasculine lesbian masculinities. There has been increasing
interest in the study of masculinity, influenced by a popular
discourse around so-called 'toxic masculinity', the rise of men's
rights activism and theory and critical work on Trump's America and
the MeToo movement. An increasingly important topic in political
science and sociological academia, this book aims to break new
ground in the discussion of the politics of gender and identity.
This book examines women's participation in social, economic and
political development in West Africa. The book looks at women from
the premise of being active agents in the development processes
within their communities, thereby subverting the dominate narrative
of women as passive recipients of development.
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.
Sustainable Work in Europe brings together a strong core of Swedish
working life research, with additional contributions from across
Europe, and discussion of current issues such as digitalisation,
climate change and the Covid pandemic. It bridges gaps between
social science and medicine, and adds emphasis on age and gender.
The book links workplace practice, theory and policy, and is
intended to provide the basis for ongoing debate and dialogue.
This book is a collection of essays highlighting different
disciplinary, topical, and practical approaches to the study of
kink and popular culture. The volume is written by both academics
and practitioners, bringing the essays a special perspective not
seen in other volumes. Essays included examine everything from Nina
Hartley fan letters to kink shibari witches to kink tourism in a
South African prison. The focus is not just on kink as a sexual
practice, but on kink as a subculture, as a way of living, and as a
way of seeing popular culture in new and interesting ways.
Eunuchs tend to be associated with eastern courts, popularly
perceived as harem personnel. However, the Roman empire was also
distinguished by eunuchs - they existed as slaves, court officials,
religious figures and free men. This book is the first to be
devoted to the range of Roman eunuchs. Across seven chapters
(spanning the third century BC to the sixth century AD), Shaun
Tougher examines the history of Roman eunuchs, focusing on key
texts and specific individuals. Subjects met include the Galli (the
self-castrating devotees of the goddess the Great Mother),
Terence's comedy The Eunuch (the earliest surviving Latin text to
use the word 'eunuch'), Sporus and Earinus the eunuch favourites of
the emperors Nero and Domitian, the 'Ethiopian eunuch' of the Acts
of the Apostles (an early convert to Christianity), Favorinus of
Arles (a superstar intersex philosopher), the Grand Chamberlain
Eutropius (the only eunuch ever to be consul), and Narses the
eunuch general who defeated the Ostrogoths and restored Italy to
Roman rule. A key theme of the chapters is gender, inescapable when
studying castrated males. Ultimately this book is as much about the
eunuch in the Roman imagination as it is the reality of the eunuch
in the Roman empire.
The notion of the posthuman continues to both intrigue and confuse,
not least because of the huge number of ideas, theories and figures
associated with this term. More Posthuman Glossary provides a way
in to the dizzying array of posthuman concepts, providing vivid
accounts of emerging terms. It is much more than a series of
definitions, however, in that it seeks to imagine and predict what
new terms might come into being as this exciting field continues to
expand. A follow-up volume to the brilliant interventions of
Posthuman Glossary (2018), this book extends and elaborates on that
work, particularly focusing on concepts of race, indigeneity and
new ideas in radical ecology. It also includes new and emerging
voices within the new humanities and multiple modes of
communicating ideas. This is an indispensible glossary for those
who are exploring what the non-human, inhuman and posthuman might
mean in the 21st century.
Using oral histories, newspapers, and a variety of other sources
this work recovers stories of campy LGBT beach parties, forgotten
gay bars, and friendship networks that spanned the South. Gay men,
lesbians, and the otherwise queer were an essential part of ""The
Sunshine State."" Placing them at the center of this story exposes
the unique interactions of capitalism, tourism, sexuality, and
space. More than just a story of repression, this work also seeks
to illuminate the fun that could be had on what came to be known as
""The USA's Gay Riviera"" by the early 1990s.
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