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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
1974.
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.
In China less-qualified young migrants are living in subaltern
condition and young migrants graduates have strongly internalised
the idea of being the "heroes". Young internal and international
migrants from China produce through top-dow and bottom-up
globalisation. The young Chinese migrant incarnates the Global
Individual, what we labeled here as the Compressed Individual.
This edited volume offers a contemporary rethinking of the
relationship between love and care in the context of neoliberal
practices of professionalization and work. Each of the book's three
sections interrogates a particular site of care, where the
affective, political, legal, and economic dimensions of care
intersect in challenging ways. These sites are located within a
variety of institutionally managed contexts such as the
contemporary university, the theatre hall, the prison complex, the
family home, the urban landscape, and the care industry. The
geographical spread of the case studies stretches across India,
Vietnam, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, the UK and the US and
provides broad coverage that crosses the divide between the Global
North and the Global South. To address this transnational
interdisciplinary field of study, the collection utilises insights
from across the humanities and social sciences and includes
contributions from literature, sociology, cultural and media
studies, philosophy, feminist theory, theatre, art history, and
education. These inquiries build on a variety of conceptual tools
and research methods, from data analysis to psychoanalytic reading.
Love and the Politics of Care delivers an attentive and widely
relevant examination of the politics of care and makes a compelling
case for an urgent reconsideration of the methods that currently
structure and regulate it.
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
1971.
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