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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions
In this special issue, contributors trace how sexual scientific
thought circulated throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth
centuries and how that thought continues to shape sexuality. The
authors situate the science of sex within a broader context of
sexuality studies, which examines the social, psychological, and
political aspects of desires, acts, identities, and sexology.
Articles-addressing topics such as early gender clinics and
transsexual etiology, the taxonomy of queer identities, and
blackness and sexology-examine the current and historical ways in
which racial science and colonial knowledge constitute sexual
science as an amorphous object, one with a problematically vast
reach that buttresses racial hierarchy and undergirds colonial
infrastructures. The authors urge readers to explore how the
taxonomies of sexual science structure identitarian frameworks of
gender and sexuality. Contributors: Kadji Amin, Howard Chiang,
Stephanie D. Clare, Emmett Harsin Drager, Patrick R. Grzanka,
Benjamin Kahan, Greta LaFleur, Rovel Sequeira, Aaron J. Stone,
Zohar Weiman-Kelman, Joanna Wuest
Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil
stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes:
incarnations of the "Cinderella" fairy tale have resonated
throughout the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale
exists a history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment.
This book examines twenty-first-century "Cinderella" adaptations
that envision the classic tale in the twenty-first century through
the lens of wokenesss by shifting rhetorical implications and
self-reflexively granting different possibilities for protagonists.
The contributors argue that the "Cinderella" archetype expands past
traditional takes on the passive princess. From Sex and the City to
Game of Thrones, from cyborg "Cinderellas" to Inglorious Basterds,
contributors explore gender-bending and feminist adaptations,
explorations of race and the body, and post-human and post-truth
rewritings. The collection posits that contemporary "Cinderella"
adaptations create a substantive cultural product that both inform
and reflect a contemporary social zeitgeist.
Where human communication and development is possible, folklore is
developed. With the rise of digital communications and media in
past decades, humans have adopted a new form of folklore within
this online landscape. Digital folklore has been developed into a
culture that impacts the ways in which communities are formed,
media is created, and communications are carried out. It is
essential to track this growing phenomenon. The Digital Folklore of
Cyberculture and Digital Humanities focuses on the opportunities
and chances for folklore research online as well as research
challenges for online folk groups. It presents opportunities for
production of digital internet material from items and research in
the field of folk culture and for digitization, documentation, and
promotion of elements related to folk culture. Covering topics such
as e-learning programs, online communities, and costumes and
fashion archives, this premier reference source is a dynamic
resource for folklorists, sociologists, anthropologists,
psychologists, students and faculty of higher education, libraries,
researchers, and academicians.
This Handbook is a timely and critical intervention into debates on
changing family dynamics in the face of globalization, population
migration and uneven mobilities. By capturing the diversity of
family 'types', 'arrangements' and 'strategies' across a global
setting, the volume highlights how migration is inextricably linked
to complex familial relationships, often in supportive and
nurturing ways, but also violent and oppressive at other times.
Featuring state-of-the-art reviews from leading scholars, the
Handbook attends to cross-cutting themes such as gender relations,
intergenerational relationships, social inequalities and social
mobility. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from forced
migration and displacement, to expatriatism, labour migration,
transnational marriage, education, LGBTQI families, digital
technology and mobility regimes. By highlighting the complexity of
the migration-family nexus, this Handbook will be a valuable
resource for researchers, scholars and students in the fields of
human geography, sociology, anthropology and social policy.
Policymakers and practitioners working on family relations and
gender policy will also benefit from reading this Handbook.
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.
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