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From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19
pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the
sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities. Analyzing the
complexities of the current political moment in different
geographic regions, this book addresses the paradoxical persistence
of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the
pursuit of a more just world. Engaging theories of decoloniality,
racial capitalism, queer materialism, and social reproduction, this
book demonstrates the centrality of sexual politics to
neoliberalism, including both social relations and statecraft.
Drawing on ethnographic case studies, the authors show that gender
and sexuality may be the site for policies like those pertaining to
sex trafficking, which bundle together economics and changes to the
structure of the state. In other instances, sexual politics are
crucial components of policies on issues ranging from the growth of
financial services to migration. Tracing the role of sexual
politics across different localities and through different
political domains, this book delineates the paradoxical assemblage
that makes up contemporary neoliberal hegemony. In addition to
exploring contemporary social relations of neoliberal governance,
exploitation, domination, and exclusion, the authors also consider
gender and sexuality as forces that have shaped myriad forms of
community-based activism and resistance, including local efforts to
pursue new forms of social change. By tracing neoliberal paradoxes
across global sites, the book delineates the multiple dimensions of
economic and cultural restructuring that have characterized
neoliberal regimes and emergent activist responses to them. This
innovative analysis of the relationship between gender justice and
political economy will appeal to: interdisciplinary scholars in
social and cultural studies; legal and political theorists; and the
wide range of readers who are concerned with contemporary questions
of social justice.
From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19
pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the
sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities. Analyzing the
complexities of the current political moment in different
geographic regions, this book addresses the paradoxical persistence
of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the
pursuit of a more just world. Engaging theories of decoloniality,
racial capitalism, queer materialism, and social reproduction, this
book demonstrates the centrality of sexual politics to
neoliberalism, including both social relations and statecraft.
Drawing on ethnographic case studies, the authors show that gender
and sexuality may be the site for policies like those pertaining to
sex trafficking, which bundle together economics and changes to the
structure of the state. In other instances, sexual politics are
crucial components of policies on issues ranging from the growth of
financial services to migration. Tracing the role of sexual
politics across different localities and through different
political domains, this book delineates the paradoxical assemblage
that makes up contemporary neoliberal hegemony. In addition to
exploring contemporary social relations of neoliberal governance,
exploitation, domination, and exclusion, the authors also consider
gender and sexuality as forces that have shaped myriad forms of
community-based activism and resistance, including local efforts to
pursue new forms of social change. By tracing neoliberal paradoxes
across global sites, the book delineates the multiple dimensions of
economic and cultural restructuring that have characterized
neoliberal regimes and emergent activist responses to them. This
innovative analysis of the relationship between gender justice and
political economy will appeal to: interdisciplinary scholars in
social and cultural studies; legal and political theorists; and the
wide range of readers who are concerned with contemporary questions
of social justice.
Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies Offers a way
to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion,
and power American politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first
televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard
Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found
Kennedy a younger, more vivacious, and more attractive choice than
Nixon. Sexier. The political significance of Kennedy’s telegenic
sex appeal is now widely accepted – but taking sexual politics
seriously is not. Janet R. Jakobsen examines how, for the last
several decades, gender and sexuality have reappeared time and
again at the center of political life, marked by a series of widely
recognized issues and movements – women’s liberation and gay
liberation in the 1960s and ’70s, the AIDS crisis and ACT UP in
the ‘80s and ’90s, welfare and immigration “reform” in the
‘90s, wars claiming to “save women” in the 2000s, and battles
over health care in the 2010s, to recent demands for reproductive
justice, trans liberation, and the explosive exposures of #MeToo.
Religion has been wound up in these political struggles, and blamed
for not a little of the resistance to meaningful change in America
political life. Jakobsen acknowledges that religion is a force to
be reckoned with, but decisively breaks with the common sense that
religion and sex are the fixed binary of American political life.
She instead follows the kaleidoscopic ways in which sexual politics
are embedded in social relations of all kinds – not only the
intimate relations of love and family with which gender and sex are
routinely associated, but also secularism, freedom, race,
disability, capitalism, nation and state, housing and the
environment. In the midst of these obsessions, Jakobsen’s
promiscuous ethical imagination guides us forward. Drawing on
examples from collaborative projects among activists, academics and
artists, Jakobsen shows that sexual politics can contribute to
building justice from the ground up. Gender and sexual relations
are practices through which values emerge and communities are made.
Sex and desire, gender and embodiment emerge as bases of ethical
possibility, breaking political stalemate and opening new
possibility.
Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies Offers a way
to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion,
and power American politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first
televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard
Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found
Kennedy a younger, more vivacious, and more attractive choice than
Nixon. Sexier. The political significance of Kennedy's telegenic
sex appeal is now widely accepted - but taking sexual politics
seriously is not. Janet R. Jakobsen examines how, for the last
several decades, gender and sexuality have reappeared time and
again at the center of political life, marked by a series of widely
recognized issues and movements - women's liberation and gay
liberation in the 1960s and '70s, the AIDS crisis and ACT UP in the
'80s and '90s, welfare and immigration "reform" in the '90s, wars
claiming to "save women" in the 2000s, and battles over health care
in the 2010s, to recent demands for reproductive justice, trans
liberation, and the explosive exposures of #MeToo. Religion has
been wound up in these political struggles, and blamed for not a
little of the resistance to meaningful change in America political
life. Jakobsen acknowledges that religion is a force to be reckoned
with, but decisively breaks with the common sense that religion and
sex are the fixed binary of American political life. She instead
follows the kaleidoscopic ways in which sexual politics are
embedded in social relations of all kinds - not only the intimate
relations of love and family with which gender and sex are
routinely associated, but also secularism, freedom, race,
disability, capitalism, nation and state, housing and the
environment. In the midst of these obsessions, Jakobsen's
promiscuous ethical imagination guides us forward. Drawing on
examples from collaborative projects among activists, academics and
artists, Jakobsen shows that sexual politics can contribute to
building justice from the ground up. Gender and sexual relations
are practices through which values emerge and communities are made.
Sex and desire, gender and embodiment emerge as bases of ethical
possibility, breaking political stalemate and opening new
possibility.
At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious
fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful,
multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with
modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress. Bringing together
essays by scholars based in religious studies, gender and sexuality
studies, history, science studies, anthropology, and political
science, this volume challenges the binary conception of
"conservative" religion versus "progressive" secularism. With
essays addressing secularism in India, Iran, Turkey, Great Britain,
China, and the United States, this collection crucially complicates
the dominant narrative by showing that secularism is multifaceted.
How secularism is lived and experienced varies with its national,
regional, and religious context. The essays explore local
secularisms in relation to religious traditions ranging from Islam
to Judaism, Hinduism to Christianity. Several contributors
explicitly take up the way feminism has been implicated in the
dominant secularization story. Ultimately, by dislodging
secularism's connection to the single (and singular) progress
narrative, this volume seeks to open spaces for other possible
narratives about both secularism and religion-as well as for other
possible ways of inhabiting the contemporary world. Contributors:
Robert J. Baird, Andrew Davison, Tracy Fessenden, Janet R.
Jakobsen, Laura Levitt, Molly McGarry, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Taha
Parla, Geeta Patel, Ann Pellegrini, Tyler Roberts, Ranu Samantrai,
Banu Subramaniam, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Angela Zito
View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.In this dynamic
legal context the publication of Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann
Pellegrini''s Love the Sin offers a smart, but controversial,
intervention. -- Journal of the American Academy of
ReligionImportant... a fresh way to argue for gay rights and sexual
freedom.--Boston PhoenixLove the Sin is a progressive contribution
to discussions about sexual and religious freedom in a country
where we find less of both than most politicians, religious
thinkers, media moralists, and average Americans want to
admit.--Gay TodayA brilliant book, one that can move public
conversations about sexual, racial, and religious difference beyond
present assumptions and impasses. Love the Sin suggests that
religion can become the ground for sexual freedom rather than the
justification for sexual repression.--Margaret R. Miles, author of
Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the MoviesThis
impressive book provides analytical and strategic insights on the
central obstacle to gay and lesbian freedom today: sexuality''s
treatment by religion. The authors'' accessible voice, wide-ranging
and original synthesis, and deep knowledge make the experience of
reading this book a pleasure.--Urvashi Vaid, former director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy InstituteJakobsen and
Pellegrini argue convincingly that movements for ethnic, racial,
gender, and sexual justice would be well served by using the
paradigm of religious freedom instead of biological determinism to
make the case for social change. Love the Sin is required reading
for all the sinners to whom the title euphemistically refers, and
for everyone who dreams of a more just society.--RabbiRebecca
Alpert, author of Like Bread on the Seder PlateGives us vital
language to escape both the trap of toleration and the seduction of
assimilation. Not afraid to challenge the certainties of the
secular left on religion, nor willing to settle for a narrow
version of gay and lesbian rights, Love the Sin presents a new
vision of American sexual and religious freedom.--Laura Levitt,
Director of Jewish Studies, Temple UniversityAs ambitious, feisty,
and exciting as any new passion, Love the Sin takes its readers on
a compelling ride across the volatile landscape of religion and sex
in American public life. The authors not only provoke and
stimulate, guide and elucidate, but they redefine freedom and
democracy as values for our sex lives as well as our sexual
politics.--Lisa Duggan, coauthor of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and
Political CultureJakobsen and Pellegrini do a nice job of showing
how the love-the-sinner/hate-the- sin tradition falls dramatically
short of the higher aspiration to tolerance.--Stephen Pomper,
Washington MonthlyThe authors of this short but succinct study
explore the connection between the traditions of Christianity and
the political and social regulation of sexuality in America.--
Library JournalLike any trumpet call to pull down the walls, this
book serves its purpose by giving the GLBT community a new focus
and even a renewed idealism.--The Gay & Lesbian ReviewWe cannot
afford to lose the battle for nonpartisan sex education in the
schools, sexual freedom for all citizens or a host of other
endangered human rights. Love the Sin is essential reading for
anyone who cares about these issues.--Women''s Review of BooksLove
the Sin is a book that is relevant for anyoneinterested in
sexology, religion, and politics. It has the potential to provoke
and important dialogue amoung religious institutions, politicians
at every level of government, community leader, and families about
what it means to live up to the American ideal. -- Journal of
History of SexualitySex. Religion. There is no denying that these
two subjects are among the most provocative in American public
life. Even the constitutional principle of church-state separation
seems to give way when it comes to sex: the Supreme Court draws on
theology as readily as it draws on cas
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