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Beyond binary: Genderqueer and sexually fluid speculative fiction. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2012.
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Sperm counts: Overcome by man's most precious fluid. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
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Grace, Jantzen, ed. Forever fluid: A reading of Luce Irigaray's Elemental passions. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2005.
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Byrne, Deirdre, and Wernmei Yong Ade, eds. Fluid Gender, Fluid Love. Brill | Rodopi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004380233.
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1956-, Lahiri-Dutt Kuntala, National Institute for Environment (Australia), and Australian National University, eds. Fluid bonds: Views on gender and water. Kolkata: Stree, 2006.
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Genderfluid, Mnimartful. Gender Fluid Journal: Gender Fluid Butterfly Blank Lined Note Book Journal for Genderfluid People, 120 Pages, 6''x9'' Soft Cover, Matte Finish. Independently Published, 2022.
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Representing Queer and Transgender Identity: Fluid Bodies in the Hispanic Caribbean and Beyond. Bucknell University Press, 2017.
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Beauchemin, Faith. How Queer!: Personal narratives from bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, sexually-fluid, and other non-monosexual perspectives. 2016.
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Okruhlik, Gwenn. Authoritarianism, Gender, and Sociopolitics in Saudi Arabia. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190882969.003.0004.
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Chapter 4 provides a firsthand account of the author’s field research experiences in Saudi Arabia. It focuses on the centrality of building trust with interviewees. The author suggests that the use of creative and fluid methodologies allows political science researchers to talk about the hard questions of power and politics. Even in an authoritarian setting, one can achieve theoretical vibrancy and empirical richness. The chapter focuses on five subjects: getting in; how to interview and record notes; specific challenges for women researchers; field research under authoritarianism; field research during war and jihad, and also, practical matters in the field. Saudi Arabia is not exceptional; rather, it is different in degree and in kind. It is the conflation of political repression, religious authority and social norms—though being challenged—that complicates field research and mandates the constant navigation and negotiation of decorum and boundaries to elicit meaningful knowledge.
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Jantzen, Grace M., and Hanneke Canters. Forever Fluid: A Reading of Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions. Manchester University Press, 2018.
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Jantzen, Grace M., Hanneke Canters, and Manchester University Press Staff. Forever Fluid: A Reading of Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions. Manchester University Press, 2014.
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El-Bushra, Judy. How Should We Explain the Recurrence of Violent Conflict, and What Might Gender Have to Do with It? Edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199300983.013.5.
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This chapter examines the factors behind the lack of progress in minimizing conflict, building peace, and improving security for women in conflict-affected environments. It reviews how cycles of conflict have been described in mainstream conflict analysis, which often include ill-conceived and temporary approaches to conflict management. The chapter explores where gender has been situated in these analyses, as well as the impact of adding gender data in operationalizing conflict responses, as opposed to engaging in a more thorough feminist analysis. This chapter then offers suggestions for broadening the mainstream approach by integrating a more fruitful gender analysis that addresses integrating holistic understandings of gendered relationships within society as a whole. The chapter ends with a call to conceptualize both conflict and gender as complex and fluid in order to create a more accurate analysis and more nuanced responses.
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Jantzen, Grace M., and Hanneke Canters. Forever Fluid: A Reading of Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions (Manchester Studies in Religion). Manchester University Press, 2006.
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Djurfeldt, Agnes Andersson. Gender and Rural Livelihoods: Agricultural Commercialization and Farm/Non-Farm Diversification. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799283.003.0004.
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This chapter examines possible discrimination against female farm managers with respect to prices or market segmentation. Patterns of commercialization are fluid. Particular countries stand out with respect to certain crops, however: for maize, a growing bias against female farm managers can be noted in Zambia. Mozambique, Malawi, and to a lesser extent Tanzania stand out in terms of non-grain food crops, where market participation by male farm managers had increased relative to female-headed households. Poorer commercial possibilities are tied strongly to production factors, where lack of labour and land prevent the generation of a marketable surplus. An important distinction is that between women who manage their own farms and women who live in households headed by men: for the former the lack of access to agrarian resources prevents generation of a marketable surplus for the latter the outcomes from sales are controlled by their husbands.
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Ortbals, Candice, and Lori Poloni-Staudinger. How Gender Intersects With Political Violence and Terrorism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.308.
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Gender influences political violence, which includes, for example, terrorism, genocide, and war. Gender uncovers how women, men, and nonbinary persons act according to feminine, masculine, or fluid expectations of men and women. A gendered interpretation of political violence recognizes that politics and states project masculine power and privilege, with the result that men occupy the dominant social position in politics and women and marginalized men are subordinate. As such, men (associated with masculinity) are typically understood as perpetrators of political violence with power and agency and women (associated with femininity) are seen as passive and as victims of violence. For example, women killed by drone attacks in the U.S. War on Terrorism are seen as the innocent, who, along with children, are collateral damage. Many historical and current examples, however, demonstrate that women have agency, namely that they are active in social groups and state institutions responding to and initiating political violence. Women are victims of political violence in many instances, yet some are also political and social actors who fight for change.Gendercide, which can occur alongside genocide, targets a specific gender, with the result that men, women, or those who identify with a non-heteronormative sexuality are subject to discriminatory killing. Rape in wartime situations is also gendered; often it is an expression of men’s power over women and over men who are feminized and marginalized. Because war is typically seen as a masculine domain, wartime violence is not associated with women, who are viewed as life givers and not life takers. Similarly, few expect women to be terrorists, and when they are, women’s motivations often are assumed to be different from those of men. Whereas some scholars argue that women pursue terrorism for personal (and feminine) reasons, for example to redeem themselves from the reputation of rape or for the loss of a male loved one, other scholars maintain that women act on account of political or religious motivations. Although many cases of women’s involvement in war and terrorism can be documented throughout history, wartime leadership and prominent social positions following political violence have been reserved for men. Leaders with feminine traits seem undesirable during and after political violence, because military leadership and negotiations to end military conflict are associated with men and masculinity. Nevertheless, women’s groups and individual women respond to situations of violence by protesting against violence, testifying at tribunals and truth commissions, and constructing the political memory of violence.
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Designs, Book. LGBTQ Debut: Fill in Prompted Journal for Being Proud/Pride Gay Bisexual Non Binary Lesbian Gender Fluid Queer Transgender Straight /Journal Gifts Tool/ Diary Journal Notebook. Independently Published, 2021.
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Nielsen, Cynthia, and Michael Barnes Norton. Contributions from Philosophy. Edited by Adrian Thatcher. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.021.
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Gender, like race, is a controversial and volatile topic. We encounter one another as embodied and thus gendered beings. But what precisely is gender? What does it mean to be feminine? This chapter offers a philosophical analysis of the concept of gender and discourses about gender. The opening sections begin with a discussion of key terms and distinctions such as gender essentialism, gender as a social construction, the distinction between gender and (biological) sex, gender realism and nominalism, and so forth. Specific examples—both historical and contemporary—are employed to elucidate the claim that gender is socially constructed. Two sections are devoted to prominent feminist philosophers, Judith Butler and Linda Martín Alcoff. The topics addressed in these sections include: Butler’s notion of performing gender and her rejection of the gender/sex distinction, and Alcoff’s development of gender as positionality and fluid identity and her historically and materially sensitive version of gender realism.
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Shattuck, Debra A. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040375.003.0001.
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The Introduction presents the thesis that baseball has not always been identified as a man’s game even though its boosters began proclaiming it a “manly” pastime from the moment it coalesced into a new sport in antebellum America. It explains that humans use sport to inculcate and express socio-cultural identities like race, gender, social class, and ethnicity. It argues that sports can have gendered characterizations; these gendered characterizations can take decades to solidify. Gender ideals are fluid, influenced by myriad factors, and jointly constructed by men and women. Both men and women have used sport to model and perpetuate ideals of masculinity and femininity. The history of women baseball players as been distorted by myth and misperception as baseball’s gendered identity solidified.
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Designs, Book. What I Love about Me: A Fill in Prompted Journal for Kids to Feel Good about Themselves/Teens LGBTQ Gay Bisexual Transgender Non Binary Gender Fluid Journal Notebook Diary for Kids. Independently Published, 2021.
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Designs, Book. What I Love about Me: A Fill in Prompted Journal for Kids to Feel Good about Themselves/Teens LGBTQ Gay Bisexual Transgender Non-Binary Gender Fluid etc Journal Notebook Diary for Kids. Independently Published, 2021.
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Scott, Malcolm. Pansexual and Gender Fluid Pansexual Pride Flag Gifts and Gay LGBTQ Rights Merch: 100 Page College Ruled Diary Lined Journal Notebook Lined Notes Blank Paper Write Composition Back to School Gift Large. Independently Published, 2020.
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Designs, Book. I Am Proud: A Fill in Prompted Journal for Kids to Feel Good about Being Proud/Teens LGBTQ Gay Bisexual Transgender Non-Binary Gender Fluid etc Journal Notebook Diary Pride for Kids. Independently Published, 2021.
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Designs, Book. I Am Proud: A Fill in Prompted Journal for Kids to Feel Good about Being Proud/Teens LGBTQ Gay Bisexual Transgender Non-Binary Gender Fluid etc Journal Notebook Diary Pride for Kids and Teens. Independently Published, 2021.
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Designs, Book. What I Love about Me: A Fill in Prompted Journal for Kids to Feel Good about Themselves/Teens LGBTQ Gay Bisexual Transgender Non-Binary Gender Fluid etc Journal Notebook Diary for Kids Guitar Music Thened. Independently Published, 2021.
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Meizel, Katherine. Multivocality. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190621469.001.0001.
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This book frames vocality as a particularly holistic way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept embodying all the implications with which voice is inscribed—the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment. Like identity, vocality is fluid, constructed and reconstructed continually; even the most iconic of singers do not simply exercise a static voice throughout a lifetime. The book highlights such singers in vocal motion, focusing on their transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, between secular and religious contexts, between found voices and lost ones. And as 21st-century singers habitually perform across styles, genres, cultural contexts, histories, and identities, the author suggests that they are not only performing in multiple vocalities, but more critically, they are performing multivocality—creating and recreating identity through the process of singing with many voices, at once produced by and in resistance against neoliberal expectations. Multivocality, in its focus on the suppressions and soundings of voice in various borderlands of identity, works toward a deeper understanding of voice as a technology of the self and of culture.
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Chatterjee, Sandra, and Cynthia Ling Lee. “Our Love Was Not Enough”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199377329.003.0003.
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This essay recounts and analyzes the Post Natyam Collective’s process of creating the contemporary abhinaya work, “rapture/rupture.” Working in a feedback loop between theory and practice, it researched ways to denaturalize Indian classical kathak’s script of idealized femininity to facilitate fluid, diverse possibilities for performing gender and cultural belonging in South Asian aesthetic contexts. “Rapture/rupture” produces a dancing subject whose ethnic mismatch, hybrid movement vocabulary, gender nonconformity, and same-sex love across cultural difference exceed the boundaries of a kathak discourse that calls for purist notions of culture, race, nation, religion, and femininity. In theoretically analyzing how gender, cultural belonging, and desire are conceptualized through abhinaya, postmodern dance, US identity politics, and poststructuralist critiques of identity, it argues that embracing lack—being “not enough”—is a mode of exceeding dominant boundaries that enables a multilayered, intersectional dance-making practice that queers gender, queers cultural belonging, and embodies queer female desire.
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Ross, Marlon B. Sissy Insurgencies. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022459.
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In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender practices that are expressed as a physical manifestation, discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon. He reconsiders several black leaders, intellectuals, musicians, and athletes within the context of sissiness, from Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and James Baldwin to Little Richard, Amiri Baraka, and Wilt Chamberlain. Whether examining Washington’s practice of cleaning as an iteration of sissiness, Baldwin’s self-fashioned sissy deportment, or sissiphobia in professional sports and black nationalism, Ross demonstrates that sissiness can be embraced and exploited to conform to American gender norms or disrupt racialized patriarchy. In this way, sissiness constitutes a central element in modern understandings of race and gender.
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Rahilly, Elizabeth. Trans-Affirmative Parenting. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479820559.001.0001.
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In a world that is responding to ever-changing ideas and expressions of gender, this book adds new insights on transgender children and the parents who support them. Drawing on in-depth interview data with more than fifty parents, the book examines parents’ shifting understandings of their children’s gender and how they come to help their children make sense of their identities and their bodies. Throughout these processes, the book shows that parents’ meaning-making and decision-making often challenge LGBT rights discourses, as well as queer political tenets, in unexpected ways. These dynamics surface in three key areas: (1) gender and sexuality, (2) the gender binary, and (3) the body. Throughout parents’ understandings, gender identity and sexual orientation do not always present as radically separate aspects of the self, but are more fluid and open to reconsideration, given new cultural contexts, opportunities, and phases of the life course. And despite increasing cultural visibility around nonbinary identities, “gender-expansive” child-rearing often looks, fundamentally, very binary and gender-stereotypical, per the children’s own assertions and expressions. Lastly, parents often utilize highly medicalized understandings of transgender embodiment, which nevertheless resonate with some children’s sensibilities. Altogether, these families depart from conventional understandings of gender, sexuality, and the binary, but in ways that prioritize child-centered shifts, meanings, and parenting models, not necessarily LGBTQ politics or paradigms. This marks new ground for understanding the mechanisms and parameters of the (trans)gender change afoot.
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Bose, Mandakranta. Hinduism. Edited by Adrian Thatcher. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.014.
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In confronting questions of the origin of existence, asserting belief in an ultimate spiritual source of phenomena, and striving for a relationship between it and human beings, Hindu theology identifies sexuality as a valid and necessary explanation. Both on the theogonic plane and the worldly, Hindu thought associates sexuality with gender, but treats the latter as a fluid identity rather than natural and essential, viewing it as a product more of the will than of physiology, an ever-present but negotiable perception, since it can be willed into altered states. This is illustrated both by the myths of Hinduism and by its devotional cultures. Observing the evolution of Hindu theology, its major traditions, and its worship practices chronologically, this chapter demonstrates why and how sexuality and gender may serve as keys to understand Hindu spirituality.
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Dawson, Rebeccah, Bastian Heinsohn, Oliver Knabe, and Alan McDougall, eds. Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800736818.
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Over the past century, the impact of football on Germany has been manifold, influencing the arts, political debates, and even contributing to the construction of cultural memories and national narratives. Football Nation analyses the game’s fluid role in shaping and reflecting German society, and spans its focus on modern German history, from the Wilhelmine era to the early 21st century. Expounding on topics of gender, class, fandom, spectatorship, antisemitism, nationalism, and internationalism, a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars offer a novel approach to understanding the many influences of football throughout its extensive history which until recently has only been available to a German-speaking readership.
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DeFrantz, Thomas F. Switch. Edited by Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199928187.013.44.
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Moving from the political margins toward a black mainstream, many African American social dances often emerge in queer communities of color. This chapter explores politically embodied consequences and affects of queer social dances that enjoy concentrated attention outside their originary communities. J-setting, voguing, and hand-dancing—a form of queer dance popular in the 1970s–1980s—offer sites to consider the materialization of queer black aesthetic gesture, in dances that redefine gender identities and confirm fluid political economies of social dance and motion. These queer dances simultaneously resist and reinscribe gender conformity in their aesthetic devices; they also suggest alternative histories of black social dance economies in which queer creativity might be valued as its own end. Ultimately, the chapter suggests a haunting presence of queers-of-color aesthetic imperatives within political mobilizations of black social dance, continually—and ironically—conceived as part and parcel of rhetorics of liberation and freedom of movement.
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Bloomer, Kristin C. Possessed by the Virgin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615093.001.0001.
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This book is an ethnographic account of three Roman Catholic women in contemporary Tamil Nadu, south India, who claim to be possessed by Mary, the mother of Jesus. It follows their lives over more than a decade, describing their own, the researcher’s own, and devotees’ understandings of the women’s healing and possession practices along with questions about agency, gender roles, authenticity, and social power. It asks, how is it that some experiences of “possession” (a word introduced to India by Christian missionaries, which the book complicates through Tamil renditions) are recognized as authentic, yet others are not? What are the local conditions that enable their very possibility? Discussions of local and widespread “Hindu” practices and discourses shed light on how these women and their followers navigate their bodily experience, socioeconomic status, caste, and gender roles in a modern world of technological change and global economy—and how Church officials navigate these women. Part travelogue, part academic analysis, the book addresses a wide audience, including academics interested in the study of religion, spirit possession, anthropology, women’s and gender studies, postcolonialism, Global Christianity, Tamil culture, Mariology, fluid boundaries across “traditions,” and the relationship between the ethnographer-“Self” and “Other.”
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Hatfield, Mary. Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843429.001.0001.
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century childhood was a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and responsibilities dependent on class, gender, and religious identity. By 1860 the idea of what childhood was supposed to be had been consolidated to a large degree by the middle classes, who rejected the lavish opulence of the aristocracy and the economic dependency of the working classes to create their own brand of child-rearing. The book explores ways in which adults dealt with children, particularly within the family and in educational institutions across the island of Ireland. This book takes a holistic approach towards the middle-class child’s social world utilizing medical and educational literature, religious tracts, personal correspondence, school archives, and material culture sources. It facilitates an understanding of gender roles, children’s participation in middle-class domesticity, and the use of education by middle-class families to shape a cultural narrative of childhood. The chapters address child-advice literature, differences in Catholic and Protestant childhoods, children’s fashions, and Irish boarding schools.
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Flood, Victoria, and Megan G. Leitch, eds. Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance. Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781800104402.
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Partis-Jennings, Hannah. The Military-Peace Complex. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453325.001.0001.
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This book focuses on the military and statebuilding components of the international project in Afghanistan since 2001. It posits and discusses the military-peace complex as a framework for understanding the international project in Afghanistan, pointing to the sliding together and collapse between military and peace actors, mandates, and ideational frameworks. Focusing on the role of gender as well as material and spatial entanglements, the author argues that military and peace work in the liberal mode cannot be logically separated but rather are co-constituted and operate in a dynamic relationship to each other with fluid and shifting boundaries. Based on original interviews and wider research, the book offers a holistic way of viewing the international project in Afghanistan, drawing attention to its under-noticed elements, and providing a new way of understanding its politics.
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Edmonds, David, ed. Future Morality. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198862086.001.0001.
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The world is changing so fast that it is hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how scientific advances will affect our lives before they are upon us. New kinds of dilemma are springing up. Can robots be held responsible for their actions? Will artificial intelligence be able to predict criminal activity? Is the future gender-fluid? Should we strive to become post-human? Should we use drugs to improve our intimate relationships — or to reduce crime? Our intuitions about questions like these are often both weak and confused. This book presents provocative and engaging pieces about aspects of life today, and life tomorrow — birth and death, health and medicine, brain and body, personal relationships, wrongdoing and justice, the internet, animals, and the environment.
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Lindsay, Keisha. In a Classroom of Their Own. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041730.001.0001.
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Many supporters of all-black male schools (ABMS) argue that they reduce black boys’ exposure to racist, “overly” feminized teachers. In casting black boys as victims of intersecting racial and gendered oppression, these supporters -- many of whom are black males -- demand an end to racism in the classroom and do so on the sexist assumption that women teachers are emasculating. This rationale for ABMS raises two questions that feminist theory has lost sight of. Why do oppressed groups articulate their experience in ways that challenge and reproduce inequality? Is it possible to build emancipatory political coalitions among groups who make such claims? This book answers these questions by articulating a new politics of experience. It begins by demonstrating that intersectionality is a politically fluid rather than an always feminist analytical framework. It also reveals a dialectical reality in which groups’ experiential claims rest on harmful assumptions and foster emancipatory demands. This book concludes that black male supporters of single-gender schools for black boys can build worthwhile coalitions around this complex reality when they interrogate their own as well as their critics’ assumptions and demands. Doing so enables these supporters to engage in educational advocacy that recognizes the value of public schools while criticizing the quality of such schools available to black boys and black girls.
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Broderick, Céire. Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Identities in Chile. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348479.001.0001.
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This book explores traditional and contemporary concerns surrounding gender and ethnicity in Chile through a textual analysis of historical novels depicting seventeenth-century figure, Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer. Drawing on theories from the Global North and South, it incorporates postcolonial perspectives and decolonial feminist approaches to expose patriarchal, Eurocentric hierarchies constructed during the colonial era, which remain in Chilean society today. Through close readings, the book demonstrates that it is in the inconsistent and fluid depictions of characters that identities are deconstructed and reconstructed in ways that defy and transform social norms. This is the first extended English-language study of this infamous historical figure, who is more widely known as la Quintrala. It is also the first to compare the literary portrayals by Mercedes Valdivieso and Gustavo Frías. Looking beyond the infamy which usually shapes interpretations of la Quintrala, the author presents these novels as an embodiment of the anxieties surrounding hybridity in Chile, where European heritage has traditionally overshadowed indigenous concerns, and patriarchal norms dominate the construction of gender. Written during a period of social and political upheaval in Chile, it makes a timely contribution to existing works in social and political science, popular culture and the ongoing discussions of this iconic figure.
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Gibson, K. Michael, Cornelis Jakobs, and Philip L. Pearl. Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199972135.003.0029.
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Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency presents with intellectual disability, disproportionate deficit in expressive language, hypotonia, ataxia, and seizures.1,2 (1 Pearl et al 2011; 2 Vogel et al 2012). A diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder frequently occurs, correlated with neuropsychiatric morbidity (ADHD, OCD, PDD). 1,3 The biochemical hallmark, γ-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), is elevated in physiological fluids, as is γ-aminobutyrate (GABA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).4,5 Both species are neuroactive. Clinical manifestations are universally present in early childhood, although diagnosis delayed to adulthood has been reported.6 Acute decompensation or complications relate primarily to seizures, intercurrent illnesses sometimes associated with respiratory dysfunction in the setting of hypotonia, or adverse medication responses. Diagnostic confirmation requires urine organic acid analysis (increased GHB) with confirmation via enzyme assay (white cells) and/or molecular characterization of the aldehyde dehydrogenase 5a1 (ALDH5A1) gene.
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Boxall, Peter, and Bryan Cheyette, eds. The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749394.001.0001.
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This book offers an account on the last eight decades of British and Irish prose fiction. It begins during the Second World War, when novel production fell by more than a third, and ends at a time when new technologies have made possible the publication of an unprecedented number of fiction titles and have changed completely the relationship between authors, publishers, the novel, and the reader. The chapters look at the impact of global warfare on the novel from the Second World War to the Cold War to the twenty-first century; the reflexive continuities of late modernism; the influence of film and television on the novel form; mobile and fluid connections between sexuality, gender, and different periods of women’s writing; a broad range of migrant and ethnic fictions; and the continuities and discontinuities of prose fiction in different regional, national, class, and global contexts. Across the volume there is a blurring of the boundary between genre fiction and literary fiction, as the literary thinking of the period is traced in the spy novel, the children’s novel, the historical novel, the serial novel, shorter fiction, the science fiction novel, and the comic novel. The final chapters of the volume explore the relationship of twenty-first century fiction to post-war culture, and show how this new fiction both emerges from the history of the novel, and prefigures the novel to come.
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Pfeiffer, Julie. Transforming Girls. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496836267.001.0001.
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Transforming Girls: The Power of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence refocuses the history of the girls’ book and female adolescence through a comparative analysis of forgotten bestsellers aimed at adolescent girls in the United States and Germany. While these stories rely on gender binaries and suggest that girls must accommodate and support a patriarchal framework to be happy, they also provide access to imagined worlds in which teens are at the center. This is a space where mentors who trust themselves and the girl’s essentially good nature neutralize the girl’s own anxieties about maturity. These mid-nineteenth-century novels focus on female adolescence as a social category in unexpected ways. They draw not on a twentieth-century model of the alienated adolescent, but on a model of collaborative growth. Adolescence—a category that continues to engage and perplex us—is defined in these novels as a celebration of fluid identity and the deliberate construction of a self. Through insightful readings of best-selling novels, Transforming Girls explores the origins of the young adult novel, mothering as a communal enterprise, the teaching of gender identity, the girls’ book as a model for narratives of nation building, and homesickness as an antidote to nostalgia. It provides access to a forgotten group of texts that reframe our understanding of the history of the girls’ book, young adult literature, and the possibilities of adolescence. The awkward adolescent girl—so popular in mid-nineteenth-century fiction for girls—remains a valuable resource for understanding contemporary girls and stories about them.
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Trainor, Kevin, and Paula Arai, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190632922.001.0001.
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This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art exploration of several key dynamics in current studies of the Buddhist tradition with a focus on practice. Embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions, in contrast to popular representations of Buddhism as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. This volume highlights how practice often represents a fluid, dynamic, and strategic means of defining identity and negotiating the challenges of everyday life. The chapters explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars’ own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in their respective subject areas and taken together offer an overview of current thinking in the field. The volume is of particular value to scholars who seek an orientation to current perspectives on important conceptual, theoretical, and methodological concerns that are shaping the field in areas outside their primary expertise. The inclusion of substantial, up-to-date bibliographies also makes the volume an important guide to current scholarship.
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Kurchin, Bernice. Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance. Edited by Diane F. George . University Press of Florida, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056197.001.0001.
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In situations of displacement, disruption, and difference, humans adapt by actively creating, re-creating, and adjusting their identities using the material world. This book employs the discipline of historical archaeology to study this process as it occurs in new and challenging environments. The case studies furnish varied instances of people wresting control from others who wish to define them and of adaptive transformation by people who find themselves in new and strange worlds. The authors consider multiple aspects of identity, such as race, class, gender, and ethnicity, and look for ways to understand its fluid and intersecting nature. The book seeks to make the study of the past relevant to our globalized, postcolonized, and capitalized world. Questions of identity formation are critical in understanding the world today, in which boundaries are simultaneously breaking down and being built up, and humans are constantly adapting to the ever-changing milieu. This book tackles these questions not only in multiple dimensions of earthly space but also in a panorama of historical time. Moving from the ancient past to the unknowable future and through numerous temporal stops in between, the reader travels from New York to the Great Lakes, Britain to North Africa, and the North Atlantic to the West Indies.
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More, Alison. Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807698.001.0001.
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Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres suggest that the women who inhabited them once held a prominent role. Despite leaving a visible mark on cities, much of the story of these women—known variously as beguines, tertiaries, klopjes, recluses, and anchoresses—remains to be told. Instead of aspiring to live as traditional religious, they transcended normative assumptions about religion and gender and had a very real impact on their religious and secular worlds. The sources for their tale are often fragmentary and difficult to interpret. However, careful scrutiny allows their voices to be heard. Drawing on an array of sources including religious rules, sermons, hagiographic vitae, and rapiaria, this work traces the story of pious laywomen between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. It both emphasizes the innovative roles of women who transcended established forms of institutional religious life and reveals the ways in which historiographical habits have obscured the dynamic and fluid nature of their histories. By highlighting the development of irregular and extra-regular communities and tracing the threads of regularization and monasticization that wove their way around pious laywomen, this book draws attention to the vibrant and dynamic culture of feminine lay piety that persisted from the later middle ages onwards.
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Quinn, Rachel Afi. Being La Dominicana. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043819.001.0001.
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With this book, Rachel Afi Quinn makes the case for a transnational feminist cultural studies lens of analysis and an ethnographic approach to the study of race, gender, and visual culture in the Dominican Republic. This book provides a new window into contemporary life in Santo Domingo through which surrealist cultural productions reflect the social climate. Quinn theorizes the ways that the racial meaning of Dominican women’s mixed-race bodies “see/saw” in the viewing moment, as they are read visually in relation to others and informed by particular narratives of identity. Drawing on some forty interviews conducted by the author, this text centers these voices as it reveals the ways that the mixed-race bodies of Dominican women and girls signify within a racial schema tied to an economy in which they are commodified. Queer identities and fluid sexualities intersect with racial ambiguity and Dominican whiteness, Quinn argues, while incorporating public art, digital images, and Dominican film and music videos that are circulated transnationally, including performances by Rita Indiana Hernández and Michelle Rodriguez. Numerous other works by Dominican women artists and activists including print and online publications, documented live performances, photographic images, and social media discourse compose this text. Transnational political organizing is also considered here as part of a legacy of Dominican feminist activism against patriarchal oppression
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Newman, Judith H. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190212216.003.0006.
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Although by no means offering a complete taxonomy of scripture formation, the book considers a wide range of literary genres and practices across the diverse population of Judeans throughout the region. The conclusion draws out some of the implications for understanding the fluid nature of scriptures in the Hellenistic-Roman era. The search for the “original text” of the Bible is a vain one; rather, scriptures were formed through a traditioning process that involved sacralization through the entwinement of prayer practices and textual interpretation. These texts were mediated by learned teachers and leaders in textual communities.
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Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles, María. Our Lady of Everyday Life. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190280390.001.0001.
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Based on ethnographic research in northern California, Our Lady of Everyday provides an in-depth cross-sectional analysis of three groups of Mexican origin women between the ages of 18 and 82 (single and in college; mothers; and older women). The study traces their life trajectories from childhood to adulthood. Castañeda-Liles found that their mothers’ Catholic devotion became the first religious/cultural template from within which they learned to see themselves as people of faith in a specific sociocultural context. She also found that the Catholic culture in which the mothers socialized the participants provided the parameters within which they learn how to be good girls in ways that reduces a girl’s agency to rubble. Castañeda-Liles argues that instead of blindly accepting androcentric Catholic teachings or rejecting Catholicism altogether, the women developed a type of Mexican Catholic imagination that allowed them to transgress limiting notions of what a good Catholic woman should be, while retaining the aspects of Catholicism they found life-giving—all the while continuing to identify as Catholics. This is most visible in their relationship to La Virgen de Guadalupe, which is not fixed but fluid and deeply engaged in their process of self-awareness in everyday life. Their stories demonstrate that the ways race, class, gender, sexuality, and religion intersect have serious implications for our understanding of women’s subjectivity and their mental and physical health. Therefore, Castañeda-Liles argues that treating these categories of analysis as mutually exclusive undermines the researcher’s ability to grasp the fluidity and complexity of women’s lived experience.