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Love In The Lav - A Social Biography Of Same-Sex Desire In Ireland, 1922-1972

by Averill Earls

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Love In The Lav - A Social Biography Of Same-Sex Desire In Ireland, 1922-1972

by Averill Earls

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Sodomy'S Solicitations - A Right To Queerness

by Joseph J. Fischel

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 Builds out a politics of sexual justice that challenges state sex exceptionalism. By tracing several twenty-first century contestations around Louisiana anti-sodomy laws, Fischel examines patterns and practices of sexual injustice that are too easily eclipsed by our collective focus on marginalized identities.
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Talk About Sex - How Sex Ed Battles Helped Ignite The Right

by Janice Irvine

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 Praise for Talk about Sex "Must reading for scholars, sexuality researchers, activists, and public policy and public health planners engaged in efforts to promote education on sex, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV infection prevention for adolescents in schools."—JAMA Talk about Sex is a rich social history about the political transformations, cultural dynamics, and emotional rhetorical strategies that helped the right wing manufacture controversies on the local and national levels in the United States. Although the emergence of a politicized Christian Right is commonly dated at the mid-seventies, with the founding of groups like the Moral Majority, Talk about Sex tells the story of a powerful right-wing Christian presence in politics a full decade earlier. These activists used inflammatory sexual rhetoric—oftentimes deceptive and provocative—to capture the terms of public debate, galvanize voters, and reshape the culture according to their own vision. This 20th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface and epilogue by the author that examines current controversies over public education on sexuality, gender, and race. Demonstrating how the right wing draws on the cultural power of sexual shame and fear to build a political movement, Talk about Sex explores the complex entanglements of sexual knowledge, politics, and discourses.
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Postsecondary Education In British Columbia - Public Policy And Structural Development, 1960â€“2015

by Robert Cowin

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 Postsecondary Education in British Columbia is a thoughtful critical analysis of the role of social justice, human capital, and the market in the development of institutions and public policy in BC education since 1960.
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Incorporating Culture - How Indigenous People Are Reshaping The Northwest Coast Art Industry

by Solen Roth

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 Incorporating Culture examines what happens when Indigenous people assert control over the commercialization of their art by instilling the market with their communitiesâ€™ values.
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Captain Alex Maclean - Jack London'S Sea Wolf

by Don Macgillivray

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 Sealing wars and maritime history are brought into focus in this vivid account of the life of the Alex MacLean, the inspiration for Jack London's Sea-Wolf.
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&Quote;Beyond The Law&Quote; - The Politics Of Ending The Death Penalty For Sodomy In Britain

by Charles Upchurch

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 In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man’s reputation for life. The last executions for this private, consensual act were in 1835, but the effort to change the law that allowed for those executions was intense and precarious, and not successful until 1861. In this groundbreaking book, "Beyond the Law," noted historian Charles Upchurch pieces together fragments from history and uses a queer history methodology to recount the untold story of the political process through which the law allowing for the death penalty for sodomy was almost ended in 1841. Upchurch recounts the legal and political efforts of reformers like Jeremy Bentham and Lord John Russell—the latter of whom argued that the death penalty for sodomy was "beyond the law and above the law." He also reveals that a same-sex relationship linked the families of the two men responsible for co-sponsoring the key legislation. By recovering the various ethical, religious, and humanitarian arguments against punishing sodomy, "Beyond the Law" overturns longstanding assumptions of nineteenth-century British history. Upchurch demonstrates that social change came from an amalgam of reformist momentum, family affection, elitist politics, class privilege, enlightenment philosophy, and personal desires.
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Public City/Public Sex - Homosexuality, Prostitution, And Urban Culture In Nineteenth-Century Paris

by Andrew Israel Ross

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 <div> In the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, cafés, dancehalls, and even public urinals. However, complaints also arose regarding an apparent increase in public sexual activity, and the appearance of "individuals of both sexes with depraved morals" in these spaces. Andrew Israel Ross’s illuminating study, Public City/Public Sex, chronicles the tension between the embourgeoisement and democratization of urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris and the commercialization and commodification of a public sexual culture, the emergence of new sex districts, as well as the development of gay and lesbian subcultures. Public City/Public Sex examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the struggle to control sex in public and argues that it was the very effort to police the city that created new opportunities for women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men. Placing public sex at the center of urban history, Ross shows how those who used public spaces played a central role in defining the way the city was understood. </div>
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Hirschfeld Archives - Violence, Death, And Modern Queer Culture

by Heike Bauer

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 <div> Influential sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded Berlin’s Institute of Sexual Sciences in 1919 as a home and workplace to study homosexual rights activism and support transgender people. It was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933. This episode in history prompted Heike Bauer to ask, Is violence an intrinsic part of modern queer culture? The Hirschfeld Archives answers this critical question by examining the violence that shaped queer existence in the first part of the twentieth century. Hirschfeld himself escaped the Nazis, and many of his papers and publications survived. Bauer examines his accounts of same-sex life from published and unpublished writings, as well as books, articles, diaries, films, photographs and other visual materials, to scrutinize how violence—including persecution, death and suicide—shaped the development of homosexual rights and political activism. The Hirschfeld Archives brings these fragments of queer experience together to reveal many unknown and interesting accounts of LGBTQ life in the early twentieth century, but also to illuminate the fact that homosexual rights politics were haunted from the beginning by racism, colonial brutality, and gender violence. </div>
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Sexology And Translation - Cultural And Scientific Encounters Across The Modern World

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 Sexology and Translation is the first study of the contemporaneous emergence of sexology in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Heike Bauer and her contributors—historians, literary and cultural critics, and translation scholars—address the intersections between sexuality and modernity in a range of contexts during the period from the 1880s to the 1930s. From feminist sexualities in modern Japan to Magnus Hirschfeld’s affective sexology, this book offers compelling new insights into how sexual ideas were formed in different contexts via a complex process of cultural negotiation. By focusing on issues of translation—the dynamic process by which ideas are produced and transmitted—the essays in Sexology and Translation provide an important corrective to the pervasive idea that sexuality is a "Western" construct that was transmitted around the world. This volume deepens understanding of how the intersections between national and transnational contexts, between science and culture, and between discourse and experience, shaped modern sexuality. <div> </div>
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Sex And The Founding Fathers - The American Quest For A Relatable Past

by Thomas A. Foster

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 Biographers, journalists, and satirists have long used the subject of sex to define the masculine character and political authority of America''s Founding Fathers. Tracing these commentaries on the Revolutionary Era''s major political figures in Sex and the Founding Fathers, Thomas Foster shows how continual attempts to reveal the true character of these men instead exposes much more about Americans and American culture than about the Founders themselves. Sex and the Founding Fathers examines the remarkable and varied assessments of the intimate lives of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouverneur Morris from their own time to ours. Interpretations can change radically; consider how Jefferson has been variously idealized as a chaste widower, condemned as a child molester, and recently celebrated as a multicultural hero. Foster considers the public and private images of these generally romanticized leaders to show how each generation uses them to reshape and reinforce American civic and national identity. <div> </div>
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Mobilizing Gay Singapore - Rights And Resistance In An Authoritarian State

by Lynette J Chua

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 For decades, Singapore''s gay activists have sought equality and justice in a state where law is used to stifle basic civil and political liberties. In her groundbreaking book, Mobilizing Gay Singapore, Lynette Chua asks, what does a social movement look like in an authoritarian state? She takes an expansive view of the gay movement to examine its emergence, development, strategies, and tactics, as well as the roles of law and rights in social processes. Chua tells this important story using in-depth interviews with gay activists, observations of the movement''s activities-including "Pink Dot" events, where thousands of Singaporeans gather in annual celebrations of gay pride-movement documents, government statements, and media reports. She shows how activists deploy "pragmatic resistance" to gain visibility and support, tackle political norms that suppress dissent, and deal with police harassment, while avoiding direct confrontations with the law. Mobilizing Gay Singapore also addresses how these brave, locally engaged citizens come out into the open as gay activists and expand and diversify their efforts in the global queer political movement. <div> </div>
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Just Queer Folks - Gender And Sexuality In Rural America

by Colin R. Johnson

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 Uncovering the history of gender and sexual nonconformity in rural America during the first half of the twentieth century
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Deregulating Desire - Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, And Workplace Justice

by Ryan Patrick Murphy

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 <div> In 1975, National Airlines was shut down for 127 days when flight attendants went on strike to protest long hours and low pay. Activists at National and many other U.S. airlines sought to win political power and material resources for people who live beyond the boundary of the traditional family. In Deregulating Desire, Ryan Patrick Murphy, a former flight attendant himself, chronicles the efforts of single women, unmarried parents, lesbians and gay men, as well as same-sex couples to make the airline industry a crucible for social change in the decades after 1970. Murphy situates the flight attendant union movement in the history of debates about family and work. Each chapter offers an economic and a cultural analysis to show how the workplace has been the primary venue to enact feminist and LGBTQ politics. From the political economic consequences of activism to the dynamics that facilitated the rise of what Murphy calls the "family values economy" to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, Deregulating Desire emphasizes the enduring importance of social justice for flight attendants in the twenty-first century. </div>
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Making Modern Love - Sexual Narratives And Identities In Interwar Britain

by Lisa Z. Sigel

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 How people used popular culture between the world wars to articulate sexual identities and practices
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The Nature Of Masculinity - Critical Theory, New Materialisms, And Technologies Of Embodiment

by Steve Garlick

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 Harnessing the strengths of social theory and new materialisms, this book advances a new critical theory of masculinity.
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Guiding Modern Girls - Girlhood, Empire, And Internationalism In The 1920s And 1930s

by Kristine Alexander

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 By analyzing how the Girl Guide movement sought to maintain social stability in England, Canada, and India during the 1920s and 1930s, this book reveals the ways in which girls and young women understood, reworked, and sometimes challenged the expectations placed on them by the worldâ€™s largest voluntary organization for girls.
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Mothers And Others - The Role Of Parenthood In Politics

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 The first major comparative analysis of the role of parenthood in politics, this book raises important questions about the intersection of gender, parental status, and political life.
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Infidels And The Damn Churches - Irreligion And Religion In Settler British Columbia

by Lynne Marks

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 The first major historical study of secularism in Canada, Infidels and the Damn Churches traces the origins of irreligion in BC to the unique character of the regionâ€™s settler society.
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Fraught Intimacies - Non/Monogamy In The Public Sphere

by Nathan Rambukkana

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 Drawing on media, popular culture, and recent court cases, this book examines how various forms of non-monogamy (polygamy, adultery, and polyamory) are represented in the public sphere, how some forms of non-monogamy are tolerated and others vilified, and the effects such privileging is having on intimate relationships and other aspects of contemporary Western society.
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Making A Scene - Lesbians And Community Across Canada, 1964-84

by Liz Millward

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 A celebratory history of how lesbians â€œmade a sceneâ€ by creating places and opportunities to form relationships, debate politics, and build their own culture across Canada.
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"Beyond The Law" - The Politics Of Ending The Death Penalty For Sodomy In Britain

by Charles Upchurch

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Sex And The Founding Fathers - The American Quest For A Relatable Past

by Thomas A. Foster

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