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  • Women, Health, and Healing

    Toward A New Perspective

    Edited by Ellen Lewin, Virginia Olesen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1985, this collection of essays expands the understanding of both health itself and the ways in which women may experience their roles as consumers and providers of health care. The authors represent a number of disciplines – anthropology, sociology and political science – and examine issues of public concern on both sides of the Atlantic. Many important health questions ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Gay Fatherhood

    Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America

    by Ellen Lewin ...
    Men are often thought to have less interest in parenting than women, and gay men are generally assumed to prefer pleasure over responsibility. The toxic combination of these two stereotypical views has led to a lack of serious attention being paid to the experiences of gay fathers. But the truth is that more and more gay men are setting out to become parents and succeeding—and Gay Fatherhood aims ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Out in Theory

    The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology

    Edited by Ellen Lewin, William L. Leap ...
    A companion volume to Out in the Field, a benchmark examination of lesbian and gay experiences in anthropology, Out in Theory presents lesbian and gay anthropology as a distinct specialization and addresses the theoretical issues that define the emerging field.This compelling collection of essays details the scholarly and personal factors that affected the emergence of lesbian and gay anthropology ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century

    by A. Lynn Bolles, Matthew R. Dudgeon, Meena Rani Khandelwal, Catherine Kingfisher, Elise A. Kramer, Lynn Kwiatkowski0, Louise Lamphere1, Frances Mascia-Lees2, Rayna Rapp3, Margot Weiss4, Elizabeth F. S. Roberts5, Kimberly Theidon6 ...
    Feminist anthropology emerged in the 1970s as a much-needed corrective to the discipline’s androcentric biases. Far from being a marginalized subfield, it has been at the forefront of developments that have revolutionized not only anthropology, but also a host of other disciplines. This landmark collection of essays provides a contemporary overview of feminist anthropology’s historical and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Filled with the Spirit

    Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal Church Coalition

    by Ellen Lewin ...
    In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now as the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries or TFAM, has at its core the idea of “radical inclusivity”: the powerful assertion that everyone, no matter how seemingly flawed or corrupted, has holiness within. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Lesbian Mothers

    Accounts of Gender in American Culture

    by Ellen Lewin ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories of how they became mothers; how they see their relationships with their children, relatives, lovers, and friends and with their children's fathers and sperm donors; how ... Read more

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  • Men and Feminism

    Seal Studies

    by Shira Tarrant ...
    Series series Seal Studies
    There's no denying that men's involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Addressing the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place, Men and Feminism lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not simply a women's issue. Men are crucial to the movement—as fathers, brothers, husbands, boyfriends, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Imagining Transgender

    An Ethnography of a Category

    by David Valentine ...
    Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Twenty-first Century Motherhood

    Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency

    Edited by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    A pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and practice, considering developments that were unimaginable decades ago: the Internet, interracial surrogacy, raising transchildren, male mothering, intensive mothering, queer parenting, the applications of new biotechnologies, and mothering in the post-9/11 era. Her work pulls together a range ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Tolerance Trap

    How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality

    by Suzanna Danuta Walters ...
    From Glee to gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedly experienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics and culture. Our reigning national story is that a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and this seemingly brave new gay world is disappointing. For all of the undeniable changes, the plea for tolerance has ... Read more

    $18.39 USD

  • Lesbian Death

    Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer

    by Mairead Sullivan ...
    Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identityThe loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In Lesbian Death, Mairead Sullivan probes the perception that lesbian status is in retreat, exploring the political promises—and especially the failures—of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, Practice. The 2nd Edition

    by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of feminism centered on mothers. This second edition expands on matricentric feminism, positioning mothering as a verb to understand motherwork in a gender-neutral way while appreciating its gendered dimensions.Andrea O'Reilly argues that the category of mother is distinct from that of woman, addressing the unique challenges mothers face under patriarchy. This feminism ... Read more

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