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Bikini-Ready Moms
(September 2015)
Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body
Lynn O'Brien Hallstein - Author
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2016 Outstanding Book Award, presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)
Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of “body work.”
The requirements of “good” motherhood used to primarily involve the care of children, but now contemporary mother...(Read More) |
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It Hurts Down There
(September 2015)
The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain
Christine Labuski - Author
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Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.
How does a woman describe a part of her body that much of society teaches her to never discuss? It Hurts Down There analyzes the largest known set of qualitative research data about vulvar pain conditions. It tells the story of one hundred women who s...(Read More) |
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Explicit Utopias
(August 2015)
Rewriting the Sexual in Women's Pornography
Amalia Ziv - Author
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Provides an incisive account of women’s porn and queer porn of the 1980s and 1990s.
Explicit Utopias explores a problem that has long haunted feminist, lesbian, and queer critics: the obstacles to imagining women’s desire and sexual agency. Pornography is one arena in which women have actively sought to imaginatively overcome this problem, yet pornography has also been an object of passionate feminist content...(Read More) |
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Oklahomo
(August 2015)
Lessons in Unqueering America
Carol Mason - Author
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Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950s.
By exploring the scandal-filled lives of four Oklahomans, this book demonstrates how unqueering operates in a conservative American context. Carol Mason weaves a story about how homogenizing, antigay ideas evolve from generation to generation so that they achieve particular economic, imperial, ra...(Read More) |
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Age Becomes Us
(July 2015)
Bodies and Gender in Time
Leni Marshall - Author
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Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.
In lively, accessible prose, this book expands the reach and depth of age studies. A review of age studies methods in theory, literature, and practice leads readers to see how their own intersectional identities shape their beliefs about age, aging, and old age. This study asks readers to interrogate the &ldqu...(Read More) |
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Maternal Activism
(April 2015)
Mothers Confronting Injustice
Danielle Poe - Author
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Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.
Maternal Activism tells the stories of women who refused to ignore injustice even though many people urged them to stop their activism by claiming it would harm their children. Molly Rush, Michele Naar-Obed, Cindy Sheehan, and Diane Wilson recognized that the potential well-being of their children relates...(Read More) |
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Feminist Figure Girl
(February 2015)
Look Hot While You Fight the Patriarchy
Lianne McTavish - Author
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Analyzes the author’s transformation from academic to figure competitor.
Feminist Figure Girl chronicles the transformation of art history professor Lianne McTavish, from a university professor into an extraordinarily tanned and crystal-encrusted bikini-wearing “figure girl.” Figure competitions seek a softer appearance than traditional forms of bodybuilding but still require rigorous weightl...(Read More) |
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Sexual Virtue
(February 2015)
An Approach to Contemporary Christian Ethics
Richard W. McCarty - Author
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Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm.
Richard W. McCarty offers a compassionate and inclusive conception of sexual virtue, one that liberates Christians from traditional patriarchal requirements for heterosexuality, marriage, and procreation. Daring to depart from ongoing debates about what Aristotle or Aquinas had to sa...(Read More) |
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