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Celibacies

American Modernism and Sexual Life

Benjamin Kahan

In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality.

Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.

Duke University Press

October 2013 232pp 9780822355687 PB £15.99 now only £11.19 when you quote CS1213SEXU when you order.

Feminist, Queer, Crip

Alison Kafer

"Kafer presents a bold and challenging perspective on potential futures for, and coalitions of, various politicized groups that are usually imagined separately--crips and queers, but also feminists, trans-gendered people, environmentalists, environmental justice activists, reproductive justice activists, "restroom revolutionaries," and people with MCS." —Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas at Arlington

"Kafer interrogates the ableist assumptions that pervade social and academic discourses and offers a critique of how these assumptions are put into practice in ways that directly affect the lives of people with disabilities. This is an original and comprehensive work that brings together disability studies, feminist theory, and queer theory." —Licia Carlson, Providence College

"Provocatively poised at the intersections of queer, feminist, disability, environmental, and critical race scholarship and justice movements, this book presents a welcome and necessary meditation on the meaning and temporality of disability. Impressive in scope, sophistication, and imagination." —Kim Q. Hall, Appalachian State University

In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world.

Indiana University Press

July 2013 276pp 9780253009340 PB £17.99 now only £12.59 when you quote CS1213SEXU when you order.

Global Homophobia

States, Movements, and the Politics of Oppression

Edited by Meredith L. Weiss and Michael J. Bosia

"A cohesive yet complex account of the phenomenon of global homophobia. This impressive scholarship will be useful for scholars and students in LGBT studies, women's and gender studies, comparative political science, and political history." — Susan Burgess, author of The New York Times on Gay and Lesbian Issues

While homophobia is commonly characterized as individual and personal prejudice, this collection of essays instead explores homophobia as a transnational political phenomenon. Contributors theorize homophobia as a distinct configuration of repressive state-sponsored policies and practices with their own causes, explanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a range of national contexts. The essays include a broad range of geographic cases, including Cameroon, Ecuador, Iran, Lebanon, Poland, Singapore, and the United States.

University of Illinois Press

October 2013 288pp 9780252079337 PB £16.99 now only £11.89 when you quote CS1213SEXU when you order.

Hungochani, Second Edition

The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa

Marc Epprecht

"Described by reviewers as 'groundbreaking' and 'a dazzling contribution', Epprecht's history surveys for the first time homosexual identities in Zimbabwe and South Africa from pre-colonial times to the present. This is unfamiliar terrain for many of us — and an important topic in current studies of Africa. This is also a work of political activism, for gay rights and feminism, a work that is sensitive to the changes ushered in by colonialism, especially urban growth and racism ... a highly original work from a scholar who is fast becoming known as the leading intellectual on African sexualities ... an exceptional piece of work." —the Joel Gregory Prize jury

In the tapestry of global queer cultures, Africa has long been neglected or stereotyped. In Hungochani, Marc Epprecht seeks to change these limited views by tracing Southern Africa's history and traditions of homosexuality, modern gay and lesbian identities, and the vibrant gay rights movement that has emerged since the 1980s.

Epprecht explores the diverse ways African cultures traditionally explained same-sex sexuality and follows the emergence of new forms of gender identity and sexuality that evolved with the introduction of capitalism, colonial rule, and Christian education. Using oral testimony, memoirs, literature, criminal court records, and early government enquiries from the eighteenth century to the present, he traces the complex origins of homophobia. By bringing forth a wealth of evidence about once-hidden sexual behaviour, Epprecht contributes to the honest, open discussion that is urgently needed in the battle against HIV/AIDS.

In a new preface to this edition, Epprecht considers the recent advances of equality on the continent such as the legalization of same-sex marriage in South Africa, as well as discriminatory setbacks such as Uganda's anti-homosexuality legislation.

McGill-Queen's University Press

May 2013 360pp 9780773541719 PB £19.99 now only £13.99 when you quote CS1213SEXU when you order.

Mad Men, Mad World

Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s

Edited by Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky and Robert A. Rushing

"One of the most critically acclaimed and culturally fetishized television shows of the past decade receives an intellectual deconstruction in this collection of academic essays.... Throughout the book are intelligent discussions dissecting the central themes addressed in the show, such as masculinity and feminism, identity, and race relations and representations." —Publishers Weekly, January 2013

"I read this collection with enormous pleasure. The essays are smart, creative, and original. Writing on matters from TV technology to the history of advertising, and from the early civil rights movement to analogies between Jews and nineteenth-century dandies, the contributors illuminate what turns out to be a very rich and charismatic cultural object."—Bruce Robbins, author of Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence

"What a treat for me to delve into this work with so much academic and intellectual rigor—I love it!"—Phil Abraham, director, Mad Men

“Mad Men, Mad World's brilliance is that it analyzes storylines and characters from completely unexpected angles. . . . These are deeply considered pieces that truly spark intellectual discussion. It's a mad world, indeed, but this book helps to bring some order to the chaos.”—Natalie Papailiou, Shelf Awareness for Readers

Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking TV series. Scholars from across the humanities consider the AMC drama from a fascinating array of perspectives, including fashion, history, architecture, civil rights, feminism, consumerism, art, cinema, and the serial format, as well as through theoretical frames such as critical race theory, gender, queer theory, global studies, and psychoanalysis. In the introduction, the editors explore the show's popularity; its controversial representations of race, class, and gender; its powerful influence on aesthetics and style; and its unique use of period historicism and advertising as a way of speaking to our neoliberal moment. Mad Men, Mad World also includes an interview with Phil Abraham, an award-winning Mad Men director and cinematographer. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that understanding Mad Menmeans engaging the show not only as a reflection of the 1960s but also as a commentary on the present day.

Duke University Press

97 illustrations

April 2013 432pp 9780822354185 PB £18.99 now only £13.29 when you quote CS1213SEXU when you order.

Reproductive Acts

Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film

Heather Latimer

"This is a full and inclusive inquiry into identity, national citizenship, the politics of the body, technology, science, femininity, the mythical future, the unconscious symbolism of reproduction. Latimer situates the works discussed in their historical, cultural, and political contexts with great skill, demonstrating the fluency between the texts and the cultures from which they emerge." —Berkeley Kaite, Department of English, McGill University

"Reproductive Acts is an engaging book that deals with important issues in a compelling and provocative manner - there are very few studies that look at reproductive politics in a North American literary context and Latimer's border-crossing methodology is highly innovative." —Jennifer Andrew, Department of English, University of New Brunswick

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, it is evident that the ideologies of "choices" and "rights," which have publicly framed reproductive politics in North America since the landmark legal decision, have been inadequate in making sense of the topic's complexities. In Reproductive Acts, Heather Latimer investigates what contemporary fiction and film can tell us about the divisive nature of these politics, and demonstrates how fictional representations of reproduction allow for readings of reproductive politics that are critical of the terms of the debate itself.

In an innovative argument about the power of fiction to engage and shape politics, Latimer analyses works by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Kathy Acker, Toni Morrison, Larissa Lai, and director Alfonso Cuarón, among others, to claim that the unease surrounding reproduction, particularly the abortion debate, has increased both inside and outside the US over the last forty years. Fictional representation, Latimer argues, reveals reproductive politics to be deeply connected to cultural anxieties about gender, race, citizenship, and sexuality - anxieties that cannot be contained under the rules of individual rights or choices.

Striking a balance between fictional, historical, and political analysis, Reproductive Acts makes a compelling argument for the vital role narrative plays in how we make sense of North American reproductive politics.

McGill-Queen's University Press

August 2013 216pp 9780773541580 PB £19.99 now only £13.99 when you quote CS1213SEXU when you order.

Sexual Diversity in Africa

Politics, Theory, and Citizenship

S.N. Nyeck, Marc Epprecht

How does one address homophobia without threatening majority rule democracy and freedoms of speech and faith? How does one "Africanize" sexuality research, empirically and theoretically, in an environment that is not necessarily welcoming to African scholars?

In Sexual Diversity in Africa, contributors critically engage with current debates about sexuality and gender identity, as well as with contentious issues relating to methodology, epistemology, ethics, and pedagogy. They present a tapestry of issues that testify to the complex nature of sexuality, sexual practices, and gender performance in Africa. Essays examine topics such as the well-established same-sex networks in Accra and Bamako, African "traditions" defined by European observers, and the bizarre mix of faith, pharmaceuticals, and pseudo-science used to "cure" homosexual men. Their evidence also demonstrates the indefensibility of over-simplified constructions of homosexuality versus heterosexuality, modern versus traditional, Africa versus the West, and progress from the African closet towards Western models of out politics, all of which have tainted research on same-sex practices and scientific studies of HIV/AIDS.

Asserting that the study of sexuality is intellectually and politically sustainable in Africa, Sexual Diversity in Africa contributes to the theorization of sexualities by presenting a more sensitive and knowledgeable study of African experiences and perspectives. Contributors include Olajide Akanji, Christophe Broqua, Cheryl Cooky, Serena Owusua Dankwa, Shari L. Dworkin, Marc Epprecht, Melissa Hackman, Notisha Massaquoi, Crystal Munthree, Kathleen O’Mara, Stella Nyanzi, S.N.Nyeck, Vasu Reddy, Amanda Lock Swarr, and Lisa Wiebesiek.

McGill-Queen's University Press

October 2013 312pp 9780773541887 PB £19.99 now only £13.99 when you quote CS1213SEXU when you order.

Tomorrow's Parties

Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America

Peter M. Coviello

“Dazzling intelligence radiates here, out from sentences giving such pleasure, yielding the finest devotion I've seen to literature's own theoretical force. Coviello listens, carefully, brilliantly, for the flickerings, the liquid meanderings, all too easily explained as “sexual” - or never even perceived at all. Here is a critic as joyful as Whitman, with his dark core fully afire.” Kathryn Bond Stockton, Distinguished Professor of English at University of Utah

In nineteenth-century America - before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde, before the public emergence of categories like homo- and heterosexuality - what were the parameters of sex? Did people characterize their sexuality as a set of bodily practices, a form of identification, or a mode of relation? Was it even something an individual could be said to possess? What could be counted as sexuality?

Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in the period before it solidified into the sexuality we know, or think we know. Taking up authors whose places in the American history of sexuality range from the canonical to the improbable - from Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, and James to Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and Mormon founder Joseph Smith - Peter Coviello delineates the varied forms sex could take in the lead-up to its captivation by the codings of “modern” sexuality. While telling the story of nineteenth-century American sexuality, he considers what might have been lost in the ascension of these new taxonomies of sex: all the extravagant, untimely ways of imagining the domain of sex that, under the modern regime of sexuality, have sunken into muteness or illegibility. Taking queer theorizations of temporality in challenging new directions, Tomorrow's Parties assembles an archive of broken-off, uncreated futures - futures that would not come to be. Through them, Coviello fundamentally reorients our readings of erotic being and erotic possibility in the literature of nineteenth-century America.

Peter Coviello is Professor of English at Bowdoin College. He is the author of Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature and the editor of Walt Whitman's Memoranda During the War.

New York University Press

September 2013 265pp 9780814717417 PB £15.99 now only £11.19 when you quote CS1213SEXU when you order.

Fannie + Freddie

The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography

Amy Sara Carroll,

Foreword by Claudia Rankine

"Amy Sara Carroll offers here an infrared snapshot of affective anachronism that lives the before-and-after of love and war in a poetic of the present flooded by history, memory, sensation, and relation. Wielding female complaint, maternal sentimentality, activist polemic, and auto-ethnographic documentation, its palimpsest feels out for form and refuses whatever is easy in its offerings. How can we live the unbearable in attachment to life amidst the force of the details that give and disturb its shape? The noisy beauty of the image that Carroll provides is powerful and sensational in the best of all senses.” —Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago

"A restrained genius: the kind that flares.” Bhanu Kapil, Naropa University

Materialist, feminist, queer, hybrid - channelling the sensibilities of Gloria Anzaldua, Rosario Castellanos, Mary Kelly, Teresa Hak Kyung Cha, Cecilia Vicuna, Patssi Valdez, Bernadette Mayer - Carroll's second collection of prose poems and word-images contemplates the cost of living in an era of "cruel optimism." Procedurally formalizing self-editing and indecision, Carroll undocuments the quotidian's shades of gray/grey, the contingencies of post-Fordist relationality in the pre-Occupy window of time between September 11, 2001, and the 2008 recession. "Cognative dissonance" meets "the rite to be a citizen." "What is the difference between neoliberalism and globalization?" tempers the counter-cultural question - "And, me? - " In Fannie + Freddie/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, Carroll muses, "Like Sammy and Rosie, Fannie and Freddie got laid."

Off-grid, she mixes metaphors, criss-crossing the borders erected between the lyric and the conceptual "I." She crosses out the dividing lines elected to maintain performance art, visual culture, and poetry as discrete clairvoyant mediums of social engagement.

Claudia Rankine, who chose the volume for Fordham University's 2011-2012 Poets Out Loud Prize, succinctly sings its praises: "The intelligence, compassion and dimensionality of this collection place it in a category all its own - it belongs and is crafted out of the psychic anxieties of the twenty-first century. I, for one, was both exhilarated and humbled by Fannie + Freddie/ The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography."

Fordham University Press

May 2013 104pp 9780823250912 PB £12.99 now only £9.09 when you quote CS1213SEXU when you order.

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