..., residential segregation, and sexual politics on the home front. They subverted the politics of home and reframed the politics of respectability to establish Hostess Houses, alternative YWCAs, homes for women and girls, and other initiatives, reform work in which they had been involved for years through...

... die. The story is ugly, painful, and deeply sad but redeemed to austere beauty by the women's nobility in the face of so much suffering and abasement. It is fascinating too for its sexual politics and politics of sex. Giustini family wealthy officeholders hostages virtual offered up to confederates...

... Americans felt over the expansion of federal power that New Deal policies entailed. It discusses a series of emotionally charged civic stories, each of which speaks to the gender, racial, and sexual dimensions of the emergent U.S. welfare state. It analyzes the sexual politics of this emergent welfare state...

...This chapter examines the sexual politics of the emergent welfare state by focusing on narratives of transient sex. Throughout the Depression years, sensational accounts of transient “perversions” pervaded American culture, infusing popular culture and political rhetoric and delimiting the sexual...

...This chapter discusses the socioeconomic, gendered, and racial structure of colonial Lagos and reveals the identities of individuals and groups that shaped sexual politics. While the British were mostly responsible for the major physical infrastructure, they did not dictate or monopolize...

...This chapter focuses on Lagos elite women's sexual politics. Lagos elite women were the first to insert illicit sexuality into their long list of projects aimed at improving women's sociopolitical and economic visibility. Like the male nationalists, they expressed optimism that the 1940s...

...This chapter explores the connections between the cultural and sexual politics of the transnational tourism industry in Salvador. It first provides an overview of sex tourism zones as well as zones of class and race in Salvador before turning to the city's Afro-Brazilian cultural tourism. More...

... Darwinian sexual politics and the characters’ evolutionary strategies. Brodsky Louis Daniel Faulkner Lida Estelle Oldham Franklin Faulkner William on American freedom Franklin Cornell Liver Birds The British television show Mosquitoes Faulkner Soldiers’ Pay Faulkner Anderson Sherwood Carroll Joseph...

...This chapter argues that abortion is a feminism issue and should be discussed within the context of sexual politics and morality. More specifically, it contends that the abortion debate must start with the recognition that fertilized eggs develop into infants inside the bodies of women. The left...

... discusses fall within the limits of the Fifties, and almost all of the plot-related characteristics he mentions are things that indeed come into focus when regarded through such Fifties-specific lenses as American foreign policy, race relations, the burgeoning youth culture, and sexual politics. Engel's...

...0 10 07 2018 1 09 06 2021 Minor updates to the text and references. This chapter discusses the relationship between language and sexual politics. It focuses on the ways language is used to police membership in different gendered and sexual groups, to construct self and others along...

... blurring the boundary between acceptable and illicit forms of sexual expression. By analysing a range of illustrations and front-page columns, it considers how the review combined voyeuristic titillation with subversive sexual politics, simultaneously objectifying women and promoting neo-Malthusian...

...This chapter mounts a strong critique of affirmative consent, arguing that it is an insufficient and, in fact, deceptive analytic for sexual politics. It argues for a different version of consent that does not avoid risk by contracting for safety but engages the force of the sexual drive and, thus...

... Yann mastery materiality Matravers Derek Aaltola Elisa Nature writing Lepidoptery Insects Vladimir Nabokov Sexual politics John Fowles Ethics Empathy We both realized … that we were in a mausoleum and that the walls were lined with death, that those gorgeous pinned specimens, precisely...

...This concluding chapter discusses how underlying the choice of Ulrichs as a symbol of resistance to Prussian–Nazi politics resulted to growing popular recognition of sexual politics as a vital feature of modern history. In this vein, Minister Einem's expulsion of homosexuals from the German officer...

...This chapter argues that sexual politics is present in all aspects of our lives, including gendered violence, the state, and citizenship. It adds that sexual politics opens up new possibilities for understanding the persistent effects of domestic violence by shifting attention to the politics...

.... The apparent failure of the state to protect women as citizens from persistent violence is examined, with particular attention to the sexual politics of power and violence and the interconnections of material conditions, discourses, and subjectivities in the everyday life of the citizen. The chapter proposes...

... that conditions both heteronormative and queer gender and sexual politics on stolen land, which Two-Spirit activists and Native queer resist. It argues that the biopolitics of settler colonialism creates settler sexuality as the context traversed by Native and non-Native people formulating queer modernities. Non...

... one principal offender is often presumed to have been Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones—a fiction whose main sin was an unbecoming appetite for low life. Tom Jones contained in its pages a sense of slippery sexual politics, one of the factors that drove it from the stage...

... of capitalist ideologies and Christian theology, the irrevocable blending of mind and body, and the intermixing of black sexual politics and black religious expression. It shows how the black church facilitates the down low’s rhetorical hold in popular culture, confirming for some what they already hold true...