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Rethinking Trafficking in Women
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 100.00What should be done about trafficking in women? Aradau shows that the problematization of trafficking as a security issue limits what can be done. Exploring the complex relationship between security, politics and subjectivity, this book suggests new forms of action which transcend security practices. more...
Notorious in the Neighborhood
The University of North Carolina Press 2003; US$ 28.95Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood , Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under slavery--from Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings,... more...
Mysteries of Sex
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 28.95In a sweeping synthesis of American history, Mary Ryan demonstrates how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied over a span of 500 years and across major social and ethnic boundaries. She traces how, at select moments in history, perceptions of sex difference were translated into complex and mutable patterns for differentiating... more...
Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 29.00Based on three years of extensive fieldwork, this ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and... more...
Honey, Honey, Miss Thang
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 31.95Accounts of five gay, black, drug-using transvestites who struggle to create realities that are not mired in misery and deviance but proclaim their membership in the human family more...
Men Who Sell Sex
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 57.95Men Who Sell Sex is the first comprehensive international account of male prostitution and AIDS. While much is known about female prostitution and sex work, relatively little is known about men who sell sex - either to women or other men. This book brings together an authoritative collection of essays from different countries and examines sexual... more...
Sex Work in Southeast Asia
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia. more...
Battle Scars
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 18.99Addresses how gender scholarship has changed interpretations of the Civil War. This collection examines the study of masculinity and war, expands understandings of sexuality and politics, and deals with issues of health, treason, religion, domesticity, and slavery as they affected Northern and Southern men and women during the Civil War era. more...
Common Women
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 50.00A study of the "common woman" in medieval England - characterized as such for being a prostitute and therefore belonging to all men. Karras explores their experiences, relations and treatment under the law and concludes that prostitution was central to the medieval understanding of femininity. more...
English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 59.99This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England. more...









