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This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of postqueer politics within the Indian context, reimagining queer theory and activism through an intersectional lens. Moving beyond the binary of queer and straight, it examines how queer epistemologies can address broader sociopolitical challenges, including majoritarian nationalism, caste and class stratification, Islamophobia, environmental crises, and mental health.

By interrogating colonial disruptions of indigenous sexual cultures and envisioning a postcolonial future of egalitarian coexistence, the book advocates for collaborative engagements between queer and non-queer actors to reshape India's social and political fabric. A key highlight is its innovative approach to queer theory, positioning queer perspectives as tools for disrupting mainstream norms and fostering inclusivity. The book introduces postqueer politics as a non-queer-inclusive worldview, emphasizing collaboration and intersectionality to liberate the most marginalized. It critiques exploitative hierarchies and advocates for queer futurism aligned with broader social justice commitments. Through nuanced analysis, it demonstrates how queer knowledge can empower individuals to challenge socio-cultural unfreedom and create a more equitable society.

Essential for those interested in sexuality, gender, and Indian politics, this book is a valuable resource for students in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Minority Studies, and Cultural Studies, particularly in courses on identity politics and intersectionality.

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and South Korea offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of how gender and sexuality have shaped South Korean society in historical and contemporary contexts.

Bringing together internationally renowned scholars from diverse fields, including sociology, politics, media and cultural studies, literature and history, the volume combines theoretical perspectives with empirically grounded case studies to examine gendered and sexual identities across intersecting social, cultural, economic and political processes. Challenging linear narratives of social progress, it highlights the continuing force of heteronormative structures rooted in Confucian legacies and family practices, while also tracing uneven and contested transformations linked to globalization, digitalization and creative cultures. By foregrounding South Korea as a dynamic non-Western case, this collection advances debates on de-Westernization and comparative scholarship.

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and South Korea is ideal for students and scholars of gender and sexuality studies, Korean studies, sociology, media and cultural studies, anthropology, politics, history and globalization.

This edited volume explores how women's life writing from post-Communist Europe turns the continent's most persistent fault line-the East-West divide-into a space of confrontation, vulnerability, and radical reimagining.

Examining personal narratives from seven European countries (Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany, France, and the Netherlands), the volume demonstrates how women "write back" to Western gazes, decolonize memory, and unsettle entrenched hierarchies that continue to position Eastern Europe as the 'other Europe' even after the fall of communism and EU integration. By combining transnational, transdisciplinary, and embodied approaches from the fields of life writing, literature and memory studies, this volume proposes alternative modes of scholarly engagement that privilege personal experiences, relationality, vulnerability, and genuine exchange over abstraction, offering new perspectives on how European identities, histories, and futures might be thought together.

Facilitating a distinctive collaboration among scholars from Eastern and Western Europe, The Transformative Power of Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Europe will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in women's life writing, European memory, memory studies, contested memory, post-communist Europe, and East-West perceptions.

Adopting a spiritual history approach, this book traces the evolution of the concept of "New Women," which first emerged in China during the 1920s and 1930s. It reveals the profound significance of this concept, as well as the inherent tensions and losses involved in the creation of a modern Chinese identity.

Taking "leaving home" as its analytical starting point, the study examines the life histories and spiritual trajectories of "New Women" in Republican China. Although leaving home initiated their quest for independence, the question of "belonging" remained an ever-present shadow. Through a rigorous analysis of notable figures such as Ding Ling, Xie Bingying, and Xu Guangping, the book explores how this tension unfolded during significant historical events, including student movements, romantic relationships, revolutions, and material culture. The book argues that when "New Women" left home to resist arranged marriages, they sought alternative emotional support in new social relationships yet confronted new challenges. Ultimately, their spiritual history often led to two typical trajectories: Sublimation of the self through dedication to a "greater self" or a collective, or a descent into material consumption and the "bodily utopia" of self-decoration.

This volume will serve as an invaluable reference for scholars and students of modern Chinese history, Chinese feminism, and Chinese social history.

This handbook examines the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the context of a rapidly evolving global security landscape.

Shifting away from 'hard security' models, this book demonstrates how gender-inclusive governance predicts state stability. Providing a truly global scope, with insights from nearly fifty countries, the work bridges theory and practice, showing that gender-responsive approaches are fundamental to security sector development, democratic institution-building, and navigating state fragility. Beyond traditional frameworks, the handbook addresses emerging challenges such as tech-facilitated online violence, AI, and climate change. It also offers critical analysis of the erosion of international human rights, highlighting the implications for national security and the protection of civilians. A core focus remains the integration of gender perspectives within military operations and security sector reform. The volume evaluates both international peacebuilding and military interventions, examining the practical complexities of operationalizing WPS in active conflict. Notably, the volume rejects gendered tropes to examine the full spectrum of women's agency-from institutional leaders and grassroots organizers to participants in political violence as insurgents and terrorists. By exploring these multifaceted realities, the volume reflects the true complexity of women's influence in global peace and conflict.

This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, security studies, defence studies. gender studies and International Relations, as well as to defense and security practitioners.

The sixth edition of this leading textbook provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of key issues and debates in gender and women's studies. With fully revised chapters written by specialists across a range of core topics including sexuality, race, bodies, family, masculinity, methodologies and migration, this is a student-friendly yet rigorous survey of the key concepts and contemporary debates in the field. It provides helpful examples to illustrate how gender theories relate to current societal issues, thoughtful questions to guide revision, and further reading to help students explore the topics in greater depth.

New to this Edition:
- Expanded coverage of gender-based violence, masculinities, migration, and the impact of the climate crisis
- New coverage of debates overs trans rights, the rise of opposition to gender and sexual equalities around the globe, and digital and social media issues
- Greater attention to intersectional approaches and international reach
- New pedagogy to help students apply gender theories in practice, and a new glossary to help students get to grips with new concepts and terminology.

Advancing Gender Equality in Research Organisations: Key Factors for Success examines how organisational gender equality can be effectively designed, implemented, and evaluated in European universities and research institutions.

Drawing on the most comprehensive study to date of gender equality plans across Europe, this edited volume presents 14 case studies from eight countries developed within the INSPIRE Centre of Excellence. The chapters analyse six core facilitating factors for sustainable change: strategic organisational commitment, comprehensive data collection for equalities work, advanced gender expertise, inclusive communities of change agents, enforceable legislation, and supportive social and cultural contexts. This book further advances the field through a comparative, outcome- and impact-oriented framework that addresses both gendered power relations and gendered value hierarchies, offering a critical alternative to symbolic equality measures.

This book is essential reading for scholars of gender and organisational change; researchers and students in higher education studies; and practitioners, consultants, and policymakers engaged in gender equality work in research and innovation.

This book provides a novel, cultural-historical perspective on travel in the ancient world by exploring a wide range of women's (in)voluntary journeys and relocations, such as can be derived from passing references, short sections, and extended narratives found in the early Jewish corpora that remain to us.

The selected sources include a large body of literary texts from the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, and the New Testament, together with some documentary sources indicating the existence of certain types of travel up until early second century CE. They reveal a variety of mobile girls and women such as brides, businesswomen, captives, diplomats, diviners, economic and forced migrants, knowledge-seekers, midwives, musicians, nurses, pilgrims, refugees, sages, (semi)nomads, slaves, tourists, and war leaders. The book delivers a more nuanced notion of the past by challenging and demonstrating the need to move beyond the binary idea of "female stayers" and "male movers." In doing so, it foregrounds a previously overlooked aspect of travel history: female mobility, its many facets and inherent complexity as a sociocultural phenomenon, and its multiple transformational effects.

Women, Travel and Transformation from the Bible to Bar-Kokhba is of interest to students and scholars working on travel history, early Jewish literature, and women in antiquity, as well as those in biblical studies, religious studies, ancient history, and classics.

Exploring trends across age and gender, Signorella goes beyond simply assessing stereotype flexibility to address sexism and judgments of gender norm violations. The book examines methods employed when asking children about stereotypes and thoughtfully considers the ethical ramifications of exposing them to these ideas in research. Incorporating recent insights from across the globe to highlight findings and omissions in reporting, Signorella presents crucial new avenues for future progress in gender development scholarship.

Rethinking Children's Gender-Related Attitudes is an essential read for developmental and social psychologists researching gender development and norm development more broadly. Through its comprehensive critical analysis and meta-analysis, this book will also benefit scholars and students of psychology interested in gender studies, women's studies, and children's studies.

Contemporary Arab Women Revolutionaries: Radical Traditions offers a groundbreaking interdisciplinary examination of Arab women's radical modes of resistance from the 1970s to the present. Spanning literary, visual, political, social, digital, and translational practices, the volume reveals how women across the Arab world and its diasporas have established and transformed cultural, artistic, and spiritual traditions into powerful tools for confronting patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist structures.

Bringing together leading scholars in literature, film, visual culture, oral history, digital activism, and translation, the collection traces feminist interventions across key themes, including liberation and human rights, the disruption of social and gender norms, counter-memory as resistance, feminist resistance in conflict zones, and digital and translational activism. From Syrian Sufi-inflected poetics and Lebanese women combatants to Palestinian filmmakers, Sahrawi activists, and emerging dissident voices across Saudi Arabia, the Maghreb, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, the chapters illuminate the creative, strategic, and often paradoxical ways women contest and reconfigure power.

Rich in case studies, multimodal analysis, and decolonial feminist theory, this landmark volume offers an indispensable framework for understanding the depth, complexity, and transnational reach of contemporary Arab feminist praxis.

Researchers, translators, practitioners and artists join voices in this volume to explore the profound relationship between multimodality and translation. Looking at the subject from a wide range of perspectives, this book questions the possibility of redefining art practices and artworks as forms and processes of intersemiotic translation.
Exploring the connection between multimodality, translation and the arts, the authors uncover the many overlooked practices of translation which are already inherent in artistic research and in the production of multimodal artworks and texts. In the process, they demystify the notion of multimodality as a matter of artistic inquiry only, examining the processes of embodied, collaborative, kinetic, material, and intersemiotic translation which artists have always undertaken within their work.
The book is divided into four distinct yet interrelated sections. Part One explores multimodality as a key notion to re-conceptualise translation in the arts, encompassing poetry, site-specific performance, and creative cuisine. Part Two is dedicated to translation, music and sound, while in Part Three, the connection between dance, embodied practices, and translation is investigated and presented through non-conventional essays which are themselves multimodal texts. Finally, Part Four contains the transcripts of conversations between artists and scholars in which artists explore, explain and unravel the relationship between their creative process and the process of translation, offering unique practical and experiential insights into the subject. The strong focus on the performative arts gives the book an interdisciplinary perspective at the interface of language and art.

This is a comprehensive text that provides evidence-based examination of the contentious debates surrounding the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) across global communities.

It employs rigorous statistical analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data to address the most controversial aspects of FGM. The author systematically explores the multifaceted dimensions of this harmful practice through nine focused chapters. Beginning with a methodological framework, the book examines FGM as an adverse childhood experience before investigating the complex intersectionality between socioeconomic factors, women's empowerment status, and cultural determinants that perpetuate the practice. It challenges common misconceptions by analyzing whether religion, ethnicity, or regional factors serve as primary drivers, identifying specific hotspots where FGM remains prevalent. The book also examines FGM's impact on women's sexuality, the concerning trend of medicalization, and the interrelationship between FGM and intimate partner violence. The final chapters provide a comprehensive analysis of FGM's effects on women's reproductive and general health, supported by illustrative case studies.

This book serves as an invaluable resource for public health professionals, policymakers, researchers, activists, and healthcare providers working to eliminate FGM globally.

This monograph uses critical discourse analysis to examine warning posts shared within an online community of self-identified escorts in the UK. Combining the discourse-historical approach with the narrative practice paradigm it examines how escorts position clients and themselves across three levels: as characters within stories, as members of a professional community, and in relation to broader societal discourses surrounding sex work.

The monograph shows how escorts collectively name, categorise, and circulate knowledge about problematic client conduct from boundary violations and economic harm to verbal abuse and privacy violations, developing sophisticated community practices for managing occupational risk in the absence of formal institutional protection. It examines both stories that explicitly name harassment and those describing experiences that align with legal and scholarly understandings of sexually harassing conduct, identifying what the book terms the grey areas of sexual harassment in sex work: forms of conduct that constitute significant violations of dignity yet remain inadequately captured by existing frameworks.

Moving between the specificity of individual linguistic choices and the broader structures of stigma, legal precarity, and gendered inequality within which escorts' narratives are embedded, the monograph ultimately argues for a contextually grounded and community-informed understanding of workplace sexual harassment and contributes to broader conversations on gendered violence, labour precarity, and sex worker rights.

Screening Postmillennial Queer Film provides a critical overview of global LGBTQIA+ filmmaking in the twenty-first century, examining queer cinema beyond the New Queer Cinema paradigm, and as part of a progressively re-conceptualised world cinema.

This volume explores how LGBTQIA+ film has evolved globally through diverse case studies spanning art-house, genre, and mainstream productions. Contributors examine key topics including aesthetics, authorship, activism, intersectionality, transnationalism, and geopolitics, contextualizing queer filmmaking within and beyond Anglo-American canons. The collection addresses the growing visibility of non-heteronormative identities in international politics, media, and culture, equipping readers with critical tools to analyse contemporary queer film production worldwide.

Bridging the generational differences in queer film studies and cultural/critical practice, this book is essential for students and scholars in film studies, queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies. It is particularly valuable for those studying world cinema, postcolonial cinema, and LGBTQIA+ media representation. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the volume serves as both a teaching resource and foundation for interdisciplinary research on queer cinema and global film cultures.

This book explores gender justice, power relations, and social transformation in India by providing an ethnographic, socio-legal view of Nari Adalats (women's courts) and the family disputes that take place before them, in rural northern Karnataka, South India.

The book offers an ethnography of the everyday workings of Nari Adalats based on qualitative interviews, document analysis, and participant observation in a variety of settings where family law and gender justice are negotiated. The book argues that it is essential to examine societal legal forums and the social dynamics within the family (and its social environment) to better understand how changes in gender and power relations can occur. Chapters analyse five cases of Hindu, Muslim and tribal women pursuing claims, and seven further cases of lower caste Hindu women who became judges of the Nari Adalat (one of them a jury member); taken together, they provide rich insights into how successful legal outcomes are achieved, and the structural conditions inherent in the space. Ultimately, the book highlights how Nari Adalats are fundamentally women-centred spaces that challenge gender hierarchies, feminize the public sphere, and reconceptualise gender and ethnic relations in rural India.

Providing an exploration of caste, class, and religion in the wider context of gender justice, the volume will appeal to scholars and postgraduates in the fields of socio-legal studies, in particular gender and justice issues, gender studies, South Asian studies, and legal anthropology.

Combining deep theoretical analysis with international and national case studies, contributing authors highlight how environmental harm is experienced unequally in everyday life through health, work, care, and survival. Chapters rethink regulation, switching the emphasis from dominance and control to connection and responsibility, establishing the need to recognise our interdependence with both each other and our ecosystem. Featuring interdisciplinary perspectives from legal academics and practitioners drawing on diverse strands of feminist scholarship, the Handbook proposes more caring and accountable forms of governance oriented toward justice and ecological integrity.

The Research Handbook on Feminist Approaches to Environmental Law is an essential resource for students and scholars of environmental law, feminist legal theory, and gender studies. Policymakers and researchers will also benefit from its global coverage and innovative analysis.

Influenced by shifting cultural contexts, the chapters provide a framework based around law, policy and principles for comparing and contrasting the modern practice relating to reproductive rights in Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA. O'Halloran explores the leap forward in the availability and efficiency of IVF, the surge in recourse to overseas commercial surrogacy, advances in genetic editing and the implications of recent case law developments including the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Examining the rising rates of maternal and infant mortality, the book highlights the widening gap across the wealthiest nations and their indigenous populations.

Reproductive Rights in Common Law Countries is an essential read for scholars and students of family law, gender and the law, health law and sociology. Policymakers and healthcare professionals seeking to better understand developments in the field will also benefit from its investigation of international legislation and leading cases.

Adrienne Byrt explores the experiences of mothers of premature infants through a feminist lens to bring to light the gendered demands they face within Australian hospitals.

The book provides sociological insights and recommendations for the delivery of trauma-informed care that resists the reproduction of gendered demands on new parents. Exploring the multidimensional aspects of patriarchal motherhood across individual, interactional, and institutional domains, the book shares rich accounts of mothers' emotional and social challenges during the extended hospitalisation of their infants. This provides readers with an enhanced understanding of the gendered demands placed on these mothers and the gaps in the provision of trauma-informed support during hospitalisation.

A valuable book for scholars and academics in the sociology of families, motherhood studies and feminist theory, the book will also be of interest to health professionals working in neonatal intensive care units and special care nurseries.

This book critically examines the notion of female sexual agency in advertising, exposing how postfeminist discourses co-opt feminist language to sell products while reinforcing patriarchal norms. Combining feminist theory, poststructuralism, and interviews with feminist consumers, it dissects the illusion of agency and the panoptic systems of surveillance that discipline women into self-policing their bodies and desires, as well as each other.

Through original frameworks (the Agency Spiral and Postfeminist Panopticon), the book reveals how ads reduce women's agency to consumerist performances of sexuality that are perpetually negotiated and shaped by norms, perceptions of choice, the gaze, and spatiality. The author integrates key theoretical insights within relevant discussions to reveal how advertising both reflects and shapes cultural understandings of gender, power, and sexuality.

This unique, insightful book is a valuable read for scholars and students in gender studies, media/cultural studies, and marketing; feminist activists and educators; media professionals, and general readers frustrated by the gap between feminist ideals and commercial realities. A provocative and accessible critique, it arms readers with the tools to see and start dismantling "the prison of empowerment" that is postfeminist advertising.

Organized around three core objectives, the book explains why gender matters in economics; offers expanded course content featuring diverse authors, topics, and methods; and provides suggestions to strengthen gender-responsive teaching to support critical discussion and ethical engagement. Chapters cover everything from principles of micro and macroeconomics to emerging trends such as methodological plurality and generative AI, taking a forward-thinking approach that moves beyond 'add women and stir' by challenging narrow definitions of production, value, and expertise. The book examines the impact of power and hierarchy on what is taught, whose work is centered, and how students experience the economics classroom. Recommendations include classroom activities, research-backed pedagogical strategies, and larger curricular changes.

Instructors and educators of economics at all levels will benefit from these timely, practical strategies and content modules to make their classrooms more inclusive. This guide is also an invaluable read for educators across the social sciences interested in incorporating gender into their teaching.

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Celtic World takes readers on a whirlwind journey through over two millennia of sources that provide insight to the lives and lore of remarkable women in the Celtic tradition.

From approximately 500 BCE, when the so-called 'Lady of Vix' was interred in her Hallstatt-era cart burial in what would become Central France, to the twelfth century when the Irish, Welsh, and Scots navigated the changes brought by Anglo-Norman colonization, women's stories trace the rise and fall of the Celtic-speaking world. The chapters provide a broad and varied examination of historically attested women as well as the mythological, literary, and legendary women of the medieval tradition. Finally, women of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century 'Celtic Revival' movement demonstrate the continued significance of the ancient and medieval Celtic past into the modern era.

While the Celtic past is all too often ignored or fetishized, this book provides readers with a concise yet fully contextualized introduction, valuable to anyone seeking to better their understanding of women's history and Celtic history.

The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies captures how discussions about disability have progressed since the 1990s, as well as grappling with the new debates over bodies and autonomy that are dominating various media today.

Providing newly written chapters by scholars from both the global north and the global south, the book offers a mix of experiential, creative, and progressive content, combined with theoretical and political commentaries, to provide an eclectic and holistic immersion in feminist disability scholarship. It covers topics as diverse as societal barriers; access to public spaces; neurodiversity, activism; hate crime, bullying and ridicule; media and cultural analyses and representation of disabled women; structural issues such as poverty, policy and their relation to care/autonomy; mothering, both in terms of access to reproductive care and the re-emergence of eugenics, and care ethics of mothering disabled people; and madness, personality disorder and the provocations of the medical model, in terms of the imperative for 'cure' or 'recovery'.

This collection will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, feminism, social work, cultural studies, human geography media, media studies and sociology.

Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

In a nation where more than 3.5 million births occur each year, the experience of giving birth reveals who is valued, who is heard, and who is left behind.

The Perfect Birth Myth offers a sweeping, deeply human exploration of childbirth in the United States, the country with the most highly resourced and costliest maternal healthcare in the world, yet the highest rate of maternal mortality among developed countries. Drawing on decades of experience in maternal health, midwifery, and journalism, Avital Norman Nathman and Deborah Wage weave historical analysis, policy insight, personal narratives, and data from approximately 3,000 people who've given birth to examine the forces shaping American birth culture. From the pursuit of the "perfect birth" and the commercialization of care to the racial and psychological inequities embedded in the system, they reveal how medicalization, racism, and profit-driven policies have eroded autonomy, safety, and dignity in childbirth.

Both expose and call to action, The Perfect Birth Myth reframes birth as an act of justice, community, and self-determination. Readers will emerge with an understanding that instead of pushing for perfection, we should be pushing for equity, respect, and shared humanity.

Bringing together material religion and discourse theory, this cross-disciplinary book argues that theories of embodiment and religion co-produce one another.
Responding to the scholarly turn towards embodiment and phenomenology beginning in queer studies and branching out into the humanities more broadly, Jessica A. Albrecht brings religion to the table. This book contends that, if the turn to materiality emphasizes what religion does in bodies and spaces, or how bodies make religion, it is equally important to ask whose bodies are made legible, and under what conditions they come to matter. By shining a light on this reciprocal relationship between religion and embodiment, Albrecht reveals the processes through which meanings, "bodies," and "religion" itself are made. Across seven chapters spanning intersectionality, queer and cuir theory, and crip studies, this book traces counter-genealogies which reveal how bodies become unintelligible within the regimes of religion, race, gender, and ability. Albrecht offers tools for examining how religious experiences are shaped by queerness, disability, and power, providing a fresh and inclusive perspective on how bodies and practices are central constituents of conceptions of religion. The resulting framework for religious studies pushes beyond normative views or religious-secular divisions, prompting readers to critically re-consider both "religion" and the "body."

The inspiring history of women in and around the NFL

Since the inception of the NFL in 1920, professional football has long been dominated by men. But there is a rich history of women who have made profound impacts on the sport for decades whose stories have never been collectively told--until now.

In Changing the Playbook: How Women Have Transformed Professional Football, the amazing stories of these football pioneers are finally revealed. Featuring women such as NFL owner Virginia Halas-McCaskey, scout Connie Carberg, CEO Amy Trask, journalist Lesley Visser, NFL coaches Jen Welter, Jen King, and Callie Brownson, and many more, their lives and careers reveal unique backstories, historic achievements, and incredible impact. These trailblazers faced many obstacles, misogyny, and hostility, but their persistence has led to a new generation of women joining the NFL ranks, forging a legacy that will not be forgotten.

From the "no women in the locker room" policies of the past to female coaches, scouts, executives, media, and officials in the present, professional football has come a long way. Inspired to tell these women's stories for his own daughters, Cash Lambert poignantly shares the courageous and powerful history of women in the NFL, their growing influence on the sport, and how they are changing football for the better.

A bold and timely exploration of queer joy as both an experience and a method, this book offers a powerful intervention in gender and sexuality studies by theorizing queer joy not as merely pleasure, but as a radical practice shaped by failure, contradiction, grief, risk, and repair.

This book draws its argument from two major research projects: a study on queering sexuality education with over 80 in-service teachers in New Brunswick called SexualityNB and Pride/Swell+, a community-based participatory project involving over 300 2SLGBTQ+ people across Atlantic Canada. It investigates not only how queer joy circulates-through art, intimacy, activism, and chosen families-but also how it fails, revealing heartbreak, exclusion, and exhaustion within queer communities. By examining failure as integral to theorizing queer joy in research and practice, the authors illuminate how breakdowns can become sites of solidarity, transformation, and worldmaking. The book advances queer joy studies, offering new ways to think about pedagogy, research ethics, and queer futurity. Through reflection, analysis, and creative praxis, the book foregrounds queer joy's messiness and entanglement with failure as a methodology for resistance and survival.

This book is intended for students and researchers in gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, education, and critical sociology. It also speaks to activists and artists interested in the intersections of queer joy, failure, and community-building within academic, educational, arts, and community spaces.

A global examination of the persistence of witch hunts, from antiquity to present day, with a focus on their gendered dimensions and impact on women's lives and their communities.

From 1300 to 1800, primarily male leaders tried and tortured approximately 200,000 people for witchcraft, executing about half their victims. Women make up between 75% to 90% of the accused and murdered. In the 21st century, witch hunts remain endemic in Africa, India, Amazonia and parts of Indonesia. Who were (and are) these women and why were they targeted? Travel from Russia to Java, from Denmark to India, from ancient Rome to present-day Tanzania to investigate the circumstances surrounding various witch hunts and what these reveal about the real motives behind burning women and calling them witches.

Structured and written as a first-stop resource for readers and researchers, each regional examination offers at-a-glance data for global comparison, including demographics, approximate numbers of persons accused and executed, identifying factors leading to accusations, and more. Each example concludes with an analysis of how the events impacted women's roles in society at the time and through the present day. Chronologies of trials and laws and related primary source documents further place these events in historical context.

This expertly curated volume offers groundbreaking explorations for treating people who struggle with these issues, reframing problematic sexual conduct - often labelled "sex addiction" - as complex and often harmful human behaviors rather than as a disease.

Mental health practitioners often have limited resources and few expert mentors to consult when treating patients with out-of-control sexual behaviors (OSCB). With contributions from twenty seasoned clinicians, this book provides nonpathologizing approaches to support diverse sexual health needs and client healing. The writers address common clinical challenges such as erotic difference, existential angst, fidelity, pornography, and internalized shame and discusses the impacts of sexism, racism, and ethnic oppression on individual experiences of sexuality and on patient treatment. Filled with rich and engaging clinical examples, including harm reduction, IFS, couple and group therapy approaches, as well as clinical supervision, this collection equips a wide range of mental health professionals with practical tools to expand their practice.

This book is an essential guidebook for both new and experienced clinicians looking to refine their perspectives, enhance their clinical skills, and foster unbiased, effective treatment for a diverse clientele. Individuals and families affected by OCSB will also find hope and guidance within its pages.