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... uprisings, feminist sensibilities took a sexual turn on the protest scene and in multiple artistic and performative spaces, paving the way for new types of publics and claims. February 20 Movement language performance aesthetic citizenship sexual turn Morocco ...

... methods that characterized the ethnography of sexuality within scientific precursors to queer anthropology. Turning from primitivist “ethnocartography” toward the first modernist ethnography of Western sexual minorities, the chapter illustrates how both projects normalize whiteness among their authors...

... This chapter pulls together a litany of sexualized speech acts, or vernaculars of brown maternal life-making. Framing sexuality as a promiscuous web of salaciousness, scenes, secrets, structures and speech acts, this chapter turn toward the queer, the abject, the promiscuity, and the erotic...

... The turn to nationalism in the Third World and cultural nationalism in the United States betrayed the transnational ambitions of Third World studies. While in resistance to colonialism, nationalism is not the final answer to imperialism, nor is it the highest expression of self-determination...

... Chapter 3 interrogates how histories of region constitute robust histories of sexuality, and what critical lessons are to be learned from such a shift in historical orientation. How do histories of sexuality trouble the heightened divide between the de/colonial and the post/colonial turn...

... The turn to nationalism in the Third World and cultural nationalism in the United States challenged the ruling order but also conformed to the hegemonic designs of sovereign states and sovereign persons. The nation-state and nationalism produce and police race, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability...

... Chapter 1 introduces a lived bem-estar (well-being) by centering the meaning of Black lesbian vivência(s) and turns to the notions of sexual health broadly and body politics that expose social disequilibrium within gynecological encounters. Falu argues that Brazilian Black lesbians adjust...

... descriptions of these stories, written in 1986, were meant to counter more harsh depictions of male and female sexuality arising in the feminist anti-pornography movement active at that time. In the first, the wife turns into a fox, but the husband loves his wild vixen anyway. Finally, though, she is too wild...

... of trans women, which in turn plays a pivotal role in the institutional production of sex/gender difference and the normative regulation of sexuality, desire, and sex/gender in Turkey. I call these institutional forms of touch and proximities violent intimacies of the state . The second half...

... as a given was not adequate to dealing with queer sexuality, and so queer studies had to strike out from its maternal feminist home. In turn, to imagine the figure of the trans person independently of sexuality, trans studies had to take a little distance from queer studies. Gender might no longer be just...

... the ethnography of sexuality within scientific precursors to queer anthropology. Turning from primitivist “ethnocartography” toward the first modernist ethnography of Western sexual minorities, the chapter illustrates how both projects normalize whiteness among their authors and audiences by obscuring...

... and the arbiter of justice. case law police crime reports Foucault child sexual assault subjectivities of law Continuing the focus on juridical aspects of the state, this chapter turns to the antisodomy law’s significance to practices and discourses of law enforcement. Fieldwork conducted...

... The widespread backlash against crooners in the early 1930s resulted in revised norms of middle-class white masculinity being applied to popular voices for the first time on a national scale. This chapter contextualizes these attacks within a more conservative turn in Depression-era America...

... Chapter 8 turns to the gendered aspect of mestizaje, exploring narratives which describe European men having sex with indigenous and African women. Genomics addresses this with data about mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA, inherited via the material line) and Y-chromosome DNA (inherited by men from...

... This chapter explores the relationship between touch and intimacy between dancers. It asks how and why tactility intensifies on the dancefloor, turning to interviews with partygoers. On the one hand, many of them valued touch as a physical expression of intimacy and as an antidote to prevailing...

... Continuing the focus on juridical aspects of the state, this chapter turns to the antisodomy law’s significance to practices and discourses of law enforcement. Fieldwork conducted with the Delhi Police highlights the subjective, sexualized aspects of law enforcement that are analyzed...

... 377, a coalition of Delhi-based groups, on the historic Delhi High Court ruling. Reading this decision alongside the apex court’s overruling, the chapter makes the case that the two judgments represent diverging views of the relationship between state and sexuality in postliberalized India. Thus...

... Chapter 1 begins by examining emergent genders in the historical context of Japan, drawing on the 1995 documentary Shinjuku Boys . Following Michel Foucault to take a genealogical approach, this chapter explores how these configurations of gender and sexuality have been foundational to current...

... This chapter deals with the repositioning of TCM in response to the biological turn. The debate is introduced between two schools of impotence diagnoses and treatment in TCM—the kidney-centered perspective and the liver-centered perspective—revealing the pressure to reposition TCM vis-à-vis...