... of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Books in Brief “Step Right Up, Come On In . . .” Coleman Hutchison Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 Michael P. Bibler Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2009. xii...

...Scott Herring This essay crafts a theory of queer conservatism by tracing understudied links between sexual nonnormativity and the rise of the New Right via the genre of hillbilly exploitation (hixploitation) cinema. I first rehearse the genre's formal and political markers as it was popularized...

... of space-time necessarily expands juridical-economic formulations of what David Harvey describes as the “right to the city.” In so doing, it argues for more acute attention to the racialized queer mechanics of temporal as well as affective and embodied capital as important terrains on which black queer...

... of the gay child in Utah and California, it develops a claim that has yet to be vindicated—that the US Constitution protects every child's right to be queer. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 children marriage law litigation rights References American Academy of Pediatrics . 2008...

... and identifying with the figure of Frankenstein’s monster, claiming the transformative power of a return from abjection, felt like the right way to go. Looking back a decade later, I see that in having chosen to speak as a famous literary monster, I not only found a potent voice through which to offer...

...Ashley Currier Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide . Thoreson Ryan Richard . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014 . 288 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 140 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES TRANSNATIONAL...

... at the University of Connecticut. Books in Brief Rites and Rights Frederick S. Roden Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage Mark D. Jordan Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. x + 258 pp. Mark Jordan has written another...

... in their own right, marks whose “paradoxical performances produce excessive meaning” (5) not only in bodies of text but (for instance) on the human bodies Yayoi Kusama paints with polka dots. Brody’s deft handling of a dazzling array of sources (the unlikely assemblage...

... Hill. Books in Brief Joseph Massad and the Alleged Violence of Human Rights Sahar Amer Desiring Arabs Joseph Massad Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 453 pp. Joseph Massad’s Desiring Arabs is without question an erudite, well-­researched monograph that seeks...

... and sexual politics, paying attention to the dynamism of brokerage reveals how they can also be used in powerful and locally resonant ways. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Realizing Rights in Manila Brokers and the Mediation of Sexual Politics in the Philippines Ryan Richard Thoreson Over...

... in a way that privileges their long-term well-being over societal norms. They also argue that, while feminist scholars have been critically important in developing the theoretical underpinnings of the intersex rights movement and sometimes in carrying out the day-to-day political work of that movement...

...Neville Hoad Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 BETWEEN THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN AND THE WHITE MAN’S DISEASE Tracking lesbian and Gay Human Rights in Southern Africa Neville Hoad Whowill be queen of southern Africa? Two satirical...

...Paul EeNam Park Hagland Copyright © 1997 Mark Blasius 1997 Works Cited Amnesty International USA. Romania: Human Rights Violations in the Eighties . New York: AI Pubbcations, 1987 . Amnesty International USA. Breaking the Silence: Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual Orientation...

... Groups Transformed . Ed. Petracca, Mark P.. Boulder, CO: Westview P, 1992 . 285 -307. Cowan , Ruth B. “Women's Rights Through Litigation: An Examination of the American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, 1971-1976.” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 8 ( 1976 ): 373 -412...

...Ila Nagar; Debanuj DasGupta This article argues that religious mythologies and cultural narratives about the timelessness of gender diversity in South Asia frame the formation of the transgender subject of rights in India. The authors interrogate a verdict issued by the Supreme Court of India...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 581 How Sexual Minority Rights Activism Got Its Groove in Southern Africa Marc Epprecht Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa Ashley Currier Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xii + 255 pp. Anxiety about “queer imperialism...

... WILL STEELWORKERS JOIN THE FIGHT FOR LGBTQ CIVIL RIGHTS? Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy Steel Closets: Voices from Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers Anne Balay Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xi + 192 pp. Steel Closets: Voices from Gay...

...Erin Runions This essay reviews four books on the role of religion in shaping state policy, political rhetoric, and activism for and against same-sex rights in the United States. These books are instructive in thinking through relations between race and religion, sexuality and race, religion...