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...Eric Fassin © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 The Rise and Fall of Sexual Politics in the Public Sphere: A Transatlantic Contrast Eric Fassin The Desexualization of the American Public...

...Éric Fassin The so-called sexual clash of civilizations takes on a different meaning in today's Europe: it is about immigrants rather than terrorists—about contention, not expansion. As a consequence, Europe now draws the boundaries between “us” and “them” through sexual politics. Sexual democracy...

... Thinking Sexuality Transnationally (1999) and the author of The Cunning of Reason: Indigenous Alterity and Australian Multiculturalism (in press). Anderson, Benedict. 1991 . Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism . Rev. ed. London: Verso. Benveniste, Emile...

...Tejaswini Niranjana Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 “Left to the Imagination”: Indian Nationalisms and Female Sexuality in Trinidad Tejaswini Niranjana...

...Éric Fassin; Judith Surkis A public scandal that followed the 2005 exhibition of Tanja Ostojić's remake of Courbet's L'origine du monde revealed the contemporary sexual politics of the European Union. This essay analyzes how what was at stake in this “obscenity” was not the sex but rather...

...Agnieszka Graff The essay examines the dynamics of the politicization of homophobia in the recent period of right-wing rule in Poland, which followed the country's 2004 EU accession. It argues that the question of sexuality became a boundary marker, a reference point for political self-definition...

...Matthew Chin In this article, the author complicates the current positioning of Jamaica within international discourses as exceptionally homophobic by focusing on the island in the 1970s as a site through which to understand how the struggle for sexual agency among subjects of same sex desire...

... officials use—or deliberately fail to use—to shield prisoners from being identified as rapists. At the same time, the essay documents the brutal ways that inmates punish peers who have been revealed as perpetrators of sexual assault. Ultimately, the article argues that power in Brazil’s male prisons, like...

...Jenn M. Jackson The American imperial project exploits race, class, gender, and sexual differences in the name of the state. But in what ways has the transformative nature of American imperialism intervened in the public and private lives of Black women? This essay asks, What impact has...

...Seth Koven In this interview, Thomas Laqueur ranges widely across his childhood in 1940s Istanbul and 1950s small-town West Virginia to his “crisis” as a social historian that propelled him to cultural history and the study of sexuality and to his attempt to understand the cultural work of the dead...

... is the larger aspiration. But given practical limitations, this means scaling down to select terms and cases that signal translational injustice under conditions of violence and legal disputation. These conditions include gender violence and sexual safety across languages, the untranslatability of terms like...

... population—the homeless—bored day in and day out. In response, men discarded from work and home by a brutally competitive economy head into the bowels of the city’s transit hubs, where they organize a market for sexual favors. This essay takes this consumer-based response to deepening poverty...

... of the phenomena that thereby come into view. Two ethnographic moments—one involving faculty hiring and indigeneity and the other graduate admissions and gender/sexuality—exemplify the chilling effects of performative invocations of law, in this case of Proposition 209, the landmark California anti–affirmative...

... crimes such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex work or sex trafficking. Thus women, sex workers, and gender-nonconforming people may be disproportionately excluded from any benefits of bodycam surveillance. But privacy and dignity interests, as well as investigatory realities, preclude...

... of gender and sexuality studies by the 1980s, yet still in print and still inspiring to undergraduates today. This article explores the work’s other Undead characteristics, including its combination of erudition and generalism, its memorable turns of phrase, and its invention of the very criteria by which...

...Rita Chin A striking aspect of contemporary European debates about immigrants is the focus on the Muslim woman as the key figure through which objections to Islamic cultural difference have been articulated. This article traces how sexual politics became central to German public debates about guest...

..., the ordering of sex and sexuality, and the circulation of forms, imaginaries, goods, ideas, and people) played such decisive roles in this process of human collision and entanglement, it is logical that postcolonial studies has made them the privileged objects of its inquiry. Copyright 2011 by Duke...

... As for IGLHRC, which was founded in 1991, its mission is to “protect and advance the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimi- nation or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV sta- tus.”2...

... at the funeral of Sarah Bartmann (August 9, 2002), Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa, analyzed sexually charged represen- tations of African bodies as central epistemological features of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European racism. Given President Mbeki’s increasing reluc...

.... Lenneberg, ed., New Directions in the Study of Language. Cambridge: MIT Press. Newton , Esther . 1972. Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Robertson , Jennifer . 1992. “The Politics of Androgyny in Japan: Sexuality and Subversion...