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Volume 37  |   Number 3  |   Spring 2012

Comparative Perspectives Symposium: Fish/Wives: Gender, Representation, and Agency in Coastal Communities
Edited by Valerie Burton

Fish/Wives: An Introduction
Valerie Burton

“Good Looks Don’t Boil the Pot”: Irish-Newfoundland Women as Fish(-Producing) Wives
Wileen Keough

Aboriginal Women and Asian Men: A Maritime History of Color in White Australia
Ruth Balint

Not between People and Things but between People about Things: Gendered Investment and the Case of the Lake Victoria Fishery, Tanzania
Modesta Medard

The Fisherman’s Wife: Vulnerabilities and Strategies in the Local Economy: A Case of Lake Victoria, Kenya
Carolyne Lwenya and Ernest Yongo

The Promise of the Southwest Wind: Visayan Fish/Migrant Wives in the Shifting Fishery of the Central Philippines
Cynthia Neri Zayas and Lilian C. de la Peña

Neighbors and Traders in a Seventeenth-Century Port Town
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira

The Multiple Identities of Early Modern Dutch Fishwives
Danielle van den Heuvel

Piggybacking Monsieur and Madame: Seaside Tourism and the Fisherwomen of Arcachon - La Teste
Alice Garner

“There Is Many a Thing That Can Be Done with Money”: Women, Barter, and Autonomy in a Scottish Fishing Community in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Lynn Abrams

Unruly Women and Invisible Workers: The Shrimp Traders of Mazatlán, Mexico
María L. Cruz-Torres


Articles

Rescue and Rehabilitation: A Critical Analysis of Sex Workers’ Antitrafficking Response in India
Veronica Magar

Agency, Injury, and Transgressive Politics in Neoliberal Times
Sumi Madhok and Shirin M. Rai

In the Dark Room: Homosexuality and/as Blackness in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
Josep M. Armengol

Intensifying Taste, Intensifying Identity: Collectivity through Community Cookbooks
Kennan Ferguson

Gendered Eugenics and the Problematic of Free Market Reproductive Technologies: Sperm and Egg Donation in the United States
Cynthia R. Daniels and Erin Heidt-Forsythe


Book Reviews

Joycelyn Moody
Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century by P. Gabrielle Foreman
Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible by Katherine Clay Bassard
Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America by Renee K. Harrison

Sarah S. Richardson
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture by Evelyn Fox Keller

Stephanie Jenkins
Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, on the Margins edited by Jackie Leach Scully, Laurel E. Baldwin-Ragaven, and Petya Fitzpatrick
Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics by Karla F. C. Holloway

Aimee Meredith Cox
Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence by Nikki Jones
Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City by Cindy D. Ness

Julie A. Willett
The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work by Miliann Kang
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany M. Gill

Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Freedom for Women: Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement, 1953-1970 by Carol Giardina
No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism edited by Nancy A. Hewitt




Volume 37  |  Number 4  |  Summer 2012

Sex: A Thematic Issue

Symposium: Before Sex
Edited by Michael McKeon

The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sexuality Hypothesis
Michael McKeon

The Rise of Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Historical Context and Historiographical Implications
Thomas W. Laqueur

Women’s Bodies and the Making of Sex in Seventeenth-Century England
Laura Gowing

The Reformulation of Sexual Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century England
Tim Hitchcock

The Transformation of Sodomy from the Renaissance to the Modern World and its General Sexual Consequences
Randolph Trumbach


Articles

Sexual Fluidity “Before Sex”
Leila Rupp

Transsexual Women and Feminist Thought: Toward New Understanding and New Politics
Raewyn Connell

“An Unnamed Blank That Craved a Name”: Genealogy of Intersex as Gender
David A. Rubin

Sexing the X: How the X became the “Female Chromosome”
Sarah S. Richardson

Gender across the Animal-Human Boundary: Making Males Aggressive and Females Coy
Erika Lorraine Milam

Paradoxes of Butchness: Lesbian Masculinities and Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Africa
Amanda Lock Swarr

Open Normativities: Gender, Disability, and Collective Political Change
Alexis Shotwell


Book Reviews

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Maria Cecilia Hwang
Heather Lee
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves by Kevin Bales
To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves edited by Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd
Sex Slaves and Discourse Matters: The Construction of Trafficking byJo Doezema
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery bySiddhartha Kara
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Works and Human Rights byKamala Kempadoo, with Jyoti Sanghere and Bandana Parranaik
The Politics of Trafficking: The First International Movement to Combat the Sexual Exploitation of Women byStephanie A. Limoncelli
Trafficking in Human Beings: Modern Slavery bySilvia Scarpa

Kelly Coogan-Gehr    
Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory by Clare Hemmings

Michelle Garvey
Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson

Kathy Rudy
Women and the Animal Rights Movement by Emily Gaarder
Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice edited by Lisa Kemmerer