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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
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“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
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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
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Sexual Fluidity “Before Sex”Leila Rupp
Transsexual Women and Feminist Thought: Toward New Understanding and New Politics
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“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
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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
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Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson
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Women and the Animal Rights Movement by Emily Gaarder
Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice edited by Lisa Kemmerer