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Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality by Sue-Ellen Jacobs; Wesley Thomas; Sabine Lang; Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures by Sabine Lang

By transreads | July 24, 2021 by transreads

Review of two books: Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality. Edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures. By Sabine Lang. Trans. John L. Vantine. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.

Critique Essay Social Sciences Theory

Writing the Lives of “Travestis” and “Jotas”: Ethnographies of Gender Transgression and Commercial Sexual Exchange in Latin America

By transreads | July 24, 2021 by transreads

Review Essay Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens and Machos. By Annick Prieur. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. By Don Kulick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Anthology Essay History Humanities Law/Legal Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory

Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion

By transreads | July 24, 2021 by transreads

When “rights” go wrong. Does gay marriage support the right-wing goal of linking access to basic human rights like health care and economic security to an inherently conservative tradition? Will the ability of queers to fight in wars of imperialism help liberate and empower LGBT people around the world? Does hate-crime legislation affirm and strengthen…

Biography History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory

By transreads | July 24, 2021 by transreads

In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translates as “strange,” is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “queer.” For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by which to reread Cherokee history in…

Humanities Nonfiction Other Reference/Guide/Manual Social Sciences Theory

Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, U.S. Law, and Womanist Theology for Transgender Spiritual Care

By transreads | July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 by transreads

This book is a response to the Trump-Pence Administration’s reversal of transgender rights. Pamela Ayo Yetunde offers an intersectionally-robust turn in pastoral and spiritual care—pastoral and spiritual care as religious freedom law literacy, public advocacy, East-West integration, and systems agitation. In this book, Yetunde draws on the works of Zen master Thich Nhat Hahn; black…

Critique History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

By transreads | July 24, 2021 by transreads

Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial…

Biography Essay Humanities Nonfiction Other Social Sciences Theory

An Apartment on Uranus

By transreads | July 24, 2021 by transreads

Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system, as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the `third sex’ and the rights of those who `love differently’. Following in Ulrich’s footsteps,…

Humanities Nonfiction Reference/Guide/Manual Social Sciences Theory

“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

By transreads | July 24, 2021 by transreads

An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners – a total…

History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory

Three into two: the third sex in Northern Albania

By transreads | July 23, 2021 by transreads

From the position of a formal sociology, Georg Simmel argued that the introduc- tion of a third element into a pervasive binary system can serve to mitigate the latter’s salience. The instance considered here is that of a third sex in Northern Albania. “Sworn virgins” are generally perceived as women who become men (gender crossing)…

Anthology Essay History Humanities Nonfiction Reference/Guide/Manual Social Sciences Theory

African Gender Studies: A Reader

By transreads | July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 by transreads

This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential writing on this topic from the last 25 years, these essays discuss gender in Africa from a multi-disciplinary perspective.