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From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found but forged. The 'court of popular opinion' is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes civil strife. Even in 'mainstream' media, journalists make news for public consumption, so that all news is to an extent 'fake news'. In a world of making, how can we separate craft from craftiness? With insights from disciplines including law, politics, rhetoric, media studies, psychology, sociology, marketing, and performance studies, The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law offers a constructive way to approach controversies from transgender identity to cancel culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

This book presents urban transition experiences over nearly three decades in Bangalore based on the narratives of the city's street-based sex workers. Sex workers - female, male, and transgender - have been omnipresent in Bangalore's streets for decades. However, despite being blacklisted as 'undesirable' and hazards to the 'ideal public', they have their own unique imaginaries and narratives of the city and its mutations. In mapping out their spatial and social ecosystems and experiences with technology, this book redraws, rewrites, and relooks at a city and its transformations from their perspectives. The analysis of their experience is anchored to concepts around neoliberal urbanism, gender, labour informality, and the politics of technology. The authors take an unconventional journey through their spaces, comrades, and battles to announce and affirm their individuality and agency through their empowerment strategies, and through their struggles to reclaim their spaces and assert their identities as informal workers and legitimate citizens of the city.

Catharina Linck war die letzte Frau, die in Europa wegen der »Unzucht mit einem Weybe« hingerichtet wurde. Aufgewachsen im Waisenhaus in Halle, legte sie schon als Fünfzehnjährige Männerkleider an, nannte sich Anastasius Rosenstengel und »caressierte« mit einem »von Leder gemachten ausgestopfften Männlichen Glied« zahlreiche »schöne Weibspersonen«. Nach unsteten Wanderjahren als Prophet einer pietistischen Sekte kämpfte sie als Musketier im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg, desertierte und arbeitete als Handwerker, ehe sie 1717 in Halberstadt eine andere Frau heiratete. Von der argwöhnischen Schwiegermutter enttarnt und verraten, wurde Catharina Linck der Inquisitionsprozess gemacht, und der preußische König Friedrich Wilhelm I. verurteilte sie persönlich zum Tode. "Den 300. Jahrestag der Hinrichtung am 7. oder 8. November 1721 nimmt der Suhrkamp Verlag zum Anlass, die Monografie "In Männerkleidern" neu zu veröffentlichen, die 2004 im Böhlau Verlag zum ersten Mal erschien. Verfasst wurde sie von der Schriftstellerin Angela Steidele – aber das sagt in diesem Fall zu wenig. Denn Steideles Leistung besteht in einem mindestens so großen Teil in unermüdlicher historischer Forschung... Unwillkürlich entsteht bei der Lektüre das Bild einer orlandohaften Figur, die einem Roman entsprungen sein könnte. Aber das ist Rosenstengel nicht. Ihre Geschichte hat sich real ereignet, und indem Angela Steidele darauf verzichtet, die Leerstellen dieser Geschichte literarisch auszuphantasieren, macht sie deren Ungeheuerlichkeit noch deutlicher. Woher nahm vor 300 Jahren ein Mensch die subversive Kraft, so zu leben, wie es das 21. Jahrhundert zumindest rechtlich erlaubt? Wir wissen es nicht. Was war Rosenstengel? Transgender, transsexuell, non-binär, queer? Mit heutigen Begriffen lässt sich die Vergangenheit nicht ermessen" (deutschlandfunk.de)

"In this book, 14 scholars from Belgium, Canada, Mozambique, Portugal, the US, and the UK examine the long-term cultural and social environment of sex definition in different continents. The study of medieval and early modern Portugal shows limited rights of women and patriarchal constraints. The impact on gender definition of Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World is analysed with the inclusion of local agency informing indigenous responses. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The use of language and literary representation are part of this research. Contributors are: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Dorothée Boulanger, Rosa Maria dos Santos Capelão, Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe, Gily Coene, Philip J. Havik, Ben James, Anna M. Klobucka, Chia Longman, Amélia Polónia, Ana Maria S. Rodrigues, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Ana Cristina Santos, and João Silvestre"--

Behavioral health and the Affordable Care Act / John Orwat, Whitney Key -- The decline of community mental health under Reagan and Bush / Alexander Sawatsky -- Clinton's efforts to respond to escalating costs & the emergence of mental health parity / Alexander Sawatsky -- Financing and delivery of behavioral health in the United States / John Orwat, Shveta Kumaria, Michael P. Dentato -- Advancing access to behavioral and mental health care social workers and policy practice : affecting policy and achieving policy action / Cynthia Moniz -- Analyzing the problem : access to care / Christine Rine -- Analyzing the problem : disparities in behavioral health services for people of color and latinxs / Llewellyn Cornelius -- Analyzing the problem : disparities in behavioral and mental health for children and youth / John Orwat, Whitney Key -- Analyzing the problem : disparities in behavioral health care for older adults / Kyeongmo Kim, Amanda J. Lehning, Paul Sacco -- Analyzing the problem : disparities in behavioral and mental health for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) / Eileen Klein

For the first time, Serving in Silence? reveals the integral role played by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women in Australia's military after the Second World War. Their powerful personal stories, recounted with searing honesty, illustrate the changing face of the Australian Defence Force, the pivotal role of military service in the lives of many LGBT Australians, and how they have served their country with distinction.'To put service before self in our Nation's name is the essence of being a member of our Defence Force. Such commitment is to be respected and honoured. Yet, for too long, our LGBT personnel served in silence. This book gives voice to men and women who served in the face of prejudice and discrimination. It is an affirmation of how Australia and its Defence Force are changing for the better.' -- LIEUTENANT GENERAL DAVID MORRISON, former Chief of Army and 2016 Australian of the Year

Intro -- Healthcare in Motion -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part I. Healthcare and Differential Mobility Empowerments -- Chapter 1. "Stuck in Motion" -- Chapter 2. "It's Too Risky to Leave the House" -- Chapter 3. (Im)mobile Populations and Health Rights -- Part II. The Effect of Imagination on Mobility as a Resource in the Search for Care and Caring -- Chapter 4. Fluid and Mobile Identities -- Chapter 5. Egg Donor Social Mobility and Expansion of Czech Reproductive Medicine -- Chapter 6. Governing Mobility of Health Workers across Borders -- Part III. Patient Navigation and Mobile Technologies of Care -- Chapter 7. HIV/AIDS and Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Services for Deaf Kenyans -- Chapter 8. Service-Learning Research Projects to Enhance the Information Accompanying Commonly Dispensed Medicines on the Phelophepa Healthcare Trains -- Chapter 9. Community-Led Peer Advocacy for Transgender Healthcare Access in the Southeastern United States -- Chapter 10. Leading mHealth in Myanmar's Smartphone Revolution -- Postscript -- Index

On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. presidential race--immigration, health care, environmental protections, LGBTQ rights, racial justice, freedom of religion, and workers' rights, among others. In the mere 66 days between the election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States, 673 sister marches sprang up across the country and the world. ABRAMS Image presents Why I March to honor the movement, give back to it, and promote future activism in the same vein. All royalties from the sale of the book will be donated to the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, the Transgender Law Center, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Perverse Taiwan -- PART I Turning queer in straight times: reframing genealogies -- 2 Archiving Taiwan, articulating renyao -- 3 Plural not singular: homosexuality in Taiwanese literature of the 1960s -- 4 From psychoanalysis to AIDS: the early contradictory approaches to gender and sexuality and the recourse to American discourses during Taiwan's societal transformation in the early 1980s -- PART II Orderly subjects of disorderly conducts: redefining positionalities -- 5 "Are you a T, Po, or bufen?": transnational cultural politics and lesbian identity formation in contemporary Taiwan -- 6 Patrilineal kinship and transgender embodiment in Taiwan -- PART III Normal nation and deviant narrations: refiguring embodiments -- 7 Performing hybridity: the music and visual politics of male cross-dressing performance in Taiwan -- 8 Market visibility: the development and vicissitudes of tongzhi cinema in Taiwan -- 9 Defacing shame -- 10 A canvas of foreign characters: post/colonial modernity in Lai Xiangyin's "The Translator" and Thereafter -- Index

This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU). It provides not only thoughtful reflections on the topic but also a wealth of new empirical findings -- arising from legal and policy analysis, large-scale sociological investigations and country case studies. Theoretical concepts come from institutional analysis, the study of social movements, law, and Europeanization literature. The authors discuss emerging Europe-wide activism for LGBT rights and analyze issues such as the tendency of nationalist movements to turn 'sexual others' into 'national others, ' the actions and rhetoric of church actors as powerful counter-mobilizers against LGBT rights, and the role of the domestic state on the receiving end of EU pressure in the field of fundamental rights.

This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU). It provides not only thoughtful reflections on the topic but also a wealth of new empirical findings - arising from legal and policy analysis, large-scale sociological investigations and country case studies. Theoretical concepts come from institutional analysis, the study of social movements, law, and Europeanization literature. The authors discuss emerging Europe-wide activism for LGBT rights and analyze issues such as the tendency of nationalist movements to turn 'sexual others' into 'national others,' the actions and rhetoric of church actors as powerful counter-mobilizers against LGBT rights, and the role of the domestic state on the receiving end of EU pressure in the field of fundamental rights

The everyday lives of contemporary youths are awash with drugs to boost pleasure, moods, sexual performance, vitality, appearance and health. This article examines pervasive practices of chemical 'self-maximization' from the perspectives of youth themselves. The research for this article was conducted among male, female and transgender (male to female, so-called waria) sex workers in Makassar, Indonesia. It presents our ethnographic findings on how these youths experiment with drugs to achieve their desired mental and bodily states: with the painkiller Somadril to feel happy, confident and less reluctant to engage in sex with clients, and contraceptive pills and injectable hormones to feminize their male bodies and to attract customers. Youths are extremely creative in adjusting dosages and mixing substances, with knowledge of the (mostly positive) 'lived effects' of drugs spreading through collective experimentation and word of mouth. The paper outlines how these experimental practices differ from those that have become the gold standard in biomedicine.

Intro -- Thinking With Irigaray -- Contents -- Introduction: The Work of Sexual Difference -- Part One: Alternatives To Masculine Genealogies -- 1. Orestes With Oedipus -- 2. Beyond The Madonna -- 3. Animality and Descent -- Part Two: Overcoming Binary Oppositions -- 4. Beyond the Vertical and the Horizontal -- 5. Space and Irigary's Theory of Sexual Difference -- 6. Can Luce Irigaray's Notion of Sexual Difference be Applied to Transsexual and Transgender Narratives? -- Part Three: The Ethical Irigaray -- 7. The Incomplete Masculine -- 8. A Bridge Between Three Forever Irreducible to Each Other(s) -- Part Four: Women and Interiority -- 9. Sexuality on the Market -- 10. Fishing and Thinking, Or an Interiority of My Own -- 11. Autonomy and Divinity -- Part Five: Women as Political Agents -- 12. Antigone Falters -- 13. Antigone's Exemplarity -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Intro -- Inhalt -- Vorwort der Herausgeber -- Vorwort -- 1 Die Frage des Geschlechts -- Aufmerksamkeit für Geschlecht -- Geschlecht verstehen -- Geschlecht definieren -- Notiz zu den Quellen -- 2 Fünf Beispiele für Geschlechterforschung -- Erster Fall: Das Geschlechterspiel im Schulalltag -- Zweiter Fall: Männlichkeit und Minen -- Dritter Fall: Zurechtbiegen von Geschlecht -- Vierter Fall: Frauen, Krieg und Erinnerung -- Fünfter Fall: Veränderung von unten -- 3 GeschlechtertheoretikerInnen und Geschlechtertheorie -- In der Mehrheitswelt I: Raden Ajeng Kartini -- In der Metropole 1: von Christine de Pizan zu Simone de Beauvoir -- In der Metropole 2: von Women's Liberation zur queer theory -- In der Mehrheits-Welt 2: über die Dekade der Frauen hinaus -- 4 Geschlechterunterschiede und vergeschlechtlichte Körper -- Reproduktive Unterschiede -- Gegensätzliche Darstellungen von Differenz -- Tatsachen über Differenz: Forschungen über die "Ähnlichkeit der Geschlechter" -- Soziale Verkörperung und die Arena der Reproduktion -- 5 Geschlechterverhältnisse -- Geschlechtermuster: Struktur und Wandel -- Geschlecht in vier Dimensionen -- Machtverhältnisse: direkt, diskursiv, kolonisierend -- Produktion, Konsumtion und vergeschlechtlichte Akkumulation -- Emotionale Beziehungen -- Symbolismus, Kultur, Diskurs -- Verwobenheit und Intersektionalität -- Geschlecht als Geschichte -- Veränderungsprozesse -- Instabilität -- Widerspruch -- Kolonialismus -- 6 Geschlecht im persönlichen Leben -- Vergeschlechtlicht Aufwachsen: Sozialisierung in Geschlechtsrollen, Psychoanalyse und Lernen in Körpern -- Geschlechtsidentität -- Drittes Geschlecht, transgender, transsexuell -- 7 Geschlecht im großen Maßstab -- Der vergeschlechtlichte Konzern -- Der vergeschlechtlichte Staat -- Geschlecht in der Weltgesellschaft -- Interaktion zwischen Geschlechterordnungen.

Recently, we have seen a proliferation of maps visualising the global state of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, plus (LGBTQI+) rights. While they represent a productive advocacy tool for activists, we critically examine the politics embedded and reinforced by the way maps and indices are constructed and represented. By exploring the discrepancies between ILGA-Europe's rainbow maps and the lived experiences of LGBTQI+ people within Europe, we argue that these maps reproduce hierarchies often mediated by Eurocentric understandings of linear progress while discounting the importance that an interpenetration of legal and social aspects has in evaluating national contexts in which LGBTQI+ persons live. The emphasis on legislative frameworks, thus, in part displaces lived experiences of LGBTQI+ people in Europe, projecting both queer utopias and dystopias onto different geographical localities and feeding into existing homonationalist discourses. With such findings, we argue against the fetishisation of legislation within LGBTQI+ activism and academia.