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The War at Home. By John Connor, Peter Stanley and Peter Yule (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. xii+284, AU$59.95 (cloth).

"At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler's homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler's domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book's rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler's homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him."--Publisher's description

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Notice -- Table of Contents -- Dedications -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I: The Mommy Wars: Communiques Across the Barricades -- 1. So, What Do You Do? -- 2. Maternal Ambivalence -- 3. Navigating the Narrow Pass of Motherhood -- 4. Are "Mommy Wars" Real? -- Section II: On the Home Front: National Perspectives -- 5. Staying At Home -- 6. Stay at Home Jewish Mothers -- 7. Young Mothers in the UK -- 8. Mothering from a Caribbean Perspective -- 9. Mediating the Mommy Wars in Contemporary Germany -- 10. Integrating Choices -- 11. The Mommy Curve -- Section III: New Angels and Old Demons: Manifestations of Mothers at Home -- 12. Cyber-Mothers -- 13. Are Stay-at-Home Mothers Really at Home? -- 14. Eco-Momma -- 15. Smart Women, Different Choices -- 16. "But She Has A Nanny"...With Accompanying Eye Roll -- 17. 'Quiet Desperation' -- 18. Making it Work -- 19. The Day After, and the Day After That -- Section IV: When the War is Over: Re-imagining Stay-at-Home Mothering -- 20. How Alternative Mothering is Transforming American Stay-at-Home Motherhood -- 21. It's Time to Move Beyond the "Mommy Wars" -- 22. Seeing Themselves -- 23. Motherhood as an Act of Personal and Social Co-creation -- 24. The Free Gift -- 25. Conclusion -- 26. Contributors' Biographies.

Radical faerie culture produces modern sexual minorities by mediating their racial and national relationship to histories of colonization. Radical faeries arose in the US by forming itinerant rural gatherings--and, over time, landed rural sanctuaries to host them--where they sought to liberate an authentic gay subjectivity grounded in indigenous cultural roots. I examine the formation of rural sanctuaries and gatherings as sources for gay liberation by investigating how they are structured as spaces of homecoming. Radical faeries who travel to gatherings and sanctuaries arrive at home--despite neither originating nor remaining at these sites--when they find in rural spaces and in tales of indigeneity a self-acceptance and shared nature that grants new belonging to settled land. I narrate key moments when practices of rural mobility and emplacement call gay men home to authentic subjectivity and radical community, by means of loving communion, multigenerational rural ties, indigenous spirituality, and a newly indigenized relationship to settled land. My argument arises from reflexive ethnographic interpretation of the quotidian practices of gatherings and sanctuaries. My ethnographic attention marks the integrity of radical faerie culture as a creative mediation of the racial, national, and colonial conditions of sexuality. My analysis calls queer studies to attend more deeply to the intersectionality and coloniality of sexual minority formations in settler societies, and to let ethnographic interpretation mark both how normative power relations condition sexualities and how sexual subjects creatively engage them.

"Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan's ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living in Kazakhstan. Consequently, Germans in Kazakhstan today feel more alienated than ever from their 'historic homeland.' This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies, which play a role in the 'construction' of a Kazakhstani German identity--From publisher's website