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"In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation--both a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have become intimately entwined, dangerously positioning national security as reliant on the control of women's bodies. Drawing on feminist scholarship and critical studies of security culture, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz explores homeland maternity by calling our attention to the ways that authorities see both non-reproductive and "overly" reproductive women's bodies as threats to social norms--and thus to security. Homeland maternity culture intensifies motherhood's requirements and works to discipline those who refuse to adhere. Analyzing the opt-out revolution, public debates over emergency contraception, and other controversies, Fixmer-Oraiz compellingly demonstrates how policing maternal bodies serves the political function of securing the nation in a time of supposed danger--with profound and troubling implications for women's lives and agency"--

"Andrés Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn from the world. Abducted off the street, blindfolded and beaten, he was brought to a Mexican military facility and "disappeared." Tzompaxtle, a young indigenous man and member of an insurgent guerrilla movement, was subjected to months of interrogation and torture as the military tried to extract information from him. In an effort to buy time to protect his family and comrades, and to keep himself alive, he lead his captors on fruitless journeys to abandoned safe-houses and false rendezvous locations for four months. Finally, faced with imminent execution, he decided to make what he thought was a suicidal attempt at escape; when he miraculously survived, he was able to return underground. Gleaned from years of clandestine interviews, Tzompaxtle's story offers a rare glimpse into chronic injustice, underground resistance movements, and the practice of forced disappearance and torture in contemporary Mexico" --

"Examines the role that video games play in girls' lives, including how games structure girls' leisure time, how playing video games constitutes different performances of femininity, and what influences girls to play or not play video games. Through interviews, focus groups, and qualitative content analyses, this book analyzes girls' involvement with video games. It also examines different contexts in which discourses of girls and video games occur, including girl-oriented video games, activist efforts to change the video game industry, and informal education programs that teach girls video game design." -- Publisher's description

America's nightmare : remembering Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave new world -- Authoritarianism and the legacy of fascist collaboration -- Beyond the politics of incivility -- The culture of cruelty in Tump's America -- The politics disposability in the age of disasters -- State violence and the scourge of white nationalism -- Neo-nazis in Charlottesville -- Death of the Democratic Party -- Toward a politics of ungovernability

Statistical analysis and the boundaries of the genre of Old English Prayer / William H. Smith and Charles L. Butler -- If (not "Quantize, Click, and Conclude") Digital methods in Medieval studies, Katayoun Torabi -- Project paradise: a geo-temporal exhibit of the Hereford Map and The Book of John Mandeville / Alexandra Bolintineau -- Ghastly vignettes : Pierce the Plowman's Crede : the ghost of Shakespeare's Blackfriars, and the future of the digital past / Jim Knowles -- Content in context : radical transparency and the acknowledgement of informational palimpsests in online display / Matthew Evan Davis -- Encoding and decoding Machaut / Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel -- Of dinosaurs and dwarves : moving on from Mouvance in digital editions / Timothy L. Stinson -- Adam Scriveyn in cyberspace : loss, labour, ideology, and infrastructure in interoperable reuse of digital manuscript metadata / Bridget Whearty -- Digital representations of the provenance of Medieval manuscripts / Toby Burrows -- Bridging the gap : managing a digital Medieval initiative across disciplines and institutions / Joseph Koivisto, Lilla Kopár, and Nancy L. Wicker.

"This book shows how traditional notions of the processes and products of creative adaptation are evolving online. It provides a vocabulary to analyze, discuss, and theorize about the implications of online forms of adaptation and highlights the potential and possible ethical quandaries of adaptation online"--

"'This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos'--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States; 'Mumia's writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently'--Cornel West; 'He allows us to reflect upon the fact that transformational possibilities often emerge where we least expect them'--Angela Y. Davis; In December 1981, Mumia Abu Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness. In Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America, with its origins in the white slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country's Black population. Applying a personal, historical, and political lens, Mumia provides a righteously angry and calmly principled radical Black perspective on how racist violence is tearing our country apart and what must be done to turn things around. Mumia Abu-Jamal is author of many books, including Death Blossoms, Live from Death Row, All Things Censored, and Writing on the Wall"--Provided by publisher

First book: just plain evil (you cannot meaningfully talk this way--violence is a virtue--so you cannot justifiably act that way) -- Second book: ordinary silence (affirming the limits of our words--listening attentively--makes a life worth living) -- Supplements to first and second books (the difficulty is to stop).

"Explores a variety of theological and methodological approaches to film spectatorship through a dialogue of international contributions"--

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 - Transnational Publicity, Gender-Based Violence, and Central American Women's Asylum Cases -- 2 - Fixing Bodies, Fashioning Subjects: Constructing Gender through Rhetorics of Freedom and Choice -- 3 - Standing in her Shoes: U.S. Asylum Policy for Chinese Opposing Population Control -- 4 - The Rhetoric and Logic of one Sex, One Gender -- 5 - The Reading Practices of Immigration Judges: Intersectional Invisibility and the Segregation of Gender and Sexuality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

"Women filing gender-based asylum claims long faced skepticism and outright rejection within the U.S. immigration system. Despite erratic progress, the United States still fails to recognize gender as an established category for experiencing persecution. Gender exists in a sort of limbo segregated from other aspects of identity and experience. Sara McKinnon exposes racialized rhetorics of violence in politics and charts the development of gender as a category in U.S. asylum law. Starting with the late 1980s, when gender-based requests first emerged in case law, McKinnon analyzes gender and sexuality-related cases against the backdrop of national and transnational politics. Her focus falls on cases as diverse as Guatemalan and Salvadoran women sexually abused during the Dirty Wars and transgender asylum seekers from around the world fleeing brutally violent situations. She reviews the claims, evidence, testimony, and message strategies that unfolded in these legal arguments and decisions, and illuminates how legal decisions turned gender into a political construct vulnerable to U.S. national and global interests. She also explores myriad related aspects of the process, including how subjects are racialized and the effects of that racialization; and the consequences of policies that position gender as a signifier for women via normative assumptions about sex and heterosexuality"--