For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a "good victim" is no longer enough. Victims must also show that they are recovering, as if domestic violence were a disease: they must transform from "victims" into "survivors." Women’s access to life-saving resources may even hinge on “good” performances of survivorhood. Through archival research, life story interviews, and participant observation, The Politics of Surviving reveals that coerced therapy and trauma discourses play an increasingly central role in women’s lives when they navigate state programs to survive gender-based violence. “Becoming" a survivor is a labor-intensive process that allows some women to become legible to service systems, while it also produces new forms of stratification and social suffering. Using an intersectional lens, Paige L. Sweet uncovers how "resilience" and "survivorhood” can become coercive and exclusionary forces in women’s lives. With nuance and compassion, The Politics of Surviving wrestles with questions about the gendered nature of the welfare state, the unintended consequences of feminist mobilizations for anti-violence programs, and the women who are left behind by the limited forms of citizenship we offer them.

Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. These remarkable documents, curated and translated into English by Jeffrey Merrick, allow us to hear the voices of men who desired men and to explore complex questions about sources, patterns, and meanings in the history of sexuality. This volume centers on two cartons of paperwork from commissaire Charles Convers Desormeaux. Dated from 1785, the cartons contain 221 dossiers of men arrested for sodomy or similar acts in Paris. Merrick translates and annotates the police interviews from these dossiers, revealing how the police and those they arrested understood sex between men at the time. Merrick discusses the implications of what the men said (and what they did not say), how they said it, and in what contexts it was said. The best-known works of clergy and jurists, of enemies and advocates of Enlightenment, and of novelists and satirists from the eighteenth century tell us nothing at all about the lived experience of men who desired men. In these police dossiers, Merrick allows them to speak in their own words. This primary text brings together a wealth of important information that will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers interested in the history of sexuality, sodomy, and sexual policing.

Scholars and social critics are looking at gender and sexuality, as well as masculinity, in new ways and with more attention to the way cultural ideologies affect men’s and women’s lives. With the rise of an online “incel” (involuntarily celibate) community and the perpetration of acts of violence in their name, as well as increased awareness about the complexities of sexual interaction brought to the fore by the #metoo movement, it has become critical to discuss how men’s sexuality and masculinity are related, as well as the way men feel about the messages they get about being a man. Prior research on masculinity and masculine sexuality has examined the experiences of adolescent boys. But what happens to boys as they become men and as many move away from homo-social environments into sexual relationships? What happens when they no longer have a crowd of peers to posture or perform for? How do their sexual experiences and sexual selves change? How do they prove their masculinity in a society that demands it when they are no longer surrounded by peers? And how do they cultivate sexual selves and sexual self-confidence in a culture that expects them to always already be knowledgeable, desiring sexual subjects? In Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up, Beth Montemurro explores the cultivation of heterosexual men’s sexual selves. Based on detailed, in-depth interviews with a large, diverse group of heterosexual men between the ages of 20 and 68, she investigates how getting sex, having sex, and keeping up their sex lives matters to men. Ultimately, Montemurro uncovers the tension between public, cultural narratives about hetero-masculinity and men’s private, sexual selves and their intimate experiences.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth disproportionately make up the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives.
Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in central Texas, Coming Out to the Streets maps the LGBTQ youth’s lives prior to experiencing homelessness – within their families, schools, and other institutions – and while the youth live on the streets, deal with police, and navigate shelters and services for people experiencing homelessness. Through this documentation, Robinson shows how poverty and racial inequality shape how LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness negotiate their gender and sexuality. Robinson contends that solutions to addressing LGBTQ youth homelessness need to move beyond blaming families for rejecting their child. By highlighting youth’s voices, Robinson calls for queer and trans liberation through systemic change.

This book speaks to the intersection of gender and power within American evangelicalism by examining the formation of evangelical leaders in two seminary communities.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary inspires a vision of human flourishing through gender differentiation and male headship. Men practice “Godly Manhood," and are taught to act as the "head" of a family, while their wives are socialized into codes of “Godly Womanhood" that prioritize prescribed gender roles. This power structure that prioritizes men yet offers agency to their wives in women-centered spaces and through marital relationships.
 
Meanwhile, Asbury Theological Seminary promises freedom from gendered hierarchies. Appealing to a story of gender-blind equality, Asbury welcomes women into classrooms, administrative offices, and pulpits. But the institution’s construction of egalitarianism obscures the fact that women are rewarded for adapting to an existing male-centered status quo rather than for developing their own voices as women.
 
Featuring high-profile evangelicals such as Al Mohler and Owen Strachan, along with young seminarians poised to lead the movement in the coming decades, this book illustrates the liabilities of white evangelical toolkits and argues that evangelical culture upholds male-centered structures of power even as it facilitates meaning and identity.

Strippers may be the main attraction of strip clubs, but their work is bolstered by people who are rarely meaningfully those who organize, supervise, manage, or coordinate the labour of erotic dancers, including managers, bouncers, and disc jockeys. Playing the Supporting Role contends it is essential to explore the managerial layer in order to have a comprehensive understanding of the power relations and working conditions in the erotic dance sector – and, consequently, distinguish banal or beneficial from unfair or exploitative sex-industry labour practices.

Focusing primarily on third parties in the erotic dance sector, this book examines who these individuals are; how they manage clients, workers, security, and stigma; the services and resources they provide; and, in turn, strippers’ experiences and perceptions of these practices. Through qualitative interview data with third parties and strippers from two Ontario cities, Playing the Supporting Role ultimately advances an understanding of third-party work as gendered, classed, and racialized occupational performance in a stigmatized labour sector that is simultaneously over- and under-regulated.

In Gendered Fortunes , Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized by long-standing secularist laws and disdained by contemporary Islamist government, fortunetelling cafés proliferate in part because they offer shelter from the conservative secularist, Islamist, neoliberal, and gender pressures of the public sphere. Korkman shows how fortunetelling is a form of affective labor through which its participants build intimate feminized publics in which they share and address their hopes and fears. Korkman uses feeling—which is how her interlocutors describe the divination process—as an analytic to view the shifting landscape of gendered vulnerability in Turkey. In so doing, Korkman foregrounds “feeling” as a feminist lens to explore how those who are pushed to the margins feel their way through oppressive landscapes to create new futures.

A courtside view of how women athletes’ identities are policed, on and off the court

Women’s college basketball is big business—top teams bring in millions of dollars in revenue for their schools. Women’s NCAA games are broadcast regularly on sports networks, and many of the top players and coaches are household names. Yet these athletes face immense pressure to be more than successful at their sport. They must also conform to expectations about gender, sexuality, and race—expectations that are often in direct contrast to success in the game. They are not supposed to have muscles that are too big, they are not supposed to be too tough, they are not supposed to be too masculine or “look like men,” and they are not supposed to be queer.

A former college athlete herself, Michelle J. Manno spent a full season with a highly competitive NCAA Division I women’s basketball program as one of the team’s managers. In vivid detail, she takes us on the court, on the team bus, into the locker room, and to championship games to show the intense dedication that these women give to the game. She found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that these extremely talented women were strictly policed around the presentation of their gender and sexuality, especially the athletes who were Black. They were routinely monitored, banned from engaging in certain activities, and often punished for behavior that put their queerness, Blackness, and masculinity on display. Convincingly conforming to conventional expectations of gender and sexuality—from the clothes they wore to the people they dated—was yet another challenge at which they needed to excel. Importantly, Manno also highlights several well-known contemporary professional athletes—Brittney Griner, Serena Williams, Gabby Douglas, and Caster Semenya, among others—to show that fame and performing at the highest levels in sport does not protect women athletes from having to navigate the conflicting and often contradictory expectations of identity.

A riveting portrait of an elite basketball program, Denied will forever change our understanding of women athletes and the sports they play.

We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this novel ethnographic study of lesbian, bisexual, and queer individuals in four small cities across the United States.

Taking us into communities in Ithaca, New York; San Luis Obispo, California; Greenfield, Massachusetts; and Portland, Maine; Brown-Saracino shows how LBQ migrants craft a unique sense of self that corresponds to their new homes. How Places Make Us demonstrates that sexual identities are responsive to city ecology. Despite the fact that the LBQ residents share many demographic and cultural traits, their approaches to sexual identity politics and to ties with other LBQ individuals and heterosexual residents vary markedly by where they live. Subtly distinct local ecologies shape what it feels like to be a sexual minority, including the degree to which one feels accepted, how many other LBQ individuals one encounters in daily life, and how often a city declares its embrace of difference. In short, city ecology shapes how one “does” LBQ in a specific place. Ultimately, Brown-Saracino shows that there isn’t one general way of approaching sexual identity because humans are not only social but fundamentally local creatures. Even in a globalized world, the most personal of questions—who am I?—is in fact answered collectively by the city in which we live.

Drawing from an activist research project spanning Loja, Santo Domingo, New York, New Jersey, and Barcelona, this book offers a feminist intersectional analysis of the impact of migration on health and well-being. It assesses how social inequalities and migration and health policies, in Ecuador and destination countries, shape the experiences of migrants. The author also explores how individual and collective action challenges health, geopolitical, gender, sexual, ethnoracial, and economic disparities, and empowers communities. This is a thorough analysis of interpersonal, institutional, and structural mechanisms of marginalization and resistance. It will inform policy and research for better responses to migration’s negative effects on health, and progress towards greater equality and social justice.

Every place has its quirky attributes, cultural reputation, and distinctive flair. But when we travel across America, do we also experience distinct gender norms and expectations? In his groundbreaking Gendered Places, William Scarborough examines metropolitan commuting zones to see how each region’s local culture reflects gender roles and gender equity. He uses surveys and social media data to measure multiple dimensions of gender norms, including expectations toward women in leadership, attitudes toward working mothers, as well as the division of household labor. Gendered Places reveals that different locations, even within the same region of the country, such as Milwaukee and Madison Wisconsin, have distinct gender norms and highly influential cultural environments. Scarboroughshows how these local norms shape the attitudes and behaviors of residents with implications on patterns of inequality such as the gender wage gap. His findings offer valuable insight for community leaders and organizers making efforts to promote equality in their region. Scarboroughrecognizes local culture as not value-neutral, but highly crucial to the gender structure that perpetuates, or challenges, gender inequality. Gendered Places questions how these gender norms are sustained and their social consequences.

"How do women claim rights against violence in India and with what consequences? By observing how survivors navigate the Indian criminal justice system, Roychowdhury provides a unique lens on rights negotiations in the world's largest democracy. She finds that women interact with the law not by following legal procedure or abiding by the rules, but by deploying collective threats and doing the work of the state themselves. They do so because law enforcement personnel are incapacitated and unwilling to enforce the law. As a result, rights negotiations do not necessarily lead to more woman-friendly outcomes or better legal enforcement. Instead, they allow some women to make gains outside the law: repossess property and children, negotiate cash settlements, join women's groups, access paid employment, develop a sense of self-assurance, and become members of the public sphere. Capable Women, Incapable States shows how the Indian criminal justice system governs violence against women not by protecting them from harm, but by forcing them to become "capable": to take the law into their own hands and complete the hard work that incapable and unwilling state officials refuse to complete. Roychowdhury's book houses implications for how we understand gender inequality and governance not just in India, but large parts of the world where political mobilization for rights confronts negligent criminal justice systems"--

Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people's digital engagement. In When Rape Goes Viral, Anna Gjika argues that rather than focusing on surveillance, we should examine such incidents for what they tell us about youth peer cultures and the gender norms and sexual ethics governing their interactions. Drawing from interviews with teens and high-profile cases of mediated juvenile sexual assault, Gjika exposes the deeply unequal and heteronormative power dynamics informing teens' intimate relationships and online practices, and she critically interrogates the role of digital cultures and broader social values in sanctioning abuse. The book also explores the consequences of social media and digital evidence for young victim-survivors and perpetrators of sexual assault, detailing the paradoxical capacities of technology for social and legal responses to gender-based violence.

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.

要辱罵一位男性，最髒的字眼就是「娘」。
這個現象不只反映出陽剛至上的父權制度，
更是幫助我們省思性別不平等的起跑點。
—— 本書拆解陽剛氣質的形塑與認同，從另一個角度重新理解性別平權，
讓每一個玫瑰少年，都能擁有自由自在的未來。 ——
★美國教育研究協會（AERA）年度書籍獎
★美國社會學協會（ASA）性別研究書籍榮譽獎
★中山大學社會系教授、巷仔口社會學發起人王宏仁專文推薦
「娘炮」是不陽剛的，是陰柔的，
就像一塊燙手山芋，每個男孩都不想要落在自己手上。
男孩在成長過程中，學會了將它烙印在別人身上，藉此證明自己是陽剛的，
於是無數的悲劇發生了，男孩也終於學會了如何壓迫他者。
► 為什麼我們動不動就愛講哪個男生很「娘」？為什麼性霸凌事件層出不窮？
► 我們的教育過程裡，不斷被教導「男生要陽剛，女生要陰柔」，這是怎麼發生的？
► 為什麼男性總愛開一些自以為幽默的「異男玩笑」，騷擾女性而樂此不疲？
► 男孩天天在「想色色的事」，這件事如何變成培養陽剛氣質的一大重點？
► 為什麼在學校裡，陽剛女孩大多比陰柔男孩讓人容易接受，甚至會廣受愛戴？
*****
「小學的時候，大家就開始叫我娘炮。」高三生瑞奇（化名）這麼說著。
他身材纖細，笑容靦腆，喜歡打扮也熱愛跳舞，本該有一段快樂的高中生活，卻只因為氣質陰柔，每天在學校必須不斷忍受同學的欺侮與羞辱……
這則故事絕非虛構，而且你我都不陌生，但我們從未真正理解，一個又一個的瑞奇為什麼被他人冠上「娘炮」之名，以及這個詞如何變成負面標籤，讓人傷痕累累，彷彿帶刺的玫瑰……
在青少年養成性別認同的過程中，學校是最關鍵的社會化機構。
長年研究性別認同的作者C．J．帕斯科教授，以陽剛氣質為核心概念，在本書描繪出一幅動態的性別認同過程，不但具有學識的原創性，也有助於我們省思以下重要議題：
◆如何避免在日常生活中不自覺地助長陽剛霸權，導致性別不平等的延續。
◆如何在家庭、校園等組織中建立一套性別友善的制度與文化，擴展性別的多元認識。
*****
在這部得獎著作中，作者以一所美國中學為研究田野，耗時十八個月，深入參與學生生活，用生動又嚴謹的文字記錄了青少年是如何崇尚陽剛氣質，又是如何將之化為每日一再上演的羞辱戲碼。
帕斯科指出，陽剛氣質是由一整套的制度章程、文化規範，與人際互動所構成的動態過程。陽剛氣質的形成即是一場一場「拒斥」與「確認」的日常儀式：男孩拒斥陰柔的一切，例如羞辱陰柔的男同學，避免娘炮標籤落到自己身上；以及確認陽剛的自我，像是以「把妹」衡量男性的陽剛程度，並將女性貶為男性的附屬品。
藉著拒絕陰柔、擁抱陽剛，男孩確保自己能長成「合乎社會期望的男性」，但在這過程裡，他們不僅造成了傷害，更將性別不平等的現狀，不斷再製、流傳。
本書特色
★出版即獲美國教育研究協會（AERA）年度書籍獎、美國社會學協會（ASA）性別研究書籍榮譽獎。
★一本嚴謹、專業，又充滿生動細節的田野研究，帶領讀者剖析陽剛文化的運作與互動。
★中山大學社會系教授、巷仔口社會學發起人王宏仁專文推薦。
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王宏仁【專文推薦】／中山大學社會系教授、巷仔口社會學發起人
吳曉樂（作家）
張亦絢（作家）
畢恆達（臺大城鄉所教授）
盛浩偉（作家）
陳思宏（作家）
陳嘉行（知性藝人）
番紅花（親職╱飲食作家）
藍佩嘉（臺大社會系教授、《拚教養》作者）
顏擇雅（出版人、作家）
蘇致亨（《毋甘願的電影史》作者）
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各界好評
大家可以把這本書當成一部異國民族誌來閱讀，作者文筆非常流暢，許多場景描述就好像活生生的電影在眼前播映。透過美國文化的他者，對照我們自身對於身體、性與男子氣概的理解，我們將可以更知道台灣性別文化的特色在哪裡。──王宏仁，中山大學社會學系教授
作者透過生動而吸引人的美國高中校園田野故事，揭露了陽剛特質、強迫異性戀機制、性別不平等是如何透過日常互動、嘲弄、體育、遊戲等建構起來。男學生、女學生、老師都共同參與其中。這是一本精采的社會科普之作，讀者沉浸在故事情節之中的同時，理論名詞也在腦中吸收消化。然後呢，就會反思自己的校園生活又是怎麼回事呢？──畢恆達，臺灣大學建築與城鄉研究所教授
這本書兼具故事的動人魅力與研究的犀利眼光，讓人能夠很具體而微地瞭解性別氣質的各個面向，並深刻體會到：性別並非只是理論，在那背後，都是一個個鮮活的生命。──盛浩偉，作家
高中時，有同學對我說：「你有七個姊姊？難怪這麼娘。」
「娘」是指責，但我一直不懂，像姊姊不好嗎？
我活下來了，接受了自己的身體，為自己的踰矩鼓掌。
但，其他受壓迫的同學呢？
本書作者的田野精采，拆解校園的性別養成，質問父權社會的掐人陽剛。
拋出問號，回到成長現場，把掐住我們的手，一指，一指，慢慢，堅定，撥開。──陳思宏，作家
本書訴說了發人深省的高中生活故事，奠基於民族誌觀察與學生訪談，以此延展了性別與性相理論的深度。──麥可．梅斯納（Michael Messner），社會學家、《Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports》作者
突破盲點的原創研究，重新處理了校園的階級、性別、族群，以及「娘炮」的標籤。本書將恐同心態置於研究要點，是一本容易讀的必讀之作。──肯．普倫莫爾（Ken Plummer），著名期刊《Sexualities》編者。
要不是帕斯科這本細心且充滿熱情的民族誌，我們永遠不會了解「性別一致」（gender comformity）是如何從羞辱、恐懼與焦慮的一灘爛泥中淬鍊而成的。男孩必須透過（實體的與隱性的）暴力，才能成為「男孩」。真是一本引發思考、處處洞見的書。──麥可．基莫（Michael Kimmel），社會學家、《Manhood in America: A Cultural History》作者
帕斯科為陽剛氣質、恐同心態、性相，與身體的交互作用帶來了全新觀點，促使我們重新思索性別認同的形構、集體的性別實作，以及性別不平等的再製。──艾米．貝斯特（Amy Best），社會學家、《Prom Night: Youth, Schools, and Popular Culture》作者

Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet... Jarred by the closing of his favorite local watering hole in Cleveland, Ohio, Greggor Mattson embarks on a journey across the country to paint a much more complex picture of the cultural significance of these spaces, inside "big four" gay cities, but also beyond them. No longer the only places for their patrons to socialize openly, Mattson finds in them instead a continuously evolving symbol; a physical place for feeling and challenging the beating pulse of sexual progress. From the historical archives of Seattle's Garden of Allah, to the outpost bars in Texas, Missouri or Florida that serve as community hubs for queer youth--these are places of celebration, where the next drag superstar from Alaska or Oklahoma may be discovered. They are also fraught grounds for confronting the racial and gender politics within and without the LGBTQ+ community. The question that frames this story is not asking whether these spaces are needed, but for whom, earnestly exploring the diversity of folks and purposes they serve today. Loosely informed by the Damron Guide, the so-called "Green Book" of gay travel, Mattson logged 10,000 miles on the road to all corners of the United States. His destinations are sometimes thriving, sometimes struggling, but all offering intimate views of the wide range of gay experience in America: POC, white, trans, cis; past, present, and future.

In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in 1982, evangelical activist Tim LaHaye foretold that the entire pornography industry would soon be driven out of business. Neither prediction proved true. Instead, with the rise of the internet, pornography saturates the American conscience more than ever and has reshaped our understanding of sexuality, relationships, media, and even the nature of addiction.
Dr. Kelsy Burke has spent the last five years researching and interviewing internet pornography's opponents and its sympathizers. In The Pornography Wars, Burke does a deep dive into the long history of pornography in America and then turns her gaze on our present society to examine the ways this industry touches on the most intimate parts of American lives. She offers a complete understanding of the major players in the debates around porn's place in society: everyone from sex workers, activists, therapists, religious leaders, and consumers. In doing so, she addresses and debunks the myths that surround porn and porn usage while showing how everything from the way we teach children about sex to the legal protections for what can be published is tied up in the deeply complicated battles over pornography.
Sweeping, savvy, and deeply researched, The Pornography Wars is a necessary and comprehensive new look at pornography and American life.

In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China's political and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations of Marxism that position it as intellectually incompatible with queer theory, and shows how queer Marxism offers a nonliberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation. The work of queer Chinese artists and intellectuals not only provides an alternative to liberal ideologies of inclusion and diversity, but demonstrates how different conceptions of and attitudes toward queerness in China and Taiwan stem from geopolitical tensions. With Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Liu offers a revision to current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be.

Answers the question: Why are women freezing their eggs?

Why are women freezing their eggs in record numbers? Motherhood on Ice explores this question by drawing on the stories of more than 150 women who pursued fertility preservation technology. Moving between narratives of pain and empowerment, these nuanced personal stories reveal the complexity of women’s lives as they struggle to preserve and extend their fertility.

Contrary to popular belief, egg freezing is rarely about women postponing fertility for the sake of their careers. Rather, the most-educated women are increasingly forced to delay childbearing because they face a mating gap—a lack of eligible, educated, equal partners ready for marriage and parenthood. For these women, egg freezing is a reproductive backstop, a technological attempt to bridge the gap while waiting for the right partner. But it is not an easy choice for most. Their stories reveal the extent to which it is logistically complicated, physically taxing, financially demanding, emotionally draining, and uncertain in its effects.

In this powerful book, women share their reflections on their clinical encounters, as well as the immense hopes and investments they place in this high-tech fertility preservation strategy. Race, religion, and the role of men in the lives of single women pursuing this technology are also explored. A distinctly human portrait of an understudied and rapidly growing population, Motherhood on Ice examines what is at stake for women who take comfort in their frozen eggs while embarking on their quests for partnership, pregnancy, and parenting.

"Why is it that professional sports, and notably hockey, remain a bastion for rape culture and violence against women? What are the conditions that allow a culture of toxic masculinity to persist despite awakenings elsewhere in society? What is the path forward, and how do we make officials, coaches, and athletes accountable? Drawing on decades of award-winning sociological research and sports journalism, Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz along with veteran sportswriter Stu Cowan find answers to these questions in Skating on Thin Ice. The book examines the abusive, misogynistic, racist, and homophobic behaviours found in professional hockey and explains the larger societal forces that perpetuate and legitimate these harms. Confirming a recent federal government inquiry into Hockey Canada's handling of sexual assault allegations, the book reveals that young men enter the NHL and other revenue-generating hockey leagues already trained and primed to treat women as objects--and often to commit violent acts against them. Rooted in the authors' work in the sports world as well as their work with activists and governments, Skating on Thin Ice doesn't just highlight the problem of hockey and rape culture, it also provides collaborative solutions for fixing it."--