Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.

Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them.

Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They went by aakíí’skassi, miati, okitcitakwe or one of hundreds of other tribally specific identities. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country, centuries of violence and systematic persecution followed, imperiling the existence of people who today call themselves Two-Spirits, an umbrella term denoting feminine and masculine qualities in one person.

Drawing on written sources, archaeological evidence, art, and oral storytelling, Reclaiming Two-Spirits spans the centuries from Spanish invasion to the present, tracing massacres and inquisitions and revealing how the authors of colonialism’s written archives used language to both denigrate and erase Two-Spirit people from history. But as Gregory Smithers shows, the colonizers failed—and Indigenous resistance is core to this story. Reclaiming Two-Spirits amplifies their voices, reconnecting their history to Native nations in the 21st century.

Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies

The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit" identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity.

Prior to contact with European settlers, most Native American tribes held their two-spirit members in high esteem, even considering them spiritually advanced. However, after contact - and religious conversion - attitudes changed and social and cultural support networks were ruptured. This discrimination led to a breakdown in traditional values, beliefs, and practices, which in turn pushed many two-spirit members to participate in high-risk behaviors. The result is a disproportionate number of two-spirit members who currently test positive for HIV.

Using surveys, focus groups, and community discussions to examine the experiences of HIV-positive members of San Francisco's two-spirit community, Indian Blood provides an innovative approach to understanding how colonization continues to affect American Indian communities and opens a series of crucial dialogues in the fields of Native American studies, public health, queer studies, and critical mixed-race studies.

The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to embrace their sexuality.

In Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution Meredith Ralston looks at the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threaten the patriarchy. Weaving in history, pop culture, philosophy, interviews with sex workers, and personal anecdotes, Ralston shows how women cannot achieve sexual equality until the sexual double standard and good girl/bad girl binary are eliminated and women viewed by society as "whores" are destigmatized. Illustrating how women's sexuality is policed by both men and women, she argues that women must be allowed the same personal autonomy as men: the freedom to make sexual decisions for themselves, to obtain orgasm equality, and to insist on their own sexual pleasure.

Dispelling the myth that all sex workers are victims and all clients are violent, Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution calls out Western society's hypocrisy about sex and shows how stigma and the marginalization of sex workers harms all women.

開放關係就是劈腿偷吃？多重伴侶就是淫亂多P？
我們是否有可能同時愛上好幾個人，或對伴侶以外的人產生慾望？
難道只要戀愛了，就會自動喪失對其他人的興趣？
如果我對別人有感覺，就表示我不是真的愛我的戀人？
我的情人「出軌」了，表示我們的關係一定出了什麼問題？
沒有「另一半」，我的人生就不完整，一輩子得不到幸福？
我們從小被教導，一生一世、一對一的異性戀婚姻，是情感關係的唯一正解。然而，如果這是唯一「正常」與「自然」的關係，為什麼劈腿、無縫接軌、外遇、離婚等現象，從古至今皆層出不窮呢？其實，現在這一套「應該」，跟其他很多套一樣，都是文化製品，而非自然法則。「大家都知道」的迷思未必是對的，只有真正認識所有可能性，你才能做出真正適合自己的選擇。
《道德浪女》為傳統一夫一妻制以外的親密關係經典指南，書中提供了豐富的關係經營與溝通技巧，引導讀者認識自己並強化親密關係，更加全面地理解人類的情感世界。本書將帶領讀者展開一場自由的冒險之旅，教你如何透過坦誠溝通、接納並掌握自身情緒、公平且健康地吵架、建立安全感與支持系統、共同設立界線等方式，嘗試進入開放關係、多重關係，以及任何性與愛的自由關係。本書也為浪女新手提供調情與追求、「說要」與「說不」，以及安全性行為的入門技巧，並教導浪女如何運用法律及各種協議保護自己與伴侶，進而養兒育女。
處於一對一關係中的讀者，亦可由本書習得親密關係的經營之道，以及接納並善待自己的方法。本書提供了嶄新的視角，能幫助你從傳統的束縛中解放出來，不再恐懼關係的失敗，並明白自身已是完整的個體，無須所謂的「另一半」來填補空缺。「愛」與「性」本身就是目的，而非達成「一生一世配對」的手段。快感本身已足夠美好，親密、連結與陪伴亦彌足珍貴，只要你感到愉悅滿足，關係本身即具有無上價值。

No, they weren’t ‘just friends’!

Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians famously care about women!’, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring ‘You can’t win a championship without gays on your team’, via countless literary salons and tuxedos, A Short History of Queer Women sets the record straight on women who have loved other women through the ages.

Who says lesbians can’t be funny?

Currah's newest book, Sex Is Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, examines state policies on sex reclassification and reveals the hidden logics that have governed these often contradictory policies. He is currently working on a book comparing the transgender rights movement with womens' movements.

An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.

A new, in-depth look at the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker, creator of a popular Youtube series on radical history and political theory, brings her trademark clarity and accessibility to this debut book. Cutting through misperceptions and historical inaccuracies, she shows how the reasons anarchists gave for supporting or opposing particular strategies were grounded in a specific theoretical framework—a theory of practice. The consistent and coherent heart of anarchism, Baker shows, is the understanding that, as people engage in activity—political or otherwise—they simultaneously change the world and themselves. Put another way, the means that revolutionaries propose to achieve social change have to involve forms of activity through which people can become individuals capable of overthrowing capitalism and the state as well as building a better society. Behind this simple premise—that anarchist ends can only be achieved through anarchist means—lies a wealth of fascinating historical and theoretical detail that Baker presents clearly and engagingly.

“为什么是我，而不是别人？”
曝露深埋于每个人心底的嫉妒，社会学经典之作
考察个体心理与社会思维，研究当代社会的前奏
以嫉妒为透镜，审视不同领域的平等与竞争诉求
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◎内容简介
人会嫉妒；嫉妒总是发生在近似的人之间；什么都会让人嫉妒，特别是那些微小的差异。自古以来，嫉妒都被当成一种羞耻，嫉妒的人不会承认，社会也会对此进行压制。
聚焦嫉妒与社会，本书作者将历史作为研究嫉妒的实验室，从语言中的俗语、原始部落的习俗、古希腊的悲剧、文学、哲学、心理学、社会科学到嫉妒对政治、经济政策以及人的行为方式的影响，带我们穿越嫉妒之地。通过描绘一幅欲望与禁忌的画卷，作者明确了嫉妒与社会的复杂关系：作为一种符合人类进化的基本心理特性，嫉妒使得社会的建立成为可能，而又会对社会的发展与创新产生阻碍，试图通过消除一切差别建立完全的平等是不可能的。
作为嫉妒的社会学研究经典之作，本书被视为研究现代社会的前奏，特别是在社交媒体兴起的当下，为收入差异、阶级跃迁等问题，提供了一个治疗的开端。
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◎作品看点
★ 一部经典的社会学之作，当今社会的前奏。围绕普遍存在又被深埋的嫉妒，奥地利裔德国社会学家赫尔穆特·舍克以通俗的语言系统考察了嫉妒的方方面面，阐述了嫉妒如何在无形中塑造着人性与社会。因其从嫉妒角度对个人心理、社会平等的研究，自1966年出版以来，本书被翻译成十几种语言，成为社会学经典之作，堪称研究当今社会的前奏。
★ 以历史为轴，揭示嫉妒对人类行为和社会运作的影响。从谚语、俗语到原始部落的“黑魔法”、中国人的“丢脸”现象，从弗洛伊德论群体本能发生过程到社会心理学家对顺从的阐述，从齐美尔的心理社会动力学到现代社会科学对敌意的研究，从希腊人的命运观到韦伯论宗教，从培根的“同情总能治愈嫉妒”到康德“嫉妒是对义务的侵犯”……穿越人类研究的不同领域，探索嫉妒在社会中存在和运作的机理。
★ 以嫉妒为切口，重新看待个人心理与社会结构。个性的压抑源于兄弟姐妹间的妒忌？阶层跃升的最大障碍来自出身的阶层？专横的亲属影响了个人取得进步？采取共同行动的粉丝是因为不能独占偶像的心理？“爱远方的人”只是与人接触能力弱的借口？……通过展示嫉妒在个人成长以及社会中起到的潜移默化的影响，以新的视角重新看待自我与社会。
★ “为什么是我而不是别人？”重述平等诉求。作为一部社会学之作，作者最终落脚于嫉妒与社会平等的关系，通过考察古代到中世纪的贫穷崇拜、区分“公正”与“平等”、论述所谓的“机会均等”，特别是通过描述作为平等实验室的基布兹，全面审视平等主义论调，指出完全的平等是不可能的。
★ 以社会学与人类学双重视角剖析社会愤慨与阶层分化。为什么那些为自己谋取未来优势的人会激起我们的敌意？极端累进税制真的有助于抵制不平等的权力分配吗？为什么嫉妒的替罪羊总是本国之外的群体和富裕象征？以其生活的20世纪五六十年代的美国为基点，作者从经济、政治、社会等不同角度剖析引起社会愤慨的原因以及造成阶层分化的根本。
★ 在社交媒体兴起的当下，以嫉妒为透镜，透视社会心理。在每个人都在不断展示自我又被他人的展示吸引的时代，在强调自我治愈又面对社会分裂的当下，本书带领我们穿越嫉妒之地，以嫉妒为透镜，透视社会心理，重新看待个体心理与社会变迁的相互影响、“内卷”与“躺平”交织下的“竞争”。
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◎学者推荐
《嫉妒与社会》所论的嫉妒的表现、特征，我们普通人大致也都知道，不过把这些笼到一个题目下系统阐述一番，本身就很有趣。我常想，与其建立一个又一个空泛的社会学、心理学体系，还不如像这本书这样把一个日常的题目做系统、做深入。
——陈嘉映
人们对企业家的偏见和敌视可以归纳为两个原因：一个原因是心理学的，另一个原因是认识论的。心理学的原因就是嫉妒心。人与人之间的差别在于嫉妒心的程度不同，以及控制嫉妒心的力度不同。嫉妒心对人类行为和社会制度的影响远远没有引起人们的足够重视。有兴趣的读者可以读一读德国学者赫尔穆特·舍克的经典名著《嫉妒与社会》。
——张维迎
一部优秀且极有价值的书，写得相当漂亮，也包含了惊人的和颇具启发性的信息。
——卡尔·波普尔

One of The Millions's Most-Anticipated Books of Winter 2024

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future. A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isn’t a luxury. It is a vital resource and powerful tool for collective liberation. Imagination: A Manifesto is her proclamation that we have the power to use our imaginations to challenge systems of oppression and to create a world in which everyone can thrive. But obstacles abound. We have inherited destructive ideas that trap us inside a dominant imagination. Consider how racism, sexism, and classism make hierarchies, exploitation, and violence seem natural and inevitable—but all emerged from the human imagination. The most effective way to disrupt these deadly systems is to do so collectively. Benjamin highlights the educators, artists, activists, and many others who are refuting powerful narratives that justify the status quo, crafting new stories that reflect our interconnection, and offering creative approaches to seemingly intractable problems. Imagination: A Manifesto offers visionary examples and tactics to push beyond the constraints of what we think, and are told, is possible. This book is for anyone who is ready to take to heart Toni Morrison’s instruction: “Dream a little before you think.”

"Sex worker rescue and rehabilitation programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. Manufacturing Freedom offers an ethnographic exploration of two American anti-trafficking organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. Activists brand this jewelry a "slave-free good" and then sell it to consumers in the United States, generating racialized circuits of commerce and morality centered around promises of freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers-whom these organizations universally label as victims of trafficking. Workers, by contrast, often contest the trafficking label and object to the moral and disciplinary processes that ensnare them in a pernicious global web of anti-trafficking rescue. In this novel study, Elena Shih argues that these anti-trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption, thereby generating a transnational moral economy of low-wage women's work that obfuscates relations of race, gender, national power, and inequality"--

Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent, limit consent, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience. Saketopoulou thereby shows why sexualities beyond consent may be worth risking-and how risk can solicit the future.
Moving between clinical and cultural case studies, Saketopoulou takes up theatrical and cinematic works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter, to chart how trauma and sexuality join forces to surge through the aesthetic domain. Putting the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche in conversation with queer of color critique, performance studies, and philosophy, Sexuality Beyond Consent proposes that enduring the strange in ourselves, not to master trauma but to rub up against it, can open us up to encounters with opacity. The book concludes by theorizing currents of sadism that, when pursued ethically, can animate unique forms of interpersonal and social care.

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect—defensiveness—manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities.

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.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities across China began to register, tax, and monitor prostitutes, taking different forms in different cities. Intervention by way of prostitution regulation connected the local state, politics, and gender relations in important new ways. The decisions that local governments made about how to deal with gender, and specifically the thorny issue of prostitution, had concrete and measurable effects on the structures and capacities of the state. This book examines how the ways in which local government chose to shape the institution of prostitution ended up transforming local states themselves. It begins by looking at the origins of prostitution regulation in Europe and how it spread from there to China via Tokyo. Elizabeth Remick then drills down into the different regulatory approaches of Guangzhou (revenue-intensive), Kunming (coercion-intensive), and Hangzhou (light regulation). In all three cases, there were distinct consequences and implications for statebuilding, some of which made governments bigger and wealthier, some of which weakened and undermined development. This study makes a strong case for why gender needs to be written into the story of statebuilding in China, even though women, generally barred from political life at that time in China, were not visible political actors.

本书通过对清代性规范的研究，探讨了国家将部分性行为定为犯罪的社会背景。长期以来，不同社会群体的成员长期以来都被要求遵守不同的家庭道德和性道德标准。清朝政府则建立了一种新的性别制度，它规定了跨身份界限的性道德和刑事责任的统一标准，所有人都应遵守婚姻中界定的性别角色。这种对性行为规范的转变，表现在官方对通奸、强奸、鸡奸、寡妇贞操和卖淫等指控的处理上，代表着帝国政府努力应对令人不安的社会和人口变化。

This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest.

Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' disempowers them. Based on extensive research amongst migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustín, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry. Although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy.

Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice.

In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses—a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers.
Zheng embarked on two years of intensely embedded ethnographic fieldwork in her birthplace, Dalian, a large northeastern Chinese seaport of over six million people. During this time, Zheng lived and worked with a group of hostesses in a karaoke bar, facing many of the same dangers that they did and forming strong, intimate bonds with them. The result is an especially engaging, moving story of young, rural women struggling to find meaning, develop a modern and autonomous identity, and, ultimately, survive within an oppressively patriarchal state system.
Moving from her case studies to broader theories of sex, gender, and power, Zheng connects a growth in capitalist entrepreneurialism to the emergence of an urban sex industry, brilliantly illuminating the ways in which hostesses, their clients, and the state are mutually created in postsocialist China.

This study argues that the decriminalization of sex work in China can contribute to HIV prevention and human rights protection. The argument is supported by six key concepts: the universality of human rights, rights-based approaches to HIV, sex work as work, risk environment for HIV transmission, decriminalization of sex work as a preferred model for HIV prevention, and rights-based responses to HIV and sex work. Three research methods are used, including research methods from law, social science, and public health. Recommendations are provided to reform Chinese law and HIV policy.

Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body in the West. Hil Malatino explores how intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment assumed to require correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans people.
Malatino traces both institutional and interpersonal failures to dignify non–sexually dimorphic bodies and examines how the ontology of gender difference developed by modern sexologists conflicts with embodied experience. Malatino comprehensively shows how gender-normalizing practices begin at the clinic but are amplified thereafter through mechanisms of institutional exclusion and through Eurocentric culture’s cis-centric and bio-normative notions of sexuality, reproductive capacity, romantic partnership, and kinship.
Combining personal accounts with archival evidence, Queer Embodiment presents intersexuality as the conceptual center of queerness, the figure through which nonnormative genders and desires are and have been historically understood. We must reconsider the medical, scientific, and philosophical discourse on intersexuality underlying contemporary understandings of sexed selfhood in order to understand gender anew as a process of becoming that exceeds restrictive binary logic.

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by Susan Stryker<br /><br />Why are trans women the most targeted of LGBT people? Why are they in the crosshairs of a resurgent anti-trans politics around the world? And what is to be done about it by activists, organizers, and allies?<br /><br />A Short History of Transmisogyny is the first book-length study to answer these urgent but long overdue questions. Combining new historical analysis with political and activist accessibility, the book shows why it matters to understand trans misogyny as a specific form of violence with a documentable history. Ironically, it is through attending to the specificity of trans misogyny that trans women are no longer treated as inevitably tragic figures. They emerge instead as embattled but tenacious, locked in a struggle over the meaning and material stakes of gender, labor, race, and freedom.<br /><br />The book travels across bustling port cities like New York, New Orleans, London and Paris, the colonial and military districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai'i, and the lively travesti communities of Latin America.<br /><br />The book shows how trans femininity has become legible as a fault line of broader global histories, including colonial government, the sex work industry, the policing of urban public space, and the line between the formal and informal economy. This transnational and intersectional approach reinforces that trans women are not isolated social subjects who appear alone; they are in fact central to the modern social world.