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View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction A sophisticated and subtle collection of essays. . . . Stein's innovative volume stands out. . . . Stein's book is notable for combining a commitment to qualitative social science methods with an appropriate grasp of its limitations. She is unusually clear-eyed about the shifting politics of knowledge . . . and reminds us that both sides in the culture wars depend on those we entrust to produce knowledge. -'Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide'"Arlene Stein has established herself as one of the premier sociologists of sexuality writing today. Skillfully combining historical, sociological, and cultural approaches, this book offers powerful accounts of sexuality in America." -Steven Seidman, author of 'Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life'" Shameless is a lively and clear-headed account of the Two Americas--sexual liberals and the conservatives who have opposed them--and how America came to be the land of sex and shame." -Alice Echols, author of 'Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks'"Arlene Stein is among the most original, wise, bold, and engaging sociological analysts of U.S. culture wars in print today. This riveting collection, displaying capacious intellect and graceful prose, is a must-read for anyone concerned with contemporary clashes over sex, gender, and culture." -Judith Stacey, author of 'In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age'Shame, a powerful emotion, leads individuals to feel vulnerable, victimized, rejected. In Shameless, noted scholar and writer Arlene Stein explores American culture's attitudes toward shame and sexuality.Some say that we live in a world without shame. But American culture is a curious mix of the shameless and the shamers, a seemingly endless parade of Pamela Andersons and Jerry Falwells strutting their stuff and wagging their fingers. With thoughtful analysis and wit, Shameless analyzes these clashing visions of se

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How do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? Righteous Transgressions examines these questions by comparatively studying four groups: the Jewish settlers in the West Bank, the ultra-Orthodox Shas, the Islamic Movement in Israel, and the Palestinian Hamas. Lihi Ben Shitrit demonstrates that women's prioritization of a nationalist agenda over a proselytizing one shapes their activist involvement.Ben Shitrit shows how women construct "frames of exception" that temporarily suspend, rather than challenge, some of the limiting aspects of their movements' gender ideology. Viewing women as agents in such movements, she analyzes the ways in which activists use nationalism to astutely reframe gender role transgressions from inappropriate to righteous. The author engages the literature on women's agency in Muslim and Jewish religious contexts, and sheds light on the centrality of women's activism to the promotion of the spiritual, social, cultural, and political agendas of both the Israeli and Palestinian religious right.Looking at the four most influential political movements of the Israeli and Palestinian religious right, Righteous Transgressions reveals how the bounds of gender expectations can be crossed for the political good.

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What’s behind the claims of the Christian right regarding families? Anne Gilson argues that the Christian Right uses a theology based on an ideology of control manifested in two ways: Sexual politics where families should have well-defined gender roles for heterosexual parents that exclude lesbians and gay men, and economic politics where welfare should not support women who bear children but will not serve under the headship of a husband and refuse to work. Her response to this theology is based not on judgment and repression but on justice and the concept of Christians as moral agents. (Pilgrim Press)

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