University of Illinois Press 2022 Communications Catalog

COMMUNICATION

2022

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ETERNITY IN THE ETHER

A Mormon Media History

GAVIN FELLER How Latter-day Saints have engaged with new media “At each step, Eternity in the Ether sheds light on a remarkable terrain of creative energies, practical demands, and political possibilities, inviting us to see Mormonism in new ways, and by extension, to revisit many assumptions about how media work in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between religion and media.”

—JEREMY STOLOW, author of Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between Mass media and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints evolved alongside each other, and communications technology became a fundamental part of the Church’s institutions and communities. Gavin Feller investigates the impact of radio, television, and the internet on Mormonism and what it tells us about new media’s integration into American life. The Church wrestled with the promise of new media to help implement its vision of Zion. But it also had to contend with threat that media posed to the family and other important facets of the Latter-day Saint faith. Inevitably, media technologies forced the leadership and lay alike to reconsider organizational values and ethical commitments. As Feller shows, the conflicts they faced illuminate the fundamental forces of control and compromise that enmesh an emerging medium in American social and cultural life.

DECEMBER 2022 216 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 8 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

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Intriguing and original, Eternity in the Ether blends communications history with a religious perspective to examine the crossroads where mass media met Mormonism in the twentieth century.

A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone

GAVIN FELLER is an independent scholar.

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BUY BLACK

How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture

ARIA S. HALLIDAY Black women’s impact on consumption and culture from the 1960s to today “Buy Black offers an important and well-argued consideration of the Black women cultural producers who, in an effort to subvert a misogynoiristic system, sometimes traffic in the very stereotypical practices they wish to upend.

Halliday’s concept of ‘embodied objectification’ helps to make clear our own investments in consumer capitalism and prompts us to be more circumspect about our participation as a means to some ultimately unsatisfying end.”

—MOYA BAILEY, author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj’s hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women’s position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress.

216 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 34 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS

Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.

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HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04427-4 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08635-9 $24.95s £18.99 A volume in the series Feminist Media Studies, edited by Rebecca Wanzo All rights: University of Illinois

ARIA S. HALLIDAY is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky.

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THE SUNDAY PAPER

A Media History

PAUL MOORE and SANDRA GABRIELE The rise of an American cultural institution, 1888–1922 “While sharing much with the newspapers appearing on the other six days of the week, the Sunday paper was a media experience unto itself. These weekly print spectacles were physically heavy, stuffed with supplements, and offered a kaleidoscopic view of modern life. They were meant to be read but also written upon and cut up, and they offered visual and tactile pleasure for millions of people every week. Sunday newspapers were extraordinary media, and Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele have written a book that does justice to their strange and wonderful form and content.”

—MICHAEL STAMM, author of Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America

AUGUST 2022 328 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 16 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 30 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 4 TABLES

Pullout sections, special feature stories, pages of classifieds, and of course the funnies—the Sunday newspaper once delivered a vaudevillian parade of information, entertainment, and spectacle for just a few pennies a week. Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele return to the no-holds-barred era of early twentieth-century journalism to chart how the Sunday paper became an essential part of American culture. Faced with competition from other media, Sunday editions borrowed from and eventually partnered with magazines, film, and radio in a mutually reinforcing system that asked people to not only read but watch and listen. This transformation of news reading into a modern form of mass media consumption stewarded the advance of consumer society. It also provided papers with the potent economic engine of advertising to a mass audience, a change that encouraged the newspapers to package its Sunday offerings as a panorama of society that offered something for everyone.

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04449-6 $125.00x £100.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08656-4 $29.95s £22.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05349-8 A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone All rights: University of Illinois

PAUL MOORE is an associate professor of sociology at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the author of Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun, winner of the Gertrude J. Robinson Prize. SANDRA GABRIELE is an assistant professor of communication studies at Concordia University and a coauthor of Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Frameworks.

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FOOD INSTAGRAM

Identity, Influence, and Negotiation

Edited by EMILY J. H. CONTOIS and ZENIA KISH How the social media platform redefines what and why we eat “Contois and Kish have prepared a veritable smorgasbord of perspectives on the all-pervasive and all-important nature of food on visual social media in this deliciously engrossing collection. From aperitifs to aesthetics, and placemaking to politics, this book has something for every reader.”

—TAMA LEAVER, coauthor of Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contributions that explore the massively popular social media platform as a space for self-identification, influence, transformation, and resistance. Artists and journalists join a wide range of scholars to look at food’s connection to Instagram from vantage points as diverse as Hong Kong’s camera-centric foodie culture, the platform’s long history with feminist eateries, and the photography of Australia’s livestock producers. What emerges is a portrait of an arena where people do more than build identities and influence. Users negotiate cultural, social, and economic practices in a place that, for all its democratic potential, reinforces entrenched dynamics of power.

320 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 54 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 TABLES

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04446-5 $125.00x £100.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08654-0 $24.95s £18.99

Interdisciplinary in approach and transnational in scope, Food Instagram offers general readers and experts alike new perspectives on an important social media space and its impact on a fundamental area of our lives.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05346-7 All rights: University of Illinois

EMILY J. H. CONTOIS is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Tulsa and the author of Diners, Dudes & Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture. ZENIA KISH is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Tulsa.

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A HOUSE FOR THE STRUGGLE

The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago

E. JAMES WEST Black media buildings and why they matter “A House for the Struggle breaks new ground by assessing Chicago’s Black newspapers and magazines together, and by connecting them to the buildings and neighborhoods where they operated. E. James West reminds us that journalists with national reach and tremendous ambition still faced the frustrations and indignities of life in a segregated metropolis, and he helps us to understand Chicago as the true capital of the twentieth-century Black press.”

—JULIA GUARNERI, author of Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans

296 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 20 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 MAPS

Buildings once symbolized Chicago’s place as the business capital of Black America and a thriving hub for Black media. In this groundbreaking work, E. James West examines the city’s Black press through its relationship with the built environment.

As a house for the struggle, the buildings of publications like Ebony and the Chicago Defender embodied narratives of racial uplift and community resistance. As political hubs, gallery spaces, and public squares, they served as key sites in the ongoing Black quest for self-respect, independence, and civic identity. At the same time, factors ranging from discriminatory business practices to editorial and corporate ideology prescribed their location, use, and appearance, positioning Black press buildings as sites of both Black possibility and racial constraint.

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04432-8 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08639-7 $24.95s £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05331-3 This publication is made possible with support from Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

Engaging and innovative, A House for the Struggle reconsiders the Black press’s place at the crossroads where aspiration collided with life in one of America’s most segregated cities.

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E. JAMES WEST is a research associate in American history at Northumbria University. He is the author of Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America.

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A CENTURY OF REPRESSION

The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press

RALPH ENGELMAN and CAREY SHENKMAN How the weaponized Espionage Act chills free speech “Carey Shenkman and Ralph Engelman’s study of the history, law, and implications of these recent abuses of the Espionage Act is needed urgently, if we are to remain truly a democratic republic.”

—DANIEL ELLSBERG A Century of Repression offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. It details government use of the Act to control information about U.S. military and foreign policy during the two World Wars, the Cold War and the War on Terror. The Act has provided cover for the settling of political scores, illegal break-ins and prosecutorial misconduct. The cases of Eugene Debs, John S. Service, Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange, among others, reveal the threat posed to whistleblowers, government critics, and journalists alike. The treatment of the Act’s trajectory also offers new perspectives on American liberalism as well as the evolution of the FBI and the civil liberties movement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

AUGUST 2022 336 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 20 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

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RALPH ENGELMAN is senior professor of journalism and communication studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn, and faculty coordinator of the George Polk Awards. He is the author of Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism. CAREY SHENKMAN is a constitutional lawyer and litigator focusing on freedom of expression and transparency. He serves on the panel of experts of Columbia University’s Global Freedom of Expression Program.

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VISUALIZING BLACK LIVES

Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media

REIGHAN GILLAM Afro-Brazilian media and its challenge to racism “A provocative book. Through rich ethnographic interviews and analysis, Reighan Gillam queries the relationship between black representation in the media and black cultural formation in the contemporary moment. Gillam’s engagement with everything from graffiti art to YouTube series gives us a glimpse into a new generation of black politics and social formation in Brazil.”

—CHRISTEN SMITH, author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by Afro-Brazilians in the twenty-­first century. With works that confront racism and focus on Black characters, these artists and the visual media they create identify, challenge, or break with entrenched racist practices, ideologies, and structures. Gillam looks at a cross-section of media to show the ways Afro-Brazilians assert control over various means of representation in order to present a complex Black humanity. These images—so at odds with the mainstream—contribute to an anti-racist visual politics fighting to change how Brazilian media depicts Black people while highlighting the importance of media in the movement for Black inclusion.

APRIL 2022 160 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 12 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04441-0 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08648-9 $26.00x £19.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05340-5

An eye-opening union of analysis and fieldwork, Visualizing Black Lives examines the alternative and activist Black media and the people creating it in today’s Brazil.

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REIGHAN GILLAM is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California.

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JOURNALISM AND JIM CROW

White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America

Edited by KATHY ROBERTS FORDE and SID BEDINGFIELD Foreword by Alex Lichtenstein A pioneering work on the role of the press in building—and opposing—Jim Crow “Together, the collected essays highlight the pivotal role of a set of actors and institutions, making substantial contributions to scholarship on the origins of Jim Crow as well as filling a major gap in journalism history and media studies.”

—BRUCE J. SCHULMAN, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics

NOVEMBER 360 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 19 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 5 LINE DRAWINGS, 1 MAP

White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the leading role of the white press in constructing an anti-­democratic society by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict labor but also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that disenfranchised Black voters.

They also examine the Black press’s parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice, and opportunity for all—a losing battle with tragic consequences for the American experiment.

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04410-6 $125.00x £100.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08615-1 $24.95s £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05304-7 A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone

Original and revelatory, Journalism and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between journalism and power in American democracy.

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KATHY ROBERTS FORDE is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment.

SID BEDINGFIELD is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935–1965.

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DANGEROUS IDEAS ON CAMPUS

Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK

MATTHEW C. EHRLICH What two controversies tell us about academia and America, then and now “Matthew Ehrlich takes what might have been local events and uses serious research to illuminate and elevate them to national and historical significance. His thoughtful weaving of threads such as academic freedom, university governance, student life, and sexual mores becomes a lively story and analysis of higher education that builds suspense, then provides answers. One of the best accounts of campus life and problems in the early 1960s I have read.”

—JOHN R. THELIN, author of Going to College in the Sixties 240 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 19 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy.

He kept his job.

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04419-9 $110.00x £88.00

Matthew C. Ehrlich revisits the Koch and Oliver cases to look at free speech, the legacy of the 1960s, and debates over sex and politics on campus. The different treatment of the two men marked a fundamental shift in the understanding of academic freedom. Their cases also embodied the stark divide over beliefs and values—a divide that remains today. Ehrlich delves into the issues behind these academic controversies and places the events in the context of a time rarely associated with dissent, but in fact a harbinger of the social and political upheavals to come.

PAPER, 978-0-252-08624-3 $24.95s £18.99

An enlightening and entertaining history, Dangerous Ideas on Campus illuminates how the university became a battleground for debating America’s hot-­button issues.

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E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05315-3 Publication supported by a grant from the Winton U. Solberg US History Subvention Fund

MATTHEW C. EHRLICH is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Kansas City vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined an Era and Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest, winner of the James W. Tankard Book Award.

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MOVIE MAVENS

US Newspaper Women Take On the Movies, 1914–1923

Edited by RICHARD ABEL An anthology of women’s writing from the early era of film “A revelation! From snarky hard-talking dames to tartly respectable scholars, Movie Mavens recovers the diverse and compelling voices of the legions of newspaperwomen who wrote about movies during the tumultuous 1910s and early 1920s. An invaluable resource from a model film historian.”

—LAURA HORAK, author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone’s favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. Richard Abel returns these women to film history with an anthology of reviews, articles, and other works. Drawn from newspapers of the time, the selections show how columnists like Kitty Kelly, Mae Tinee, Louella Parsons, and Genevieve Harris wrote directly to female readers. They also profiled women working in jobs like scenario writer and film editor and noted the industry’s willingness to hire women. Sharp wit and frank opinions entertained and informed a wide readership hungry for news about the movies but also about women on both sides of the camera. Abel supplements the texts with hard-­to-­find biographical information and provides context on the newspapers and silent-­era movie industry as well as on the professionals and films highlighted by these writers.

272 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 5 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04397-0 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08604-5 $28.00x £20.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05290-3 A volume in the series Women and Film History International, edited by Kay Armatage, Jane M. Gaines, and Christine Gledhill

An invaluable collection of rare archival sources, Movie Mavens reveals women’s essential contribution to the creation of American film culture.

RICHARD ABEL is a professor emeritus of international cinema and media studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture.

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PHOTOGRAPHY/ AMERICAN HISTORY

PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESIDENTS

Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital

CARA A. FINNEGAN Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks “This narrative weaves the evolution of a technology, a communications medium, and the highest office in the land into a vivid historical panorama. In current times, in an atmosphere in which visual politics can be all too affecting and effecting, Photographic Presidents places the visual presidency into a necessary frame.”

—MICHAEL SHAW, publisher, Reading the Pictures Lincoln’s somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson’s swearing in. George W. Bush’s reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama’s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium’s transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs—as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation—sparked public debate on these values and their implications.

296 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 16 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 46 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

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An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.

PAPER, 978-0-252-08578-9 $22.95 £17.99

CARA A. FINNEGAN is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression and Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs.

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FIGHTING VISIBILITY

Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC

JENNIFER MCCLEAREN Ultimate Fighting Championship and the present and future of women’s sports “A scathing critique of the exploitation that defines the relationship of the UFC to its women fighters, Fighting Visibility fills a hole in the study of sports. Never has this subject been explored with the depth and clarity that we have here. A necessary and groundbreaking read. It makes the point with crystal clarity: visibility and equity are not the same thing.”

—DAVE ZIRIN, sports editor, The Nation Mixed-martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rousey have made female athletes top draws in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Jennifer McClearen charts how the promotion incorporates women into its far-flung media ventures, and then she investigates the complexities surrounding female inclusion. On the one hand, the undeniable popularity of cards headlined by women add much-needed diversity to the sporting landscape. On the other, the UFC leverages an illusion of promoting difference—whether gender, racial, ethnic, or sexual—to grow its empire with an inexpensive and expendable pool of female fighters. McClearen illuminates how the UFC’s half-hearted efforts at representation generate profit and cultural cachet while covering up the fact it exploits women of color, lesbians, gender non-conforming women, and others.

232 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 12 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 22 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 TABLES

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Thought provoking and timely, Fighting Visibility tells the story of how a sports entertainment phenomenon made difference a part of its brand—and the ways women paid the price for success.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05263-7 A volume in the series Studies in Sports Media, edited by Victoria E. Johnson and Travis Vogan

JENNIFER MCCLEAREN is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.

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COMMUNITY-CENTERED JOURNALISM

Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust

ANDREA WENZEL Fulfilling a vision of trust-centered local journalism “Andrea Wenzel is that rarest of beings, a thorough and skilled academic and an accomplished journalist. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to fully understand the crisis of trust in journalism, how it grows from deep, ingrained roots and flourishes through lack of attention and engagement. Wenzel’s examination of how journalism can better serve communities charts a clear empirical path for the field, but it also tells a compelling story about media, representation, and social cohesion at a critical time.”

—EMILY BELL, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School

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Contemporary journalism faces a crisis of trust that threatens the institution and may imperil democracy itself. Critics and experts see a renewed commitment to local journalism as one solution. But a lasting restoration of public trust requires a different kind of local journalism than is often imagined, one that engages with and shares power among all sectors of a community.

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04330-7 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08522-2 $25.00x £18.99

Andrea Wenzel models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders. Informed by case studies from rural, suburban, and urban settings, Wenzel’s blueprint reshapes journalism norms and creates vigorous storytelling networks between all parts of a community.

Envisioning a portable, rather than scalable, process, Wenzel proposes a community-centered journalism that, once implemented, will strengthen lines of local communication, reinvigorate civic participation, and forge a trusting partnership between media and the people they cover.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05218-7 Publication supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought.

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ANDREA WENZEL is an assistant professor of journalism, media, and communications at Temple University.

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THE HUAWEI MODEL

The Rise of China’s Technology Giant

YUN WEN Understanding Huawei’s march onto the global scene “The well-organized approach, including the discussions of overseas investment and labor practices, presents unique findings, and adds to our knowledge not only of Huawei’s path, but also of Chinese private company dynamics in broader terms. The primary source material, especially the author interviews with Huawei and other Chinese corporate officials, adds a valuable dimension to our understanding of the company’s development.”

—ERIC HARWIT, author of China’s Telecommunications Revolution In 2019, the United States’ trade war with China expanded to blacklist the Chinese tech titan Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The resulting attention showed the information and communications technology (ICT) firm entwined with China’s political-economic transformation. But the question remained: why does Huawei matter?

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Yun Wen uses the Huawei story as a microcosm to understand China’s evolving digital economy and the global rise of the nation’s corporate power. Rejecting the idea of the transnational corporation as a static institution, she explains Huawei’s formation and restructuring as a historical process replete with contradictions and complex consequences. She places Huawei within the international political economic framework to capture the dynamics of power structure and social relations underlying corporate China’s globalization. As she explores the contradictions of Huawei’s development, she also shows the ICT firm’s complicated interactions with other political-economic forces.

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Comprehensive and timely, The Huawei Model offers an essential analysis of China’s dynamic development of digital economy and the global technology powerhouse at its core.

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YUN WEN is a senior economist at an economic policy research firm in Vancouver, Canada.

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TELEVISION AND THE AFGHAN CULTURE WARS

Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists

WAZHMAH OSMAN Analyzing television’s place in today’s Afghanistan “This critical work foregrounds the geopolitical context that leads to a television ‘boom,’ highlighting the important role of women and ethnic minority communities in Afghani media production and consumption. Television and Afghan Culture Wars is a must read for scholars and students of global media and American empire.”

—PAULA CHAKRAVARTTY, coeditor of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women’s rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace.

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Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of Afghan media producers and people from all sectors of society. In this moving work, Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country’s cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the role of international interventions. Osman looks at the national and transnational impact of media companies like Tolo TV, Radio Television Afghanistan, and foreign media giants and funders like the British Broadcasting Corporation and USAID. By focusing on local cultural contestations, productions, and social movements, Television and the Afghan Culture Wars redirects the global dialogue about Afghanistan to Afghans and thereby challenges top-down narratives of humanitarian development.

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WAZHMAH OSMAN is a filmmaker and assistant professor in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. She is the codirector of the critically acclaimed documentary Postcards from Tora Bora and the coauthor of Afghanistan: A Very Short Introduction.

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DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE

Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School

Edited by KIMBERLY D. McKEE and DENISE A. DELGADO Foreword by Karen J. Leong A go-to resource for helping women of color survive, and thrive, in grad school “The personal and the political are addressed in this multi­ faceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure-track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area.”

—GABRIELLA GUTIÉRREZ Y MUHS, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia

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University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists—all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of their work further poison an atmosphere that suffocates not only ambition but a person’s quality of life.

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In Degrees of Difference, women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles—both internal and external—to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and unsupportive faculty and colleagues.

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Contributors: Aeriel A. Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernández, Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Délice Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Soha Youssef KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. DENISE A. DELGADO received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.

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EBONY MAGAZINE AND LERONE BENNETT JR.

Popular Black History in Postwar America

E. JAMES WEST How Ebony educated African Americans about their history “A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls ‘popular black history.’”

—PERO G. DAGBOVIE, author of Revisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to the center of the nation’s cultural and political imagination.

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E. James West’s fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony’s political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. He also uncovers a paradox. Though Ebony provided Bennett with space to promote a militant reading of black history and protest, the magazine’s status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both the past and present.

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Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.

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E. JAMES WEST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American History at Northumbria University.

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FRONT PAGES, FRONT LINES

Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage

Edited by LINDA STEINER, CAROLYN KITCH, and BROOKE KROEGER The press and the long road to the Nineteenth Amendment “The centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment encourages a fresh rethinking of the history of the women’s suffrage movement, to which this volume is a welcome addition.

Special kudos for its sustained attention to racial and regional diversity, as well as its broad chronological sweep.”

—SUSAN WARE, author of Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote Suffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women’s suffrage movement and the public’s understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media of suffragist journalism and publications.

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This collection offers new research on media issues related to the women’s suffrage movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography, and innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the vexed relationship between the media and debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked topics such as coverage by African American and Mormonoriented media, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, and the influence views of white masculinity had on press coverage.

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Contributors: Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner, and Robin Sundaramoorthy

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LINDA STEINER is a professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and a coauthor of Women and Journalism. CAROLYN KITCH is a professor of journalism and media & communication at Temple University and the author of Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past.

BROOKE KROEGER is a professor of journalism at New York University and the author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote.

Additional materials and educator resources can be found at suffrageandthemedia.org

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FASHIONING POSTFEMINISM

Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture

SIMIDELE DOSEKUN The serious business of being spectacular in Nigeria and the Global South “This book brilliantly challenges the assumption of whiteness and the Western location of the postfeminist female subject, documenting how postfeminism circulates well beyond the Global North. Dosekun demonstrates a rare sensitivity to place and to the specific norms circulating that space, which, as she underscores, shape the way in which postfeminism is taken up. The arguments are forceful, and the empirical material is handled with great care, sensitivity, and insight.”

—CATHERINE ROTTENBERG, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism

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Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty.

From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world.

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Simidele Dosekun’s interviews and critical analysis consider the female subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically immaculate beauty signals—but also constitutes—feminine power. As empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need to critique their culture or to take part in feminism’s collective political struggle. Throughout, Dosekun unearths evocative details around the practical challenges to attaining their style, examines the gap between how others view these women and how they view themselves, and engages with ideas about postfeminist self-fashioning and subjectivity across cultures and class.

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Intellectually provocative and rich with theory, Fashioning Postfeminism reveals why women choose to live, embody, and even suffer for a fascinating performative culture.

SIMIDELE DOSEKUN is an assistant professor in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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IMAGINING THE MULATTA

Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media

JASMINE MITCHELL Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil and the United States “An important and very readable work on the comparative histories and visual cultural formations of race and mixed race in Brazil and the United States.”

—CAMILLA FOJAS, author of Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixedrace women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates.

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Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and US popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an “acceptable” version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire.

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JASMINE MITCHELL is an assistant professor of American studies and media and communication at SUNY Old Westbury.

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GRAPHIC NEWS

How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

AMANDA FRISKEN Pictures, profits, and peril in the yellow journalism era “A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications’ reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era’s gender, race, and class relations.”

—JOSHUA BROWN, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups.

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Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events— obscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violence—changed the public’s consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy allowed newspapers and social activists alike to communicate—or challenge—prevailing understandings of racial, class, and gender identities and cultural power.

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AMANDA FRISKEN is a professor of American Studies at SUNY College at Old Westbury. She is the author of Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America.

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FIGHTING FASCIST SPAIN

Worker Protest from the Printing Press

MONTSE FEU Publishing a vision of freedom and democracy “A detailed and comprehensive history of [a] network of artists, intellectuals, and common folk who worked together for some four decades to combat fascism in Franco’s Spain. . . . Feu has successfully brought to light an important chapter in the making of the US Latino community and its transnational impact. Taking the combative periodical España Libre as the axis around which community organizations in New York coalesced and found common cause, Feu identifies all of the major actors and their ideologies.”

—NICOLÁS KANELLOS, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created the publication España Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in their homeland. Worker-oriented and avowedly antifascist, the grassroots periodical raised money for refugees and political prisoners while advancing left-wing culture and politics. España Libre proved both visionary and durable, charting an alternate path toward a modern Spain and enduring until democracy’s return to the country in 1977.

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Montse Feu merges España Libre’s story with the drama of the Spanish immigrant community’s fight against fascism. The periodical emerged as part of a transnational effort to link migrants and new exiles living in the United States to antifascist networks abroad. In addition to showing how workers’ culture and politics shaped their antifascism, Feu brings to light creative works that ranged from literature to satire to cartoons to theater. As España Libre opened up radical practices, it encouraged allies to reject violence in favor of social revolution’s potential for joy and inclusion.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05212-5 All rights: University of Illinois

MONTSE FEU is an associate professor of Hispanic studies and co-advisor of graduate studies for the Spanish program at Sam Houston State University. She is the author of Jesús González Malo: Correspondencia personal y política de un anarcosindicalista exiliado (1943–1965).

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THE ENFORCERS

How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism

ROB WELLS With a foreword by David Cay Johnston Lessons from the past and business journalism’s bold future “By delving into the role of trade press in the Keating and some other scandals, Wells throws a spotlight on the strengths, shortcomings, and blind spots of American journalism. He is rigorous in his reporting and unsparing in both his criticisms and praise. . . . After you read these pages, take some time to ponder what Wells reveals and what you can do to improve accountability through journalism as a journalist or a consumer of news, and remember that those little trade papers are in many ways bright gems of American journalism.”

—DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, author of It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America, from the foreword

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In the 1980s, real estate developer and banker Charles H. Keating executed one of the largest savings and loans frauds in United States history. Keating had long used the courts to muzzle critical reporting of his business dealings, but aggressive reporting by a small trade paper called the National Thrift News helped bring down Keating and offered an inspiring example of business journalism that speaks truth to power.

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Rob Wells tells the story through the work of Stan Strachan, a veteran financial journalist who uncovered Keating’s misdeeds and links to a group of US senators—the Keating Five—who bullied regulators on his behalf. Editorial decisions at the National Thrift News angered advertisers and readers, but the newsroom sold ownership on the idea of investigative reporting as a commercial opportunity.

Examining the National Thrift News’s approach, Wells calls for a new era of business reporting that can and must embrace its potential as a watchdog safeguarding the interests of the public.

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ROB WELLS is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Arkansas and a former journalist with the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and the Associated Press.

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ON TREND

The Business of Forecasting the Future

DEVON POWERS Prophets churning profits in the mysterious world of trend professionals “On Trend is wide-ranging, yet it holds together through a fusion of scholarly reconstruction and engaged critique.

Such a combination is often intended but seldom so well executed.”

—SCOTT MCLEMEE, Inside Higher Ed

“If you think hot trends just whirl up like dust storms, think again: This fascinating book pulls the curtain back on an entire industry devoted to shaping our perceptions of what matters—and with it, the future itself.”

—FRED TURNER, author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

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Trends have become a commodity—an element of culture in their own right and the very currency of our cultural life. Consumer culture relies on a new class of professionals who explain trends, predict trends, and, in profound ways, even manufacture trends.

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On Trend delves into one of the most powerful forces in global consumer culture.

From forecasting to cool hunting to design thinking, the work done by trend professionals influences how we live, work, play, shop, and learn. Devon Powers’s provocative insights open up how the business of the future kindles exciting opportunity even as its practices raise questions about an economy increasingly built on nonstop disruption and innovation. Merging industry history with vivid portraits of today’s trend visionaries, Powers reveals how trends took over, what it means for cultural change, and the price all of us pay to see—and live—the future.

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DEVON POWERS is an associate professor of advertising at Temple University. She is the author of Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism and coeditor of Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture.

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THE JOURNALIST OF CASTRO STREET

The Life of Randy Shilts

ANDREW E. STONER The new biography of an iconic and controversial figure “A major contribution to gay history.”

—BOOKLIST

“A serious account of the life of one of the twentieth century’s most divisive gay figures.”

—TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT As the acclaimed author of And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts became the country’s most recognized voice on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His success emerged from a relentless work ethic and strong belief in the power of journalism to help mainstream society understand not just the rising tide of HIV/ AIDS but gay culture and liberation.

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In-depth and dramatic, Andrew E. Stoner’s biography follows the remarkable life of the brash, pioneering journalist. Shilts’s reporting on AIDS in San Francisco broke barriers even as other gay writers and activists ridiculed his overtures to the mainstream and labeled him a traitor to the movement, charges the combative Shilts forcefully answered. Behind the scenes, Shilts overcame career-threatening struggles with alcohol and substance abuse to achieve the notoriety he had always sought, while the HIV infection he had purposely kept hidden began to take his life.

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Filled with new insights and fascinating detail, The Journalist of Castro Street reveals the historic work and passionate humanity of the legendary investigative reporter and author.

ANDREW E. STONER is an assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, Sacramento. His books include Campaign Crossroads: Presidential Politics in Indiana from Lincoln to Obama.

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HOMELAND MATERNITY

US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime

NATALIE FIXMER-ORAIZ Motherhood and motherland in contemporary America “This book is devastatingly good. Good because it is elegantly written, tightly argued, and theoretically informed and informative. Devastating because it makes clear that a nasty thicket of laws, institutions, and rhetoric values pregnancy (even a potential pregnancy) more than the integrity, safety, and humanity of women, pregnant people, and mothers.”

—ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY

“Decidedly grounded in an ethic of reproductive justice and its bringing together of ‘feminist studies of maternal and reproductive politics and critical scholarship on homeland security culture,’ (3–4) Homeland Maternity provides a necessary and nuanced framework for naming and understanding complex, urgent events around reproductive politics today.”

—IZG ONZEIT 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.

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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 nonreproductive 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.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05119-7 A volume in the series Feminist Media Studies, edited by Carol Stabile All rights: University of Illinois

NATALIE FIXMER-ORAIZ is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Iowa.

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