A Cultural Perspective

By Emily Schuckman Matthews

Sex Work in Russia weaves together a wide range of materials to examine the figure of the female sex worker in Russia from the early twentieth century to the present day. This book offers readers both an expansive and nuanced discussion of the significance of this archetypal female who appears with remarkable frequency in literature, film, and other cultural productions. Emily Schuckman Matthews explores the ways in which the fictional sex worker (and her real-life counterpart) has become a symbolic representative of social and moral instability, economic volatility, political, social, and ideological revolutions, and changing concepts of gender, sexuality, and the nation itself. Focus is given to the movement of the female sex worker from marginal foil to a hero in her own right, even finding a voice of her own in recent years. Works featuring this alluring and complex figure reveal critical insights into the changing position of women and other marginalized people in a volatile Russia.

Offers critical insights into the significance of the figure of the female sex worker and women’s lives in Russia.

Lexington Books

March 2023

292 pages

25 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6669 1594 5 eBook

978 1 6669 1595 2

Social Science • Prostitution & Sex Trade

The Complexities of American Indian Identity in the Twenty-First Century

By Sean M. Daley and Christine Makosky Daley, with Ryan Goeckner and Jason Hale

What makes contemporary Native identities?

Between 2011 and 2015, over 700 Native Americans from across the United States participated in a mixed-methods study that delved into modern-day American Indian identities. Using the perspectives, voices, and stories of these participants, the authors document how contemporary Native peoples feel, define, and contribute to the construction of Native identity on topics such as col-onization, tribal enrollment, blood quantum, language, spirituality, family, and community.

Sean M. Daley is co-founder and director of the Institute for Indigenous Studies at Lehigh University. Christine Makosky Daley is professor and chair of the department of community and population health in the College of Health at Lehigh University, as well as the co-founder of the Institute for Indigenous Studies at Lehigh University.

Lexington Books

March 2023 • 164 pages • 20 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 7936 4387 2 eBook 978 1 7936 4388 9

Social Science • Anthropology / Cultural

Until Our Lungs Give Out Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

By George Yancy, foreword by Tim Wise

Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power.

This collection of searingly honest interviews with leading intellectuals includes conversations with Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Peter McLaren. Learning how to speak about such topics as white supremacy, anti-BIPOC racism, and fear of critical race theory, readers will be better able to join future conversations with their peers, those in power, and those who need to be empowered to change the status quo.

George Yancy is the author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books, including Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America. He is known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times’ philosophy column, The Stone. Yancy lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is professor of philosophy at Emory University.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023 • 376 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 7642 9 eBook 978 1 5381 7643 6

Social Science • Activism & Social Justice

Re-Centering Women in Tourism Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies

Edited by Frances Julia Riemer, foreword by Florence E. Babb

Reframes the very presuppositions on which tourism initiatives are based and helps imagine sustainable and regenerative alternatives.

This book addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. Placing a unique and long overdue theoretical frame around tourism, this volume contributes to conversations on the engagement of women in tourism by centering women’s multivalent lived experiences in tourism projects. Examining eco-tourism, craft production, and food tourism initiatives, the contributors embrace the building of new knowledge and advocate for change.

Frances Julia Riemer is professor of educational foundations and associate faculty and director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Northern Arizona University.

Lexington Books

June 2023 • 236 pages • 5 illustrations

Part of the Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series

Hardback 978 1 6669 0106 1 eBook 978 1 6669 0107 8

Social Science • Anthropology / General

Slaves among Us

The Hidden World of Human Trafficking

By Monique Villa, foreword by Evelyn Chumbow

Exposes the horrific world of modern slavery.

Monique Villa shows us the world of slaves—no longer physically in chains—who walk among us, trapped in a cycle of exploitation. Her moving book, giving voice to survivors of this horrific trade, vividly illustrates dire situations we can do something about. Her call to action outlines concrete steps in order to outlaw and eliminate modern slavery. Now with a foreword by trafficking survivor Evelyn Chumbow, of The Human Trafficking Legal Center.

Monique Villa is former CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She is ranked among the world’s 100 most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere. She was ranked fourth in the UK’s 2018 Top 100 Modern Slavery Influencers’ Index. She lives in London.

Rights sold: Japanese

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2023 • 216 pages • 8 illustrations

Paperback 978 1 5381 8045 7

Previously published in hardback with dust jacket 978 1 5381 2728 5 eBook 978 1 5381 2729 2

Social Science • Human Trafficking