Ruth Benedict PrizeMonographs

Given by AAA: Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA)

36 Works 0 Books
The Ruth Benedict prize "is awarded by The Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists for "excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, show more bisexual, or transgendered topic. The prize is named after the American cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict, 18887 - 1948, best known for her books Patterns of Culture and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword." show less
Stages:
All, Winner (59), Honorable Mention (11)
Categories:
All, Edited Volumes (13), Monographs (36), No Category (21)
Years:
All, 2023 (2), 2022 (2), 2021 (2), 2020 (2), 2019 (2), 2018 (2), 2017 (2), 2016 (2), 2015 (2), 2014 (2), 2013 (2), 2012 (2), 2011 (2), 2010 (2), 2009 (2), 2007 (2), 2004 (1), 2000 (2), 1997 (1)

Winner 25

WorkYear
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan by Omar Kasmani2023
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana (African Identities: Past and Present) by Serena Owusua Dankwa2022
Hijras, lovers, brothers : surviving sex and poverty in rural India by Vaibhav Saria2021
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty (SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures) by Ana-Mauríne Lara2020
Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border by Sarah Luna2020
Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan (Families in Focus) by Amy Brainer2019
Ethno-erotic economies : sexuality, money, and belonging in Kenya by George Paul Meiu2018
The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine by Eric Plemons2017
Real queer? : sexual orientation and gender identity refugees in the Canadian refugee apparatus by David A. B. Murray2016
Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion by Lucinda Ramberg2015
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba by Noelle M. Stout2014
Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics by Naisargi N. Dave2013
Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by Margot Weiss2012
Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia by Evelyn Blackwood2011
Sex Panic and the Punitive State by Roger N. Lancaster2011
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS by Deborah B. Gould2010
Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America by Ellen Lewin2010
Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City (New Directions in Ethnography) by Rudolf Pell Gaudio2009
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (Intersections: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Genders and Sexualities) by Mary L. Gray2009
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category by David Valentine2007
The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro- Surinamese Diaspora (Between Men--Between Women) by Gloria Wekker2007
Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand by Megan J. Sinnott2004
Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray2000
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas by Esther Newton2000
Render Me, Gender Me (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) by Kath Weston1997

Honorable Mention 11

WorkYear
Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas by Joseph C. Russo2023
There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life by Jafari S. Allen2022
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan2021
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies (Global Queer Politics) by B Camminga2019
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean by Lyndon K. Gill2018
Queer Maghrebi French : Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations by Denis M. Provencher2017
Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy by Gregory Mitchell2016
Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene (Difference Incorporated) by Bobby Benedicto2015
Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen2014
Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender & Race in South Africa by Amanda Lock Swarr2013
Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization (First Peoples: New Directions Indigenous) by Scott Lauria Morgensen2012

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