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Beacon Weekly ReportJune 25, 2008Headlines:Red Bird, Mary Oliver, April 2008, cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6892-2
Without a Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8
The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman, October 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-80707289-9
Once in a Promised Land, Laila Halaby, cloth, January 2007, $23.95, 978-0-8070-8390-1
Inheriting the Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:Surprised by God, by Danya Ruttenberg, August 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1068-6
The Court and the Cross, Frederick S. Lane, cloth, June 2008, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4424-7
Upcoming Broadcast:
The Muse of the Revolution, Nancy Rubin Stuart, July 2008, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-5516-8
Upcoming Events:
Love You to Pieces, Suzanne Kamata, paperback original, June 2008, $17.00, 978-0-8070-0030-4
Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, Craig Rennebohm with David Paul, May 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070 -0042-7
Queen of the Oil Club, Anna Rubino, June 2008, cloth, $29.95, 978-0-8070-7277-6 Upcoming Broadcast:
Saving Paradise, Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, July 2008, cloth, $34.95, 978-0-8070-6750-4
Upcoming Broadcast:
American Dreamers, Kelly Bulkeley, July 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-7734-8
The Saint of Kathmandu, Sarah LeVine, cloth, June 2008, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1312-0 Upcoming Events:
(Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents, Nan Mooney, May 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1138-6
Upcoming Broadcast:
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage, Nancy D. Polikoff, February 2008, Cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4432-2
The Paradise of All These Parts, John Hanson Mitchell, August 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7148-9
Beacon Backlist:
Soaring with Fidel, David Gessner, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8578-3
Thousand Pieces of Gold, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, August 2004, paperback, $14.00, 978-0-8070-8381-9
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon is delighted to announce the acquisition of Hanne Blank’s Straight: On Men, Women and Why It Matters (tentative title). It’s surprising that the term “heterosexuality” is less than 150 years old and that heterosexuality’s history has never before been written given how obsessed we are with it. In Straight, seasoned expert Hanne Blank (author of Virgin: The Untouched History) delves deep into the contemporary psyche as well as the historical record to chronicle the realm of heterosexual relations—a subject that is anything but straight and narrow; consider how Catholic monasticism, the reading of novels, abolition of slavery, leisure time, divorce, and constipation of the bowels have all been labeled enemies of the heterosexual state at some time. With an extensive historical scope and plenty of juicy details and examples—from female born jazzman Billy Tipton to the 18th century transvestite spy Charles Eon de Beaumont—Straight provides a fascinating look at the vagaries, schisms, and contradictions of what has so often been perceived an irreducible fact of nature. Fall 2010 Beacon is delighted to announce a new acquisition: The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by psychiatrist and cultural historian Jonathan M. Metzl. Metzl’s scholarship explores how popular and medical beliefs about mental illness have historically shaped—and in turn been shaped by—cultural perceptions about race and gender. In this book, he looks at how the diagnosis of schizophrenia became racialized in the 1960s—even as psychiatrists were beginning to understand the biological basis of the illness—while showing how it is still racialized today. Using archived medical records of some of the African American men diagnosed in the 1950s-1970s along with contemporary case studies, Metzl uses this history of medical prejudice to grapple with and explain larger, present-day issues—such as race based misdiagnosis, spreading public fears of violent homeless and mentally ill persons, and the greater chance that persons with schizophrenia reside in prison rather than in psychiatric care facilities. Fall 2009
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