In order to disseminate the work of its participants, the Institute has an agreement with New Pacific Press to publish individually and collaboratively authored essays and opinion pieces that employ formats and modes that enable dialogue and critique. The pamphlet series, which is intended for a general readership, will be modestly priced and widely distributed-both nationally and internationally. Manuscripts will be approved and occasionally solicited by an editorial board comprised of faculty and graduate students who are affiliated with the IAFR vision, works, and projects.

Out of the evolving conversations generated by the "Century" project, critical skills workshops, guest speaker series and residencies, we anticipate the emergence of a series of small format books in addition to the collaborative groups that will continue to plan the Generations in Action project. The books - which will be produced by New Pacific Press, a local publishing venture led by David Watson--are designed to reach a broad readership. The first publication of Generations in Action that is planned is "Contradictions of Care, " by Susan Harding, a UCSC professor of anthropology, and Andrea Steiner, a UCSC gerontologist. The book examines ways in which elders and their families are both exploiters and exploited in the complex care system.

GENERATIONS IN ACTION

Bodies in the Making
Transgressions and Transformations

In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and transsexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and life extension technologies.

Establishing links among these varied practices, the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind, to agency and to subjectivity.

Bodies in the Making also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory, they are frequently understood to be socially determined, economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly, exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at time re-inscribing it.

Contributors:
Virginia L. Blum (English, University of Kentucky)
Aleshia Brevard (Transsexual author and actress, Santa Cruz)
Joyce Brodsky (Art, UCSC)
Nancy N. Chen (Anthropology, UCSC)
Maria Frangos (Literature, UCSC)
Carla Freccero (Literature, UCSC)
Joanna Frueh (Art, University of Nevada, Reno)
Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness, UCSC)
Sharon R. Kaufman (Anthropology, UCSF)
Steve Kurzman (Anthropologist, San Francisco)
John Marlovits (Anthropology, UCSC)
Helene Moglen (Literature, UCSC)
Megan Moodie (Anthropology, UCSC)
Victoria Pitts (Sociology, CUNY)
Lorna A. Rhodes (Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle)
Kelley Richardson (Photographer, Santa Cruz)
Ann J. Russ (Anthropologist, San Francisco)
Gabriela Sandoval (Sociology, UCSC)
Mary Weaver (History of Consciousness, UCSC)

You can order the book at The Literary Guillotine, 204 Locust Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, 831 457-1195.
7" x 4.5" $12.00
ISBN: 0-9712546-3-x

FEMINISMS AND GLOBAL WAR

On October 1st, the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research (IAFR) published Shock and Awe: War on Words, co-edited by Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer González, Bettina Stötzer and Anna Tsing, with Jody Greene, the managing editor. This is the first book to be published in our series, "Feminist Provocations," and the first book to be published by New Pacific Press, a venture recently started by David Watson, who owns The Literary Guillotine.

Shock and Awe: War on Words grew out of the activities of the IAFR's working group, Feminisms and Global War.  Its contributors are local and global.

This is how its editors describe it:
Do words sometimes betray you, leaving you a stranger in your own land? Words can be brutal, frustrating, and exhausting. Consider terrorism, civilization, and even peace, family, and security. Words can also be bridges to new forms of experience and openings for alliance. This book explores the political trajectories of words through pictures, excerpts, stories and exegesis about the politics of the present global situation. Scholars, artists and poets have joined forces to offer alternative etymologies, genealogies, fragments of everyday life and glimpses of social history as a form of defense and defiance in an escalating war on words.

Read Review by Christina Waters at AlterNet.org.

Order the book directly from The Literary Guillotine (download PDF file of order form) or purchase it at other local bookstores or on line at abebooks.com.