AQA Benedict Prize (70 books)

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Winners and honorable mentions of the Association for Queer Anthropology's Ruth Benedict Prize.

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1	The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter L. Williams really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 114 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil by Richard G. Parker 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatán by Carter Wilson 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality by Sue-Ellen Jacobs (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 79 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins by Kath Weston 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Takarazuka: Sexual Politics & Popular Culture in Modern Japan by Jennifer E. Robertson 3.74 avg rating — 149 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Archaeologies of Sexuality by Robert A. Schmidt (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Homosexualities (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) by Stephen O. Murray 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights; Or, How the Right Divides Us by Arlene Stein 3.66 avg rating — 80 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) by Hector Carrillo 3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement by Tanya Erzen 3.50 avg rating — 171 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia by Saskia E. Wieringa (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco by Barbara L. Voss 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America by Mary L. Gray 3.76 avg rating — 183 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America by Ellen Lewin 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights by Peter A. Jackson (Editor) 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Transgender Studies Reader 2 by Susan Stryker (Editor) 4.45 avg rating — 82 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality by Lal Zimman (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Queer Women in Urban China by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen 4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Diversity, Representations and Health: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations by Linda Rae Bennett (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism by Uriel Quesada (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 85 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy by Gregory C. Mitchell 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Real Queer?: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus by David A.B. Murray 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 44) by Denis M. Provencher 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine by Eric Plemons 4.35 avg rating — 92 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies by B Camminga 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Queering Knowledge (Theorizing Ethnography) by Paul Boyce (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-Us Border by Sarah Luna really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas by Joseph C. Russo 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan by Omar Kasmani 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men by Joseph Carrier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene by Bobby Benedicto 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India by Serena Nanda 3.74 avg rating — 414 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Word’s Out: Gay Men’s English by William L. Leap 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture by Ellen Lewin 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory, 31) by Megan J. Sinnott 3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia by Tom Boellstorff 3.93 avg rating — 59 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) by Mark Padilla really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 53 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa by Amanda Lock Swarr 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba by Noelle Stout (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 73 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion by Lucinda Ramberg 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space by David A.B. Murray (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India by Vaibhav Saria 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life by Jafari S. Allen 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia by Evelyn Blackwood 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship by Kath Weston 3.89 avg rating — 208 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora by Martin F. Manalansan IV 3.91 avg rating — 235 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by Margot Weiss 3.72 avg rating — 130 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Cherry Grove Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town by Esther Newton 4.01 avg rating — 77 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean by Lyndon K. Gill 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty by Ana-Maurine Lara 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya by George Paul Meiu 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology by Ellen Lewin (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy 4.19 avg rating — 821 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Series Q) by Esther Newton 3.92 avg rating — 74 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora by Gloria Wekker 4.21 avg rating — 126 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices across Cultures by Evelyn Blackwood (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana by Serena Owusua Dankwa 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 43, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan 4.33 avg rating — 329 ratings score: 42, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics by Naisargi N. Dave 4.27 avg rating — 51 ratings score: 41, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan by Amy Brainer 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 40, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea by Gilbert Herdt 3.56 avg rating — 108 ratings score: 39, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS by Deborah B. Gould 4.30 avg rating — 162 ratings score: 38, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World by Ellen Lewin (editor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 37, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Sex Panic and the Punitive State by Roger N. Lancaster 4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings score: 36, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Gayle S. Rubin 4.43 avg rating — 166 ratings score: 35, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) by Scott L. Morgensen 4.01 avg rating — 121 ratings score: 34, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City (New Directions in Ethnography) by Rudolf Pell Gaudio 3.94 avg rating — 67 ratings score: 33, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category by David Valentine 3.99 avg rating — 298 ratings score: 32, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua by Roger N. Lancaster 3.93 avg rating — 124 ratings score: 31, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars