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On 13 March 1908, the National Bureau for the Collection of Data on the Trade in Women and Girls was founded. The 47-year-old H.J.A. Simons de Ruyter was appointed National Police Commissioner. He proved to be the best person for the job owing to his passion for gathering and recording vital data, his knowledge of languages and his dedicated, helpful and generous personality. The Bureau and the police worked with women's organisations to monitor activities and carry out checks at stations and ports where women and girls who could be exposed to a lewd lifestyle might be travelling. After legislation on morality was passed in 1911, the Bureau was given an additional task in 1914 to tackle trade in lewd publications. After the First World War erupted that year, there was not much more to do at the Bureau, which led Simons de Ruyter to support the immigration authorities in Amsterdam at his own request. This consisted mainly of finding accommodation, providing healthcare, food, clothing and financial assistance and helping to repatriate Belgian refugees.

"Leveraging Latency explores how the weak coerce the strong with nuclear technology. Allies and adversaries alike can compel concessions from superpowers by threatening to acquire atomic weapons. When does nuclear latency-the technical capacity to build the bomb-enable states to pursue this coercive strategy? The conventional wisdom is that compellence with nuclear latency works when states are close to the bomb. But this intuitive notion is wrong. Tristan Volpe finds that more latency seldom translates into greater bargaining advantages. He reveals how coercion creates a tradeoff between making threats and assurances credible. States need just enough bomb-making capacity to threaten proliferation, but not so much that it becomes too difficult to promise nuclear restraint. The boundaries of this sweet spot align with the capacity to produce the fissile material at the heart of an atomic weapon. Historical studies of Japan, West Germany, North Korea, and Iran demonstrate that mere capacity to build atomic weapons can yield diplomatic dividends. As nuclear technology continues to cast a shadow over the global landscape, Leveraging Latency provides scholars and practitioners with a systematic assessment of its coercive utility. Volpe identifies a generalizable mechanism-the threat-assurance tradeoff-that explains why more power often makes compellence less likely to work. This framework illuminates how technology shapes broader bargaining dynamics and helps to refine policy options for inhibiting the spread of nuclear weapons"--

In A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten, award-winning author, sex educator, speaker, and podcast host Tristan Taormino shares her coming-of-age story in which she reveals how the roots of her radical sexuality and career grew out of an extraordinary queer father-daughter relationship.

"L'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie le 24 février 2022 s'est traduite par une violence qui a choqué l'Occident : l'utilisation de bombes interdites par le droit international contre des infrastructures civiles, voire des enfants réfugiés dans un abri, soulève des questions sur les origines d'un tel mépris de la vie humaine. On serait tenté d'expliquer celui-ci par le système et la propagande que Poutine a construits au cours des deux dernières décennies. Mais ce système et cette propagande n'auraient pu être aussi facilement érigés sans les fondements idéologiques sur lesquels ils reposent, à commencer par le stalinisme. Tristan Landry démontre ici que la terreur stalinienne est largement imputable à la mise en place, par sédiments successifs, d'un ensemble hétéroclite d'idées qui, pour des raisons purement historiques, a constitué un champ notionnel à l'intérieur duquel le mépris de la vie humaine pouvait paraître justifié."--

Visibility and Immutability in Asylum Law and Procedure --Desiring the Nation : Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations --Trans Citizenship : Marriage, Immigration, and Neoliberal Recognition --Transfer Points : Trans Migrants and Immigration Detention.

In A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten, award-winning author, sex educator, filmmaker, and podcast host Tristan Taormino shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how her radical sexuality and unconventional career grew out of an extraordinary queer father-daughter relationship. Raised by a hard-working single mother on Long Island, Tristan got her sex ed from the 1980s TV show Solid Gold and The Joy of Sex. She spent summers at drag shows in Provincetown with her father, Bill, who had come out as gay in the mid-1970s. Her sexual identity bloomed during her college years at Wesleyan University, where she discovered her desire for butches and kinky sex.Tristan's world began to fall apart when her dad was diagnosed with AIDS. After a series of devastating events, she moved to the messy, glorious world of 1990s New York City. In the midst of grief and depression, she helped change queer sexual subculture with her zine Pucker Up, her infamous The Village Voice column, and her editorship of legendary lesbian porn magazine On Our Backs. After the publication of her first book, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, Tristan followed her own path that marked the beginning of her work as a trailblazing feminist pornographer.After a lifetime of outrageous adventures, Tristan reflects on the bonds, loss, and mental-health struggles that shaped her. She weaves together history from her father's unpublished memoir, exploring the surprising ways their personal patterns converge and diverge. Bracingly emotional and erotically charged, A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten reveals the transformative power of queer pleasure and defiance

Mit einem Geleitwort von Prof. Dr. Josef W. Egger. Die durch den Erreger SARS-CoV-2 ausgelöste COVID-19-Pandemie wird trotz neuer medizintheoretischer Erkenntnisse stets aus der Perspektive der Biomedizin bzw. des pathogenetischen Modells von Krankheit beurteilt. Diese Arbeit erläutert den Nutzen des biopsychosozialen Modells nach Engel (1977) als notwendige Erweiterung der Biomedizin zur Überwindung der COVID-19-Pandemie in Deutschland. Durch eine Suchstrategie nach den Kriterien der Cochrane Stiftung Deutschland und der wissenschaftstheoretischen Methode des Falsifikationismus nach Karl Popper sollen entsprechende Studien zur COVID-19-Pandemie in Deutschland ausgewertet und der aktuelle Wissensstand aufgezeigt werden.

Celebrations of the "transgender tipping point" in the second decade of the twenty-first century occurred at the same time of heightened debates and anxieties about immigration in the United States. On Transits and Transitions explores what the increased visibility of trans people in the public sphere means for trans migrants and provides a counter-narrative to the dominant discourse that the inclusion of transgender issues in law and policy represents the progression of legal equality for trans communities. Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, Josephson presents a careful and innovative examination of the processes by which the category of transgender is produced through and incorporated into the key areas of asylum law, marriage and immigration law, and immigration detention policies. Using mobility as a critical lens, On Transits and Transitions captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States