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Food Is Love
Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Modern advertising has changed dramatically since the early twentieth century, but when it comes to food, Katherine Parkin writes, the message has remained consistent. Advertisers have historically promoted food in distinctly gendered terms, returning repeatedly to themes that associated shopping...
Women's Place in the Andes
Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In Women’s Place in the Andes Florence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify...
Home Front Heroes
The Rise of a New Hollywood Archetype, 1988-1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. Starting in the late 1980s, action blockbusters regularly have featured masculine figures who choose love and community over the path of the stoic loner committed solely to duty....
Freedom without Permission
Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
As the 2011 uprisings in North Africa reverberated across the Middle East, a diverse cross section of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways. In a series of case studies ranging from Tunisia's 14 January Revolution to the Taksim Gezi...
LGBT Studies and Queer Theory
New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Find out how the tension between LGBT studies and queer theory exists in the classroom, politics, communities, and relationships
LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain examines the similarities and differences between LGBT studies and queer theory...
The Unmade Bed
The Messy Truth about Men and Women in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
“Satisfying food for thought on the ever-changing dynamics of men and women as they interact and go about their individual lives” (Kirkus Reviews) as cultural commentator Stephen Marche examines contemporary male-female relations—with the help of his wife, writer and editor Sarah Fulford.
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Just Add Hormones
An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for the first forty-two years of his life. Though happy as a social worker and teacher, he knew something wasn't right. Then he made some changes. With the help of a good therapist, chest surgery, and some strong doses of testosterone, Kailey began his journey...
Queering Sexual Violence
Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and...
Gay, Explained
History, Science, Culture, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Imagine your favorite gay uncle sitting you down and explaining everything you ever wondered about gay people. That is Gay, Explained. Written for gay and straight people alike, Gay, Explained leads the reader on a journey that even the most educated may find surprising. Told in a warm and...
Looking Queer
Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession. Looking Queer...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population....
Human Beings and Freedom
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Human Beings and Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Perspective focuses on some contemporary issues relating to freedom, equality, identity and resistance from various perspectives, such as psychological, social, political, and metaphysical. In doing so it addresses topics such as the nature of human...
Feminist Studies
A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion...
by Anne Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
New from celebrated poet and performer Anne Waldman - an edgy, visionary collection that meditates on gender, existence, passion and activism
Mythopoetics, shape shifting, quantum entanglement, Anthropocene blues, litany and chance operation play inside the field of these intertwined poems,...