Robyn Robyn: 1128 books
The Age of the World Target
Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the...
The Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity...
Partners in Conflict
The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between...
Figurations
Child, Bodies, Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002
Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically,...
by Antoinette Burton, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India’s elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer well known, she was for several decades a popular expert on India. She provided an insider’s view...
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves
How Feminism Travels across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research...
The Scandal of the State
Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central...
Alimentary Tracts
Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of colonizer and colonized, generating novel experiences...
by Robyn Ferrell
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Philosophy is textual - it is written and it is read - yet today much of philosophy regards itself as a kind of science, sometimes reducing itself to a species of intellectual bureaucracy. It is important to see these qualities as having their own aesthetic. Even realism is a genre. The aesthetic...
Add a Pinch
Easier, Faster, Fresher Southern Classics: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
With a foreword by Ree Drummond, this beautiful book has 100 easier, faster, lightened-up Southern recipes, from the blogger behind the popular Add a Pinch website.
A generation ago, home cooks may have had all day to prepare dinner, but most folks now want convenient, fast recipes that don’t...
The School Drama Book
Drama, Literature and Literacy in the Creative Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Developed by the Sydney Theatre Company, School Drama is a professional learning program for primary school teachers that demonstrates the power of using drama with quality literature to improve English and literacy in young learners. This publication introduces the program to a wider audience. As...
Rethinking God as Gift
Marion, Derrida, and the Limits of Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Rethinking God as Gift is situated at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory and theology. The first sustained study of the work of Jean-Luc Marion in English, it offers a unique perspective on contemporary questions and their theological relevance. Taking its point of departure from the...
Reconstructing Communicating
Looking To A Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
In this innovative and potentially controversial book, Penman examines the future of communication as a discipline. She foresees a time in which communicating is conceived as a social construction process, in the anticipation that this will allow a genuine practical response to contemporary social...
by Robyn Donald
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
A scorching seduction?
Jacinta knew as soon as Paul McAlpine opened his front door that she shouldn't stay. Gerard had warned her not to fall for Paul, his cousin, during her visit to Waitapu, New Zealand. But she already had-ten months ago! She'd kept her distance then, determined not to give...