A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (Nguyen Tan Hoang)(Paperback)

A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (Nguyen Tan Hoang)(Paperback)

A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural

From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity (White Miles)(Paperback)

This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms

The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Silverman Kaja)(Paperback)

' . . . a vitally new understanding that takes us from the terms of the representation of sexual difference to an anatomy of female subjectivity which will be widely influential.' --Stephen Heath'An original work likely to have significant impact on all those with an interest in the vibrant

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People (Zia Helen)(Paperback)

The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial groupThis groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity (Gregory Georgina)(Paperback)

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture. Offering the first extended look at pop masculinity as

The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Mohyuddin Faisal)(Paperback)

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Moving through past, present and future, this is a family history that journeys between America, Pakistan, modern Europe and even into space. Faisal Mohyuddin delves into the past of his parents and their neighbours in Pakistan and India in a self-consciously

The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (Fickle Tara)(Paperback)

How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pok mon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of

The Garden of Evening Mists (Eng Tan Twan)(Paperback)

Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, an elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory (The Independent) from the critically acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain.Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed

The View from the Ground (Gellhorn Martha)(Paperback)

First published in 1959, but now offered in a revised and expanded edition, The View from the Ground presents over six decades of Gellhorn's ruminations on political, civil, and social issues and crises, from a lynching in the American South in the 1930s through a recent visit to Cuba to see what

Catholic Sexual Morality (Fastiggi Robert)(Paperback)

Many people today believe that the traditional Catholic view of sex is antiquated, unrealistic, and potentially harmful. In Catholic Sexual Morality, Dr. Robert Fastiggi asks whether the permissive sexual attitude of today's culture is really contributing to deeper love, better relationships, and

Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment (Hirshman Linda)(Paperback)

The first history--incisive, witty, fascinating--of the fight against sexual harassment, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Sisters in LawLinda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the

Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self (Drnyei Zoltn)(Paperback)

With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 motivation research that involves the reframing of motivation in the context of contemporary notions of

The Gift of Rain (Eng Tan Twan)(Paperback)

The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island

Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation (Baker Steve)(Paperback)

From Mickey Mouse to the teddy bear, from the Republican elephant to the use of 'jackass' as an all-purpose insult, images of animals play a central role in politics, entertainment, and social interactions. In this penetrating look at how Western culture pictures the beast, Steve Baker examines how

The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (Mulla Sameena)(Paperback)

Winner, 2017 Margaret Mead Award presented by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2015 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize presented by the Society for Medical Anthropology Analyzes the ways in which nurses work to collect and preserve

Peerless (Park Jiehae)(Paperback)

Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D, a one-sixteenth Native American classmate, gets 'their' spot instead, they figure they've got only one option: kill him. A darkly comedic take on Shakespeare's Macbeth about the very ambitious and the

Ascender Volume 2: The Dead Sea (Lemire Jeff)(Paperback)

The hit fantasy series from powerhouse creative team JEFF LEMIRE and DUSTIN NGUYEN continues! After a bruising escape attempt from the planet Sampson, Andy finds himself in the clutches of the militia, which means the murderous Mother can't be far behind. Meanwhile, Mila has booked passage on a

European Perspectives on Taiwan (Damm Jens)(Paperback)

The initiative and leadership for this edited volume came from the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) based in Brussels. The book discusses questions related to the different European perspectives on Taiwan in various fields, asking, in particular: How has the European Union dealt with the

The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History (Rees Emma L. E.)(Paperback)

From South Park to Kathy Acker, from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. In The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, Emma L.E. Rees investigates the evolution of this demonization: she considers how writers, artists and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of

South-East Asian Plays (Mellor Aubrey)(Paperback)

Eight Plays from Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia. Selected and Edited by Cheryl Robson and Aubrey Mellor. Playwrights: Jean Tay, Floy Quintos, Tew Bunnag, Ann Lee, Nguyễn Đăng Chương, Joned Suryatmoko, Alfian Sa'at, Chhon Sina. A collection of

Blackout Girl: Tracing My Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault; With New and Updated Content for the #Metoo Era (Storm Jennifer)(Paperback)

Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing (Gierach John)(Paperback)

From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life's greatest mysteries: sex, death, and fly-fishing. John Gierach's quest takes us from his quiet home water (an ordinary, run-of-the-mill trout stream where

Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis (Schaverien Joy)(Paperback)

How do gender and sexual difference influence the erotic transference?Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference offers new insights into working with complex transference and countertransference phenomena. Including views from a wide spectrum of theoretical backgrounds, it makes a

The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma (Epstein Helen)(Paperback)

This intrepid memoir tracks sexual abuse in the life of a veteran American journalist. It also describes the long and successful psychotherapy the author undertook to heal. The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma 'invents its own genre,' wrote Sherry Turkle. 'The author suspects sexual abuse in her