Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment (Herring Scott)(Paperback)

Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment (Herring Scott)(Paperback)

The contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms of queer commitments and their durational aspect. They consider commitment in all its guises,

Queer Bloomsbury (Helt Brenda S.)(Paperback)

Presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that build upon this foundation to provide ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural

British Queer Cinema(Paperback / softback)

Drawing together a range of essays, this is the history of lesbian, gay and queer representation in British cinema. From the early years of 'Pre-Gay, through the post-war gay liberation, and the 'post-AIDS' queer generations, it provides an historical perspective on queer cinema. It is for students

Queer Theory: An Introduction (Jagose Annamarie)(Paperback)

The essential history of queer theory The reclamation of the term queer over the last several decades marked a shift in the study of sexuality from a focus on supposedly essential categories such as gay and lesbian, to more fluid notions of sexual identity. On the cutting-edge of this significant

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies (Somerville Siobhan B.)(Paperback)

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being

Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/Ing Latin American Writing (Foster David William)(Paperback)

A queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American

Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality (Stanivukovic Goran)(Paperback)

Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer

When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (Kapur Geeta)(Paperback)

A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and Artworks and Film/Narratives,

British queer history: New approaches and perspectives (Lewis Brian)(Paperback)

This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality, and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. In offering a snapshot of the field, this volume

Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment (McGranahan Carole)(Paperback)

In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range of territory, from ethnography, genre, and the politics of writing to affect, storytelling, authorship, and scholarly responsibility. Anthropological

Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (Snediker Michael D.)(Paperback)

Michael Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms of positive affect that queer theory has jettisoned, Snediker insists that optimism must itself be

Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (Boyarin Daniel)(Paperback)

The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith

Catstrawe (Williams Helen May)(Paperback / softback)

Growing from a year-long commitment to write one haiku a day, Catstrawe ranges through family history and female relationships, the stimulation of travel and the inspiration to found in the immediate environment, politics and the world situation, and the experience of living with cancer. This is a

Long Term Systemic Therapy: Individuals, Couples and Families (Vetere Arlene)(Paperback)

Foreword; Shelagh Wright.- Editors' Introduction; Arlene Vetere and Jim Sheehan.- Part One: Long Term Systemic Work with Couples and Families.- Chapter One: Couple and family therapy as meta-therapy - doing relational therapy in the longer-term; Arlene Vetere.- Chapter Two: Couples with Chronic

The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom (Kim Alice)(Paperback)

Powerful, provocative narratives of people surviving the devastating affects of life in long term

Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing (Ivashina Victoria)(Paperback)

How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the world's biggest problems There has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world's most difficult problems, such as climate change, human health, and decaying infrastructure. And it is

Brief Life of Flowers (Stafford Fiona)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of wide-ranging essays on Britain's best-loved flowers from the author of The Long, Long Life of

New Heinemann Maths Yr5, Answer Book(Paperback / softback)

New Heinemann Maths has a flexible short-term, long-term and continuous assessment strategy. The Year 5 Answer Book provides the answers to activities in: NHM Year 5 Textbook NHM Year 5 Extension Textbook NHM Year 5 Assessment Workbook Pupil Sheets Home

Christianity and Culture (Eliot T. S.)(Paperback)

Two long essays: The Idea of a Christian Society on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and Notes towards the Definition of Culture on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western

The Women of David Lynch: A Collection of Essays (Ryan Scott)(Paperback)

David Lynch has been accused for decades of sexism and even misogyny in his work, due largely to frequent depictions of violence against women. Yet others see in Lynch's work the deification of the female, and actresses like Laura Dern and Naomi Watts jump at every opportunity to work with him

The Cure for Psychoanalysis (Phillips Adam)(Paperback)

This book presents a day long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes two brilliant essays that reveal what is at the heart of psychoanalysis - a practice that can enable both analyst and patient to live life more fully. The volume includes questions and commentaries which reflect the creative

Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings (Zetkin Clara)(Paperback)

Essays and speeches from 1889-1933, long unavailable in the US, on women's equality, labor, peace, and

Feel Great Lose Weight - Long term, simple habits for lasting and sustainable weight loss (Chatterjee Dr Rangan)(Paperback / softback)

Value and Crisis: Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan, second edition (Itoh Makoto)(Paperback)

Analyzes Japanese contributions to Marxist theory Marxist economic thought has had a long and distinguished history in Japan, dating back to the First World War. When interest in Marxist theory was virtually nonexistent in the United States, rival schools of thought in Japan emerged, and brilliant