Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (Horn Maja)(Paperback)

Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (Horn Maja)(Paperback)

'Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature.'--Ignacio L pez-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo'The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship but also to

The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico (Lipsett-Rivera Sonya)(Paperback)

With limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype associating Mexican men with machismo 'defined as excessive virility that is accompanied by bravado and explosions of violence. While scholars studying men (TM)s

I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal: Stories of a Birmingham Boy (Hill Charlie)(Paperback)

A vision of drinking, drugs, culture, sex, politics and masculinity in the Midlands in the 1980s and 1990s. I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal tells the story of its author, Charlie Hill, living in the Midlands in the 1980s and 1990s. In a series of vignettes, I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal

Introducing Gender and Women's Studies (Richardson Diane)(Paperback)

At a time where, after decades of progress in gender and sexual rights, people in many parts of the world are facing new forms of resistance and opposition to gender equality, this timely publication confirms the continuing importance and relevance of gender and women's studies. The fifth edition

Weaving the Threads of Dominican Spirituality (Collective Cabra)(Paperback)

We are in a period celebrating the rst convent of Dominican women and founding of the Dominican friars. Weaving the Threads of Dominican Spirituality is a book that brings together biographies and writings of a number of Dominican women and men over this 800+ year period along with short statements

Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life (Strathern Marilyn)(Paperback)

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written

Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (Barker Joanne)(Paperback)

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty,

Amateur - A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity (McBee Thomas Page)(Paperback / softback)

An exploration of modern masculinity by the first transgender man to box at Madison Square Garden, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford

Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (Pascoe C. J.)(Paperback)

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning

Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan (Khoja-Moolji Shenila)(Paperback)

Sovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila

Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book (Poletti Anna)(Paperback)

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how do we tell our own story? How do we 'get a life,' make sense of who we are and the way we live,

Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War (Farzaneh Mateo Mohammad)(Paperback)

Eighteen months after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country's women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) in a variety of capacities. Iran was divided into women of conservative religious backgrounds who supported the revolution and accepted some of the

Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing (Sexton Jared)(Paperback)

This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. Bush's 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama's 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It argues that

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Hill Collins Patricia)(Paperback)

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist

Digital Politics in Canada: Promises and Realities (Small Tamara)(Paperback)

Digital Politics in Canada addresses a significant gap in the scholarly literature on both media in Canada and Canadian political science. Using a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, historical, and focused analysis of Canadian digital politics, this book covers the full scope of actors in the

The Promise of Politics (Arendt Hannah)(Paperback)

In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action. The concluding section of

Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants (Andrews Abigail Leslie)(Paperback)

In 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not since slavery had so many U.S. residents held so few political rights. Many strove tirelessly to belong. Others turned to their homelands for hope. What explains their clashing strategies of inclusion? And how

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

Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices (Beauchamp Toby)(Paperback)

In Going Stealth Toby Beauchamp demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to state surveillance practices that identify threats based on racial, gender, national, and ableist categories of difference. Positioning surveillance as central to our understanding of transgender

None of Us Is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition (Frankland Emma)(Paperback)

Eugene Onegin (Pushkin Alexander)(Paperback)

Still the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first publication--now in a marvelous new translation Pushkin's incomparable poem has at its center a young Russian dandy much like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits. Eugene Onegin, bored with the triviality of everyday life, takes a

Blackheath (Baron Adam)(Paperback)

Holding a mirror up to contemporary gender politics and exposing the flaws and failures of so-called equal parenting, Adam Baron's Blackheath is a moving and sharply comic tale of life-after-children, revealing the awful truth at the heart of modern family life: love is not enough. Amelia has

Gender and the Politics of History (Scott Joan Wallach)(Paperback)

This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women's history, arguing that political and social

Women and ETA: The Gender Politics of Radical Basque Nationalism (Hamilton Carrie)(Paperback)

At a time when conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere are highlighting women's roles as armed activists and combatants, Women and ETA offers the first book-length study of women's participation in Spain's oldest armed movement. Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews,