Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Kulick Don)(Paperback)

Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Kulick Don)(Paperback)

In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles,

Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California (Hurtado Albert L.)(Paperback)

This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags--those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States--Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining

Gender and Popular Culture (Milestone Katie)(Paperback)

This fully updated second edition of Gender and Popular Culture examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of cultural forms - including popular music, social media, television and magazines - to illustrate how

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy (Murray Jacqueline)(Paperback)

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject.In this interdisciplinary volume,

Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama (Aughterson Kate)(Paperback)

Shakespeare and Gender guides students and teachers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies

An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing (Preciado Paul B.)(Paperback)

A 'dissident of the gender-sex binary system' reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism.Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (Mac Juno)(Paperback)

How the law harms sex workers--and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to

Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture (Morales Ed)(Paperback)

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics'Latinx' (pronounced 'La-teen-ex') is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States, accounting for 17 percent of the country. Over 58 million Americans belong to the category,

Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry (Scott Suzanne)(Paperback)

Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities When Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some male fans of the original film boycotted the all-female adaptation of the cult classic, turning to Twitter to express their disapproval and making it clear that

Reinvention of Humanity - How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender (King Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Mandolin for Dummies (Julin Don)(Paperback)

Learn how fretting and picking can entertain friends! The mandolin is making a big comeback among music enthusiasts. A longtime staple of bluegrass, folk, jazz, and country music, this fast-pickin' favorite featured heavily in traditional music from around the world is now seeing a resurgence in

Meteorite: Nature and Culture (Golia Maria)(Paperback)

Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civilization. In Meteorite, Maria Golia tells the long history of our engagement with these sky-born space rocks. Arriving amid thunderous blasts and

White Teeth (Smith Zadie)(Paperback / softback)

Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, this book is written with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich

Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (Allison Anne)(Paperback)

In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many 'hostess clubs' pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who

Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Laqueur Thomas)(Paperback)

This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Thomas Laqueur's

The Symposium (Plato)(Paperback)

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and

Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes (Layton Lynne)(Paperback)

Frantz Fanon, Erich Fromm, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marie Langer are among those activists, clinicians, and academics who have called for a social psychoanalysis. For over thirty years, Lynne Layton has heeded this call and produced a body of work that examines unconscious process as it operates both

Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis (Davis Georgiann)(Paperback)

Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological AssociationA personal, compelling perspective on how medical

Becky Shaw (Gionfriddo Gina)(Paperback)

'A tangled tale of love, sex and ethics among a quartet of men and women in their 30s ... as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage from its first moments to its last.' New York Times From the moment that Becky arrives overdressed

Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement (Chen Jian Neo)(Paperback)

In Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities

Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American Oriental (Sueyoshi Amy)(Paperback)

Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered Chinese and Japanese immigrants in particular. Amy

Madness of Crowds - Gender, Race and Identity; THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Murray Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the great derangement of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of

Sex and Secularism (Scott Joan Wallach)(Paperback)

How gender inequality is built into the conception of modern secular nation-states Joan Wallach Scott's acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, she challenges one of the central claims of the 'clash of civilizations' polemic--that

Diversity in Coaching: Working with Gender, Culture, Race and Age (Passmore Jonathan)(Paperback)

Written by an international team of 21 coaching professionals from 10 countries, Diversity in Coaching provides guidance on understanding diversity and on adapting coaching styles and techniques to meet individual needs, local demands and cultural preferences. The contributors, including Mary Wayne