Kelly Oliver: 27 books
Earth and World
Philosophy After the Apollo Missions
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a politics and ethics that...
Women as Weapons of War
Iraq, Sex, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Ever since Eve tempted Adam with her apple, women have been regarded as a corrupting and destructive force. The very idea that women can be used as interrogation tools, as evidenced in the infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos, plays on age-old fears of women as sexually threatening weapons, and therefore...
VIPER
A Suspense Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Jessica James is back in award winning author Kelly Oliver's latest fast paced thrill ride.
Donors to the new world class Chicago museum of Russian art are dropping like flies, and Jessica is at the center of the carnage. Can she track down the killer before she falls into his trap?
Speaking...
Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down
Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
No longer is pregnancy a repulsive or shameful condition in Hollywood films, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female character. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction...
by Kelly Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless?
In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a...
Animal Lessons
How They Teach Us to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose,...
Hunting Girls
Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Bella Swan (Twilight), Tris Prior (Divergent), and other strong and resourceful characters have decimated the fairytale archetype of the helpless girl waiting to be rescued. Giving as good as they get, these young women access reserves of aggression to liberate...
Womanizing Nietzsche
Philosophy's Relation to the "Feminine"
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
In Womanizing Nietzsche, Kelly Oliver uses an analysis of the position of woman in Nietzsche's texts to open onto the larger question of philosophy's relation to the feminine and the maternal. Offering readings from Nietzsche, Derrida, Irigaray, Kristeva, Freud and Lacan, Oliver builds an innovative...
Family Values
Subjects Between Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Family Values shows how the various contradictions at the heart of Western conceptions of maternity and paternity problematize our relationships with ourselves and with others. Using philosophical texts, psychoanalytic theory, studies in biology and popular culture, Kelly Oliver challenges our traditional...
Subjectivity Without Subjects
From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1998
What do the Promise Keeper's Movement and the Million Man March reveal about our notions of masculinity and paternal responsibility? What can such films as Varda's Vagabond and Bergman's Persona tell us about contemporary notions of masculinity and femininity? In this provocative new book, well-known...
Jessica James Mysteries
Volumes 1-4
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
If Nancy Drew drank Jack Daniels... Meet Jessica James.
Award winning author Kelly Oliver is a master of entertaining adventure in these fast-paced thrill rides.
If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you'll love Jessica.
With more wit than grace, philosophy graduate...
Jessica James Mysteries
Volumes 3-4
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
If Nancy Drew drank Jack Daniels... Meet Jessica James.
If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you'll love these fast paced thrill rides from award winning author Kelly Oliver.
FOX was a finalist for a Silver Falchion Award for best Suspense.
JACKAL is a finalist...
Jessica James Mysteries
Volume 1-3
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
If Nancy Drew drank Jack Daniels... Meet Jessica James.
Award winning author Kelly Oliver is a master of entertaining adventure in these fast-paced thrill rides.
If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you'll love Jessica.
With more wit than grace, philosophy graduate...
Jessica James Mysteries
Volume 2-3
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
If Nancy Drew drank Jack Daniels... Meet Jessica James.
Award winning author Kelly Oliver is a master of entertaining adventure in these fast-paced thrill rides.
If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you'll love Jessica.
With more wit than grace, philosophy graduate...
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