Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Thai Sex Talk
The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi-leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, sexual behaviors, sexual identities, and attitudes to sexuality. The authors of this in-depth study of twenty-one keywords deal directly and unflinchingly with the language of sex in Thailand in...
Profane Culture
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures—the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies...
Sylvia Wynter
On Being Human as Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations of humanness. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune moment to revisit the accumulated writing about the diasporas formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe the ways in which the South Asian...
Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage
Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated...
The Public Image of the Immigrant in Italy
An Inquiry into Public Opinion of Immigrant Involvement in Crime and Immigrant Policy Related Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The original empirical research studies contained in this book represent a series of social science inquiries aimed at measuring public opinion of immigrant involvement in crime as well as opinions on certain aspects of immigrant policies in Italy. Each of the three original research empirical studies...
Transnational Identities
Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Translated originally from Hebrew, Transnational Identities: Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel offers a critical discussion of women immigrants in Israel through an analysis of works by artists who immigrated to the country beginning in the 1990s. Though numerous aspects of the issue...
Impossible Purities
Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction of “Englishness” as white, masculine, and pure and “Americanness” as black, feminine, and impure. Brody’s readings of Victorian novels, plays, paintings, and...
The Culturalization of Caste in India
Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the system...
by Mohammad Qadeer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan’s socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, which is crucial to understanding Pakistan’s likely future direction.
Pakistan examines how...
Lifestyle Media in American Culture
Gender, Class, and the Politics of Ordinariness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book explores the emergence of "lifestyle" in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure of everyday life, and later as a pervasive form of media that encompasses a variety of domestic and self-improvement genres, from newspaper columns...
by Simon Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book is a sociological study of a societal grouping that has the popular title ’middle class’. It argues that it is more precise to describe the middle classes as dominant groupings, and the book draws upon a wide range of characters from such groupings. In a detailed analysis of cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The continual growth in the significance of mass-mediated communication makes it essential that we are able to reflect upon and critically appreciate the semiotic processes that are involved in their impact upon social and cultural life. This edited collection showcases a range of diverse approaches...
Gendered Tropes in War Photography
Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Photographic stills of women, appearing in both press coverage and relief campaigns, have long been central to the documentation of war and civil conflict. Images of non-Western women, in particular, regularly function as symbols of the misery and hopelessness of the oppressed. Featured on the front...