Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Deviant Women
Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate...
Culture, Health and Sexuality
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health. What was once a set of specialist concerns has been steadily mainstreamed. Alongside this, a broader interest has developed in ‘social’ and 'cultural’ factors relating to sexuality...
by Aby M. Warburg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929) is recognized not only as one of the century’s preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg’s 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available in...
Making Multicultural Families in Europe
Gender and Intergenerational Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This edited collection explores family relations in two types of 'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork and large surveys, the contributors analyse gender and intergenerational relations from a variety of standpoints and migratory...
The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move
Identities on the Island and in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican....
Downwardly Global
Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Downwardly Global Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto. Despite being trained professionals in fields including engineering, law, medicine, and education, they experience high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rather than addressing this downward...
All About Love
New Visions
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The acclaimed first volume in bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation"
“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative...
by Joseph C. Heinen, Susan Barton Heinen
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
By 1900, one in four Chicagoans was either German born or had a German-born parent. No other ethnic group's thumbprint has been larger in helping establish Chicago as a major economic and cultural center nor has any group's influence been more erased by the passage and vicissitudes of time. Lost German...
Planning and Place in the City
Mapping Place Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city’s uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. A key task for planners and residents, working together, is to preserve that...
Mediating Faiths
Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, anthropology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community development...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural productions which participate in modernity and...
by Ella Shohat, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices brings together for the first time a selection of trailblazing essays by Ella Shohat, an internationally renowned theorist of postcolonial and cultural studies of Iraqi-Jewish background. Written over the past two decades, these twelve essays—some classic, some less...
Reel Vulnerability
Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cultural imagination? What can they tell us about the female body in action or in pain? Reel Vulnerability explores the way American popular culture thinks...