Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Restoried Selves
Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists presents the first-person accounts of 20 activists-life stories that work against common stereotypes, shattering misconceptions and dispelling misinformation. These autobiographies challenge familial and cultural expectations...
Black Queer Studies
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies visible as a developing field of study in the United States....
On the Margins of Tibet
Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile present conflicting views on almost every aspect of...
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh
From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactions,...
Gates of Freedom
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
"The question of souls is old; we demand our bodies, now." These words are not from a feminist manifesto of the late twentieth century, but from a fiery speech given a hundred years earlier by Voltairine de Cleyre, a leading anarchist and radical thinker. A contemporary of Emma Goldman---who...
The Drag Queen Anthology
The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance!
The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative...
Love Imagined
A Mixed Race Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Love Imagined is an American woman's unique struggle for identity.
"Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories, Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined. ... Quan Lee crafts a riveting tale of Minnesota...
From Orientalism to Postcolonialism
Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism.
The contributors...
Undocumented in L.A.
An Immigrant's story
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Her story is similar to those of the thousands of illegal immigrants who cross the border into America every day in search of political or economic refuge. In 1988, a woman in her late thirties named Yamileth obtains a passport, leaves her home, and makes a daring, dangerous trip from war-torn Nicaragua...
by Jennifer Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context. Jennifer Lawn proposes that...
Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies
Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is 'fun' has often been relegated...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Readers of this one-volume reference will gain useful knowledge of what travelers should and shouldn't do when in countries outside of the United States. After a general introduction, approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries cover topics such as greeting and meeting, appearance and dress,...
Grassroots Social Security in Asia
Mutual Aid, Microinsurance and Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia and in particular the region's developing countries. Historically, these associations have consisted of small groups of people with common interests who save...
Migrant Workers in Asia
Distant Divides, Intimate Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia. These studies range from Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, to Yemen, Israel, Jordan, and the UAE. Conceptually and methodologically, this book challenges us...