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Virtuous Vice
Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2000
In this daring study of queer life and the public sphere, Eric O. Clarke examines the effects of inclusion within public culture. Departing from studies that emphasize homophobia and its mechanisms of exclusion, Virtuous Vice details how mainstream efforts to represent queers affirmatively continually...
Fragmented Memories
Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Fragmented Memories is a beautifully rendered exploration of how, during the 1990s, socially and economically marginalized people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam sought to produce a past on which to base a distinctive contemporary identity recognized within late-twentieth-century India....
Safe Space
Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be...
Breadwinners and Citizens
Gender in the Making of the French Social Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Laura Levine Frader’s synthesis of labor history and gender history brings to the fore failures in realizing the French social model of equality for all citizens. Challenging previous scholarship, she argues that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years than scholars...
The Last Physician
Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years recovering, primarily in TB sanitoriums. This collection...
Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation
A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880–1955
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation, Sandra McGee Deutsch brings to light the powerful presence and influence of Jewish women in Argentina. The country has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the third largest in the Western Hemisphere as a result of large-scale migration of Jewish...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes —whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means—from...
Art for People's Sake
Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA collective and Black...
The Afterlife of Images
Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of...
by Lynn Meskell, Michael Rowlands, Fred R. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the material....
Sisters in the Life
A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerful contribution to film history. But despite its importance, this work has gone largely unacknowledged by cinema historians and cultural critics. Assembling...
by Tina M. Campt
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually sees and attunes...
by Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rekacewicz, Andreas Huyssen
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2001
Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization...
The Concept in Crisis
Reading Capital Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The publication of Reading Capital—by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière—in 1965 marked a key intervention in Marxist philosophy and critical theory, bringing forth a stunning array of concepts that continue to inspire philosophical reflection...