Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
Wallowing in Sex
The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat’s Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Commercial television...
Bound and Gagged
Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1998
In a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn perpetuates misogyny and sex crimes. First published in 1996, Bound and Gagged opens with the chilling case of Daniel DePew, a man convicted—in the first computer bulletin board...
Listening in Detail
Performances of Cuban Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic examination or market...
Intimate Distance
Andean Music in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
What does it mean to play "someone else’s music"? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional...
Tuning Out Blackness
Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from the late 1940s to the...
Cuba Represent!
Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
In Cuba something curious has happened over the past fifteen years. The government has allowed vocal criticism of its policies to be expressed within the arts. Filmmakers, rappers, and visual and performance artists have addressed sensitive issues including bureaucracy, racial and gender discrimination,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much detail....
Touching Feeling
Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick...
Chocolate and Corn Flour
History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority of the town's residents, however,...
Barrio Libre
Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The city of Nogales straddles the border running between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican side, marginalized youths calling themselves Barrio Libre (Free 'Hood) employ violence, theft, and bribery to survive, often preying on undocumented migrants who navigate the city's sewer system to...
I'm Neither Here nor There
Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s...
by Andrew Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
In The Theorist's Mother one of our subtlest literary theorists turns his attention to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical male critical theorists. Noting how the mother is made to disappear both as the object of theory and as its subject, Andrew Parker focuses primarily on...
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around...
Troubling Freedom
Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made...