Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
This Year's Model
Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Over the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and desirable. They are a fixture in tabloids,...
Love and Money
Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Love and Money argues that we can’t understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, left and queer, recognition and redistribution, Love and Money offers supple approaches to capturing...
Struggling for Ordinary
Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
An in-depth look at the role of media in the struggle for transgender inclusion
From television shows like Orange is the New Black and Transparent, to the real-life struggles of Caitlyn Jenner splashed across the headlines, transgender visibility is on the rise. But what was it like to live...
Scheherazade's Children
Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Time
A Vocabulary of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural...
by Juana María Rodríguez
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is...
Queer Latinidad
Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
According to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture suggest a Latin Explosion at center stage, yet the topic of queer identity in relation to Latino/a America remains under...
The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum
Critical and Ethnographic Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work spans the interdisciplinary fields of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies. Editor Angie Chabram-Dernersesian provides an overview of current debates, locating Chicana/o cultural criticism at the intersections...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth century
Written by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English...
Single
Arguments for the Uncoupled
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
What single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist outside of the couple is to assume an antisocial position that is ruthlessly discouraged because being in a couple is the way most people bind themselves to the social. Singles might just be the...
Hooking Up
Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Listen to her NPR Interview
The Sociology of "Hooking Up": Author Interview on Inside Higher Ed
Newsweek: Campus Sexperts
Hookup culture creates unfamiliar environment - to parents, at least
Hooking Up: What Educators Need to Know - An op-ed on CHE by the author
It...
Kids Gone Wild
From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The myths and truths of teen's sexual behavior.
Winner of the 2015 Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
To hear mainstream media sources tell it, the sex
lives of modern teenagers outpace even the smuttiest of cable television shows.
Teen...
Fugitive Science
Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book
Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association
Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism.
Traversing the archives...
Extravagant Abjection
Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Theorizing...