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Being Muslim
A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color
For Sylvia Chan-Malik, Muslim womanhood is constructed through everyday and embodied acts of resistance, what she calls affective insurgency. In negotiating the histories...
Biopolitics
An Advanced Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational decision-making...
Anxious Parents
A History of Modern Childrearing in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a dramatic shift in the role of children in American society and families. No longer necessary for labor, children became economic liabilities and twentieth-century parents exhibited a new level of anxiety concerning the welfare of their children and their...
The Disarticulate
Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language is integral to our
social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?
The mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and other
neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial
intelligences, have all engaged with language...
Critical Trauma Studies
Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology,...
Crip Theory
Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as “normal” or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to...
Out in the Country
Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section
Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative...
Relocations
Queer Suburban Imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia’s little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as “Lesser...
The Color of Kink
Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies
How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Starting in the early 1990s, journalists and scholars began responding to and trying to take account of new technologies and their impact on our lives. By the end of the decade, the full-fledged study of cyberculture had arrived. Today, there exists a large body of critical work on the subject, with...
Babysitter
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2009
On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together—without the kids. But “getting a sitter”—especially a dependable one—rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with “that girl”? It’s a question that discomfited parents have been asking ever since the emergence...
The Burdens of Aspiration
Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
During the tech boom, Silicon Valley became one of the most concentrated zones of wealth polarization and social inequality in the United States—a place with a fast-disappearing middle class, persistent pockets of poverty, and striking gaps in educational and occupational achievement along class...
Latino Spin
Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award in Latino Studies from the Latin American Studies Association
Illegal immigrant, tax burden, job stealer. Patriot, family oriented, hard worker, model consumer. Ever since Latinos became the largest minority in the U.S. they have been caught between these...
Border Politics
Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. “Borders”—defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries—have become increasingly salient...