Duke University Press: 2463 books
Nihil Obstat
Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Nihil Obstat—Latin for "nothing stands in the way"—examines the interplay between religion and politics in East-Central Europe and Russia. While focusing on the postcommunist, late twentieth century, Sabrina P. Ramet discusses developments as far back as the eleventh century to explain...
by Jack Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground...
Queer Activism in India
A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and...
Children of Ezekiel
Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1998
Are Milton’s Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” missile defense program, our culture’s fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan’s views on racial Armageddon somehow linked? In Children of Ezekiel Michael Lieb reveals the connections between these phenomena...
The Bastille
A History of a Symbol of Despotism and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 1997
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution,...
In the Shadows of the State
Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created...
The New History in an Old Museum
Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1997
The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the packaging of American history, and consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs. Through...
Steel Chair to the Head
The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
The antagonists—oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine...
by Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and...
by Erica Rand
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
She’s skinny, white, and blond. She’s Barbie—an icon of femininity to generations of American girls. She’s also multiethnic and straight—or so says Mattel, Barbie’s manufacturer. But, as Barbie’s Queer Accessories demonstrates, many girls do things with Barbie never seen in any commercial....
Impossible Desires
Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and...
Cultures in Contact
World Migrations in the Second Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. In this magnum opus...
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers—mostly women—protested that their workplaces were filled with...
Fixin to Git
One Fan’s Love Affair with NASCAR’s Winston Cup
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
In the past twenty years, big-time stock-car racing has become America’s fastest growing spectator sport. Winston Cup races draw larger audiences—at the tracks and on television—than any other sport, and drivers like Dale Jarrett, Jeff Gordon, and Mark Martin have become cultural icons whose...