Duke University Press: 2463 books
by Michèle Aina Barale, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays...
Disciplining Feminism
From Social Activism to Academic Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
How was academic feminism formed by the very institutions it originally set out to transform? This is the question Ellen Messer-Davidow seeks to answer in Disciplining Feminism. Launched thirty years ago as a bold venture to cut across disciplines and bridge the gap between scholarly knowledge and...
Written in Stone
Public Monuments in Changing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1998
Is it “Stalinist” for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Indeed, can a liberal,...
Written in Stone
Public Monuments in Changing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword
From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over...
Second Chances
Surviving AIDS in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live...
Medicine in the Meantime
The Work of Care in Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of medical services. At once temporary and unfolding over decades, these projects also enact deeply divergent understandings...
Like Cattle and Horses
Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was...
Working Difference
Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2003
Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of...
Queen for a Day
Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela...
Wandering Paysanos
State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
A pioneering examination of the experiences of peasants and peons, or paysanos, in the Buenos Aires province during Juan Manuel de Rosas’s regime (1829–1852), Wandering Paysanos is one of the first studies to consider Argentina’s history from a subalternist perspective. The distinguished Argentine...
Into the Archive
Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trained to cast other people’s words in official forms and make them legally true. Thus the first thing Columbus did on American shores in October 1492 was...
Cochabamba, 1550-1900
Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1998
Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American Studies
This study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns...
Ambassadors of the Working Class
Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
In 1946 Juan Perón launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attachés at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country...
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and...