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The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture
ISBN: 9780822330233 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Something happened in the 1990s, something dramatic and irreversible. A group of people long considered a moral menace and an issue previously deemed unmentionable in public discourse were transformed into a matter of human rights, discussed in every institution of American society. Marriage, the military, parenting, media and the arts, hate violence, electoral politics, public school curricula, human genetics, religion: Name the issue, and the the role of gays and lesbians was a subject of debate. During the 1990s, the world seemed finally to turn and take notice of the gay people in its...
Something happened in the 1990s, something dramatic and irreversible. A group of people long considered a moral menace and an issue previously deemed ...
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113,40 zł |
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Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
ISBN: 9780822332862 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, "Insult and the Making of the Gay Self "is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now and as it has been expressed in literary history and in the life and work of Foucault, Eribon argues that gay male politics, social life, and culture are transformative responses to an...
A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, "Insult and the Making of the Gay Self "is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay q...
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510,55 zł |
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No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
ISBN: 9780822333593 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of reproductive futurism. Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. He boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the...
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of th...
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428,03 zł |
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Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
ISBN: 9780822333715 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, "Insult and the Making of the Gay Self "is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now and as it has been expressed in literary history and in the life and work of Foucault, Eribon argues that gay male politics, social life, and culture are transformative responses to an...
A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, "Insult and the Making of the Gay Self "is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay q...
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134,03 zł |
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Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
ISBN: 9780822335139 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings...
By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding ...
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113,40 zł |
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Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
ISBN: 9780822336181 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies visible as a developing field of study in the United States. Bringing together essays by established and emergent scholars, this collection assesses the strengths and weaknesses of prior work on race and sexuality and highlights the theoretical and political issues at stake in the nascent field of black queer studies. Including work by scholars based in...
While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities,...
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123,72 zł |
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Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780822336631 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Performance in America" demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific performances mounted between 1994 and 2004, well-known performance studies scholar David RomAn challenges the belief that theatre, dance, and live music are marginal art forms in the United States. He describes the crucial role that the performing arts play in local, regional, and national communities, emphasizing the power of live performance, particularly its immediacy and capacity to create a dialogue between artists and audiences. RomAn draws...
"Performance in America" demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific perfor...
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123,72 zł |
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Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780822336754 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Performance in America" demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific performances mounted between 1994 and 2004, well-known performance studies scholar David RomAn challenges the belief that theatre, dance, and live music are marginal art forms in the United States. He describes the crucial role that the performing arts play in local, regional, and national communities, emphasizing the power of live performance, particularly its immediacy and capacity to create a dialogue between artists and audiences. RomAn draws...
"Performance in America" demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific perfor...
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458,98 zł |
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Queer/Early/Modern
ISBN: 9780822336907 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Queer/Early/Modern," Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. Freccero takes issue with New Historicist accounts of sexual identity that claim to respect historical proprieties and to derive identity categories from the past. She urges us to see how the indeterminacies of subjectivity found in literary texts challenge identitarian constructions and she encourages...
In "Queer/Early/Modern," Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queer...
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103,09 zł |
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Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer"
ISBN: 9780822337836 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between black queer subjects and debasement as portrayed within popular culture texts and films.
The relationship between black queer subjects and debasement as portrayed within popular culture texts and films.
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438,35 zł |
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Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where black Meets queer
ISBN: 9780822337966 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in "Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame," has often been a meeting place for the signs "black" and "queer" and for black and queer people--overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame been "embraced" by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of sorrow and ways of creative historical knowing? How and why is it central to camp?
Stockton engages the domains of African American studies, queer theory,... Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in "Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame," has often been a meeting place for the signs "black" and "queer" and for b...
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113,40 zł |
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Mainstreaming Gender in Development
ISBN: 9780855985516 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of articles critically assesses the degree to which gender inequality has been addressed in the work of development organizations. Contributors scrutinize the efforts of governments and NGOs, at the national and international levels, in order to assess the difference that gender mainstreaming has made to advancing women's interests in development. In addition, they consider the progress that development organizations have made in ensuring women's fullest participation at all levels of their own organizations.
Contributions to this volume include case studies from... This collection of articles critically assesses the degree to which gender inequality has been addressed in the work of development organizations. Con...
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114,44 zł |
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Origins of Sexuality and Homosexuality
ISBN: 9780866562713 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This well-documented book highlights some of the theories of bisexual and homosexual identities and their conceptual bases in cultural history, moral philosophy, biology, and social psychology. Some of the most respected minds in the field of human sexuality challenge traditional views on homosexuality and question the moral principles implicit in many existing psychiatric and psychological theories.
This well-documented book highlights some of the theories of bisexual and homosexual identities and their conceptual bases in cultural history, moral ...
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696,20 zł |
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The Many Faces of Homosexuality : Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior
ISBN: 9780866564205 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book examines the diverse manifestations of homosexuality in various historical periods and non-Western cultures. The distinguished authors examine Kimam male ritualized homosexual behavior, Mexican homosexual interaction in public contexts, male homosexuality and spirit possession in Brazil, and much more.
This groundbreaking book examines the diverse manifestations of homosexuality in various historical periods and non-Western cultures. The distinguishe...
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113,40 zł |
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When Husbands Come Out of the Closet
ISBN: 9780866568685 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The discovery that one s husband is gay or bisexual is a surprise for which most women are totally unprepared. With no guidelines and few professionals able to provide adequate help, both partners, but especially the wives, are apt to feel enormous isolation and confusion. When Husbands Come Out of the Closet, based on the results of a landmark study and years of clinical experience, is a poignant and compassionate look at the conflicting emotions experienced by women who learn of their husbands'homosexuality. Focusing on the wives'perspectives, author Jean Schaar Gochros offers support,...
The discovery that one s husband is gay or bisexual is a surprise for which most women are totally unprepared. With no guidelines and few professional...
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541,50 zł |
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Growing Up Gay in the South: Race, Gender, and Journeys of the Spirit
ISBN: 9780866569118 / Angielski / Twarda / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking new book weaves personal portraits of lesbian and gay Southerners with interdisciplinary commentary about the impact of culture, race, and gender on the development of sexual identity. Growing Up Gay in the South is an important book that focuses on the distinct features of Southern life. It will enrich your understanding of the unique pressures faced by gay men and lesbians in this region--the pervasiveness of fundamental religious beliefs; the acceptance of racial, gender, and class community boundaries; the importance of family name and family honor; the unbending view...
This groundbreaking new book weaves personal portraits of lesbian and gay Southerners with interdisciplinary commentary about the impact of culture, r...
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293,91 zł |
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21st Century Gay
ISBN: 9780871319494 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Areas discussed are: Gay separatism vs. Gay mainstreaming; Coming out; AIDS; Marriage; Adoption; Religion; Politics; Pop culture and media; and, most importantly, what the future holds.
Areas discussed are: Gay separatism vs. Gay mainstreaming; Coming out; AIDS; Marriage; Adoption; Religion; Politics; Pop culture and media; and, most ...
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65,09 zł |
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Gay Relationships for Men and Women: How to Find Them, How to Improve Them, How to Make Them Last
ISBN: 9780874775662 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gay Relationships is a comprehensive guide to creating healthy, loving relationships for gay men and lesbian women. Tina Tessina, Ph.D., provides unique insight into the special issues faced by same-sex couples and offers practical and sensitive advice that all gay men and women will find valuable, whether they are looking for a partner, are currently in the throes of a relationship, or are hurting from the end of a relationship and wondering how to make the next one better.
For same-sex couples who have always had to mentally revise heterosexually oriented relationship material,... Gay Relationships is a comprehensive guide to creating healthy, loving relationships for gay men and lesbian women. Tina Tessina, Ph.D., provid...
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105,84 zł |
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Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step
ISBN: 9780874779660 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these times of dramatic social change, when the highly charged issue of homosexuality is undeniably causing controversy in many arenas--religion, marriage, politics, education, the military--Christian de la Huerta, founder and director of Q-Spirit, offers a fresh outlook on gay spirituality and how to assert it.A spiritual awakening is occurring in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community, as in much of the world. In this encompassing guidebook, de la Huerta looks at Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism, New Thought, New Age, and...
In these times of dramatic social change, when the highly charged issue of homosexuality is undeniably causing controversy in many arenas--religion, m...
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105,84 zł |
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The Right to Privacy: Gays, Lesbians, and the Constitution
ISBN: 9780877229520 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Computational chemistry has become extremely important in in academic and industrial research. However, there have been few books designed to teach the subject to non-specialists.
Computational chemistry has become extremely important in in academic and industrial research. However, there have been few books designed to teach th...
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144,34 zł |
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