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  • Lake Superior Profiles

    People on the Big Lake

    by John Gagnon ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    Introduces readers to ordinary, offbeat, and interesting people living on and around Lake Superior.Like Lake Superior itself, the communities of people surrounding the "Big Lake" are vast and full of variety, spanning state and international boundaries. In Lake Superior Profiles: People on the Big Lake, author John Gagnon gives readers a sense of the memorable characters who inhabit the area ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Media Culture in Transnational Asia

    Convergences and Divergences

    by Hyesu Park, Maya Dodd, Rea Amit, Shubhda Arora, Juhi Jotwani, Dorothy Wai Sim Lau, W. Michelle Wang, John Gagnon, Hiroki Yamamoto, Asantha U. Attanayake0, Sabiha Huq1, Darlene Machell Espena2, Alireza Dehghan3, Hamid Abdollahyan4, Hoornaz Keshavarzian5 ...
    Series series Global Media and Race
    Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world’s population resides. The book addresses media use and practices by looking at the transnational exchanges of ideas, narratives, images, techniques, and values and how they influence media consumption and production throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Sexuality in the Arab World

    Edited by Samir Khalaf, John Gagnon ...
    Arab cultural discourse has been slow to respond to changing sexual behaviour. The contributors to this collection pick up the slack, ranging across such disciplines as literature, history, sociology and psychology. Is Damascus the 'chastity capital' of the Middle East, where perceptions of wealth and class fuel female rivalries? How do gay men cruise in Beirut? How do young women in Tunis cope ... Read more

    $30.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conceiving Sexuality

    Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World

    Edited by Richard G. Parker, John H. Gagnon ...
    First Published in 1995. After widespread neglect over many years, the study of human sexuality has recently come to the forefront of many of the most important debates in contemporary society and culture. The continued development of feminist theory, the emergence of gay and lesbian studies, and the impact of the international AIDS pandemic have combined to focus new attention on the ways in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Beyond the Veil

    Male-female Dynamics in Muslim Society

    by Fatema Mernissi ...
    Series Book 0 - Saqi Essentials S.
    Does Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi argues that women's oppression is not due to Islam because this religion celebrates women's power. Women's oppression, she maintains, is due to political manipulation of religion by power-seeking, archaic Muslim male elites. Mernissi explains that early ... Read more

    $14.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction To Childhood Studies

    by Naomi Holford, Mary Jane Kehily ...
    This book brings together key themes in Childhood Studies to provide an accessible yet scholarly introduction for students and practitioners. ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Vulnerability in Resistance

    Edited by Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabsay ...
    Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Female Homosexuality in the Middle East

    Histories and Representations

    by Samar Habib ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality.Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and she traces the destruction of Medieval discourses on female homosexuality and the replacement ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Dancing Fear and Desire

    Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance

    by Stavros Stavrou Karayanni ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance—an investigation that extends to contemporary belly ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Childhood Studies

    Making Young Subjects

    by Karen Wells ...
    Series series Short Introductions
    What does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a key site where children come to understand themselves as particular kinds of people, not only as individuals but also as members of social and cultural groups. This compelling and accessible book explores how immature humans enter into political, economic, social and ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Muslim Diaspora

    Gender, Culture and Identity

    Edited by Haideh Moghissi ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country.The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. They show how religious identity in diaspora is mediated by ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Death of a Discipline

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative ... Read more

    $23.79 USD