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“lida maxwell”

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  • Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love

    by Lida Maxwell ...
    How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politicsAfter the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine. The married couple Dorothy and Stanley Freeman had a cottage nearby, and the trio quickly became friends. Their extensive ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Insurgent Truth

    Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling

    by Lida Maxwell ...
    When Chelsea Manning was arrested in May 2010 for leaking massive amounts of classified Army and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, she was almost immediately profiled by the mainstream press as a troubled person: someone who had experienced harassment due to her sexual orientation and gender non-conformity, and who leaked documents not on behalf of the public good, but out of motives of personal ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Right to Have Rights

    by Stephanie DeGooyer, Alastair Hunt, Samuel Moyn, Astra Taylor, Lida Maxwell ...
    Five leading thinkers on the concept of ‘rights’ in an era of rightlessnessSixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the “inalienable” Rights of Man—before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on—there must first be such a thing as “the right to have rights.” ... Read more

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    Insurgent Truth

    Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth Telling

    by Lida Maxwell ...
    Narrated by Emily Beresford ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    When Chelsea Manning was arrested in May 2010 for leaking massive amounts of classified Army and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, she was almost immediately profiled by the mainstream press as a troubled person: someone who had experienced harassment due to her sexual orientation and gender non-conformity, and who leaked documents not on behalf of the public good, but out of motives of personal ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • How Propaganda Works

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    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

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  • The Promise of Happiness

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    The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” ... Read more

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  • Left Is Not Woke

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  • Pink and Blue

    Telling the Boys from the Girls in America

    by Jo B. Paoletti ...
    "An insightful analysis of the origins, transformations and consequences of gender distinctions in children's dress over the last 125 years." —Daniel Thomas Cook, author of The Commodification of ChildhoodJo B. Paoletti's journey through the history of children's clothing began when she posed the question, "When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in blue?" To uncover the answer, she ... Read more

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  • Mouths of Rain

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    Edited by Briona Simone Jones ...
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  • The Moral Foundations of Politics

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put ... Read more

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  • In a Queer Time and Place

    Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

    by Judith Halberstam ...
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    In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms’especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are ... Read more

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