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  • Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Thinking

    by Lori Marso, Patricia Moynagh, Emily Zakin, Sonia Kruks, Karen Shelby, Mary Caputi ...
    By exploring the life and work of the influential feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir, this book shows how each of us lives within political and social structures that we can--and must--play a part in transforming. It argues that Beauvoir’s careful examination of her own existence can also be understood as a dynamic method for political thinking.As the contributors illustrate, Beauvoir's political ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity

    The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women

    by Lori Jo Marso ...
    Examining the lives and work of feminist thinkers throughout history, this book explores their struggles with politics, intellectual work, and material and existential conditions of femininity. A new introduction to this second edition resituates these themes in contemporary feminist literature and theory.Feminist autobiographical accounts exploring multiple lives and loves, encounters with ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Feminism and the Cinema of Experience

    by Lori Jo Marso ...
    From popular films like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) to Chantal Akerman’s avant-garde classic Jeanne Dielman (1975), feminist cinema can provoke discomfort. Ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe—these and other affects refuse the resolution of feeling good or bad, leaving viewers questioning and disoriented. In Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, Lori Jo Marso examines how filmmakers scramble our ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Politics with Beauvoir

    Freedom in the Encounter

    by Lori Jo Marso ...
    In Politics with Beauvoir Lori Jo Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is best apprehended through Marso's notion of the encounter. Starting with Beauvoir's political encounters with several of her key contemporaries including Hannah Arendt, Robert Brasillach, Richard Wright, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Politics, Theory, and Film

    Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier

    Edited by Bonnie Honig, Lori J. Marso ...
    Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed -- our best democratic aspirations. The essays in this volume attend to von Trier's role as ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Resistance

    Stories from World War II France

    by Édith Thomas ...
    Translated by Michelle Chilcoat ...
    Series Book 34 - Texts and Translations
    Based on real events of the French Resistance during World War II, Édith Thomas's stories explore how ordinary people respond to the extraordinary conditions of political occupation. The stories, first published under the title Contes d'Auxois (Auxois Stories) by an underground press in 1943, were written to oppose Vichy-Nazi propaganda and to offer encouragement to civilians who felt resigned to ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • W Stands for Women

    How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender

    by Karen Zivi, R. Claire Snyder ...
    Taking seriously the “W Stands for Women” rhetoric of the 2004 Bush–Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how “W” stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist ends; his use of feminist rhetoric is deeply and problematically connected to a conservative gender ideology. While it is not surprising that ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

    Edited by Lori Marso ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one hundred and two thinkers collected in these pages, as each author is a feminist thinker ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • On the Inconvenience of Other People

    by Lauren Berlant ...
    Series series Writing Matters!
    In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, ... Read more

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  • In a Queer Time and Place

    Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

    by Judith Halberstam ...
    Series Book 3 - Sexual Cultures
    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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  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner ...
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