Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface, Paperback - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

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The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including ps...

Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone...

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Examines men's relationships with one another in English literature and the ways those relationships affect women. Central to this study is Sedgwic...

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Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Leslie J. ReaganIllustration(s): 6 illustrations, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date:...

This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularl...

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A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory-the situations w...

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In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over...

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This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empi...

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