Intimate Politics

Reducere. DescriptionDangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national an...

Reducere. Rare and Commonplace Flowers--a Brazilian bestseller--tells the story of two women. Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, sou...

Reducere. In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Ch vez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics o...

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examinin...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offered trenchant insights into the sexual behav...

At odds with the common image of Jeremy Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his ...

From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the author paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in real time, with the ch...

As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the presidency to George W. Bush recedes in time, its real meaning comes into focu...

Reducere. This delightful 1974 classic is replete with new images, updates on favorite artists, and a thoughtful afterword by the author that reflects on wha...

Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Sod...

Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse ...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

Reducere. In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black i...

Art in Time is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative...

Reducere. In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among...

DescriptionClose presents 120 portraits of the world's most famous and influential people across the arts and entertainment industries, politics, b...

DescriptionDelusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier is the first in-depth study of state power and social st...

Addressing diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+), this collection explores how being older intersects with ethnicity, gen...

Reducere. Settler societies habitually frame Indigenous people as 'a people of the past'--their culture somehow 'frozen' in time, their identities tied to st...