Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity, Paperback - Lisa Duggan

On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Lynn MelnickPoetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. Domestic Abuse. The poems in LANDSCAPE WITH SEX AND VIOLENCE expl...

This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical sociological imagination and ...

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, The Conspiracy of Capital offers a new history of American radicalism and the alliance between the modern b...

Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations, this book demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as ...

Reducere. Every lover has her story, and every town has its secrets.It's 1946 in New Zealand, and Alice Holden has fallen for the woman delivering her milk e...

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Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with...

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Reducere. Despite evidence of warfare and violent conflict in pre-Columbian North America, scholars argue that the scale and scope of Native American violenc...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like th...

DescriptionAhoy, muties - the X-Men sail at dawn Mutantkind has begun a glorious new era on Krakoa, but some nations' human authorities are prevent...

X OF SWORDS may be over, but there are still difficult waters ahead for the Marauders! Double-dealing and backstabbing are the order of the day in ...

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Publisher: Marvel ComicsAuthor(s): Gerry DugganIllustration(s): 176 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Publisher: Marvel ComicsAuthor(s): Gerry DugganIllustration(s): 160 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration o...

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2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section2008 Finalist,...

Publisher: Marvel ComicsAuthor(s): Gerry DugganIllustration(s): 184 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

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The Christmas Story as told by Assellus the Christmas Donkey" appeals to children because it tells the familiar story of the Nativity but with a di...

Publisher: American Oriental SocietyAuthor(s): Michael BonnerNumber of pages: 238Collection: American Oriental SeriesPublication date: 2013Dimensio...

Adam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and literature. Starting with the fr...

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The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap ...

This timely book presents a data-driven approach to preventing and responding to school violence. As school violence receives increasing attention ...

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DescriptionThe full saga of Requiem and the Infinity Wars The Infinity Stones are back. Individually, they grant their wielders great power. Togeth...