The Calendar of Loss – Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS

Reducere. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. Loss within Loss is a moving collaboration by some of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Prof Ryan (Northwestern University, USA) DohoneyIllustration(s): 23 imagesNumber of pages: 232Public...

DescriptionIn Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in earl...

The benefits of the digital age are huge. Our lives have been transformed, both in the developed and the undeveloped world. However, this transform...

Reducere. In this thoughtful and highly readable book, No l Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts soci...

Reducere. If sexology--the science of sex--came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make m...

For centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity. Through ...

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other c...

Reducere. When asked how one might find a way into Christianity, the Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast advised, "Meditate the sacred year." In the ...

If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reve...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Natali ValdezIllustration(s): 4 b-w illustrations, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 284Collection: Crit...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking study, Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to ...

Reducere. In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--d...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

Why is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book...

Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of ra...

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Publisher: Kestrel Railway BooksAuthor(s): David LarkinIllustration(s): illNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 272 x 215 x 7Cover ...

The devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous he...

52 colour sketches by Koenig inspired by the weekly Calendar of the Soul verses.

"A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature"--

A compelling, heart-rending and uplifting memoir about one couple's love story through the AIDS epidemic.

In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial ...

Reducere. Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhoo...

Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality is the fourth of five volumes by William Loader exploring attitudes toward sexuality in Judaism an...

Reducere. How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the Euro...

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Reducere. A workbook of drawing and painting exercises to accompany the calendar of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner.

Reducere. If your mom is dead, is she still your mom? At twenty-five--nearly two decades after losing her mother to breast cancer as a little girl--an accide...

She discusses early-twentieth century women whose musical lives were shaped by Ireland's struggles to become a nation; follows the career of Julia ...

Reducere. A provocative call to dislodge ethnic nationalism from Irish traditional music Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines et...

'A remarkable journalistic achievement.' Time Out'Powerful . Including interviews with key figures in the fight against the virus as well as those ...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Victorian Era, then keep reading...When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Brit...