The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Michel Foucult offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mec...

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

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis o...

Series for theatre enthusiasts covering the hottest topics in theatre and performance in an easy-to-understand manner. Topics covered include how t...

"Comprehensive, reader-friendly, richly detailed, forthright, subtle, and very clear, Controlling Desires is the only handbook on ancient sexuality...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Annamarie JagoseThe political and academic appropriation of the term queer over the last several years has marked a shift i...

The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the...

DescriptionThis is the first book to provide an introduction to contemporary cultural approaches to the study of religion. This book makes sophisti...

Reducere. In this introductory textbook, some of the most widely respected scholars in the field introduce students to the methods, issues, and theoretical f...

Reducere. The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Reducere. In the autumn of 1912, C. G. Jung, then president of the International Psychoanalytic Association, set out his critique and reformulation of the th...

Reducere. DescriptionEngaging and accessible to students from all backgrounds, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the Old Testament. It is designed...

DescriptionWomen's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women-past and present. Tr...

Reducere. Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of h...

Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse, " Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Mich...

Reducere. Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, at...

In All's Well That Ends Well, Helen, a lowly ward, risks her life to satisfy her boundless love for Bertram, a count and ward to the King of France...

Reducere. The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history. Judith Butler, author of i...

Elegy and iambus are major forms of Greek literature which are crucial to understanding the Archaic and early Classical periods in particular. This...

Reducere. Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and s...

Reducere. The third volume of Parade's End-one of the outstanding works about World War I and British society before, during, and after that cataclysm-this n...

Reducere. In My Butch Career Esther Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while...