The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University, Paperback - David Bleich

Reducere. David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materialit...

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' p...

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A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials sh...

Explores several classic works of social and political thought, examining how the history of their publication materially affected their meaning an...

This Element aims to explore how the relation between societal organisation and legal orders - the question of materiality - has been investigated ...

This title examines a way of analysing the significance of both 'cultural' and 'natural' stone in prehistoric European landscapes. The author's app...

DescriptionThe Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mu...

Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality....

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Dr. Andy HinesNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 19Cover type: ...

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Address...

Reducere. Winner of the 2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology Finalist for the 2013 C...

Any observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. In th...

In this extraordinary study, D. A. Spellberg examines the life of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Muhammad's most beloved and controversial wife, and a cent...

The fifth edition of Gender and Elections offers a multi-faceted account of how gender shapes the electoral process through the 2020 elections. Cha...

This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and h...

Women and ETA is the first book-length study of women in radical Basque nationalism. It uses a unique body of oral history interviews to examine th...

This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in east...

Reducere. The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fish...

This book seeks to understand how gender as a practice is generated by television narratives in the overlapping of text, reception and production, ...

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

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DescriptionOne of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 110 color platesNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 180 x 232 x 25Cove...

Reducere. A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutiona...

Situating the Maasai in the larger political, economic, and social context of Kenya and world events, this book shows how broader forces have had a...

How do political actors in the Pacific islands region make sense of the success (or failure) of parliamentary gender quota campaigns? To answer the...

In 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not since slavery had so many U.S. residents held so few poli...

Reducere. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...

It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of tra...

DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, st...

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

The groundbreaking examination of the construction of sexual identity -- now updated to reflect the latest research.Why do some people prefer heter...

Reducere. This new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates the major developments in language study whic...

The Diabetes LIFEMAP transforms the old model of physician centered care to personalized patient focused, data-driven diabetes care for the 21st ce...

About the AuthorReem Bassiouney is professor of linguistics at the American University in Cairo. Her books include Language and Identity in Modern ...

Supermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that American...

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Papers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More, " held at the University of Chicago in November 2015.

Providing the first UK assessment of environmental gerontology, this book enriches current understanding of the spatiality of ageing. It contextual...

Assembling Unity traces the history of pan-Indigenous unity in British Columbia through political negotiations, gendered activism, and the balance ...

DescriptionEven the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ail...

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

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