Transgender and the Literary Imagination. Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing, Paperback - Rachel Carroll

Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the...

Reducere. Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist tho...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brent Hayes EdwardsIn 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "Epistrophy, " one of the best-known compositions o...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 36Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Associate Pr...

Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence.

This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in tha...

Reducere. Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet's life, id...

DescriptionA fascinating look at the lives of women who bore the heat of day in Christian mission, but who were often forgotten by history until now.

Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all t...

DescriptionThis volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context ...

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

Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Ru...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology ...

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-cen...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, ponder...

In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" b...

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Reducere. "A necessity for every African American who has ever lived in Dade County, or South Florida for that matter."--Garth Reeves, publisher emeritus, Mi...

Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who live...

Reducere. Transitions of the Heart is the first collection to ever invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children of all ages to tell their own st...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

DescriptionConcerns about rights in the United States have a long history, but the articulation of global human rights in the twentieth century was...

Reducere. From Robert Falcon Scott's final journal entry to Jon Krakauer's reckless solo climb of the Devil's Thumb, David Roberts and the editors of Outside...

Reducere. Christ and Apollo juxtaposes Christian definiteness to romantic mythologizing. A strong warning might be in order: anyone coming to this book expec...

Reducere. In this book, his first to appear in English, French sinologist Fran ois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi--meaning disposition or circumstan...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. By exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism, as well as art and poetry, The Long Shadow is stunningly broad in...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

Reducere. Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind ...

DescriptionAfter the Enlightenment is the first attempt at understanding modern political realism as a historical phenomenon. Realism is not an ete...

A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

Reducere. DescriptionMuch has been written about the forced removal of thousands of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s. Many of them died ...

Reducere. Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as true of scientific em...

English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...

This book examines the issues faced by the transgender community within policing, explores how gender is perceived within police cultures and provi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andreas (Leuphana Universitat Luneburg) BroeckmannIllustration(s): 74 b&w illus., 16 color plates; 90 Illustrati...

Reducere. DescriptionLearn to write a novel in 30 minutes Do you dream of writing a novel, but not sure where to start? Have you been working on a book for a...

Reducere. Much of history is written by the same organizations that, from behind the scenes, cause history. And often, the reason for this to hide their immo...

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-si cle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" ...