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Orgasmology
Duke University Press Books |
December 24, 2012 |
274 pages
For all its vaunted attention to sexuality, queer theory has had relatively little to say about sex, the material and psychic practices through which erotic gratification is sought. In Orgasmology, Annamarie Jagose takes orgasm as her queer scholarly object. From simultaneous to fake orgasms, from... More Info
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Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
Duke University Press Books |
October 12, 2012 |
193 pages
DIVAt once a memoir, a call to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and an argument for queer solidarity across borders, this book tells the story of how novelist and activist Sarah Schulman's became aware of how issues of the Israeli occupation of Palestine were tied to her own... More Info
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Insurgent Encounters
Duke University Press Books |
April 12, 2013 |
464 pages
DIVInsurgent Encounters illuminates the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, including those advocating for women and indigenous groups, environmental justice, and alternative—cooperative rather than exploitative—forms of globalization. The contributors are politically... More Info
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Buy It Now
Duke University Press Books |
July 10, 2012 |
317 pages
In Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, rule systems, and advertisements "configure the user," allowing... More Info
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Beyond Shangri-La
Duke University Press Books |
November 19, 2012 |
355 pages
Beyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives. What was initially a distant alliance became more intimate and entangled in the late 1950s, when the Tibetan people launched an armed resistance... More Info
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Ethics of Liberation
Duke University Press Books |
February 8, 2013 |
715 pages
DIVAvailable in English for the first time, a masterwork by Enrique Dussel, one of the world's foremost philosophers, and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop./div
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Food, Farms, and Solidarity
Duke University Press Books |
January 28, 2013 |
352 pages
The Confédération Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the group's... More Info
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New Queer Cinema
Duke University Press Books |
March 26, 2013 |
352 pages
DIVB. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage... More Info
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Mad Men, Mad World
Duke University Press Books |
March 11, 2013 |
432 pages
DIVSince the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking... More Info
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Arts of the Political
Duke University Press Books |
March 22, 2013 |
253 pages
DIVIn the West, "the Left," understood as a loose conglomeration of interests centered around the goal of a fairer and more equal society, still struggles to make its voice heard and its influence felt, even amid an overwhelming global recession. In Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left,... More Info
What's Left of the Left
Duke University Press Books |
August 3, 2011 |
424 pages
Assesses the record of American and European social democratic governance, and the response of the center-left, providing both analysis and policy suggestions.
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The Erotic Life of Racism
Duke University Press Books |
April 13, 2012 |
168 pages
In this critique of the fields of feminist theory, queer theory, and critical race theory, Sharon Holland describes how, despite decades of theoretical and political work focused on race, we are continually affected by everyday experiences of racism and attached to old patterns of racist thought.
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Drugs for Life
Duke University Press Books |
September 3, 2012 |
262 pages
Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of... More Info
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Feminism Without Borders
Duke University Press Books |
February 28, 2003 |
310 pages
DIVBringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory... More Info
Punishing the Poor
Duke University Press Books |
May 1, 2009 |
408 pages
DIVThe punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader... More Info
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Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America
Duke University Press Books |
December 30, 2002 |
432 pages
DIVRanging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America is a collection of pioneering studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann brings together essays by well-known U.S. Latin Americanists and newly... More Info
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Depression
Duke University Press Books |
November 5, 2012 |
299 pages
DIVIn Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and... More Info
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The Feeling of Kinship
Duke University Press Books |
April 9, 2010 |
226 pages
DIVIn The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of “queer liberalism”—the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection... More Info
The Body Multiple
Duke University Press Books |
December 27, 2002 |
210 pages
DIVThe Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction... More Info
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Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity
Duke University Press Books |
January 28, 2010 |
338 pages
This issue shows how a conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of Native American studies and queer studies can generate more complex and nuanced understandings of the U.S. nation-state, of Native peoplehood, and of the roles culture plays in processes of political expression and... More Info
Strange Affinities
Duke University Press Books |
August 3, 2011 |
380 pages
Collection of essays that use queer studies and feminism as a lens for examining the relationships between racialized communities.
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Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures
Duke University Press Books |
August 24, 2011 |
272 pages
This volume examines how child abuse and youth violence are understood, manufactured, represented, but still disavowed, in contemporary everyday life and culture in Japan and the United States.
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The Guatemala Reader
Duke University Press Books |
October 27, 2011 |
648 pages
An interdisciplinary anthology on the largest, most populous nation in Central America, covering Guatemalan history, culture, literature and politics and containing many primary sources not previously published in English.
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Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll
Duke University Press Books |
August 10, 2011 |
306 pages
An edited collection of interviews with rock and roll pioneers and oddballs from Roctober magazine.
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Freedom with Violence
Duke University Press Books |
October 3, 2011 |
318 pages
Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.
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The dictator's seduction
Duke University Press Books |
June 26, 2009 |
410 pages
An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship (1930-1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republic's capital, Santo Domingo.
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Lost in Transition
Duke University Press Books |
August 17, 2011 |
232 pages
Short ethnographic essays and stories that document the social, political, and economic changes in everyday life in postsocialist Eastern Europe.
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The assassination of Theo Van Gogh
Duke University Press Books |
August 7, 2008 |
219 pages
Explores the motives, mass media attention and narrative interpretation of the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
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Economies of Abandonment
Duke University Press Books |
November 10, 2011 |
232 pages
Critical analysis of the imaginary and practical relationship of subjects to the unequal distribution of life, death, and harm in late liberalism.
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The agrarian dispute
Duke University Press Books |
August 22, 2008 |
387 pages
Focuses on U.S.-Mexican relations in postrevolutionary Mexico, placing Cardenas's agrarian reform--including the nationalization of American-owned Mexican farmland--in an international context.
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Itineraries in conflict
Duke University Press Books |
August 5, 2008 |
219 pages
An anthropological study of the relationship of tourism to Israeli identities, politics, and nation-making.
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Havana Beyond the Ruins
Duke University Press Books |
July 20, 2011 |
344 pages
Looks at portrayals of Havana in literature, music, and the visual arts in the post-Soviet era, as the city is reinvented as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.
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Migrants and Migration in Modern North America
Duke University Press Books |
September 5, 2011 |
456 pages
This collection of twenty essays provides an integrated view of migration in North America--within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States--during the past two centuries.
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The Red Riviera
Duke University Press Books |
October 12, 2005 |
226 pages
A study of the changes in women’s roles in postcommunist Bulgarian society and the workplace, focusing on the tourism industry.
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A Different Light
Duke University Press Books |
December 20, 2011 |
376 pages
A full-length study of the contemporary Brazilian photographer, focusing on the socio-political content of his work.
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Words of Protest, Words of Freedom
Duke University Press Books |
February 6, 2012 |
344 pages
Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedomis the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American Civil Rights struggle of 19551975.
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Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy
Duke University Press Books |
July 15, 2011 |
408 pages
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on democracy in Venezuelan civil society. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of ordinary Venezuelans, examining the participatory forms of democracy that have emerged in communal... More Info
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Global Icons
Duke University Press Books |
August 3, 2011 |
400 pages
Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.
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Territories of difference
Duke University Press Books |
November 5, 2008 |
435 pages
Through analysis of the Colombian Pacific's geography, peoples, and environment, Escobar questions the place assigned to epistemology, politics and the economy in modernity, arguing that hierarchical privilege can be subverted via activists' entanglement
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Queer phenomenology
Duke University Press Books |
November 13, 2006 |
223 pages
Theoretical study of the spatialization of sexuality through a consideration of how the "orientation" of bodies within a social space informs concepts of sexual desire.
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The will to improve
Duke University Press Books |
April 25, 2007 |
374 pages
Theoretical and anthropological study of how techniques of governance have been devised in the colonial and postcolonial context of Indonesia and their effect on current debates over economic development in the region.
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Deviations
Duke University Press Books |
December 13, 2011 |
500 pages
A definitive collection of Rubin’s essays of feminist and queer theory.
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On violence
Duke University Press Books |
November 15, 2007 |
578 pages
An interdisciplinary collection of primary texts on the subject of violence, from Freud to Gramsci to Foucault, from Ghandi to Osama bin Laden. The editors' introductions frame the texts within questions of how violence is generated and perpetuated in so
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Sex and Disability
Duke University Press Books |
January 3, 2012 |
408 pages
A collection of essays on how disability challenges conceptions of normal sexuality.
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When Biometrics Fail
Duke University Press Books |
November 17, 2011 |
232 pages
Examines the development and uses of biometric technologies--such as digital fingerprinting and facial recognition software--to show how the human body plays a central role in the organization of modern forms of state power.
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Contested histories in public space
Duke University Press Books |
May 25, 2013 |
365 pages
Historians, anthropologists, and other scholars explore the public presentation of contested historical narratives in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world.
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Inherent vice
Duke University Press Books |
May 7, 2009 |
320 pages
This eye-opening exploration of the aesthetic and legal innovations of home video revisits four decades of frequently overlooked histories of video recording.
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