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The Daily Planet is a long-awaited selection of Patricia Aufderheide's most important critical essays, updated and organized thematically to demonstrate the breadth of her thinking on media and film, public telecommunications policy, and contemporary...

"Made in America" examines self-made men and women from a multicultural perspective. This text discusses the emergence of self-starters in relation to the changing consumer markets of the 20th century, and locates the new breed of entrepreneurs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816630097Author Beatriz SarloFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

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Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast, heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space and the...

Exploring different conceptions of virility - as well as the reproductive fantasies they produce - in a selection of Italian political manifestos and political writings, this study exposes the relation between fascist rhetoric and ideology.Book...

The first book-length analysis of the language used by gay men.Do gay men communicate with each other differently than they do with straight people? If they do, how is "gay men's English" different from "straight English"? In Word's Out, William Leap...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780844735528Author Robert ConquestFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint AEI PressPublisher AEI PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786138775607Author Erik Yama TienneFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint TurbspublishingPublisher TurbspublishingWeight(grams) 141g

The first book to focus on the connections between sexuality, activism, and documentary film.From film festivals to university campuses, from private homes to first-run theaters, people everywhere are viewing and discussing gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual,...

Explores Italian national identity.More than any other nation, Italy-from its imperial past to its subordinate present, from its colonial forays to its splendid isolation-embodies the myriad and contradictory historical forms of nationhood. This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816625390Author Kristin KoptiuchFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts that fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of "sisterhood" and the recovery of "lost" voices. Writing about her work with women...

A readable analysis of postmodernity that provides a cultural context for its rise.Though the term "postmodern" looms large on our cultural landscape, rarely do we find a systematic and impartial discussion of the circumstances of its ascendance...

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This title dramatically examines dependency on self-strangulation for sexual arousal.Book InformationISBN 9780879756642Author John MoneyFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus Books

This interdisciplinary work demonstrates, by steadfast attention to corporeal matters of fact, how the concept of power and of power relations is rooted in bodily life, in animate form. It first shows how Foucault's "optics of power" is Sartre's "The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLeon Litwack is the Morrison Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. The author of North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free State,...

This remarkable study sheds new light on American Indian mission, reservation, and boarding school experiences by examining the implementation of English-language instruction and its effects on Native students. A federally mandated system of English-only...

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This book provides evolutionary and institutional perspectives on the reform of infrastructure industries, tracing the development of this process in a number of sectors and countries. The contributors contend that infrastructure based industries such as...

Governments, Competition and Utility Regulation continues the series of annual books, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically reviews the state of utility regulation and competition...

The classic work on collective memory and popular culture in the United States.Probes the complicated relationship between postwar America between historical memory and commercial culture-popular television, music, and film.About the AuthorGeorge Lipsitz...

Interprets space and place in the medieval era.Interprets space and place in the medieval era. A glance at medieval maps tells us that cartographers of the Middle Ages divided space differently than we do today. In the great mappae mundi, for instance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816634750Author Sheila Radford-HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

In "Consumers and Citizens, " N(r)stor Garc a Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the...

The first examination of Mae West's meaning in American popular culture.Before Madonna, before Marilyn, there was Mae. The impact of Mae West-through her films, attitude, and aphorisms ("Too much of a good thing can be wonderful"; "Is that a gun in your...

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The goal of this diverse and intriguing volu me is to shape a space of common discourse between Jews and others who share a critical apporach to the politics of cult ure and the cultural politics of difference. 'Book InformationISBN 9780816627516Author...

Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891. This study investigates the influence he had on American popular culture of the 19th century and looks at how he continues to have an influence today. Beginning with a discussion of Barnum's early shows,...

Situated at the intersection of current debates regarding meaning and representation, this text casts doubt on the seeming innocence of the activity of communication. Using poststructuralist literary theory and philosophy, Chang argues that modern...

The book aims to illustrate that what is distinctive about any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. Behind the embattled arena of culture in India, for example, lie particular social and...

A provocative investigation into the social and cultural implications of the Internet by a leading cultural critic.As the Internet has become more and more a part of our daily lives, responses to its impact on culture and society have tended toward the...

The contributors to this volume aim to refute the notion that racism is basically a set of irrational prejudices. Using scientific theory, philosophical reasoning and concepts of morality they examine the nature of racism conceptually and historically to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592215751Author William MinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 773g

Enacted in almost every industrial country a century ago, protective legislation directed toward women provoked bitter controversy, pitting men against women, women against women, and elected officials against political parties. Strong conflicts arose...

Eunuchism was a subject which both intrigued and embarrassed the ancient world. The special virtue attributed to the castrated male at court, of undistracted loyalty to his ruler, aided the promotion of numerous eunuchs to positions of great power. A...

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Sex in the field-the dilemma of whether to cover up or display sexual identities and desires during the course of anthropological fieldwork-is one of the best-kept secrets in the discipline. Contending that the conventional pose of a genderless, asexual,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854891075Author Willie ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Rivers Oram PressPublisher Rivers Oram Press