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Utopias and the Environment by Geoffrey Berry 9781138294851
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Utopias and the Environment explores the way in which the kind of 'dreaming', or re-visioning, known as the 'utopian imaginary' takes environmental concerns into account. This kind of creative... -
Feminism's Queer Temporalities Sam McBean 9781138485006
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Despite feminism's uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this... -
Feminist Review: Issue 42: Feminist Fictions by The Feminist Review Collective
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This theme issue is an exploration of the way in which feminist ideas appear in popular forms, especially feminist novelists, such as Angela Carter and Marge Piercy, have handled particular issues;... -
Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska - Bilingual Edition by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.81Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska... -
Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination by Tom Moylan 9783034307529
RRP: £42.65Booksplease Price: £38.74Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R... -
Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics by Joshua Bulleid 9783031383465
Booksplease Price: £111.45Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian literature have had a real-world impact on the... -
Rape And Society: Readings On The Problem Of Sexual Assault Patricia Searles 9780813388243
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18In the 1970s rape became the point of departure for an ongoing feminist examination of the subordination and sexual victimization of women. More recently, domestic violence, prostitution, sexual... -
Celebrating the Jewish Year, 3-volume set by Paul Steinberg 9780827609020
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £47.74This set includes all three volumes in the Celebrating the Jewish Year series, for less than the cost of buying each book separately! Included in the set: The Fall Holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom... -
The American Voice Anthology of Poetry by Frederick Smock
Booksplease Price: £29.65The American Voice looks to find the vital edge of modern American writing. The journal, whose contributors come from the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, often publishes work by writers denied... -
The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels by Edward K. Chan 9783034319164
RRP: £51.65Booksplease Price: £46.49Race and utopia have been fundamental features of US American culture since the origins of the country. However, racial ideology has often contradicted the ideals of social and political equality in... -
Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction Dr Rob Kitchin 9780826479204
Booksplease Price: £43.25Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space... -
Dying Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Global Resistance by Francis Robert Shor
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictions at home. Contextualizing that hegemony,... -
Quilt Stories by Cecilia Macheski 9780813108216
Booksplease Price: £18.62More than thirty stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts--written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women--document women's literary history. Featuring the work of... -
Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry by Martin Lammon 9780472066346
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14For twenty years, the Poets on Poetry series, under the editorship of Donald Hall, has provided readers with a variety of prose reflections, interviews, essays, and other works by America's leading... -
Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies by Catherine Rainwater
Booksplease Price: £34.70Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative... -
Feminist Utopias by Frances Bartkowski 9780803212053
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90The utopias envisioned by Edward Bellamy and other novelists late in the nineteenth century were generally blueprints of government. As satellites of men, women were expected to share in the general... -
Science Fiction and Narrative Form by Professor David Roberts 9781350350748
Booksplease Price: £91.39Locating science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as presented in the conventional... -
Understanding Margaret Atwood by Donna M. Bickford 9781643364476
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood's most recent novels and enduring themes.In 2017, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale introduced the acclaimed and... -
Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man by Michael Pitts 9781793636621
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £26.99Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man traces efforts within American feminist utopias to imagine healthier conceptions of manhood. As this analysis illuminates,... -
Understanding Margaret Atwood by Donna M. Bickford 9781643364469
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £73.60A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood's most recent novels and enduring themes.In 2017, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale introduced the acclaimed and... -
Embracing Space: Spatial Metaphors in Feminist Discourse by Kerstin Westerlund Shands 9780313297281
Booksplease Price: £61.63While there is a predominant celebration of mobility and instability metaphors in contemporary feminist discourse, concepts of home, rest or dwelling are frequently left unproblematized and perceived... -
Becoming and Bonding: Contemporary Feminism and Popular Fiction by American Women Writers by Katherine B. Payant 9780313285745
Booksplease Price: £76.11Expounding the view that the feminist movement has both encouraged and enriched literature by women, Katherine Payant examines a large body of popular fiction of the late 1960s through the early... -
Environments in Science Fiction: Essays on Alternative Spaces Susan M. Bernardo 9780786475797
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared... -
Negotiating Identities in Women's Lives: English Postcolonial and Contemporary British Novels by Christine Wick Sizemore 9780313321634
Booksplease Price: £76.51Women face different psychological issues at different ages. But these issues and the experience of confronting them depend on cultural contexts. Literary works represent these psychological and... -
The Polyphony of Utopia: Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler by Raffaella Baccolini 9781803740553
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45«Through detailed, elegant interpretations of utopian novels produced in the United States and the Soviet Union, Pavla Veselá casts aside standard commonplaces about East / West cultural divergences... -
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect by Heather Houser 9780231165143
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature... -
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect by Heather Houser 9780231165150
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature... -
Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers by Lori Marso
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key... -
Scraps Of The Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia by Thomas Moylan
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the... -
Best Contemporary Jewish Writing by Michael Lerner 9780787959364
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.22Jewish culture, identity, and spirituality through the eyes of the brightest and best authors Best Contemporary Jewish Writing is a treasure trove of short stories, poetry, and essays from such... -
Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking by Arlene Voski Avakian 9781845203269
Booksplease Price: £36.44These days any woman knows that the sensual pleasures of food and cooking are all too often obscured by the increasing demands of careers, families, battles over body image, and the desire for a life... -
The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing by Nicholas Delbanco 9780472069262
Booksplease Price: £28.33"Permit me to say that I have won Hopwoods and also lost them, and I know the power that winning gives and the way the soul shakes when, all ears, you hear silence instead of your name."-Arthur... -
Biblical Women in the Midrash: A SourceBook by Naomi Mara Hyman 9781568219509
Booksplease Price: £75.81There is a rapidly growing body of literature addressing women and Jewish tradition, much of which seeks to supplement Jewish texts such as the Talmud and midrash where female voices are generally... -
The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing by Nicholas Delbanco 9780472099269
Booksplease Price: £66.12"Permit me to say that I have won Hopwoods and also lost them, and I know the power that winning gives and the way the soul shakes when, all ears, you hear silence instead of your name."-Arthur... -
Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction: The Armageddon of the Maternal Instinct by Judith Wilt 9780226901589
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.80In recent years, public debate has raged over the issue of maternal choice. While personal testimony and political argument have received widespread attention, artistic representations of birth and... -
Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction by Magali Cornier Michael 9780791430163
Booksplease Price: £26.07Michael analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction. While much has been written on various aspects of... -
Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture Catherine Belsey (University of Wales College of Cardiff) 9780631168140
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.12In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction - including poetry, drama and film - is paradoxically... -
What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump by Martin Espada 9780810140776
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump-about much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election,... -
Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays: Passover, Shavuot, The Omer, Tisha B'Av by Paul Steinberg
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.202009 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Jewish Family Literature JPS's holiday books take us through the joys, spirit, and meaning of the seasons. As we move from season to season, Paul Steinberg... -
Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination by S. Lilian Kremer 9780803278004
Booksplease Price: £28.26Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's artistic representations of female Holocaust experiences, as given voice by Cynthia Ozick, Ilona Karmel, Elzbieta...