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Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway by Arthur Kroker 9780816679164
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98As exemplary representatives of a form of critical feminism, the writings of Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway offer entry into the great crises of contemporary society, politics,... -
Feminism Meets Queer Theory by Naomi Schor
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26". . . innovative and important thinking about the various relations between feminist theory, queer theory, and lesbian theory, as well as the possibility that liberation can be mutual rather than... -
Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, and Culture by Nancy Fraser 9780253206824
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26" . . . Fraser and Bartky have brought the encounter between U.S. and French feminism to a new level of seriousness." -EthicsIn the last decade, elements of French feminist discourse have permeated... -
![Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law by Robert C. Post 9780822327028 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9909130/10925661/9780822327028__71773.1786475871.jpg?c=1 "Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law by Robert C. Post 9780822327028 [USED COPY]")
Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law by Robert C. Post 9780822327028 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $39.38In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but... -
Hegemony and socialist strategy: Towards a radical democratic politics by Ernesto Laclau
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.85In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social... -
Contemporary Photography and Theory: Concepts and Debates Sally Miller 9781350003316
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $39.92Contemporary Photography and Theory offers an essential overview of some of the key critical debates in fine art photography today. Building on a foundational understanding of photography, it offers... -
Love Upon the Chopping Board Maree Claire 9781875559824
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $11.82Marou and Claire met at a bar in Tokyo. Separated by seventeen years in age, by their cultural origins and by the requirements of visas, they have managed to maintain their relationship through these... -
A Decolonial Feminism Francoise Verges 9780745341125
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** 'A vibrant and compelling framework for feminism in our times' - Judith Butler For too long feminism has been co-opted by the forces they seek to... -
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.65"The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new. . . . I believe this work will... -
Abject Visions: Powers of Horror in Art and Visual Culture Rina Arya 9780719096297
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18This major new volume brings together leading international scholars to debate the continuing importance and relevance of the concept of abjection for the interpretation of modern and contemporary... -
Heaven by Emerson Whitney 9781739220785
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Emerson Whitney writes, "Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess." What follows is that mess-electrifying, gorgeous, defiant. At Heaven's center, Whitney seeks to understand his... -
Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by Eva Ries 9783111530925
RRP: $24.79Booksplease Price: $18.25Even though the literary trope of the flaneur has been proclaimed 'dead' on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how... -
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $39.29The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of... -
State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious by Isabelle Lorey 9781781685969
Booksplease Price: $20.70Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality,... -
Woman's Estate Juliet Mitchell 9781804299586
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist liberation movement, with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, Women's Estate is one of the most influential socialist feminist... -
The Feminine Subject Susan J. Hekman ( University of Texas at Arlington) 9780745687841
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of... -
On Breathing Jamieson Webster 9781913512651
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A beautiful, expansive essay about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From... -
Sexual/Liberation by Michael Cronin 9781782055235
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $10.73Sexual/Liberation addresses the paradoxes of sexual freedom in contemporary neoliberal Ireland. It invites readers to imagine a revolutionary form of sexual liberation beyond the present objective of... -
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the... -
Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference by Lynne Huffer 9780804730259 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. More specifically, the... -
Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference by Lynne Huffer 9780804730266
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.44This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. More specifically, the... -
Rethinking Rape by Ann J. Cahill
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $36.31Rape, claims Ann J. Cahill, affects not only those women who are raped, but all women who experience their bodies as rapable and adjust their actions and self-images accordingly. Rethinking Rape... -
Book of Wills Reem Ghanayem 9781836750000
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'To write a will under siege is not surrender - it's defiance. It says: I existed. I felt. I belonged. I am not yours to erase.' - Reem Ghanayem In Book of Wills, eighteen Gazan writers share... -
Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection by Nadine Ehlers 9780253223364
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects? She analyzes anti-miscegenation law,... -
Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living by Anne Dufourmantelle
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.01Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because... -
On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Professor Louis Althusser
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.26Louis Althusser's renowned short text "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of... -
Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Nancy Fraser
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $24.54"Recognition" has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to "redistribution" remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two... -
Dread: Facing Futureless Futures David Theo Goldberg (University of California, Irvine) 9781509544455
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.96A pervasive sense has taken hold that any and all of us are under suspicion and surveillance, walking on a tightrope, a step away from erasure of rights or security. Nothing new for many... -
![The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism by Guinn Batten 9780822322054 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9907313/10923844/9780822322054__10925.1786474416.jpg?c=1 "The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism by Guinn Batten 9780822322054 [USED COPY]")
The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism by Guinn Batten 9780822322054 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $26.53Studies of the English Romantic poets generally portray them either as transcending the workings of capitalism or as working in complicity with an entrepreneurial economy. In The Orphaned... -
![Deconstruction Is/In America: A New Sense of the Political by Anselm Haverkamp 9780814735183 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10298679/11314905/9780814735183__78082.1790320410.jpg?c=1 "Deconstruction Is/In America: A New Sense of the Political by Anselm Haverkamp 9780814735183 [USED COPY]")
Deconstruction Is/In America: A New Sense of the Political by Anselm Haverkamp 9780814735183 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52What impact has deconstruction had on the way we read American culture? And how is American culture itself peculiarly deconstructive? To address these questions, this volume brings together some of... -
Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt's Political Thought by Adriana Cavarero 9781503628137
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31What does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today? In this provocative new work, Adriana Cavarero weighs in on contemporary debates about the relationship between democracy,... -
50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books by Tom Butler Butler Bowdon
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient... -
Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia by Gila Ashtor
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $31.10Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award 2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita,... -
The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader by Emily Hipchen 9781032067827
RRP: $52.25Booksplease Price: $49.77The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader presents a central source of scholarly approaches arranged around fundamental questions about how adoption, as a complex practice of family-making, is... -
Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions by Michael D. Snediker
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.44Michael Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms... -
![Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia by Esther Sanchez-Pardo 9780822330097 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5965273/6042308/9780822330097__73412.1729565293.jpg?c=1 "Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia by Esther Sanchez-Pardo 9780822330097 [USED COPY]")
Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia by Esther Sanchez-Pardo 9780822330097 [USED COPY]
RRP: $144.72Booksplease Price: $1.59Cultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a... -
The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire by Greg Thomas
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power is a political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. Greg Thomas interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and... -
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflictsIn these newly collected essays,... -
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert 9781324022084
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.75Forty years after their first ground breaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of... -
Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile by Jane Blocker
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.31Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian...