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Transforming Saints: From Spain to New Spain by Charlene Villasenor Black 9780826504708
Booksplease Price: £46.29Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the images of holy females within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish conquest... -
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was... -
Sexed: A History of British Feminism by Susanna Rustin 9781509559114
Booksplease Price: £42.80Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism. Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded... -
Coming From Nothing: A Thought Experiment Novella by Matthew McKeever 9781785356193
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Coming From Nothing is a tragi-comic love story concerned with notions of identity, such as Judith Butler's idea that sexual identity isn't determined by the body, and John Locke's that personal... -
Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-esteem by Bell Hooks 9780743456067
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.82From the late feminist icon and New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem... -
Politics Hacks Julian Flanders 9781788400404
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Understanding the history and significance of today's political climate can be confusing and daunting. Politics Hacks is here to give you quick definitions and background on 100 key political... -
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood 9780691149806
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.00Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those... -
Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds Nat Raha 9780745349404
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.57'Femme' describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Transfeminists take their experiences of desire, belonging and harm to... -
Mythic Frontiers: Remebering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Herritage Tourism by Daniel R. Maher 9780813062532
Booksplease Price: £73.40The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting... -
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin by Seyla Benhabib 9780691167251
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the... -
States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity Wendy Brown 9780691270609
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A landmark work from one of our leading political theoristsA sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury explores how woundedness became a basis for... -
Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network by Caroline Levine 9780691173436
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.99Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context... -
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780691202433
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.51How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male... -
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780691177366
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male... -
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power Lola Olufemi 9780745340067
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.38'I was blown away' - Angela Davis Plastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular slogan for our generation. But feminism isn't... -
Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community by Kenneth T. MacLeish 9780691165707
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers... -
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking... -
Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole by Lucinda Newns
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction responds to the need for a more materialist perspective on migration by reorienting the focus on domesticity and the everyday practices of... -
Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival by Joao Biehl 9780691143859
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £45.05Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of... -
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future George Yancy 9798216371014
Booksplease Price: £17.97A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences TitleFrom Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book."Award-winning author, scholar, and social... -
Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith P. Butler 9780823225040
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one responsive to the need for critical... -
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel by Dov Waxman 9780691181158
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75How Israel is dividing American JewsTrouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American... -
Feminism Meets Queer Theory by Naomi Schor
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12". . . 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... -
Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway by Arthur Kroker 9780816679164
Booksplease Price: £23.53As 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,... -
Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, and Culture by Nancy Fraser 9780253206824
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12" . . . 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... -
Modern Feminist Theory: An Introduction by Jennifer Rich 9781847603418
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44This explication of the major contributions to feminist theory in the late Twentieth Century covers initial articulations of the 'Woman' Problem by Virginia Woolf; and Simone de Beauvoir, Radical... -
Theorizing Gender: An Introduction by Rachel Alsop
Booksplease Price: £19.71This accessible text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. The book discusses the major theories concerned with the ways in which we 'become engendered', and explains and... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies by Mark Rifkin 9781009435611
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.25The book provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. Stretching from early figures (such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Cathy... -
Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics by Nancy Fraser
Booksplease Price: £26.85Historically, leftwing accounts of injustice focused primarily on economic harms, such as poverty, exploitation, and inequality. Recently, however, with the collapse of Communism and the rise of... -
Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law by Robert C. Post 9780822327134
Booksplease Price: £29.97In 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... -
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Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law by Robert C. Post 9780822327028 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £29.39In 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.81In 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: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.79Contemporary 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... -
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.17"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... -
A Decolonial Feminism Francoise Verges 9780745341125
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89***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... -
Love Upon the Chopping Board Maree Claire 9781875559824
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.82Marou 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... -
Heaven by Emerson Whitney 9781739220785
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Emerson 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... -
Abject Visions: Powers of Horror in Art and Visual Culture Rina Arya 9780719096297
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54This 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... -
Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by Eva Ries 9783111530925
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.62Even 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: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32The 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...