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The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory by Linda Nicholson
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.80The Second Wave collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past forty years, essays by the figures who have made key contributions to feminist theory during this period and have... -
Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing: The Respiratory Primacy of Being Petri Berndtson 9781032439754
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenomenological philosophy and looks at phenomenological questions concerning... -
As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam by Annemarie Schimmel 9780231052467
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $159.45A history of mystical Islamic poetry, not only in Arabic and Persian, but also in the popular folk traditions of regional vernacular languages, including a chapter on Rumi and Sufi poetryAbout the... -
Cultivating Perception through Artworks: Phenomenological Enactments of Ethics, Politics, and Culture by Helen A. Fielding 9780253059352
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16What are the ethical, political and cultural consequences of forgetting how to trust our senses? How can artworks help us see, sense, think, and interact in ways that are outside of the systems of... -
Gender in Translation by Sherry Simon
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies. Students and teachers of translation studies, linguistics, gender studies and... -
Feminism in France: From May '68 to Mitterand by Claire Duchen
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21Feminism in France charts the evolution of the women's liberation in France (MLF) from its emergence in 1968 to the present. Claire Duchen provides a lucid and compelling account of different... -
Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship David A. Gerstner 9780814350201
Booksplease Price: $158.65How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations,... -
How To Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher 9781862077683
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'Deconstruction is not neutral. It intervenes' Jacques Derrida An idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as... -
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII by Jacques Lacan
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.33A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... -
Language and Relation: . . . that there is language by Christopher Fynsk 9780804727143
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79The most recent version of the "linguistic turn," the revolution in language theory shaped by Saussure's structural linguistics and realized in a sweeping revision of investigations throughout the... -
Pragmatist Variations on Ethical and Intercultural Life by Lenart Skof 9780739166154
Booksplease Price: $186.21The book is a contribution to the fields of pragmatism, intercultural philosophy, and social and political ethics. The argument in the book runs along two lines: firstly, four pragmatist philosophers... -
Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers by Lori Marso
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $60.82The 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... -
The Feminine Case: Jung, Aesthetics and Creative Process Tessa Adams 9781855759312
Booksplease Price: $77.98The Feminine Case is a collection of papers that debate the issue of gender from a Jungian perspective. Particular attention is paid to the discussion of Jung's "transcendent function" and what this... -
Irigaray for Architects by Peg Rawes 9780415431330
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $55.85Specifically for architects, the third title in the Thinkers for Architects series examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray's work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore the bodily,... -
Victorians in Theory: From Derrida to Browning by 9780719081224
Booksplease Price: $40.37"Each century," wrote Charles Dickens "[is] more amazed by the century following it than by all the centuries before." Victorians in theory explores the startling conceit that nineteenth-century... -
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII by Jacques Lacan 9781138834590
Booksplease Price: $215.26A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... -
The Meanings of Love: An Introduction to Philosophy of Love by Robert E. Wagoner 9780275958398
Booksplease Price: $119.05This introductory text offers a clear, concise look at the philosophy of love. The author's presentation assumes no previous knowledge of philosophy, providing the humanities student with an... -
Hegel's Philosophy and Feminist Thought: Beyond Antigone? by Kimberly Hutchings 9780230621459
Booksplease Price: $90.25Although Hegel and feminism seem an unlikely couple, Hegelian philosophy played a prominent part in the thinking of groundbreaking feminist philosophers from Simone de Beauvoir to Luce Irigaray. This... -
Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France by Alice A. Jardine 9780231067720
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $153.09Fifteen of the most important and influential women fiction writers, critics, and theorists writing in France today are interviewed in Shifting Scenes. Although their writing and attitudes differ in... -
When Women Become Priests: The Catholic Women's Ordination Debate by Kelley A. Raab 9780231113342
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.93While numerous provocative works have sought to justify why women should be ordained as Catholic priests, "When Women Become Priests" is the first sustained reflection on the differences... -
Queer and Deleuzian Temporalities: Toward a Living Present by Rachel Loewen Walker 9781350184343
Booksplease Price: $186.21Rachel Loewen Walker's original study of Deleuze's theory of temporality critically expands our understanding of non-linear time through engagement with queer theory and new feminist materialisms... -
'Begotten, Not Made': Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity by Virginia Burrus 9780804737067
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine is a crucial site not only for theological... -
The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” by Mary C. Rawlinson 9780231199049
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.35Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit exerts a unique influence on contemporary philosophy. Major figures from Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray to Jean-Paul Sartre and Judith Butler were shaped in large... -
Touching Literature, or the Experience of the Limit by Irving Goh 9781501716300
RRP: $226.20Booksplease Price: $179.79Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial... -
Judith Butler: Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative by Gill Jagger 9780415219754
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also... -
Sexing the Trinity: Gender, Culture and the Divine by Gavin D'Costa 9780334028109
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $53.98'This is an astonishingly rich and fascinating book, which engages with French feminist theory as well as with Islam, Hinduism and Judaism, as it revisits traditional Catholic themes: a book... -
Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory by Janice Richardson
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $108.89What is the link between the way in which women are viewed as an aberration within law - such that pregnant women initially had to be compared with sick men to claim unfair dismissal - and the view... -
Touching Literature, or the Experience of the Limit by Irving Goh 9781501787997
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $46.78Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial... -
Hegel's Energy: A Reading of The Phenomenology of Spirit by Michael Marder
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit has been one of the most important works of philosophy since the nineteenth century, while the question of energy has been crucial to life in the twenty-first... -
Irigaray by Rachel Jones 9780745651040
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $96.23The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched... -
Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684-1814: In the Voice of Our Biblical Mothers by Elizabeth Kraft
Booksplease Price: $90.66In Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684-1814, Elizabeth Kraft radically alters our conventional views of early women novelists by taking seriously their representations of female desire. To... -
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Dr Taylor Driggers 9781350231771
Booksplease Price: $61.46Fantasy literature inhabits the realms of the orthodox and heterodox, the divine and demonic simultaneously, making it uniquely positioned to imaginatively re-envision Christian theology from a... -
The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire by Cecilia Sjoholm 9780804748926
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $89.12What if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus? This book traces the relation between ethics and desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity and use Antigone as... -
Reading Art Reading Irigaray by Hilary Robinson 9781860649530
Booksplease Price: $218.65Luce Irigaray is one of the foremost philosophers and feminist thinkers of our day. Her work has had an enormous impact on the visual arts and is widely taught and read across the field - yet the... -
Psychoanalysis and Woman: A Reader by Shelley Saguaro 9780814797709
Booksplease Price: $177.20Psychoanalysis and Woman collects for the first time in one volume the most important psychoanalytic writings on female sexuality and women from Freud's contemporaries through French feminisms to... -
Kristeva in America: Re-Imagining the Exceptional by Carol Mastrangelo Bove 9783030599140
Booksplease Price: $99.18This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on American literary and film studies. Chapters consider this influence via such innovative approaches as Hortense Spillers's and Jack... -
Violence to Eternity Grace M. Jantzen (University of Manchester, UK) 9780415290357
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66In this volume Grace M. Jantzen continues her groundbreaking analysis of death and beauty in western thought by examining the religious roots of death and violence in the Jewish and Christian... -
Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship by David A. Gerstner 9780814350218
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $56.67How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations,... -
French Feminism Reader by Kelly Oliver 9780847697670
Booksplease Price: $86.40French Feminism Reader is a collection of essays representing the authors and issues from French theory most influential in the American context. The book is designed for use in courses, and it... -
Kristeva in America: Re-Imagining the Exceptional by Carol Mastrangelo Bove 9783030599119
Booksplease Price: $99.18This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on American literary and film studies. Chapters consider this influence via such innovative approaches as Hortense Spillers's and Jack...