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Queering Freedom by Shannon Winnubst
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91"Radically reorienting, challenging, provocative, this book moves progressive philosophy, feminist and queer theory, critical discussions of race and racism forward. Prophetically, it calls for an... -
Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women by Patricia Bell-Scott 9780393312065
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £21.90These intensely personal testimonies illuminate the complexities of black women's lives, offering unique reflections about self, family, intimacy, work, politics, life transitions, violation, and... -
Feminist Film Theory: A Reader by Sue Thornham 9780814782446
Booksplease Price: £31.08For the past twenty-five years, cinema has been a vital terrain on which feminist debates about culture, representation, and identity have been fought. This anthology charts the history of those... -
Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today by Cynthia G. Franklin 9780820333427
RRP: £132.95Booksplease Price: £79.56This title looks at what academic memoirs say about the current state of the humanities and the institution of the university. Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by... -
Women's Studies and Culture: A Feminist Introduction by Anneke Smelik 9781856493123
Booksplease Price: £36.82This major introduction to feminist cultural studies provides an important new synthesis of the feminist critique of culture. It also brilliantly reflects the interdisciplinary approach of cultural... -
21st Century Africana Media Studies Reader by Akil Houston 9781516515912
Booksplease Price: £93.5221st Century Africana Media Studies Reader provides students with an interdisciplinary look at African-American media from a variety of perspectives through a selection of carefully selected readings... -
Dangerous Discourses: Feminism, Gun Violence, and Civic Life by Catherine R. Squires 9781433132780
RRP: £49.05Booksplease Price: £44.25Dangerous Discourses brings together new work by feminist scholars who provide a multifaceted view of the ways contemporary media discourses inscribe particular understandings of gendered social... -
Materialist Feminisms Donna Landry 9781557861856
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81Materialist Feminisms investigates the crucial theoretical and political debates that have determined the course of British and American feminism over the last thirty years. As intellectual terrain... -
American Feminist Thought at Century's End: A Reader by Linda S. Kauffman 9781557863478
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.91In this outstanding collection of essays, contributed by some of America's leading feminist writers, the current terrain of American feminism is charted as never before. Covering a broad range of... -
Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning Douglas Bourn 9781350473843
Booksplease Price: £76.11Fully updated throughout, this 2nd edition of Education for Social Change introduces students to education as a vehicle for social change in both theory and practice. The new edition features a new... -
Feminism and Pornography by Drucilla Cornell 9780198782506
Booksplease Price: £53.97This collection of essays seeks to expand the parameters of the debate on pornography. In an effort to move away from the divisive frameworks of which side are you on? and who counts as women worthy... -
Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton by Calvin C. Hernton 9780819500366
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £18.08The definitive guide to a major African American poet/>/>This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in... -
Moral Imagination and the Search for Meaning: The Art of Being Human Emma Engdahl 9781041257677
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book explores what it means to live an emotionally engaged and morally responsive life in a world increasingly governed by productivity, fragmentation, and emotional detachment. Drawing from a... -
Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning by Lisa Dickson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46"What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?" Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between... -
A History of Western Philosophy of Education in the Contemporary Landscape by Anna Pagès
Booksplease Price: £31.31A History of Western Philosophy of Education comprises five volumes which traces the development of philosophy of education through Western culture and history. The historical periods covered are:... -
The Crisis of Criticism Sharon Beder 9781565844179
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Almost more than artists, art critics today form an elite class that legislates cultural tastes. The Crisis of Criticism is a collection of brilliantly argued, provocative essays that address the... -
Ten Lessons in Theory: A New Introduction to Theoretical Writing by Professor Calvin Thomas 9781501383953
Booksplease Price: £95.49A thoroughly updated edition of the witty and engaging exploration of the history, application, and tenets of literary theory. The first edition of Ten Lessons served as a “literary” introduction to... -
Film Theory: Creating a Cinematic Grammar by Felicity Colman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.37Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane,... -
Women in Culture: A Women's Studies Anthology by Lucinda Joy Peach 9781557866486
RRP: £105.95Booksplease Price: £96.91This anthology collects key texts on women in culture and offers an ideal introduction, for students in women's studies and feminism, to the cultural dimensions of women's experience today. The... -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063381865
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £12.20A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s reflections on love and its transformative power—a stellar addition to Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.“I have also... -
Global Politics Dr Ben Whitham 9781350328419
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £28.64In turbulent global times, your study of this subject is increasingly necessary and urgent. Featuring a new chapter on critical theories, and revised to take a less Eurocentric approach to concepts... -
Theatre of Anger: Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin by Olivia Landry
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.60In Theatre of Anger, Olivia Landry offers a provocative new vision of anger as more than just hate and violence. Studying the work of a new generation of transnational theatre practitioners in... -
Seraphim by Angelique Zobitz 9781960327048
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.33Seraphim shares the joyous rhythm that sustains Black womxn. Seraphim, Angelique Zobitz's debut collection, radiates with light and wonder. These poems reveal how Black womxn and girls carve out,... -
Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children's Literature by Neal A. Lester 9780415809108
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children's Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children's... -
Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora: Black Women Writing and Performing by Mae G. Henderson 9780195116595
Booksplease Price: £116.55Tropes ranging from Houston Baker's "bluesman," to Henry Louis Gates' "signifyin'" to Geneva Smitherman's "talkin' and testifyin'" to bell hooks' "talking back" to Cheryl Wall's "worrying the line"... -
Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning Douglas Bourn 9781350473836
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.53Fully updated throughout, this 2nd edition of Education for Social Change introduces students to education as a vehicle for social change in both theory and practice. The new edition features a new... -
Working-class Women in the Academy: Labourers in the Knowledge Factory by Michelle M. Tokarczyk
Booksplease Price: £35.30My mother still wants me to get a 'real' job. My father, who is retired after 44 years in the merchant marine, has never read my work. When I visited recently, the only book in his house was the... -
Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference by Deborah L. Rhode 9780300052251
Booksplease Price: £34.12No issue has been more central to the American women's movement than sexual difference. This book offers a unique study of the nature, origins, and consequences of sexual difference. Leading... -
Gender Matters: Truths and Consequences by Sarah M. Pitcher 9781516522187
Booksplease Price: £69.91Gender Matters: Truth and Consequences employs an intersectional feminist approach to introduce students to the various ways feminist thinkers discuss gender, sexuality, sex, and more. It encourages... -
Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity: Servant Leadership as a Way of Life by Shann Ray Ferch 9780739169490
Booksplease Price: £46.74In a fresh rendering of the role of leaders as healers, Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity considers love and power in the midst of personal, political, and social upheaval. Unexpected... -
The African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories by Kai Wright 9781579127732
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.51This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring.The African... -
Nurturing ‘Difficult Conversations’ in Education: Empowerment, Agency and Social Justice in the UK Katarzyna Fleming 9781350332119
Booksplease Price: £95.49This book offers a critical discussion on the necessity for 'difficult conversations' to take place in education, drawing on studies from across the UK. The editors and contributors address three key... -
Black Women Theorizing Curriculum Studies in Colour and Curves by Kirsten T. Edwards Williams 9780367664244
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book explores the curriculum theorizing of Black women, as well as their historical and contemporary contributions to the always-evolving complicated conversation that is Curriculum Studies. It... -
Nurturing ‘Difficult Conversations’ in Education: Empowerment, Agency and Social Justice in the UK Katarzyna Fleming 9781350332157
Booksplease Price: £30.54This book offers a critical discussion on the necessity for 'difficult conversations' to take place in education, drawing on studies from across the UK. The editors and contributors address three key... -
Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex by Kathryn Sophia Belle 9780197660201
Booksplease Price: £26.49Kathryn Sophia Belle centers feminist frameworks, discourses, and vocabularies of Black women and other Women of Color that existed prior to and have continued to exist after The Second Sex. She... -
The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening by T. Storm Heter 9781538162620
Booksplease Price: £33.84A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press,... -
The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy: Still Woke by Gary L. Lemons 9781666925517
Booksplease Price: £33.49The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy: Still Woke celebrates and reaffirms the power of Black feminist and womanist pedagogies and practices in university classrooms... -
Erotic Testimonies: Black Women Daring to Be Wild and Free by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery 9781438491172
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.Erotic Testimonies draws inspiration from Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic" to explore how Black women access their... -
Queer and Trans People of Colour in the UK: Possibilities for Intersectional Richness by Stephanie Davis
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book explores the meanings of Queer and Trans People of Colour (QTPOC) activist groups in the UK, considering the tensions around inclusion and belonging across lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans,... -
The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening by T. Storm Heter 9781538162613
Booksplease Price: £75.81A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press,...