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Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment by Liam Downey 9781479850723
Booksplease Price: £78.98Winner, American Sociological Association Section on Environment and Technology Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award The world currently faces several severe social and environmental... -
Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life by Tavia Nyong'o 9781479856275
Booksplease Price: £78.68Winner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds... -
Immigrants Under Threat: Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation by Greg Prieto
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.13Co-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats... -
Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison by Doran Larson 9781479818006
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.84A powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have experienced it Inside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped... -
The Gay Baby Boom: The Psychology of Gay Parenthood by Suzanne Johnson 9780814742617
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.88The gay and lesbian community is experiencing a baby boom. Advances in gay rights coupled with increased availability of alternative reproduction techniques have led to an unprecedented number of... -
Orientalism: A Reader by Alexander Lyon Macfie 9780814756645
Booksplease Price: £90.15In the period of decolonization that followed World War II, a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalismthe theory and practice of representing the... -
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation Patrick McKelvey 9781479824878
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.71A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative... -
Forging Napoleon's Grande Armee: Motivation, Military Culture, and Masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808 by Michael J. Hughes
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £40.13The men who fought in Napoleon's Grande Armee built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberte, egalite, and fraternite. In... -
Promoting Democracy: The Force of Political Settlements in Uncertain Times by Manal A. Jamal 9781479811380
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £13.96How Western donor assistance can both help and undermine democracy in different parts of the world Democracy promotion is a central pillar of the foreign policy of many states, but the results are... -
Men's Bodies, Men's Gods: Male Identities in a (Post) Christian Culture by Bjorn Krondorfer 9780814746684
Booksplease Price: £89.85Men's Bodies, Men's Gods explores the intersection of body, religion, and culture from the specific perspective of male identities. How are male bodies constructed in different historical periods... -
Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader by Penny A. Weiss
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £34.61A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world Feminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings... -
Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora by Jessica Nydia Pabon-Colon
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.46An inside look at women graffiti artists around the world Since the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously... -
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America by Shari Rabin 9781479835836
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.88Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council Finalist, 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, presented by the Jewish Book Council ... -
The Lavender Vote: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics by Mark Hertzog 9780814735305
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.61Traces the influences of lesbian, gay and bisexual voters in American elections In the half century since the Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village launched the national gay-rights... -
Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality by Katherine Franke 9781479814008
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.61Compares today's same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of black people in the mid-nineteenth century. The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement's campaign for marriage... -
America in the Twenties and Thirties: The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Sean Dennis Cashman 9780814714133
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.34In this, the third volume of an interdisciplinary history of the United States since the Civil War, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry... -
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture by Amy Erdman Farrell 9780814727690
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.88One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011 A necessary cultural and historical discussion on the stigma of fatness To be fat hasn't always occasioned the... -
New Media and Society by Deana A. Rohlinger
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.61A sociological approach to understanding new media's impact on society We use cell phones, computers, and tablets to access the Internet, read the news, watch television, chat with our friends,... -
Fertility Holidays: IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness by Amy Speier 9781479849109
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.88A critical analysis of white, working class North Americans' motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the... -
Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic by Robert Stam
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.46While the term "culture wars" often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in... -
Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures by Radha Sarma Hegde
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.46Circuits of Visibility explores transnational media environments as pathways to understand the gendered constructions and contradictions that underwrite globalization. Tracking the ways in which... -
Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought by Anthony B. Pinn
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.88Black theology tends to be a theology about no-body. Though one might assume that black and womanist theology have already given significant attention to the nature and meaning of black bodies as a... -
Hooded Knights on the Niagara: The Ku Klux Klan in Buffalo, New York by Shawn Lay 9780814751022
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.88They came in the dead of night, marking the homes and businesses of their enemies with crude symbols and dire warnings. They plotted against those of other religious faiths and circulated secret... -
Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England by Mary Beth Sievens
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.37Whereas my husband, Enoch Darling, has at sundry times used me in so improper and cruel a manner, as to destroy my happiness and endanger my life, and whereas he has not provided for me as a husband... -
More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement by Jennifer Nelson
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.61In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared, "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Yet... -
Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America by Michael Thompson 9780814782996
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.46William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, George F. Will, and Dick Cheney. These are today's neoconservatives"confident, clear-cut, and a political force to be reckoned... -
Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science by Sue V. Rosser 9781479809202
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.61Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so... -
Lawless Capitalism: The Subprime Crisis and the Case for an Economic Rule of Law by Steven A. Ramirez 9781479845323
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.61In this innovative and exhaustive study, Steven A. Ramirez posits that the subprime mortgage crisis, as well as the global macroeconomic catastrophe it spawned, is traceable to a gross failure of... -
The Children's Culture Reader by Henry Jenkins
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.30Examines children as creative and critical thinkers who shape society even as it shapes them Every major political and social dispute of the twentieth century has been fought on the backs of our... -
Families by Law: An Adoption Reader by Naomi R. Cahn 9780814715901
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.76Since the mid-19th century, American law has recognized adoption as a way to create parent-child relationships. As the product of law, rather than blood, adoptive families have become a focal point... -
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld 9781479865857
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.88Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader... -
Toxic Shock: A Social History by Sharra L. Vostral
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.61A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible... -
Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings by Eileen Barrett
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.46The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as The New York Review of Books now pair her with... -
The Prostitution of Sexuality by Kathleen L. Barry
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.76An illuminating follow-up to Kathleen Barry's powerful landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, that assesses the landscape of abuse prostitution 15 years later In 1979, Kathleen Barry's landmark book,... -
The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday by Ju Yong Kim 9781479844326
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.46Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to... -
Malcolm and the Cross: The Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, and Christianity by Louis A. DeCaro 9780814719329
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.61An examination into the intersection of Malcolm X's Muslim spiritual life and his Christian relations Despite his association with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X had an intimate relation with... -
William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America by David J. Langum
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.76The true story of the defender of the Chicago 7 Alternately vilified as a publicity-seeking egoist and lauded as a rambunctious, fearless advocate, William Kunstler consistently embodied both of... -
Prose Works 1892: Volume II: Collect and Other Prose by Walt Whitman 9780814794296
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.64General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected... -
Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World by Kelly L. Watson
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £67.16A comparative history of cross-cultural encounters and the critical role of cannibalism in the early modern period Cannibalism, for medieval and early modern Europeans, was synonymous with savagery... -
Surveillance Cinema by Catherine Zimmer
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.75In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world,...