Bøger i Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies serien
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- Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
263,95 - 998,95 kr. Offers an examination of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women's actual needs and lives. This title shows how the state is central to understanding women's identities and how, reciprocally, women and "women's issues" affect the state's role and function.
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- 263,95 kr.
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- On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India
263,95 - 953,95 kr. A study of the colonial state's imposition of regimes of sexuality, as seen through archives of law, literature and pornography.
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- 263,95 kr.
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- Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
320,95 - 958,95 kr. A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.
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- 320,95 kr.
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- Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms
253,95 - 953,95 kr. Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners.
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- 253,95 kr.
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- Feminism, Nature, Power
303,95 - 953,95 kr. Essays on the relationship between temporatlity and feminism that focus on the political and philosophical ramifications of being future oriented.
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- 303,95 kr.
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- Reading Race, Reading Pornography
302,95 - 1.298,95 kr. Rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. This title offers an analysis and that moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects.
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367,95 - 1.113,95 kr. Demonstrates that gender, cultural difference, and colonial history are intimately bound together and often can only be understood in relation to one another. The author analyzes how diverse representational practices - be they visual, textual, or even scientific - relate to the construction of gender, race, sexuality, and national identity.
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- 367,95 kr.
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- Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
314,95 - 953,95 kr. Analyses representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s, and in early 1990s during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. This book proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was produced by the war itself.
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- 314,95 kr.
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- Homonationalism in Queer Times
354,95 - 1.192,95 kr. Examines how liberal politics serves to incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the legal recognition inherent in the overturning of anti-sodomy laws and the proliferation of more mainstream representation.
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- 354,95 kr.
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- Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization
366,95 kr. During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her flashy, fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. This work tracks the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon during the 1920s and 1930s.
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- 366,95 kr.
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- How Feminism Travels across Borders
253,95 - 953,95 kr. The story of how the feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves has been adapted and reworked by women of different cultures around the world.
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- 253,95 kr.
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- Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire
315,95 - 953,95 kr. By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, Sujatha Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state.
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- 315,95 kr.
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- A Next Wave American Studies Reader
288,95 kr. Challenges the limitations of thinking about nineteenth-century American culture within the narrow rubric of "male public" and "female private" spheres. This title examines the ways that the separate spheres binary has malingered in unexamined ways in feminist criticism, American literary studies, and debates on the public sphere.
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- 288,95 kr.
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- The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973
273,95 - 1.068,95 kr. Analyses differences between men's and women's participation in Chile's Agrarian Reform movement, examining how conflicts over gender shape the contours of working-class struggles and national politics.
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- 273,95 kr.
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- Child, Bodies, Worlds
933,95 kr. Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a malleable figure. This title shows how this malleability is itself generated - how the child is 'made' by different constituencies, and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to powerful effect.
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- 933,95 kr.
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- A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change
308,95 kr. Since the 1970s, Womens Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full scale academic enterprise. This book assesses the present and future of the field, demonstrating how institutionalization has extended a vital, ongoing intellectual project for a generation of scholars and students.
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- 308,95 kr.
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- Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire
243,95 - 953,95 kr. With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katharine Hepburn's image in the 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett was seen by many as a "lesbian" representation. Investigating what allows viewers to make an image or narrative work as "lesbian," this title presents a theoretical exploration of lesbian visibility.
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- 243,95 kr.
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- Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought
263,95 - 278,95 kr. An interpretive history of the way competing ideas of reproduction as a biological and sexual process became central to the organization of knowledge about the flow of capital, labor power, human bodies, and babies both within nations and across national borders
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- 263,95 kr.
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- Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea
383,95 - 953,95 kr. Presenting examinations of the lives of Bulgarian women, this ethnography challenges the idea that women have fared worse than men in Eastern Europe's transition from socialism to a market economy. It also highlights how, prior to 1989, the communist planners sought to create full employment for them and steered women into the service sector.
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- 383,95 kr.
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393,95 - 998,95 kr. A history of women's political organizing and state formation in Mexico before and during the populist regime of Cardenas, challenging assumptions that all Mexican women were conservative and anti-revolutionary
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- 393,95 kr.
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- Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial
368,95 - 953,95 kr. Interpreting South Asian and diasporic texts, Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization.
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- 368,95 kr.