Bøger i Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe serien
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- The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America
325,95 - 1.105,95 kr. Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects such as coldness, insensitivity and sexual frigidity that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal for people of color and queer people in nineteenth-century America.
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- 325,95 kr.
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- Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
303,95 - 1.051,95 kr. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups in contemporary Turkey, Evren Savci explores how Western LGBT politics are translated and reworked there in ways that generate new spaces for resistance and solidarity.
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- 303,95 kr.
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- The Disorder of Desire
268,95 - 1.051,95 kr. Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which the wild-a space located beyond normative borders of sexuality-offers sources of opposition to knowing and being that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern subject.
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- 268,95 kr.
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263,95 - 1.050,95 kr. The Sense of Brown, which he was completing at the time of his death, is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies.
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- 263,95 kr.
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- Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
294,95 - 948,95 kr. Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system that is entrenched in and reinforces racial capitalism and patriarchy.
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- 294,95 kr.
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- Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
302,95 - 948,95 kr. By foregrounding bodily pleasure in the experience of time and its representation in queer literature, film, video, and art, Elizabeth Freeman challenges queer theorys recent emphasis on loss and trauma.
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- 302,95 kr.
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- Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
316,95 - 1.055,95 kr. Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives about traveling for gender reassignment from 1952 to the present, showing how transgender fantasies about reinvention and mobility are racialized as white and often rely on violent colonial global divisions.
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- 316,95 kr.
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- The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora
304,95 - 1.053,95 kr. Gayatri Gopinath traces the interrelation of affect, aesthetics, and diaspora through an exploration of a wide range of contemporary queer visual cultural forms by South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, and Latinx artists such as Tracey Moffatt, Akram Zaatari, and Allan deSouza.
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- 304,95 kr.
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- Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body
314,95 - 1.053,95 kr. Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production-from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"- to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.
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- 314,95 kr.
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- Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone
238,95 - 1.050,95 kr. Gil Z. Hochberg examines films, photography, painting and literature by Israeli and Palestinian artists. Israel's greater ability to control what can be seen, how, and from what position drives the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The artists Hochberg studies challenge Israel's visual and social dominance by creating new ways to see the conflict.
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- 238,95 kr.
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- On Liberal Governances of Mobility
301,95 - 1.050,95 kr. Examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces.
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- 301,95 kr.
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- Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
289,95 - 1.019,95 kr. - Bog
- 289,95 kr.
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- Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
327,95 - 1.388,95 kr. Rather than using displays of masculinity to counter portrayals of Asian American men as passive and effeminate, Nguyen Tan Hoang develops a concept of bottomhood that opens up political alliances based on risk, vulnerability, and receptiveness.
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- 327,95 kr.
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- Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
340,95 - 993,95 kr. A historical and ethnographic account of how LGBT activism for safe neighborhoods inadvertently dovetailed with and reinforced anticrime measures harmful to the poor and people of color.
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- 340,95 kr.
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- Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913
326,95 - 1.104,95 kr. In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Roman Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home.
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- 326,95 kr.
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- Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
363,95 - 948,95 kr. Considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of transformistas and beauty pageant contestants.
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- 363,95 kr.
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- Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
327,95 - 993,95 kr. Mel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise "wrong," animates cultural life in important ways.
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- 327,95 kr.
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- Race, Sexuality, and the US State
317,95 - 993,95 kr. Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.
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- 317,95 kr.
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- The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
238,95 - 948,95 kr. A groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among black Cubans in the early twenty-first-century
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- 238,95 kr.
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- Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
273,95 - 968,95 kr. This exploration of the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers reveals in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women.
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- 273,95 kr.
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- Making Post-Slavery Subjects
313,95 - 968,95 kr. Christina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that grapple with the sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation, and their present-day legacies.
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- 313,95 kr.
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- Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
288,95 - 928,95 kr. An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.
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- 288,95 kr.
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- The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
300,95 - 953,95 kr. Contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anti-capitalist Black liberation movements based in the United States. The author finds hidden within the histories and logics generated by US-based struggles against racism, sexism, and homophobia, the Black femme's invisible, affective labour.
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- 300,95 kr.
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- Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
253,95 - 948,95 kr. Argues that the creation of such "desiring subjects" is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist, neo-liberal-dominated world.
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- 253,95 kr.
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- Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen
338,95 - 928,95 kr. Offers an analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. This book argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of US imperialist expansion, Cold War neo-colonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia.
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- 338,95 kr.
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- Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
388,95 - 993,95 kr. Argues for the centrality of theatre and performance in the American national imaginary
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- 388,95 kr.
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- Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
365,95 - 1.098,95 kr. A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and race
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- 365,95 kr.
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- Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
312,95 - 953,95 kr. Argues for the uses of queer, feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production.
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- 312,95 kr.
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- Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
291,95 - 948,95 kr. Presents an ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities. This book challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity.
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- 291,95 kr.
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- Managing Masculinity in Asian America
263,95 - 993,95 kr. Bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory and explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. This title examines images - literary, visual, and filmic - that configure past and contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.
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- 263,95 kr.