Poussin's Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works examines the paintings and drawings of the well-known seventeenth-century French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) from a gender studies perspective, focusing on a critical analysis of his representations of women.
Stretching from queer-feminist engagement with China’s newest poetry to philological reflection on its oldest, this book brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China.
This volume examines the theoretical and practical questions concerning the evolving role of imams in Europe.
Through a study of Chinese anti-incineration contention, this book investigates how the different contentious actors in China's green sphere link up and what this means for environmental contention.
This collection of essays surveys the richness of creation and creativity in order to draw out debates, sometimes implicit and sometimes formally stated, about the production and reproduction of cultural meaning between medieval and modern culture.
This book looks at local collective action and city government responses and its impact on the neighbourhood and the city in Pacific Asia.
This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on... Læs mere
This book examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia.
This book builds on existing scholarship in a variety of disciplines on the topic of gender and sexuality in Islam.
This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam. It simultaneously focuses... Læs mere
This book focuses on cross-border marriages between mainland Chinese women and Hong Kong men, a phenomenon which is of critical importance to the transformation of Hong Kong.
Shaped by social class, gender, and the economic and cultural possibilities of political decentralization, the study identifies three... Læs mere