Don Kulick and Jens Rydstrom argue that for people with disabilities, being able to explore their sexuality is an issue of... Læs mere
Describes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period.
A theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. This title discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers... Læs mere
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines the emergence of “excited delirium syndrome” in the 1980s, a fabricated medical diagnosis used to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities in the United States.
Offers a collection of essays - captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done. This title introduces each essay with an autobiographical prologue that describes the intellectual, political, and personal moments from which the work arose.
Presents a cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows - chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret... Læs mere
Includes essays in the field of postcolonial studies. This title addresses the broad theoretical issues at stake within the field and the position of the field itself within the academy, as well as its relationship to modern, post-modern, and Marxist discourses.
Imperial Debris redirects scholarly focus away from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the environment, and bodies and minds, in the present.
An ethnographic study of the relationship between Filipina and Indonesian women who work as domestics in Taiwan and their Taiwanese employers
Argues that satellites are not a transparent form of distribution of information, but rather that they produce specific media practices and modes of production.
Leviathans at the Gold Mine is an ethnography about the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea; an... Læs mere