The author is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organiser, public speaker, and journalist. This title presents over twenty years of her writing.
The Colombian activist Juan Gregorio Palechor (1923-1992) dedicated his life to championing indigenous rights in Cauca, a department in the southwest of... Læs mere
This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria,... Læs mere
Essays describing how dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have coalesced since the mid-1980s in biomedicalization, the second transformation of American medicine.
A collection of essays analyzing the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or strange affinities, afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.
Immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. This title provides an ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across generations.
This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism.
Surveys the economies of exchange in human blood, tissues, and organs. This book compares tissue economies in the United Kingdom and... Læs mere
Gilles Deleuze is one of France's most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers. Placing Deleuze's two books on cinema - "The Movement-Image" and "The Time-Image" - in the... Læs mere
In a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors to Sovereignty Unhinged... Læs mere