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Ontological Humility
(March 2013)
Lord Voldemort and the Philosophers
Nancy J. Holland - Author
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Explores ontological humility in the history of philosophy, from Descartes to contemporary gender and race theory.
Neither self-effacing modesty nor religious meekness, ontological humility is a moral and philosophical attitude toward transcendence—the unknown and unknowable background of existence—and a recognition and awareness of the contingency and chance that influence the course of our lives. ...(Read More) |
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Sex in Transition
(November 2012)
Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa
Amanda Lock Swarr - Author
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HONORABLE MENTION - 2014 Distinguished Book Award, presented by the Section on Sexualities of the American Sociological Association
2013 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies, presented by the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies
HONORABLE MENTION – 2013 Ruth Benedict Book Prize, presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology
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Zines in Third Space
(October 2012)
Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric
Adela C. Licona - Author
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Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Zines in Third Space develops third-space theory with a practical engagement in the subcultural space of zines as alternative media produced specifically by feminists and queers of color. Adela C. Licona explores how borderlands rhetorics function in feminist and queer of-color zines to challenge dominant knowledges as well a...(Read More) |
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The Politics of Parenthood
(August 2012)
Causes and Consequences of the Politicization and Polarization of the American Family
Laurel Elder - Author
Steven Greene - Author
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Traces the rising emphasis on parenthood in contemporary American politics.
Certain events in one’s life, such as marriage, joining the workforce, and growing older, can become important determinants of political attitudes and voting choice. Each of these events has been the subject of considerable study, but in The Politics of Parenthood, Laurel Elder and Steven Greene look at the political impact of one of lif...(Read More) |
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Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
(May 2012)
Ann V. Murphy - Author
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Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.
Images of violence enjoy a particular privilege in contemporary continental philosophy, one manifest in the ubiquity of violent metaphors and the prominence of a kind of rhetorical investment in violence as a motif. Such images have also informed, constrained, and motivated recent continental feminist theory. In <...(Read More) |
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Imagining Russia
(April 2012)
Making Feminist Sense of American Nationalism in U.S.–Russian Relations
Kimberly A. Williams - Author
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A bold work of feminist international relations that contributes to our understanding of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. foreign policy, both in relations with Russia and in the invasion of Iraq.
Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.–Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet...(Read More) |
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Queer Times, Queer Becomings
(November 2011)
E. L. McCallum - Editor
Mikko Tuhkanen - Editor
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Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.
If queer theorists have agreed on anything, it is that for queer thought to have any specificity at all, it must be characterized by becoming, the constant breaking of habits. Queer Times, Queer Becomings explores queer articulations of time and becoming in literature, philosophy, film, and p...(Read More) |
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Thinking with Irigaray
(November 2011)
Mary C. Rawlinson - Editor
Sabrina L. Hom - Editor
Serene J. Khader - Editor
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An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray’s work.
Thinking with Irigaray takes up Irigaray’s challenge to think beyond the androcentric, one-subject culture, identifying much that is useful and illuminative in Irigaray’s work while also questioning some of her assumptions and claims. Some contributors reject outright her prescriptions for changing our culture, others suggest that her ...(Read More) |
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