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“marcella iacub”

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  • Through the keyhole

    A history of sex, space and public modesty in modern France

    by Marcela Iacub ...
    Translated by Vinay Swamy ...
    In 1857, a group of young people who had participated in an orgy in a private mansion was sentenced for contempt of public decency (outrage public à la pudeur) because a voyeur was able to watch them through a keyhole. For Marcela Iacub, the crux of such cases hinges on where the public ends and the private begins, and what one can reveal, and what one ought to hide.Today, the term pudeur has ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Discipline and Punish

    The Birth of the Prison

    by Michel Foucault ...
    A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Abnormal

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Graham Burchell ...
    Series Book 4 - Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France
    In this seminal work, Foucault examines the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice and its method of categorizing individuals who "resemble their crime before they commit it."From 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous Collège de France. Attended by thousands, these were pivotal events in the world of French letters. Abnormal, the first of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Hiding from Humanity

    Disgust, Shame, and the Law

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, ... Read more

    $56.09 CAD

  • On the Postcolony

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Series Book 41 - Studies on the History of Society and Culture
    Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory.This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    by Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Series Book 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A History of Masculinity

    From Patriarchy to Gender Justice

    by Ivan Jablonka ...
    Translated by Nathan Bracher ...
    **'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in France. . . it has sparked conversations' ChallengesA highly acclaimed, bestselling work from one of France's preeminent historians**What does it mean to be a good man? To be a good father, or a good partner? A good brother, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Making of Law

    An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat

    by Bruno Latour ...
    In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, religion, art, it is now law that is being studied by using the same comparative ethnographic methods. The case study is the daily practice of the French supreme courts, the Conseil d’Etat, specialized in administrative law (the equivalent of the Law Lords ... Read more

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  • The Dictionary of Homophobia

    A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience

    Edited by Louis-Georges Tin ...
    "Tin's Dictionary of Homophobia is so sweeping in its scope that one can dip into it again and again and learn something, or confront an idea in which even the most well-read queer will find fresh intellectual nourishment and historical illumination."—Gay City NewsBased on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobiais a mammoth, encyclopedic book that ... Read more

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  • Practice of Everyday Life

    Volume 2: Living and Cooking

    by Michel De Certeau, Luce Giard, Pierre Mayol ...
    To remain unconsumed by consumer society—this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make living a subversive art. Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, and Pierre ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Enigmas of Identity

    by Peter Brooks ...
    From eminent critic Peter Brooks, an exploration of the modern preoccupation with identity"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or because of that ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Paradox of Love

    Translated by Steven Randall ...
    by Richard Golsan, Pascal Bruckner ...
    A provocative reflection on the dilemmas of modern loveThe sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought—birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women's massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of homosexuality. But as Pascal Bruckner, one of France's leading writers, argues in this lively ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD