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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Why Are You So Angry?

    Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature

    by Anne Potjans ...
    Series Book 550 - Counterpoints
    This is a study of Black women’s anger, its attempted silencing, and its cultural effects. It grounds the discussion of the political and cultural function of Black feminist anger in several points of inquiry, tying it to the conditions of Black life mired in the structures that characterize the afterlives of slavery and colonialism.Turning to anger can do important work with regards to unraveling ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

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  • Black Looks

    Race and Representation

    by bell hooks ...
    In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Disturbing the Universe

    Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature

    by Roberta S. Trites ...
    The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Identity Papers

    Literacy and Power in Higher Education

    Edited by Bronwyn T Williams ...
    How do definitions of literacy in the academy, and the pedagogies that reinforce such definitions, influence and shape our identities as teachers, scholars, and students? The contributors gathered here reflect on those moments when the dominant cultural and institutional definitions of our identities conflict with our other identities, shaped by class, race, gender, sexual orientation, location, ... Read more

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  • Watching Rape

    Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture

    by Sarah Projansky ...
    Looking at popular culture from 1980 to the present, feminism appears to be "over": that is, according to popular critics we are in an era of "postfeminism" in which feminism has supposedly already achieved equality for women.Not so, says Sarah Projansky. In Watching Rape, Projansky undermines this complacent view in her fascinating and thorough analysis of depictions of rape in U.S. film, ... Read more

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  • The Female Complaint

    The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

    by Lauren Berlant ...
    The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural “intimate public” in the United States, a “women’s culture” distinguished by a view that women inevitably ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Feminism against Cisness

    Edited by Emma Heaney ...
    Series series ASTERISK
    The contributors to Feminism against Cisness showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. The essays demonstrate that this fallacy hinges on the enforcement of white and bourgeois standards of gender comportment that naturalize brutalizing race and class ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Nobody Is Supposed to Know

    Black Sexuality on the Down Low

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual—has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly’s hip hopera Trapped in the Closet. Most down-low stories are morality tales in which black men are either predators who risk infecting their ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Beyond Learning by Doing

    Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education

    by Jay W. Roberts ...
    What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents.As an increasingly popular pedagogical approach, experiential education encompasses a variety of curriculum projects from outdoor and environmental ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Melancholy of Race

    Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief

    by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

    Edited by Ellen Rooney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the ... Read more

    Was $43.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • Racial Castration

    Managing Masculinity in Asian America

    by David L. Eng, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.Eng juxtaposes ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD