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  • Translation, Semiotics, and Feminism

    Selected Writings of Barbara Godard

    Edited by Eva C. Karpinski, Elena Basile ...
    Series series Key Thinkers on Translation
    Translation, Semiotics, and Feminism: Selected Writings of Barbara Godard brings together 16 of the most important essays by the influential Canadian scholar, situating her thinking in relation to feminism and translation studies from the 1980s through the 2000s. Godard’s lasting contributions helped to advance several areas in translation studies such as feminist theories and semiotics.The ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Queer Theories: An Introduction

    From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn

    by Lorenzo Bernini ...
    Translated by Michela Baldo, Elena Basile ...
    Series series Gender Insights
    This is a short and accessible introduction to the complex and evolving debates around queer theories, advocating for their critical role in academia and society. The book traces the roots of queer theories and argues that Foucault owed an important debt to other European authors including the feminist and homosexual liberation movements of the 1960–1970s and the anticolonial movements of the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • How To Read Foucault

    by Johanna Oksala ...
    Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • On Critique

    A Sociology of Emancipation

    by Luc Boltanski ...
    The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations that can be found in ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Undoing Gender

    by Judith Butler ...
    Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Time and the Other

    How Anthropology Makes Its Object

    by Johannes Fabian ...
    Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Identity

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Steph Lawler ...
    Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others see and define us reveal about our social world? Why do we attach such significance to 'being ourselves'?In this new edition of her popular and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Kristeva and the Political

    by Cecilia Sjoholm ...
    Series series Thinking the Political
    Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the twentieth century and is best known for her work in linguistics. Even though her work has been very influential, the political implications of her writings have so far been neglected. Kristeva and the Political is the first book to explore the relation of Kristeva's work to the political and casts new light on her work, ... Read more

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  • Making Social Science Matter

    Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again

    by Bent Flyvbjerg ...
    Translated by Steven Sampson ...
    Making Social Science Matter presents an exciting new approach to the social and behavioral sciences including theoretical argument, methodological guidelines, and examples of practical application. Why has social science failed in attempts to emulate natural science and produce normal theory? Bent Flyvbjerg argues that the strength of social sciences lies in its rich, reflexive analysis of values ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Foucault

    Edited by Gary Gutting ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Seeing Differently

    A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

    by Amelia Jones ...
    Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond.The book is both a ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Jacques Rancière

    History, Politics, Aesthetics

    by Kristin Ross, Alain Badiou ...
    The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers’ archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between intellectual and manual labor, and analysis of the place of literature, film, and art in modern society ... Read more

    $21.59 USD