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  • Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change

    An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

    by Ariane M. Balizet, Jacoby Ballard, Diana York Blaine, Mary Bunn, Beth S. Catlett, Kimberly Dark, Lauren Eckstrom, Jillian Ford, Thalia González, Marcelle M. Haddix, Carol Horton, Kerrie Kauer, Roopa Kaushik-Brown, Karishma Kripalani, Punam Mehta, Steffany Moonaz, Whitney Myers, Enoch H. Page, Sarah L. Schrank, Maria Velazquez, Jennifer Musial ...
    Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of the body. From discussions of the stereotypical yoga body to analyses of pivotal court cases, Yoga, ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • The Awakening (Kate Chopin Classics)

    by Kate Chopin ...
    The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earlier American novels that ... Read more

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  • The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

    Loving the Skin You're In

    by Tess Holliday ...
    A plus-size supermodel tells her powerful personal story and offers inspiration and tips to women everywhere to help them survive and thrive.Mom. Feminist. Plus size. Supermodel. Loud. Proud. Body Activist. Beautiful. Businesswoman. Homemaker. Cat owner. Funny. Outspoken. Wife. Daughters. Lover. Fighter. Survivor…Tess Holliday is many things and perfect is not one of them. But she loves her ... Read more

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  • Girl Positive

    Supporting Girls to Shape a New World

    by Tatiana Fraser, Caia Hagel ...
    Hailed by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau as a "call-to-action" in these highly policiticized times, Girl Positive showcases the diverse voices of girls across North America, and drawing on the wisdom of young women making positive change in their lives and communities, offer tools for families, friends and educators to assist this empowerment.Girl Positive takes an engaging, cutting-edge view of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sex and Social Justice

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    What does it mean to respect the dignity of a human being? What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender or sexuality? How should we think about each other across divisions that a legacy of injustice has created? In Sex and Social Justice, Martha Nussbaum delves into these questions and emerges ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Spill

    Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

    by Alexis Pauline Gumbs ...
    In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist literary criticism, historiography, and the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Breaking Bread

    Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

    by bell hooks, Cornel West ...
    In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Twenty-first Century Motherhood

    Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency

    Edited by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    A pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and practice, considering developments that were unimaginable decades ago: the Internet, interracial surrogacy, raising transchildren, male mothering, intensive mothering, queer parenting, the applications of new biotechnologies, and mothering in the post-9/11 era. Her work pulls together a range ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Globalization and Militarism

    Feminists Make the Link

    by Cynthia Enloe ...
    Series series Globalization
    Militarism is being globalized today not only in war zones such as Ukraine and Syria, but in “peaceful” arenas such as families and football stadiums. Ideas and practices of masculinities and femininities are fuel for this global militarization. Who is presumed to be “weak” and who “tough”? Who is the “protector, who the “grateful protected”? Written by one of the world’s leading feminist scholars ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Contesting Publics

    Feminism, Activism, Ethnography

    by Lynne Phillips, Sally Cole ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Through ethnographic case studies and activists' narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America.Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities have emerged alongside these new spaces of participation. They re-examine the relationship ... Read more

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  • Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics

    On the Threshold of the Living Subject

    by Lorna Weir ...
    Series series Transformations
    Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Women on the Role of Public Higher Education

    Personal Reflections from CUNY’s Graduate Center

    Edited by D. Gambs, R. Kim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection presents a compilation of personal essays on the role of public higher education in the lives of fourteen social scientists who are graduates of the Graduate Center, the doctoral granting institution at the City University of New York, the nation's largest public urban university. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD