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  • The City Below The Hill

    The Slums of Montreal, 1897

    by Herbert Brown Ames ...
    Series series Heritage
    The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization.Sir Herbert Brown Ames was one of the first to recognize that urbanization was inevitable and to set ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • World Made Sexy

    Freud to Madonna

    by Paul Rutherford ...
    The cult of eroticism is a pervasive force in modern society, affecting almost every aspect of our daily lives. In this book, Paul Rutherford argues that this phenomenon is a product of one of the major commercial and political enterprises of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: the creation of desire - for sex, for wealth, and for entertainment.A World Made Sexy examines museum exhibitions, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Weapons of Mass Persuasion

    Marketing the War Against Iraq

    by Paul Rutherford ...
    Series series Heritage
    With nearly sixty percent of Americans initially against a pre-emptive war without sanction from the United Nations, and even higher anti-war numbers in most other nations of the world, the 2003 war against Iraq quickly became an enormous public relations challenge for the George W. Bush administration. The subject of Weapons of Mass Persuasion is a war in which American patriotism became so mired ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Adman’s Dilemma

    From Barnum to Trump

    by Paul Rutherford ...
    The Adman’s Dilemma is a cultural biography that explores the rise and fall of the advertising man as a figure who became effectively a licensed deceiver in the process of governing the lives of American consumers. Apparently this personage was caught up in a contradiction, both compelled to deceive yet supposed to tell the truth. It was this moral condition and its consequences that made the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Fashion

    A Philosophy

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Donatella Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent and Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci: fashion is at once a familiar yet mysteriously elite world that we all experience, whether we’re buying a new pair of jeans, reading Vogue, or watching the latest episode of America*’*s Next Top Model. Lars Svendsen dives into this world in Fashion: A Philosophy, exploring the myths, ideas, ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Porno? Chic!

    how pornography changed the world and made it a better place

    by Brian McNair ...
    Porno? Chic! examines the relationship between the proliferation of pornography and sexualised culture in the West and social and cultural trends which have advanced the rights of women and homosexuals.Brian McNair addresses this relationship with an analysis of trends in sexualised culture since 2002 linked to a transnational analysis of change in sexual politics and sex/gender relations in a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Porn - Philosophy for Everyone

    How to Think With Kink

    by Fritz Allhoff ...
    Series Book 30 - Philosophy for Everyone
    This anthology takes the ever-controversial discussion of pornography out of solely academic circles; it expands the questions about porn that academics might tackle and opens the conversation to those who know it best—the creators and users of porn.Features essays on non-traditional issues in porn, including celebrity sex tapes, virtual sex, S&M, homosexual porn, and technology’s impact on the ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

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  • Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    "Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."-Gore Vidal ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Radical Gestures

    by Jayne Wark ...
    Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. In Radical Gestures Jayne Wark situates feminist performance art in Canada and the United States in the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000. She shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works that after a long period of modernist aesthetic detachment ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • In a Queer Country

    Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context

    by Terry Goldie ...
    A groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Versed in queer social history as well as leading-edge gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, In a Queer Country confronts queer culture from various perspectives relevant to international audiences. Topics range from the politics of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender and the Media

    by Rosalind Gill ...
    Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates.Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary gender representations, where ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Serial Girls

    From Barbie to Pussy Riot

    Translated by Susanne De Lotbinière-Harwood ...
    by Martine Delvaux ...
    Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls.On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in perfect sync—as dolls, as dancers, as statues. From Tiller Girls to Barbie dolls, Playboy bunnies to Pussy Riot, Martine Delvaux produces a provocative analysis of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD