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  • “All-Electric” Narratives

    Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020

    by Dr. Rachele Dini ...
    Winner of the 2023 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies“All-Electric” Narratives is the first in-depth study of time-saving electrical appliances in American literature. It examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ovens between 1945, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • An Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality

    Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge

    by Rachele Dini, Chiara Briganti ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before his death in 1984.Central to Foucault’s appeal is the creativity of his thought. Creative thinking takes ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish

    by Meghan Kallman, Rachele Dini ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative thinkers – and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book now ranks among the most influential academic works ever published.Foucault’s aim is to trace the way in which incarceration was transformed between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. What started ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any active visual or tactile engagement, the work of art becomes an object of passive contemplation and a potential tool of ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Frantz Fanon’s explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless exposé of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon’s incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized peoples, it is both a crucial text in post-colonial theory, and a lesson in the power of analytical skills to reveal the realities that hide ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction

    Legacies of the Avant-Garde

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants. Building on recent work in new materialism and waste studies, Rachele Dini reads waste as a process or phase amenable to interruption. From an initial exploration of waste and re-use in three Surrealist texts ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • An Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and its influence is still felt today.The book’s success owes much to Beauvoir’s brilliant writing style and passion, but both are rooted in the ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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    Walter Benjamin's The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    by Rachele Dini ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 51 min

    The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Benjamin, a work of art closed off from any active visual or tactile engagement becomes an object of passive contemplation and a potential tool of oppression. He argues that technology has fundamentally altered the way art is experienced. Open ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 48 min

    Black Skin, White Masks offers a radical analysis of the psychological effects of colonization on the colonized. Fanon witnessed the effects of colonization first hand both in his birthplace, Martinique, and again later in life when he worked as a psychiatrist in another French colony, Algeria. His text is uncompromising in form and argument. He dissects the dehumanizing effects of colonialism, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 59 min

    Like Foucault’s earlier works, The History of Sexuality (1976) is ground-breaking and controversial. His claim that sexuality is more a social concept than the product of biological instincts challenges the accepted idea that it was the rise of modernity and capitalism that resulted in repression of sexualities. On the contrary, Foucault argues, as sex became the object of scientific study, sexual ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Simon De Beauvoir's The Second Sex

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Narrated by Laurence Bouvard ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 49 min

    The Second Sex caused uproar when it appeared in 1949.¶Simone de Beauvoir sets out groundbreaking ideas on what it meant to be a woman, charting the oppression of “the second sex.” She argued that gender identity was shaped by upbringing in a world ruled by men, and her most startling thesis became a rallying cry for the feminist movement: “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” ¶Decades ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

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