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  • Awesome Nightfall

    The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyo

    by Saigyo, William R Lafleur ...
    Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyo captures the power of Saigyo's poetry and this previously overlooked poet's keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan. It also offers a fascinating look into the world of Japanese Buddhism prior to the wholesale influence of Zen. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle Over Organ Transplants

    America’s Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics

    by William R. LaFleur ...
    William LaFleur (1936-2010), an eminent scholar of Japanese studies, left behind a substantial number of influential publications, as well as several unpublished works. The most significant of these examines debates concerning the practice of organ transplantation in Japan and the United States, and is published here for the first time.This provocative book challenges the North American medical ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Liquid Life

    Abortion and Buddhism in Japan

    by William R. LaFleur ...
    Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? Equally puzzling to many Westerners is the Japanese practice of mizuko rites, in which the parents of aborted fetuses pray for the well-being of these rejected "lives." In this provocative investigation, William LaFleur examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan. At ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828

    Edited by William Huntting Howell, Greta LaFleur ...
    Series series Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition
    This volume presents a complex portrait of the United States of America grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Topics include (but are not limited to): the dynamics of language and power, the treachery of memory, the lived experience of racial and economic inequality, the aesthetics of Indigeneity, the radical possibilities of disability, the fluidity of gender and sexuality, the depth ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

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  • Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood.The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance. ... Read more

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    Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

    by Silvia Federici ...
    Series series Kairos
    More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements—all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks on his Life and Work

    by Willem Vanderburg, Jacques Ellul ...
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  • Topology of Violence

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