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  • Theory of the Counterinsurgent Girl

    de Molly Geidel ...
    Series series Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory
    This Element theorizes the emergence of the girl as the ideal subject of Western imperialist power. Feminist anti-imperialist scholars have long argued that imperialism operates through the global North's claim to be the savior of voiceless, victimized women and girls in the global South. However, during the global war on terrorism, the military and development organizations of the global North ... Leer más

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  • The Development Film in the Americas

    de Molly Geidel ...
    In this book, Molly Geidel traces the rise and fall of the development film, an overlooked film genre that circulated widely in the Americas from the 1940s through the 1970s. Development films, often short documentaries, were made at the behest of state agencies, global governance organizations, and private corporations to link capitalist conceptions of economic growth to improved quality of life. ... Leer más

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  • Peace Corps Fantasies

    How Development Shaped the Global Sixties

    de Molly Geidel ...
    Series series Critical American Studies
    To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency’s representative ... Leer más

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    Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance

    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
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  • The Chicano Studies Reader

    An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

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  • Viva la historieta

    Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

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  • Man Up

    The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism

    The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West—from an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentatorWhat two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the first: they are almost always men or boys. But the second? They are almost always ... Leer más

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  • World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives

    Series series AFI Film Readers
    SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection"The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World ... Leer más

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    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
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  • A Companion to Los Angeles

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    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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  • Disposable Futures

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    Series series City Lights Open Media
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  • iVenceremos?

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