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  • Reproductive Justice

    The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women

    by Barbara Gurr ...
    In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women’s reproductive healthcare and offers a sustained consideration of the movement for reproductive justice in the United States.The book examines the reproductive healthcare experiences on Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota—where Gurr herself lived for more than ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • City Scripts

    Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures

    Edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, Maria Sulimma ...
    Storytelling shapes how we view our cities, legitimizing histories, future plans, and understandings of the urban. City Scripts responds to calls by literary theorists to engage a new kind of narrative analysis that recalibrates close reading and interpretation to the multiple ways in which narratives “do things”—how they intervene in the world and take action in everyday life. A multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Preventing Mass Atrocities

    Policies and Practices

    Edited by Barbara Harff, Ted Robert Gurr ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
    What can be done to warn about and organize political action to prevent genocide and mass atrocities?The international contributors to this volume are either experts or practitioners, often both, who have contributed in substantial ways to analyzing high risk situations, recommending preventive policies and actions, and in several instances helping to organize remedial actions. Whereas current ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Feminist Research in Practice

    by Maura Kelly, Barbara Gurr ...
    Feminist Research in Practice is a supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate research methods courses. The book opens with a detailed examination of feminist methodologies and sociological research methods, followed by twelve chapters offering an in-depth analysis of six research projects. Invited scholars have each contributed two paired chapters: the first is data-driven and includes a ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Furious Feminisms

    Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road

    by Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill, Barbara Gurr ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative powerWhile both fans and foes point to Mad Max: Fury Road’s feminist credentials, Furious Feminisms asks: is there really anything feminist or radical happening on the screen? The four authors—from backgrounds in art history, American literature, disability studies, and sociology—ask what is possible ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground

    by Kurt Gray ...
    **A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK • A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us"A riveting read. . . . Overturns widespread assumptions about why we’re divided and reveals how we can come together."—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times best-selling author* ... Read more

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  • On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • A Sentimental Education

    by Hannah McGregor ...
    How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Trust Kids!

    Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy

    by carla bergman, Dani Burlison ...
    A guide for parents and guardians: Moving beyond the intellectual tendency to either ignore children or see them merely as students, Trust Kids! gives parents and families a guide on how we can cultivate authentic relationships in households by teaching and learning the importance of autonomy in all aspects of developing lives.Confronting our own households: Presents a radical and thought ... Read more

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  • Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

    Exploring Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumersHenry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • What Movies Teach about Race

    Exceptionalism, Erasure, and Entitlement

    by Roslyn M. Satchel ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
    What Movies Teach about Race: Exceptionalism, Erasure, & Entitlement reveals the way that media frames in entertainment content persuade audiences to see themselves and others through a prescriptive lens that favors whiteness. These media representations threaten democracy as conglomeration and convergence concentrate the media’s global influence in the hands of a few corporations. By linking film ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Making Media Matter

    Critical Literacy, Popular Culture, and Creative Production

    by Benjamin Thevenin ...
    This book is an essential resource for media educators working to promote critical thinking, creativity, and civic engagement through their teaching. Connecting theory and research with creative projects and analyses of pop culture, it models an integrated and practical approach to media education.In order to prepare learners to successfully navigate rapid shifts in digital technology and popular ... Read more

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