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  • Bodies in Transition in the Health Humanities

    Representations of Corporeality

    Edited by Lisa M Detora, Stephanie Mathilde Hilger ...
    In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue about bodily transformation and its many potential meanings and possibilities.Recent high-profile sex transitions, such as Bruce Jenner’s transformation into Caitlyn, have contributed to a proliferation of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Culture, and Media

    Edited by Jodi Cressman, Lisa DeTora, Jeannie Ludlow, Nora Martin Peterson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities: Literature, Culture, and Media examines discourses of embodiment across disability studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and visual studies to inform educational practice as well as cultural criticism related to the health and medical humanities. The book argues that imagery and other visual elements in literature, comics, lived experience and ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • A Culturally Centered and Intersectional Approach to Reproductive Justice

    by Tomeka M. Robinson, Sabrina Singh, Christina Mary Joseph, Iccha Basnyat, Riley D. Campbell, Amy Garcia, Calla Hales, Lilia Aparecida Kanan0, Satveer Kaur-Gill1, Cinthia Lopes da Silva2, Diana Isabel Martínez3, Breonna Riddick4, McKenzie Twine5, Aisha Wilson-Carter6, Dr, Prof Lisa M. DeTora7 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Health Communication
    A Culturally-Centered and Intersectional Approach to Reproductive Justice investigates and challenges assumptions and pre-existing notions regarding reproductive justice by grounding this work in a more inclusive and culturally informed context. Throughout history, contributors argue, reproductive justice movements have centered white, cisgendered, and non-disabled women in the West. Along with ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

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    $10.99 CAD

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  • The End of Love

    A Sociology of Negative Relations

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysterious moments ... Read more

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  • On the Inconvenience of Other People

    by Lauren Berlant ...
    Series series Writing Matters!
    In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

    by Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann, Craig Irvine, Eric R. Marcus, Edgar Rivera Colsn, Danielle Spencer, Maura Spiegel ...
    Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Language and Gender

    by Penelope_Eckert, Sally_McConnell-Ginet ...
    Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly updated and restructured, brings out more strongly an emphasis on practice and change, while retaining the broad scope of its predecessor and its accessible introductions which explain the key concepts in a non-technical way. ... Read more

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  • The Female Face of Shame

    by Anna Rocco, Suzette A. Henke, Frann Michel, Eliza Chandler, Sinead McDermott, Tamar Heller, Nicole Fayard, Jocelyn Eighan, Karen U. Lindo, Peiling Zhao, Namrata Mitra, Laura Martocci, Natalie Edwards ...
    The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female body, and shame. It demonstrates how shame structures relationships and shapes women's identities. ... Read more

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  • Valences of Interdisciplinarity

    Theory, Practice, Pedagogy

    Edited by Raphael Foshay ...
    Series series Cultural Dialectics
    The modern university can trace its roots to Kant's call for enlightened self-determination, with education aiming to produce an informed and responsible body of citizens. As the university evolved, specialized areas of investigation emerged, enabling ever more precise research and increasingly nuanced arguments. In recent decades, however, challenges to the hegemony of disciplines have arisen, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Affect Theory Reader 2

    Worldings, Tensions, Futures

    Edited by Gregory J. Seigworth, Carolyn Pedwell ...
    Series series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
    Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and ... Read more

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  • Visual Literacy

    Edited by James Elkins ...
    What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually literate," what does that mean in practical terms? The essays gathered here examine a host of issues surrounding "the visual," exploring national and regional ideas of visuality and charting out new territories of ... Read more

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