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  • Communicating Intimate Health

    Series series Communicating Gender
    Communicating Intimate Health presents an edited collection of original, empirical research, personal essays, autoethnography, critical reviews, and theoretical work showcasing advances in intimate health research from the field of communication studies. Intimate health includes sexual and reproductive health, sexual activity, sexuality, gender, and reproductive justice. The contributors ... Read more

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    Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals

    Series series Q+ Public
    **2024 Best Book of the Year Award by the GLBTQ Division of the National Communication AssociationFinalist for Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Anthology**For a generation of gay men who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming sexually active meant confronting the dangers of catching and transmitting HIV. In the 21st century, however, the development of viral suppression treatments and ... Read more

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  • Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability

    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability examines the way Afrodescendant and Black communities use the land on which they live, the rule of law, and their bodies to assert their historical, ontological, and physical presence across South, Central, and North America. Their demand for the recognition of ancestral lands, responsive policies, and human rights sheds new light on their ... Read more

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  • Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect

    A Collection

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel laureate’s cultural contexts and influences, his variety of themes, and his formidable legacy ... Read more

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  • The Haitian Creole Language

    History, Structure, Use, and Education

    Series series Caribbean Studies
    The Haitian Creole Language is the first book that deals broadly with a language that has too long lived in the shadow of French. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in the study of Creole, it provides information on this language's history; structure; and use in education, literature, and social interaction. Although spoken by virtually all Haitians, Creole was recognized as the co ... Read more

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    Series Book 2011 - The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
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