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  • Demystifying the Big House

    Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations

    de Emily Plec, Adina Schneeweis, Amanda Barnes Cook, Sarah Fenstermaker, Valerie Jenness, J. David Wolfgang, Pauline Matthey, Kathryn M. Whiteley, Meredith Huey Dye, S. Lenise Wallace, Rebecca Kern, Kalen Churcher, Joy Jenkins, L. Clare Bratten, Le’Brian A. Patrick ...
    Series series Perspectives on Crime and Justice
    Essays in this volume illustrate how shows such as Orange Is the New Black and Oz impact the public’s perception of crime rates, the criminal justice system, and imprisonment. Contributors look at prison wives on reality television series, portrayals of death row, breastfeeding while in prison, transgender prisoners, and black masculinity. They also examine the ways in which media messages ignore ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    de Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Gender of Crime

    de Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Grace E. Howard ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates and new material throughout, including increased focus on the intersections of race, class, ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Crip Theory

    Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

    de Robert McRuer, Michael Bérubé ...
    Series Libro 9 - Cultural Front
    A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies.Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Criminology Goes to the Movies

    Crime Theory and Popular Culture

    de Nicole Rafter, Michelle Brown ...
    A "deftly written and absorbing" look at how films reflect concepts in criminology and affect our perceptions of criminal behavior (Richard Rosenfeld, coauthor of Crime and the American Dream).From Psycho to Double Indemnity to Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy through scholarly research, but also in popular ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Unruly Women

    The Politics of Confinement & Resistance

    de Karlene Faith ...
    Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there. Most women who are incarcerated do not pose a danger to society but transgress patriarchal, capitalist ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Space, Place, and Violence

    Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex and Gender

    de James A. Tyner ...
    Direct, interpersonal violence is a pervasive, yet often mundane feature of our day-to-day lives; paradoxically, violence is both ordinary and extraordinary. Violence, in other words, is often hidden in plain sight. Space, Place, and Violence seeks to uncover that which is too apparent: to critically question both violent geographies and the geographies of violence. With a focus on direct violence ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Framing the Rape Victim

    Gender and Agency Reconsidered

    de Carine M. Mardorossian ...
    Winner of the 2016 Nonfiction Category from The Authors' ZoneIn recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. In Framing the Rape Victim, Carine M. Mardorossian argues that this differential treatment of rape has exacerbated the ghettoizing of sexual violence along gendered lines and ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Expanding the Gaze

    Gender and the Politics of Surveillance

    Edición de Emily van der Meulen, Robert Heynen ...
    From sexualized selfies and hidden camera documentaries to the bouncers monitoring patrons at Australian nightclubs, the ubiquity of contemporary surveillance goes far beyond the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection or the proliferation of security cameras on every corner.Expanding the Gaze is a collection of important new empirical and theoretical works that demonstrate the ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Transgender Exigency

    Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century

    de Edward Schiappa ...
    At no other point in human history have the definitions of "woman" and "man," "male" and "female," "masculine" and "feminine," been more contentious than now. This book advances a pragmatic approach to the act of defining that acknowledges the important ethical dimensions of our definitional practices.Increased transgender rights and visibility has been met with increased opposition, controversy, ... Leer más

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  • Reading Is My Window

    Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons

    de Megan Sweeney ...
    Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.Foregrounding the voices of African American women, Sweeney analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Uniform Feelings

    Scenes from the Psychic Life of Policing

    de Jessi Lee Jackson ...
    In Uniform Feelings, American studies scholar and abolitionist psychotherapist Jessi Lee Jackson reads policing as a set of emotional and relational practices in order to shed light on the persistence of police violence. Jackson argues that psychological investments in U.S. police power emerge at various sites: her counseling room, manuals for addressing bias, museum displays, mortality statistics ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD