Store Front NYC
ISBN: HB: 9783791389646,
Prestel Publishing,
October 2023
240 pp., 25,5x30,0 cm, 200 colour illus.
240 pp., 25,5x30,0 cm, 200 colour illus.
This collection of hugely popular and critically acclaimed photos celebrates New York City's unique history and culture – from long-disappeared icons to still-thriving favorite haunts. For decades, husband-and-wife photography duo James and Karla Mur...
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£35.00
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Abstract Bodies
Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
ISBN: PB: 9780300271898,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
400 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 103 colour illus., 53 black&white illus.
400 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 103 colour illus., 53 black&white illus.
An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory.
Now back in print, Abstract Bodies was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies with the discipline of art hist...
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£35.00
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(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love
Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
ISBN: PB: 9780300264753,
Yale University Press,
April 2022
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work.
Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...
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£17.99
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Hell Hath No Fury
Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780300223118,
Yale University Press,
November 2021
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
Throughout the Christian tradition, descriptions of hell's fiery torments have shaped contemporary notions of the afterlife, divine justice, and physical suffering. But rarely do we consider the roots of such conceptions, which originate in a group o...
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£55.00
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This is How You Vagina
All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn't Call it That
The history, mystery, and majesty of the most fascinating organ!
In "This is How You Vagina", Dr. Nicole Williams presents readers with a much-needed education on the history, science, and attitudes of the most fascinating and misunderstood part of...
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£17.50
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Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781787385719,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2021
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
A much-needed exploration of the queer-positive approaches emerging within African Christianity.
Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually de...
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£20.00
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Women and Gender in Islam
Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
ISBN: PB: 9780300257311,
Yale University Press,
May 2021
320 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
320 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arab...
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£15.99
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Masculinities
Liberation through Photography
ISBN: HB: 9783791359519,
Prestel Publishing,
February 2020
304 pp., 32,0x22,8 cm, 250 colour illus.
304 pp., 32,0x22,8 cm, 250 colour illus.
This photographic exploration draws together the work of approximately fifty artists of different ethnicities, generations, and gender identities to look at how ideas of masculinity have evolved since the 1960s. Each of its six themed chapters featur...
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£39.99
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Devotion
ISBN: PB: 9780300240221,
ISBN: HB: 9780300218626,
Yale University Press,
September 2018
112 pp., 17,8x12,1 cm, 11 black&white illus.
112 pp., 17,8x12,1 cm, 11 black&white illus.
A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...
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£7.99
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£13.99
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Ill Composed
Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780300224306,
ISBN: HB: 9780300200706,
Yale University Press,
October 2016
296 pp., 23,0x14,6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,0x14,6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in early modern England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britons. Drawing on a...
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£28.00
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£70.00
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