Feminist Conservation Politics and Power in Madagascar's Marine Commons
ISBN: PB: 9780300265415, ISBN: HB: 9780300265422, Yale University Press, February 2025
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 19 black&white illus.
How access to and control over marine resources in Madagascar are negotiated, and the inextricable link between equity and sustainability. As marine conservation becomes an increasingly urgent issue around the world, there is an equally critical ne...
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Bathhouse.pptx
ISBN: PB: 9780300274349, Yale University Press, January 2025
160 pp., 22,9x13,8 cm
The sixteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, a big-hearted evocation of queer intimacy set in a bathhouse at the end of the world. In this love letter to queer bathhouse culture, the Presenter, a Mexican-American public-speaking student, is thrust...
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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.
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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(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.
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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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
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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Devotion
ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
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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Ill Composed Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780300224306, Yale University Press, October 2016
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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Gender Nonconformity and the Law
ISBN: HB: 9780300125856, Yale University Press, March 2016
256 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, its primary target was the outright exclusion of women from particular jobs. Over time, the Act's scope of protection has expanded to prevent not only discrimination based on sex but also discrimination b...
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Nature's Noblemen Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-century American West
ISBN: HB: 9780300136067, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by "roughing it" in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. R...
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Capital Affairs London and the Making of the Permissive Society
ISBN: HB: 9780300118797, Yale University Press, June 2010
400 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 40 black&white illus., 6 colour illus.
Did Britain's permissive society start with swinging London? This exciting new account of 1950s London challenges the sexual myth of the 1960s, arguing that its roots lay further back in the city's dramatic cultures of austerity and affluence that ma...
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