
Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race
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In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to...

Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy
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This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the...

Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe
Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah and Abigail Lee Six
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Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion....

Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900
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"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord...

The Philosophical Life: Biography and the Crafting of Intellectual Identity in Late Antiquity
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Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living....

Orlando: A Biography
Virginia Woolf, Sandra M. Gilbert and Brenda Lyons
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Once described as the 'longest and most charming love-letter in literature', the Virginia Woolf's...
Botox Nation: Changing the Face of America
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The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popularity of Botox The...

Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering
Sarah Adams LaChance and Caroline R. Lundquist
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Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering is a superlative collection of...

Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
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Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France,...

Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People
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Although the vast majority of LGBT persons are healthy, resilient, and hardy individuals who do not...