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Paperback. An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Series Editor(s): Halberstam, Jack; Lowe, Lisa. Series: Perverse Modernities. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AFKP; JFCA; JFFH; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348283
ISBN
9780822348283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. What is it about "the homosexual" that incites vitriolic rhetoric and/or violence around the world? How and why do some people hate queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social, political, and economic terrains? This volume addresses these questions through critical interrogations of sites where homophobic discourses are produced. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345985
ISBN
9780822345985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Hardback. Argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France. This book examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345480
ISBN
9780822345480
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.28

Paperback. Shows how Portugal's economic integration into the European Union (EU) in 1996 fundamentally changed ordinary encounters between African migrants and Portuguese citizens. This book examines this economic transition through transformations in popular ideologies of difference in workspaces in Lisbon between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1HFDV; JFFN; JFSL3; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345121
ISBN
9780822345121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. An exploration of the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state and of counterpublic health measures that do not cast health as antithetical to pleasure. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFSK; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345015
ISBN
9780822345015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational, and of scarcity and abundance, in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Editor(s): McCrossen, Alexis. Num Pages: 440 pages, 105 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFCD; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344759
ISBN
9780822344759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. An argument that subaltern experiences that are devalued and overlooked in progressive late-twentieth-century Philippine literature have been essential to the social and economic changes wrought by globalization. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; JFC; JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344469
ISBN
9780822344469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.92

Paperback. A biography of Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884-1950), a Winnebago educator, scholar, and minister who was one of the most renowned Native Americans of his time. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL1; JNM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344216
ISBN
9780822344216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.48

Paperback. An ethnographic exploration of how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JMC; JFFN; JFSR2; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344094
ISBN
9780822344094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. An historical account of the significant roles of feminists and female philanthropists in the emergence of the Argentine welfare state between 1880 and 1955. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLS; HB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343301
ISBN
9780822343301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

Paperback. An ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. It explores what the migrant domestic workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343042
ISBN
9780822343042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Hardback. Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822342861
ISBN
9780822342861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.87

Paperback. The story of how the feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves has been adapted and reworked by women of different cultures around the world. Editor(s): Davis, Kathy. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 38 illustrations, 3 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822340669
ISBN
9780822340669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.56

Paperback. The trauma of the Jewish Holocaust has had the effect in scholarship of marginalizing it as a special case within the study of diaspora, ethnicity, and collection memory, yet as the contributors to this collection argue, the Holocaust and its aftermath ha Editor(s): Gerson, Judith Madeleine; Wolf, Diane L. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JFFN; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822339991
ISBN
9780822339991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. A collection of histories showing how women participated in Mexican revolutionary and postrevolutionary state formation by challenging conventions of sexuality, work, family life, and religious practice. Editor(s): Olcott, Jocelyn H.; Vaughan, Mary Kay; Cano, Gabriela. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822338994
ISBN
9780822338994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. This title provides graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country's child wives. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822337959
ISBN
9780822337959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictitious "paper families" to subvert immigration policies. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822337478
ISBN
9780822337478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. A theoretical exploration of the connected roles of area studies, poststructuralist theory, and comparative literature in constructing the world as a target for U.S. imperialism Series: Next Wave: Provocations. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 10. Weight in Grams: 209.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780822337447
ISBN
9780822337447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Develops an historical argument with contemporary relevance - Empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. Focusing on France and to a lesser extent on the United Kingdom, this title shows how empire and the post-colony have pervaded - and corroded - Western cultural, intellectual, and social life from the mid-19th century onwards. Num Pages: 192 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336976
ISBN
9780822336976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.17

paperback. A critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights era Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APT; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822333418
ISBN
9780822333418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

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