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Black Feminism Reimagined

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersect...

In the Name of Women’s Rights

Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing ...

From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea

An ethnography of the production of coffee from producer to consumer with emphasis on the effect ...

Tarrying with the Negative

'This new Zizek is as stunning as its predecessors, and breaks new philosophical ground. Not only...

No Future

''No Future' is a nuanced polemic, both ringingly clear in its aesthetic and theoretical explicat...

What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?

In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art...

Dying Modern

In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk ...

Porn Studies

In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of conte...

Israel/Palestine and the Queer International

Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDS and queer activist, and a cofounder of the MIX Festival and the...

Paraguay Reader

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith

This ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans provides a sobering l...

Professing Selves

The Islamic Republic of Iran permits, and even partially subsidizes, sex reassignment surgery. Ba...