Poor or marginal whites occupy an uncharted space in recent identity studies, particularly because they do not easily fit the model of whiteness-as-power proposed by many multiculturalist or minority discourses. Associated in mainstream culture with "trashy" kitsch or dangerous …
This volume seeks to contribute to the study of the ways in which the remembrance of the past is situated in wider contexts that are influenced by the politics of the present. The main examples come from the practices and politics found in the rapidly transforming social and cul…
This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the variou…
Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.
Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.
For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet organizing historical work arou…
Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.
Allucquere Rosanne Stone examines the interface of technology and desire: from busy cyberlabs to the electronic solitude of the Internet, from "virtual cross-dressers" to the trial of a man having raped a woman by seducing one of her multiple personalities. Writing eloquently of…
by Shoemaker, Sydney, Swinburne, Richard
fromGreat debates in philosophy
This book traces the importance of Uttar Pradesh (UP) as a political ""heartland"" of India over the last century and highlights its influence on Indian politics. In unraveling this constructed identity of the state, this book analyzes the transformation that UP experienced as a…
"This book interrogates Uttar Pradesh's identity as India's "heartland" and unravels the historical processes that have shaped this region. In looking at this constructed identity of the state it argues that UP's existence as a "region" cannot be taken uncritically as a given, c…
"This book is a study of the Ion of Euripides. Produced in a period of intense political crisis at Athens in 412 BC, this play went to the heart of Athenian self-perception but also highlighted the violent divine grace of Apollo, the intense emotional suffering of Kreousa, and I…
Papers presented at an international workshop held in 1994.
"Gendered Media addresses the broad topic of gender and media, where 'gender' is not simply a shorthand for 'woman' but also embraces masculinity/ies, queer, lesbian and gay identities. Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and ge…
