A groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection that rethinks the connection between the intimate and United States colonial and postcolonial histories.
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"A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role…
"This book explores how the relationship between child and parent develops in Japan, from the earliest point in a child's life, through the transition from family to the wider world, first to playschools and then schools. It relates the position in Japan to theoretical writing, …
When a poet addresses a living person, we recognise the intimacy being evoked, but what causes a poet to invoke invisible listeners? Helen Vendler explores this area of poetry, focusing on the works of George Herbert, Walt Whitman and John Ashbery.
Everyday Friendship conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. Drawing on writing on friendship, love, and intimacy by such thinkers as Simmel and Kracauer, Elias, Goffman, Luhmann…
Everyday Friendships conceptualizes the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the meaning of love and friendship is increasingly unclear. Drawing on such thinkers as Simmel and Kracauer, Elias, Goffman, Luhmann, and Honneth, the book charts modern intimacy and the fre…
This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor-care, domestic, and sex work-and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.
This collection represents a stellar interdisciplinary contribution to research on work shaped by personal and emotional interaction. The essays embody the best quality of the work they explore--a thoughtful and discerning sensitivity to human need."--Nancy Folbre, author of Gre…
"Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected."
"Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected"…
"The Science of Intimate Relationships represents the first interdisciplinary approach to the latest scientific findings relating to human sexual relationships.-Offers an unusual degree of integration across topics, which include intimate relationships in terms of both mind and …