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Liminal Spaces - Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Grace Aneiza Ali Liminal Spaces - Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Grace Aneiza Ali
R1,468 Discovery Miles 14 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Samanta's Story - One Story, Many Victims (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Olalekan Ojo... Samanta's Story - One Story, Many Victims (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Olalekan Ojo Ogungbemi, Ali Karim, Hannah Kirsch
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Finding Me (Hardcover): Inocencia Tupas Malunes Finding Me (Hardcover)
Inocencia Tupas Malunes; Contributions by Sandra Lee, Fermin Rodriguez
R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Queer Euripides - Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy (Hardcover): Sarah Olsen, Mario Telo Queer Euripides - Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy (Hardcover)
Sarah Olsen, Mario Telo
R2,862 Discovery Miles 28 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and relations more broadly. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force of Euripidean drama. They further demonstrate how the analytical frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last thirty years deeply resonate with the ways in which Euripides' plays twist poetic form in order to challenge well-established modes of the social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms, and reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the center of the interpretive act.

Badhai - Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia (Hardcover): Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment, Jeff Roy Badhai - Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia (Hardcover)
Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment, Jeff Roy; Series edited by Simon. Shepherd
R2,327 Discovery Miles 23 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation, religion, genre, and identity. This collaboratively authored book draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai's place-based dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans performance.

Wild Women of Michigan - A History of Spunk and Tenacity (Paperback): Norma Lewis Wild Women of Michigan - A History of Spunk and Tenacity (Paperback)
Norma Lewis
R609 R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Daddy Issues (Hardcover): Tammy Campbell Brooks Daddy Issues (Hardcover)
Tammy Campbell Brooks
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sala's Gift - My Mother's Holocaust Story (Paperback, Annotated edition): Ann Kirschner Sala's Gift - My Mother's Holocaust Story (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Ann Kirschner
R497 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: She had survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. Living in America after the war, she kept hidden from her children any hint of her epic, inhuman odyssey. She held on to more than 350 letters, photographs, and a diary without ever mentioning them. Only in 1991, on the eve of heart surgery, did she suddenly present them to Ann, her daughter, and offer to answer any questions Ann wished to ask.

When Sala first reported to a camp in Geppersdorf, Germany, at the age of sixteen, she thought it would be for six weeks. Five years later, she was still at a labor camp and only she and two of her sisters remained alive of an extended family of fifty.

"Sala's Gift" is a heartbreaking, eye-opening story of survival and love amidst history's worst nightmare.

Crack Baby (Hardcover): Nyree Watkins Crack Baby (Hardcover)
Nyree Watkins
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome (Hardcover): Sara Elise Phang Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
Sara Elise Phang
R2,081 Discovery Miles 20 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an invaluable introduction to the social, economic, and legal status of women in ancient Rome. Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome is an invaluable introduction to the lives of women in the late Roman Republic and first three centuries of the Roman Empire. Arranged chronologically and thematically, it examines how Roman women were born, educated, married, and active in economic, social, public, and religious life, as well as how they were commemorated and honored after death. Though they were excluded from formal public and military offices, wealthy Roman women participated in public life as benefactors and in religious life as priestesses. The book also acknowledges the status and occupations of women taking part in public life as textile producers, retail workers, and agricultural laborers, as well as enslaved women. The book provides a thorough introduction to the social history of women in the Roman world and gives students and aspiring scholars references to current scholarship and to primary literary and documentary sources, including collected sources in translation. Provides students of classical or women's history with a chronologically and thematically oriented introduction to the demography, legal and social status, life stages, social and public roles, occupations, and leisure activities of women in Roman society Emphasizes primary literary and documentary sources and provides accessible references to further reading and research Focuses on the diversity of Roman women's experiences across the social hierarchy Discusses both the limitations that women faced (e.g., in Roman law and custom) and how they negotiated or transcended these limitations Includes visually interesting images that enhance the text

Not Simply Broken (Hardcover): Betty Khalili Not Simply Broken (Hardcover)
Betty Khalili
R477 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Whose Comfort?: Body, Sexuality And Identity Of Korean 'Comfort Women' And Japanese Soldiers During Wwii (Paperback):... Whose Comfort?: Body, Sexuality And Identity Of Korean 'Comfort Women' And Japanese Soldiers During Wwii (Paperback)
Yonson Ahn
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, international attention has been recurrently drawn to violence against civilians including sexual violence during war as a means of furthering military or political goals. The ongoing issue of comfort women has been debated not only among Asian countries including Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, and the Philippines but also in numerous international forums.This book examines the system of military comfort women in Asia and the Pacific created and maintained by Japan during World War II. It uses the comfort women system as a lens for exploring the ways in which body, sexuality and identity are deployed in the creation of patriarchal relations, ethnic hierarchies, and colonial/nationalist power. This book analyzes the role and nature of the comfort women system as a mechanism of social control by the colonial state. This requires the examining of sexuality and body politics, the social background of the victims, wartime working conditions, and regulation of soldiers' sexuality.This book aims to contribute to both the academic community and the community of civic groups through a work that spans the dimensions of history, theory and activism.

The Autobiography of a Working Woman (Hardcover): Adelheid Popp The Autobiography of a Working Woman (Hardcover)
Adelheid Popp
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
She Found His Grace - A True Story Of Hope, Love, And Forgiveness After Abortion (Hardcover): Serena Dyksen She Found His Grace - A True Story Of Hope, Love, And Forgiveness After Abortion (Hardcover)
Serena Dyksen; As told to Julie Klose
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
I Volunteered for This - A Woman's Perspective of Serving In the U.S. Army (Hardcover): Theresa Benner Mccullough I Volunteered for This - A Woman's Perspective of Serving In the U.S. Army (Hardcover)
Theresa Benner Mccullough
R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cover Up and Save Yourself - Revealing Sexy Is Not Sexy (Hardcover): Bill Vincent Cover Up and Save Yourself - Revealing Sexy Is Not Sexy (Hardcover)
Bill Vincent
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Experience Is the Angled Road - Memoir of an Academic (Hardcover): R.Barbara Gitenstein Experience Is the Angled Road - Memoir of an Academic (Hardcover)
R.Barbara Gitenstein
R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lioness - My Fighting Spirit (Hardcover, 2nd Updated & Revised ed.): Silvana Ghoussain Lioness - My Fighting Spirit (Hardcover, 2nd Updated & Revised ed.)
Silvana Ghoussain
R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Trans- Political Economy (Paperback): Dan Irving, Vek Lewis Trans- Political Economy (Paperback)
Dan Irving, Vek Lewis
R329 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R30 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, "Trans-Political Economy," edited by Dan Irving and Vek Lewis, addresses how capitalism differentially and unequally affects trans and sex/gender-diverse people across the globe. "We all, from our different social and political locations, become implicated in those architectures through our everyday interactions with a variety of coordinated and contradictory institutions and rationalities that order our lives across different local and global geopolitical spaces and scales," write Lewis and Irving. The editors of and contributors to this issue reveal how the narrowly constructed objects of trans studies and political economy (such as gender, labor, class, and economy) have been complicit in the necropolitical devaluation of trans lives and existing strategies crafted for trans survival. Topics include trans visibility and commodity culture; trans credit reporting; the growing population of T-girls, trans women truckers; trans street-based sex workers; the system of sex/gender identification for trans asylum seekers in South Africa; and waria affective labor in Indonesia. There is also a roundtable deconstructing trans* political economy. The Arts & Culture section of this issue features a review of season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race in relation to certain political-economic elements of the drag industry as well as an in-depth look at the representation of transgender lives on film, specifically in Dallas Buyers Club.

The God Who Gave You Birth (Hardcover): Eloise Hopkins The God Who Gave You Birth (Hardcover)
Eloise Hopkins
R594 Discovery Miles 5 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Women, Abuse, and the Bible - How Scripture Can Be Used to Hurt or Heal (Hardcover): Catherine Clark Kroeger, James R. Beck Women, Abuse, and the Bible - How Scripture Can Be Used to Hurt or Heal (Hardcover)
Catherine Clark Kroeger, James R. Beck
R1,238 R1,033 Discovery Miles 10 330 Save R205 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Surrender - The Forgotten Spiritual Discipline (Hardcover): Renatha E Lollis Surrender - The Forgotten Spiritual Discipline (Hardcover)
Renatha E Lollis
R812 R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Save R69 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dating - Secrets for Introverts - How to Eliminate Dating Fear, Anxiety and Shyness by Instantly Raising Your Charm and... Dating - Secrets for Introverts - How to Eliminate Dating Fear, Anxiety and Shyness by Instantly Raising Your Charm and Confidence with These Simple Techniques (Hardcover)
James W Williams
R405 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R31 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mary Magdalene, La Malinche, and the Ethics of Interpretation (Hardcover): Jennifer Vija Pietz Mary Magdalene, La Malinche, and the Ethics of Interpretation (Hardcover)
Jennifer Vija Pietz
R2,390 Discovery Miles 23 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By comparing the intersecting histories of interpretation of Mary Magdalene, a first-century disciple of Jesus, and La Malinche, a sixteenth-century Mesoamerican woman enslaved by the Spanish conquistadores, Jennifer Vija Pietz critically evaluates the use of past lives to address contemporaneous concerns. She demonstrates how the earliest sources portray each woman as an agent in the foundation of a new community: Magdalene's proclamation of Jesus's resurrection helped form the first Christian community, while La Malinche's role as interpreter between Spanish and native people during the Conquest helped establish modern Mexico. Pietz then argues that over time, various interpreters turn these real women into malleable icons that they use to negotiate changing conceptions of communal identity and norms. Strikingly, popular portraits develop of both women as archetypal whores who represent transgression-portraits that some women have experienced as harmful. Although other interpreters present contrary portraits of Magdalene and La Malinche as admirable emblems of female empowerment, Pietz argues that the tendency to turn real people into icons risks producing stereotypes that can obscure past lives and negatively affect people in the present. In response, she posits strategies for developing historically plausible and ethically responsible interpretations of people of the past.

We Are So Much More - Integrating the 7 Dimensions of Success for Women Leaders to Thrive at Work and in Life (Hardcover):... We Are So Much More - Integrating the 7 Dimensions of Success for Women Leaders to Thrive at Work and in Life (Hardcover)
Aster Angagaw
R744 R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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