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- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for
discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a
means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship
between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and
denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism
and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative
language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively
explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people
of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and
relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed
these debates to thwart the associated movements.
- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for
discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced
undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a
means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship
between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and
denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism
and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative
language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively
explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people
of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and
relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed
these debates to thwart the associated movements.
Thoughtful, witty, and illuminating, in this book Michele White
explores the ways normative masculinity is associated with
computers and the Internet and is a commonly enacted online gender
practice. Through close readings and a series of case studies that
range from wedding forums to men's makeup video tutorials, White
considers the ways masculinities are structured through people's
collaborations and contestations over the establishment of
empowered positions, including debates about such key terms and
positions as "the nice guy," "nerd," "bro," and "groom." She
asserts that cultural notions of masculinity are reliant on
figurations of women and femininity, and explores cultural
conceptions of masculinity and the association of normative white
heterosexual masculinity with men and women. A counterpart to her
earlier book, Producing Women, White has crafted an excellent
primer for scholars of gender, media, and Internet studies.
The first major publication in more than thirty years on
contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art Chryssa
& New York offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist
Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a
leading figure in the postwar New York art world and in the use of
signage, text, and neon, yet her work, which bridges Pop,
Conceptual, and Minimalist approaches to art making, remains
under-recognized. Focusing on the artist's early career, in
particular her time in New York from the 1950s to the 1970s, this
book charts the emergence of her singular aesthetic, especially her
formal innovations with neon, and culminates in the development of
her monumental and rarely seen installation The Gates to Times
Square (1964-66). Essays situate Chryssa's art alongside that of
other New York-based practitioners in the 1950s and 1960s, consider
her work through the lenses of queer theory and the Greek diaspora,
and uncover her crucial influence on light art today. Rounding out
the volume, a conversation on the technical aspects of her practice
and a comprehensive chronology make this the definitive publication
on Chryssa for years to come. Distributed for Dia Art Foundation
and the Menil Collection, Houston Exhibition Schedule: Dia Chelsea,
New York (March 2-July 23, 2023) Menil Collection, Houston
(September 29, 2023-March 10, 2024) Wrightwood 659, Chicago (May
1-August 15, 2024)
Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through
new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed,
produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on
sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape
their identities and digital characteristics. She studies the means
through which women market traditional female roles, are viewed,
and produce and restructure their gendered, raced, eroticized, and
sexual identities. Incorporating a range of examples across
numerous forms of media-including trash the dress wedding
photography, Internet how-to instructions about zombie walk brides,
nail polish blogging, DIY crafting, and reborn doll
production-Producing Women elucidates women's production cultures
online, and the ways that individuals can critically study and
engage with these practices.
Maps of Narrative Practice provides brand new practical and
accessible accounts of the major areas of narrative practice that
White has developed and taught over the years, so that readers may
feel confident when utilizing this approach in their practices. The
book covers each of the five main areas of narrative
practice-re-authoring conversations, remembering conversations,
scaffolding conversations, definitional ceremony, externalizing
conversations, and rite of passage maps-to provide readers with an
explanation of the practical implications, for therapeutic growth,
of these conversations. The book is filled with transcripts and
commentary, skills training exercises for the reader, and charts
that outline the conversations in diagrammatic form. Readers both
well-versed in narrative therapy as well as those new to its
concepts, will find this fresh statement of purpose and practice
essential to their clinical work.
According to traditional accounts, Newton was the first modern
scientist. As creator of the theory of gravity, calculus, modern
theories of light and devisor of the three laws of mechanics, his
methods are perceived as the genesis of modern science. Yet the
traditional version of his life fails to tell the full story. How,
for example, could Newton's apparent empiricism be married with his
interest in alchemy and magic? What had inspired him in his
discoveries? How did he reconcile his scientific discoveries with
his religious faith? Who was this man who, historians tell us,
remained a virgin all his life and who seemed to be an
argumentative egomaniac on the one hand, and a kindly old man on
the other?
Even before its current zenith of popularity, coffee has been a
favorite beverage worldwide for centuries. To prepare coffee beans
for use, human ingenuity has created hundreds of versions of coffee
grinders, and this book is devoted exclusively to them. With 600
quality color photographs, the authors direct a marvelous tour of
the best and most sought after examples from around the world.
Accurate information about the makers and the time and place of
manufacture make this a valuable resource for collectors as well as
a rich visual history of over 300 years of American and European
coffee grinding devices. Each example is described with its current
value. Joseph E. MacMillan, a leading authority on coffee grinders
and author of the MacMillan Index, writes in his Foreword to this
book, Knowing the quality of these authors, I am confident that
this book will be an asset to the serious collector and will be
enjoyed by all of its readers for years to come.
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