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• Author(s): Xueping Zhong • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Men's Studies - GeneralIn Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to exa...

• Author(s): Paola Bacchetta • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesIn Co-Motion, theorist Paola Bacchetta proposes a new lexicon for analyzing power, subjects and alliances. Employing...

• Author(s): Jonathan Sterne • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: DisabilityIn Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his ...

• Author(s): Sanjay Seth • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralSubject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encoun...

• Author(s): Stefan Jonsson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralThis innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in wester...

• Author(s): Sara Ahmed • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Free Will & DeterminismIn Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One histo...

• Author(s): Antonio Viego • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryDead Subjects is an impassioned call for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian ...

• Author(s): Aren Z. Aizura • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassig...

• Author(s): Matthew D. O'Hara • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaIn colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race a...

• Author(s): Gaurav Desai • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSubject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-centur...

• Author(s): Laura Hyun Yi Kang • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn Compositional Subjects Laura Hyun Yi Kang explores the ways that Asian/American women have been figured by mu...