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• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Tejaswini Niranjana • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaIn Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in M...

• 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): Gillian Siddall • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzThe contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical ...

• 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): Diana Taylor • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: PerformanceIn Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that n...

• Author(s): Julietta Singh • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureJulietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-...

• Author(s): Didier Eribon • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay StudiesA bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an ex...

• Author(s): Lori Jo Marso • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesFrom popular films like Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) to Chantal Akerman's avant-garde classic Jeanne Dielman (1975), ...

• Author(s): Jayna Brown • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryIn Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of ...