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Leaving the Tomboy Behind

Sinophone Lesbian Subjectivities and Transnational Queer Media

By Carman K.M. Fung
Subjects: Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, China, Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

Turning to global LGBTQ+ media to explore selfhood and gender expressions

Cold War and Sinophone Culture at the Borders

By Shuang Shen
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural production of Sinophone communities outside of China during the Cold War

Excavations at San Martín Tilcajete

Early State Formation in Oaxaca, Volume II

By Charles S. Spencer & Elsa M. Redmond
Subjects: Archaeology, History, Historical Methods and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Memoirs

Excavations at San Martín Tilcajete

Early State Formation in Oaxaca, Volume I

By Charles S. Spencer & Elsa M. Redmond
Subjects: Archaeology, History, Historical Methods and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Memoirs

Performance Beyond the Pale

Meditations on Art, Activism, and Bodies in Extremis

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Activism

The performative logic of political and cultural acts dismissed as too extreme or excessive

Black Power Praxis

Theory, Practice, and Activist Intellectuals in Detroit's Black Power Movement

By Matt Birkhold
Subjects: African American Studies, History, African American History, Cultural Studies, Activism

A close look at how social movements rise and fall

Gender Is a Weapon

Liberalism, Difference, and US Counterinsurgency

By Elizabeth Mesok
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Ethnic Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Critical Militarization Studies
Series: Critical Militarization Studies

A sobering account of the strategic leveraging of women for counterinsurgency and impossible promises of inclusion

Hungry Subjects

Mapping Appetites in the African Cultural Landscape

By Njeri Githire
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Interrogating the plate, palate, and African literary imagination of food and eating

A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 2

By Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Pablo Alvarez, and Julia Miller
Subjects: History, European History, Reference, Art, Art History, Cultural Studies

Cataloging newly discovered manuscripts and fragments in one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts in North America

Exit of a Hero

Photography and the Visual Culture of Commemoration in Southern Nigeria

By Okechukwu Nwafor
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Photography, Art History, Cultural Studies
Series: African Perspectives

The transformation of commemorative practices alongside the development of a distinct visual culture reshaping southern Nigeria

Professor Superstar

Fandom and Anti-Fandom of Academia

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Fan Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

The intersection of fandom and academia

Envisioning Eastern Europe

Postcommunist Cultural Studies

Edited by Michael D. Kennedy
Subjects: European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Sociology

La Partera

Story of a Midwife

1st Edition

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Sociology

Creative Belonging

The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China

By Yanshuo Zhang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: China Understandings Today

An interdisciplinary study on the creative cultures produced by China's ethnic minorities

The Mind of the Slave

The Limits of Ownership in Roman Law and Society

By Nicole J. Giannella
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History, Cultural Studies
Series: Empire and After

Investigating slave ownership and the limits of ownership in ancient Rome

Constructions of the Classical Body

Edited by James I. Porter
Subjects: Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Unsettling Catan

Detached Design in Eurogames

By J. Rey Lee
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Reference, Cultural Studies
Series: Tabletop Games

Tracing Catan’s legacy in recent influential eurogames

Imperialist Imagination

German Colonialism and Its Legacy

Edited by Sara L. Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne M. Zantop
Subjects: German Studies, History, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Queer Throughlines

Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora

By Ju Hui Judy Han
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Asian American Studies, Diaspora Studies, Cultural Studies, Activism
Series: Global Queer Asias

Tracing contemporary transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activism

Screening Precarity

Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India

By Megha Anwer & Anupama Arora
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, Cultural Studies

Framing post-millennial Hindi films as cinema of precarity

Fear the Future

Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century

By Matthew Benjamin Cole
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Cultural Studies, Fiction, Democracy and Authoritarianism

How stories of our world gone wrong haunt political thought from the twentieth century and beyond

Cultural Production of Hallyu in the Digital Platform Era

Industry Perspectives

By Dal Yong Jin
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies

Exploring the platformization of the Korean Wave and its connection to cultural industries

The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal

Intermarriage, Qur'anic Education, and Jihad

By Aly Dramé
Subjects: African Studies, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: African Perspectives

An exploration of the development of Islam in the Middle Casamance region

Creating with Roots

Contemporary Chinese National Folk Dance Choreography

Translated by Emily Wilcox

By Rui Xu
Translated by Emily Wilcox
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Dance, Cultural Studies

Navigating tradition and innovation in Chinese national folk dance, available in English for the first time 

Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

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