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Technical Territories

Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia

By Luke Munn
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Governance

Toward a geography of infrastructure

Bits and Pieces

Screening Animal Life and Death

By Sarah O'Brien
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies

How and why animals—especially dead animals—matter in film and television

Take Care

Communicating in English with Health Care Workers

Revised Edition

By Nina Ito & Christopher Mefford
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL)

Prepares health care workers worldwide to better communicate in English in crucial healthcare-related situations

Viewers in Distress

Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

By Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Race and Ethnicity

The changing politics of reception, and how rebellious spectators are redefining the avant-garde

Refugee Students

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By Jeffra Flaitz
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL), Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Teacher Training, Education, Teacher Issues

Courting Failure

How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts

By Lynn LoPucki
Subjects: Law

An eye-opening account of the widespread and systematic decay of America's bankruptcy courts

Genre-Based Writing

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By Christine Tardy
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL)

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

Staging Desire

Queer Readings of American Theater History

Edited by Kimberley Bell Marra & Robert A. Schanke
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Facing It

AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

By Leigh Ross Chambers
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature

Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading

Strangers to the Law

Gay People on Trial

By Lisa Melinda Keen & Suzanne Beth Goldberg
Subjects: Law, Sexuality Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Describes the legal challenge to the Colorado anti-gay civil rights initiative

Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families

By Sean Cahill & Sarah Tobias
Subjects: Gender Studies, Reference, Political Science, Public Policy

A comprehensive account of the discrimination that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families confront and a look at how policy changes could make them more secure

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers

Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

By Catherine Davy
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village

Act Like a Man

Challenging Masculinities in American Drama

By Robert Vorlicky
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Sexuality Studies

Effeminism

The Economy of Colonial Desire

By Revathi Krishnaswamy
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative

Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Boy Heroines and Female Pages

By Michael Shapiro
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies