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1. Transforming Images

   Screens, affect, futures

   By Rebecca Coleman

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Loneliness and Longing

   Conscious and Unconscious Aspects

   Edited by Brent Willock, Lori C. Bohm, Rebecca Coleman Curtis

   We all experience loneliness at some time in our lives and it often motivates people, consciously or otherwise, to enter treatment. Yet it is rarely explicitly addressed in psychoanalytic literature. Loneliness and Longing rectifies this oversight by thoroughly exploring this painful psychological...

   Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
3. Hope and Feminist Theory

   Edited by Rebecca Coleman, Debra Ferreday

   Hope is central to marginal politics which speak of desires for equality or simply for a better life. Feminism might be characterised as a politics of hope, a movement underpinned by a utopian drive for equality. This version of hope has been used, for example in Barack Obama’s phrase ‘the audacity...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge