Cultural Studies
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Organs without Bodies
On Deleuze and Consequences
Series: Routledge Classics
With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself...
Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Bodies That Matter
On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Series: Routledge Classics
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of...
Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Series: Routledge Classics
'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen’s classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that...
Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Distinction
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Series: Routledge Classics
No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First published in 1979, the book is at once a vast...
Published March 11th 2010 by Routledge
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Keeping Faith
Philosophy and Race in America
Series: Routledge Classics
'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - Artforum Keeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of...
Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
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Reel to Real
Race, Sex and Class at the Movies
Series: Routledge Classics
Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and...
Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
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How the Irish Became White
Series: Routledge Classics
'…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America in...
Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
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Outside in the Teaching Machine
Series: Routledge Classics
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie's controversial...
Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
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Black Feminist Thought
Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Series: Routledge Classics
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist...
Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge