Cultural Studies

Would you like a step-by-step guide to achieving world peace through gender anarchy and sex positivity?

Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender theory, but most fail to provide a hands-on, accessible guide for those trying to sort out their own sexual identities. In My New Gender Workbook, transgender activist Kate Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender.

1900 to the Present, 3rd Edition

By Penny Sparke

This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design.

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Do you need a guide to the methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising?

Look no further than The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture, which provides an essential guide to these key issues!

Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion.

The field of sexuality studies has been a growth area in academia and classes on sexuality studies have been incorporated into various disciplines. This collection both charts the growth of this area and provides material which would be relevant to a wide cross section of courses.

Postcolonialism consists of a wide range of responses to colonialism and its ongoing legacies and is one of the most important cultural and theoretical developments of recent decades. This invaluable resource offers a range of perspectives on postcolonialism from across the humanities and social sciences.

Race and ethnicity have been at the forefront of both academic debate and social issues for many decades. This exciting new resource offers access to important and wide ranging contributions to the study of race, taking in cultural, social, political, legal and economic aspects of the subject.

We have updated our Media and Communication catalogs to showcase our new and key titles for 2013!

We have two new catalogs, our general Media and Communication catalog and our Media and Communication Research catalog.

H. Aram Veeser, author of Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism will be holding a book launch at 7pm on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at Alwan for the Arts in NYC.  More information about the event can be found on Alwan for the Arts’ website.