The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction by Robert Hurley $14.00
The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.
Subjection Of Women by Broadview Press $8.95
This volume of The Subjection of Women provides a reliable text in an inexpensive edition, with explanatory notes but no additional editorial apparatus.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Routledge $31.95
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture.
The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Duke University Press Books $22.95
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Judith Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of...
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs by Walter Kaufmann $13.00
Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God -- to which a large part of the book is devoted -- and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book...
Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents by Jossey-Bass $24.95
"Boys and Girls Learn Differently! offers valuable and much-needed tools to provide boys and girls with true equal educational opportunities. The new techniques Michael Gurian presents here will transform our classrooms and the way parents teach their children in very positive ways." —John Gray, author, Children Are from Heaven and Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus"From the beginning of...
The Gay Science (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) by Thomas Common $11.95
God is dead,” Friedrich Nietzsche unflinchingly declared in this famous work of philosophy. It is one of the boldest statements ever made, and garnered far-reaching, strong reactions. In addition to being the book containing the words that shook the world, The Gay Science includes Nietzsche’s arguments on ethics and knowledge. It is no wonder The Gay Science is known in some circles...
Kill Them Before They Grow: Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in American Classrooms by African American Images $10.95
Examining how African American males end up in dead-end classes, this book explores what must be done to change this trend, asking such questions as What happens to these boys in special education? and How can educators and communities reduce the number of African American boys receiving Ritalin and ultimately dropping out?
Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (Law, Meaning, and Violence) by University of Michigan Press $23.95
Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students to understand this serious problem. Ann Arnett Ferguson demonstrates how a group of eleven-...
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Routledge $38.95
In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender....