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Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses

2 reviews

University Press of the West Indies, 2004

Required Reading for Caribbeanists and Feminists
This fascinating and provocative gendered analysis of Caribbean politics and society is a welcome addition to the literature. It is theoretically well-grounded and a fine example of interdisciplinary social analysis. Highly recommended

Cunning Passages: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism and Marxism in the Contemporary Literary Debate ...
Jeremy Hawthorn

A Hodder Arnold Publication, 1996

Cunning Passages explores the implications that literary debates have for our attempts to understand both reports of historical events such as Hiroshima or the Nazi holocaust, and also fictional and poetic works whose relation to historical actuality is more complex and indirect.

Interrogating the Real

3 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006

High theory's prankster at his best
I still have a few essays left in this little gem, but I would already highly recommend it because I have never had a better experience understanding Zizek. First off, if you simply wish to gain a straight forward understanding of some of the possible theoretically usages of Lacan, Hegel, Kant, Foucault, Heidegger and a host of other heavy hitters then Zizek is your man. He loves a tangent, ...

Criminal Interrogation: A Modern Format for Interrogating Criminal Suspects Based on the Intellectual Approach
Warren D. Holmes

C.C. Thomas, 2002

Author Holmes is well qualified to write a book on the subject of criminal interrogation and has lectured about it in many organizations including the FBI, CIA, the Secret Service, the Canadian Police College, and the Singapore Police Department. He has also conducted polygraph examinations in such nationally known cases as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Watergate. Drawing on ...

Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Console-ing Passions)

Duke University Press, 2007

This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger . Broadly defined, “postfeminism” encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished ...

Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media

British Film Inst, 1998

This volume offers an introduction to disability portrayal in film and television, raising the questions of whose images, views and voices reach the screen.

Radical Democracy and the Internet: Interrogating Theory and Practice

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Radical Democracy and the Internet provides a systematic and mutual interrogation of radical democratic theory and Internet practice. Contributors critically examine a range of radical democratic theories in relation to online communication, from deliberative to agonistic to autonomist Marxist, and explore how such communication may be advancing democracy beyond what is conceptualized and practised within present liberal-capitalist political ...

Semiotics and Disability: Interrogating Categories of Difference (Cultural Studies (New York, N.Y.).)

State University of New York Press, 2001

Examines the ways that the labels disability and difference are socially and culturally constructed.

Interrogating Incest: Feminism, Foucault and the Law (Sociology of Law and Crime)

1 review
Vikki Bell

Routledge, 1993

interrogating incest- Foucault's contribution and challenge
Vikki Bell successfully traces the historical origins of incest according those discourses which claim to know the truth about incest.By utilising a critical Foucauldian framework, she emphasises the shortfalls of feminist theoretical construction in the area, opening new challenges and spaces for further development. Bell utilises discourse analysis to demonstrate how different discourses ...

The OTHER FIFTIES: INTERROGATING MIDCENTURY AMERICAN ICONS

1 review

University of Illinois Press, 1997

Celebrates pop culture's cultural subversives in the 1950s
THE OTHER FIFTIES challenges the nostalgic notion that the decade was populated by placid conformists. Essays on Elvis, Kim Novak, Rock Hudson, Nikita Khrushchev (among others) show how television, Hollywood, Broadway, and the book industry assaulted conventional mores and helped make us what we are today

Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism, and Marxism

1 review
Erik Olin Wright

Verso, 1994

This is a must have book!
One of the greatest books ever written. I am a real fan of Professor Wright! His power to clarify concepts and give practical meaning to how our culture works has provided me with a real education. May he life forever!

INTERROGATING ORIENTALISM: CONTEXTUAL APPROACHES AND PEDAGOGICAL PR
DIANE HOEVELER, JEFFREY CASS

Ohio State University Press, 2006

Orientalism is based upon the traditional belief that Western culture is superior to that of Islamic countries of the Near and Middle East. It arose in the British colonial period in the belief that the East was not civilized enough to understand itself; therefore, it had to be "interpreted" by the West for both Easterners and Westerners, thus giving rise to an "Us versus Them" dichotomy which has proved to be increasingly dangerous. As a ...

FEMINIST ECONOMICS: INTERROGATING THE MASCULINITY OF RATIONAL ECONOMIC MAN.(Review) (book review): An article ...
Irene Van Staveren

Association for Evolutionary Economics, 2001

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Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
Iris Smith Fischer

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Interrogating America looks at American culture and politics from the lens of American theatre and drama, drawing from specialists in the field of theatre to reflect upon the role of theatre in the creation of the American cultural and political milieu. The essays confront such iconic concepts as the American Dream and the American Melting Pot, addressing issues such as American enfranchisement and historical limitations placed on the idea of ...

Critical Desire: Psychoanalysis and the Literary Subject (Interrogating Texts)
Linda Ruth Williams

A Hodder Arnold Publication, 1995

Critical Desire traces the history of the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. It shows clearly and with abundant examples from literature and film the shifts and changes in psychoanalytic thought on culture and aesthetics. Readings of specific texts are presented together with lucid accounts of the development of Freudian psychoanalysis, Kleinian and Lacanian analysis, the work of Winnicott, Laplanche, and more recent ...

Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War
Robin L. Riley, Naeem Inayatullah

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

This collection of multiple perspectives on the "war on terror" and the new imperialism provides a depth of analysis. Looking at the imperialism and the "war on terror" through a lens focused on gender and race, the contributors expose the limitations of the current popular discourse and help to uncover possibilities not yet apparent in that same discourse.

Interrogating Development: State, Displacement and Popular Resistance in North East India
Monirul Hussain

Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2008

This book, the first in a series on the North East, focuses on development-induced displacement of population in the region in the post-colonial period. Despite state-sponsored development initiatives, the North East still remains highly underdeveloped and politically disturbed. Various development projects initiated by the state led to massive displacement of population within the region, which has virtually gone unnoticed. The author has made ...

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