121.
Series: Justice, Power, and Politics
Brewing a Boycott
How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism
Paperback
Allyson P. Brantley
9781469661032
$40.95
HISTORY
May 10, 2021
In the late twentieth century, nothing united union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community quite as well as Coors beer. They came together not in praise of the ice cold beverage but rather to fight a common enemy: the Colorado-based Coors Brewing Company. Wielding the consumer boycott as their weapon of choice, activists targeted Coors for allegations of antiunionism, discrimination, and conservative political ties. Over decades of organizing and coalition-bui...
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122.
Series: Critical Indigeneities
Committed
Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
Hardcover
Susan Burch
9781469661612
$128.95
HISTORY
Apr 01, 2021
Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylu...
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123.
Series: Critical Indigeneities
Committed
Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
Paperback
Susan Burch
9781469661629
$24.95
HISTORY
Apr 01, 2021
Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylu...
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124.
Series:
The Thing about Religion
An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions
Hardcover
David Morgan
9781469662824
$128.95
RELIGION
Apr 12, 2021
Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led the way in radically broadening that framework to encompass the understanding that religions are fundamentally embodied, material forms of practice. This concise primer shows readers how to study what has come to be termed material religion—the ways religious meaning is enacted in the material world.Material religion includes the things people wear, eat, sing, touch, look at, create, and avoid. It als...
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125.
Series:
The Thing about Religion
An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions
Paperback
David Morgan
9781469662831
$33.95
RELIGION
Apr 12, 2021
Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led the way in radically broadening that framework to encompass the understanding that religions are fundamentally embodied, material forms of practice. This concise primer shows readers how to study what has come to be termed material religion—the ways religious meaning is enacted in the material world.Material religion includes the things people wear, eat, sing, touch, look at, create, and avoid. It als...
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126.
Series:
The Male Chauvinist Pig
A History
Hardcover
Julie Willett
9781469661063
$128.95
HISTORY
Jun 14, 2021
In the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, a series of stock characters emerged to define and bolster white masculinity. Alongside such caricatures as "the Playboy" and "the Redneck" came a new creation: "the Male Chauvinist Pig." Coined by second-wave feminists as an insult, the Male Chauvinist Pig was largely defined by an anti-feminism that manifested in boorish sexist jokes. But the epithet backfired: being a sexist pig quickly transformed into a badge of honor worn proudly by misogynists, and, in time, it would come to define a strain...
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127.
Series:
The Male Chauvinist Pig
A History
Paperback
Julie Willett
9781469661070
$30.95
HISTORY
Jun 14, 2021
In the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, a series of stock characters emerged to define and bolster white masculinity. Alongside such caricatures as "the Playboy" and "the Redneck" came a new creation: "the Male Chauvinist Pig." Coined by second-wave feminists as an insult, the Male Chauvinist Pig was largely defined by an anti-feminism that manifested in boorish sexist jokes. But the epithet backfired: being a sexist pig quickly transformed into a badge of honor worn proudly by misogynists, and, in time, it would come to define a strain...
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128.
Series:
Porn Work
Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Hardcover
Heather Berg
9781469661919
$128.95
HISTORY
Apr 12, 2021
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis...
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129.
Series: Studies in Social Medicine
Sick and Tired
An Intimate History of Fatigue
Hardcover
Emily K. Abel
9781469661780
$128.95
HISTORY
Apr 12, 2021
Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. Abel reveals how the limits of...
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130.
Series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
Oil Palm
A Global History
Hardcover
Jonathan E. Robins
9781469662886
$128.95
SCIENCE
Jun 28, 2021
Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. First brought to the global stage in the holds of slave ships, palm oil became a quintessential commodity in the Industrial Revolution. Imperialists hungry for cheap fat subjugated Africa's oil palm landscapes and the peop...
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131.
Series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
Oil Palm
A Global History
Paperback
Jonathan E. Robins
9781469662893
$44.95
SCIENCE
Jun 28, 2021
Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. First brought to the global stage in the holds of slave ships, palm oil became a quintessential commodity in the Industrial Revolution. Imperialists hungry for cheap fat subjugated Africa's oil palm landscapes and the peop...
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132.
Series:
Against the Hounds of Hell
A Life of Howard Thurman
Hardcover
Peter Eisenstadt
9780813944524
$47.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Age (years) from 18
Feb 23, 2021
An inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and other leaders of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman was a crucial figure in the history of African Americans in the 20th century. Until now, however, he has not received the biographical treatment he deserves. In Against the Hounds of Hell, Thurman scholar Peter Eisenstadt offers a fascinating exploration of the life of this religious thinker and activist. Thurman’s life, was as notable for its remarkable variety as its accomplishments. The first significant African American pa...
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