Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Cultural Studies
From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others
The Empathy Exams : Essays by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Cultural Studies
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students t ...Show more
Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
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Category: Cultural Studies
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Cultural Studies
In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath to c ...Show more
Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth by Jess Phillipps
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Category: Cultural Studies
If you're thinking, 'Jess, who?' then I'm glad that there was something about 'Everywoman' and 'truth' that caught your eye. Or you might already know me as that gobby MP who has a tendency to shout about the stuff I care about. Because I'm a woman with a cause, I have been called a feminazi witch, a mu ...Show more
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
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Category: Cultural Studies
Everything drug cartels do to survive and prosper they've learnt from big business - brand value and franchising from McDonald's, supply chain management from Walmart, diversification from Coca-Cola. Whether it's human resourcing, R&D, corporate social responsibility, off-shoring, problems with e-co ...Show more
Fascination - Memoirs by Kevin Killian
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement. Fascination brings together an early memoir, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, Bachelors Get Lonely, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding m ...Show more
We Were Feminists Once - From Riot Grrrl to Covergirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler
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Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: General Adult
Feminism has hit the big time. Once a dirty word brushed away with a grimace, "feminist" has been rebranded as a shiny label sported by movie and pop stars, fashion designers, and multi-hyphenate powerhouses like Beyonce. It drives advertising and marketing campaigns for everything from wireless plans t ...Show more
Burger by Carol J. Adams
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger tha ...Show more
When We Rise by Cleve Jones
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Category: Cultural Studies
Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics ...Show more
The Invention of Rare Books - Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-1840 by David McKitterick
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Category: Cultural Studies
When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuri ...Show more
The Symbolism and Sources of Outlander - The Scottish Fairies, Folklore, Ballads, Magic and Meanings That Inspired the Series by Valerie Estelle Frankel
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Category: Cultural Studies
Outlander is much more than a television romance about a World War II nurse and a Jacobite soldier in a fetching kilt. The series--and the massive serial novel on which it is based--has been categorized as a period drama, adventure saga, military history and fantasy epic. Inspired by the Irish legends o ...Show more