Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life
A History of Sex and Science
ISBN: HB: 9780300287202,
Yale University Press,
August 2026
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 23 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 23 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to Darwin.
What did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of animal courtship painted a comfortingly traditional picture: males were belligerent show-o...
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Revolutionary Origins of Language
ISBN: HB: 9780300289206,
Yale University Press,
July 2026
320 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 12 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The story of the social and sexual revolution responsible for the emergence of our most prized skill - the ability to speak.
Speech is unprecedented in the natural world. Yet human infants can learn the grammar of their native tongue so quickly, it...
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Feminist Conservation
Politics and Power in Madagascar's Marine Commons
ISBN: PB: 9780300265415,
ISBN: HB: 9780300265422,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 19 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 19 black&white illus.
How access to and control over marine resources in Madagascar are negotiated, and the inextricable link between equity and sustainability.
As marine conservation becomes an increasingly urgent issue around the world, there is an equally critical ne...
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Bathhouse.pptx
ISBN: PB: 9780300274349,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
160 pp., 22,9x13,8 cm
160 pp., 22,9x13,8 cm
The sixteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, a big-hearted evocation of queer intimacy set in a bathhouse at the end of the world.
In this love letter to queer bathhouse culture, the Presenter, a Mexican-American public-speaking student, is thrust...
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Store Front NYC
ISBN: HB: 9783791389646,
Prestel Publishing,
October 2023
240 pp., 25,5x30,0 cm, 200 colour illus.
240 pp., 25,5x30,0 cm, 200 colour illus.
This collection of hugely popular and critically acclaimed photos celebrates New York City's unique history and culture - from long-disappeared icons to still-thriving favorite haunts. For decades, husband-and-wife photography duo James and Karla Mur...
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Abstract Bodies
Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
ISBN: PB: 9780300271898,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
400 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 103 colour illus., 53 black&white illus.
400 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 103 colour illus., 53 black&white illus.
An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory.
Now back in print, Abstract Bodies was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies with the discipline of art hist...
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35.00 GBP
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(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love
Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
ISBN: PB: 9780300264753,
Yale University Press,
April 2022
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work.
Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...
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Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781787385719,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2021
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A much-needed exploration of the queer-positive approaches emerging within African Christianity.
Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually depicted as driving the o...
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20.00 GBP
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Women and Gender in Islam
Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
ISBN: PB: 9780300257311,
Yale University Press,
May 2021
320 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
320 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arab...
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15.99 GBP
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Masculinities
Liberation through Photography
ISBN: HB: 9783791359519,
Prestel Publishing,
February 2020
304 pp., 32,0x22,8 cm, 250 colour illus.
304 pp., 32,0x22,8 cm, 250 colour illus.
This photographic exploration draws together the work of approximately fifty artists of different ethnicities, generations, and gender identities to look at how ideas of masculinity have evolved since the 1960s. Each of its six themed chapters featur...
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