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"It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe-but it's definitely not the last dance. In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife. Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret parties--club nights--wherein culture...

Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, he tried to...

Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life? In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...

Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 2013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological Society Honorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Illuminates the misunderstood meaning of self-injury in the 21st century Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal...

La perra está de bajón… Nos recuerda que esto no es un libro infantil. -Oye, cerda, ¿qué te pasa? -Pues que no lo entiendo... ¿Por qué hay tantos cuentos con protagonistas perros, cerdos, lobos y zorros, pero no podemos aparecer nosotras en ellos? La perra, la cerda, la zorra y la loba tienen mucho que decir. ¡Están hartas! ¿Por qué hay tantos insultos y palabras despectivas hacia las mujeres con nombres de animales?

Somos víboras, cerdas, hijas de perra, gatas en celo o incluso "más putas que las gallinas". Son muchos los insultos machistas y, curiosamente, muchos están relacionados con el mundo animal. Este es un compendio crítico y necesario de "animaladas machistas", que el escritor y la ilustradora abordan con ironía y humor. ¡Un imprescindible!

Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series. Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid understanding of Foucault's key terms, which have become...

Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman's book Prince of Networks, the author instead begins with the Hobbesian and even Machiavellian underpinnings of Latour's early period encountering his shift towards Carl Schmitt...

Are men and women equal? Have we really progressed as a society? Is equality possible? Are children accorded the status of "human beings" in our society. Are they entitled to basic human rights as adults are? What are the problems faced by women and children in our country? Do women and children get their due rights. Is there something we can do? The Unheard Predicament is a series of reflections on these questions. It is an attempt to find solutions...

Hannah Arendt is one of the most famous political theorists of the twentieth century, yet in the social sciences her work has rarely been given the attention it deserves. This careful and comprehensive study introduces Arendt to a wider audience. Finn Bowring shows how Arendt's writings have engaged with and influenced prominent figures in the sociological canon, and how her ideas may shed light on some of the most pressing social and political...