Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'
1110 results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'
Please note that while you may order forthcoming books at any time, they will not be available for shipment until shortly before publication date
In <em>Island Bodies</em>, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. She analyzes the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture to show how many individuals contest traditional roles by maneuvering within and/or trying to change their society's binary gender systems.
In <em>Up to Maughty London</em>, Eleni Loukopoulou offers the first sustained account of Joyce's engagement with the imperial metropolis. She considers both London's status as a matrix for political and cultural formations and how the city is imaginatively represented in Joyce's work.
Illustrating the diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, contributors to this volume explore the development and representation of public health in Latin American countries.
A first-of-its-kind investigation of Civil War prison conditions.
Why is the manatee just as imperiled today as it was 40 years ago?
Useful for individuals reading any version of <em>Piers Plowman</em>, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical information about Langland and his work in context with his contemporaries, and keys to characters and to proper pronunciation.
This volume provides guidance on teaching about Haiti’s history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective, offering ways of reshaping old narratives through women’s and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture.
