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- History 171
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- Desire in literature 47
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- Histoire 44
- Philosophy 44
- Histoire et critique 42
- LITERARY CRITICISM 32
- SOCIAL SCIENCE 32
- English literature 30
- Religious aspects 29
- Christianity 28
- American literature 26
- Intellectual life 24
- Desire 22
- Political aspects 22
- Sex 20
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- Psychoanalysis 19
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- HISTORY 18
- Sex in literature 18
- Women and literature 18
- Homosexuality 17
- Moral and ethical aspects 17
- Women authors 17
- American fiction 16
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From New Zion to Old Zion : American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939 /
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Sexual reckonings Southern girls in a troubling age /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…-- "Just as much a menace" : race and sex delinquency -- "A head full of diamonds" : fact, fiction, and African American girls' sexuality -- "Living in hopes" : an economy of desire -- Sex, science, and eugenic sterilization -- The World War II pickup girl and wartime passions -- School days : reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and romance -- Would Jesus dance? …”
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Performing kinship narrative, gender, and the intimacies of power in the Andes /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Introduction: relative intimacies, storied lives -- Sullk'ata contexts : reflections on identities and localities -- Circulation of care : a primer on Sullk'ata relatedness -- Narrating sorrow, performing relatedness : a story told in conversation -- Storied silences : adolescent desires, gendered agency, and the practice of stealing women -- Reframing the married couple : affect and exchange in three parts -- "Now my daughter is alone" : violence and the ambiguities of affinity -- Conclusion: Reflections on the dialogical production of relatedness -- Appendix A. chapter 5 narrative transcriptions in Quechua and in English -- Appendix b. …”
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Scare tactics supernatural fiction by American women /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Wilkins Freeman -- Ghosts of desire : Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull -- Ghostly returns : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Coda: The decline of the American female Gothic.…”
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The invention of international relations theory realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Schmidt -- The speech act of realism : the move that made IR / Ole Waver -- The realist gambit : postwar American political science and the birth of IR theory / Nicolas Guilhot -- Kennan : realism as desire / Anders Stephanson -- American hegemony, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of academic international relations in the United States / Inderjeet Parmar -- Realism and neoliberalism : from reactionary modernism to postwar conservatism / Philip Mirowski.…”
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Bollywood and globalization Indian popular cinema, nation, and diaspora /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…/ Anjali Gera Roy -- Bollywood Babes: Body and Female Desire in the Bombay Films since the Nineties and Darr, Mohra and Aitraaz: a Tropic Discourse / Purna Chowdhury -- Globalization and the Cultural Imaginary: Constructions of Subjectivity, Freedom & Enjoyment in Popular Indian Cinema / Gautam Basu Thakur -- Rang De Basanti: The Solvent Brown and Other Imperial Colors / Manisha Basu -- Between Yaars: The Queering of Dosti in Contemporary Bollywood Films / Dinah Holtzman -- Imagined Subjects: Law, Gender and Citizenship in Indian Cinema / Nandini Bhattacharya -- "It's All About Loving Your Parents": Liberalization, Hindutva and Bollywood's New Fathers / Meheli Sen.…”
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The philosophy of Martin Scorsese
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Abrams ; The age of innocence : social semiotics, desire, and constratint / Deborah Knight ; After hours : Scorsese on absurdity / Jennifer L. …”
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After taste expanded practice in interior design /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- Outside in/Inside out : a short history of (modern) interiority / Anthony Vidler -- Portfolio : Courtney Smith -- Expanded pedagogies and methods : a fossick for interior design pedagogies / Julieanna Preston -- Interior design as environmental design : the Parsons program in the 1960s / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury -- Technology in/and the home / Alex Kitnick -- To those who desire without end : an interview with Stephen and Timothy Quay -- Portfolio : James Casebere -- Practicing after taste. …”
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Art and psychoanalysis /
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Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet /
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Prayer & Community : The Havurah in American Judaism /
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The concepts of psychiatry a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…-- Darwin's dangerous method: the essentialist fallacy -- What we value: the ethics of psychiatry -- Desire and self: Hellenistic and Eastern approaches -- On the nature of mental illness: disease or myth? …”
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Politics of touch sense, movement, sovereignty /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions -- Bodies on the move-political recompositions -- Negotiating influence: touch and tango -- Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch -- Happy together: moving toward multiplicity -- Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango -- Erring toward experience: violence and touch -- Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden -- Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation -- Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics -- Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy -- Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics -- Sensing beyond security: what a body can do -- Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.…”
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Levinas and the ancients
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…The breathing of the air : presocratic echoes in Levinas / Silvia Benso -- The eternal and the new : Socrates and Levinas on desire and need / Deborah Achtenberg -- Levinas questioning Plato on eros and maieutics / Francisco J. …”
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Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet /
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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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From New Zion to Old Zion : American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939 /
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Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German /
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Modernism and popular music
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…: Cole Porter and the rhythms of desire; 5. Signifying music: Fats Waller and the time of jazz; 6. …”
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