“Asexual Erotics is a much-needed study on queer theory’s obsession with ‘sex’ as an underpinning force. What’s more, it shows that paying attention to ‘erotics’ opens up new intersectional possibilities for thinking with and through difference in ways that a focus on sex and sexuality can prohibit. It makes a timely intervention in feminist studies and queer studies and provid...(展开全部)

“Asexual Erotics is a much-needed study on queer theory’s obsession with ‘sex’ as an underpinning force. What’s more, it shows that paying attention to ‘erotics’ opens up new intersectional possibilities for thinking with and through difference in ways that a focus on sex and sexuality can prohibit. It makes a timely intervention in feminist studies and queer studies and provid...(展开全部)

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity. Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false. It's intertwined with our...(展开全部)

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity. Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false. It's intertwined with our...(展开全部)

In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of "Compulsory Happiness" create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal. "Norman Manea's four novellas, written during the later Ceausescu years, offer a...(展开全部)

◆ 作者简介 ◆——————————————————————————————————— 世界知名性教育权威贺兰特·凯查杜里安（Herant A. Katchadourian）是斯坦福大学精神病学、行为科学、人体生物学以及教育学荣休教授，美国高校性教育的先驱，曾长期担任斯坦福大学副教务长和本科生院院长。 凯查杜里安出生于土耳其一个亚美尼亚人家庭，在黎巴嫩贝鲁特的美洲大学获得医学学士学位，继而在纽约州罗切斯特大学接受了精神病学专业训练。作为一位杰出的性教育工作者，凯氏曾以其对大学性教育的卓越贡献而荣获斯坦福大学Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel奖和Richard W.Lyman奖(1984) ，并六次被该校本科毕业生遴选为杰出教授和毕业典礼发言代表。作为一位学者和作家，凯氏著有《人类性学：理智与荒谬》、《青春期生物学》、《五十：合理看待中年》等多部...(展开全部)

In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists.

In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists.

The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638--713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of its kind in English, this volume offers essays that introduce the history and idea...(展开全部)