There is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why does it happen? If men are not inherently evil and trans women do not intrinsically invite reprisal—which would make violence unstoppable—then the psychology of that violence had to arise at a certain place and ...(展开全部)

In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to become Christianized. But by the end of the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only....(展开全部)

Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives. Before We Were Transilluminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present,whose experiencesof ge...(展开全部)

Book Description 近年來女性主義電影批評已在電影研究中開創了一個全新的領域，它不斷開發出啟迪人心、聰敏機智而令人興奮的作品，而且還強烈地影響了男性評論家的作品。 在這個新領域的理論研究上，已呈現百家爭鳴的豐碩現象，其範圍涵蓋了社會學、政治學、結構主義、心理方析；作者從中提出了一個獨特而創新的綜論，以社會結構的層面探討影片中女性角色的種種變貌，並以四部不同時代的好萊塢電影（《茶花女》、《金髮維納斯》、《上海小姐》、《慾海花》）及數部歐美、第三世界的獨立製片電影（《德國姊妹》、《關於一個女人的電影》、《女兒的儀式》、《這樣或那樣》、《驚悚》、《人面獅身之謎》等）來分析傳統上電影如何表現女性，威權式的影像如何宰制女性，以及女性電影工作者如何回應這種種現象。其在影片分析上既平易近人而又生動，而在爭論性頗大的理論論述上則深入而翔實，因此本書不但...(展开全部)

The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colorful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests run deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, the Black Sea is more important than ever. In this lively and entertaini...(展开全部)

A fresh, original history of America's national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase "City on a Hill," from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century....(展开全部)

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of wr...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)