Winner of The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) Book Prize for 2015 Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian approach presents a startling new way to consider psychoanalytic dilemmas of sexual difference and gender through the meeting of arts and the clinic. Informed by a Lacanian perspective that locates transsexuality in the intermediate spa...(展开全部)

The entire legacy of Jacques Lacan is permeated by his deep interest in psychosis and psychotic phenomena. This book examines Lacan's contribution to our understanding of psychosis, proposing that his workcan best be framed in terms of four broad periods. Each period contains a different set of key concepts, together with a number of crucial texts containing references to psych...(展开全部)

Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identit...(展开全部)

In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala’ refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that ar...(展开全部)

扬·杜威·范德普勒格（Jan Douwe van der Ploeg），1950年生于荷兰北部的弗里斯兰。荷兰瓦赫宁根大学教授，意大利农业部部长顾问。曾任荷兰瓦赫宁根大学农村社会学系主任。主要研究领域包括农民研究、农业方式、农村发展、土地改革、食物市场、技术变迁等。主要著作包括《劳动力、市场与农业生产》《超越现代化》《揭秘农场主》《新小农阶级》《小农与农业的艺术》《中国的小农农业与农村社会》等。 叶敬忠，1967年生于江苏省沭阳县。荷兰瓦赫宁根大学社会学博士，中国农业大学人文与发展学院教授，博士生导师。研究领域包括发展历史与发展理论、发展战略与农政变迁、人口流动与留守人口、小农农业与农村社会、农村教育与社会问题等。 潘璐，1981年生于山东省胶州市。中国农业大学发展研究方向管理学博士，中国农业大学人文与发展学院副教授，博士生导师。研究领域包括农民研究...(展开全部)

This masterly collection of texts interrogates the raging academic question, What is art history? Editor Preziosi, who directs ground-breaking critical studies of art history and museology, provides introductions to 35 challenging readings gathered in nine chapters. This plethora of alternatives is curiously complicated, even obfuscating. Covered here are the most current and r...(展开全部)

This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions betw...(展开全部)

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nel...(展开全部)

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Burlesque / Art of the Teese A tour of the world of burlesque and fetish includes in the first part a history of burlesque complemented by Dita's provocative tips on erotic fashion and sensuality, and in the second part a celebration of fetish style. Copious photographs throughout from the worlds best pinup, glamour and fashion photographers make this thick tome essential for a...(展开全部)