This book traces the Black American community’s transition to an intersectional model, revealing how capitalism now uses the images of its youth, athletes, and women to assimilate Black people into the neoliberal global order.
Blaze
How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.
Bodies and Culture
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.
Body and Time
This collection of essays conceptualizes the body as a system embedded in a social network. It challenges the digital media’s view of the body as a 2D icon, demonstrating how our experience of time is determined by the cultural use of bodily rhythms.
Body between Materiality and Power
This volume situates the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual studies framework, and highlights the interstitial function of the body as a mediator between materiality and politics.
Bonds Across Borders
This collection of essays by leading scholars crosses national and cultural boundaries to explore the relationship between women, gender, and international relations, examining the contributions of diplomats, activists, businesswomen, and more.
Straddling various genres, this collection offers an investigation of the conflicting relationship between identity and borders in the contemporary globalized world.
Born Global Firms
This book takes a practical approach, sharing 50 real-life stories from entrepreneurs of born global firms across 33 countries. Featuring testimonials from those who view the world as their playground, it offers invaluable insights to inspire future global leaders.
Botswana Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development
This book explores cultural heritage and sustainable tourism from an African perspective, using Botswana as a case study. It reconciles the demand to commodify heritage with the quest for its preservation, confronting the hard questions about its business, value, and future.
Bound and Unbound
This collection stems from the ‘Thinking Gender: The Next Generation’ postgraduate conference, hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.
Boundaries of the Self
This book examines how spaces—social, political, cultural, and historical—affect women’s identities. It analyzes how these spaces can generate agency and power, or annihilate attempts at emancipation and empowerment for women across cultures.
Brazilians Abroad
This book explores Brazil’s experience with emigrant voting. It investigates what external voting rights represent to the Brazilian emigrant community and how emigrants engage politically with their country of origin, based on original data from Brazilians abroad.
Breaking the Cycle of Women’s Paid Domestic Work in Brazil
This book portrays the life stories of Brazilian domestic workers and their daughters, who are the first in their families to get a higher education. It explores their social mobility through the mother-daughter bond that transforms trauma into empowerment.
Buffy Conquers the Academy
This collection celebrates Buffy Studies as a global and interdisciplinary academic discipline. Scholars delve into the intricate world of Sunnydale from multiple perspectives, ranging from gender/sexuality to religion.
Vulnerable families face multiple challenges, but our service system is siloed, often with devastating effects. This book captures the challenges and hope for the future, presenting promising programs and research from over 40 Australian experts.
Building Socialism, Constructing People
This book explores the radical shift in Romanian identity during the Sovietisation of the 1940s-50s. Analyzing the press as a propaganda tool, it reveals how “cultural colonisation” deconstructed and reconstructed personal and political identities.
How can we redesign siloed systems to support families at risk? This book offers key principles for a community and government approach to child wellbeing. It explores early intervention strategies and asks what it takes to build family-friendly communities that improve lives.
Framed by postcolonial theory, post-tourism and resistance theories, this work is a semantic and semiotic analysis of tourism texts that represent groups of San (or Bushmen) in Botswana. It demonstrates the power that written and visual language can have upon consumers of texts.
As cannabis policies relax, what are the risks for youth? This book summarizes scientific evidence on the impact of cannabis on development from infancy to young adulthood, evaluating the consequences for physical, social, and mental health.
Capital Punishment in Popular Culture, Toys, Games, and Nursery Rhymes
This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice in death sentencing, featuring illustrated toys and dolls representing famous trials and murderers.