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  • Failing Desire

    by Karmen MacKendrick ...
    Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.Luckily for human diversity, we are perfectly capable of desiring impossible things. Failing Desire explores a particular set of these impossibilities, those connected to humiliation. These include the failure of autonomy in ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Material Mystery

    The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies

    by Karmen MacKendrick ...
    Material Mystery considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions—those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a human-centered theology and point to a very anthropomorphic God. Taking them seriously seems to ignore the material turn in the humanities entirely, with ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Matter of Voice

    Sensual Soundings

    by Karmen MacKendrick ...
    Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly collective too. They are material, somatic, and musical. But voices are also meaningful—they ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Sexual Disorientations

    Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies

    by Kent L. Brintnall, Joseph A. Marchal, Elizabeth Freeman, James Hoke, Eric Thomas, Jacqueline Hidalgo, Brock Perry, Brandy Daniels0, Karen Bray1, Ann Pellegrini2, Laurel Schneider3, Karmen MacKendrick4, Mary-Jane Rubenstein5, Mark D. Jordan6, Catherine Keller7, Linn Marie Tonstad8 ...
    Series series Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
    Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory, and futurity. Apocalyptic, eschatological and apophatic languages, frameworks, and orientations ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Augustine and Gender

    by Kim Paffenroth, Maggie Ann Labinski, Patricia Grosse Brewer, Carol Harrison, Jennifer Hockenbery, Julia Kelto Lillis, Daniel Jean Perrier, Anne-Marie Schultz, Eileen C. Sweeney0, Michael R. Whitenton1, Richard A. Lee Jr.2, Karmen MacKendrick3, Willemien Otten4 ...
    Series series Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation
    The relationship between Augustine of Hippo and the subject of gender raises important questions. Augustine and Gender address these issues head-on. This volume offers original interpretations of the many ways that gender appears throughout Augustine’s thought and works. Contributions draw from a wide range of sources including Augustine’s sermons, letters, treatises, and dialogues. Readers will ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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    by Greg Louganis, Eric Marcus ...
    Champions aren't born, they're made.The haunting, searingly candid New York Times bestselling memoir of Greg Louganis' journey to overcome homophobia, colorism, and disability to become one of the best Olympic athletes in the world.Greg Louganis began diving at age nine. At sixteen, he beat out more experienced competitors to win a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. By all accounts, the ... Read more

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  • Meditation on the Nature of Mind

    by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Khonton Peljor Lhundrub, Jose Ignacio Cabezon ...
    "We all have the same human mind - each and every one of us has the same potential. Our surroundings and so forth are important, but the nature of mind itself is more important... To live a happy and joyful life, we must take care of our minds." - His Holiness the Dalai LamaAt the heart of this book is The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel of the Oral Tradition, an accessible and nonsectarian treatise on ... Read more

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  • Fingertips - Lesbian Erotica

    by Virginia Wild ...
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  • Army of Lovers

    A Community History of Will Munro

    by Sarah Liss ...
    Series series Exploded Views
    Will was pretty much the perfect role model.' - Beth Ditto, The Gossip In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroes when local artist, DJ, activist, impresario, promoter, party-thrower, café operator, community-builder and lover Will Munro died of brain cancer at the unfathomably young age of 35. Famed for his subversive, irreverent visual art, which co-opted ... Read more

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  • The Romantic Revolution

    A History

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Series Book 34 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National ReviewFrom the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ... Read more

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  • The Promise of Happiness

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” ... Read more

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  • Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z

    A Library of America Special Publication

    Edited by Jonathan Lethem, Kevin Dettmar ...
    The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n’ roll legendsJonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal ... Read more

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