Women's Studies/Sexuality

The Woman in Me: Willem de Kooning, Woman I-VI

Author: 

Clark, Marlene: Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, City College of New York, CUNY

Willem de Kooning’s six numbered Woman paintings have incited a maelstrom of critical controversy. At their debut in 1953, the critics were incensed by the ugliness of the images themselves and by the inclusion of vestiges of the figure in abstraction. Consequently, they questioned de Kooning’s attitude toward women and commitment to the Abstract Expressionist project.

Market: 
Art, American Art, Cultural History, Twentieth-Century Art, LGBTQ Studies, Painting, American Painting Abstract Impressionism, Willem de Kooning, Gender Identity
Release Date: 
April 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531008 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
310
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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How AIDS Activists Challenged America and Saved the FDA from Itself

Author: 

Driscoll, James, Ph.D., Shakespeare Scholar and AIDS Activist

In this extraordinary history, James Driscoll reveals the untold story of how AIDS activists, by thwarting bureaucratic plans imposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), both saved HIV patients and rescued the FDA itself from a self-inflicted public health catastrophe.

Market: 
American Studies, LGBT Studies, Public Health, AIDS, Activism, AIDS Activism, 20th Century America, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Regulation, Drug Trials, Pharmaceuticals, Medicine
Release Date: 
April 1, 2020 Hardcover; February 15, 2021 Paperback
ISBN: 
978-1680531404 Hardcover; 978-1680531428 Paperback
Price: 
$139.95 Hardcover; $29.95 Paperback
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
310
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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Being and Symptom: The Intersection of Sociology, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Continental Philosophy

Author: 

Öğüt, Suheyb; Founder and Director, Bosphorus Center for Global Affairs

In this daring new study, the renowned Turkish sociologist and public intellectual Suheyb Öğüt seeks a new explanation of political sovereignty demystified from traditional descriptions of the political process.

Market: 
Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology, Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Ontology, Metaphysics, Hobbes, Foucault, Lacan, Kant, Heidegger, Derrida, Žižek
Release Date: 
June 8, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680539974 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
220
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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Ecosophical Vision and Self-Realization in Margaret Atwood’s Prose

Author: 

D'Cunha, Sr. Candy, Associate Professor of English, Andhra Loyola Institute of Engineering and Technology (India)

Credentials: 

Author of Keys of Life; Editor of English Language and Literature in the Era of Globalization

Margaret Atwood is arguably the most renowned and internationally acclaimed Canadian writer, poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and environmental activist. In this incisive interpretation of Atwood’s prose, Candy D’Cunha argues that the novelist’s ecosophical vision provides valuable lessons that could help in creating a greater and more responsible awareness in the modern psyche about the environment.

Market: 
Literature, American Literature, Canadian Literature, World Literature, Intercultural Studies, Transnational American Studies, Ecology, Conservation, Environmental Studies, Developing World, India, Ecofeminism, Literature and Nature, Naturalism
Release Date: 
September 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531824 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

Real Housewives of Diplomacy: A Psychological Study

Author: 

Nasr, Nicole

Credentials: 

DPsych, University of London

Book CoverThis highly original new book addresses the mobility of diplomats, an important facet of migration flows in the modern world. Diplomatic mobility has had a profound effect on family arrangements, working lives, and future plans. But despite being one of the earliest forms of expatriation, very little is known about the experiences of wives of diplomats who decided to embark on this journey alongside their husbands.

Market: 
Psychology, International Relations, Diplomacy, Marriage, Professionalism, Migration Studies, Identity, Cosmopolitanism, Counseling
Release Date: 
July 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680534894: Hardcover
Price: 
$109.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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ISIS’s Use of Sexual Violence in Iraq (St. James's Studies in World Affairs) (paperback)

Author: 

Ghandour, Christel, University of Leiden

ISIS’s Use of Sexual Violence in Iraq explores how and why the Islamic State organized and used sexual violence against Yezidi women in Iraq. Sexual violence in conflict is one the most devastating types of attack waged against non-combatants. It separates families, displaces communities, and perpetuates on-going social and psychological conflicts long after surviving victims are freed. It is a highly effective weapon that degrades and humiliates people when they are most vulnerable.

Market: 
Middle East Studies, Women's Studies, War Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, Human Rights, Iraq, ISIS, Modern Middle East, Civil War, Power Vacuums, Evolution Theory, Feminist Theory, Strategic Rape Concept, Violence, Criminal Justice, Terrorism, International Law, Trauma Studies, Victim Studies, Rape Culture
Release Date: 
March 15, 2019
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1680534948
Price: 
$29.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
129
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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Crossing the Catwalk: Transvestism in Contemporary Fashion and Culture (Paperback)

Author: 

Laura Cherrie Beaney

In the 1930s, Freud observed that "when you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is 'male or female?' and you are accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty." As Freud suggests, society is divisible by gender. We are taken to be either "male" or "female." This notion seems to be fixed within our culture and is often unquestioned. In this dynamic book, fashion journalist Laura Cherrie Beaney examines gender as a concept and as a practice that is also challenged and contested in the fashion industry.

Market: 
Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Women’s Studies, Fashion, Fashion Industry, Transgenderism, Cross Dressing, Transvestites, Human Rights
Release Date: 
March 1, 2019
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1680534825
Price: 
$34.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
98
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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Crossing the Catwalk: Transvestism in Contemporary Fashion and Culture

Author: 

Beaney, Laura Cherrie

In the 1930s, Freud observed that “when you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ‘male or female?’ and you are accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty.” As Freud suggests, society is divisible by gender. We are taken to be either “male” or “female.” This notion seems to be fixed within our culture and is often unquestioned. In this dynamic book, fashion journalist Laura Cherrie Beaney examines gender as a concept and as a practice that is also challenged and contested in the fashion industry.

Market: 
Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Women’s Studies, Fashion, Fashion Industry, Transgenderism, Cross Dressing, Transvestites, Human Rights
Release Date: 
December 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534801
Price: 
$129.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
98
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

ISIS’s Use of Sexual Violence in Iraq (St. James's Studies in World Affairs)

Author: 

Ghandour, Christel, University of Leiden

Book CoverISIS’s Use of Sexual Violence in Iraq explores how and why the Islamic State organized and used sexual violence against Yezidi women in Iraq. Sexual violence in conflict is one the most devastating types of attack waged against non-combatants. It separates families, displaces communities, and perpetuates on-going social and psychological conflicts long after surviving victims are freed. It is a highly effective weapon that degrades and humiliates people when they are most vulnerable.

Market: 
Middle East Studies, Women's Studies, War Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, Human Rights, Iraq, ISIS, Modern Middle East, Civil War, Power Vacuums, Evolution Theory, Feminist Theory, Strategic Rape Concept, Violence, Criminal Justice, Terrorism, International Law, Trauma Studies, Victim Studies, Rape Culture
Release Date: 
December 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534719
Price: 
$149.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
129
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

Challenge of Change: Perspective for Our Twenty-First Century

Author: 

Moffitt, Leonard Caum

Credentials: 

Author of "Religiosity: A Propensity of the Human Phenotype" and "Global Positing for the Twenty-First Century: Rethinking Strategic Planning"

In a succinct, easily read and comprehended style, Challenge of Change makes an eye-opening global exploration of human organization in a tumultuous world: organization to cope with obstacles that have, over the centuries, threatened human survival and vitality. In keeping with how the Founding Fathers conceived our unprecedented American democracy and how entrepreneurs have accomplished our current information technology revolution, this book emphasizes “thinking outside the box.”

Market: 
International Relations, Public Policy, Social Science, Economics, Education, International Law, Security Studies, Human Rights Law, Futurism, Sociology, Women’s Studies, Gender
Release Date: 
September 1, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530827
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
193
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

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