Búsqueda de Editorial : BEACON PRESS

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  • ALL OUR FAMILIES
    ALL OUR FAMILIES
    FINK, JENNIFER NATALYA
    Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though one in five people worldwide have a disability. Why is this common human experience rendered exceptional? In All Our Families, disability studies scholar Jennifer Natalya Fink argues that this originates in our families. When we cut a disabled member out of the family story, disability remains a trau...
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    $ 635.00

  • RADICALIZING HER
    RADICALIZING HER
    GOWRINATHAN, NIMMI
    Though the female fighter is often seen as an anomaly, women make up nearly 30 percent of militant movements worldwide. Historically, these women—viewed as victims, weak-willed wives, and prey to Stockholm Syndrome—have been deeply misunderstood. Radicalizing Her holds the female fighter up in all her complexity as a kind of mirror to contemporary conversations on gender, viole...
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    $ 385.00

  • AN AFRO-INDIGENOUS HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
    AN AFRO-INDIGENOUS HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
    KYLE T. MAYS
    The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early AmericaBeginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US ar...
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    $ 680.00

  • WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT
    WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT
    GORDON, AUBREY
    An explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social ju...
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    $ 385.00

  • THE PRICE OF THE TICKET
    THE PRICE OF THE TICKET
    BALDWIN, JAMES
    Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the four decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in afford...
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    $ 575.00

  • A BLACK WOMEN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
    A BLACK WOMEN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
    BERRY, DAINA RAMEY / GROSS, KALI NICOLE
    In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combating centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examinat...
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    $ 405.00

  • GRABBED
    GRABBED
    BLANCO, RICHARD / MORO, CARIDAD / MOUSTAKI, NIKKI / ALBO, ELISA
    The #MeToo movement, the infamous Access Hollywood tape, and the depraved and hypocritical actions of celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and other powerful people have caused people all over the nation to speak out in outrage, to express allegiance for the victims of these assaults, and to raise their voices against a culture that has allowed this behavior to continue for too long...
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    $ 385.00

  • RECLAIMING OUR SPACE
    RECLAIMING OUR SPACE
    JONES, FEMINISTA
    In Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture, society, and the landscape of feminism by building digital communities and using social media as powerful platforms. As Jones reveals, some of the best-loved devices of our shared social media language are a result of Black women’s innovation...
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    $ 385.00

  • "YOU'RE IN THE WRONG BATHROOM!"
    ERICKSON-SCHROTH, LAURA / JACOBS, LAURA A.
    From Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie (“the pregnant man”) and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding—yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together the medical, social, psychological, and political aspects of being trans in the United States today, “You’re in the Wrong Bathroom!”: And 20 Other Myths About Transgender and Gender-Non...
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    $ 405.00

  • TRANSGENDER WARRIORS
    TRANSGENDER WARRIORS
    FEINBERG, LESLIE
    Transgender Warriors is an essential read for trans people of all ages who want to learn about the towering figures who have come before them—and for everyone who is part of the fight for trans liberationThis groundbreaking book—far ahead of its time when first published in 1996 and still galvanizing today—interweaves history, memoir, and gender studies to show that transgender...
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    $ 575.00

  • GAGA FEMINISM
    GAGA FEMINISM
    HALBERSTAM, JACK
    Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? Gaga Feminism answers these questions while attempting to make sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late-life...
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    $ 400.00

  • THE CULTURE OF RECOVERY
    THE CULTURE OF RECOVERY
    ELAYNE RAPPING
    A study of the recovery movement and its influence on women's lives discusses both its positive effects and its political dangers, arguing that the movement ignores real social problems while owing much of its success to the strategies of second-wave feminism. ...
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    $ 340.00