Territory of Desire

Territory of Desire
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9780816653560
ISBN-13 : 0816653569
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Territory of Desire by : Ananya Jahanara Kabir

A result of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan since 1947, exacerbated by armed freedom movements since 1989, the ongoing conflict over Kashmir is consistently in the news. Taking a unique multidisciplinary approach, Territory of Desire asks how, and why, Kashmir came to be so intensely desired within Indian, Pakistani, and Kashmiri nationalistic imaginations.

The Valley of Kashmir

The Valley of Kashmir
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Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Total Pages : 554
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ISBN-10 : 8120616308
ISBN-13 : 9788120616301
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Valley of Kashmir by : Walter R. Lawrence

(Reprint London 1895 edn.)

Land and Desire in Early Zionism

Land and Desire in Early Zionism
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781584659686
ISBN-13 : 1584659688
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Land and Desire in Early Zionism by : Boaz Neumann

A provocative look at the centrality of desire for "the Land" among early settlers in pre-state Israel

Tropics of Desire

Tropics of Desire
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9780814769539
ISBN-13 : 0814769535
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Tropics of Desire by : Jose Quiroga

From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action.

The Botany of Desire

The Botany of Desire
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Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780375760396
ISBN-13 : 0375760393
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Botany of Desire by : Michael Pollan

“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?

Transmutations of Desire

Transmutations of Desire
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Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9789882371224
ISBN-13 : 9882371221
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Transmutations of Desire by : Qiancheng Li

In the West, love occupies center stage in the modern age, whether in art, intellectual life, or the economic life. We may observe a similar development in China, on its own impetus, which has resulted in this characteristic of modernity--this feature of modern life has been securely and unambiguously established, not the least facilitated by the thriving of literature about qing, whether in traditional or modern forms. Qiancheng Li concentrates on the nuances of a similar trend manifested in the Chinese context. The emphasis is on critical readings of the texts that have shaped this trend, including important Ming- and Qing-dynasty works of drama, Buddhist texts and other religious/philosophical works, in all their subtlety and evocative power. "The power of qing or strong emotion is a major theme in late imperial Chinese literature--some writers asserting that it can transcend even life itself. Qiancheng Li surveys a number of seventeenth-century philosophical, religious, and literary texts to elucidate the metaphysical aspects of emotional attachment and of sexual desire in particular. Through his broad and penetrating reading, Li demonstrates incontrovertibly how, to seventeenth-century writers, qing and religion were inextricably linked. To those writers, qing could bring enlightenment, and certainly Li’s study enlightens its readers to new levels of complexity in major literary works of that period. Transmutations of Desire sets a major new milestone in the study of traditional Chinese culture."--Robert E. Hegel, Washington University in St. Louis

Dilemmas of Desire

Dilemmas of Desire
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780674044364
ISBN-13 : 0674044363
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Dilemmas of Desire by : Deborah L. TOLMAN

Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual feelings of her own. What teenage girls make of these contradictory messages, and what they make of their awakening sexuality--so distant from and yet so susceptible to cultural stereotypes--emerges for the first time in frank and complex fashion in Deborah Tolman's Dilemmas of Desire. A unique look into the world of adolescent sexuality, this book offers an intimate and often disturbing, sometimes inspiring, picture of how teenage girls experience, understand, and respond to their sexual feelings, and of how society mediates, shapes, and distorts this experience. In extensive interviews, we listen as actual adolescent girls--both urban and suburban--speak candidly of their curiosity and confusion, their pleasure and disappointment, their fears, defiance, or capitulation in the face of a seemingly imperishable double standard that smiles upon burgeoning sexuality in boys yet frowns, even panics, at its equivalent in girls. As a vivid evocation of girls negotiating some of the most vexing issues of adolescence, and as a thoughtful, richly informed examination of the dilemmas these girls face, this readable and revealing book begins the critical work of understanding the sexuality of young women in all its personal, social, and emotional significance.

Territory of New Mexico

Territory of New Mexico
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105019999510
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Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Territory of New Mexico by : New Mexico (Territory). Secretary's Office

Return to Warden's Grove

Return to Warden's Grove
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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781587297496
ISBN-13 : 1587297493
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Return to Warden's Grove by : Christopher Norment

Based on three seasons of field research in the Canadian Arctic, Christopher Norment’s exquisitely crafted meditation on science and nature, wildness and civilization, is marked by bottomless prose, reflection on timeless questions, and keen observations of the world and our place in it. In an era increasingly marked by cutting-edge research at the cellular and molecular level, what is the role for scientists of sympathetic observation? What can patient waiting tell us about ourselves and our place in the world? His family at home in the American Midwest, Norment spends months on end living in isolation in the Northwest Territories, studying the ecology of the Harris’s Sparrow. Although the fourteenth-century German mystic Meister Eckhardt wrote, “God is at home, we are in the far country,” Norment argues that an intellectual, emotional, and spiritual “far country” can be found in the lives of animals and arctic wilderness. For Norment, “doing science” can lead to an enriched aesthetic and emotional connection to something beyond the self and a way to develop a sacred sense of place in a world that feels increasingly less welcoming, certain, and familiar.

Subjects of Desire

Subjects of Desire
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9780231501422
ISBN-13 : 0231501420
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Subjects of Desire by : Judith Butler

This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the subject, all while revealing ambiguities within his position. The result is a sophisticated reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that has predominated in modern French thought, and her study remains a provocative and timely intervention in contemporary debates over the unconscious, the powers of subjection, and the subject.