Search Results: Cultural Theory from House of Our Own Books

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. This study is based on a fieldwork project in Sydney Australia that involved 48 children, aged 8 to 11, who joined a video games club and were videotaped and interviewed over a four year period; it looks at various issues including the production of masculinity, the understanding of girls' game play, debates about violence, and parental regulation (gray laminated pictorial covers; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. This is a collection of diverse essays by philosophers and other observers of the meanings of fashion (white laminated pictorial cover with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. This is a collection of diverse essays on consumer culture in the context of concerns and conflicts over the effect of affluence on the environment and the lives of individuals in consumer society; this critique of consumerism is based on the concept of alternative hedonism, the pursuit of other pleasures (orange laminated pictorial covers; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition (in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Methuen, 1984 This book examines the profound change in the conditions and representation of the body that occurred in the 17th century and reflects on a wide range of works, including Jacobean drama, Marvell's poetry, Rembrandt's painting, Descartes' philosophy, Milton's Areopagitica, and Pepys' diary; drawing on the theoretical work of Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan, and the Marxism of Althusser, the author engages the central themes of post-structuralism--discourse, sexuality, textuality, and power--but rejects many of the positions characteristic of post-structuralism, particularly its tendency to depoliticize discourse (red pictorial cover with black lettering, Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson on the front, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.