BEACON PRESS Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press Gaga Feminism : Sex, Gender, and the End of Summary: A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty- Normal first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind J. Jack Halberstam of feminism 9780807010976 Pub Date: 9/3/13, On Sale Date: 9/3 Why are so many women single, so many men resisting $16.00/$18.00 Can. marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? 184 pages Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Social Science / Gender Studies Jack Halberstam answers these questions while attempting to Territory: World except United Kingdom make sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have Ctn Qty: 24 transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few 5.500 in W | 8.500 in H decades. This colorful landscape is popula... 140mm W | 216mm H Author Bio: J. Jack Halberstam is the author of four books, including Female Masculinity and The Queer Art of Failure. Currently a professor of American studies and of ethnicity and gender studies at the University of Southern California, Halberstam regularly speaks and writes on queer culture and gender issues and blogs at BullyBloggers. Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press The Long Walk to Freedom : Runaway Slave Summary: In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person Narratives accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Devon W. Carbado, Donald Weise W. Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve 9780807069097 narratives spanning eight decades-more than half of which Pub Date: 9/3/13, On Sale Date: 9/3 have been long out of print. 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She has written for Canadian national newspapers and magazines such as The Globe and Mail and The Walrus. Before moving to Italy in 2002, she was a features writer at the Toronto-based National Post. Her literary non-fiction essays have appeared in Brick and Literary Mama. She works as an occasional consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 - March 2013 Page 1 BEACON PRESS Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press The Many-Headed Hydra : Sailors, Slaves, Summary: Winner of the International Labor History Award Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, 9780807033173 laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas Pub Date: 9/3/13, On Sale Date: 9/3 about freedom and equality that would forever change $26.00/$30.00 Can. history. 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