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In this path-breaking book Anna Arrowsmith analyses gendered dating behaviour and shows how men's behaviour is both defined and illustrated by societal norms that require a …

Zahlreiche Werke in der zeitgenössischen Ausstellungskunst kennzeichnet die Bemühung, die Besucher in intersubjektive Verhältnisse zu setzen: mit dem Museumspersonal, mit eigens …

Terry Rawling's book perfectly captures the look and soul of Mod. Tracing its roots back to London's Soho of the Forties, he unearths every impulse and expression of the only …

The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, …

In this edited volume, contributors engage with Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023) and Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023) through the lens of the Barbenheimer fad, an online and …

Akademischer Widerstand ist weniger leicht zu greifen als politischer oder militarischer Widerstand. Doch es gab ihn. Den Freiburger Professoren kommt dabei besondere Bedeutung zu: …

Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz insisted good ol' Charlie Brown and his friends were neither "great art" nor "significant." Yet Schulz's acclaimed daily comic …

A dazzling celebration of the fashion design that made America’s favorite doll and the incredible woman behind them, timed to the movie release of Barbie, starring Margot Robbie …

A morbidly fascinating and articulate collection of essays, this book explores the grim underside of America's cult of the automobile and the disturbing, frequently conspiratorial, …

Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first …