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Being the Change - Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension by Sara K. Ahmed
Category: Education
Topics such as race, gender, politics, religion, and sexuality are part of our students' lives, yet when these subjects are brought up at school teachers often struggle with how to respond. How do we create learning conditions where kids can ask the questions they want to ask, muddle through how to say ...Show more
Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
Category: Sexual Health
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become ...Show more
Oh Hell No - And Other Ways to Set Some Damn Boundaries by Chronicle Books; Dani Katz (Contribution by); Sara Ahmed (Contribution by)
Category: Gift Books
A little book that packs a big punch, Oh Hell No! is an affirming purchase for any self-proclaimed naysayer, and a great gift for a friend in need of a reminder that it's OK to say no. No. Nope. No, thank you. Oh hell no! There's a time for yes--and there's a time for no. This collection of art and ...Show more
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by AHMED SARA
Category: Cultural Studies
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, f ...Show more
Queer Phenomenology by Sara Ahmed
Category: Social Sciences
In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the "orientation" aspect of "sexual orientation" and the "orient" in "orientalism," Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as t ...Show more
The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed
Category: Sexual Health
Praise for the first edition "Ahmed's work contributes to cultural studies and rhetorical theory by elaborating a process through which we can approach everyday emotional practices as rich and complex sites interwoven in struggles for social change."--Rachel C. Riedner, JAC What do emotions do? How do ...Show more
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed
Category: Politics
A profound guide to existing on your own terms, the first trade book from renowned intersectional feminist scholar Sara Ahmed We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it. Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that ...Show more
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed
Category: History & Theory of Art
'At a time when social change is urgently needed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook provides sharp and usable tools for readers who have been made to feel isolated, insignificant and difficult. It is a generous offering from an important theorist, and highly recommended' Irish Times We have to keep saying ...Show more
The Promise of Happiness by Sara Ahmed
Category: Cultural Studies
The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: "I just want you to be happy"; "I'm happy if you're happy." Combining philosophy and feminist cultu ...Show more
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