Troubled bodies : critical perspectives on postmodernism, medical ethics, and the body / by Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : postmodern medical ethics? / Paul A. Komesaroff -- Divide and multiply : culture and politics in the new medical order / Doug White -- Abortion and embodiment / Catriona Mackenzie -- From bioethics to microethics : ethical debate and clinical medicine / Paul A. …”
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Getting medieval : sexualities and communities, pre- and postmodern / by Dinshaw, Carolyn, Duke gender collection

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Utopia limited : the sixties and the emergence of the postmodern / by DeKoven, Marianne, 1948-, Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…Modern to Postmodern -- Introduction: Modern, Sixties, Postmodern -- Modern to Postmodern in Herbert Marcuse -- Culture Industry to Popular Culture -- Culture Industry to Popular Culture in Mythologies -- Las Vegas Signs Taken for Wonders -- Loathing and Learning in Las Vegas -- Endnotes I: Sixties, Avant-Garde, Popular Culture -- Participatory Democracy to Postmodern Populism -- Participatory Democracy in Port Huron -- Paradise Then -- William Burroughs: Any Number Can Play -- Endnotes II: Sixties, Avant-Garde, Popular Culture -- Subject Politics -- Politics of the Self -- Laing's Politics of the Self -- Tell Me Lies About Vietnam -- Fire Next Time or Rainbow Sign -- Personal and Political -- Utopia Limited -- Conclusion: Post-Utopian Promise.…”
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Questions of travel : postmodern discourses of displacement / by Kaplan, Caren, 1955-, Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…"This Question of Moving": Modern Exile/Postmodern Tourism -- 2. Becoming Nomad: Poststructuralist Deterritorializations -- 3. …”
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Chinese modern : the heroic and the quotidian / by Tang, Xiaobing, 1964-, Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…6 Residual Modernism: Narratives of the Self in the 1980s7 The Mirror of History and History as Spectacle: Reflectionson Xiao Ye and Su Tong; 8 In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijingand the Politics of Vision; 9 New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Late-Twentieth-Century China; Excursion II: Decorating Culture: Notes on Interior Design, Interiority, and Interiorization; 10 Melancholy Against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi's Tales of Sorrow; Afterword; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index.…”
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Masculine/feminine : practices of difference(s) / by Richard, Nelly, Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…-- Politics and aesthetics of the sign -- Gender contortions and sexual doubling : transvestite parody -- Feminism and postmodernism.…”
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Dark designs and visual culture / by Wallace, Michele, Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…The autobiographical: 1989 through 2001 -- Mass culture and popular journalism -- New York postmodernism and black cultural studies -- Multiculturalism in the arts -- Henry Louis Gates and African American poststructuralism -- Queer theory and visual culture.…”
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Between Jesus and the market : the emotions that matter in right-wing America / by Kintz, Linda, 1945-, Duke gender collection, Duke religion collection

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- ONE Sacred Intimacy -- TWO The Heart of the Matter -- THREE Kitchen Table Politics: The Folking of America -- FOUR Tender Warriors -- FIVE Postmodern Hunters and Gatherers -- SIX Riding the Entrepreneurial Frontier -- SEVEN God's Intentions for the Multinational Corporation: Seeing Reality True -- EIGHT Warriors and Babies.…”
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Wet : on painting, feminism, and art culture / by Schor, Mira, Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…Appropriated sexuality -- Representations of the penis -- Forensics: the part for the hole -- The bitter tea of General Yen: paintings by David Diao -- From liberation to lack -- Ana Mendieta -- Medusa redux: Ida Appelbroog and the spaces of postmodernity -- The return of the same -- Just the facts, ma'am -- Patrilineage -- On failure and anonymity -- Authority and learning -- Bonnard's ants -- Figure/ground -- Researching visual pleasure -- The erotics of visuality -- Course proposal -- Painting as manual -- You can't leave home without it.…”
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Where is Ana Mendieta? : identity, performativity, and exile / by Blocker, Jane, Duke gender collection

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Pin-up grrrls : feminism, sexuality, popular culture / by Buszek, Maria Elena, 1971-, Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…. -- From womyn to grrrls: the postmodern feminist pin-up.…”
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Goth : undead subculture / by Goodlad, Lauren M. E., Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…Goodlad -- This modern goth (explains herself) / Rebecca Schraffenberger -- Playing dress up: David Bowie and the roots of goth / David Shumway and Heather Arnet -- Undead fashion: nineties style and the perennial return of goth / Catherine Spooner -- "Goth damage" and melancholia: reflections on posthuman gothic identities / Michael du Plessis -- "To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant": music and death in Zero, City, 1982-1984 / Mark Nowak -- "Ah am witness to its authenticity": gothic style in postmodern southern writing / Jason K. Friedman -- The (un)Australian goth: notes toward a dislocated national subject / Ken Gelder -- Atrocity exhibitions: joy division, factory records, and goth / Michael Bibby -- Material distinctions: a conversation with Valerie Steele / Jessica Burstein -- Geek/goth: remediation and nostalgia in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands / Robert Markley -- The authentic Dracula: Bram Stoker's hold on vampiric genres / Nancy Gagnier -- "When you kiss me, I want to die": Buffy the Vampire Slayer and gothic family values / Lauren Stasiak -- The Cure, the community, the contempt! …”
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The Gloria Anzaldúa reader / by Anzaldúa, Gloria, Duke gender collection

Table of Contents: “…"Later" writings: Foreword to Cassell's encyclopedia of queer myth, symbol and spirit ; How to ; Memoir -- my calling; or, notes for "How Prieta Came to Write" ; When I write I hover ; Transforming American studies: 2001 Bode-Pearson prize acceptance speech ; Yemaya ; (Un)natural bridges, (un)safe spaces ; Healing wounds ; Reading LP ; A short Q & A between LP and her author (GEA) ; Like a spider in her web ; Bearing witness: their eyes anticipating the healing ; The postmodern llorona ; Speaking across the divide ; Llorona coyolxauhqui ; Disability & identity: an e-mail exchange & a few additional thoughts ; Let us be the healing of the wound: the Coyolxauhqui imperative -- la sombra y el sueno -- Appendix 1. …”
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Myths of modernity : peonage and patriarchy in Nicaragua / by Dore, Elizabeth, Duke gender collection

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Fantasizing the feminine in Indonesia / by Duke gender collection

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