Kaplan: 716 books

Book cover of The Red Riviera

The Red Riviera

Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea

by Kristen Ghodsee, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005

This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe’s transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgaria’s beautiful...
Book cover of Şiirin Sultanı Bâki
by Mahmut Kaplan
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001

Divan şiirinin en büyük altı şairinden biri... Kanunî gibi 'muhteşem' bir sultanın, şiirdeki yeteneğini farkedip günyüzüne çıkarmayı hayatının en önemli ve en haz verici icraatlarından biri olarak gördüğü bir şair... Şiirin sultanı... Osmanlının en muhteşem zamanında,...
Book cover of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
by Sefa Kaplan
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001

Bu kitapta Recep Tayyip Erdoğan' ın hikayesi anlatılıyor, elden geldiğince... Zaman zaman Yeşilçam filmlerine taş çıkartacak bir çok özelliği var bu hikayenin... Hikâyeyi bir de bu gözle okuyun. İnce Kapak: Sayfa Sayısı: 142 Baskı Yılı: 2007 e-Kitap: Sayfa...
Book cover of Mehmet Ağar
by Sefa Kaplan
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001

Anadolu' nun muhtelif kentlerinde geçen bir ömür... Farklı okullarda tamamlanan bir tahsil hayatı...Her kentte,her okulda farklı arkadaşlıklar,farklı ilişkiler...Şimdi Türkiye' nin en köklü partilerinden DYP' nin başında; Geleceği etkileme iddasında. İnce Kapak: Sayfa...
Book cover of Sevda Sürgünleri
by Sefa Kaplan
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001

Zaten edebiyatın, bilimin, felsefenin kime ne faydası dokunmuş ki bugüne kadar? Her şey başka türlü olabilirdi hâlbuki... Sevda Sürgünleri, büyük bir gazetenin yazı işlerinde başlayan ve intiharın kıyısına doğru yavaşlayan tuhaf bir aşkı anlatıyor. Bir ay kadar...
Book cover of The Age of the World Target

The Age of the World Target

Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work

by Rey Chow, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006

Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the...
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The Body of War

Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia

by Dubravka Žarkov, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007

In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity...
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Partners in Conflict

The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973

by Heidi Tinsman, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002

Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between...
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Figurations

Child, Bodies, Worlds

by Claudia Castañeda, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002

Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically,...
Book cover of The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau
by Antoinette Burton, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007

Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India’s elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer well known, she was for several decades a popular expert on India. She provided an insider’s view...
Book cover of The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves

The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves

How Feminism Travels across Borders

by Kathy Davis, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007

The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research...
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The Scandal of the State

Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India

by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003

The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central...
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Alimentary Tracts

Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial

by Parama Roy, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010

In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of colonizer and colonized, generating novel experiences...
Book cover of By Fire, By Water
by Mitchell James Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010

Recipient of the Independent Publishers Award for Historical Fiction (Gold Medal), the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction (Bronze Medal), and an honorable mention in the category of General Fiction for the Eric Hoffer Award. Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and...
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