Lowe: 773 books
‘The Right Thing to Read’
A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and explores...
Desiring China
Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects”...
Global Divas
Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay...
Racial Castration
Managing Masculinity in Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well...
Thiefing Sugar
Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
In Thiefing Sugar, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book’s title from Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here, where eroticism between women...
The Witch's Flight
The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “the cinematic”—not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such...
Interventions into Modernist Cultures
Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of U.S. imperialist expansion, Cold...
by Lisa Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Asian American Sporting Cultures delves into the American sports arena to explore the long history of Asian American sporting cultures and considers how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields.
Through a close examination of Asian American sporting cultures ranging from...
The Everything Health Guide to OCD
Professional advice on handling anxiety, understanding treatment options, and finding the support you need
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
OCD sufferers have difficulty concentrating, and often their compulsions make it difficult for them to lead their everyday lives. Misdiagnosed or untreated OCD can become chronic and more severe. Written by an OCD sufferer with a technical review by a licensed psychologist, this practical guide covers...
Mojave Moonlight
A Series of Nightscapes
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
I’ve been lucky to visit six continents and work in over fifteen countries during the last twenty-five years in the film industry. From the heat and humidity of India, to the barren landscapes of central China, to the serene calm of an Italian summer and the lapping waves of the Caribbean, I’ve endeavored...
Led by Grace
In the Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
We all yearn for inner peace and happiness, but for most of us, negative thoughts and disturbing events seem to make any meaningful, lasting peace unattainable.
Written in eight parts, Led by Grace leads us through a process of forgiveness that brings us to serenity. It begins with Sandra Lowes...
by Fiona Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Book two of Wedding Fever
Erin Davis will do whatever it takes to be the photographer for high-end brides. So what if capturing the moments of people's lives means she has no time for her own. Nothing will get between her and the security she craves, not even the gorgeous farmer refusing to...
by Fiona Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Welcome to Whitetail, Wisconsin, future home of Weddings that WOW!
As acting mayor, Annika will do anything to revive the economy of the town that's been her refuge ever since her art career imploded and her fiancé walked out. Even if it means crashing an engagement party to talk business...
by Johannes Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Avery and Courtney’s bizarre adventure continues in the second installment of The Very Strange Gender Change - the two experience a brief interlude in a changing room as they go shopping for clothes that actually fit Avery’s new, petite feminine figure. Not long after their encounter, a new and...