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Sex in the Wild -- Sex before, after, and against Nature -- Wildness, Loss, and Death -- "A New Kind of Wildness": The Rite of Spring and an Indigenous Aesthetics of -- Bewilderment -- The Epistemology of the Ferox: Sex, Death, and Falconry -- Animality -- Introduction: Into the Wild -- Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children -- Zombie Antihumanism at the End of the World -- The Ninth Wave.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Sex before, after, and against Nature -- 1. Wildness, Loss, and Death -- 2. "A New Kind of Wildness": The Rite of Spring and an Indigenous Aesthetics of Bewilderment -- 3. The Epistemology of the Ferox: Sex, Death, and Falconry -- Introduction. Animals Wild and Tame -- 4. Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children -- 5. Zombie Antihumanism at the End of the World -- Conclusions. The Ninth Wave -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- PREFACE -- 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO FEMALE MASCULINITY -- 2. PERVERSE PRESENTISM -- 3. "A WRITER OF MISFITS" -- 4. LESBIAN MASCULINITY -- 5. TRANSGENDER BUTCH -- 6. LOOKING BUTCH -- 7. DRAG KINGS -- 8. RAGING BULL (DYKE) -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FILMOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for political activism and political recognition. What happened in the last few decades to prompt such an extensive rethinking of our understanding of gendered embodiment? How did a stigmatized identity become so central to US and European articulations of self? And how have people responded to the new definitions and understanding of sex and the gendered body? The author explores these recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores the possibilities of a nongendered, gender-optional, or gender-queer future. -- Provided by publisher.

Pulitzer-winning historian Halberstam first decided to write this book more than thirty years ago and it took him nearly ten years. It stands as a lasting testament to its author, and to the fighting men whose heroism it chronicles. Halberstam gives us a full narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides, charting the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides vivid portraits of all the major figures--Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. He also provides us with his trademark narrative journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage of the highest order. At the heart of the book are the stories of the soldiers on the front lines who were left to deal with the consequences of the dangerous misjudgments and competing agendas of powerful men.--From publisher description

An illuminating and comprehensive look at the remarkable-and tragically shortened-career of one of America's most promising leaders Structured around the 1968 Democratic presidential campaign, The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy offers an in-depth exploration of Robert Kennedy, both as a man and a politician. Kennedy's mass appeal to minority groups, his antiwar stance, and his support from Catholics made him unlike any other politician of his stature in the late 1960s. Acclaimed journalist David Halberstam dives into Kennedy's career, covering his work as US attorney general and campaign

Exuberant and ambitious, The Fifties delves into a decade that remains a monumental and lasting turning point in American historyJoe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It's undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is also the focus of David Halberstam's triumphant The Fifties, which stands as an enduring classic and was an instant New York Times bestseller upon its publication. More than a survey of the decade, it is a masterfully woven examination of far-rea

David Halberstam's New York Times Notable Book-a riveting account of the brave individuals at the core of the civil rights movementThe young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam's brilliant and poignant The Children came together through Reverend James Lawson's workshops on nonviolence. Idealistic and determined, they showed unwavering bravery during the sit-ins at the Nashville lunch counters and on the Freedom Rides across the South-all chronicled here with Halberstam's characteristic clarity and insight. The Children exhibits the incredible strength of generations of black America

Told with panoramic detail and gripping insight, The Reckoning is the inside story of automakers Ford and Nissan-and the collapse of America's industrial supremacy After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the decades after World War II. David Halberstam, with his signature precision and absorbing narrative style, traces this power shift by delving into the boardrooms and onto the factory floors of the America's Ford Motor Company and Japan's Nissan. Different in every way-from their reactions to

A stirring examination of global competition and power in the twentieth century What can we learn from the events of twentieth century? With the effects of the Cold War still evident in the global economy and the lives of everyday Americans, master journalist and historian David Halberstam sets out to answer this question. Halberstam's perceptive The Next Century looks to the future by examining the past. From the rise of the Japanese economy to the startling changes that reshaped the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Halberstam argues that the American economy's survival depends on the rededic

Totalitarianism, the political nightmare of the twentieth century, haunts all contemporary discussion about the right relation between politics and culture. In revisiting totalitarianism, Michael Halberstam's project is to surface hidden fault lines separating competing philosophical approaches to this debate. He succeeds in exposing otherwise incomprehensible differences between liberalism and its critics on the left and the right.Halberstam argues that neither liberalism nor totalitarianism can be understood without the other. Liberalism reflects the modern conception of politics: a vision of society as a human construct answering to an unprecedented valorization of freedom. The liberal attempt to emancipate politics from culture, however, risks a loss of shared meaning that totalitarianism promises to repair. The author thus reveals how the idea of totalitarianism embodies truths and contradictions about liberalism itself. The philosophical heart of the book is a critical development of Immanuel Kant's theory of reflective, aesthetic judgment, exposing the limits of reason and taking up what Hannah Arendt's unfinished work suggests. This rich study in the history of modern political thought from Hobbes through Marx and to the present, culminates with a new and surprising interpretation of Arendt's theory of totalitarianism