Letters & Science Bookshelf

Our virtual bookshelf features publications authored, translated, or edited by members of the L&S community. To submit a publication, please use this form or email lscomms@berkeley.edu. 

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Title Author Year Publication typesort ascending
Back Stages: Essays Across Art, Performance, and the Social Shannon Jackson 2022 Book
My Little Book of Exiles Dan Alter 2022 Book
How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea Sandra Eder 2022 Book
Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema Mary Ann Doane 2022 Book
In the Shadows of the Big House Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana Stephen Small 2023 Book

Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History

2021

There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or values transcend their temporal origins and overcome the sin of their original context, and in so...Read more about Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History

The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations

2021

Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. Daniel Lee's book The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the...Read more about The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations

Interventions for Women

2021

This is a book for those who were raised to be girls and expected to become women, for those who were told they were too girly and not girly enough, and for those who were ogled, talked over, touched, fed, imagined, and indoctrinated in ways they didn’t want. Angela Hume writes directly...Read more about Interventions for Women

The Flesh Between Us

2021

In The Flesh Between Us the speaker explores our connections to each other, whether they be lovely or painful, static or constantly shifting, or, above all, unavoidable and necessary. Intensely and unapologetically homoerotic in content and theme, The Flesh

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Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

2021

Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation—have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence...Read more about Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration

2021

Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration explores global relationality within the realm of intercultural collaboration in contemporary dance

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Unburied Lives The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875

2021

According to the accounts of two white officers, on the evening of November 20, 1872, Corporal Daniel Talliafero, of the segregated Black 9th cavalry, was shot to death by an officer's wife while attempting to break into her sleeping apartment at the military post of Fort Davis, Texas....Read more about Unburied Lives The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875

Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism

2021

A crystal-clear account of the entangled history of Western and Muslim feminisms.

Western feminists, pundits, and policymakers tend to portray the Muslim world as the last and most difficult frontier of global feminism. Challenging this view, Elora Shehabuddin presents a unique and...Read more about Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism

Blue in Green

2021

Collaboration runs through the heart of this collection. Human relationships—particularly in families—shape the poems in Blue in Green, as they consider how the question of what we expect from one another evolves into a question of what we owe. When cancer overshadows the ordinary—engrossing the...Read more about Blue in Green

Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity

2021

This book argues that the changes taking place in the United States’ largest jails and public hospitals have been drastically misunderstood. And more generally, the way that states govern urban poverty at the turn of the twenty-first century has been misunderstood as well. It is widely

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