Cultural Studies

Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its past historical precedents, conflicts, and issues. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural anthropology and ethnic studies in both objective and methodology. Researchers concentrate on how a particular medium or message relates to matters of ideology, social class, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or gender.
Cultural studies is extremely holistic, combining feminist theory, social theory, political t
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Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History
Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans
QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults
Orientalism
Mythologies
Outliers: The Story of Success
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
The Society of the Spectacle
Between the World and Me
The Location of Culture
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Culture and Imperialism
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Culture Industry
Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu-LughodMusic in Egypt by Scott L. MarcusGuests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock FerneaPolitics of Piety by Saba MahmoodLawrence of Arabia by Steven C. Caton
Anthropology of the Middle East
53 books — 3 voters
EXSTATICA Self-Help Essentials by FrankImpermanence by Daniel FrisanoDeath by T.N.T.Esalen by Jeffrey J. KripalNew Age Religion and Western Culture by Wouter J. Hanegraaff
New Age studies
153 books — 68 voters

Beyond Heaving Bosoms by Sarah WendellA Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela RegisDangerous Books for Girls by Maya RodaleDangerous Men and Adventurous Women by Jayne Ann KrentzReading the Romance by Janice A. Radway
Nonfiction About Romance Fiction
69 books — 35 voters
Hunger by Roxane GayYou Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate  Moore
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
245 books — 84 voters


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