{"title":"Kirsten Leng","description":"\u003cp\u003eKirsten Leng offers insightful explorations into the intersections of society, culture, and education. Her work delves into how concepts of pleasure, play, and politics influence human behaviour and societal structures, making them essential reading for those interested in contemporary cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted firmly within \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, Leng’s writing challenges readers to reflect on the social dynamics that shape learning environments and public discourse. Her thoughtful analysis provides a nuanced understanding of the forces that govern personal and collective experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pleasure-play-and-politics-by-kirsten-leng-9781496244789","title":"Pleasure, Play, and Politics","description":"\u003ci\u003ePleasure, Play, and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to examine the roles humor played in U.S. feminism during the late twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, it brings to light the stunning, moving, and frankly hilarious ways feminists have used satire, irony, and spectacle as they worked to build a better world. The story it tells includes activism and music, political mobilization and cartooning, stand-up comedy and demands for change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kirsten Leng explores the ways culture and politics feed one another and shows how humor contributed to movement-building by changing hearts and minds, creating and maintaining a sense of community beyond a single issue, and sustaining activists over the long haul. The fascinating individuals, groups, and objects examined here – including the sex workers’ rights group COYOTE, the Guerrilla Girls, Florynce Kennedy, and the Lesbian Avengers – don’t just provide entertaining anecdotes or unsettle lazy assumptions that feminists are perennially dour and censorious: they offer a lesson or two for contemporary feminists and social justice activists. Taken together, they remind us that laughter can move us, that humor and anger can coexist, and that play and pleasure have a place in struggle.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397966708972,"sku":"9781496244789","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19899093482720.jpg?v=1773733402"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/kirsten-leng.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}