{"title":"Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExpanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a thought-provoking exploration of complex social themes through diverse academic lenses. This series challenges traditional boundaries by weaving together philosophy, history, psychology, and cultural studies to illuminate issues surrounding identity, power, and representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a rich tapestry of perspectives that engage critically with gender and sexuality in both historical and contemporary contexts. Each work invites reflection on societal structures and personal narratives, appealing to those seeking depth and breadth in feminist and gender studies.\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\/series-expanding-frontiers-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-studies-of-women-gender-and-sexuality.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}