Duke University Press Log

Feminist Review on Screening Sex

Lawrence James Hammar reviews Linda Williams's Screening Sex in the Feminist Review. He calls Williams "the (still young) grand doyen of academic film studies" and says the book is "just as serious, humane, and refreshing as her other works."

Pin-Up Legend Bettie Page Dies

 Legendary pin-Up Bettie Page has died at age 85. Page was most renown in the 1950s, but experienced a resurgence in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s, culminating in the 2005 movie The Notorious Bettie Page. For a fascinating feminist perspective on Page and other pin-ups, check out Pin-Up Grrrls by Maria Elena Buszek. Pin-Up Grrrls tells the history of the pin-up from its birth, revealing how its development is intimately connected to the history of feminism.

Jeffrey Juris on Against the Grain

Jeffrey S. Juris, author of Networking Futures, will appear on KPFA's Against the Grain at noon Pacific time today. He'll be talking about the worldwide protests against corporate globalization.

Review of Fixing Sex on Psychology Today Site

Daisy Grewal blogs about Katrina Karkazis's Fixing Sex over at PsychologyToday.com. She writes, "Fixing Sex is the result of meticulous research and in depth interviews with those most closely involved; it aims to help readers understand this unusual condition. I found the book fascinating for other reasons as well - namely how intersex conditions illuminate our taken for granted assumptions about what makes people male or female."

Duke Authors at the AAA Meeting

Duke Press attended the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in San Francisco November 19-23, 2008. We were excited to see so many of our authors stop by the booth. Here are a few.

Les W. Field, author of Abalone Tales:
Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California.

Jeffrey S. Juris, author of
 Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization

Ruth Mandel, author of Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany.

Fred R. Myers, author of
Painting Culture:The Making of an Aboriginal High Art

Shalini Shankar, author of Desi Land:
Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley.

Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, author of
Native Men Remade:Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i

David Valentine, author of Imagining Transgender:An Ethnography of a Category, and Heather Levi, author of The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity, swap books with one another.



Thanks to Helena Knox, our Exhibits Manager, for all of these great photos!

Katrina Karkazis on Leonard Lopate

Katrina Karkazis, author of Fixing Sex, appeared on the WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show on Friday. Listen to the interview here.

Levi's The World of Lucha Libre Reviewed in The Stranger

Heather Levi's ethnography of Mexican wrestling, The World of Lucha Libre, is reviewed in The Stranger. Paul Constant writes, "Levi lays the entire world of lucha libre at the reader's feet, from the adulation of the crowd to the metallic smell of blood in the ring, and the act of creativity, installing the personal narrative, is the reader's job. This is excellent reportage on an endlessly fascinating subject, and Levi should be commended for standing back and letting the luchadores take center stage."

Antonio Viego Receives MLA Prize in U.S. Latina/Latino and Chicana/Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies

Congratulations to Antonio Viego, author of Dead Subjects, for winning the MLA Prize in U.S. Latina/o and Chicana/Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. The prize is awarded for an outstanding scholarly study of Latina or Latino or Chicana or Chicano literature or culture. It is one of sixteen awards that will be presented on December 28, 2008 during the association’s annual convention, held this year in San Francisco. The committee’s citation for the winning book reads:

Antonio Viego’s Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies successfully realizes its stated ambitions by bringing psychoanalysis to bear on the politics of race, tracing new forms of identity through intersectional knowledge production, and combining theory with history and literary analysis. Through its refreshing conceptual paradigms, sophisticated execution, and original speculation, the book compellingly advances an understanding of ethnically marked and racialized subjects as complex dimensions of the human and social body. Viego’s persuasive effort to demonstrate the usefulness of Lacanian psychoanalysis within Latino studies expands the critical terrain in the field while innovatively partaking of the ongoing intellectual project to rethink identity and subjectivity in the larger realm of ethnic American studies.

David Price in Chronicle of Higher Education

 This week's Chronicle of Higher Education features a Q&A with anthropologist David Price, author of Anthropological Intelligence and Threatening Anthropology. Price discusses the American Anthropological Association's proposed new ethical guidelines on secrecy in research. The proposed changes have been prompted by anthropologists' involvement in Pentagon programs like the Human Terrain System. Price's books are about the historical interactions between anthropologists and the government.

Rafael Campo Profiled in Boston Phoenix

 Poet Rafael Campo is profiled in the Boston Phoenix. James Parker interviews Campo and fellow Boston poet Franz Wright as two very different poets with a similar mission: to make poetry a social force. Campo has published four books of poetry with Duke. His latest, The Enemy, recently won the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club.