Books published by Oxford University Press, USA

Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first-century queer literary production.

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960.

Lists, inter alia: University of Oxford term dates, officers, and central bodies of the University, boards, committees.

The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the Kenyan political system as well as an insightful account of Kenyan history from 1930 to the present day.

This volume provides an introduction to some of the issues and challenges related to platform regulation and the conundrums and paradoxes involved. It highlights regulatory responses from four jurisdictions - the European Union, USA, India, and Australia.

This book examines the role of international law in securing privacy and data protection in the digital age, considering the impact of the boundaries of international privacy law, and the potential of global privacy initiatives.

Discusses the ways in which post-Reformation devotional practices informed expressions of desire in the poetry of five Renaissance English writers: Shakespeare, Donne, Greville, Herrick, and Milton.

This book examines how the apparently secluded theatrical culture of the universities became a major source of inspiration for Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It offers groundbreaking new readings of plays from throughout Shakespeare's career, illustrating how their depictions of academic culture were shaped by university plays.

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.

This edited volume addresses the operation of equality and discrimination law in times of crisis. It seeks to understand how existing inequalities are exacerbated in crises and whether equality law has the tools to understand and address this. Drawing together international experts, the book takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.

This book explains how personnel managers handled the challenge in different ages, and how the evolving socio-economic environment influenced their approaches and actions, and continue to do so.

Explores the mindset in which people approached reading and writing in the sixteenth century, specifically the idea that reading books was 'good' for you in the sense that it was morally useful and informative.

Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the non-human world in order to demonstrate nature's agency in determining ecological, economic, and colonial outcomes.

Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion presents a new scholarly interpretation of Hobbes's treatment of religious speech and practice by arguing that the key to Hobbes's treatment of religion is his theory of religious language.

This book examines ancient and medieval thought on Greek enclitics and explores challenging questions about the facts of the language itself. The authors provide new critical editions of the most extensive surviving texts, along with translations into English, and ultimately shed new light on how sequences of enclitics were accented in antiquity.

Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is it and why is it important? Pablo Gilabert offers a systematic defense of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of justice.

By taking new steps in updating and revisiting political liberalism, this book reconstructs Rawls's implicit view of constituent power beyond the pages dedicated to it in Political Liberalism and brings that view into conversation with major constitutional theories of the twentieth century.

This book characterizes a notion of type that covers both linguistic and non-linguistic action, and lays the foundations for a theory of action based on a Theory of Types with Records (TTR). The theory of language based on action developed in the book allows the adoption of a perspective on linguistic content centred on interaction in dialogue.

As digital data becomes increasingly important for security agencies, business, and individuals, the ability to control it becomes ever more attractive with conflict arising as multiple parties attempt to do so. This book looks at the arguments at the heart of these conflicts and creates a framework to analyse and assess how these get resolved.

Stephanie Collins presents a philosophical theory of organizational wrongdoing. States pursue unjust wars, businesses avoid tax, charities misdirect funds. Our social, political, and legal responses to these kinds of moral wrongdoing need guidance. Organizations as Wrongdoers illuminates what we're responding to and how we should respond to it.

International Monetary and Banking Law post COVID-19 analyses the response of major financial institutions and central banks to the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the impact on the architecture and content of international monetary and banking law.

Offshore Finance and State Power asks how offshore financial services affect the power of the state. Combining a concept analysis with empirical research, the book finds that economic actors go offshore to create money more than to hide it and it also reveals that the relationship between the two is not straightforward.

This collection is in honour of the remarkable career of Lord Collins. The book offers a set of unique insights into the conduct of cross-border litigation; the judicial role in international cases; the shape of English private international law; the conduct of international arbitration; and the interface with public international law.

This book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. It contains countries studies that use panel data to present a comparative perspective on worker transitions between formal and informal work across developing countries across the Global South.

Pratt-Hartmann considers for which fragments of first-order logic there is an effective method for determining satisfiability or finite satisfiability. Furthermore, he asks, if these problems are decidable for some fragment, what is their computational complexity?

This work traces the development of a philosophical theory about causality--the volitional theory of causation-- which supposes the underlying nature of causation as something revealed to us in the experience of our own will. It offers both a history of philosophy and a chance to think about the complex puzzles of both causation and human will.

Do humans have a right not to be trafficked? This book examines the legal nature of human trafficking and its relationship with human rights law. Drawing on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, it shows that human trafficking is indeed a human rights violation requiring legislative and institutional responses from states.

Genres of Emergency offers literary genre as a way to understand and negotiate the varied states of emergency and crisis that have become a fixture of our contemporary world, building on a critical study of the literature written during and about the State of Emergency declared by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1975 - 1977).