Showing 2,211-2,220 of 2,645 items.
Jean Toomer & Harlem Renaissance
Edited by Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith
Rutgers University Press
Jean Toomer's novel Cane has been hailed as the harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance and as a model for modernist writing, yet it eludes categorization and its author remains an enigmatic and controversial figure in American literature. The present collection of essays by European and American scholars gives a fresh perspective by using sources made available only in recent years, highlighting Toomer's bold experimentations, as well as his often ambiguous responses to the questions of his time.
Good Sex
Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions
Rutgers University Press
A collection of essays by scholars of religion, and women's studies, from a wide range of cultures, explore what feminists have to contribute to the understanding and embodiment of good sex in a globalized world.
Cosmetic Surgery
The Cutting Edge of Commercial Medicine in America
Rutgers University Press
Cosmetic surgery is big business in America. With demand rising this medical practice has become a modern body custom. To explain the emergence and growth of this demand, Deborah A. Sullivan looks beyond the cultural imperatives of appearance and examines the market dynamics inherent in the business and politics of cosmetic surgery. In so doing, she also considers the effect of commercializaton on the medical profession.
The Right Blood
America's Aristocrats in Thoroughbred Racing
By Carole Case
Rutgers University Press
In The Right Blood, Carole Case examines the history of American thoroughbred racing, in particular the story behind the Jockey Club. Written for the general reader interested in the sport and its culture, The Right Blood is an engaging look behind the scenes of American horse racing.
Recreating Motherhood
Rutgers University Press
Selling “genetically gifted” human eggs on the free market for a hefty price. In vitro fertilization. Fetal rights. Prenatal diagnosis. Surrogacy. All are instances of biomedical and social “advancements” with which we have become familiar in recent years. Yet these issues are often regarded as distinct or only loosely related under the rubric of reproduction.
Barbara Katz Rothman demonstrates how they form a complex whole that demands of us in response a woman-centered, class-sensitive way of understanding motherhood.
Healing Narratives
Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease
By Gay Wilentz
Rutgers University Press
In Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz explores the relationship between culture and health. In close reading of works by five women writers - Toni Cade Bambara, Erna Broder, Leslie Marmon Silko, Keri Hulme, and Jo Sinclair-she traces the narrative and structural similarities of a main character moving form a state of mental or physical disease toward wellness through reconnection with her cultural traditions.
Daughters of Suburbia
Growing Up White, Middle Class, and Female
Edited by Lorraine Kenny
Rutgers University Press
White middle-class suburbia represents all that is considered "normal" in the United States, especially to the people who live its privileged life. Part ethnography, part cultural study, Daughters of Suburbia focuses on the lives of teenage girls from this world--the world of the Long Island, New York, middle school that author Lorraine Kenny once attended--to examine how standards of normalcy define gender, exercise power, and reinforce the cultural practices of whiteness.
Tripping on the Color Line
Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World
Rutgers University Press
Through in-depth interviews with individuals from black–white multiracial families, and insightful sociological analysis, Heather M. Dalmage examines the challenges faced by people living in such families and explores how their experiences demonstrate the need for rethinking race in America. She examines the lived reality of race in the ways multiracial family members construct and describe their own identities and sense of community and politics. Their lack of language to describe their multiracial existence, along with their experience of coping with racial ambiguity and with institutional demands to conform to a racially divided, racist system is the central theme of Tripping on the Color Line.
The Historical Film
History and Memory in Media
Edited by Marcia Landy
Rutgers University Press
What is history? How do we represent it? How do our notions of history change over time? The essays in The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media probe the roles that cinema and television play in altering and complicating our understanding of historical events. The book brings together representative examples of how both media critics and historians write about history as it is created and disseminated through film and television. The essays explore what is at stake culturally and politically in media history and how this form of history-making is different from traditional historiography. The volume is divided into four parts--Regarding History; History as Trauma; History, Fiction, and Postcolonial Memory; and History and Television--that progressively deepen our understanding of just how complex the issues are.
Circling Dixie
Contemporary Southern Culture through a Transatlantic Lens
By Helen Taylor
Rutgers University Press
For Europeans looking across the Atlantic, American culture is often the site of desire, fascination, and envy. In Britain, the rich culture of the American South has made a particularly strong impact. Helen Taylor explores the ways in which contemporary Southern culture has been enthusiastically produced and reproduced in a British context. Taylor examines some of the South's most significant cultural exports in discussions that range across literature, music, film, television, theater, advertising, and tourism.