Imagined Orphans
Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London
In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on this discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children’s experiences within welfare institutions—a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers’ efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or “no-good” parents fed upon the poor’s increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public’s growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children.
Traditions in World Cinema
Thinking About Dementia
Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility
Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.
Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our understanding of the mental status of the elderly. First, cross-cultural data show that the aging process, while biologically influenced, is also culturally constructed. Second, ethnographic reports raise questions about the diagnostic criteria used for defining the elderly as demented. Third, case studies show how a diagnosis affects a patient's treatment in both clinical and familial settings. Finally, the collection highlights the gap that separates current biological understandings of aging from its cultural meanings.
The Politics of the Female Body
Postcolonial Women Writers
François Truffaut and Friends
Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation
Beyond Sun and Sand
Caribbean Environmentalisms
Off the Pedestal
New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargeant
Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law
Gay TV and Straight America
After decades of silence on the subject of homosexuality, television in the 1990s saw a striking increase in programming that incorporated and, in many cases, centered on gay material. In shows including Friends, Seinfeld, Party of Five, Homicide, Suddenly Susan, The Commish, Ellen, Will & Grace, and others, gay characters were introduced, references to homosexuality became commonplace, and issues of gay and lesbian relationships were explored, often in explicit detail.
In Gay TV and Straight America, Ron Becker draws on a wide range of political and cultural indicators to explain this sudden upsurge of gay material on prime-time network television. Bringing together analysis of relevant Supreme Court rulings, media coverage of gay rights battles, debates about multiculturalism, concerns over political correctness, and much more, Becker's assessment helps us understand how and why televised gayness was constructed by a specific culture of tastemakers during the decade.
Off the Pedestal
New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargeant
Feminist Inquiry
From Political Conviction to Methodological Innovation
Speaking of Earth
Environmental Speeches That Moved the World
Be Not Deceived
The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-gay Christian Men
New Jersey's Environments
Past, Present, and Future
In New Jersey’s Environments,historians, policy-makers, and earth scientists use a case study approach to uncover the causes and consequences of decisions regarding land use, resources, and conservation. Nine essays consider topics ranging from solid waste and wildlife management to the effects of sprawl on natural disaster preparedness. The state is astonishingly diverse and faces more than the usual competing interests from environmentalists, citizens, and businesses.
This book documents the innovations and compromises created on behalf of and in response to growing environmental concerns in New Jersey, all of which set examples on the local level for nationwide and worldwide efforts that share the goal of protecting the natural world.
What Democracy Looks Like
A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World
In What Democracy Looks Like, the editors and twenty-seven contributors argue that these crises-in the world and the academy-are not unrelated. The essays insist that, in the wake of "Seattle," teachers and scholars of American literature and culture are faced with the challenge of addressing new points of intersection between American studies and literary studies. The narrative, the poem, the essay, and the drama need to be reexamined in ways that are relevant to the urgent social and political issues of our time.
Collectively urging scholars and educators to pay fresh attention to the material conditions out of which literature arises, this path-breaking book inaugurates a new critical realism in American literary studies. It provides a crucial link in the growing need to merge theory and practice with the goal of reconnecting the ivory tower elite to the activists on the street.
Antirevialism in Antebellum America
A Collection of Religious Voices
Lethal Punishment
Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South
Tying her research to contemporary debates over the death penalty, Vandiver argues that modern death sentences, like lynchings of the past, continue to be influenced by factors of race and place, and sentencing is comparably erratic.
Liquid Relations
Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity
Liquid Relations criticizes these assumptions from a socio-legal perspective.
American Cinema of the 1940s
Themes and Variations
Who Defines Indigenous?
Identities, Development, Intellectuals, and the State in Northern Mexico
Awesome Families
The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ
American Cinema of the 1950s
Themes and Variations
An Unexpected Minority
White Kids in an Urban School
Providing a new and timely perspective to the significant role that non-whites play in the construction of attitudes about whiteness, this book takes an important step in advancing the discussion of racial inequality and its future in this country.
Where Human Rights Begin
Roy Lichtenstein
American Indian Encounters
Make the Connection
Improve Your Communication at Work and at Home
You will find answers to some of the most common questions about public speaking as well as advice on overcoming its anxieties.
Proving Grounds
Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving
Women and Science
Social Impact and Interaction
Race, Racism, and Science
Social Impact and Interaction
In Search of Swampland
A Wetland Sourcebook and Field Guide
How the Other Half Worships
A powerful, poignant, and visually arresting portrait, How the Other Half Worships stands as a stark witness to how churches are being rebuilt in the dilapidated streets of America’s cities and how religion is being reinvented by the nation’s poor.
Women's Studies for the Future
Foundations, Interrogations, Politics
Bringing together essays by newcomers as well as veterans to the field, this essential volume addresses timely questions including:
Without a unitary understanding of the subject, woman, what is the focus of women's studies?
How can women's studies fulfill the promise of interdisciplinarity?
What is the continuing place of activism in women's studies?
What are the best ways to think about, teach, and act upon the intersections of race, class, gender, disability, nation, and sexuality?
Offering innovative models for research and teaching and compelling new directions for action, Women's Studies for the Future ensures the continued relevance and influence of this developing field.
Victims as Offenders
The Paradox of Women's Violence in Relationships
In answering these questions, Miller draws on extensive data from a study of police behavior in the field, interviews with criminal justice professionals and social service providers, and participant observation of female offender programs. She offers a critical analysis of the theoretical assumptions framing the study of violence and provides insight into the often contradictory implications of the mandatory and pro-arrest policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s. Miller argues that these enforcement strategies, designed to protect women, have often victimized women in different ways. Without sensationalizing, Miller unveils a reality that looks very different from what current statistics on domestic violence imply.
Suburban Sahibs
White Scholars/African American Texts
The Art of the American Musical
Conversations With the Creators
Knowing What We Know
African American Women's Experiences of Violence and Violation
Earning More and Getting Less
Why Successful Wives Can't Buy Equality
Cash For Your Trash
Scrap Recycling in America
Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, Cash for Your Trash demonstrates that over the years recycling has served purposes far beyond environmental protection. Its history and evolution reveals notions of Americanism, the immigrant experience, and the development of small business in this country.
Women Together/Women Apart
Portraits of Lesbian Paris
What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced term, today at least we are able to consider an array of visual representations that have been put into circulation by lesbians themselves over the last six or seven decades. In the early twentieth century, though, no notion of lesbianism as a coherent social or cultural identity yet existed.
In Women Together/Women Apart, Tirza True Latimer explores the revolutionary period between World War I and World War II when lesbian artists working in Paris began to shape the first visual models that gave lesbians a collective sense of identity and allowed them to recognize each other. Flocking to Paris from around the world, artists and performers such as Romaine Brooks, Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and Suzy Solidor used portraiture to theorize and visualize a "new breed" of feminine subject. The book focuses on problems of feminine and lesbian self-representation at a time and place where the rights of women to political, professional, economic, domestic, and sexual autonomy had yet to be acknowledged by the law. Under such circumstances, same-sex solidarity and relative independence from men held important political implications.
Combining gender theory with visual, cultural, and historical analysis, Latimer draws a vivid picture of the impact of sexual politics on the cultural life of Paris during this key period. The book also illuminates the far-reaching consequences of lesbian portraiture on contemporary constructions of lesbian identity.