White By Definition
Social Classification in Creole Louisiana
Hard Bodies
Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era
Exploring the Little Rivers of New Jersey
Romantic Poetry
Recent Revisionary Criticism
Venice West
The Beat Generation in Southern California
My Daughter, the Teacher
Jewish Teachers in the New York City Schools
M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
How and why belief in live POWs has possessed a nation
Good Days, Bad Days
The Self and Chronic Illness in Time
Toxic Circles
Environmental Hazards from the Workplace into the Community
When men and women who work with toxic materials get sick, everyone needs to worry. The toxic circles of industrial hazards spread in successive waves outward: from the workplace to the home, to the neighborhood, and to the community at large. These compelling essays tell how the links between cancers and working with radium, waxes, and dyes were uncovered and how poisoning from lead, mercury, dioxin, and chromium in and around the factory was detected. They document how corporations, government agencies, courts, unions, physicians, workers, and citizens have tried to ignore, evade, and finally battle the terrible legacy of industrial disease. The book focuses on New Jersey, the heart of industrial America, where three centuries of experience with occupational and environmental disease offer hard-earned lessons to the rest of the country and the world.
Daughters of Decadence
Women Writers of the Fin de Siecle
"Flowering Judas"
Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter often spoke of her story "Flowering Judas" as the tale she liked best of all her stories because it came the nearest to what she meant it to be. It is the story of Laura, an idealistic woman, who travels to Mexico from Arizona at the age of twenty-two to assist the Obregón Revolution.
'Yellow Woman'
Leslie Marmon Silko
Brown River, White Ocean
An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Philippine Literature in English
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Flannery O'Connor
Presents a chronology of the life of author Flannery O'Conner, comments and letters by the author about the story, and a series of ten critical essays by noted authors about her work
Abbie Hoffman
American Rebel
Shoot the Piano Player
Francois Truffaut, Director
My Night At Maud's
Eric Rohmer, Director
Showalter discusses the film in the context of Rohmer's conservative film theory and explains its relationship to the other films in the director's series of Six Moral Tales. He shows how Rohmer's sense of place and his techniques of film narration develop the theme of moral choice in a story about love and chance encounters with a delightfully ironic conclusion.
The volume also contains a selection of background and critical materials, including interviews with Rohmer and pertinent statements by him, reviews of the film from several countries, and important criticism of the film from the past twenty years. A brief biography, filmography, and selected bibliography are also included. This volume will be indispensable for anyone studying this important film, and will delight those who just want to enjoy it.
Animating Culture
Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era
Long considered "children's entertainment" by audiences and popular media, Hollywood animation has received little serious attention. Eric Smoodin's Animating Culture is the first and only book to thoroughly analyze the animated short film.
The Sleeper Wakes
Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women
The Retreat from Race
Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics
Moving beyond the university setting, Takagi explores the political significance of the retreat from race by linking Asian-American admissions to other controversies in higher education and in American politics, including the debates over political correctness and multiculturalism. In her assessment, the retreat from race is likely to fail at its promise of easing racial tension and promoting racial equality.
Mothers On The Job
Maternity Policy in the U.S. Workplace
Women's increasing demands for protection and benefits in the workplace, especially with regard to maternity leave, have sparked more than a century of controversy among feminists on how best to serve the needs of working women. This debate continues to divide the feminist community. One side believes women are better served by emphasizing equality with men--pregnancy should be treated like any other "disability." The other side wants to recognize difference--special provisions should apply only to pregnant women. Lise Vogel examines the evolution of this debate on pregnant women in the workplace, looking at theoretical as well as practical implications.
Gender Play
Girls and Boys in School
A Convergence of Lives
Sofia Kovalevskaia - Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary
The (Other) American Traditions
Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
Sex Exposed
Sexuality and the Pornography Debate
This provocative collection, by well-known feminists, surveys these arguments, and in particular asks why recent feminist debates about sexuality keep reducing to questions of pornography.
Lucy Stone
Speaking Out for Equality
Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike
Ethel Rosenberg
Beyond the Myths
Ilene Philipson's biography of Ethel Rosenberg, only the second woman in U.S. history to be executed for treason, is now available in paperback for the first time.
Reworking Modernity
Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent
Beyond Geography
The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness
Jerseyana
The Underside of New Jersey History
Feminism and American Literary History
Essays
Disability and the Displaced Worker
African Encounters with Domesticity
The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus
by his son Ferdinand
Geography's Inner Worlds
Pervasive Themes in Contemporary American Geography
Twenty-six leading American geographers meditate on the themes that unify contemporary geography. They emphasize the concepts and methods that run through all geography's sub-disciplines and give it a distinctive place among both the natural and social sciences.
The Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller
Sadomasochism in Everyday Life
The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness
Poor and Pregnant in Paris
Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century
Rachel Fuchs shows how poor urban women in Paris negotiated their environment, and in some respects helped shape it, in their attempt to cope with their problems of poverty and pregnancy. She reveals who the women were and provides insight into the nature of their work and living arrangements. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual court testimonies, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences, their use of charity and welfare, and their recourse to abortion and infanticide as desperate alternatives to motherhood.
Fuchs also provides a comprehensive description of philanthropic and welfare institutions and outlines the relationship between the developing welfare state and official conceptions of womanhood. She traces the evolution of a new morality among policymakers in which secular views, medical hygiene, and a new focus on the protection of children replaced religious morality as a driving force in policy formation.
Combining social, intellectual, and medical history, this study of poor mothers in nineteenth-century society illuminates both class and gender relations in Paris, and illustrates the connection between social policy and the way ordinary women lived their lives.