The Aztec Image in Western Thought
Patterns of Policing
A Comparative International Analysis
Recasting Women
Essays in Indian Colonial History
Baptist Battles
Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention
Since 1979 Southern Baptists have been noisily struggling to agree on symbols, beliefs, and practices as they attempt to make sense of their changing social world. Nancy Ammerman has carefully documented their struggle. She tells the story of the Baptist reversal from a moderate to a fundamentalist outlook and speculates on the future of the denomination.
Memories Of Underdevelopment
Transforming the Cinderella Dream
From Frances Burney to Charlotte Bronte
Transforming the Cinderella Dream is the first systematic study of the formation and transformation of the Cinderella theme in the English novel. The author's central argument is that the Cinderella plot is essentially one of female self-assertion realized through ideological and textual dialogues between desire and self-denial. On the one hand characters argue for and desire resolution inmarriage and the domestic world of "happily ever after" endings, on the other they and their creators often strive to disengage themselves from this entanglement in a feminist attempt to escape narrative closure.
The Romantics and Us
Essays on Literature and Culture
Calling Home
Working-Class Women's Writings
'A New Home, Who Will Follow?' by Caroline Kirkland
Divorce Talk
Women and Men Make Sense of Personal Relationships
Suburban Lives
It Seemed Like Nothing Happened
America in the 1970s
The Politics of Women's Biology
The Delaware Indians
A History
C. A. Weslager puts into perspective the important events in United States history in which the Delawares participated and he adds new information about the Delawares. He bridges the gap between history and ethnology by analyzing the reasons why the Delawares were repeatedly victimized by the white man.
Wild Women in the Whirlwind
Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance
Owning Scientific and Technical Information
Value and Ethical Issues
In recent years, scientific discoveries and new technologies - as well as new, intricate relationships among academic researchers, government, and private industry - have begun to pose a whole range of novel problems in intellectual property rights. Should computer software be patented or copyrighted? How can ownership of plant varieties, genetically engineered organisms, and their products be protected? Should body parts and cell lines derived from them be patented? What is the impact of changes in intellectual property rights on the process of scientific research and development? The fifteen essays in this volume provide a solid foundation for any discussion of these issues. They survey the current intellectual property system in the U.S., describe several important historical precedents, explore ongoing controversies in computer science and biotechnology, and offer critiques of leading moral and legal theories about ownership of knowledge. This book is invaluable for anyone who has to deal with questions of intellectual property in theory or in everyday practice.
Health Services Privatization in Industrial Societies
Arms, Country, and Class
The Philadelphia Militia and the Lower Sort during the American Revolution
In 1949 and 1950, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expelled many left-wing unions, representing 750,000 workers, because they were supposedly Communist-dominated. This collection of previously unpublished essays explores the history of those eleven left-led unions. Some essays consider specific aspects of several unions--the Longshoremen, the United Electricians (UE), the Fur Workers, and the Food and Tobacco Workers--while others take up the impact of the federal government's and the Catholic church's anticommunism upon the unions as a whole.
Natural Rebels
A Social History of Enslaved Women in Barbados
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Don Siegel, director
The Politics of Public Health
Anthropologies and Histories
Essays in Culture, History, and Political Economy
Unequal Partnerships
The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment in Postwar America
Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution
Scarlett's Women
Gone With the Wind and Its Female Fans
The Good Ruler
From Herbert Hoover to Richard Nixon
Which American presidents have been good? Which have been bad? Experts on the presidency have never been able to agree on their assessments. Bruce Kuklick suggests that historians and political scientists have approached the problem of defining successful leadership without adequately considering the essential factor. Instead of trying to evaluate which presidents set consistent and worthy policies and brought them to fruition, Kuklick asks us to pay more attention to how the American people feel about their presidents. The citizenry and its emotional responses are sued as the measure of a successful president, rather than the ostensibly rational appraisals of scholars.
Social History of Economic Decline
Business, Politics, and Work in Trenton
Nineteenth-century Trenton, New Jersey, was a booming commercial and manufacturing center for iron, rubber, steel cables, machine tools, and pottery. Trenton's golden age lasted until the 1920s, when many local industries were bought out by national companies. The story of the subsequent social, political, and economic decline of Trenton is also the story of twentieth-century urban America.
Gender/Body/Knowledge
Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing
Daughters of Independence
"The Amber Gods" and Other Stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford
Women as Healers
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
In Women as Healers, thirteen contributors explore the intersection of feminist anthropology and medical anthropology in eleven case studies of women in traditional and emergent healing roles in diverse parts of the world. In a spectrum of healing roles ranging from family healers to shamans, diviner-mediums, and midwives, women throughout the world pursue strategic ends through healing, manipulate cultural images to effect cures and explain misfortune, and shape and are shaped by the social and political contexts in which they work.