Girls Who Wore Black
Women Writing the Beat Generation
The Invention of Religion
Rethinking Belief in Politics and History
Biology at Work
Rethinking Sexual Equality
'Madame Butterfly' and 'A Japanese Nightingale'
Two Orientalist Texts
Sister Circle
Black Women and Work
The American Woman's Home
The American Womans Home, originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth centurys most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the eras most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct womens acquisition and use of a dizzying variety of new household consumer goods available in the postCivil War economic boom. It updates Catharine Beechers influential Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in The Atlantic in the 1860s.
Into Our Own Hands
The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969–1990
Into Our Own Hands traces the womens health care movement in the United States. Richly documented, this study is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with leading activists; documentary material from feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of womens health movement organizations in the early 1990s; and ethnographic fieldwork.
Contemporary Physics and the Limits of Knowledge
You've Been Had!
How the Media and Environmentalists Turned America into a Nation of Hypochondriacs
The Newark Teacher Strikes
Hopes on the Line
Rockin' Out Of The Box
Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock
The Freedom to Remember
Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction
The Art of History
African American Women Artists Engage the Past
Strangers in the Land
Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
Representations of the Post/Human
Monsters, Aliens, and Others in Popular Culture
Montclair Art Museum
Selected Works
The Montclair Art Museum — heralded by Art and Antiques as “ . . . a model of the best that America’s regional museums have to offer today” — has been a significant visual arts center for more than eighty-five years. Established in 1914 as the Garden State’s first public art museum with the vision and generosity of community leaders and pioneering collectors of American and native American Art, the Museum’s holdings have become an important cultural repository both for New Jersey and the nation. Many devotees of American art have enjoyed the Museum’s individual works at different exhibits around the country. This volume combines Native and other American art within a range of artistic media in provocative and insightful ways, and its commentaries reflect the careful scholarship and commitment to public education for which the Museum is well known.
What Every College Student Should Know
How to Find the Best Teachers and Learn the Most from Them
Students do months of research before choosing just the right college, but once theyre on campus, how many of them actually research the professors who are teaching their classes? To optimize your college education you need to find your schools best teachers but how? What Every College Student Should Know is a guide to discovering the best teachers at your school and learning everything you can from them. Here, the unique writing combination of a professor and a student provides you with perspectives from both sides of the equation.
The Pursuit of Pleasure
Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London
Until recently, architectural historians have focused their attention on buildings financed by wealthy patrons and designed by prestigious architects. Historical analysis has centered on the politics of this architecture and how social class has contributed to the design. Feminist historians have explored the role of women architects, and they have examined how gender difference informs architectural design.
Developing these areas of research, Jane Rendell discusses how gender theory can inform the study of architecture in early nineteenth-century London. She considers the gendering of public space as a complex and shifting series of moves between men and women, constructed and represented through spatial and social relations of consumption, display, and exchange. Drawing on geography, philosophy, and cultural theory, she investigates a number of specific architectural spaces—places of upper-class leisure and consumption in the West End: streets, clubs, assembly rooms, opera houses, and theaters.
In discussing public urban sites and the social exchanges that take place there, Rendell also examines the types of individuals displayed in—or excluded by—these spaces, such as the rambler and the cyprian, precursors to the Parisian flâneur and prostitute. Illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings, The Pursuit of Pleasure is a rich analysis of public space at the birth of the modern metropolis.
The Democracy Owners' Manual
A Practical Guide to Changing the World
Origins of Psychopathology
The Phylogenetic and Cultural Basis of Mental Illness
Governing Pleasures
Pornography and Social Change in England, 1815-1914
Fragments of Culture
The Everyday of Modern Turkey
Fragments of Culture shows how attention to the minutiae of daily life can successfully unravel the complexities of a shifting society. This book makes a significant contribution to both modern Turkish studies and the scholarship on cross-cultural perspectives in Middle Eastern studies.
Dust
The Archive and Cultural History
Death by Fire
Sati, Dowry Death, and Female Infanticide in Modern India
The ancient practice of sati — the self-immolation of a woman on her husband’s funeral pyre — was outlawed by the British administration in India in 1829, and sati was widely believed to have died out. The fate of 18-year-old Roop Kanwar changed that perception. Mala Sen explores the reality of life and death for women in modern India in a study that is both illuminating and terrifying.
Upheaval from the Abyss
Ocean Floor Mapping and the Earth Science Revolution
Screening Asian Americans
This innovative essay collection explores Asian American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character. The history of Asian Americans on movie screens, as outlined in Peter X. Feng’s introduction, provides a context for the individual readings that follow. Asian American cinema is charted in its diversity, ranging across activist, documentary, experimental, and fictional modes, and encompassing a wide range of ethnicities (Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese). Covered in the discussion are filmmakers—Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ang Lee, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Wayne Wang—and films such as The Wedding Banquet, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, and Chan is Missing.
Growing Up Protestant
Parents, Children and Mainline Churches
Erotic Morality
The Role of Touch in Moral Agency
Desolate Landscapes
Ice-Age Settlement in Eastern Europe
John F. Hoffecker provides an overview of Pleistocene or Ice-Age settlement in Eastern Europe with a heavy focus on the adaptations of Neanderthals and modern humans to this harsh environmental setting. Hoffecker argues that the Eastern European record reveals a stark contrast between Neanderthals and modern humans with respect to technology and social organization, both of which are tied to the development of language and the use of symbols. Desolate Landscapes will bring readers up to date with the rich archaeological record in this significant region and its contribution to our understanding of one of our most important events in human evolution - the rise of modern humans and the extinction of the Neanderthals.
Controlling Corporeality
The Body and the Household in Ancient Israel
In this beautifully written book, Jon L. Berquist guides the reader through the Hebrew Bible, examining ancient Israel’s ideas of the body, the unstable roles of gender, the deployment of sexuality, and the cultural practices of the time. Conducting his analysis with reference to contemporary theories of the body, power, and social control, Berquist offers not only a description and clarification of ancient Israelite views of the body, but also an analysis of how these views belong to the complex logic of ancient social meanings.