International Exposure
Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800–2000
Gender and Planning
A Reader
Enduring Roots
Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape
Enduring Roots tells the stories of historic American trees, including the oak, the apple, the cherry, and the oldest of the world’s trees, the bristlecone pine. These stories speak of our attachment to the land, of our universal and eternal need to leave a legacy, and demonstrate that the landscape is a gift, to be both received and, sometimes, tragically, to be destroyed.
Environmental Movement in Majority and Minority Worlds
A Global Perspective
Capital Consequences
Families of the Condemned Tell Their Stories
Building Diaspora
Filipino Cultural Community Formation on the Internet
In Building Diaspora, Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used these subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others. Through an extensive analysis of newsgroup debates, listserves, and website postings, she illustrates the significant ways that computer-mediated communication has contributed to solidifying what can credibly be called a Filipino diaspora.
Not-So-Nuclear Families
Class, Gender, and Networks of Care
In Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care, Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. She chronicles the conflicts, hardships, and triumphs of four families of various social classes. Each must navigate the ideology that mandates that parents, mothers in particular, rear their own children, in the face of an economic reality that requires that parents rely on the help of others. In vivid family stories, parents detail how they and their networks of friends, paid caregivers, and extended kin collectively close the "care gap" for their school-aged children.
"After Mecca"
Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
Yellowface
Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s
Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups
Nature's Body
Gender in the Making of Modern Science
Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature—one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century Europeans, clothing the females in silk vestments and training them to sip tea with the modest demeanor of English matrons, while imagining the males of the species fully capable of ravishing women.
Faithful Generations
Race and New Asian American Churches
The War Film
The 'Tragic Mulatta' Revisited
Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction
No Germs Allowed!
How to Avoid Infectious Diseases At Home and on the Road
Nature's Experts
Science, Politics, and the Environment
Nature’s Experts explores the contributions and challenges presented when scientific authority enters the realm of environmental affairs. Stephen Bocking focuses on four major areas of environmental politics: the formation of environmental values and attitudes, management of natural resources such as forests and fish, efforts to address international environmental issues such as climate change, and decisions relating to environmental and health risks. In each area, practical examples and case studies illustrate that science must fulfill two functions if it is to contribute to resolving environmental controversies. First, science must be relevant and credible, and second, it must be democratic, where everyone has access to the information they need to present and defend their views.
Hands
Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work
Beyond Slash, Burn, and Poison
Transforming Breast Cancer Stories into Action
Aliens Adored
Raël's UFO Religion
A Prehistory of the North
Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes
In an account rich with illustrations, John Hoffecker traces the history of anatomical adaptations, diet modifications, and technological developments, such as clothing and shelter, which allowed humans the continued ability to push the boundaries of their habitation. Written in nontechnical language, A Prehistory of the North provides compelling new insights and valuable information for professionals and students.