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Star Decades Complete 11 Volume Set
Edited by Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance
Rutgers University Press
The Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an eleven volume set: Movie Stars from the 1910s to the 2010s. Each volume presents original essays that analyze the movie star against the background of American cultural history. As icon, as mediated personality, and as object of audience fascination and desire, the Hollywood star remains the model for celebrity in modern culture, representing a combination of achievement, talent, ability, luck, authenticity, superficiality, and even ordinariness.
Latinas on the Line
Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications
Rutgers University Press
Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications brings to attention the histories of Latinas in telecommunications, demonstrating how these histories contribute to the larger canons on Latina labor, communications, race, gender, and social constructions of technology. Through their intersectional identities, Latinas in telecommunications offer particular insights to the history of telecommunications and their own ‘belonging’ within these technological spaces.
Fredric Jameson and Film Theory
Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema
Rutgers University Press
A radical new intervention into film studies and Marxist cultural studies, this book considers the contributions of Fredric Jameson to film Studies, and finds scholars applying, questioning, and developing his ideas in a wide-ranging collection of case studies from around the globe.
Fredric Jameson and Film Theory
Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema
Rutgers University Press
A radical new intervention into film studies and Marxist cultural studies, this book considers the contributions of Fredric Jameson to film Studies, and finds scholars applying, questioning, and developing his ideas in a wide-ranging collection of case studies from around the globe.
Erotic Cartographies
Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination
Rutgers University Press
Erotic Cartographies uses maps drawn by Trinidadian same-sex-loving women to demonstrate how their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging, and challenge colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.
Collision Course
Economic Change, Criminal Justice Reform, and Work in America
Rutgers University Press
This book is about the convergence of trends in two American institutions – the economy and the criminal justice system. The American economy has radically transformed in the past half-century, led by advances in automation technology that have permanently altered labor market dynamics. Over the same period, the US criminal justice system experienced an unprecedented expansion, at great cost. These costs include not only the $80 billion annually in direct expenditures on criminal justice, but also the devastating impacts experienced by justice-involved individuals, families, and communities. This book examines these potential consequences, the meaning of work in American society, and suggests alternative redistributive and policy solutions to avert the collision course of these economic and criminal justice policy trends.
Carrying On
Another School of Thought on Pregnancy and Health
Rutgers University Press
Unlike traditional pregnancy guidebooks that offer recommendations, Carrying On investigates prenatal health norms by exploring the origin stories for issues at the center of pregnancy, ranging from morning sickness and weight gain to ultrasounds and induction. In a world of information overload, Carrying On helps expecting parents make sense of the overwhelming amount of counsel by shedding light on where it all came from: how and why did such confusing and contradictory guidance on pregnancy come to exist?
Black Space
Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower
Rutgers University Press
Protests against systemic racism have swept across elite colleges and universities, raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong on these campuses. Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of students in the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization with racially diverse members and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students, as a case study in exploring race, diversity, and safe space.
Residues
Thinking Through Chemical Environments
By Soraya Boudia, Angela N. H. Creager, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt, and Jody A. Roberts
Rutgers University Press
Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. With detailed stories that span the globe, we introduce “residual materialism” as a way to track the, often invisible, impacts of chemicals through time and space and for explaining their world-making powers.
Screen Decades Complete 12 Volume Set
Edited by Murray Pomerance and Lester D. Friedman
Rutgers University Press
The Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an twelve-volume set: American Cinema from the 1890s to the 2010s. Each volume presents a group of original essays analyzing the impact of cultural issues on the cinema and the impact of the cinema on society. Every chapter explores a spectrum of particularly significant motion pictures and the broad range of historical events to provide a continuing sense of the decade as it came to be depicted on movie screens across the nation.
Painting in Excess
Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985-1993
Edited by Olena Martynyuk
Rutgers University Press
The upheavals of glasnost and perestroika followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union remarkably transformed the art scene in Kyiv, launching Ukrainian contemporary art as a global phenomenon. This exhibition catalogue traces and documents the diverse artistic manifestations of these transitional and exhilarating years while providing historical artworks for context.
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships
Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti
By Vincent Joos
Rutgers University Press
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes how, in the meantime, people from various backgrounds use, transform, and create vibrant urban spaces and economies that enable them to rebuild their lives. By exploring how the state, international organizations, and everyday people transform the environment,the book reflects on the possibilities of dwelling in post-disaster landscapes.
The Politics of International Marriage in Japan
Rutgers University Press
Focusing on three cultural/ethnic groups in terms of empirical data - women from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries - this book highlights the complex interplay between national, cultural, gender, and ethnicity boundary maintenance that constructs international marriages in Japan at multiple levels, providing a comprehensive account of international marriage in the contemporary Japanese context.
The Marion Thompson Wright Reader
Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Rutgers University Press
In The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provides a scholarly, accessible introduction to a modern edition of Marion Thompson Wright’s classic book, The Education of Negroes in New Jersey and to her full body of scholarly work. Thompson’s work and her life are highly significant to the history of New Jersey, African Americans, women’s, and education history. Drawing upon Wright's work, existing scholarship, and new archival research, this new landmark scholarly edition, which includes an all-new biography of this pioneering scholar, underscores the continued relevance of Marion Thompson Wright.
The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse
Taking Risks in the Service of Truth
Rutgers University Press
This book tells the remarkable story of how a preacher’s kid from Birmingham, Alabama became the so-called “Godfather of Gay Comics.” Lavishly illustrated with a broad selection of comics from Howard Cruse’s fifty-year career, this study showcases his critical role as a satirist and commentator on his times.
The Great Disappearing Act
Germans in New York City, 1880-1930
Rutgers University Press
Where did all the Germans go? How does a community of several hundred thousand people become invisible within a generation? This study examines these questions in relation to the German immigrant community in New York City between 1880-1930, and seeks to understand how German-American New Yorkers assimilated into the larger American society in the early twentieth century.
Intimate Connections
Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains
Rutgers University Press
Intimate Connections dissects changing ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of northern Pakistan. It offers deep insights into the affective lives of local Shia women, gender practices, and young couples’ mobile phone relationships in South Asia as well as in the wider Muslim world.
Intimate Connections
Love and Marriage in Pakistan's High Mountains
Rutgers University Press
Intimate Connections dissects changing ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of northern Pakistan. It offers deep insights into the affective lives of local Shia women, gender practices, and young couples’ mobile phone relationships in South Asia as well as in the wider Muslim world.
Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up
Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private
Rutgers University Press
When straight men talk to each other about their sex lives, they often boast about sexual exploits and brag about the hot women they have slept with. Yet this competitive bluster covers up deep-seated anxieties about measuring up to impossibly virile cultural ideals of masculinity. So how do straight men really feel about sex, women, and manhood—and how do those feelings clash with their public performance of manliness?
This landmark sociological study emerges from in-depth interviews with nearly one hundred straight American men aged 20 to 68 from a variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up examines how these men use sex with women as a way of affirming their manhood—and how they view themselves as failures when they are unable to “score.” It also explores the effects of aging and erectile dysfunction on the men’s self-image. However, the life stories collected here are not just about performance anxiety, as this research reveals ways that some straight men have resisted masculine cultural scripts to form mutually nurturing relationships with women.
This landmark sociological study emerges from in-depth interviews with nearly one hundred straight American men aged 20 to 68 from a variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up examines how these men use sex with women as a way of affirming their manhood—and how they view themselves as failures when they are unable to “score.” It also explores the effects of aging and erectile dysfunction on the men’s self-image. However, the life stories collected here are not just about performance anxiety, as this research reveals ways that some straight men have resisted masculine cultural scripts to form mutually nurturing relationships with women.
Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up
Straight Men's Sexuality in Public and Private
Rutgers University Press
When straight men talk to each other about their sex lives, they often boast about sexual exploits and brag about the hot women they have slept with. Yet this competitive bluster covers up deep-seated anxieties about measuring up to impossibly virile cultural ideals of masculinity. So how do straight men really feel about sex, women, and manhood—and how do those feelings clash with their public performance of manliness?
This landmark sociological study emerges from in-depth interviews with nearly one hundred straight American men aged 20 to 68 from a variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up examines how these men use sex with women as a way of affirming their manhood—and how they view themselves as failures when they are unable to “score.” It also explores the effects of aging and erectile dysfunction on the men’s self-image. However, the life stories collected here are not just about performance anxiety, as this research reveals ways that some straight men have resisted masculine cultural scripts to form mutually nurturing relationships with women.
This landmark sociological study emerges from in-depth interviews with nearly one hundred straight American men aged 20 to 68 from a variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up examines how these men use sex with women as a way of affirming their manhood—and how they view themselves as failures when they are unable to “score.” It also explores the effects of aging and erectile dysfunction on the men’s self-image. However, the life stories collected here are not just about performance anxiety, as this research reveals ways that some straight men have resisted masculine cultural scripts to form mutually nurturing relationships with women.
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition
Edited by Meredith Minkler and Patricia Wakimoto
Rutgers University Press
The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy and media advocacy in such work. The use of participatory evaluation and strategies and tips on fundraising for community organizing also are presented, as are the ethical challenges that can arise in this work, and helpful tools for anticipating and addressing them.
An Unseen Unheard Minority
Asian American Students at the University of Illinois
By Sharon S. Lee; Foreword by Joy Williamson- Lott
Rutgers University Press
As they were not underrepresented, Asian American students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were denied minority student services. Over many decades, Asian American students fought to be seen and heard, challenging the university’s narrow view of minority students, and changing campus resources for Asian Americans.
American Cinema of the 2010s
Themes and Variations
Edited by Dennis Bingham
Rutgers University Press
Covering everything from Black Panther to American Sniper, and from Frozen to Get Out, American Cinema in the 2010s takes a close look at the memorable movies, visionary filmmakers, and behind-the-scenes drama that made this divisive decade such an exciting time to be a moviegoer.
Americans and the Holocaust
A Reader
Rutgers University Press
This edited collection of more than one hundred primary sources from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s—including newspaper and magazine articles, popular culture materials, and government records—reveals how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. It includes valuable resources for students and historians seeking to shed light on this dark era in world history.
Fourth of July, Asbury Park
A History of the Promised Land
By Daniel Wolff
Rutgers University Press
This revised and expanded edition of Daniel Wolff’s classic study of Asbury Park, New Jersey tells the tale of the city’s first 150 years, guiding us through the development of its lavish amusement parks and bandstands, the decay of its working-class neighborhoods, the spread of its racially-segregated ghettos, and the effects of recent gentrification.
Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes
Rutgers University Press
With examples taken from both the Golden Ages of DC and Marvel comics, as well as more recent superhero comics, films, television, and merchandising, this study provides a comprehensive look at the contradictory messages the superhero genre sends about love, sexuality, and gender.
Artificial Generation
Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity
Rutgers University Press
Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity looks at nineteenth-century literary representation and film theory, arguing that the depth of amalgamation that occurred within literary representation during this era is a key aesthetic tradition that continues to inform movies and contemporary culture today.
Whither College Sports
Amateurism, Athlete Safety, and Academic Integrity
Rutgers University Press
This book lays out the starkly different paths that college sports reform can follow and what the ramifications will be on the athletes and on the institutions in which they are enrolled.
Village Ties
Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh
By Nayma Qayum
Rutgers University Press
Village Ties argues that grassroots women’s mobilization programs can empower poor women to challenge oppressive informal institutions – the rules of the game – that govern relationships between actors in the rural global South. By exploring the activities of women who belong to Polli Shomaj, an initiative of the development organization BRAC, Village Ties challenges stereotypes of poor Muslim women as backward, subservient, oppressed, and in need of saving.
Soccer in Mind
A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game
Rutgers University Press
Soccer in Mind provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, viewing it from sociological, psychological, anthropological, and economic angles. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, this book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game.
Near Human
Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging
Rutgers University Press
Near Human is an ethnography of research piglets in biomedical experiments and premature human infants in clinical care in Denmark. Drawing on fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svendsen redirects the question of "what it means" to be human to "what it takes" to be human and to forge a nation.
Comics and the Origins of Manga
A Revisionist History
By Eike Exner
Rutgers University Press
Comics and the Origins of Manga challenges the conventional wisdom that manga evolved from traditional Japanese art, and reveals how Japanese cartoonists in the 1920s and 1930s instead developed modern manga out of translations of foreign comic strips like Bringing Up Father, Happy Hooligan, and Felix the Cat.
Neo-Burlesque
Striptease as Transformation
By Lynn Sally
Rutgers University Press
Lynn Sally offers an inside look at the history, culture, and philosophy of New York’s neo-burlesque scene. Through detailed profiles of iconic neo-burlesque performers. this book makes the case for understanding neo-burlesque as a new sexual revolution. Raising important questions about what feminism looks like, Neo-Burlesque celebrates a revolutionary performing art and participatory culture whose acts have political reverberations, both onstage and off.
Whitewashing the Movies
Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture
By David C Oh
Rutgers University Press
Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular attention of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Including movies such as Ghost in the Shell and Aloha, media activists and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White actors to play Asians and Asian Americans. The purpose of this book is to theorize the popularly used concept of “whitewashing” in stories that subjectify White identities at the expense of Asian/American stories and characters.
Triumph over Containment
American Film in the 1950s
Rutgers University Press
Triumph Over Containment offers an uncompromising look at some of the greatest films and directors of the 1950s, from household names like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick to lesser-known iconoclasts like Samuel Fuller and Ida Lupino. It scours a variety of different genres to find pockets of resistance to the repressive and oppressive norms of Cold War culture.
Nothing Is Impossible
America's Reconciliation with Vietnam
By Ted Osius; Foreword by John Kerry
Rutgers University Press
Ted Osius, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam from 2014-17, offers a vivid first-hand account of the various forms of diplomacy that brought about the reconciliation between two former enemies and helped bring new prosperity to Vietnam. With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.
No Real Choice
How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy
Rutgers University Press
Based on candid, in-depth interviews with women who considered but did not obtain an abortion, No Real Choice analyzes the structural obstacles to abortion and the cultural ideologies that try to persuade women not to choose abortion. It illustrates how real reproductive choice is denied, for whom, and at what cost.
King of Hearts
Drag Kings in the American South
Rutgers University Press
King of Hearts shows how drag king performers are thriving in an unlikely location: Southern Bible Belt states like Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina. It offers a groundbreaking look at a subculture that presents a subversion of gender norms while also providing a vital lifeline for non-gender-conforming Southerners.
Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages
Religion, Gender, and Belonging
Edited by Yafa Shanneik and Annelies Moors
Rutgers University Press
This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.
Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages
Religion, Gender, and Belonging
Edited by Yafa Shanneik and Annelies Moors
Rutgers University Press
This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.
Creolized Sexualities
Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean
Rutgers University Press
By showing how a wide, and surprising, range of Caribbean writers have contributed to the crafting of a supple and inclusive erotic repertoire across the second half of the twentieth century, the readings in this book aim to demonstrate that a recognition of creolized and pluralized sexualities already exists within the literary imagination.
Changes in Care
Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa
By Cati Coe
Rutgers University Press
As Africa’s population ages, the inadequacy of kin care becomes more visible. In Ghana, older people and their allies are developing fragile initiatives and programs beyond the norm of kin care. Changes in Care examines aging in Ghana as a way of understanding the unevenness of social change more widely.
Aging in a Changing World
Older New Zealanders and Contemporary Multiculturalism
By Molly George
Rutgers University Press
Aging in a Changing World challenges simplified images of old people as racist, nostalgic, and resistant to change – stereotypes that have only grown more prevalent with the Brexit vote and the 2016 election of Donald Trump. This book takes a deep, nuanced look at the experiences of older people who, while “aging in place,” have been profoundly impacted by global population movement and the dramatic development of modern multiculturalism around them.
The First Fifteen
How Asian American Women Became Federal Judges
Rutgers University Press
This book tells the stories of the first fifteen Asian women appointed to federal judgeships. In a candid series of interviews, these descendants of a Chinese garment worker, Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II, Vietnamese refugees, and penniless Indian immigrants reflect on both the personal and professional experiences that culminated in this distinguished position.
Unleaded
How Changing Our Gasoline Changed Everything
Rutgers University Press
Combining environmental history, sociology, and neuroscience, Carrie Nielsen tells the story of how crusading scientists and activists convinced the U.S. government to ban lead additives in leaded gasoline, explores how lead exposure affects the developing brains of children, and reveals how many poor communities and minority communities of color still have face dangerously high lead levels of exposure to lead.
The Audacity of a Kiss
Love, Art, and Liberation
By Leslie Cohen
Rutgers University Press
Leslie Cohen and her partner Beth Suskin served as models for the iconic sculpture “Gay Liberation.” In this evocative memoir, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years and recounts her quest to build gay and feminist oases in New York, including the groundbreaking women’s nightclub Sahara.
Rape by the Numbers
Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence
Rutgers University Press
Rape by the Numbers explores scientists’ approaches to studying rape over more than forty years in the United States and Canada. In addition to investigating how scientists come to know the scope, causes, and consequences of rape, this book delves into the politics of rape research. Scholars who study rape often face a range of social pressures and resource constraints, including some that are unique to feminized and politicized fields of inquiry. Collectively, these matters have far-reaching consequences.
Precarious Democracy
Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
Rutgers University Press
Precarious Democracy collects powerful and intimate political ethnographic writing on Brazil’s pivotal years, 2013-19, from the nation’s megacities to rural Amazonia. The volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history.
Movie-Made Jews
An American Tradition
Rutgers University Press
Movie-Made Jews focuses on American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation, and through unapologetic assertion of Jewishness, queerness, and alliances across race and religion. While it’s a truism that Jews make movies, this book demonstrates how movies make Jews.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and Public Health
Edited by Mary E. O'Dowd and Ruth Charbonneau
Rutgers University Press
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies of women leaders in public health and health care over nearly 150 years. Extraordinarily relevant to current public discourse, topics include: the COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, disease prevention and the Affordable Care Act. Their leadership lessons can be applied to a broad array of disciplines.