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Dharma's Daughters
Contemporary Indian Women and Hindu Culture
A Cinema Without Walls
Movies and Culture after Vietnam
Javanese Lives
Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society
Imitation of Life
Douglas Sirk, Director
Eskimo Essays
Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them
This examination of the ideology and practice of the Yup'ik Eskimos of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of southwestern Alaska includes traditions, ideology, relations with Christianity, warfare, use of animals, law and order, and the non-native perception of the Yup'ik way of life.
Not Yet Pregnant
Infertile Couples in Contemporary America
Greil explores the effect that infertility has on men and women, and why men seem to accept infertility more easily than women. Women see infertility as failure, they see themselves as incomplete. Men, seeing infertility more frequently as something they cannot change, ask why worry about it? Greil also explores what effect these attitudes have on the couple's marriage, on relationships with their relatives, and with their fertile friends. Infertility is not just a medical problem, it is a personal and emotional problem that affects all other aspects of the couple's life. This is a thorough investigation of what fertility means to contemporary American couples.
The American Development of Biology
By the Rivers of Babylon and Other Stories
Science, American Style
What is distinctive about American science?
For thirty years, Nathan Reingold has been exploring the character of science in the United States. His lively and influential essays look at the ways American science reflects our culture, history, politics, geography, and myths. He meditates on the growth of a scientific community and institutions in this country, American attitudes toward the uses of science, and the behavior of scientists and their chroniclers.
Rachel's Daughters
Newly Orthodox Jewish Women
A History Of Geology
A Life of Her Own
A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France
The The Communist Party of the United States
From the Depression to World War II
Fraser M. Ottanelli examines the history of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) from the stock market crash to the reconstitution of the Party in 1945. He explains the appeal of the CPUSA and its emergence as the foremost vehicle of left-wing radicalism during these years. Ottanelli looks at the Party's domestic policies and activities concerning labor, race, youth, the unemployed, as well as the Party's changing attitude toward FDR and the New Deal, its policies in foreign affairs, and war-time activities.
The Idea of Spatial Form
Moods
American Suicide
Revising Memory
Women's Fictions and Memoirs in 17th-Century France
Revising Memory resurrects a particularly dynamic moment in French history when women acted on the political stage and inscribed these often subversive actions in writing.
God's Schools
Choice and Compromise in American Society
From Hanoi to Hollywood
The Vietnam War in American Film
The essays in this volume deal with representations of the Vietnam war in documentary film and television reporting, examining the ways the power of film is used to deliver political messages. There are surprises here, new readings, and important insights on the ways we as a society have attempted to come to terms with the experiences of the Vietnam era. The book also contains two appendixes-a detailed chronology charting the relationship between major historical events and the release of American war films from 1954 through 1988, and a filmography listing information on over four hundred American and foreign films about the Vietnam War.
The Black Student Protest Movement at Rutgers
Olive Schreiner
Women's Movements in the United States
Woman Suffrage, Equal Rights, and Beyond
Buecheler explains why women’s movements arise, the forms of organization they adopt, the diversity of ideologies they espouse, and the class and racial composition of women’s movements. He also helps us to understand the roots of countermovements, as well as the mixture of successes and failures that has characterized both past and present women’s movements. While recognizing both the setbacks and the victories of the contemporary movement, Buecheler identifies grounds for relative optimism about the lasting consequences of this ongoing mobilization.
The Juggler
Rachilde
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.