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Unveiling Desire
Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
Rutgers University Press
Unveiling Desire shows that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, the contributors examine how the struggle for women’s liberation is truly global.
Unveiling Desire
Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
Rutgers University Press
Unveiling Desire shows that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, the contributors examine how the struggle for women’s liberation is truly global.
Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine
Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer
Rutgers University Press
In Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine, medical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil—developed against the most common sexually-transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV)—was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing debates—about adolescent sexuality and pediatric vaccinations more generally.
Thieving Three-Fingered Jack
Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Rutgers University Press
Botkin has compiled and analyzed plays, novels, and folklore about Three-Fingered Jack in order to show how the story of this hero-villain has evolved as it traveled from the Caribbean to England and the United States, returning to Jamaica as a tale of heroic resistance.
Narrating Love and Violence
Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India
Rutgers University Press
Narrating Love and Violence is an ethnographic exploration of women’s stories from the Himalayan valley of Lahaul, in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India, focusing on how violence is produced at the intersection of gender, tribe, caste, and the state in India, while demonstrating how love operates as a politic.
Demographic Angst
Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s
By Alan Nadel
Rutgers University Press
Alan Nadel explores influential non-fiction books, magazine articles, and public documents to demonstrate how films such as Singin’ in the Rain, On the Waterfront, Sunset Boulevard, Roman Holiday, North by Northwest, and Sayonara, negotiated anxieties over the changes impelled by postwar America’s radically reconfigured population.
Lesson Plans
The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher
Rutgers University Press
Judson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training. Using rich qualitative data, he analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender.
Rock 'n' Roll Movies
Rutgers University Press
This book offers an eclectic look at how rock ‘n’ roll and its fans have been represented in B-movies, blockbusters, biopics, documentaries, and experimental films. David Sterritt explores how rock ‘n’ roll movies kept pace with rapidly changing musical trends, helping to fuel a worldwide revolution in youth culture.
Embodying the Problem
The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother
By Jenna Vinson
Rutgers University Press
Embodying the Problem shows that the dominant narrative regarding teenage pregnancy perpetuates harmful discourses about women and sustains racialized gender ideologies that construct women’s bodies as sites of national intervention and control. However, many women who embody the “problem” of teenage pregnancy actively resist this narrative by publishing their own stories.
Searching for Sycorax
Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror
Rutgers University Press
Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory.
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