Abstinence Cinema tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associ...

Taking a new look at divorce in America, Catherine Reissman shows how divorce is socially shared,...

Presents an opinion that we must understand the complexity and interdependency of species and hab...

Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have...

Triathlons, such as the famously arduous Ironman Triathlon, and 'extreme” mountain biking are pri...

Offers the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the f...

Pillar of Salt introduces the controversy over recollections of childhood sexual abuse as the win...

Ottoman Warfare is an impressive and original examination of the Ottoman military machine, detail...

Drawing on anthropology, history, sociology, ethnic studies, and women's studies, this volume exp...

Drawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, the authors explore the evolving ...

This collection of 13 comparative and interdisciplinary essays explores the cross-cultural dynami...

Children's peer culture, as it flourishes when adults are not present, stands between individual ...

'One of the sharpest and most productive analyses of our contemporaneity and the place of cinema ...

There are few issues more explosive than guns. 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people', is a...

What is history? How do we represent it? How do our notions of history change over time? The essa...

Silent Film offers some of the best recent essays on silent cinema, essays that cross disciplinar...

'One comes away from Mr. Hartmen's book with a renewed appreciation of the diversity and vigor of...

As an enduring American icon, the STAR TREK series represents a utopian future where humans no lo...

Debra Kaufman writes about ba'alot teshuva women who have returned to Orthodox Judaism, a form of...

A Good Man Is Hard to Find is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor ...

Brings together several essays by seventeen scholars to explore the complexity of the essential c...

Provides tips on how to translate abstract concepts into concrete metaphors, craft soundbites, an...

What does it mean to be a religious conservative, particularly for a woman, in America today? Dra...

A collection of 19 stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's 40-year career. Yamamoto's themes include ...

The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship fo...

A study of children raised in alternative religious groups such as The Family, Hare Krishna, Wicc...

This edition offers research, statistics and stories that document-increased participation in rel...

In this book, Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin bring together twelve original essays by prominent ...

Israeli Palestinians make up about 20 percent of Israeli citizens and, for the most part, live se...

Memories of Underdevelopment was the first great international success of Cuban cinema. The film ...

First published in 1954, The Orchid House, Phyllis Shand Allfrey's only published novel, is a cla...

This volume surveys the status of working women in an international framework, in selected countr...

Kessler explores the possibilities and implications of suspending a commitment to two 'natural' g...

A Map of Hope presents diverse women writers who have created a literature of global consciousnes...

This innovative essay collection explores Asian American cinematic representations historically a...

Why are there proportionally more African American children in foster care than white children? W...

This exposes the hidden causes of discrimination and links the restrictions that Israeli women ex...

Tunis has a long history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language is firm...

Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films befo...

This is the complete account of New Jersey's important role in the American Revolutionary War, as...

The American Woman's Home, originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth century's...

Toyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as ''Japanese America's poet...

The women of The Feminist Memoir Project give voice to the spirit, the drive, and the claims of t...

First published in 1980, Beyond Geography continues to influence and impress its readers. This ne...

Takes the reader through a chronological account of how and why racial categories were created an...

The 31 short stories and 108 poems in this anthology represent a literary history of English writ...

The First World War and Popular Cinema provides fresh insight into the role of film as an histori...

Aims to bring humor and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion. This work tells the stor...