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...

A history of the social effects of epidemic diseases, human responses to epidemics, and human con...

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

Recent history has witnessed a revolution in women's health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, wo...

This book provides a complex, insightful portrait of intermarried couples and the new forms of Am...

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

Selected as one of the Best 'Sci-Tech' Books of 1988 by Library Journal. 'Intelligently organized...

Richard Moser uses interviews and personal stories of Vietnam veterans to offer a fundamentally n...

An exploration of the influences of holistic thinking on the development of electromagnetic theor...

Approximately one in every two thousand infants born in America each year is sexually ambiguous i...

Disability and gender, terms that have previously seemed so clear-cut, are becoming increasingly ...

Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how th...

Muslims in Motion provides a comparative look at Bangladeshi Muslims in different global contexts...

Offers a short introduction to the history of geology. The book begins with the Greeks and ends w...

To inaugurate a new series, Lives of Women in Science, Rutgers University Press is reissuing this...

Until a decade ago, the conquest of tuberculosis seemed one of the great triumphs of modern medic...

Just Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked ways that women and children are further subju...

Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of way...

In this book, the author explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African ...

Inside Colombia offers a valuable introduction and quick reference guide to this complex nation. ...

Based on over one hundred interviews with individuals of diverse faith traditions, this book show...

This important new work is a study of the everyday lives of the inhabitants of São Paulo in the n...

Explores the ways in which white, middle-class Americans have consumed narratives of masculinity,...

'This book is about much more than just Promise Keepers. It offers critical insight into shifting...

The Morning After tells the story of emergency contraception in America from the 1960s to the pre...

Amigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas ...

In this book the author reveals how medicine shows, both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan ...

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama examines a recurring figure that appears in French, British, and...

In this humorous work, Brook explores the cultural significance of the recentunprecedented explos...

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

In Laughing Mad , Bambi Haggins looks at how this transition occurred in a variety of media and s...

Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultu...

Through interviews with three generations of Yalálag Zapotecs ('Yaláltecos”) in Los Angeles and Y...

From Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Kojak, and Melrose Place, from books, music, cartoons, adverti...

In 1947 India was simultaneously freed--and divided. The departure of the British was accompanied...

Mitsuye Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan, and raised in Seattle, Washington, until the outbreak o...

This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focu...

This collection of essays offer a close reading of Jean Toomer's work, ''''Cane'''', a book haile...

In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced an original -- and s...

India produces more films than any other country and these works are consumed by non-Western cult...

Here, journalists can find the facts they need to cover complex and controversial environmental h...

In the US, murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are usually considered as entirely d...