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

In the course of human history, thousands of religious traditions have appeared, each with distin...

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

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...

With this book in hand, boaters can cruise down the Jersey Shore--from New York Harbor to Delawar...

Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health pol...

The Garden State is revealed in all its beauty in this guide to nature walks in New Jersey.

Come for a journey along the Jersey shore with naturalist and ecologist Joanna Burger! In these d...

Most people see the Jersey Shore as sun, sand, and surf . . . and hours in bumper-to-bumper traff...

This is a new translation, with introduction, commentary, and an explanatory glossary.

The Great War played an instrumental role in the development of cinema, so necessary was it to th...

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 ...

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...

Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the Nation...

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

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

Since 2006, when the “morning-after pill” Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emerge...

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

In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians chall...

The essays in American Cinema of the 1910s explore the rapid developments of the decade that bega...

Published in 2008, the first volume of Public Health focused on issues from the dawn of western c...

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...