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...

Over the past 20 years, much work has focused on domestic violence, yet little attention has been...

In 1616 Dickon, an English boy, journeys in search of his kidnapped Indian brother Little-Bear an...

Some of the earliest feature films were derived from classic literature. Even today, most of the ...

Feminist Inquiry provides scholars and students with a comprehensive guide to methodological issu...

More than a decade ago, three landmark world conferences placed the human rights of women on the ...

Over the past twenty years debates about pornography have raged within feminism and beyond. Throu...

At one time, universities educated new generations and were a source of social change. Today coll...

On Saturday, September 16, 1922, the bodies of Edward Hall, a handsome Episcopal rector, and Elea...

One in five New Jersey residents is over 65 and the state's legal and healthcare systems are beco...

Missions for Science traces the development and transfer of technology in four Atlantic regions w...

President Johnson would not compromise or equivocate on civil rights. John Kennedy of Massachuset...

Rachel Stein is professor of English and director of women's and multicultural studies at Siena C...

The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human ...

Traditions in World Cinema brings together a colorful and wide ranging collection of world cinema...

Explores the counterterrorism-themed show ''24'', Rapture fiction, traffic control centers, secur...

With Wheeler's compelling narrative, in-depth background details, and eye for revealing the offbe...

This book is the definitive collection of the writings of Wallace Thurman (1902-1934), providing ...

In Law and Order: Images, Meanings, Myths, Mariana Valverde draws on examples from film, televisi...

Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and 30s with their movies of far-...

In Body Evidence, more than twenty scholars and public health professionals uncover the unique ch...

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...

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

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