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Welcome to the Dreamhouse
Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television’s changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring postwar U.S....
Queer in Russia
A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that country. After a decade of conducting interviews,...
by Donald M. Lowe, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1995
In The Body in Late-Capitalist USA, Donald M. Lowe explores the varied social practices that code and construct the body. Arguing that our bodily lives are shaped by a complex of daily and ongoing practices—how we work, what we buy and consume—Lowe contends that as a result of the commodification...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Mary Louise Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform...
Global Climate Change
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and he is a frequent and outspoken...
If Truth Be Told
The Politics of Public Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activities? Calling for a consideration of this public moment as part and parcel of the research process, the contributors to If Truth Be Told explore the challenges,...
Aloha Betrayed
Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to...
Between Jesus and the Market
The Emotions that Matter in Right-Wing America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 1997
Between Jesus and the Market looks at the appeal of the Christian right-wing movement in contemporary American politics and culture. In her discussions of books and videotapes that are widely distributed by the Christian right but little known by mainstream Americans, Linda Kintz makes explicit the...
Lunch With a Bigot
The Writer in the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, and criticism, the essays include encounters with writers Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, discussions on the craft...
Finding Utopia
Another Journey Into Lost Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In Finding Utopia, Randy McNutt sets off again to explore Ohio’s forgotten nooks and byways. He begins where his last journey ended—on roads less traveled—finding more ghost towns, battlefields-turned-cornfields, and old memories that beckon him like spectral hitchhikers. On the way, he meets...
The Manly Masquerade
Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including...
Undead TV
Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
When the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired in 2003, fans mourned the death of the hit television series. Yet the show has lived on through syndication, global distribution, DVD release, and merchandising, as well as in the memories of its devoted viewers. Buffy stands out from much entertainment...
by Robert M. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In the early 1940s as the conflict between the Axis and the Allies spread worldwide, the U.S. State Department turned its attention to Axis influence in Latin America. As head of the Office of Inter-American Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller was charged with cultivating the region’s support for the Allies...
by Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Henry Darger (1892–1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he wrote a 15,145-page fictional epic, In the Realms of the Unreal. He spent much of the rest of his long life illustrating it in astonishing drawings and watercolors....