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Reconstructing Dixie
Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
The South has long played a central role in America’s national imagination—the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation’s moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture....
Queering the Color Line
Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan...
Bodily Matters
The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2004
Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring a painful and sometimes dangerous medical procedure for all infants, the Compulsory Vaccination Act...
The Cult of Pharmacology
How America Became the World’s Most Troubled Drug Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
America had a radically different relationship with drugs a century ago. Drug prohibitions were few, and while alcohol was considered a menace, the public regularly consumed substances that are widely demonized today. Heroin was marketed by Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and marijuana was available as a tincture...
Psychosomatic
Feminism and the Neurological Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2004
How can scientific theories contribute to contemporary accounts of embodiment in the humanities and social sciences? In particular, how does neuroscientific research facilitate new approaches to theories of mind and body? Feminists have frequently criticized the neurosciences for biological reductionism,...
G-Strings and Sympathy
Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton—a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs—anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider’s account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "regulars." Given...
by Philip Goodchild, Creston Davis, Kenneth Surin
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Theology of Money is a philosophical inquiry into the nature and role of money in the contemporary world. Philip Goodchild reveals the significance of money as a dynamic social force by arguing that under its influence, moral evaluation is subordinated to economic valuation, which is essentially abstract...
The Affective Turn
Theorizing the Social
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
“The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects—among organized sex workers, health...
by Michèle Aina Barale, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays...
Disciplining Feminism
From Social Activism to Academic Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
How was academic feminism formed by the very institutions it originally set out to transform? This is the question Ellen Messer-Davidow seeks to answer in Disciplining Feminism. Launched thirty years ago as a bold venture to cut across disciplines and bridge the gap between scholarly knowledge and...
Written in Stone
Public Monuments in Changing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1998
Is it “Stalinist” for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Indeed, can a liberal,...
Written in Stone
Public Monuments in Changing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword
From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over...
by Sanford Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
“Diversity” has become a mantra within discussions of university admissions policies and many other arenas of American society. In the essays collected here, Sanford Levinson, a leading scholar of constitutional law and American government, wrestles with various notions of diversity. He begins...
Second Chances
Surviving AIDS in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live...