Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Dangerous Discourses
Feminism, Gun Violence, and Civic Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Dangerous Discourses brings together new work by feminist scholars who provide a multifaceted view of the ways contemporary media discourses inscribe particular understandings of gendered social identities, gun violence, and public policy.
The chapters examine multiple media locations where discourses...
by Rahat Zaidi
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Since patterns of immigration began taking hold, one of the primary goals of any immigrant to, or citizen of, North America has been to be accepted and to adapt to a new culture and learn to live a productive and healthy life. There are many different means by which people endeavor to accomplish this....
Inside the 'Inclusive' Early Childhood Classroom
The Power of the 'Normal'
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Inside the ‘Inclusive’ Childhood Classroom: The Power of the ‘Normal’ offers a critique of current practices and alternative view of inclusion. The rich data created inside three classrooms will challenge those who work in the field, as the children and their performances, previously overlooked,...
Brides on Sale
Taiwanese Cross-Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them «Taiwan’s Fifth Ethnic Group». This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked...
We Got Next
Urban Education and the Next Generation of Black Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Developing a more culturally diverse teaching force is one of the most important tasks facing the education system in the United States. Yet, in the midst of this challenge, little is known about who these teachers might be or where they might come from. We Got Next: Urban Education and the Next Generation...
(Re)narrating Teacher Identity
Telling Truths and Becoming Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
With surprising candor, the authors of (Re)narrating Teacher Identity: Telling Truths and Becoming Teachers crack open what it means to become and be a teacher in the twenty-first century United States. In an effort to dig deeper into the challenge of teaching, four new teachers engaged in a summer...
Queer Praxis
Questions for LGBTQ Worldmaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Amidst rapid advances of mainstream gay and lesbian platforms, questions of essential sexual identities, queered rituals of family, queered notions of intimacy, queer considerations of time, and the possibility and value of queered systems of relation are largely absent. Resisting the public face...
Snatched
Child Abductions in U.S. News Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Few crimes provoke the collective fear, public outrage, and media fascination that child abductions do. Stories about missing children capture national headlines and dominate public discourses about crime and deviance, child safety, parenting, the American family, and gender and sexuality.
Snatched...
Mediated Moms
Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Images of «good mothers» saturate the media, yet so too do images of mothers who do not fit this mold. Numerous scholars have addressed «bad mothers» in the media, arguing that these images are a necessary counterpoint that serves to buttress the «good mother» myth. While mediated images of...
Old New Media
From Oral to Virtual Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Old New Media examines how the introduction of a new medium threatens those accustomed to the old media environment. Taking a media ecology perspective to examine the historical transitions from oral to literate, print, electronic and virtual media environments, the book includes theoretical chapters...
Talking Tobacco
Interpersonal, Organizational, and Mediated Messages
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Despite the widely recognized toll of tobacco and increasing action to curb tobacco use (e.g., increased excise taxes, smoking bans), smoking continues. Numerous messages about tobacco, smoking, and health circulate throughout society, but in spite of the prevalence of such messages and the importance...
Digital Fusion
A Society Beyond Blind Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The first national recognition of disparities in access to information technologies – a digital divide – surfaced in a 1995 report by The National Telecommunication and Information Administration. Despite efforts to close the gap and promote digital inclusion, statistical data over the course...
The Gay Agenda
Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The «gay agenda» is a rhetorical strategy deployed by the religious right and other social conservatives to magnify fear and hostility of queers. Queers are accused, among other things, of strategizing to recruit children into sexually deviant lifestyles; dismantling family and marriage as cornerstones...
From Education to Incarceration
Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the...