Temple University Press imprint: 178 books
Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument
Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Are feminists really angry, unreasoning, man-haters who argue only from an emotional perspective as some claim? Does the incessant repetition of this trope make anti-feminism and misogyny a routine element in everyday speech? And does this repetition work towards delegitimizing feminist arguments...
The Story Is True
The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Making and experiencing stories, remembering and retelling them is something we all do. We tell stories over meals, at the water cooler, and to both friends and strangers. But how do stories work? What is it about telling and listening to stories that unites us? And, more importantly, how do we change...
Wrongful Conviction
International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Imperfections in the criminal justice system have long intrigued the general public and worried scholars and legal practitioners. In Wrongful Conviction, criminologists C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias present an important collection of essays that analyzes cases of injustice across an array of legal...
Pictures from a Drawer
Prison and the Art of Portraiture
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
For more than forty years Bruce Jackson has been documenting—in books, photographs, audio recording, and film—inmates’ lives in American prisons. In November, 1975, he acquired a collection of old ID photos while he was visiting the Cummins Unit, a state prison farm in Arkansas. They are published...
by Elizabeth Aries
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2008
In Race and Class Matters at an Elite College, Elizabeth Aries provides a rare glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. Based on an intensive study Aries conducted with 58 students at Amherst...
The Temp Economy
From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Everyone knows that work in America is not what it used to be. Layoffs, outsourcing, contingent work, disappearing career ladders—these are the new workplace realities for an increasing number of people. But why? In The Temp Economy, Erin Hatton takes one of the best-known icons of the new economy—the...
African American Jeremiad Rev
Appeals For Justice In America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Begun by Puritans, the American jeremiad, a rhetoric that expresses indignation and urges social change, has produced passionate and persuasive essays and speeches throughout the nation's history. Showing that black leaders have employed this verbal tradition of protest and social prophecy in a way...
Cheaper by the Hour
Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Recent law school graduates often work as temporary attorneys, but law firm layoffs and downsizing have strengthened the temporary attorney industry. Cheaper by the Hour is the first book-length account of these workers.
Drawing from participant observation and interviews, Robert A. Brooks...
The Wars We Inherit
Military Life, Gender Violence, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
By combining personal memoir and critical analysis, Lori Amy links the violence we live in our homes to the violence that structures our larger culture. The Wars We Inherit brings insights from memory and trauma studies to the story of violence in the author’s own family.
In this brave, fascinating...
Cleavage Politics and the Populist Right
The New Cultural Conflict in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Over the last two decades, right-wing populist parties in Western Europe have gained sizable vote shares and power, much to the fascination and consternation of political observers. Meshing traditionalism and communitarian ideals, right-wing populist parties have come to represent a polar normative...