University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Transgender Rights and Politics
Groups, Issue Framing, and Policy Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
To date, media and scholarly attention to gay politics and policy has focused on the morality debates over sexual orientation and the legal aspects of rights for non-heterosexuals. However, transgender concerns as such have received little attention. As transgender activism has become more visible,...
The Paradox of Gender Equality
How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which granted women the right to vote and invited their...
A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt
An African Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds...
Counting the Tiger's Teeth
An African Teenager's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Counting the Tiger’s Teeth narrates a crucial turning point in Nigerian history, the Agbekoya rebellion (“Peasants Reject Poverty”) of 1968–70, as chronicled by Toyin Falola, reflecting on his firsthand experiences as a teenage witness to history. Falola, the foremost scholar of Africa of...
Lewd and Notorious
Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited...
Mex-Ciné
Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Mex-Cinéoffers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of reception through cognitive theory. Mex-Cinéaims to make visible the twenty-first century Mexican film industry,...
The Birth of the Archive
A History of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and kings, merchants and churchmen,...
The Half-Life of Deindustrialization
Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but its longterm effects continue to ripple through working-class culture. Economic restructuring changed...
The Evolution of American Legislatures
Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619-2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The institutional development of American legislatures, beginning with the first colonial assembly of 1619, has been marked by continuity as well as change. Peverill Squire draws upon a wealth of primary sources to document this institutional history. Beginning with the ways in which colonial assemblies...
Trade and Taboo
Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Trade and Taboo addresses the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society. Tracking the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity, it follows particular groups of professionals—funeral workers, criers, tanners,...
Obligations in Roman Law
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Long a major element of classical studies, the examination of the laws of the ancient Romans has gained momentum in recent years as interdisciplinary work in legal studies has spread. Two resulting issues have arisen, on one hand concerning Roman laws as intellectual achievements and historical artifacts,...
by Dennis P. Kehoe, Thomas McGinn
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The essays composing Ancient Law, Ancient Society examine the law in classical antiquity both as a product of the society in which it developed and as one of the most important forces shaping that society. Contributors to this volume consider the law via innovative methodological approaches and theoretical...
My Body Politic
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
"I read My Body Politic with admiration, sometimes for the pain that all but wept on the page, again for sheer exuberant friendships, for self-discovery, political imagination, and pluck. . . . Wonderful! In a dark time, a gift of hope.
-Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
"The struggles, joys,...
by Christina Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) claim to advocate minority political interests, yet they disagree over the intent and scope of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), as well as the interpretation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Whereas the Court promotes...