Columbia Press: 2357 books
by Nancy Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2001
In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's...
by Catherine Frank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
On the most important occasions of our lives, we often find ourselves at a loss for words; when we want to console, celebrate, explain, inspire, or thank, we end up repeating such uninspiring, uninformative phrases as "Words cannot express how I feel." To help us find the right words, Catherine...
The Work of Art
Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
How are we to think of works of art? Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward...
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption
Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence...
The Hudson
America's River
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Frances F. Dunwell presents a rich portrait of the Hudson and of the visionary people whose deep relationship with the river inspires changes in American history and culture. Lavishly illustrated with color plates of Hudson River School paintings, period engravings, and glass plate photography, The...
by Sarah Pike
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
From Shirley MacLaine's spiritual biography Out on a Limb to the teenage witches in the film The Craft, New Age and Neopagan beliefs have made sensationalistic headlines. In the mid- to late 1990s, several important scholarly studies of the New Age and Neopagan movements were published, attesting...
Writing Resistance
The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Writing Resistance is the first close study of the growing body of contemporary Hindi-language Dalit (low caste) literature in India. The Dalit literary movement has had an immense sociopolitical and literary impact on various Indian linguistic regions, yet few scholars have attempted to situate the...
Teenage Suicide Notes
An Ethnography of Self-Harm
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra...
Up from Invisibility
Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass...
The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche
A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a "politics of subtraction" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama...
Sight Unseen
Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals,...
by Anne Billson
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Audiences can't get enough of fang fiction. Twilight, True Blood, Being Human, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blade, Underworld, and the novels of Anne Rice and Darren Shan—against this glut of bloodsuckers, it takes an incredible film to make a name for itself. Directed by Tomas...
The Financiers of Congressional Elections
Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2003
Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. But significant donors (defined here as those contributing more than $200) are the least understood participants in the system. Defenders assert that contributing...
Negotiating Languages
Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through "historical...