A study of devotional images that traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. It demonstrates…

Caryl Chessman is used to examining how political debates about criminal justice ignited postwar California. This text…

Links an investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with…

Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to…

Focusing on the distinctive Judeo-Spanish cultural entity that flourished in the Balkans and Asia Minor for more than four…

Presents an account of Los Angeles' black community in the half century before World War II. This book details African…

By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women - and women's reactions to…

A study documenting the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States.…

This critical study uses the writings of the distinguished Urdu poets Azad and Hali to demonstrate how the British attempted…

What is it like to be an anthropologist or, more specifically, a woman anthropologist? This book features trained and…

Suitable for moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and those who reflect seriously on the twentieth century's…

Deals with theater phenomenon. This title focuses on the activity of theater making itself out of its essential materials:…

Discusses such matters as the generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic…

How can we compare national systems of higher education, since their organization varies from country to country? This title…

Seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American Studies in…

Starting with the crippling custom of footbinding, this work presents a study of Chinese American women during the first…

Using contemporary Algerian politics as a case study of the intellectual movement labeled 'Third Worldism', this title…

Human beings love to fictionalize evil - to terrorize each other with stories of defilement, horror, excruciating pain, and…

Illuminates the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping subjective…

Contributing essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action, this…

This work aims to show that literature has a powerful role to play in understanding life's ethical problems. It offers a…

Offers an interpretation of the growth of conservatism in American politics. Tracing the New Right of the 1970s and 1980s…

Offers an alternative to the Euro-American warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the…

This third volume on social suffering, violence and recovery explores the ways communities "cope" with traumatic and other…

This study of colonial memory asks the question, how do once-colonized people remember the colonial period? Drawing on an…

In this work - which blends cultural history and cultural studies - the author examines how DeMille articulated middle-class…

This text argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. It shows how Catullus's poetry…

Joining philosophical argument to epigram, lyric, and satire, this work has three arguments: a denial of the Christian…

Offers an insider's account of the interface between political science and real-life politics. This title weaves together…

Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern…

Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal…

Detailing the role played by non-elites, this book presents a perspective on nationalism in the Arab Middle East in the…

This study attempts to unlock the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one Islamic country to another. The book…

An essay that provides an introduction to the treatment of human existence and individuality in Marxist thought. It is…

A lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education, this book explores the intellectual and…

This ethnography explores the links between a violent historical and political legacy, and the production of secrecy in…

Offering a treatment of schools as 'moral communities,' the author calls for new, culturally sensitive definitions of moral…

An array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By…

An introduction to the complex theory of discourse ethics as rendered by its major proponent, Juergen Habermas. The study…

This collection of essays was devised by the author to study how anthropology brought the study of complex societies and…

In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor…

This study analyzes four successful manufacturing enterprises to reveal the social and political dynamics that are an…

Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this study explores the utopian narrative as a medium…

Embracing issues of ethnicity, gender and ideology, this collection of essays demonstrates how California was an important…

Explores early American drama to try to understand why such severely limited plays were so popular for so long. Concerned…

From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. This book argues that…

Contains eighteen original essays by leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen separate chapters of "Ulysses". This book…

Examines the production, transmission, and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political, and…