University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
Wayward Women
Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," (women who accept money for sex) Wayward Women explores the socio-economic factors...
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union
A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union—the most prestigious student debating organization in the United Kingdom. The Oxford Union regularly welcomed heads of state and stars of screen and served as the training ground for the politically ambitious...
Steep
The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In the Spring of 2009, the Tea Party emerged onto the American political scene. In the wake of Obama’s election, as commentators proclaimed the "death of conservatism," Tax Day rallies and Tea Party showdowns at congressional town hall meetings marked a new and unexpected chapter in American...
Preaching Islamic Renewal
Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Preaching Islamic Renewal examines the life and work of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi, one of Egypt's most beloved and successful Islamic preachers. His wildly popular TV program aired every Friday for years until his death in 1998. At the height of his career, it was estimated that up to 30 million...
Said the Prophet of God
Hadith Commentary across a Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad’s sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told. Joel Blecher takes up this charge, illuminating the rich...
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
Aging, Gender, and Body in North India
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open...
Barbed-Wire Imperialism
Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope, Barbed-Wire Imperialism situates the concentration and refugee camps of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) within longer traditions of controlling...
The Darjeeling Distinction
Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule.
In this nuanced ethnography,...
Nimo’s War, Emma’s War
Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a book that once again blends her distinctive flair for capturing the texture of everyday life with shrewd political insights, Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives of eight ordinary women, four Iraqis and four Americans, during the Iraq...
Maneuvers
The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
Maneuvers takes readers on a global tour of the sprawling process called "militarization." With her incisive verve and moxie, eminent feminist Cynthia Enloe shows that the people who become militarized are not just the obvious ones—executives and factory floor workers who make fighter...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents.
A...
Ties That Bind
The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together...
Body of Victim, Body of Warrior
Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history...
Divided Rule
Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881–1938
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
After invading Tunisia in 1881, the French installed a protectorate in which they shared power with the Tunisian ruling dynasty and, due to the dynasty’s treaties with other European powers, with some of their imperial rivals. This "indirect" form of colonization was intended to prevent...