Indiana University Press: 1129 books
Sex and Unisex
Fashion, Feminism, and the Sexual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Notorious as much for its fashion as for its music, the 1960s and 1970s produced provocative fashion trends that reflected the rising wave of gender politics and the sexual revolution. In an era when gender stereotypes were questioned and dismantled, and when the feminist and gay rights movements...
Israel in the Making
Stickers, Stitches, and Other Critical Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The brilliant kaleidoscope of everyday creativity in Israel is thrown into relief in this study, which teases out the abiding national tensions and contradictions at work in the expressive acts of ordinary people. Hagar Salamon examines creativity in Israel’s public sphere through the lively discourse...
Dear Sarah
Letters Home from a Soldier of the Iron Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
An epistolary portrait of the life and times of a Civil War soldier and family man as he transformed from simple Michigan country boy to seasoned fighter.
Cpl. John H. Pardington, a member of the 24th Michigan Infantry of the famous Iron Brigade, was an articulate and observant soldier. The...
Fast Money Schemes
Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises of 100 percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, Noah Musingku,...
Girl
My Childhood and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
“An impressionistic memoir of a Polish Jewish girl’s survival hiding as a Gentile in Nazi-occupied Poland . . . truly moving and bravely rendered.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide...
The Unseen Things
Women, Secrecy, and HIV in Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
What do HIV-positive women in Nigeria face as they seek meaningful lives with a deeply discrediting disease? Kathryn A. Rhine uncovers the skillful ways women defuse concerns about their wellbeing and the ability to maintain their households. Rhine shows how this ethic of concealment involves masking...
by Cloé Drieu
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema emerged in Uzbekistan giving rise to the first wave of national film production and an Uzbek cinematographic elite. In Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan Cloé Drieu uses Uzbek...
The Evil That Surrounds Us
The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In 1931, Gustav Becker and Erna Kohen married. He was Catholic and she was Jewish. Erna and Gustav had no idea their religious affiliations, which mattered so little to them, would define their marriage under the Nazis. As one of the more than 20,000 German Jews married to an "Aryan" spouse, Erna...
Saving Stalin's Imperial City
Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Saving Stalin’s Imperial City is the history of the successes and failures in historic preservation and of Leningraders’ determination to honor the memory of the terrible siege the city had endured during World War II. The book stresses the counterintuitive nature of Stalinist policies, which...
Nollywood Stars
Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry’s top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the diaspora to become one of the globe's most prolific and diverse media producers. Carrying VHS tapes and...
My Name Was Never Frankenstein
And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
- An innovative collection of "what if" stories of familiar characters from the classics.
- An eclectic mix of prequels, alternative universes, spin-offs and reboots.
- This collection brings "fan fiction" to a new level.
- A great cast of writers who are all eager to help promote the book.
by RACHEL NEWCOMB
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Following the story of one middle class family as they work, eat, love, and grow, Everyday Life in Global Morocco provides a moving and engaging exploration of how world issues impact lives. Rachel Newcomb shows how larger issues like gentrification, changing diets, and nontraditional approaches to...
Marrying Out
Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. In this provocative book, Keren R. McGinity shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and parenthood through the eyes of a post-World War II cohort of Jewish...
Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine
Two Worlds Collide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This book offers a serious and wide-ranging history of an intractable conflict. It reassesses the Arab-Israeli conflict by looking back to events in the 19th century and the earliest waves settlers.
It uses a variety of primary sources from the settlers and their neighbors to show on a...