Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Hollywood's Hawaii
Race, Nation, and War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S. national imagination. Hollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense...
Cinematic Canines
Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take...
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more...
Managing Madness in the Community
The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
While mental illness and mental health care are increasingly recognized and accepted in today’s society, awareness of the most severely mentally ill—as well as those who care for them—is still dominated by stereotypes. Managing Madness in the Community dispels the myth. Readers will see...
by A. Lynn Bolles, Matthew R. Dudgeon, Meena Rani Khandelwal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Feminist anthropology emerged in the 1970s as a much-needed corrective to the discipline’s androcentric biases. Far from being a marginalized subfield, it has been at the forefront of developments that have revolutionized not only anthropology, but also a host of other disciplines. This landmark...
Between Foreign and Family
Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate “back”...
Kids in the Middle
How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Complicating the common view that immigrant incorporation is a top-down process, determined largely by parents, Vikki Katz explores how children actively broker connections that enable their families to become woven into the fabric of American life. Children’s immersion in the U.S. school system...
The Resilient Self
Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
The Resilient Self explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn,...
Framing the Rape Victim
Gender and Agency Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Winner of the 2016 Nonfiction Category from The Authors' Zone
In recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. In Framing the Rape Victim, Carine M. Mardorossian argues that...
by Douglas Kammen
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region’s tragic past, focusing on the small...
by Cynthia M. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Jew. The word possesses an uncanny power to provoke and unsettle. For millennia, Jew has signified the consummate Other, a persistent fly in the ointment of Western civilization’s grand narratives and cultural projects. Only very recently, however, has Jew been reclaimed as a term of self-identification...
Dwelling in Resistance
Living with Alternative Technologies in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Most Americans take for granted much of what is materially involved in the daily rituals of dwelling. In Dwelling in Resistance, Chelsea Schelly examines four alternative U.S. communities—“The Farm,” “Twin Oaks,” “Dancing Rabbit,” and “Earthships”—where electricity, water, heat,...
Girls Will Be Boys
Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award by the Theatre Library
Long listed for the 2017 Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions...
Hidden Genocides
Power, Knowledge, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained...