Stanford University: 1318 books
Prozak Diaries
Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of psychiatry, and shows how experiences that were once articulated in the richly layered poetics of...
Judging Policy
Courts and Policy Reform in Democratic Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Courts, like other government institutions, shape public policy. But how are courts drawn into the policy process, and how are patterns of policy debate shaped by the institutional structure of the courts?
Drawing on the experience of the Brazilian federal courts since the transition to democracy,...
The New Entrepreneurs
How Race, Class, and Gender Shape American Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
For many entrepreneurs, the American Dream remains only partially fulfilled. Unequal outcomes between the middle and lower classes, men and women, and Latino/as, whites, and blacks highlight continuing inequalities and constraints within American society. With a focus on a diverse group of Latino...
People's Science
Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace—ignoring the...
Khartoum at Night
Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
In the first half of the twentieth century, a pioneering generation of young women exited their homes and entered public space, marking a new era for women's civic participation in northern Sudan. A provocative new public presence, women's civic engagement was at its core a bodily experience. Amid...
Tell This in My Memory
Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian...
by Jonathan Kramnick
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person's hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make a promise? In Actions and Objects, Jonathan Kramnick examines the literature and philosophy of action during the late...
Passage to Manhood
Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan province of southwestern China. Through a nuanced analysis of the Nuosu population, this book seeks to answer why the Nuosu has a disproportionately...
Infectious Change
Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In February 2003, a Chinese physician crossed the border between mainland China and Hong Kong, spreading Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—a novel flu-like virus—to over a dozen international hotel guests. SARS went on to kill about 800 people and sicken 8,000 worldwide. By July 2003 the...
Seeking Modernity in China’s Name
Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
The students who came to the United States in the early twentieth century to become modern Chinese by studying at American universities played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. These former students exemplified key aspects of Chinese "modernity,"...
A Family of No Prominence
The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite...
A Genealogy of the Modern Self
Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same...
Between Movement and Establishment
Organizations Advocating for Youth
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations occupy a special niche in American politics...
Birth in the Age of AIDS
Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century. The government of India, together with global health organizations, established an important public health initiative...