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Queering Reproduction
Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades. Queering Reproduction is an important sociological analysis of lesbians’ use of these...
by Ivo Andric
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1991
Ivo Andric (1892-1975), Nobel Prize laureate for literature in 1961, is undoubtedly the most popular of all contemporary Yugoslav writers. Over the span of fifty-two years some 267 of his works have been published in thirty-three languages. Andric’s doctoral dissertation, The Development of Spiritual...
Architecture in Translation
Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned themselves with Europe by choosing German-speaking...
Markets of Dispossession
NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the...
Men, Mobs, and Law
Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of leftist protest campaigns: those intended to defend labor organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorialize lynching victims and stop the practice of lynching. Arguing that these forms of protest are related...
Babes in Tomorrowland
Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Linking Margaret Mead to the Mickey Mouse Club and behaviorism to Bambi, Nicholas Sammond traces a path back to the early-twentieth-century sources of “the normal American child.” He locates the origins of this hypothetical child in the interplay between developmental science and popular media....
Culture of Class
Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's domestic cultural production in crucial ways, as Argentine producers tried to elevate their offerings to...
Tropical Renditions
Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identities, publics, and politics. To understand this dynamic, Balance advocates for a "disobedient...
A Language of Song
Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to...
Networking Futures
The Movements against Corporate Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global Action (PGA)—including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities...
Rendering Life Molecular
Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and wriggle as they carry out the activities that keep cells alive. Figuring out how to make these unruly...
by Michael M. J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays,...
Aircraft Stories
Decentering the Object in Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells “stories” about a British attempt to build a military aircraft—the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts.
Law...
Machiavelli
The Chief Works and Others, Vol. II
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
From praise for the 1965 edition:
Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan...