Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
Virginity Lost
An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Nervous, inexperienced, confused. For most, losing your virginity is one of life's most significant moments, always to be remembered. Of course, experiences vary, but Laura Carpenter asks: Is there an ideal way to lose it? What would constitute a “positive” experience? What often compels the big...
Postmodern Legal Movements
Law and Jurisprudence At Century's End
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
What do Catharine MacKinnon, the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, and Lani Guinier have in common? All have, in recent years, become flashpoints for different approaches to legal reform. In the last quarter century, the study and practice of law have been profoundly influenced by a number of...
Dark Work
The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island.
Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold...
Media Franchising
Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
"Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding...
Is Diss a System?
A Milt Gross Comic Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work drawing...
American Cool
Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations,...
Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem
African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the “Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem” era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic...
by Djuna Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1992
"Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody."
-Library Journal
Blending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and accompanied by the author's delightful...
Asian American Media Activism
Fighting for Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Choice Top 25 Academic Title
How activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and achieve cultural citizenship.
Among the most well-known YouTubers are a cadre of talented Asian American performers, including comedian Ryan Higa and makeup artist Michelle Phan....
Filipino American Faith in Action
Immigration, Religion, and Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Filipinos are now the second largest Asian American immigrant group in the United States, with a population larger than Japanese Americans and Korean Americans combined. Surprisingly, there is little published on Filipino Americans and their religion, or the ways in which their religious traditions...
Did You Hear About The Girl Who . . . ?
Contemporary Legends, Folklore, and Human Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Ever hear the one about the man who wakes up after a chance sexual encounter to discover he's been involuntarily relieved of one of his kidneys? Or the tiny gift-wrapped box from a recently departed lover that reveals a horrible secret? Everyone knows contemporary legends, those barely believable,...
Undisciplined
Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested...
This Is Not a President
Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
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In This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current administration, and including Hillary. Focusing on those seemingly inexplicable gaps or blind spots in recent American...
by Samuel R. Delany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely 42nd Street. Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 42nd Street was once known for its peep shows, street corner hustlers and movie houses. Over the last two decades the notion of safety-from safe sex and safe neighborhoods, to...