Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
After Marriage Equality
The Future of LGBT Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the LGBT rights movement has achieved its most important objective of the last few decades. Throughout its history, the marriage equality movement has been criticized by those who believe marriage rights were...
Modern Families
Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
A personal, intimate account of the extraordinary ways that today’s families are being created.
From adoption and assisted reproduction, to gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families, the stories in Modern Families explain how individuals make unconventional families...
Sex for Life
From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Sexual beliefs, behaviors and identities are interwoven throughout our lives, from childhood to old age. An edited collection of original empirical contributions united through its use of a distinctive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Sex for Life critically examines sexuality across the entire...
Not My Kid
What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Teenagers have sex. While almost all parents understand that many teenagers are sexually active, there is a paradox in many parents’ thinking: they insist their own teen children are not sexual, but characterize their children’s peers as sexually-driven and hypersexual. Rather than accuse parents...
Bad Pastors
Clergy Misconduct in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Child-molesting priests, embezzled church treasures, philandering ministers and rabbis, even church-endorsed pyramid schemes that defraud gullible parishioners of millions of dollars: for the past decade, clergy misconduct has seemed continually to be in the news.
Is there something about religious...
Legalizing Prostitution
From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry....
Intersexuality and the Law
Why Sex Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Winner of the 2013 Bullough Award presented by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
The term “intersex” evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate. The millions of people with an intersex...
Geisha of a Different Kind
Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal—the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too ‘pretty,’...
Love the Sin
Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Sex. Religion. There is no denying that these two subjects are among the most provocative in American public life. Even the constitutional principle of church-state separation seems to give way when it comes to sex: the Supreme Court draws on theology as readily as it draws on case law when rendering...
Motherhood across Borders
Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Winner, 2019 Inaugural Outstanding Ethnography Book Award, given by the Ethnography in Education Research Forum
The stories of Mexican migrant women who parent from afar, and how their transnational families stay together
While we have an incredible amount of statistical information...
Beyond El Barrio
Everyday Life in Latina/o America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2010
Freighted with meaning, “el barrio” is both place and metaphor for Latino populations in the United States. Though it has symbolized both marginalization and robust and empowered communities, the construct of el barrio has often reproduced static understandings of Latino life; they fail to account...
Empire’s Proxy
American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley’s project of “benevolent assimilation,” they established a school system that centered on English...
From the Land of Shadows
War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's...
by Kent A. Ono
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even...