Duke University Press: 2463 books
Violence As Obscenity
Limiting the Media’s First Amendment Protection
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal government should regulate media violence. In Violence as Obscenity, Kevin W. Saunders boldly calls into question the assumption that violent material is protected by the...
The Ailing City
Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus. It was also an anxious state of mind shaped not only by fears of contagion and death but also by broader social and cultural concerns. These worries included changing work routines, rapid urban growth and its consequences...
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic
Cultural Chronicles of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1999
Paula A. Treichler has become a singularly important voice among the significant theorists on the AIDS crisis. Dissecting the cultural politics surrounding representations of HIV and AIDS, her work has altered the field of cultural studies by establishing medicine as a legitimate focus for cultural...
Hitting the Brakes
Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
In Hitting the Brakes, Ann Johnson illuminates the complex social, historical, and cultural dynamics of engineering design, in which knowledge communities come together to produce new products and knowledge. Using the development of antilock braking systems for passenger cars as a case study, Johnson...
by Victoria Hesford
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The term women's liberation remains charged and divisive decades after it first entered political and cultural discourse around 1970. In Feeling Women's Liberation, Victoria Hesford mines the archive of that highly contested era to reassess how it has been represented and remembered. Hesford refocuses...
Women's Studies on Its Own
A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2002
"We thought the study of women would be a temporary phase; eventually we would all go back to our disciplines."—Gloria Bowles, From the Afterword
Since the 1970s, Women's Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full-scale academic enterprise. Women's Studies...
Straight A's
Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
The American Dream of success for many Asian Americans includes the highest levels of education. But what does it mean to live that success? In Straight A’s Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination, immigrant communities, their relationships to their...
by Jane Gallop
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 1997
Sexual harassment is an issue in which feminists are usually thought to be on the plaintiff’s side. But in 1993—amid considerable attention from the national academic community—Jane Gallop, a prominent feminist professor of literature, was accused of sexual harassment by two of her women graduate...
Cultural Sutures
Medicine and Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources—from news reports to Web sites to tv shows—for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news...
The Becoming of Time
Integrating Physical and Religious Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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Integrating concepts of time derived from the physical sciences and world religions, The Becoming of Time examines various questions about time, including its origin, its relation to space and motion, its irreversible nature, the notion of timelessness,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. In addressing questions about the definition and relevance of postcolonial...
Schneider on Schneider
The Conversion of the Jews and Other Anthropological Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1995
To listen to David M. Schneider is to hear the voice of American anthropology. To listen at length is to hear much of the discipline’s history, from the realities of postwar practice and theory to Schneider’s own influence on the development of symbolic and interpretive anthropology in the 1970s...
Making Scenes
Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
In 1996, Emma Baulch went to live in Bali to do research on youth culture. Her chats with young people led her to an enormously popular regular outdoor show dominated by local reggae, punk, and death metal bands. In this rich ethnography, she takes readers inside each scene: hanging out in the death...
Landing Zones
Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Landing Zones brings to life the dramatic, gripping, and often painful stories of twenty-four Vietnam Veterans from the American South. The men and women interviewed here represent a remarkable range of experience, including a marine rifleman, a helicopter pilot, an army nurse, a prisoner of war,...