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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Cover artwork by Diane Gamboa. Credit-Click here
Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. While the presence of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture in the United States buttresses the much-heralded Latin Explosion, the images themselves...
The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma
Community Activism, Safety, and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators
When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against...
Is Breast Best?
Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2010
Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use of formula spiked between the 1950s and 1970s, with some reports showing that nearly 75 percent of the...
A Bun in the Oven
How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there’s...
Crossing the Sound
The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
In seventeenth-century North America, communities on eastern Long Island were an integral part of the tumultuous and dynamic New England region and the larger Atlantic American world. They were created and modified by ideas and traditions that were inherent to life in Atlantic America and were not...
The Queer Renaissance
Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the 1970s, when gay and lesbian cultures began to register on our national consciousness, such work was...
Homegrown
Identity and Difference in the American War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An insightful study of how identity is mobilized in and for war in the face of homegrown terrorism.
“You are either with us, or against us” is the refrain that captures the spirit of the global war on terror. Images of the “them” implied in this war cry—distinct foreign “others”—inundate...
Running for Judge
The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Across the country, races for judgeships are becoming more and more politically contested. As a result, several states and cities are now considering judicial election reform. Running for Judge examines the increasingly contentious judicial elections over the last twenty-five years by providing a...
Girl Zines
Making Media, Doing Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
With names like The East Village Inky, Mend My Dress, Dear Stepdad, and I’m So Fucking Beautiful, zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism’s third wave visible. These messy, photocopied do-it-yourself documents cover every imaginable subject matter and are loaded...
Body Panic
Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Are you ripped? Do you need to work on your abs? Do you know your ideal body weight? Your body fat index? Increasingly, Americans are being sold on a fitness ideal - not just thin but toned, not just muscular but cut - that is harder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda...
Gender Reckonings
New Social Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Vivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand today
Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding...
Fat History
Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The modern struggle against fat cuts deeply and pervasively into American culture. Dieting, weight consciousness, and widespread hostility toward obesity form one of the fundamental themes of modern life.
Fat History explores the meaning of fat in contemporary Western society and illustrates how progressive...
New Jews
The End of the Jewish Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews who don't consider themselves to be eternally wandering,...
More Than Meets the Eye
Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
A rare look at the role of special effects in creating fictional worlds and transmedia franchises
From comic book universes crowded with soaring superheroes and shattering skyscrapers to cosmic empires set in far-off galaxies, today’s fantasy blockbusters depend on visual effects. Bringing...