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Queer Christianities
Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Queerness and Christianity, often depicted as mutually exclusive, both challenge received notions of the good and the natural. Nowhere is this challenge more visible than in the identities, faiths, and communities that queer Christians have long been creating. As Christians they have staked a claim...
Lifted
A Cultural History of the Elevator
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first...
by Laura Levitt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate...
Deconstruction Is/In America
A New Sense of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
What impact has deconstruction had on the way we read American culture? And how is American culture itself peculiarly deconstructive?
To address these questions, this volume brings together some of the most provocative thinkers associated with deconstruction, among them Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler,...
Sperm Counts
Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Winner of the Passing the Torch Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
It has been called sperm, semen, seed, cum, jizz, spunk, gentlemen's relish, and splooge. But however the “tacky, opaque liquid that comes out of the penis” is described, the...
Missing Bodies
The Politics of Visibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean...
Catch and Release
The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The unexpected and fascinating interspecies relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs.
Horseshoe crabs are considered both a prehistoric and indicator species. They have not changed in tens of millions of years and provide useful data to scientists who monitor the health of the environment....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like the celebrated Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the...
Boulevard of Dreams
Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Stretching over four miles through the center of the West Bronx, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, known simply as the Grand Concourse, has gracefully served as silent witness to the changing face of the Bronx, and New York City, for a century. Now, a New York Times editor brings to life the street...
Enfant Terrible!
Jerry Lewis in American Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing.
Enfant...
The Practices of Hope
Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Offers a positive approach to literary criticism
At a moment when the “hermeneutics of suspicion” is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment....
Working the Diaspora
The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working...
Civil War Dynasty
The Ewing Family of Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it was the Ewing family who raised Sherman, got him into West Point, and provided him with the financial resources and political connections to succeed...
Breaking the Bonds
Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730-1830
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
"In Breaking The Bonds, Merril Smith establishes the ambitious goal of determining 'what kind of problems arose in troubled marriages' and of analyzing 'how men and women coped with marital discord.' . . . To accomplish this, Smith studied hundreds of divorce petitions, other legal documents,...