Nyu Press: 1737 books
The Half-Life of Policy Rationales
How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2003
The Half-Life of Policy Rationales argues that the appropriateness of policy depends on the state of technology, and that the justifications for many public policies are dissolving as technology advances. As new detection and metering technologies are being developed for highways, parking, and auto...
Postcommunism from Within
Social Justice, Mobilization, and Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
While the decline of communism in the late twentieth century brought democracy, political freedom, and better economic prospects for many people, it also produced massive social dislocation and engendered social problems that were far less pronounced under the old regimes. The fall of state socialism...
by Steven Biel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
A new intellectual community came together in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s, a community outside the universities, the professions and, in general, the established centers of intellectual life. A generation of young intellectuals was increasingly challenging both the genteel tradition and...
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Lives in the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession
In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred...
On the Make
Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of independent...
The Explanation For Everything
Essays on Sexual Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
"The claim 'I'm straight' is the psychosexual analogue of 'The check is in the mail': if you need to say it, your credit or creditability is already in doubt." So begins Paul Morrison's dazzling polemic, which takes as its point of departure Foucault's famous remark that sex is "the...
by Marilyn Farwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly) lesbian? Does there have to be a lesbian theme and must it be politically acceptable?
Marilyn Farwell here examines the work of such writers as Adrienne...
Passionate Communities
Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures.
From...
Elizabeth Bowen
A Reputation in Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial body of non- fictionBowen is a noteworthy novelist....
Employment of English
Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large?
In recent years, debates about the role and direction of English departments have mushroomed into a broader controversy over the public legitimacy of literary...
Private Affairs
Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
In Private Affairs, Phillip Brian Harper explores the social and cultural significance of the private, proposing that, far from a universal right, privacy is limited by one's racial-and sexual-minority status. Ranging across cinema, literature, sculpture, and lived encounters-from Rodin's The Kiss...
After the Party
A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Winner, 2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking.
After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and...
by Christine Eickelman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1984
Before 1970 Oman was one of teh more isolated countries on the Arab peninsula. The growth of the oil economy during the seventies, however, has brought rapid change to the small towns and villages that make up the country.
In Women and Community in Oman Chritine Eickelman captures the tone and feel...
Dancing at Halftime
Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Sports fans love to don paint and feathers to cheer on the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, the Florida State Seminoles, and the Warriors and Chiefs of their hometown high schools. But outside the stadiums, American Indians aren't cheering--they're yelling racism.
School...